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News Do SSMU candidates know what they are get­ ting into? The Tribune’s first ever election quiz.

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Huffing and puffing will blow your brains in, plus a look at the many ways to skin a cat.

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Editorial A lament for next year’s Students’ Society See Page 6

ENTERTAINMENT Rukus music, dramatic dramas, and a sweet deal for all you faithful read­ ers.

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SPORTS Men’s basketball sets up for best of three provin­ cial championship series against ConU, after elim­ inating Bishop’s in the semi-finals.

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Columnists T. Frankel.................... Page7 P. Darvasi.............. Page 15 B. van Dijk.................. Page7

Departm ents Crossword................... Page8 Observer.......................Page8 What’s O n............. Page 23 Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Student’s Society 398 -2700 Centre Contre l’Agression de l’Association des Étudiants de L’Université McGill

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By Kashif Z aho or

Home court advantage. To most teams this instills confidence and a sense o f comfort. Teams in any sport, especially basketball, have superior records on their home floor.

But for every rule, there are those few exceptions. The Martlets were that exception, as they posted a below-.500 record at the Currie Gym in the 1994-95 campaign. In addi­ tion, lingering memories of a similiar circum stance at home in the Québec U niversity Basketball League championship game were a cause for concern.

Only a year ago, the McGill M artlets had their bags all but packed for Calgary for the Canadian Interuniversity A thletic Union nationals. McGill’s promising sea­ son was cut short tragically when they lost to Concordia on their home court in the QUBL finals.

This year, tenth-ranked McGill played host to the eighth-ranked Laval Rouge et Or last Saturday in the QUBL championship game for

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the right to go to the CIAU nationals in Thunder Bay, Ontario. The Martlets and the Rouge et Or split the season series at two games apiece. Laval, coming off a surpris­ ing 70-61 win over the Stingers in the semifinals, was looking to play the role of “spoiler” again and to avenge a loss in the provincial finals two years ago against the Martlets.

In the opening m inutes, the Rouge et Or effectively slowed the flow o f the game, paralysing McGill’s usually potent offence and holding the Martlets to just 12 points through the first ten minutes. The offence was also hampered by the deafening noise created courtesy of the boisterous Laval fans whose drums, symbols and constant chants of “dee-fence” caused McGill to make abundant errors. The makeshift Laval “band” coupled with the reserved M cGill crowd would lead an impartial observer to think the game was being played in Laval.

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By C hristopher R icney

After nearly two months of meetings, Athletics Reclassification Committee chair Sevag Yeghoyan presented the committee’s findings to the Athletics Board last Tuesday.

The board voted to pass the commit­ tee’s reclassification recommenda­ tions but not to pass other elements of the report, calling for a “new and completely revised” set of reclassifi­ cation criteria.

The new criteria would be established before the department undertakes any future review of the university’s teams and sports clubs.

The team which gained the most from the reclassification review was undoubtedly track and field, which was elevated from its previous status of sports club. The co-ed team now has level-two uni­ versity status, providing the team with partial funding from the univer­ sity and improved facilities priority.

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The recent completion of the fieldhouse, complete with track and field competition facilities, strength­ ened the team ’s reclassification chances.

Track and field coach Dennis Barrett explained that the reclassifi­ cation of his team will be critical to its success.

“The goal is to be competitive not just at the provincial, but at the national level, and something like this helps to establish our program that much m ore,” said Barrett. “[Fund-raising] is also one less thing to worry about, and I won’t have to spend as much time hassling the team members to sell chocolate bars.”

The Athletics Board, led by chair Richard Pound and Director of Athletics Robert Dubeau, concluded that there was not sufficient consen­ sus about the committee’s report to the board. The result is that the com­ mittee must draft another report to

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be approved by the board at their next meeting later this month.

The decision was made after committee members Lynn ButlerKisber, McGill’s associate dean of students, and the Martlet Foundation’s Hubert Lacroix expressed reservations about the report, which Yeghoyan drafted fol­ lowing the committee’s final meet­ ing.

Lacroix, who played an integral role in the creation of the current reclassification system in 1990, was disturbed by Yeghoyan’s recom­ m endation that the criteria be changed, asserting that it was “prac­ tically a full-time job” for the 18 months during which the criteria were formulated. Lacroix, whose anger appeared to typify the lack of com m ittee consensus, failed to attend any committee meetings dur­ ing the review period. Lacroix, how­ ever, could not be reached for com­ ment.

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Yeghoyan explained that reviewing the system does not have to result in its complete disposal.

“I know that a lot of work went into creating this system ,” said Yeghoyan. “I don’t think that we should throw it out, but rather we should work with it to make it bet­ ter.”

Dubeau was satisfied with both the findings of the committee and the board’s recommendation that the committee redraft the report.

“I think that the committee’s findings correctly reflect where the teams and sports clubs are at this point in time,” he said. “There sim­ ply did not exist consensus among the committee members, and so they must meet until they can agree on a new report.”

University teams and sports clubs will have until mid-March to appeal the com m ittee’s results before the committee presents its final recommendations to the board.

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cause for serious alarm. to be answered. When asked to “It was kind of a third floor “The porter saw this the next comment on the incident, Hiebert thing,” Odeh said. “Some of the A disturbing prank at Gardner morning and was very disturbed,” declined, citing there were issues residents were not on good terms Hall Residence last term which a she said. “It was not a pretty relevant to the case that have yet to with the floor fellow.” floor fellow interpreteu as a death sight.” be resolved. Skerrett-Roberts Randall also suggested that threat has resulted in a third floor It was only at the end of the refused to elaborate on the incident differences existed between resi­ resident being barred from return­ weekend that Hiebert came for­ for reasons of confidentiality. dents and Thibodeau, whom she ing next year. ward and admitted being responsi­ Residents who agreed to dis­ deemed “not too popular.”

In what third floor resident ble for what he maintained was a cuss the incident felt that while the Thibodeau maintained, how­ Alex Randall called a “game that joke. ever, that she had never went way too far,” third-year stu­ As the Tribune con­ perceived her relations “S tu d e n ts a t M c Q ill h a v e a r ig h t dent and resident “Beer G od” tinued speaking to people with Hiebert as a cause Daryl Hiebert left an outline of a about the story, details t o h e a w a r e o f w h a t ’s g o i n g o n of concern. body spattered with ketchup on the about the incident became “Daryl was a a n y w h e r e o n c a m p u s .” floor in front o f floor fello w noticeably scarce. Efforts returning student Nadine Thibodeau’s door. Since at Gardner to contain amongst about five oth­ Thibodeau was not in at the time, inform ation about the — S S M U P r e s i d e n t ers... As far as I know the prank was only discovered the incident make it difficult S e v a g Y e g h o y a n there was no reason for next morning by the hall’s porter, to outline precisely the this to happen,” who reported the incident to events that followed Heibert’s con­ prank may have been out of line, explained Thibodeau.

Gardner Hall director Kathleen fession. the ban imposed on Hiebert was Inter-Residence Council presi­ Skerrett-Roberts.

What is known is that when unnecessary. dent and SSMU presidential candi­ When Thibodeau returned the Hiebert applied for a fourth year at Mouneer Odeh, another long­ date Helena Myers was surprised next day, she was informed of the Gardner, efforts to prevent his time resident of Gardner, called the when she was informed of the con­ occurrence by Skerrett-Roberts. return began. As a result, Hiebert is entire incident “really silly” and troversy involving Hiebert, who “We d id n ’t know where it barred from re-adm ission to argued that Hiebert’s actions “were was Gardner’s IRC representative. came from so I was really shaken- Gardner Hall once his lease not meant to be taken seriously.”

“Knowing Daryl myself, this up by it,” commented Thibodeau. expires.

One issue which surfaced fre­ is totally out of line with his char­ “1 was assuming it was not just a How a prank, misinterpreted quently was the tension level acter. H e’s very easygoing, and prank.” as a death threat, resulted in bar­ between Thibodeau and some of always joking around,” she said. “I According to Thibodeau, the ring a student from returning to the residents on the floor — really believe you should think scene the porter came across was a residence is a question that remains including Hiebert. twice before publishing an article

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One student who wished to remain anonymous suggested that the residents’ unwillingness to dis­ cuss the issue stemmed from the influence of McGill’s director of residences, Flo Tracy.

“Flo tries to put this big cloak of secrecy around residence which she promotes by telling you SSMU is bad and the press is bad,” the student said.

SSM U President Sevag Yeghoyan, who was President of IRC last year, questioned the secre­ cy covering the Hiebert affair.

“I have a problem understand­ ing why the residence population is so fearful of a student paper like the Tribune," Yeghoyan said.

“Although I’m no longer IRC president and I no longer have a mandate to com m ent or get involved in a specific incident such as this, during my experience, Flo Tracy demonstrated great leader­ ship and concern for such matters and thus I would hope that some­ thing like this could be resolved.

Students at McGill have a right to be aware of what’s going on any­ where on campus.”

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new ly-acquired space on the sixth floor o f the McLennan library. This suggestion is opposed strongly Rumours concerning the future of their faculty’s by a group of concerned Religious Studies students. library have caused concern for some R eligious Hauling [ M cG ill's b u tt in to th e 2 1 s t C en tu ry The Religious Studies Undergraduate Society has Studies students. Located in the Birks building, the formed a library sub-committee to address concerns iVith neiV shoiVs for th e 1 9 9 5 - 9 6 if ear. We a re Religious Studies library is a popular place for stu­ about Ormsby’s proposal. That committee, however, is dents from all faculties to study. plagued by conflict among members and a lack of noiV a c c e p tin g n om in ation s (or n ex t g e a r's Members of the university administration have clear leadership. ex ecu tive. C u ttin g -e d g e , e n e r g e tic le a d e r s a re considered closing the library for more than a decade, Two vocal elements within the organisation have but only recently has it become viable to relocate the mixed opinions about the committee’s goal. Rick e n c o u r a g e d to run. E xperience in th e fie ld library’s collection s. Director o f Libraries Eric Gariepy, a master’s student in the faculty, feels the iVoutd b e nice.

Ormsby said that the decision has been a difficult one, faculty must revitalise itself and show itself as an but remarks that it is necessary because of the decreas­ important part of the McGill community. Otherwise, ^ Positions a v a ila b le : ing share o f the university’s budget directed to he says, the faculty will face eventual elimination. libraries. , “I’m not one to push the E xecutive d ire c to r “The main purpose is to panic button, but I think some “ O u r i d e a is n o t to c lo s e make it p ossib le for us to E xecutive p ro d u c e r people are questioning whether d o w n th e lib r a r y , b r in g th e devote very scarce funding to this is one step in a series of b ire c to r s: acquisition of books rather b o o k s o v e r h e r e a n d fo r g e t steps that might just lead to the than to running a separate faculty being a non-entity or #% P rogram m in g (2 ) a b o u t R e lig io u s S tu d ie s .” branch,” Ormsby explained. becoming trivialised,” he said. ^ mi ^ Technical (2 ) Ormsby is beginning con­ On the other side o f the — D i r e c t o r o f L i b r a r i e s equation is David Stewart, a U3 sultations, hoping that involved parties can compro­ E r i c O r m s b y undergraduate student in the Finance mise. In addition to the faculty faculty and Religious Studies M a rk e tin g & Public of Religious Studies, Ormsby hopes to involve theo­ representative to the Senate committee on libraries. logical colleges affiliated with McGill in discussions Stewart feels that the group should concentrate on con­ For m ore info, c a ll H aim a t 8 6 5 - 0 5 6 2 regarding the library. tingency plans in the event that the library’s collection “We want to sit down with [the colleges] about is moved. it,” he said. “We’ve made proposals, we’re waiting for “There are some of us that feel that there’s not their response, and w e’re pretty pragmatic about it. really much that we can do about the library going,” he E lection s iVitl b e h e ld th e follovVing vVeek We’re willing to look at anything that’s reasonable.” said. “The best then is to get the best that we can, the One com ­ best deal. Sure we want to stop [the library’s closure] The McGill Tribune is published by the Students’ Society of McGill University prom ise sug­ but we realise that there may not be much we can do Editorial Office: William Shatner University Centre, Rrn BO 1A, 3480 rue McTavish gested by about it.”

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“It is at university that students are supposed to challenge conven­ should easily be able to reach at McGill students may soon be tion, and here McGill students were

By T yla Berchtold______________ least one of these telephones. entitled to partial reimbursement for successful in challenging the corpo­ SSMU VP University Affairs vaccinations against the Hepatitis B rate world’s view of things,” he An incident of harassment that virus as a result of an unprecedented said. occurred last semester on the path­ Jennifer Sm all argued that Lev Bukhman, SSMU’s con­ move by Seaboard Life Insurance to although the emergency telephones way leading to the Gardner Hall sultant at Seaboard Life, explained include preventive medicine mea­ are helpful, the path needs to be lit residence from the main driveway the process involved in the compa­ sures in a group health plan. through the upper residences has so that dangerous situations can be The board o f directors of ny’s decision. raised safety concerns among stu­ avoided altogether.

“Initially they [Seaboard Life] Vancouver-based Seaboard Life “I know that if I were being dents. refused to cover the vaccination cit­ Insurance, the company that admin­ SSM U President Sevag chased, I w ou ld n ’t stop at the ing a number of reasons, but primar­ isters SSMU’s student health plan, Yeghoyan was recently approached phone and calmly explain to the ily because it is unprecedented,” he voted to change the company’s gov­ security guard that I was being by a student who questioned why erning documents in order to accept said. “For a long time they have concerns about the poorly lit path, attacked,” she said. “The answer the SSMU proposal which violated resisted this. We had some very shielded by trees on the west side, there is to light the path better. We long established practice at the com­ tough negotiating with them.” must illuminate the blind spot so have not been addressed.

“We seem to have managed to pany.

The answer to this question that one can see all the way up and convince them that it is possible and “They have never covered pre­ seems to lie in a lack of informa­ down.” ventive m edicine before,” said desirable to cover Hepatitis B,” he Since being approached, tion on the part of the administra­ SSMU VP Finance Paul Johnson. added. tion, as students have failed to Yeghoyan has submitted a memo­ Johnson was impressed by the “This was a constitutional change to promptly report such incidents. randum to a number o f M cGill Seaboard Life decision. their modus operandi.”

Safety and security at the resi­ administrative members requesting “The willingness of Seaboard “I am very pleased that the dences is primarily the responsibil­ that the installation of an additional company considered the offer,” said Life to adapt itself to the needs of ity of the University Residence safety light/telephone be thorough­ Seaboard Life Senior Account McGill students never ceases to Council and the Inter-residence ly examined by the URC. Executive Tom McGuire. “It’s amaze me,” he said.

Further, there is a call by stu­ Council. Both councils rely on the Bukhman, credited along with never easy to do things for the first reports o f students in order to dents for a report of incidences of Orfaly by Johnson for Seaboard time.” harassm ent to be made public prove necessity for change.

The change would allow stu­ Life’s acceptance of the proposal, A lack o f documented inci­ every week so that students and dents to claim 50 dollars, which rep­ attributed the success to significant dents of harassment has inhibited students’ services may be made resents about two thirds of the cost involvement of the SSMU executive any alterations made to the path, aware of dangerous areas on or off of the vaccination. However, SSMU and council in the student health the campus.

Yeghoyan explained. council must choose between plan at McGill.

Y eghoyan m aintained the “McGill has become a bit of an “People knew these things including Hepatitis B vaccination in were going on when I was in first importance o f filing reports on the health plan and an option to oddball account for Seaboard Life,” cover 100 dollars every two years he said. “McGill is the only account year,” he said. “These things are incidents of harassment.

“It might be difficult at the for the cost of eyeglasses. Only one where Seaboard Life has a direct happening but they are not being option can be included in the plan relationship with the student associ­ documented. The administration time but it benefits the whole com­ ation. We have incredible communi­ sees it [the installation of an emer­ munity by having the courage to | under current premium levels. cation with all sides that allows us report the incident,” he said.

Medical Student Roland Orfaly gency phone/light) as unnecessary Director o f R esidences Flo was a key proponent of the Hepatitis to do really innovative things.” because the incidents are not Bukhman stated that executives B proposal made to Seaboard Life.

Tracey was unavailable for com­ reported.” ment.

Further, McGill’s administra­ tion has argued that there are already safe­ ty lights and em ergency telephones at the parking lot atten­ dant’s booth and just out­ side Bishop Mo unt a i n Hall.

The argument is that an indi­ vidual being h a r a s s e d Wary o f potential dangers on the G ardner Path

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Continued from Page 2 Ormsby emphasised his com­ mitment to securing an amicable agreement for all parties involved.

“Our idea is not to close down the library, bring the books over here and forget about Religious

Studies. It would be to provide ser­ vices for them in a way we could work out with them.”

The F a cu lty o f R e lig io u s Studies Undergraduate Society’s Library Sub-Committee will meet again today, March 7 at 12:15 PM in the Birks Building.

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at many other university student associations don’t give student health plans the attention they deserve.

“The whole strategy from the start is that the SSMU would be in control over the plan and it is done in a very responsible way.”

Bukhman, a former VP Finance at SSMU, initiated the creation of the SSMU student health plan dur­ ing his term in 1991/92.

Both the Hepatitis B vaccina­ tion and the eyeglasses options will be presented for student response in the plebiscite included on the ballot of the upcoming SSMU elections.

Students will be asked to rate these options along with other benefits currently included in the health plan, such as reimbursement of 90% of prescription drug costs.

The results will not be binding on SSMU council, but will likely serve as a guideline for its decision on the issue.

Science Rep Christos Calaritis will be trying to convince students to opt for the Hepatitis B vaccina­ tion option.

“Students do not realise how serious the Hepatitis B virus is and how much of a high risk group we are,” he said. “If there was a vacci­ nation for AIDS tomorrow wouldn’t everyone like to have it?”

Similar to HIV. the Hepatitis B virus is transmitted through the exchange of bodily fluids including blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and saliva. Hepatitis B attacks the liver, and can lead to liver cancer in some chronic carriers.

SSMU Election Quiz

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Each year, candidates in the election for SSM U executive positions make a lot o f big promises to students. But do they have the backgruond to live up to their claim s?

This is difficult to evaluate from candidates’ posters, platforms, or class speeches. In an effort to inform voters about candidates’ know ledge o f the positions they are running for, the Tribune intro­ duces its first ever SSM U election quiz.

The quiz was developed by members o f the Tribune editorial board and other informed students.

M ost o f the questions represent information that w e believe is reasonable for a qualified candidate to know; som e questions are obscure; a few are just plain silly.

Each candidate was asked the questions in a verbal pop quiz. A s you ’ll see w e took som e leew ay in the scoring. (conducted and compiled by Michael Broadhurst, Sara Jean Green, and Monique Shebbeare)

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Don’t know 1. What amount of money did federal Human Resources Development Minister Lloyd Axworthy propose be cut in transfer payments to post-secondary education? $2.6 billion (2 pt)

10. 38 percent 11. Mr. Elliott 12. 26 13.1 do not read Maclean’s.

2. What is the proposed name for a gender-neu­ tral Master’s degree? Magisteriate ( l pt) 3. How many undergraduate student senators are there this year? How many will there be next year? 14 or 15, 13 (4 pt; 2 ea)

14. 16,000 1. $2.6 billion

15. No.

2. Magisteriate.

16. He doesn’t have control of that.

3. 16; 14

4. What was the regular season record of the Martlet basketball team? 8 wins, 4 losses (1 pt)

4. 8-4

5. Excluding this year, name the previous two presidents of SSMU? Mark Luz, Jason Prince (2 pts)

6. Andrew Work

17. a) computing; b) mirrors in hallways and stairwells; c) exam scheduling and science percentage limits (1.5pts)

7. Jean Doré

18. $68 per semester

8. Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, Federation Education des Etudiants du Quebec

19. $2.2 million (,5pts) 20. 1991-92

9. Guy Caron; Don’t know;

Score: 15.5 (44%, F)

6. What former member of the SSMU execu­ tive committee posed naked for the McGill Daily? Andrew Work ( 1 pt) 7. Who is Montreal’s mayor?

Pierre Bourque ( 1 pt)

5. Mark Luz, Jason Prince

21. Ten.

8. What do the acronyms CASA and FEUQ stand for? Canadian Alliance o f Student Associations and Fédération Etudiante Universitaire du Québec (3 pts; 1.5 ea)

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9. Name the current presidents/chairs of the Canadian Federation of Students, The Canadian Campus Business Consortium, Canadian Alliance of Student Associaitons.

Guy Caron (CFS), Bill Smith (CCBC), Paul Estabrooks (CASA) (1 ea, 3 total)

G o o d in s o n

Absolutely no idea.

10.19 percent 11. Earl Zukerman

V P U N IV E R S IT Y A F F A IR S 1. Name three McGill administra­ tion Vice-Principals.

Bill Chan, François Tavenas, Michael Keifer, Roger Buckland, John Armour, Roger Pritchard (Sam Kingdon -.5 points) (Ipt ea, poss. total o f 3) 2. Who chairs Senate meetings?

Principal Bernard Shapiro (Ipt) 3. Who is McGill’s ombudsperson?

Estelle Hopmayer (Ipt) 4. Excluding this year, name the previous two VPs University Affairs of SSMU? Ruth Promislow, Monique Shebbeare(2 pts)

11. Who is the director of athletics?

Robert/Bob Dubeau ( 1 pt) 12. How many voting seats are there on SSMU council? 29 (2 pts) 13. Where did McGill’s libraries place in Maclean’s survey of universities? Last or 15th are acceptable ( 1 pt) 14. How many full-time equivalent undergradu­ ate students are there at McGill? 16,000 (2 pts)

2. Magisteriate

16. None

3. Five and six

17. a) tuition fees; b) recy­ cling; c) swearing in whatshisname, Bernard...

4. 0-3.

5. Jason Prince, Scott Mitic 6. Andrew Work

19. $55 million

7. Lucien Bouchard

20. 1990-91

8. Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, Federation Etudiante des Universités Québécoise

15. Does the President of SSMU vote at Board' of Governors? No. (1 pts)

21. Ten

Score: 8 (23%, F)

7. Who is the Dean of Students?

Irwin Gopnik ( 1 pt)

15. When did the university begin its current review of McGill’s sexu­ al harassment regulations?

1992-93 (2 pts)

8. Four issues discussed at Senate this year ( 1.5 pts ea; write down answers, w e’ll check; 6 total) 9. What former McGill law student was charged with “personation” in 1993?

(Alias - Rick Jones; Real name Roger Benjamin — alias is 1 pt, real name is bonus pt)

Elizabeth Elmwood

10. 20 percent.

20. For what school year did the Quebec gov­ ernment allow universities to raise their tuition fee levels after a fifteen-year freeze?

1990-91 (1 pts) 21. How many full-time staff does SSMU employ? 14 (within 12-16, 1 pt, 14 is two pts)

Current President Sevag Yeghoyan

30.5/35 (87%, A)

1. Pass.

2 . 1 don’t know 3. Judy Stymest 4. I’ve only been at McGill this year and the past two 5. You got me there.

6. The Inner Circle, the Council of Elders

Peter Mazoff

2. Don’t know.

5. Mark Luz, Jason Prince.

17. a) sexual harassment; b) first-year seminar program; c) computing committee future direction and modem fees; (1.5pts)

6. Andrew Work

18. $100

7. Pierre Bourque

19. $2 million

8. Canadian Alliance of Student Associations, Fédération Etudiante Universitaire du Québec

20. 1991-92

3. 10, 10 4 . 1 have no clue.

9. No idea.

21.30.

Score: 13.5 (39%, F)

13. More than the number of in province students if I’ve been reading the student papers correct­ ly14. Too many 15. Not soon enough 1 6 .1 don’t know but if it were McLennan-Redpath a lot of stu­ dents would be homeless.

S co re : 2.5 (7% , F) 6. Student Senate Committee 7. Irwin Gopnik

9 . 1 have no clue

15. No. 16. None.

8. Not a clue.

9. Benjamin.

8. a) student services fees; b) stu­ dent code of conduct; c) sexual harassment; d) introducing Shapiro

14. 20,000.

1. $200 million

31/35 (89%, A)

12. You are just picking on me because I’m American and don’t know the answer.

13. Second last.

18. How much does each student pay to SSMU each year? $104.74 ( 1 pt)

Current VP Jennifer Small

11. It’s a review that goes in cycles. How’s that for a circular definition?

12. 30. (Ipt)

17. Three issues discussed at Senate this year (1 pts ea; 3 total)

16. Which of McGill’s libraries was closed this year?

Library and information Science ( 1 pt)

10. Somebody who is certainly not in her early twenties

M y e r s

11. No idea.

12. What former McGill administra­ tors are now the presidents of Queen’s University and the University of Western Ontario, respectively?

William/Bill Leggett, Queen’s; Paul Davenport, Western ( 1 pts ea; 2 total)

14. In 1993 the university published a study on sexual harassment at McGill; what percentage of women at McGill had been harassed?

15 percent (1 pts)

7. Irwin Gopnik H e le n a

16. By how much did Paul Martin raise tuition fees in the recent federal budget? None - it’s a provincial jurisdiction (1 pts)

19. What is the annual budget of SSMU? $2.4 million ( 1 pt)

18. Too much

11. What is a cyclical review, in 25 words or less?

A periodic external evaluation o f academic or administrative depart­ ments at McGill. Looks at strengths, weaknesses, priorities, etc. and makes recommendations (3 pts)

6. What is the name of the commit­ tee of student senators that is chaired by the VP University Affairs?

Senate Board Caucus (1 pt)

13. Thirteenth 15. Yes

10. Who plays Andrea Zuckerman on Beverly Hills, 90210?

Gabrielle Carteris ( 1 pt)

13. How many out-of-province stu­ dents will enter McGill’s faculty of medicine first-year class next year?

0 (2 pts)

12. Thirteen

1. About $50 billion

«35 p ts,

5. List three committees which the VP University Affairs is responsible for appointing student representa­ tives. ( 2pts ea; write down answers - there are fa r too many to list; max 6 pts)

14. 17,000 (Ipt) 10. What percentage of students at McGill are francophone within 3 percent?

16-22 percent (1 pt)

M arch 7th, 1995

10. Gabrielle Carteris

1. Bill Chan, Roger Buckland, Bill Leggett 2. Bernard Shapiro 3 . 1 don’t know 4. Ruth Promislow, Monique something 5. First-year seminars, Academic Priorities and Planning Committee, Accessiblity

11. Depending on the length of time period a comprehensive overview and critique of the ser­ vice in order to evaluate what has been done and improve for the future 12. William Johnson, Bill McDonald 13. Zero 14. Thirty percent 15. End of 1993-94 school year

S c o re : 19 (54%, D)

SSMU Election Quiz

March 7th, 1995

Lisa Grushcow

8. a) Revisions to the Student Code of Conduct; b) Budget long-term planning; c) student composition of senate d) anti-drug policies for students

2. Bernard Shapiro

12. Don’t know

3. Estelle Hopmeyer

13. Zero.

4. Ruth Promislow, Monique Shebbeare

14. Between 10 and 20 percent (0.5pt)

5. Academic Priorities and Planning Committee, any Dean selection committee, equity sub­ committees

15. 1992-93 16. Library and Information Science

6. Senate Board Caucus 7. Irwin Gopnik

Score: 27.5 (79%, B++)

V P E X T E R N A L <»,«> 1. What is the phone number of the WalkSafe Network?

398-2498 (1 pt) 2. Translate the following phrase into French “Canada’s colleges and universities are the principal means by which most young people pre­ pare for the labour market and they are also among the most important sources of new knowledge and employment skills for adults. In any given year, nearly one million Canadians are enrolled full-time and many others part-time in for­ mal post-secondary programs.”

Au Canada, les collèges et les uni­ versités constituent pour les jeunes le principal moyen de préparer leur entrée sur le marché du tra­ vail, et ils comptent parmi les sources les plus importantes d ’aptitudes professionelles et de conaissances nouvelles pour les adultes. Chaque année, près d ’un million de Canadiens s'inscrivent à temps plein (beaucoup d ’autres le faisant à temps partiel) à des pro­ grammes d ’enseignement postsec­ ondaire structurés. (6 pts) 3. Who are the leaders of Quebec’s four major political parties?

Jacques Parizeau (PQ); Daniel Johnson (Liberal); Keith Henderson (Equality); Mario Dumont (Action Démocratique) (.5pts ea, 2 total) 4. Excluding this year, name the previous two VPs External of SSMU? Andrew Work, Jeff Percival (2pts) 5. Name Quebec’s Minister of Education. Jean Garon (2 pt) 6. Name the Member of Parliament of Saint-Henri—Westmount, and who s/he replaced. Lucienne Robillard, David Berger (2 pts) 7. Name the former McGill dean who is currently the chief econo­ mist for a major Canadian bank.

(Bonus point for the bank) John McCallum, Royal Bank o f

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4. Andrew Work and Jeff Percival 5. Jean Garon.

6. Lucienne Robillard, David Berger.

10. Oh, give me a break. I have no clue, I don’t own a TV.

1. Bill Chan, François Tavenas,

7. John McCallum, Royal Bank 1. 398-2498.

2. Les réseux de colleges et d ’uni­ versités condiems sont les moyens principaux ave lesquels la plupart de jeunes préparent pour la marché de travail, et ils sont aussi parmi les sources les plus importants de savoir nou­ veau et de préparation pour l’emploi pour des adultes.

Chaque année, presque un mil­ lion de canadiens et canadiennes sont inscrits à temps plein et beaucoup plus d ’autres à temps partiel dans des programmes postsecondaire formelles.

3. Parizeau, Johnson, Dumont, Henderson.

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8. Université du Québec à Montréal, Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université de Sherbrooke 9.1990-91.

10. Yaqzan.

11. Get a life.

12. Jean Charest.

13. Isabelle Girard, Marian Tremblay, Andrew Work.

14. Quebec.

15. $1,668.

16. Australia, New Zealand.

S c o re : 35 (100%, A + ) C h r is

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Canada ( 1 point, possibly two) 8. List four french language uni­ versities in Quebec.

Possible: UQAM, U de Montréal, U de Sherbrooke, Université Laval (1 p t each, only one Université du Québec answer is accepted) 9. For what school year did the Quebec government allow univer­ sities to raise their tuition fee levels after a fifteen-year freeze?

1990-91 (2 pts) 10. Name the University of New Brunswick math professor tem­ porarily suspended last year for “sexist comments”.

Matin Yaqzan ( 1 pts) 11. What Redmen football star played in the American Shrine Bowl last year?

Matthieu Quiviger ( 1 pt) 12. Name the only federal party leader to visit the office of the Tribune in the past 36 months.

Jean Charest ( 1 pt) Name three of the five leaders of the Commission Francophone operated by SSMU last year.

Isabelle Girard; Marian Tremblay, Isabelle Turcotte; Andrew Work, Jean-Francois Pouliot (1 pt eafor possible total o f 3) 14. Which province still offer grants to university students, in addition to student loans — Ontario, Quebec or Nova Scotia?

Quebec (2 pts) 15. What is the maximum tuition fee level (annual) allowed by the Quebec government?#/,550 (3 pts) 16. Name two countries that have implemented income-contingent loan repayment programs.

(Australia, Sweden, New Zealand, Current VP Nick Benedict s e e b e lo w ...

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Susan Nickerson (2 pts) N ic k

9 . 1 know he had two names but I don’t remember either of them.

11. Is a periodic réévaluation of a particular service in this case at the university for example the review recently conducted at Dawson Hall (2pt)

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6. Name the university representa­ tive to FMC. Wes Cross ( lpt) 7. Name SSMU’s last food con­ tractor that stayed for longer than one year (prior to the current one), and which previous contractor SSMU is currently embroiled in a lawsuit with. Scott’s Foods, Poly Cuisine (2 pts) 8. Name the company that pro­ vides SSMU’s group health insur­ ance plan. Seabord Life (3 pt) 9. What does CCBC stand for?

Canadian Campus Business Consortium (3 pts) 10. When did SSMU incorporate? (what year) 1992 (2 pts) 11. Name three Daily editors.

7 p t ea. 3 total 12. How much does each student pay to SSMU each year?

Approximately what percentage of SSMU’s total revenue is that? $104.74 (within 104-105); 45% (2.5 pts ea; total 5) 13. What is the overall financial target of McGill’s current capital campaign, the Twenty-First Century Fund?$200 million (2 pts)

Russell R Kissoon 1.398-6800

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2. It’s my understanding that the SSMU will pay for any french lessons I want to take in the sum­ mer.

2 . 1 admit my french is lacking but I will be dedicated to getting my french up to par. I won’t be auto­ cratic; I’ll make sure I got lots of people who are bilingual and fran­ cophone on my team.

3. The guy who got his leg ampu­ tated, and I don’t know the rest.

4. Andrew Work, and before that I wasn’t at university so I don’t think I should be subjected to your age-discrimination ques­ tions.

3. Jacques Parizeau, Daniel Johnson, Mario Dumont, Bob Rose 5. Gagnon.

2. the contract on Bernard Shapiro’s life; £4.6 million

5. Raised his hands in defeate.

6. Robillard, Berger

3. 4.6 million Deutschmarks

6. I’m American so I don’t follow with your little Canuck politics.

7. David Johnston, CIBC

4. Filthy Minds’ Collective, Prim and Proper

7 . 1 know who used to be princi­ pal of McGill, but I don’t think that counts.

8. UQAM, Université de Montréal, there are probably more but I can’t think of any.

4. Andrew Work, Alex Usher

8. UQAM, Université de Montréal, Université Laval, Université de Sherbrooke 9. 1991-92 1 0 .1 can’t remember 11. Don’t know.

9. Huh?

12. Jean Charest.

10.1 forget.

11. Raised his hands in defeat.

13. Nick Benedict, Alex Usher, Marian Tremblay.

1 2 .1 don’t know.

14. Quebec.

13.1 don’t know.

15. $3,000.

14. It’s Ontario.

16. Australia, New Zealand.

1. Not big enough

5. Paul Johnson, Nickerson, Nickerbocker, Nickersomething, Susan, Julie... I could pick her out in a police line-up!

6. Me. 7. Why are you asking me this stuff?

8. Seafarer Life

1 5 .1 don’t know.

9 . 1 know the answer to this one.

Why’d you have to ask me some­ thing I know? Canadian Commercialist Bolshevik...uh, there’s another “C” there right...

Circus... I like Circus.

16. United States, Belgium.

10. 1972

S co re : 4 (11%, F)

S c o re : 14.5 (41%, F)

11. Me, Michael Broadhurst, Dave Ley 12. Not enough, 3.14 percent

V P F IN A N C E 1. How large is SSMU’s accumu­ lated debt? $220,000 (3 pt) 2. What major contract is SSMU sending to tender? What is the annual revenue from the current contract? Food Services; $380,000-390,000 (3 pts) 3. What is the annual budget of

(30 pts) SSMU? $2.4 million (4 pt) 4. What do the acronyms FMC and P&P stand for? Financial Management Committee, Planning and Priorities (2 pts) 5. Excluding this year, name the previous two VPs Finance of SSMU? Paul Johnson,

13. To rape, pillage and plunder all students, former students, staff, faculty and anyone else who will give us cash.

S c o re : 3.5 (10%, B)

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M o ro n s , In c .

By M ichael Broadhurst

Each year, a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed assortment of McGill undergraduates get 100 apathetic and disinterested students to “nomi­ nate” them for SSMU’s assorted elected positions. Then, come March, the rest of the students ignore two weeks of tiresome campaigns that do little more than irritate.

This year’s campaign is no exception; many candidates are boring, unqualified and unable to display any propensity for the job (please see pp. 4-5). With apologies to the Red H erring's slate, who at least weren’t trying to score points, the results were abysmal. Yes, some questions were obscure, but anyone who wants to earn $10,000 of your money should know the job before they start, not after. An average score hovering around 50 percent does very little to inspire confidence in a team to which students will pay more than $50,000 in the next twelve months.

Look no further than the presidential race to find a vivid example of how poor the candidates are. At other universities, the president of the students’ council is a coveted position, with every do-gooder Brandon Walsh lining up to earn the big bucks and grease the hands of the administration. What does McGill get? Steve Ahn and Helena Myers. Please. Ahn seems to think that his repeated absence at SSMU council meetings isn’t a cause for concern; Myers seems to believe that her qualifications as Inter-Residence Council President (read: organiser of res parties and ski trips) makes her the representative you want at the federal, provincial and university levels. Once again, please.

Wandering through the sea of campaign posters and empty rhetoric is profoundly disappointing. What these candidates are trying to do is convince us that they are interesting, qualified, and able. Sorry, but they have to do much better. At least this year there are enough speakers’ forums for students to inform themselves (although who the genius at SSMU was that put the Shatner forum in room B09/10 is beyond me...) In years past, SSMU has had interesting races on which to focus: Mark Luz vs. Jason Prince, the Shatner referendum, Cornell Wright coming out of nowhere to win as a freshman, the Shatner refer­ endum, and last year’s wire-to-wire presidential race that saw four can­ didates separated by less than 40 votes. This year we have the wildly exciting SSMU plebiscite!!! Do you read a) the Tribune; b) the Daily; c) your textbooks; d) English? And a VP External candidate who doesn’t speak French. Great.

To their credit, Lisa Grushcow, Nick Benedict, Tanim Ahmed, Jen Harding, Tracy Strong and Kelly Remai are good candidates, and all of them have indicated they know the positions they seek. Otherwise, the cupboard is bare.

Until SSMU does something to improve its profile on this cam­ pus, you will continue to be confronted by moronic candidates who will inevitably waste your money and time next year. At the University of Western Ontario there were ten (!) candidates running for president, a normal number; at least two-thirds of those candidates are qualified.

The questionnaire we adm inistered is an idea borrowed from Western’s Gazette; there the candidates do very well. The scores of Ahn and Myers would have put them among the “joke” candidates.

But a joke is what you will get. A farce, at the low, low price of $10,000.

Sylvie Babarik, M onique Shebbeare.................................. News Editors Lizzie Saunderson , Paromita S h a h ............................. Features Editors Joyce Lau , H arris N ewman ............................... E ntertainm ent Editors A llana H enderson ...............................................................Sports Editor Liz Lau , Emma Rhodes ........................................................ Photo Editors M icol Z a r b .......................................................................Network Editor Ram Randhawa , N icholas Ro y .........................Production Managers Sanchari C hakravarty................................... Promotions Coordinator Paul S lachta............................................................ Marketing M anager A nne-M arie Racine, Panciotis Pana golou polos .............. ...Adsales Barbara M ac D ougall, D on M c G o w a n ............................. Typesetters A my H utchison ................................................. W hat’s On Coordinator

Deadline is Friday at Noon.

Interviews will be conducted within one week.

L e t t e r s ...

...to the editor

Genetic immunity is Shatner’s failure I should like to offer my opin­ ion in the raging brush fire argu­ ment over the name of the building at 3480 McTavish Street, known variously as the University Centre, the Student Union, and the William Shatner University Centre. I whole­ heartedly agree that the building should not be named after a Bgrade actor who attended McGill just because it was an easy com­ mute.

However, I should like to go one step further and say that I do not approve of this fine institution’s name. Why should students living in this advanced age be subjected to the name of a white male furtrader? Exactly what has James McGill done for us lately? Also, I bet that McGill was also a “fat, balding” man, as one person so succintly described Shatner. If we name a building after anyone, it should be after a perfect physical specimen, one immune to genetics’ ravages.

Most respectfully, David Bushnell U2 English

P.S. Mark Luz’s column was titled “Political Memoirs Chapter 1”; Does this mean that we will be treated to subsequent chapters?

Please say yes!

Who is this Katya person?

I am writing regarding nothing that has to do with anything in the Tribune.

I heard a strange rumour from a friend of mine that I had “gone straight” because I “found God”.

The rumour apparently began with a woman named Katya, who I do not know and obviously does not know me very well.

I am religious — always have been religious — but the United Church o f Canada would never make me cede my sexuality for God. (They don’t mind queer peo­ ple.) Also, I am bisexual. (Can’t help it!) These two things do not m utually exclude each other regardless o f what some o f the fascistic queers on this campus (who are running for VP External) may tell you.

Just thought I would clarify.

M oreover, I think that people should acquire hobbies or lives rather than speculate about what former students are doing since

they have left McGill.

Lotsa’ Love, Mary-Margaret Jones Toronto

Impeccable logic Thank God the federal govern­ ment has finally come to its senses and is downsizing like the private sector has been doing for a long time. As any corporate executive can tell you, you’ve got to cut back on your payroll if you’re going to be competitive in the new global econom y. The elim ination o f 45,000 jobs is a major victory for the m iddle cla ss. Too bad it couldn’t be 90,000; then we could all be twice as happy. If there’s one thing Canada needs now, it’s less jobs.

I just hope those civil servants who lose their jobs won’t be given UIC benefits or w elfare. Why should the hard-working middle class pay taxes so those lazy bums can sit around at home, drinking beer, watching TV and fornicat­ ing? As everybody knows, if peo­ ple don’t have jobs, it’s because they aren’t w illin g to work.

Everybody knows that giving peo­ ple m oney to do nothing only encourages laziness and fosters See Letters Page 7

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Nomad’s Land B y Ted Frankel

It recently became apparent to me that politics had stooped to its lowest point since they outfitted Nixon for his prison jumper. I was watching the Super Bowl (alright I was out cold drooling into my cracker jack s) when I heard a familiar voice which startled me from my stupor. Mario Cuomo, the former Governor of New York, had taken a hold o f the airwaves to make an important announcement to his former constituents. Holding back emotion and a bag of nachos, he revealed to the world that Doritos had changed its packaging.

Cuom o’s gesture reeked of zesty cheese. Democratic politics, never a stranger to com m ercial interests, had officially become partners with its evil capitalist twin.

Yet as the 49ers began to cele­ brate their victory (that is, as the

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first quarter ended) I had a change of heart. Why let silly ethics stop p olitician s from becom ing full blown television stars? As masters of both drama and comedy, legisla­ tors could play a key role in pro­ viding entertainment content for the barren information superhigh­ way.

I’m certain our elected offi­ cials would be enthusiastic about the career change. Guys like Ted Turner and Ted Rogers (notice a trend?) could flaunt the kind of cash in a p o liticia n ’s face that would make kickbacks from spe­ cial interest groups look like drink­ ing money.

So, as a service to the viewing public I’ve drawn up a potential line-up for the 1995 fall season.

The following are brief sketches of some of the programs you might

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The sun is slowly winning its battle with the wind. Now that the great orb manages to give off a lit­ tle heat and sets sometime after five, Montrealers are crawling out from under their rocks like so many pasty larvae.

What can you see as you stand blinking in the unaccustom ed brightness of almost-spring? Your friends for one thing — they’ve all been in v isib le under hats and scarves for the past three months.

(That is, if you have intelligent friends. I have no patience for those who cling to the remnants of adolescent vanity and walk around trying to give themselves frostbite.)

Less pleasant apparitions are glistening on the melting snow.

Have you noticed the large selec­ tion of puke puddles available to be avoided on St-Laurent every week­ end? And I thought French sophis­ tication was supposed to be con­ ducive to civilised drinking habits.

Hopefully the puddles will disap­ pear soon, when bar-goers stop suf­ fering from Seasonal A ffective Disorder...

Despite some disgusting habits (and visiting Americans are proba­ bly responsible for the puke any­ w ay), M ontrealers do have an admirable ability to cope with win­ ter. Granted, it’s easier to deal with winter in Montreal than in Moscow these days, but this city really does have effective depression-counter­ ing traditions.

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7 Love Lucien This half hour sitcom stars Lucien Bouchard as a domestic engineer trying to raise his children as proud Quebeckers. The conflict revolves around Lucien’s attempts to convert his apartment building into both a consulate for sovereign Quebec and a poutine joint. Ralph Klein is hilarious in the role of Lucien’s nosey neighbour. Klein’s nutty antics include stealing Lucien’s false leg and using it to hoist a Canadian flag at the top of the building. Candice Bergen stars in a supporting role as Lucien’s blond bombshell wife, who pacifies the Bloc leader at the end of each show by singing classic Mitsou tunes to her bedridden husband.

• Welcome Back, Yasser This show features Yasser Arafat as a wise-cracking teacher of a bunch of Islamic fundamental­ ists. Placed in a m iddle school located in the Gaza Strip, Yasser tries, and often fails, to keep his

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For example, the annual prom­ enade down St-Denis on the first warm weekend is a fine practice.

St-Laurent may be a more eclectic street, but it ’s St- D enis that attracts the w indow shoppers.

When finished with their personal parades, people sit outside cafes huddled up in their coats and con­ torting them selves into strange positions to feel the full effects of the sun. To anyone from outside Canada or perhaps Mongolia, the cafe-goers seem crazy — but we all know their behaviour is the only logical response to February.

The St-D enis promenade is not only the first chance this year to sip cafe au lait outside. It is also the first chance for many new par­ ents to show o ff their bambinos.

Large cutesy hats seem to be the thing this year — Montreal’s style doesn’t skip its tykes. And who says Quebeckers aren’t reproduc­ ing them selves? The number of strollers tootling about all of a sud­ den would give any good national­ ist a thrill.

A café on St-Denis isn’t the only place to be when it gets sunny. The pavem ent outside EuroDeli is a good place to see how many different colours it’s possible to dye your hair when you’re bored from being trapped inside by the snow. Smurf blue and scarlet are preferred by the more avant-garde, although white-blond is still acceptable. Green dye seems

to be out, but since blue hair makes a lot of people’s faces look green anyway, you can always get two colours for one.

There’s really only two down sides to spring, and since no one but my roommate and I suffer from the second, life is pretty good.

The mounds o f dog shit revealed by the melting snow make a potential slip on the ice into a nightmarish contemplation. That’s one downer. The other downer is that my landlords (a family) open their door when the weather gets nice. They live in the apartment downstairs, and this weird sickly mothballish/rotting smell emanates from their home when they open the door. Sometimes I wonder if they have the dead bodies of previ­ ous tenants buried under their floorboards. I invite any Chemistry major to come and identify the odour if they can — it would be nice to know if there’s any toxic threat to my health. But you see, that spring stink is not a problem for anyone else.

Oh, there is one more problem with spring. Sure, the hint of balminess now in the air is exhila­ rating, and the possibility of bury­ ing your boots in the closet is thrilling, but more suffering is real­ ly just lurking around the corner.

Mid-terms, term papers and finals galore are about to suck you inside just when you thought it was get­ ting safe to frolic in the great out­ doors. But since I’ve been assured that it always snows on April 1, those papers may get full attention after all.

Beatrice doesn ’t know the dif­ fe r e n c e b etw een S a tu rd a y and Monday.

goofy students from firebombing passing Israeli patrol cars. The show centres around Y asser’s attempts to get his rambunctious students to study nature instead of modern terrorist tactics. When Yasser is unable to motivate his underlings, made up of an ensem­ ble cast o f actors and actresses from True Lies, the group is placed in solitary confinement by the stiff collared Israeli principal, played by Yitzhak Rabin. Laughter flows and Molotov cocktails fly in this new age comedy.

• Three’s Company, Too When Jimmy Carter comes to liv e with Ronald Reagan and George Bush in a fancy apartment in New York City, all three find bipartisan cohabitation a real chal­ lenge. Wild slapstick humour is the strength of this program, as each of the elder statesman suffer through debilitating illnesses which inter­ fere with their ability to walk.

Reagan and Bush help keep their liberal-minded roomate from being evicted by their bumbling, ultra­ conservative landlord, Pat Buchanan. One episode involves the geriatric jokers’ attempts to cure their constapation with one of Carter’s special southern remedies.

When Buchanan overhears them

Continued from Page 6 dependency. Why should hard­ working taxpayers be forced to subsidise laziness? B esides, as everybody knows, w e’re taxed to death anyway.

Mark Marshall B .A .1988

Smitus interruptus We take the strongest possible exception to the Tribune’s charac­ terisation of the recently submitted referendum question concerning the dissolution of the McGill Daily.

You stated, categorically, that stu­ dents will not be able to vote on this important matter. This is not

talking in the kitchen, he thinks th ey ’re d iscu ssin g a universal health care plan. No canned laugh­ ter is necessary for this high calibre comic bonanza.

• McTavish Street Blues This one hour cop drama fea­ tures none other than the outgoing SSMU executive council. Sevag Yeghoyan plays the affable com­ mander who struggles to maintain cohesion within his feuding police department. When lieutenants Jen Small and Cornell Wright try to poison Yeghoyan with a Marriott chicken burger, detective Paul Johnson foils the plan by having the cafeteria shut down for health code violations. Nick Benedict gives a stunning performance as a mean-spirited officer who wants to run the show when the other four clod s are gone. Special guest appearances are made by a variety of 1995 SSMU candidates but their performances don’t impress.

There you have it, concerned citizens. These shows are no doubt Emmy bound. I can just imagine Yasser Arafat’s face when he gets seated with George Bush at the awards ceremony.

Ted Frankel watches too much television. necessarily true, although the SSMU Chief Returning Officers did, in an odd ruling, declare the question unconstitutional. We nat­ urally appealed to the Judicial Board to have this decision over­ turned. And there remains, yet, the possibility that this referendum w ill proceed during the March election period.

We find it unnecessary and unwarranted to dash prematurely the hopes of those many thousands of McGill students eager to smite this objectionable publication.

Rolf Strom-Olsen, MA 2 Leslie Ravestein, U3 Arts Editor’s note: Well excuse us.

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both husband and wife said that the husband always brandished the shot­ gun, but it had never before been loaded, and the couple were both A lex U sher adamant in stating that neither knew it had been loaded on this occasion.

This, if true, would have turned the whole thing into an accident.

However, further investigation revealed a witness who stated that the couple’s son had been seen loading the gun six weeks prior to the accident. His mother had cut him off financially and he apparently wanted to pay her back by loading the gun and hoping it went off in her direction the next time his parents got into an altercation.

Now Opus’s death could be considered murder two on the part of the son, and the hunt was on to find him.

It turned out that the son had become increasingly despondent over his father’s failure to use the gun and provoke his mother’s death, and so had decided to end his life by jumping off the top of a ten-story building.

The coroner closed the case as a suicide.

Hollywood is always a fertile field for self-destruc­ tion; both in terms of careers (remember Ishtarl), and lives (Belushi and Monroe being the most famous).

However, for our purposes, the greatest Hollywood sui­ cide must be that of the notorious starlet Lupe Velez in 1944. She had recently divorced famed jungle man Johnny Weismuller and was feeling that she must end it all. She prepared herself a final, sumptuous Mexican meal, retired to her bed (which was surrounded in can­ dles and flowers), swallowed a bottle of Secanol, and prepared to die in gracious repose. This dramatic death was spoiled by the intestinal interaction between chilli peppers and barbiturates. About to vomit, she ran to the bathroom, slipped on the smooth tiles, and wound up head-first in the toilet, where she drowned.

Suicide is of course taboo in most societies. In Japan, it is prohibited by the constitution. This fact set the stage for one of the most fabulous trials in Japanese history. One day in 1948, Sadamichi Hirasawa entered a bank and, claiming to be the company doctor, instructed the employees to line up and take their medicine. The medicine turned out to be cyanide, and while the twelve employees were busy dying, Hirasawa made off with 700 dollars. He was captured, found guilty of murder and sentenced to death. It was at this point that his lawyers sprang into action. Their client, they said, was aware at the time he committed the crime that his actions carried the death penalty. Therefore, they reasoned, to put him to death would effectively constitute suicide, which was unconstitutional. The court agreed and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

The Faculty of Ephemera

Self-destruction is one of life’s great mysteries.

Why do some people, through despair or stupidity, destroy themselves? The evidence that this is a great social problem is all around us. Self-destruction can hap­ pen to anyone: m ovie stars, promising medical researchers, the Habs’ defence and the McGill budget have all been subject to this phenomenon in recent times.

(You want comparisons of great universities? OK, consider this: the University of Toronto, which actually has a library to speak of and student services which are easily available and in terms of quality are not stuck somewhere back in the Eisenhower era, has dealt with budget cuts by making academic departments wait any­ where up to five years to fill positions left vacant by departing staff. At McGill, facing the same limitations, they cut library acquisitions, cut student services, and, after claiming to put on a hiring freeze, allow faculties to hire 57 new profs. Bravo.)

The Faculty has recently come into possession of some unique papers dealing with suicide and selfdestruction and found some particularly interesting case studies. One which was recently described at a meeting of the American Association of Forensic Science — and I make no particular claims as to its accuracy — is as fol­ lows: One Ronald Opus was brought into a coroner’s office. He had died of a shotgun blast to the head.

Further investigation revealed that Mr. Opus had attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the tenth story of a building. The building was equipped with net­ ting on the eighth floor in order to catch potential jumpers. Mr. Opus apparently sustained the bullet wound while passing an apartment on the ninth floor.

Typically, coroners would say that if someone tried to commit suicide by method A but only succeeded by method B, then it’s still a suicide. However, the presence of the netting, which precluded the possibility of suicide by method A, actually turned suicide by method B into homicide. They decided to check out the ninth floor apartments.

It turned out that at the time of the jump, an elderly couple on the ninth floor were having an argument.

Apparently, the husband was brandishing a shotgun at his wife, shot at her, missed and killed Mr. Opus. This, if true, would have made the husband guilty of second degree murder, which is the typical charge if one shoots at person A and accidentally kills person B. However, Alex Usher gets away with murder in this column. ^ * « W > J A \« r t^ V V tt\\S \\\\W A y \V .V .V .V .V A V A V J A V A W ............ .............................. ..................

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2. Name five SSMU clubs.

(2 pts, 1 p tfo r 3 or more)

1. $250,000 (2pts) 2. Food services, $380,000 3. $2.3 million 4. Financial Management Committee, Planning and Priorities 5. Paul Johnson and Susan Nickerson 6. John Armour 7. Don’t know.

8. Seaboard Life 9. Canadian Campus Business Consortium 10. 1990 11. Mark Feldman, Rob Abramowitz, Melanie Newton 12. $101, 45 percent 13. $60 million

3. What does the acronym OAP stand for?

Open Air Pub ( lpt) 4. Name three positions which Internal Nominating Committee appoints.

Write down, too many to list (T pt ea, 3 total) 5. Excluding this year, name the previous two VPs Internal of SSMU? Cornell Wright, Julie Dzerowicz ( 2 pts) 6. Name the advertising manager for SSMU publications.

Paul Slachta (2 points) 7. How many concerts did SSMU sponsor this year?

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11. What year was the Daily founded? When did it separate from SSMU?What year was CKUT first on-air?

1911; 1981; 1986(1 pt ea. total o f 3) 12. How many commissioners does the VP Internal supervise?

3 (3 pts) 13. What is the street address and postal code of the William Shatner University Centre?

3480 McTavish St/rue McTavish; H3A 1X9 (1.5 pts ea; 3 total) 14. Name the student most closely associated with efforts (this year) to shut down the McGill Daily.

How many referendum questions has s/he proposed?

R olf Strom-Olsen; 2 (1 pt ea.; 2 total)

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11. 1820, ?, Don’t know 1. $200,000 2. Food services. $325,000 3. $2.5 million 4. Financial Management Committee, Planning and Priorities 5. Paul Johnson, a woman

2. McGill Debating Union, Taiwanese Students’ Association, Christian Fellwoship, Outing Club, Black Students’ Network 3. Open Air Pub 4. Frosh coordinator, Welcome Week coordinator, OAP coordi­ nator

7 . 1 don’t know 8 . 1 don’t know 9 . 1 don’t know

10. How many full-time staff does SSMU employ?

14 (within 12-16, 1 pt, 14 is two pts)

5. Cornell Wright, Julie Dzerowicz

1. Tribune, SSMU Student Handbook, Student Leader Organizational Bulletin, SSMU Journal, SSMU Directory

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The McGill Daily is off the hook again despite SSMU President Sevag Yeghoyan’s attempt to include a question about the Daily in the upcoming SSMU student plebiscite.

Yeghoyan’s proposal, presented at last Thursday’s SSMU council meeting, would have asked undergraduate students whether they want to continue supporting the Daily. However, the result would have no direct effect on the Daily as a plebiscite is a non-binding poll of student opinion.

The suggestion sparked a heated debate, led by the statements of Senate/Board Rep Joe Wong.

“I think that [the recommendation] is one of the biggest dum-dum moves I’ve ever seen in my life,” he said.

Management Rep Lome Daitchman, VP External Nick Benedict and Law Rep Adam Atlas all spoke in favour of Yeghoyan’s proposal.

“I think that organisations should be scrutinised,” said Benedict.

Benedict wrote “Who’s afraid of democracy?” on a blank piece of paper and held it in front of him, prompting Arts Rep Lisa Gmshcow to hold up “Who’s afraid of the DailyT’ Yeghoyan explained the rationale behind his proposal.

“I think the majority of McGill students would be interested to see that question appear,” he said. “Every year people hear about a referendum about the Daily and every year it is rejected on a technicality but this way students would! find out but it wouldn’t be binding.”

The debate ended with a decision to vote on substituting a previously chosen plebiscite question with the question: “Do you read: a) the McGill Tribune b) the McGill Daily c) the SSMU Journal d) the Red Herring “.

However, for the second time in three meetings SSMU council realised after debating an issue that a formal decision could not be made because there were not enough council members present for the vote. So there won’t be a plebiscite question about the Daily after all.

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The Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Science, presents two lectures by Professor Eric Hanushek (University of Rochester).

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N ot a ll is quiet on the anarchist front “I’m not a m ission ary,” of the main idea of violence,” said with social change,” said Christie. echoed Tardif. “Maybe it’s not Several were exposed to the Tardif. “I believe in action.” good for everyone. But I see that idea through the music they lis­ Whatever the variant, states When word of a thriving anar­ I’m not alone in saying that every tened to, notably Dr. Poopstein. and social hierarchies are a taboo chist movement in Montreal came “I came to it through punk young person is treated as abnor­ to the Tribune, several images for all anarchists or, as some like to rock and hanging out with a bunch mal by the system.” be called, anti-authoritarians. This came to mind.

Tardif sees his of people who listened to the same belief lies upon the assumption that E xh ib ition ist punks with job as being part of m usic,” said Poopstein.

“I just people do not need governments to multi-coloured hair, leather jackets, what it is to be an don’t believe in domination.” and chains throwing molotov cock­ live together peacefully. anarchist. As a stre­ While many admit the impera­ “Government means power tails at any public building or offi­ etworker, he works cial while screaming Sex Pistol over but anarchy is power along­ tive of abolishing hierarchies on a with children and global scale has been put on the lyrics are the m ost prevalent side. For me, anarchism is letting young adults who shelf, they are still quite vocal people know they can have power images associated with those who have difficulties at about the injustices they perceive over their liv e s ,” explained believe in the abolition of govern­ hom e, school, or on a local level. Campaigns against ment. W hile the people inter­ Christie. have severe financial Lloyd Axworthy’s reform propos­ “It’s not a strict ideology so viewed may have conformed to the problem s. He ac­ als or the allegedly violent anti­ you can never be wrong, you look, the ideas they expressed did cused the “system’ abortion organisation Human Life know.

1 just try to avoid the places not. o f dehum anising “There is some truth to the where the system imposes on my International are ongoing projects people. in the “c o lle c tiv e ” at the life,” said a 24-year-old man who stereotypes that anarchists are rev­ “In my work, Alternative Bookshop. would only be identified as Dr. olutionary and do things that are we are trying to “I work with the newspaper violent,” said a 22-year-old writer Poopstein. teach young mothers [Démanarchie], I ride my bike and For many of the anarchists we for the anarchist m agazine that they’re not an Démanarchie who would only be interviewed, this is not just a mat­ walk everywhere. I try to keep accident or a crimi­ oppression out of my relationships identified as Christie. “I think there ter o f choosing an ideology but nal. The system with the people around me,” said is a place for violence in anarchy in also a way of life. teaches the mothers Poopstein.

“I did not make a choice to be some ways. Some people have to Both Christie and Tardif main­ that they are,” said do more than just march. For an anarchist. It’s not a concept,” tain that they are not on a mission Tardif. “A lso, I’ve example, for me, the thought of explained Tardif. “It’s supposed to to convert people to their way of been trying to write be included in your life.

It’s about gluing together the locks on a fur in some mainstream putting people in power over their thinking. shop is just wonderful.” student newspapers, “I have no interest in conver­ Stéphane Tardif, a 31-year-old own lives and their future.” so I can put the alternatives out sion.

I think it’s important to have “I became an anarchist when I streetworker, musician, and writer there, put new blood in the system.” for R ebelles, another anarchist started noticing that the world alternative ideas out there. Even “I think that anarchy is viable wasn’t perfect for anybody— that though I don’t agree with liberal­ newspaper, did not agree. in that it is creating different ways ism, I think it’s important,” said there was homophobia, sexism , “I am not a believer in violent people have relationships — a action. They become the followers racism. Liberalism doesn’t cut it Christie.

By P aromita S hah

A e ro so ls are nothing to sn iff at

By D 'A rcy D oran

In the past two years there has been a steady increase in the num­ ber of young adolescents sniffing aerosols in order to get high.

Experts say that this activity could prove fatal to youths and lead to further drug use.

“Huffing” is the inhalation of fumes from common household products such as paint, glue, gaso­ line, and cleaning prod­ ucts.

Huffing is by no means a new phenom e­ non. “Getting ‘high’ by inhaling ether or nitrous oxide was com m on in Europe, Great Britain, and North America during the 1800s. In the 1960s wide­ spread sniffing of the sol­ vents in model airplane glue and nail polish remover began,” explained a report by the Addiction Research Inhalant Foundation based in Toronto.

Users will often concentrate the drug in a plastic bag or soak a towel with the solvents and then place the bag or towel over their mouth and nose. A ccording to ARF, most of the effects disappear within an hour o f inhalation, although hangovers and headaches may last for several days.

ARF said that there are several short term effects. “After inhaling there is a euphoric feeling, charac­ terised by light,headedness..exhila­

counter-institution to allow the option of not having someone else doing your thinking for you,” said Christie.

Poopstein did point out that a

removal of government would not be feasible at this time. “It’s not a question of viability. People just aren’t ready for it. We have a lot of fucking work to do.”

Teach ers launch offen­

suffocations. Sudden sniffing death occurs when the user exerts them­ selves after several deep inhala­ tions. The user’s heartbeat becomes with the modest intention of open­

By T ed Frankel extremely irregular and eventually ing teachers’ eyes to the language fails. Death by suffocation has Just when you thought it was they impart to their young students. occurred after users have fallen “[The pamphlet] was a way of safe to emerge from your personasleep or become unconscious with hole cover, the language cops are promoting awareness when [teach­ a plastic bag or towel over their again out for the kill. Or should we ers] spoke with students,” Seguin nose and mouth. say “in search o f ju stic e .” told the Tribune. “If they use these “Behavioural symptoms in Concerned with the use of catchy expressions in front of children regular heavy sniffers include men­ lines they suggest are laden with they may be carrying baggage they tal confusion, fatigue, depression, violent innuendo, the North York don’t want to show to students,” irritability, hostility, and she said.

W omen T eachers’ A ssociation paranoia. Signs of brain The group’s efforts, however, recently published a pamphlet enti­ damage, including were read by some in the general tled Nonviolent Language to help severely impaired men­ public as an insult to free speech. reform users of warring words. tal functions, lack of After both the Toronto Star and The booklet, which was sent motor co-ordination, Details magazine featured stories out to elementary teachers in the and tremors, have been M etropolitan Toronto region, on the NYW TA’s pamphlet, the noted in heavy users of raised novel queries about the way organisation received several calls toluene (found in con­ from concerned citizens who were we speak. tact cement). Gasoline “If we were to stop and visu­ “up in arms” about the w hole sniffing may produce alise the literal meaning of clichés, affair. behavioural changes “The reaction was ‘how dare colloquialisms and common phras­ due to lead poisoning,” you tell us how to speak’ or ‘how es, would we use them?” asks the stated the ARF report. dare you change the English lan­ pamphlet.

Huffing is most abuse m ay result in sudden death or suffocation It goes on to ask teachers to guage and make it less rich’,” relat­ common among people consider using more passive state­ ed Seguin. physical control, culminating in between the ages of eight and six­ The NYWTA president main­ ments before opting for the old hallucinations, unconsciousness, or teen years of age. A recent drug tains that those who crashed the standards. study compiled by the University of seizures.

“Replace ‘more than one way party, or, rather showed up as unin­ ARF also cited physical effects Michigan reports that one in every to skin a cat’ with ‘different ways vited critics of the group’s efforts, such as unnatural paleness, thirst, five or six American students at to solve a problem’,” the guide missed the point. each grade level has tried an weight loss, nosebleeds, bloodshot “We want our teachers to say suggests. “Replace ‘get away with eyes, sores on the nose and mouth inhalant, but in the United States what they want to say without murder’ with ‘avoid conseand permanent liver and kidney the current use is highest among being militaristically or violently eighth-graders.

An ARF study j quences,” notes the list. damage as long-term effects caused The pamphlet’s authors main­ based,” Seguin said. showed sim ilar patterns with by the repeated use of inhalants.

The Tribune asked McGill stu­ tain their work is not a crusade According to ARF, a number Ontario students although the ratio dents whether they thought there of students having tried inhalants against a foul-mouthed world.

Patti of deaths have been associated with Seguin, the president o f the was something to be gained by inhalant abuse, the most common NYWTA, «.sard -the* project started grç .‘‘sudden sniffing deaths’’ and.

See Violent-speak Page I ) ration, and vivid fantasies. Nausea, drooling, sneezing and coughing, muscular incoordination, slow reflexes, and sensitivity to light may also occur. Some users experi­ ence a feeling of empowerment which may lead to reckless or bizarre behaviour. Solvent abuse has been linked with such antisocial activities as dangerous driving, property damage and theft.”

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ELECTIONS

B a llo t s w i l l b e d is t r ib u t e d t o G r a d u a t e S e c r e ta r ie s o n M a r c h 8 , B a llo t s a ls o a v a i la b le a t T h o m s o n H o u s e .

CANDIDATES TO BE RATIFIED ERIC BURCHILL Iam a student in the School of Urban Planning and Iam running for the position of president of the soci­ ety because Ifeel that the society could do more to serve the needs and concerns of its members. Ifeel that my previous experiences as President of the UNB Student Union and my experience here as a PGSS representative have well prepared me to serve you as an executive member of the PGSS. Please exercise your right and vote.

E R IN R U N IO N S

The most important External issue is funding. McGill has an international reputation for edu­ cational and research excel­ lence. This gives us a respected voice, locally and nationally.

We need to be more creative and more vocal in our use of the position to protect existig funds, and to explore new sources of graduate support.

Iwill do both.

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M arch 7th, 1995

D eath is not a ch o ice, it ’s a fact o f life

By Stephan Patten

The medical field has been accused of being slow to address the treatment and care of the terminally ill. In a lecture called “The Troubled Pursuit of a Peaceful Death”, Dr. Daniel Callahan, President of the Hastings Center in New York, answered the question of why we haven’t been able to improve the way we care for the dying. The lec­ ture, part of the 1995 Sproule lec­ tures on Ethics and Public Responsibility, was presented by the Faculty of Religious Studies last Thursday.

The development of new tech­ nologies in the medical field in the 1960s brought about a re-evaluation in the way we care for the dying.

What were the range o f options offered regarding possible treatments for the terminally ill? Were doctors insensitive to the issues facing dying patients?

This re-evaluation brought about some reform movements like

advanced directives, the hospice movement and training health care workers to treat dying people more humanely. These reforms according to Callahan, a renowned bioethicist, improved little.

“An interesting fact of the mat­

ter is that some 20 to 25 years later, most of those reforms have not brought a radical transformation in the care of the dying. One hears this day many of the same complaints that were heard 25 or 30 years ago,”

H u ffin g ... in South Carolina died after huffing Continued from Page 1 1 was lower. The practice was most “Glade” air freshener.

The official cause of death was common among seventh-graders, a butane overdose that caused his with 3.2% having used inhalants.

“Inhalant use is highest during brain to swell until fatal damage early adolescence and, in addition occurred.

“This is not a prevalent thing, to being quite a dangerous practice in its own right, can help establish like people smoking marijuana, but an early pattern of using drugs to get “ I n h a l a n t u s e is h ig h e s t d u r in g high,” said Dr. Lloyd D. Johnston e a r ly a d o le s c e n c e a n d , i n addi­ who conducted the tion to b e in g q u it e a d a n g e r o u s study for the p r a c t i c e i n it s o w n r ig h t , c a n Institute for Social Research at the h e lp e s t a b l is h a n e a r ly p a t t e r n U niversity of o f u s i n g d r u g s to g e t h i g h . ” Michigan.

“Because this class o f volatile — Dr. L l o y d D . J o h n s t o n , substances is com­ I n s t i t u t e f o r S o c ia l R e s e a r c h a t prised m ostly of th e U n iv e r s it y o f M ic h ig a n legal products found around the home, it has received less attention it is occurring more than you would than it should. It has become an think,” said Clemson Police Chief important part of the drug abuse Johnson Link.

“The scariest thing is the problem, particularly among the country’s younger adolescents,” accessibility and the number of products that can be used,” said added Johnston.

However, inhalants are not Link. “Maybe it’s just my own only used by adolescents, there are ignorance, but I didn’t know that heavy users who are in their late (air-freshener) could kill you. teens and older. Last November, How many kids know that?”

“It’s a quick cheap high, but it Thomas Gray Dickson Jr., a second year student at Clemson University can kill you,” concluded Link.

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Continued from Page 1 1 bringing the issue of violent lan­ guage to the attention of educators.

U2 Science student Dan Roth was sceptical that the pamphlet would do little more than entertain teach­ ers.

“In a light-hearted way it serves to bring up the issue of vio­ lence in our schools but it’s worth­ less as far as practical use for teachers,” said Roth.

U1 Arts student Meeta Roy, an alumnus o f the North York school system, argued that there

ridding schools of non-violent lan­ guage.

“I would sooner address racist slurs than violent slurs because those are more prevalent and more damaging,” noted Roy. U1 Arts student Ben Wilson concurred that the program was indeed a bomb.

“Most o f these phrases are pretty harmless except [for a few],” he said after inspecting the list.

“There’s a lot of other things we should be paying attention to as far as kids and v io le n c e ...lik e the

stated Callahan.

The reason significant improve­ ment has not taken place is that we have mistakenly made death an issue of choice.

“We acted as if we could simply give people more choice, more empowerment,” he said.

This proved to be an erroneous response because it neglected a funda­ mental part of the problem of dying.

“I think we can make a case that by turning death into a choice issue we very sub­ tly evaded thinking about death itself and the meaning of death in life,” argued Callahan.

Medicine, instead of coming to terms with death as a fact of life, has for the last 200 years waged a war against it. Callahan believes death has been portrayed in the medical

community as an avoidable accident.

“People don’t any longer sim­ ply die because it’s part of nature.

They die because it’s their own fault.

They didn’t cure themselves. They die because of a lack of good med­ ical care. They die because they were the victims of the tobacco com­ panies, or the victims of fatty ani­ mals. Whatever the reason, death becomes a contingent event, an avoidable accident,” explained Callahan.

The research side of the medical community is the vanguard of the movement against the “accident of death”.

“Researchers, as far as I know, are combating every known cause of death,” stated Callahan. This attitude of the medical research community carries over into the clinical care community — doctors, and nurses, and health care facilities.

Callahan also spoke of an uncertainty to extend life within the health care system. Although we have new technologies and treat­ ments to postpone the inevitable, we

cannot avoid it.

“The very nature of the case with the struggle against death is that the possibilities are unlimited.... keeping people alive is something we can do indefinitely. Short of immortality, we can go further and further,” argued Callahan.

Callahan suggested that the medical community should alter its attitude towards death and dying.

Because of the war against death, lit­ tle attention has been focused on the care of conditions affecting the qual­ ity of life.

“One consequence of having a great, powerful bias towards the con­ quest of death has been a neglect of all research that affects the quality of life. The whole caring side of medi­ cine has been made a kind of step­ child,” stated Callahan.

“I would think nothing could be more important to improving our position than impressing the notion that the care of the dying patient is just as important a part of the progress of medicine as the care of those who are going to be cured.”

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March 7th, 1995

ENTERTAINMENT Le Cirque de la Mode’s A conversation (sort of) with Caspar Brôtzmann Massaker annual AIDS crusade

By Kristina H orwitz and lOSEPH PlGOTT________________ McGill, Club Metropolis, and Montreal designers will join forces this Friday March 10 in the second annual Cirque de la Mode, a fash­ ion extravaganza in the fight against AIDS. After the success of last year’s first off-campus fashion show, the troops are back and this year promis­ es to be even better.

S t a c e y Shillington, D irector of the AIDS benefit, has assembled a u n i q u e group of d e s ig n e rs and student v o lu n te e rs who share a common goal: to increase AIDS awareness and to break last year’s donation of $6,100 for the improvement of outpatient ser­ vices.

This Cirque de la Mode, held at Club Metropolis, will showcase the designs of fifteen of Montreal’s up and coming fashion talents such as Gary Kupitz and Rick Hanijosa.

Gary Kupitz, a student at the Pierre du Puy fashion school, will wow audiences with what he calls “prètà-porter with an edge”. While the show obviously holds publicity potential for this young designer, it’s clear that above all his inten­ tions are charitable. Basic patterns, in what he terms “a constructed

method”, lay the ground work for a line of feminine and subtle dresses which he hopes will ‘deconstruct’ some of the “doom and gloom” which taint AIDS causes. To top things off, Hanijosa of the bou­ tique Juan & Juanita has generous­ ly offered to host a benefit auction at his store on Sunday March 12 featuring all of the fashions seen at Friday’s show.

If the designers a re n ’t enough to entice you, the fash­ ion show will tickle your funny bone (keeping with the circus theme) with the high-flying per­ form ers of The N ational Circus School. For the hip hop crowd, M ont­ real D J’s Mark Anthony, Luc Ray­ mond and GNAT will pump up the volume with dance and techno tunes for the post-show party. And finally, for the lucky, many Montreal mer­ chants have kindly donated doorprizes and lavish gifts which will be drawn throughout the night.

At fifteen dollars a ticket, a spectacle of this magnitude should sell itself, if only for its fun-factor.

The Farha Foundation for AIDS Research, to which all proceeds will go, undoubtedly makes this a fifteen dollars well spent. Should you be unable to make this show, the Globe Restaurant, located at 3451 St. Laurent, will donate a percentage of their sales the night of March 12 to the foundation.

By Kurt N ewman There is a significant movement afoot among the academic community to eliminate usage of the term ‘avant-garde,’ so misused that it is now almost entirely without meaning. The problem was illustrated clearly

by German noise trio Caspar Brôtzmann Massaker’s show on Sunday night at Café Campus. Brôtzmann’s music is dynamic, new, and in many ways quite revolutionar; its repetitive rhythms and window-smashing guitar hollerings as much a kind of primal prayer as it is an adventure in composition and histrionics. The Massaker was formed in 1988, and has since recorded several critically well-received records and toured relentlessly, including a stop last year in Montreal and at the New Music festival in Victoriaville. The son of famed free jazz saxophonist Peter Brôtzmann (most notable for his work with Bill Laswell and the late Sonny Sharrock in Last Exit), Caspar Brôtzmann brings the energy and ingenuity of ‘serious’ impro­ vised music to his own vocabulary of drone rock and inventive guitar manipulations. Previously reticent to discuss his father in the press, Brôtzmann, perhaps more confident in light of the music media’s recogni­ tion of him as a distinct musical entity, allowed me to query him on his father’s influence. He made it clear that his father, being a jazz musician, had nothing directly to do with his own “avant-garde or industrial music.” Buoyed by this response, I decided to pursue a line of questioning that would help define this music that falls between the cracks of comfortable distinc­ tions. However, labelling is obviously a journalist’s game, and not a musician’s. In very soft, accented English, Brôtzmann quite unintentionally made me feel like a complete moron.

Tribune: “Your music embraces elements of both avant-garde music and noise-rock. How would you describe it if you had to?”

Brôtzmann: “I don’t give these names to my music, because I don’t care. I don’t know why you asked me this question... In all the interviews that I do I really feel that if I could describe what I do, I would have no reason to play my guitar.”

Which makes sense, I suppose. But what does one ask a shy, 7-foot tall Teutonic rock god who refuses to

participate in your little semiotic games? Brôtzmann’s music is not exactly conducive to conversational dis­ section (wow. that ‘Kekersong’ is really wild, Caspar!

Could you tell me something about how ‘Schlaf’ came about?) Luckily, Claude Lamothe, the cello wanker who some sadistic promoter decided would be an appropriate opening act, surfed with the alien right into a lick from Van Halen’s repertoire. It was like getting a complementary copy of Kerrang! magazine with your Utne Reader. Aware of the unspoken Eddie bond amongst all guitar geeks, I seized the opportunity.

Tribune: “Did you ever listen to this stuff?”

Brôtzmann: “Many years ago, when I was on holi­ day in Denmark, Van Halen’s first record came out. I liked it very much, but I never tried to play like him.”

Tribune: “Do you ever listen to Sonny Sharrock or Marc Ribot?”

Brôtzmann: “No.” Caspar was clearly not in the mood to talk about whammy bars and hammer-ons, so I shifted the focus to another misguided attempt at resuscitate the inter­ view. Brôtzmann’s music radiates with Germanic ele­ ments, from his Kurt Weill-esque chants to the almost Wagnerian sturm und drang of his compositions. The only real tradition that the Massaker’s music can be seen as emerging from is that of German rock experimentalism, from Can and Faust to Kraftwerk and (insert your own botched attempt at pronouncing the first word here) Neubauten.

Tribune: “Do you consider your work as coming from a German context?”

Brôtzmann: “No.” While Brôtzmann may have been a trifle uncoop­ erative, his impulse to refuse to answer my silly ques­ tions is rooted in the simple truth that his music tran­ scends easy categories and style camps. Using the most basic elements — whistle, barks, moans, screams — both vocally and musically, Caspar Brôtzmann dares the listener to abandon conventional critical cate­ gories, and just listen, dammit. In an age where most music is judged according to how well it plays in ink, it’s refreshing to encounter a musician whose integrity is not political but artistic. The Caspar Brôtzmann Massaker’s true genius lies in their ability to touch you and make you shut up.

Engine Kid’s low rev rock

By Harris N ewman____________ From the d ep th s o f the American northeast come Engine Kid, purveyors o f big sludgey rock that puts the ‘p ’ back in power trio. Imagine finding some godforsaken Neil Young 45 in the d ep th s o f y o u r p a r e n ts ’ mildew-laden trunk from college and playing it at 33 1/3. “We all like heavy music, and when we jam, it’s kinda known that there’s going to be some heaviness going o n ,” e x p la in e d b a ssist B rian Kraft when interview ed by the Tribune on March 5th prior to th e ir show w ith the C asp ar B rô tzm an n M assak er at C afé Campus.

Shrill bursts o f guitar that m ake the M elvins seem w elladjusted are balanced by hypnot­ ic rounds of uzi-accurate drum ­ ming and stomach-churning bass.

The pace gets frenetic at times, but its the slow , m o m en tu m ­ building drawl that gives Engine K id a u n iq u e edge. “ S pace

always gives notes more interest­ ing attack in a song,” said drum­ mer Jade Devitt.

G uitarist Greg A nderson’s u n d e rsta te d , alm o st spoken vocals give passages of their C/Z records CD Bear Catching Fish a C odeine-laced flavour, but the wall-of-sound faithfully returns, never allow ing the liste n er to drop off into the haze.

H ow ever, the b an d ’s days with C/Z records are done. “It pretty much w ent out o f busi­ ness...we’re sort of not on speak­ ing term s w ith the la b e l,” explained Anderson.“We have a new record coming out on a label called Revelation. The album ’s called Angel Wings, and it should be out next w eek h o p e fu lly .”

Listeners are prom ised another intimate encounter with Engine K id’s penchant for soul-baring covers. “There’s a John Coltrane cover on the new album with frie n d s o f ours p lay in g saxaphone and trumpet and standup bass.”

— After making the 1400+ mile

trek to Steve A lbini’s Chicago Recording Studios, the godless mecca o f indie-rock, to record Bear Catching Fish, Engine Kid chose-to stay closer to home for the two and a half week session for Angel Wings. “We recorded it with John Goodmanson, h e’s a lo cal guy we re co rd e d the Astronaut EP with, a really nice guy and a good guy to w ork with,” said Anderson. “He was able to get some good sounds on the record because he knew us from working with him before.”

Kraft had perhaps the most poetic descrip tio n o f the new album. “It’s more precise, yet it loosens itself, whereas we were loosening Bear Catching Fish.”

W h ile w ell su ited to the Caspar Brôtzm ann bill, Engine Kid are thankfully outside the kingdom that currently rules the land o f M TV , esp e c ia lly the grounds from which they spring.

Explained Anderson, “As a band, we try and create something a lit­ tle different than most rock. I get the feeling- from people- that they

don’t look at us as a typical rock band because our song structures are d iffe re n t and th e way we make the sounds are a lot differ­ ent. I personally don’t care about

Tempting as it may be to buy into the flavour-of-the-m onth, Engine Kid are probably just too damn heavy to ever be beating away hordes o f prepubescent,

Two out o f three ain't bad w hat too m any p eo p le th in k about the music. As far as that goes, we are pretty different in a lot of ways - we aren’t quite as catchy as a lot of current bands that are getting big.” .............

multi-pierced teenyboppers. Said K raft, “I th in k I ’d ra th e r be thought of as a band that is really aw eso m e fo r a few p eo p le. I think its good to stay a little less known and have longevity.”

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March 7th, 1995

D is c e lla n e o u s

Tintera Abbey

...from beginning to end (Independent) Tintem Abbey’s new album is pretty nifty. They have tight fret­ work, and good craftsmanship. The mandolins and intriguing harmony reveal the care in this album. But, it betrays its roots. The great tragedy of the Canadian music scene is that so many bands end up sounding the same. Tintern Abbey sounds ju st like Fall Down Go Boom (whom they credit in the liner notes), and a myriad of other Canadian rock/pop/folk bands.

After a while, all the songs on this album blend into another. As gen­ tle background music to work to, this is a nice album with the occasional hook that catches the ear, but it’s not ground-breaking. Damned with faint praise...

— Nick Roy

‘Datskat’ mesh hard rhymes and wicked, roly poly beats which leave even the cream of hip-hop producers in the dust. ‘? vs Rahzel’ and the jaw-dropping ‘The Lesson Part O ne’ features Rahzel the Godfather of Noize on “everything but the kitchen sink (with his mouth)” in what can only be con­ sidered an understatement — the man lays down vocal bass, horns, keys and scratches that would make Bobby McFerrin scurry for cover. Lots of guest players, including bagpipes (!?!) on the title track and some excellent freestylers make this a winner from start to finish. The Roots play the Savoy on March 22nd.

— Harris Newman

The Roots

Do you want more?!!!??!

(Geffen/MCA) From the heart of P hiladelphia come the Roots, a live ensemble who kick out a glorious blend of jazzy, blue note styled hip hop. The beats and swing are solid as any history-pil­ fering rap groups, but every note on this album is unadulterated live hip hop. Trade digital brittleness for big warm upright bass, fuzzy Rhodes key­ boards and rock solid drums and you have a taste of real Roots-style groove. While the casual listener might never notice the absence of samples, the spontaneity and ener­ gy of this album will shame the break beat forever. The solidity of songs like ‘M ellow M an’ and

Slash’s Snake Pit

I t’s Five o ’clock Somewhere (Geffen/MCA) The same Guns ‘n ’ R oses’ Slash, but a solo album by any other name: this is more a G’n ’R album w ithout the man whose name spells Oral Sex than a solo album for Slash. G’n’R drummer Matt Sorum, ex-rhythm guitarist

Gilby C larke, and keyboardist Dizzy Reed all put in appearances, and gunner bassist Duff McKagan co-wrote the big single off the album, ‘Beggars and HangersOn’. Every song, however, bears the indelible stamp of the man behind the hair; without question, an album for the metal fans in the crowd, and not a Jovi ballad within earshot. Each song rocks, and rocks hard in the Southern blues style that Slash favours. As a result, this is not an album for everyone. If your favourite G ’n ’R song is ‘November Rain’, look else­ where. Those who wince at A x l’s rasp w ill find no solace in Eric D over’s troglodytic howl. This is the way the man with the axe wants it - Slash interviewed 40 potential singers, and D over was the 41st.

However, there is som e­ thing m issing. The misogyny, racism and hom ophobia that characterised a lot of A xl’s songs is m issing from Slash’s work, and so much the better.

But so is the edge. The rant that turned off a lot of listeners also made the gunners what they were, which in some part is why a lot of their solo efforts sank into oblivion.

I t ’s Five o ’clock Somewhere will probably not suffer a similar fate, but it’s only a stop-gap measure. Let’s hope Axl gets bored with non-pro­ ductivity soon.

— Nick Roy Shady

World (Beggars Banquet) The Village Voice recently published an article on rock’s great lunatics, but conspicuously absent was ex-Mercury Rev frontman and current Shady guy David Baker. I must confess that I’m a bit biased,

as I was a Mercury Rev fanboy to kinda sick proportions, but Baker is still a rock wacko extraodinaire.

Sure, all of those Pearl Temple Gardeners wave their hands around and grimace ‘cuz they were picked on in Grade 4, but the difference with Shady is that his psychosis is filtered through a sound closer to Steve Reich than Queensryche.

W orld was com prehensively dissed by some goofball at a local weekly, who found it muddled and

unfocused. W hich is too bad, because it might have scared some people away from a certifiable (pun not intended) masterpiece.

A fter B ak er’s departure from Mercury Rev, and the release of their strong 10-inch Everlasting Arm, there was some worry that Baker was headed to jo in Syd Barret and play with Lego for the rest of his life. World makes it clear that Baker was as responsible as the rest of Mercury Rev for their signature acid gel symphonies that explode in your cranium but remind you that everything’s okay.

The noise bursts, found sound musique concrete backdrops, heli­ um-voiced backup singing, loopy lyrics, and spiky waterfall guitars all return, but in a more traditional pop context. Joined by friends from Th’ Faith Healers, Seam, and Swervedriver, Shady has created a dense, psychoactive soundtrack to the overexposed movies that play in your head after you’ve stared at the sun too long.

— Kurt Newman Alphabet Soup

Layin ’ Low in the Cut (Prawn Song/Attic) A lphabet S o u p ’s debut is jazzy R & B loosely guised in hip hop clothing. Like the Roots, this is a live outfit, but while the Roots succeed in duplicating hip hop’s laid back flava, Alphabet Soup is much busier and higher strung.

The rhyming (which appears only sporadically) is dumped on top of the wavy new jack improv almost as an afterthought, and the long w inded songs often trounce unapologetically through the land of Acid Jazz. O ther than little intros and bridges, such as Herbie Hankcock keys on ‘First Day, Last Night’, the performances are good, but straig h t-u p and bland in places. The p lay ers’ skills are hampered by green MCing and overdone funk bass, but Alphabet

Soup is fine fin g er-sn ap p in g accompaniment for the groove ori­ ented.

— Harris Newman Wayne Kramer

The Hard Stuff (Epitaph/Cargo) From the proto-punk record label to the credibility pumping Hank Rollins penned liner notes, Wayne Kramer looks ready to dive headlong into the angryyoung-men-with guitars thing he pioneered with the MC5 two and a half decades ago. K ram er handles the guitar and m ost of the singing, w hile the rest o f the instruments are handled by a ring of guest stars.

W hile K ram er dishes out a mean serving of punk rawk barre chord guitar like it’s 1969 all over again, it now sounds rather dated due to decades of abuse by his followers. However, this album fails to be as intriguing as the MC5’s m ore tim eless works, and Kramer is definitely no Rob Tyner. The Hard Stuff does have its appeal though — ‘Bad Seed’ has that classic Epitaphian wuntoothreefaw swing, and ‘Pillar of Fire’ pairs a heartfelt chant about AK47s with a stirring tribute to ‘70s rock anthems. The downside are the repetitive songs and the repetitive songs and songs like ‘Realm o f the Pirate K ings’, a rogue escapee from your junior high Battle of the Bands, and per­ haps the repetitive songs. I sup­ pose one can only live so fast off ‘Kick Out the Jams’ royalties.

— Harris Newman Bettie Serveert

Lamprey (Matador/Atlantic) When I first sat down with this record, I was astonished by how thoroughly aw ful it was.

Having enjoyed this Dutch quar­ tet’s cute-rock debut, Palomine , I shuddered as I endured 11 ultra­ safe, predictable, A M -friendly tracks. Ready to pull out my cyanide bic, I decided to drop it into the disc player one more time.

W hat orig in ally struck me as straight out Poly-O was soon tug­ ging at the old heartstrings (or is that ch eesestrin g s?) W hile Lamprey does sound like a bad Rolling Stones cover band forced at gunpoint to cover the entire Throwing Muses canon, it’s also sweet and sincere and invokes aimless Grade 9 evenings in the park, when life sorta did seem like a John H ughes m ovie. Singer Carol Van Dijk plays the naive pop-girl, swooping in and out of her vocal range in an endearingly cloying way. K athleen H anna would probably smash a guitar over her head, which is reason enough to embrace Lamprey. If ya can’t get into a little bit of senti­ mental girl-pop now and then, you probably have no soul and should go listen to Shellac.

— Kurt Newman

E N T E R T A IN M E N T

March 7th, 1995

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Doing it for themselves at McGill’s 8th Annual Drama Festival

By Ioyce Lau_________________ T his w eek fin d s the DIY M cGill Dram a Festival in full sw in g , w ith stu d en ts p u llin g together to write, direct, act and construct sets under the auspices of make-shift means. The result has been six im ag in ativ e and entirely student-produced plays which cover a wide spectrum of atmosphere, intention and genre.

The only true pros called to lend a hand w ill be the three adjudicators who will be offering their constructive criticism. On the last three nights of perfor­ m ance, C as A n var, A rtistic Director of Repercussion Theatre, lia n a L in d en o f B ulldog Productions and Rachel Ditor of Festival McGill will lead a com­ m entary and discussion which will also include an open forum to allow for audience input.

T uesday, M arch 7 & F riday, M arch 10 In N ecta r, p lay w rig h t C laudia Dey and d irecto r Cat Richardson pass the eternal ques­ tio n o f the O rig in o f B eing through the hands of a bunch of freaks — freaks considered the norm on what we so affectionate­ ly know as the Main. One fateful night W arshaw check-out girl Lucille W hite (M arika Cooper) believes she’s witnessed the stor­ age of a dead body. Accompanied by h er m o th er F lo ra (K adey Schultz), her landlord/Portuguese m idwife M adame Diaz (Tamar T am b eck ), h e r boss M au rice (David Mills) and Henry (Luke Hutton), Lucille moves through the actions of the plot, while her mind meanders amongst thought o f sex, G en esis, d eath and androgyny. If the dress rehearsal is any indication, N ectar looks like one of the sure-fire winners of the festival.

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the evening is The Last Waltz: An Inheritance, a drama about Mark (R ich ard M cC u llo u g h ) who attempts to contend with the his­ tory of the Holocaust via an old photograph and his grandparents’ m em ories. P la y w rig h t D avid Bezmozgis intimately set the play w ith M ark and his g irlfrie n d Leslie (Zoe Haugo) conversing in bed. T he p ast is only seen through flashbacks played by M ichael M agid and C atherine B utikofer. The plays brings to light the distance of history and the elusive nature of memory.

casual contact to the relaxed inti­ macy of confession.

to a party at the Alley after the closing show. Call 398-6813 fo r reservations.

N o t e : For interested p la y­ w rig h ts, P la y e r s ’ T h ea tre is accepting subm issions fo r next s e a s o n ’s bill. The deadline is April 7.

One n ig h t’s ticket ($12/$6 Saturday, M arch 11 Closing night features a slew students) includes a double bill. of amazing characters. Both plays A ll show s open a t 8 p.m . in are based on a cool situational P la y e r s ’ T h eatre in S h a tner. humour which is more likely to Also, on March 11, all are invited induce sidew ays sm irks than piein -th e -fa c e g u f­ faw s.

C o­ incidentally, both p lay s centre around men tied up, outside in the cold C anadian night, by young W ednesday, M arch 8 & women with psy­ T hursday, M arch 9 cho visions.

C ham pagne This is a night for deep dark and secrets and even darker comedies W ishes Kerosene Dreams in two vastly contrasting pieces. the Hotel Room, Venice is actu­ c e le b ra te s ally set on an army base in the morbidity of sub­ Far North. Though playw right urban b an ality Pm l f /director Colin Ferguson sets up with a single, iny o u r-face c o n ­ some of the best laughs of the festival, it is the actors who make fro n ta tio n . The the piece. Each take an extreme d i r e c t o r s ’ Looking back on the past in The Last Waltz: An Inheritance character, and without relying too ( C h r i s t i n a P io v esan & h ea v ily on ste re o ty p e , m ake him/her their own. This play fea­ Simon W ong-Ken) surrealistic tures a psychotic loser Captain effects were not quite involved (Scott Faulconbridge) (“You’re enough to be convincing, though the son I nev er knew how to they certainly had a place in the m ake” ), his L ie u te n a n t (Joel piece. W him pering suburban I t f i H i 'T f l 7° A l, David Maurice), a simple minded sheep Jo sep h R aso (p lay in g A O AO p riv ate w ith an obsession for Kinney salesm an Steve Jarvis) 2 HAPPY HOUR hasn’t stopped kissing up since m ilk products (M att H olland), w icked b itte r serv an t B etty The Trial, and ends up in the (Jennifer Seguin), and poor love­ deadly hands of Teresa Di Lorio EVERY DAY less Matt Facfadean who is such (Eliza Nagel).

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Japan arrives at the Savoy with The Mikado

By Rachel Stokoe

rying Katisha (Cari Burdett), a wretched creature whose left elbow is her only charm ing feature.

Nanki-Poo disguises himself as a second seat trombone player and falls in love with Yum-Yum (Corinne Dekker). But alas, she is prom ised to Ko-Ko (Jeffrey Pufhal) who, despite all his trom­ bone soliloquies, cannot win her love.

Incidentally, Ko-Ko is also Grand Executioner and has been ordered by the Mikado to behead

In their production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic, the Savoy Society and director Nick Carpenter create a comedic specta­ cle, which, despite the twisted plot and elaborate production, calls for no demands on the intellect.

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When the Mikado finally checks up with Katisha on how the execution went, he finds that it was actually his son who had been killed.

How will it resolve?

Will the Mikado learn the truth? Will Ko-Ko take Yum-Yum back?

Will Nanki-Poo be forced to marry Katisha?

Admittedly, the plot isn’t very important. It is just a loose premise to spend two and a half hours with the Queen of England (also seated in the audi­ ence) and to watch some good, oldfashioned, brainless humour. The actors all give memorable perfor­

mances — especially Andrew Tees who plays Poo-Bah, lord of every office in the land (minus Grand Executioner), Jeffrey Pufahl (KoKo), who bears a strong resem ­ blance to M artin Short in his Saturday Night Live heyday, and Ryan Levitt who plays Pish-Tush, a subservient who spends most of the musical kneeling.

The female leads, on the other hand, suffer from their limited parts. Despite this slight obsta­ cle, C orinne D ekker gives an appropriate perform ance as the shrill, vain object of adoration. Her compatri­ ots, Melinda Polet (PittiSing) and Jessica Caplan (Peep-Bo), unfortunately do not get enough time on stage. However, the entire chorus is well pulled together and have some very funny moments.

The draw -back of performing a Gilbert and Sullivan play, albeit such a popular one, is that it tends to look dated. The perform ance lags at moments because of slower numbers, and because of bits which are not as funny today as they probably were for the original audience one hundred years ago.

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On Cecile’s recommendation they took the round table by the win­ dow. From underneath the sunglass­ es, her mocha eyes scanned the busy shop, looking to make contact with any admirer with whom she might cultivate a flirtation of glances. Rob knew her well enough not to feel insulted, and besides, she was smart enough to work a room and still give him 80 percent of her attention, which was more than he got from most. Unfortunately, all things not being equal, he usually only processed about 20 percent of what she had to say, unless he had a per­ sonal interest staked in whatever it was she that was talking about.

Outside, a procession of stu­ dents hurried and shuffled between

classes. The din of animated voices, foregrounded by the more prevalent noise in the shop, reminded Rob of the hum of backstage during a scene change, or the subdued conversa­ tions buzzing in a movie theater before the lights go down.

Cecile had started to casually remark on the students streaming back and forth, most of whom she knew directly, or at least was familiar with some intimate detail of their day to day life. She took off her glasses and placed them on the table in order to get a better view, and absentmindedly began to play with a stray lock from the loose bun of black hair.

Stray locks, Rob noted to himself, were imperatives to natural beauty.

Cecile continued her relentless commentary, but Rob’s mind began to drift, thinking of a favourite scene in the latest Turpentino flick.

The hero drenched and suffo­ cating from the acrid vapours of fuel and turpentine. It was splashed all over the floor, everywhere. Image of the candle’s flame swimming in the growing puddle. The surge o f urgency had become a delirium and his head began to swim with the flame in the puddle, watching her dance in the poisonous puddle — twisting, rising, swelling, gyrating.

Sharp convulsions tore through his chest, the taste o f bile burned through his throat. His body heaved and collapsed on the wet floor, splashing the fluid on his face. His

has added many personal twists to the production, including setting it in M adame T o ussaud’s Wax Museum and making the humour more contemporary. In addition, Amanda Sussman does a beautiful job choreographing; and music director Richard Doucet, along with his orchestra, help to carry the performance by livening up the original score.

Nevertheless, their work can not fully cover up the problems that seem inherent to the script itself. The performance misses the same oomph that carried the audi­ ence through the duration of last year’s Gondoliers, also directed by C arpenter. By the second act, longer songs and the slapstick become trying despite the acting.

But do not let this stop you from seeing it. The performance shines for a good portion of the time due to the special touches added by the directors and cast.

Unless you are looking for some moral lesson or spiritual enlighten­ ment, The Mikado is worth seeing, even if only to pick up on all the jabs at McGill.

The Savoy Society presents The Mikado March 8-11, 15-18 at Moyse Hall in the Arts building.

Shows start at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10/$6 students on Wednesday nights, and $12/$8 ThursdaySaturday nights. Call 398-6826 for reservations.

eyes began to burn. Pain was a word, but now his eyes burned.

Frantically he clawed at his face, screaming and shrieking. He would die and the burning would stop. The smell o f turpentine drenched his last thoughts. In his mad turpentinedrenched delirium, he saw the can­ dle sail to the floor.

Cecile’s words slowly began to sink back in as Rob snapped out of his daydream and reflexively attempted to regain a thread of the conversation, hoping she hadn’t noticed his momentary absence.

“I think he also blames Don for the clap,” she rejoined, probably referring to one of the passers-by.

“The clap! You’ve go to be kid­ ding!” he exclaimed, hoping his feigned amazement would prompt her to give him a little more to work with. She stopped and stared direct­ ly into his eyes, taking a moment’s pause to heighten the gravity of her words.

“I’m so serious,” she intimated gravely. “Now you know why he was placed on academic probation.”

“He was on probation?” He asked, raising his eyebrows with apparent interest.

“Well,” she elaborated, “it’s more like he got kicked out, but his father had some pull,” she finished her sentence in a hush, “and now he’s only on probation.”

Rob nodded ambiguously and picked up his cup of black coffee.

He took a sip and immediately recoiled. “Ouch, too hot..” he moaned.

“You should pay attention,” she advised, “that stuff can bum.”

Paul Darvasi abandoned the café scene a while ago.

Redmen get by Bishop’s to meet Concordia in final

By M ila Aung -Thwin The opening round of the Quebec University Basketball League (QUBL) play­ offs pitted the McGill Redmen against the Bishop’s Gaiters. Despite an inspired perfor­ mance by the Gaiters, the Redmen were able to pull away from a close game and end up on the happy side of a 79-63 final score.

Both teams played aggressively from the outset. The underdog Gaiters, who lost three of four games to the Redmen, recog­ nized that they would have deal with M cGill’s strong outside game as well as their good high-post game if they were to pull off an upset. The Gaiters were also helped by the fact that the Redmen’s best outside shooter, Rick Varisco, was sidelined with the flu.

Bishop’s initial defence featured Gaiter guards pressuring the McGill ball handlers near mid-court. Although the Redmen were a little off-balance at times, they were often able to swing the ball around the perimeter until they found a way to feed it to the inside, and were able to find the odd outside shot. The Redmen opened up a 14-6 lead.

In the minutes approaching halftime, Bishop’s made the game close by turning up the intensity of their defence. The Gaiters’ guards began meeting the ball further and fu rth er up the court, and the Redmen responded by turning the ball over more.

Led by the outstanding play of Kris Ruiter, who had 14 points by halftime, the Gaiters momentarily pulled ahead of McGill. At the half, McGill was clinging to an unimpres­

sive 43-39 lead, and the Gaiters had plenty of momentum on their side.

The second half saw the Gaiters lead the Redmen into a more hurried type of play, in which McGill was not able to set up strong inside play. The up-tempo game suit­ ed the G aiters w ell, and the lead was exchanged between the two teams frequent­ lyThe back and forth scoring continued until very late in the game, when the Redmen pulled away, scoring a freakish string of unanswered points to arrive at the final score of 79-63. The Redmen seemed to finally gain control of the contest, taking advantage of Bishop’s pressing defence to score on some beautifully timed length-ofthe-court passes.

The consistent play of 6-foot-10 Doug McMahon helped the Redmen remain close throughout the match. The forward scored 22 points, had 12 rebounds and blocked a few shots for McGill, using his height to his advantage over the som ew hat sm aller G aiters. Point guard Sammy M endolia picked up a lot of the scoring burden him­ self, contributing 17 points. Chad Wozney was solid offensively and on the boards, but his contribution was quieter than usual. The Redmen would probably liked to have seen him take over the game at some point, which he has often done this season. He will have to resume his dominant role for Redmen to win any more playoff games this season.

In a ceremony held before the game, Wozney was named to the QUBL all-star first team, and McMahon and forward Todd

— McDougall were named to the league’s second team. Not making the cut was Varisco, # who was eighth in the league in scoring this season, and who was an all-star last year.

M endolia was irked by the exclusion of his teammate from the all-star teams.

“We missed Rick a lot during the game, and I think the coaches around the league were a little ignorant by not putting him on the all-star team,” he said.

The toughest test of the Redmen’s season is coming up. The fifth-ranked Conco­ rdia Stingers will host McGill in a three-gam e series to determine which team moves on to the national playoffs.

Concordia has consistent­ ly outplayed the Redmen this season, and Mendolia recog­ nized that the mistakes that were committed against the Gaiters could not be repeated against the Stingers.

“We have to keep up our intensity,” he said. “At points Redman McDougall looks to the inside against the Gaiters tonight, we lost our intensity, The first game of the series is Tuesday we had a lot of turnovers. We can’t have at 7 p.m. at Concordia’s Loyola Campus, turnovers against Concordia.” followed by the final home game of the sea­ McMahon had a positive outlook.

“If all the guys play hard against son for the Redmen at Sir Arthur Currie Concordia, we have a good chance,” he said. Gymnasium on Friday night.

Martlets as provincial champions...

Continued from Page 1 “We could not hear anything when we had the ball and the plays were not being called,” said point guard Jennifer Stacey.

Forced passes and bad shot selection on the M artlets’ part helped Laval explode for a tenpoint burst, giving the Rouge et Or a 19-12 advantage at the 6:28 mark of the first half.

Josée D elero tto finally stopped the bleeding with a deuce and added a much needed threepointer a minute later, pumping some life into the waning offen­ sive attack.

A vintage Vicki Tessier shot from inside the paint in the dying seconds of the first half sliced the Laval lead to just two, 29-27.

The second half was filled with everything one could ask for from a championship game. Laval and McGill battled back and forth like two stubborn boxers in the 12th round o f a h eavyw eight championship bout, with neither team giving an inch. The elusive lead changed hands six times over the course of the next 17 minutes.

The R ouge et Or barged ahead 58-55 with a three pointer with under three minutes left in the game, and applied the defen­ sive clamps. Tessier managed to scrape up a point on a free throw to narrow the gap with a minute and change left.

Every great team has one. For

the Bulls it was Michael Jordan, the Celtics had Larry Bird, and the Lakers looked to Magic Johnson; a clutch player a team can depend on in the closing m inutes of a tight game with everything on the line.

For the M artlets, Stacey, a second year point guard from Sept-Iles, fit the role like C inderella’s glass slipper.

On Laval’s posses­ sion follow­ ing the Tessier free throw , S ta­ cey sprung in front of the inbounds pass, turned tow ards the b asket and drained a five-foot baseline shot to knot the game at 5858.

W ith the gam e w inding down, and McGill leading by two, on baskets by Tessier and Anne Gildenhuys, Stacey stood at the free throw line with chance to ice the game.

Under normal circumstances, the pressure on the shoulders of Stacey would be enormous — hit

the free throws and start making the reservations to Thunder Bay — but, to make things even more ch allen g in g , the Laval crow d migrated underneath the hoop and started th eir own version of Barnum and Bailey.

Stacey calm ly nailed both free throws and McGill escaped with the victory and the QUBL championship.

Gildenhuys led the Martlets in scoring with 18 points, and T essier and Stacey were not far behind with 17 and 16 points respectively.

McGill will now head to La k e h e a d § U niversity in -c T hunder Bay vN i­ this week in le hopes of captur^ ing th eir first ever national cham p io n sh ip .

In McGill’s previous four appear­ ances in the national competition, the Martlets have been held win­ less at 0-8. The Martlets, seeded sixth in the tournament, will try for their first victory at the tour­ ney when they face off against the third-seeded Manitoba Bisons at 1:00 p.m. Friday.

Chiang leads swim team at nationals

By Paul Coleman Second-year anatomy student C arol C hiang o f the M cG ill Martlet swim team captured two m edals over the course of the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union (CIAU) national champi­ onships last weekend at Laval University in Quebec City. The freestyler’s stellar performance buoyed the M artlets to a fifthplace overall finish in the country, its best since a third place wrap-up in 1989 and a co n sid erab le improvement over last year’s six­ teenth-place closing. In all, the McGill team shatterred seven club records at the meet.

The McGill women collected 244 points for fifth place while trailing squads from M cM aster (358 points), Toronto (295) and Manitoba (252) who finished in the second, th ird , and fourth places respectively.

“Of the top ten we were the only team that had five women there,” said head coach Francois Laurin. “Laval had eight swim­ mers, McMaster had twelve, UBC had twelve, so our women put in quite a performance.”

The two-time CIAU Athlete of the Week, Chiang, extended a season long gold medal streak at Laval as she placed first in the 50m freestyle event, clocking a

time of 26.3 seconds. Chiang is only the second McGill swimmer to capture gold in the national 50m freestyle event since the her­ alded Andrea Nugent.

“That’s the best performance sh e ’s ever h ad ,” said Laurin.

“Everthing just clicked which was really great and so getting a gold is just a nice bonus.”

On Saturday, Chiang, a native of The Pas, Manitoba, paced the w om en’s 800m freestyle relay team to a bronze medal finish, and a McGill record time of 8:38.7 seconds. N athalie Hoitz, Anna Leong and Patricia Hutchinson rounded out the Martlet relay con­ tingent.

Interestingly, Chiang defeated the top-ranked swimmer in the 50m freestyle from the University of Manitoba where she occasion­ ally trained during her high school years in her home province.

Sunday saw Chiang narrowly miss a third trip to the podium as she clocked a personal best 57.7 second 100m freestyle time, good only for a fourth place finish.

Chiang managed to shave a full second off of her previous person­ al best tim e over the 100m freestyle, and raced to a fifth-place finish in the 200m freestyle event.

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Head to head with former Redmen hockey coach Jean Pronovost A fter nearly seven years o f coaching the Redmen hockey team, form er National Hockey League star Jean Pronovost left McGill to become the head coach o f the Shawinigan Cataractes o f the Quebec M ajor Junior Hockey League in early December.

Pronovost, who notched 391 goals and 383 assists in 998 NHL regular season games fo r the Pittsburgh Penguins (1968-78), Atlanta Flames (1978-80) and Washington C apitals (1980-82), was the Penguins’ all-time leading scorer until his standard was surpassed by Mario Lemieux during the 1989-90 season. The Tribune assistant edi­

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Junior hockey. Of course, universi­ ty players have a dual role of acade­ mics and athletics, and they have to balance both, so that makes it tough for them to spend as much time on their hockey.

Trib: What was the biggest adjustment to make in your coach­ ing?

Pronovost: I don’t think there was a big change. My biggest responsibility was getting to know the players. Coming into this new environment, I had to learn the ins and out of how Junior hockey oper­ ates in Quebec. Then I had to get to know my players, and some of them needed a kick in the rear end.

There were so many things that were new to me like playing more games, as some weeks we play four times. In university hockey, you pretty much knew that you were playing on the weekend. The pace was more hectic than what I was accustomed to.

T rib: How do you find the pressure of coaching in Shawinigan as opposed to McGill?

Pronovost: Here you have to win. Not that you didn’t have to win at McGill, but you were not under the scrutiny that you are here.

Everybody second guesses you here. When we went through a drought there for a little while, I could sense the ‘we’ve got to do something’ feeling. We all know that but sometimes it takes time to turn things around.

Trib: How do you account for your success so far?

Pronovost: It does happen where there’s a change in coaching.

The players want to prove to the new coach that they’re good, and that they did. But now I know what they can do when they play focused and with emotion. What I stress to them is that they’ve done it before, going 18-2 after I started here, and they can do it again.

Trib\ The stereotype of the QMJHL player is of the high-scor­ ing finesse forward, who might not play in the comers as in the other Junior leagues. Is this stereotype true?

Pronovost: At one time it was like that, but I think it’s changing.

If you look at the quality goaltenders in the league over the last few years like Eric Fichaud,

Jocelyn Thibault and Felix Potvin, they may have become so good because the league was offensiveoriented and they had to make themselves better. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. But I think that it goes in cycles, and I think that it’s changing.

Trib: Do you still follow the Redmen?

Pronovost: D efinitely. I was really disappointed with the way the last game went against UQTR. [The Redmen fell 6-5 in the final game of a best-of-three playoff series] But it seems that great games always end with some kind of controversial call.

And the irony of it all is that we had the same ref two days later in Sherbrooke and he gave Sherbrooke a goal that shouldn’t have been allowed because it was kicked in. On the video, which he didn’t have, it clearly showed that the puck was kicked in. It ended up changing the entire game, so you can really see the importance of making the proper call.

Trib'. What are your thoughts on Athletics at McGill, given the fact that admissions standards are not subject to change for athletes?

Pronovost: For the sports pro­ grams it is not a good thing. Their emphasis is on academics rather than athletics. But again it comes back to a balance between the two.

There’s room to change and I think that it would help the quality level of the sports at McGill to do so. It would certainly help in the recruit­ ing aspect as well. Research is fine but sports is an important thing as well. It would do good things for McGill’s name.

Trib: How has the NHL changed since your playing days?

Pronovost: It really makes me wonder when I see a guy like Mats Naslund, who’s been retired from the league for five years, come back and get a job. That just didn’t hap­ pen ten or fifteen years ago. If you were out you were out, and it was most likely because you couldn’t keep up anymore. The league today also has so much more parity, as the wealth has been spread around.

It used to be that Montreal had most of the wealth. The first two FrenchCanadian picks auto­ matically played there.

They could always reproduce a big star in Montreal. If it wasn’t a Beliveau, it was a Richard or a Lafleur.

But who do they have now? Name one.

C ertainly not [V in­ cent] Damphousse.

H e’s a good player, but he’s not in that cat­ egory.

Trib\ Is league parity the biggest dif­ ference?

Pronovost: I think so. I rem em ber last year the Tampa Bay Lightning came to Montreal and beat the Canadiens. I played on an expansion team with Pittsburgh, and we never beat the Canadiens when we

came to Montreal. We were just happy to be close. These guys today, they walk into Montreal and they believe that they can beat them. In my day we just wanted to keep it close, because Montreal was a powerhouse with their Big Three of Savard, Lapointe and Robinson with Ken Dryden in the net and

Lafleur up front. An expansion team beating a team like Montreal just didn’t happen the way it does today.

Trib: What type of player did you consider yourself?

Pronovost: Well I guess the name for it would be a two-way hockey player. I think I was pretty honest and I came to play every night. I think the highest compli­ ment you can give a hockey player is that he comes to play every night because it tough, it’s tough to be mentally prepared every night.

Trib: Which player did you find to be the most competitive, or most frustrating to play against?

Pronovost: Daryl Sittler was a tough player to go against. But the guy who used to drive me nuts was Tiger Williams. Basically his role was to antagonise me, to get me off my game, and my task was not to let him bother me. He’s the type of player who could get under my skin, the Bobby Clarke type.

Williams used to try to bother me because I was captain. If they could sense that the captain was a weak leader, then they knew that the team will be similar. There were all kinds of mind games that were played and it’s the same in Major Junior.

The intimidation factor is alive and will continue to be I’m sure.

Trib: What was your favourite arena to play in?

Pronovost: The Maple Leaf Gardens. There’s just something about it. The Montreal Forum was okay. Maybe it was because I had a lot of success there that I like the place so much.

Trib: Of all the great players who you played against, which one impressed you the most?

Pronovost: Bobby Orr for me.

I played junior and pro against him, and he was above everybody. He was the Gretzky of the time. The skills, the skating, the vision of the game were am azing. He was a Gretzky who played defence. He’s a nice guy, too. He played hard, he played for keeps, but he was a nice guy-

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McGill Vultures’ ski team eats up the slopes at Mont Garceau

By D ana Toerinc While the sun blazed brightly and not a cloud hung in the deep blue sky, the M cGill Vultures flocked to Mont Garceau in StDonat, Quebec this weekend for a series of two giant slalom races.

Fifty-one women and eighty-nine male racers represented ten univer­ sities from across Quebec and Ontario, and, to the delight of team head Sophie Marcoux, the McGill skiers put in a performance that complimented the gorgeous weath­ er.

Marcoux commented on the competition.

“This has definitely been our best weekend so far this season.

Everyone skied well,” she said.

Though neither the men’s or women’s teams moved up in the overall standings, the men placing third and the women fourth for a combined third place finish, each squad was able to gain crucial ground on the leaders and distance themselves from the other teams in the field.

Saturday’s race was won by Leigh-Jaso Quilliams of Concordia, but the strong results of first-year law student Nick Robichon, who finished in fifth place, U1 student Mark Schindler, who cruised into the twelfth spot, Ken N eff who placed thirteenth, and rookie Allan Cowan who finished twentieth, led

the McGill men to an overall victo­ ry on Saturday, beating out the league-leading U niversité de Quebec à Montreal (UQAM) and the University of Montreal.

The women also produced their best results of the weekend on Saturday, placing three racers in the top fifteen. Kate Hertig paced the women in her first run with a sixth-place finish, but lost a ski in the second run and unfortunately did not complete the race. The rest of the team had some of their best results all year and took second place on the day. Rookies C atherine Owen and Casandra Osborn capped off the day in twelfth and thirteenth place respec­ tively, followed by Abigail Nitka in fifteenth and Josée Titley in six­ teenth.

On Sunday, the Vultures were once again blessed with impeccable conditions and continued their impressive performance with some great individual efforts. The top four men all produced better per­ formances and rallied to finish third overall.

Robichon was once again the fastest Vulture finishing in fifth place overall. Schindler also moved up into an eighth-place perfor­ mance. S chindler’s consistent results throughout the season put him in fourth place overall in the individual men’s standings.

The women were not as suc­

cessful as the men on Sunday but still managed to be competitive.

Osborn and Owen once again led the way for the lady Vultures fin­ ishing in fourteenth and twentieth place.

Although the Vultures as a team assembled their best perfor­ mance of the season, this was over­ shadowed by the individual achievem ent of team member Andrew (Edge) Edgell. Edge suf­ fered a painful career-threatening knee injury earlier in the year and underwent knee surgery in midJanuary. After many weeks of gru­ elling rehabilitation, Edgell returned to the slopes and did adm irably. The Edge had only trained twice before the weekend races and though he failed to find the right zone, he did ski strongly, beating four other teammates and following just hundredths of a sec­ ond behind Duncan Wilcox, Steve Doubt and L.P. Berti who won the event. The former team captain is confident that he will “find the zone” in the next race.

Going into the end of the sea­ son, the team is looking forward to moving up to at least second place in the men’s and women’s com­ bined category. The Vultures are preparing for the finals which will be held at Mont O rford in the Eastern Townships on March 17 and 18 where they will compete in the slalom and giant slalom.

Swim team at nationals...

Continued from Page 19 chance. She was first all the way right up until there was about ten metres to go,” said Laurin. “It was all in the touch so it came down to about two-tenths of a second.”

“Still, she beat her personal best by a whole sec­ ond which is amazing.”

A nother M artlet medal perform ance which impressed Laurin was registered by McGill’s Patricia Hutchinson who established a McGill landmark time of 2:16.73 seconds in the 200m butterfly event, seiz­ ing a bronze medal in the process. Hutchinson also finished fourth in the 400m individual medley, fifth in the 200m individual medley and contributed to the Martlet’s sixth-place 400m medley relay team.

M cG ill’s Anna Leong placed seventh in the 400m individual relay.

On the men’s side, the Redm en fin ish ed 12th overall, tallying 85 points.

The University of Calgary Dinos won the national men’s title with a total of 610 points. The Redmen however, managed to bet­ ter last year’s showing of 14th despite the glaring absence of medal hopeful Craig Hutchison. Hutch­ ison came down with a case of complicated mono­ nucleosis in the week pre­ ceding the national finals.

T here were no m edals captured by Redm en swimmers even though a pair of individuals were distinguished with provin­ McGill swimmers ready cial all-star status.

“On the mens side it was step up from last year when we finished 14th,” said Laurin. “Craig sure would have helped a little bit but they still broke some McGill records in the relay.”

Five McGill swimmers in total were named to the Quebec Student Sports Federation All-Star team.

Chiang, Pat Hutchinson and Leong of the Martlets earned the provincial distinction while Chris Masson and Leo Grepin were recognized for their efforts by the federation on the men’s side. Grepin captured a fifth-place finish in the 200m freestyle event, and entered personal best times in every event he compet­ ed in at the national meet.

“We had four rookies at the Cl’s this year, three people who were second year and two that were third year so we will be around for a while,” promised Laurin.

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Redmen football wide receiver Alex Trepanier was one of three McGill players invited to the Canadian Football League’s 1995 draft evaluation camp a two weeks ago.

Fourth-year defensive back Wes Barbour and all-star defensive end Rejean Denancourt were also invited to the combines camp but both deferred their invitations and draft eligibilities to complete their academic studies. Barbour will complete a degree in chemical engineering in the Spring of ‘96 and D enancourt is currently studying English.

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Third-year All-Canadian candidate Tessier was also named the league’s Most Valuable Player for 1994-95.

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Quiviger, in his final year with the team, won the Touchdown Trophy as McGill’s most valuable linem an. D efensive back W es Barbour received the Friends of McGill Football Trophy as the best defensive player.

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T he M cG ill C e n tre fo r R e se a rc h an d T e a c h in g on Women is holding a “brown bag lunch” to celebrate International W omen’s Day. M c G ill’s F a c u lty of M e d ic in e p re s e n ts the U niversity o f P e n n sy lv a n ia ’s R en ée C. F ox: “ E x p e rim e n t Perilous: 45 years as a partici­ pant observer of patient-oriented

c lin ic a l re s e a rc h ” . 5 p .m ., P alm er H ow ard A m pitheatre, McIntyre Med Building.

Admission $2.00. Doors open at 8 p.m. 3625 Aylmer. FMI call 398-6243/2371.

In te rn a tio n a lly -re n o w n e d m edical sociologist Dr. Renée Fox will deliver a lecture on the foundations of Medical Science.

5 p.m., Palmer Howard Amphi­ th e a tre , 6th flo o r, M cIn ty re Medical Sciences Building.

The Second Annual McGill AIDS benefit fashion show, Le Cirque de la Monde. 8 p.m. at Club Metropolis. Get your tick­ ets at S a d ie ’s (U n io n and L e a c o c k ), C h a p te r X I, EUS General, or by calling 288-2020, $15 advance or $18 at the door.

A ll pro ceed s go to the F aiha Foundation, a non-profit organi­ sation aimed at improving AIDS outp atien t services and AIDS awareness.

P ro fe sso r A km an o f the Geography departm ent will be lecturing on “Ethical Issues in D e v e lo p m e n t R e s e a rc h ” .

Leacock 738 at 5 p.m., present­ ed by M cG ill S tu d e n ts for!

In te rn a tio n a l D e v e lo p m e n t Education (SIDE).

N u tr itio n D ay. A re you having trouble eating well? On a budget? As a vegetarian? On a diet? The latest nutritional infor­ mation, great recipes, free food sampling, Peer Education recipe contest, nutritionists and nurses.

Shatner 107-108, 10 a.m. to 3 p .m ., p re se n te d by S tu d e n t Health Services.

Friday, March 10 F a c in g the issu e s: an all c a n d id a te s SSM U d e b a te on W om en’s Issues. 12:30 p.m. in the Alley, Shatner Building.

W o m e n ’s N ig h t at the Y ellow D oor featu rin g Jacky Celem encki, Jane Gabriels and Edith’s Mission. No open stage.

McGill Student Pugwash is hosting a co n feren ce en titled “Global Population: A Growing Concern" at M cGill University on the week-end of M arch 10, 11 and 12. The Keynote speaker, Gwynne Dyer, will be speaking at 17:30 in room 132 o f th e Leacock. Admission is $2. Over the course of the weekend there will be 7 workshops and 3 panel discussions. Registration for the weekend’s activities takes place from 9 to 5:30 p.m. Cost is $10 including lunch on Saturday and free admission to Gwynne Dyer.

M cG ill E n g lish p re se n ts P ro fe ss o r B a rb a ra H o d g d o n from Drake University who will be lecturing on Romancing the Q ueen: E lizab e th I ’s p o p u lar cultural m em ory. 4 p.m . Arts Council 160.

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T he M cG ill H e lle n ic Student A ssociation is having th e ir g e n e ra l a sse m b ly at M ACES, 3437 Peel, 6:30 p.m.

E le c tio n s w ill be h eld . 2726270.

AISEC M cGill’s 15th annu­ al Business Luncheon will take place at the Westin Mont-Royal.

The guest speaker will be Mr. John M. Weekes, senior deputy m inister (US) and coordinator for NAFTA. The topic will be “ N A F T A : O ne y e a r la te r ” .

Tickets will be sold at the infor­ mation booth in Leacock and in the Bronfman lobby until March 9. FM I, call Je n n ife r at 3986821.

Saturday, March 11 First Annual Indian Oscars.

A cultural show by ICSA and SAYAC. Call Anita Mehta 6964911 or Sonia Singh 858 0178 Monday, March 13 The C lassical M usic Club will meet tonight at 6:30 p.m. in ro o m C -205 o f the the Strathcona Music Building.

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A seat on the McGill Senate can be determinant for the University, the law faculty, all students and their interests which I want to rep­ resent. I think it is appropriate and in the interest of M cGill to have French representation on Senate.

The line is crucial.

M y experience on the LSA and SSMU councils make me a qualified candidate.

My commitment over the last 6 years to promote and improve our University and its life is undeniable. I still have all these concerns in mind and I want to con­ tinue pursuing them.

Law Rep to Senate must be Marian.

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