The McGill Tribune Vol. 14 Issue 24

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McGill adopts policy on research ethics.

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Volume 14 Issue 24

In Domino Confido

March 28th, 1995

Slipping through the cracks

Scenic study spots in the sunshine... a library with a view

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A novel look at abortion and some random fox in sox.

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E d ito rial Present and future editors take aim at university antics.

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ENTERTAINM ENT

McGill lit, film and radio, plus a taste of March madness.

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SPO RTS

Take a look at the Tribune's athlete of the year nominees, and cast your vote with the ballot inside.

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C o lu m n is ts

G. Gibson....................Page7 M. Luz.........................Page7 P. Shah................. Page 11

lo o k a t h o w M c G ill d e a ls w ith sex u a l a ssa u lt in resid en ce B y S teve S m it h , T yla B e r c h t o l d and

T ed F r ankel ___________________

For some 1,200 new students each year, the migration to university brings them to McGill residences.

More than just a place to lodge, resi­ dence provides an antidote to the more regimented lifestyle to which many incoming students were accus­ tomed previously. Recent allegations that this environment is conducive to sexual assault has led to renewed questions about McGill’s process for dealing with cases of sexual assault in residences.

What is evident is the frustration inherent to the system McGill pro­ vides for dealing with cases of sexual assault. U2 anthropology student Carrie Satin’s first hand experience with this system reveals this fact, as do the comments of those who play a role in the process.

Satin alleges that she and a male friend were sexually assaulted last April when they were residents of

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Steve Cohen, currently an assis­ tant director at Molson Hall, suggest­ ed that there are mechanisms to deal with sexual assault entrenched in the residence system.

“Any situation in which a resi­ dent feels they have been objectified, assaulted... anything that makes them feel uncomfortable in the residence environm ent necessitates a response,” said Cohen.

The first wave of support, sug­

gested Cohen, comes from floor fel­ lows. These upper-year students are hired by hall directors under the rec­ ommendation of an academic staff selection committee composed of hall residents. Part of the job of the floor fellow is to serve as a facilitator for any problems students may encounter during their time in resi­ dence.

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• Human Life International is an American pro-life group with a Montreal convention slated fo r April. It has been

accused o f spreading anti-Semitic, anti-feminist, anti-Moslem and homophobic propaganda. The debate is this: Do its words incite violence? I f so, are the authors responsible? Should anything be done to stop them?

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Gardner Hall, and that her attempts to resolve her case via official chan­ nels were futile.

Residence officials maintain there is no reason to suggest resi­ dence is especially tainted by sexual assault.

“I’m not saying it’s not a prob­ lem but I don’t think it’s any more of a problem here than it is anywhere else on campus,” said Brian Rae, assistant director of McConnell Hall.

HLI and the pow er of propaganda

D e p a r tm e n ts

Crossword.................. Page8 Observer......................Page8 What’s O n............Page 19

As the semester nears its end, academic obligations clash with spring fever. The window seat is this student ’s compromise.

“... a large number o f Jews who are disloyal to the teachings of Judaism more or less lead to the abortion movement... It is high time that someone remind these p ro ­ abortionists that there is a holo­ caust going on that dwarfs even the horrible Jewish one. ” — from Confessions o f a ProLife Missionary, published by HLI, and written by its founder Father Paul Marx

Since it was founded in 1981, Human Life International has estab­ lished 25 chapters in North America, 45 internationally, and four Canadian chapters in Ottawa, C algary, W innipeg, and Nova Scotia.

To initiate action in Quebec, HLI has planned their second trip to Montreal, starting with a mass on April 19 at Notre-Dame Basilica.

After the mass, HLI participants will join a candlelight procession to the downtow n R adisson Gouverneurs Hotel, which HLI has

rented for a series of speakers and activities. HLI’s “Fourteenth World Conference on Love, Life and the Family” will include a Job-Seekers M eeting and sem inars on “The M oslem Threat to the W orld” , “Homophobia: Is it for Real?” and “Principles: Are you Willing to Die for Them?”

The M ontreal C oalition to Oppose HLI, in conjunction with a McGill coalition, will hold a peace­ ful demonstration across the street from the Basilica during the mass.

The anti-HLI Coalition will then

follow HLI supporters to the Radisson.

HLI advocates a “pro-family lifestyle” which eliminates the need for abortion or contraceptives, both of which they condemn. Their liter­ ature lists day Care, feminism, free­ m asonry, and sex education as “threats to the family”.

“What they’re trying to do is to reunite the church and state,” said Anne B urnett o f the C anadian Abortion Rights Action League.

Though HLI does not officially See HLI Page 11

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Sexual assault in residences...

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other hand, is dealt with by McGill’s sexual harassment asses­ sors under the regulations concern­ ing complaints of sexual harass­ ment. There is no avenue that deals specifically with sexual assault.

This leaves a grey area in deciding when sexual harassment becomes sexual assault. The initial decision is left to the survivor and can be a cause for confusion.

Although the ombudsperson is listed in the student handbook as one who deals with grievances, they have no jurisdiction or authority in disciplinary action. In effect, the ombudsperson can only offer a sym­ pathetic ear and advice on how to proceed. Current ombudsperson Estelle Hopmeyer outlined what she sees as her role in this situation.

“If it is assault, I would step in and spend a lot of time listening.

You have to get some sense of what they want to do,” she said. “I outline the options available to the student and what the process is going to look like.”

And what does the process look like? Long.

From the ombudsperson, the complainant may choose to go to a sexual harassment assessor.

There are three sexual harass­ ment assessors at McGill’s main campus, any of whom will listen to a student’s case. The complainant must decide whether to follow an informal or formal process. In the formal process the assessor decides whether the complainant’s case is founded, unfounded or malicious.

Sexual harassment assessor Pat Wells explained the initial proce­ dure.

“I listen to the student’s story,” she stated. “I also observe the state of the human being. [The questions asked] are specific to the individual.

We try to be as friendly as possible within the confines of our role as assessors.”

The sexual harassment assessor has 30 days to decide whether the complaint is founded. A copy of a written account of the incident is presented to the harasser, the harassee and the principal. The prin­ cipal must pass judgement and can initiate proceedings for disciplinary procedures, Disciplinary actions can range from expelling the perpetrator to dism issing the case if it is deemed unfounded.

These are the options in theory.

Satin has experienced the reality all too well.

After her experience in resi­ dence, Satin met with a sexual harassment assessor. According to Satin, the assessor was initially quite sympathetic to the situation.

After the summer however, the assessor seemed to change her

mind. Furthermore, Satin was 1 - Upper residences, Bishop Mountain Hall informed that the alleged perpe­ 2 - Douglas Hall Although floor fellows are trator intended to charge her with 3 - Royal Victoria College instructed during their mandatory making a false accusation.

4 - Ombudsperson’s office two-week orientation period about Currently, Satin appears tired 5 - Sexual harassment assessor Pat Wells how to deal with sexual assault, and disillusioned with a process 6 - Powell Student Services: sexual harass­ McConnell Hall Director Michael that is now entering its eleventh ment assessor Judy Stymest; office of thç Hoover noted that the burden is not month.

Dean of Students on them to remedy the situation.

7 - Sexual harassment assessor Sayeed Mirza “I ’m kind of frustrated. I 8 - Office of the Principal “We really stress that these are almost feel like I’m not going to 9 - Shatner Centre: SSMU VP University very serious issues and that floor bother pursuing this anymore Affairs Jen Small, Sexual Assault Centre fellows shouldn’t be treating them because it’s just a pain in the ass of McGill Students’ Society alone,” said Hoover. the way it’s set up,” she said.

Residents are told upon arrival Satin maintains her disap­ in residence that when problems pointment with the way her case arise they should first go to a floor was received. fellow, then to the director of their “You want to trust people in hall, and finally to the director of a situation like this but it’s quite residences, Flo Tracy, if necessary. ridiculous,” commented Satin. “I Satin claim ed her case was could just see the smile on [the constantly hushed by individuals alleged perpetrator’s] face when connected with residence, and sug­ he got the letter saying nothing gested that she felt so alienated by was going to be done.” the residence community that she With avenues provided by sought other avenues. Officials in the university seemingly blocked, residence insist that the system for Satin turned to services offered by dealing with sexual assault focuses SSMU. Similar to the ombudsper­ on the survivor’s concerns, not in son, SSMU and its affiliated ser­ the interests of doctoring a positive vices have no decision-making image. authority.

Inter-R esidence Council SSMU VP University Affairs President Helena Myers noted that Jen Small defined her role in the The m any locations on campus a sexual assault survivor in residence sexual assault is something resi­ overall process as offering sup­ may have to deal with. dences consider very serious. port and advice to the student. leers of [the accused’s] friends.” try to say. But there are those who “The feeling in residence... is When asked her views on Satin echoed Small’s accusa­ care.” that it’s a matter of confidentiality women’s safety in residence, Small tions.

Many questions remain as to and that’s why things are kept quiet, was quick not to sensationalise the “The way people reacted in how the system, and the environ­ just for the protection of the vic­ issue. Nor was she prepared to deny general made me feel like it was my ment, should be improved. The tim,” she said. that a problem exists. fault. Everything here [in residence] common recommendation is educa­ Some, like former Molson resi­ “I don’t think it’s an epidemic turns the responsibility onto the tion. Sexual harassment assessor Pat dent Ayesha Rekhi, disagree. but the cases you do see are frustrat­ girl,” she said.

Wells voiced this idea. SACOMSS Concerned about the lack of ing. You can get 10 cases a year but Prior to his term as SSMU has put it to action. Yeghoyan sug­ response to two incidents in Molson I see no effort on the part of the uni­ President, Sevag Yeghoyan served gested that education has to be an during her stay in 1992, Rekhi and versity to change it,” claimed Small. one year as IRC president. ongoing effort in residence, not just other women students created a “You get fucked once and you’re Yeghoyan felt that efforts to a once- or twice-a-year discussion. group called Concerned About going to get fucked again.” increase awareness in residences He also recommended finding ways Residence Environment and Safety.

To Small, the main obstacle to have been made. While many stu­ to get new residents involved.

“Residence responds to these addressing the problem is penetrat­ dent representatives have readily “I think Group Action and cases but not efficiently,” said ing what she sees as a “strong sense condemned the way residence SACOM should maybe consider Rekhi. “As someone who’s of community” in residences — one administration deals with the issue alternative methods/approaches to involved in a group that tried to do she observed as both a former resi­ of sexual harassment and assault, education. You have to find a way something about this... you’re not dent of Molson Hall and VP univer­ Yeghoyan argued that it has, to the to get first year people to speak out supposed to talk about these issues.” sity affairs. contrary, proven cooperative. on the issues,” he said.

A resident with a complaint of “If you’re harassed or assaulted “It’s not my intention to defend Small claimed that the empha­ sexual assault is by no means in residence and you take action, residence: a lot of improvements sis in sexual assault cases has to restricted to residence. The adminis­ you’re breaking out of that commu­ can be made. All I’m saying is there shift from punishment to support for trative services available at McGill nity,” Small suggested. “Comments are people in residence, like the hall the survivor. Yet to Small, the big are the ombudsperson, the sexual are stifled, belittled and swept under directors, who are genuinely con­ change that has to occur, both in harassment assessors, the principal, the carpet because it makes that cerned about the issues and go out residence and in the administration, and the dean or associate dean of community look bad.” of their way for individual stu­ is philosophical. students.

Small acknowledged that on dents,” Yeghoyan said.

“You have to get floor fellows There are a wide variety of paper, the current procedure for Perhaps the most notable philo­ and directors to help change the options. Students are concerned that dealing with cases of sexual harass­ sophical difference on the issue of mentality of blaming the survivor. many of these options may not be ment or assault is adequate. sexual assault awareness exists You have to stop asking the sur­ effective.

However, when this policy is put to between members of residence vivor questions like ‘were you Before deciding on who to practice, the procedure is mired eas­ adm inistration and those of the drunk’ or ‘what were you wear­ approach, however, the survivor of ily. Small suggested that this is Sexual Assault Centre of McGill ing’,” argued Small. a sexual assault in residence must intentional.

Students’ Society outreach program.

According to Small, floor fel­ first attempt to determine the nature “There’s a vested interest in Outreach is a public education pro­ lows have to play a front-line role in of the offence. Assault of any nature keeping things quiet. The people gram designed to facilitate discus­ tackling the problem. is prohibited in the code of student who run residences are going to be sions on sexual assault and date “Part of the floor fello w ’s conduct and thus falls within the criticised,” argued Small. “When rape that has operated in residence responsibility is to tell people ‘Hey, jurisdiction of the residence direc­ you complain, that’s not the end of for two years. that’s not cool’ when facing the tors. Sexual harassment, on the it. You have to face the jeers and the Cara Cameron took over the good ‘ole boy, ‘I’m gonna fuck her’ outreach program last September. mentality that comes out when peo­ The McGill Tribune is published by the Students’ Society of McGill University She commented that her experi­ ple drink,” she argued.

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Senate approves policy on research ethics B y Ellyn K err

A formal policy on research ethics was approved at the March 22 Senate meeting. The policy was subm itted to Senate by R oger Prichard, Vice-Principal Research and dean of graduate studies and research.

Prichard described the docu­ m ent as “a m eaningful policy which promotes ethical standards in research, but... does not inter­ fere with academic freedom.”

The policy is intended to out­ line explicit codes of conduct for all research conducted at McGill.

It discusses ethical duties regard­ ing honesty, integrity, research with human and animal subjects, and collaborate works. The policy encompasses all other research ethics g u idelines currently in effect at McGill.

“Research” as termed in the policy includes “all funded and un-funded scholarly and creative

work by McGill staff and students and by people who use McGill facilities for the creation, dissemi­ nation, and publication of scholar­ ly material.”

Three federal granting agen­ cies insisted that all Canadian uni­ versities implement formal ethics policies by June 1995. Approval of the policy seems particularly timely. Almost one year ago, neu­ rology professor Justine Sergent committed suicide after allegations surfaced that she disregarded regu­ lations on research with human subjects. More recently, a profes­ sor in the department of civil engi­ neering faced allegations of claim­ ing undue authorship for work done by graduate student Nega Mezlekia.

During Senate discussion of the policy several key points were raised, particularly regarding pla­ giarism. Prichard’s initial draft stated that “researchers should not represent the published or unpub­

lished work of another person as their own.” Patrick Glenn, chair­ man of the McGill Association of University Teachers, moved that the policy be amended to read that researchers must not “knowingly” plagiarise. It is Glenn’s belief that the additional word better recog­ nises the question o f intent.

Professor Katherine Young sup­ ported the amendment, stating that chief investigators could otherwise be held responsible for plagiarism committed by junior researchers.

“Once you’ve taken reason­ able care [to verify results], by questioning the m ethodologies used and periodically checking the results obtained, you shouldn’t be held responsible. [Plagiarism by a ju n io r researcher] can happen without senior researchers know­ ing,” said Margaret Somerville, director of the McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics, and Law. Due to the d ifficu lty of demonstrating intent, Glenn also

tom o f the d isc ip lin e .” This applies not only to graduate stu­ dents and research staff, but also to undergraduate students who contribute to a professor’s work.

The policy states that, in the absence of alternative agreements, all persons who make “significant scholarly contributions to a work” have authorship rights, regardless of employment status at the uni­ versity.

“We have to become more ethically sensitive, from the begin­ ning — not waiting until some­ thing goes wrong. T h at’s why guidelines such as these are essen­ tial, to educate... people,” said Somerville.

“This policy should be wel­ come. It provides a necessary, clear statement of the standards to which researchers should adhere,” commented Glenn.

The policy will be submitted to the Board of Governors for final approval on March 27.

moved to add that “upon demon­ stration that a researcher has repre­ sented another person’s work is his or her own, it shall be pre­ sumed that the researcher did so knowingly; the researcher shall bear the burden of rebutting the presumption by evidence satisfy­ ing [those] hearing the case that no such knowledge existed.” These conditions are equivalent to those regarding student plagiarism, as outlined in the H andbook of S tudent R ights and R espon­ sibilities. Both amendments were passed.

The issue of authorship was also debated. Somerville called this “ an academ ic nuclear weapon” that is among the most contentious of academic issues.

The policy recommends that the attribution of authorship be undertaken “according to the qual­ ity of the contribution, the extent of the responsibility and account­ ability for the results, and the cus­

Senate caught between student/staff disagreement B y Noah G itterman

On March 22, Senate voted by a narrow margin to approve Dean of Students Irwin Gopnik’s proposed student services budget.

The budget proposal asks for a nine dollar per semester increase in full time student fees.

The vote at Senate was split along student/staff lines, with all the student senators voting against the proposal, and most staff vot­ ing for it.

The in crease was reco m ­ mended by the finance sub-com­ m ittee o f the C o o rd inating Committee on Student Services, which advises the dean on student services issues.

Soon after the finance com­ m ittee recom m endation, a dis­ crepancy was discovered. SSMU P resid en t Sevag Y eghoyan noticed that $110,000 was allocat­ ed towards maintenance costs of the new Athletics Fieldhouse.

In a referendum in 1982, stu­ dents voted to contribute $7.50 each per sem ester tow ards the building and operating costs of the fieldhouse, and 10 dollars per semester following its completion.

“Thus, the $110,000 which the current student services bud­ get allocates towards maintenance is u n n ecessary and a form of

‘double ta x a tio n ’,” w rote Yeghoyan in a memo to Senate members.

Though sceptical of the dou­ ble-billing interpretation, Gopnik said he would allow students to decide how the extra $110,000 would be spent.

“It’s students’ money, they can use it any way they want to,” he said.

In consultation with other students, Yeghoyan came up with a proposal to allocate the money.

He recommended that $40,000 be used to reduce the fee increase from nine dollars to eight, that $20,000 be used to replenish the student services reserve fund, and that $50,000 be given as a down payment on a new student ser­ vices building, or tow ards the completion of the fieldhouse.

Gopnik refused to allow the fee increase to be lowered.

“It is up to students how they want the money proportioned, but this has nothing to do with the student services fee,” he said at a CCSS meeting the following day.

Y eghoyan disagreed. He pointed out that if students were to have control over the money they should be able to use it to reduce the fee increase. If this is not allowed, he suggested stu­ dents are in reality being told how

they should spend it.

“In essence, he is coercing and forcing us into spending the money the way he sees fit,” said Yeghoyan.

At Senate, students tried to introduce the eight dollar amend­ ment to Gopnik’s budget. After much debate, their proposal was deemed out of order because it was not Senate’s place to decide on financial matters. The senate debate, however, centred around procedural issues more than on the budget.

Professor Pat Farrell chal­ lenged the student amendment.

“It is not Senate’s right to argue on finances,” said Farrell, noting that it is only charged with advising the Board of Governors on such matters.

Senate/Board Rep Christoph Sicking disagreed.

“The rule is that anything can be amended unless there is a spe­ cific rule that says it cannot be amended,” he said.

“We are setting a dangerous precedent [in disallow ing the motion]. It means that there is no

re je ct G o p n ik ’s budget and endorse the student proposal for the allocation of the $110,000. To him, the students’ request is rea­ sonable. Student leaders are ask­ ing for a one dollar reduction of the fee increase and are putting the rest of the money towards other projects that will benefit the university as a whole.

“1 for one would hope that the members of the Board will see the rationale behind this proposal and accept this additional gift of stu d en t g e n e ro sity ,” said Yeghoyan.

point in coming here, if such a logic is follow ed th ro u g h ,” Sicking added.

P rincipal B ernard Shapiro accepted Farrell’s argument, rul­ ing the stu d en t m otion out of order. Sensitive to student con­ cerns, however, he assured Senate that he would present a summary of Senate’s debate on the issue to the Board to compensate for the rejected amendment.

Yeghoyan now plans to chal­ lenge the student fee increase at the March 27 Board meeting. He hopes to convince the Board to

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Budget cut fears prompt African Studies demonstration B y Parom ita S hah

McGill’s trash-bash B y M ia Baudry

A frican studies is under the jurisdiction of the anthropology department, the co-ordinators of the Proposed cuts to M cG ill’s 1995-96 budget demonstration fear that it will be the first to go. threaten the existence of the African studies pro­ The foremost concern of the organisers is to gram, according to organisers of the upcoming continue funding. In their six-platform statement, March 29 demonstration for its maintenance. they include demands for the immediate availability The main proposal in the budget is a 20 percent of funding, im provem ent and expansion of the cut in each administrative and faculty unit. Because A frican studies program into A fricana studies (which would include co u rses co vering A frica and the A frican D iasp o ra), and the establishment of an African studies chair.

“We understand that everyone is suf­ fering from budget­ ing stress. But other programs, especially interdisciplinary pro­ gram s, can look for funding off campus.

It’s not part of the job d esc rip tio n o f the current chair to look .N for funding outside of this sc h o o l,” said Discussing demonstration strategies M ebrat Beyne, cul­ tural and community affairs co­ ord in ato r for B lack S tu d e n ts’ take K a p l a n and get a h i g h e r s c o re ..

N etw ork and d em o n stratio n organiser.

“The lack of funding reflects where McGill stands on African > studies and its place in university c u rric u lu m ,” said D ebra Lovinsky, a co-ordinator of the demonstration.

Astrid Jacques, political co­ o rd in a to r o f BSN , said that M o r e s t u d e n t s t a k e K a p l a n 's c o u r s e s e v e r y attem pts to contact the McGill y e a r t h a n a n y o t h e r t e s t p r e p c o m p a n y 's . ad m in istratio n to d iscu ss the C a ll u s t o d a y t o f i n d o u t w h y . fu tu re o f the program w ere u n su cc essfu l until re cen tly .

A cting D ean o f A rts H arold W aller has o ffered to see the organisers after April 3.

“We have tried to see the Dean of Arts. Now, unfortunately The a n s w e r to th e te s t q u e s tio n we won’t be able to see him until 5 5 0 S h e r b r o o k e S t . W ., S u it e 3 8 0 A pril,” said Jacques. “Nobody can really accuse us of not trying to go through the administrative The Quebec Public Interest route.”

Research Group (QPIRG) is .D o e l asL O rg a n isers say th at they currently soliciting applications for have support from several clubs summer stipends of $2000. as woll Concordia University, yo u iir ir ig L is , | as for fall semester projects which fit atandMcGill, Montreal community organi­ into QPIRG s mandate of research, sations. education and action on “W e’re very happy. The environmental and social justice number of students who are sup­ issues in Ike Monlreal community. porting this or are just interested Application forms are available at in general, are greater than we the QPIRG office, 3647 University. thought. It’s not just something studies majors are con­ ICall 398-7432 for more information. Deadli ne April 7 African cerned about,” said Beyne.

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On March 24, 100 volunteer McGill students donned protective apparel and dove into M cGill’s trashiest secrets.

Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., the Shatner parking lot was filled with three tonnes of garbage from 17 campus buildings.

This event, the second of three waste audits scheduled for the year, was organised by the ‘On campus waste management com­ m itte e ’ which is a part of the Quebec Public Interest Research Group. M cGill physical plant, building services and waste man­ agement also co-operated in the undertaking.

The project is meant to sensi­ tise McGill administration and stu­ dents to the need for improving the university’s recycling programs.

During the first audit in October, participants examined six tonnes of garbage. QPIRG’s gen­ eral co-ordinator Alison Dudley suggested auditing a reduced amount of waste in order to facili­ tate the sorting process and make results more accurate. She said the results from the first waste sort had been skewed since many com­ ponents of the waste stream were no longer recyclable because they had been compacted and left to sit over night.

“Last October, we didn’t get to go through all the trash and a tonne was left out at the end because we were limited in time,” said Dudley.

According to Alex Hill, the ‘On campus waste management committee’ coordinator, the reduc­ tion allowed for more efficiency and, hopefully, better results.

“Everything went very well and the waste was sorted out pretty meticulously. Because we man­ aged to go through the entire sam­ ple, our results will be more pre­ cise this time,” he said.

Once com piled, the results will confirm those tabulated after the first waste sorting which con­

cluded that the university recycles only 20 percent of its recyclable trash. McGill lags behind many other Canadian universities.

“McMaster and UBC are now recycling over 50 percent of their recyclable waste. In the U.S.A., Illinois passed legislation which requires universities to recycle their waste and some universities have surpassed 80 percent,” said Dudley.

She feels that if the proper infrastructure and programs were available, McGill’s recycling rate would augment. Currently, there are two organisations implicated in recycling on campus. Building ser­ vices deals with paper, while waste management takes care of glass and hazardous waste.

Carmelo Spataro, manager of McGill Building Services empha­ sised the efforts and improvements McGill has realised over the last two years, specifically in terms of paper recycling.

“In the 1992-1993 fiscal year we recycled over 455,000 pounds of paper and by June of this year, we hope to have accum ulated 800,000 pounds,” he said.

Although these figures are encouraging, Spataro acknowl­ edged the need for improvement, emphasising the role students in bettering McGill’s recycling rate.

“We would like to sponsor special projects to get students involved in reducing w aste at McGill and saving the environ­ ment. I am open to any sugges­ tions students want to make,” he added.

QPIRG’s report on October’s audit underlined student participa­ tion, noting that much of the paper which had been sorted consisted of personal class notes. This suggests that students may “lack recycling awareness”.

The third waste audit will be conducted in June. O rganisers hope to draft a more concrete pro­ posal based on the results that will have been accumulated from the three audits.

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Shapiro pitch for business participation B y Ron L evy

In an address to the Montreal Board of Trade on M arch 21, Principal B ernard Shapiro invited business leaders to partic­ ipate more actively in higher education.

Arguing that business and academia stand to gain from increased cooperation, Shapiro outlined his vision of stronger ties between the two, and made a pitch for more funds from the business community.

Shapiro repeatedly stressed that McGill ■feces concerns common to any major busi­ ness enterprise.

“7,500 people are directly on our pay­ roll, not to mention thousands of other jobs... that depend indirectly on McGill’s work in the community,” he said.

Drawing more parallels, he spoke of the need to continue to attra ct “good

clients”.

“Our full time student body of 22,000 is as demanding and deserving of service as any of your customers,” he said.

Citing such statistics as McGill’s bud­ get of $540 million, the principal expressed his belief that M ontreal’s prosperity is linked to the continued excellence of this and other universities.

Though Shapiro spoke often of the need to support all of the city’s universities, he singled out McGill as the most deserving of the business community’s interest.

McGill’s status as a leader in research in various fields, its international ties and reputation, and what Shapiro called its “cherished identity as a Quebec citizen” and simultaneous “easy familiarity” with the rest of North America, are all qualities mak­ ing it unique among its “sister universities”.

These strengths, he said, were achieved despite the comparatively difficult position of McGill as an anglophone university in Quebec. “ [McGill] is striving to survive and flourish in a particularly sensitive context,” Shapiro said. “In an almost perverse way, the result produces a certain chemistry that can be very exciting... Somehow, the more difficult the climate, the more McGill works to adapt and innovate.”

Shapiro sees innovation on the part of universities as essential to the city’s suc­ cess, particularly in light of new challenges posed by social, political and budgetary changes at many levels.

The innova­ tion that Shapiro envisions should

take place with business becoming more involved in higher education. He invited business leaders to “take advantage” of the ex tensive ties M cG ill has estab lish ed around the world. The business community can, he added, also benefit from the univer­ sity’s expertise in such areas as the informa­ tion technology “explosion.”

Stressing the economic benefits that can be reaped with the help of McGill, how­ ever, did not keep Shapiro from bluntly ask­ ing that these favours be returned.

“We’d like you to write cheques, when­ ever possible and whenever an inspiring opportunity presents itself.”

Senate was recently informed that the Canadian Scholarship Plan for science students would no longer be offered in the coming year. This is part of the federal governm ent’s plan to cut the am ount it spends on post-sec­ ondary education and reduce the Canadian deficit.

The scholarship plan was initi­ ated eight years ago, and was designed to encourage enrollment in science programs by offering top students across Canada 2,500 dol­ lars, annually renewable, if they chose science programs. The con­ ditions a student had to meet in order to keep the scholarship were a GPA of 3.5 and a full-tim e course load each year. Although the program is now defunct, stu­ dents with scholarships will retain them until graduation.

SSMU VP University Affairs Jen Small believes that it is a step in the government’s program to end grants to students, in favour of

loans.

“It’s a shame,” said Small. “I think the government is getting out of the bursary business and schol­ arship business and going more into the loans business.”

Small also expressed her belief that bursaries played a role in attracting excellent students to McGill.

“McGill has a great reputation which has carried it along so far,” she said. “But McGill has consis­ tently had trouble picking the very cream of the crop from the high school and CEGEPs.” Mathematics professor Roger Rigelhof, head of the scholarships committee, expressed his regret at the death of the program.

“This is going to be very diffi­ cult, of course, for students,” said Rigelhof. “I would guess that there are about one hundred students [at M cGill] that get the C anadian scholarships and that’s a real, gen­ uine loss.”

Small em phasized that the scholarship targeted females by

requiring that an equal number of scholarships be given to members of both sex.

“Stats don’t lie. There are very, few women who go into research science,” said Small.

“That was part of the idea, to get just as many women as men interested in engineering, in physi­ cal sciences as well as in pure sci­ ences.”

Robyn Shafer, a U1 science student, expressed her disappoint­ ment regarding the decision.

“Although the government does need to cut back its funding, a mistake is being perpetrated by cutting those scholarships,” said Shafer. “Competitiveness in sci­ ence is integral for C anada’s future. It is an investment that will eventually reimburse itself.”

The announcem ent comes shortly after a decision by McGill to tax endowment funds that pro­ vide money for excelling students.

The tax will rise increm entally until the year 2000, when it will hit its projected ceiling of ten percent.

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McGILL TRIBUNE Gopnik the satirist “I write slowly because I write badly. I have to rewrite everything many, many times just to achieve mediocrity” - William Gass M ichael B roadhurst

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M cG ill should take the m oney and run B y M ichael B roadhurst_____________________________________

Our time is consumed by writing papers and studying for exams, test­ ing theories in labs and relaxing at Montreal’s drinking establishments.

But in the end, what does it all mean? Has this university become a better, kinder, friendlier place? The depressing answer is, in most material respects, it has not.

Look at this year. The positive? A new principal, Bernard Shapiro, who at very least is injecting new blood and enthusiasm into the adminis­ trative process. The downside is that Shapiro’s desire to cut 20 percent from McGill’s budget is entirely unpopular. Necessary, some say, but it’s hard to swallow when McGill has a standing offer from Quebec City to sell land near Macdonald Campus for $40 million. Given McGill’s accu­ mulated debt of $70 million, one wonders why the Board of Governors has not jumped all over the offer.

Students are often criticised for being irresponsible and uninterested.

Apathetic. Or greasy and sleazy, if one were to listen to the satirical ramblings of certain administrators. (On a side note, one wonders whether satire is now an acceptable defense in student discipline hearings...) But it is troubling that the administration, which constantly spouts concern about maintaining the quality of teaching and research at McGill while trying to cut the budget, is not seizing the opportunity to reduce the debt by 50-60 percent in one step.

Despite obvious areas where students and administrators disagree, including the future of the African studies program, the sexual harassment guidelines, and the allocation of our money, students are not always right.

The attachment of FEUQ, CASA and SSMU to their current tuition poli­ cies have the potential to do far more damage to this university and the post-secondary education system. Lloyd Axworthy’s proposals for educa­ tion reform were met immediately by derision within the student move­ ment; one has to wonder why Nick Benedict, Paul Estabrooks and Guy Caron think it so objectionable to pay for their education. Why should unemployed turbot fishermen in Newfoundland pay taxes to a government that doesn’t support their own lifestyle so that it can turn around and sub­ sidise Gert’s and Peel Pub? What is so wrong with paying for an educa­ tion?

This is not to say that tuition should rise to American levels; the Canadian dedication to maintaining an open and accessible post-sec­ ondary education system is laudable; however, it is pointless to perpetuate in a fashion that requires McGill to lose $70 million over ten years so that it can struggle to pay it back in the next ten. Even SSMU boasted a debt of approximately $360,000 two years ago, which will eventually disappear, but not because of new sources of revenue. Belt-tightening was the way to go there; students, as the primary beneficiaries of the work of both SSMU and McGill, will have to tighten their belts as well. Whereas SSMU’s ser­ vices are not essential to the educational experience, McGill’s are; down­ sizing is not the answer.

But chances are good that nothing substantial will ever change at McGill. Students will try to kill the Daily. Student service fees will rise.

Women will be assaulted in residence. Fraternities will continue to feel persecuted. Management will continue to attract mostly Montreal stu­ dents. What else would you expect from a university that sold a house to its former principal at 45 percent below market value. $40 million indeed. What an interesting number.

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As Irwin Gopnik’s term as Dean of Students nears its end, the man behind the decade of work appears to have few regrets - save having to put up with stu­ dents.

If only those “tunnelvisioned, narrow-minded, greasy, sleazy, self-centred and greedy” students ceased challenging his approach to the provision of stu­ dent services, his goal of increas­ ing prestige of the university might be more easily realised.

Not only do his years of experience as dean strengthen his claim of knowledge about what is best for students, but his training as a professor of English appears to have led to the development of acute acting skills. It is near impossible to figure out when the temperate man is being genuine and when it is simply his potent sarcasm disguised in pleasantry.

By virtue of these attributes, none can challenge him without risking ridicule.

Despite his soliloquies on ensuring the well-being of future students, one wonders about his concern for the current genera­ tion.

“Students are narrow-mind­ ed, 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 down your face,” reads the quote attributed to Dean Gopnik in the Tribune’s March 14 edition.

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Studying North America Yes, Helena Myers is the third consecutive IRC President to take the SSMU throne but she is also the second consecutive North American Studies student to be elected president. The North American Studies fountain seems to be springing forth a plethora of campus leaders lately, and we’ve got less than 100 students. Not only are M yers and Sevag Yeghoyan North Am’ers but so is Lisa Uddin, the executive director of ill TV, and Margot Dumont, the outgoing President of M cG ill’s Student Organisation for Alumni R elations, as well as incoming

In the C om m ittee on the Coordination of Student Services March 23 meeting, Gopnik, amaz­ ingly, managed to increase the feeling of alarm and concern which arose in the wake of the publication of the quote. Rather than present SSMU President Sevag Yegohoyan the apology which he shyly requested, Dean Gopnik justified' the statement.

Though critical of student press and “eavesdroppers” , at least Gopnik did not deny having made the statement to Yeghoyan.

Instead, he undermined student interpretation of the words.

Citing his experience as an English professor, Gopnik linked the quote to the notions of satire and hyperbole. He went on to suggest that if his type of “hum our” had offended Yeghoyan, that the m isunder­ standing was unfortunate.

Humour is, no doubt, subjec­ tive. However, of students who read the quote, the few who so much as smiled, did so in anxious d isb elief - not in enjoym ent.

Perhaps the staff and administra­ tion who know of the quote fancy such humour, but if they do, their laughter has gone unheard. In fact, nothing official has followed the publication of the quote.

When Yeghoyan m eekly brought up the matter in front of the handful of present CCSS members, he was silenced by the dean’s unique explanation, and particular interpretation of what constitutes satire.

Moreover, one wonders why

Yeghoyan accepted an explana­ tion in the place of the apology.

They are not one and the same.

Yeghoyan pursued his “nice guy” antics, allow ing the dean to ridicule not only the student leader himself, but student rea­ soning in general by simple asso­ ciation.

Student press has no vested interest or agenda with regard to the dean. There is nothing to be gained through written attacks.

However, silence, the apparent alternative, is not acceptable.

No one at the CCSS meeting so much as winced in the face of the pathetic exchange between the unusually timid Yeghoyan and 'ironic' Gopnik. Worse yet, the university has abandoned the stu­ dents and trivialised the quote through its complacency.

Granted, the dean, self-pro­ claimed “trustee” of student con­ cerns, is leaving his position.

H owever, in its disquieting silence, the university is indicat­ ing that G opnik’s brand of “humour” would be tolerated in a new dean.

(The satirist is thus a kind o f self-appointed guardian o f stan­ dard, ideals and truth; o f moral as well as aesthetic values. He is a man who takes it upon himself to correct, censure and ridicule the follies and vices o f society and thus to bring contempt and deri­ sion upon aberrations from a desirable and civilised norm.

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President Jennifer Wilson. Liisa House, the VP External for SOAR is also a North Am’er. And, every position on the North American Studies Executive is held by a North Am’er. (Okay, we’re push­ ing it.) (Ed: Thank you for pointing that out — the entire A US exec is Arts students too.) Our major is moving up in the world...we’ve just started an Alumni Association and will finish our year at the U.S. C onsul G en eral’s Office for a soirée. We just wanted to tell you how proud we are. (Oh yeah, we once won the Wine and Cheese Guild’s Award).

Congratulations Helena and good luck.

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Usher misled by media In reference to Alex Usher’s Faculty of Ephemera in the March 21 issue.

Although Mr. U shers’ (sic) article might be amusing in its style and historical references, the discusion in the second paragraph con­ sists of com pletly inconsistant ideas and irrelevant thoughts. On what basis does he link McGill’s fund-raising slogan to Islam’s main pillar? Even if there is a resem­ blance, would McGill comeup (sic) with a slogan to echo the Islamic chant, ju st to help Jo h n sto n ’s fundraising in Iran. Would the Iranians give McGill money for the sole reason that its slogan is similar See Letters Page 7

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O p in io n The mind/body problem — confronting the gap A n O th e r L o o k G eoff G ibso n

In the last couple of weeks I’ve had the opportunity to visit Toronto and New York. And in each place, though particularly NY, cultural epiphanies were in abundance. I took time to explore some galleries on each trip, and possessing a brain that can’t help but want to relate experiences, find patterns, draw the big picture, as I sit down to write a column once again, I am starting to pick out a pervasive issue worth exploring.

In Toronto, I encountered the work of Spring Hurlbut, a sculptor I heard speak at McGill before my visit. Her recent work explores the reclaiming of classical ornament — its de-abstraction. Her earlier work is a more gestural, expres-

sive exploration of this notion of (re)claim ing, where she works plaster right into a site, leaving her bodily presence. As well, a series of paintings at the same gallery by an artist whose name escapes me explored the nature of surface (the surface of the canvas) as an inevitable barrier. Though a painter can create the illusion of depth, when we acknowledge that we can’t reach into the painting we are forced to admit the existence of the body.

Two painters in NY were also fully involved in this notion of the body as it relates to what seems like a solely visual (mind) experi­ ence. Ross Bleckner, a SoHo hotshot these days, also explores the

confrontation between the surface of the painting, which he calls the skin, and the viewer. His paintings reference his reality as a gay male, speaking of the AIDS explosion.

His ‘skins’ seem to have lesions, exhibiting a certain frailty. The viewer feels at times as though they could reach through the plane of the painting into some hinted-at other place. Knowing we can’t, we are forced to admit the presence of and think about the (comparatively strong) state of our own bodies.

Barcelona painter Antoni Tapies explores the undeniable presence of the body in much the same way as Spring Hurlbut, showing his physical process, and thus claim­ ing the works (and the gallery) as indisputably his. One beautiful, simple piece was just worked plas­ ter and pigment with his footprints walking across.

Last week I talked about the amenable object — the production whose meaning is found in the

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John P. Humphrey, McGill emeritus law professor and drafter of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights passed away on March 14, leaving behind a chal­ lenge to the international communi­ ty that he brought to the forefront almost 50 years ago: the protection of human rights worldwide.

The thought of being subjected to persecution, torture, slavery and systemic discrimination is one that is foreign to those of us living in the West, but we should be reminded that our history is tainted with poli­ cies of segregation and discrimina­ tion. Reminding ourselves that even the bastions of liberalism and equality like the United States, Canada, and Britain were not long ago guilty of what are today con­ trary to the UN Declaration on Human Rights should show that states do evolve and change. Flying in the face of “cultural relativism”, states and cultures are not static: they are perpetually changing.

Although some notions of the UDHR may be foreign (and perhaps incompatible) to many countries and cultures, it is erroneous to use culture, development or stability as a defence for blatant human rights violations. Governments can and do change and progress and the UDHR, if used properly, is a posi­ tive agent to bring about change.

The articles of the UDHR are noble and idealistic indeed, and cer­ tainly are based on Western liberal tradition, but does not mean they cannot be universally applicable.

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rushing to embrace Adam Smith.

Cultural incompatibility is a politi­ cal minefield set up around those defending their interests in power.

Governments that criticize the UDHR are usually ones that use systemic oppression of their citizens to keep themselves in power, not for lofty purposes. People are killed or tortured in the name of “the revolu­ tion”, in the name of “God”, in the name of “progress” . There are higher goals for society as a whole, and individuals must succumb to those goals or suffer the conse­ quences. This rhetoric rings throughout history, but it fails to hide the real reason for human rights violations: government is about power, and governments and elites will use whatever means pos­ sible to maintain power.

The interminable problem with the protection of human rights is how to coerce states into respecting the UDHR. Human rights is one of many foreign policy pursuits, and states must balance it with other interests. Morally, we all feel that human rights should be at the top of the agenda, but as long as state sov­ ereignty remains, human rights will be a tough policy to enforce.

Human rights need to be a consis­ tent and integral part of foreign pol­ icy. The trick is how to balance and implement them considering other interests. One hell of a trick.

Human rights are used tradi­ tionally or ignored to serve other foreign policy goals. In reaction to apartheid, South Africa was cast out of the international community as a pariah state, and yet no one is will-

ing to act against China for its vio­ lation of human rights.

Hypocritical? Fundamentally, yes.

However, when it comes to decid­ ing how to coerce states into respecting human rights, the meth­ ods used vary widely between mili­ tary intervention or sanctions to diplomacy or turning a blind eye. In addition to the massive amount of money lost by using sanctions to punish China for human rights vio­ lations, the U.S. and Canada seem willing to try the untested hypothe­ sis that engagem ent will bring reform. They may be waiting to see what happens when Deng Xiaoping dies: maybe reform will come by its own accord. They are also probably waiting to see if China implodes under its own weight.

The point is states have always used human rights to further their interests when possible; otherwise leave it to nongovernmental agen­ cies to worry about. What we have seen is that human rights is carrying more weight in foreign policy. With groups like Amnesty International, Red Cross and, yes, CNN, keeping people informed, governments are hard-pressed to hide abuses. With the end of the Cold War, superpow­ ers find it difficult to support puppet dictatorships. The international human rights agenda has reached its highest level in history. It is not where it should be, but Humphrey’s work has not gone to waste.

Sanctions and punishm ent make us feel like damn good liber­ als, while incentives, quiet diploma­ cy and cajoling are often seen as pathetic pandering to dictators.

However, states need to consider carefully what will bring about the desired result of protection of human rights. Like it or not, sanc­ tions are not always the best way to influence states. The EU uses incen­ tives to ensure nationalism does not explode and turn into genocide or

intersection of the artist’s intent and the viewer’s reading. Each in their own, unforceful way, these artists are exploring an issue cen­ tral to our age: the m ind/body problem.

The mind/body problem can be loosely defined as the frag­ menting of the self into two sepa­ rate selves, the body (physical reality) and the mind (amorphous thinking and feeling, without cor­ poreal reality). Once separated, these two selves may choose to or not to ‘get along’. In essence, it is undiagnosed multiple personali­ ties. The danger lies in the fact that a person may choose to ‘side’ with one of the selves more close­ ly, and cease to listen to or regard as important the other self. (Of course, in reality, there is only one self, and this division is fabricated and false. We cannot reasonably make decisions taking into account only the body or only the mind.) The extreme cases are the scientist who, so engulfed with their work (thinking, the mind) allows their body to slip away from them, forgetting to eat, trip­ ping over things, not noticing they have cut themselves, and the ath­ lete who, placing all their trust in their body, ceases to value or try to am eliorate th eir m ind (the ‘dumb jock’).

This mind/body paradigm has its roots in the new work ethic of the industrial revolution (the mindless production line worker).

Along the path between then and now, many contributions have been made to this ethos. The emer-

gence of modern psychology (with its obsessive focus on mind as sep­ arate from body) and the growth in complexity of the machine (allow­ ing the positing of an ‘intelligent machine’ - i.e. one containing the mind, but with no need for the body in a human sense) are two.

Recently, the emergence of cyber­ space has widened the mind/body gap further by suggesting that you could have a bodily experience (v irtual reality ) in the mind.

H ow ever, a bodily experience without a body is both semantical­ ly and factually impossible.

As an amenable object, the power of art (painting, sculpture, architecture, dance...) is to make us think. The mind/body schism is an area of personal exploration recently, so I may be projecting this reading onto these works.

Regardless, I see art as one of the potential guards against the widen­ ing of the gap. Art involves the whole self — mind and body.

And thus ends my in-print exploration of aesthetics and its place in the puzzle of our culture. I hope I’ve succeeded in provoking you, inspiring you, angering you, or just making you look around with a new set of eyes. For me, as a some-day architect, I’ve signed onto this exploration for the bal­ ance of my life. But really, the issues raised here this year are of relevance to all who want to avoid the numbness of our end-of-themillennia existence.

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from getting guns. They say that the government should control crime, not guns.

This is such a sensible and ele­ gant solution to the problem it’s am azing nobody thought of it before. If crime were made illegal, there would be no need to fear criminals with guns because the police would arrest all the crimi­ nals and put them in jail. There would be no need to bother decent law -abiding citizens who have guns to defend themselves against criminals.

It’s high time crime was made illegal in this country. I demand that our grovemment immediately pass legislation banning crime.

Crime control, not gun control, is the solution!

Sincerely yours,

to theirs? Besides Johnstons (sic) “rumoured” trip to Iran is just that; a rumor, and may have never hap­ pened. Therefore the resemblance is unfounded.

M oreover the referred to phrase is not a chant but is the main pillar of the Islamic Religion and its 1.2 billion followers. It is also the basic doctrine of the other two Monotheistic faiths. How he tied this belief to the “Ayatollahs” alone, is proof of how he has been mislead (sic) by the media’s bias.

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Crime not good Many people are saying that the government’s gun-control pro­ posal will not work, because it will do nothing to prevent criminals discrimination. It failed miserably in Yugoslavia, but economic and political incentives for Hungary and Slovakia may quell oppression of minorities. Whatever the result, the protection of human rights has risen immensely on the European agenda: we’ll see if rhetoric works. ' The concept of human rights has definitely risen in stature over the past 50 years, and will continue to do so: the human race has suf-

Geoff Gibson is going to do some more reading this summer.

Mark Marshall, B.A. McGill 1988 fered too many wars and massacres to pretend that universal rights can­ not exist and should not be pursued.

How to go about the pursuit of international human rights is a con­ troversial topic, but as Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi showed, good people are hard to keep down.

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March 28th, 1995

Too much time spent thinking Y e s te rd a y ’s N e w s D a v id B ushnell

There was a story in the New York Times describing a recent stu­ dent protest in New York against university cuts or higher tutions or something. In and of themselves, the issues were not interesting in the least, and would not have war­ ranted a front page story with photo. What made this student shindig newsworthy is the fact that there was some trouble, and 12 people were injured and 60 were arrested. I’m not really sure what happened because I was raised on television and have the attention span of a coma patient and so I read the photo caption only, but I got the gist: these kids were nuts.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realised that these kids w eren’t nuts; they were

heroes, fightin’ The Man (and los­ ing) when it would have been more convenient to eat Ding-Dongs and watch the riots on TV. But the more I thought about it, the more I realised that these kids w eren’t heroes; they were slackers out for a good time, no doubt cutting classes they had already paid for in order to go walking around and yelling and picking fights with blue-collar cops.

But the more I thought about it, the more I realised that these kids were heroes, relatively speak­ ing. I didn’t read the article, mind you, but I figure that any kids will­ ing to start a mini riot to get their plight some news coverage are really cool. Any idiot can stumble

down Main Street and complain, but it takes an iiberperson to set aside all consideration of personal safety and (despite insurmountable odds) go mano a mano with The Establishment.

And the more I thought about it. the more I realised that that was the difference between the protest in New York last week and the protest in Montreal last January.

Swallowing the foul bile of injus­ tice is one thing; spitting it back is quite another. Heck, the Montreal kids didn’t even use their forbid­ den eggs. While the New Yorkers were a raging torrent bursting the river’s banks, the Montrealers were a little creek straight out of Avonlea, letting the police barri­ cades decide the flow of the march.

I thought about it some more and realised that not only were the New York protesters a pride of lions in comparison to Montreal’s dairy cows, but the kids from the Big Apple were also smarter; they protested in late March, in weather invariably w arm er than late

accident, and was engaged heavily in astrology and other occult arts.

But it was his politeness that was T h e F a c u lty o f E p h em era his downfall. He failed to relieve A lex U sher himself before attending a banquet at the court of the seriously unbal­ anced Emperor Rudolf at which a Death — the final curtain. At this time of year I great deal of wine was consumed. As it would be like to look around the classroom and see all those impolite to leave the table, Tycho stayed in his seat ochre-faced students whose only obvious means of life throughout the night with the result that his bladder support are caffeine and cigarettes, and ponder the exploded. He died in immense suffering eleven days finer points of the end of human existence. All of us, later. rich or poor, black or white, leave this world in a blaze Some achieve greatness not through their own of existential glory, and many who never in their lives death, but through others’ reactions to their deaths. made a mark on this poor earth can rise to heights of Queen Joanna the Mad had her husband Phillip fleeting glory with their stupendously bizarre methods embalmed and kept the corpse in her bed for two of passing into the hereafter. In short, they become years. King George VI of England lay unburied for 17 “ephemeral” in the truest sense of the word. years after his death in 1952. The problem was that (This column is dedicated to Robert Vogel, the there was no space left in the Royal vaults, and so his man who embodied most the spirit of universitas at body was kept in a passageway in St. George’s chapel McGill and who died a year ago this Saturday. Besides in Windsor. Queen Elizabeth kept pressing for a bur­ being an engaging and committed historian, he was ial, but the Queen Mother kept saying that she hadn’t also in spirit an ephemeralist. He was a man of schol­ many years left and they might as well be buried arship who cared deeply about this institution, and together. The Queen Mother, now in her nineties, is who loved above all the students he taught. He fought still going strong. The King was eventually buried tirelessly against the soulless spirit of technocracy when Elizabeth had new vaults built in 1969. which has spread across this university in the past Though people are mortal, their dying words decade, and all of us are the poorer for his passing.) often are not. Noted wit Oscar Wilde ended his life Take for instance, those seven poor souls who with the words: “this wallpaper is really awful; one of drowned in England at the end of the Napoleonic wars, us will have to go”. Pancho Villa was concerned with when, as they calmly walked through a distillery dis­ his historical legacy, but when the great moment came, trict in London, were suddenly caught up in a flood of couldn’t think of a pithy last remark. So, after being low-quality beer which was pouring out of a broken shot while driving his new Dodge, he simply said: tank. Or take Clinton Doan, the Idaho beer-guzzler “don’t let it end this way. Tell them I said something”. who loved his poison so much that he always kept a Parting words can also be the subject of great contro­ keg of beer in his fridge. On January 29, 1992, as versy. It is now believed by some classicists that Julius | Doan was opening the fridge to get a frosty one to go Caesar did not in fact utter the final words “et tu, with his lunch, he accidentally jostled the keg and rup­ Brute”. These scholars believe that while Caesar’s last j tured it. The pressurised beer shot out of the hole and words were indeed spoken to his protégé Brutus, the [ launched itself like a missile straight at Doan’s head. words were something more along the lines of “suck He died instantly. my dick, kid”.

One of the most tragic moments in the history of Last words stick with you. I remember the last the circus occurred in Las Vegas in 1969. Austrian cir­ time I saw Professor Vogel as clear as day. A seminar cus dwarf Franz Dasch was bouncing on a trampoline had just ended, and he was lighting a cigarette as we when he took a misstep and went hurtling off it. An all left his office. He stopped me briefly and asked if unsuspecting hippopotamus named Hilda the Hippo he could talk to me about my essay topic. I told him was yawning nearby at the time. Dasch ended up head that I couldn’t stop as I had a meeting to attend. He | first down her gullet. Hilda gagged, then swallowed, smiled — it was a weak smile, he seemed tired — and and the unsuspecting audience burst into rapturous gave me a little wave good-bye. When he smiled his applause. Dasch was soon extracted, but he had eyes, already obscured by thick glasses and heavy eye­ already died of suffocation. brows, almost disappeared beneath the wrinkles on his The astronom er Tycho Brahe was just a tad raised cheeks. I left the room and never saw him again. strange; he wore a silver nose as a result of a duelling I still miss him.

January. I don’t care who you are; if the weather’s nicer you are more likely to break the shackles of silence and go out for a nice antigovernment rally. This includes a handful of pre-pubescent students who got to go to the protest as field trips with their elementary schools.

(OK, I did read a little of the article, but that’s only because I’m not an illiterate simp like the rest of y’all.)

Another point of comparison between the protests is the intimi­ dation factor. The most frightening thing I saw at the A xworthy protest, aside from the big-ass Daily banner, was an Eisenhowerera news helicopter, the kind with the horizontal Eiffel Tower for a tail. The New York protesters had pepper spray shot at them. I’m not exactly sure what pepper spray does, but I imagine it’s pretty bad.

At the very least I’m sure it makes ya real sneezy.

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it right. In a few months we might get to protest Quebec sovereignty or the tyrannical methods of the SSMU executive or som ething equally cool. If we do gather to say, “Hey, cut it out,” please keep in mind the following pointers.

Don’t protest in the middle of win­ ter; you want people to come, don’t you? Don’t hand out fliers with innovative yet moronic strike chant lyrics, if only for the fact that QPIRG might get angry at the w asted paper. And save your invectives for the real villains, those insensitive clods from the Red Herring (whose latest issue is coincidentally on the stands as we speak), who would rather sit smug­ ly on the sidelines and be insensi­ tive to your misery than actually give a damn about som ething that’s important.

And don’t forget the eggs; I hear they go great with pepper spray.

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: remembering the horror of the Genocide

B y G aren M ikirditsian

H ourig A ttarian, a M cGill education graduate student, has interviewed many survivors of the Armenian Genocide. As the grand­ daughter of a survivor, Attarian w ill com m em orate the 80th anniversary of the Genocide on April 24.

“As I was co n ducting the interviews,” commented Attarian, “I became more aware of the hor­ ror these people had gone through.

When talking about the Genocide, sometimes we tend to forget what actually happened, raising the con­ cept to an abstract level.”

A ttarian is referring to the Armenian Genocide of 1915. The system atic ex term in ation of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire claimed the lives of more than one and a half million Armenians and is still denied by the Turkish gov­ ernment. On April 24, now com­ m em orated annually by Armenians world-wide as a day to remember the Genocide, several hundred Armenian leaders were arrested and most of them tortured to death. The predominant method of extermination was deportation caravans. Armenians were forced to m arch hundreds of m iles through the deserts of Syria and

M esopotam ia. A long the way [the Armenian’s] breast, tear off some were killed outright, and his flesh with red-hot pincers, and tens of thousands more died of then pour boiled butter into the dehydration, hunger, exhaustion wounds.”

W om en w ere raped, their and disease.

Attarian’s research is founded children were abducted. One of upon the accounts of survivors. the survivors told the story of a She believes that their oral narra­ “ N o t u n t i l m easures a re ta k e n tives are integral to the healing to ackn o w led g e th e Q enocide of process.

“We 1 9 1 5 , co u ld o th e r acts o/genosearch for our cide a n d e th n ic c le a n s in g be identities and for us it is a way of p re v e n te d bonding our past, present and — H o u r ig A t t a r ia n , future and the generation gap is e d u c a tio n g ra d u a te s tu d e n t bridged,” stated Attarian.

A ttarian explained the cre­ young girl who was raped by one ation of the Diaspora. As a result of the Turkish leaders of a town of the Genocide, “...Armenians through which th eir caravan were uprooted from their three passed. According to the survivor, millennia-old homeland, giving gendarmes went through the cara­ birth to the Armenian Diaspora. van and found an especially pretty Thus, these stories also become an twelve-year-old girl. They dragged answ er to our [D iaspora her away from the mother, telling the w eeping wom an that they Armenians’] quest of identity.”

The sagas of the survivors would return her. And, in fact, the attest to the horrific nature of their child was returned, but she had experiences. One survivor detailed been terribly abused and died.

Dr. John Sigal is a psycholothe death of an Armenian to which he bore witness. “The gendarmes gist/psychoanalyst, a professor of would apply red-hot irons to his P sychiatry at M cG ill, and a

research associate at the Jewish General Hospital.

Sigal discussed the impact of traumatic events upon survivors.

“Psychological disturbances vary from anxiety and depression to memory disturbances...Those who survive the best appear to be those who were able to form a relation­ ship w ith other v ictim s.”

According to Sigal, not all sur­ vivors suffer from stress.

“Significant numbers seem to have coped despite their experience and there are documented instances of many of them having made signif­ icant contributions to their respec­ tive communities,” said Sigal.

“Often, survivors suffer from the symptom called post-traumatic stress disorder,” added Dr. Rita Kuyumjian, assistant professor of psychiatry at McGill and Director o f M edical E ducation at St. Mary’s Hospital. “It is an effect of surviving a life threatening and very frightening experience. This disorder is expressed through con­ stantly re-experiencing the trauma through nightm ares and flash ­ backs.”

“The traum a among Arm enians is very deep-rooted and it has been carried through generations precisely because of the fact that it has been denied by

Turkey, and the pain of its people is not acknowledged,” Attarian said.

Sevag Y eghoyan, SSMU President and Diaspora Armenian, is active w ithin the C anadian Armenian community. He com­ m ented on the effects of the Genocide.

“The Genocide always has and will haunt all A rm enians th roughout the D iaspora and Armenia. Specifically in [the case of] the Armenians in the Diaspora, often the reason why they are where they are is the direct result of the Genocide.”

“Not until measures are taken to acknowledge the Genocide of 1915, could other acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing be prevent­ ed,” said Attarian. She cited the re la tiv e ly recent pogrom s of Armenians in Sumgait (1988) and Baku (1990) in Azerbaijan, where according to reports 5,000 civil­ ians were massacred overnight.

In fact, the H olocaust, the cases of C am bodia, B osnia, Rwanda and Kurds would come to follow the Armenian Genocide.

“After all the state-sponsored hor­ rors of the 20th century, aren’t we prepared at last to stand up against an absurd and immoral denial?” asked Attarian.

“The Hate Within”: a discussion of global racism P ro fe sso r Stephen S ch ein b erg , N ational V iceOn December 20, 1983, the President of B’nai Brith Canada General Assembly of the United recounted some of his experi­ Nations declared March 21 the ences while visiting Austria in In te rn a tio n a l Day A gainst the late 1980’s. He spoke about Racism . To coincide with this an ind iv id u al nam ed H eider world event, the Canadian Ethnic whom he labelled “something to S tudies dep artm en t presented watch” because of his extreme “The Hate Within: A Symposium right wing views against minori­ ties. Heider had captured 25 per­ on Hate Groups” on March 22.

The symposium consisted of cent of vote in the last elections four panellists led by Professor in Austria.

“Heider has a program for Morton Weinfeld. The first panel­ lists to speak were Gaby Luonga- his Freedom Party of Austria Kombe and Bill Chima of S.O.S. that involves ousting all immi­ Racism. Chima outlined a list of grants out of A ustria,” stated atrocities committed by “humans Scheinberg.

Scheinberg also mentioned who felt they were invested with the divine right over other mem­ the rise o f o th er rig h t w ing bers of society”. He cited such nationalistic groups in Europe. events as the 1960 Sharpeville He maintained that fascism was to Italy w ith m assacre in South A frica, the re tu rn in g T u rkish gen o cid e ag ain st the Alexandria Mussolini’s party.

“Italy has for the first time A rm enians in 1915 and the since World War II legitimised a G erm ans’ attem pt to annihilate the Jewish race. Chima felt that fascist party and returned it to today’s society has barely learned government as part of a coalition from these past events as there with the granddaughter of World are still m any crim es ag ain st War II dictator Benito Mussolini hum anity tak in g place in the as its leader.”

Scheinberg said he was sur­ world today. prised about the return o f the “Ethnic and religious rela­ tions have not gotten any better. extreme right to Europe.

“These are m odern things You barely open up a newspaper that those of us who lived through to read about the massacres going World War II never expected to on,” stated Chima.

Chima said the function of see taking place in our own his organisation is to “carry on times,” said Scheinberg.

The last sp eak er was Fo the memory of those crimes” and to “denounce attempts to justify Niemi, the Executive Director of the Centre for Research Action on them”.

B y H eather R oss

R ace R elatio n s. N iem i spoke about the C anadian Hum an Rights Act which was passed in the House of Commons in 1977.

According to Niemi, members of the House have tried to amend the act with Bill C-41. Niemi said the bill would allow the courts to hand down stronger sentences to people who harm ed som eone solely because they were a mem­ ber of a minority group.

“Bill C-41 would give leg­

islative institutions the ability to im pose h arsh er p u n ishm ents against crim es that have to do with race, sexual orientation and religion,” said Niemi.

Niemi offered an explanation as to why the act has not yet been amended.

“The act has not been amend­ ed as two words scare people.

These two words are sexual ori­ entation”.

At the end of the panellists’

presentations, Scheinberg was asked w hether he fe lt that extreme right groups were a seri­ ous problem in Canada. He said that while Canada has its prob­ lems with racism, he does not feel that the situation is as bad as in Europe.

“Despite a significant amount of racist organisations in Canada, there is no major extreme right wing party here like there is in Europe.”

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March 28th, 1995

Abortion: Looking beyond pro-life and pro-choice

By Paromita Shah and D awn W estley_____________________

of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s the responsibility of regulation has cal limit to set,” stated Dr. Fornier. the foetus. Pro-life activists claim government, the laws were liber­ fallen under health care law, a mat­ However, many hospitals and not enough rights are granted to the alised to permit abortions when the ter of provincial jurisdiction. clinics do not offer abortions up to foetus.

It was never a rights issue for woman’s health was at risk. With “Abortion is dealt with in the 20 weeks but set the lim its at However, there are those who me. I never wanted to be there. The these reform s the authority to health care regulation of each twelve or even eight weeks. These say talking about abortion in the isolation was impermeable. I did determine the right to an language of rights is not what I felt I had to do, what I was abortion was in the hands enough. forced to do. I am glad in retro­ of the medical communi­ “Language is not spect that I had the choice, a ty. In the following year, neutral. It is value-creat­ choice I never wanted to make and the number of abortions ed and a value carrier and one I wouldn ’t wish on anyone. I more than tripled, rising it will affect dramatically still can’t say with certainty that I from 11,152 to 37,232. how we view [abortion],” did the right thing. I don’t think I The m édicalisation of said Professor Margaret ever will but I did what I had to, abortion has continued in Somerville, director of the only thing I could do... and it the wake of Supreme the M cGill C entre for still hurts.

Court rulings in the last M edicine, Ethics, and — Anonymous decade, creating a leg­ Law. “W e’re reaching islative vacuum concern­ some o f the lim its of ing the issue.

T h e m é d ic a lis a tio n o f rights language. Rights Today it is illegal to are a valid lens on abor­ a b o r tio n deny a woman an abor­ tion, but it is not the only lens.”

Last year 100,497 therapeutic tion. In 1988 the Mary Ann Glendon, abortions were perform ed in Supreme Court ruled the professor of law at Canada. Although Canada has one C rim inal Code statute H arvard U niversity, of the lowest abortion rates among unconstitutional on the wrote a book entitled developed countries, the number of grounds that it violated a Abortion and Divorce in abortions has been steadily increas­ woman’s right to liberty.

Western Law. Her opin­ ing since its m édicalisation in The following year, at the conclusion of the ion on the present state of 1969. the abortion controversy Prior to 1970, abortion was case launched by anti­ Abortion clinics: a result o f the liberalisation o f abortion laws Joe in the U.S. m irrored outlawed in the Criminal Code of abortionist Canada. Under legislative reform Borow ski, the Supreme Court province,” explained Dr. Paul limits are not set out of ethical Somerville’s. declared that “the foetus is not in Fornier, associate physician of concern but represent purely practi­ “In the U.S., coming to some law a ‘person’ entitled to protection gynecolegy and obstetrics the cal considerations. sort of sensible resolution regard­ T IR E D O F W A L K IN G under the constitution” . Later Royal Victoria Hospital.

“I am not aware of ethics com­ ing abortion has been prevented in attempts to pass new legislation “Standards are set by the mittees getting involved. The limits part by regarding it just as a rights U P T H E H IL L ? have failed.

Corporation of Physicians. Some of set by hospitals or clinics are set issue,” said Glendon. “The tension In the absence of federal law those standards include the restric­ according to pragmatic, and gener­ among the many competing inter­ Montreal Diocesan Theological tions on who can perform the pro­ ally technical co n siderations,” ests and values are not discussed.

College and Presbyterian PROJECT YOUR IMAGE WITH cedure and the type of set­ PROFESSIONAL WORD PROCESSING College each offer 41 nicelytings in which they can take Term papers furnished rooms in quiet place,” said Fornier.

M a n u s c rip ts “ I th in k i f w o m e n w e re tre a te d b e tte r as a w h o le , buildings at the corner of Although there is no Résum és legal limit to the timing of you could affo rd to have m o re concerns a ro u n d University and Milton. Meal C o v e r a n d b u siness Tetters abortions, the medical com­ plan included. Students from a b o rtio n . B u t th is is th e only w a y to give th e m E d itin g a n d tra n s la tio n s munity has set a lim it at all faculties may apply now for p o w e r. I t ’s a te rr ib ly sad, n e g a tiv e p o w e r to t a k e .”

T o p -q u a lity w o rk approxim ately 20 weeks September 1995 H ig h ly-e xp erien ced into pregnancy. The limit represents foetal viability, C o m p e titiv e rates CALL 8 4 9 *3004 (Dio) — M a r g a r e t S o m e rv ille , or the point at which the OR 2 8 8 -5 2 5 6 (PC) d ire c to r o f th e C e n tre o f M e d ic in e E th ic s a n d L a w DAK-TI-LO-DJK 696-4329 foetus has a chance of sur­ FOR REGISTRATION PACKAGE vival outside the womb, with medical support.

“The limit is actually deter­ affirmed Fornier.

We cannot get too careless about mined by weight. At 500 grams the “More advanced pregnancies how we determine when life begins I foetus becomes viable. This weight require more complex anaesthesia, and ends.” is generally attained at 20 weeks. proper pain relief and more com­ 9 5 Karol O’Brien, a health care Although there are a few cases plex procedure,” said Fornier. w orker at C entre Santé des where a baby was bom under that Dr. Samuel Solomon, a mem­ Femmes de M ontréal, believes weight such cases are rare. In effect ber of the M edical R esearch abortions are an integral part of the twenty week limit was a practi- Council of Canada and the original women’s health and, therefore an director of its Quebec chapter, clar­ indispensable part of their rights. ified the role of the medical com­ “The Supreme Court made a munity. decision that it was a wom an’s “The M edical Research right. So we don’t have debates on Council has produced position the rig h ts,” said O ’Brien. “We papers but it has never been com­ know medically, the foetus isn’t missioned by the government nor viable until 20 weeks. The issue has it made any legal recommenda­ doesn’t offend us because of that.

F O R 1 tions,” said Solomon.

What we need to work upon is con­ o n o u r “It is not up to a committee of traception.”

S O U V L A K I ethicists to determine the limits and R egulations on abortions s a n d w ic h (p ita ) restrictions to abortion. That lies increase when the foetus is consid­ within the perview of the legisla­ ered to be viable, at which point it If you are m issing any of the tures. Of course there are many begins to acquire rights accorded to 1 2 4 5 Ste-Catherine O. things involved and many factors “persons”. For Somerville, this lan­ above, then you should be have a role to play. Everyone has guage is an example of misleading (co rn er Mountain) calling yo u r G raduation an interpretation,” said Solomon. legal semantics.

Sun-Thurs 10am-12am “What the law says is or is not F ri-S a t 1am-3am S pecia lists a person is through special deci­ T h e la n g u a g e o f r ig h ts 8 4 4 - 9 3 0 9 sions made by the courts. But it is F R E E D E L IV E R Y !

While the medical and legisla­ confusing. After all, a corporation offer expires A pril 30/95 W S t u d io J o s t e n s P h o t o tive aspects of abortion are deeply is a person under the law too,” said divisive, nowhere are the disputes Somerville.

H t * 1 4 5 6 D r u m m o n d (corner de Maisonneuve) Glendon stated in an interview more heated than in the realm of ethics and rights. The pro-choice with Bill Moyers that putting this position advocates the availability issue exclusively in the hands of of abortion to women by prioritis­ ing the rights of the woman over See Abortion Page 12

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Human Life International...

Continued from Page 1 advocate violence, it does not con­ demn members who express more militant opinions in other, non-HLI media and publications.

In a press release dated December 30, 1994, HLI President Father Matthew Habiger spoke out against that day’s shootings and murders at two abortion centres in Brookline, Massachusetts. “As we have warned before, violence begets violence... perpetuating the violence won’t make it go away. The unborn children dying on the operating tables weren’t helped at all.”

On the other hand, in Life Advocate magazine (May 1993), Steven Prunder, director of HLI’s Ohio chapter, wrote that “lethal force will be the only reasonable action for some, and those of us who stood by and did nothing will have the least right to cast stones.”

On a Cleveland radio broadcast two years ago, Randall Terry, who will speak at the Montreal conven­ tion, spoke against a Colorado physician who was known to per­ form abortions. “I hope someday he is tried for his crim es against humanity, and I hope he is execut­ ed,” he said.

Michael Cooper of the New York Times quoted an anonymous law-enforcement officer as saying that “The people who publish these things never pull the trigger. Maybe they’re reaching out to the fringe, hoping the lunatics will do what they won’t do themselves.”

Burnett agreed. “They call us ‘murderers’, and that’s what incites people, especially unstable people — and off they go,” she said.

In their “Special Canadian R eport” (Document CR51), released January 1995, HLI defends

itself by claiming that, while no acts of violence can be traced directly back to them, pro-choice activists are responsible for the many deaths caused by abortions. They also argue that they are no more extreme in their views on abortion, homo­ sexuality, and “non-Catholics” than the Catholic Church itself, which has an estimated one billion mem­ bers.

In response, anti-HLI have accused HLI of concealing its full intentions from some of their mem­ bers who might only approve of a certain part of its mandate.

“There are Jews who are prochoice, and there are Jews who are pro-life. We can accept that there are Jewish members of the HLI who might not know of Marx’s writings.

We only want to stop this rhetoric and to denounce Rev. Marx for sin­ gling out Jews. Our mandate is not to support or denounce abortion.

This is why we’ve been reticent to take part in demonstrations, though

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we might take our own action at a later date,” said David Sultan, direc­ tor of communications relations of the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Stephen Scheinberg, Concordia professor and national vice-presi­ dent of B’nai Brith, defines two groups of otherwise ‘liberal’ people who partake in the activities of groups like HLI. “On one hand are people who are enlisted who are seriously engaged in anti-abortion cause, but not informed on the rest of the bag­ gage that comes with groups like HLI. On the other hand are people like Midge Decter, who is the editor of Commentary magazine. I’m pret­ ty sure she is well-informed; but she is covering up for political allies and ignoring the extrem ism involved.”

To combat HLI, groups like CARAL believe in taking political action. “[CARAL] and the [Canadian branch of the] Planned Parenthood Federation have alerted Immigration Canada. Some of these people, like Randall Terry have arrest records, and this should be taken into consideration. As for people like Paul Cameron, who had recommended that all homosexuals be castrated, we have hate laws which stop people from distributing hate literature,” said Burnett.

However, many anti-HLI groups have opted for activism through public exposure as opposed to legal action.

According to Scheinberg, B’nai Brith is waging an education­ al campaign. Not only do they dis­ tribute press releases on HLI, they are also planning on publishing a book called The Extreme Right, which examines the workings of HLI as well as other groups.

Dialogue: the salve for all wounds

Five years and one heated multiculturalism debate later, here I am trying to relate the things I have seen to what I think are feasible solutions. Seventy thousand dollars of university education has taught me that nothing is free, especially world-peace, harmony, and love between all peoples on this planet.

T w enty-three years ago, Canada tried to do just that. “...And whereas the Government of Canada recognises the diversity of Canadians as regards race, national or ethnic origin, colour and religion as a fundamental characteristic of Canadian society and is committed to a policy of m ulticulturalism designed to preserve and enhance the m ulticultural heritage of C anadians while working to achieve the equality of all Canadians in the economic, social, cultural and political life of Canada...”

Noble sentiments and all, it is safe to say that not all is quiet on the Canadian front. Francophones chafe against being labelled anoth­

er minority to be appeased. Native aboriginals claims for autonomy, theoretical and practical, are thwarted regularly. The number of immigrants in this country has risen in great leaps and bounds in the last ten years. Not to mention, their children. In the United States, racial tension has manifested itself in riots not seen in nearly thirty years.

While redresses are being and should be made for historical and social injustices, we seem to have lost sight of one thing we could all use a bit of: conversation.

As distance becomes less and less relevant, the conflicts we will face in a global society will be a result of overlapping cultures. The dialogue we will have to create will have to be as complex as those relationships that evolve out of them. This is not to say that all cul­ tures are different and therefore, the same. There are cases every­ where that show that the playing field is not level at all. But ranting about it is not enough. Like

Professor Tully said; “Imperialism doesn’t work anymore, but neither does tribalism.”

The language of individualism that has developed over the past two centuries has proven to be inadequate in an increasingly diverse society. “The rights are there and that’s all there ever need be” mentality is showing serious signs of wear and tear. A look at inner city dynamics in the States shows that it is on the verge of hurtling into mean and nasty dimensions that I would prefer to keep unexplored.

Some suggest a potent booster of community spirit to raise our tol­ erance threshold to an acceptable level. While this may help, I am sceptical of establishing a sense of collective responsibility on the ethic of individualism. The danger of speaking in a language that rec­ ognizes only a group of individuals is that you will become a people that can only think in terms of indi­ viduals. Making choices as individ­ uals make us the people we are; choices that we make together as society made us into the kind of society we are; In the end, making individualism the societal trump card is akin to pressing our own self-destruct button.

So, if there’s one thing we See Multiculturalism Page 12

A n ti-H LI action at M cGill On Thursday, SSMU Clubs rep Chris Carter will propose a m otion to o ffic ia lly condem n HLI by jo in in g the M cG ill Coalition, and by following in the footsteps of the W omen’s U n io n and LB G M by s ig n in g th e c o m m o n d e c la ra tio n released by the Montreal Coalition.

LBGM and the W om en’s Union have contributed funds for on-campus promotion and education.

Amy Rouillard, C oordinator of the McGill Coalition and LBGM rep to the Montreal Coalition, spoke of their plans for the April 19 demonstration.

“We w ant to police ourselves to keep things non-confrontational. The HLI is presenting us as child-killing m on­ sters,” she said. “W hile we can’t keep people from feeling angry, we still want to achieve a calm feeling. We want peo­ ple to bring their children. We want music playing.”

Though QPIRG and the Black Students’ Network have yet to take official action, th e ir m em bers have spoken out against HLI. ‘T h is organisation has many beliefs contrary to a liberal, socialist society which advocates the freedom of choice. That doesn’t mean that all of its arguments are flawed. Arguments should be addressed from both sides, but not in a way which is undemocratic,” said Jean-François Parent of QPIRG. “W e’ll be there,” assured Astrid Jacques, BSN political coordinator. “Quebec is fertile ground for right-wing Neo-Nazi groups. People don’t know what they want.”

“Our fear with prosecution is whether it gives groups more pub­ licity than they deserve. When you turn the light on, the cockroaches run,” said Scheinberg.

Chris Vogel, of the Winnipegbased Council on Homosexuality and Religion concurred. “Anti-hate legislation can be used, but you can­ not base that on a presumption,” he said. “People ought to be allowed to speak, and therefore be exposed for what they are. Then they can be condemned publicly. Sometimes with groups like these, being forced into the underground makes them that much more successful.”

Several anti-HLI activists have expressed optimism in fighting

HLI; for they believe that similar problems have been confronted and contended with before.

“These ideas have been around for a long time. The difference is that before, the world did not argue with them. Now people are,” said Vogel. “HLI is not a demonstration of right-wing growth, but an expres­ sion of ideas which was not neces­ sary before.”

“Not that they don’t have fol­ lowers, but I’m pretty confident that most Canadians would not be inter­ ested,” stressed Scheinberg.

“We like to believe that in Canada, tolerance and diversity is an overwhelming force,” Burnett agreed.

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Unravelling the sock conspiracy... more than a puppet show • Socks. Every week thousands go missing and M c G ill students are left scratching their heads. Is it a conspira­ cy o r an epidemic? The Tribune decided to do an inves­ tigative report in hopes that we could unravel this mindboggling caper.

Andy Alpart Medicine, Fourth year They go to Boston, Massachusetts. They would come here, but there are always so many hassles at the border and New York is kind of scummy.

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Cletus Chausette U3 North American Sock Studies

David Bushnell U2 English My socks don’t disappear; my clothing fears and respects me. They know that to betray me would be to bring my wrath upon them.

It’s tragic really. I can tell you many a tale of socks that have gathered enough courage to finally flee their stinky oppressors only to be kidnapped by Uruguayan crafts people. They are then unravelled and woven into sweaters and mittens that are later sold on St. Laurent.

Nina Steger U2 Drama

David Perera U1 Electrical Engineering

The filter in my dryer has a vacuum in it and it sucks them up and spits them out somewhere in the mid­ dle of Montreal. They are deposited in the single sock grave yard.

Every time we forget the fabric softener, the half life of the carbon 14 in our socks is drastically reduced to the drying time within the dryer. But if you don’t wash them, your socks could turn into carbon 12, and then they’re radioactive.

Alexander McHattie U3 Political Science and History

John Roos U3 Anthropology They go to the sock god, he’s one of those little crea­ tures that inhabit the earth. I’ve seen him a few times after having consumed a lot of alcohol.

I seriously believe that there is an insane person who is stealing our socks. Somewhere there is a secret sock ware­ house. I was approached once by a sock thief who wanted me to help steal socks. It was for a top-secret CIA weapon.

Depending on the strength of the foot odours it could be very lethal.

Jana Sinyor U1 Freshman Arts

Sonia Caltvedt U2 Humanistic Studies

Jennifer Lewis has been spotted suspiciously mulling about in the laundry room in RVC. Also her bizarre eating habits are very well known. I wouldn’t be surprised if she is eating our socks. I’ve lost three pairs of socks this semester and it’s really starting to bother me.

I’ve been wondering about where they go for a really long time. Maybe they just can’t take it anymore; getting stomped on all day and just run for it. You know maybe my superinten­ dent takes them — he doesn’t always match.

Chris Studnicki-Gizbert U2 Philosophy At the Laundromat there’s this woman who works there. She never gives me change; instead, she just looks at me real surly-like. Then when I go out for a smoke she goes in the machine and steals my socks. I’m sure of it. I never lose my socks at home.

Jen Hendrix and Kaleigh O'Brien Ul Freshman Arts and U2 English The dryer is actually a portal to another dimension because socks are the key to why the universe was created.

The fabric of time is actually made out of the fibres of miss­ ing socks; work socks in particular. We don’t know if time is linear or undulating, but it is made out of socks.

Abortion...

Continued from Page 10 courts has damaged the dialogue around abortion in the U.S. In her research, Glendon examined abortion statutes in Europe where she believes greater legal and social strides have been made. For her, the difference lies in the way Americans as a society view individual and collective responsibilities.

“Not only is there disregard for the value of human life in the first six months, but also there is a relative indifference to alternatives to abortion, such as providing maternity benefits, parental leave, child care allowances, and daycare.... It’s almost as if there is a disdain for dependency,” she said. “[In Europe] a young woman knows that if she carries a pregnancy to H 1h 1 1[ i f n 111 * i l ,> vfi »*i i f t s i l l n I f i t n

Still spitting... term, she is not going to be left out there alone in the wilderness, so to speak.”

Somerville was adamant about the dangers of masking the complexity of this issue at a governmental and personal level.

“You have to look at some sort of human commu­ nity but you can’t put the public good over the good of woman. We have to still uphold the sanctity of life,” said Somerville. “I think there should be a federal law but I have serious misgivings about it. We have to be very, very careful.”

“I think if women were treated better as a whole, you could afford to have more concerns around abor­ tion. But this is the only way to give them power. It’s a terribly sad, negative power to take,” said Somerville.

Continued from Page 11 need, it’s conversation. As cultures within Canada come into more fre­ quent contact with one another, the ideas behind multiculturalism are going to have to change. The rea­ son why Americans consider their 200 year-old Constitution to be an ivory tower of unimpeachable wis­ dom is beyond me. It is no surprise that their notion of individual rights has evolved at such a snail’s pace.

W hile the C onstitution has admirably preserved many basic

freedoms, our ability add or change the perspectives of those freedoms has been lost.

Those freedoms are the back­ bone of m ulticulturalism . To ensure that those freedoms in the act are properly maintained entails a fundamental understanding that multiculturalism cannot be a static concept. Changing requires doing what is considered to be a staple of human existence: talking. Brushing shoulders with all types is going to become a fact of life — whether you like it or not.

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E N T E R T A IN M E N T Putting the full-court press on the Archers of Loaf B y Sue G lover

On S atu rd ay , M arch 25, Weezer played a sold out show at the Spectrum. Most of the kids w ere there for them , and few had heard of the opening act, North Carolina’s Archers of Loaf.

In th eir w ellplay ed but too short set, the four Archers laid out their distinctive sound with deter­ mination but not much zip, p er­ haps recognising that the rath er listless b o d y ­ passin g was going on ju st to fill in time before W eezer played.

As anyone with h a lf an ear can tell, the Archers m usically blow Weezer out of the water, so I fol­ lowed them after soundcheck in search of an interview.

We w ent next door to an empty bar where the band mem­ bers were avidly watching the Kentucky-North Carolina basket­ ball game to determine who was going to the NCAA Final Four.

Eric Johnson, the Archer’s non­ singing guitarist, graciously yet distractedly answered my ques­ tions during halftime. As he said, “I can watch and still pay atten­

tion to you at the same time.”

Because I’ve been wondering this since I heard about the show, I first asked him why they are opening for Weezer.

“It’s sort of a promotional tour to try to get mass exposure, because we haven’t really had an y ,” he said. “Even though w e’ve only put out one record, w e’ve always done headlining tours in small clubs. It’s not really that we want big audiences, but we want people to know we exist — no one even know s w e ’re around.”

“I don’t like this as much as I like the clubs, nowhere near as much, but it’s okay. One thing is,

CKIJT shakes on down to University Street B y T yla B erchtold

March 30, 3 p.m. marks the start o f C K U T ’s sixth annual funding drive. The financial goal is $60,000 and the drive will go on for 24 hours a day for ten straight days, ending at midnight on April 9. The drive is appropri­ ately called ‘Room to Groove’, as CKUT is expanding and prepar­ ing to move to a new location on University Street.

F u n d raisin g co -o rd in ato r Susan K ennard ex p lain ed the magnitude of the change. “W e’re moving from CKUT to a bigger studio. We’ve been here for eight years and w e’ve outgrown our space,” she said. “There’s better facilities [at the new studio] so w e’re hoping our programming will improve and we’ll be much more accessible to the communi­ ty. But, w e’re going from free rent to expensive rent so we need the money now more than ever.”

CKUT is a non-profit organi­ sation, run almost entirely by vol­

unteers. It relies on it’s funding from M cG ill, sponsors and fu n d raisin g . The fu n d raisin g aspect is im p o rtan t not only financially, but also due to the fact that CKUT’s license with the Canadian Radio and Television Committee (CRTC) is conditional upon the radio station dem on­ strating that they have a substan­ tial listening audience both in and around M cG ill. As a result of both of these, CKUT has called on all its volunteers to manage the drive.

“I t ’s a m assive v o lu n teer effort. There will be at least ten volunteers in the office 24 hours a day,” she said. “Thousands of volunteer hours are being put into this.”

It looks as though it may be well worth the effort. CKUT has thousands of CD’s and T-shirts to give away and is also offering various incentives. For example, anyone who pledges $25 or more is eligible to win one of six grand See CKUT Page 14

the merchandise is marked way up, because we’re not allowed to undersell the headlining band, so we have to sell our stuff for the same price as them. W e’re not selling as much of our stu ff as when w e ’re alone, but we’re mak­ ing a bigger profit, which I think is kind of lame. The music busi­ ness is ju st like any other business; i t ’s sickening sometimes.”

He leaned forward and spoke directly into the tape recorder: “R eader, if y o u ’re bummed that we didn’t com e alone, d o n ’t worry, w e’ll be back soon. We tour all the time.”

W hen asked if they are being accept­ ed by the Weezer fans, he nodded but looked surprised about it. “It’s pretty w eird — they slam-dance even dur­ ing the slow songs, but they’re good audiences.” His attention strayed to the screen. “ Hey! Virginia made it!”

On the small Alias label, the

at him in disbelief. “It was just a coincidence. And there are some rocking songs on Vee Vee, just not as m any. I t ’s m ore like, you know, a pot-smoking album.”

I asked Johnson how he would characterise the Archers sound: “G angsta P o lk a ,” he answered, but refused to elabo­ rate.

For those who have never heard them, their music is an intri­ cate pattern of guitars and bass, with odd sounds thrown in for effect. Lead singer and guitarist E ric B achm ann’s im possibly raspy voice sounds as if the other band members feed him ground glass and cigarettes.

“He takes care of the ciga­ rettes h im self,” said Johnson.

“Som etim es we shove ground glass down his throat, but we wait until he’s really drunk and passed out so he won’t know.”

I finally let him go back to watching the game, which thank­ fully ended with a win for the North Carolina Tarheels.

“Does this mean you guys are going to have a good show?” I asked the elated Archers as they ja u n te d next door to the Spectrum.

“Yeah, we will for sure now.”

Archers released their first fulllength, called Icky M ettle, then the A rch ers o f L o a f vs the Greatest o f All Time EP, and now have a new album, Vee Vee. Why the EP in betw een the two albums?

“Just for fun. We had written all the songs, but we w eren ’t ready to record a full album, but we had these songs, so we just put them out on Vs, and that gave us time to concentrate on the fulllength and meanwhile gave our fans a little something to listen to before the big one came out.”

Rightfully proud of Vee Vee, the Archers have been touring to support it for a number of weeks, only hooking up with Weezer two weeks ago.

“E ric, look at th is ,” said drummer Mark Price excitedly.

“Did you see him grab his throat?”

“Yeah, I saw it... okay, I’m back.” Johnson wrenched his eyes away from the game and patiently waited for my next question. I commented that the new album seems to be, on the whole, slower than Icky M ettle. “Yeah, it is; we’re getting old, you know, mel­ lowing out... no, I’m just joking about that,” he said after I looked

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nator Sean Gurd, when asked what audience mem­ bers can expect. Extra effort was made to allow Spring is in the air; the mercury climbs ever each “performer”, as Gurd dubbed them, to tailor higher up the therm om eter while the blackened the reading to his or her own personal vision of foothills of snow disappear (revealing all sorts of expression. Little directorial input was necessary. obscenities on the ground beneath). And those of us What’s more, it was unwanted.

Significant in the thrust behind this ambitious who are adventurous enough will watch what will hopefully become another springtime tradition on undertaking was a sentiment echoed by everyone the Tribune spoke with: that campus, as frustrated writers going to a poetry reading can emerge from creative hiber­ “In a w o rld becom ing be a frankly alienating experi­ nation to take the stage at e n g u lfed by e -m a il a n d the ence. A prose reading is no M c G ill’s first L iterary in te r n e t, th e a rts a re faced piece of cake either. Listening Festival, organised in con­ to som eone atop a barren , w it h th e task o f re n e g o tia t­ ju n ctio n with the literary badly-lit stage of some sort, publication Montage, which in g th e ir p lac e in it.” drone on and on about how is sponsored by the English the death of their cat changed department.

— D a v id Bezm ozgis, th eir life and led them to It’s not called a festival for nothing. Though images fe s tiv a l c o o rd in ato r finally make peace with their Inner Child (really, it did), is of sto ck in g -cla d S hakes­ pearean actors reciting King Lear are immediately not enjoyable, but exhausting. The m ulti-m edia brought to mind, the organisers had a reason for approach of the festival hopes to establish a stronger using this rather dated word. The festival will pre­ bond between stage and audience, minus the input sent a selection of poetry and prose readings per­ (more often, interference) of a director. “Hopefully formed by thirteen students, with the featured pieces we can lose the audience-alienation factor [by shift­ to be published in the forthcom ing edition of ing] the onus back onto the writer...to just get the Montage. In a sense, the performers will be like stuff out there,” said Gurd.

William Keefer will read two of his poems at actors reciting lines in a staged drama — with the help of sound effects, film, slides, overheads, light­ the festival. He told the Tribune that he plans to ing, and other theatrical effects. This is multi-media incorporate slides displaying “key words and ideas” kids, and it’s as close to interactive literature as as well as music into his reading to underscore the meaning of his poems for the audience. Otherwise, you’re going to get.

“We wanted to prove that the written word can Keefer remarked, “a lot of times it just goes over be presented in alternative mediums... We don’t your head.” Any student who has attended a lecture want the usual set-up of perform er/listener. We anywhere on this campus can surely relate.

M ontage co-editor and festival coordinator want people to feel that they are being personally addressed by the performer,” said Montage co-edi­ David Bezmozgis originated the idea of the festival in the first place. He felt that it was an important tor and festival coordinator Samantha Lawrie.

“Imagine a play where every single scene is step to take. After all, he observed, drama and film written by the main actor,” replied festival coordiSee Literary Page 15 B y M elanie R utledge

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Furnaceface will make you happy B y H arris N ewman

Once again, Montreal’s own Grim Skunk, fuzz boxes and vaporisers in hand, are preparing yet another Can-Con festival of all things rock. Joining Grim Skunk this time out are Toronto’s Project 9, a frenetic, fast-action and highly flammable funk rock crew (known to invoke memories of Fishbone on 45), Vancouver’s gurus of metal­ lic-in d u strial buzz Econoline Crush, and Ottawa’s furnaceface.

Furnaceface bassist and vocalist Tom Stewart spoke with Tribune about their upcoming exploits.

Their most recent album, this will make you happy, has been out in Canada for several moons, and the crew is in preparation for its upcoming U.S. release. Having put out their earlier albums on their own label, One Handed Records (distributed through Cargo), fur­ naceface was accustom ed to a hands-on approach. “One Handed Records is a collective label in Ottawa, sort of along the lines of

Touch & Go and D ischord,” explained Stewart.

For this will make you happy, the band decided to sign directly with Cargo. “We were in a situa­ tion where we probably could have signed to A & M or W arner or MCA, but we just felt that we were very com fortable with Cargo.

They’d done a great job as our dis­ tribution com pany [for earlier releases] and they’ve been great as our record company,” said Stewart.

Stewart, who is joined by gui­ tarist and vocalist Pat Banister, drummer Dave Dudley, and keyboardist/sampler/guitarist/kitchen sinkist Marty Jones, are veterans of C anada’s music scene. “W e’ve been a band for about five years now, and our tour in May will be either our eighth or ninth,” said Stewart.

The group’s constant efforts to help support fellow musicians have best been dem onstrated by Ottawa’s annual Furnacefest. “It’s a full day festival with usually about ten or eleven bands, and it

goes ‘out-of-town band’, ‘local band’, ‘out-of-town band’, ‘local ban d ’ all day...W e’ve done [Furnacefest] two years in a row, and its been a big success both y ears.” Plans for a third Furnacefest sometime at the end of summer are in the works.

In the m eantim e you can quench your burning desires at the M etro­ polis this Friday, where they’ll be per­ form ing under ideal circum ­ stances. “We’re coming to play with the greatest band in the world, Grim S k u n k ...O u r bands get along really well, we like them a lot.”

Touting a rich blend of slappy, happy

funk-based fuzz rock, furnaceface never fail to amuse with their high energy, oft-danceable music for the many. Stewart has no regrets about the years of dedication and hard work that have brought them where they are today, “furnaceface is the band I’ve always wanted. It’s been so much fun and such a riot,

always progressing onwards and upwards.”

Grim Skunk, fu rn aceface, Econoline Crush and Project 9 shake the Metropolis on Friday March 31, to the tune o f an all­ ages, $10, 7 p.m. blowout extrava­ ganza.

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The practical elements of the cultural studies department, such as active film and video making, seem to be in grave d an g er o f d isa p p e a rin g . The M cG ill Student Film and Video Festival is one of the only bright lights in a virtually black future. According to Malve Petersmann, the festival coordinator, next year there will be only one workshop course offered for the entire English department despite a great deal of student interest.

The Film and V ideo F estival will hopefully indicate that w ithin M cGill there is a great deal of interest in the prac­ tical aspects of cultural studies, especially in film and v ideo. T he c o o rd in a to rs expect a show of approxim ately thirtysome film s and videos by M cGill stu­ dents. These films are class projects or individual films made during the artists’ free time. The festival spotlights not only the class work of English students but architecture lighting projects as well.

The Festival, says Petersmann, is an opportunity for these amateur film makers to get together, talk and critique each other’s projects.

Last year’s festival produced the likes of A Man and His Log by Rob Arber which has been present­ ed in both the Chicago Film Festival and the New York Underground Film Festival, showing us the potential that M cGill students have in the film world.

The departm ent as it is now has m inim al equipment to work with and there are no courses to train students to use the existing gear. Often stu­ dents have to learn through trial and error; howev­ er, many of the films presented counter this by pre­ senting a collage of various films found in the McGill film archives rather than introducing new footage. Petersmann herself presents a very notable short film called Tintinbulation, a collage of old films accompanied by a voice over.

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Continued from Page 13 prizes. These prizes include a flight to Paris for two, courtesy of Mondial Tours, and a $500.00 gift cer­ tificate at the McGill Bookstore.

Last year’s drive raised $51,000 for CKUT and Kennard is hopeful that this year will see similar results.

“It’s a lot of money to raise but because of the move, I think that the listening community is going to respond.”

The CKUT fundraiser pledge line is 398-8991.

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L’ailleurs d’ici : La Course Destination-Monde mettre épisodiquement les bribes d ’un voyage duquel ils sont les seuls à ré e lle m e n t sa isir l’ampleur, et encore... Pas un des concurrents n ’arrive à vraiment définir La Course; elle flotte avec l’impression quasi incontournable qu’ils ont d’avoir un peu volé les moments, d’avoir à quelque part

Par G enevieve Emond

Partir. Partir avec l’illusion d’une vérité à trouver. Partir pour s a tis fa ire son en v ie de faire bouger le monde et de se remplir la tête d ’hum anité. P artir tout simplement pour changer d ’air, en traversant la vie en grand coup de vent.

Ils so n t p o u rta n t revenus, d epuis peu, les h u it c o n c u rre n ts de La Course Destination-Monde.

Ils ont accomplis un travail colossal pour finalem ent nous livrer leurs derniers re p o rta g e s en stu d io ce soir. Voilà déjà sept mois q u ’ils fo n t v ib rer le Québec, qu’ils surprennent, dérangent, enchantent les téléspectateurs. Je me suis m êm e su rp rise à v e rse r q u elq u es larm es aujourd’hui, en proie à ce terrible hypnotisme média­ tique qui rend “nos” con­ cu rren ts p re sq u e am is, Les multiples visages de la course presque palpables parfois.

La Course, c ’est huit personnalités colorées, foncière­ peut être un peu trahi leur pas­ ment différentes qui, semaines sion. “La Course, c’est un con­ après sem aines, nous dévoilent cours de circonstances, c ’est un leurs âmes en essayant de trans­ ag en cem en t de h a sa rd s.” dit

Literary...

François Prévost, grand gagnant de l’édition 1994-95.

“E lle est surtout extrêm e­ ment superficielle" ajoute Hugo Latulippe, qui concluait à l’écran un peu plus tôt avec “ J ’étais l ’océan, je voulais seulem ent toucher ton pied.”

“La Course, c’est essayer de

prendre pleins de morceaux de gâteau pour en faire un seul qui a d ’I’a llu re !” ren ch érit R icardo Trogi. C ’est le cas de le dire,

at McGill have been well repre­ sented for years, each with annu­ al festivals o f their own. But B ezm ozgis is also looking ahead, and n o tes th e strong “technological com ponent” of the event. In a world becoming engulfed by e-mail and the inter­ net, the arts are faced with the task of re-negotiating their place in it. B ezm ozgis h opes the multi-media approach of the fes­ tival will pay off, and garner poetry and prose reading a larger and m ore v aried au d ien ce because of it. Still, his highest aspiration remains “to try and get a very intimate atmosphere that does not detract from the w orks.” U ndoubtedly a tough b alan ce to strik e, b u t surely worth the effort.

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Applications are now being accepted for the Moyse Travelling Scholarship. One scholarship for distinction will be awarded to a student in the Faculty of Arts. The scholarship is intended to support a year of advanced study, preferably in a British or European university.

Value: $8,000-$ 12,000 Deadline: April 7,1995 Application instructions and full details of the scholarships are available from Dawson Hall, Room 21 IB or Room 216

Congratulations to the editorial board of next year’s McGill Tribune Editor-in-Chief Assistant Editors-in-Chief

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S A D I E 'S T A B A G IE The Students' Society of McGill University is seeking a student to take on the responsibility for the oepration of the three Sadie's Tabagie locations on the McGill Campus. The ideal candidate will possess experience in retail management including, but not limited to, the control of stock, staffing, as well as the ability to develop and coordinate marketing efforts. The position will require a minimum of 35 hours of work per week for a full year term; the candidate should consider her/his course load accordingly. Remuneration will be a combination of annual salary and commission.

Bilingualism is an asset. Curriculum Vitaes should be received by the undersigned no later than April 13, 1995.

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l ’o u v ertu re du Q uébec su r la p lanète,” dit François Prévost.

“M ais, a jo u te -t-il en un clin d’oeil, je vois toujours le Québec comme un visage qui essaie de s ’ex p rim er avec les yeux par terre, un visage qui essaie de dire un magnifique poème, mais avec la main devant la bouche.” En se ré fé ra n t à son d e rn ie r film , Visages, où il disait: “j ’ai visité une planète, j ’ai rencontré son visage.”

Les c o n c u rre n ts de La C o u rse ne p eu v e n t pas être résu m er sur p a p ie r de façon adéquate. On les laissera enfin nous raconter leur expérience, p o u r une p re m iè re fo is ce tte année, lors de quatres émissionsbilans présentées à Radio-Canada les jeudis d ’avril. En attendant, ils seront tous présents, livrés à leur public avide, lors du gala de La Course Destination Monde, le dimanche 2 avril prochain à 19 heures. L’ailleurs n’a pas détruit l ’ici, bien heureusem ent, parce qu’il fallait après tout un peu par­ tir pour... revenir. Présentement, le recrutement des nouveaux con­ cu rren ts b at son p lein ; on a ju sq u ’au 18 avril pour le dépôt des dossiers. Avis aux idéalistesintéressés.

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ratisser le monde aussi vite laisse sur sa faim.

Pendant ce temps, le Québec n ’a pas changé, les concurrents non plus.

“J ’ai peut être juste changé un petit peu en intensité” finit par dire François.

“La vie est un fouillis travail­ lé par des passions [F.Leclerc]; la cam éra d ev ien t un o b stacle immense à la transmission de ces passion s,” continue-t-il. Bien év id em m en t que l ’oeil par intérim des co n cu rren ts vient brimer leur soif de transmission de la vérité; voilà pourquoi il faut redoubler d ’intensité et d’ardeur.

Le m arathon les au ra à peine assoiffé. Reste un peu partout au coin des yeux, la flamme de ceux qui avancent constamment, peu importe la direction.

En quelques m ois, ils sont soudainement devenus beaucoup: pour le Q uébec (leu r p u b lic), pour la g én é ratio n m o n tante, mais surtout pour eux-m êm es.

Quoi qu’on en dise, La Course c’est tout de même l ’apport cul­ turel au pays d ’une je u n esse vibrante et terriblement motivée.

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The Tribune Male & Female Athletes o f the Year are recognised on the basis o f individual athletic achievement and outstanding distinction in bring­ ing media attention to the various athletic programs, clubs and teams at M cG ill over the 1994-95 season.

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A fifth-year soccer standout and team captain from Washington, D.C., Chris Drysdale ended his career as one of the best-ever to play at McGill. The defending Tribune male Athlete of the Year for the past two years-running( 1992-93, 93-94), Drysdale earned first team AllCanadian honours as well as a Quebec University Soccer League first team All-star spot. He led his team in scoring for the third time in the past four years even though he played defense and missed two games with sprained ligaments.

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The 5’ 6” wideout, hailing from London, Ontario, was awarded the C1AU Russ Jackson Trophy, awarded to the top football player in the country, who displays excellence in academics and community involvement. He also earned the O-QIFC’s Most Outstanding Player award for the 1994 season. Earlier, Papp established a Redmen single game reception record with 13 catches, 212 yards and two touchdowns in McGill's 34-33 victory over Concordia in the Shrine Bowl.

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In her fifth and final season with McGill, Thyer attained AllCanadian status in both cross-country and track and field. The native of Nelson, B.C. struck gold twice this past season at the national level, once at the cross-country championships in London, Ontario and again in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the 3000m track event. Thyer was undefeated against CIAU opponents in all five of her cross-country races this year.

She won three golds at the QSSF championships and garnered two CIAU Athlete of the Week honours', as well as three QSSF Athlete of the Week awards during the 1994-1995 campaign.

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Todd Savage led the newly formed Redbirds baseball team to the firstever Canadian Interuniversity Baseball Association championship title.

He was named league MVP, and led the team in home runs, triples, and slugging percentage. The second year management centrefielder led the team in batting average (.340), runs (10), hits (11), and RBIs (13). His best single game performance came in a 6-3 win over Durham. In that game he went 4-for-4, with a home run and two doubles.

In her second year with the M artlets, 5 ’ 9” forward Anne Gildenhuys was named second-team all-star in the QUBL. Gildenhuys led the league in shooting percentage(62.2%), and was second in team rebounding and team scoring. She won two consecutive Player of the Game honours at the national championships in Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Gildenhuys registered season-high 26 and 28 point totals in games against Memorial University and the U. of Victoria in leading her team to the consolation final victory at the Nationals.

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Instrumental in McGill’s Cinderella-run in the playoffs, Guy Boucher notched the winning goal with eight seconds remaining in a 2-1 win over Université du Québec à Trois Rivières in the opening game of the series. The fourth-year captain led the team with 70 points in 42 games (22 goals and 48 assists). He was also named an OUAA Eastern Conference All-star for a second consecutive season. He finished his career for the Redmen with 17 multi-point games, including five fourpoint games, and one five-assist game.

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A native of the West Island of Montreal, Julia Maughan not only led the Martlets, but also the QUSL in scoring, with 14 goals in 16 games. Maughan was named the QUSL Most Valuable Player for the 1994-1995 season while becoming the Martlet soccer team’s all-time leading scorer. The fourth-year striker was recognized as QSSF Athlete of the Week, a Molson Cup Player of the Month, and a CIAU Academic All-Canadian before crowning her achievements with a CIAU first-team All-Canadian award at the end of the season.

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McGill’s answer to Bo Jackson, Sikaneta was the first player in two decades to play both offence and defence for the football team. He also played an integral role on the track team. The native from Zambia quali­ fied for five events at the CLAU track and field national championships, and won the bronze medal in the 600m. He was the football team’s third leading rusher in total yardage, averaging 10.7 yards per carry. He was the recipient of the Northern Telecom-Charlie Baillie Trophy as foot­ ball’s best team player.

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After returning from a season-ending knee injury sustained in the 1993-94 campaign, Vicki Tessier resumed play with the Martlets in her third season this year. Tessier was named the QUBL Most Valuable Player while leading the league in scoring with 15.6 points per game.

She reached double figures in scoring 13 times throughout the year and in rebounding on seven occasions. She amassed a career-high 29 points and 12 rebounds in a 70-69 overtime regular season win over Con. U, and was also named a CIAU second-team All-Canadian.

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Affectionately known as ‘Wooz’ to his teammates, the second year for­ ward from Hamiltion, Ontario led the league in rebounding average (9.2/game), defensive rebounds (65), free throws made (53), and finished second in offensive rebounds (36). An all-conference first team All-star and All-Canadian nominee, Wozney led the team in scoring average and was tenth in the nation in field-goal shooting (61.8%). Wozney ended his season in the last game of the playoffs when he fractured his cheekbone in the opening minute of the match. In the following week, he underwent double surgery for a hernia and the facial injury.

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McGill’s Dougall Molson: a little romance, law and badminton B y M ila A un g -T hwin

In the running for the 1995 Stuart Forbes Trophy as McGill’s Male Athlete of the Year, is bad­ minton player Dougall Molson. A standout student in the Faculty of Law as well as in com petition, Molson is a paradigm of the stu­ dent-athlete. The nom ination is the latest accomplishment in what is a series o f in terco n tin en tal achievements for Molson.

A nativ e o f V ancouver, Molson first started playing bad­ m inton at age ten w ith the V an co u v er R acquet C lub. He gives credit to his former coach at the Club, Abdul Shaikh, for get­ ting him interested in the sport.

Shaikh was the most influential person during Molson’s develop­ ing years, guiding him in the sport for a decade.

While attending St. George’s High in Vancouver, his school team was provincial champion.

M eanw hile, M olson was also winning junior titles with the city club, and becom ing one of the best junior players in Canada. At the rate he was progressing, the next lo g ical step for M olson w ould be co m p etitio n at the international level.

D espite his success in the sport, in 1989 Molson took a hard look at his future and decided that he could not commit the neces­ sary time to move up to the next level.

“I decided that there were predictably, led the team to the member of the Canadian Council o th er things in life. I ’d had national championship. Wherever for Refugees, in conjunction with enough of training 20-25 hours a he travels, Molson just can’t seem the faculty of law.

When asked if he found it week,” he said. “I decided that to to escape badminton or success.

His good fortune has contin­ difficult balancing the demands of move onto the next level, I’d have ued at McGill. This year he was a badm inton training and school to take it seriously, or cut it out.”

Molson stopped competing in double g o ld -m e d a llist in the w ork, M olson replied that the badminton completely, concen­ Quebec Student Sport Federation opposite was true. trating on his studies at U n iv ersity o f B ritish Columbia. After finish­ ing his B.A. in econom­ ics in 1991, Molson was u n d ecided about his future plans. Answering the call of the adventur­ er, he ended up in Mexico, where he met a French woman. Molson did not rev eal any d etails about his romance, but did reveal that his plotted course changed somewhat.

“W ell, I ended up follow ing her back to France,” he said.

M olson’s sojourn away from badm inton reads like a screenplay There’s nothing halfway about it, Molson says it all. of a film in which the “Badminton totally helps my lead roles could be played by playoffs. Molson won the singles Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy. competition and captured the dou­ school work. Balance is the key: The trip abroad, however, did not bles title with teammate Bruno it forces me to be organised,” he mean abandoning the sport alto­ Dion, the highest achievement in said.

As his former coach, Shaikh QSSF badminton. He is the first gether.

“I brought my racket with me M cG ill badm inton p lay er to was Molson’s mentor in his earli­ hoping it w ould help me meet achieve this distinction. At the er years, at M cGill it is coach same time, he is on the D ean’s Frank McCarthy who now plays people,” claimed Molson.

Molson became the coach of List in the Faculty of Law. He is Mr. Myiagi to M cG ill’s Karate the Stella-St.Maur club team, and, also a student advocate, and a Kid.

“Frank is a big reason I keep on playing. He creates a good atmosphere for the team, and we have a good cohesive group,” he said.

Since playing badminton at the university level requires at least 6-7 years of prior commit­ ment to the sport, McCarthy takes no credit for Molson’s skill level.

“All I can do is take what skills he had before, and try to bring them out a g a in ,” said McCarthy.

As a coach at the university level, M cCarthy feels strongly that it is essential to balance both sides of the student-athlete.

“In the context of a student a th le te ,” said M cC arthy, “[Molson] is an outstanding indi­ vidual.”

Molson was “surprised and flattered” at the nomination for A thlete of the Year. He spoke more of the recognition of the sport of badm inton than of his own nomination, however. This is an indication of the lack of sup­ p ort w hich badm inton has received at McGill.

Despite being in law school, M olson’s future plans are still undecided. Badminton might play a big part in his future, or it just as soon may not. But if his past is to be any indication, it is doubtful that he will ever walk away from the sport for good, and his racket w ill again accom pany him in future travels.

Athletics announces awards nominees Martlet hockey lacks key element for playoffs B y A llana H enderson

It’s been a busy year in sports at McGill.

The introduction of a new varsity pennant-win­ ning baseball team, a revived women’s volleyball program, a never-say-die football season, national championship performances by the women’s soccer and basketball teams, the development of a state-ofthe-art track and field facility, numerous records broken by cross-country and track runners en route to winning the quadruple crown of provincial titles in both the men’s and women’s categories in each sport, a Redmen basketball win over Concordia for the first time in five years, and a silver-medal per­ formance by swimmers in the national synchro championships are all evidence of an action-packed year, and that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

Once again it’s time to look back at eight months of blood, sweat and tears, to remember the good times and to try to leave the bad ones behind, to congratulate on success and to learn from disap­ pointment. It’s time to honour the people who make up the teams and the coaches who lead them along the way. But, more im portantly, i t ’s tim e for M cGill’s student-athletes to forget about eating “carbo” meals the night before, to blow -off the thought of practice the day after, and to celebrate all that they have accom plished in their respective sports.

The E ig h teen th A nnual A thletics A ward Banquet will be held Friday night at the Delta Hotel, signifying the culmination of the 1994-95 year in McGill sports.

Five major awards will be given out in addition to the naming of the Most Valuable Players from each individual team.

The Gladys Bean Award is given to the Martlet who has brought most credit to the University by her athletic achievement. Nominated in this catego­ ry for Female Athlete of the Year are CI AU 50m sprint g o ld-m edallist and A ll-C anadian Carol

Chiang (swimming), undefeated runner and twosport All-Canadian Linda Thyer (cross-country run­ ning and track), CIAU Rookie of the Year and QSSF All-Star Anie de la Fontaine (volleyball), QUSL M ost V aluable P layer and CIAU AllC anadian Julia M aughan (soccer), and QUBL league top-scorer and CIAU All-Canadian Vicky Tessier (basketball).

The Male Athlete of the Year is awarded the M ajor D. Stuart Forbes Trophy, honouring the Redm an who has brought m ost cred it to the University through athletic achievement. Competing for the trophy are CIBA Most Valuable Player Todd Savage (baseball), QUSL All-Star and All-Canadian Chris Drysdale (soccer), QSSF All-Star and provin­ cial relay gold-medallist Léo Grépin (swimming), double gold-medallist in men’s singles and doubles Dougall Molson (badminton), and O-QIFC Most Outstanding Player and Hec Crighton Trophy nomi­ nee Steve Papp (football).

The third major award to be handed out is the Muriel V. Roscoe Award honouring the Martlet in her final or graduating year who has shown profi­ ciency and leadership in sport. The nominees for the Roscoe trophy include Charlotte Daughney (rugby), Sheila Huang (volleyball), and Maryam Maoeri (volleyball).

The Richard Pound Trophy honours the male who has demonstrated leadership and proficiency in athletics at McGill. Among the nominees are Todd McDougall (basketball), Papp, Guy Boucher (hock­ ey), Sam Lupton (rugby), and Drysdale.

The final major award will be given to the 1994-95 Team of the Year. In the running for the aw ard are M artlet basketball, M artlet soccer, Redbirds baseball, M artlet swimming, Redmen cross-country, Martlet cross-country, Martlet track and field, and Redmen track and field.

While the best candidates will walk away win­ ners, all deserve the utmost of respect and admira­ tion for their accomplishments.

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The playoffs: a time to forget the regular season, live by super­ stition, sport bad goatees, and to endure long, in ten se p ractices preparing for the upcoming foe.

The problem for the p lay o ff Martlets, however, as they head into the league consolation finals this Saturday, is that they find themselves in the unenviable posi­ tion of being a team w ithout a home.

The Martlets’ longer hockey schedule this season in their new league, coupled with their playoff success in recen t wins over Gauloises and A. Roy Sport, has extended the Martlets’ season into April for the first time in recent memory. The problem that stems from the club’s success is that the athletics departm ent’s facilities office set March 27 as the date for beginning the process of melting the ice at M cC onnell W inter Arena. This leaves the M artlets without an ice surface on which to practice this week, arguably the most crucial week of their season.

Diane Ryan, an administrator at the facilities office, explained that the situation was unavoidable.

“We even had the rink stay open a w eek later this year because we ran into similar prob­ lems last year,” said Ryan. “It’s a

problem that we’re going to have to look at for next year as well.

Plus, the Martlets are usually long done by this time of the year, so that was something that we did not expect.”

“The grounds men who work at the rink during the winter have to begin p rep arin g M olson S tadium , as the fo o tball team holds its spring practice, as well as other rentals,” said Ryan.

John Clarke, head coach of the w om en’s program since its demotion to sports club status last summer, explained how the coach­ ing staff will deal with the situa­ tion.

“We’ll probably do some dry­ land training to stay in shape and play some sports together in the gym to keep our coordination up to par,” said Clarke. “Maybe later in the week, say Thursday, we can rent ice at a local rink for a final practice before this w eekend’s game. And because of the warm weather, all of the outdoor rinks have m elted, so we c a n ’t play there.”

Ice or no ice, the Martlets face off on Saturday at 7 p.m. at their away venue in R epentigny, approximately 45 minutes outside M ontreal. The league ch am pi­ onship will be decided in the 9 p.m. contest following the conso­ lation final.

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Martlet Kristen Banham, an early riser on and off the field

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could very well be donning the great and it showed in the way we provincial team,” she said. “I got maple leaf for the national team in played and improved throughout the chance to play with a new the near future. The 20-year-old has the season. Everyone was serious bunch of girls and I was able to been invited to tryouts with the about doing well and the intensity experiment with my style of play national team after a stellar rookie was there from beginning to end, while continuing to improve my campaign with the Martlets and will but we also had a lot of fun at the game. You get a lot more playing continue to play for the provincial same time.” time at university since we practice senior squad this summer.

Banham was one of 13 rookies twice a week and play a game every “This is a really big year for on a young Martlet team which fin­ weekend, and so this season has me because if I do well, I’ll have a ished seventh out of nine teams in really helped me to prepare for the good shot at making the national the OUAA, but she felt that first- upcoming provincial season.”

This is not a sport for the faint team ,” stated Banham. year head coach Tran Steinbeck and of heart or the late riser “U nfortunately I ’m too The Martlets’ practice late for next y ear’s sessions are relegated Olympics, but I’m certain­ to Tuesday and Thurs­ ly gunning for 2000.” day mornings from 6-8 Banham got her start at the tender age of nine a.m. which ensures that every player is serious when she followed the lead about making a com­ of her older sister and got mitment to the team. involved in a local summer According to league in St-Lambert on Banham a good field the South Shore. That got the ball rolling, so to hockey player must speak, and she went on to possess endurance, star at Chambly County quickness, and be able High School before mak­ Banham and teammates are building fo r the future to think and react quickly under pressure. ing the Québec Junior “To be successful in this his assistant Nilu Sing did a (under-21) squad at the age of 16.

She was first scouted by the tremendous job with such a young sport,” added Banham. “You must be a team player because it is national team three years ago while and inexperienced team.

“They really put in a lot of impossible to do everything on your playing for Quebec in the junior Nationals and has since joined the effort this year and I think that it own. It’s also very important to be senior provincial team, and most showed late in the season when we mobile since you must be able to recently McGill, which is the only fared very well against the top play every position on the field.”

There is no doubt that this Quebec university to field a team. teams in the league,” she comment­ marquee player possesses these Needless to say, that was a big fac­ ed.

Although not quite as competi­ qualities and maybe even a little tor in her decision to attend McGill, and so far she seems quite happy tive as her summer provincial team, more. As she is just a rookie, it with her choice.

Banham feels that her experience in remains to be seen how far she will “I really enjoyed playing with the university ranks can only help go, but the Martlets are most fortu­ such a great bunch of girls. I know to improve her skills and enable her nate to have a player of her calibre with which to build a solid founda­ that sounds like a cliché but it’s to climb to the next level.

“It was a nice change from the tion for the future. true,” she said. “We all got along

McGill Cheerleading is worth a second look B y A ndrea M ullings

Many varsity athletes have come to recognise the importance of the McGill cheerleading squad, but others are not yet over the old habit of devaluing the cheerleading pro­ gram altogether. The club, coached

by Tonya Goss, has overcome many a hurdle in the attempt to gain inter­ collegiate status, but, more impor­ tantly, in gaining some respect.

The cheerleading squad has become an ever-present fixture and source of energy at McGill’s foot­ ball and basketball games, and can also be found in the cheering sec­ tion at Redmen hockey games.

After failing to make the Nationals for the last four years, this year McGill not only made the event, they walked away with an impressive fourth-place finish. The event took place during the Vanier Cup weekend at the Skydome in Toronto. The University of Western Ontario was ranked No. 1 for the tenth consecutive year and walked away with top honours after being judged on skill level, execution, cre­ ativity, and safety in a four-minute routine.

Not only did the Martlets take fourth place overall, missing third by one point, they also took top honours for an all-female club. The

top three positions, filled by Western, Brock, and Laurier respec­ tively were all co-ed teams.

The team has now received sta­ tus as an intercollegiate club rather than a recreational club at McGill.

According to Goss, the new status is very important.

“A rec club has open member­ ship. We have tryouts and prac­ tices,” she said. “We simply didn’t belong there. We can now interact with the intercollegiate teams we support, instead of having others speak for us.”

The team still does not qualify, however, for funding from the uni­ versity.

As fiscal constraints continue to strap university sports, the cheer­ leading squad fights tooth and nail to come up with money to stay afloat. They are often seen selling bagels, promoting varsity games, operating coat checks and assisting other teams with fundraising events.

The Friends of McGill Football assists the squad by providing trans­ portation to all away games and the cheerleaders pay a large share of the expenses out-of-pocket. But, recent­ ly the club was the recipient of the Gladys Bean Endowment Grant, which will provide 500 dollars to next year’s team.

With high expectations for next

year, the club has started recmiting and hopes the good results at the Nationals will attract some new young members. The squad also plans to head to a Canada-wide cheerleading camp this summer in London, Ontario.

The feedback has been positive from coaches and players, but according to Goss the public still has a long way to go in terms of respecting the sport.

“We work so hard to create enthusiasm and the public still per­ ceives us as idiots,” she said. “We are not looking for fans to applaud us, what we truly want is cheering, some spirit, some enthusiasm for the game.”

Attendance at games has increased steadily and the cheer­ leading squad would like to think their contributions have been a big part of the reason, but acknowl­ edges that the teams themselves have improved overall this year too.

The cheerleading squad has clearly taken McGill Athletics to a new level, bringing with them a much-needed spirit and enthusiasm.

Perhaps the student body should follow their lead and take their sup­ port to the games as well as to the cheerleaders who have clearly done more than required this past season on and off the playing fields.

March 28th, 1995

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Tuesday. March 28 The L a tin A m eric an A w a ren e ss G ro u p presents Maria-Thérese Helal speaking on Border Conflict Between Ecuador and Peru. 5 pm, Shatner 425.

The F aculty of M usic pre­ sents the M cG ill F lute C hoir.

Works by Bach, Mozart, Vivaldi, S chickele, S aint-Saëns; 8 pm, Pollack Hall.

G roup Action general meet­ ing and elections. All welcome!

For info call Lisa at 287-9677.

6:30 pm, Shatner 410.

The M cG ill C h a p la in c y S ystem is p ro v id ing a Reconciliation Service: the sacre­ ment of Reconciliation, counsel­ lors for spiritual guidance and a prayer team will be available.

7:30 - 9 pm, Newm an C entre, 3484 Peel. For more info call 3984106.

The McGill Institute for the S tudy of C an ad a presents Dr. B ruce T rig g er speaking on Conflicts and Blind Spots: Can N on-N ative Sch o la rs W rite a History o f the Native Peoples o f North America? 4 - 6 pm, James Administration Bldg, Room 609.

Wednesday. March 29 To expand the netw ork of Women’s Associations at McGill and to increase the lines of com­ munication between students, fac­ ulty and the W om en’s C entre there will be a W omen’s Studies W ine and C heese. B ring your body, bring food, bring a friend!

All faculty and students welcome.

3:30 - 5:30 pm, Leacock 738.

Urban Rhetorics in the Mid-19th Century. 3:30 pm, Arts Council Room, Arts Bldg 160.

The United Zionist Council presents Michael Wihbey speak­ ing on Shattered Country: The Political Situation in Lebanon.

4:30 pm, Stewart Biology Bldg, Room S l/4 . For more info call Erik at 284-6884.

Thursday. March 30 The Y ellow D oor C offee House presents Literature Live!

F eaturing Ann D iam ond and Robyn Eversole. Admission $2. 8 pm, 3625 Aylmer. For more info call 398-6243/2371.

The F aculty of M usic pre­ sents the McGill Conservatory of Music Recitals. 6 and 8 pm, Clara Lichtenstein Recital Hall.

The A rt H isto ry D epartm ent presents Dr. Lynda Nead speaking on The Female N ude: T ra d itio n s and C ontem porary In te rv e n tio n s.

5:30, Sephen Leacock 26.

The P ro g re ssiv e Z io n ist C a u c u s, P eace Now, a n d the McGill M iddle E astern Studies S tu d e n t S o ciety present Jerusalem: A Future o f Peace?, a multi-media seminar. (Pizza din­ ner $2) 5:30 pm, Leacock 232.

Human Life International, a racist, sexist, homophobic, anti­ choice group, is com ing to M ontreal! If this bothers you come to a meeting of the McGill Coalition to Oppose HLI to plan how McGill students can protest.

7 pm, Rm 1185, 550 Sherbrooke.

Friday. March 31

The F acu lty of M usic pre­ sents the M cG ill B aroque O rch estra. W orks by H andel, T elem ann and B iber. 8 pm, Redpath Hall.

The Y ellow D o o r C offee H ouse presents Dan Mahoney, with Phil opening. Admission $2.

8 pm, 3625 Aylmer.

The A rt H isto ry D epartm ent presents the seminar M apping London: G ender and

The McGill Student Film & V ideo F e s tiv a l is currently accepting VHS, Super 8 and 16

mm audio-visual works. Check in the English Dept. Office (Arts 155) or drop by the festival office (main floor, 3475 Peel St., M-Th, 12h-14:30. C all 398-3128 for more inform ation. Subm ission deadline is March 31. Hooray.

The C e n tre fo r th e S tudy and T eaching of W ritin g pre­ sents a seminar about Writing and the Internet: Im plications fo r Canadian Education. 9:30 - 11:30 am, Faculty of Education, Room 233.

Saturday. April 1 April Fool’s Day! McGill Medicine presents a one-day co nference on In tern a tio n a l H ealth and D evelopm ent: D efining the Students’ Role. 9:30 am - 5:30 pm, McIntyre Medical Sciences Bldg, 6th Floor. For more info call 985-5418.

The McGill C horal Society w ill be presen tin g M o za rt’s Requiem on Saturday, April 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the E rskine and A m erican U nited C hurch (on Sherbrooke and Ave. du Musée).

Tickets will be on sale at the door, or can be purchased in advance at Steve’s Music, Maximusique and Sadie’s.

sents the M cG ill S tring and Mixed Ensembles. 8 pm, Pollack Hall.

Ongoing Hillel presents Guess Who's Coming to Shabbat D inner: A Four Part Series on Inter-Faith Dating to be held from March 21 — April 10. $18/couple. Friday, March 17 is the last day for regis­ tration. Call Avrum Nadigel at 845-9171 for more information.

Com e have lunch in the Womens’ Union. All women are invited to use our m icrow ave, read our books and meet other

women. Lunchtim e M onday — Friday. Shatner 423.

M cG ill’s D e p a rtm e n t of English annonces open auditions for S h ak esp e are’s King Lear.

P erfo rm an ces take place in November 1995. Audition Dates: M onday, M arch 27, T uesday, March 28 and Wednesday, March 29th. Sign up in the Arts Building, Room 155. For more info call Harry Anderson at 398-6580.

Players T heatre is currently accepting proposals for the 95-96 season. If you need information come see us at the theatre or call 398-6813. Deadline is April 7th.

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Sunday. April 2 The F aculty of M usic pre­ sents the M cG ill F aculty Members in Concert performing B eethoven’s Thirty-Two Piano Sonatas. 3 pm, Redpath Hall.

Monday. April 3 Montage, the Department of English Journal, is proud to pre­ sent the F irst A nnual M cG ill Literary Festival. An event which blends a variety of médias to com­ plement the performance of the written word, the Festival will begin 8 pm, M orrice hall.

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NOTES & GIJOTCS • Baseball tryouts in progress fo r 1995-96 season

• Annual swim banquet honours Martlets and Redmen

The McGill Redbirds baseball program is cur­ rently holding a spring training camp at the new field house for players interested in joining the team next year. The practice sessions take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 6 p.m. and will continue for the next three to four weeks. The tryouts are open to all potential student-athletes attending the university.

The entire baseball program will be new and improved next year, with more university teams join­ ing from Ontario and the Maritime provinces, creat­ ing a three-division, thirteen-team league. As defend­ ing champions and one of the CIBA’s original mem­ bers, McGill will play an important role on the administrative side of things. McGill’s club is look­ ing for volunteers to help in scoring and statistics throughout the 1995 campaign.

Those interested in volunteering or trying-out should contact club President Ted Caron at 7370748, or team vice president Todd Savage at 4853555 for more information.

The McGill swim team announced its trophy winners at a banquet held at La Brasserie Molson on March 18. Although Most Valuable swimmers will be honoured at the Athletics Banquet on Friday night, several Redmen and Martlets went home win­ ners after last week’s event.

Martlet Swimmer of the Year went to secondyear Carol Chiang, while the male honours went to Craig Hutchison. Hutchison also won Rookie of the Year for his consistency and solid performances throughout the season.

The Martlet rookie swimmer of 1994-95, hon­ oured for outstanding performance, was Patricia Hutchison. Named Most Improved Swimmers in both the m en’s and w om en’s categories were Sébastien Paddington and Natalie Hoitz, while Léo Grépin won the Marie-Claude Saumure Memorial Award for combined athletic and academic achieve­ ment over the year.

106-200B INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF CANADA (3 credits) Professors Elizabeth Gidengil, Will Straw An overview of approaches to the study of Canada, including cultural, economic, political, and historical dimensions, offered by McGill experts and prominent Canadians.

106-300A TOPICS IN CANADIAN STUDIES I: NATIONALISMS IN CANADA (3 credits) - Professor Desmond Morton A study of theories and experiences of ethnic, socio-political, economic and cultural nationalism in Canada and its impact on the shaping and evolution of Confederation.

301-350A MATERIAL CULTURE IN CANADA (3 credits) Professor Annmarie Adams (Offered through the Department o f Architecture and open to students in Canadian Studies)

A study of the "stuff' of our lives; using a multidisciplinary approach to the interpretation of the non-textual materials which have shaped the lives of past and present Canadians, using the resources of the McCord Museum and other Montreal museums, galleries and collections (Awaiting University approval).

106-401B CANADIAN STUDIES SEMINAR I: WOMEN AS LITERARY PIONEERS (3 credits) - Professor Nathalie Cooke A study of the special experience of women as pioneers in 19th century Canada and their modem critical reinterpretation, using archival and printed sources.

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106-403B CANADIAN STUDIES SEMINAR III: A TRANSFORMING WAR (3 credits) - Professor Desmond Morton A detailed, multidisciplinary study of the impact of the Second World War on Canada and the resulting social, economic and political evolution of Canadian government and society.

166-475B CANADIAN ETHNIC STUDIES SEMINAR (3 credits) Professor Morton Weinfeld An interdisciplinary seminar focusing on current social-sciences research and public policies in areas relating to Canadian ethnic studies. Topics will include ethnic and racial inequalities, prejudice and discrimination, ethnic identities and cultural expressions, the structure and organization of minority groups.

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