The McGill Tribune Vol. 14 Issue 22

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McGILL TRIBUNE Volume 14 Issue 22

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March 14th, 1995

T h e c a n d id a t e s t a l k t h e m s e l v e s s i l l y D ebating the issues a ll o ver cam pus N ew s Potentially explosive comments curtailed at Senate.

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Women and separation — this isn’t about divorce.

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Editorial Dealing with the myth of collegiality.

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ENTERTAINMENT The skanksters, Gaugin and lots more god-fear­ ing fun.

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By M o n iq u e S hebbeare and Steve S mith________________________

The last week of campaigning for SSMU executive positions offered stu­ dents a plethora of opportunities to hear the candidates make their case.

For those of you who missed the action, stay tuned for a few of the high­ lights.

President History is replete with great bat­ tles for the world’s thrones. This year’s battle for SSMU president is probably not one of them.

McGill’s financial situation con­ tinues to dominate the agenda at the university. Most recently, McGill’s 1995/96 preliminary budget calls for a 12.5 percent cut from McGill’s operat­ ing budget to eliminate McGill’s $69 million debt by the year 2000/01.

The candidates'were asked what cuts and sacrifices they would urge the university to make. Ahn suggested that professors’ grants could be used to provide jobs for students, and that See Candidates Page 5

SSMUExecutivecandidates (left toright) PeterMazoff NickBenedict, DaveBushnell, SteveAhn, Helena Myers, ChrisCarter, KellyRemai, TracyStrong, TanimAhmed

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First in ci two-part series on how Quebec separation would affect students and professors at McGill

By D 'A rcy D oran

The issue of Quebec sovereign­ ty has raised a number of questions in the McGill community. Students and professors alike are speculating as to the ramifications of a separate Quebec. Prospective out of province students fear “foreign” application status. Moreover, they fear having to pay international fees. Though the consequences of Quebec sover­ eignty have yet to be determined, they will undoubtedly affect the future of McGill students.

The interviewed McGill Principal Bernard Shapiro regarding the possible consequences of Quebec separation for McGill students and the university itself.

“I’m not so naive as to believe that if Quebec does separate that there w ill be no consequences because that doesn’t make sense.

There are consequences for every­ thing and everyone in Quebec soci­ ety if it separates. But it is not clear precisely what those are,” said

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rise in the tuition fee,” said Shapiro.

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Currently Canadian arts stu­ One such question is if Quebec were to separate what would happen dents pay $997.41 per semester for to out of province Canadian stu­ 15 credits, while foreign students dents at McGill? In this case, all pay $3876.50. Fees could conceiv­ federal transfer payments to the ably quadruple for Canadian stu­ Quebec Ministry of Education dents in an independent Quebec.

“If the Quebec government at would be cut off, and the Quebec government would have to expand the time insists that we charge a their tax-base to subsidise the edu­ much higher tuition fee to people cation of Quebeckers. According to from outside of Quebec than to peo­ figures provided by the Registrar’s ple from inside Quebec, it becomes O ffice, 33.4 percent of McGill economically more of a challenge to undergraduate students are attend the university. But I don’t Canadian citizens from outside of think it makes it any less attractive.

Quebec. If Quebec were to separate It will make it harder for some peo­ they could become foreign students. ple to actually attend because the “Right now students from bills have to be paid,” said Shapiro.

“But I frankly don’t see it as a Ontario, New Brunswick or British Columbia or wherever else in major issue since there are so many Canada, pay the same tuition fees as more people applying to McGill Quebec residents. Now, one could than there are places for us to pro­ imagine that in a Quebec that was vide. It seems that there is an enor­ separate from Canada that would no mous pool out there of people who longer be the case. They would be think this is a good place to be,” treated the same as students from added Shapiro.

Several undergraduate students the United States or from Africa or regarding from England which would mean a spoke with the

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the likelihood of their continuing.to go to McGill if they had to pay for­ eign fees. Almost all of them said they would probably change univer­ sities.

“If I had to pay foreign student fees, that would just wipe out the option of coming to McGill. I would have to go somewhere else in Canada,” said Natasha Eyles, a U1 Arts student from Salt Spring, British Columbia.

Jeff Canetti, a U 1 Management student from Toronto had similar sentiments. “No, I would not be able to afford it. I would have to look into transferring.”

Other students, such as Andy Faith, a U2 management student from Toronto would look into acquiring Quebec citizenship. “I would take on Quebec residency and stay here for aw hile,” said Faith.

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have been binding. If the board voted against the IGLC, changes to the SSMU Constitution could have to be made and then voted upon by the student body.

However, according to SSMU VP Internal, Cornell Wright, IGLC has not appealed to the Judicial Board. Therefore, IGLC would have the opportunity to again bring the issue before council or the Judicial Board next year.

Fraternity and sorority members who have had their SSMU positions acclaimed deny that their involvement with IGLC has any connection with their political activism.

Anne DeFontenay, Gamma Phi Beta mem­ ber and acclaimed Arts representative to SSMU council, has previous experience with McGill’s student government.

“I was deputy speaker of council last year. I decided I wanted to have an actual seat on council in order to have a voice and vote on council issues,” she said. “My deci­ sion to run had nothing to do with IGLC.” Amin Kassam, current residence rep and acclaimed Arts rep to council, speculat­ ed that the IGLC may be trying to stack

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In the weeks preceding the SSMU elections, rumours circulated that the InterGreek Letters Council was attempting to stack elected positions. While members of IGLC have denied a deliberate “stacking” attempt, the majority of candidates for SSMU executive positions, AUS reps to council, and the Board of Directors are either members of IGLC or in favour for official SSMU recognition of IGLC. Members of IGLC were allegedly run­ ning for office in order to strengthen the group’s position after council refused to accredit IGLC when it was found that fra­ ternities and sororities discriminate on the basis of gender. Article 2.3 of the SSMU constitution prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender, race, religion or sexual ori­ entation.

After the IGLC’s motion was defeated in council, it was commonly believed that the “Greeks” had submitted an appeal to the Judicial Board. The Judicial Board’s deci­ sion, as the final board of appeal, would

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“I’ve been told by an active member of IGLC that the organisation is probably try­ ing to stack seats. They’ve indicated that they are probably planning on bringing it back to council. However it is very difficult to speculate at this early stage of the elec­ tion,” said Kassam.

A well-placed source who wished to remain anonymous believes IGLC is also attempting to have members appointed to the Internal Nominating Committee which is responsible for selecting students for a variety of SSMU positions, including the Judicial Board.

“I think IGLC is trying to stack the Judicial Board through the Internal Nominating Com m ittee,” he said. “I wouldn’t be surprised. Just look at Peter Mazoff; he came out of nowhere and his supporters are all IGLC.” President o f IGLC, D anielle Richardson, stated that they are not attempting to gain control of council in order to force a vote that would recognise IGLC. “It doesn’t matter if we have IGLC mem­ bers on council. We just want to show council and the rest of TheSavoySociety of McÇiûfresents:

the university that we’re a serious club and to dispel the myth that we are... discrimina­ tory. We want to prove...that our constitu tion is constitutional,” she said. “There are 350 “Greeks” on campus. Every one is involved in the school, and a lot [of mem bers] are politically involved. We don’t need to ‘stack’ the council.”

There has also been a great deal of speculation regarding the composition of the new Board of Directors.

Four out of the six acclaimed, non-editorial board directors are also members of the fra ternity Delta Upsilon. Aaron Chase, as a member of IGLC, is not in favour of being accredited by SSMU. “There is a sizeable minority at IGLC who don’t want recognition. I personally won’t [be lobbying for recognition]; I don’t want [IGLC] to be a part of SSMU,” Chase said.

Furthermore, Chase maintains that the IGLC is not attempting to influence deci­ sions with regards to the “Neither frats nor the IGLC are trying to take over the ; it goes directly against what we believe the role of the [to b e],” he said. “Three o f my friends and I share the same views so, it’s more by coincidence [that we all ended up on the board of directors].”

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SSMU executive hopefuls debated women’s issues at McGill last Friday in the Alley. The debate, organised by Women’s Union External Co-ordinator Sara Mayo, included a panel of representatives from Walksafe, the Sexual Assault Centre and Lesbians, Bisexuals and Gays of McGill who questioned the candidates. Funding of services for women and the state of security in and around McGill were the main issues candidates raised.

The debate began with short presentations by each candidate.

With the exception of presidential candidate Steve Ahn and VP Internal candidate Tanim Ahmed, all candidates present noted increased security and services for women as a top priority.

Ahn explained that his priority is accessibility to education. He maintained, however, that when academics intersect with women’s issues these will become a priority.

“I’m not going to try and be someone I’m not,” he said. “I do believe the priorities are academic issues but they also focus on equity issues.”

For the most part, the candi­ dates seemed to agree on the main­ tenance of funding for women’s groups and services. VP Finance candidates Kelly Remai and Tracy Strong maintained that they would

not support any cutbacks in services such as the Sexual Assault Center.

A point of contention that became evident was the issue of daycare at McGill, particularly between VP University Affairs hopefuls Lisa Grushcow and Peter Mazoff. Grushcow maintained that daycare is a service that should be offered to all those who need it.

“I would justify it exactly the same way that I justify us funding an office for disabled students,” she said. “I would justify it in the same way that I would justify funding the Sexual Assault Center, the Black Student’s Network, LBGM.” Mazoff retaliated that daycare should not be a priority because women choose to have children and should thus be accountable for their welfare.

“People generally choose to have children,” he said. “People don’t choose to be sexually assault­ ed, people don’t choose what race they are. People don’t choose what sexual orientation they are.”

Safety was also a key issue at the debate. As a result, candidates were questioned on their opinions of such services as Walksafe.

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Dean’s respect for students questioned B y S ylvie B a b a r ik __________________

The re la tio n sh ip b etw een Dean of Students Irwin Gopnik and stu d en t re p re se n ta tiv e s ap p ears to have h it lev els of ex trem e ten sio n . A M arch 8 S en ate d eb ate cu t sh o rt by Principal Bernard Shapiro on a point of order narrowly curtailed the e x p ressio n of p o te n tia lly explosive comments.

SSM U P re sid e n t Sevag Yeghoyan presented a motion to table the dean’s recommendation for a nine dollar increase in full­ time students service fees which had been scheduled for im ple­ mentation in the 1995-96 acade­ mic year.

In Senate, Yeghoyan simply arg u ed for tab lin g the fee increase, but when the Tribune uncovered a copy of his complete speech, a quote within suggested that the dean/student relationship might be in peril. “ S tu d en ts are tu n n elvisioned, narrow-minded, greasy, sleazy, self-centred and greedy.

If you raise that at Senate, I’m going to thrash you at Senate and just shred you apart. I will stuff it dow n your fa c e ,” G o p nik is alledged to have told Yeghoyan in a private telephone conversa­ tion.

The SSM U p re sid e n t acknow ledged th at the speech containing the above quote was his, and that he had intended to make it in Senate. Yeghoyan had w ritten down the dean’s state­ m ent and had in co rportated it into his Senate speech.

A source that overheard the March 7 telephone conversation between Yeghoyan and the dean, attested that Gopnik said those words. Because he did not intend to release the speech to the press, Yeghoyan would not elaborate on specifics o f the conversation, seeking instead to qualify it.

“C ertain things are said in the heat of the m om ent,” said Yeghoyan. “But I would not want any comments said by the dean to erase the positive contribution that he has made to the quality of student life over his ten years as dean.”

Noah Stem, president of the Law Students’ Association was not so kind.

“The fact that he said some­ thing so drawn out reflects some underlying belief,” he said. “The statement speaks for itself. It’s in complete contradiction with his position.”

At its February 16 meeting, the Coordinating Committee on S tu d en t S erv ices had re c o m ­ mended that student services fees be increased in order to redress an expected shortfall in the bud­ get.

Though the members of the committee — half of which are stu d en ts — had u n an im o u sly supported the CCSS recommen­ dations, student reps expressed fru stra tio n w ith re g a rd to Gopnik’s method of conducting meetings and voiced concern that the stu d en t p o sitio n was not being taken seriously.

M an ag em en t R ep S tefan Hawes explained his perception

of Gopnik’s priorities. “ He is w illing to listen to student concerns, but his main concern is to the university and its im age,” H awes said. “The dean does his best to represent the university even if that means at the cost of student concerns.”

Student representatives to S en ate alte re d th e ir o rig in a l stance and challenged the deci­ sion to support the fee increase based on Yeghoyan’s referral to the 1982 referendum question on the funding of the new fieldhouse gym. In 1982, students voted in favour of contributing $7.50 each per sem ester, towards the con­ struction and operating o f the building, and $10.00 dollars per term following completion.

Because no one had referred to the 1982 referendum question in recent years, when $110,000 was budgeted as the amount that would be paid by student fees for fieldhouse operating costs, the contradiction was not recognised.

It was prior to reviewing the 1982 question that CCSS mem­ bers had ag reed to the fee increase.

Yeghoyan’s concern that stu­ dents were being billed twice for operating costs was confirmed by Vice-Principal John Armour and A ssociate V ice-P rincipal Sam Kingdon.

The purpose for tabling the fee increase was, therefore, based on the student le a d e r’s b elief that they should consult with its constituents regarding how to address the $110,000.

“W hen new facts arise that

take away the assumption around which an issue was decided upon, it should be ta b le d ,” said Yeghoyan in Senate.

“Although I felt pressured for time, I did not think it was very democratic or consultative if I were to unilaterally decide what to do with the $110,000,” he later explained. “The intention to table was to have the opportunity to c o n su lt w ith co u n c il and the other members of the CCSS.” “If people feel that they are not ready to make decision on a motion then it is irresponsible to vote on it,” added Engineering Undergraduate Society President Robin Petri.

In S enate, G opnik argued against the motion to table due to the deadlines which he faces for the presentation of the student fee booklet. However, the dean did acknowledge the significance of

the $1 1 0 ,0 0 0 from the field house.

“Whatever way the students leaders w ant this to go, I will agree,” said Gopnik.

M an ag er o f S y stem s and Finance Wess Cross did not con­ sid er the stu d e n ts’ req u est as threatening to the outcome of the original CCSS recommendations.

“We are on a tight schedule for getting things done,” he said. “ B ut th is giv es stu d en ts the opportunity to meet and time to discuss [their position].”

S en ate v o ted to su p p o rt Y eghoyan’s m otion by a very wide margin.

Though many attempts were m ade to g et a re sp o n se from Gopnik both on the issue of the tabling of the student services fee increase and on his alleged quote, Gopnik was repeatedly unavail­ able for comment.

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McGill’s preliminary budget for 1995/96 was presented to Senate on March 8.

The budget outlines the steps the university will take to cut costs for the elim ination of M cG ill’s accum ulated $69 m illion debt w hile attem pting to address a decrease in provincial funding.

The challenge is to develop a model whereby M cGill would maintain its high level of academic performance while reducing acade­ mic staff and programs.

“Clearly the university can no longer afford... the present arrange­ ment,” the budget states.

In the spirit of long-term plan­ ning, an outline is included for a 12.5 percent cut in McGill’s oper­ ating budget over the next five years and a reduction of the debt to zero by the year 2000/01.

In presenting the budget, two m ajor assum ptions have been made. One is that the Quebec grant to McGill will be cut by $20.4 mil­ lion in the next six years, and the other is that the provincial govern­ ment will allow tuition fees to rise by 10 percent in each of the two years 1999/2000 and 2000/01.

SSMU VP University Affairs Jen Small pointed out that it is dif­ ficult to guess what the provincial government will do in the future, subjecting the budget to the risk -of

inaccuracy. It is already known that Quebec will cut $2.5 million more in 1995/96 than the budget has planned for.

“The way the plan sounds dan­ gerous is because in the past we have been too optimistic and it’s done us harm,” said Small.

The main proposal in the bud­ get is for each administrative and faculty unit at McGill to plan for a 20 percent cut. As the overall cut will only be 12.5 percent, the dis­ crepancy leaves room for new ini­ tiatives to be developed and for funds to be directed to those areas of the university regarded as priori­ ties.

Small is concerned that the university is asking for sweeping cuts prior to defining these priori­ ties.

“We’re putting off the harder decision of w hat’s got to go,” Small said.

Another important proposal in the budget relates to endowment projects. This source of funds for M cGill are based on donations made by private sources. Currently, indirect costs, for the shelving of books, for example, are taken up by the operating budget. This pro­ posal would have endow m ent funds charged a fee for indirect costs, leaving less money available for projects such as scholarships or library acquisitions.

In-Senate, many were co n -

cemed that reduction in scholarship money, which is also funded by endowed projects, would seriously affect McGill’s ability to attract top-notch students.

“I’m not sure our reputation will carry the day and that they [students] will still come to M cG ill,” said Edith AshtonMcCrimmon, the associate director of Physical Therapy.

Vice Principal Administration and Finance John Armour respond­ ed that despite the operating budget being reduced by $8.2 million in 1995/96, endowed projects have to bear some of these cuts. He explained that the scholarship pro­ gram is only one of many that will be affected.

“It’s one thing to get students, but it’s another to teach them,” he said.

Another issue raised was that donors may not be as willing to give to endowed projects if they knew their money would be used to pay for indirect costs. Currently, donors can specify where their money is to be used. Armour noted that donors must realise the extra costs associated with endowed pro­ jects.

“The costs [for book acquisi­ tions] are more then just the bills we pay to the publishers,” he said.

The actual 1995/96 budget will be presented to the Board of Governors for approval in May.

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M cGill’s highest decision making body includes among its voting members one student. For this lone position on the Board of G overnors three candidates vie to rep­ resent students: Cheryl Grossman, a U2 humanistic studies major; David Rovins, perennial university student, and current SSMU President Sevag Yeghoyan.

All major finan­ cial matters at the uni­ versity are decided on by the BoG. Due to his position as SSMU president, Yeghoyan already sits on BoG as a non­ voting m ember. Yeghoyan believes that his resulting famil­ iarity with the BoG’s workings would make him an effective Board rep.

“Unless you really have a good handle on the various per­ sonalities in the university administration, and the issues, and you’ve sat in the executive committee before, the stuff of the Board of Governors will go right over your head,” Yeghoyan said.

Grossman and Rovins do not, however, consider them ­ selves less qualified.

Rovins cites the numerous universities and law classes he has attended as giving him par­

ticular insight into the workings of administration.

In addition to having been VP Internal at McGill between 1971-72, Rovins briefly held the position of acting SSMU presi­ dent in the same year, following the resignation of the elected president.

Rovins’ year as VP Internal was marked by numerous controversies, such as the removal of his name from the ballot for president during the election period.

This follow ed his refusal to abide by a ruling which required that he relinquish the position of VP internal before running for the higher office.

Rovins believes that his fel­ low councillors tried to dissuade him through intimida­ tion.

“A concrete block came from the top of the student union building as I was com­ ing out of the Daily o ffice,” he recalled.

“They tried to hit me on the head.”

It is his belief that an inside group which effectively ran the SSMU was responsible for the accident.

Grossman characterises her experience as particularly rele­

vant to the role of Board rep. She sees her work in “financial situa­ tions,” her association with the Montreal Board of Trade, and her membership in the Debating Union as examples of this.

Grossman also represented the Mount Royal riding as a del­ egate to the Conservative Party leadership convention, and was involved in Jean Charest’s 1993 leadership campaign.

‘The Board is composed of 25 people throughout the com­ m unity, m ainly the business community,” she said. “And these are the types of people whom I worked with at the national conven­ tion.”

Given the BoG’s financial role, it will be responsible in large part for the projected 20 percent cuts in fund­ ing to M cG ill’s various faculties and services.

Y eghoyan hopes to see the Board carry out the cuts carefully.

“We’re trying to increase not only the diversity of education but the quality of edu­ cation at McGill, with less funds,” he said. “That means more creative and innova­ tive ways to use the funding that we’re getting. Twenty percent

across the board is not an ade­ quate answer.”

Grossman believes the pace of cost-cutting should be slowed. “ [The cuts should take place] over a period of ten years if you’re going to be reason­ able,” she said. “Some people are saying five years, but that never happens when it comes to debts.”

All three candidates share a common concern that the Board rep be accessible to-students.

Grossman hopes to report on each BoG m eeting in the Tribune or SSMU Journal, as well as holding m eetings with students to hear their views.

Yeghoyan believes he can make the Board “more visible and approachable.”

For his part, Rovins believes he has already established contact with students through the 275 “reactions” he has collected since October and regards the efficient “transfer of knowledge” as another focal point of his campaign.

Grossman raised the issue of harassment policies at the uni­ versity.

“I feel that we need to have a harassment policy concerning race and religion, and I feel that we need someone to push for such a policy.”

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Continued From Page 2 rent Inter-Residence Council president Helena Myers added that Walksafe also provides a valuable service to those students living in res­ idence.

“Many students in residence use [Walksafe] because they spend a lot of time at the library. They need a way to get home at night, especially women.”

Further, Mazoff stated that he was in sup­ port of taking action on security issues, partic­ ularly in residence.

“In dealing with residence it has come to my attention that there’s an area in upper resi­ dence where the lighting is poor. Let’s stop beating around the bush and put lights in the bush,” he said.

Presidential candidates were asked about sexual assault in residence but seemed reluc­ tant to respond directly. Myers, although agreeing that there is a problem, failed to offer a concrete solution.

“I agree with you totally that there is a problem,” she said. “Although, I do think it is dealt with well in residence. It is dealt with in a confidential manner.”

Myers was asked whether she felt the problem was being swept under the carpet.

“If this is a serious concern of students, then it definitely cannot be swept under the carpet. Residence feels that the floorfellows deal with the issues and then bring them to the university...but it seems like the university’s not doing its job either.”

Mayo concluded that she was pleased with the outcome of the debate.

“At the beginning there was a bit of bull­ shitting going on, with the candidates saying what they thought we wanted to hear,” she said. “Then, the candidates started saying what they felt and that’s what we want to hear. This was an interesting end to our women’s week.”

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Continued from Page 1 McGill bureaucracy should be eliminated.

Myers also focused on bureaucracy, and argued that faculties should be responsible for deciding budget cuts to programs.

When asked to outline the steps of McGill’s current sexual harassment policy, both Ahn and Myers came up empty despite their current high-profile positions in student life.

“I can’t outline those for you,” said Ahn. In terms of racial harassment policy, both Ahn and Myers spoke of the need for its rapid implementation, but were short on specifics.

“I know what it’s like to grow up in a situation where you’re surrounded by an allwhite environment,” said Ahn. “I’ve looked into it closely and we have to make sure that it is implemented.”

The credibility of both Ahn and Myers as potential SSMU presidents has been itself been a source of debate in recent weeks, though the issues on which their platforms are based reflect student concerns. Both Ahn and Myers defended themselves against alle­ gations made in last week’s Tribune editori­ al, partially based on the SSMU election quiz, that they are unqualified for the posi­ tion of president.

“I thought that [the quiz] was very unrepresentative of who we are,” said Ahn. “Most students that I have talked to about this quiz that read over the questions didn’t get them either,” Myers added.

Red H erring ed ito r-in -ch ief Steve

Making the most o f free publicity Goodinson saw the major issues differently.

He wants to rename the Shatner Building the Kurt Cobain Youth Drop-out Centre and spend half of SSMU’s budget before he ful­ fils the third aspect of his platform — his resignation in May.

VP Internal No one ever said the race for VP Internal would be glamorous. The way this race has been going, this fact is not likely to change. While the Red Herring's Bryant Johnson has done what he can to add some drama and spice to Internal issues, his oppo­ nents Tanim Ahmed and Jen Harding just can’t disagree on anything.

Both Ahmed and Harding believe there is a need for improved co-operation between SSMU and the various undergraduate associ­ ations at McGill. Both agree that such an arrangement could only improve the success of traditional SSMU events like Welcome Week and Winter Carnival.

Ahmed and Harding also agree that communication between SSMU clubs and the office of Internal need improvement.

Yet these warm fuzzies were momentar­ ily cast aside when they were asked why stu­ dents should vote for one and not the other.

“As editor in chief of this year’s Old McGill, I’ve been in contact with a lot of

clubs and I think dealing with them will be easier that way because I know them person­ ally and I know how the system works,” Ahmed said.

“One of the reasons why you may vote for me over Tanim is that I have a really good track record on the things I’ve pro­ duced,” replied Harding.

VP University Affairs There is no lack of disagreem ent between the VP University Affairs candi­ dates, despite the surface similarity of the platform s o f L isa Grushcow and Peter Mazoff.

M azoff, a declared favourite of Management students, has promoted himself as “no Jen Sm all” , and has asked Management students to “keep it in the fami­ ly.” Billing himself as anti-political correct­ ness, Mazoff has vowed to bring the focus of university affairs to academic issues, though stating that harassment policies are also a priority.

As for his definition of political correct­ ness, “I can make up any definition I want because it’s not in the dictionary,” he said. “[It means] I shoot from the hip.”

Grushcow, an SSMU councillor and member of Group Action, an organisation committed to awareness of equity issues on campus, focused on her familiarity with issues such as sexual and racial harassment and the plight of McGill’s African Studies program.

“I know the issues - I’m in touch with the people working on this issue,” she said.

“Vote for som eone who knows how to change things.”

Mazoff, however, defend­ ed his com m it­ m ent to these issues.

“There was a direct quote in last w eek’s Tribune that said I want to find the perfect balance between academ­ ic and equity issues: that m eans I care about equity,” he said.

W h e n asked to specify his academic issues, Mazoff pointed to pub­ lishing a course evaluations handbook for students, and to having exam schedules post­ ed “before March or April”.

“Course evaluations have been on the platforms of candidates for this position for the last five years and none of them have managed to do it,” Grushcow argued.

Grushcow suggested having regular meetings with the VP academics of faculty associations, and creating a “think tank” to solicit student opinion about the state of edu­ cation at McGill and where McGill’s priori­ ties should lie. Here it was Mazoff s turn to dissent.

“I don’t think McGill needs another sub-committee or think tank to talk about academics because we already have too many.”

Red H erring candidate E lizabeth Elmwood has no intention of becoming VP University Affairs.

“The other candidates fear us and with good reason,” she said. “SSMU is a dull tedious farce.”

VP Finance W hile not quite as cosy as the VP Internal race, the candidates for VP Finance would be happy taking SSMU down the same financial road. That is, all except for

Red Herring candidate Russell Kissoon, of accom plishm ents as the incum bent VP External, such as lobbying the provincial course.

“Please do not tell anyone else [that I government for a student transit pass and the am running],” he pleaded with the audience formulation of a counter-proposal to the at the sold out Shatner debate. “I am gradu­ Axworthy report. Benedict also suggested the need for a VP External who speaks ating!”

Candidates Tracy Strong and Kelly French, which Carter has admitted he does Remai both plan to keep SSMU in the black not but claims he is committed to learning if and up-to-date on its debt repayments to the he is elected.

At T hu rsd ay ’s m anagem ent B attle university. Neither candidate has any plans of making cuts to the funding of SSMU Royal, Carter stood firm on his platform based on accountability, which he insinuated clubs.

Both candidates pointed to their experi­ has been lacking under Benedict.

“Because of the frus­ ence as the tration last year from all edge they sides with no consultation have over "SSMU should spend more with students on tuition, the other. money on the average on which member organi­ Re mai ’s sation to join, not a single apathetic student experience motion will come out of is primarily external without going SSMURed Herring candidate for VP through an open, regular based: Finance, Russell Kissoon forum,” he said. p re s id e n t With regards to the of the benefits of the Canadian e n tre p re ­ neur’s club, Clubs rep to council, and chair Alliance of Students Association versus the of the SSMU committee that determines the Canadian Federation of Students, Benedict funding of clubs. Strong on the other hand, and Carter were firmly opposed on the issue.

“CASA costs one tenth the amount of is currently VP Finance of the Engineering Undergraduate Society, arguably the most the CFS. CFS costs $100,000 a year and that financially active undergraduate association money is going towards sending their execu­ tives to Mexico to work on Free Trade,” at McGill.

Although the new food and beverages Benedict argued.

“I ’d like to know what purpose it contract will likely be negotiated by the time they take office, a question about to what serves, if any, to be trashing a student organ­ extent candidates would sacrifice revenue to isation,” Carter countered.

Armed with a contemplative inquiry SSMU in favour of lower prices revealed into the ethics of his opponents, Bushnell some philosophical difference.

“I believe in lower prices for the cafete­ rose and spoke.

“Shame on you. Shame on you for ria,” said Remai. “I would go for a 10% reduction and halve the guaranteed revenue promising to voice student interests once elected... as soon as you’re shrugged into which would be about $180,000.”

“We have to have a balance,” said office, you’ll actively ignore your con­ Strong. “It can’t be dirt cheap and we do stituents. You know, your constituents,” he have to have it [the prices] at a reasonable elegised. level so it does generate some profit.”

K is s o o n ’ s recommendations for the finance department? “ S S M U everyone tells me. Either way, I’ll should spend B y T vla B er c h to ld be happy. I really don’t care. more money on Tribune: Have you been With the SSMU elections the average apa­ thetic student,” he beginning next week, it is time for receiving a lot of support from stu­ students to seriously consider who dents around campus? said.

Goodinson: No. We haven’t And in terms they want as their representatives of the food and within the student government next been campaigning though.

Tribune: Have you been to beverage con­ year. Despite rumours that they any debates or anything? were dropping out of the race, tract?

Goodinson: We went to the members of the Red Herring have “E v ery o n e one down here in the basement [of should just bring decided to stay in until the end.

Shatner].

It was successful, I think.

Presidential candidate Steve their lunch to Actually, we sent this ridiculous Goodinson gave the Tribune an school.” exclusive interview on his opinions letter up to Molson Hall telling that we wouldn’t come to VP External concerning the election and the them their debates because they were potential outcomes W hile most Tribune: Rumour has it the keeping burrowing owls in the of the candidates have been Red Herring is dropping out. Is basement of Gardner. Apparently some of them read it and thought it exchanging pleas­ that true?

Goodinson: No, we’re going was pretty funny. antries on the Tribune: What prompted you cam paign trail, to go until the end. We were think­ to run in the first place? ing about resigning but they told us VP External can­ Goodinson: Free publicity for didates Nick that they would have to hold B enedict and another election and it would cost the Herring. It was funny and we Chris Carter have a lot of money, so we decided to had lots of opportunity for jokes and that’s what we like to do. I been exchanging stay in. think it made the elections more Tribune: What if you win? a steady series of interesting because that debate we Goodinson: If we win, we'll blows. Perched went to was boring. just resign and the position will go forlornly in the Tribune: If you win, what do m iddle of this to the person with the next highest you think that is saying about number of votes or something. playground see­ McGill students?

They have some mechanism to saw is the Red Goodinson: I think it will H errin g 's Dave decide.

Tribune: Do you think you’re show that the SSMU is kind of Bushnell. irrelevant and no one really cares going to win?

Benedict Goodinson: T hat’s what what happens. spoke of his

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How did it get so bad?

Tensions between Dean of Students Irwin Gopnik and student leaders, particularly SSMU President Sevag Yeghoyan, narrowly escaped coming to a head at last week’s meeting of McGill’s Senate...thanks to a questionable intervention by the speaker of Senate, Principal Bernard Shapiro (see story page 3).

Yeghoyan, angered by comments made by Gopnik, had planned to reveal to Senate contents of a telephone conversation in which Gopnik had allegedly called students “tunnel-visioned, narrow-minded, greasy, sleazy, self-centred and greedy” and threatened to “shred [Yeghoyan] apart at Senate”.

Though Yeghoyan was allowed to say a portion of his prepared speech at Senate, Shapiro cut him off on a point of order moments before the shit would have hit the fan. Shapiro’s call was not questionable on technical grounds. It was questionable because Shapiro allegedly knew what was coming next, and presumably wanted to avoid the publicity of such caustic comments.

Shapiro must recognise that if the administration is going to insist that McGill University operates on the oft-touted principle of collegiality, such incidents must be dealt with appropriately and openly (not to mention the fact that Gopnik’s words themselves fly in the face of anything remotely considered collegial). Yeghoyan had every right to raise Gopnik’s conduct at Senate. Technical rules should not be used to silence indelicate and uncom­ fortable issues.

Gopnik’s comments were no small slip in the heat of the moment.

What Yeghoyan asked of the dean was not unreasonable. It was not an attempt to thwart the dean, though it was almost certainly perceived as such.

It was an attempt on Yeghoyan’s part to be a responsible student leader.

Yeghoyan is concerned and rightly so. He has to be able to work with Gopnik, Shapiro and other members of the administration for the next month and a half. He has to be concerned with the legacy he will be passing on to the next SSMU executive in terms of relations with the administration.

Very little can likely be done now to restore relations between Gopnik and student leaders. This incident is not the only reason. The fact is that rela­ tions between student leaders and Gopnik have been marked with hostility and distrust for some time. Many student leaders have felt that Gopnik does not respect students, and believe that they have attempted each year to come to the relationship with a clean slate. Gopnik at least perceives student lead­ ers exactly as he said in the conversation. Probably the best that can be done now is to make every effort to ensure that the right tone is set between stu­ dents and the new dean of students that will be coming into office this year.

Shapiro is a different story entirely. This is the first year that student leaders have worked with Shapiro. Important efforts have been made by stu­ dents to participate intelligently in decisions facing the university. The rela­ tionship that has been forged with Shapiro has been a productive one. And while there may be some frustration with the events at Senate, it should not be allowed to ruin that relationship.

Once this issue has been dealt with, students and the administration should get back to working as partners on the real issues facing the universi­ ty. In the meantime, Yeghoyan certainly deserves an apology.

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Kelly Remai: 5 Tracy Strong: 5 • Both Remai and Strong are very strong candidates. Students will be well served by either. It is a shame that one of them has to lose.

• We love Russell but his oppo­ nents will do a great job.

Steve Ahn: 0 Helena Myers: 0 Steve Goodinson: 10 VP Internal • Neither Ahn nor Myers are suf­ Tanim Ahmed: 4 ficiently inform ed on relevant Jen Harding: 6 issues, nor have they presented Bryant Johnson: 0 many specifics about how they will • Harding and Ahmed have accomplish stated goals. almost an identical platform, mak­ • Being president of one organi­ ing it hard to distinguish between sation does not necessarily qualify the two. one to be president of SSMU. • Harding is more eloquent • Many of Myers’ projects can be than Ahmed, who sometimes has accomplished without being presi­ difficulty encapsulating his ideas, dent of SSMU. which may make his seem disor­ • Panel members wanted to send ganised. the message that they would not be • Ahmed’s experience with the forced to “settle” on the presidency Old McGill yearbook has put him of SSMU. in touch with many of the people he • Some of Goodinson’s com­ would be working with next year. ments have been rem arkably • Harding has been successful insightful for a so-called “joke” in the work she has already done candidate. within the internal department.

• Goodinson will be resigning.

• They are just so damn nice to According to the SSMU C ons­ each other. titution, if the president resigns • Johnson spiced up the race, (after assuming office May 1st) the but again, there are viable alterna­ VP University Affairs takes over tives. and a new VP University Affairs will have to be chosen. Can you VP University Affairs live with this?

Elizabeth Elmwood: 0 Lisa Grushcow: 10 VP Finance Peter Mazoff: 0 Russell Kissoon: 0 • Grushcow is clearly the more

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Who did the Math?

It is with great displeasure that I read the results of your Election Quiz. I, David Bushnell, Red Herring candidate for VP External, received a percentile or percentage or whatever that was 11 %, giving me a grade of F. Russell Pierre Kissoon, Red Herring candidate for VP Finance, received a percentile/ percentage/whatever of 10%, which gave him a B. Where is the fair­ ness? Who did the math? How did you base your scores?

Why did VP External candidate Nick Benedict receive a perfect score of 35 after failing to correctly

answer one question? Does this mean that the Tribune is endorsing Benedict? Where is the fairness? Of course, I am happy to see that Mr. Benedict said, “Get a life,” when asked about a Redmen football star; apparently Nick doesn’t care one whit about the achievements of McGill students outside the realm of onanistic student politics.

I am also happy to see that VP University Affairs candidate Lisa Grushcow doesn’t care enough about her potential constituents to watch Beverly Hills, 90210; exactly how is she supposed to represent us when she doesn’t understand us?

Oh, wait, I get it; she’s another stu­ dent politico who promises to con­ sult the student body on “the issues,” but will really just hide in her Shatner cubbyhole as soon as she’s

informed candidate, with the most relevant experience and a history of involvement.

• Grushcow may need to work on her diplomacy, and there is a question o f her efficiency. Some felt that she “nitpicks” about the details of issues.

• Mazoff is the student answer to Rush Limbaugh.

• Mazoff is an articulate speak­ er — though quite contradictory at times.

• Grushcow is stronger on equity than other issues.

• Elmwood’s drinking was a really, really big problem.

VP External Nick Benedict: 5 Chris Carter: 4 Dave Bushnell: 1 • Benedict’s tactics are a problem (immature at tim es), but he has accomplished a lot this year. He has made the position of VP External viable and created significant momentum within the portfolio.

• Carter is informed and provides insightful arguments and an alterna­ tive approach to that of Benedict.

• Carter’s lack of French ability is a definite problem.

• Some felt that both candidates can be quite petty at times, as evi­ denced by the tone during the cam­ paign period. There is a lot of per­ sonal animosity between these two.

• Bushnell has nice legs, and shamed his opponents well. elected.

“Morons” indeed. jViva el V ice Présidente External!

David Bushnell Candidate, VP External

Editor’s Note: Mr. Kissoon’s score was misrepresented due to typographical error; he deserved an F. Mr. Benedict received a perfect score because he answered correctly a bonus question.

The Wrath of Cohen I read with interest the article in your March 1 issue entitled “Kirk to Enterprise: the students’ viewpoint.”

Unfortunately, the reason why I sup-

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Correction In last week’s Tribune a letter authored by Mary-Margaret Jones was printed. In the letter Ms. Jones referred to VP External candidate Chris Carter as a “fascistic queer”. The Tribune in no way endorses that opinion, and regrets any misunderstanding or personal injury it caused to either Mr. Carter or members of McGill’s lesbian, gay and bisexual community.

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A case for the place and need of art

I think it is important to begin to separate out art from entertain­ ment. I am not trying to set up some unbridgeable dichotomy, but rather establish what can fruitfully be debated (art) in terms of ideas, con­ cepts, purpose, and what must just be (entertainment). Of course, any one piece of work will contain aspects of both. A painting by Jackson Pollack, though usually considered ‘high’ art, also performs entertainment services. Entertain: v.t. to show hospitality; to amuse. In painting, this could even extend to a definition including decorative or purely aesthetic (ie. ‘it matches the couch’). On the other side, the movie Star Wars, though more or less made as entertainment, can also function as art. Art: n. production to portray an investigation by the artist; production requiring ques­

her book P sychoanalysis & exactly what I thought of art and Synchronized Swimming, Jeanne entertainment and their intersection.

Randolph, art critic and psychiatrist, Did I see value in art that did not, at identifies this as the am enable any point, transfer into a commodi­ object. Amenable: a. easily led; ty or entertainment? In a society willing to yield or obey. She goes with such intense economic discrep­ on to clarify this using the work of ancies, where money is far from psychiatrist D.W. Winnicott. In his free flowing, could this show be tioning and thought by the viewer. justified? I think the meaning goes All this arises out of a conver­ book Playing and Reality, he devel­ back to this notion of the amenable ops a deconstructing theory that sation I had with a friend at a object, and our place in the process. picks apart the constructed dichoto­ gallery on the weekend. The show I must admit that I have a problem my between subjective and objec­ at hand was an installation designed with the egoist idea of private jokes tive, and raises the intriguing possi­ for the space, consisting of a num­ in public places (to quote architect ber of small, irregular cartoon-like bility that art exists within the ambi­ Moshe Safdie), or using public guity between the objective and the illustrations, two full wall drawings funds — such as at a public gallery. subjective.

As an object, it is and two metal patio tables in the When making art for public view­ amenable — both made and read, centre of the room. The installation, ing, I don’t think it is the artist’s and if either of these processes is working as a whole, brought for­ task to create the cryptic — the ‘in’ ward a number of issues in my read­ missing, the work is hollow. joke. That is private activity. The My friend’s concern was that ing (which of course involves my artist must acknowledge they are personal experience). The artist was people were being paid for this kind involved in the creation of clearly involved in an investigation of work. Clearly, to her, this work amenable objects. could not be bought, brought home, of the reconciling of human nature, Now the question becomes, is history, and the modem world. No and hung on the wall over the art worthwhile? Do we need it? couch.

Though the installation was thesis was definitively put forward, After the Russian revolution, under so the work remained free of decon- made of many smaller pieces, each Lenin, R ussia went through an alone did not hold the meaning of structable didactic tendencies. The unrepeated period of exploration meaning was to be found in the the show. No one piece could be and creation in the arts — and bought and separated.

Her question­ intersection of the artist’s thought though most artists explored ing in turn made me question more and the viewer’s own experience. In

Political memoirs chapter two: The SSMU years

The following excerpts are from the upcoming book Life of Procrastination: Mark Luz’s Story (W estview Press, 1239 pages, $1.29) chronicalling my year as President of SSMU. All the stories are true and are actual events: no names have been changed so that everyone is embarrassed equally.• • Scandal Covered Up by SSMU Executive and Staff ..... I stared blankly at the inte­ rior-designer Marriott’s had hired to transform Gert’s from a dark, sweaty place to get drunk and pick up into an Eating and Drinking emporium that according to Marriott estimates would gross well over $10 million in its first year. He was babbling about fences, lawn chairs, all-you-can-eat spaghetti and a new colour scheme that had been psychologically proven to make people want to eat. I was not really listening: we had already put in a Pizza Hut in the Alley — what the hell more could students want?

I toyed with the idea of having Cornell’s Secret SSMU VP Internal Army break this man’s legs, but I knew that Cornell already had them assigned to harass the Club Representatives for the rest of the year.

The interior-designer handed me a colour-scheme and asked for

Smiling, he looked at me and said “Mr. President, I’ve done some­ thing that you must know about before you see them in the paper”.

My heart skipped a beat: what had happened now? If they had found out about Ruth’s ____________ _______________________ Satan my approval. I said I would bring it ___________ path of destruction to the Executive to look at, and he ________________ insane asylum left. I glanced at what he had given ___________(SSMU censors) “Mark, my twig and berries are me, thinking to myself, “That pink colour is really ugly”. I then threw going to be on the front page of the it beside my desk, where it stayed Daily.” for the next m onth, and it was “What?”

“My bits and pieces have been erased from my mind.

One month later, VP Finance exposed for the entire student body Paul Johnson and I walked into the to see.”

“WHAT?!? You are lying!” freshly painted Gert’s and screamed “Mark, I swear to you that my in pink terror. After we had calmed down, we were inform ed that Brady Bunch, Greg, Peter and Gert’s was not pink, it was pêche Bobby will be in the newspaper foncé which meant “dark peach” tomorrow.”

I did not believe him. Would and it made people want to eat.... you believe it? I said I would buy • The Things the President Has to him beer all night if he really did it... he really did.

Deal With .....Vice-President External Andrew Work entered the Oval • Human Rights Violations at Office at the Shatner Building, his SSMU I walked into the damp and face a grim mask. I knew that something had gone terribly wrong. dreary concrete cell. The Shatner Everyone in the office had been in building that summer had become a a joyous mood that day because VP giant furnace that sapped all life University Affairs Ruth Promislow from its inhabitants. I squinted into had not stepped foot in the building the dimness as I heard Cornell’s in three days. Judging from this enthusiastic voice imitating his hero possessed look on Andrew’s face, I John Turner. I crept along the walls assumed she had returned, thirsty until I could clearly make out the dim shapes. What I was about to for fresh blood.

Andrew leaned back in his see horrified me. No “O riental chair, and stared at the ceiling mut­ Day” meal at the cafeteria or tering “I hope Mom doesn’t see!’. speech from the Transit Network’s By now, I was utterly confused and despot Howard Markowitz could asked him w hat was wrong. have prepared me for the horror I

Continued from Page 6 ported, and continue to support the renaming of the University Centre was not given. The fact that only one of the people who was cited in the article seems to have been around when the question went to referen­ dum may have something to do with this.

I voted to name a McGill build­ ing after William Shatner in order to make a mockery out of the building naming process. To say that Shatner is not deserving of a building makes me wonder what the criteria are.

According to McGill’s qualifi­ cations for building naming, a per­ son can have a building named for them if they donate half of its con­ struction cost. Does a large financial contribution make you worthy of your own building?

Even if they have not made a financial contribution to McGill, a person can get a personalised build­ ing if they are dead. Again, I fail to see how having died qualifies a per­ son for this honour. If it helps any, Shatner’s career died long ago. Why else would he do Rescue 9111 Also, Shatner’s most famous persona, Captain James T. Kirk, died in the last Star Trek movie.

Among those whose names was about to witness.

Thousands upon thousands piles of paper, coupons, flyers and McGill paraphernalia almost hid the Welcome Week “volunteers” from view, but their suffering was unmistakable. They were shackled to their chairs, folding and stuffing, signing my name and C ornell’s name to thousands of letters greet­ ing nameless frosh. Their tongues were bloody from licking so many envelopes. They were sweating, crying, begging Cornell to let them go and get a drink. The heartless Cornell responded with a quote from Brian M ulroney’s farewell speech, and the volunteers moaned

(abstractly) the new communist/ industrial society, it was due to a personal vigor and excitem ent regarding the new life ahead, not due to governm ent regulations regarding production. Lenin realised that this kind of excited, critical thinking served the society, even if its benefits could not be identified in a tangible manner.

After Lenin, Stalin began to ques­ tion the place of art and whether it was truly a benefit to the nation. He began to regulate the style and con­ tent, trying to force art to serve a tangible purpose (propaganda). I think we all know what this kind of shift implies in a society.

Really, we must simply trust that art is a necessary part of cul­ ture, and to do this, we must note it as an important part of our own lives. If we see art as Randolph’s amenable object, then it is a vehicle for personal questioning and growth, and, as such, I feel, indis­ pensable.

Geoff Gibson is an entertaining artist. grace our halls are a union buster, a bootlegger, a misogynist, an antiSemite and a man who developed weapons of Maass destruction. For what did we honour these people?

Actually, maybe William Shatner does not fit into those ranks.

After all, he is just a bad actor. He does, however, fit in one important aspect: he is a white man.

Aubrey Cohen U3 Arts

Not Morons?

I was baffled by what seems to me to be an inconsistency in Michael Broadhurst’s comment enti­ tled “Morons, Inc.” in the March 7 issue.

Toward the beginning of the comment, Broadhurst asserted, “many of the candidates are boring, unqualified and unable to display any propensity for the jo b .” He refers to the results of the Tribune’s Election Quiz as proof of this, not­ ing, “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.”

See Letters Page 19 in agony.

I was appalled. Slave labour?

At SSMU? W hat torturous act would he force them perform next: sit through every council meeting for the rest of the year? I pulled Cornell aside to confront him about the situation, and he replied: “Mark, my colleague, you do not understand. These are my Welcome Week volunteers. They will do any­ thing I tell them. They like to be ordered around to do menial tasks like cçok hotdogs and boil corn.

Don’t you understand? They like it, Mark. They like it!”

Mark Luz is very knobby.

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Man, people are annoying

L ike w hen you go to the Provigo and you’re standing in the express line (i.e. twelve items or less) and some guy (well, usu­ ally i t ’s a guy) has obviously more than twelve items, and it’s like he doesn’t even care! I mean, what the fuck?!

It’s like when you go to the big rock-and-roll show and you get in front so you can show the guitarist the time when he asks (I seen it happen) and some chick ( i t ’s alm ost alw ays a chick) shoves her way in front of you and starts taking pictures and you have to deal w ith her b ig-ass ponytail because it’s sticking up like they’re wont to do, and so you decide to lighten the mood and try to get her out of your face

at the same time, so you wave your hand in front of the lens once or twice (just to let her know you’re there) and she gets, like, pissed. I said it before and I’ll say it again, people are nuts and if I live to be a thousand years old and become the most sagacious sage in the land I’ll never figure ‘em out.

Or like when sometimes in the show er I get too into the shower and I keep soaping up the p arts th at have been soaped before, especially my tummy, and then when I’ve finally finished (and that includes the crucial getthe-damn-hairs-off-the-soap peri­ od) and then I notice that there’s, like, hardly any soap left but fore­ sight is bat-like at best so I just

buy soap like it’s going out of style or something.

It’s like when you don’t get any mail, except those &*$#! cir­ culars that never apply to me because I’m not in the market for an A M /FM /stereo/cassette/five CD changer or even two-for-one vegetable soup for that matter, and you’re expecting something good, like money, or even some­ thing marginally OK, like a letter of apology from one those bas­ tard s at the pet store who wouldn’t give you any guidance when you first went in there to get a g o ld fish because you thought a cat would be too much responsibility (I mean, which one is ea sie r to get rid o f once it dies?) so you buy the goldfish and you get it home and soon it has brown spots all over and even though you knew it was only your beginner fish you still feel bad about euthanasing it, especially since it managed to swim against the flush for a little while.

Goddamn, now I ’m depres­

the ass was sitting across from him on the opposition benches.

In North America, politicians T h e F a c u lty o f E p h e m e r a abuse one another, but never with A lex U sh er the kind of flair seen elsewhere.

Instead, North Americans have con­ centrated their abuse upon language Conflict-resolution is an important field of acade­ itself. George Bush was a clear leader in this field. mic research these days, what with small wars and eth­ Take for instance, a speech he made in 1988 in which nic cleansing breaking out almost continuously across he explained why he opposed abortion: “you know, I the Globe. And wherever one finds a hot academic mentioned — and with really from the heart — this field, one will also find a group of crackpot social sci­ concept of going across the river to this little church entists trying to cash in. Here at the Faculty of and watching one of our children — adopted kid — be Ephemera, conflict resolution per se is not of any great baptised. And that made for me — it was very emo­ interest, although we do occasionally wonder what tional for me. It helped me in reaching a very personal ever happened to Cat Stevens after he declared in view of this question. And I don’t know.”

January 1991 that he was going to sit on the SaudiStill, Bush was in some ways an amateur com­ Kuwait border in order to promote peace. Instead, our pared to President Warren G. Harding, who H.L. researchers are more interested in conflict itself, and in Mencken described as the only man alive who could particular in the phenomenon of abuse. make seven grammatical errors in a single sentence.

(Abuse, of course, has no place within academia, Hardingese sounded like this: “Progression is not where all relationships should be friendly and colle­ proclamation nor palaver. It is not pretense nor play on gial. Which is why our Really Good Friend, the Dean prejudice. It is not personal pronouns, nor perennial of Students, clearly has no place in academia. If I were pronouncement. It is not the perturbation of a passion to follow the traditional practice of this parenthetical people-wrought, nor a promise proposed.” space, now would be the perfect time to show the One of the most foul types of abuse is of animals.

Dean up for the unpleasant sod that he is. However, One case of dog murder has come to light courtesy of since he showed his true colours on page three of this liberalisation in R ussia. In his book The F irst newspaper, it is completely unnecessary for me to con­ Directorate, former KGB Colonel Oleg Kalugin tells tinue picking on him.) of an embarassing incident which occurred in 1979. In Abuse has a rich history in European politics. that year, the KGB discovered that one of its senior Bismarck may have been the greatest of the nine­ attachés in an Asian country was having some marital teenth-century abusers. Certainly, there are few who problems and that his wife was having sex with the could match the poetry of his famed comment that “a family dog to console herself. Furthermore, they dis­ Bavarian is a cross between a man and an Austrian”. covered that Western intelligence agencies had also Mussolini was too gross to be a champion abuser (he discovered the wife’s liason and planned on blackmail­ enjoyed picking on others physical defects); still his ing the KGB man. A solemn meeting was held in assertion that “it is not impossible to govern Italians, it Moscow to discuss this dangerous situation, and future is merely useless” deserves some mention.

Party General Secretary Yuri Andropov approved an Great Britain, however, stands head and shoulder order to waste the dog. above the continent for the range of its abusive lan­ More recently, there is the case of the deranged guage. David Lloyd-George was a particularly famed poacher in Uganda. Local gameskeepers say they have abuser. Once, when challenged by a Tory MP by the no clue as to the identity of the person who has been name of Samuel, he remarked that “when Samuel was attacking rare mountain gorillas with tranquilizers and circumcised, they threw away the wrong bit”. Another then, before they awake, dressing them in clown cos­ Tory tried to make fun of Lloyd-George’s humble tumes. upbringing, and teased him about having been taken to Of course, animal abuse goes both ways. Last school in a cart drawn by an ass. Lloyd-George’s May, James Herriot, the author of the popular “All riposte was to say that yes, this was true, and he had Creatures Great and Small” series which depicted the lately been meditating on the fate of the cart and the bucolic life of a country vet, was hospitalised after ass. The cart, he felt sure, had been broken apart and being savaged and trampled by a flock of sheep. sold for kindling ages before, but until now he had no idea what had happened to the ass. Now, he realised, Alex Usher likes to speak parenthetically.

sed.

But not really, because I had the goldfish for only three days and I didn’t even know what sex the little critter was, so I called her/him Fish, as in, “Hey, Fish, w hat’s up?” and the rat-bastard refused to even swim interesting­ ly, preferring instead to lie on the bottom of the tank and apparently nap. Jerk. She/he deserved her/his slow, lingering death.

Like the guy in one of my classes (I’ll call him “Phil” even though that’s not his name) who always sits smack-dab right in front of the prof and smiles ador­ ingly at the instructor like it’ll get him a better grade, but then you notice that Phil smiles adoringly at EVERYBODY, so you don’t know if he’s a terminal kiss-ass or a nice guy or seriously messed up or what. He should just make up his mind so I’ll know whether to hate him or not. But I’ll proba­ bly hate him because wherever you go, whatever you do, people are idiots, through and through.

It makes me almost want to vote for the SSMU (S tu d en ts’

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Society of M cGill U niversity) elections, but then I feel like I don’t hafta, I don’t wanna, and you can’t make me, because after all the big debates you always see the candidates acting like they’re buddies. Is this politics? Where is the backroom dealing, the kickbacks, the scandals? Who’s run­ ning this show? What’s it matter?

W ho was VP In tern al fifteen years ago? Does anyone care?

No! Twenty years from now, no one will remember us, so it’s con­ venient that no one cares now.

The Tribune made the candidates take quizzes “relevant” to their positions. The results were dis­ mal, and it’s obvious why— the past means little if anything. We have all this cool stuff; does it m atter how we got it? No, m a’am, what matters is that we keep it, for as long as we’re here.

That’s the present, the here and now, the bird in the hand. Work for the fu tu re? W hy? I t ’s our re sp o n sib ility to look out for num ber one. T h a t’s w hat I ’m doing, baby, and you’ll have to pry my cold, dead fingers off my stuff before I even let you see it.

So back off.

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March 14th, 1995

Women’s health: Determined at the flip of a coin?

B y Iin n ie I u n g __________________ _

In the average day of a doctor, seven out of ten patients attended to are women. Not surprisingly, there are suggestions to establish a separate branch of m edicine designed explicitly for the needs of women.

On Tuesday, March 7, five

panellists participated in a discus­ sion on one of the current medical controversies: w hether or not women’s medicine should become a separate speciality. Hosted by the W om en’s M edical Society of M cG ill, the event was titled “Should women’s health be a sepa­ rate medical speciality?”.

Unlike the fields of obstetrics

Panellists discuss the fu ture o f wom en’s health

McGill’s separation anxiety.

Continued from Page 1 Quebec states that any Canadian citizen who is a Quebec resident is entitled to Quebec citizenship. This criteria would cover all Canadian citizens who are stu­ dents at McGill. All those students who reside in the riding surrounding the uni­ versity, having lived in Montreal for more than six months, were eligible to vote in the last by-election in St. HenriWestmount because they are officially considered residents by the federal gov­ ernment. However, article five does not apply to out of province McGill students according to Ivan Bédard, an information officer at the Sécrétariat Nationale.

“If you want to stay in Quebec for­ ever and become a Quebec citizen, the national assembly will be deciding what the criteria will be for citizenship,” said Bédard. “But the criteria has not been

Students closing doors on McGill?

where it has been led astray by biology,” stated Phillips.

Dr. Janet Dollin, associate pro­ health care systems that never took fessor in fam ily m edicine at voices of fem ale doctors and McGill, stated that women’s health patients into consideration.

“I prefer to envision the criti­ as a speciality evolved for a good cal aspects of women’s health as reason.

“Take a coin. Put women’s part of the normal day’s work for health on one side and men’s health every clinician.”

Dr. Baldomero Presser, associ­ on the other. You should have an equal chance of it landing on either ate professor in psychiatry at side. But when I was in medical McGill and the only male panellist school, I didn’t even notice how last Tuesday, warned against much the coin was skewed to one restricting the keepers of women’s health to women. side.”

“There is great danger in say­ Having realised that the med­ ing ‘we are the only ones who ical system had a “blind spot,” Dollin asserted that women should understand. We are the only ones re-evaluate the present system so who can do it’,” he said. “When that women’s health may be at the you hurt, we hurt.”

However, Dr. Laurel Baldwin, “fingertips of everybody practising associate professor of family medi­ medicine”.

Dollin expressed concern cine at M cGill, questioned the about women’s health becoming a validity of women’s health as a clinical speciality fearing that it speciality by drawing on various may alienate it from general medi­ feminist theories.

“Is there even enough com­ cine entirely.

Phillips reiterated D ollin’s monality in all women’s experi­ sentiments, believing that the dis­ ences across race, across class, cul­ tinction would be more helpful in ture and education to really consti­ medical schools. In her opinion, a tute a generality — that we have successful teaching program in enough to say about there is a gen­ women’s health in medical schools eralisation among all women that will eventually we can create for women,” she stat­ mean its disap­ ed. “Who will actually benefit from this new speciality?” pearance.

Baldwin proposed an alternate Dollin also said this special­ vision where women are no longer being done. You have to meet the judge­ ity offers the passive consumers of medical ser­ opportunity to vices. ment of peers on a much broader scale “This is a time for us to take a than you would have to if you were just a review what the single province. So there would be some­ medical estab­ very critical look at ourselves. If thing lost on the research side even if lishm ent has one does not get idealistic, one gets Quebec provides as much money as was done wrong and lost on the way,” she concluded. previously provided.”

Shapiro said that whether or not pro­ fessors and experts choose to stay at McGill will depend entirely on what kind of research funding is available, not on the results of the Quebec referendum.

Questions have been raised as to whether or not an independent Quebec government would impose further restric­ • W h a t t w e n t y y e a r s o f h u m a n tions on McGill. Last summer the Quebec government ruled that the McGill med­ r i g h t s l e g i s l a t i o n h a v e d o n e f o r ical school had to close its doors to out of w o m e n in Q u e b e c province students. Dr. R.L. Cruess, Dean of the Medical School, has been fighting B y Io y c e Lau _________________________ ______________________ the ruling. He feels that such an action is harmful to the entire university.

1995 marks the twentieth anniversary of the “One of the dangers of a sovereign Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. Not Quebec is that McGill will not be able to only is this document the only provincial charter of its maintain its national and international kind, but it also cites grounds of discrimination not role,” said Cruess. explicitly listed in the federal Canadian Charter of Others fear that McGill will not be Rights and Freedoms, including pregnancy, sexual ori­ able to continue as an English-speaking entation, civil status, and language. The Quebec charter university in an independent French is also the first Canadian legislation that guarantees speaking country. Shapiro is confident equal pay for work of equivalent value. that the role of McGill will not change.

The charter emerged from what a 1974 government “The whole point of McGill is that it document cited as a need to contend with “the growing is not francophone, there are plenty of complexity of individual relationships and the francophone u n iversities in this increasing cosmopolitan character of our cities”. A province,” explained Shapiro. “I have no provincial Human Rights Commission and Human interest in what used to be called ‘McGill Rights Tribunal later were adopted. In short, the français’. I don’t think becoming more Commission handles complaints of discrimination and ‘McGill français’ is the point, there are harassment, offers free investigative services where it plenty of such institutions in Montreal deems necessary, and attempts to arbitrate out-of-court and we don’t have to be one of them.” settlements. Should a dispute become a court case “It does seem that way, but it’s diffi­ brought before the Human Rights Tribunal, the cult to know if that’s what they have in Commission will represent the complainant free of mind. We just have to keep fighting in charge, and pay for half of their trial. the other direction,” concluded Shapiro.

Last Wednesday, Jennifer Stoddart, director of

or gynaecology, which simply con­ centrate on the female biological functions, a speciality in women’s health also encompasses the deter­ minants of health beyond biology that are more social in nature.

Panel member Daria Manos, a U3 humanistic studies student and a member of the Women’s Union, raised an important question: “If w om en’s health becomes a speciality, will it be too special?”

Dr. Susan P hil­ lips, associate profes­ sor and director of a women’s health resi­ dency program at Q ueen’s U niversity, supported the speciali­ sation of w om en’s health in m edical schools.

“Women’s health is defined as women’s emotional, social, cul­ tural, spiritual, and physical well being, and is determined by the social political, and econom ic cli­ mate... as well as by

determined yet.”

Presumably, what students would have to do in order to be considered “citi­ zens” by the Quebec government is apply for a Quebec health card and driver’s license, as well as declaring a Quebec address as their permanent residence.

Shapiro does not think the McGill degree will lose its value if Quebec sepa­ rates.

“The McGill degree doesn’t have value because it happens to be in Canada or it happens to be in the province of Quebec. It has a value for what it is in itself. People know what McGill is and they know the kind of work it does and the degree has that kind of recognition and none of that changes when the politi­ cal situation around you changes,” said Shapiro.

But will McGill be able to continue to do its work as a major research university if its loses a significant amount of federal research funding?

“The largest part of the research funding McGill receives comes directly from the federal government,” explained Shapiro.

“It depends whether or not the Quebec governm ent would enrich its own research funding resources with the tax-base, so as to make up for the loss in the federal support. It would be very difficult, but it’s always imagin­ able that they w ould,” said Shapiro.

The quality and quantity of the research could suffer for other reasons as well. Shapiro cited the advantages of being able to cooperate with other -c provinces in research. The larger the research pool explained £ Shapiro, generally the better the J: research that is produced. “It improves the quality of what is

The machinery of justice

• Next week, the Tribune will release results of a sovereignty poll in which over 120 McGill professors answered.

Investigation at the Human Rights Commission, spoke at the Women’s Union on the history of the Quebec See Human Rights Page 10

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Of new minorities and processed cheese S p it I t O u t Paromita Shah On November 9, 1994, something very strange happened. A new Republican Congress was elected, producing the first GOP majority in both Houses in over forty years.

The event itself wasn’t unnatural (although I must admit it was gross­ ly incompatible with my stomach); it was how it happened.

Who was credited with this monumental turnover? The Wall Street Journal buzzed their answer in three words that officially sparked the birth of the new minority in the United States: Angry White Men. Sixty-tw o percent of white m ales voted for Republican Congressional candidates last fall. With Newt Gingrich, Pat Buchanan, and Rush Limbaugh leading the pack, they ushered in a whole new wave of cigar-connoisseurs, Hillary-bitchers, and good old American fromage topped with frequent howls about their loss of power and reverse-discrim­ ination.

But, really, how marginalised is this minority? According to recent statistics, rich white men are still very rich, and aren’t in danger of getting poorer, even after Reagan’s much lamented departure. Where it does seem to matter is for those in the lower economic stratas. Times have been especially harsh on blue-collar workers. It now takes 65 years to double their standard of living as opposed to the 25 years it took in the 70s.

In addition, the median income of white men has dropped 10 percent in the last 15 years. White women’s earning power has gone the opposite way, rising 10 percent in the same time period.

Much of this has to do with the fact that there has been a migration from manufacturing jobs to low-paying service jobs — nearly 20 percent of manufacturing jobs in the States have disappeared over the past 30 years. These new jobs usually meant lower wages for white men but for minorities and women, who have consistently worked for less, it means another income, or at the very least, an improvement.

It is still the case that white men hold the vast majority of political and corporate power. White men hold all but one out of the eighteen com­ mittee chairs in the House of Representatives — the stronghold of the Republican enclave. (A rather ironic figure considering how many women speak for the Republican party line.)

In addition, women, across all professions, make an average of 30 percent less than their male counterparts. All black-Americans consistent­ ly make less than white males, although their earning patterns mirror those of the rest of the population. Only five percent of the Fortune 500 companies have women directors, with the vast majority concentrated in public relations. But as a white male with a considerably shrinking wallet, it must be easy to assume that it is women and minorities who are taking away all the gains.

However, this really hasn’t completely answered why the white male is the angry white male. It appears as if they have coalesced into their own political bloc, trying to make as much noise as possible because of .... what?

Maybe it’s because, the motif of the “common man”, the traditional white male, blue-collar, head of the family man as portrayed by many a Republican candidate (even when a fair number of these Republicans are filthy rich), is dwindling away. There are many voices that are being heard: black, asian, gay, lesbian, feminist, etc — all of whom are forging or asserting their own identities. These new white males have been trying to assert their identity in, what is now, a myth. It comes down to the fact, that his power, while strong, is by no means guaranteed anymore.

Grasping uncertainly to ground their identity, this bloc has, along the way, made political correctness synonymous with derision. It allows Rush Limbaugh to call women “feminazis”, Hillary Clinton to become a “bitch”, mock use of “African-American”, and basically making fun of anything that is clearly labelled gay, feminist, or minority. In fact, the Village Voice said it best: “The only group it’s not hip to dis these days is straight white men.”

This is where their whining begins. You would think 5,000 years of accrued advantages would have been enough for Rush.

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Continued from Page 9 charter, and on the effects twenty years of human rights legislation have had on women in Quebec.

The history of linguistic ‘emergence and definition’

of people on welfare are women, many of whom are single and have young kids and therefore cannot work.”

Another site of discrimination is the workplace.

“The biggest problems came from large, old man­ ufacturing firms, who had two lists, lists A and B sepa­ rating men and women, where the women would auto­ matically be making a dollar less an hour than the men.” said Stoddart.

Nonetheless, conflicts arising from cases of dis­ crimination have posed less of a problem than more recent conflicts arising from indirect or systemic dis­ crimination.

Before the existence of the Quebec charter, com| plainants seeking formal protection against discrimina­ tion and harassment could only refer to the Canadian Bill of Rights, which, as Stoddart said, was “not worth the paper it was written on as far as preventing discrim­ ination against women.”

According to Stoddart, in 1975, “concepts that Dealing with sys­ were part of women’s daily “Today you don’t have to be a lives were not defined. It temic saint to be a victim ... We had a was common knowledge discrimination that sexual harassm ent case of a woman who com­ Stoddart spoke of one of existed, but the word plained of sexual harassment. the Commission’s greatest ‘harassm ent’ was only a She worked in a topless bar, but concerns, which she refers to word that someone would as ‘effect discrim ination’. find in a dictionary. In she still won her case.”

“There are sets of policies or everyday speech, women practices which, in the way had to find other, indirect they’re defined and applied, affect and discriminate ways of expressing their problems.”

The Quebec charter defined terms like ‘harass­ against certain groups, but which don’t specifically name the group.” ment’, ‘indirect discrimination’ and ‘pay equity’.

Stoddart gave some examples of such discrimina­ “We knew that women were underpaid, and that tion.

“There are many cases where a women’s job is to women were generally poorer than men; but this was project a certain image, usually a young, dynamic, seen as a problem whose sources were ill-defined. It was initially a problem to get courts to recognise the sexy image, usually in a high class office. Let’s say that you’re hired as a receptionist when you’re 19, and new terminology,” continued Stoddart.

Stoddart emphasised the need to lend the same now you’re 39 and you’ve had two kids. Maybe as a credibility to women’s issues that more traditional 39-year-old, you don’t have the same image as a 19year-old. So the company tells you that they’re ‘reor­ issues have benefited from in the past.

“Today, in Quebec, human rights legislation legit­ ganising’, or that they have to let you go because you’ve always been late for work.” imises problems in the lives of women. If you can label When the evidence from individual cases like this | something, then it becomes important and expressible. seem like they may not stand up in court, the Only then can we take these problems to court on an Commission can run an investigation on the situation. equal level,” Stoddart explained. “This is all possible, It is cases like these which must be evaluated not only because now, we have access to the machinery of jus­ by facts stemming from individual cases, but in socio­ tice.” economic patterns.

Continuing with her example, Stoddart spoke of The present day ‘machinery “companies which have a pattern of always relocating men, and firing women; or a pattern of reorganising of justice’ ‘The actors in the court system have always pre­ out everyone over the age of forty-five.”

“Now we have a clear legal procedure for dealing dominantly been men, who have had more access to the means necessary to take a case to court. We [the with cases like this.”

Commission] offer a free, personalised, and confiden­ tial service which is more accessible to women. Most Working towards a greater future cases are dealt with in a non-confrontational setting, Areas which Stoddart felt must be addressed by not in a courtroom setting.” the broader society include: the career orientation of Seeing im provem ent over the last 20 years, young women, poverty in women and children, family Stoddart seemed most optimistic about the last five solidarity, and labour structure. years of provincial human rights legislation in Quebec.

“There are lim its to the Human Rights “Fortunately, from having worked for a long time Commission’s machinery. You can’t address structural with a system which was most difficult to enforce, we problems with a single piece of legislation,” empha­ now have a most efficient and speedy machine.” sised Stoddart.

“Change is based on investigation, and on dealing with complaints. It takes time, and it takes good will.”

Practical applications

yesterday and today Stoddart believes that not only have women gained greater credibility for their problem s, but they have also gained a greater credibility for themselves as com­ plainants and victims.

“Today you don’t have to be a saint to be a victim. Before, no one believed that a prostitute could be raped. And now, just recently, we had a case of a woman who com plained of sexual harassm ent. She worked in a topless bar, but she still won her case,” Stoddart explained.

“In 1975, a pregnant working woman hid her pregnancy and hoped for a good employer. And yes, many women today are still fired because they’re pregnant. We still see it everyday; only now, it’s illegal,” she added.

It is also no longer legal for a landlord to automatically refuse to rent to someone solely because they are on w elfare, or because they have children. Many societal problems, especially those dealing with wel­ fare and housing, often weigh more heavily on women.

According to Stoddart, “60-65 percent Stoddart on combating sexism through the Quebec Charter

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Deadline 2050: prospects of hope for a Dyer future ing to Dyer is the “numbers game”.

Dyer argued that despite the massive increase in the global population since 1800, “the bulk of of the popualtion growth, in terms of doubling and doubling, is past.” Next year rep­ resents the final year that the popula­ tion will increase, in terms of absolute numbers. Yet while yearly population increases will begin to decline, the fact remains that by the year 2050, the global village will be a thriving metropolis of nearly 10.5 bil­ lion people, according to Dyer’s interpretation of United Nation esti­ mates. This figure serves as an aver­ age between the UN’s low projection of 8.7 billion and the high projection of 12.5 billion inhabitants. Dyer noted, however, that the indications are “reasonably good for a continuing drop in birth rates that would incline

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Last Friday, while Canada and the European Community clashed over the preservation of turbot stocks off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, international affairs analyst and historian Gwynne Dyer delivered a fitting lecture on “popula­ tion, consumption and the environ­ ment” to a capacity-crowd at the Fieldhouse Auditorium. Dyer’s lec­ ture, sponsored by the McGill Student Pugwash, kicked off the organisation’s weekend conference on the growing concern of global population.

The world’s population is expected to hit six billion in 1998.

This means the earth’s population will have increased by 500 percent since the year 1800, when the global population broke one billion. Dyer wasted no time getting to the point.

To begin, Dyer set out to elim­ inate what he felt were not the issues. He was quick to debunk the myth that this rapid increase in pop­ ulation, occurring primarily in the Third World, will inevitably result in a heavy global migration north­ wards.

“We live in a world that has perfected the art of defending bor­ ders... Any country that wants to close its borders to immigration can. It doesn’t mean they should, but they can,” noted Dyer. “There is no ‘nightmare’ and frankly this sort of thing... is just thinly disguised racism.”

The second non-issue accord­ Mixed hopes fo r the future

us towards the lower projections.”

Dyer warned that declining growth rates should not be met with a corresponding decrease in concern for the population issue.

“The gross numbers to be added are significant indeed,” he comment­ ed.

Where population becomes a major threat is the point when it com­ bines with consumption. Dyer used the example of China to emphasise his point. While its grain production has declined by three-quarters of a percent since 1986, the population in China continues to increase yearly by one percent. Though China currently manages to feed itself, Dyer claimed that in 15 years time China’s import requirements in grain will equal the world’s entire supply in grain exports.

“Does this mean China will

starve? No. it means China will buy all the available grain in the world and Africa will starve. The poor is who starve in famines,” commented Dyer. “ So we are getting into some pretty deep waters in terms of food.”

Dyer maintained that the avail-

ablility of food was surpassed by an even greater threat to the environ­ ment’s ability to sustain population growth. That threat is industrialisa­ tion and the consumption levels See Dyer Page 12

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Continued from Page 11 inherent to industrialised societies.

While the case in the world’s devel­ oped nations may be de-industrialisation, this fact has corresponded with the industrialisation of the Third World. According to Dyer, Third World industrial growth rates in terms of GNP are two to three times higher than those for the industri­ alised world. In order to emphasise the potential impact of this develop­ ment, Dyer again pointed to the example of China.

“In 15 years, the average Chinese family will be in the zone to buy its first car. At that point, there will be 400 million average Chinese families,” Dyer said. ‘There are only 500 million motor vehicles on the planet at the moment.”

Dyer suggested that industrial developments in approximately twothirds of the Third World will result in their attaining North American lifestyles similar to the 1950s within the next 50 years.

“The implications of that envi­ ronmentally are simply awesome,” Dyer said.

“One billion people living an industrialised style for about 75 years have produced significant changes in the environment... holes in the ozone layer, global warming, and the destruction of many fisheries,” Dyer observed. “It is the one billion who exert the great pressure on the global environment and it is that one billion who are about to become five. That’s pressure so great that the likelihood of planetary ecological disaster is very large.”

The increase in demand for over-stretched resources matched with the population estimates equal dark predictions for the decade of 2050.

“It takes 250 years to get the population from one billion up to ten billion and it takes you ten really bad years to get back down to one. That is the penalty we will pay if we don’t get it right... I don’t think [that] is how we want to solve the problem.”

His usual cynicism tempered by the spread of relative peace and democratic ideals worldwide, Dyer predicted that the years leading up to 2050 will be characterised by negoti­ ations between the major industri­ alised countries, old and new. Dyer suggested that the negotiations will centre on regulating the impact of industry and consumption on the environment.

“These will be deals in which we manage to restrict consumption of environmentally critical items below the levels at which they would topple the environment into lethal change,” he explained.

The difficulties with this, he argued, would be political.

“The tricky bits are making a deal that restrains consumption in really desirables and goodies, when the bulk of consumers are just getting their first taste of them down south,” he noted. Dyer suggested that in terms of cars, “there would be some kind of rationing by price.”

Always the realist, Dyer con­ cluded on a note of mixed optimism that our future security could be negotiated effectively.

“Whatever we do to address the problems of numbers, food, con­ sumption — the deals in the next 50 years — I confidently predict that we will do it to the constant echoe of [terrorist] bombs going off all around us. We’re going to have a very wild ride. Hang on.”

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In defence of the free world with the Christal Methodists B y H arris N ewman

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The Christal Methodists are a collective of media terrorists from around North America sworn to battle the coercive powers of modern American culture. The Tribune spoke with Montreal-based core member NEIL, who is joined by Surgeon General Herr Khmer Ribs, D.D.T. of Toronto, Reverend Dr. Shrimpy Scampers, P.C.B. of Austin, Texas, Reverend Dr. Kritikal Dubbs, 911 of Chicago, and Debbie Dachau, 666 of San Francisco as the heart of the Methodists.

He explained the groups agenda: “Our main goal is to expose the hypocrisy of American pop culture, particularly right wing organisa­ tions.”

Their latest release, Scripture Lips and Filter Tips, is an all-out onslaught on what NEIL calls a part of “the friendly fascists”, the fundamentalist Christian evangelist radio shows which run throughout North America.

Most of the tape’s efforts focus on a particu­ lar show based in Austin, near the heart of the bible belt. Ribs and Scampers originally started working together under the name National Hardwood Floors Association (NHFA), who released an album entitled Savage Vigilance for a Rug-Free America, which consists of prank calls to an Oregon talk show. NEIL’s own interest was spawned by a Montreal radio station. “My joining the Christal Methodists came from being turned on to this one AM radio guy named Bob Larson, who goes head to head with Satan five days a week. He fights the evils of punk rock and death metal music and marijuana smoking and alcohol consumption and sex.

The one thing that got to me most was when one day he did a show on the evils of Nirvana, and how they turned children to Satan. I’m not a Nirvana fan, in fact I think Kurt Cobain is a bit of a weenie, but how could I sit back and let people think that about a harmless group of individuals who are just trying to express themselves?”

NEIL and Scampers went on to do a pseudo-evangelical call-in show on CKUT, which eventually was taken much too seri­ ously and stopped. Scripture Lips and Filter Tips consists mainly of prank calls carefully sautéed in spooky background tracks ranging from fly beats and muzak to Third Reich propa­ ganda and Reaganera W hite House recordings. It all fits together beau­ tifully — som e­ times alm ost too beautifully. The Methodists have an almost endless archive of materials from which they assemble their albums, some of it produced by themselves, some of it the result of listening to Christian radio, a bottomless source in itself.

The Christal M ethodists have many weapons in their anti-fascist arsenal. “We work with the media in general — mail, computer systems, visual collages, particu­ larly talk shows. It’s the easiest way for us as a group of people who live in different areas

of North America to work together on a spe­ cific subject. We started o ff targeting Christian radio for a simple reason — it’s very dangerous. Right-wing Christian groups are so dangerous because people follow them like sheep. We figured the best way to target is through their open line to the world, which are their call-in shows. We listen to their shows for a while, listen to what they’re doing, then we script out calls and we call them up.”

Every prank call on Scripture Lips is done with star­ tling straight faces and infalli­ ble background inform ation — the M ethodists are definitely not a fly-by-night affair. “We mon­ itor the stations, and we base our calls on that statio n ’s slan t.”

Considering their outlandish pranks, the Methodists regularly get away with murder in their calls. “W e’ve gotten busted a few times. We’re very careful — I’d say our success rate is about 80%...we’ve had other releases where we’ve been busted quite a bit.”

For their live perform ances, the M ethodists use a myriad of multi-media tools, from video and slides to prepared tapes. Their shows take a different approach to the same modus operandi. “We don’t actu­

ally do prank calls live, we pose as a church.

A sermon is given along with backing tapes and samples.” Their first full group live per­ form ance is slated for M arch 18 at the Strategies Conference at York University in Toronto. A show with part of the group is promised for Montreal in the near future.

Massachusetts’ RRRecords have signed them for several upcoming 7” singles, and a new full-length album will hopefully be released sometime in the fall.

While it might be easy to dump this into the proverbial ‘crank call’ cauldron dominated by empty grade two humour, the Christal Methodists are at the opposite end of the spectrum. Scripture Lips and Filter Tips is as funny as it is scary. The cold, cal­ culated prank calls are mixed with even more unsettling real recordings by hardright fundamentalists, and serves as a fright­ ening documentation of how little progress we’ve made away from a world based on racist, sexist, homophobic and totalitarian ideals. “First of all, our whole approach is coming from a Marxist and situationalist approach — [it’s about] fucking up the sys­ tem. The Jerky Boys aren’t about that.

We’re about changing things and exposing the truth. W e’re anything but the Jerky Boys. We’re way beyond just prank calls — we have a strong political agenda, the Jerky Boys don’t have an agenda. We want people to know what they’re living day to day is just bullshit and they have to think and act.

If we get a million people out there to react to our work and tear up shit, that’ll be great, and if we get one person, that’ll be great too.”

One of many streets in the city of jazz A dance through the flautist. “Thirteen years ago, I was dying of a brain tumour. I was just about to give up hope when a friend introduced me to the sax. Playing the sax is what’s kept me going

By Io yce Lau _____________________ all these years.”

In working with his friend on creating After 40 years, Bistro 4 has invited a new house band to join them in their world a new sound and tone, Turner took on o f poetry readings, café au lait and unconventional views towards music educa­ Damien’s pink drinks. The Tribune spoke to tion. “First you learn all that you have to learn; then, you follow your heart no matter Trio originator and composer Peter Turner.

The Peter Turner Trio play aggressive, what people say or think.”

Turner sees this early development in avant-garde, loosely improved jazz fuelled by their frontman’s subdued vocals and vir­ the two students who played with him last Friday. “The trumpet tuoso mastery of antique player, when he started flute, sax and bass clar­ playing w ith us, inet. Rounding out the played really straight­ trio with their playful forward, simple stuff. criss-crossed rhythms Now that he’s playing are string bassist Jason gigs, he’s really devel­ Cochrane and showsoping into a fine jazz man drum m er Rob trum pet player... In Craft.

Montreal, bebop is the When Turner noted predom inant kind of that “rarely do we get to jazz, and that’s all they play as a trio”, he was teach over at McGill by no means complain­ and Concordia.” ing about their gig situaBut thanks to tion. His band jam s venues like Bistro 4, three sets every Friday the Peter Turner Trio and Saturday night; have been given the though more often than chance to explore what not, they are joined by a Turner calls “free jazz, myriad of guests. The or modal jazz”, which last two Friday nights Cochrane, Turner and Craft is a radical deviation have featured two excel­ from traditional bebop. lent in strum entalists from McGill, 20-year-old trumpeter Paul “I’m very grateful to be playing at Bistro 4 Ferris and 18-year-old Keith Walton, whom because there’s really no place for experi­ Turner refers to as “probably the only far- mental jazz musicians to play, unless it’s out tuba player in Canada. Making a tuba once a month, or once every couple of do what he does is like racing an eighteen­ months. It is a fantastic outlet and learning opportunity for me and for the musicians wheeler at the Indy 500.”

For Turner himself, it all began thirteen who work with me. Bistro 4 has meant a lot years ago, when he was a 15 year-old See Turner Page 15

•A n interview with Montreal’s Peter Turner Trio

imagination with Gauguin

By R a c h e l

S t o k o e _____________________________

Detractors of Paul Gauguin’s art often dismiss him as an Impressionist, making peo­ ple who dislike those standard Monet greeting cards shy away from Gauguin exhibits.

However, the Musée des Beaux Arts has come along to set us straight with a collection of his works from the middle years (18801900). The exhibit is not only of his work, but also of his peers in the Synthetism movement.

A lthough not his best known paintings, Gauguin’s dabbling in the field outside of Impressionism was the most innovative of his career.

The Synthetist movement represents the segue between Impressionism and more con­ temporary Abstraction and Expressionism.

For Gauguin, it was a very brief period before he lapsed back into his Impressionist tenden­ cies. The Synthetism movement is marked by its capacity to convey personal imagination and its use of decorative surface patterns at the expense of traditional, three-dimensional perspective and colour. Priority is given to the artist’s imagination. These characteristics, com bined with certain conventional Impressionistic tendencies, provide at once a compelling and unsettling mixture.

A perfect example is Gauguin’s Children Wrestling, perhaps one of his best known paintings of this time. In it are two boys in a waltz-like stance. The surface is completely flat, unlike its Impressionist predecessors. The colours are vibrant and bold. There is a clear distortion of nature in the painting, with the size of one child’s foot completely out of scale. The painting, like most work of this movement, is not just a representation. It’s subjective, whimsical and free.

Despite the surface flatness, the patterns

formed by the colours and figures interact with the landscape, indicating depth. It is the depths of the artist’s imagination, and the art­ work is free enough to allow the viewer’s mind to wander and wonder.

The works have a simplification of sub­ ject, but the colours used add life and richness to the exhibit. Often, Gauguin and his con­ temporaries outline their subject matters in black to add to their abstraction. At certain times, the artists adhere to the conventions of Impressionism, using short brush strokes and a sensitivity to darkness and shadows clearly influenced by Degas. At other times, the artists become much more abstract, using jagged, angular lines or softer, more dream­ like edges. The tone colours go from muted, brooding greys to violent reds and lush pur­ ples. There is also a clear Japanese influence, with calligraphic brush strokes, stylised sensi­ bility, and abrupt transitions between fore and background. The most successful pieces are those that manage to combine all of these aspects. The Buckwheat Harvest by Emile Bernard is a good example of this, as is Roberic O’Coner’s Sunset at Pont Aven.

Compared to Gauguin’s later art, which was done while he lived in Tahiti, what is pre­ sented here is much more natural. While his return to Impressionism yielded beautiful results, such as L ’esprit des morts veille, it is inhibited by conformity. For this reason, the work at the exhibit is realer and rawer.

Gauguin and the other painters of the School of Pont Aven have managed to capture the imagination and create a style of art that offers a clear break from Impressionism.

While it may leave fans of Gauguin’s later work a little disappointed, it is an important and intriguing period in his life that is worth exploring.

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March 14th, 1995

Grad night like never before

Ska’s not dead!

By Sue G lover

What is white and black and attracts rude boys in pork pie hats?

If you answered ska, or are simply intrigued by that opening riddle, please read on. Over the past couple of years, the Montreal ska scene has been growing in force; it is not uncommon to catch two or even three ska shows a week now, where­ as before one was lucky to find two shows in a month. The enthusiasm of the fans here has been attracting ska bands from other towns, such as Toronto’s Skanksters, who are play­ ing Montreal for their second time on March 19.

To get some insight into the mind of a Toronto ska band I spoke with Sean Richards, lead guitarist for the Skanksters. First, I asked him to compare the Toronto and Montreal scenes.

“We’ve been trying to get out to places like Montreal, because the crowd there was so cool the last show we played. They were so much into the scene, that kind of thing. Toronto has a certain degree of cynicism, just because there’s a thousand bands here all trying to play the same stages. The crowd is really spread out, so it’s a real plea­ sure to play Montreal because it has such a tight-knit group of fans.

Generally speaking, though, it’s really happening out here and we’re doing fairly well as more people see us play.”

The Skanksters contain former members o f Skaface and King

Apparatus and have been playing shows for two years. “We formed almost three years ago,” Richards said. “We started out as a ten-piece and we kind of fiddled around with different sizes and finally settled on a nine-piece band. Almost by default, we ended up with three sax­ ophones, tenor, alto and baritone.

It’s really heavy, it’s a new sound almost. We’re grooving along right now because most of us have been together for at least two years now.

There’s something really fun about being up on stage with that many people.”

He went on to explain the backgrounds of the band members.

“Some of us are trying to be profes­ sional musicians; one of our sax players is a sax and flute teacher, our drummer Jeff is playing in quite a few bands and doing dance theatre kind of stuff as well. We have a combination of people who are fanatical hobbyists and are just real­ ly into ska that way and some that are really into ska and trying to be professional musicians.”

After he revealed that he had been playing guitar for twelve years, I asked Richards if he had always liked ska. “Well, hmm, that’s a good question. Yes and no. I mean, I’ve always liked it in the back of my mind when I heard it as a teenager, and I liked reggae as much as any of the rock I listened to. The stuff we listen to mostly is from the ’60s— Jamaican ska. As soon as I heard that, I just fell in love with ska and the huge commu­

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Curious about how the Skanksters put their personal stamp on the admittedly limited ska sound, aside from their unique horn lineup, I asked Richards if they are trying to broaden the music. “Yeah, I guess it’s inevitable for a band with such diverse backgrounds. From that standpoint, people are getting more creative as they get more into it, it’s becoming richer. The band is spreading out to cover some more reggae material into our sound, and hip hop and dub as well, which will probably start showing up on our tapes. In terms of recording, we’d like to release a whole lot of inter­ esting things. When we play covers, we usually play really old songs that hopefully no one’s ever heard before.”

Wondering if the Skanksters would go the way of so many before them and abandon ska for other horizons, I asked Richards about the band’s future. “I’m not sure where it’s heading at this point, but dance music is an A-l priority.

It’s working, so far. We’re all happy with the dance quality of ska — I don’t think you’ll ever see us trying to be a funk band or something like that.”

So, rest easy rude boys and girls, the Skanksters will deliver some stomping music at Woodstock on Sunday, March 19, with local faves the Planet Smashers as well as debutantes Gangster Politics. So come check out the show and help keep ska alive in Montreal.

people responsible,” warned Addis, “that you cannot stop the event The Garden of Eden: the from happening by tearing down mythical site of Genesis, the play­ posters. We have advertised with ground of God and Satan, the the Mirror, the Tribune, the Daily utopie abode of Western civilisa­ and CKUT. We have handed out tion’s most famous couple, and fliers in the Village and have also most recently, the central theme for contacted other schools, like LBGM’s impending gala ball.

Concordia, UQAM, Université de LBGM cordially invites all Montréal, and Dawson.” queer-positive people to explore LBGM hopes that the wide­ these ironies of theme via body spread advertisement will bring not painting, creative dress, a huge only a lot of people to the ball, but variety of music, coloured tin-foil also a lot of outside revenue for decor, light show, and an optimum both SSMU and LBGM. six hours of non-stop dancing. The “There has been a lot of talk dress code can only be described as about what we can do to save ‘creative’, meaning that partici­ G ert’s. When people tear down pants are expected to dress up or posters, they’re not just hurting down, in anything from cuddle- LBGM, but also G ert’s and the core raver-wear to prom gowns and Students’ Society,” said Addis. ties to jeans. The music will be as “This is an event based on diverse, as all are welcome to bring open-mindedness.” their own music. (Dance, indieLesbians, bi’s, gays and openrock, funk, classic rock, ska, tech­ minded straights are highly encour­ no, pop ballads, acid-jazz, punk, aged to get decked out for Saturday hip-hop and kitsch will all be night’s festivities, as Gert’s shows accepted on CD or vinyl.) its more glitsy side.

R egarding a more serious The Garden o f Eden ball takes aspect of this social event, co-ordi- place at Gert’s on Saturday, March nator Sean Addis brings up the 18, from 9 p.m.-3 a.m. Cover is $3. unfortunate issue of antiLBGM sentiment, the most visible incarnation of which has been the wide-spread tearing down and defacing of LBGM posters on cam­ pus. LBGM is adamant in circumventing the problem through extensive off-cam­ pus advertisement.

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Outbreak stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, Morgan Freeman and Betsy the monkey, evidently filling multiple roles as antagonist/writer/director.

This is a watered-down pseudo-scientific film care­ fully constructed so that anyone with a grade one sci­ ence background can grasp the essentials (i.e. ninty computer-generated images of germ particles float­ ing through the air to reinforce the meaning of 'air­ borne disease'.). The plot, lifted directly from the first chapters of Stephen King’s The Stand, drips along through interwoven scenes of cuddly cute, zany sitcom romanticising and mass carnage. The movie ends on a positive note with all dilemmas resolved, as long as one ignores the thousands wiped out by the govemment-bioengineered virus.

Outbreak entreats the audience to take many giant leaps of faith. The progtagonists are clad in impressive anti-viral suits borrowed from the 2001: A Space Odyssey wardrobe which tear and are taken off indiscriminately throughout the film. The ‘profes­ sionals’ dealing with this mean ol’ 24-hour death machine (coincidentally all ex-spouses, best buddies

or rookies) manage to stab themselves with used syringes — fortunately, they all seem to be immune to the unaesthetically pleasing boils and haemorrhag­ ing that kill all other civilians in a matter of hours.

B ut th ere are som e h ig h lig h ts. BOOM. Evidently the bulk of the budget went to actors’ paycheques and special effects. Lots of neat explosions, including an entire American army camp getting deep fried by their own country. And if you like heli­ copters, w e’ve got helicopter chases, helicopter crashes, helicopters galore. Plus some big furry dogs.

And a really cute little diseased m onkey (who befriends an equally cute little girl) even if she is car­ rying a humanity-eradicating virus.

The plot speeds and slows in what seems to be an attempt to cover the gaping story holes and fill the prerequisite ‘watch-the-characters-grow-as-peoplewhile-thousands-of-innocent-people-die-needlessly’ mush. The TV commercials for this cinematic traves­ ty effectively pass along all of the intrigue and scare value this film has to offer. The whole ‘the end is near’ masquerade wears thin in the first twenty min­ utes, as the film reveals its true inclinations. This is perhaps the first, and hopefully last feel good movie about global genocide.

Charming. I didn’t enjoy it very much at all.

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usual adult con­ Questian standards. And lest we forget the just go to see them when they show up in temporary mush now mandatory guest verse by Q-Tip, with­ Montreal every now and then, or remember which she usual­ out which no props album is complete (add them from high school in Toronto.

This album, unfortunately, is off the ly p referred . a K R S-O ne sam ple and guests E rick mark.

Though it starts strong with ‘Love Sermon and Diamond D for bonus points.)

A nyw ay, we were listening to If one wades through the seas of cheese and Like Nothing’ and ‘Be My W itness’ fol­ ‘Woman in the the usual token dope, guns and fucking in lowing the white soul/funk trail that the Wall’ when all of a sudden she started actu­ the streets referen ces (w hat w ere you Bourbons blazed in the past; it’s sadly Trenchmouth ally listening to the lyrics. She wasted no expecting from a trio called Tha Alka- downhill after that, with only two more vs. the Light o f the Sun time tearing the tape from the deck and holiks, hymns?), the bad ass lyrics prove songs really shining like their previous (Skene!/East West) pitching it into the back seat, and I’ve been them to be perhaps not intelligent, but defi­ w ork. The ec le cticn ess o f S u p erio r Cackling Hen is present on ‘Bring It On’ Chicago’s Trenchmouth have a clear a fan ever since. The Beautiful South set nitely smart. Songs like ‘Let It Out’ (I get and ‘By The T im e’, but the rest of the fixation with high school science courses. dark, sarcastic lyrics (on subjects ranging in ‘em when I sin ‘em / Tha Alkaholik album is slow, meanders listlessly, and ulti­ venom / I fold your clothes with your body From the title o f their third full-length from the corporate world, murder, and sto­ mately disappoints. If this band wants to do record, to their song titles, ‘set the oven at ries about the town drunk) which clash still in ‘em) team aggressive lyrical flow better, they need to go back to the roots that 400°’, ‘the effects of radiation’, and ‘doing against the pleasant harmonies of the three with tasty beats, extra gentle but never brought them their popularity. the flammability’, there is also a blatant vocalists. They have made them selves mushy. This is absolutely worth checking — Michael Broadhurst out, even moreso if you missed out on 27 & reference to self-inflicted experimentation. British favourites with a selection which Over. resembles middle of the road ‘70s pop bal­ Doing just that, Trenchmouth threaten the — Harris Newman canonical structures of rock, and the slow lads with bite. This double CD set is their jams of reggae, with their own mixtures of greatest hits collection. The first CD fea­ Tribune Advertising Office tures all of their a g g re s s io n -la d e n Paul Slachta: 398-6808 singles, ‘Song for Bourbon Tabernacle Choir vocals and treb le Shyfolk W h o ev er’, ‘A spliced guitar. Singer Little Tim e’ and (Yonder Damon Locks metic­ ‘Old Red Eyes is Records) ulously shifts from B ack ’. The sec­ spoken w ord to With their ond disk has Bbongo percussion to latest release, sides and rarities, synchronized shouts, and is fairly the B ourbons achieving a groovem ediocre, but it u n d o u b te d ly oriented post-punk to does have hope aesthetic. The added im prove on ‘W om an in the percussion is even W a ll’ on it. If their previous m ore p rev alen t on y o u ’ve been track record. this album, as it gen­ meaning to buy a The band is erally sig n als a B eautiful South one o f those bridge where drum­ T U SC O N CAFE CD but never got oddities around m er F red A rm isen 2020 Crescent St. around to it, this the C anadian picks up on its T h ursd ay, M a rc h 16 college scene: accents. Comprised of members originating is the one to get; but chances are that if everyone pro­ outside of Chicago, Trenchmouth’s origi­ you’re a fan, you’ve already got most of it.

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Continued from Page 13 to my life,” said Turner.

Unfortunately, venues like the annual Montreal Jazz Festival have not yet accepted Turner’s unique genre of music. “Jazz is like a city with many streets” said Turner.

“There is nothing as ‘pure jazz’, only conventional jazz.”

Turner referred to many of his pieces as musical conversations, with solos starting off from a sin­ gle motif in a single key. Turner lends an additional artwork-inprogress atmosphere to his perfor­ mances by wandering away from his band in the middle of pieces, instrument in hand. The audience can often hear a fain t echo of accompanying flute or sax wafting in through the front door of Bistro 4, or reverberating out from behind a wall. Turner explained, “After I take a solo, 1 like to let the others take the stage. I’ve been lucky to find the right people. Sometimes I just like to step back and listen to

my band. Sometimes I feed off of their ideas, and sometimes I just go back for some of D am ien’s grapefruit juice.”

The Peter Turner Trio have ju st recently signed with Red Toucan. The Peter Turner Trio: Fantastic on Sherbrooke, an earli­ er release recorded on a shoe­ string budget, is now being sold at Bistro 4. Four or five other pro­ jects are being planned for the fall.

Turner finished the interview pondering about his traum atic beginnings. “It was a miracle that I was cured. I was on death’s door and had an emergency operation.

The doctor told me that the sur­ vival rate was about three years.

Now he’s giving me fifty-five years and I want to do as much jazz as I can before I get too old.

Life is too short.”

The Peter Turner Trio play Bistro 4 (4040 St. Laurent) every Friday and Saturday night from 10 p.m.-l a.m. $3.

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Martlet hoops place fifth in the nation after winning 2 of 3 B y D an a T o erin g

On the icy shores of Lake Superior, in the cozy and scenic city of Thunder Bay, Ontario, the M cGill M artlets showed up at L akehead U niversity to prove

themselves to the Canadian basket­ ball world. The Martlets, playing in the fifth national tournament in their history, had previously been held w inless, usually heading home after the minimum two

games. It was a different story this time as the focused and talented Martlets had dreams of a national championship swimming in their heads.

Unfortunately for the McGill cagers, their bid for the national

crown came to an end almost as fast as it had begun.

Last Friday the M artlets tipped off against the third-ranked Manitoba Bisons in the quarter finals. The Bisons, who had

spoiled the remarkable 88-game w inning streak of W innipeg Wesmen last Fall, came out ready to play, and dashed the champi­ onship hopes of the Martlets. The Bisons handed McGill a 75-61 loss in a game the Martlets should have won.

Once a team loses a game in the national tournam ent they are automatically placed into the bottom half of the bracket and are eliminated from title competition.

As usual, the M artlets came out strong and shared the lead with the Bisons throughout the first half. The 37-37 score at halftime was stead­ fast proof that the Martlets were focused on the win. The sec­ ond half of the game proved to be a differ­ ent story as the Martlets lost momen­ tum and succumbed to the tena­ cious full court press of the aggres­ sive Bisons.

McGill could not handle the pressure and coughed up the ball an incredible 30 times by the time

the final buzzer had sounded.

Sadly for the Martlets, AllCanadian Vicki Tessier reinjured her knee and played most of the game at less than 100 percent.

With Tessier playing hurt, it was up to her teammates to step up and take control, but no one seemed able to lead and swing the momen­ tum back into McGill’s favour.

In the end, the Martlets could not keep up with the Bisons and ran out of steam late in the game.

Josée Deleretto and Tessier led all McGill point getters with twelve^ points each.

Clearly the Martlets’ unfortu­ nate first round exit weighed heavy on the hearts of these players, who were clear contenders to make it to the championship game.

The next step for them was to prove that they were still one of the best teams in the country and that is exactly what they did.

The Martlets’ next opponent was Memorial University, the east­ ern champions who came in from Newfoundland.

Playing without injured star Vicki Tessier, the Martlets beat M em orial by a score of 73-64.

Once again competing against a very aggressive and physical team, the Martlets were unphased and poured in 43 points in the second

half to steal the game.

With the absence of Tessier the M artlets were looking for a leader to step up and lead the way.

Playing practically the entire game Anne Gildenhuys was the saviour the Martlets were looking for, as she scored a team-high 28 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and was a perfect eight for eight from the foul line. Gildenhuys not only ignited her teammates with her scoring and rebounding but she also had four assists, three steals and a blocked shot. Gildenhuys rose to the occasion and showed that she will be an up-and-coming force to be reckoned with in years to come.

Although the Martlets would rather have had this win come in the first game of the tournament, it was still a sw eet victory for McGill.

This was McGill’s first ever victory in a national championship tourney which would definitely place this y ear’s edition of the M artlets as one o f the best women’s teams to ever take the court at McGill.

With their first-ever tourna­ ment victory under their belts the Martlets were riding high and set their sights on the highest possible finish in the consolation bracket, See Martlets Page 18

McGill’s track and field team brings back three medals from nationals

Redmen volleyball on the up-and-up

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Dispatching a contingent of 21 athletes to Winnipeg last weekend, the McGill track and field team delivered its largest squad to the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletics Union (CIAU) national indoor track and field championships in the club’s history. McGill runners netted three medals, a gold and two bronze.

“I didn’t know what to expect after a few things happened,” said head coach Dennis Barrett.

“A few guys that we thought would be healthy weren’t healed and we lost a really big gun in Melanie Choinière,” he said.

The men’s side finished ninth in a field of 20 teams represented at the meet. The host team compiled 73 points to capture the national title. M cG ill’s provincial arch riv als, Sherbrooke Vert et Or, bagged a fourth place finish, five spots ahead of M cGill, despite being beaten by the Red and White at the provincial level “T hat’s sim ple,” explained Barrett. “How that works is that depending on the quality of the competition, if they have one good athlete they can win two or three events and get 21 points. We have a lot of depth and a lot of young athletes. In two or three events we w on’t stack up that well at the national level, where we would

have scored points at the provincial level.”

“I t ’s like having a Linda [Thyer] who gave us a gold in the 3000m and then a sixth in the 1500m. And if we had had Melanie Choinière there we would have been a powerhouse over the middle distance core.”

M cG ill’s Pumulo Sikaneta earned bronze in the 600m and placed sixth in the men’s 300m race. Sikaneta can be also found running on the gridiron during the football season at Molson Stadium.

A nother m oonlighting football player who made the trek to Manitoba was shot-putter Samir Chahine, who came in seventh.

“He was facing some stiff competition especially in light of the fact that McGill doesn’t have a shot-put coach,” said Barrett.

Sikaneta’s third-place finish was in a race that was the focus of much attention. The gold medal was awarded to ‘Athlete of the Meet’ Byron Goodwin. Goodwin erased both the reigning CIAU and Canadian indoor records in the 600m, and was ju st shy of the world record time.

The Martlet squad wrapped up their season in tenth place, amass­ ing 12 points. First place honours went to University of Windsor, with 74 total points. Both U niversity of M anitoba and W indsor have dominated CIAU

track and field in the ‘90s.

“They’re pretty strong pro­ grams,” admitted Barrett. “We’re hopefully getting ready to give them a run down the road, and I think that the new track will play a big part in that regard.”

“Definitely with the new facil­ ity it will be easier to recruit,” he said. “When we were recruiting before we had nothing to show the kids. Now, their eyes just light up.

The new facility is really second to none.”

Chatham , O ntario’s Max Oates brought hom e a bronze medal for McGill in the triple jump event. The second year athlete held the nation’s best jum p all year long. His jum p of 14.27m this weekend was ju st shy of his 14.56m leap earlier in the season that would have landed him a gold at the nationals.

“He was a bit disappointed,” said Barrett. “He wanted to get a personal best, but we just have to look on the bright side and say, ‘Hey! Max — you got a medal!”’.

“We’ve done better with less people in the past at the nationals in the standings but I thought that we did really well in terms of rep­ resentation,” he said. “A lot of peo­ ple were making their first appear­ ance, which, no matter what you say is a nervous situation.”

Veteran long distance runner See 1 rack Pa;

The McGill Redmen volley­ ball team has gone through its share of ups and downs this season.

The team’s existence was in doubt at the beginning of the school year, but it looks as if its success this year has laid the foundations for a very prom ising program in the future.

The volleyball Redmen began the year on shaky ground, primari­ ly due to McGill’s elimination of funding for the sport. This situation forced the Redmen to compete in a season comprised only of exhibi­ tion matches and tournaments.

These tournaments provided excellent experience for the new crop of players and many season highlights for the entire squad. In Novem ber, the m en’s O ntario Open saw the Redmen surprise everyone, including themselves, with an impressive performance among some tough competition.

The Redmen lasted until the semi­ finals before bowing out to the eventual tournament champions.

The club also captured a bronze medal at the Islander Classic Invitational. John Harrison and Andy Cabral were named tour­ nament all-stars, while team cap­ tain Chris Campbell garnered tour­ nament MVP honours.

Many of the Redm en’s ups

and downs were of the off-court variety. The demise of the Quebec Volleyball league and M cGill’s own program could have been pre­ vented by the yeomen work of Redmen coach Normand B ou­ chard. Bouchard came to McGill only this year, however, armed with a prestigious CEGEP record at Sherbrooke and intending to revamp the McGill program.

Bouchard worked on estab­ lishing a junior team to act as a feeder system to M cGill’s elite squad. Bouchard has also contacted many CEGEP coaches in order to lure some of Quebec’s strong talent base to McGill. Redmen captain C hris C am pbell believes that Bouchard’s tireless efforts will pay dividends for McGill.

“He is laying the foundations for a stable and secure program — he deserves 100 percent credit for this turnaround,” Campbell said.

A ccom panying the stable foundation is a solid young team.

Returnees will include mid-hitter and Canada Games participant Harrison. Harrison will be compli­ mented by power hitter Matt Grady and setter Keith Rogers.

The Redmen will next hit the hallowed Currie court March 15 at 8:00 p.m. against the province’s third-ranked team , Corona. A strong finish by the Redmen will set the tone for what seems to be a bright future.

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March 14th, 1995

Redmen lose Wozney and chance to compete at Nationals

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I t ’s over. High hopes and ex p e ctatio n s fo r th e 1994-95 men’s basketball team came to a crashing halt last Friday night at the Currie Gym. The Redmen fin­ ished another tough season in a rather fam iliar way, losing the provincial final to their crosstown rivals again in a frustrating battle

R edm en w ere only lo sers in terms of the scoreboard at the end of the game.

The Redmen came to play in the opening m atchup but, the Stinger clearly had other things in mind. Aside from the impressive and classy play of Con U senior Em erson Thom as, the Stingers had very little to be proud of when the game was over, except

Redman Varisco’s mother told him there would be days like this. that saw two Redmen play their last game in the red and white uniform and another McGill play­ er rushed to the Montreal General Hospital.

C o n co rd ia ca p tu re d the Quebec U niversity B asketball League title in a 97-69 win over the Redmen in the second game of a best-of-three series at Currie after defeating McGill in the first game of the final by a score of 94-83 at Con U the preceeding Tuesday.

The fin al sco res send the Stingers to Halifax, Nova Scotia, this week for the national cham­ pionships, but they by no means tell the whole story of the ongo­ ing McGill-Concordia basketball saga.

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that they had succeeded in prov­ ing to the crowd that the only concept of “class” they under­ stood was one having to do with their academic courses.

P la y ers like J.P . R eim er, M axim e B ouchard and Justin Padvoiskas took every opportuni­ ty they could to let their cocki­ ness get the b e st o f them .

Bouchard, who is well known for his u n sp o rtsm an lik e antics against McGill, fouled Redmen Chad Wozney as he was going up for a shot in the final minutes of the game. Perhaps surprised and som ew hat o v erw h elm ed by W ozney’s strength on the way up, Bouchard became offended and started swinging at the for­ ward until his teammates and the referees intervened to restrain

him from going completely bal­ listic . He should have been im m ediately ejected from the gam e, but he was allo w ed to remain without reprimand except from his coach.

As the final minutes ticked off the clock, another skirmish broke out when S tinger point guard Padvoiskas threw the ball at McGill’s Rick Varisco after a stoppage in play as a result of fru stra tio n w ith the R edm en defense even though Concordia was in clear posssession of the victory. He was issued a techni­ cal foul for the incident, but the episode was indicative of a team that was obviously lacking ele­ ments of class and discipline.

The episodes were the culmi­ nation of 40 minutes of taunting and cockiness dem onstrated by the Stingers, which was ju x ta­ posed by the class, maturity and heart put forth by Redmen such as R yan S ch o en als, W ozney, Chris Emergui, Todd McDougall and Doug McMahon.

Schoenals was im pressive from the three-point line, going 6-for-7 from the perim eter en route to an 18-point scoring binge as M cG ill’s top scorer on the night. Varisco, normally one of McGill’s top outside threats, was all but invisible after returning from a week off due to the flu.

The second game on Friday night at the Currie Gym started o ff as bad ly as it fin ish ed .

S econd-year forw ard W ozney was knocked in the face in the firs t m inute o f play and was rushed to the hospital with a “col­ lapsed” or fractured cheekbone injury. The episode clearly rattled the McGill team but they man­ aged to keep themselves in the game throughout the first half despite losing their QUBL all­ star.

At the in te rm issio n , the

Stingers led by 13 even though the Redmen had kept the score close up to the 18-minute mark.

In the end though, McGill could not keep pace with the likes of C o n c o rd ia ’s T hom as, who cruised his way to a 33-point total in the final Quebec provin­ cial title gam e o f his career.

Bouchard also put away his atti­ tude for the outing and managed to contribu te 29 points to the Stinger win.

Game Most Valuable Player honours for the Redmen went to p o in t gu ard E m erg u i who amassed 16 points in the game.

He was 4-for-6 from three-point land in the losing effort. Varisco ch ip p ed in 15 p o in ts w hile McDougall and McMahon scored 13 and 12 respectively.

Although the Redmen played

well at times, they could not pull off an upset o f the third-ranked team in the nation. Concordia, in contrast to the previous encounter with McGill appeared composed, confident and mature and main­ tained control o f the contest throughout.

Graduating players McDougall and McMahon, playing a tough inside game in the first half, got into foul trouble in the later stages of the game and, cou­ pled with the loss o f W ozney, McGill appeared to lose the allimportant inside-outside compo­ nent of their attack.

The game ended 97-69 and so did the Redmen season with a final overall record of 18-12.

Next year. Another season, another chance to dethrone the Stingers. Better luck next time?

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Continued from Page 16 Linda Thyer captured the women’s 3,000m national title with a time of 9:37.41, a full five seconds ahead of her nearest competitor, ending her esteemed intercollegiate career on a high note.

Thyer earned CIAU AllCanadian distinction for the fourth straight year in track and field and merited the veneration of the asso­ ciation five years running in cross country.

“We had some very encourag­ ing performances,” said Barrett.

“There were some good relay legs that put us back in the overall com­ petition. These are the people who will do a lot better next year. Both the McGill 4x800m teams broke the standing Quebec Student Sports Federation record, which is pretty good. It placed us fourth in both events and shows exactly how much we are coming along.”

“It was an encouraging meet for us in that we had so many peo­ ple do well,” said Barrett. “Our next step now is to be competitive at the national level.”

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SPORTS

March 14th, 1995

Sikaneta: Stacking sports and successes

By A n d rew B o o n

Concordia with a two touch­ down effort in the Shrine Bowl, including the last minute game­ w inning TD. Just this past weekend, Sikaneta captured the bronze medal in the 600m national finals in W innipeg, Manitoba. His time of 1:20.65 was a personal best, and also nipped M cG ill’s previous record held by coach Dennis Barrett (1:20.66).

His success is remarkable when you consider the adversi­ ty he has to face. In the first play of the 1993-1994 football season, Sikaneta suffered a fractured leg which sidelined him from the remainder of the season. But Sikaneta bounced back to make the name ‘Sliver’

Bo knows Bo, but Bo does not know Sliver. Neither do many of us for that reason, but with the recent exploits of Pumulo “Sliver” Sikaneta, the eyes of the sports world are opening up in a hurry. Why, you may ask? It might be because McGill boasts its very own Bo Jackson. Sikaneta stars on two fields for the Red and White; the football field and the track field. To say that he has had an im pact on M cG ill’s intercollegiate program would be an understatement.

In his second year at M cGill, Sikaneta lead the Redmen over crosstown rival

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Sikaneta, a native of Zambia raised in Cambridge, Ontario, maintains his Martlet founda­ tion scholarship with an impressive 3.5 GPA. So how does Sikaneta bud­ get his time? “Track does not effect me timewise as much as football, but my schedule can get hectic.” Sikaneta uses vari­ ous preparational strategies that help him deal with his busy schedule.

“I try to get my rest when I can, eat lots of pasta, and get into a relaxed groove by listen­ ing to Barry White,” he said.

Even when the m elodic funk of Barry does not do the job, Sikaneta reverts to his old friend jello. Yes that’s right, jello. Room­ mate Samir Chahine, who

incidentally also serves both the Redmen and the track team, lends his insight on the dietary habits of Sikaneta.

“He’s a little messy, and the amount of jello he eats is alarming but he’s really cool, like the Fonz,” Chahine said.

Sikaneta is optim istic about his future at McGill. ’’Pumulo has done rather well this season, and he can only build on that success.” adds Barrett.

Meanwhile Sikaneta has his sight set on other things.

“H opefully I ’ll continue to improve on both playing fields.

My goal is to enjoy m yself while excelling on and off the field.”

You do not need to be Bo to know that this jello-eating, dual athlete is heading in the right direction.

Martlets...

Cont’d from Page 16 fifth place.

To accom plish this they would have to beat the Vikes from Victoria in the conso­ lation round final.

Playing once again without All-Canadian Vicki T essier, the Martlets took control of the game from beginning to end and wound up with their best-ever finish in the team’s history. McGill won by a score of 6459, but had leads of 12 and ten points throughout most of the game. Some costly turnovers and sloppy play allowed the Vikes to gain ground but the M artlets, who were

consistently ignited by the play of sophomore G ildenhuys, never allowed Victoria to get back in the contest.

She again led all scor­ ers with 26 points.

Melanie Gagné had a strong game as well, scoring 13 points, w hile Lesley Stevenson had 11 points and a game high 12 boards.

This year’s team provided fans with many m em orable games and some spec­ tacular basketball. A Québec championship and a fifth-place finish at the nationals surely puts the M artlets in good standing for next year.

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According to Watson, “sum­ mer training is shot”, and his pri­ mary focus will be on getting his knee back in shape. He expects to be playing ball by O ctober or November, but anticipates his knee brace will slow him down consid­ erably.

Sophom ore forw ard Chad Wozney commented. . “Matt is very valuable to the team so an injury like this is tough on everyone, but it’s especially tough for Matt.”

“Everyone has become more conscious and fearful of the possi­ bility that other injuries could occur,” Wozney added. “It’s some-

The ACL is very vulnerable to hor­ izontal blows, and high pressure With each passing season, an rotational movements, often found increasing number of Redmen and in sports which entail “cutting” and Martlets find themselves sidelined rapid changes of direction such as with an injury which is almost basketball. becoming an epidemic in the bas­ According to Lynn Bookalam, ketball world: anterior cruciate lighead athletic therapist of the new am ent(A CL) in juries. It has McGill Sports Medicine Clinic, plagued the M cG ill cagers in surgery is not always necessary. recent years, striking unexpectedly “But in high risk sports like and showing no mercy. basketball and squash, if a player The ACL is a major ligament has not had the ligament recon­ located within the joint capsule of structed there is high risk the tibia the knee. The ACL prevents back­ will translate, and the excessive ward sliding of the tibia in relation movement in the knee could tear to the femur. the surrounding cartilages.”

When ACL injuries occur, the “The down side of surgery is victim is forced to that the extensive rehabili­ deal with a partial or tation process could put a complete ligament tear player out for six months which is incapable of to a year,” she added. repairing itself on its The positive side of own. In addition, the the situation is the care that athletes suffer from M cG ill athletes receive tremendous pain. when they suffer injuries One of the latest such as ACL tears. victim s is Redm en Bookalam has tremendous basketball rookie, praise for orthopedic sur­ Matt Watson. Watson geon, Dr. Eric Lenczner, sustained a partial tear who tends to sidelined to his ACL several M artlets and Redmen. weeks ago in a game Hurt your knee a n d pretend your Captain Kirk...

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Tuesday. March 14 The Architecture Undergraduates’ Society presents Jack Diamond speak­ ing on his work on the Jerusalem City Hall, in the final lecture of the AUS’s 1995 series. 6 p.m., MacDonald Harrington Building G-10.

Suffering from lower back pain or sports injuries? Physiotherapy stu­ dents are celebrating 50 years at McGill during Rehabilitation Week March 13-17. Find out what Elvis Stojko and Lucien Bouchard have in common to help raise money for the Society of Handicapped Children. 10 p.m. — 3 p.m., Leacock.

Amnesty International'invites all to come for information about serving on next year’s Amnesty executive.

Elections are March 21. Weekly meeting at 6:30 p.m., Shatner 435.

Scrivener literary journal presents a poetry reading by Adeena Karasick.

4:30 p.m., Thomson House, 3650 McTavish.

Wednesday. March 15 The Association for Baha’i Studies presents The Role of the Individual in the Transformation of Society. 7 p.m., Wilson Hall.

T he M cG ill N ational F orum presents the H on. Jean-L ouis B audouin speak­ ing on Reflections on the Role of the Court of Appeal. 12:30, M o o t Court.

The Co-Ed Medical Society presents Dance for Heart, a dance/aerobic fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Come for music and prizes. Sponser forms can be found at Sadie’s and at the McGill Bookstore.

3 p.m., Shatner.ballroom.

The Centre for Applied Family Studies and the School of Social Work present Julia Krane, Ph.D, speaks on State Responsibility Goes Letters continued from Page 7 Later, Broadhurst says, “Lisa Grushcow, Nick Benedict, Tanim Ahmed, Jen Harding, Tracy Strong, and Kelly Remai are good candi­ dates, and all of them have indicated they know the positions they seek.”

This is a puzzling assertion con­ sidering that Ahmed and Harding scored 50 percent and 48 percent respectively. I’m just curious as to what the basis for deeming these candidates good and knowledgeable.

Respectfully yours, Aubrey Cohen U3 Arts

Private: An Examination of Protection Practices in Cases of Child Sexual Abuse. 2:30 — 4 p.m., Wilson Hall.

Thursday. March 16

meet other women. Lunchtime Monday — Friday. Shatner 423.

The Faculty of Music presents piano duo Luba and Ireneus Zuk playing Liszt, Brahams, Britten, Lashenki and Burge. 8 p.m., Pollack Hall.

The McGill Student Film & Video Festival is currently accepting VHS, Super 8 and 16 mm audio-visual

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Office (Arts 155) or drop by the festi­ val office (main floor, 3475 Peel St., M-Th, 12h-1430. Call 398-3128 for more information. Submission dead­ line is March 31. Hooray.

LBGM’s Garden of Eden Ball. All open-minded people welcome. The dress code is ‘creative’. 9 p.m.— 3 p.m., Gert’s, $3.

The Faculty of Music present organist Sunyi Shin. 11:30 a.m., Presbyterian College Chapel.

Suffering from lower back pain or sports injuries? Physiotherapy stu­ dents are celebrating 50 years at McGill during Rehabilitation Week March 13-17, Find out what Elvis Stojko and Lucien Bouchard have in common to help raise money for the Society of Hanidicapped Children. 10 p.m. — 3 p.m., McIntyre Medical Building.

Sunday. March 19 The Faculty of Music present the McGill Brass Choir playing pieces from Bach to Bernstein, with un goût de Gabrielli. 8 p.m., Redpath Hall.

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The Southern Africa Committee pre­ sents Dan O’Meara speaking on South Africa: One Year Later. 7:30, Leacock 232.

Mountaineer and conservationist Jan Reynolds gives a multi-media presen­ tation on Skiing, Climbing, Traversing, Ballooning, Exploring for Vanishing Cultures Around the World. Tickets availible at the Sadie’s in Shatner. 8 p.m., $10, Leacock 26.

Dr. Jonathan D. Spence of Yale University speaks on Where Should Chinese History Go? 10 a.m., Arts 270. He also speaks on Faith and Politics in China: Reflections on the Taiping Heavanly Kingdom (18501864). 5:30 p.m., Leacock 26.

Friday. March 17 Saturday. March 18 The Canadian Studies Graduate Students’ Association presents its all­ day Inaugural Confrence on Cultural Institutions instituting cultures. The confrence includes three panel discus­ sions and Janine Marchessault speak­ ing on Aesthetics/lnstitutions. 9:30 all six McGill residences. Further, the IRC president sits on the University Residence Council, a body which oversees all residence functions, Residence budget Committee, Women’s Issues Committee, is a member of President’s Council and the CCSS Sub-Committee on Residence.

Over the length of her term, Helena has shown leadership, dedica­ tion, and a great deal of enthusiasm, which has helped make this year one of the best years in residence.

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The Political Science Students’ Society presents Spring Skiing at Bromont, March 18. Tickets are $30.

March 17 is the last day of registra­ tion.

Come have lunch in the Womens’ Union. All women are invited to use our microwave, read our books and To imply that being IRC presi­ dent does not qualify one to be a rep­ resentative of students not only patronises Sevag Yeghoyan and Mark Luz — both were IRC presi­ dents before being elected SSMU President — it also demeans and degrades the hard work and dedica­ tion of myself and every other person who has worked hard for their resi­ dence and the residence community in general.

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