The McGill Tribune Vol. 13 Issue 24

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P o ll The annual Tribune Readers' Poll explores everything from read­ ership, SSMU, to sex and rock and roll...

W ell, m aybe not rock and roll...

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In sid e T h is W eek N ew s: W hile R evenue Canada audits their organization, MACES' elections are racked by further controversy.

See page 3 Op/Ed: Tribune editors engage in a healthy dose o f self-criticism, and look at the year in review.

See editorial, page 6 Features: The Tribune takes a look at Cana­ da's custom s at the border.

See page! 16 Entertainment: A nd that's all folks! See y a at the m ovies—and save us an aisle seat.

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Sports: The Tribune looks at adventure sports and Super Dave: the interview.

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W T u e sd a y . M a rc h 29 T he L a tin A m e ric a n A w are­ n e s s G ro u p presents guest speakers H elene Rivest and Magda Baez o n the cooperation project “El Resfuerzo” b e ­ tw e en Canadian and Peruvian w om en. 1 PM, Shatner 107.

A m n e sty In te r n a tio n a l McGill m eets every Tuesday at 6:30 PM in Shatner 435. New, old and casual m em bers w el­ com e. For info com e to Shatner 410 or call 398-1209.

The S e x u a l A ssa u lt C e n tre o f M cG ill (SACOMSS) offers a “W omen w ith Eating D isorders” facilitated mutual aid support group. Body image issues also addressed. Call 398-2700.

The F a c u lty o f M usic presents the McGill C ontem porary Music Ensem ­ ble. 8 PM, Clara Lichtenstein Hall, Rm. C209, 555 Sherbrooke W. Free. For info call 398-4547/8101.

W e d n e sd a y . M a rc h 30 Forum National presents J e a n C h a re s t, interim leader o f the Progres­ sive Conservative Party o f Canada, speak­ ing o n th e Future o f the Conservative Party, Rise o f regional parties in Canada, and U pcom ing Q uebec elections. 12:30 PM, Moot Court, Faculty o f Law.

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SACOMSS offers 2 facilitated m u­ tual aid support groups: “W om en Survi­ vors o f Dom estic Violence” and “Men Survivors o f Sexual A buse.” Call 3982700.

M cG ill I m p r o v hosts free com ­ edy w orkshops from 12-2 PM. Meet in Shatner lobby.

M cG ill I m p r o v perform s com ­ edy every W ednesday in the Alley, 8 PM. Free for all. Très funny.

Com e order your tasty healthy nonco rp o rate organic food from the M cG ill O rg a n ic F o o d C o-op Mondays b etw een 11:30 AM-4:30 PM in Eaton Bldg. Rm. 505- Bring a deposit; pickups o n W ednesdays.

The F a c u lty o f M usic presents the McGill Sym phony O rchestra. 8 PM, St. Jean Baptiste C hurch (Rachel St. b e ­ tw een Henri-Julien and Drolet). Free. For info call 398-4547/8101.

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SACOMSS offers a “W om en Sur­ vivors o f Child Sexual A buse” facilitated m utual aid support group. Call 398-2700.

T h u rs d a y . M a rc h 31 LBGM (L e sb ia n , B ise x u a l a n d G ay S tu d e n ts o f McGUl) has an election for all of its coordinators. 7 PM, Shatner 425/6. If interested in running, talk to a coordinator or just show up. G ender parity required. All welcom e.

The G lo b a l C o o p e ra tio n N e t­ w o rk and other QPIRG groups present an Ecology/Social Justice Fair from 10 AM-3 PM in Shatner 107/108. Free or­ ganic food, Bridgehead coffee, videos, info. Stop in! For m ore info call th e GCN at 398-7432.

SSMU C o u n c il m eets at 6 PM in Shatner Bldg.

SACOMSS offers a “Friends and Family o f Survivors o f Sexual A buse” facilitated m utual aid support group. Call 398-2700.

The D e p a r tm e n t o f E n g lish S tu d e n ts ’ A s so c ia tio n (DESA) presents a Poetry and Fiction Reading. Original w orks by McGill students! Call G lenda at 842-3950for m ore info. 7:30 PM, Thomson House.

F a c u lty o f M usic concerts: Cham ber Music for W inds. 8 PM, Pollack Hall.

McGill Medieval and Renaissance W orkshop. 8 PM, Redpath Hall.

Both are free. For m ore info call 398-4547/8101.

LBGM has a w eekly bisexual discussion group. 5:30 PM, Shatner 432.

A friendly group dealing w ith issues directly relevant to bisexuals; all w el­

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F irs t A n n u a l M cGill P h a r m a ­ c o lo g y R e s e a rc h D ay. “Pharmacology, the frontier: from basic science to thera­ peutic ideas." 8:45 AM-5 PM, Leacock 232.

S tu d e n t E n tr e p r e n e u r s ’ D ay Sale. Students selling to students- com e out a n d see w hat w e have! Shatner 107/ 108.

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F rid a y . A p ril 1 LBGM h a s tw o d is c u s s io n groups, both in the basem ent o f the United Theological College 0 5 2 1 Uni­ versity). Com ing O ut group m eets at 5:30 PM, General Discussion at 7 PM. Friendly atm osphere, all welcom e.

The F a c u lty o f M usic presents McGill Song Interpretation Class. 8 PM, Pollack Hall. Free. For m ore info call 3984547/8101.

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C hildren aged 6-9 are invited to m eet their favourite authors and illustra­ tors o n Sunday, April 10 at the David T hom pson H ouse. For info and tickets (m ust b e bought in advance) call Hindy (285-1564) or Trish (843-6407).

T he M cG ill S tu d e n t F ilm * V id e o F estiv al, presented by the English Dept, and DESA, is accepting any and all VHS and film form at subm issions. Held o n April 7/8, th e festival is an amazing place to present your work! Submissions accepted in English Dept, office until March 31 • For m ore info call Allison (2843630) or Malve (284-1996).

The N o r th A m e ric a n S tudies S tu d e n t A s s o c ia tio n is hosting free lunches w ith professors for students all this m onth. Signup is lim ited to a max of 10 students a lunch. Info sheets are posted o n the NAS board beside Leacock 611. Please join us - it's free and a great w ay to m eet your professors! For m ore info, call Ritu at 285-2583- Professors in clu d e Shingler, M anfredi, G ibian, Moore, Cooke, T reheam e, Riggs, and Velk.

Didn't get elected to SSMU? Don’t despair! If you are interested in working to p ro te a hum an rights, com e out to A m n e sty I n t e r n a ti o n a l M cGill's elec­

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Com mitted volunteers (m ale and female) n e e d e d fo rW o m e n ’sA ID S H o s­ p ic e to give hands-on, practical sup p o rt a n d care. Please call Sharon at 525-9210.

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Y o u th C h a lle n g e In te r n a tio n a l is looking for participants betw een the ages o f 18-25 to join international volun­ teer team s for three-m onth overseas d e ­ velopm ent projects. The deadline is April 22 for projects in Costa Rica in 1995. For an application, com e to Eaton Bldg. 5th floor (QPIRG office), o r call Michèle at 398-7432.

T he McGUl C o u r a n t is a n ew m agazine publishing the opinions of students. Please place your subm ission in prose o r poetry - in o u r box at the Leacock p o rter’s office. For info call 9326739.

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T hese times will rem ain through the sem ester. Dress com fortably a n d please be o n time. Everyone is w elcom e.

Are you questioning your sexu­ ality? D o you n e ed help com ing out’ O r d o you have any o ther concerns and you n e ed to talk? Phone LBGM’s p e er coun­ selling p h o n e line at 398-6822, 7-10 PM Mon.-Fri. Strictly confidential; you can also d ro p by the office, Shatner 432, for face-to-face s u p p o rt T he C e n tre fo r C o n tin u in g E d u c a tio n will b e offering various French courses over the sum m er. For inform ation call 398-6160.

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The April 1994 issue o f m a g a zin e has b een nulled from shelves in stores icross Canada for printing nform ation that violates the :ontroversial publication ban >n the h ig h -p ro file rial of Karla lomolka.

H om olk a w as :harged w ith nanslaughter in the ieaths o f Leslie Erin 4ahaffy and Kristen >awn French. A pubication ban, issued by u d g e J. K ovacs on uly 5th o f last year, >rohibited publication >f information regardlg the trial. The ban, diich applies only in lanada, has proven lifficult to enforce as lany Canadians have s e d co m p u ters to Btrieve banned infor­ mation from the Inited States.

W IR E D , a magain e that has b e e n a iled “the R olling tone o f technology" overs issues regardmg the cultural impliations o f the increas- W IRED ng role p la y e d by omputers in our society. The rticle, entitled “Paul and Karla lit the Net", rev ea led facts bout Homolka’s plea, violatlg an Ontario court ruling on me publication o f information bout the trial.

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a p o lo g iz ed , he has d en ied light of a Revenue Canada audit Grewal defended his posi­ accusations that the comments o f the stu d en t organization. tion on the audit. he employed were of a racist, G rewal w as con cern ed that “It was my opinion to get anti-Semitic nature.

Revenue Canada auditors would the auditors to advise us why In early March, Grewal hit the organization with interest th ey n ever told us to issu e and penalties should MACES file T4As,” he said. and his running-mates q u es­ now for the income tax that it tioned a decision to postpone Though he did not elabo­ the e lec tio n s, rate o n h ow originally sch ed ­ G rew al’s c o m ­ u led for March m ents co u ld "Mr. Grewal has a very good chance of 1st. Many candi­ affect the o u t­ being president and he has openly dates were never com e o f the n otified , a fact audit, Posm an suggested violating the Quebec which led to the was concerned Incorporation Act.” distribution o f a with the level of letter sign ed by r e s p o n s ib ility G rew al’s slate, su - MACES treasurer Robert Posman g g ested by q u estio n in g the G r e w a l ’s legality o f the remarks. association’s electoral practices. has not paid on executive hon­ “Mr. Grewal has a very This latest occurren ce orariums for the last five years. good chance of being president resulted from evidence brought Arguing that the honorariums and he has openly suggested b efore MACES co u n cil by were not considered em ploy­ violatin g the Q u eb ec Treasurer Robert Posman. ment income, Grewal suggested Incorporation A ct,” Posm an Posm an q u estio n ed that MACES’s course o f action argued. “He was not acting in Grewal’s opinions on the direc­ should be to “let sleeping dogs the best interest of MACES.” tion MACES should follow in lie,” and not file for them.

Posm an did, h o w ev er,

Problems have once again disrupted the McGill Association of C ontinuing E ducation Students (MACES) ex ecu tiv e election s. At a m eetin g o f MACES co u n cil last Friday evening, incumbent president Martin Marentette, who is run­ ning for reelection, surprised councillors by demanding the resignation o f his op pon en t, MACES Senator and presidential candidate Tony Grewal.

M arentette’s m otion for 3rewaPs resignation followed a series o f controversial events dating back to February that nave plagued the MACES elecdons. In February, MACES council barred Grewal from the issociation’s bar for two months ifter he verbally assaulted one }f the bartenders. T hough 3rewal has admitted this inci­ dent occurred and has since

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W IR E D issued a press release dated March 23, defending its article.

The release m aintained that the article in q u e stio n “does not reveal details o f the ca se. In stead , th e article explains w hy the media ban has p roven u n e n ­ forceable and reports h ow inform ation on the ca se is readily availab le to Canadians.”

T he article, au th ored by Anita Susan Brenner and B. M etson, d eals w ith the d ifficu lties that authorities have come across in efforts to enforce the ban. The ease with which data is transferred through the Internet, a world w id e com puter n et­ w ork, has m ade it p o ssib le for th o se w ish in g to acq u ire information banned in Canada to seek it on computer facilities in the U n ited States.

According to the arti­ cle, “the ban was not so much broken as it w as rendered irrele­ Magazine, April 94: Banned in Canada vant by the voracious on-line community.” is information that may not be The article has been criti­ reported. cized by many for being inac­ The m agazin e w as curate. The article claims that a removed from Sadie’s tabagie Usenet computer news group, in the Shatner Centre by one of alt.fan.karla-homolka, was set S a d ie’s stu d en t m anagers, up by McGill students after the Mary-Margaret Jones.

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B Y M O N IQ U E SH EBBEARE A com p reh en siv e audit of the accessibility o f buildings on the McGill cam pus co m ­ menced last week.

Students’ Society (SSMU) VP U n iv ersity A ffairs Ruth Promislow brought a proposal to th e Join t S en a te /B o a r d C om m ittee C o n ce rn in g Persons with Disabilities earli­ er this year to perform that audit. The audit w ill inform the McGill administration what modifications are necessary to acco m m o d a te stu d en ts and staff with disabilities.

Subrata D e, o n e o f the audit coordinators, explained som e exam ples o f the obser­ vations that have already been made. “[Many buildings] have ramps but the doors are too h eavy s o that p e o p le ca n ’t op en th e m ,” s h e said.

“Another exam ple is the wash­ room s. T h e actual stall is accessible but the door swings inwards, not outwards.”

“Nothing is marked well, for exam ple the doors. If you were blind there would be no way o f gauging distances,” she added.

Joan Wolforth, director of the O ffice for Students with Disabilities, expressed similar concerns.

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suggest that the results o f the audit cou ld ruin the student association. Revenue Canada has already orderedthe organization to surrender all of its documen­ tation.

“This could be the end of MACES,” he said.

Posm an further q u e s ­ tioned Grewal’s fulfillment o f his duties as one of the two cur­ rent MACES representatives to McGill’s Senate. He cited a doc­ u m en t p rovid ed by Senate Secretary Victoria Lees w hich attested to the fact that since September, Grewal has attend­ ed only three Senate meetings.

M arentette then took P osm an ’s lead and brought forth a motion to council that called for Grewal’s resignation from his post. Posman further suggested that Grewal resign from the election.

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the main thing,” she said.

W olforth and C huck A dler, P h y sica l R e so u rc es manager, have been crucial to th e au dit by p ro v id in g th e checklists of criteria for volun­ teers to e x a m in e and flo o r p la n s o f th e b u ild in g s involved.

The response from build­ ing m anagers and others in the university has b een posi­ tive.

“The b uild in g directors have been very cooperative,” said De. “There are ob viou s con cern s o v er budget restrain ts but o n e or tw o buildings are actually planning ren ovation s and w o u ld lik e our re co m m en d a tio n s from the audit.”

D e a sser ted that w ork towards accessibility is som e­ times met with concerns that th e w ork is u n n e c e s s a r y because o f the small number o f stu d en ts w ith d isa b ilities attending McGill.

“It may n ot see m as if there are many disabled stu­ dents on cam pus, in clu d in g hearing, visual and m obility im paired stu d en ts, b ut that m ay very w e ll b e b e c a u s e there aren’t ad eq uate facili­ ties,” stated De. She and Wolforth h o p e that the audit will serve sever­ al purposes.

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oping over the reversal o f the n eed s a sp ecia l pass just to have suggested that the policy Senate.” attend their m eetin gs.

Even w a s m isre p r esen te d in the The Board o f Governors then, one is rarely allowed to local media. o p p o s e d th e p o lic y d u e to speak.”

“Many have either missed leg a l argum ents relating to O f eq u a l c o n c e r n to the actual intention of the poli­ is s u e s of free sp eech . cy, or simply haven’t read it,” many is the precedent being Apparently many regarded the set. The Board o f Governors is claim s D a lh o u sie p ro fesso r definitions o f abusive behav­ not normally entitled to over­ Marjorie Stone. “The intent is iour as to o not to create a b road and sp eech cod e, vague. The pro­ b ut to a llo w p o s e d p erm a ­ “I know this issue won’t go away quietly. equal access to nent com m ittee free speech.”

There are already signs that some form of w as an oth er Within the th ree protest is developing over the reversal of the b o n e o f c o n ­ tention.

Senate.” years, the poli­ “I e n v is ­ cy has b e e n aged a commit­ revised on sev­ - Leesa Hamilton te e p red o m i­ eral occasions.

A cco rd in g to Dalhousie Women’s Centre Programmer n an tly co m ­ p osed of Stone, the for­ minorities,” said m u lation and H alifax law yer ch an ges w ere G eorge M acDonald. “I d o n ’t ride th e d e c is io n s o f the c o n d u c te d in a d em ocratic have a problem with that, but Senate. Moreover, most o f the manner in which students and they would have a predisposi­ Board’s members are business other members of the universi­ tion to a particular p oint o f and com m unity leaders w h o ty com m u nity w ere ab le to view. I don’t think they should are not formally em ployed by v o ic e their co n ce rn s. be judging whether something the university.

Supporters o f the proposals I say is abusive or not.”

“I know this issue w on ’t have exp ressed concern that P rofessor Sue Sherwin, g o aw ay q u ie t ly ,” sta te d the Board o f Governors were on e o f the six members w ho D a lh o u sie W om en ’s C entre able to unilaterally abolish the sat on the policy com mittee, Programmer Leesa Hamilton. policy on March 10th. dismissed this notion.

“There are already signs that “The Board is like an ‘old “It isn’t a jury, or a disci­ som e form of protest is devel­ boys’ club’,” said Stone. “One

B Y S Y L V IE B A B A R IK Following three years of w ork , th e e ffo rts o f the D a lh o u s ie C om m ittee on D iscrim in atory H arassm ent met with a disappointing end when its proposed policy was voted dow n by the Board of Governors on March 10th. The B oard ’s d e c isio n ca m e a m onth after the p o lic y had won the support o f the univer­ sity’s Senate.

D a lh o u s ie P resid en t Howard Clark appointed the committee to create a system for dealing with incidents o f racism and sexism on campus.

The university currently lacks a formal channel for hearing complaints o f harassment. An important element of the pro­ posal includes the creation of a p erm a n en t b o d y to hear harassment cases. The intent o f the policy is that of educat­ in g rather than p u n ish in g offenders.

The harassm ent policy, com m only referred to as the “Speech Code”, had been sur­ ro u n d ed by co n tr o v ersy throughout its development. In fact, both students and faculty

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plinary body. It’s a committt to provide guidance and med ation. That’s all the power has,” she said.

Rejection o f the propos means that the iiniveisity w not soon b e endorsing such policy. Sherwin expressed pa ticular c o n ce rn o v er futui handling o f incidents o f abi sive behaviour.

“I exp ect that there w continue to b e complaints, b there w ill b e n o m echanis for hearing them ,” sh e sai “[The policy’s rejection] was clear in d ic a tio n from tl Board that th ey d o n ’t wa one."

N e w s o f th e fail* D alhousie p olicy co m es at time when McGill is preparii to review its recently proposi sexual harassment policy.

The representative o f tl M cGill A sso c ia tio n University Teachers (MAIT1 Katherine Young has chos< to w rite a d issen tin g repc rather than sig n th e Wo G roup d o cu m en t issu e d 1 M cG ill’s C o m m ittee « R e g u la tio n s C on cern ii C o m p la in ts of Sexu Harassment.

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The McGill Tribune, March 29-ôeptem ber 6,1994

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EDITORIAL Another year, another 24 issues of this newspaper, and we as two editors of the T r ib u n e would like to engage in a bit of self-criticism, a thoroughly un­ derrated endeavor. A side note: while we as an editorial board enjoy full editorial autonomy from the Students’ Society (SSMU), the T r ib u n e is in the interesting and often contradic­ tory position being an official SSMU publication. This role could well use strong and regular analy­ sis, maybe even a hint of MarxistLeninist borrowing. In the im­ mortal words of the illustrious Chris Alam, a former T r ib u n e editor: “Welcome to the Supreme Soviet of McGill University, com­ rade!”

So what has the past seven months given us? If nothing else, a hearty dose of humility. Though the T r ib u n e attempts to provide students of McGill with a com­ prehensive and objective por­ trait of campus life, we do not necessarily excel at that role.

The T r ib u n e started pub­ lishing articles in French this year, side by side with English text. Our goal is to make the paper more accessible to French staff and students— but we chose not to introduce a French section

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BA BBLE ON B Y K A T E G IB B S There are two kinds of people in our student shtetl; those with cable and those w ith o u t. T h o se w ith get L e tte r m a n and S a tu r d a y N ig h t L iv e , those without get 85’s.

Myself, I’ve settled in the quagm ire o f h a p p y m ed iu m ; R o s e a n n e six times a week and a B+ average, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

I made the right choice this year and lived with my two best friends; CBC and CTV, no cable. Not only did I learn the true meaning o f friend­ ship, I learned the true mean­ ing o f Canadian network.

Excuse the Uncle Buck rhetoric, but last Sunday after­ noon, John Candy’s eulogy was broadcast live across Canada on CTV. This more than satis­ fies the question; if a profes­ sional funny man dies in Mexico, will Canadians watch it? Hot Tamale! Not only does this prove I’ll watch anything that m oves but that Canadians

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are passionate and possessive about national media treasures— (Case in point, following her film-affirming Oscar clutch, Canucks were overjoyed to dis­ cover that lil’ Anna Paquin was born in The Peg) So, I was understandably uncomfortable at the thought of losing CBC when this w eek Keith Spicer announced its uncertain friture. Spicer is chairman o f the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commis­ sion— nice legs shame about the title? To make a long story short, Spicer told CBC executives, “Your ratings are plummeting.

They’re falling like a rock.” Well it’s through no fault o f mine.

The English network of­ fers great programming, particu­ larly when they can afford award­ winning documentaries, such as T h e B r o a d c a s t T a p e s o f D o c to r

which in all likelihood are more rare than expensive. I’m happy as long as both Canadian networks replace Generation Anything themes with the work o f atomic Egoyan and other bright young things. I’ll eat my hat the day CTV does just that, Help me CBC, you’re my only P e te r ,

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letes and drug use at Canadian universities, a positive sign for the future. The sports section is charged with being bland, a fair accusation in our eyes. The great­ est praise for the sports section came when game scores were accompanied by a broader vari­ ety o f stories; that’s advice to consider for the future.

The features section, one that often suffers from a lack of identity due to the breadth of topics it attempts to cover, had a solid year. Focus issues for Inter­ national Women’s Week, Envi­ ronmental Awareness Week, and Sexual Assault Awareness Week offered our readers more in-depth analysis on pressing social issues and the manner in which they were addressed by SSMU and the McGill community. One signifi­ cant critique of features is that it often—perhaps too often—fo­ cuses on wom en’s issues, to the exclusion of other topics such as gay and lesbian issues. It is our hope that the results of annual features readers’ poll will help future editorial boards to respond to the needs of the community.

Features, like entertainment, has a degree of latitude to make po­ litical statements, and that could certainly be better capitalized

for just that reason. A section set apart from the rest of the paper, in our minds, would have trivialized the French articles and further marginalized the francophone population of McGill.

Among the high points this year was the emergence of our entertainment section as a politi­ cal force with a strong personal­ ity, or at least an attitude. Though it was criticized for overlooking some components of the McGill arts community’s activities, the section combined Montreal and campus events with a watchful eye on the social implications of everything from hip-hop to wom­ en’s magazines. Readers might not agree with the entertainment “agenda”, but being the section with the most latitude to analyze and criticize openly, entertain­ ment reached new levels in 199394.

Another positive was the expansion of the sports section to incorporate a wider variety of intercollegiate athletics. The in­ troduction of shorter stories was an innovation that allowed the sports staff to focus on far more than the “big name” teams. Ten­ tative steps were taken towards approaching greater issues such as funding levels for women ath­

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News is an entirely different story: a typical week of the news section contains a story about SSMU, another story about SSMU, and still several more stories about SSMU. Unfortunately, sometimes we only cover faculty associa­ tions and their activities when someone screws up: take for in­ stance the faculty association of the year, the Management Under­ graduate Society. Obviously it did something right and made some significant progress, but you wouldn’t know it from our cover­ age. Chris Haroun, where are you?

Even where SSMU is con­ cerned, w e often drop the ball.

Each of the executives this year deserved some criticism, but very few received it. Unfortunately there was no Jason Prince around this year to turn SSMU into the veritable three-ring circus it was last year. VP Finance Paul Johnson took some early in the year, but somehow VP External Andrew Work and President Mark Luz evaded us all year. At least Work made a fool of himself by posing naked for the M c G ill D a ily (don’t worry Andrew, w e believe that it w a s cold in your office...) VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow,

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Unfortunately, the intelli­ gent viewer has learned to ex­ pect outstanding television from the CBC. Conversely, the intelli­ gent viewer has learned to avoid W r e s tle m a n ia on cable. It is too easy to make frin of David Suzuki 4 by 4 by day, and watch CBC at their best, at night. Apparently 80 per cent o f Canadians tune in to the network at least once a w eek. Move over Mia Farrow, no that’s passive abusive O ne o f Spicer’s greatest concerns were the number of American com edies that the CBC occasionally aired— like gyms sh oes in a locker. American sit­ coms, such as B lo s s o m , earn the network valuable ad revenue but leave taxpayers scratching their head and their children with cranial cavities. Clearly these show s clog airways internation­ ally for the very same reasons; if they were not so popular, then they would not be so lucrative.

The reduction o f financial assist­ ance from the government makes T h e F re sh P r in c e o f B e l A ir at hom e in Moncton. However, I w ou ld rather keep this fluff around than lose CBC altogether:

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the importance of a bilingual national broadcaster should not be undermined.

The CBC produces som e of the best programs the Cana­ dian dollar can buy— which is no mean feat. The corporation receives about 1 billion dollars annually from the public purse, but faces budget cuts in coming years. Just as w e ’re rubbing our satellite dishes with glee, antici­ pating the clear reception o f

who irked many with her brash approach, escaped criticism largely because she accom ­ plished a great deal for students.

And while VP Internal Cornell Wright may have appeared to magically win over students again as an incumbent, the fact is we ignored many staff- and volun­ teer-related problems that ema­ nated from his management style.

On the university front, we failed to investigate issues as much as we should have. Com­ puter censorship was a hot topic this year in administrative cir­ cles, and though the controversy was in our pages, our coverage lacked depth and analysis. The Inter-Residence Council’s rejec­ tion of a cyclical review, as well as residence life in general, was another story that w e did not pursue as ardently as w e could have. Hopefully our incoming staff will become more of a thorn in the side of the McGill commu­ nity.

After all, that’s what stu­ dent journalism is all about. We w ouldn’t want to be called P r a v d a , now would we?

BENOIT JACQMOTTE MICHAEL BROADHURST

t hundreds of new channels, the CBC is presented a serious prime time problem. This is not the place for “dog ate my homework” excuses, answers are needed right now.

Losing CBC w ould be as sensible as playing “chicken” on the R o a d to A v o n le a .

Allow me to leave my post with these words of wis­ dom; be nice, don’t splice, value the CBC.

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m a te ria l c o n s i d e r e d ra c is t, s e x is t, o r h o m o p h o b i c b y t h e e d ito r ia l b o a r d . V ie w s e x p r e s s e d in c o m m e n t s a n d le tte r s a r e n o t n e c e s s a r ily t h e v i e w s o f t h e e d i t o ­ rial b o a r d . L e tte rs m u s t b e n o m o r e t h a n 3 5 0 w o r d s , a n d c o m m e n t s a r e lim ite d t o 5 0 0 w o r d s . C o m m e n ts a n d le tte r s m u s t b e s u b m i t t e d b y 3 PM o n T h u r s d a y a f te r n o o n fo r in c lu s io n in t h e f o l l o w i n s w e e k ’s is s u e .

Op/Ed

The McGill Tribune, Match 29-<September 6,1994

L e tte r s to th e E d ito r H e a lth c a r e ...

In ve stm en t...

M o o n in g us...

Alter having read the feature on mid­ wifery in the March 15th issue o f your paper, I was disturbed by the clichés and portrayal of the medical profession. First o f all, I would be interested to know the sources o f their statistics on infant mortality rate (IMR). According to Health and Welfare Canada, Quebec has one o f the lowest IMR in the world. In 1990, Quebec’s IMR was 6.2/1000 live births and Canada's was 6.8/1000 live births. The IMR in the Netherlands in 1990 was also 6.8/1000 (WHO statistics). One of the reasons why the Nethedands has had low IMR with midwifery may be because o f the proximity of hospitals to the great majority o f the population.

Another point in the feature dealt with pain medication. The midwives in the article believed that pain control was not natural and therefore wrong. What is wrong with giving pain relief to a woman w ho desires it’ The idea that wom en should experience pain during childbirth is an archaic thought which arose from biblical times.

While the hospital environment can, at times, seem not conducive to childbirth, most hospitals have taken measures to improve this with birthing rooms. These rooms are not only a homey environment w here other family members can come but, they are adjacent to resuscitation facilities for both mothers and infants.

As a future obstetrician-gynecologist, I am going into that field of medicine with the purpose o f taking care o f wom en's health and ensuring that women have safe and joyous deliveries. I realise that time constraints and hospital responsibilities will not allow me to spend nearly as much time as 1 would like to with my patients. However, if my inability to provide tea and fresh flowers to one o f my patients is considered poor care, then the midwives and I have a different definition of care.

Students in McGill's Faculty of M anagem ent are establishing the univer­ sity's first ever m utual fund for students, ru n by students, T he Crown Fund will begin operations in Septem ber, 1994, selling shares to students w h o w ish to invest in this fund. Not only can investors expect a healthy return o n their money, but they will also have access to the substantial resources of the Crown Fund.

The Fund will have a data base with historical data o n com panies as well as analytical software and several sub­ scriptions to relevant publications. This will b e o f interest to al students, w hether financially inclined or not. For the future traders a n d analysts am ong you, this will provide you with invaluable information a n d experience should you choose to becom e actively involved. For th e rest of you, the Crown Fund can be your first exposure to the w orld o f investing. Most externally operated mutual funds charge huge fees, w hich m ake the w hole invest­ m ent a w aste of m oney unless you are investing large amounts. This will not be a problem w ith the Crown Fund, as there are n o fees a n d small denom inations can be invested.

The idea for this project w as in­ spired by the Alpha Fund o f Laval Univer­ sity. Their fund has been in operation since 1978 and now has assets o f $450,000.

Representatives from Alpha shared their experiences w ith McGill's group in Janu­ ary.

The m arket watchers o f the Crown Fund are actively following th e m arkets a n d have created a simulation portfolio in order to ensure that their m ethods and systems run smoothly. Currently, Crown Fund is in the start-up phase, and m eets Fridays, at 2:00 pm in Bronfm an 104.

Anyone interested (including sponsors or advisors) in participating in the organisa­ tion and establishm ent o f the fund is encouraged to get involved by com ing to one o f the m eetings or by contacting president Stephan Naud, at 388-2250.

So I w as reading “The blind lead­ ing the vacant of SSMU” by Michael Broadhurst {T rib u n e March 15-31, 1994) w hich ends with the paragraph “So next time you feel like w hining about the w ay SSMU spends your money, or about how terrible Shatner m oles are, stop yourself.

You don 't have the right to complain.

Only I can do that."

And this rem inded m e o f a n edito­ rial I w rote last year for the T ribune, also about elections, entitled “Enough o f your little w hining” ( T rib u n e Feb. 16-Mar. 2, 1993). It ended w ith the paragraph “Peo­ ple w ho spend a year padding their résum és at the expense of 15,000 p eople have n o right to com plain. Only I can d o that.”

A little short o n ideas last w eek Mike? But at least you're doing your research.

Nathalie Guibord Medicine, Class o f “94

H ea d c a se ...

'H ats off to Professor Longworth' On Tuesday Mar. 22nd I was repri­ manded in my East European History class (101-306B) by Professor Philip Longworth for wearing a baseball cap in his classroom, and told to remove my offensive headgear. This was the first time I was chastised, but previ­ ously many other men in the class had received the same admonishing. I specify men because it seem s that Prof. Longworth's policy only applies to men—women are permitted to wear any type o f hats they wish. But this is not the cause o f my frustration; Even if his 'h a t' policy was universally applied, it would not be just.

This policy is unique to Prof. Longworth's class, it has no basis as a McGill rule (unlike for example, eating or drinking in class). Upon probing his justification for such a policy, I was given the following response: By wearing a baseball cap I am effectively damaging the learning environment within the classroom.

Essentially any cap is somehow offensive to what is supposed to be an efficient and re­ spectful academic forum.

My questions are several. First of all where does it end? What comes next, I can't wear ripped jeans, or I must be clean shaven for Prof. Longworth? Second, if students don't stand up to this issue on the principle of Fighting against such arbitrary measures noth­ ing will change until professors like Philip Longworth stop teaching. Most importantly, towever, is the notion that my cap impinges jpon the quality of education within the dassroom. Inlight o f the factlw as not sporting m oversized 10-gallon hat that may have blocked the view o f my peers, I find this irgument both outdated and ridiculous.

In the end, Prof. Longworth actually jave me an ultimatum. He stated "you don't lave to take my course, you know '. This is vhat I found most offensive. As a McGill audent, I have every right toselect my courses is I choose, and not feel constrained about which history class I decide to attend on the lasts of my refusal to prescribe to the arbitrary iress code im posed by Professor Philip jongworth.

Arif Vitani U3 Arts

Lauren Sandiford M anagem ent

W ho a r e y o u ...

“It's not w h o you are but w hat you d o that puts you at risk for HIV infection.”

That is an excellent health aw areness m essage used by ACT-UP Montreal in its “Safer Sex' materials. It's im portant to realise that our race, gender, or sexual orientation cannot ever exem pt us from HIV risk. EVERYONE is at risk!

Unfortunately, how ever, the or­ ganisers of McGill'sAIDS Awareness Week used an adapted form of ACT-UP's m es­ sage w hich is factually m isleading. A caption on their prom otional posters read: “It's not w h o you do, it’s WILAT you d o .”

The truth is that it does m atter WHO you d o WHAT with.

To acquire HIV through sexual contact, tw o conditions m ust b e satisfied: 1) There m ust b e exchange o f bodily fluids, and 2) these bodily fluids must contain HIV. Therefore, if your partner has b een diagnosed with HIV infection (or if your partner is likely to have HIV) you are at higher risk of contracting HIV from her/him than from a low-risk part­ ner—given the sam e precautions, o r lack thereof.

For exam ple, if I w ere to have sex w ith m any people that I do not know well (or w ith a partner w ho is already diag­ nosed w ith HIV) I w ould then, by defini­ tion, becom e a WHO that is a high-risk partner for you. Furthermore, w hile using a condom is surely better than not using one, condom s are at best only 90% effec­ tive p e r sexual encounter in preventing HIV transmission.

W hen it com e to HIV infection, w hat matters is n o t w ho YOU are, but WHAT you d o and WHO you do it with.

Roland Orfaly U2 Medicine Ed: J u st o n e q u e stio n , R o la n d .

W hen a re y o u g ra d u a tin g ?

A Trib editor m any m oons ago, Chris Alam Ed: M r. B ro a d h u rst g ra te fu lly a c ­ kn o w led g es th e so u rce o f th e p h ra se “O n ly le a n d o th a t. “A fo o tn o te seem ed in a p p ro ­ p r ia te in a new spaper.

C e n s u r e -s h ip ...

In Catrin Morris's article “Pornog­ raphy: the pervert sits dow n w ith the philosopher”, she forgot to m ention the fifth and sixth panellists of the six people o n the discussion panel. These p eople are Emm Tow nsend w h o is styled as a ‘pornography researcher*, and Jacques Boivin the co-founder of S a n s C ensure and the illustrator/translator o f the comic M elody.

She had also neglected to m ention the p eople responsible for organising the event, and that it was sponsored by the M cG ill D aily. It seem ed too m uch like a vehicle to express Catrin Morris's opinion o n pornography.

In Bam aby Clunie’s article o n “Cen­ sorship on the Internet superhighw ay at W aterloo”, m any things w ere left out including the direction o f the article.

Clunie m istook the Internet for the data superhighway. T he data superhighw ay is only in the planning stages. As a tidbit of information, Principal Johnston is going to head the com m ittee responsible for the data superhighway.

Clunie did not m ention that the W aterloo W om en's Centre w as not call­ ing for the banning o f the new sgroups, the m ovem ent to keep the new sgroups from being reinstated and the actual names o f the new sgroups. Was Clunie even aw are that one of the new sgroups was a discussion g roup o n w hat was posted in a related new sgroup?

I think that the T rib u n e fills its niche w ithin the McGill comm unity quite well, but it should also m ake sure that it informs the readers well enough to be able to m ake a good decision.

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"W ho a m I, c a n I c o n c e a l m y ­ s e lffo r e v e r m ore?"

-Les M isérables In the p a st few d ays m y sle e p ­ ing p attern has g o n e w ildly askew .

A bout tw o ho u rs a g o I w as d e sp e r­ ately tired. A frien d o f m in e th en su g g e ste d that w e have a m editation.

I th o u g h t I w as to o tired a n d w o u ld p ro b a b ly fall asleep, b u t I d e c id e d to join him regardless. Fatigue is a strange thing, o n c e y o u let it g e t th e b e tte r of you, it c an alm ost co m p letely take o v e r y o u r conscious m ind. It w as in this fram e o f m ind that I w e n t to sit m editation.

A form o f m editation so m e ­ tim es u s e d b y certain individuals is p ro lo n g e d co n cen tratio n o n th e q u e s­ tion "w ho am I?” T he objective is to p u rsu e this q u e stio n to its limits, fi­ nally arriving at th e full u n d e rstan d in g o f o n e 's true nature. Sitting d o w n the o th e r night, u n su re o f m y capacity to rem ain alert, I d e c id e d to a tte m p t this form o f m editation.

“W ho am I?” T h e first thing that w e n t through m y m in d is, “a m I m y fatigue?" "That c a n 't be," I thought, “m y fatigue com es a n d goes. It's tran­ sient. I can 't b e so m ething that is forever c hanging u n less I m yself am m erely transient, c hanging from m o ­ m en t to m om ent. I c a n 't h e lp b u t feel how ever, th at there is so m eth in g c o n ­ tin u o u s a b o u t m yself w h ich rem ains co n stan t from o n e m o m e n t to the next. It c a n ’t b e m y tho u g h ts a n d feelings though, b ecau se th o se also a re co n tin u o u sly c h an g in g .”

If y o u 'v e e v er sat m editation before, y o u m ay b e fam iliar w ith the p h e n o m e n o n o f sitting d o w n and b e in g su d d e n ly se ize d w ith a n u n ­ p re c e d e n te d pain o r itch. In these situations, all o n e n e e d s to d o is d ra w the th o u g h ts aw ay from the pain o r itch a n d focus the a tten tio n com ­ pletely o n som ething else, e v en for just an instant. T he pain o r itch th en just d ro p s aw ay, having n o tho u g h ts left to su p p o rt it. W hen this h a p p e n s e n o u g h tim es, you begin to realize th at th ese pains are p urely m ental constructs. And, as th ey a re a p ro d u c t o f tho u g h t, th ey can b e d eco n stru c te d in the m in d as well.

As this p attern progresses, o n e c an 't h e lp b u t begin to w o n d e r just h o w m an y o f o u r p e rce p tio n s are c rea te d in the m ind. If p ain s can be g e n e ra te d m entally, is it n o t possible that all feelings a n d p e rce p tio n s are m erely fabrications o f o u r c o n sc io u s­ ness? M ost eastern philosophies w o u ld p ro b a b ly c o n c u r w ith this conclusion.

T he idea o f m an y o f th ese b o d ies o f

Sincerely, Maximiano C. Francisco III U2 C om puter Engineering

In d o n e s ia n d e v e lo p m e n t..

In response to A ndré Escarabage's letter, published in th e March 15-21 issue o f the T ribune, it m ight be helpful to provide som e background o n the McGill Indonesia IAIN D evelopm ent project.

McGill has a num ber of international projects in h igher education w hich often involve a n exchange o f staff and students, as well as contributions of equipm ent, library books a n d som etim es joint re­ search or conferences. These are carried out aro u n d the w orld and have been taking place for m any years. However, it's im portant to note that McGill's collabora­ tion o n such international projects does not constitute an endorsem ent o f govern­ m ent policy or activities.

T he current McGill Indonesian IAIN project involves: 1) students from Indonesia e n ­ rolled in postgraduate degree programs at McGill 2) students from McGill visiting

Indonesia 3) visiting professors from McGill teaching in Indonesia 4) visiting professors from Indo­ nesia teaching at McGill 5) visiting professional librarians providing expertise in Indonesia 6) contributions o f library m ateri­ als in Indonesia and at McGill 7) preparation of an English-lan­ guage anthology for teaching in Indone­ sia.

These arrangem ents are im por­ tant to all partners: they provide contact betw een p eople and encourage the ex­ change o f ideas. Thus Indonesian stu­ dents are exposed to Canadian values and social systems, and Canadians b e ­ com e better informed about custom s and beliefs in other parts of the world. The fact that our Indonesian visitors are civil servants is not surprising: all university staff in Indonesia are considered civil servants. Those w hose careers are al­ ready underw ay often benefit particularly from postgraduate education, a n d cer­ tainly they are m ore likely to return to

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VEDA MINUTE B Y J O N A T H A N S. th o u g h t is th at o u r en tire ex p erien ce o f th e ex te rn al w o rld is just a d e lu ­ sion, a n d th at w e 're really all just m anifestations o f o n e g reat co n scio u s­ ness.

Irrespective o f th e fact th at as I w e n t d e e p e r into th ese rum inations, m y fatigue just d ro p p e d aw ay, I still fo u n d this n o tio n difficult to accept.

W h a ta b o u to th e r p e o p le , are they just figm ents o f m y im agination? O n e in­ teresting re sp o n se to this p ro b lem is that things exist, y e t o nly tem porarily.

W hile w e are co n fu sed , the w orld really exists, y e t w h e n w e co m e to a true u n d e rstan d in g o f th e n atu re o f the w orld, it w ill b eco m e u n re a l for us. At tim es I find this solution m ildly plausible in th e se n se th at I can so m e ­ w h at grasp, from m y o w n p e rce p tio n s o f h o w p a in a n d feelings c an be p u re ly m entally c onstructed, h o w a co n scio u s m in d c o u ld so m e h o w d e ­ lu d e itself in to thinking that its o w n b o d y exists. W hen I think o f ev ery ­ thing th ere is in th e w o rld how ever, all th e trees, rocks, birds, o c ean s, etc., I find the idea th at m y o w n m ind m ight h ave c rea te d all o f this a little h a rd er to ingest.

T he o th e r day, w h e n listening to a lecture given b y A lan W atts in 1964, I cam e across a po ssib le so lu ­ tion to this problem . It is W atts' c o n ­ ten tio n th at w e live in a co n scio u s w o rld T hat is to say th a t everything a ro u n d us, th e trees, the rocks, the buildings, all a re conscious, th o u g h to varying d eg rees. H e b ases his view in the idea o f evolution, claim ing that “w e g ro w o u t o f this w o rld .” It is furtherm ore, according to W atts, im­ possible for “a n intelligent organism su c h a s a h u m a n bein g [to grow] o u t o f an unintelligent universe." T hus, the p lan e t o n w hich w e live m u st be co n scio u s a t som e level in o rd e r for it to h ave p ro d u c e d us. H e se e s the c o m m o n view , th at c o n sc io u sn ess is just a freak o f evolution, a n ab erration o n a n oth erw ise d u m b planet, to be com pletely illogical. H e feels th at the ro o t o f this conflict is th at h e c o n ­ ceives o f "m inerals as a rudim entary form o f c o n scio u sn ess,” w h e rea s w e see “c onsciousness as a co m p licated form o f m inerals.” If this is th e case though, a n d the en tire u n iv erse is so m eh o w conscious, th en w e n e e d n o t feel that it is a creation o f o u r m inds, b u t a creation o f its o w n m ind.

T h e universe then, c o u ld b e u n d e r­ sto o d to b e thinking itself.

their hom e country once their studies in Canada are com pleted.

Last w eek a national conference held in Vancouver focused on how Canada m ight intensify its educational activities in Asia a n d how Asian students can be persuaded to com e to Canada. Increasing the num ber o f international students in Q uebec is also considered a priority: not only is the advancem ent of know ledge well-served, the contribution o f these students to the local econom y is m ore and m ore appreciated. It is also surely w orth rem inding ourselves that fees for international students are generally about $5,000 higher than for Canadian students.

From m any points o f view, the presence of international students is a w elcom e investm ent in the future. Certainly, w hen these visitors return hom e, they often becom e am bassadors, for their host coun­ try a n d for their host university.

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that can be sub­ mitted to a hear­ ing of a Student T he ad h o c com m ittee Disciplinary on th e C o d e o f S tu d en t C o m m ittee . In Conduct and D iscip lin e met th e p rese n t for th e fo u rth tim e la st c o d e , ev id en ce Tuesday to discuss proposed w hich is illegally revisions. The group is com ­ o b ta in e d m ust p o s e d o f th e D e a n o f “There are some b e e x c lu d e d Students, Irwin Gopnik, mem­ very sticky issues from su c h a b ers o f the ad m in istration , in [the proposed hearing. leg a l a d v iso r s and stu d en t H ow ever, r e p r e s e n ta tiv e s . T h e fin al code] that Senate on e o f the pro­ draft o f the am en d ed C ode will have to p osed modifica­ has b een prepared for su b ­ address.” tio n s re m o v es m ission to Senate, and w ill this p rotection , likely be discussed at the next d le a v e s the meeting.

- Mark Piibe an ad m issib ility ol T h e C o d e o f S tu d en t Executive Director, evid en ce in the C onduct o u tlin es the rights and re sp o n sib ilitie s o f stu ­ LIC h a n d s o f the d en ts as w e ll as g riev a n ce chair o f the dis- D e a n o f S tu d e n ts I r w in G o p n ik p o n d e r s , w ith M c G ill c o m m u n ity , th e C o d e cip lin a r y c o m ­ on the ground and frisk you in v o lv e d in th is from th e mittee. and [that evidence] w ould be beginning— students’ opinions “T he e x is tin g c o d e is McGill Legal Information allow ed.” have been consulted.”

Clinic executive director Mark good , but w e felt w e could T h e r a tio n a le b e h in d P iibe e x p r e sse d m ixed m ake it better. After tw elve Piibe expressed concern that w ithdrawing the clause from feelin gs regarding the effec­ years, y o u ’d want to look at this revision cou ld be prob­ A rticle 40, a c c o r d in g to tiveness o f the meetings. any code and try to improve lematic if implemented.

Gopnik, was that members o f “We had som e very pro­ “[We feel] that this article it,” said Gopnik. “I think [our a Disciplinary Committee are ductive sessio n s in the com ­ c o d e ] m a k es us a le a d e r is very bad... Evidence based not qualified to determine the m ittee. I think at this point, [among] universities. It’s on e on an illegal search w ould be legality o f such issues. they aren’t terribly productive of the best I’ve seen .” a llo w e d ,” P iib e sta te d .

“The members o f a disci­ a n y m o re as far as m a k in g O n e o f th e p r o p o s e d “S o m eo n e c o u ld read your SSMU p lin a ry c o m m itte e are n o t ch a n g es to b e n e fit th e stu ­ revisions that proved contro­ mail, read your e-mail, check TRANSIT NETWORK versial d eals w ith ev id e n c e your pockets, or even pin you lawyers and judges. It is not a dents’ interests g o ,” Piibe said. reasonable burden to put on “There are so m e very sticky them to d e te rm in e w h a t is issues in [the proposed code] leg a l or ille g a l,” e x p la in e d that S en a te w ill h a v e to Gopnik. a d d ress w h ic h c o u ld n ’t b e “T h is w ill b e d e b a te d reso lv ed at the lev el o f the fully in Senate,” he added. com m ittee.”

All Members and H ow ever, Piibe em pha­ Other proposals dealing L a n g u a g e s In tern ation al TESL Non-Members Welcome sized that Gopnik encouraged with abuses of the University c o u r s e c o m in g b a c k to M o n tr ea l Thurs. Mar.31 student participation and con ­ com puter system and proce­ tribution throughout the pro­ 2 wk. intensive course in afternoons to teach English overseas dures for excluding students Union 4 0 8 ceedings. w h o are considered a danger Certificate awarded. A p ril 18-30, $445.

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G op n ik , h o w ev e r, w a s very fair in listening to things very satisfied with the results w e have had to sa y ,” stated P iib e . “H o w e v e r , o n s o m e o f the proceedings.

“It has g o n e very w ell. is s u e s w h ic h w e fe lt w e re We’ve had four meetings and e x tr e m e ly im p o rta n t, our I h a v e w ritten a n e w draft input didn’t result in the kind C o u r s e s l e a d in g to a c e rtific a te o f P ro fic ie n c y after each m eetin g,” G opnik o f c h a n g e s w e w a n te d to D a y tim e C o u r s e s - S p e c ia l In te n s iv e F re n c h stated. “Students have b een se e .”

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ty’s preliminary budget. dollar surplus that had been The university had also projected by the preliminary assumed a grant cut o f four mil­ budget. The final budget also lion dollars. Although initial used 3 million dollars that was hopes had been that because of set aside as reserve in the pre­ its stance on tuition fees the liminary budget to offset the governm ent w ould reduce or remainder o f the loss.

T he fin al b u d get also eliminate the grant cut, such a in c lu d ed a m ove now salary p o lic y seems unlikely, accord in g to requiring 0.6 “We show a 25 per million dollars M cG ill’s V icefrom the Pr i n ci p al cent tuition fee (Administration reserve fund, increase because l e a v i n g and F inance) that’s what we think McGill’s 1994John Armour.

Armour 95 p rojection ought to happen.” with a 0.6 mil­ exp lain ed that the preliminary lion dollar - John Armour, d eficit rather b u d g et d o c u ­ m ent served Vice Principal than the 3.2 m illion dollar many functions.

(Administration and su rp lu s that “The pre­ liminary budget Finance) had initially is not o n ly a been projected.

A ccord ing to b u d get, but Armour, this a lso a p ub lic relations document,” he stated. deficit was negligible.

“When you’re dealing with “We show a 25 per cent tuition fee increase because that’s what a budget of this size, what that w e think ought to happen.” means is that you’re essentially The final budget faced a breaking even,” he explained. loss of 6.2 million dollars from The salary policy covered the preliminary budget due to in the budget included a forfei­ the less than expected increase ture of a one per cent increase in tuition fees. Part of the loss by administrative and support was absorbed by the 3.2 million staff and payment of only one-

The U n iversity Senate ipproved McGill’s 1994-95 bud­ get at last w eek’s meeting. The budget, w h ich ch an ged su b ­ stantially from the preliminary draft presented last November, shaves 4.3 million dollars from last year’s base budget, bringing VlcGill’s 1994-95 operating bud­ get to 250 million dollars. The Dudget includes a 600,000 dolar deficit.

The prelim inary budget eleased last semester had cal:ulated for a tuition fee increase af 25 per cent. That estimation vas based on the expectation :hat the Q uebec governm ent vould allow universities to raise uition fees to the national averige. The national average for miversity tuition fees is approxm ately 2,250 d ollars, w h ile uition fees in Quebec are well Selow 2,000 dollars. The 25 per :ent increase would have raised in additional 400 dollars per student.

The p rovin cial govern nent announced in December hat it would restrict tuition fee ncreases in the province to 1.9 ner cent. That announcem ent breed McGill’s administrators to substantially alter the universi­

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T he final b u d g et a lso im p lem en ted tw o correction measures. A reduction in acade­ mic positions reduced the bud­ g et by 2.2 m illio n , w h ile a reduction in the Sabbatic Leave Replacement Fund reduced it by an additional 0.5 million.

A point of contention sur­ rounding the proposed budget has been library funding. The libraries were asked to make a base cut of 505 thousand d ol­ lars, parts of which are planned to com e from the clo sin g of branch libraries su ch as the Library and Inform ation Sciences Library, from reduc­ tion s in staff, and from the acq u isitio n b u d get.

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On April 8th, the Arts Jndergraduate Society (AUS) md the Faculty of Arts will be ointly hosting a leadership :onference for Montreal area ligh school student leaders.

The conference, entitled Action C ooperation Today squals Success (ACTES), is >ased on a similar confer:nce that w a s h eld at dcMaster University last year, n which high school student eaders participated in leaderhip and cooperation workhops.

AUS VP A cad em ic tngie Scrannage indicated hat the con feren ce w ould jrovide McGill University the >pportunities to bridge the ;ap betw een university stulents and their high school :ounterparts. “[The co n feren ce will illow students] to s e e the ampus and student leaders >n campus,” said Scrannage.

[It’s] an opportunity to learn lew ways to organize events at heir own schools.”

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President Mark Luz, is sched­ u led to includ e coop eration workshops as well as a scav­ enger hunt and a tour o f the campus.

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increased from 142 thousand to 250.000 dollars, the difference b ein g d ed u c ted from the amount available for Academic and Support Services. W hen com bined with an additional 250.000 d ollars from B ase D iscretio n a ry Funds, the libraries are confronted with a lo ss o f 5,000 d ollars in this year’s budget. Plans to provide an addition 500,000 dollars from the reserve fund in the prelimi­ nary budget for library acquisi­ tions were abandoned after the government’s announcement on tuition fee increases.

M cG ill’s V ice Principal (A ca d em ic) W illiam L eggett em ph asized that all that was possible to assist libraries was being done.

“Last year one million was taken o u t o f the b u d g et o f administrative and support staff and .put into the libraries, and it did buy books, and it did buy journals,” said Leggett. “I do believe its important for sena­ tors to recognize that important ste p s have b een m ade. The reality is that w e are not living in the best of times.”

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Grewal was incensed by the executives’ allegations.

AUS President Joe Wong “This is a bloody witch­ expressed hope that the con­ hunt," he exclaimed. feren ce w o u ld p rovid e an Councillors and Grewal’s opportunity for high sch o o l supporters were quick to come students to becom e more inti­ to his d efen ce. C ouncillor mately aware o f the mechanics Carylle Doherty, a certificate of university life, in addition student in translation, argued to providing a forum for lead­ that the evidence put forth by ership exchange.

Posman did not constitute suffi­ According to Wong, the cient grounds for demanding con feren ce may b eco m e a Grewal’s resignation. fixture at McGill. “[G rew al’s n eg lig en ce] “The conference is an hasn’t been proven,” she point­ attempt by McGill, for once, i ed out. “It seem s to me as to go off campus and reach | though there are a lot of per­ the M ontreal co m m u n ity ,” sonal issues involved here.” said W ong. “My p erson al Eric Oudin, a candidate hope is that the conference for MACES VP Internal running w ill b e c o m e an annual on Grewal’s slate, claimed that event.” the action s o f Posm an and The 400 dollar cost o f Marentette reflected a continued the co n fe r e n c e has b e e n effort to exclude Grewal from funded almost entirely by the the elections.

Faculty o f Arts. Out o f 35 “This motion is a part in a high sc h o o ls co n ta cted to series o f attempts to bar Tony attend the conference, 20 will from the elections,” he asserted. be se n d in g d e le g a te s.

“We’ve tried to make the elec­ Participants will be required tion fair and clean, and frankly, to pay a ten d ollar fe e to I’m surprised to see this.” attend.

In resp o n se to The ACTES conference Marentette’s reminder to council was originally intended to be that Grewal had neglected his bilingual, but Conference orga­ duties by only attending three nizers abandoned the idea cit­ o f n ine Senate m eetin gs, ing reasons of a lack of interest G rew al m aintained that his am on g fra n co p h o n e h igh absence from Senate was made s c h o o ls and the lo g istic s up by his organization o f a involved. number of MACES events.

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meetings because there were no issues pertinent to MACES being discussed,” he said. “You say I haven’t done anything for MACES, yet I’v e o rg a n ized Chartered Accountancy tours and the New Year’s party which brought in 1,400 dollars, more than the MACES bar has seen in years.”

The debate was, however, brought to a rapid halt by the u n e x p e cte d departure o f Marentette and Posman, w ho cited previous commitments as their reasons for leaving the meeting.

In response to their deci­ sion to leave during a crucial d eb ate, O udin q u e stio n e d Marentette’s commitment to his duties as president, to w hich Marentette replied “you better watch out.”

W hen asked to exp lain w hat he m ean to im ply, M arentette referred to legal action which is being taken in response to the letter circu­ lated by Grewal’s slate.

The council meeting was subsequently adjourned as a result of loss of quorum.

After the meeting, Doherty w as clearly disturbed by the exchange that had taken place during the meeting.

“This is my first experi­ ence with all of this,” she assert­ ed. “I’m quite amazed. These issues have to be substantiated much more solidly. My sense is that this is emerging out of per­ sonal conflict”

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“It w ill a lso b e a very g ood sensitization device for th o s e in v o lv e d : stu d e n ts, building managers and com ­ mittee members,” she added.

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The award was presented o n ly w h e e lc h a ir ,” sh e said.

“People have to consider other by the Students’ Society (SSMU) d isab ilities su ch as h earing at a banquet on Friday, March impairment in the case o f a 18th.

MUS P resid en t Ronald fire alarm.”

Balinsky felt that high levels of O nce the audit student involvement and a wide and the fo llo w -u p range of accomplishments con­ report are com plet­ ed, it w ill b e su b ­ tributed to the decision by the mitted to the Joint SSMU. N ew initiatives like the Committee and cir­ Jeux du Commerce, a competi­ c u la te d around tion involving 13 universities campus. and the Fashion Show Benefit “We w o u ld for AIDS C om m unity Care want to send it as a Montreal were cited

by Balinsky committee to senior as major events w hich raised members of the uni­ the p rofile o f McGill in the versity... to provide Montreal community. The MUS co n c r e te in form a­ also sp onsored lectures from tio n a b o u t fa c ili­ prominent business figures such t i e s ,” e x p la in e d as the president o f the Body Wolforth.

Shop and the Auditor General The audit will of Canada, and the association co m p lem en t w ork raised over 16,000 dollars at that has p ro v id ed their annual auction for cancer b etter a c c e s s for research. d isa b led stu d en ts, “Considering the activities including a host of w e ran and the success of our r e n o v a tio n s to events, I think the award was d o o rs, e le v a to r s, merited,” Balinsky said. w a sh ro o m s and The d ecision cam e after ram ps that w e re nominations were solicited by done last summer.

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The Selection Committee in charge o f judging was com­ prised of Wright, VP Finance Paul Joh n son , VP External

“When you do as much as we do, it’s nice to see a good headline.”

- Mitch Costom, Management Rep to SSMU Council Andrew Work, SSMU Clubs Rep Farah Nazarali and volunteer Christine Moore. Their decision w as b a sed on the typ es o f events organized or sponsored and the accomplishments of the activities, such as raising both awareness and money.

The most important criteri­ on was that the association had demonstrated marked improve­ m ent from p rev io u s years.

According to Wright, the com ­ m ittee’s decision in favour of the MUS was unanimous.

“I think the consensus was pretty clear. I think you couldn’t help but notice the number of things the MUS had done this year,” stated Wright.

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was impressed with the way the MUS had broadened its appeal with cross-campus advertising campaigns to make events less “Management-centric”.

MUS Rep to SSMU Mitch C ostom fe lt th e Faculty of Management deserved the hon­ our based on their commitment to bolstering student participa­ tion and spirit “I think it’s fantastic,” he enthused. “I certainly know we do a lot, whether it’s getting stu­ dents involved or raising money for charity. W hen you d o as much as w e do, it’s nice to see a good headline.”

Noting that the AUS won the award in 1993, President Joe W ong w as d isco u ra g ed thal they w ere not able to repeal their performance.

“The AUS is very disap­ pointed, but not with the facl that M anagem ent w o n ,” explained Wong. “W e’ve con­ stantly congratulated them foi their achievements, which were outstanding this year.”

W ong and oth er AUS councillors believed they had made significant contributions to the McGill community, espe­ cially for an association in its second year of operation.

W ong pointed to events such as the Frosh Breakfast, the publication o f course readers, and the Festival of Arts, includ ing a ctiv ities by th e Black Students’ Network and the An History Students’ Association, as new initiatives. Upcoming activ ities include the first annua H igh S ch o o l Leadership Conference scheduled for April Career Week and the proposée Sadie’s project.

Wright praised the MUÎ for overcoming negative public ity surrounding certain events ir their Winter Carnival and fo exten d in g the sco p e o f thei appeal on campus.

“It was good to see thei good accomplishments got rec ognized,” he added.

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“I am just saying I am not this little kid anymore, I want to be my own per­ son,” said Fishing in America.

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They realized that disbanding student government was unrealistic, and so the two high-school friends from Atlanta are now sifting through applications for the jobs they had said would be abolished. On the matter o f free tickets, Mr. Orsagh says: “It looks like the administration isn’t going to budge.”

Luring the Dead is a long shot, he says, because Notre Dame doesn’t have a facility big enough to interest the band. (Notre Dame reserves its football stadium for football).

The pro-fun duo officially take office on April Fool’s day. reprinted from:

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R o e p a s s e s b u c k o n R u s b to n c o n t r o l M c G i l l u n e s o lit u d e p a r m i p lu s ie u r s “Naître à Vancouver ou à Bombay, sortir du rang, de la masse des potaches, puis venir étudier trois ans a McGill en humanités ou en sciences, et repartir armé d’un diplôme où sont gravés en filigrane les mots « la is se z p a sser» . Bienvenue à McGill, avantage-privilège, air miles et multipoints. McGill où? McGill-Montreal, sans accent, McGill-Canada. Ou plus exactement: McGill tout court, la république.

Cette petite société, lo g ée com m e un Vatican au cœ ur du centre-ville, est absorbée par elle-m êm e avec parfois tant de superbe que c ’est le reste du Québec qui, en l’apercevant de la rue Sherbrooke, se sent replié sur soi.” reprinted from: “McGill, P.Q.” by Christophe Horguelin, as found in L e Q u a r tie r L ib re , Université de Montréal, February 28, 1994.

L e g is la t io n c u r b s s t u d e n t / f a c u it y r o m a n c e The Sexual Assault Prevention Committee (SAPAC) at Ryerson, Toronto, is working to put a halt to sexual relations between faculty and students. SAPAC maintains that student/faculty intimacy creates favouritism and can be regarded as coercive, leading in some cases to allegations of sexual harassment once relation­ ships end, since consent cannot necessarily be proven.

“I always tell (faculty members), ‘Don’t shit on your own doorstep,’” said Larry Gray, VP Faculty and Staff Affairs.

Gray says that professors w ho becom e involved with their students are expected to inform him, so that the student can be transferred out of the profes­ sor’s class.

According to Student Union President Bob Crane, the policy is unenforce­ able and a waste of time.

Ryerson’s residence staff are already subject to restrictions on their bedroom behaviour with residents. Although some have expressed dissatisfaction with the policy, it exists to protect the staff from charges of sexual harassment, according to residence life coordinator Jane Brown.

“We realize that’s 554 people out o f (the residence staffs) dating pool, but if they meet som eone who is the love of their life, I tell them they only have to wait until May, then they can do what they want," said Brown, who said she has known o f ten such relationships. ^ Lance Murdoch, a residence assistant w ho was involved with a resident before being hired, has reservations regarding the policy. “(It is) impossible to enforce, and if you try to enforce it, it leads to sneak­ ing around behind everyone’s back and that’s not much healthier.” source: files from the

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N o t r e D a m e s t u d e n t g o v e r n m e n t p r o m is e s aJ u n ” Two candidates for student government at the University o f Notre Dame didn’t quite promise their voters the world, but they came close: they said they would bring the Grateful Dead to campus if they were elected.

The candidates, Dave Hungeling and Matt Orsagh, also said they would abolish student government, give students free season passes to football games, and generally subsidize “fun” on the campus.

Their campaign for student president and vice-president began as a joke, a dart aimed at other student politicians’ inflated sense of self importance. But it snowballed into what the two juniors call a “campus-wide, grass-roots social movement.”

They now find themselves in a position that seasoned politicians are used to: backtracking on their promises. “We wanted to inject some fun into the cam­ paign,” says a rather sober sounding Mr. Orsagh. “I think w e accomplished that.

Phillippe Rushton, the University o f Western Ontario (UWO) professor who has been receiving considerable attention for his work in the field o f eugenics, has crawled back into the spotlight.

In 1988, Rushton published material which maintained that traits such as intelligence are genetically linked to race. His theories met with widespread opposition, most of which claimed that the study was unscientific.

The London Urban Alliance, an anti-racism organization, has recently lodged a formal complaint with the Ontario government protesting the continued publication of Rushton’s research.

Premier Bob Rae said that there was little the government could do.

“While I do understand your concerns, this issue touches on many sensitive areas, including freedom o f speech,” wrote Rae in response to the complaint LUA was disappointed with the government’s response.

“The government is always passing the buck.” said LUA spokesperson Loma Martin, “Until the government (stops) the tap of racism flowing here at Western, racism everywhere can’t be stopped.”

Ontario Ministry o f Education and Training Advisor David Scott said that it is UWO's responsibility to deal with Rushton.

“The case is out of our jurisdiction,” said Scott.

UWO Administrators have been unwilling to restrain or discipline Rushton in the past, upholding Rushton’s academic freedom as inviolable.

Rushton is currently on leave, but will resume his teaching duties in September. source: files from

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B r o c k ’s “ e x t r a ” e d u c a t io n s t u d e n t s t o p a y m o r e The Brock Administration intends to implement a controversial fee hike pro­ posal despite widespread consternation on the part o f students and government big wigs alike.

According to the proposal, the Faculty of Education will be processing the 3,000 to 5,000 applications received yearly for the university’s Bachelor o f Education program as it normally does. They will accept the regular number of students (350), each o f whom will pay 2,300 dollars for their degree. In order to raise funds, and to expand the highly demanded program, an additional 50 stu­ dents will be accepted, and will be expected to pay 10,000 dollars.

The Ontario Ministry of Education responded almost immediately with a condemnation o f the policy, and expressed the possibility of a withdrawal o f gov­ ernment funding equal to the amount of funds to be received under the policy.

The Brock Administration was quick to defend its intentions. Susan Clark, VP Academic, claimed that the proposal will be generating much needed funds for the university, and will benefit students by providing spaces in the program which would not otherwise be available.

Student organizations have, on the most part, condemned the policy, mostly because of its perceived threat to accessibility.

“All universities face this problem - doing more with less (funding),” said Canadian Federation of Students representative Jocelyn Charron, “But trying to put the burden on students is a bit callous.”

Laura Grimaldi, President o f the Faculty o f Education’s Student Liason Committee, voiced her opinions in a letter published in the B r o c k P re ss “If there is a general perception amongst the various Boards of Education that graduates from Brock are ‘buying’ their degree, this could lead to discrimina­ tion in the job market,” wrote Charron.

Despite opposition, the Faculty o f Education intends to implement its policy immediately. sources: Brock University’s The

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T he article a lso states that th e o rig in a l b an w as r e q u e ste d b y Paul T e a le ’s lawyer, but d oes not explain that Teale’s lawyer decided to u ltim a tely o p p o s e th e ban, w h ich w a s th en su p p o rted instead by Homolka’s lawyers, the families of the victims, and the Ontario Attorney General’s office.

W IR E D Editorial Assistant Jessie Scanlon explained that it w as not the intention o f the m a g a z in e to c h a lle n g e the ban.

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“Information wants to be free,” she stated. “At the end o f the 20th Century, attempts to ban stories like this one are condemned to be ftitile. That W IR E D s criticism o f the ban h a s its e lf b e e n b a n n e d is suprem ely ironic and utterly chilling.”

The computer communi­ ty has flaunted the ease with w h ic h it can a c c e s s the banned information.

T he U n iv ersity ol Toronto (U o f T) Newspapei T h e V a r s ity printed a detailed list o f instructions on how to a c c e s s th is in fo rm a tio n .

Students at the U o f T are said to h a v e b e e n fish in g old copies of the paper from recy­ cling bins to follow the direc­ tions.

C o p ies o f th e article printed in T h e V a r is ty have also been posted throughoul the Internet.

M cG ill stu d en ts with access to Unix accounts can not only read banned informa­ tion, but access digitized pic­ tures and audio files, all from the Internet. This information is available through a multim ed ia W orld-W ide-W eb (W W W ) s ite in th e U nited States, as is a complete copy o f the publication ban itself.

W ith M cGill providing MUSIC-B a cc o u n ts free ol charge to all students, howev­ er, even those without access to Unix machines can access information beyond the origi­ nal W IR E D article.

By sim p ly sen d in g the three line message via electornic mail to another site in the States, any student at McGill can receive all the gory details o f the trial.

The multitude o f ways ir which the publication ban or the Homolka trial can b e dr cu m v e n ted has m a d e its enforcement next to impossi ble for Canadian offidals.

Individuals w h o oppose the ban in principle have usee the Internet as a forum to adc weight to their words.

A U se n e t n e w s group h as b e e n s e t u p , called “alt.pub-ban.homolka”, to dis cuss the ban and its implica tions.

W IR E D Publisher Louis Rossetto was vehement in his criticism o f th e Attorney General’s office.

“Banning of publications is b e h a v io u r w e norm ally a sso c ia te w ith T hird-W ork dictatorships,” he said in the press release. “This is an omi­ nous indication that the viola­ tion of human rights is becom­ ing Canadian policy.”

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The final report from La Commission Francophone à McGill will be debated at the upcom ing Students’ Society (SSMU) council meeting this Thursday. La Commission was created by Students’ Society VP External Andrew Work in a bid to address the issues o f low francophone enrollment and the lack of francophone participation in student activities.

The centrepiece o f La Commission’s recommendations is the creation of a Commissaire Francophone who would act as a liaison between the various SSMU executive offices and McGill’s francophone communi­ ty. La Commission suggested that the executive appoint the com­ missaire. Council will be asked to consider the ratification of that p osition on Thursday. Isabelle Girard, the Coordinator o f La Commission, told the Tribune that should council ratify the posi­ tion, it will only be on a temporary basis.

“It will be on a trial basis for one year and will have to be passed by two-thirds of two-thirds of council. After that year, the by-laws provide that it can be taken out by two-thirds o f two-thirds of council,” she said.

Furthermore, the position will be unpaid and as o f yet it remains unclear which executive’s budget will finance the position.

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While the m ove appears > increase the bureaucracy of re Society, som e o f the pre;nt bureaucracy may be elimiated by the proposed reforms, he p o sitio n o f VP External ray eventually b e eliminated i favor o f a more prominent xternal A ffairs C om m ittee 'orking in conjunction with Dme of th e n ew om m issioners and m embers f council.

The proposal w ould see o m m issio n ers w o rk in g in Ifee general areas: external, nance and university affairs, hey w ould be given specific reas o f co n ce n tra tio n and ould report monthly to counU. This endeavour was initited b y S tu d en ts’ S o ciety resident Mark Luz in view of istitutionalizing a procedure

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T w o co m m issio n er s o f External Affairs would be creat­ ed: a G overn m en t Affairs Com m issioner (GAC) and an Outreach Commissioner (OC).

As the name implies, the GAC w ou ld b e m andated to interact w ith th e fed eral, provincial and municipal gov­ ernment on behalf of SSMU. The OC would be an all­ purpose public relations person who would deal with organiza­ tions outside o f McGill. These would include other universi­ ties, th e m ed ia, com m u n ity organizations and the police.

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“I’ve been in [the debating union] for three years, and this has been by far the best showing,” commented Butts.

The Debating Union consists of approximately 50 members. When asked if he attributed his success in debating to his experience with the Union, Butts was emphatic.

“Absolutely. 150 percent,” he said. “I had never really debated before McGill.

The Debating Union has taught me everything I know about debating.”

Butts added that a major focus o f the Union has always been to train younger debators. When asked what advice he would give to McGill students interested in debating, Butts commented, “join the club.”

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The annual National Debating Championship, hosted at York University on the weekend o f March 19th, brought yet another victory for McGill’s Debating Union. The debating team of Gerry Butts and Peter Balasubramanian won first place in the competition. Butts and Balasubramanian also won the championship at last year’s tournament.

“P eter and I are the o n ly M cGill team to ev er w in the N ational Championship,” said Butts. “It’s nice to do it twice in a row.”

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And you thought pageants were dead. But this year’s Miss Montreal is somewhere here on campus. U3 political science and economics student Yvette T. Phillips will be competing for the title of Miss Canada in Edmonton from April 8-11. The Miss Canada pageant, which initially was cancelled last year, is alive and well after the rights were sold to a private owner.

Phillips argues that the pageant is not at all like it has been in years past, having lost its emphasis on beauty, and focusing instead on public-speaking ability and personal interviews. Only twenty per cent of the marks are awarded for poise, personality and beauty.

“It’s no longer the beauty pageant it once was. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have participated—that’s not my style,” said Phillips.

Phillips believes that the winner of the contest should be considered as the person the judges believe best represents Canada.

While the winner will be awarded modelling contracts, Phillips believes the most important part o f the job is the public-speaking engagements. Phillips is past president o f the youth wing of the provincial Tories, and intends someday to run for public office.

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A C lubs F in ance Commissioner, attached to the VP Finance, would be responsi­ b le for ad m in istrative task s related to club finances.

By having commissioners concentrate in specific areas, members of the PRC envision a

By having commis­ sioners concentrate in specific areas, members of the PRC envision a better decision-making structure at SSMU.

better decision-m aking struc­ ture at SSMU. A more effective use of elected executives’ time and better policy formulation are the exp ected outcom e o f this proposal.

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W hile VP E xternal-elect Nick Benedict will be taking his p ost at SSMU n ext year, the p r o p o se d reform s, w h ich include a beefed -u p External Affairs Committee, may make his position redundant in the long run.

A document designed to brief councillors for the vote outlines the rationale behind the creation of the five commis­ sioners and related committees.

The document contains 13 spe­ cific recommendations.

It sta tes that th ese changes “will allow students to identify specific portfolios asso­ ciated with particular responsi­ bilities they wish to dedicate their time to, and the various Vice-Presidents will be able to address a greater num ber o f issu e s, and en su re that the issu e s th ey do ad d ress are given full attention.”

T he p ro p o sed reform s w ill add substantially to the siz e o f student governm en t.

The PRC, how ever, d oes not believe that they will actually b e increasing the am ount o f

bureaucracy in practice. That view is outlined in the briefing document.

The reasoning offered for this co n clu sio n is that “the activities and influence o f the SSMU has in c rea se d and expanded trem endously over the past few years, but the sup­ port structure for us to effec­ tively address our new respon­ sibilities has not increased or expanded accordingly."

W hile by d efin ition the SSMU is, by institutionalizing new procedures and establish­ ing new committees and posi­ tions, creating more bureaucra­ cy, it is felt that this can be jus­ tified in view o f the important work these people would do.

T he s u g g e s te d reform s also propose that SSMU VicePresidents who presently chair various committees be replaced

by SSMU co u n c illo r s. This w o u ld g iv e c o u n c illo r s a greater role within the commit­ tee system at SSMU. SSMU President Mark Luz felt th e ch a n g es co u ld on ly benefit the society.

“I hope it will draw more enthusiastic, dedicated peop le into SSMU,” he said.

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B Y P A R O M IT A S H A H It is a customary ritual for Canadians to ridicule the United States for its narrow-mindedness and lack of vision. But on the issue of Custom’s procedures for the admissibility of books and magazines, the United States has beaten Canada hands down.

For the past seven years, Canada Customs has had a practice of seizing books and periodicals, amounting to over 5,000 publi­ cations. Among the “obscene” materials detained or destroyed, one will see Andrea Dworkin's P o rn o g ra p h y: M en

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These border seizures are executed under the guidelines of ‘obscenity’ outlined in Rev­ enue Canada’s Memorandum D9-1-1. Goods that are to be prohibited from entering Canada are those that “depict or de­ scribe sexual acts that appear to degrade or dehumanize any of the participants.” Importation of materials related to incest, child pornography, bestiality, sex with violence, bondage and degra­ dation, and anal penetration are denied. The attempt to define and impose limits on the term “o b s c e n ity ”, h o w e v e r , has sparked an ugly battle between Canada Customs and those who create and distribute books and magazines of this nature.

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arbitrary interpretation o f the phrase “degrading and dehu­ manizing”. It is Canada Customs that infers what is to be confis­ cated or detained, not legisla­ tors in Ottawa. In addition, dis­ tributors and booksellers charge that these seizures are being conducted mainly against les­ bian and gay bookstores. Pen International, an association of writers, poets, playwrights, es­ sayists, editors, and novelists, stated their concern in a letter to former Prime Minister Kim Campbell.

“We are further concerned about reports that the obscenity standards are being enforced unfairly with the apparent inten­ tion to discriminate against small booksellers and their distribu­ tors. Especially targeted for these seizures are lesbian and gay books ordered by lesbian and gay bookstores,”the letter stated.

Glad Day bookstore of Toronto, which deals mainly in gay and lesbian literature, has lost thousands of dollars in revenue as a result of the detention and confiscation of books and maga­ zines. John Scythes of Glad Day sees Canada Customs’ actions as a complete violation of both the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a 1992 Supreme Court decision that attempted to define the limits and expression of freedom.

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LOCAL ARTIST HARASSED

Jacques Boivin is a Mon­ treal comic artist w h o illustrates the comic series M e l o d y , the autobiography of former nude dancer Sylvie Rancourt, who pro­ vided the text of the entire se­ ries.

Boivin’s experience with Canada Customs and the Im­ ported Prohibitions Directorate has been fraught with hostility.

After several raids by Toronto Morality officers on well-known local comic shops and book stores, Andromeda Publications, a major distributor of adult com­ ics, was “advised” to cease dis­ tribution of material which may b e considered obscene and ob­ jectionable. A list of “obscene” publications was drawn up, of which M e l o d y was one. Be­ cause anyone holding these books and magazines could be arrested, M e l o d y has been ren­ dered virtually unsaleable.

This com es as a surprise to avid com ic readers w ho are aware that M e l o d y has received rave reviews, not only from art­ ists in this field, but from main­ stream new s as well. The G a ­ z e t t e called it “an unaffected slice o f life”; the V illa g e V o ic e of N ew York rem arked upon Boivin’s “no-frills naturalism”; and L e D e v o i r has claimed of Boivin: “...son trait simple et s e m i-r é a lis te c o n fè r e n on seulem ent une crédibilité au m o n d e d e R ancourt, mais l’entraîne de façon définitive

d a n s le d o m a in e de la représentation lui donnant ainsi une force.”

The T r i b u n e had the op­ portunity to interview Jacques Boivin. In the past few years, he has actively investigated the har­ assment that other artists like him receive at the hands of Canada Customs.

“Customs is really using any kind of excuse. It is a pro­ tectionism of sorts. Because w hen you look through books, you are looking for an unac­ ceptable statement. But Customs is not trying to be thorough.

They are just being an enor­ mous hassle to stop us from doing what w e d o,” Boivin claimed.

Why would Canada Cus­ toms do this? One has to refer to arguments that “moralists” make concerning the role of obscen­ ity. Boivin hearkened back to the “m onkey see, monkey do" argument, which reasons that those w ho read and/or see im­ ages of sex will naturally act them out. Another argument cre­ ates the analogy of pornogra­ phy as “pollution in the environ­ ment”. Here it is argued that one should always attempt to cleanse on e’s vision o f unwholesom e presences.

Boivin strenuously o b ­ jected to these lines of argu­ ment.

“It is not the thing itself that is relevant; it is the expression. Everything that the government does includes uni­ formity,” asserted Boivin. “When anyone tries to write som e­ th in g d iffer en t, th ey are marginalized.”

He maintained that dis­ course and research about the historical development of por­

nography and sexuality are needed in order to construc­ tively analyze their content.

“Comic books have always been attacked as a cause of juvenile delinquency. Today if w e think of a sexual culture, we can’t because w e do not have a history o f this,” maintained Boivin. “Whatever w e are pro­ ducing culturally relative to ses is meaningful. But by keeping sexual culture at the level ol pornography, w e don’t reach any more understanding.”

Boivin outlined his foui points of improving society’s view on sexual culture.

“First is the empowermeni step. You must believe that the more information you have, the more power you have. Once you have the language, you can talk about sexuality. Second, you have to know the history of sex You have to develop theories because pornography is a resuli o f a long process o f unnatura selection. It is not a natural evo lution at all, because the govern ment promotes commercial porr which is nothing related to wha I do. Third, end the censorship and the harassment. Which means that, as the fourth point the only government interfer ence is the normal surveillance of avoiding m onopolies,” sum marized Boivin.

He expressed his hope tha intimidation by Customs woulc stop.

“Everything I do is wortf doing. I could make a lot o m oney doing trashy things bu this is what I do. My energy i: being dispersed by this industry and harassment. I hope w e cai change, because this sort o f at titude psychologically reflect our approach to sex .”

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BY TED FRANKEL A recent survey conducted luring AIDS Awareness Week it McGill has revealed that a peat majority o f students are knowledgeable about h ow the luman Immunodeficiency Vius (HIV) is spread. D isco v e ri­ ng to awareness advocates, lowever, is the data which indi­ rates that a significant number >fstudents are reluctant to transate their understanding into safe e x practices. Nik Quaife, co>rganizer o f AIDS Awareness Veek w hich took place March -11, explained w h y it w as imKirtant to circulate this type o f luestionnaire as part o f the veek’s program. lO n e purpose] o f the sur­ vey w as to make people realize hat in som e point in their life tieyVe engaged in risky activty," said Quaife, w h o is also co>olitical coordinator o f the Lesrians, Bisexuals and Gays of ÆcGill (LBGM).

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sider themselves as having prac­ tised “safe sex ” in the past. This is despite the fact that virtually all those polled, 96 per cent, claim to possess an understand­ ing of how the HIV virus is spread. The numbers reveal an alarming gap between thinking and doing. This discrepancy may be accounted for by a segment o f students w ho, on their hierar­ chy o f the feared by-products o f sex, place pregnancy above HIV acquisition. For surveyed stu­ dents w h o identified that they did not use condoms, the most popular justification was because other contraception was being used, seemingly for birth con­ trol reasons. Quaife noted that this attitude also extends to con­ dom users.

“For many p eop le con ­ doms are used only as a method o f contraception and not as a method o f preventing HIV,” said Quaife.

The survey also revealed that while 57 per cent o f stu­ dents claim to know their HIV status, only 25 per cent o f the sample have ever actually been tested for the virus. The results illustrate the need o f McGill stu­

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dents to be cautious in their sexual practices, as the risk o f assuming a potential partner is HIV negative, or taking their word for it, is just that — a risk. Indeed, the survey sinks all lofty ideals that students may have had about their university being a haven where HIV does not exist. Two per cent o f students indi­ cated on the survey that they were HIV positive, all o f whom identified th e m se lv e s as b ein g straigh t and fe m a le.

Quaife again suggested the finding may be ex­ Q u a i f e : s t u d y b r e a k s m y t h o n A I D S a s g a y d i s e a s e plained by survey results that o f HIV and AIDS as a plague o f “What AIDS Awareness Week reveal that many sexually active the homosexual community. did is try to promote safer sex students fear pregnancy more “This shows AIDS is not not as boring, but as a requisite than HIV. just a gay disease,” said Quaife. for the 90s,” he noted. “[The results] tell me that Quaife expressed that the Quaife called for AIDS because condom s are more fre­ survey’s results exposed a stu­ awareness to extend past a quently used as a method of dent attitude about AIDS which w eek ’s focus and beyond this contraception, wom en on the was at the root o f the organizers’ year’s crop o f McGill students. pill will be less likely to use mission to increase AIDS aware­ “I’d like to see AIDS mate­ other contraception [like con­ ness. rial delivered in [McGill] resi­ doms], and this puts them at risk “The basic finding is p eo­ dences, given in Frosh pack­ for HIV,” Quaife noted. ple generally know about AIDS ages... ensure new students o f The finding also has a chill­ and h ow HIV is spread but aren’t McGill realize about AIDS,” said ing effect on the popular stigma practising safe sex,” Quaife said.

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M c G i l l T r ib u n e R e a d e r s ’ P o l l

All right folks, this is it, the annual Tribune end of the year poll. We randomly sampled 2 6 5 people about what they thought of the paper, and what they thought of SSMU. We also asked them about their extra-curricular activities- academic or otherwise. Some people were seriously offended by us asking about their sex lives, others were more than happy to report back on their years of revelry. Here 's a run-down of the results of the poll.

SAM PLE SIZE: 2 6 5 O f the sample, 55.8 per cent w ere female, with m en comprising 44.2 per cent.

% OF RESPONDENTS W H O REGULARLY READ THE TRIBUNE : 7 8 O f those 78 per cent, 71 per cent read news,62 per cent read features; 6 l per cent read the entertainment section; and 27 per cent read the sports pages. O ne honest soul told us the only things he reads regularly are the headlines. Per­ haps w e should have had a b ox for that too.

% OF PEOPLE W H O W OULD RATHER SEE TEXT O N THE FRONT PAGE: 12 O f the peop le w h o expressed an opinion, 12 per cent w ould prefer to see text on the front page.

The T r i b u n e is currently contemplating a format change to the front page for a number o f reasons. O ne com prom ise b etw een cost and aesthetics may be a large photo com bined with som e text. Look out for it!

% W H O REGULARLY LISTEN T O CKUT: 1 7 It appears that the proportion o f peop le listening to McGill’s radio station is not particularly high, al­ though this number d oes represent a reasonable market share considering the number o f radio stations in Montreal, even if they aren’t o f great quality.

Surprising in the results was the large number of p eo p le w h o thought they knew w here to find CKUT on the dial, but didn’t. Only 23 per cent o f p eop le w h o did not listen to CKUT could name the station’s frequency.

Perhaps what CKUT needs is a catchy jingle. O ne important qualifier to these numbers was that several p eo p le com m ented that their radios w ere not able to pick up CKUT’s frequency.

% SATISFIED W IT H SSM U: 2 8 Value for the dollar does not appear particularly high for this year’s SSMU contributions. A big qualifier must b e put on these statistics, though. While the fees paid to SSMU are about 50 dollars per semester, this includes the cost o f the health insurance plan. Exclud­ ing the costs o f the plan, fees paid to SSMU total 58 dollars per year. Interpret these stats as you will. It does appear clear however, that those w h o are satisfied are more likely to b e know ledgeable about SSMU politics (at least marginally). 63 per cent o f those w h o said they w ere satisfied correctly identified Mark Luz as this year’s president, w hile only 48 per cent o f the w hole sam ple could do the same.

The statistics for next year’s president, w hom w e just elected, w ere a little more discouraging. Only 39 per cent believed they knew w h o he was, w hile only 34 per cent actually named the right person. Purely for interest’s sake, w e also calculated h ow many peop le gave Sevag Yeghoyan’s last name: 8 per cent. W e’re not sure whether that means everyone thinks that Sevag is his last name, or that they can’t spell Yeghoyan, or if they’re all just on a first name basis with him.

NUM BER O F SEXUAL PARTNERS SINCE STARTING A T MCGILL: Yes, w e w ere fully aware that this question has nothing to d o with the T r ib u n e or its readership. Thank you, however, to all o f you w h o pointed that out to us, seem ­ ingly with the belief that w e are morons. We asked these questions for mere interest’s sake, and to see just h ow many people w o u l d tell a perfect stranger som ething that w as n one o f their business. Thank you to all w h o did, and yes, it was anonymous.

O f those w h o responded (234), 42 had had no partners, 103 o n e or two, 52 three to five, and 37 had had six or more. Looking specifically at first-year students, 35 per cent had had n o n ew partners at McGill, 39 per cent had had on e or two, 7 per cent had had three to five partners, and 5 per cent had had six or more. It seem s the first-year frolics are mostly urban legends, unless o f course, those o f you w ho chose not to answer w ere the on es w h o w ere keeping Trojan in business.

% W H O H A D EVER H A N D E D IN A PA PER N O T T H E IR O W N: 9 A number o f peop le refused to answer this question, though w e have no clue why. I guess peop le have not grasped the concept o f anonym ous polls yet.

Although w e didn’t include them in the count, w e assum e everyone w h o didn’t answer h u d handed in papers that w ere not their own.

% W H O HAVE EMPLOYMENT AFTER APRIL: 5 7 It appears that the unemploym ent problem for students is not quite as bad as the media says. On the other hand, perhaps w e ’re just privileged because w e attend the School o f Prestige. O f course the flip side to the 57 per cent o f peop le w h o have jobs, is the 43 per cent w ho don’t. (Yes, w e do math here, too.)

% W H O ADMITTED TO HAVING DATED FAC­ ULTY MEMBERS: 5 .8 It appears that dating a faculty member is not as taboo as the dean w ould have us believe.

% O F PEO PLE W H O PARTICIPATE IN EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES W H O H A V E TIM I

FO R SEX: It appears that the p eop le w h o participate ir extra-curricular activities are having their sex live compromised. While 26 per cent o f p eop le wh< participate have sex zero times per month, only 14 pe cent w ere having sex more than 20 times per month Congratulations to those people, by the way.

T hat’s all folks!!!

Cheryl a n d C herie

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The McGill Tribune. March 29-Septem ber 6.1994

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B Y D A V I D A B IT B O L Last Wednesday, Dr. Leon Bass spoke at McGill’s law faculty on the subject of “Racism and the Holocaust; An African-American Perspective.” The speech, part of the annual Anne G. Bailey Hu­ man Rights Lecture, was co-spon­ sored by the McGill Jewish Law Students’ Association, Hillel, the McGill Law Students’Association, the McGill Chaplaincy and the Students’ Society.

Dr. Bass spoke about his various encounters with racism in the United States and in Europe during the Second World War. After graduating from high school in 1943, he volunteered for service in the United States Army, which was segregated along ra:ial lines at the time. His all-black mit was sent to various cities and owns in the deep south for trainng prior to mobilization. There te experienced further racism, whereby he was not allowed, by virtue of his skin colour, to drink rom the same water fountains as whites, sit at the front of public juses or eat in restaurants with white people.

“In all these places... I was :ontinually reminded by the peojle there, the people that I was >oing to protect and defend with ny life if necessary; these same

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people reminded me every day, in so many different ways, that I was not good enough,” Bass stated.

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b e c a u s e t h e N a z is s a id th e y w e re n o t g o o d e n o u g h ... I k n ew on th a t day th a t I h ad s e e n th e f a c e o f e v il, r a c is m , a n ti-s e m itis m , b ig o try .”

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s u r v i v o r o f W W II Patton’s Third Army, where they saw action at the Battle of the Bulge. The ensuing carnage had its effect on the young Bass.

“I saw the grave registration trucks come by with the bodies of American soldiers piled across one another... I said to myself ‘Leon, why did you join the army? You could end up that way... What are you fighting for?’ I asked that question of myself because I re­

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membered I couldn’t get a drink of water, a meal in a restaurant or a seat on a bus back home,” Bass recounted. “I was an angry young man... I thought my country was abusing me, using me, putting me out to fight and die for rights and privileges that they were telling me I wasn’t good enough to en­ joy! But the war went on.”

His unit eventually found itself in eastern Germany in 1945.

It was there that it participated in the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. Bass de­ scribed how he was totally una­ ware of Nazi Germany’s racial policies, or even what a concen­ tration camp was, prior to enter­ ing the gates of Buchenwald. It left him ill-prepared to deal with the horrific sights that awaited him there.

“I saw the walking dead...

They were skin and bones. They had skeletal faces and deep set eyes. Their heads were clean shavea.. and there they stood, holding on to one another, just to keep from falling.”

Bass spoke gravely and emo­ tionally about the horrors that he had b een e x p o se d to at Buchenwald. He described his bewilderment at the scope and extent of the evil that had been perpetrated against others, solely on the basis that they were Jews,

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G ypsies, Com­ munists, homo­ sexuals et al. He described enter­ ing a room which had been stocked with human body parts stored in jars of formaldehyde.

He described see­ ing torture cham­ bers, the floors blackened with blood. He saw h u ge p ile s o f d ead b o d ies stacked near a c r e m a to r iu m , with charred bod­ ies still in some of the ovens. He learned later that the ashes pro­ duced were used by the Nazis as fertilizer.

“The Nazis B a s s : H o lo c a u s t placed them all there, because the Nazis said they were not good enough. Therefore they were not fit to live, they could be terminated, murdered...

I knew on that day that I had seen the face of evil, racism, anti­ semitism, bigotry. I saw all of it, right there in Buchenwald.”

For Bass, Buchenwald was the ultimate extension of racism,

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T h in k in g 1 0 1 Another year is winding down, for me in traditional hurricane-style, and like other so o n -to -b e graduates, I’ve been spending som e time, though not too much, think­ ing about whether or not the last four years have been worth the 32,000 dollars or so which I’ve (rather, my parents) spent.

I d on’t think I’m unusual in not being able to remember the names o f all the philosophers I studied in first year, let alone what they said. That makes m e question whether it was really worth it to take that course. I can say the same about many courses that I’ve taken. I know many o f my friends can say the same thing.

The obvious answer to my doubts is that it’s not what you learn or whether you can re­ member it, but the learning skills acquired along the way.

Indeed, I n ow have som e illu­ sion that I can think (though som e o f my readers w ould beg to differ), but I also had that belief w hen I graduated from high school, and I’m not really sure that the differential betw een my ability in high school and now is worth 32,000 dollars, let alone the 8,000 in fees.

What I w itnessed the other day, however, brought hom e to me the fact that no matter how discouraged I get ?y my education and my pro­ fessional future, I have no idea what hardship is. I w as sitting in the reference section of McLennan the other day, pe­ rusing the periodical indexes, in my quest for resources to write a paper more preten­ tious than anybody else in my class, and thus gain one o f the two ‘A’s that will be given out in the course (what a great department I’m in). While I w as sitting there, a young man sat dow n beside me with a wom an of university age. It was clear that the two were not friends, and she was help­ ing him to look things up in the indexes. He explained to 1er what he wanted to read about. He had articles cut out from the newspaper, but with n o dates or sources, and wanted to find them in the microfilm, to read more. One story was about his friend, a minor w h o had shot som eone and received, from what I gath­ ered in my eavesdropping, 18 years in prison. Another was about his sister, w h o had been shot, or something as severe.

The third was about a fire which had been set (I d on’t enow whether it was his friend w ho had set the fire, or whether

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BY CH ER Y L DEVOE it was a fire set to a friend’s house). The details o f the sto­ ries are really irrelevant; what struck me was that all o f the things had happened in this one person’s circle o f life.

As the woman suggestec headings for the man to look up to find relevant articles, he flipped through the pages, spell­ ing the keywords to himself. It becam e quickly apparent that he had great difficulty spelling, as w ell as reading. Yet the man had quickly grasped the proc­ ess the woman was using to find references which might be related to his cases. Here was a man w h o had gone through the education system without be­ ing able to read. Here was a man w h o had dealt with hard­ ship, and to w hom violence was real. And suddenly I felt very small.

As an educated woman, with an “exotic” ethnicity, I have becom e one o f the sought-after stereotypes to hire. I look kind o f white, but I do have an Asian mother, and my last name is French— perfect for those em ­ ployers w h o want to look lib­ eral, but don’t want to b e to o liberal. I have known for a long time that I’m privileged. But nothing brought it hom e more than listening to that man in the library.

I know almost nothing about him, and have no right to make assumptions about him— all I know are the tidbits I overheard in a conversation on w hich I had n o right, but couldn’t avoid, eavesdropping.

What I realized, though, is how very sheltered life at McGill is for the average student. Con­ sider this for a moment. Even if the average student wanted to broaden his understanding of other cultures, other areas, the curriculum o f many depart­ ments make it next to impossi­ ble. There are over on e billion people in China and the politi­ cal science department has how many courses on China? Two. The history department? Three.

To cover how many years of history? Is there really n o Chi­ nese professor willing to teach here?

Here w e are, at one o f the finest academic institutions in the country, and it’s like the only quadrant o f the globe is the North-Western. But then again, maybe those courses aren’t provided because they know I’ll forget everything any­ way.

Features_____________ M c G ill la w p r o f e s s o r s p u b lis h c iv il la w t e x t B Y C H E R IE P A Y N E T h is y e a r , f o u r t e e n McGill la w professors, includ­ ing tw o form er d ea n s and cu rr en t d e a n Y v e s-M a r ie M orissette, w o rk ed togeth er to publish th e first English language text an alysin g Q u e­ b ec civil law . Publisher Paul Em ond w as enthusiastic about the accom p lish m en t.

“If this n e w b o o k d o e sn ’t w in a prize, n o title w e p ub ­ lish ev e r w ill. It is, quite sim ­ ply, an extraordinary p ie c e o f w ork ,” h e said.

Q u e b e c C i v i l L a w , a s the 786 -p a g e v o lu m e is titled, took several years to p ro­ d u ce, an d is rem arkable b e ­ cau se o f th e co o p era tio n b e ­ tw e en professors that it re­ q u ir e d . R o d M a c d o n a ld , form er law sch o o l d ean and

c o -e d ito r o f the w ork, stressed th e singular a sp ect o f su ch coop era tio n .

“Surely this is u n iq u e— to have a lm o st an entire fac­ ulty collab orate o n a sin g le p ie c e o f s c h o la r s h ip ,” h e noted .

Canada op era tes u nd er tw o legal system s: civil and co m m o n law. R ecen tly there has b een m uch d eb a te re­ garding the Q u eb ec civil co d e, an d the p rovince has a d o p ted major reform s in this area.

Unfortunately, the b o o k cou ld n ot incorporate all o f the ch a n g es m ade to the prov­ in c e ’s civil c o d e , but its c o n ­ tributors h o p e that it w ill serve as a resource for th o se w h o w o u ld like to understand the tradition o n w h ich Q u e b e c ’s legal sy stem is b ased .

Kate W illiams, director

o f th e U niversity R elations O ffice, told th e T r i b u n e that sh e did n ot think th e b o o k w a s lacking d esp ite its o m is­ sio n o f th e n e w reform s m ad e to the Q u e b e c civil co d e .

“I think that if th e re­ form s had b e e n includ ed , the b o o k d efin itely w o u ld have b een to o long, and n o o n e w o u ld have read it,” sh e stated.

W illiam s rea so n ed that a s th e reform s w e r e just p a ssed in January, it w a s to o so o n for th e law faculty to a ssess their im pact, and sh e praised the b o o k for its an aly­ sis o f the civil la w tradition.

“T he b o o k w a s alread y b ein g u se d b y the U niversity o f T oron to in it’s draft stage.

It certainly p rovid es a g o o d background for a n y o n e w an t­ ing to k n o w ab ou t civil la w ,” sh e noted .

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C h ild c a B Y B E N O IT JA C Q M O T T E A report commissioned by the Students’ Society (SSMU) to assess needs for increased child care services at McGill was pre­ sented to the Dean of Students, Irwin Gopnik, on March 18. U3 Arts student Celia Moore, who was hired by SSMU last summer to research and prepare the re­ port, and SSMU VP University Affairs Ruth Promislow, presented and discussed the report with Gopnik.

While the McGill Commu­ nity Family Centre currently pro­ vides child care and related serv­ ices for 106 children of McGill students and staff, SSMU commis­ sioned the report in order to es­ tablish the need for augmenting both the amount and types of child care provided on campus.

“The objective was to iden­ tify the need for child care, to identify the consequences of not having these facilities, and subse­ quently for making recommen­ dations for improvement of day care services,” Promislow ex­ plained.

Moore’s report asserts that changing demographic trends in North America are bringing more and more parents, especially stu­ dent parents, to campus. While approximately one third of chil­ dren at the McGill Community Family Centre have student par­ ents, the report contends that “there is still a vast number of student parents who have to go beyond campus in order to Find family support.”

Additionally, the report con­ tends that the limited nature of current child care facilities dis­ suades many student parents from

attending McGill in the first place.

The demands of a univer­ sity schedule on student parents requires an accessible and flex­ ible system of child care and support services based at the uni­ versity. Moore’s report recom­ mends the establishment o f an­ other campus-based facility which would provide a spectrum of child care services, including full time, part time, and drop-in services specifically geared for the chang­ ing needs of the student popula­ tion. In her section entitled “The Ideal Outcome”, Moore stresses the need for constant communi­ cation and strong relationships with other services already in place at the university. The over­ all goal is to provide the McGill community with a wide range of services and a network designed to refer parents to the services that best fit their needs.

In her proposal for estab­ lishing and running a child care centre at McGill, Moore suggests several strategies for funding and housing a centre initially intended to provide full-time space for 45 children. While Quebec govern­ ment subsidies and possible stu­ dent fees could help fund the centre, the report envisions the possibility of obtaining space for the new centre from the univer­ sity.

In their March 18 meeting w ith G opnik, M oore and Promislow sought to gauge his input and reaction to their pro­ posal.

Promislow described the outcome of the meeting.

“Dean Gopnik felt that the report didn’t adequately prove the need on this campus for in­ creased child services,” she said.

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Faced with the need of finding immediate child care, Metaxas enrolled her child in a facility that wasn’t her “first choice.”

“It was more of a parking place for kids,” she said. “At the same time, it was the only one I could afford.”

While officials from the Community Family Centre ac­ knowledged there is currently a waiting list at the centre for infant spots, they stressed that spots for older children were more readily available and sometimes remained unfilled for several months. Lisa Travis, an associate professor of linguistics whose child is cared for at the centre and who sits on the centre’s board o f directors, explained that the centre suffered from a perception problem. Ac­ cording to the directors, many at McGill believe there is currently a severe lack of child care at McGill.

“I think there’s an idea that there is an enormous waiting list for the service, ”Travis said, stress­ ing the need for planning in find­ ing child care space. “I basically applied when I was six weeks

pregnant.”

Several members of the centre’s board o f directors expressed strong reservations with several aspects of Moore’s report. Lise Simard, the centre’s director, said the report failed to mention child care already available at McGill.

Both Simard and Shelly Feran, chair of the board of directors, criticized the report’s analysis of existing child care at American and Ontario universities without analysing current situations at other Montreal and Quebec cam­ puses and care in the downtown corridor. Feran questioned the report’s exclusion of statistics on the number of McGill students with children and where the par­ ents obtain child care.

• “[The report] is not terribly valid as a needs-assessment for this community,” Feran stated.

According to Simard, the proposed centre’s child care struc­ tures and methods as outlined in the report do not adequately stress the provision of the highest pos­ sible care for children. Noting the difficulty of providing quality part time and drop-in care, several board members said the report’s emphasis on the provision of these types of care would almost cer­ tainly affect the quality of service provided by the proposed centre.

Linda Thorne, a doctoral student in the Faculty of Manage­ ment who also sits on the centre’s board, stressed that her needs as a student parent were fulfilled by the centre’s service.

“As a student, I found the centre is totally in tune with my needs,” she said.

Currently, the centre’s 106 spots are filled by 43 children of students, 36 of faculty members, and 48 of staff members. Of the 180 parents currently on the wait­ ing list for spots, 60 are students, 43 are faculty members, and 77 are staff members.

Moore acknowledged several of the report’s shortcomings, including the lack of information on current situations at other Montreal campuses and analysis of care provided in the down­ town corridor. She explained, however, that the university cur­ rently has no authority to collect statistics on the number of stu­ dent parents at McGill. Further­ more, collecting the information from students through a compre­ hensive survey of the campus community is prohibitively ex­ pensive.

In defence of her analysis of American and Ontario university child care, Moore argued that these centres served as models for the provision o f flexible and comprehensive child care for stu­ dents. Other Montreal and down­ town child care services failed to do so.

Moore also contended that the Community Family Centre’s board members possess a narrow and limited definition of quality child care.

“They truly believe nine-tofive care is the only type of good care,” she said. “I don’t think that type of care is perfect for students with kids.... All I’m suggesting in the report is that more varied day care can service more varied needs.”

Moore and Promislow are currently exploring several possi­ ble avenues for gaining both stu­ dent and administration support for a new child care centre. Both stressed the need for rendering the university community a better place for student parents.

“The reason that I want to start a new centre is that it will increase the quality of [McGill] applicants. I think McGill could make itself a more family-friendly school,” Moore stated.

Dean Gopnik was unavail­ able for comment late last week.

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Salut, tout le monde. Here are our picks and pans for the 93-94 year in entertainment— catego­ rized for your reading ease and enjoyment.

1. Debra “Chicken” Winger 2 Winona “oh so nutty” Ryder 3.Nancy “little miss priss” Kerrigan *-4. Anne “simpering victim”Archer 5. Kim “bad hair day” Campbell 6. Katie “backlash bandwagon” Roiphe 7. Barbara "like butter” Streisand W O R S T M EN :

1. Bob “lowest common denomi' nator” Saget 2. Snoop Doggy “notso hot” Dogg 3. Rush “me a stairmaster and a D a i l y Limbaugh 4. Ralph “I’ll be CBC-ing ya later” Benmergui 5. Dave “Ohh Winona where is my hairbrush?” Pirner 6-M ichael “B o o g e r P riz e” Crichton B E S T W O M EN :

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B Y K A T E G IB B S C r o s s in g th e R iv e r b y C a r y l P h illip s (A lfre d A . K n o fif)

$22.00 “A desperate foolishness.

The crops failed. I sold my chil­ dren.”

So begins Caryl Phillips’ powerful novel about the Afri­ can Diaspora; a distant voice seduces the reader to search for and discover the identities o f three lost children.

Sold to a slaver in 1753, Nash, Martha, and Travis escape the confines o f linear time—and 237 pages—to give themselves fully to intense and rich writing.

Phillips laces together 'a chorus of common memory’with postmodern assurance; the diary o f a slave ship captain, the voice o f a distant father, and the , thoughts o f Travis’ white lover Joyce through whom Travis’char­ acter is revealed in the most moving chapter o f this quiet, excellent novel.

The stories o f lost sons and daughters found in this novel

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can-American wom en writers.

(For the record, Caryl Phillips is a man.) Caryl Phillips was born in 1958 SL Kitts, West Indies, and moved with his family to England that same year. Phillip shares with his characters a suc­ cessful relocation across the At­ lantic—the eponymous River of the title.

C r o s s in g th e R i v e r is Phillips’ fourth novel and most resembles C a m b r i d g e , a previous novel about slavery and disconnection.

Again, Phillips demonstrates a deep understanding o f weighty human conscience. The possi­ bilities o f freedom which elude and confront Nash, Martha, and Travis demand that Phillip’s ru­ minative characters be three-di­ mensional—which they are.

In the character of Joyce, Phillips bravely identifies that the painful legacy o f slavery; disconnection and acceptance, property and emancipation, tran­ scends racial boundaries. The novel concludes with an unex­ pected tightness, as painful as Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Going O n”— which is mentioned in passing.

The format o f the novel appropriates the disembodied

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1. Runaway Train: Soul Asylum 2. Linger: Cranberries 3. Mr. Jones: Counting Crows 4. A11 For Love: Rod Stewart, Sting, & Bryan Adams 5. River o f Dreams: Billy Joel 6. What’s goin’ on: 4 Non Blondes 7. Two Princes: Spin Doctors W O R ST C O M M E R C IA LS :

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resonate with blood ties. Nash, an emancipated slave, travels back to Liberia in the 1830s as a Christian missionary. He is fol­ lowed by Edward, his former ‘master’, w hose inarticulate guilt drives him to discover that Nash has becom e a part of the world he intends to convert. Sister Martha, sold and separated from her own baby daughter and hus­ band, heads to the ‘wild w est’ in the nineteenth century. On her passage through the new fron­ tier, Martha realizes that she may physically free herself from slav­ ery but never from the weight of ‘such misery in one life’ without her family. And Travis w ho gen­ tly resurrects the hopes of eman­ cipation when stationed in North­ ern England as an American GI. Heartbreakingly Travis experi­ en ces an uncertain freedom am ong strangers. Phillips is equally at hom e in the personas o f men and women.

The lost sons and daugh­ ters w ho are drawn apart are unified by the promise o f con­ nection. Surprisingly, C r o s s in g t h e R i v e r marks a departure in contemporary Black Diaspora fiction which has for the last decade been the territory o f Afri­

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voice whether it is intimate, such as letters, or pub­ lic, such as a ship’s log. In this respect, C r o s s in g t h e R i v e r in parts resembles popu­ lar n o v e ls by Alice Walker or Toni Morrison, T h e C o lo r P u r p le

or B e lo v e d , b u t in no way is the narrative deriva­ tive.

In 1993, the Booker Prize committee failed to recognize the n o m in a te d C r o s s in g th e R iv e r , choosing

Roddy D oyle’s P a d d y C la r k H a

Perhaps the stiff upper shirts felt they had paid hom­ age to the legacy o f slavery the year before when Barry Unsworth’s (weak, white epic) S a c r e d H u n g e r tied for The Prize with Michael Ondaatje’s T h e E n g lis h P a t i e n t . Truthfully, H a H a.

C r o s s in g t h e R i v e r has more in common with the fluid poesy familiar to Ondaatje’s novels and similar Caryl Phillip’s work de­ mands recognition.

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G ild o r R o y : R o i d a n s to u te s le s d is c ip lin e s P A R A N N E -M A R IE LABBÉ

de la part du public. Avec une sonorité plus rock, les radios ont embarqué le premier extrait Lorsqu’un rêve de jeunesse qui tourne avec une forte rota­ prend une soudaine ampleur pour tion pour le plus grand plaisir finalement faire tout un tabac, que des amateurs de country-rock. peut trouver à redire son principal Gildor Roy s’est impliqué interprète? Gildor Roy parle avec davantage dans la réalisation enthousiasme et fierté des carrières de ce dernier album. Enregistré m u ltip le s q u ’il cu m u le l i v e en grande partie et avec la parallèlement tout en se définissant présence ses m usiciens de comme un “entertainer” dans le scène, on retrouve donc le sens le plus pur du terme. C’est en dynamisme et l’expression sim­ toute simplicité qu’il nous présente p le com posan t l ’am biance son deuxième album en carrière habituelle d’un spectacle où les avec lequel il risque d’atteindre et gens ne se font pas prier pour de séduire un public encore plus taper des mains et des pieds. large qu’avec le précédent.

Affirmant qu’il est tanné du En 1990, il a décidé de louer formalisme régnant dans la La Licorne pour quatre soirées afin musique pop actuelle et de ceux de présenter un spectacle avec qui se prennent trop au sérieux, quelques amis. Il ne s’agissait alors il avoue candidement: “Souvent que d ’une petite aventure pour le je calcule les effets pour que ça comédien de formation. Les gens n’ait pas l’air placé.” Son sens ont afflué et pas moins de douze du perfectionnisme demeure spectacles faisant salle comble souvent discret aux yeux des ont finalement enclenché la suite autres sans qu’il ne laisse pour d ’é v é n e m e n ts que nous autant passer aucun détail sous con n aisson s silence. et dont Avec ses l ’e n v er g u r e 6 ’2”, G ildor n’a fait que Roy im p o se prendre de “ J e m e lè v e le m a tin u n e certaine l ’exp an sion . forme d ’assur­ e t je re g a rd e s u r m o n Si Gildor Roy an ce et d e h o ra ire s i je d o is ê t r e a signé avec confiance que la plus petite c o m é d ie n o u person n e ne c o m p a g n ie v iendrait c h a n te u r p o u r la de disques à m ettre en jo u rn é e . J e m e lui faire une d o u te.

Ce proposition, c o n s id è re c h a n c e u x dernier confie c ’est tout pourtant qu’il d e p o u v o ir f a ir e le s sim p le m e n t est de nature d e u x .” p our être assez gênée. A logique avec 13 ans, lu i-m ê m e , lo r sq u ’il est -G ild o r R o y afin de garder monté sur une une p lu s scène pour la grande liberté première fois, et d’avoir le il a su qu’il contrôle sur le v o u l a i t produit qu’il voulait présenter. perpétuer cet état de grâce que U n e a u t r e c h a m b r e d ’h ô t e l pouvait lui procurer la sensa­ est la suite logique du premier tion d’être en avant. Il explique album qui s’intitulait T a r d s u r la la situation en ces termes: “On r o u t e ... Pourtant, l’expérience d’un se rend compte que sur la scène second album change la vision on est protégé, on contrôle le des affaires et le principal intéressé émet le commentaire suivant: “J’ai eu plus de plaisir à faire ce second album parce que je savais ce que je faisais." Un vidéo à co n fig u ra tio n h u m o ristiq u e accompagne la chanson thème U n e a u t r e c h a m b r e d ’h ô t e l et a connu déjà beaucoup de réactions

monde. Quand t’as des problèmes de confiance en toi pis que tu es bon en théâtre, c’est peutêtre le seul moment où le s gens t’aiment, que tu le sais et en plus, tu sais pourquoi ils t’aiment.”

L’artiste aux talents mutiples ne c o n ç o it au cu n problème lorsqu’il s ’agit d e passer d ’un m é tier à l’autre. “Je me lève le m atin et je regarde sur mon horaire si je dois être comédien ou chanteur pour la jo u rn ée. Je m e c o n s i d è r e ch an ceu x de pouvoir faire les deux,” déclare-t-il.

La télévision l’a pris d ’assaut, que ce soit par l’entremise de dramatiques ou avec son rôle d’animateur à Ra­ dio-Q uébec à l’émission T ro is g a r s u n s a m e d i s o ir . Le cinéma l’a acclamé entre autres avec son premier rôle dans le film R e q ­ u ie m p o u r u n b e a u s a n s c o e u r e t

plusieurs autres apparitions. Côté théâtre, il n’a pas chôm é non plus et il devrait retourner jouer d è s l ’a u to m n e p ro ch a in .

Décidément, le personnage ne passe pas inaperçu sur la scène artistique québécoise.

M an q u e-t-il q u e lq u e s cordes à son arc? En y pensant b ie n , il n ’a jam ais an im é d’émissions radiophoniques ni écrit de livres. Il n’en faut pas plus pour que ce touche-à-tout considère les options comme de futurs projets dans sa carrière.

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musique, c’est quelque chose de mathématique pour Roy. “Si tu fausses, les gens le savent tout de suite, tandis qu’au théâtre les gens ne voient la pièce qu’une seule fois et ne percevront pas les fausses notes. La musique, c ’est b eau cou p plus précis comme forme d’art.”

Le co w b o y d e 33 ans soum et au public un album d écid ém ent bien ficelé qui d égage à la fois beau cou p d ’ém o tio n , d e clin s d ’o eil humoristiques et de sensualité.

On note la participation très importante de Gaston Mandeville qui signe plusieurs textes et musiques de l’album semblant coller tout à fait à la peau du chanteur. L’album com porte aussi certaines compositions de Roy qui déclare n’avoir aucune préférence entre ses chansons et celles com posées à son inten­

tion. De plus, il lui arrive parfois d’être anxieux lorsque vient le moment de présenter son travail à son éq u ip e. “J’ai en co re beaucoup de pudeur face à mes propres chansons,” confiet-il.

L’avenir sem ble reluisant pour l’artiste multi-disciplinaire qui a des projets à revendre et qui les transporte dans ses va­ lises des quatres coins du Québec ju s q u ’en R é p u b liq u e Dominicaine, son hâvre de repos et le pays de sa bellefamille. Sans se demander si le Québec était prêt à accepter l’ère du country, le roi fonceur a décidé il y a longtemps de faire ce q u ’il v o u la it sa n s se préoccuper du reste et il possède indéniablement la volonté et l’énergie nécessaire pour abattre toutes les barrières qui pourraient entraver son chemin.

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DISCELLANEOUS N in e Inch Nails T h e D o w n w a r d S p ir a l

(N o th in g / TVT/ Interscope) “Mr. N in e Inch N ails” Trent Reznor’s first full-length release sin ce 1989 nearly e x ­ hausts the possibilities o f industrial/techno/w hatever m u­ sic, from the (dare I say) al­ m ost radio-friendly “P iggy” to the just plain painful so n g w h o se nam e I cou ld not d e ­ te r m in e , sin ce they all run together and m y tape lacks the advantage o f a CD’s track search function. The e x c e s­ sive packaging o f T h e D o w n ­ w a r d S p i r a l i s an indication o f its musical content. The son gs w o u ld generally w ork m uch better w ithout layer upon layer o f fuzz and garble. It appears that Reznor sim ply sp en t too m u ch tim e in p ro d u ction , w h i le p e r f e c t in g th e R ollinsesque ad olescen t v io ­ lent angst-filled grumbling.

R e z n o r c o n v e y s h is greater am bitions in “i do not w ant this”: “i w ant to fuck

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(Matador)

— -John Scanlon

ticular smartass style. T he re­ su lts are brilliant: bastard Stones riffs and th e hint o f a B uddy H olly-ish m elod y com ­ b ine for “Silent Kid” (or “Si­

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Soundgarden has m anaged to o n ce again im prove on their p osition as the gurus o f hard rock in the “pop-alternative” niche. Surprisingly en o u g h , this w as accom p lish ed w ith ­ out jum ping o n the Achtung B aby/Stone R oses drum beat b and w agon (G od k n o w s that w agon is already full with Pearl Jam, B eck, etc.). With this CD, they just continue to w ork on their strengths: strong vocals, pow erful guitars and creative rhythms su ch as th e con ta­ gious lead single “Spoonm an”.

H ow ever, in c la s s ic S o u n d g a rd en form , u n lik e m any p o p releases that are great th e first few tim es but are s o o n collecting dust w ith your co p y o f T h r ille r , S u p e r u n k n o u m takes a few listens to truly appreciate it. So m y su ggestion s w o u ld b e to buy the album , sit d o w n w ith it and your favourite hydro­ p on ic substance, hit the re­ peat button and let the m usic en com p ass your mind. T hen co m e back to real ity and laugh at you rself for b ein g s o silly.

But hey, that's O.K.

len ce Kit,” for you CD ow ners). “Range Life” parodies the Norman “Rock”-w ell sch ool o f m id d le -A m e r ic a n s o n g w r it in g , w ith S te v e M a lk m u s crooning along like Paul W esterb erg w h ile dissing so m e MTV poster groups: “ou t o n tour w ith the Sm ashing P um pkins/ nature kids, they d on ’t h a v e n o fu n ctio n .”

D esp ite their co lle­ giate ennui, Pavem ent can both rock and write; irony b eco m es them , and in an era w h e n m o n o lit h ic slices o f angst pass as alternative, it’s n ice to s e e that som ew h ere ou t there th e lines aren’t s o straight.

e v e r y o n e in th is w orld /i w ant to do som ethin g that mat­ ters.” If T h e D o w n ­ w a r d S p i r a l is su p ­ p o s e d to m a tter, Reznor might as w ell p ursue th e former g o a l.

A fter th e a c ­ claim for 92’s S l a n t e d a n d E n c h a n t e d , this la t e s t o p u s from Stockton, California’s favourite slackers is th e m ost anticipated “alternative” release o f th e year (bite m e, Soundgarden fans).

W hereas S l a n t e d w a s a paradigm o f inscru­ tability, o n C r o o k e d R a i n the band takes a ch am eleon-lik e approach to their lo-tech tunes, deconstructing various rock clich és to suit their o w n par­

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—-Jeff Butler

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cigars, so o n has Norville pro­ m oted to h ead o f the co m ­ p any in a sly sch em e to later take his place.

T hus the m o v ie is also lo o p y for its u sa g e o f the ‘w h eel o f fortune’ clich é— that fate is circular. W hen y o u ’re at the bottom , y o u ’re look in g up. And h ey, it’s America; s o

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is full o f laughs. T he C oen Brothers ( R a i s i n g A r i z o n a , B a r t o n F i n k ) are k n o w n for their ability to b len d H olly­ w o o d styles w ith the off-beat.

But I d o n ’t k n o w guys, I think you w e n t a little to o H olly­ w o o d this time.

T h e best w ord for this flick is l o o p y . T he m o v ie is alm ost to o cam py, to o filled w ith H o lly w o o d stereotyp es like th e fainting dam sel w h o lies to g et w hat sh e wants.

T h e background is a cartoon w orld w ith cartoon characters that are tw o-dim ension al. But m ostly, the m o v ie is lo o p y b eca u se o f all th e circles in­ volved .

T he m ost o b v io u s ex a m ­ p le o f th e circle m otif in this m o v ie is th e ‘extruded plastic d in gu s’ (a.k.a. the h ullahoop).

Ever w o n d ered the story b e­ hind it? H ere it is.

It’s 1958 w h en Norville B a r n e s , from s m a ll-to w n M uncie co m es to big tow n N ew York in search o f a job.

A circular co ffee stain on the m orning n ew sp a p er points ou t to him a classified ad for a job at H udsucker Industries in a m ailroom right ou t o f a sc e n e from B r a z i l , p ip e-du cts and all. N orville’s just a c o g in th e m achin e (sorry for th e clich é but this m o v ie’s g o t it s share).

Sinister Paul N ew m an, w h o probably took th e role b eca u se h e g ets to sm o k e big

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York and reveals th e build up to the su icid e sce n e . T his cir­ cular narration is rem iniscent o f the cin em a-textbook case V a g a b o n d (o n e from Critical Comm, class; it’s w eird h o w sch ool ideas p o p ou t at you ).

H u d s u c k e r P r o x y has a w atchm aker’s craftsmanship.

All the sc e n e s are carefully

J e n n i f e r J a s o n L e i g h ’s h a n d - t w i r l i n g r o l e a s a P u litz e r P riz e -w in n in g u n d e r c o v e r r e p o r te r d o e s n o t re a lly w o rk . S h e is a w k w a r d a n d t a l k s l i k e a r o o m m a t e ’s h a i r d r y e r t h a t w o n ’t s h u t o f f .

it just might happen. But w h en y o u ’re at the top, you can on ly g o d ow n . It’s gon n a h app en , baby— u n less y o u learn the m o v ie’s blatant m orality pitch: you can stay at th e top if you k eep your humil ity (this m eans n o cucum ber facials).

C locks appear as often as circles, creatively linking so m e o f th e scen es. T here is a climactic and suspenseful fight to beat the clock (literally) in th e classic, y et u n c o n v e n ­ tional, m ovie spirit.

C locks also fram e the m ovie and set u p a circular narration. H u d s u c k e r P r o x y b egin s w ith the (alm ost) en d w h en Norville Barnes is stand­ ing o n the led g e o f th e fortyfifth floor about to jump: an all tim e lo w p oin t o n h is w h ee l.

T h e narration th en reverts back to his arrival in N ew

put together and th e editing is very tight. T he script is often brilliant too, especially the line w h ere death is described as ‘merging w ith the infinite’. And there’s a R om eo and Juliet b alcony sc e n e that is written to b e s o absurd, it gets you h ow ling.

T he cinem atography is similarly remarkable— in mak­ ing co ffee tables look like runw ays— in capturing 50s h o u se w ife ads— in portraying dazzling N ew York high so ci­ ety parties— in taking u s into its com ic D a i l y P l a n e t world.

T he Lois Lane o f th e m o v ie is A m y Archer. Jennifer Jason Leigh’s hand-tw irling role as a Pulitzer Prize-w in­ ning undercover reporter d oes n ot really w ork. She is aw k ­ w ard and talks like a room ­ m ate’s hairdryer that w o n ’t

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D e e p d o w n to o , h e ’s an ap­ p le -p ie guy.

In o n e p oorly p laced and so m ew h a t od d seq u en ce, Norville has a w e t dream o f dancing w ith a Spanish erotic dancer. I m ean Tim Robbins probably to o k lesso n s on h o w to d a n ce tw o-left-feetstyle from Jeff D an iels in S o m e t h i n g W i l d . And Tim R obbins d o e s it in w h ite sw eat-sock s. But his sw e e t­ heart Am y has just sla p p ed h is face and w a lk ed o u t m ayb e forever, s o the tim ing

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But w h en y o u ’re w a lk in g out o f th e theatre thinkin’: ‘w h ee l o f fortune are y o u in m otion?’, you can b e su re that spring will co m e at last. Even in Montreal.

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Clash quote out o f its political context, for most bands, the shot at glory leads nowhere, and the hours o f thankless toil that goes into the music is all for naught. Let’s face it, for every “alternative” band that sells a hundred thousand records, there are hundreds w ho might live up to the “alternative” label and sell a hundred... maybe.

However, this is intended to condemn neither the entire music business, noreach attempt to make music. Indeed, there is a veritable treasure of bands out there, som e signed to smaller record labels, som e not. And m ost n ew and independei?. bands share a discomfort with the term “alternative” that the major companies, in their at­ tempts to cash in on the next Nirvana, are attempting to dealternativize. As Pavem ent’s Stephen West told T h e M ir r o r , “I don’t think that there is anything alternative or indie... To me, there’s just bad music and good music.”

The prevailing “ironic”

mindset that w e ’ve all heard about is much product o f many bands’disillusionment with the music industry’s attempts to popularize music that is inher­ ently, and often intentionally, esoteric.

But what’s a band to do? I mean, ya gotta pay the bills.

Playing music can be loads of fun, and if they’re gonna offer, w ho wouldn’t take? The prob­ lem is that if it doesn’t work out, there ain’t no pension plan for independent and otherwise lim­ ited-appeal acts. The false hopes that record company m oney and hype can create for new bands could hinder in the long term, as much as it could immediately help them.

However, all that consid­ ered, as I leave McGill and the T r i b u n e with my rock-solid Eng­ lish Lit. BA. and stars in my eyes, the do-it-yourself band option looks more an^i more appealing.

I mean, if they can do it, so can I. Bring on the record com ­ panies, and I’ll see you at Bifteck.

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BY K ATY JOHNSON While McGill is hardly rec­ ogn ized for its creative pulse, there are a num ber o f journals both o n and o ff cam pus w hich just may publish your work (Concordia is around the cor­ ner!). A num ber o f local jour­ nals provide a forum for n on ­ fiction, fiction and artwork.

D e p a r tm e n ta l M cG ill p u b lica tio n s: Many McGill publications are linked directly to specific departments. T hese journals show case the best writ­ ings in their field. Generally, these McGill publications are under-funded— the degree o f

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Here are e x a m p l e s (by n o m eans an exhaustive list!) o f on-cam pus journals with a d e­ partmental focus:

The J o u rn a l o f

Ac­ cording to editor Rick Jain, this journal is in its 19th year in publi­ cation — o n e o f the o ld e st stu d en t run journals at McGill. It is a forum for the view s o f students o f e c o ­ nom ics and political scien ce— both gradu­ ate and undergradu­ ate."

P o litic a lE c o n o m y .

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for a m ore interdiscipli­ nary perspective.

The R e d H e r r i n g , McGill’s only intention­ ally fu n ny m a g a zin e, takes subm issions from an yone with a sen se o f hum our, regardless o f department.

at 3434 McTavish are other journals with a sp e­ cific focus.

S t r a t is pub­ lished by the Mu­ sic Undergraduate Students Associa­ tion to sh ow case “anything that hap­ pens in the Music faculty.” T hose in­ terested should call 398-4551.

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is published by the Middle Eastern Students Association o f the Political Science depart­ ment. According to editor P e­ ter Moore, it’s m andate is to “demonstrate departments and variety o f scholarship on the m iddle east. It’s the on ly o n e o f it’s kind: taking contributions from Middle Eastern universi­ ties and from both graduate and undergraduate students.”

The journal is published by the post-graduate society and the Arts under­ g r a d u a te S o c ie t y (AUS). S u b m ission s for next year should b e dropped o ff in the political science office, 4th floor.

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Non-M cG ill Jou r­ nals: P e r h a p s ? is an in­ d e p e n d e n t v e n u e for n ew writers. Published tw ice a year, it is inde­ p e n d e n t ly fin a n c e d , w hich is im pressive co n ­ sidering the attractive and innovativejayout o f its first 50 page issue.

P e r h a p s ? is available in independent bookstores around Montreal. For in­ formation, call 982-3792.

On April 12, there will b e a d oub le launch with F o r E x a m p l e , a product o f Concordia’s fiction w ork­ shop.

C o r r i d o r s : According to its editors, this journal “w as com piled to unite the writers o f the sch ool and o f Montreal into a yearly publication w hich w o u ld begin a literary press.”

Launched this year, it is handed

by Concordia Undergraduate Student A ssociation and the Concordia D ean o f Students.

C o r r i d o r s is available at local bookstores and costs $7. Call 932-5663 or sen d subm issions to English Departm ent, 5th Floor, Library Building. 1455 d e M aisonneuve, H36-IM8.

I n te r d is c i­ p lin ary journals: T hese journals ac­ cept subm issions i and input from a variety o f students.

The content usu­ ally crosses departm ental lin e s. It seem s there are too many publications and not en ou gh subm issions or cash.

L a t i t u d e s is the journal for D evelopin g Area Studies.

Subm issions com e from nu­ m erous departments, includ­ ing anthropology and political science. h e r i d a n , a w o m a n ist/ feminist journal sh o w ca ses di­ verse su b m ission s from all w om en. Subm issions should be dropped in their b o x in the Shatner lobby.

T h e M c G i l l C o u r a n t is a n ew journal w h ich see k s stu­ dent perspectives on a w id e range o f topics. Interdiscipli­ nary in focus, the journal con ­

tains both fiction and non-fic­ tion.

T h e M c G i l l R e v i e w is also interdisciplinary, and seek s ar­ ticles w hich cross departm en­ tal lines and incorporate di­ verse perspectives.

T h e M c G i l l R e v i e w seek s to fulfil a m andate originally associated with T h e P i l l a r .

T h e P i l l a r , over the years, has b eco m e associated with fiction and the English depart­ ment. It is su p p o sed to repre­ sent all departm ents in the Arts Faculty as it is funded by the AUS. Still, T h e P i l l a r i s attempt­ ing to sh ed this literary im age

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B Y JO Y C E L A U Forget Tori Am os and Sarah McLaughlin. There are new female singer/songwriters popping up and playing all across Canada this summer.

Think brand spankin’ new .

Think “alternative” label-genretranscendation. Think CKUThip.

G ood reader.

I first heard McGill’s Priya Thomas performing to an un­ justly tiny audience in the Alley.

And not until I heard her play again to a packedjailhouse Rock Cafe, at 2 Girl Production’s A c o u s t i c a concert, did I feel * - better about the attention she was getting.

A c o u s t i c a , the first ever Canadian singer/songwriter fes­ tival, also featured Concordian Trace Sitter, Vancouverites Mo Field and Veda Hille, and Mon­ treal kitsch act Jalouzi.

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According to 2 Girl Pro­ d u c tio n s o rg a n izer H anna Vorlicek, “the w hole premise o f the [ A c o u s t ic a ] festival was to exp ose the artists...to talk about networking.” It is the beginning o f a networking collective and newsletter for female musicians.

But back to the musicians themselves.

Little elfin P riya T h o m a s opened for James ‘s last tour (and even played N ew Orleans) and will be opening for Crowded H ouse and Universal H oney in upcom ing months.

I was most taken by Priya’s brave acapella in the midst o f a guitar and voice repertoire— pure proof o f her pure vocal strength and performance in­ tegrity.

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growled through the teeth, sandy and not raspy.

The syncopated stops and starts in her songwriting come across as being surprisingly in­ stinctual.

“I have no conscious in­ fluences,” Priya responded to questions about her com pos­ ing. She screams and it echoes in the silence. The guitar starts again.

Look for an upcom ing al­ bum from Priya Thomas and Saul Davies, the violinist and guitarist from James. According to Priya, it will b e a combination o f “his m elodies and new lyrics from m e.” , T race Sitter just finished opening for Jane Siberry.

She couples folky mellow singalongability with an “alter­ native” off-voice, wavering in tem po and intonation.

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Her guitar play­ ing is mostly easy strumming, with one h ard er song, “Jesse”.

T h e b e st th in g a b o u t watching Trace is that she just looks so h a p p y and sensual on stage.

She talks about her songs reflect­ ing her “spiritual sid e”.

“As I leapt across the snowlike a rabbit feel­ ing strong” she sings.

She smiles at the applause as a new artist only can.

Trace Sitter just p la y e d at E a t y o u r h e a r t McGill, and also opened for Jane Siberry. Her album will be released this fall.

You might have seen a snippet o f M o F ield on the Junos— a clip o f her Canadian Music W eek performance in To­ ronto.

Mo is a great stage per­ former. She’s funny and campybutchy. She looks to “connect with the audience as other hu­ man beings...they are not just a mob o f p eop le.”

Who can resist her rumble rumble chica chica guitar and her jazzy bebop vocal orna­ ments?

She has a very strong voice with a superb range. She is bold and intimate, strong and ulti­ mately respectable in her hon­ esty.

“I try to write about things that matter to people...things I am embarrassed talking about...1 open up m yself on stage. I leave m yself very vulnerable,” Field said.

Mo will be gigging in Mon­ treal this summer, and is look­ ing to release an album with EMI Capital. Look out for her.

Listen for the song “Bed of Roses”. I can not explain it. So, as Mo says “let songs have their ow n lives.”

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“form s”, sh e reluctantly d e­ scribes her music as “altemative-jazz-folk-pop”. And I have to feel sorry for her because w hen asked personally, she speaks about noise and sound, and their roles in the “land of the m elodic”. She can b e disso­ nant, stretching learned sound as far as it can go without being chaotic.

V e d a ’s m u sic c r o s s e s through so many genres o f mu­ sic, and not at all randomly. This classically trained keyboardist plays Bach, and jazz, and ballet music. Her voice is that o f a stronger Suzanne Vega, with raw refined emotion.

Sound serious? “I’m really not such a bitch” Veda jokes.

Veda com es on stage, her wrists and forearms bound in ace band ages b eca u se o f tendonitis. She looks at her key­ board on its flimsy metal stand.

“If this breaks, I’ll keep on play­ ing to the best o f my ability” she promises the audience.

Veda has already released her album S o n g s a b o u t P e o p l e a n d B u i l d i n g s . Her new album P a t h o f a B o d y has already been released independently in ToCONTINUED ON PAGE 31

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Welcome to the last issue of the T r ib u n e . Catrin and Brendon would personally like to thank all the writers for your efforts. Not to mention those record company reps, film /theatre/art/dance promoters for your cooperation and free stuff.

We're going to Hell now. Out of our T r ib u n e mole-hole in the Shitter basement. Thank the good Lawd above!

Out with the old, in with the new. We welcome incoming editors, Harris "flailing bodies" Newman and Joyce "Good Reader" Lau. They've got some pretty damn big shoes to fill, if w e may say so, but the word on the street is that their feet are disproportionately large, anyway.

Just to tie u p so m e lo o se ends: ‘Apologies that our Mack History issue was a week early and our Women's Week issue, a week late.

•To the T e n L o st Y e a r s people: SORRY! (for Pete's sake). Stop accosting us at theatre parties. Sheesh.

‘To anyone offended by our know-it-all, pompous and highly subjective (but totally correct) opinions: Cry us a river.

‘To Slaves on Dope: hopefully next year. *To the D a ily , w e are the only section that doesn't hate you. And fucking swear more than /a ll.

The T r ib u n e Entertainment section would like to announce an end-o-the-year party. Everybody w e have interviewed is cordially invited: the Lemonheads, Spicer Stacey (the Pogues), RUN DMC, ani difranco, Carolyn Heilbrun, Margaret Drabble, Ian Stephens, the Thrill Killers, the Snitches, Green Day, Dread Zeppelin, the Wonder Stuff, King Cobb Steelie, De La Soul, Much Musioc VJs, the Jason Beck Trio, Redd Kross, Brent Bambury, the Melvins, Spirit of the West, Andrew Cash, Helene Blackburn, Richard Shusterman, Buffalo Tom and Mark Achbar. B. Y. O. B. and we'll supply the toad-in-the holes.

To be held in Andrew Work's pants because, lord knows, he won't be using them. To be held Later.

A c o u s tic a CONTINUED FROM PAGE 30 ronto, and is com ing to Vancou­ ver and Montreal soon.

There is no way to do justice to this music in an article, and I’ve been gushing anyway.

So go out and hunt down these artists yourselves instead o f just hanging at the Dairy Q ueen this summer. You w o n ’t regret it.

“2 Girl Productions” will release its promotional com pi­ lation in late April. It will feature all o f these artists, as w ell as Montreal francophone jazzy saxophone calypso bandjalouzi.

Though not available for public sale, you will hear it on the radio—definitely on CKUT (90.3 FM). Anyone interested in join­ ing 2 Girl Production’s network collective for female musicians can contact Hanna Vorlicek at 849-3791 or Chantal Sundquist at (604) 873-9669.

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BY D A N T E PASG ALI Well, another year has come and gone in the world of McGill athletics. After many ups and downs in an overall exciting year for the various Martlets and Redmen teams, students were asked to vote for the T r ib u n e Female and Male Athletes of the Year. Once the dust had settled, and all the votes had been tallied, soccer standouts Julia Maughan and Chris Drysdale came out on top.

Soccer forward Maughan beat out four notable nominees: swimmer Carol Chiang, basket­ ball forward Vicky Tessier, cross­ country runner Linda Thyer and soccer teammate Gayle Noble.

Maughan, a third-year el­ ementary education student from Kirkland, Quebec, led the Martlets in scoring for a third consecutive year, establishing a single season scoring record with 15 goals in 18 games. She was named a Cana­ dian Inter-university Athletics Union (CIALQ second-team AllCanadian and a Quebec Univer­ sity Soccer League (QUSL) all-star for the third time. She was also named to the CIAU champion­ ship all-tournament team.

Maughan was quick to at­ tribute her personal success to an overall team effort.

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port from the team, setting me up [for shots]. There was a stronger team spirit making for a more comfortable atmosphere,” said Maughan.

She was ecstatic about breaking the record for goals scored in a season.

“It was great. Really neat to break it at the Nationals. I was surprised. I didn’t know until it was announced over the loud­ speaker. It was my most memora­ ble goal,” she said.

“My most memorable game was the provincial final. It was a nice win. We didn’t win the league, so it was nice to beat [Sherbrooke] by a large score on the road," she continued.

Maughan reflected on the season as a whole and looked to the future.

“We played very well, al­ though we could have done bet­ ter. We had a really good season as the team worked really well together. The Nationals were a disappointment, but w e enjoyed playing at home with the fan support,” she explained.

“The future looks really good. There are a few excellent rookies coming up and quite a few vets on the team. There w on’t be too many changes, but Cap­ tain Noble will be missed.”

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On the men’s side, soccer fullback Chris Drysdale took Male Athlete of the Year honours, bet­ tering four other nominees: foot­ ball players Andrew Boon and Val St-Germain, cross-country runner Jean Nicolas Duval, and short track speed skater Steve Gough.

A fourth-year electrical en­ gineering student from Washing­ ton D.C., Drysdale made this his second win in as many years after being voted the MVP of the QUSL for the third consecutive season.

He also three-peated as a CIAU first-team All-Canadian and as a QUSL All-Star.

Drysdale attributed his suc­ cess to his coach from back home.

“I had a really good coach.

I played a lot as the weather in D.C. is more conducive to play­ ing soccer,” he said.

The team captain was pleased with repeating as QUSL MVP. “It’s great. I didn’t think I’d win it, but it’s a tribute to the team

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w ork and I started very y o u n g . We h ad a tw o sto r y h o u se w hen I w as a kid. W hen the sch o o l bus Came around the comer, my father w ould push m e out a w indow and I would land flat on the pave­ ment. All the kids w ould laugh, and that’s w hen I knew that I could make peop le happy. You don’t need a team [to do what I do], all I need is my assistant Fuji.

T ribune: H ow did you choose Fuji as your assistant?

Super Dave: I interviewed over 1,000 candidates for the position, and the reason I chose Fuji is because he spoke abso­ lutely no English and he had absolutely no qualifications. This way he still doesn’t know that he is being paid under mini­ mum wage.

T ribune: Our school re­ cently renamed its student un­ io n b u ild in g after W illiam

After a two year self-imposed boycott of the McGill media stemming from the renaming of the Union Building after someone else, stunt gum Super Dave Osbourne has finally agreed to speak to the Tribune. Long time groupies Charles Thomas and Ethan Sacks put theirJournalistic Integrity on the line to record the muslngs o f the g reatest sportsman to ever don a motorcycle helmet.

T ribune: The T r i b u n e is publishing a feature issue on adventure sports. O bviously these sports are small potatoes for you, s o what type o f activi­ ties get your adrenaline flow ­ ing?

S u p er D ave: The only thing that gets me excited now is being able to wake up and get out o f the bed. You know I have done all those things, parachut­ ing, rock climbing and the ski­ ing. It doesn’t excite me that m uch anym ore. Afterwards, w hen I com e out o f the coma, that’s w hen I get excited.

T ribune: Do you have any tips for impressionable youths who may want to end up like you?

S u p er D ave: Well it’s hard

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Shatner. Are you disappointed that the honour did not go to you?

S u p er D ave: I was devas­ tated. I was told that I was up for that honour. William Shatner is a good friend o f mine and McGill was one o f my favourite univer­ sities in Toronto before this in­ cident. When I heard they were building a super stunt center, I was very excited... I think the Super Dave Building would have lasted for years and yeans.

T ribune: D o you want anything here named after you?

Sup er Dave: If you were to name any building after me, make the William Shatner Build­ ing the Super Dave Osbourne Building.

T ribune: Some critics sug­ gest that your historical fall from the CN Tower was a hoax, that it was a dummy which hurtled to the pavement. H ow do you respond?

S u p er D ave: You totally misinterpreted that newspaper story. The headline said: “Super PL E A SE SEE S U P E D A V E . P A G E 38

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and how well w e did,” said Drysdale.

“My most memorable game was the second game of the semi­ final playoff series with Concordia.

We had to get a goal, so the coach moved me up and it was a good feeling scoring that goal,” he added.

Drysdale was pleased with the team’s play last season.

“It was nice to win the league. However, next year w e’ll

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do really well. A lot of players will be graduating the next year and will want to go out on a high note.

There will be a lot of experienced players,” he said.

Drysdale also plays intra­ mural hockey and aspires to study medicine, an interest sparked by his diabetic condition. If his study habits are half as good as his soccer skills, the sky is the limit for this year’s Male Athlete of the Year.

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BY CH ARLES THOM AS The appointment o f Karen Brenhouse as new athletics rep to Students’Society (SSMU) points to the extension o f the James Stewart legacy at SSMU council meetings. Brenhouse suggests that she intends to pursue many o f the same issues which the incumbent Stewart has champi­ oned during his three year ten­ ure.

“I will speak to [James] to know where he is leaving things off,” she stated. “I will definitely continue everything he’s been working on because I feel that a lot o f the things he’s been pulling for I agree with, such as the blood drive.”

“I know he’s been a strong campaigner against taking it away," she added. “I agree with him on that. Politically w e’re on the same wave length.”

Brenhouse was selected to the Student Athletic Council (SAC) and is the only non-elected mem­ ber o f the SSMU council. Stewart defended the SAC’s appointment policy.

“It makes sense that the Student Athletic Council does select this position because it has representatives from all areas of Athletics,” he argued. “It’s a logistical problem to move to an open vote. Who would vote for it?”

Part of the problem, sug­ gested Stewart, is that the Athlet­ ics Rep’s constituency is made up o f other people besides stu­ dent-athletes, including users of the athletics facilities through Campus Recreation. Determin­ ing which students are eligible to vote would therefore be difficult.

Among the seven voting mem­ bers o f SAC are four students from Campus Recreation, two students from the McGill Inter­ collegiate Sports Council (MISC), the SAC chair, and the athletics rep to SSMU.

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Only one other candidate was in the running for the posi­ tion, but Brenhouse does not feel that lack o f competition for the position reduces her legiti­ macy in the role.

“I felt that I was very much qualified for the position. I would have liked to say I beat out many other people for the job because o f my q u a lifica tio n s,” said Brenhouse. “However, my quali­ fications are the same no matter how many people ran.”

Brenhouse was manager for the Redmen football team last season and has been working at Sadie’s Tabagie for the past three years. Recently, she has been in consultation with Stewart as a form of preparation and has at­ tended a SSMU council meeting.

“I’ve been interested in the position for a number o f years, * but I wasn’t about to run against James because I felt he did an excellent job,” Brenhouse said.

“I tried this year because I knew that he wasn’t running.”

SAC Chair Ann Drummie explained the reasons for the small number o f candidates.

“A lot of the student-ath­ letes don’t apply because their time commitment is to their sport,” she commented. “Also, a lot of recreational students are not as aware o f what’s going on in the department.”

Drummie acknowledged, however, that SAC may have opened the application period for the positions too late to draw a larger field. Ads publicizing the opening were placed in McGill newspapers less than a week before the application deadline.

While it remains unclear which issues will take centre stage on next year’s council, Brenhouse indicated that she will focus much of her energy on the * promotion o f greater student participation in the new athletics field house, which is scheduled to be completed in January 1995.

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White-water canoeists and kayakers never use the term “falling in ”; rather, w h en a paddler is pitched from the boat, he or she is “going for a swim ”.

This type o f euphemism typifies the people w ho canoe and kayak on turbulent waters: cheerful, bold and buoyant.

“I’ve swam a few times,” remarked Rodney Swatton, a 23-year-old white-water kayak instructor. “It’s all part of it,” he said calmly.

A master’s student in exer­ cise physiology, Swatton has been on the water since the age o f five or six, and now takes pleasure from teaching and get­ tin g o th ers in to kayaking.

Swatton has canoed and kayaked on “flat” and “white” water—in both calm and crazy condi­ tions— in many parts of Canada.

His most memorable trip was a 700 km white-water canoe od­ yssey in Yukon Territory, on the Horton River, about 500 km north

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At hydraulics and other dangerous spots, there is often som eone on shore with a rope and throw bag ready to pitch a line to get people out. “The number one safety feature is yourself being able to swim out of [the hydraulic],”noted Swatton.

Outdoor sport enthusiasts may take note that inclement weather poses little problem for these pursuits. “[Kayaking and canoeing] are not fair-weather sports, except when the water’s frozen over,” Swatton said. “We don’t turn back unless there’s lightning out there. And rain is a bonus, because it pushes the water level up.”

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Level o f diffi­ culty is also judged by the water levels.

“Paddlers are always try­ ing to push the l i mi t s , " Swatton said, n o tin g that level three is the maximum class that one would attempt in a canoe.

D e sp ite the tumultu­ o u s w a ters, the casualty rate a m o n g j a c frje T h o m p s o n a n d R o d S w a t t o n : t h i s s u r e a i n ' t th e e x p e r ie n c e d draulic isn’t too much fun. It’s white-water paddlers is almost like being in a washing ma­ nil. Accidents are more likely to chine— in fact, on the Rouge occur when people with little River there’s one that’s called experience do not wear enough the Washing Machine,” Swatton e q u ip m e n t (a h elm et and explained. “It’s on the spin cycle lifejacket are essential), or aren’t for sure! I’ve been in that one a familiar with the river. Says few times.”

Swatton, “problems arise when A hydraulic occurs when you overestimate your confi­ water flows and drops quickly dence. I’ve had to rely on my over a large rock or obstacle so buddies a few times, and they’ve the regular flow is disturbed. had to rely on me. In white The water backs up into itself, water you always paddle with a and if there is a big ledge it group.” makes a hole or a “hydraulic”.

The rough patches in white “You get sucked right down water are relished and respected. to the bottom. Then the water “Part of what keeps me in this is pushes you up and it looks like that each time there’s something you’re going to com e out of it, that’s going to start the adrena­ but the water sucks you back line flowing,” Swatton noted. down again. You keep going For example, there is the jarring around and around. A few shots phenomenon that paddlers call like that and your eyeballs are a “hydraulic”. popping out o f your skull. Some “Being trapped in a hy­

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“It was great,” he remi­ nisced. “We were on the 70th parallel, and had three canoes each packed with food. I did it with a CÉGEP instructor and five other people.” The trip lasted three w eeks.

This part of the country also offers excitement tinged with danger; there is the St. Lawrence, the shores o f the Lachine rapids, and around the island of Montreal.

“Every river’s got its sp e­ cial point, beauty, rapids, or white water. My personal fa­ vourite near Montreal is the Rouge River near Ottawa and Hawkesbury,” noted Swatton.

“Q uebec has som e incredible rivers farther north; but you have to fly in and make a big trip out of it.”

The level o f difficulty o f each body o f water is desig­ nated by classes from one to six: level one denotes totally flat water, level three features three or four-foot-high waves, and a

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Pour le s fa ire u n e p r o m e n a d e d e villes sont autant de tech­ destitués parmi vous, s a n té d a n s le s e n v iro n s , n iq u e s is s u e s de vou s p ou vez toujours l’alpinisme. grimper les rochers du v o i c i l ’e s s e n t i e l à s a v o i r .

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BY CHARLES THOM AS It must be difficult to imag­ ine. When you put your foot out and jump, there is nothing be­ tween you and the ground but 3,000 feet o f air. Sure you’re wearing a helmet, but som ehow you know that falling from al­ most a mile up is not what the CSA had in mind when it ap­ proved your head gear. Luckily you have a parachute...well ac­ tually it’s more than luck. Odds are you planned this pretty well if you’re contemplating jumping ou t o f a p la n e . O n c e again...luckily, you have a para­ chute strapped on to your back, which all things considered looks a bit like a hat when it is de­ ployed above your head...a big puffy hat...the “puffy hat”, yeah, that’s it.

Steve Prescott, a U2 Biol­ ogy major from West Vancou­ ver, BC tried his hand at the sport o f parachuting two years ago.

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“Then you fall from the plane chuting a very safe sport. and by that point, you “Sports like hockey can’t do anything about and skiing account for it. It’s probably the best, " T h e n y o u fa ll fr o m t h e p la n e a n d more injuries and deaths coolest feeling when than parachuting,” he b y t h a t p o i n t , y o u c a n ’t d o you let go and you see suggested. the plane moving away a n y t h i n g a b o u t i t . I t ’s p r o b a b l y Prescott concurred: from you and you move th e b e s t, c o o le s t fe e lin g w h e n “I would not have done it towards the ground. y o u le t g o a n d y o u s e e t h e p la n e if I thought it was a dan­ “Then the chute gerous sport.” m o v in g a w a y fro m y o u a n d y o u opens and at that point N everth eless, he it changes from a feel­ m o v e to w a r d s t h e g ro u n d .” admitted to feeling some ing of exhilaration to a apprehension as he was feeling o f calm," he -S te v e P r e s c o tt about to jump. Labrecque added. reassures that most p eo­ U 2 , B io lo g y Prescott and some ple feel som e fear before friends had purchased a jump. one o f the increasingly It is difficult to describe if First timers do not free fall popular one-day parachuting you have never done it. It’s a fear because they do not jump from packages that provide training o f the unknown, I guess. The a high enough altitude (3,000 and one jump for a set price. problem is that there is a lot of feet as opposed to 12,000 feet Prescott has yet to take the plunge myth that the chute w on’t open, for free fall) and their chutes are again since then, but according but it always does.” designed to open almost imme­ to Stéphane Labrecque, an owner Despite reassurances, some diately after the jump. and instructor at Centre École de Annually, over 1,500 eager people refuse to leave the safety Parachutisme de Valcourt, most o f those who take the introduc­ students are schooled at the Cen­ o f the plane. In this situation, a tre École. They are instructed in student will be allowed a second tory courses come back for more. procedures such as security, run in order to have the time to “People usually com e back jumping and landing techniques, gain confidence. for many jumps and many go on

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With experience, the fear subsides.

“There is always som e stress, but it is not the same stress as at the start,” stated Labrecque. “You never get bored, though. Each jump is something new. Experienced parachuters even seek out larger planes that can climb faster and higher. You want to extend the free fall as much as possible.”

Even for free fallers, or perhaps especially for free fallers, safety measures are stringently enforced. Chutes must be opened before the 2,200 foot mark. As an instructor, Labrecque applies this rule most severely to himself.

“The last thing you want to do is give people the wrong exam ple,” he said. “If an inexpe­ rienced parachuter sees you and thinks ‘hey, they must be having fun’, they may try something they can’t handle.”

T he C entre É co le de Parachutisme de Valcourt offers courses from introductory to free fall from May to late October.

They can be reached at (800) 661-7272.

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BY CHARLES THOMAS “You shouldn’t fear the w a­ ter, ” says white water rafting guide Jacques Godin. “A certain amount of fear is good though, if it is fear in the sense of respect.”

Godin should know what he is talking about. In his sev­ enth-year on the frothy, tumbling waters in and around Jasper Na­ tional Park, high in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, the New Brunswick expatriate has logged well over 2,000 hours dodging rocks and steering his boat, full of adventurous tourists, out of strong currents. Never has he experi­ enced disaster, but his sport does not have such a pristine record.

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“Eight years ago there were at least a half dozen fatalities if not more in British Columbia.

The problem was that you had people who wanted to make money, but who didn’t have the expertise, nor the proper equip­ ment. They were shoestring op­ erations who got in over their heads,” he said.

Since then, adds Godin, the provincial government has be­ come involved in establishing regulations and certification pro­ grams that are recognized all over the world.

Already the most certified rafter in Jasper, he plans to be officially named trip leader this summer, the highest credentials

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available. Godin is quick to point out that certificates do not neces­ sarily mean skill, but he has dem­ onstrated plenty of that, as have two of his friends, also guides.

The trio recently cascaded down the infamously named Maligne River Staircase. Although Godin often tours the sometimes placid Maligne with a boat-full of tourists, the Staircase part repre­ sents a challenge only fit for the experienced. Originally con ­ quered in the mid-1980s by a group of German rafters, the Stair­ case was only humbled twice more before Godin and his friends succeeded.

Beyond the Staircase, his greatest affections lie with the most mountainous reaches of the mighty Fraser River up into the Canadian Rockies.

“The thrill with the Fraser was that you didn’t know what was coming ahead of you, the waves were extremely big. There is a lot of legend surrounding that river, there have been many acci­ dents.”

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“There is a lot of prepara­ tion, you know,” he says almost as a warning. “It takes about 40 minutes just to scout a 200 meter long section. You go up and down, up and down the river bank on foot, you turn left, turn right. ‘If we get caught on the rocks, how do we react’— its all anticipation.

You try to minimize the unpre­ dictable. You can never eliminate it, but you try to bring it down to a minimum,” said Godin.

Not all of Godin’s rafting would qualify as adventurous, though. He considers Jasper as the fast food of rafting. Three trips a day in large unwieldy boats carrying up to 26 people. Some­ times he gets lucky and guides smaller crews of six to eight, but still, short trips. Billions and bil­ lions served, the sign must read.

Looking for greater chal­ lenges, he would soon like to take on the Gauley River in West Vir­ ginia and better yet, the Columbia

e x p a t r ia t e River’s 200 miles and 21 days through the Grand Canyon. How­ ever, the ultimate goals lie south.

“Real adventurers seek out first runs and rivers with a high degree of difficulty,”he says. “Cen­ tral America and South America have a lot of rivers that w e hear more about. The Colca River in Peru is at the bottom of a canyon almost twice as deep as the Grand Canyon. It is very narrow and once you are in it, it is almost impossible to get out midway. A group of Poles first explored it and are starting to guide others through it this year.”

The seasonal aspect of North American rafting make it an un­ likely long-term career choice.

Costa Rica, though, is one of the rare places that are suitable for year-round rafting and may be another destination for Godin in the medium run, in order to make a living.

Godin will stay in Jasper at least for this summer and says that some of the five companies in town are still hiring and training guides for their boats.

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There are 23 miles separat­ ing England and France at the closest point across the English Channel. 23 miles of frigid, heav­ ily travelled waters. No more than 450 people have ever mastered the arm of ocean by swim. If you’re keeping count, that’s about the same number of people who have climbed Mt. Everest. The club is exclusive, and the initia­ tion rite brutal, potentially deadly without the proper preparation.

On Saturday, September 5, 1993, at 10:32 in the morning, 40year old Arthur Coleman dipped his greased body into those icy waters to finally undertake a long­ time dream. A dream that took 13 years to fulfill.

“When I was 17,1 was swim­ ming at [a club] in New York,”said Coleman, a member of McGill’s swim team from 1973 to 1977.

“Tom Hetzel, who crossed the channel eight times, more than any other American, swam there, and he used to share his amazing stories. That’s when I got the idea—it became a touchstone.”

When he got to McGill, the

New Rochelle, New York, resi­ dent had to put his goal on the back burner, but continued swim­ ming under then McGill swim team coach Harry Zarins (Zarins is now the director of athletics at Concordia).

“Art was always a steady performer," recalls Zarins. “He had the type of personality that if he wanted to do something, then he went out and did it. I remember putting him in a multitude of events; you don’t have too many guys who are willing to just jump into a 1500m race just for points.

I could always count on Art,” added Zairns.

Consistency and versatility have served Coleman well. In the years after he left McGill, he started running marathons. In 1983, he completed one of the toughest tests of endurance: the Ironman Triathlon.

In the three months leading up to big channel swim, Coleman swam 16 miles on Pennsylvania’s Schuykil River and 20 miles off the coast of Dover, England. But miles from the French shore, those accomplishments provided little comfort.

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“It was much more difficult than I ever imagined it would be,” expressed Coleman. “The cold water just saps your strength and your energy.”

Concentrating on relaxation and technique helped him get through the ordeal, during which he took only a few sporadic breaks to ingest a high nutrient drink. At no point was he allowed to touch the boat, nor was anyone allowed to touch him. He set foot on French soil, only the 437th person to ever successfully achieve the feat.

Not all have been so suc­ cessful, though. In recent years, three people have died from hy­ pothermia. Now all attempts must be registered with the Channel Swim Association (CSA), which monitors and regulates the cross­ ings.

All swimmers must get a physical and have to do a tenhour swim in 60°F water to prove fitness and ability to handle the cold. Then the waiting starts. You must book one year ahead with a CSA pilot who knows the Chan­ nel currents. The Channel is the most heavily travelled body of water in the world and the pilots serve to steer other ships away from the swimmers. The wait, however, does not end once in Britain. Only certain tides allow for safe passage and those can take up to three weeks to occur.

Coleman was in Montreal with his family two weekends ago for the McGill swim team’s alumni races and banquet. His next big feat comes when he takes part in his third 25km swim nationals races, held in South Carolina.

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Over the last decade the Canadian Football League (CFL) has been shaken by a majorIdentity crisis. Faced with a declining fan base, the league appeared unable to find direction and destined for disintegration. Enter Larry Smith, a former CFL player himself whose prognosis for the league’s Ills was a transfusion from the lucrative US market. For the past two seasons, Smith has sailed the league In a new direction— southward to ports like Shreveport, Louisiana In search of the golden fleece of television revenue. Some critics argue, however, that Smith Is bent on eliminating the “C” from the CFL fora few US dollars. Last Friday, Larry Smith agreed to explain his vision of CFL expansion to Tribune reporter Ethan Sacks.

Tribune: With the three new franchises in Las Vegas [the Posse], Shreveport [the Pirates] and Baltimore [the CFLColts] com­ ing into the league next season, and the Sacramento Goldminers already in place, how much fur­ ther will the CFL expand into the States?

Smith: The plan behind expansion is fairly simple. We’re targeting bigger markets to tap into a larger television market that w e can’t get in the smaller Cana­ dian markets. The larger the tel­ evision revenue, the better it is for the league. Step one was estab­ lish in g a b ea ch h ea d in Sacramento. The plan is to reach a critical mass by adding up to 6 to 8 more teams, up to twelve

teams.

Trib: Since any quota on Canadian players cannot be en­ forced south of the border be­ cause of their anti-trust laws, how are Canadian teams going to be able to compete with football play­ ers coming out of the more pol­ ished American university foot­ ball system?

Smith: That will put pres­ sure on the Canadian side to change the [Canadian quota] law.

The rule won’t change if Cana­ dian teams can compete, but I think that over time it will be more difficult to compete. I think what it means is a move towards a freer market.

Trib: How do you see the quota rule being changed?

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Smith: The rule will prob­ ably be modified in terms of the numbers of Canadian players the teams have to carry. I think that it is important for Canadian teams not to have to carry second-tier players who are not starters— who wouldn’t make the team if there was a completely free mar­ ket Right now you have about 10 Canadian players on each team who are starters and another 10 who sit on the bench.

Trib: After the friction that resulted over the naming of the Baltimore franchise “the Colts”, do you feel that expansion into the US is a way of competing with the National Football League?

Smith: We don’t see our­ selves as competing with the NFL. We are a strategic alternative— w e’re a different type of game, a different economy of scale. Balti­ more is a city that has been with­ out an NFL team for a number of years. It was shunned by the NFL two or three times. Our strategic plan is to create teams in markets where there are no NFL teams.

Trib: Can you give me a timetable for expansion5 Smith: We would like to add two to four teams for 1995.

We’re hopeful by 1997 or 1998 to have 10 US teams and about nine Canadian teams. Ideally w e’d like

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to have a twenty-team league, with a US division and a Canadian division who would meet in a final for a North American cup... the Grey Cup. Trib: What are the chances of having the Alouettes or a new team coming to Montreal?

Smith: The Régie des In­ stallations Olympiques (RIO) is being very supportive; there is definite interest in getting a team back in Montreal.

Trib: Are there any poten­ tial ownership groups?

Smith: We have had several prospects. There have been peo­ ple from the US who have shown interest, but we want a Montreal team to have Québécois owner­ ship. I hope to have a team back in Montreal by 1995 or 1996.

Trib: Before you go, can you give us your thoughts on McGill’s own Val St-Germain, the offensive lineman drafted first overall by Hamilton in the draft5 Smith: I was very happy having a French-speaking kid [StGermain is actually an anglophone] drafted first. Having a person drafted number one out of a Que­ bec school was of great signifi­ cance. He’s a big, strong young man and Hamilton is very excited about him. He’s going to be an integral part of the Tiger-Cats.

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Despite not being selected in the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) University entry draft on March 5th, Redman offensive right tackle Dan Crifo has signed a two-year “standard agreement" contract with the Toronto Argonauts.

The stipulations o f the “standard agreement” are such that Crifo receives contractual payment only if he makes the Argonauts roster.

The type of agreement which Crifo signed is standard for players not taken in the first or second rounds of the draft.

Joe Marchildon, assistant coach of the McGill football team, who has worked extensively with Crifo during the last few years, offered his thoughts on the contract.

“Dan was disappointed that he wasn’t selected in Vancouver,” said Marchildon. “However, this proves that the Argonauts believe that he can be a CFL player, or else they wouldn’t have taken a chance on him. It really gives him something to work for."

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If the six-foot-five, 295-pound native o f Scarborough, Ontario does make the CFL, he will not be the first in his family to do so. His 27-year old brother Rob is entering his fifth year in the CFL as a wide receiver with the Ottawa Rough Riders.

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Representatives o f the 41-member team will be taking part in the upcoming Easter Weekend Invitational, hosted by the Massachu­ setts Institute o f Technology in Boston.

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S u p e r D a v e t a lk s tu r k e y w supposed to b e a fist fight and barbecue. But then they had to cancel it, because if w e got too close to the barbecue w e would melt. Evel and I are now mostly made up o f plastic and wax.

T rib un e: What is your recipe for success? Is it a veg­ etarian thing?

(T hanks to Brendon and the Pogues for this one).

Sup er Dave: I’ve got a special diet that consists of grains, oats, vegetables, sw eet potatoes, roast beef, chicken... chocolate shakes and desserts. The only thing I w o n ’t eat is pea soup.

Tribune: Why pea soup?

Sup er Dave: I’ve never tried it before.

Tribune: [Not getting the hint! Why haven’t you tried it7 Are you saving it for your next stunt7 Sup er Dave: [Getting irri­ tated! I’m being very straight­ forward here with you.

Tribune: There are per­ sistent rumours that you are plan­ ning a new megastunt for the upicoming Mama Cass Elliott ce­ lebrity telethon. Please elabo­ rate.

S u p er D ave: Well, I’ve

C O N T IN U E D FRO M P A G E 33 Dave was a dummy to attempt such a stunt.” There was abso­ lutely no mention o f the use o f a dummy. I challenge any o f my critics to try it themselves, and jump off the CN Tower to see how it is.

T ribune: D o you think any o f your critics will take you up on the offer?

S u p er Dave: Well, with the Skydome there, it is simply much too dangerous.

T ribune: Are there any skeletons in your closet that you d on ’t want anyone to know about? If so, list them.

S u p er D ave: The only skeleton in my closet is my own skeleton. I’ve broken every bone in my body and that’s where I keep them.

T ribune: You are quickly ap proaching Evel K nievel’s record for broken bones. So if you and Evel w ere in a fist fight what w ould happen?

S u p er D ave: W e w ere originally scheduled to do a pay pier view event. I love Evel and w e ’re very good friends. It was

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The first thing that makes spring skiing enjoyable is obvi­ ously the weather. The storm parkas and the layers upon lay­ ers o f underwear com e off, and you can ski in a w ool sweater

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They have not invited me to that event, and I probably would not have participated in it anyway.

I have too much respect for her.

T rib u n e Canadian hockey lore holds that part o f Wayne Gretzky’s scoring touch is due in part to advice from Gordie Howe.

What role did you play in the d e v e lo p m e n t o f ex-A tlanta Braves outfielder Ron Gant’s dirt biking technique?

Sup er Dave: Wayne is a very good friend of mine. I helped him with his concentration. Un­ fortunately I was involved in the Ron Gant incident. Ron called me the day before to ask me for som e tips. I told him three things: get to know your bike, you have to concentrate, and wear a good helmet. Unfortunately... the only thing I forgot to tell him was that the plastic visor goes on the front.

Tribune: That’s it. Thank you for your time, Super Dave.

Sup er Dave: Just do me a favour and rename that building the Super Dave Building. If you ever move the university to Mon­ treal maybe I’ll com e visit.

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and shell pants. This improves your mobility, and thus, your skiing.

Because o f the warm tem­ peratures, sn ow conditions also change. The powder disappears, but don't get upset; spring con ­ ditions can b e even more fun than powder. What exactly are ‘spring conditions’? Resorts d e­ fine them as loose, or unpacked snow, com sn ow Gumps o f icy snow the size o f kernels of com ), and granular. Skiers refer to these conditions as crud, crap cement, etc. But no matter what you call it, it is fun to ski in.

Com snow is easily formed into fat, soft moguls. These are the bumps that practically beg to be hit and destroyed. When you are skiing in corn-fed m o­ guls, every smash throws a blast in the air, and often into your eyes. There is nothing like watching som eone rip dow n a line o f moguls, with sn ow e x ­ ploding around them like they are skiing in a minefield. It is invigorating and exciting to do it yourself.

If moguls aren’t your thing, cruising through the mush might be fun for you. Skis will glide faster on the wet, slightly icy snow , and you can bang out quick turns all the way down your run, throwing up a rooster tail o f spray behind you.

For the expert skier look­ ing for pure speed, a steep icy run can usually b e found in the spring. As the angle o f the hill increases, and the water con ­ tent o f the snow increases, snow will naturally slide or be pushed down to the bottom o f the hill.

This leaves the icy, hardpack base to ski on. It is fast and unforgiving; if your edges aren’t sharp enough, you will just skid your way down. If your edges are too sharp, you run the risk of catching one, and having on e o f your skis pull away from you.

But in danger lies excitement, so g o for it.

Beginners can also enjoy spring skiing. The sn ow is soft and wet, and falling on it doesn’t hurt as much. About the worst thing that will happen is that you will g o in for the day soaked to the skin. But since it is warm, it shouldn’t be that big o f a problem.

The McGill Tribune. March 29-<September 6.1994

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