The McGill Tribune Vol. 14 Issue 16

Published by the Students’ Society of McGill University

Students to strike against Axworthy proposals

By Ioyce Lau_____________________

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McGill equity report highlights salary discrep­ ancies in the Faculty of Medicine.

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Why there are kids smok­ ing cigarettes in the Engineering building.

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Editorial There’s no place for racism in the Canadian military.

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ENTERTAINMENT On stage and screen: agrophobic freaks, les­ bian teen murderers, ternpress poets and wolfboys. Strange stuff, boys and girls.

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SPORTS Victories all around for McGill sports teams.

Basketball, track,hockey and volleyball all meet with weekend success.

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Colum nists G. Gibson................... Page7 M. Luz.........................Page7 P. Shah.................Page 10

Departments Crossword.................. Page8 Observer......................Page8 What’s O n............Page 19 Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Student’s Society 398 -2700 Centre Contre l’Agression de l’Association des Etudiants de L’Université McGill

A series of nationwide strikes and demonstrations will be held tomorrow to protest federal Human Resources Development Minister Lloyd A xw orthy’s proposals to reform post-secondary education funding. M cGill students will begin their strike at 3 p.m. at the Roddick Gates, eventually joining a city-wide march on what McGill groups are calling the National Day of Action.

McGill Students for Social Justice and McGill’s Post-Graduate S tudents’ Society are actively involved in trying to m obilise McGill students. McGill Students for Social Justice is responsible for the many posters, stickers and inclass talks publicising the strike around campus. PGSS has informed students about the issue all year in their electronic mail newsletter. Both SSMU and the Arts Undergraduate Society are providing financial assistance.

Other Montreal universities and nine local CEGEPs will be participating in the strike. Similar protests will take place in 23 cities across Canada, with the Canadian Federation of Students acting as the main organising body. In Ottawa, protesters will begin their march by rallying on Parliament Hill, while other cities will hold city-w ide “Treasure hunts” for “Helping Lloyd find the loot with­ out cutting social programs”.

Keith Paterson of M cGill’s Students for Social Justice is encouraged by the wide-spread support from student and non-stu­ dent groups across Canada.

“The government is not going to do anything unless there is great opposition... it will take a great relationship of forces to make [these changes] happen,” he said.

He estim ates that approxi­ mately twenty student groups and 10,000 students will be participat­ ing across the city.

Axworthy’s proposals would replace all federal transfer pay­ ments for post-secondary educa­ tion — currently $2.6 billion — with an Income Contingent Loan Replacement Plan. Some estimate that the plan could cause tuition rates to increase 200-400 percent, and leave students with loan bur­ dens into the tens of thousands of dollars.

The protests are endorsed by such diverse groups as the C anadian Labour C ongress, M ontreal’s Com ité des Sansemploi, the Disabled W omen’s Network, the N ational Action Com m ittee on the Status of W omen, the N ational AntiPoverty Organisation, as well as various faculty associations, pub­ lic school boards, workers’ unions and churches.

A ccording to PGSS VP External Marie-Claude Poliquin, the Axworthy proposals will not See Strike Page 2

Yet again, Lloyd Axworthy

The man w ho’s holding it together on the inside • A profile o f basketball’s Chad Wozney, QSSF p la ye r o f the week and future All-Canadian hopeful

By A llana H enderson They call him “Wooz”.

It sounds more like the name of a teddy bear than a 6 ’5”, 235 lb. basketball player on the McGill Redmen roster, but the paradox cre­ ated is interesting because the name and the player are not what they seem.

“Wooz” is Chad Wozney. He’s a second-year Physical Education m ajor, currently tearing up the inside game for the Redmen cagers,

and he is quite the intimidating fig­ ure. His shaven head and broadly muscular frame create an image which, rarely going unnoticed, has the potential to evoke more than just a little fear in an opponent encoun­ tering him in a dark alley — or, more importantly, on the basketball court.

It isn’t just his appearance that makes him memorable and intimi­ dating though. It is his style of play.

Wozney, the player, is incredi­ bly intense and focused. When the

gym’s open, this guy comes to play — and he plays tough. Every prac­ tice, every game.

But, the other side of the para­ dox is equally interesting because Wooz, the person behind the player and the tough exterior, is really a nice guy. His modesty is genuine, level-headedness impressive and his approachability and sense of humour surprising to the average onlooker.

He has no grand schemes for playing basketball beyond universi­

ty, but to watch him play one would think that he’s either playing with a vengeance or that h e’s working towards some higher goal. He sim­ ply takes the game to the “next level” by instinct, and that is some­ thing that even players working towards the upper echelons of sport have trouble doing consistently, day after day.

Wozney’s got the appearance of a man on a mission, but he’s just out there to have fun. This is a stuSee Wozney Page 17

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January 24th, 1995

Reclassification of teams looms large

By C hristopher Rigney Following the recommenda­ tion of the Athletics Board, the Classification Review Committee has undertaken the often unpopu­ lar process of auditing and poten­ tially reclassifying the universi­ ty ’s v arsity team s and sports clubs. A change in status for any given team or sports club results in either a gain or loss in depart­ ment funding and facilities pref­ erence.

The com m ittee, chaired by SSM U P resid en t Sevag Yeghoyan, established the twomonth long process in a report to the Athletics Board, following the committee’s January 12 meeting.

After submitting the “gameplan” to the Athletics Board, the com­ m ittee d istrib u te d a “Questionnaire for Classification

Review Procedure” to all of the u n iv e rsity ’s team s and sports clubs.

The questionnaire, which fol­ lows the criteria set forth when the c lassific atio n system was revamped in October 1990, poses a series o f 24 questions to be answered by each team and sports club. The questions, the answers of which form the basis of the com m ittee’s recom m endations, cover a range of topics. Among the c rite ria are perform ance record, quality and quantity of com petition, supply o f quality athletes, necessary commitment from the athletes, availability of quality coaching, revenue produc­ tion, available facilities and bonus criterion for special performance.

The criteria are applied to each team and sports club, at which time the com m ittee will

grade team s on each standard.

The grades, either zero, one-half or one full point for each section, are tallied, and the resulting point total will determine the status of the team being audited.

As of the most recent classi­ fication, in 1992-93, the universi­ ty has a three-tier classification system . The top status, which includes such teams as football as well as men’s and women’s bas­ ketball, receives the most funding from the university, in addition to top facilities priority. The middletier teams receive limited funding and secondary facilities priority, and include teams such as both men’s and women’s soccer. The bottom tier, or level three sports clubs, receive no funding from the university, and rate last in terms of facilities priority. The clubs include rowing, alpine ski­

ing, rugby, syn­ chronised swim­ ming, track and squash.

Yeghoyan, who also sits on the A th letics Board, explained the im plications of the classifica­ tion decisions.

“The rules are set and i t ’s going to be a long p ro c e s s ,” said Y eghoyan.

“There are a lot o f s tu d e n t-a th ­ letes who are waiting nervous­ ly about this.”

McGill’s athletes fa ce reclassification Dennis B ar­ rett, head coach of the track team, lost in the previous classification is one of the many individuals review. who will be watching the pro­ “W e’re not holding our ceedings very closely. Barrett’s breath, but we’re optimistic and I team suffered a status demotion think that we have a very good in a past classification review, chance with some of the changes and he nervously looks forward that have been made in our pro­ to the prospect o f regaining a gram,” said Barrett. higher status, which would entail The committee will offer its some degree of financial backing initial report on February 27, with from the u n iv ersity. W ith the an appeal period to follow, before recent com pletion of the field it presents its final recommenda­ house, Barrett’s track team might tions to the Athletics Board on secure valuable points which it March 15.

FEUQ Not dictating

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La F édération E tudiante Universitaire du Québec decided in a meeting December 6 that it will not dictate that its members adopt a pro-sovereigntist position for the upcoming Quebec referen­ dum. Instead, each students’ soci­ ety of member universities will remain autonomous in deciding whether to take a pro-sovereigntist or pro-federalist stance.

SSMU VP E xternal Nick Benedict stated that as an organi­ sation, FEUQ is not taking a side in Quebec’s plans to separate from Canada.

“FEUQ is not going to spend any time or resources on either side of the sovereignty debate.

There are sovereigntist and feder­ alist members of FEUQ,” he said.

“When a divisive issue like sover­ eignty comes up, it doesn’t go under the FEUQ umbrella. It was confirmed at the last meeting that every stu d en ts’ asso ciatio n is autonomous and can decide for itself [which position to take].”

Strike!

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H ow ever, U n iv ersité de Montréal is in the process of creat­ ing another asso ciatio n , Le M ouvem ent E tu d ian t pour la S o uveraineté, the m andate of which would be to support the Quebec National Assembly’s bid for sovereignty.

Dominic Proulx, President of the F éd ératio n E tudiante d ’U n iversité de S herbrooke, explained that a referendum was held last semester to determine whether students wanted FEUS to represent the majority position of students regarding the sovereignty debate. Students voted affirm a­ tively. A nother referendum is planned for late February to decide if FEUS will take a sover­ eig n tist or fed eralist position.

Université de Sherbrooke can join the new association and remain a member of FEUQ. “Only those [student associa­ tions] th at w ant to w ill jo in [MES]. All the associations part of the students’ movement for sover­ eignty can remain part of FEUQ,” said Proulx.

be detrimental only to the stereo­ typical young, full-time undergrad­ uate student.

“A lot of PGSS students are people who are married, have chil­ dren, or a job. For those with a lower income, it is a psychological barrier to go into debt,” she said. f‘A student loan under the Axworthy proposal could last fif­ teen, twenty, twenty-five years.

Imagine how much it would hurt Canada and the global economy if

university graduates could not afford a house, a car, or an educa­ tion for their children.”

Poliquin added that the march should be held “to educate the gen­ eral population that this proposal is very important, and something that they should think about very seri­ ously.”

The M ontreal strike and dem onstration take place on Wednesday, January 25. Interested persons can meet at 2:30 p.m. at Complexe Guy-Favreau or at 3 p.m. at Roddick Gates.

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January 24th, 1995

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Report questions equity of medical salaries B y Steve Sm

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The annual report of the Joint Senate/Board Committee on Equity has revealed significant startingsalary disparities between men and women with Ph.Ds in M cG ill’s Faculty of Medicine. The report was presented to McGill’s Senate last Wednesday.

Salary differences between male and female holders of Ph.Ds at all ranks in the faculty showed a negative co-efficient of 3,700 dol­

lars for the women. Of this number, the committee found that differ­ ences in starting salaries accounted for 3,270 dollars.

The trend became noticeable in 1977. According to the report, “Over the period 1977 to 1992 (14 hiring periods when both men and women were hired), the above base starting salary for the men was higher than that for the women in ten cases of the 14. The differences could be as much as 20%.”

In this same period, no women

were hired at the full professor level. Yet for those women who managed to eventually work their way up to the rank of full professor, salary disparities only grew. While a female assistant professor earned 1,600 dollars less than her male equivalent, the mean difference at the full professor level was 6,000 dollars.

In light of this fact, the report suggested the “possibility that dif­ ferences in starting salaries become perpetuated and magnified with the

Senate adopts short term solution to long-time problem remember that these cuts are for one budget only.

“This does not apply to the long-term,” he said. “All or none of this is going to appear in next y e a r’s budget. And it m ust be B y M i c h a e l B r o a d h u r s t __________ taken as such.”

In addition to debt repayment, Following a lengthy consulta­ the recom m endations include tion process at all levels of the maintaining the current formula university, last week Senate adopt­ ed a provisional 1995-96 budget that ties elements of the budget proposal. That proposal will be allocation to enrolment levels; an co n sid ered by the B oard of increase of the university’s discre­ Governors for final approval at its tionary fund to $2.8 million, with m eeting this m onth. V ice- a suggestion that the money be P rin cip al (Planning and used first for library acquisitions Resources) François Tavenas pre­ and computing infrastructure; a sented the recom m endations to slight increase in m erit pay allowances; and a renewed effort Senate.

The proposal calls for sub­ to restrict new hirings.

Acting Dean of Arts Harold stantial cuts to McGill’s operating budget, due to a provincial govern­ Waller said that the review process ment decision to shave McGill’s required the university to make operating grant by approximately tough choices.

“We found it daunting. The $8 million. prospect of the cuts of the magni­ The proposed budget strategy, w hich calls for a $2.4 m illion tude proposed was difficult,” he reduction in McGill’s accumulated said. “Basically we’re told we’re debt — now roughly $70 million going to be facing some serious — was developed by the Planning cuts over the next few years.”.

“The idea that has been pro­ and Priorities subcom m ittee of moted by spokespeople for the S enate’s Academ ic Policy and P lanning C om m ittee. D espite administration is that we have to Senate’s approval, many universi­ contem plate cuts of 15 percent ty administrators say McGill needs over five years,” he added.

Many deans and department a long-term plan designed to pay chairs, while recognising the need off the debt at a faster rate. to cut expenditures, are unsure of Eric Hoffstein, a student rep­ resen tativ e to both APPC and how to m aintain the quality of P&P, cautioned that members of education that McGill offers.

“That’s the question: how do the M cG ill com m unity should we reconcile our budget situation with quality educa­ tion?” Waller asked.

“I think that the plan that has been devel­ oped is a reasonable compromise under the circumstances.”

Acting Dean of S cience Nik de Takacsy argued that McGill should not be cutting its budget now, when it is already cut by other sources.

“Just when you’re being really squeezed by every­ thing else is not a good tim e to be 3 worrying about the .2 future,” he said.

-Ü W aller added ~'1 that the university did have a lo n g ­ François Tavenas

But many administrators think university not going fa r enough fast enough to pay off debt •

term plan for debt repayment, ini­ tiated in the early 1990s, but that changes in governm ent policy have hindered its effectiveness.

“That plan has been blown to smithereens by government poli­ cy,” he stated. “W e’re not free agents here, we don’t have our destiny in our own hands. W e’re subject to factors we can’t con­ trol.”

John Dealy, dean of McGill’s faculty of engineering, argued that McGill must implement a long­ term plan now, without offering excuses about government policy.

“This is defeatism ,” Dealy said. “It’s throwing your arms in the air and saying ‘We can’t pre­ dict the future’. That’s ruinous.”

“Every corporation and fami­ ly operates in uncertainty,” he said. “No one can predict the future — if everyone worked [the way M cGill does] it w ould be chaos.”

“We’ve not paid off anything from b elt-tig h ten in g ,” Dealy added. “No one’s talking about 20 years from now. What about future generations? We should leave something for them.”

De Takacsy disagree with Dealy’s suggestion.

“We have to calculate how much we pay at any time based on that time,” he said. “I don’t care whether we are paying back any­ thing while we are cut from other sources.”

Alan Shaver, chair o f the department of chemistry, said that M cG ill is trying to avoid the inevitable downsizing.

“There seemed to be only one logical conclusion — we have to get smaller. It’s an issue no one wants to talk about, but no one disagrees with me,” Shaver said.

SSMU VP Finance Paul Johnson, who sits on P&P, agreed with Dealy.

“We got into this debt because our planners didn’t take the long view, and if we’re going to get out of this debt we’re going to have to start living and planning for a McGill in 20 years, or we will pass on nothing better than we were given,” Johnson said.

“It would be irresponsible for us to not start cutting the budget,” SSMU VP University Affairs Jen Small, who sits on APPC, said.

“It’s embarrassing to have a debt this size.”

Tavenas could not be reached for comment.

length of service”. In other words, the employer’s initial predictions regarding a prospective employee’s performance are often perpetuated throughout the term of employment — and are reflected in salary adjustments. The report hints that women at the time of hire are more likely to be undervalued than men with comparable qualifications.

“At present,” says the report, “even if the female outperforms her male colleague, there will be no adjustment to the initial salary dis­ parity which will be magnified with time.”

In order to reconcile these cur­ rent discrepancies and ensure gen­ der-blind rem uneration in the future, the committee suggested that salaries for both men and women be analysed at least every two or three years to “assure that performance is compensated and that the perceived lack of bargain­ ing power at the time of hire is not perpetuated and allowed to contin­ ue to influence salary indefinitely.”

At the conclusion of the report's presentation, members of the Senate passed a motion which called upon the chairs, deans and vice-principles to look at the differ­ ences between male and female appoinments at hiring, the first reappointment and tenure to"ensure that the McGill tradition of paying women less than men is changed."

Rose Johnstone, the Equity Committee member who presented the report to Senate, commented

that the question of whether the Faculty of Medicine is representa­ tive of the rest of McGill remains to be answered.

“We haven’t looked at it yet,” she said. “There is a disparity among Ph.Ds in the Faculty of Medicine but I don’t know of the extent of it throughout McGill.”

McGill has been committed to the implementation of employment equity since 1987, when the federal governm ent im plem ented its Federal Contractors Program. The program required that McGill, as an organisation which employs over 100 people and bids on federal con­ tracts over 200,000 dollars, adopt an employment equity program.

The committee is approaching the issue of pay equity one faculty at a time. Though the analysis of the Faculty of Medicine has been revealing, Johnstone rem ained unclear as to the reasons why inequalities persist.

“I don’t know why or what factors come into play, why one individual may end up with a high­ er salary than another,” Johnstone said. “The variable that was signifi­ cant was gender”.

While encouraged by McGill's efforts to balance these current inequalities, Sara Mayo, External Co-ordinator of SSMU's Women's Union, doubted the chances for change.

"I can see people dismissing it by saying that it's not an issue of sex but one of qualifications.

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equally as important as the con­ tent,” said Tiessen.

The nine instalm ents of Caravan combined an interactive format with a hip, futuristic/industrial edge. S urrounded by TV monitors and pounding music, one could work with an electrical hand, find out what it feels like to order a hot dog w ith a visual im pairm ent, or test out o n e ’s speed on a pro racing wheelchair.

While there was a tremendous

amount of assistance at the corpo­ rate level, Tiessen explained that Caravan was not met with open arms at each stop on its tour.

“It wasn’t the case at every school that we had co-operation,” he said.

Much of the controversy sur­ rounded the look that Caravan was trying to create. Many peo­ ple, at M cG ill and elsew here, thought the show was ju st too loud and noisy. D irecto r of

McGill’s Office for Students with Disabilities, Joan Wolforth, point­ ed out that university students might be more attentive than gen­ erally thought.

“They [Caravan] had the mis­ taken idea that university students need to receive their information in loud, quick sound bites.”

SSMU and the O ffice for Students with D isabilities were involved in running the show at McGill.

Facing the music

By Ron Levy___________ McGill students disciplined for violations of the Code of Student Conduct were the subject of a report presented to the Senate last week by Dean of Students Irwin Gopnik. The report covered offences brought before the Committee for Student Discipline over the past few years and provided a statistical breakdown of the cases.

Contained within the report was a listing of 148 cases dealt with by the com m ittee. A range of offences was covered, including non-academ ic offences such as harassment, fraudulent use of uni­ versity facilities and “dangerous activity”.

A total of 84 cases of plagiarism were included among the list of academic offences. These and other academic improprieties fuelled SSMU VP University Affairs Jennifer Small’s belief in the importance of the committee’s report.

“There are a lot of students who plagiarise, who cheat on exams,” said Small. “By making these sta­ tistics public perhaps we can launch some way of reducing these numbers in the future.”

Those looking for trends in the figures have little more to point to than a modest decline in the number

of disciplinary cases, on the order of ten per year.

Small sees the report as a means of keeping track of aspects of the university in need of improve­ ment.

“It maintains a certain amount of accountabili­ ty,” Small said. “No one knew in the past just how many cases do come, just where are the problematic areas. These things don’t need to be in secret.”

Cases are normally handled by disciplinary offi­ cers or, less com m only, are brought before the Committee for Student Discipline. The make-up of this committee has generated some controversy from those who would like to see students in non-academ­ ic cases judged by fellow students. While juries con­ sisting exclusively of students’ peers are a fixture in several universities, students sitting on the McGill committee are outnumbered by other members.

Small was critical of the report’s lack of detail.

“All they give you is statistics,” Small said, arguing that the fairness of decisions cannot, but should, be monitored in order to assess whether the penalties given are appropriate to the violation.

“They give you no way to know how the vote was split. It’s difficult to say if [the decision] appears fair or not because we’re given absolutely no details.”

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Report highlights accessibility improvement •

The annual report of the Joint Senate/Board Committee Concerning Persons With Disabilities was presented to Senate last week. In it were announced changes that will help improve McGill’s accessibility to the disabled. The report concerned areas of social and academic life at McGill, includ­ ing the library and access routes.

The committee reported the establishment of a committee for the enhancement of physical and intellectual accessibility to the library, a reduction in parking fees to the cost of a bus pass for students with disabilities, and the addition of twenty new designated parking spots. McGill funded an expan­ sion of the mini-van service to 50 hours a week for 50 weeks per year. Additionally, a barrier-free route on campus was set, and given top priority for snow removal.

The comm ittee’s goals for the coming year include the installation of telephone devices for the hearing impaired, a special equipment room for the

library and a review of the 1986 Policy Statement.

There are 146 students with disabilities regis­ tered with the Office of Students with Disabilities.

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McGill will not take a side

Principal Bernard Shapiro announced January 15 that McGill University will not take a position on the question of a sovereign Quebec. His statement was made at the opening of the Institute for the Study of Canada’s conference on the question of sovereignty.

“It is not, in my view, appropriate for the uni­ versity to take a formal position in this debate, and we do not intend to do so,” Shapiro stated.

“Individual faculty and members of our staff have had, do have and will have strong views, and as citizens they will, it is to be hoped, contribute to the public debate,” he continued. “The role of the University, however, is to provide the opportunity [...] for all interested citizens to become more fully and more imaginatively informed.”

A small army o f enraged Scotsmen has landed on the south shore. Brossard has fallen and St. Hubert is in flames. The o f skirl o f the pipes was heard on the Champlain Bridge, behind the fleeing Sécurité du Québec emergency response team.

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January 24th, 1995

AXWORTHY FOCUS McGill students test influence on education reforms

By T

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B erchtold________________________

In response to federal Human Resources Development Minister Lloyd Axworthy’s controversial funding reform proposals, an informal committee of McGill students has drafted an alternative for change. The rec­ ommendation was presented to the parlia­ mentary committee on Human Resources on December 7 and has since moved on for con­ sideration by the Department of Finance.

In the fall edition of the SSMU Journal, members called for input and suggestions from concerned McGill students who oppose the Axworthy plan. The new proposal was formulated by a committee of the respon­ dents, explained VP External Affairs Nick Benedict.

“A lot of people called and came to talk, and we sat together for a couple of weeks and hammered out [the proposal]. We had input from students of almost every faculty, and everything was based on consensus,” he said. “Most people seemed very happy with what we came up with and I think it has

Feb 7

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made us a leader in the student movement.”

What the committee came up with is almost completely opposite to Axworthy’s plan. The new proposal suggests that the pre­ sent tuition fees be kept in place and that graduates be taxed a percentage of their income. This 'would require people to pay a standard amount to get to university, and later pay a surtax on a portion of their wage income until they reach retirem ent. The Axworthy plan, on the other hand, would require increased payments up front, facili­ tated through a system of loans.

Benedict felt that the new proposal is more beneficial, and believed it was well received by the parliamentary committee.

“It’s better because it solves the prob­ lem of university underfunding without restricting access,” said Benedict. “I think everyone perked up a little because we were proposing something that was not traditional.

A lot of original thought was put into it.”

The beneficial nature of this proposal was acknowledged by certain members of the parliam entary com m ittee. MP for

Fredricton-York-Sunbury Andy Scott was impressed with the proposal and welcomed its creativity. “ [The proposal] really was received quite well. We are looking for alternatives, and anything that is creative could be con­ sidered,” said Scott. “The report that was presented was talked about.”

Scott further stated that the reason par­ liament needed alternatives was due to the lack of public support for continued govern­ ment borrowing.

“I don’t think that this debate will end with this program,” he said. “Borrowing is not in the cards and we have to figure out new ways of increasing revenue. We are competing with too many other social pro­ grams that are also important.”

Scott also commended McGill students on the manner in which they made their pre­ sentation.

“The various organisations that sat down and gave proposals really advanced their options. We need public support, and there is no room for aggressiveness,” he

said.

Benedict stated that since the presenta­ tion there has been widespread acknowl­ edgement of the proposal, adding that other student organisations have also endorsed it “[The proposal] hit newspapers from Vancouver to St. John’s. It was not only stu­ dent papers, it was other outside sources,” said Benedict.

“The New B runsw ick S tu d en t’s Association saw what we did and based a lot of their presentation on u s,” suggested Benedict. “There were also similar presenta­ tions in B.C., for example.”

At last week’s SSMU council meeting, Benedict announced that the proposal has reached Axworthy’s office. He maintained that although he did not want to raise hopes, this was a substantial achievement for the committee.

“The Department of Finance was asked to look at it and the fact that it went all the way there shows possibility. If there’s a chance to change the government’s mind, we certainly did all that we could.”

Striking out at Axworthy

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La Fédération Etudiante University tuition may be rising as a part of the federal government’s proposed social reforms. The Axworthy report is a hot topic that perhaps is Universitaire du Québec is planning not fully understood by those who may be most affected by it. Members of the McGill community seem divided on whether any student initiative is demonstrations for February 7 to warranted or whether it will be fully effective. protest Human Resources Development M inister Lloyd The Tribune pounded the pavement in order to elicit student responses to the question: Axworthy’s plan to cut social pro­ grams. Since Parliament reconvenes What are your opinions regarding the proposed Axworthy reforms and the planned student strike on January 25th? on February 6, FEUQ hopes to gain the government’s attention and to Darcy Demille stimulate debate in the House of Pre-Occupational Therapy, First Year t’s a moral outrage. We should go out in the Commons. streets with guns, man. That’s what I believe Although not actively partici­ I think the strike is a good idea, but I don’t know firmly.” pating in the Canadian Federation a whole lot about it. As a student myself I don’t have of Students’ January 25 strike day, Tribune: Do you think it will make a difference? a lot of money, and I don’t have a lot more money to FEUQ is supportive of the spend for my education. Come on, the prices right “No.” Canadian Federation of Students — Adam Taylor now are outrageous. I mean why should it only be initiatives. Dominic Proulx, presi­ U2 Political Science the wealthy people that come to school? dent of the Fédération Etudiante d ’U niversité de Sherbrooke, Lily Puri explained that FEUQ is not trying Shannon Valdai U2 Industrial to divide the student movement that U1 Biology Relations opposes the Axworthy proposals.

“Every university in Quebec I think it’s really important for the students to show their solidarity. I was pret­ will hold [some event] on the twen­ I ’m not ty dismayed to hear the way we’ve been going about making this decision to partic­ ty-fifth in order to show solidarity partaking in ipate in the stuff that is going on. I wasn’t impressed with the SSMU. I think that with CFS. We’re going to organise the strike be­ the students should be striking, but there isn’t enought awareness right now to make some meetings for [students to get] cause I am for it effective. information,” he said. “We’re not the reforms. I [participating] in the strike, but feel that education is not a public we’re not going against the move­ good. Those who want to go to ment.”

David Rhodes university should do so on their It is unlikely that FEUQ will call another strike for Law, First Year own m eans. I do believe that February 7. The VP External Affairs for the school should be accessible, how­ Macdonald College Students’ Society, Véronique Well, as to the student strike I think it may be a little premature. ever, this should be done through Barthet, is not convinced that a second strike would be As for the reforms themselves, I think the government does need to scholarship programs and bursaries effective. find sources of revenue for its financing problems. However, I think available to students that have the “We need to do something when [parliament] going to the excess that it does, shifting all the burden onto students marks to get them into university opens if we want to get good coverage and involve the through student loans will cause serious problems if it is implemented, on such programs. I don’t feel that deputy,” Barthet said. “I’m not sure if we’ll [call] a as it’s intended to be. However, the principle of shifting some of the higher education is a right that strike. I don’t think it would work [because] it is diffi­ burden onto students as such, is not unreasonable as long as it is done with moderation and every Canadian citizen has, it is a cult... to mobilise students on two different days.” care. The real question is one of quantity, and how far the program should go, rather than privilege.

FEUQ is instead planning a rally that will occur the actual principles involved. sim ultaneously in M ontreal and Quebec City.

According to Nick Benedict, SSMU VP External, the FEUQ demonstration will send a strong message to the I’m hoping that everyone will come this to students. I’m on student aid and I ering our economic situation in Canada federal government. out and strike on Wednesday, because if already have to pay back all of the right now.

“FEUQ is rallying Quebec opinion specifically If this proposal goes through we we don’t have a good turnout then our money that I have borrowed, which against the Axworthy proposals on education. FEUQ is could end up being close to $30,000 by could all be in trouble, and our educa­ potential plan of attacking his plans, so effective... that we’re rapidly approaching a consen­ Axworthy’s ideas, will not go through the tim e I finish getting my BA. In tion could go down the drain. sus that does not exist in the other provinces,” he said. order to do that I ’m going to have to properly.

“So, the reason for having a special Quebec demonstra­ — Martha Boddington From my perspective I find it really find a job coming out of school right tion on the seventh is to show the federal government, U3 Cultural Studies away and that could be difficult consid­ upsetting that Axworthy is trying to do in a time when they are already worried about Quebec, that the Axworthy plan won’t help [the situation].”

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Rethink what ‘Canadian’ means was a strange blemish on an other­ wise stellar international military record — except that apparently our knowledge of military records is severely lacking in detail.

Last week, a tape broadcast by CBC Newsworld showed off-duty Canadian soldiers from the Airborne Regiment in Somalia still making violent and racist comments. Also on TV last night, thanks to the ever-popular camcorder, was the 1992 hazing activities of the same regiment in Petawawa. In between shots of the soldiers eating each other’s faeces and vomit, the hazing involved smearing the words “I love the KKK” on the back of a black man, harnessing him, and walking him like a dog.

According to Scott Taylor, a former soldier and publisher of the military magazine Esprit De Corps this kind of hazing (it involved 60 people) could not have gone on with­ out the knowledge of the senior offi­ cers at Petawawa. It occurred in broad daylight, on a base that has military police and duty officers.

Score two for intolerance this week.

The only remotely positive con­ clusion I can draw about reading Bourgault’s remarks and watching our Airborne Regiment in action is that I am now aware of their atti­ tudes. It gives me the chance to express how abhorrent I find those attitudes to be. The next time I spot the Canadian flag on a knapsack overseas, it won’t mean quite the same thing.

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A moment of shame

By Sylvie Babarik______________ Since the end of the Second World War, Canada’s international influence has far outweighed its credentials. Whereas other nations seek­ ing a global voice rely on population size, military might, and economic pull to back their claims, Canada has secured a privileged position for itself without a preponderance in any of these categories. A fundamental element in its presence at the heavyweight table has to do with the per­ ception that it is a peacekeeping, peace-making, and mediating nation.

One murder and a couple of video tapes later, this entire assumption must be reassessed. The images recorded during the military hazing ritu­ als, the racial slurs casually voiced by soldiers on a Somalia tour of duty, and the barbaric killing of an unarmed Somali adolescent, make one want to tear up one’s citizenship certificate in utter shame.

Despite the fact that this was the behaviour of a single group, the ‘elite’ Airborne Regiment, our international peers could interpret these attitudes as representative of those held by Canadian forces in general.

More frightening still is that such ideas continue to exist in Canadian society.

Just when you think that your collective image can sink no lower, the apologists add insult. “[SJoldiers are not like the rest of us,” writes Gazette national editor Brian Kappler. (Any soldiers out there?...So what type of creatures are you, if Mr. Kappler is correct?)

A second apologist is the soldier who went on national television to point out that the training and initiation that Commando units had to go through simply corresponded to the nature of the armed conflict.

“We were not being trained to be boyscouts,” was the gist of the soldier’s comments. He then added that the military’s role was not equivalent to that of diplomats.

Canada’s function in external conflicts has been described as either peacekeeping or ‘peace-making’. Inherent in these two terms is the notion of diplomacy. A difference that does exist between diplomatsproper and the military is that the latter is more heavily armed. By virtue of this alone, members of the military should be especially diplomatic. A single shot may be enough to render invalid the words and treaties of officials. Again this points to the need for diplomatic and wise military units.

Back to Mr. Kappler and his condemnation of media ‘hysteria’.

“When the guns begin to shoot, it’s loyalty to comrades in the tacti­ cal unit (“the guy in the next foxhole”) that drives a fighting man for­ ward: being one among equals, mutually dependent.”

How, prey tell, does loyalty for the person “in the next foxhole” arise from being defecated on by one’s comrades? As for the single black soldier who was put on a leash with “I love the KKK” smeared on his back, it is hardly conceivable from where his sense of loyalty or belonging would stem.

To dismiss the connection between the opinions and the behaviours recorded in the two videos to that of the killing of the Somali youth, is pushing the idea o f’coincidence’ too far.

Despite accepting a need to have “hard, aggressive and resourceful” members of the military, the question of how the Airborne Regiment has chosen to realise these traits remains. Perhaps more negative feelings are fostered by this process. If so, then there is a significant problem reflect­ ed in those videos, and one that the military should address.

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Tolerance, like everything else, is relative. While travelling in Europe this summer I was amazed at the amount of Canadian flags sewn onto backpacks. The idea is that we, culturally-sensitive and intelligent Canadian travellers, do not want to be mistaken for our ignorant, ethno­ centric American counterparts. I know, I know, it’s an over-simplified and stereotypical assumption, but I used to think there was an element of truth in it.

Charles Krauthammer, in a commencement address at McGill two years ago, pointed out that one of the best things about this country is its relative tolerance. He noted that Canadian soldiers in Bosnia were “sheltering the innocent. Soldiers from a country that might have been Yugoslavia — serving as protectors in a country that is Yugoslavia. We have figured out how to live together without raging civil strife.” Not with­ out friction, mind you, but our dis­ putes have so far remained civilised.

Last week though, a comment in the referendum debate challenged this view. Pierre Bourgault, Premier Jacques Parizeau’s communications

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Usher needs another look at jelly doughnuts

In a column on January 17, Alex Usher claims that “Ich bin ein Berliner actually means I am a jelly doughnut.” While this story is very amusing, and is a popular ice-break­ er at parties, it is not entirely correct.

I have been led to believe that the translation of the phrase in question depends on the dialect of German used. In the formal German that many North Americans learn in German class, Ich bin ein berliner does translate as I am a jelly dough­ nut. However, in the dialect of aver­ age Germans on the streets of Berlin in 1961, Ich bin ein Berliner trans­ lates unambiguously as I am a citi­ zen of Berlin. Furthermore, I have been led to believe that a berliner is not exactly a jelly doughnut, such as one would find at Tim Horton’s, but is more like a flaky pastry with jam in it.

While we’re at it, someone should tell Paul Darvasi that 1.5 micrograms is 0.0000015 grams.

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advisor, said that “if a vast majority of franco-Quebecers vote Yes and are prevented from [separating] because the English [Quebecers] vote against, then it is a dangerous situa­ tion.” I was surprised by the com­ ment, not because I thought that most separatists held the opinions of anglo-Quebecers in high regard, but because I am not used to hearing thinly-veiled threats from a Canadian politician. Not surprisingly, the Canadian public was outraged and Bourgault resigned. The most discon­ certing part of the whole affair was the lack of surprise in the Parti Québécois. Parizeau distanced him­ self from the remark, but no one called it ridiculous or shocking.

Bourgault’s talk of discarding the democratic process was simply con­ sidered politically unwise.

Maybe I over-estimate Canadian tolerance and our reluctance to revert to violence. It’s just that even our military claims to be the peace keep­ ers of the world. After all, good old Lester B. came up with the whole concept, right? We feel justified in proposing that a global peacekeeping training centre be located on Canadian soil and if there is a study to be done on the advantages of a standing UN force, it will be Canadians who research it. The beat­ ing death of an unarmed Somali teen involving six Canadian peacekeepers

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Remembering memory: an appreciation of layers

So, I’m sitting here, hidden somewhere within the stacks of McLennan, trying to piece together a column. I’ve been putting this one off, not because I was without ideas, but because those ideas need­ ed time to filter — time to drift back into my head and be recalled.

All around me, the weight of this place is real and breathing. This is a massive, solid building, stocky and very rooted to the ground. But more than that, the words it contains are like so many whispers around me, filling the space, cushioning my own words. I’ve never sat in this seat before, but I’ve come here to meet a friend — a friend who, by a series of events that I can barely recall now, is no longer part of my

life. There is writing on the desk.

Incomprehensible names. Vague pictures. Half of a phone number that could be mine.

Memory is perhaps our saving grace. More and more I come to appreciate memory as the sole operator that can make our lives individual yet manageable.

Recalling my seven columns produced so far, there is a much stronger sense of progression than I anticipated. I have pursued a certain deconstruction of aesthetics, through the questions I have asked, and the answers I have chosen (answers I fully admit are personal, not absolute). I have pulled at virtu­ ally all the loose threads I could see (though other observers would

surely pull a different set of threads). Many of these broke with ease, bringing the ‘mass’ of accept­ ed premises down. This culminated in the decision that art is only about itself. That leaves me just one small step above the conclusion that art is about nothing at all.

Mind you, some fine art has been about itself only, which was the big drive behind many of the American action paintings in the fifties. Some striking work was pro­ duced that really draws the viewer into a world that makes no illusions of being anything other than paint.

In a way, we are witness to the memory or history of the painting, and as such are probably more involved with the object on the wall than if it were, for example, even a fairly well done landscape. The viewing of a landscape painting that is about the place and not about painting will probably leave us hanging, one step short of immer­ sion into the object.

Change needed in federalist strategy In Flagrante Politico M ark Luz

As the PQ referendum machine begins to gather steam, federalist forces in Québec and in Ottawa are maintaining their vow of silence. Of course, Québec Liberal leader Daniel Johnson and Prime Minister Jean Cretien have been the most vocal as to why they think sepa­ ratism would be a disaster for Québec and Canada, but no one has come forward with a tangible and clear counter-argument that will not only show the benefits of federal­ ism, but give a sign that we are once again ready to renew the constitu­ tion. Quebecers need a cogent alter­ native to sovereignty, and the feder­ alist forces would be wise to pro­ duce one in the near future.

The PQ will be successful in luring in soft nationalist votes to the YES side if there are no other viable alternatives before them. Daniel Johnson may be correct in saying Québec can succeed within the existing structure of federalism, but such a nebulous concept is impossi­ ble to sell as a political plan to the public. As long as the federalist plan is to attack separatism without giving people a hope for future change, the Yes side may prevail.

Québec Prem ier Jacques Parizeau is right to say that there is no indication that status quo federal­ ism will change to fit Québec’s demands: Cretien’s policy of feel­ good speeches has not given the fed­ eralist side strong ammunition to prove itself as anything but the sta­ tus quo. This policy has worked thus far, but as soon as the referen­ dum commissions start to clarify what sovereignty will mean for Québec, Cretien will have to attack them head on. The status quo is cer; tainly not anything as bad as sepa­

ratists portray it, but to sell it to Québec is like trying to sell day-old doughnuts.

While federalists were right to oppose the PQ “consultation” process when Parizeau refused to consider any other options besides sovereignty, this boycott is no longer necessary, thanks to Mario Dumot, the young leader of the Partie Action Démocratique, who convinced the PQ to allow other options to be discussed at the com­ missions. It is time for a complete reversal of federalist policy: they should flood the process with rec­ ommendations for maintaining the federation, but should also use the commissions to devise a general list of issues for meaningful constitu­ tional change. In turn, the federal government should pledge to reopen constitutional talks considering these issues if a majority of Québecers vote NO in sovereignty referendum.

It is a tricky strategy, but if done properly, it would accomplish three things': it would raise genuine issues that should be addressed as priorities for an “evolving” federal­ ism, it would frustrate the separatist agenda by using its own process against it, and it would give Quebecers a tangible option to keep in mind if they choose to reject sov­ ereignty.

If timed correctly, a pledge by the federal government to reopen constitutional negotiations after a NO vote would throw the separatist camp into disarray. It would force them to play a game they thought was over, and it throw into question whether or not the issues the region­ al commissions are discussing would be better negotiated within Canada rather than assumed by a

separate Québec. The federalist attack can not come too late in the referendum process: it would be seen as a last-ditch effort to appease voters, not a well-intentioned option for renewal. It is also Canada’s, and Québec’s, moral obligation to try again.

This suggestion is similar to that put forward by PQ loose cannon Guy Bertrand, who in addition to calling Parizeau’s referendum plans “suicidal”, called for a different process that would give constitution­ al negotiation another chance.

Bertrand suggested that the referen­ dum should allow Quebecers to choose what demands they wish to pursue in constitutional negotiations.

After that, there would be a 400-day period to amend the terms of Confederation in a way that would satisfy Québec, the other provinces and federal government. If nothing is accomplished by then, Québec declares independence. If an agree­ ment can not be reached by then, it may really be time to go our sepa­ rate way.

Cretien is probably right when he says that Canadians are sick of hearing about the constitution; the problem is that we have to hear about it, and we have to try again.

That is one of the inherent problems of living in a liberal democratic soci­ ety that represents a diverse array of peoples and regions: constitutional change is a painful and agonizing process that seems to be never end­ ing. Politically, it would be wise for the federalists to take up a new weapon in the referendum debate without abating on their arguments that Québec’s goals can be realised in a united Canada. However, feder­ alists have to show that we are will­ ing to be as flexible as Daniel Johnson says we are.

Want to discuss politics with Mark Luz? Find him at H arry’s Coffee Shop or the Madhatter except between the hours o f 3 and 8 a.m.

So, why am I here, pushing my ing of all these layers into one space words above the clam or of the we call the present.

Memory is both part of this library? Why am I in love with memory? The way we perceive the process of perception and an inter­ world is, consciously or not, very nal version of it. Memory is not the involved with layers. I am in the recalling of events as they actually library because, for me, the layers happened, but of our own take on here are more obviously indepen­ them. The way we see and order dent or autonomous. When I talk our personal pasts is in constant about how I feel in this space, I am flux. When trying to recall a specif­ influenced by what is happening ic event, other even vaguely associ­ around me, both in terms of what ated layers of memory will wash happens quickly such as someone over the event, and compress into walking by, and what seems to one output. Memory is not as clean change little (though it does as a filing cabinet would have us change) such as the books and the believe.

If we are trying to build art up building itself. That, right there, is two, three or even a hundred layers from being about only itself to per­ that build up to form what we call haps encompassing more, the cur­ perception. On top of this, I place rent model en vogue is the post­ my histories here, and my idea of modern take of squashing together possible histories I have not been references and history (a public involved with. I also contain associ­ concept). Thus I would suggest, as a ations with other places and events, healthy alternative, looking at mem­ many of which are not even ratio­ ory as a model for the layered nally linked. Just a couple of min­ world, and mining that very person­ utes ago I thought of the backyard al resource as a building material of the house I lived in growing up. for the reconstruction of aesthetics, Why? I can’t tell you. And with all be it in art, architecture, literature or these layers, it is probably clear that any other discipline. some will be stronger than others.

Geoff Gibson is like an ele­ In the end, our perception of each moment is a compression or flatten­ phant; he never forgets.

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in some of the most hostile strip malls north of Buffalo. Be careful and good luck.

It was there, in the womb-like warmth of that street light, that I found the answer. Only in the total silence of this calm winter’s night could it be heard, as though it was the footfall of angels. To think that one could dwell so close to the truth yet know nothing but folly and igno­ rance. I was such a person, I am such a person. In the soft glow of that lone­ ly light I saw the road that could have been —and the roadkill that was...

I penned these lines after the last instalment of Mr. Manners. With my nicotine patch on the verge of expira­ tion, I clung desperately to the end of my rope, my palms sweaty.

Strapped for cash, the empty coffee tin mocked me as I sucked on used coffee filters in search of one last fix. Frenzied fox in a leghold trap I clawed at the shag carpeting, my path marked by a relentless trail of the Kraft Dinner-orange froth which seeped from my scurvied lips.

In one last desperate bid to prove

false the cruel tyranny which had deemed itself the truth, I lifted the receiver and dialed: “I’m sorry, your record indicates a re-evaluation of your student loan occured in November and you will not be receiv­ ing any more,” chimed the voice at the opposite end of the line. While my thoughts turned to possible rebut­ tals, the words turned to tumble­ weeds, rolled through my wizened windpipe and caught on the rusted barbed-wire of my tongue.

With doctor’s orders, I took out an emergency loan and loaded my El Ranchero, making full-use of its beneficial half-car, half-truck design.

I then set out for Ottawa, where I had arranged to meet with my aging mas­ ter in order to devise a plan for com­ batting the barbarians who had taken over the administration at McGill.

From there it was on to Scarborough, a most excellent, uncivilised environ­ ment in which to rehearse the final plan. The following advice was honed

Dear Mr. Manners, A certain director of a certain wing of the university was implicated in a certain affair which I took upon myself to expose to various members of the universty administration. After arranging a mass political movement that involved various obscene phone calls to the aforementioned director as well as a public anecdote that con­ nected the accused with various barn­ yard animals, it occured to me that I may have acted in haste. A dream job planning the Wham! reunion tour would be closer to realisation if this person would write me a letter of rec­ ommendation. I realise that offense may have been taken but how could this person disregard my creativity and dedication? A faux pas only affects the humourless.

— Careless whispers Dear Careless, Your case is most extraordinary but comes as no surprise. The flirta­ tions of the ruling elite with livestock have become an unfortunate ritual in today’s society. The displays have been most notable among the over­

tively sure way to get into the wrong­ ness business. Take Esperanto, for example. Invented by a Polish oculist by the name of Ludwig Zamenhof, A lex Usher Esperanto was intended to be a supra-national language which would increase human understanding and lead to universal peace. In the hopeful 1920s, many European magazines accepted ads from foreigners in Esperanto and several German films from the period show street signs in Esperanto (this was done because the directors felt that the films wouldn’t date themselves as badly if the language of the future was used). The Esperanto movement became badly split when Zamenhof began reasoning that if a single inter­ national language would do wonders for global under­ standing, then a single international religion would do even more good. Zam enhof’s creation of “Homaranismo” (“member of the human race”) as a synthetic religion and his insistence on using Esperanto as a liturgical language caused many followers to leave the fold. Today, Esperanto is spoken by fewer than 50,000 people worldwide.

Still, being wrong about the future is an ability that anyone can acquire. Being wrong about the past is more difficult, and ultimately more satisfying. And no group of people is more consistently wrong about the past than amateur British antiquarians. Take for example the British Israelite movement, who claim on the basis of no doubt vigorous research that the English are in fact descendants of the ten lost tribes of Israel. The obvious corollary to this is that the English are the chosen peo­ ple and the next messiah will also be English (the pub­ lishers of Plain Truth magazine are British Israelites).

Along the same lines, there is also the case of Comyns Beaumont, the world’s greatest revisionist geo­ grapher. A successful Fleet Street editor by trade, Comyns took up geography after having been caught in the great Messina earthquake of 1910, which he attrib­ uted to the proximity of Halley’s Comet. In his first book on geography, he demonstrated how the British isles were really Atlantis and proceeded to explain where all the events of the ancient world really hap­ pened. Thus, the Egypt of the pharoahs was not at the Nile delta but in West Scotland, Jerusalem was actually Edinburgh and Mount Olympus was really Ben Nevis.

Later in life, he developed the theory that Glastonbury was the site of the garden of Eden and that the Sea of Galilee was the Bristol Channel. Predictably, Beaumont also believed that the whole thing had been covered up in some vile Zionist conspiracy.

The Faculty of Ephemera Being right about the future is easy. All you have to do is be prepared to stick to certainties, of which there are sadly too many in this world. For instance, one can say without hesitation that in the next four months, the sun will rise every day, pigs will not fly, the Senators will lose over thirty games, and at least one case of sexual harassment or assault will be swept under the carpet by McGill’s sexual harassment assessors.

(How is it that McGill can claim to be committed to fighting sexual harassment when its chief sexual harassment assessor has been the subject of numerous student complaints, allegedly has told TA training ses­ sions on sexual harassment that “it’s best to keep these things very quiet”, and has demonstrably lied to the press in order to avoid answering difficult questions?

It’s simple — McGill has an institutional capacity for self-delusion that makes David Koresh and Saddam Hussein look like Deanna Troi.)

On the other hand, being wrong — really spectacu­ larly wrong — takes talent. Who, for instance, can ever forget the immortal last words of General John Sedgwick, a Union officer who died at Spotsylvania in 1863 with the following comment about the nearby Confederate army: “they couldn’t hit an elephant at this dist-”?

The musical world is rife with people being stun­ ningly wrong. Austrian Emperor Ferdinand I is often seen as the ranking authority in this area for his oftquoted remark to Mozart that the “Marriage of Figaro” was unsatisfactory because it was noisy and had too many notes. Stunning, perhaps, but understandable as well; Ferdinand, being a Hapsburg, was about as inbred as a prize Corgi and of about the same mental capacity.

No, for real wrongness, it would be hard to beat the bril­ liant set of minds who were operating Decca records in the 1960s, who, when offered the chance to sign the Beatles, replied that they weren’t interested since “groups of guitars were on their way out”.

Of course, the business world has had its share of wrongness, too. Coca-Cola is particularly noteworthy in this regard: in 1932, it turned down an offer to buy Pepsi-Cola (which had already suffered three bankrupt­ cies) on the grounds that it wasn’t worth spending money to kill a rival that was never going to be a threat anyway.

Betting on improvements in human nature is a rela­

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zealous supporters of the various back-to-the-land movements which strive to reconnect civilised society with the rustic undercurrents which threaten it. Led by such notables as pawn shop regular Willy Nelson and America’s number one space cadet John Denver, the case for animal “husbandry” has received vocal sup­ port.

As for the fact you ratted on this high-ranking official, feel not shame but bathe in the warm, welcoming tears of the respectable who under­ stand your disgust. Though it may appear you have backed yourself into a comer in terms of getting a letter of reference, fear not but lash out as a true rat would with totally fabricated accusations. Chances are they’re probably right. Compliment your ver­ bal assault with something downhome like pound cake.

Dear Mr. Manners, Dean Gopnik hates my guts. I call and call, I wait outside his door, but have only seen him once. Why, Mr. Manners? I wield no knife. I make no mockery of lethal beards and outdated eyewear. How does he know?

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You are special. While the cir­ cumstances may seem contrary to excitement, you are in fact one of the few students who has actually seen the mysterious King of Powell, whose presence is often cleverly dis­ guised by the staff of the royal house­ hold.

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The Mystery of FACE and MIND

By C atherine Porter From the outside, the old High School of Montreal is daunting.

With its grey exterior and greenless courtyard, it seems but a relic of the Industrial Age. Appropriately, it faces the equally bleak back side of Frank Adams Auditorium. The sight of many students with multi­ coloured hair hacking butts outside the front doors is reminiscent of 21 Jump Street.

McGill students walking down University shared their general im pressions: “ It seems like an urban Fame, ” commented Kate Gibbs. “A weird school for gifted kids who carry instruments around.

They are the youngest kids in the world who have dyed their hair and loiter,” she added.

“It strikes me as being a New York-type school,” echoed Tara Lamacroft.

Chris Gage takes it further.

“It’s a school for degenerate kids. They are delinquents,” he chuckled.

Yet, as lessons of many cliché parables teach, surfaces are meant to be scratched and the contents of books and their covers do not nec­ essarily coincide. Or, as student Nicole Lev explains: “It would be uneducated to comment on some­ thing that [you] know nothing about.”

So the Tribune ventured beyond the concrete yard to uncov­ er the story behind these so-called

instrument-wielding hooligans.

The first discovery rebuffed even the basics. It is not the High School of Montreal.

Since 1975 the building has housed three separate schools: FACE (Fine Arts Core Education), MIND (Moving in New Directions) and a school for adult education.

This would explain the enormous age range of students seen arriving in anything from yellow school buses to family Volvos.

Wandering around the main entrance are the younger students.

They are students at FACE, a bilin­ gual, alternative school for the arts.

The program book explains an emphasis on fine arts, music, art and drama, along with which read­ ing, writing and arithmetic skills will evolve “naturally and in har­ mony.”

Tucked into the third floor of a sm all wing of the building is MIND. This too is an alternative school, although for high school students, and only 133 of them at that.

Gary Sullivan, the Head Teacher at MIND, is quick to clear up any misconceptions regarding the school.

“This is a school for self-moti­ vated students who march to a dif­ ferent drummer. It is not a drop-out school. In fact, ninety per cent of our graduates go to university,” he stated.

What makes this high school “alternative” is its CEGEP

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timetable. Rather than adhering to the tradi­ tional rigid 8:20 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. schedule, students follow a uni­ versity-type timetable, where they choose their classes and their spares according to their requirements.

“We are the only school in the PSBGM [P rotestant School Board of G reater M ontreal] area that operates like this, other than outreach schools,” said Sul­ livan.

The aim of both FACE and MIND: Schools fo r tough guys? of these schools is to create a com m unity attended FACE in grade five. atmosphere. While the students at “I was at a stage of pre-adoles­ FACE are organised into “family cent rebellion and was expressing units”, those at MIND have con­ myself in a negative way. I person­ verted an old study room into their ally needed more regimented activ­ own “student lounge.” Packed with ity,” he added. He was consequent­ couches, microwaves, a music sys­ ly expelled. tem and a fridge (nicknamed the “It’s an amazing program for ‘Commando’), it is no wonder that the people it is designed to serve. It the students feel at home here. can really work well. For me, it “The teachers don’t have a made the difference of going to lounge. The students have one. high school or not,” countered They bought the furniture and they Alexander Pless, a current McGill are responsible for maintaining it. student and a MIND graduate.

It is their inner sanctum ,” said As to the first impressions that Sullivan. they evoke, the students are well “Both schools are very loose aware of them. and leave a lot of room for personal “It is not a tough school. The expression,” com m ented Pavel image is what it is—it’s just an Janowitz, a CEGEP student who

image. The school is different from the norm,” said Aneka Mongou, a student at MIND. “At regular schools, people judge you by your appearance. You can come here in body paint and nobody will care,” affirmed her fel­ low student Waheeda Duerden.

As to what they think of M cG ill students, one student responded: “They are nice. They all have “McGill” on their backpacks, and they wear THIS.” Her index finger pointed to the M ountain Co-op label on my jacket.

Tongue in cheek, it all just goes to show that stereotypes are two-sided.

Out of Province? Out of Luck! on for admission.

“We believe very strongly, as a Queen’s University in A resolution passed by the Kingston, Ontario, for example, is Canadian university, that we must Quebec provincial government has one of the exceptions. Anne educate Canadian citizens. It would Co-ordinator for seem dumb to limit our acceptances determined that no Canadians other Cunpson, than residents of Quebec will be eli­ Admissions to medical school at to Ontario residents,” explained gible to attend Quebec medical Queen’s, stated “[Queen’s] has never Sinclair.

Student reactions at McGill to schools starting next year. The used the province of residency as a province of residence of a medical criterion for admission. We have an the quota change have been “mixed, but leaning towards the side of being school applicant varies in impor­ open door policy in all faculties.”

Currently, to be considered for unfair”, according to Caryn Narvey, tance with different medical schools.

However, some applicants to med­ admission to Quebec medical President of the co-ed Medical ical schools can qualify as residents schools an applicant needs to be a Society at McGill which has a mem­ of more than one province as a result Quebec resident, proof of which is bership of about one hundred given in the form of a Quebec Science undergraduate students. of varying definitions of residency.

“The inequality lies in the fact Eva Ryten is the Director of Medicare card.

“There is no doubt that some that international students are being Research for the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges. She people meet the definition of resi­ allowed in, and not Canadian citi­ commented that Quebec’s policy dency for more than one province zens [ from outside Quebec],” stated was distinct from that of the other because the definitions are not uni­ Narvey.

Not all students are opposed to form,” maintained Ryten. provinces.

Most, but not all medical the provincial government’s quota of “It is an unusual move by the provincial government. No other schools verify the residency status of zero for out of province students.

“Some students think its good provinces have set such a policy. its applicants with health cards.

“How strictly medical schools because it increases their chances of None of them,” she stated.

Dr. Nelson Mitchell, associate verify the residency status of their getting in,” explained Narvey.

Jonathon Ponesse, a U3 dean for medical school admissions applicant varies greatly,” stated Biology major and Psychology at McGill, explained the decision by Ryten.

Sylvia Franklin, Program minor who applied to seven medical the Quebec government.

“The Quebec government, in Director for Admissions at the schools in Canada, is upset with the response to a request from the University of Alberta acknowledged decision.

“McGill most certainly would Ontario government, reduced the that they check the residency status have been my first choice. McGill number of students that could be of medical school applicants.

Dr. Duncan Sinclair, Dean of was pretty much at the top of the list. accepted to Quebec medical schools the Faculty of Medicine, explained It is a shame that they’re starting from across the country.”

However, according to Ryten, that Queen’s University does not their admissions cutbacks with not all medical schools consider the verify the provincial residency of its Canadian students,” asserted Pon­ province of residency of an appli­ applicants because it is not a criteri­ esse.

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January 24th, 1995

Hillary Bashing: the new dirty sport

Hillary-Bashing has risen to an all-time high or an all time low, depending on how you view it.

Considered before to be a part of the traditional sparring between R epublicans and D em ocrats, Hillary-Bashing has now attained the status of a national sport.

But this game suffers from one problem: no one ever calls foul.

W hen R epublican Senator Newt Gingrich’s mother divulged Newt’s opinion of the First Lady to anchorwoman Connie Chung, Americans were more angered at Connie for her journalistic faux pas than by Newt’s terminology.

How a slur like “bitch” became acceptable in American politics is a mystery to me.

‘Bitch’ is simply one of the

most offensive terms one can use to slander a woman. Its force lies in the fact that it applies only to women. It transcends the linguistic boundaries of “female dog” to a sexism that degrades a woman’s actions, abilities, and being. There is no male equivalent. Bastard and S.O.B. just don’t cut it. And, if you think about it, every hardcore in su lt about men involves an attack on women, albeit one gen­ eration removed.

W hatever one thinks of Hillary, it is wrong to throw those term s out on the public verbal insult trading field. Admittedly, there is a danger in establishing what is appropriate to say in the public sphere versus the private sphere. Nevertheless, slander of that level has never been tolerated

in any political forum, and when it is of a deliberately sexist nature, why should it be an exception?

Yet in Washington, where tol­ eration is usually as rare as a diehard liberal, it’s overflowing from all the parties who have played or could have played a role in this affair. Incredibly, Newt’s comments have met with virtually no criticism. No women’s organi­ sations have vocalised their dis­ gust. The press has been busy try­ ing to salvage and exploit their lost journalistic integrity (all due to Connie), and so they aren’t espe­ cially keen on reporting a subject that doesn’t seem to be of interest to their audience. Noticeably silent on the issue is Bill, who has not even asked for an apology. In fact, Hillary herself invited the perpe­ trator and his mother to the White House to “discuss” this mess. To top it off, she also has begun con­ sultations with members of the

press to increase her appeal and downplay her ambitiousness.

It is especially humiliating to see a wom an with such a vast array of accomplishments, change her image to suit the All-American im age of the “F irst L ady” .

Through industrial cookie-baking sprees in 1992 and more matronly outfits, Hillary has unsuccessfully tried to merge the working woman with Mrs. Brady. Even more appalling is that her participation in B ill’s Cabinet has met with relentless ridicule and criticism, more so than any other member; this exists despite the years she has spent—and the reputation she has earned—as a partner in a top law firm.

W hile I have no illusions about sexism in our society, it still amazes me that after seventy years o f A m erican w om en’s lib, Hillary’s credentials have never been allowed to stand on their

own. However, one has to admit that Hillary has played a role in her own demise. The more she tries to look “nicer” and “softer”, the more inauthentic she appears and the more flak she’ll get, no matter what her noble intentions may be. This is not to say that she should have spewed some verbal diarrhea back at Newt, but she could have asserted herself with a bit more sass.

It seems to me that if Newt can dem and apologies from Democrats for his voluntary relin­ quishment of a far-from-clean $4.5 million dollar book deal, then it d o esn ’t seem unthinkable that Hillary demand an apology for an insult that is a bit too extreme to be dismissed as bad etiquette. In a game that has been far too one­ sided for too long, it’s about time Hillary changes a few rules and throw s a few people into the penalty box.

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No, before you started doing ‘shrooms. How about that Debra Winger Wonder Girl poster you had? Well, dust off your Wonder Twins lunch box, because comic books are hot. How hot? Veruca Salt, the world’s trendiest band, has a song called “Spider-Man ‘79”.

Batman Forever, the franchise’s third instalment will be released in the summer featuring two of Hollywood’s hottest actors; Jim Carrey will play the Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones, Two-Face.

Superm an’s apparent death crippled global markets and toppled totalitarian regimes (OK, that’s pushing it). The point is, comics are everywhere, and it is not due to an increase in the average eight-year old’s allowance, it is because they are being read by people of all ages.

Beth Nicholson, a U1 Italian student, claims to still love her favourite character, Wonder Woman. “Her Invisible Plane rocks. I went dressed as her this Halloween,” said Nicholson.

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University students. Vaccaro states that the hottest selling new comics at his shop are Spawn (created by Canadian Spider-Man guru Todd McFarlane), all five Batman titles, and WildC.A.T.S. New titles, how­ ever, are only one facet of the comic book industry as collecting comics now goes hand in hand with reading.

Comics are collected like coins, stamps, or baseball cards.

Collectors divide comics into three general eras so as to determine their worth. “Golden Age” com ics, 1930s to 1955 are rare and feature im m ortal characters such as Superman and Captain America.

“Silver Age” comics, produced between 1955 and 1970 are more readily available and constitute the greatest volume in terms of comic collecting. Comics from the “mod­ em era”, 1970 to present are widely available and are therefore suscepti­ ble to price fluctuations.

The other main criterion for determining a comic’s value is its condition. The better shape it is in, the more it is worth. Condition is ranked on a scale which includes; mint, near mint, very fine, fine, very good, good, and fair. Most comics Silver Age or older are found in good condition and are worth approximately 20% of the mint price.

Many comics, if still in mint condition, can be worth staggering amounts. Phone your dad and tell him that if he hadn’t left his Fantastic Four #1 (1961) on the school bus, he could have paid for four years of tuition, and still had enough left over for hair replace­ ment surgery. The comic is now worth about $20,000.

1,000,000 Comix is the largest dealer in Silver Age comics in Montreal, and Vaccaro estimates that they compromise one-third of his total sales. Vaccaro told the Tribune that the individual charac­ ter has a lot to do with the comic’s value. “Spider-Man, Superman, and Batman are the hottest selling Silver Age comics because they hold their value”.

New collectors should not be intim idated by these incredible prices as there are deals to be found in the $15.00 to $30.00 range. A good place for a collector to start is at a comic convention, such as the one which was held at the Delta Hotel on Decem ber 18.

Conventions, provide a wide selec­ tion, dealers are helpful and open to negotiation.

Not everyone, however, is smitten with the comic book indus­ try. Many titles deemed “too vio­ lent for children” have come under criticism and now bear labels stat­ ing that they are suggested for mature readers.

Body image is also a con­ cern amongst many people, as one is unlikely to find a male character with a less than Schwarzennegarian physique, or a female heroine who does not look like she just stepped out of a salon. U2 political science stu­ dent, Jenn Lam bert, can be counted among them. “I used to read Archie as a child, but now I find them so sexist and stereo­ typed”. While comic books may not be everyone’s cup of tea, their popularity proves that they are no Flash in the pan (Bad pun alert).

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January 24th, 1995

Rogers...

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Ian Morrison is a spokesperson for the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, an organisation that monitors the quality and level of Canadian content in broadcasting.

In a statement issued last December 19, Morrison condemned the take­ over.

“The take-over increases monopoly power in one company, it increases the already ludicrous imbalance between the resources of the regulator and those of the regu­ lated, and puts effective regulation by the CRTC out of sight. We also believe this take-over spells serious trouble for Canada’s creative com­ munity,” said Morrison.

In a published decision approv­ ing the take-over, the CRTC down­ played the seriousness of creating a media monopoly power.

“In recent years, the Commission has recognised the need for large corporate entities possessing the resources and entre­ preneurial skills necessary to lead the cable industry in such areas as research and development, enhance­ ment of choice, service quality improvements, and in the extension of cable service to more Canadians, and has accordingly permitted the emergence of a number of large multi-system cable operators.”

Part of the reason for the “resources and entrepreneurial skills” revolves around a perceived threat to the cable industry by new and emerging technologies.

According to Richard Schultz, McGill political science professor and former director of the Centre for the Study of Regulated Industry, “The cable industry is facing seri­ ous threats from new technology and telephone companies.”

In fact, according to Schultz, telephone companies are better equipped for broadcasting than the cable industry.

“We wouldn’t need the cable industry, the telephone companies will be providing the broadcasting.

The cable industry is a dinosaur,” argues Schultz.

Morrison described Schultz’s words as “strong”.

“The cable industry is more like a threatened species than some­ thing that became extinct a long time ago,” said Morrison.

Schultz characterised the efforts to maintain the cable indus­ try as “arrogant” and analogous to permitting the use of cars when they were first developed while not allowing buggy whips to disappear.

Rogers is expected to expand its ownership of Unitel enough to effectively control Canada’s largest alternative long distance provider.

According to the Toronto Star, Rogers is $4 billion in debt while Unitel is rumoured to be losing $1 million a business day.

When asked by the Tribune whether the expected take-over of Unitel by Rogers could be related to the increased ability of telephone companies to provide broadcasting, Schultz responded, “Could be."

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Further inquiries can be directed to the CROs Eddie Cook or Cedric Puah Neo at 398-8222 or leave a message at the SSMU Main Desk in the Shatner Building.

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January 24th, 1995

The knell of the wild child

I just gotta be Mule...

By H arris N ewman About a decade ago, Michigan spawned the Laughing Hyenas, purveyors of evil, evil, chainsawguitar-and-gagging-on-a-whiskybottle-vocals rock music. It took bassist Kevin Munro and drummer Jim Kimball seven years before they’d had their fill, and jettisoned to form Mule with form er Wig ranter Preston Long. A handful of 7”s, an EP and two CDs later, Mule (now including new drum­ mer Jason Spavid) have three years and seven tours behind them, plus a firm stranglehold on the hillbilly punk heavyweight championship.

The music soars from thun­ dering anthems about personal psychosis to heavily sedated odes to women and days gone by, com­ plete with rolling acoustic guitar and organ. Their latest album, If I Don’t Six, amazed old fans simply by being better than their widely acclaimed self-titled debut. Willy

Conway’s contributions on key­ boards add a new dimension to some of the new material, a move they made because, according to Munro, “It seemed like it called for it.”

Defending the wide range of pilferage which make up the patented Mule sound, from Lynryd Skynryd approved twang to gritty garage blues, Kevin swore they had no preconceived agenda. “It never turns out exactly as you’d expect it to,” said Kevin as we spoke while he relaxed in his bath­ tub just prior to leaving for tour.

The m eat and potatoes of Mule has always been the dirty business of constant touring. They played their first gig ever in the beginning of January '92 (in the m usic m ecca of T hunder Bay, Ontario no less). “We had a good number of people coming out to our shows before we had any records at all, just on the reputa­ tion of the players,” said Kevin,

while justifying their extensive pre-album touring. As for survival techniques, Kevin conceded that, “We usually have beer for break­ fast, that helps.”

Constant touring also leaves little chance for the Mulers to call any of the Northeastern cities they frequent, home. Kevin admitted that desperate m easures were sometimes called for to keep those breakfast beverages com ing between tours. “I don’t like to brag about having a job, it’s bad for my image. I managed to pick up a cou­ ple weeks of work at this adult book store. It’s not very glam ­ orous. I do get to read or write and work on lyrics without being too distracted by the freaks that come through the door.”

W ith N orth A m erican and possible European dates going non-stop until April, Mule are in for the long haul, fitting for a band named after the ultimate asexual workhorse. Don’t let the moniker fool you though, the Mule gents are infamous ladykillers feared from coast to coast. “Asexual? I don’t think that part really quali­ fies for us,” chuckled Munro when I asked about the band name’s rel­ evance. But what about M ule’s well-documented plundership and trail of broken hearts that follow in their trail? “That seems to be a Canadian thing, I dunno...”

Mule make the ladies swoon at W oodstock on Saturday, January 28, along with locals Flounger and Torontonian mer­ chants o f soul, Grasshopper. $10, and worth every penny, baby.

Saddle up y ’all...

• Nell, Jodie Foster’s debut independent production

By K ristina H orwitz and Laura B radbury_________ Egg Pictures, Jodie Foster’s fledging production company, gets off to a cracking start with Nell, a meticulous jewel of a film which escapes definition in its excellence.

In her first independent movie pro­ duction, this m ulti-talented actress/director/producer proves that she is well on her way to movie mogulhood. By both pro­ ducing and playing the role of the main character Nell, Foster takes on the fable of ‘the wild child’, successfully side-stepping the many clichés attached to the the­ matic clash of ‘nature vs. civilisa­ tion’. She creates a film of fresh­ ness and enchantment from begin­ ning to end.

The cinem atography alone justifies the price of the ticket.

From the first moment we enter Nell’s world, we are spellbound by the sheer beauty of the setting in the Appalachians mountains, with the trees, water and hills becoming characters in their own right. Nell is a quasi-spiritual experience for the budding pantheists in us all.

Foster develops the relationship between Nell and her natural habi­ tat with admirable finesse; this sen­ sitivity softens the film’s didactic adherence to T horeau’s motto “Simplify, Simplify.”

In keeping with Nell’s mini­ m alist bent, the plot is a very straightforward one. Nell is discov­ ered by Dr. Lovell (Liam Neeson)

in her remote cabin after the death of her hermit mother. Aptly yet rather heavyhandedly named, this kindhearted man is intrigued by the woman who speaks in a garbled tongue and acts out her words with movements which evoke interpre­ tative dance. Paula Olson (Natasha Richardson) is introduced as a rather repressed psychologist who becomes both Dr. Lovell’s sparring partner and lover. Both of these adults recognise in Nell a kindred spirit and try to protect her against the big, bad world she is eventually forced to confront.

A fascinating subplot of the film deals with the relationship between Nell and the agoraphobic wife of the town sheriff. They seem to understand each other from the moment they meet; how­ ever, the creators of Nell resist the temptation to overdramatise this storyline, which could have easily fallen on the side of triteness.

Instead, the audience is just offered glim pses of the connection between them. Through N ell’s chaotic initiation to civilisation, the audience can grasp a glimmer of understanding about an agorapho­ bic’s terror of the outside world.

This commendable and gracefully executed subplot is a typical exam­ ple of the care that Foster lavishes on small details.

The acting in Nell is unequiv­ ocally fantastic. The most out­ standing performance (surprise!) is Foster’s, which is a marked deparSee N ell Page 14

Heavenly Creatures take flight with clipped wings

By Ioyce Lau_____________________ Praise be to the Alm ighty North American Press for the sacri­ ficial devirginalisation of Peter Jackson’s gracefully real film.

Heavenly Creatures is a fastpaced, strongly constructed cine­ matic dream which tells a gripping real-life story beautifully and accu­ rately. Like its characters, it teeters precariously and skillfully between the real and unreal, with a random nature so common to daily life, and so rare in the world of mainstream film.

However, the press have found in Heavenly Creatures only tabloid speculation and sappy escapism.

The previews have also misrepre­ sented the film by focusing on a tale of two insane ninth grade les­ bians from New Zealand who plot to kill one of their bitchy, abusive m others because they are too enraptured by their fantasy world to know any better. Pauline Parker (Melanie Lynskey) is a moody, dumpy introvert coupled with swanky, blond bombshell Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet). This is a movie about guilt. M urder.

Homosexuality. Incurable freaks of

nature.

Thankfully, this is not the way Jackson sees it.

In fact, Heavenly Creatures portrays both the girls and their parents in a sym pathetic light.

Jackson acknowledges Pauline and Juliet’s understandable desire for normal families and their hesitancy in committing the crime. He also acknowledges the sympathy and confusion of their parents. Creating a cast of voluptuously complex characters and situations, Jackson understands that delving into the generalisations of pop psychology would be ultimately futile in a story where none of the characters understand them selves.

Accordingly, those ignorant fools who attempt to play therapist or m oralist within the m ovie are swiftly slain by medieval clay crea­ tures.

Because the film is centred more on the ‘how’ than the ‘why’, the self-enclosed rapture of the girls does not come off as being particularly disturbing. The girls’ fantasy ‘Fourth W orld’ (named ‘Borovnia’) is based on a quirky, frantically ornate fiction replete with a barrage of religious imagery.

Jackson seems to realise that the true story of Parker and Hulme does not require embellishment as much as it does interpretation. The film’s voice-over narration is taken directly from Parker’s real diary, meaning that even within the film, the girls’ perceptions are as tenu­ ous and their poetry as awkward as one would expect from two fifteenyear-olds.

In the fantasy scenes, Jackson avoids the cloying unreality that could have ensued by letting the surreal be a product of the girls’ imagination and not of their insani­ ty. When Parker and Hulme enter their fantasy world, they are sur­ rounded by life-size clay figurines which resemble the clay figures they make themselves. The fact that they see clay figures instead of real-life actors lets the audience realise that the two girls are aware of and in control of their fantasy.

They are authors absorbed in a fan­ tastical novel, and not raving mani­ acs.

On the other hand, there are scenes which could be either fanta­ sy or reality. Episodes which would otherwise be very plausible are tainted with the effects of pepper­

mint sunshine and the lights of dia­ bolic red, red candles.

Heavenly Creatures keeps the audience’s attention partially because the audience never knows when the movie will take a turn into a tortured tragedy or into light­ hearted pathos.

At one point, Pauline almost gets run over by a car. She lays, eyes closed on the side of the road as Juliet hovers above her. Even after the audience knows that she is merely feigning death, we are left wondering if we are in for a death

scene in Borovnia or a happy naked frolic through the woods.

A swirling, dark nightmare chase scene (featuring an abused Orson Welles) ends in giggles, and then in a love scene where Jackson’s humour comes off as good natured strangeness through the loving eye of the camera.

Somehow, Jackson has created a colourful, enticing, truly original film which surprisingly avoids the contrived feel of similar movies which try so hard to be as damned zany.

We p u t the matches back in matricide

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ture from her straight laced roles in such films as Silence of the Lambs and Sommersby. This is Foster at her rawest! Nell clearly functions as a showcase for her many talents.

She has tapped into her instinctual sensuality and physicality to create a totally believable character. In the tradition of truly great actors, we forget that it’s Jodie Foster up there on the screen after a few min­ utes. She sweeps us away into Nell’s world. It’s too bad that she has already won two Oscars at such a young age. Most likely the academy would not deem it repre­ sentative for her to win again for Nell, even though her acting skills have only im proved since The Accused and The Silence o f the * Lambs.

Both Dr. Lovell and Paula Olson turn in flaw less p erfo r­ mances in the supporting roles.

Neeson illustrates a gift for come­

dy that demonstrates his diversity as an actor, especially after the role of Oskar Schindler in Schindler’s List. Not only does British-born Richardson turn in an impeccable Southern accent, but she also soars above the ‘repressed w om an’ stereotype in which lesser actors could be trapped. The smaller roles are equally well fleshed out, and the characters consistently ring true.

In this movie, Nell says her life is one of “small things”. This too can be said for Foster’s movie as a whole. A simple story treated with such sharp focus and care is a refreshing change from raucous action flicks and sappy romantic comedies. Hopefully the trend of female stars starting their own pro­ duction companies will diversify the American film industry and provide a much-needed feminine perspective. Jodie Foster’s Nell is undoubtedly an encouraging debut.

By D avid B ushnell and Bryant Iohnson_________________ Roberto Aguirre is the nicest guy around. Approached before a rehearsal of his latest directorial accomplishment, Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre’s comedy Wolfboy, Aguirre was more than willing to drop everything and speak to us.

Later, when the Tribune ran out of questions, Aguirre even supplied his own.

Diving right into the crux of matter, we started off by asking the question on everyone’s lips...

T rib u n e : Is W olfboy’s W olfboy a real w olfboy or a metaphoric wolfboy?

RA: I believe that everyone has a bit of a w olf in them.

Whether or not Wolfboy is a real werewolf is open to interpretation, but in our play he’s real. We were inspired by the original Wolfman movie.

T: Speaking of such w olf things, have you ever seen Teen

Wolf.

RA: Yes. T: How about Teen Wolf 2?

RA : No. T: Do you think it’s odd that Teen W o lf 2 starred Justin B atem an, brother to Justine Bateman, who co-starred in Family Ties with Michael J. Fox, who was in Teen Wolf 11 RA: I suppose you could play Six Degrees o f Separation with that. I had n ’t actually thought about that.

T: How does Wolfboy com­ pare to the Teen Wolf movies?

RA : Wolfboy is much better.

T: If Wolfboy is about two teens in a boys’ home, why are there all the other characters?

RA: Besides being about the boys’ relationship to each other, Wolfboy is also about their rela­ tionships to outside people. It’s about a football player’s relation­ ship to his father, and it’s about Wolfboy, who’s a street kid. It’s all about characters trying to find

that basic human connection, try­ ing to get warmth and love.

T: What were your expecta­ tions with Wolfboy?

RA: I expected w ondrous things! Extraordinary things hap­ pen on stage, especially in W olfboy. Dram a is w onderful because it’s all about people. The stage is a place where people inter­ act on a human level. Wolfboy is a human drama with a supernatural character.

T: For those people too lazy to actually go out and see it, how does Wolfboy end?

RA: I can’t tell you that.

[At this point, som eone named Jill walks by. Roberto yells something about the great notices Wolfboy has been getting.]

T: What were your concerns about directing Wolfboy?

RA: Mostly, I was concerned about working with a script that had never been performed before.

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By Lori F ireman She started out as Phoebe C ates’ horny best friend in the teen cult classic F ast Tim es at Ridgemont High, and has since gone on to play such diverse roles as a double-crossing hooker, a troubled narcotic agent, a fast-talking ace reporter, a phonesex girl, and the scariest single white female Bridget Fonda has ever met. However, it is with Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle that Jennifer Jason Leigh establishes herself as the finest young actress in film today.

As acid-tongued writer Dorothy Parker, Leigh delivers an Oscar-calibre performance which is so powerful — it not only diminishes the other cast members, but also triumphs over the film itself. For a two and a half hour Robert Altman movie chronicling the lives of some of the most influential writers of the ‘20s and ‘30s, this is no easy task.

Parker, the woman famous for such sarcastic gems as “Men don’t make passes at women with glasses”, led a tortured life under her heroin-addicted husband Eddie Parker (Andrew McCarthy), her ego­ tistica l lover C harlie M acA rthur (M atthew Broderick), and her neurotic but brilliant best friend Robert Benchley (winningly played by Campbell Scott).

As famous as she was for her writing, Parker was better known for her daily swanky New York hotel lunches. Here she was paired with her group of foulmouthed authors (mostly male) who came to be known as the ‘vicious circle’, so dubbed because they

managed every noon to find someone new to be a vic­ tim of their scathing sense of humour.

However, despite the clever quips of Parker and her friends, very little of the film focuses on their actual work. Instead, the audience sees a frustrated Parker and Benchley being lured over to Hollywood.

The movie is most intent on capturing the way Parker battles alcoholism, and how she copes with betrayal and ill-fated loves.

The film, though, could not have been made without showing at least some of Parker’s work.

Accordingly, in between scenes, there are moments when we see Parker in black-and-white, sitting in her living room, her smoky seductive voice lending her sim ple poetry a profoundly sad quality. These moments are effective as the dryness of the poems underline the loneliness and depression of Parker’s world.

Behind the melancholy, the one construct in Parker’s life was men. The movie is not shy in show­ ing Parker’s notoriously passionate nature and the frequency of her many sexual exploits. Not one for small talk, Parker says to Charlie MacArthur, a halfhour before meeting, “would you like a drink before you kiss me?” And later, to an overexcited Roger Spalding (Stephen Baldwin), Parker states dryly, “Don’t worry, I never judge rehearsals.”

As you have probably guessed, this is not your typical Hollywood movie. There are no wild car chas­ es, no written-in-the-stars-romances and no happy ending for Dorothy Parker. In fact, there is no real plot. Rather, it is a collection of witty repartee and caustic commentary from a group of agonised intellec­ tuals.

The usual Altman cast was enchanting, including P eter G allagher, L ili Taylor, Martha Plimpton.

Most notable is the return of w here-is-she-now F lashdance actress Jennifer Beals, in a small yet well-performed role as Benchley’s wife.

It is, how ever, Jennifer Jason Leigh and her lines which make this movie a winner. Chances are, unless you appreciate clever banter, this movie is not for you. But after the disastrous Prêt à Porter, here’s a reason to renew our faith in Robert Altman.

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T: What sort of special make­ Brad Fraser [author of up effects are you using?

Unidentified Human Remains and RA: No comment! the True Nature o f Love] started T: Your staging is interesting.

Wolfboy about ten years ago as a RA: Yes, we made all the fur­ three-act play. He’s since edited it niture either black or white or down to a one-act play lasting grey, and all the actors wear black about an hour and ten minutes. It or white or grey. We wanted a is a concern when that much edit­ very im pressionistic feel. We ing has taken place, because you talked about the original Wolfman don’t know if he kept the actors in movie, and used it as inspiration in mind. When I started, I didn’t this respect as well. know if this play could be per­ T: What are your favourite formed as written. To my knowl­ werewolf movies? edge, this is the first production of RA: I liked An A m erican Werewolf in London and Wolf with Wolfboy.

T: What is the most rewarding Jack Nicholson because it gives a aspect of working on Wolfboy! different reading of the werewolf RA: I love drama because it’s story. For my third favourite were­ such a lively art. I c a n ’t do it wolf movie I’ll go with Wolven. alone. It has been a joy working When asked, “Is Roberto a with these young actors. They good director?” Wolfboy co-star have been sim patico with my Kathryn Stockwood said, “Yeah.” vision and have been more than willing to take risks.

Wolfboy plays Morrice Hall [At this point, som eone (3485 MacTavish) January 23-28. named Linda walks by. Roberto Tickets are $7 for general admis­ yells something about the great sion and $5 fo r students and notices Wolfboy has been getting. seniors. I t ’s festival seating, so The interviewer got the hint the arrive early.

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January 24th, 1995

Gaiters losing streak continues McGill cagers looking out for as Martlets win 77-64 number one

By Kashif Z ahoor A lot of things can change over four years. Fads, music, prime ministers, and people, to name a few.

Unfortunately for the Lady B ishop’s Gaiters, some things never change.

The Gaiters came into the Currie Gym looking to snap a four-year losing streak against McGill. The ninth-ranked Martlets won the previous 15 meetings dating back to March 1991, including the most recent one on December 2 of last year. In that game, the M artlets pum m elled the Purple n’ White 78-43 in Lennoxville.

The perennial cellar dwellers, also known as the Lady Gaiters to the rest of the Québec U niversity Basketball League, came to Montreal looking for some respect. The Martlets on the other hand, in the midst of a heated divisional race, attempted to bridge the gap between themselves and the first place Laval Rouge et Or, to one game.

In the early going, McGill turnovers allowed the Gaiters to stay close. A 12-9 McGill lead quickly turned into a nine-point Martlet deficit as Bishop’s took advantage of an ineffec­

tive Martlet zone press and poor execution en route a 164 scoring run.

The somewhat stunned Martlets kept their compo­ sure and battled back with a string of their own points.

McGill junior point guard Josée Deloretto calmly drained a three-pointer, cap­ ping a 14-5 McGill run to knot the game at 30.

After the first half though, weak rebounding on McGill’s part coupled with costly turnovers allowed the pesky Gaiters to remain in the contest. After twenty minutes, the Martlets clung to a one point edge, 40-39.

The Gaiters opened the half with plans to put the horrid losing streak behind them. Bishop’s point guard Janet Bernard lead the way as the Gaiters stormed ahead 50-45 just four minutes into the second half.

The Martlets had other ideas though, as they took control of the game over the next nine minutes. Indicative of the team’s ability, McGill reeled off 17 consecutive points, and grabbed a 62-50 advantage with ju st over seven m inutes left.

D eloretto’s outside game com plem ented Vicky Tessier’s game in the paint.

Deloretto’s three forced the Gaiter defence to spread out,

leaving Tessier open under­ neath.

A Melanie Gagné threepoint bomb during the tail end of the 17-point outburst, sealed the Gaiters’ fate. The crowd noticed two very dis­ tinct Martlet teams between halves. McGill first-year head coach Lisen Moore pointed out the world of dif­ ference.

“In the first half we sim­ ply did not play basketball.

In the second half Bishop’s did not know where we were coming from, but they did know where we were ending it, in their hoop,” said Moore.

Tessier led the Martlets in scoring with 18 points while Annabelle Ambroise hauled down seven rebounds. Lesley Stevenson and Deloretto added 13 points each.

With the 77-64 win, McGill improves its overall record to 4-2, second place in QUBL and only one game out of first place. McGill will get a shot at avenging its two league losses against Laval and a chance to retake first place when they travel to Ste. Foy, Québec on January 29. Before the all important showdown with the Rouge et Or, the Martlets play host to crosstown rival Concordia this Friday at 6 p.m.

By D ana T oerinc Whoever is in charge of the basketball rankings up at CIAU headquarters better start taking notice of a juggernaut ready to burst its way to the top of the nation’s Top Ten list.

Coming off an emotional win last week against the honey sucking Stingers from across town, the Redmen remained poised and tore into the equally ill-favoured bayou boys from Bishop’s.

The 77-61 score at the end of regulation time is not indica­ tive of a contest that seemed lop­ sided from the handshakes at the beginning of the game. The men in red wore confident faces in the pre-game warm-up and it was clear to all who were watch­ ing that they meant business.

It comes as no surprise to anyone who has been following the men’s team this year that Chad Wozney once again led the way to victory. The 6’5, 2351b. sophomore, who looks more like he should be playing middle linebacker for the New York Giants than power forward for the Redmen, was unstoppable once again with a 23 point , 11 rebound performance. Wozney, who was named last weeks CIAU athlete of the week, has averaged 20.5 points and 10.5 rebounds per game and has a league leading field goal per­ centage of 69.4 percent. In only his second year, Wozney seems to be on pace to become McGill’s next All Canadian candidate in men’s basketball.

Although Wozney can be praised for some great performances thus far, this years edition of the Redmen is not a one man wrecking

crew. Saturday night was a team effort that clearly displayed the Redmen’s depth and char­ acter. Yes, Wozney, and seniors McDougall and McMann came out determined to dominate the inside game, but the deciding factor was the play of guys like Chris Emergui and Sammy Mendolia.

Emergui was on fire making three of four shots from Larry Bird-land while amassing a total of 15 points on the night. Mendolia only had seven points on the night, but his game-high six assists made the work of guys like Wozney and McDougall just a little easier.

As a team, the Redmen were per­ fectly orchestrated; organised, in sync and focused. The team had an o impressive 57% success rate on field goals and shot £ 60% from the foul <u line. c 3 Coach Ken -O Schildroth clearly had his team on a mission after McGill’s upset at the hands of the Gaiters in Lennoxville in their first encounter before Christmas. Mission accomplished. Prepare for the next campaign.

The now 4-2 Redmen will try to gain ground this Friday night in a battle against the 5-1 Stingers for sole possession of first place.

Operation Stinger Stomp will commence at 8 p.m. in old Sir Arthur Currie’s Armoury/Gym.

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-dent-athlete with his priorities straight and school comes first.

“I just play for the fun of being part of the team,” said the 20-yearold power forward. “When you play, you have to play as hard as you can. Being intense and being physical is part of having fun.”

The graduate of Bishop Ryan High School in Hamilton, Ontario, emphasised that while basketball influenced his decision to attend McGill, he chose the university pri­ marily for educational reasons.

“Basketball is not the most important thing,” he continued.

“School is much more of a priori­ ty ” Music to parents Randy and Gail’s ears, I’m sure.

Although Wozney downplays the overall weight that his sport car­ ries in relation to academics, his commitment to the team is unques­ tionable.

Wozney has been playing with a hernia since December but has opted not to have surgery until the season is over due to the four to eight-week recovery period that the operation would require.

The hernia can bqcome irritat­

ed and sometimes “pops out”, so weeks ago, Wozney was a critical W ozney wears a pair of biking factor as McGill’s top scorer and shorts which are one size too small key rebounder, amassing 26 points under his practice gear and uniform and dominating the boards.

At one point in the game, to “keep things intact”. If the condi­ tion worsens, W ozney will be forced to end his season. However, for the time being, the Redmen for­ ward is undaunt­ ed.

“It would be a disappointing end to the season,” he said. “But I feel that it’s worth it to play out the rest of the year.”

The Redmen feel the same way but, in no way, have pressured their starting for­ ward to continue on.

In M cG ill’s first win in five years over the perennial power­ house Concordia Stingers two The man they call ‘Wooz’

W ozney’s hernia “popped out” slightly and he was forced to lie down on the floor behind the bench to push it back in.

It’s enough to make anyone a little “woozy” but he finished the game strong, netting 20 of his 26 points in the second half following the incident.

W ozney’s team m ates have nothing but respect for the Redmen sophmore.

First year guard Matt Watson had only praise and high hopes for the power forward and his future.

“H e’s a great guy to play with,” Watson said. “He’s one of the most ferocious rebounders in the league and definitely a pick for future All-Canadian if he keeps playing at this pace.”

Third-year co-captain Sammy Mendolia did not mince his words either.

“If everyone played with the intensity that Chad plays with, we’d be on our way to Halifax [for the National Cham pionships] right now,” he stated. “It isn’t Chad’s physical talent that sets him apart, it’s his desire and competitiveness.”

“Other players go through lag s,” he continued. “But not

Wooz. He improves from game to game because he’s got a strong frame of mind.”

From the looks of the Redmen’s success this year, the whole team is feeding off that intensity and desire. The motiva­ tions may differ between players, but the work ethic has spilled over.

High expectations for Wozney are consistent with high expectations for a McGill team that is right in sync at this point in their season, holding second place in the league standings.

Still, W ozney’s team work attitude and obvious modesty pre­ vail and continue to evoke admira­ tion.

As one of the supporting-cast players came out of the gym fol­ lowing practice, Wozney called out to him.

“Hey, good practice tonight,” he said. “I was wishing that you were on my team all night.”

The player responded with a humble “thanks” and continued on his way to the locker room a little uplifted but deep in thought. Given Wozney’s consistency of perfor­ mance, you can just bet that the player was wishing the same.

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SPORTS

January 24th, 1995

Redmen pound the Stingers 3-0 Weekend breeze for McGill track

By Mark L uz

and Ioe

W ong___________

taunts of the players in the cage down the ice.

Unfortunately for the home team, the In their biggest win of the season, the McGill Redmen knocked off divisional Redmen were unable to sustain their effec­ rival C oncordia by a 3-0 score last tive play two days later when they lost 5-2 Wednesday night in the McConnell igloo. to the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees. A It was a crucial game for the Redmen, hop­ game misconduct early in the first period ing to keep their playoff chances alive, and to captain Boucher, for gently tapping an they came through with a spectacular Ottawa player on the back with his stick, show. left the Redmen leaderless on the ice, and a After taking a beating at the hands of sloppy attempt to clear the puck out of the Trois Rivières the week before, McGill McGill zone gave Ottawa the chance to goalie Robert Bourbeau was a one-man draw first blood midway through the first army, blatantly rejecting all 26 Concordia period.

Early on, Bourbeau showed off the shots to record the Redmen’s first shutout since the 5-0 McGill victory against the same spectacular goaltending he did against Concordia, frustrating several RMC soldiers on January 28, 1994.

Bourbeau had obviously spent time three-on-one Ottawa attacks, but luck was praying at the temple of Patrick Roy, as he not on the side of the Redmen that wet and neutralised the powerful Concordia stormy night. The referees shouted “No offense, while the rest of the Redmen acted Goal!” twice during the game (and other as his supporting cast, making the Stingers things were shouted back at them), and the wish that they had stayed home to watch shivering fans heard the pinging of posts all night long.

Beverly Hills, 90210.

At 13:11 of the second period, Ottawa The 90210 factor had a negative effect on the Stingers. They played a frustrated, made the famous 1979 Don Cherry mistake dirty game — obviously disappointed of getting nailed for too many men on the along with the rest of their fans and coach­ ice. With uncanny similarity to the federal es that they had to watch the show later on government in the Gee-Gees’ home-town videotape — that landed many of them into — having too many people in the wrong the penalty box of shame. That was fine for place — O ttaw a’s penalty gave Ivan the deadly power play battalions of Murray a perfect opportunity to slip Redmen who bruised the Concordia goalie McGill’s first goal of the game past Ottawa goalie Jean-François Rivard. with 28 concussion-causing shots.

At 12:11, Murray was possessed by a McGill’s Kelly Nobes smashed home the first of his two goals at 6:48 of the first Gretzky-like spirit as he came out from period, and then was set up beautifully by behind the net to stuff the puck past the rookie sensation Pierre Gendron and hapless goalie.

McGill was not deterred when Ottawa sophomore Benoit Leroux at 14:05 of the same period. Both spectacular goals were scored its second goal of the game half scored while one or more Concordia play­ way through the second after having bom­ ers sat in the penalty box wondering if barded Bourbeau with point-blank shots.

Dylan would get his money back and if Murray, Marcellus and Luc Latullippe all Kelly is really going to join her teachers’ had beautiful chances throughout the sec­ ond, but the Ottawa goalie prevailed in cult.

The Redmen struck again at 10:09 of many a scramble in front of the net.

After having let Ottawa score its third the second period when superstar captain Guy Boucher and his trusty assistant Todd goal late in the second period, McGill still Marcellus orchestrated a sneak attack that had a chance to come back in the third, but put the puck on Ivan Murray’s stick in Ottawa stood strong. Two minutes into the front of the net. Murray did not hesitate in period, Gee-Gee Martin Gagnon went in flabbergasting the Concordia goalie as the all alone on Bourbeau and rifled one into puck found a lovely home behind his pads the top comer. McGill spent the rest of the period scrambling to take advantage of in the back of the net.

The Redmen spent the rest of the several power play opportunities, but they game not only defending their 3-0 lead, but would score only one more goal at 10:53 of defending themselves from cheap shots the third when Latullipe let loose a boom­ and provocations from the Concordia play­ ing shot that the Ottawa goalie’s children ers, coaches, trainers and waterboys. Some will probably feel the effects of.

Ottawa dumped their fifth goal into an stellar performances from Martin Routhier and the much-improved goaltending of empty net at the end of the game, leaving Bourbeau kept the Redmen focused for the the Redmen in the dingy basement of the rest of the game, and generally ignoring the division with a record of 6-8-1.

By Iames K ing The McGill track team weekend results were nothing but positive.

The women won their half of the meet with a final tally of 147 points while St. Lawrence University came in a distant second with 91. The McGill men on the other hand, ended up in sec­ ond place behind St. Lawrence with 145 points.

Head coach Dennis Barrett made it clear that he wasn’t worried, summing up the meet in simple terms.

“It was a good meet and we performed well,” he stated. “It was a confidence building event.”

Coach Barrett went on to say that even though McGill won both the men’s and women’s titles last year, that wasn’t the main objective for this year. This season’s squad was much more intent on fine tuning their performance in some of the events, so that they could inch their way to the provincial championships and raise their number of qualifications for the national champi­ onships.

At the Plattsburgh Indoor Cardinal Classic Invitational, there were a few improvements on Barrett’s team. Gerry Zavorsky managed to win the gold in the 1500m in 4.04.2, and cut down his time on the event by three to four seconds.

Rosie Mullins also won the 1500m, running the event a solid five seconds faster than she had in the previous meet at York University.

Considering the track at Plattsburgh had a length of 160.9 metres (a small track) and was not near­ ly as fast as one at the McGill track, Barrett felt that the team’s improvement was only an indica­ tion of good things to come.

The 55m high-hurdle race proved to be a challenge for both the men and the women, even though both Peter Pound and Lianne Johnson won silver medals in their respective races. The women’s 500m sprint was to be one of the women’s strongest events with the Martlets tak­ ing the top three positions. Andrea Taylor came in first with a time of 1.21.43, Carolyn Healuy came in second and Meredith Motley came in third. In the men’s 500m race, Tom Greenberg took the bronze medal for his efforts.

McGill badminton denied spot

By M ila A ung -Twin_________ McGill’s badminton team returned from the final tourna­ ment of the Quebec Students Sports Federation regular sea­ son this weekend, just missing the third and final provincial playoff berth by one point.

McGill finished fourth in the five-team field in league play.

M artlet volleyball back on track

By Paul C oleman If you listen carefully enough, you may be able to hear a muted whimper emanating from Concordia’s Loyola Campus this week. Over a recent eight-day stretch, four contin­ gents of McGill athletes have frustrat­ ed Stinger opponents and caused them to turn away, licking their collective wounds.

“I t’s been a bad week for Concordia in sports,” said McGill sports inform ation guru Earl Zuckerman. “And you can quote me on that.”

Such was the case Sunday after­ noon at the Sir A rthur Currie Gymnasium when the McGill Martlet volleyball team silenced the visiting Lady Stingers in three matches (15-

12, 15-6, 15-9), despite the absence of veteran power hitter Paula St. Amaud.

The Martlet corps are buoyed this year by an imposing air of confidence and a palpable cohesion that could handily pilot the squad to a debut playoff appearance.

“We’re in a good position to try and finish second place in the league,” said head coach Rachelle Beliveau after the win against Concordia. “Of course, now we can’t lose another match until the playoffs.”

“I think we have a very good chance because together we can do anything,” said power hitter Lisa Mrak. “We have seen this at our pre­ vious tournam ents, that we are a strong and effective team together.”

A refreshingly ‘coolheaded’ approach to the game has rendered the

In other competition, Alex Hutchinson ran a brisk 2.36.94 race to win the men’s 1000m, and Melanie Bassett won the women’s 1000m with a time of 3.08.23. Samir Chahine won the shotput event with a distance of 13.7 metres, and Craig Payne came in with an honourable third place standing. Max Oates, who has already qualified for nationals in the triple jump, and Leanne Johnson both came back with silver medals in the triple jump.

Alesha Green led the way to a clean sweep of the 200m, with a time of 27.58 seconds to take the gold medal. The silver and bronze went to Tamara Costa and Fiona Balkenende respec­ tively. Pumulo Sikaneta won the 300m event with a time of 38.64 seconds, and Kirk McNally won the bronze. Lastly, the women won both the one and two mile relays, posting times of 4.21.1 for the one-mile race and 10.06.9 for the twomile run.

Although McGill did quite well at the Cardinal Classic, it was made fairly clear that the invitational was not the toughest challenge in the indoor team ’s season. According to Tom Greenberg, this was just what the team needed.

“Because it was fairly light competition, the invitational gave our team a chance to work on different aspects of their events and the chance to try some new events,” said Greenberg.

The track itself was not of the highest quali­ ty, and as it turned out, neither were some of the officials. Some of the races were started in the wrong place on the track, and one was started without any warning.

“The gun went off and people started run­ ning, but no one was prepared for it—especially the timers,” Greenberg explained.

After testing the water at Plattsburgh St. with some new line-ups, the coach and the team are excited about the two last meets before the provincial championships. The team will go to the University of Toronto on February 4, and will end their regular season at home on February 11. After the meet on the eleventh, the team will head to the Quebec Student Sports Federation conference championships on the 24th and 25th of February. Hopes are running high.

Martlets less susceptible to emotional fluctuations on the court than in years past.

“We started the season off really well,” said Monika Volesky. “And then got down on ourselves when we played mediocre. The season has real­ ly been a bit of a roller coaster ride but we have been able to slowly get things back on track.”

Against Concordia on Sunday, M cG ill’s relative com posure and experience prevailed throughout a marathon first match that was rife with defensive lapses and inconsisten­ cy at the service line on both sides of the net. Ultimately, the Martlets were able to overcome an early Stinger lead and quash their diminutive and inex­ perienced opponents.

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It is the first time that the team has failed to qualify for the playoffs in four years.

The Quebec university badminton season consists of a series of three major tourna­ ments in which teams accumu­ late points based on perfor­ mances in five categories: indi­ vidual m en’s, individual women’s, men’s and women’s doubles and mixed doubles competition.

According to head coach Frank McArthur, this season’s squad was “the strongest McGill has had in the last five years.” The problem has been that the team has been weak­ ened at times by some of the stu dents’ inabilities to rearrange their academic schedules, and consequently having to opt out of tourna­ ments.

The absence of key play­ ers in badminton tournaments has compromised the team’s outcome on several occasions, as points are amassed for the total number of victories posted and standings are determined by the opponents that teams beat collectively.

McGill played well in last weekend’s tourney, finishing

the season positively, but had to contend with their poor placings staged in earlier in the year.

Fortunately for the play­ ers, all is not lost for the McGill’s badminton team. The individual provincial finals begin on February 25 at l’Université de Montréal and McGill has some strong players representing the squad.

Dougall Molson, who was last year’s runner-up in the sin­ gle men’s category, and Bruno Dion and Maryse Filion, who are the reigning mixed doubles champs will all be participating in the event.

The players are also antici­ pating the first ever OntarioQuebec Challenge Cup. McGill will play host to the top two university teams from each province. With the tournament, coach McArthur, who is also the league commisioner, has been able help to organise a chance for post-season play for universities beyond the provin­ cial championships. This will give the Redmen and Martlets the chance to challenge oppo­ nents outside of the five Quebec universities they’ve been meeting all season.

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January 24th, 1995

Hockey Martlets cooled off in weekend pair

By C hristopher Rigney Heading into last weekend’s league play, the M artlets were sporting three wins and two ties in their previous eight games, and tak­ ing major steps to re-establish the reputation of the women’s hockey program at McGill, which has suf­ fered greatly in recent years. Two weekend losses have temporarily cooled the Martlets’ hot streak, but have the team eagerly looking to resume its playoff run with three regular season games remaining.

Last Friday’s game saw the M artlets travel to their “aw ay” league venue in Repentigny, Quebec, 45 minutes outside Montreal. Playing in the league’s ‘BB’ division, the Martlets faced off against Team LECI, and were hand­ ed a 4-1 loss. Heidi Bloomfield notched a goal for McGill, but the Martlets were unable to generate any more offence in the losing effort.

The next night saw the Martlets return to the friendly confines of McConnell Winter Arena, with a chance to erase the previous night’s result. W ith a sparse yet vocal crowd of 73 fans on hand to support them, the Martlets came out strong against the the Devils, whose teal and purple uniforms looked like something out of the professional roller hockey league. McGill was forced to kill off two penalties dur­ Tuesday, January 24 The Latin American Awareness Group is meeting to discuss plans for the coffeehouse. Non-members are welcome! 5 pm, Shatner425.

LBGM Coordinating Com­ mittee. Everyone welcome. 5:30 pm, 432 Shatner.

The Graduate Nursing Student Colleagueship presents Dr. Bernard Shapiro speaking on McGill’s role in the education of professionals for the 21st Century and Dr. Lynn Curry speaking on Educating nurses to meet the demands of the 21st Century. 4-6 pm, Wilson Hall room 104 Wednesday, January 25 The Department of Hispanic Studies presents an infor­ mation session for students interest­ ed in exchanges with Spanish speak­ ing universities. 3 pm, Samuel Bronfman, Room 696.

LBGM Bi-sexual discussion group. Both men and women wel­ come. 5:30 pm, Shatner 423.

Thursday, January 26 The Centre for Developing Areas Studies presents Prof.

Noumoff speaking on Aid vs. Trade and Dr. Greg Block, Head of the Legal Division of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation (NACEC) speaking on Environment, Development and Trade. Wine and cheese will be served. 5:30 pm, Thompson House, 3650 McTavish.

McGill Cancer Centre presents Dr. Michael Moran speaking on Structure-Function of Ras-GAP.

ing the 15-minute running-time first period, but still managed to outshoot the Devils eight to six with some tenacious shorthanded play.

The second period began with the game still scoreless, but the Martlets continued to apply the pressure. Three minutes into the second session with the Martlets on the power play, forward Beth Brown took a long pass and broke in alone against the Devil goaltender, only to hit the right post.

Minutes later the Martlets had yet another breakaway, one of four in the game, but could not beat the suddenly stellar Devil goaltender.

At the 6:20 mark of the second period, with traffic in front of Martlet netminder September Weir, the Devil right defender fired a slap­ shot from the point, which deflected off the bodies in front of the net and eluded Weir. The goal, which made the game 1-0, appeared to deflate the M artlets, who gave up another goal only one minute later.

In the unenviable posi­ tion of having to erase a two-goal deficit, the Martlets opened up their game in hopes of catching the Devils, but the opposing goaltender repeatedly closed the door on McGill, turning away shot after shot. The Martlets’

focus on offence resulted in a hand­ ful of defensive lapses and cost them two Devil goals which sealed the victory.

M artlet coach John Clarke, while disappointed with the week­ end losses, remained upbeat about his team’s progress.

“A hot goaltender cost us the game,” he said. “I believe that we outplayed and outshot them, and a fluke goal broke our backs. It’s a tough pill to swallow.”

“We had a two minute break­ down, and in a short game like we play, that makes it really rough to come back,” Clarke added.

11:30 am, McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg. Room 903.

CBC Radio/McGill Concert Series presents a three-part concert series entitled Music and War. The first concert will be held at 7:30 pm, Pollack Hall.

presents Trace Sitter and Robin Gorn, poetic land of folk and pop and Sue Mendel, singer-songwriter in women’s tradition. Admission $2, 8:30 pm, 3625 Aylmer.

Women’s Discussion Group.

All women welcome. 6 pm, Shatner 423.

The Arts Undergraduate Society of McGill will be hosting its first annual Snow Ball, a semi-formal event in the new “Hall of Fame”.

Dance to live Jazz! Audio-visual presentation on huge video screens!

All proceeds donated to the Canadian Cancer Society, $15, tick­ ets available in advance at Sadie’s Leacock. For more info call 3981993.

SSMU Council Meeting. Items on the agenda: info on 398-VOTE; revisions to Electoral By-Laws; Distribution of Undergraduate Student Senators; Long-Distance Telephone Plan. 6 pm, Shatner B09/10.

McGill Students for Literacy General Meeting. All are welcome!

Returning tutors MUST be there! 6 pm, Shatner Cafeteria.

Friday, January 27 Andy Sheppard is playing at the Alley with special guests The Garden Bards.

LBGM’s Coming Out Group.

Specifically deals with issues of coming out, sexuality, dealing with friends and family. Everyone is wel­ come. 5:30 pm, basement of the United Theological College, 3521 University Street.

LBGM general discussion group. All welcome. 7 pm, UTC basement, 3521 University.

The Centre for the Study and Teaching of W riting presents Michael Walsh speaking on Computing Facilities for Writers at McGill. 9:30-11 am, Faculty Lounge, Faculty of Education.

The Yellow Door Coffee House

Saturday, January 28

The Faculty of Music presents the McGill University Chamber Orchestra. 8 pm, Pollack Hall.

ICSA dinner at Thompson House. Call 398-6816 for more info...tickets are limited.

Monday, January 30 The Biochemistry Department presents Dr. J. Woodland Hastings speaking on Cellular and Molecular Biology of Bioluminescence in a Dinoflagellate and its Circadian Control. Noon, McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg. Room 903.

The Faculty of Music presents Sherri Karam, soprano. 8 pm, Pollack Hall.

The Faculty of Music presents Pierre Cayer, oboe. 8 pm, Redpath Hall.

Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay Visible M inorities discussion group.

Everyone is welcome. 7 pm, Shatner 432.

Clarke still believes that his team is on the road to respectability.

“It took the first half of the year to develop the systems, and now in the second half of the sea­ son, we’re playing for wins,” said the volunteer coach. “We’re good enough now to win any given game and hopefully we can get on a roll before the playoffs.”

Before the playoffs begin in a few weeks, the Martlets have three more regular season games, as they play in Repentigny on Friday night, before travelling to Hanover, New Hampshire to play the Dartmouth Big Green on Saturday.

The Organic Food Co-op orders organic produce and dry goods every Monday between 12:30 and 6:30 pm in the Q-PIRG office (3647 University, just below Pine).

Newcomers are always welcome!

For more info call 398-7432.

Ongoing The First Annual McGill Mixed Media Literary Fest is looking for submissions from all McGill stu­ dents. All works selected will be per­ formed at the “One-Night Event” in Morrice Hall the first week of April.

All works will also be considered for publication on Montage 1995.

February 1 is the deadline.

Submissions to DESA box in Porter’s office of Arts Building, Montage, the Department of English Student’s Journal, is now accepting submissions for the 1995 issue. Contributions of poetry, prose, photography, artwork, essays, doo­ dles ect. are welcome. All McGill students are encouraged to submit.

Place submissions in the DESA box in Porter’s office of the Arts build­ ing. Deadline is January 31.

Latitudes, the McGill Journal for Developing Areas Studies is accepting submissions of interdisci­ plinary, undergraduate papers relat­ ing to developing area issues. Submit two copies of your paper to Latitudes’ mailbox, Shatner, oppo­ site SSMU desk. If your paper is selected, you’ll be published in an international journal by March.

Deadline: January 31. For more info call 279-5413.

The Drama and Theatre Dept, presents The Servant of Two Masters — the hilarious complica­ tions of love that arise when Beatrice disguises her identity and has a

Volleyball...

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“In our first game we weren’t serving well but once we got into the rhythm, things started to go very well,” said middle blocker Valerie Bender.

Standing an intim idating 6’5” , McGill’s Britta Weise guid­ ed a near impenetrable net game for the Martlets, while Anie de Lafontaine established an offen­ sive momentum both at the service line and over the middle.

A fter establishing healthy point cushions in games two and three, coach Beliveau was at ease to dig deeper into the roster, while C oncordia was com m itted to adhere to a short bench — subbing only once to accomodate an injury to L illiputlian Stinger settc^m .

Eleanor Chan.

The Martlets are slated to visit the Stingers once again in regular season play on Friday February 8, before hosting the Sherbrooke Vert et Or on Sunday, February 12.

“Sherbrooke and our team are very^ even,” stated Bender. “If we can beat Laval in three, then we can beat Sherbrooke.”

“There’s no doubt about it,” added W eise,” a second-year Education M ajor from Pointe Claire. “We’ll have to put every­ thing together because they are a very strong team but I think that this is the year that we can do it.”

secret lover! February 8-11 and 1518. 8 pm, Moyse Hall, Arts Bldg.

For more info call 398-6070.

Blood Drive ‘95! All week in the McConnell Engineering Common Room, 10 am-5:30 pm, daily. Give the gift of life or come out to volunteer. Prizes to be won!

For more info call 398-4396.

The Hong Kong Dragon Students’ presents “Countdown Hong Kong 1997”—the exhibition includes souvenir and food sales!

January 24, 25, 26, 10 am-5 pm, Leacock 232. For more info call Vincent Law at 288-1387.

The Hong Kong Dragon Students’ is offering a Cantonese Language Course for only $15.

February 1 to March 29. For more info call Vincent Law at 288-1387.

Jerzy Warzecha presents “A Painting and Mixed Media Art Exhibition.” January 9 to January 27, McGill Faculty Club.

Questioning your sexuality?

Needing information? Or do you have any other concerns? LBGM offers confidential peer-counselling.

Monday-Friday, 7-10 pm, 398-6822.

Tuesday Night Cafe Theatre presents the Montreal premiere of Wolfboy - the story of the develop­ ing friendship between teens Bemie, a suicidal football player and David, the rebel werewolf. Monday, January 23 to Saturday, January 28. 8 pm.

Morrice Hall Theatre, 3485 McTavish.

McGill Opera presents The Bartered Bride, a comic opera sung in Czech. January 20-23. 7:30 pm, Polloack Hall. For more info call 398-8933.

Arts Undergraduate Society

C a ll f o r

Journal Submissions <None> ANTHROPOLOGY The C u ltu ra l D ig e s t: " D r u g Free W a y to P ro m o te R e g u la r ity " We are asking for submissions of short papers, book reports, travel reports, politically correct or incorrect cartoons, and ethnic recipes. Basically, we are looking for ideas and thoughts on current events having to do with race and gender rela­ tions: culture, archaeology, and developmental issues. Please drop off submissions to the Anthropology office (Leacock 718) in the ASA box. Tentative deadline, March 1, 1995

EAST ASIAN STUDIES The J o u r n a l o f E ast A s ia n S tu d ie s welcomes your submissions, from all disciplines, related to East Asia and Southeast Asia. Inquire at the East Asian Studies bulletin board at 3434 McTavish.

ECONOMICS The M c G ill J o u r n a l o f P o litic a l E c o n o m y is entering its 20th year of publication. It is seeking submissions from undergraduate and graduate students for its April 1995 issue. All papers con­ cerning any facet of economics will be consid­ ered. The Journal is distributed to the McGill Economics community, various libraries and uni­ versities in North America and policy-making insti­ tutions. To take advantage of this kick-ass oppor­ tunity, leave a copy of your paper, along with your phone number, in the Economic Students' Association (ESA) mailbox, at the Economics Department office in Leacock 443.

Deadline: Monday, January 3 1st.

P.S. Remember to save your article on a computer disk.

HISTORY H is to ric a l D iscourses, the undergraduate jour­ nal of the McGill History Department, is seeking student papers for its upcoming Spring issue. Of course, we welcome submissions from undergrad­ uates in ANY faculty, anthropology to psychology, provided that they are historical in nature.

Applicants should submit 3 copies of their graded and type-written essay to the History Students' Association box in the History Department office, Leacock 625. Papers should be 10-35 pages in length. Please remember to place your name and phone number on each copy. The final deadline for submissions is February 10, 1995. For more information, call Javier at 849-4639.

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS The M c G ill J o u r n a l o f In d u s tr ia l R e la tio n s is looking for high quality papers that have already been graded in the field of industrial rela­ tions. We are looking for a representational col­

lection of the works in the disciplines of econom ics, management, and sociology. If interested, submit a copy of your paper, preferably on a computer disk, to the Student Association mailbox in Leacock 712. Extended deadline: February 10, 1995

JEWISH STUDIES The M c G ill U n d e rg ra d u a te J o u r n a l o f J e w is h S tu d ie s. This scholarly journal pub­ lished by the Jewish Studies Students' Association affords YOU an incredible opportunity to have your writing showcased on an international scale.

The Journal will be distributed to all university campuses in Canada and selected institutions in the United States, Europe and Israel. We are now accepting submissions of high academic quality in English, Yiddish and Hebrew. The deadline is reading week (February). Leave essays in the office of the Department of Jewish Studies, 351 1 Peel Street. For more information please call Ben Gonshor at 486-7010 or e-mail: cxag@musica.mcgill.ca.

LATITUDES L a titu d e s, the McGill Journal for developing area studies, is accepting submissions of interdis­ ciplinary undergraduate papers relating to devel­ oping area issues. We are also accepting submis­ sions of photos and or graphics. Submit two copies of your paper to Latitudes' mailbox, Shatner Building, opposite the SSMU desk. If your paper is selected then you will be published in an international journal by March. The dead­ line is January 31, 1995. Call 279-541 3 for more information. Each paper submitted gets one free cookie at our bake sale on February 14, 1995 in the Leacock lobby.

MIDDLE EAST STUDIES For more information about the M c G ill J o u r n a l o f M id d le E ast S tu d ie s please contact Ellen at 421-1429.

The Review seeks to encourage undergraduate scholarship that crosses disciplinary boundaries in pursuit of a complete understanding of academic issues. Our submissions deadline has been extended to Thursday 26 January. Please submit three graded copies of your paper to the Review box at the Leacock Porter's office. The Review will appear in early April. Watch for it!

PHILOSOPHY P h ilo s o p h ic F ra g m e n ts , McGill's Undergraduate Philosophy Journal, is looking for submissions from any McGill undergraduate pur­ suing her/his first degree (and who is not in a professional program) who has taken at least one course in philosophy. Papers may be of any length as long as the subject matter is distinctly philosophical. For more information please do not hesitate to call 932-6025. Deadline: February 10, 1995.

THE PILLAR Hey kids! The Pillar is looking for submissions! If you have any poems, short fiction, photos, or art work that you would like to have published, let us help you out. Submission deadline is January 30, 1995. Material can be dropped off in the Pillar's mailbox— first floor of the Shatner Building, across from the SSMU counter. Our next issue will come out in early March, and you can be part of it.

Empty out your closet and submit! Please call Tracy for more information at 286-8904 or Kelly by e-mail: bqyj@musicb.mcgill.ca.

POLITICAL SCIENCE The M c G ill J o u r n a l o f P o litic a l S tu d ie s wel­ comes submissions relating to politics or to any political issue from graduate or undergraduate stu­ dents. Please contact Tinda at 932-8420 or leave two copies of your paper (not on computer disk) in the Political Studies box in Leacock 414. The deadline for submissions is January 30, 1995.

PSYCHOLOGY MONTAGE The Department of English Students' Literary Journal is accepting your submissions of poetry, fiction, artwork, photography, doodles and essays for the upcoming 1995 issue. All submissions will automatically be considered for the 1995 McGill Literary Festival - a multimedia presentation of original material by McGill students. Please include your name and phone number and submit to the D.E.S.A. box in the Porter's office in the Arts Building by January 31, 1995.

THE McGILL REVIEW The M c G ill R e v ie w o f In te r d is c ip lin a r y A rts . High quality writing, attractive layouts and cover art, and a foreword by James Tully made the Review the most interesting new journal at McGill last year. This year will be even better.

The M c G ill J o u r n a l o f P s y c h o lo g y seeks to provide a forum in which to showcase undergrad­ uate student research initiatives in the Department of Psychology. We accept second and third year theses. Independent submissions are also encour­ aged. Please bring your paper to Sonia at the MPSA office in room N 7 /8 of the Stewart Biology Building, or phone 398-61 18 for more informa­ tion.

SCRIVENER This year's theme centres around erotic material.

Scrivener welcomes submissions of poetry, short fiction, criticism, and graphics. Deadline is January 30th and submissions can be left at Scrivener's box in the Arts Building Porter's office.

For more information please contact Geronimo at 849-7851.

For additional information please call April or Rick at 398-1993