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ByEdwin Chen and Katie Flynn N e w s SSMU Budget unanimous­ ly approved.

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S c ie n c e Clam ping dow n on vio­ lent crim inals.

Page 12 F e a tu re s Calvin Klein under inves­ tigation for breaking pornography laws.

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S p o r ts Julia Maugh in the spot­ light. Football and soccer victorious.

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“ Safety Now! Aujourd’ hui La Sécurité!”

This is the message being her­ alded both around campus and the M c G ill ghetto from the SSM U External Affairs Office. It comes on the heels o f the publication o f the long-anticipated report on the McGill Ghetto Safety Audit.

After eighteen months in the works, the report concluded that the ghetto is in dire need o f government and police attention. The report, released September 15, contains the data compiled during the Ghetto Safety Project. It also outlines sev­ eral recom mendations towards improving safety in the neighbour­ hood just east o f campus.

The Ghetto Safety Project, a SSMU initiative carried out in con­ junction with several community groups, was organised in response to the high incidence o f violent crime in the M c G ill ghetto.

Conducted on September 29, 1994, the safety audit was a detailed zoneby-zone inspection o f the ghetto area by twenty-two teams o f volun­ teers. Their objective was to assess the “ physical and psychological safety” o f the ghetto. Volunteers were asked to comment on details such as street lighting and police presence in the area. A thorough account of their findings is included in the report.

N ick Benedict, SSM U V P External Affairs, has been part o f the project from the start. Benedict

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is uncertain about whether or not the city w ill become a ctively involved in implementing some of the report’ s recommendations. “ I t ’ s not goin g to be easy because Montreal is well behind the times when it comes to the safety of its citizens,” he said. “ But w e’ re ready to make whatever effort it takes.”

Last Wednesday, Benedict pre­ sented the audit report to Nancy Rosenfeld, an executive assistant to Mayor Pierre Bourque. Although Rosenfeld stated that it was too early to determine a possible course o f action, she was very positive about the project.

“For citizens to take responsi­ bility o f their own neighbourhoods and enter into a partnership with the governm ent is fabulous,” said Rosenfeld. “ City hall is very sup­ portive o f citizens and [of] working with them in improving the quality o f their neighbourhoods.”

The audit report addresses sev­ eral o f the primary safety concerns that exist in the ghetto. Included among these are inadequate street lighting, the lack o f police presence, and the numerous hiding places and potential assault sites in the ghetto area. City-wide recommendations which were included in the report call for the creation o f “ a coordina­ tion committee for personal safe­ ty...[which would] have a broad mandate to take a proactive position on the myriad [of] issues that effect personal safety.” Such a committee, as suggested by the report, would

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Raising awareness in a dangerous ghetto. include representatives from the city council as well as other educational and community groups.

A t the last SSM U council meeting on September 21, council­ lors passed the motion that the Students’ Society endorse the rec­ ommendations o f the Ghetto Safety

Audit and mandate the External A ffa irs P o rtfo lio Com m ittee o f Council to lobby for their imple­ mentation. The External A ffairs PCOC has also started a public campaign in the ghetto to raise awareness about the proposed safety recommendations.

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fter returning from China, M c G ill student Soraya Hassanali said that the U nited Nations Fourth W orld Conference on W om en changed her life. “ [It was] an enriching, educa­ tional experience fo r everyon e involved... it was so empowering. I knew the word, what it meant, but I never truly understood it. I felt a commonality, a part o f the struggle, [it] was maybe the first time I ’ d

really felt that,” the U3 economics/political science student said.

Hassanali was one o f 40 Canadian women who attended the Non-Governmental Organisations Forum. The Canadian government paid for Hassanali to attend the conference as a representative o f McGill.

The NGO Forum took place in Hairou, 40 kilometres outside o f Beijing, the sight o f the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. The ten-day NGO For­ um began August 30. Meanwhile

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the U N conference, which aimed to abolish discrim ination against women at all levels, ran from Sep­ tember 4-15.

Women and men from around the world attended both confer­ ences. An estimated 24,000 attend­ ed the NGO Forum, while 6,000 were expected at the U N confer­ ence.

Some conference participants used this event as a forum to dis­ cuss China’ s poor human rights record. However, Sheila Finestone, Canadian secretary o f state for the

status o f women, chose to focus on the s p e cific issue o f w om en ’ s rights, saying that would ultimately affect China’ s human rights policy. “ Human rights are not a bou­ tique to which you go to pick or choose,” said Finestone.

She stated that the world must reaffirm that women’ s rights are human rights. This sentiment, and the idea that fundamental human rights cannot be denied for cultural reasons, were the main themes at the conference.

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D is c r e tio n a r y b u d g e t a p p r o v e d b y S S M U ByJonathan O'Brien at a lower rate,” Costom said.

Remai however contends that to change On Septem ber 21, SSM U Council passed this year’ s discre­ tionary budget as proposed by SSMU V P Finance K elly Remai and the Financial Affairs Portfolio Committee o f Council.

B efore the meeting, Remai said that the proposed budget would most likely pass with little debate. However, Mitch Costom, law representative to cou ncil, raised some objection to the budget process. “ I don’ t have a specific prob­ lem with the budget itself, but there is a problem with the way the budget is proposed and decided on,” he said. “ A p p rox im a tely $900,000 in the budget comes from student dues. It’ s ridiculous that 40 percent o f what students pay goes towards full time salaries in the SSMU offices. A lot o f students could fill these part time positions

Costom em phasised that despite his objections, he still sup­ ported the budget proposed by Remai and PCOC. “ I ’ m sure Kelly [Remai] and his committee did their best and were fair in establishing the bud­ get. The fact that clubs weren’ t bitching about their allowances shows the funds were distributed fairly,” said Costom. “ I support the proposed budget, but I think that maybe it’ s time council restruc­ tured the way this process is run,” he said.

Costom also said that debate over the budget was not extensive enough. “ N o one has anything to say and I think deciding on how $3 million is spent deserves more than ten minutes o f debate. I f I want to fin d apathy, I w ould think I wouldn’ t come to council to find it,” he concluded.

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at Thursday n igh t’ s budget that’ s going to the vote, and positions held by SSMU full-time council meeting. can still be changed,” Remai said. staff are in very specific depart­ “ There are two parts to the “ But changing one o f the ments. budget. The first half o f the budget, numbers on the budget w ould “ W e certainly shouldn’ t look or the operating budget, is always mean everything would need to be blindly at proposals before us. But approved by the previous year. re-worked,” he said. “ And that’ s most o f the full time staff at SSMU This was done on April 1 o f last what w e ’ ve tried to avoid the are in profit ori­ most.” ented areas like Remai explained G e rt’ s and in that the discretionary the advertising budget is decided departments in according to demands the Tribune and for funding at the end the D a ily ,” he o f each spring. said. “ The process for A fte r the deciding allocations is meeting, Remai a democratic process. agreed with Each club submits a Costom’ s point budget request form that too much fo r discretionary o f the money spending on May 15.

SSMU receives W e go through the from students’ numbers and adjust fees goes to full according to our best time salaries. ju dgem ent, look in g “ I b e lie v e for the soundest eco­ that Mitch [Costom] is right that [academic] year. Without an oper­ nom ic future fo r S S M U ,” said we should look at what we do and ating budget, the Shatner building how w e go about changing wouldn’ t be open during the sum­ Remai. “ Each year starts o ff from a zero base. No year is like another things...But during the meeting mer hours. There wouldn’ t be any year for the discretionary budget, Guy Brisebois [S S M U General lights,” he said.

Manager] came over and reminded but there are usually no radical “ The other half o f the budget, me that in the last three years, changes in the budget unless the discretionary budget, is for one SSMU has cut full time salaries by time expenses or speculative pro­ there’ s a major structural change $124,000. S S M U is trying to jects that are on a trial basis. For within SSMU, which there hasn’ t reduce its o ffic e expenditures,” been this year.” example, this year’ s renovation o f said Remai.

G ert’ s w ill not occur again, and The discretionary budget was According to Remai, only half Sadie’ s relocation w on’ t happen unanimously passed by the SSMU o f the budget was possibly subject every year. This is the part o f the Council.

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ual assault p olicies from both Canadian and American universi­ A sexual assault research pro­ ties. The results in the report from ject, undertaken as a joint effort M c G ill w ill be compared with between the SSMU and the school reports from other campuses. o f Social Work, will begin within Grushcow intends to create a rec­ the month. The results o f the project ommendation for campus policies. will be used to formulate a report “ W e want to begin changing which will include a series o f inter­ things concretely,” she said. “ This views with M cG ill students who report will not sit around collecting have been assaulted while attending dust. This is a big issue.” the university.

The aim of the research is not Carla Alexander, a social work only a means for developing a poli­ student and the coordinator o f the cy, but also to gain a better under­ project, will conduct the interviews. standing o f the issue.

Both male and female students have “ The project is to get a better been asked to volunteer their sto­ idea about people’ s experiences ries. here [at McGill] and how university Assisting A lexan der in the affects them,” A lexan der said. report and helping to formulate a “ Sexual assault at a university is a questionnaire is Annette Werk. specific topic. It is not a mirror o f Werk is a former ombudsperson society.” and professor in the School o f Raising awareness at the uni­ Social Work. versity and giving a better explana­ The idea for the Sexual Assault tion o f the distinction between sexu­ Research Project originally came al assault and sexual harassment is from SSMU VP University Affairs, another reason for developing the Lisa Grushcow. Grushcow asked report. Grushcow emphasised the Alexander to coordinate the project importance o f these issues. mainly because her skills in social “W e will be asking people to work could help to ensure that the come forw ard and say ‘ I was interviews would be conducted in a assaulted at M c G ill’ . H opefully professional manner. Grushcow people will have the strength and intends to use the final report to the will to come forward. And also lobby for change at the university. the desire to share their stories” .

“With regard to sexual assault, Grushcow said a lot falls through the cracks,” The sexual assault research Grushcow said. “ Harassment has project has been mentioned in a been addressed, but you can’ t strike SSMU newsletter. Alexander has up a committee on sexual assault.” put a notice on the Internet and will Alexander is also currently col­ be placing posters around campus, lecting information on different sex­ calling attention to the project.

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The Canadian Federation of Students is not sure whether it will take legal action against its health insurance broker after he decided to break with the student lobby group last May. “It was certainly a surprise,” says Cassandra Koenen, the treasur­ er of the CFS. “He arbitrarily chose to walk away. I don’t think you can break an agreement like that.”

In the meantime, the CFS has cobbled together a new plan in an attempt to bring back the majority of its 29 member clients.

Brad Taleski, a broker for the Taleski Insurance Agency Inc., left the National Student Health Network, a partnership between Taleski’s company and the CFS. He says 90 percent of the net­ work’s clients have stayed with Taleski Insurance and only a few have rejoined the CFS’s newly cre­ ated health plan or are looking for other brokers.

According to Koenen, the new CFS national executive staff met in May with Taleski. It was then assumed that Taleski and CFS would proceed with policies they developed over the last 10 years.

But on May 15, the CFS received a letter of intent from Taleski indicat­ ing he longer wished to be affiliated with the CFS. Taleski says he left because the

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that would be one thing, but as it stands, the decision was class dis­ criminatory.”

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in part from a 1990 revision of Q u e b e c ’s pension law s. The revised law states that any plan member, after the age of 65, has a right to invest in benefit packages outside the university. As a result, the assumption that women live longer led to concerns that men

would not benefit equally from the plan and may go elsewhere in search of more attractive options.

The U n iv e rs ity ’s P en sio n Administration Committee pre­ dicted a high rate of male outflow as a result of the findings and responded by changing to a gen­ der distinct plan.

“One m ust have sym pathy for the single male. The cost will be more in the unisex plan,” said Dr. Ted M eighen, President of the M cG ill A sso cia tio n o f University Teachers.

M eighen added how ever, that the M AUT executive and council officially support the uni­ sex plan.

“It’s an asexual debate,” stat­ ed Professor Roy Morrison of the F aculty of M anagem ent. As a

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member of the executive commit­ tee in v estig atin g the pension, Morrison looked at the premiums and benefits of the sex distinct plan and saw no basis for a gen­ der dispute.

“Last year’s decision made it possible for anybody who doesn’t like the system to take money out,” said Morrison. “[The unisex plan] gives me a lot more free­ dom than I had before.”

The co m m ittee learn ed , through a series of advisors, that prospective m ale flig h t is at a m inim um . H ow ever, pensions will continue to be monitored in returning to the unisex plan. “ F or p eo p le who leave m oney in, we m anage th eir money fine,” said Morrison. “We have a fantastic pension [plan].”

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CFS wanted to take too much rev­ enue from the health plan. He adds that the recent loss of several mem­ ber schools made the CFS push for more revenue. Seven schools left and two schools joined the CFS in the 1994-95 school year.

“They weren’t looking at the student health business as anything [more] than revenue,” says Taleski.

“They just looked at it as a cash cow.”

But Koenen says the CFS never asked for a higher percentage of the revenue from the health plan.

The 29 member schools of the National Student Health Network, at the time of Taleski’s withdrawal, still held policies with his company.

The CFS offers health plans as a service to its members, but all schools can negotiate their own insurance plans independently.

Since Taleski’s pull-out, the CFS has organised a new health plan effective this month.

Koenen says the CFS spent the summer regrouping and found a new insurance company, the Canadian Actuarial and Consulting Group Inc. The CFS is trying to bring the different schools back to its new health plan — five or six of the schools have agreed to return.

Guy Caron, national chair of the CFS, says each member univer­ sity has a customised fee which varies according to its needs. He adds that fees aren’t affected by the

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the gen d er d istin c t plan. The committee met twice a month for almost eight months, interviewed McGill employees, and met with several financial advisors who all claim ed it was m ore viable to return to a unisex plan.

Gender discrimination is of g reat concern in Q uebec, a province that offers no pension protection against discrimination on the basis of sex, pregnancy, age or disability.

Sharon Bezeau, Faculty of A rts reco rd e r, o rg a n ise d last year’s petition of the gender spe­ cific plan.

“Women make less money than men as it is. T hey start working later for family related re a so n s,” said B e z e a u .“ If all women lived longer than all men,

The B oard o f G o vernors voted to re-im p lem en t unisex pension plans at McGill. The res­ olution came about as a result of widespread discontent with the gender specific plan that came into effect on September 1, 1994.

The form er plan provided women with lower monthly pen­ sion payments in accordance with the notion that women, as a class, live longer than men. In response, over 1,000 M cGill em ployees, both male and female, including all deans of arts and sciences, petitioned the verdict.

F o llo w in g the o u tcry , an ex ecu tiv e co m m ittee was put together to study the social, ethi­ cal and financial consequences of

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ByCraig Lockwood Health services and financial aid are the highest student priori­ ties, according to a plebiscite con­ ducted last spring. In addition to the selection o f SSMU representa­ tives last A p ril, students w ere asked to express their opinions on the various facets o f university life, ranging from tuition costs to eating establishments.

The pleb iscite its e lf was a result o f the combined efforts o f last year’ s SSMU council. Former SSMU President Sevag Yeghoyan

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and form er V P Internal Cornell Wright proposed to gather the stu­ dents’ opinions on a series o f con­ tinually recurring issues at McGill.

O f the 26 questions tabled, SSMU council agreed upon the 10 most appropriate. The plebiscite was then codified in the electoral by­ laws with the intention o f present­ ing it in conju nction w ith the SSM U election ballots. This was done so as to maximise student response. Yeghoyan estimates that more than 1500 students respond­ ed as a result.

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diverse range o f issues, with stu­ dent services being the first topic addressed. In terms o f keeping the students inform ed, the T ribune received nearly tw ice as many votes as any other means.

Furthermore, students felt that a used book co-op was more essen­ tial than a dating service, ranking them at either ends o f the scale re sp ective ly. In the restaurant business, “ Subway” and “ Taco Bell” surpassed the standards o f “ Arby’ s” .

The plebiscite concluded with an evaluation o f the overall quality o f M cG ill’ s education, with nearly 70 percent o f the students express­ ing satisfaction. H ow ever, only half considered donating money to the university after graduation.

The intention o f the plebiscite on the part o f last year’ s SSM U executive was primarily to help shape the actions and policies o f this year’ s staff. As the question­ naire becomes an annual tradition, the hope is that SSMU will be able to rectify the minor difficu lties which arose at the p leb iscite’ s christening.

O f all the com plaints con ­ cerning this year’ s plebiscite, the most notable was that it was print­ ed on the fronts o f two sheets o f paper, and was thus deemed envi­ ronmentally unfriendly.

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Lloyd Axworthy, Federal Minister o f Human Resources Development, announced that the Canada Student Loan s program would soon undergo a major overhaul.

The federal government w ill no longer guarantee any student loan. In order for a student to obtain a loan, bank­ in g must be done w ith a ‘ Participating Lender', such as the Royal Bank, CIBC, The Bank o f Nova Scotia, and the National Bank o f Canada A x w o rth y ra tio n a lised the plan as an attempt to help

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Damian Stodola, SSM U P o lit ic a l Research Information Coordinator out­ lined some o f his concerns about the policy. “ G iven that any student loan program is an essential gu arantee in m ain tain in g accessibility, any transfer o f this responsibility away from the public sector should be closely monitored.”

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insurance policies for the fall term.

“A lot o f schools are kind o f doing a wait-and-see,” says Koenen o f the schools which remain under Taleski this fall.

Koenen says she is not con­ vinced that schools who still have their insurance policies with Taleski will receive the same services they received when he dealt with CFS. The associations that have come back to the CFS for health care policies include the M cG ill Post-Graduate Student Society, and Simon Fraser University’ s Students’ Society.

Koenen says the CFS wants to continue to provide bulk health insurance to its membership because the motivation for the net­ work’ s original development still exists — improving student bar­ gaining power in order to get cheap­ er rates and better coverage from insurance companies than what provinces offer.

K elly Lamrock, president o f the Student Union at the University o f New Brunswick’ s Fredericton campus, says UNB decided to pull away from Taleski’ s health plan in March because o f problems with CFS. “ W e were pretty concerned about the instability at CFS,” says Lamrock.

Lamrock says money was also a factor, as CFS’ s projected rate last March was $110 per student. The U N B ’ s new plan with Blue Cross costs each student only $85.

Taleski says his departure increased the number o f university accounts he holds, since “ people refuse to deal with CFS.”

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In this exclu sive story, we bring you the unedited (at least minimally) version o f a telephone interview (prank call) which we had with a Walksafe narc (thanks, Kathy Morrison, for all o f your help)...

Q: Who walks the Walksafe people home?

A: [given by random guy at the Walksafe office who answered the phone] A t the end o f the evening usually they can, uh, if its really late we have, uh, taxi cab slips so they can call a taxi cab and get driven home... or usually they can w alk home in groups because everyone’ s going home at the same time... This way they can take a cab hom e i f they fe e l uncomfortable walking by them­ selves or i f they want to walk home alone they can... [authors’ translation: they have no clue...].

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Q: [question repeated] A : Oh, well Walksafe is... I mean, while we walk home walks we also walk home walkers. [yeah, but who walks home the walkers who walk home the walkers?? It’ s a vicious cycle...]

And if we don’ t walk them home we will cab them home.

Q: Yes, bu t w ouldn’t it be n e a t to d riv e th e m hom e in th o se cool re d T ra c k e rs th a t M cGill Security gu ard s get to drive?

A: Uh... I don’ t know i f that’ s something that they would want to be a part of... but so far as it is, we only have the manpower to handle walkers right now [?!] ...and, um, I must say in the past as far as I know, security and M cG ill admin­ istration isn’ t very keen on deal­

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n response to the internet’s exponential growth both on campus and around the world, the McGill T ribune will begin publishing weekly on the World Wide Web. Mainstream publications such as Tim e and N ew sw eek have been releasing excerpts and cover stories on the net for the past year, however the development of the World Wide Web allows for the inclusion of photographs, sounds, and even limited animation.

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Publishing the Tribune on the web is the first step of a plan to f integrate fully the newspaper and its operations to the internet. In the coming weeks, the Tribune office will have complete internet capabilities on all of its Macs. Soon after, a comprehensive system of e-mail addresses will be set up for each section, allowing readers to access a faster and more tactile method of addressing their com­ ments, concerns and compliments to the staff.

It will be different reading the T ribu ne in another media.

Deciding if it is better or worse is at the discretion of each individ­ ual. However, it is certain that our readership will grow and span the globe.

Should advertising be sold for the on-line Tribune, it will sup­ port the print version and the organisation as a whole. Perhaps even audio excerpts from interviews will be incorporated into the site.

Listening to your campus newspaper is a possibility.

Upgrades to the site will be done on a regular basis, providing the best technical effects we have to offer. The feel and texture of the Tribune will improve and mature as a result.

Internet nay-sayers may be dismayed by the decision of the Tribune to go on-line, however the paper version will still be there to appease them for the foreseeable future. Any philosophical issues raised by this expansion can be addressed in the following manner; Could you imagine publishing hand-written books after the inven­ tion of the Gutenberg press? Of course not. Western society has made massive changes in the way we communicate, both interper­ sonal ly and on a ‘broadcast’ basis. While we are still five to ten years away from a computer that we can bring in the tub with us, we can begin to make the shift. Essentially, if the pipelines of com­ munication are there, our service is to provide the content. Your responsibility as an information consumer is to access the new media that arise and let us, as content providers, know what you think. Herein lies the beauty of all media with an address, two-way communication. E-mailing the system administrator of a web site is not all that different from phoning a television station manager or mailing a letter to the editor of a local newspaper.

So grab your mouse after Friday, September 29 and take a look-see at www.mcgill.ca/tribune.htm.

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Stop the Press I deeply regret the fact that the Tribune had nothing better to report on than to print an editorial worthy of the Daily. Your account o f the events that surround the funding for the McGill Students for Literacy (Sept.

19 - “ SSMU has to learn ABCs of the Real World” ) are inaccurate and mis­ leading. Firstly, you have mistakenly led students to believe that the VP Finance has the power over SSMU finances and their allocation.

Ironically, the Tribune obviously doesn’ t know the basics o f how SSMU works despite not only being published by the SSMU but also shar­ ing the same building. The Tribune, before most, should realise that finan­ cial decisions are in the hands o f eight people. Last time I checked, one of eight did not constitute a majority.

Regretfully, Joyce Lau never consulted with me to look at the pre­ vious budgets in order to substantiate MSL’ s claims that its budget was cut — Lau writes of “their severe budget cuts.” Former V P Finance Paul Johnson and his Financial Management Committee accorded MSL a $1360 operating budget sub­ sidy from SSMU. In my budget, before MSL appealed their discre­

Stop the Press What of it?

When I think of the press, some­ times 1 envision the image of a stead­ fast anchor o f truth. Perhaps the Globe of Superman fame is my per­ sonification o f this; Perry keeps a tight rein on his writers, and he knows who is responsible for his paper.

There is also the evil, moneymongering press in which I delight to read of legless cows breeding in the sewers and alien babies born with Michael Jackson’ s engagement ring. I wouldn’t want to point fingers but I’m sure we’ ve all bought a few of these in our lifetime, haven’ t we? That’ s normal right?

I arrived in Montreal for the first time about two years ago, knowing admittedly very little about life in general. Without sounding preten­ tious, McGill opened my eyes (I’m a Manitoba-boy!) The first campus paper I was exposed to was The M cG ill Daily, the champion o f the underdog and wielder of the two by four of justice. After reading my first copy in about 45 seconds, I noticed The McGill Tribune sitting in a neat pristine pile to the left.

tionary budget, they were given $1580 operating budget (sic) PLUS an additional $640 discretionary bud­ get amount: representing an increase of 63%! Following their appeal, the Financial Committee approved an additional $900. Please explain how a cut can occur, as MSL and Lau claim, when their budgets experienced a sig­ nificant increase. While Lau can find excuse for omitting this fact due to lack o f professionalism, there is no excuse for M S L’ s blatant lies and campaign of misinformation — after all they have actually seen the budget.

Their underhanded attempt to cheat their way into additional funds by lying to students in this editorial is regrettable for it only serves to create an atmosphere of mistrust and confu­ sion between services and SSMU. In light o f this information, I find the T rib un e’s attacks on my character and my commitment to pro­ viding students with services insult­ ing. Lau then mistakenly writes that “ SACOMSS gets no SSMU money” which she claims is a result of my personal wish not to fund them.

However, had the Trib verified their facts, they would have realised that SSMU funds 95% of their budget.

How can my questions to the MSL in my e-mail be termed “antag­ onistic” ? You quote me as saying “ Why should a SSMU member be Perhaps it was the contrast, per­ haps I was a slice naive, but within a few pages, I was a secret fan of the Tribune. I looked forward to Tuesdays so I could absorb another dozen-upwards pages o f balanced journalism. Occasionally, there were absolutely brilliant editions; ones where I read every article and column with interest. On one occasion, I phoned the Tribune office and told them of a great issue.

So it was, on the now-fateful day of Sept. 19th. I read and read, until my eyes started to gloss for want of blinking. Still I read, I read as though there were no tomorrow. Then, “Gulp!” , Trouble and Desire slapped me in the face like a fast-moving bag of rice, the kind they sell at the St. Laurent street sale. To be fair, I was laughing out loud for the first half.

Being a member o f Lambda Chi Alpha, SSMU councillor of two years and a reasonably good-natured per­ son, I shocked myself when I was shocked by the second half o f this abuse of responsibility. I was further shocked when, doubting my memory more than my favourite rag, I con­ firmed that I was, indeed, still reading the Tribune.

I tried my best to view the article in a humorous light, thinking back to

forced to pay for a service that ‘liter­ ates’ individuals outside of McGill?”

I am responsible to more than the stu­ dents that belong to MSL: I have to ensure that the interests of 20,000 stu­ dents are served. This sacred respon­ sibility mandates me to question every expenditure — who would have me do less? You imply that I personally find M S L ’ s activities unworthy of funding (“ Remai pub­ licly questions financial support to student groups... that are too involved in external social work for his tastes.” ) simply because I ’ ve asked questions regarding their service.

Asking questions in the goal of mak­ ing justified decisions is not an issue of ideology, as you suggest. Nor do I consider MSL’ s, or any club’ s activi­ ties to be inherently sacred -— ask any club that has presented a budget to the Financial Committee. NO one should feel threatened by explaining and justifying their activities, unless of course they want to stifle the prin­ ciple of sound debate, decision-mak­ ing and accountability.

Kelly Remai VP Finance and Operation Editor’s note: Miss Lau was ques­ tioning Remai’s rationalisations and not his cuts. She does mention in her editorial that the cuts were restored. my Red Herring collection, but read­ ing the article through again. I nearly threw my lunch. That someone could be so ignorant of a group of students, and yet in command of 500 words in which to espouse his phobic neuroses, gave me a taste aversion to the Tribune which hasn’ t gone away yet.

Perhaps by the time you are reading this you will be able to pick up a copy too.

On reflection, however, I see that Mr. Bushnell wasn’ t being malicious, and his lack of knowledge wasn’t the fuel behind his words. It seems clear what this column was all about.

Armed with a quill and 500 words, he felt the thrill of power surging through his frontal lobes. This lust grew, and grew, unrestrained by editors nor freak carpal tunnel syndromes, until finally Mr. Bushnell had to make the final test, the cage-rattling boundary breaking experiment to see just how far he could go, how much noise he could make before mom and dad send him to his room.

Or, maybe he’ s just mean.

Simon Thomington U2 computer science SSMU councillor, CSUS Member of Lambda Chi Alpha

The Tribune regrets the publication of the September 19th column “Trouble and Desire”, which was per­ ceived by some as threatening, discriminating and offensive.

In light of recent recommendations, the Tribune has reviewed its editorial policy concerning columns, and will take measures to ensure that questionable content be more carefully considered in the future.

Please note that columns are opinion pieces which do not reflect the beliefs of the Tribune editorial board.The Tribune maintains the right to determine its editorial content, policy, and staff.

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Column Questioned: 1 I am writing this letter in reac­ tion to David Bushnell’ s blatantly prejudiced and volatile article enti­ tled “ Sometimes writing a column is too easy” . It seems as if he is trying to walk in Michael Broadhurst’ s footsteps. Broadhurst referred to members o f Fraternities as “ White, heterosexual, upper-middle class, party-loving, beer-drinking skirt chasers.” Bushnell’ s version, “ Palefaced, alcoholic, baseball-cap wear­ ers.” The Tribune has a policy that they will not print any submission that is deemed libellous, sexist, racist, or homophobic. O f course, this leaves the door open to attack any other identifiable group on cam­ pus. I am curious to know how Bushnell researched his “ fact” . I assume it must be a fact, since newspaper articles are supposed to contain facts. Did he perhaps go to an A lcoholics Anonymous meeting and count the people wearing Greek letters? No, he probably just wanted to “jump on the band-wagon” and jo in the other columnists in an antagonistic attack on the IGLC and its members.

Bushnell should have taken his ed ito r’ s advice and rushed a Fraternity. Not only would his nega­ tive stereotypes be dissolved, but he would get a look at the diversity of the Greek Community at M cGill.

Unfortunately, like some other indi­ viduals at M cG ill, he is quick to judge without even trying to find out what the IGLC and the Fraternities and Sororities are really about. They are concerned with meeting people from a multitude o f different back­ grounds, gaining leadership skills, and helping the community. Playing Nintendo to benefit arthritis research is no joke. It is a legitimate way to raise money to help.

M y final criticism concerns Bushnell’ s comment that members o f Fraternities and Sororities must die. Do we not have enough hate and violence in the world that we

Stop the Press D a vid B u sh n ell’ s column dated Sept. 19, 1995 has brought about a new era in “ Greek” bash­ ing here on campus. Never before has such a hateful column been printed by the M cG ill Tribune.

The Inter Greek Letter Council (IG LC ) like everyone else can, and does en joy a go o d jo k e . W hat Bushnell wrote was sim ply not funny.

He ridicules our members for fund-raising for various different charities. Those events raised well over $2,000 for three worthy caus­ es: breast cancer research, the A rth ritis Foundation and the Miracle Children’ s Network. But besides just repeating the usual slew o f negative comments and stereotypes, Bushnell chose to do something else. “ A ll frat boys must die.” "... I co m p le te ly fo rg o t to mention sorority chicks. Th ey too must die.” And, “ I f you can’ t do it exe­ cution-style, go for the safe shot.”

must promote it in a student news­ paper? His comment, whether meant jokingly or otherwise, has serious implications. If anything happens to any Greek, Bushnell should feel per­ sonally responsible for it. 1 hope he can live with that.

Shawn Wolfson IGLC. President

Column Questioned: I I I'd like to take this time to bring to your attention offensive comments made by David Bushnell in the September 19th issue o f the McGill Tribune.

In his last column, David calls upon people to kill other McGill stu­ dents who happen to belong to fra­ ternities and sororities.

Here is a brief excerpt: “ Don’ t go for the tricky shot. If you can’ t do it execution style (my personal favourite), go for the safe shot.”

It is utterly appalling that a stu­ dent newspaper at my university can condone calls for violence directed at other students. It is my belief that any human being who calls upon students to kill their fellow students needs his head examined.

I call on you to take whatever steps are necessary to ensure that this brand o f reckless journalism is eliminated from the Tribune. As an editor o f a campus newspaper, it is your responsibility to ensure that your publication does not provide a forum for racists, homophobes, antiSemites and other societal enemies to promote actions which threaten the rights and freedoms of other stu­ dents.

This is not an issue o f censor­ ship. It is an issue o f common sense.

Mark Feldman U3 Management

Column Questioned: II I I ’ m quite aware that you noted that all mail be addressed to your writer David Bushnell, with regards

Bushnell’ s ranting is quite clear and specific. He is calling for the brutal k illin g o f o ver 500 undergraduates at M c G ill University, and countless o f hun­ dreds o f thousands o f others across North America. These “ frat boys and sorority ch ick s,” here at M c G ill w ou ld inclu de student leaders, athletes and scholars.

Contrary to popular belief, sorori­ ties and fraternities are comprised o f men and women from a multi­ tude o f backgrounds. Members come in all shapes and sizes, eth­ nic origins, religions, social classes and sexual orientation.

A r tic le 2.3 o f the S S M U Constitution states “ A ll Society endeavours shall be undertaken with full respect for human digni­ ty...” The cover o f every issue o f the McGill Tribune states that it is published by the Students’ Society o f M c G ill U n iv ersity . W hat Bushnell wrote was an affront to any rational person. Moreover, the IG LC was shocked that the editori­ al collective, which reviews each column before it is printed, found

to his article about fraternities.

However, I wonder if this is merely a way to avoid printing any letters you may receive? Heaven forbid, a McGill University student newspa­ per offering an impartial point o f view!

As a member o f a fraternity, I was extremely insulted that many of my dearest and closest friends were referred to as “ roaches in baseball caps” and “ sores” . I was amazed by the lack o f class and blatant vicious­ ness by your writer. Even more so by the lack o f judgement on your behalf as an editor. When statements such as “ All frat boys must die” or “ A ll sorority girls must die” are printed, they are advocating and inciting violence. Please tell me how you can justify that, solely based on a person’ s affiliation to an organisa­ tion? Freedom o f speech is one thing, freedom to hate is clearly another. Is there no journalistic code o f ethics? Or did you just print any­ thing you please and put a tidy little disclaimer on the bottom to protect yourself from legal action?

I was an orientation leader and at no time did I degrade women or force people to do anything they were uncomfortable with. The other leaders (non-greeks) and the frosh will attest to that. Then again that might be construed as being “ progreek” , so who really cares what those “ brainless-simps” think any­ ways? The last thing I would like to clarify is that the Sigma Chi frater­ nity has raised over $1200 dollars for Sun Youth (through annual Hotdog-a-thon) within the past two years. I didn’ t realise that raising money for people who were less than fortunate constituted as harass­ ment. Regardless o f the means, money was legally raised for charity and that is the bottom line.

While some students were up all night in the cold raising money for Sun Youth and arthritis research, others were in their warm apart­ ments planning on how to attack them. So could you please tell me who the “rational thinking humans” are?

Sulemaan Ahmed U1 Management

prints all letters received as long as they are not racist, sexist or homophobic. The request to send letters only to Mr. Bushnell was, like the column, a satirical device.

Valerie Fabrikant shooting at the U niversité de M ontréal and Concordia, I have a hard time understanding why you, as the edi­ tors o f a non-libellous, non-sexist, non-racist and non-homophobic newspaper, can allow such warped thinking to appear in a column. May I remind you that all it takes is one mentally unstable person to read: “ ...don’ t go for the tricky shot. If you can’ t do it execution-style (my personal favourite), go for the safe shot,” and someone may get hurt, or better yet in Mr. Bushnell’ s eyes, killed. If I were a member of a fra­ ternity or sorority, I would be terri­ fied to wear my Greek letters on campus after reading that column.

In my opinion, as editors of this newspaper you have failed miser­ ably in your duty to the readers of the Tribune, in student population o f McGill at large and society in gener­ al.

Karen Ingleton U3 Psychology

Column Questioned: IV In disregard to the editorial note at the bottom o f David Bushnell’s 09/19/95 column, I think that mail needs to be addressed to the editorial board o f the Tribune.

Irrespective o f the fact that Bushnell is the author o f the column, the deci­ sion to publish it was your responsi­ bility.

To say that frats and sororities or for that matter, any identifiable group or individual, “ must die” is simply unacceptable. Any such arti­ cle, column or letter to the editor should be refused on the basis that it could incite violence. How then, are D avid Bushnell’ s statements allowed to appear unedited or even at all?

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P rogram The Student Aid Office is pleased to announce the continuation of the W ork Study Program for the 1995-96 academic year! In addition to our regular funding, the Science Undergraduate Society has made a special contribution to the W ork Study Program to create new positions in the Faculty of Science for science students.

WHAT IS WORK STUDY? It is a program that provides part-time on-campus employment for full-time degree students who demonstrate financial need.

Eligible employers will benefit from subsidized labour costs when work study students are hired.

HOW DO I APPLY? W ork Study student applications and brochures are available at the Student Aid office on both campuses. Applications must be returned to the Student Aid office by: October 13, 1 9 95 .

OFFICE OF STUDENT AID & INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ADVISER Powell Building, 3637 Peel St., Room 200

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nothing wrong with it. Clearly the whole columnist process, from the selection o f the writer to the edito­ rial decision to print or reject an article must be thoroughly exam­ ined. W e call upon the M c G ill Tribune to establish a clear policy as to what is acceptable to print and what is not. And, we implore the SSMU and every McGill stu­ dent to ensure that it is followed.

A t the SSMU council meeting o f September 21, many individuals and councillors expressed their disappointment with the Tribune.

The editors who responded to those questions were genuinely sorry for what they admitted was a mistake. The same cannot be said for Bushnell. With a smug look, and a general contempt, he said he was sorry. We feel that an individ­ ual capable o f writing the things he did has no place working for any SSMU endorsed publication.

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[Italics mine] M ila A ung -T hwin I pick up a free SSMU agenda, blank pages demanding to be filled.

I decide to use it as a diary. Diaries have never appealed to me before, but this one has crawled onto my lap, nuzzling itself against my writ­ ing hand. I cannot resist!

Dear Diary, The first day o f school. The music o f Open A ir Pub fills the spaces between the conversations of friends who’ ve been separated all

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summer. Their greetings are so enthusiastic, so heartfelt, that they could be long lost siblings, reunited after decades o f labouring in Stalin’ s Gulags.

Dear Diary, Four minutes into the first lec­ ture o f 20th Century Dram a. I remember that I really dislike this subject. True, I don’ t know modem drama very well, and could possibly learn to appreciate it. But the read-

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ing list is vast, and it scares me — the reading list is a dark bedroom, and I am a young boy.

The professor, Ms. Hjort, had been my academic advisor. I realise now that the only reason I enrolled in the course was because I found her completely enigmatic. She is a fair, blonde, Nordic beauty, always dressing completely in black. Deep down, though, I know that is not a good enough reason to take 20th Century Dram a. Farew ell, Ms. Hjort.

Dear Diary, On my friend Adam’ s sugges­ tion, I float through a lecture o f Latin Am erican H isto ry . The teacher is enthusiastic, and seeming­ ly quite knowledgeable, though she is quite young. How young? Take the average age o f a McGill profes­ sor, then divide that number by four.

The class is in the Birks build­ ing, on University Street. Ever been in the Birks building? It’ s really quite lovely.

Unfortunately, the building is so lo vely that in the winter, the users o f the building are asked to remove their shoes at the entrance, and traipse around pieds nues. I am reminded o f those times in elemen­ tary school when I went to school in my boots, but forgot to bring my shoes along. I had to walk around all day in my socks. Those were

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I drop the class.

Dear Diary, Laura’ s suggestion: 20th Century N ovel. Hmm, interesting reading list — I decide to go.

The teacher is interesting, but the course seems too..um ... interac­ tive. First, he tells us we have to keep a journal. Then, he stops the class so we can find a “buddy” that we can rely on in case we ever miss classes or need to share a text.

Hello, what’ s this? I feel like I ’ m at a high school dance and they’ re playing “ Stairway to Heaven” . I know Laura’ s in the class, but I can’t bring myself to get up and make the universal gesture for “ be my partner?” She probably already has one. I remain seated, but real casual-like.

At the last minute, I panic. I turn to the girl to my right and pop the question. She lets me down easy — she’ s already “ buddies” with her roommate, she says. Bullshit! I think to myself.

I conclude: I am a fully self-sufficient person and I don’ t need a partner.

“Anybody not have a partner?” asks the professor. I don’ t put up my hand, because I’ m embarrassed that in a class o f 120, I didn’t find someone. And I ’ m petrified that the girl on my right, who refused to dance, is gonna tell on me, and I ’ ll

be paired up with some other wall­ flower.

No thanks. Only one thing to do — leave the class and never, ever go back.

Dear Diary, I read an article by Andre Bazin on French Neo-realism. It’ s passionately written, and I get hit by a tsunami o f existentialism. What am I? Where am I going? I realise that here I am, a second year student (U2), nervous, frivolous and with­ out direction.

I pull my pants up and enrol in two 400-level courses on film histo­ ry that seem challenging and inter­ esting. Isn’ t that why I ’ m here?

Suddenly, I feel better, focused, alive.

Being a U2 student is quite a jarring experience. You are no longer the coddled freshman, nor are you the fiercely independent U3 student. You are the forgotten mid­ dle child in what you realise is a very dysfunctional family: you envy your siblings, and your parents — the monolithic McGill administra­ tion — don’t talk to you, nor offer any guidance. Hell, you don’ t know where they live or even what they look like. So what do you do?

You keep a diary, o f course.

Mila Aung-Thwin has a serious phone relationbship with the MARS lady.

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Walking down the street during Welcome Week, I saw a guy wearing a shirt that said, “ Silly Faggot: Dicks are for Chicks” . Which made me think o f two things: 1. On the planet where I was bom, dicks are for men. That’ s how we tell them apart from women.

2. In Canada, that guy could be sued for violating the constitutional right of gay men to have anal sex.

The first one probably doesn’t surprise anyone, but the second should raise a few eyebrows. But, as of May 24, with the Ontario Court of Appeal’ s decision in R. v. Carmen M., anal sex is protected by the Charter o f Rights and Freedoms.

The case concerned a man who was charged with anal sex with someone under age 18 (his fiancée’s niece). Section 159 o f the Criminal Code only allows anal sex to be per­ formed by consenting adults, mean­ ing two people over the age o f 18.

In itself, this is not particularly interesting; any other kind o f sex can only be performed legally by people over the age of 14. What you may know as “ statutory rape” occurs when a person over 14 and a person under 14 have sex, because the per-

son under 14 is considered at law as unable to consent.

This girl under age 18 was unable to consent, so despite that she wanted sex, Mr. M. had his ass dragged into court (pun intended).

This is where it gets strange.

Madame Justice Rosalie Abella, ruling that gay men are a historically disadvanteged group,and that their traditional means of cultural expres­ sion is to have anal sex, ruled that laws restricting the traditional expression o f gay culture would be unconstitutional, because section 15(1) o f the Charter prohibits dis­ crimination based on cultural expres­ sion. Therefore, since gay men have anal sex, any special consent rules for anal sex are discriminatory.

Madame Justice Abella’ s ruling is particulaly interesting because it had nothing to do with the facts at hand: • Mr. M. was not gay.

• Mr. M. was not having sex with another man.

So Madame Justice Abella pro­ tected Mr. M. from going to jail, and presumably from having further anal sex, because people with whom he has nothing in common often have anal sex too.

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I’ m a little confused.

It seems to me that defining a culture by its chosen form of sexual expression makes all forms of sexual expression into culture-defining events. Here’ s the logic: gay men have suffered prejudice, and gay men have anal sex, therefore anal sex should be protected by the Charter.

By the same logic, people who prac­ tise incest have also suffered preju­ dice, so consent to incest should also be protected by the Charter.

The door is wide open. People from countries which do not tradi­ tionally afford women much respect can now come to Canada, rape with impunity, claim that, in their culture, no means yes, and then plead that the Charter protects their right to believe that she consented despite the fact that the law clearly says she didn’t.

And there’ s nothing anyone can do about that.

When he was Minister of Justice, Pierre Trudeau once said, “The State has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.” Whether or not that’ s true, the State certainly has no business giving Charter protec­ tion to what goes on in there. And it especially has no business protecting the kind o f sex Mr. M. was having, and invoking historical discrimina­ tion against gay men to do it.

Go ahead and protect the right o f gay men to express their culture, if a method of having sex can be called a culture. Just make sure that gay men are the only ones you’re protect­ ing. »

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ByJennifer Parks The US Justice Department is investigating Calvin Klein Inc. for possibly violating child-pornogra­ phy laws in its back to school cam­ paign.

The “savvy” ad cam paign, designed to invoke young peoples’ interest in a new, high-priced line of jeans, has caused a barrage of com plaints. Parent groups and social commentators say the ads are in poor taste and exploit children.

Calvin Klein launched the campaign last month but quickly pulled the ads. It ran a public state­ ment in The New York Times assert­ ing the campaign would end “as soon as possible” because the ads had “been misunderstood by some”.

The com pany’s billboards, magazine ads, and TV commercials inundated the m ainstream US media with images of young mod­ els in a dingy, lacklustre rec room, posing in what critics called taste­ less and suggestive positions against a wooden-panelled back­ drop.

Some versions of the ads show young girls exposing cotton panties from open jeans or hiked up skirts, and shirtless young men.

In one television ad, a girl, standing in a CK designer shirt, is instructed by a male voice-over to unbutton her shirt. In another, a male teenager rips off his shirt and

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Critics have likened the ads to “kiddie porn”. Linda Hawke, the executive director at Media Watch, a national, non-profit, femi­ nist group which monitors the portrayal of girls and women in the media, said that she was shocked by how young the models looked in the ads and “found the TV commercials absolutely dis­ gusting”.

Hawke said that, while the thrust of Calvin Klein’s cam paign may not have solely been “shock value”, it remains a gross “misjudge­ ment”.

While some forms of media can act as a worth­ while forum for query of culture and controversy in society, Hawke thinks that Calvin an ad campaign is the wrong place to do it.

“Content like this should not be used in a commercial context to sell products,” she said. “These Calvin Klein images were created for one major purpose, and that is to sell the jeans.”

Others were not offended by the campaign, saying it had the same sexual resonance found in most of K lein’s ads or sim ilar “attention-getting” campaigns.

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“We’ve seen worse than that.

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“People are seeing the ads on American networks, but we have had no complaints in Montreal,” said Niquette Delage, the general director of the Canadian Advertising Foundation, an organi­ sation that handles French and English advertising complaints.

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Clothing manufacturers who target the same market segment as Calvin Klein Inc., said that they rely on defined campaign values so as not to offend the customer.

James Toccacelli, a Toronto advertising executive for Levi’s, said that while Levi’s has no writ­

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techno and house have become blurred, especially in M ontreal where th ere’s a lot of m usical diversity,” explained Tiga.

A rave could be a lucrative

“Leave your attitude at the door”, reads a flyer from a past rave.

With their virtual reality demonstrations, laser shows, international satellite link­ ups, smartbars and chill-out room s, these m ega-parties have been c ritic is e d for becoming an over-commer­ c ia lise d form w hich has stray ed from its o rig in al objectives.

H ow ever, su p p o rters maintain that what has hap­ pened to raves is sim ply a natural evolution of a social trend, and that a new, more v ib ran t scene w ill soon emerge.

Raves began in London, England, in the late 1980s No longer underground: rave fa sh io n hits the streets. and hit North America five years ago. They can be found in the scene, causin g d iv isio n s venture, grossing over $40,000. all m ajor c itie s w orldw ide, am ong age groups. T ypically, T here are 25 p ro m o ters in including M ontreal, where they bigger, highly publicised parties M ontreal alone vying for these attract youths ranging in age from potential profits. first appeared in early 1992.

However, much planning is 14 to 19 years old, w hereas DJ T iga, a p ro m o ter and entrepreneur, has been spinning smaller, more underground par­ in v o lv ed ; w ork p erm its, fire records for three years. He is the ties draw the older 20 plus crowd. inspections, lighting, sound con­ Many have also discerned a tro l and sec u rity m ust be founder of DNA, a production company, record store and tele­ change in the m usic. W hereas addressed before thousands of rave beats used to be mainly tech­ ravers can enjoy an event without phone information line.

He concedes that raves have no and house, now there’s trip police interference.

“You need between $10,000 hop, ambient and jungle or hard­ evolved over the years. and $40,000 to start,” said Tiga.

“Mainly, [ravers] have gotten core.

“The lines b etw een rave, “You can make money but it’s a younger. Traditionally, a rave is

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ten policies for what is acceptable and unacceptable advertising, it has a very clear picture of which values are attached to its product line.

“Individuality, ruggedness and ‘joie de vivre’ are reflect­ ed in our images. Ongoing m arket research shows that people are not offend­ ed by Levi’s ads, and this is something we want to maintain,” he said.

In 1990, Congress passed a law prohibiting the exploitation of minors for obscene purposes.

When the ads came out, the child exploitation and obscenity division of the US Justice Departm ent began investigating Calvin Klein for violating those laws.

“The FBI is not involved yet,” US Justice Department spokesperson John R ussell told the Tribune.

“However, the file will be present­ ed to the FBI for investigation when it is complete.”

This is the first time that Calvin Klein has stopped a cam­ paign short of its scheduled close.

It was “taken aback” by people’s perceptions of the ads, which dif­ fered “sharply” from the intended message “about the spirit, indepen­ dence and inner worth of today’s young people”.

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risk, involving a large amount of involved have sold out in order to capital and a huge potential loss. maximise profits.

Astrid Fischer is a U3 art his­ I’ve made some money off them, but I’ve also lost $10,000 in one tory student who follow ed the hour.” rave scene when it first hit The use of drugs in the rave Montreal. circuit is also a concern. Tiga said “At first, it was more about that the use of drugs becom es who you were and not what you noticeable as raves become more looked like. By May of '93, it had popular among youths. become very com m ercialised,” “Drugs are not a necessary said Fischer. “What used to be a element, but there is a relation­ safe environment for women has ship there,” said Tiga. “In a lot of now become a meat market. cases, it’s about adolescent drug “R aves today seem to go use and it probably won’t change against everything they used to much.” stand for: peace, unity, accep­ Lars Rosenblum , a M cGill tan ce. Now i t ’s m ore about U3 political sci­ money, egos ence stu d en t, and Stiissy!” has been to “R a v e s . .. g o a g a i n s t she c o n tin ­ rav es in ued. e v e ry th in g th e y u s e d Copenhagen, T i g a P h il a d e l p h ia , t o s t a n d f o r . . . N o w it’s says the B altim o re and rap id co m­ m o re a b o u t m o n ey , M o n treal. He m e rc ia lisa ­ believes that the e g o s a n d S tiis s y !” tion of raves drugs used at is saturating raves are not the scene. any more prevalent than in any “To keep something new and other club-like environment. exciting takes a lot of hard work. “ I d o n ’t th in k th at if you This year’s been a bit of a disillu­ decided to get rid of raves, you’d sion for a lot of people. There get rid of drugs — people will do have just been too many parties. it anyway,” said Rosenblum.

Once you have them every week, The once underground par­ you dilute the intensity,” he said. ties have developed a mainstream His solution? status. As a result, many have “I think everyone should just becom e disenchanted with the take a few months vacation.” whole scene, claiming that those

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T a s lim a N a s r in s p e a k s a t C o n c o r d ia accused her o f using the situation in Bangladesh to denounce the Bangladeshi feminist author en tire M u slim re lig io n , and Taslima Nasrin came out o f hiding accused her o f suggesting that last Tuesday to speak to a packed societal repression was a purely lecture hall at C on cordia Muslim phenomenon. In response, University.

Nasrin declared that she opposed On June 4, 1994 she was con­ fundamentalism in any shape or demned to death by Muslim fun­ form. damentalists for her 1993 novel The Tuesday afternoon lec­ Shame. ture concluded a five-day visit to The n ovel, denouncing the Montreal, during which she spoke treatment o f women in Muslim to several audiences. society, has been called blasphe­ In her lecture, en titled mous and pornographic by funda­ “ Fem ale W riters in M u slim mentalists.

S o c ie ty ” , she The fatwa, described the dif­ calling for the ficulties she and “E v e r y o n e h a s death o f the other w om en fo u g h t to o th a n d 3 2 - y e a r -o ld w riters fa ce in doctor, jo u r ­ asserting their n a il to t a k e m y p e n nalist and independence and a w a y fro m m e .” w riter, is fin din g a means almost identi­ o f s e lf-e x p re s ­ cal to the one sion. issued in 1988 Th e lecture against Salman Rushdie who began with a standing ovation as wrote Satanic Verses.

Nasrin entered the hall, wearing a suit, som ething w om en in The question period following her lecture quickly turned into a Bangladesh would not be allowed to wear. heated debate as several Muslim males in the audience attacked The audience, which had been N asrin ’ s view s. Her opponents c lo s e ly screened by security, B y K a t e G ib s o n

included many members o f the Muslim community.

Nasrin provided an historical perspective on the lack o f educa­ tional opportunities for women in

Nasrin — calling w omen to com e into the light Bangladeshi society, and men­ tioned the contin u ing role o f women as slaves in the home.

She described how difficult it is fo r wom en in her society to write, saying that she was intimi­

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This year, the Montreal police department has suffered three sui­ cides, and one suicide attempt.

This rash o f suicides on the police force has raised alarm and inspired soul-searching among the city’ s top law enforcement brass. “ W e ’ re talking about people getting killed. I have a big problem within the department... that problem is suicide,” said Montreal Urban Community Police Chief Jacques Duchesneau at a press conference in June.

dated and sexually harassed by male publishers and authors. “ Everyone has fought tooth and nail to take my pen away from me,” she said.

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Duchesneau and the Quebec public security minister publicised the force’ s suicide problem just days after the fourth officer’ s attempted suicide. “ [There is] pressure, mainly by the media and all these commissions looking very deeply at how police officers are working,” Duchesneau told the Tribune.

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“Our officers have to make cer­ tain decisions,” he said. “It’ s kind of difficult to know what is the right decision, especially... on the spur of the moment.”

Duchesneau also blamed such police frustrations as unnecessary subpoenas to court, dealing with change to administrative bureaucra­ cy, and lengthy work shifts. In addi­ tion, he attributed much o f the prob­ lem to the increasing severity of vio­ lence in society.

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Nasrin said her w riting has “ called out women to come into the light,” and informed them o f their individual worth. In her opin­ ion, the women o f the world have a rich store o f su fferin g which must be revealed and explored in order to promote healing.

She explained that her work is feared and criticised because it reveals the truth. “ I pry into their conspir­ acy o f p a tria rch y,” said Nasrin.

Nasrin ended the lecture by urging western countries ^ to support efforts against Ï fundam entalism , and by 12} encouraging Bangladeshi citSjj izens, both inside and outside the country, to join in q , the struggle.

When asked about her future, she expressed a strong desire to return to her country, and to continue her work there. Until then, Nasrin said she w ill maintain her commitment to the expression o f truth. “ Come what may, I will speak my heart out until death,” she said.

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security, also cited violence encoun­ tered on the job as a cause o f suicide.

Gariépy said that now, as never before, police must deal with extremely violent situations.

The MUC has recently added three psychologists to its staff to help officers cope with job stress. It is hoped this new addition to the force will prevent future suicides in the department.

Efforts are also being made to boost the force’ s image in the media.

Public Security Minister Serge Ménard admitted that some o f the negative reports regarding Montreal’ s police have been justi­ fied. The minister hopes to address the criticism by making changes to the police forces operating in the city. “ [We are] moving quickly to try to improve the credibility o f the police force o f Montreal and the provincial police force,” he said at the press conference in June.

Duchesneau is working to ensure that the next generation o f Montreal police officers will be bet­ ter trained to deal with the psycho­ logical stress o f their jobs. He and the new head of the Police Academy hope to change the process cadets must go through in becoming police. “ Improvements are needed in the selection and training o f police officers,” Duchesneau said in June.

Duchesneau offered several explanations for the suicides this year. Above all, he stressed the ris­ ing violence on Montreal’s streets. “ Violent crimes have obviously increased the pressures on police officers,” he said. “ When I was a police officer I didn’t need to have a bullet-proof vest to work. Nowadays people have a tendency to carry a gun and they have new means o f solving problems.” “ People are more dangerous.

It’ s obvious that the job is different today,” Duchesneau said.

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M Continued from Page 1 C a n a d a ta k e s a s ta n d Canadian delega tes w ere directly responsible for two issues included in T he P la tfo r m o f A ction, the document created by the conference. Though the docu­ ment is not le g a lly binding, it reflects the position o f the interna­ tional community.

The first Canadian-sponsored in itia tive makes rape in armed conflicts a war crime. The initia­ tiv e described rapes directed specifically at one race or religion as genocide.

The other Canadian initiative supported by the conference was the developm en t o f gu idelines used for accepting refugees who are persecuted because o f their gender. Canada was the first coun­ try to draw up a policy that would consider gender persecutions, such as genital mutilation, when decid­ ing refugee status.

The co n feren ce fo rm a lly declared that women should never be fo rced to have sex through coercion, discrimination or v io ­ lence.

Canada’ s proposal to acknowledge discrimination based on sexual orientation was left out o f the 150-page document.

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G reta H o fm a n n -N e m iro ff, joint-chairperson o f the Women’ s Studies programs at both Carleton University and the University o f Ottawa, had mixed feelings about the issue o f discrimination based on sexual orientation. “ I was sorry the issue o f les­ bian rights was not recognised...[but] was glad that it got a world-wide audience.”

However, Hassanali was con­ cerned that the media had manipu­ lated this image as being represen­ tative o f the whole conference. “ The media wanted to show a bunch o f radical lesbians protest­ ing,” she said. “ A disservice is done when one group is focused on [at the expense o f others].”

N G O c o n fe r e n c e s p o o r ­ ly o r g a n is e d Th e NGO Forum was plagued by allegations that China prevented the liberal exchange o f ideas at the forums. “ Th e N G O bod ies have always fed into U N conferences,” Ed Broadbent told the M ontreal Gazette. “ But here they’ ve been isolated, intimidated and threat­ ened [by the Chinese].”

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Hassanali said.

The fact that the NG O Forum D esp ite these problem s, was held 40 kilometres from the Finestone expressed great satis­ main conference in Beijing also faction with the proceedings at the prompted criticism o f the Chinese govern m en t.

The N G O conference was relegated to an area w here most o f the workshops were held in tents because there were no other existing structures. “ [It w as] subtle su bversion ... an attempt to keep unof­ fic ia l N G O groups v o ic e le s s and away from the main forum,” said Hassanali. “ One o f the sym­ b o lic d iffe re n c e s betw een the [N G O and U N ] conferences was that the N G O Forum was very badly o rg a n is e d ,” said The Fourth World Conference on Women was H o fm a n n -N e m ir o ff, held in B eijing fro m 4 to 1 5 September w ho attended both U N conference. events. “ I think we were very, very Though the 40 Canadian rep­ resentatives at the N G O confer­ effective...I think that [w e were successful] beyond the w ildest ence w ere housed in the same dreams o f the women who were hotel, delegates from other coun­ there” she said in a phone inter­ tries were spread out. This made view on On-Line, a CFCF-12 pro­ communication between different

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Hassanali felt that the media had not paid enough attention to the fantastic q u a lity , and the importance o f the workshops that were offered.

When considering the future o f the w o m e n ’ s m ovem en t, Hassanali said that men must be involved, in order for changes to be universally accepted. “ There is a hope that the third wave o f the [women’ s] movement will include men” , said Hassanali. “ Men are as much a victim o f our society as women. I ’ m not dis­ counting male p rivileg e , but i f there’ s going to be equality and justice, w e ’ re goin g to have to work together.”

Finestone’ s comments on OnLine echoed this sentiment. “ Partnership is the key to any forward movement that women will achieve,” she said.

When asked to reflect on the importance o f w om en ’ s issues, and the place o f conferences like the N G O Forum and the U N c o n feren ce in the w o m e n ’ s movement, Hassanali responded emphatically. “ I f one more woman looks at herself in a more positive way and questions the constraints placed upon her, I will be happy. This is how w e are goin g to break the chains o f oppression.”

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“This is the only sys­ s y s te m th a t c a p tu r e s tem that captures the ritu­ alistic behaviour aspect t h e ritu a lis tic b e h a v io u r o f violent crim e,” said a s p e c t o f v io le n t Inspector Ron MacKay, a 33-year veteran o f the c r im e .”

RCMP, and coordinator of the ViCLAS program at the R C M P’s V iolent Crime 14-year old girl in Surrey, BC. In Branch in Ottawa. that case, a conviction resulting He stressed that ViCLAS can in an eight-year prison term was separate the highly specific ritu­ given to a man who was tracked als of m any vio len t crim inals through Richmond, Burnaby, and from their modus operandi. This finally captured 800 km to the m eans th at the system is north in Prince Rupert, BC after equipped to distinguish between ViCLAS showed that crimes in behaviours performed in order to these towns were all perpetrated satisfy the perpetrator’s fantasies by the same person. (such as the ritualistic behaviours V iC LA S has also been of Hannibal Lecter in Silence o f installed to a limited extent here the Lambs), and those executed in M on treal, w here the MUC toward more practical ends. police and the Sûreté du Québec It allows for more definite instead of the RCMP have juris­ links to be established because diction over its use. W hile the ritualistic behaviour varies great­ Montreal system is not expected ly between criminals, but changes to be linked with other munici­ little as a p artic u la r assailan t palities in Canada for at least six moves from crime to crime. months, local police have good The fact that all questions reason to predict positive results. and responses are standardised Constable Louis Galardo of allows accurate cross-referencing the MUC Hold-up Squad is one between English and French, as of M ontreal’s trained ViCLAS well as any other languages. analysts.

“The system is especially “The sam e th in g [as ViCLAS] already exists for hold­ ups. W e’ve had a lot of success with it,” he said.

Since the h o ld-up system went on-line in 1991, arrest war­ rants for robbery issued by the MUC police have increased by 28 percent.

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“It is like a language transla­ tio n p rogram th at tra n sla te s w ords in stead o f in terp re tin g ideas. You still need a trained human being to interpret the pro­ gram and give it meaning,” said Fugère.

“It’s not only ViCLAS, but the person working it who also has to be good. ViCLAS won’t make the arrest for you,” agreed G alardo, who had to com plete over 6 weeks of training at vari­ ous centres across Canada before becoming a ViCLAS analyst.

The possibility of false posi­ tives, or proclaiming that two or more crimes are linked when in re a lity they are not, was addressed by MacKay. “There’s always potential for human error,” he says. “Another specialist from a separate juris­ diction always re-evaluates the file data, b lin d to the in itia l assessment.”

T hat way, M acK ay m ain ­ tains, a positive link can only be co nfirm ed afte r tw o d ifferen t analysts recognise a connection independently.

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R u s s ia n d ir e c to r ta lk s a b o u t n e w M o n tr e a l r e p e r to r y th e a tr e . should be an in teractiv e form I didn’t. I tried again and again. I needed to go through all of that. which transcends the stage.

“The theatre is another level You need to experience failure — “I don’t know why I chose to be an actor. It was like fate. When of perception. It is based on the then you can start thinking I was young, I wanted to be a cos­ relations between people, not just intensely about what you should monaut or a spy. Of course, I’ve on stage, but off as w ell,” said do next.”

Marin. “I would like always thought about to get the audience’s art — creating it, but souls, to tell them my I ’ve never asked ‘You can joke, experience. I hope m y self w hy,” said but at the they can understand artistic d irecto r same time suf­ me, and maybe I can Alexander Marin. help them answ er Despite his vague fer... Its all some questions they beginnings, the actor/ about duality.” have in their mind.” d irec to r has since On that note, form ed som e very Marin seems pointed­ definitive ideas about drama. Marin has accomplished ly aware of whom he wishes to m uch in his 36 years. He has reach. “I’m not looking for theatre taught at the institute founded by for critics. T heatre should be S tanislavsky and directed and about opening a door to percep­ acted in film and theatre around tion, and letting the audience take the world. He was aw arded what it will”.

Even though Marin continues R u ssia ’s D istin g u ish ed A rtist Honour — a lifetime achievement to act, he now primarily focuses award — when he was only 34- on directing. However, whether to create as a director or as an actor years-old.

So why has Marin immigrated has long been a question for from his native Russia to Canada Marin.

“I shifted from acting to to start Le T héâtre D euxièm e Learing reality Réalité (T2D), a Montreal reperto­ directing because I felt acting was not enough for me. My first expe­ ry theatre group?

Marin’s work has taken him T2D is Marin’s way of bring­ riences directing were not so good. ing his own vision of what theatre I changed everything on stage. I around the world and, in turn, his should be to fruition. As Marin tried to be totally different. My travels have helped shape him. explained to the Tribune, theatre mentor told me, ‘please stop,’ but “When I can see different people,

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children. A lattice of heating and plumbing pipes hang suspended Imagine Sartre’s No Exit and and backdrop the stage.

It is New Year’s Eve and the B eckett’s Godot, blended with Steve Martin and Dan Ackroyd’s cacophony of revelry drifts down into the b ase­ “W ild and m ent from the Crazy” guys, as A Chaplin of comic a p a r t m e n t s tortured b ase­ above, as the ment dwellers. timing and of roommates’ That, perhaps, relationship pathos. is the b est careens between description of v io len t co n ­ the production of H ungarian p lay w rig h t frontation, manipulation, celebra­ Slawomir M rozek’s 1984 play, tion, and despair.

T heir discu ssio n ends up The Immigrants.

This play is the launching being a little difficult to follow pad of a new theatre company, ow ing to M ak aro v ’s heavy Théâtre Deuxième Réalité (T2R). accent, and Marin’s direction of D irected by T 2 R ’s A rtistic the character. There is a percus­ Director Alexander M arin, and sive tension in his delivery that featu rin g the talen ts of two interferes with the understanding Eastern E uropean ex patriates, of his text.

Peter Batakliev, meanwhile, V italy M akarov and P eter B atak liev , The Im m ig ra n ts is as the clown-like XX, is fully at filled with pathos, m addening ease as a perform er. He is a angst, psychological torture, slap­ Chaplin of comic timing and of pathos. stick and nostalgia.

Of course, AA is by far the Designer Robin Patterson has created a stark set of wooden plat­ more difficult of the two roles. He forms representing the basement is the straight-man to XX’s sim­ apartment of two “immigrés”, AA pleton. AA is trapped in the self­ (M akarov), an intellectual and enjoym ent o f his convoluted p o litic a l refu g ee, and XX intellectual ideas. AA schemingly (B atak liev ), a sim ple-m inded m anipulates the sym pathetic labourer striving to make money Continued on P age 15 H to take back home to his wife and

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d ifferen t cou n tries, and I can speak with them, it helps me to understand. We have to under­ stand each other. Its a very small world. My experiences have given me energy. My own changes, I can understand more than when I was 25.”

In the tim e he has been in M ontreal, M arin has already directed Uncle Vanya and The Master and the M argarita at the C entaur. Both works tread precario u sly betw een com edy and tragedy, and Marin was praised for his ability in translating the texts to stage while maintaining the balance betw een these two impulses.

When asked, Marin explained why this is so easy for him. “Life is tragedy, comedy, farce, everything at the same time. You can joke, but at the same time suffer about something. Its all about duality.”

“H opefully, the plays will give us a deeper understanding,” continued M arin. “I loved the Master and the Margarita since

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my childhood, how B ulgakov could create a second reality in a metaphorical way. It is the duality of life — to know where there is something else among us that is always present.”

W hile M arin still works in film, he chooses theatre over any o th er m edium o f expression.

“Theatre is the most interesting thing in the world. We are dealing with real people on stage. The real production happens only once.

Each evening is very different, but its not a different show.”

W hen asked if he felt his work is influenced by his political beliefs, Marin said, “first priority is the soul of the human, and then it is politics. When I see people in politics, I think, maybe he’s not so happy in love and that’s why he’s doing it. When you see the play, you can feel compassion — that’s m ost im portant. I have met so many people who have helped me.

It’s amazing. I ask myself why they trust and support me, but they just do. I don’t know, it’s strange.”

C (& ^ O' Marin is launching his reper­ tory house with the play The Immigrants, see its review below fo r show -tim es and ticket information.

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fuzak and the gyrating bodies on table jazz luminaries, trumpeter D onald B yrd, and Ham m ond chat line infomercials.

C on tin u in g the them e of player Reuben Wilson, were sub­ “ Do I pass your soul test now?” queried 90210 homeboy interpretation of texts, Guru’s re­ jected to the humiliation of blow­ David Silver, as he scratched his interpretation of jazz for the hip ing over limp, one chord vamps.

L ike th at sum m er b lo ck ­ T echnics 1200s on last y e a r’s hop masses took the stage a little paean to racial to lera n ce and after midnight. To drop a little buster, the live music element of science on the whole jazz thing, Jazzm atazz cam e down to musical open-mindedness.

I was reminded often of this some critics m aintain that the Virtuosity. Fittingly, devoid of the c h ie f critica l one basic element of jazz (that’s episode during Gu­ issu e in the sw ing, G -m oney) the long, ru’s Jazzmatazz set interpretation of extended solo sections became Two veritable jazz last Wednesday. I jazz is the way perverse amalgams of the worst suspect a conspira­ luminaries... blowing in w hich it the genre has ever offered. The cy. Guru fronts the over limp, one chord w orks and re ­ horns sounded m ostly like band Gang Starr. vamps. works texts, for C*H*I*P*S incidental music, but 90210 is the brain­ exam ple, John occasionally drifted into the cut­ child o f D arrin Coltraine’s take out bin quality of later-period S tarr. And the on the Sound Miles Davis (think You’re Under venue, the Metropolis, is really just a bloated o f M usic classic, “My Favorite Arrest) and Clarence Clemons.

The drums complemented the DJversion of the Peach Pit after Things.”

DJ P rem ier, G u ru ’s lo n g ­ generated beats with the kind of Dark. Instead of a plea for the multiculturalism-informed accep­ time partner in Gang Starr, can be syncopated, dropped beat athleti­ tance o f D J’ing as m usical seen as a continuation of this tra­ cism that only ever w orks on ex p ressio n how ever, Gur u dition— Premier scratches off of instructional videotapes. M ost employed a cadre of ‘real’ jazz 12 ” records of each song, impro­ depressing of all was the unac­ m usicians to get respect. The vising with the samples and beats companied keyboard solo, which entire show was as meretricious previously laid down in the stu­ was a horrific vision of a cross­ dio. Guru’s live Jazzmatazz band breeding of Keith Jarret with John as an Avenging Angel film fest.

Opener Vanessa Daou got a featured a DJ using the same Tesh.

Jazzmatazz is solid proof that lot of press earlier this year for method (couldn’t catch his name, her album Z ip le ss, w hich set though it sounded like Chomsky an artform as serious, complex Erica Jong’s veiled erotica to a — the world’s most cited acade­ and soulful as jazz, (whose func­ trip-hop beat. Live, this academic mic, and a master of the wheels tion, as James Baldwin said, is to exercise became a late-night TV of steel!). However, the whole show “how we suffer and how we ice cream headache, combining thing was confused by the pres- delight”) cannot be re-invented by the simple-minded. the worst elem ents of A rsenio ence of live musicians. Two veri- 4êJAJ * »4.A«Wi» i.♦0tMà*A■■ flftWli

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Nomeansno can be traced to very p rim itiv e o rig in s. Rob admits, “It was never really stan­ dard rock, ever,” but is still eager to cite punk rock as his main

It’s been well over a decade since V ictoria, B .C .’s W right brothers began letting the world in on their own brand of mindbending prog punk, doing more for the standard rock rhythm sec­ tio n than N orth C a ro lin a ’s Wright brothers did for aviation.

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Hanson Brothers. The Hansons, a This lineup lives on, both in phenom enon w hich rises and touring and recording m odes, falls in cycle with the NHL play­ including their new album due o ff season is, in R o b ’s own out the second week of October. words, a sort of elaborate joke — “It’s called The W orldhood one which they are anxious not to o f the W orld as S uch. Can you push too far. think of a more pompous title?

After guitarist Andy depart­ We c o u ld n ’t, so we used that ed the band in the early nineties one,” explains Rob. “It’s a little after logging nearly a decade, the different than the last one — a lot incognito Wright’s devoted time more guitar, and the songs tend to the Hanson Brothers, which to be shorter and more up tempo.

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From the earliest days as a two piece, through double duty in tw o sim u ltan eo u s bands, Rob insists fam ily ties have helped keep things together. “It’s good and bad. It’s good because it’s a bit more of a bond than saying hey lets get together and play som e m usic. I m ean, you can leav e y o u r d ru m m er or y o u r band, but you can’t leave your brother. It allows us to fight and then not really care about it the next day.” i

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It is about as in te rra c ia l co u p lin g , W hat a w ay to le sb ia n a ffa irs , and daring as promote a movie plenty of T & A. Even about a troubled with such “daring” top­ P la y b o y . girl fighting the ics, the m ovie is far fo rces o f evil from lib e ra tin g . The (you know, sex, audience can leave the drugs and Las Vegas). Of course, theatre secure in the belief that the producers of S h o w g irls are Puritan ethics are the only way under no illusion about what is to reach fulfilm en t. A nything going to draw an audience. They deviant goes to an extreme and are so confident of their success makes the partaker evil, void of in fa c t, th at they morals and likely to end up in a scoffed at the censor hospital bed. b o ard ’s slap on the T he m ovie does wrist. n o th in g to b reak Ah yes, the NCsexual taboos 17 rating. Big Brother’s tool that n s o c i­ made sure everyone dism issed ety. In Henry and June as cheap porn. fact, Show girls promised to do for sex t h e what Tarantino did for violence m o v i e — b reak it aw ay from b anks on Hollywood stereotypes and give ra th e r than it some unpredictable meat. The d isp la c e s sex u al NC-17 rating would cease to be fear. It is m ore co n ­ a stamp of death. I mean, heck, cerned with titillating us this movie had the potential to be than with trying to make us an educational flick about the reconsider why we see sex as life of Vegas showgirls that the naughty. In the end, it is quite whole family could enjoy. c le a r th at th e p ro d u cers su b ­ T he only pro b lem is, the scribe to the hype around the m ovie sucks. It really , re-ee- NC-17 rating and aren’t really eally sucks. It is vapid, com ­ trying to challenge it’s existence p le te ly w h ite-w ash ed in at all. There is an implicit agree­ Hollywood m ovie-m aking, and ment with the audience through E lizabeth B erkeley gives new the movie that any type of sex is meaning to the term “over-act­ d e v ia n t and w o m en ’s b o d ies ing” (This is not an exaggera­ (even when clothed) are objects tion. In one key scene, the whole to be gawked at and fondled.

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Believe me, I usually enjoy m in d le ss e n te rta in m e n t.

However, there are certain topics that, if you are going to bring up, yo u ’d better do it responsibly.

For example, I resent a sem i­ graphic rape scene used as a plot im p etu s fo r such an em pty movie. I also resent that the pro­ ducers didn’t feel a need to make th e m ovie in to m ore than an ex c u se to p u t lo ts o f n ak ed females on the big screen.

Because the editors wanted to get all of the dance sequences in, we miss out on any character exploration by any of the actors.

We see showgirls are catty. We see how easy it is to fall into a life of debauchery when you get lots o f m oney. We learn that stripping makes you feel like a prostitute (and I always thought the girls at C a v e du S ex e were en jo y in g th e m se lv e s). T h ese things are all loosely asserted b etw e en sh o ts o f B e rk e le y ’s crotch.

I still believe Berkeley was chosen for the role solely because of h er c a re e r on aved By the B ell.

A nd c e rta in ly , there is something pretty damn weird ab o u t seein g an after-school icon, who hung out with Screech and Zach, licking a pole.

This movie is about as dar­ ing as Playboy without the inter­ esting articles. Besides for the under-age kids who manage to sneak into the theatre, this movie does not live up to its hype.

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Canadians, has admitted he never knew about this whole bilingual thing. You r paper o f record, La P resse, has made it clear (in per­ fe c t F ren ch ) that they think K ea n e is stupid. C o n fu sed ?

Elated? A n gered ? Y e s or N o ?

Remember, you’ re Quebec.

It’ s time to settle this issue once and for all. It’ s time to look to your trusted old friend, democ­ racy. L e t the p e o p le d ec id e whether they want to sanction this artificial continental drift.

Get buttons, catchy slogans, bal­ lo ts, croissan ts shaped lik e M itso u , and w rite the w h o le thing o f f as a ta x -free soiree.

English versus French. A good, old fashioned battle o f words.

In one comer you’ ve got the Francophones, confused about their sorted past and even murki­ er on their supposedly peachy fu tu re.

Th en th e re ’ s the A nglophon es. T h e y ’ ve got the “ ‘N o ’ Campaign’’, which sounds more like the name o f an existen­ tial punk rock group than a col­ lection o f federalist voices. This is still looking ugly. What do you do? Cancel the whole deal, head to the Montreal casino and hope to make some cash to pay o ff the

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federal debt? Yes or No? A l l is not lost. Y o u must entrust your future to Quebecers.

Y ou need to do the w ill o f the people, check legislative excess and all that ideological baloney.

So you need a good question to put on those fancy referendum ballots. It can’ t be one o f those stum pers you fin d on a fin a l exam where no means yes, and yes means maybe and who cares what the standard deviation is anyways? It’ s got to have more kick than the current question, which is about as exciting as the C anadian C ou n try M u sic Aw ards. And it must be som e­ what c o n c ise.

T h is little plebiscite-with-an-attitude may mean the end o f our country.

Voters must understand what they’ re getting into before being given the option to rip Quebec out o f Canada’ s fa m ily album.

The current referendum teaser just doesn’ t give a true picture.

What you need is a complete and accurate description o f citizens are voting for. G ive this a try: “ D o you agree that Quebec should become sovereign...AND that m em bers o f the N a tion a l Assembly, who’ ve spent the last six months sucking up to king Jacques instead o f w orking on substantive issues like jo b cre­ ation and welfare, should be run­ ning the whole show? And that Quebecers should give in to their ob session w ith la n g u a g e and political goals instead o f examin­ ing the true roots o f their ideo­

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n a t io n want to separate, or are you just kinda sure like in the 1960s or 1980 or 1992?

So now you’ ve got a real fun question. Y ou could even push back the referendum by one day (to Oct. 31) and not let people vo te unless th e y ’ re w earin g a good costume. After all, it’ s just a simple game. Yes or No. N ow that’ s the way to decide the fate o f a nation.

logical cleavage with Canada — their unique class position, eth­ nicity and religious background?

A n d do you a gree that the B on h om m e, w h o ou gh t to be labelled a sexual miscreant fo r walking around in nothing but a s c a r f in the dead o f w in ter, should becom e a national mas­ cot? And that Quebec should turn it’ s most esteemed English insti­ tu tion , M c G ill, in to a beauty school? And are you sure that this is the last, the very last time you w ill annoy the balance o f Canada with this vexing ultima­ tum? A re you re a lly sure you

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By Paul C onner Individuals get attention, but teams get victories.

In a sport like soccer, where a single goal or save can make the difference, it is often difficult to see how much the entire squad has to.do with the outcome of a game.

Julia Maughan, a forward who has seen a lot of attention thrown towards her, stresses how much it really is a team game.

Maughan, in her fifth year on the team, has become a premiere player in the league; winning the scoring title, being voted McGill female athlete of the week, and being nom inated for M cGill female athlete of the year last sea­ son. D espite these personal accomplishments, her most mem­ orable one has been “just getting as far as the team has, with the nationals.”

Maughan does not rank her athletic accomplishments or goals in an individual sense.

“U ltim ately, my goal is to win the national championship, and that is a team effort, not nec­ essarily an individual one.”

Maughan shares in the philos­ ophy held by the team ’s new

coach, S ylvie B eliveau.

Paraphrasing Beliveau, Maughan explained the coach’s policy.

“You’re going to play if you put effort into it.”

She also described this year’s Martlet team as being made up of people who all put effort into their play.

“The people who are on the field work really hard because they know that there is someone equally as strong on the bench.”

P erhaps this is one o f the reasons why Julia M aughan plays soccer year round and keeps in very good shape dur­ ing the off-season. A real enthusiast, she plays indoor intramur­ al soccer in the win­ ter, and for the Lakeshore club team in the sum m er. She has spent the past four sum m ers w orking with the Beaconsfield parks program. This past summer she held the position of sports anim ator teaching soccer and ringette.

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Julia Maughan has grown up around sports. She began playing soccer at the age of three. Her father was on the McGill Redmen hockey team in the 1950s and her grandfather was a Redmen foot­ ball player in the 1930s, suggest­ ing that the McGill athletic tradi­ tion is also strong.

“It has definitely gotten me more athletically involved. I am hoping that my sisters and broth­ ers play for McGill one day.”

c h a m p io n s h ip Combining siblings and half­ siblings, Maughan is the second oldest in a family of seven chil­ dren, the oldest being twenty five, and the youngest being six months old. When asked about what kind of effect all of these younger family members have had on her, she admitted that teaching them and watching them grow up enhanced her desire to pursue a career in education.

Maughan is in her fifth year

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The McGill Redmen finally found a way to fuel its struggling offence: give the ball to Shawn Linden.

The high-octane running attack powered by the sophomore from Fredericton lifted McGill to a 35-14 victory in the 27th annual Shaughnessy Cup game against the Concordia Stingers.

McGill's second victory of the season was also a milestone for head coach Charlie Baillie. Baillie has just become the eighth coach in CIAU history to reach the hundredwin plateau.

The Redmen drew first blood late in the first quarter. Starting from their own 42, McGill marched 68 yards in seven straight running plays. Chad Leudtke capped the drive on a 32-yard touchdown run with 2:20 remaining in the opening quarter.

McGill extended its lead mid­ way through the second after a Concordia miscue. Defensive back Sal Brohl returned a interception to the Concordia 15-yard line, but the Redmen could not punch in for six, and had to settle for a field goal.

Andrew Boon nailed the 20-yard FG, staking the Redmen to a 10-0 advantage.

The Stingers, not ready to throw in the towel just yet, came out in a frenzy in the last two min­ utes of the half. Concordia veteran

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quarterback Dennis Pitsellis quickly moved the Stinger offence from their own 38 to the Redmen 49 with three quick passes. With just 21 seconds left in the half, Pitsellis set up the screen pass to running back Farell DuClair. DuClair, padding Pitsellis throwing stats, promptly ran for a 49-yard touchdown, cut­ ting the Redmen lead to 10-7.

“They got one lucky break. We had five guys hit [DuClair], and

the C oncordia place kicker Dimitrios Manolopoulos missed on a 38-yard field goal attempt as the first half ended. Manolopoulos, usually one of the O-QIFC’s most reliable kickers, has not connected on any of his six field goal attempts this season.

The McGill defence looked like it would unravel at the seams for the second consecutive week.

Just a week ago, the Redmen ‘D’

sometimes we have a problem not wrapping,” said Boon.

The Stingers almost complete­ ly erased the deficit on the ensuing kick-off. Concordia pounced on a mishandled ball deep in McGill ter­ ritory. Fortunately for the Redmen,

yielded 26 points and allowed 479 yards in the game against Ottawa.

The opening drive of the second half for the Stingers left the home­ coming crowd at Molson Stadium with a sense of déjà-vu. The Stingers paraded 77 yards in four

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Using the two, she hopes to find a job teaching in elementary school next year, and then move on to become a principal or vice-princi­ pal sometime in the future.

For now, she is happy to have stayed in school after getting her bachelor’s. “I’ve learned a lot in my masters degree, and I am real­ ly glad that I did it. I think that it has prepared me a bit better for entering an elementary school.”

Ju lia M aughan appears to have her life in focus. Intending to keep learning throughout her life, her philosophy is that education does not end after a bachelor’s or a master's. She plans to get her Ph.D. after a few years in teach­ ing. She plans to play soccer, but not as intensely. Her main plan is to enjoy whatever she does.

The ‘95 season w ill be Maughan’s last at McGill, as she is in her final year of eligibility.

She hopes to do well this season; more importantly, she hopes the team does well this season. After all, soccer is a sport where teams, not individuals, win games.

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m inutes, and fullback DuClair been wrapped up in the backfield, found his way into the end-zone for but Linden broke tackles that were the second time on a 3-yard touch­ not meant to be broken, spun off down run. defenders and fought tooth and nail Concordia, not content with a to the three yard line. On the next four-point lead, seemed ready for play, Linden finished the job with a more. After McGill pivot Dana three yard TD run, snatching the Toering was picked off, the lead back. After a 2-point convert Stingers were on the verge of on a pass from Toering to Dan putting up more points. A huge Proynk. the Redmen led 21-14. interception thwarted the Stinger On McGill’s next possession, scoring threat, and gave the ball Linden found the promised land back to the offence. again, this time on a four-yard run, Toering atoned for his giving McGill a two touchdown earlier mistake with an advantage with ten minutes left in incredible run, that put the game.

M cGill in scoring The Redmen put the final position. On a 2nd, touches on the rout with a five-yard and 7 from the McGill TD run from Proynk.

32, Toering looked When all was said and done, more like Randall the Redmen finished with a team Cunningham as he record for rushing yards in a game. barrelled 49 yards The McGill ground game mustered down to the Stinger up 374 yards, with the bulk of it 29.

Two plays later, coming from Linden and Luedtke.

Boon trim med the Luedtke also rushed for over 100 Stinger lead to one yards, running for 103 yards and with his second field one TD. It was the first time McGill c goal of the afternoon. has had two rushers eclipsing the The 35 yarder, made it 100-yard mark since Michael Soles [j 14-13 Concordia with and Gerry Ifill did in the 1987 qj 1:19 left in the third championship season. ^3 quarter.

An overly modest Linden gave The fourth quarter all the credit to his team-mates. was one of the most “The offensive line really did a im pressive periods good job today, they created a lot of from a running perspective. The holes.”

Redmen poured on 22 unanswered The win moved McGill into points, and scored three touchdown, sole possession of second place, a turning a close contest into a rout. game behind first place Ottawa, Linden set up his own touch­ who remained perfect on the season down with a beautiful 23-yard run. with a 34-28 win at home against Most running backs would have Bishop’s.

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Last Wednesday, September 20, the 0 - QIFC league office took away a victory from the Queen’s Golden Gaels. The Gaels beat Concordia 1716 on September 9, but the league rul­ ing reversed the outcome and declared Concordia the winner 1-0 because Queen’s had used an academically ineligible player.

In an ideal world, or a field of dreams, the old saying may ring true: “If you build it they will come.”

But in reality, in the realm of university sports, things are some­ what different.

“If you build it, let them know • Martlets halt Stinger streak where it is, provide directions, free Last Wednesday the McGill’s admission and complimentary beer. women’s rugby team ended They may just come — if there’s Concordia's two year winning streak nothing better to do.” with an impressive 69-0 pounding of There are still the die-hard uni­ their arch- rivals. Three days later, on versity sports fans who arrive at the Saturday September 23, the Martlets sporting event of the day even continued their winning ways with a decisive 27-0 win over Macdonald before the players do. Then there are College. The Martlets finally dropped those who are a little less enthusias­ a match to the Queen’s Golden Gaels tic, but supporters none the less. the next day. Fatigue began to set in as They are like the fair-weathered the Gaels proved to be too much for a friends of university sports. bruised and battered Martlet squad.

The final group of sporting • M en’s soccer finishes weekend spectators worth noting are all those action with win and tie “Lois and Clark” types who will go The McGill men’s soccer team moved the extra mile to scoop and capture into first place in the university soccer that one shining sports moment in league standings with a 2-0-2 record. writing.

On Friday night, the Redmen posted a For the Montreal Expos it may 1- 0 victory over UQTR. McGill’s lone just all be over but the tears this sea­ goal came in the second half. Sean son. The media is not-so-subtly Smith’s shot deflected off a Troisstarting to switch loyalties to foot­ Rivières defender, and bounced off the ball and hockey while the Expos goal post right to a waiting Adam Mar. Mar blasted home the rebound past a players have B.B. King droning out stunned UQTR goalie. Rookie goalthe likes of “The Thrill is Gone”. tender Sebastien Charest posted his Seated in the clubhouse, they’re pol­ third consecutive shutout. McGill trav­ ishing up their golf clubs after the elled to UQAM in the hopes of post­ game. ing back to back victories. Kevin For die-hard baseball enthusi­ McConnell opened the scoring in the asts who aren’t quite ready to hop first half, with his second goal of the onto the football and hockey band­ season. UQAM tied the game on the strength of penalty shot. A question­ wagons, there is still another game able hand ball call resulted in the in town. By now the Redbirds are penalty, and the goal broke Charest's old news. University baseball has 300 plus minutes of goal free keeping. found a home in the city, and the UQAM then proceeded to take the country for that matter — so what’s lead with a goal on a semi-breakaway, there to tell besides scores? Lots. and seemed to be on their way in University baseball is good handing McGill its first loss. McGill fast-paced action, with quality play­ equalised in the 85th minute on a great ers, high intensity, and even a good ball. Simon Raby headed in the tying goal on a perfect cross off a free kick. dose of attitude thrown in for excite­ The Redmen will host the Bishop’s ment. It’s cheap, it’s interesting and Gaiters on Friday, as they hope tighten if you can actually get to the park, their stranglehold on first place. remember to bring a blanket or a warm sweater.

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McGill lost to the Stingers on Tuesday evening by a score of 2-1 but the game was by no means a sleeper.

McGill got stung early on by a two ran ConU homer that made the score 2-0 for the visitors in what would turn out to be the game win­ ning hit. The Redbirds weren’t able to take off from that point on even though they made several valiant attempts to get their momentum going. The Redbirds may be the more talented of the two teams, but execution soon became the name of the game on this night.

There was a fair amount of McGill wood connecting with the ball, but the repeated sound of “ping” in the parking lot behind the field told the whole story for the Redbirds. The fans were more ner­ vous than the Stingers as ball after ball was sent foul towards the parked vehicles instead of into the outfield. While many dents were registered beyond the field, McGill failed to make the same impact on the scoreboard, ending the game with only two hits on the score sheet.

The TSN turning point which sealed the Concordia win came in the fifth inning when McGill had runners in scoring position with only one out. The player at bat hit a foul ball which appeared to bounce off the fence before being caught by a Stinger. The batter was called out

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even though the speculation was that the ball was in fact out of bounds before the catch. (One fan swears he heard the “ping” of the ball on the fence while others sug­ gest that he was “hearing things” because it was his vehicle which was the recipient of most of the errant foul balls.)

It appeared to be a questionable call but Redbird players assert that there was no call to be made. They took full responsibility for the loss and chalked the game up into the “missed opportunities” file.

Seven innings, several well-hit foul balls, a couple of missed steals, one fence, two wild pitches and two upset Stinger-Batters later, McGill found itself holding the candlestick in the 2-1 final.

In weekend baseball action McGill fared somewhat better, sweeping the Queen’s Golden Gaels in three games in Kingston, Ontario.

Friday night, McGill defeated Q ueen’s 14-11 with Brian Titherington on the mound. In 4.2 innings Titherington had five strike­ outs which helped the Redbird cause substantially. Solid offensive perfor­ mances were displayed by Redbird Yann Monet and Mark DeBoer, who went 5 for 5 and 4 for 5 respec­ tively. Monet batted in three runs and DeBoer nailed two doubles in the match-up.

In Saturday’s doubleheader, McGill recorded two 5-4 wins over

C o n c o r d ia the Gaels. Elan Sator was the win­ ning pitcher in game one and Dan Brock secured the victory in the sec­ ond half going the whole distance unassisted on the mound. Kevin Wheaton went 4 for 4 for the Redbirds, accounting for almost half of the team’s offence in the opener in which McGill had a total of ten hits.

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At the beginning of the sea­ son, the Martlets had certain goals and objectives. C ertainly they hoped to be successful, consistent, and sure — perhaps even to instill fear into their opponents. What they did not count on was installing absolute terror.

After this past weekend, even this sports reporter is afraid of the talent that’s running rampant at McGill.

Last weekend, the Martlets swept the competition with a 6-2 victory over Trois-Rivières, and an 18-0 demolition job over UQAM. This is not a typo. 18-0. The game contained several record-breakers, including what is believed to be a CIAU record for the most goals in a regular season game. The match began in fine fashion as the Red and White jumped out of the start­ ing blocks and established a 4-0 half-tim e lead. Any other team would have been pleased with this initial outburst, but, even then, it was apparent that the Martlets were not playing to their full potential.

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Martlet machine to get going. With cutting passes and clever-yet-sensible playing, the Martlets proceeded to break team, league, and CIAU records with 14 goals in the second half. Spectators and UQAM play­ ers looked around desperately as this wall of Red and White swept over the field like a raging tidal wave.

Veteran m id-fielder Heidi Bloomfield, who recently returned into action after tearing her anterior cruciate ligam ent, wanted to explain the high score.

“We were not trying to run up the score, but then again, you can’t expect us to play without intensity.

That can only hurt us come nation­ als,” Bloomfield said.

Julia Maughan and Luciana Cifarelli accounted for almost half the Martlet offence with four goals each. Maughan is now the leading scorer in the league with nine goals in four games. Sascha McLeod continues to wreak havoc for oppo­ nents as she potted three. Cifarelli, Maughan and McLeod set a team record for the number of hat-tricks in a single game. Other scorers for the M artlets included Jessica Mingo and Jaime Sochasky, who had two goals each. Marie-Claude Savaria, Tanaquil Chantrill, and Kirsten ‘The Tackier’ Greer had singles. Greer’s goal demonstrated her precise shooting, as she curled in a comer kick that found its way into the onion bag.

Besides the 18-0 drubbing over UQAM, the M artlets also played last Friday against TroisRivières. The match began in simi­ lar fashion to other Martlet games in that it was a slow and messy start.

M artlet m id-fielder Donna Prahacs offered her observations on M cG ill’s lethargic kick-off.

“We were a little disorganised defensively, and we were scram­ bling a bit, but we regained our composure and settled down nice­ ly-" Using the same tactics as last week, the Martlets spread out and took advantage of their skill by pushing the ball around and keep­ ing Trois-Rivières on the defen­ sive.

Goal getters in the game con­ sisted (again) of the ‘Trois F antastiques’ of M aughan, Cifarelli, and McLeod. Maughan had two goals, while the other two had singles. Elaine Cobb had fans cheering with a beautifully placed shot while M.C. Savaria finished off the scoring.

M e O This Friday, the Martlets host B ish o p ’s at 7 pm at M olson Stadium. The game will kick o ff the M cG ill Soccer Alumni Weekend and will end when the M a rtlets travel to fa c e Laval on Sunday.

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E ta ts-G é n é r a u x The Québec government is reforming education.

From funding to accessibility, we will be discussing issues that affect the very way we are educated.

The Students' Society is holding an open meeting to inform you of the issues and get your input on our presentation to the government. see us Thursday, September 28 starting at 6 pm in Shatner 107/8.

If you can't make it, you can call Nick Benedict, VP External a t 3 9 8 -6 7 9 8 or by email - external@stusoc.lan.mcgill.ca

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September 26th, 1995 TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26 Amnesty International holds its second meeting today in Shatner 435 at 6:30 pm. There will be new cases to work on and a letter writing workshop for new members.

The McGill Hong Kong Dragon Student’s Group presents a Hong Kong Food Festival today between 11am and 4pm at the 3-Bares. Food includes dim sum, rolls, dumplings, rice, noodles, etc. Various corporate sponsors are funding, so admission is free!

Continues tomorrow.

The Quebec Policy Interest Research Group (QPIRG) holds a meet­ ing today for the Montreal Sound Waste Management Coalition at 3647 University St., 5pm. All welcome. For more information, call 398-7432.

The QPIRG holds a young entre­ preneur’s meeting today in the Shatner Cafeteria at 6pm. For more informa­ tion, call 398-7432.

The QPIRG’s Transport Coalition is also holding a meeting at 3647 University Street, time as yet undeter­ mined. Please call 398-7432 if interest­ ed.

WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 27 The McGill Entrepreneur’s Club presents Mr. Jan Peeters, CEO and co­ founder of Fonorola, Canada’s thirdlargest long distance reseller. All wel­ come ($3 fee for non-members).

Leacock 26 at 5:30 pm.

The McGill Hong Kong Dragon Student’s Group continues their Food Feast today (See Sept. 26 for details).

Auditions for the Savoy Society’s production of Ruddigore (Gilbert and Sullivan) will be held this evening and on Friday. Actor/singers and singer/dancers required. To sign up, look on the Drama notice board (Arts or Music buildings). For more informa­ tion, contact Kevin at 286-0013.

The next External PCOC (Planning Committee on Council) meeting will be held today in the Shatner Ballroom. Interested parties are invited to attend. For more infor­ mation, contact Andrea Stairs at 2884097.

The ‘Bisexual Group’ of LBGTM (Lesbians, Bisexuals, Gays and Transgender Students of McGill) holds a discussion group today at 5:30 pm in Shatner 423.

Interested in international devel­ opment? The McGill Students’ International Development Initiative is looking for new members for its events — including foreign volunteering and education. The first meeting is today at 8 pm in Shatner 302. For more informa­ tion, contact Mark at 844-1530.

META, McGill for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, holds its first meeting today at 5pm in Shatner B-09.

All welcome. For more information, contact Marc at 342-5849.

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“Noam Chomsky Exposed” is pre­ sented by Prof. Werner Cohn today at 3:30 pm in rm S 1/3 of the Stewart Biology Building. An exploration of Chomsky’s ‘darker’ politics. For more information, contact Erik at 284-6884.

THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 28 illTV, McGill’s student-run televi­ sion network, is holding a recruitment extravaganza at 7:15 pm in Shatner 425/426. For more informuion. call 398-6778. Help make a show that wiii blow "Friends’’ off the map' OKTOBERFEST returns with a liuy-time BBQ at the 3-Bares. German food, music jchittp B ier 1r.eludin| Becks. Cool T-shirts/Looney shooters available. Don’t miss!

Students interested in being on the organising committee for the McGill Body Image Forum (Feb. 96) should come to the first meeting at 5 prn in Shatner 432. For more information, contact Daria at 398-6017 ore-mail at dmanosG faci.lan.mcgifl ca.

Auditions for the Savoy Society’s production of “Ruddigore” continue today (see Sept. 27).

The ‘Women’s Group’ of LBGTM holds a discussion group today at 6:30 pm in Shatner 423.

FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 29 The McGill India-Canada Students’ Association will hold a Welcome Back dinner at 10 pm at the Maritime Hotel, 1155 Guy Street (at Réné Lévésque). Tickets are $7 for members, $9 non-members; prices are cheaper in advance. For more informa­ tion, call 398-2142 or visit Shatner room 432.

OKTOBERFEST continues today with the day-time 3-Bares BBQ (see Sept. 28). To top off the celebration, there is an Oktoberfest party at Gert’s Bar, Shatner building, during the evening.

LOAF, McGill’s organic food co­ op, holds its first meeting today at 5pm in Shatner 107/108. For more informa­ tion, call 398-7432.

The McGill Symphony Orchestra plays tonight in Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke West at 8pm. Free passes required; music includes Stravinsky and Bruckner. For more information, call 398-4547. Plays again tomorrow.

The Poli Sci Department presents Michel Fortmann (Université de Montréal) in a workshop presentation entitled, “Security Studies After the Cold War.” Workshops begin at 3pm in Leacock 420.

McGill Christian Fellowship holds a large group meeting today at 7 pm in the Shatner cafeteria. Come for prayer (closed eyes and folded hands not required...)! Contact Jean at 848-1720 or Lori at 2188-8676 for more informa­ tion.

LBGTM is holding a ‘coming-out group’ today at 5:30 pm in UTC (3421 University). All are invited to attend. A general discussion will follow at 7pm in the same location.

SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 30 The Montreal Assault Prevention Centre begins ACTION, a self-defence course by and for women, today, con­ tinuing on Oct. 7. The cost is $100. For more information, call 282-1212.

The Sandra Chipman-McAuliffe memorial celebration will be held today in- the Queen Elizabeth Hospital to raise ovarian cancer awareness. For more information, contact Penny Chipman at 626-4110.

The joint McGill-Concordia Queer Jewish Women’s group will hold their first meeting at the Concordia Women’s Centre, 2020 Mackay (Guy Métro), at 7:30 pm. All women and kosher snacks are welcome!

Red Herring and sell your worthless soul! Call 398-MUCK. The Montreal Sexual Assault Centre is seeking concerned, bilingual women to volunteer for its 24-hour, daily telephone crisis service. For more information, call 934-4504.

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Player’s Theatre is taking ticket reservations for its double bill, MAMET-MANIA: “Oleanna” and “Sexual Perversity in Chicago.” Both run in early October. For more informa­ tion, call 398-6813.

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MONDAY. OCTOBER 2 The Esperanto Club continues its series of meetings today at 5:30 pm in room 1170, West Tower, 550 Sherbrooke West. Come and learn the world’s “international” language. For more information, call 933-3321 or email at bmak@facl.lan.mcgill.ca/ bbqp@musicb.

Prof. Myron Echenberg will hold a brown-bag lunch seminar today at noon entitled, “Public Health and Development: A Historian’s Perspective.” 3715 Peel St., room 100.

For more information, call 398-3507.

McGill Student Health Services opens AIDS Awareness Week today at 7pm in Leacock 132. Discussion to fol­ low; pay what you can. For more infor­ mation, call Dave at 398-2915 or Gypsy at 935-2084.

ONGOING AND UPCOMING The Language Exchange Club is always looking for new members!

Come out and practice/share another tongue. For more information, call 931-0215.

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The YMCA Yellow Door’s Elderly Project is seeking volunteers to accompany seniors on common-place outings one morning or afternoon a week. A car is not necessary, but a STCUM pass is helpful. For more information, contact Carolyne or Leigh Ann at 398-6243.

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