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Gert’s break-in frazzles nerves.

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The science of sport.

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120th season o f McGill hockey set to begin.

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Welcome to the referendum, McGill M cG ill Principal Bernard Shapiro told the Tribune in March that a rise in tuition fees is very With the referendum less than possible. “[Out of province students] two weeks away, students are beginning to consider the impact would be treated the same as stu­ Quebec separation would have on dents from the United States or from Africa which McGill. would mean a rise An immediate “P rofessors could in the tuition fee.” concern for out of But Ministry province students is easily lea ve... It of Education the possibility of w ould be a disaster spokesman Simon rising tuition fees if for Q u e b e c .”

Bégin said in terms Quebec were to of a raise in tuition become sovereign. fees, students have According to figures provided by the registrar’s more to fear from Federal Human Minister Lloyd office, 33 per cent of McGill under­ Resource graduate students are Canadian citi­ Axworthy’s proposed cuts than a separate Quebec. He said fees will zens from outside of Quebec.

If Quebec separates they could inevitably increase whether Quebec separates or not. become foreign students.

“Next year, the proposal of the Currently Canadian arts stu­ dents pay $997.41 per semester for federal government will mean $125 15 credits, while foreign students million less in higher education. pay $3,876.50. Subsequently, in an The year after, $363 million less. independent Quebec, fees could By doing that, the federal govern­ conceivably quadruple for ment doesn’t help to maintain the institutions,” Bégin said.

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Liberal education critic Henri François Gautrin disagrees.

“The effect on the budget equi­ librium will oblige a provincial government to diminish transfer payments to universities after sov­ ereignty. The effect will be that the university will be obliged to increase fees,” said Gautrin.

Aside from tuition fees, a pos­ sible decline in the quality of uni­ versity education is also of concern.

It is commonly believed that McGill faculty who are profession­ ally mobile would leave Quebec in the wake of a YES vote.

According to a Tribune poll of 120 professors conducted in March, 20 per cent of McGill faculty said they would be very likely to leave McGill if Quebec were to separate.

Another 14.2 per cent indicated that they were “somewhat likely” to leave.

Other conservative estimates suggest that McGill could lose one third of its faculty.

“Professors could easily leave - they have a market. As a

province, we have to attract brains instead of export them. There is a certain danger for people who have a market to leave. It would be a dis­ aster for Quebec,” said Gautrin.

Principal Shapiro believes that whether or not professors and experts choose to stay at McGill will depend entirely on what kind of research funding is available, not on the results of the Quebec refer­ endum.

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

The latest figures on research funding show that in 1993-94, McGill received $89.3 million from the federal government, accounting for 49 per cent of M cGill’s total research budget. The provincial government provided $25.5 million — 14 per cent of the overall budget.

The remaining funds came from private sources.

Bégin said that lost federal

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Questioning security: weekend break-in at Gert’s building.

“It’s almost positive that it is someone who knows the place.

They knew what they wanted, they knew where to go, and hopefully they won’t be back,” said Brisebois.

Gert’s General Manager, Pat

petrators destroyed the cigarette machine and stole the satellite On the weekend of October 8, receiver. They then proceeded to $20-25,000 of music equipment rifle through the offices of the was stolen from G ert’ s Pub. SSMU executive.

Currently, there are few leads as to VP Internal Jennifer Harding the exact time of the break-in or to expressed several concerns regard­ those responsible for it. ing the break-in. Among them is It is speculated that the the potential for an crime occurred sometime individual to hide between 5 p.m. Sunday and out in the building 9:30 a.m. Monday. Although until it is closed there were no signs of forced for the evening. entry into the Shatner Harding main­ Building, the perpetrators tained that this appear to have used a crowbar should not be pos­ to gain access into Gert’s and sible given the the offices of the SSMU execu­ nightly security tives. sweeps of the SSMU General Manager building.

Guy Brisebois helped to estab­ Harding also lish the time of the break-in. questioned how Brisebois left the Shatner S h a tn e r secu rity n o t all it’s c r a c k e d u p to the perpetrators building at approximately 5 entered the build­ p.m. on Sunday and saw no sign of Enfield concurred. ing. suspicious activity. M cG ill “I think they came strictly for “The only people who have Security was alerted to the incident one purpose. They went directly access to the building are SSMU on Monday morning by a Miraval into the DJ booth and took the staff, executives, porters, cleaners employee. sound system and an amplifier and security guards,” she stated.

Brisebois believes that the from behind the bar.”

The VP Internal further ques­ perpetrators were familiar with the According to Enfield, the per­ tioned the positioning of the sur­ by

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veillance camera at the front of Shatner, which is only angled at the far north door.

She went on to suggest that the thieves must have had both tools and a truck to transport the stolen equipment.

Harding found it odd that they did not take the new computers in the office or the televisions sets in Gert’s.

“I would like to know who did it because I have a hard time fath­ oming that students would steal from their own school. These indi­ viduals took very specific things,” she said.

Administrative Assistant of General Operations and Services Maria Keenan said that a written report would not be available until the financial losses were tabulated.

She added that, in response to the break-in, security measures would be reinforced.

“We will try to enforce the present rules more strictly. We’re trying to protect our students and our pub,” she said.

Keenan’s response to the inci­ dent was similar to that of Harding.

“I couldn’t even begin to sus­ pect who would want to do this. I am very disappointed and I hope that it ’ s on somebody’ s con­ science,” she said.

More information regarding the break-in is expected to be made available within the next few weeks. The investigation is still in its initial stages.

“I haven’t yet reviewed the video, but I will,” stated Brisebois.

“There are about 12 to 15 hours of video to review. We don’t expect to find anything. I ’m sure they knew about the camera too,” he said.

The insurance adjuster was unable to comment on the incident.

Bound by an act of confidentiality, the adjuster said that it was against the law to provide any information to outside individuals.

M cG ill Security was also unavailable for comment.

Gert’s frequenters need not worry about scheduled events how­ ever. The pub has rented music equipment and will continue to do so until the stolen property is replaced.

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The first part of a long consul­ tation process came to a close as a number of schools presented reports to the Commission des Etats généraux sur l ’éducation, on Wednesday, October 11.

Among these reports was the submission by the SSMU, present­ ed to the commission by VP External Affairs Nick Benedict and Chair of the External Planning Committee of Council Andrea Stairs.

The Etats généraux commis­ sion was established earlier this year with a mandate to look at every facet of the Quebec education system. Working with a wide selec­ tion of schools, the commission has been holding public hearings since last spring. Concerns raised during the hearings will be discussed when

the commission sets up a series of regional forums. The results from the forums will be used by the com­ mission in order to formulate a cohesive plan of action for the Quebec education system.

The SSMU’s submission out­ lines a broad array of concerns.

Ensuring that Quebec remains com­ petitive academically in the coming century and an emphasis on inter­ university cooperation were central aspects to the report. Further, the report stresses the importance of looking at education in terms of social investment.

With regard to their recom­ mendations, Paul Inchauspé, presi­ dent of Ahuntsic CEGEP, asked the SSMU representatives for their opinions on the provincial govern­ ment’s lack of funds for education. “...Spending money on educa­ tion is not like throwing it down a

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black hole; it’s a necessary and crit­ graduate with substantial debts. ical investment in the future,” said Furthermore, student debt can reach Benedict. “If we don’t invest in our such high levels that there is a neg­ work force, Quebec society will ative debt amortisation. One solu­ only be able to compete in the low- tion suggested by academics, skill, low-technology sectors of the included in the SSMU proposal, is world economy. I think we can do the creation of a graduate tax. better than that,” he said.

It was also pointed out at the meeting that uni­ versity tuition fees in Ontario are dou­ ble that of Quebec’s, yet both provincial govern­ ments spend roughly the same amount on educa­ tion. To this, the SSMU representa­ tives responded that perhaps Stairs a n d B e n e d ic t: e d u c a tio n as so cia l investm ent Quebec’s commit­ ment to accessible education is something to be proud of and that it Both Stairs and Benedict feel should not be altering its policies to that the SSMU report was well make the same mistakes as other received. They regard it as some­ provinces. what unique from the other presen­ Part of the question period that tations. Stairs pointed out that the followed the presentation of the SSMU report took the high school report focused on SSMU’s position to university transition into concerning student aid. Studies account. have shown that debt-aversion is “We looked at giving students becoming a greater barrier to acces­ an opportunity to define their inter­ sibility as students feel discouraged ests before they get to university,” by the knowledge that they will she said. “A couple of Quebeckers

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came and talked to us about the CEGEP to university transition and how they could have been better prepared before university.”

Benedict also pointed out that the SSMU brief varied in other ways.

“We differed in that we took a step back instead. We asked what the goals of the education sys­ tem are,” he said.

“The point was to decide what’s going on with the current issues. Our presenta­ tion was very issue­ centric as opposed to [focused on] specific details,” he said.

The Etats généraux commission will now take all the submissions and enter into the second step of the process: compiling a report of the most salient issues to be further dis­ cussed. SSMU will have to wait to hear whether or not it will be called upon for further consultation.

“The interesting part will be when they come back and say what they think the important parts of the Quebec education system are,” stat­ ed Stairs. “It will be interesting to see what actually gets into the report.”

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Frosh information disks infected with destructive virus by

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Many computer disks given to about 1,500 students participating in this year’s Frosh Program were infected with a destructive comput­ er virus known as Natas.

The diskettes contain introduc­ tory information about SSMU and M cG ill. It was put together by SSMU VP Internal Jen Harding and duplicated for the frosh packages

by Coop McGill.

The virus was discovered on the Frosh Information Disk by first year student Salim Hirji-Lalani after it caused $125.35 worth of damage to his hard drive. Because the Coop SSMU logo appears on the diskette, Hirji-Lalani submitted a letter on September 25 to Yvon Barrette, general manager of Coop SSMU. Two weeks ago, SSMU received a copy of the letter from Coop SSMU. “Somewhere along the way someone didn’t check that the diskette was up to the latest stan­ dard. They didn’t guarantee the safety of the diskettes,” said HirjiLalani.

Not all diskettes appear to have the Natas virus which infects IBM computers W h o se d isk is it?

There has been some discrepency concerning the question of accountability for the faulty disks. They all carry Coop SSMU’s logo, not Coop M cG ill’s.

However, Coop McGill declared bankruptcy on August 31st, 1995 and Coop SSMU emerged shortly after in the Shatner building.

Kelly Remai, SSMU VP Finance, does not see a difference between Coop McGill and Coop SSMU. “In my opinion, Coop SSMU is essentially the same as Coop McGill and they should be respon­ sible for the faulty disks produced,” he said.

Harding was asked to put a logo for Coop SSMU, not Coop McGill on all the disks. She main­ tains that they are partly responsi­ ble.

“I’m sure that from a business standpoint they [Coop SSMU] are a new company, but from the stuff they wanted us to put on the disk [Coop SSMU logo], there’s some correlation between the two compa­ nies,” she said.

Barrette disagrees.

“It has nothing to do with this entity here [Coop SSMU],” he said.

Because the diskettes were copied by a now bankrupt Coop M cG ill and not Coop SSM U, Barrette does not feel he should take responsibility for the defective disks.

“You can’t pin the responsibil­ ity on Coop SSMU,” he stated. “As a businessman I like to be flexible, but this is going too far.”

was given to Coop McGill in order you should readily do,” said Head.

Harding maintains that even if for it to make 1,200 copies to be distributed in frosh packages in the virus came from her computer, early September. Coop M cGill Coop McGill should have checked duplicated the frosh disk on several demo computers that did not have virus checkers on them.

After the disks were made, Harding installed a virus checker that detected a boot sector virus on her new comput­ M a n y fr o s h co m p u ters c o u ld b e sick er.

Michael Head, Systems the disk for viruses before they Manager at the McGill Computing duplicated them. However, it is not Centre, examined Harding’s com­ unusual for companies not to check for viruses before disks are dupli­ puter on September 11.

“She had something on her cated.

“It goes either way. They computer and we removed it. I have a feeling it was Natas or one of should [check for viruses].

Sometimes they don’t. A good, those,” he said.

An older version of a virus quality guy will check for sure,” detecting program was also found said Head. “Caveat emptor, I guess, when you’re looking for duplica­ on Harding’s hard drive.

“You don’t realise that [updat­ tion services.”

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SSMU a student service. This inci­ dent may factor into the decision.

“Depending on how they han­ dle it, it will demonstrate a lot about what kind of people are run­ ning the organisation and how pro­ fessional it is,” said Remai.

SSMU has still to decide what to do about the student who has asked for compensation.

“Nothing has been done because we haven’t discussed it with the executives yet,” said Guy Brisebois, SSMU General Man­ ager. “There will be something done, but what, I don’t know.”

Harding reassured Hirji-Lalani in a telephone call that although the matter is still being discussed, he will be reimbursed.

“I don’t want him walking away and saying we didn’t do any­ thing about it,” she said.

Harding has ensured that the SSMU computers now have up-todate virus detecting programs on them.

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Hirji-Lalani’s letter and diskette, as well as the original disk to Kathy Bowman, program secretary for SSMU, about two weeks ago.

“We put both disks, the origi­ nal and the student’s, into my computer and immediately it said there was a virus there,” said Bowman.

Coop SSMU now has both the original disk and H irjiLalani’s disk. Barrette maintains however, that the original disk has not been tested for viruses.

Harding also pointed out that Coop McGill did more than just copy the disks; they also created subdirectories on the original diskette before they duplicated it.

However, Barrette stated that the disks were only copied.

“We got the diskette and we simply copied it to brand new diskettes,” he said. “There were no changes.”

Next year, SSMU will have to decide whether to make Coop

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McGill Telecom — for better or for worse B y M e l is s a R a d l e r

McGill Telecom, the university based telephone system, began the new school year with a monopoly on residence phone lines.

Telecom is currently the only telephone service available to stu­ dents in Upper Residences and Royal Victoria College. Students living on campus previously ordered phone lines from Bell Canada.

The decision to switch to Telecom was based on the results of a test staged last year at Molson Hall. Residents were given the choice of subscribing to either Bell Canada or M cGill Telecom.

Approximately 160 students chose Telecom.

In February, a questionnaire was filled out by some of the Telecom subscribers. The Inter Residence Council, with the consent of past IRC president Helena Myers, made the decision to grant McGill a monopoly this year based on the results of this survey. However, the

agreement has not yet been put into writing.

In July, Bell filed a complaint through the Canadian Radio Television and Telecommunications Commission questioning McGill Telecom’s right to assume a monop­ oly. Furthermore, Bell recently sent a letter to Telecom stating its inten­ tion to provide service for any stu­ dent who requests it. Negotiations concerning the issue have been set for later this month.

Other concerns surround the establishment of the new residence phone system. Controversy has already arisen over Telecom ’s monthly rates which are higher than B e ll’s. Bell charges $36.47 (tax included) for installation and $17.27 per month (tax included) for a resi­ dential line. This averages out to $21.83 per month for 8 months of telephone use. Bell also requires a $200 deposit that is returned with interest when service is terminated.

Telecom on the other hand, charges an up front $100 pre-pay-

ment per semester. There is no installation fee. This averages out to $25 per month.

Telecom’s current rates stem from M cG ill’s 1986 decision to invest $4.6 million into its telephone system. This system includes all the present features of the university phone system. Monthly rates are used to pay for the space that resi­ dence phone lines take up on the central system. Features are free of charge.

Gary Bernstein, Associate Director of M cG ill’ s Telecommunications Office, pointed out Telecom’s long term value. He stated that it will take five years of slightly higher monthly costs to cover McGill’s investment.

“We charge progressively more each year with respect to the cost of living increase,” Bernstein said. “By 1999, the system will be entirely paid for and at that point, rates charged will sharply decrease.”

Bernstein also noted that in 1995 there was a zero per cent rate

Daily appealing SSMU decision B y S a r a J ean G reen and

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The Daily Publications Society has decided to appeal the SSMU endorsed referendum ques­ tion. If passed by students, it would mandate the SSMU to petition the Board of Governors to stop collect­ ing funds for the Daily.

At the October 2 SSMU coun­ cil meeting, a motion was passed to include a question about the Daily on the October 23-25 referendum ballot. The question reads: “Do you as an undergraduate student at McGill mandate the [SSMU] to petition annually, until successful, that the Board of Governors [...] cease collecting all fees from undergraduate students designed for the Daily Publication Society?”

Because the Daily feels that the SSMU referendum question violates both the SSMU and DPS constitutions, an appeal has been made to the Judicial Board, the highest body for appeals. Members of the DPS will be meeting with the Judicial Board on October 17.

Primarily, the Judicial Board will have to decide which constitu­ tion to use; the SSM U ’ s or the D PS’s. A decision will then be made as to whether or not the SSMU referendum question is con­ stitutional. A Judicial Board ruling will be announced sometime this week. Rulings made by the Judicial Board are binding and cannot be appealed.

The DPS operates as an autonomous non-profit organisa­ tion. The Daily was affiliated with SSMU until 1981, when a studentinitiated referendum passed to grant the paper full autonomy and the right to be funded by direct stu­ dent levy.

M-J Milloy, coordinating edi­ tor for the Daily, is quietly opti­ mistic that the Judicial Board will rule in favour of the Daily.

“Since it’s a SSMU process, we’re working with the SSMU

constitution,” he said. “I think there are a number of things, but the broadest reason why [the question] is unconstitutional is that we are an autonomous organisation, and there are no means within the SSMU constitution to effect the operations of an autonomous organisation,” said Milloy.

However, the Senate/Board Rep Jeannette O’Connell, who is one of the four councillors who ini­ tiated the move to question the Daily's, funding, believes that the

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Judicial Board will approve the ref­ erendum question.

“I don’t think [the question] is going to be considered unconstitu­ tional. I can’ t see the Judicial Board seeing any kind of problem with the proceedings,” she said. “I think that the Daily is just trying to buy time.”

During the past three weeks, a lot of the controversy has surround­ ed the motivations of those propos­ ing the referendum question on the Daily. Those who support the ques-

tion contend that the funding of the Daily is the only issue being debat­ ed.

“The only question that inter­ ests me is a question of funding.

[This is] not a veil to kill the D aily ,” said Arts Rep Anne de Fontenay.

According to O ’Connell, a number of students find the Daily offensive and resent having to con­ tribute $6.70 per year to the DPS. “The way they [the D aily ] classify people, they’re very stereo­ typical in a lot of their articles. Most of the people...from frats and sororities, have had problems with it,” said O ’ C o n n e l l .

“Management students, the Daily mocks man­ agement students to death, they criticise everything that we do, everything that we are.

People are offended and some of the issues that they bring up... people just don’t like it. They find it a waste of money and paper,” she said.

However, Milloy discounts the assertion that council is only interested in the issue of Daily funding.

“This question is couched in the lan­ guage of economics and fiscal responsibility. What’s really at play here is that there is a cabal of SSMU councillors...who don’t want to see the Daily pub­ lished because of our political stand,” he said. “They don’t feel that is the correct role for a student paper, or they don’t feel that those are the correct politics. I think what it boils down to is this is a political effort. You can see this in how the process has worked. They ran it through council with barely a wink,” said Milloy

increase.

Last year, costs increased even further as an extra $600,000 was spent on rewiring each room in resi­ dence with a telephone icon and a computer icon. The computer icon provides students with an in-bound modem, operating at up to 28.8k baud, which allows access to central computing resources, including MUSICB. The cost is $0.50 per hour with 8 hours per month free.

Bernstein pointed out that a McGill line is also more expensive than a Bell line because Bell sub­ sidises its fee with profits from long distance services. Bell, however, is currently in the process of ending this system.

In comparison, Telecom offers lower long distance rates than Bell.

A recent survey revealed that a Telecom monthly phone bill aver­ aged 25 percent less than a Bell phone bill of equal service. Students who use long distance along with Telecom’s features, will benefit from the system. In September, only 26 students did not use long distance.

“If you’re an exceptionally unaverage student, it [Telecom] will probably end up costing you more,” said Bernstein.

Alex Waxman, IRC President, welcomes the Telecom system.

“I’d like to have a formalised contract with a list of rates and fea­ tures,” he stated.

While Telecom ’ s eventual financial prospects seem enticing, service has been widely criticised.

Frustration was heightened among residence students when Telecom missed its September 1 deadline for installation.

Bernstein blamed Bell for the

delay. He claims Bell refused to remove their wiring. He maintained that any new organisation is likely to undergo comparable delays.

Inside residences, however, stu­ dents were not sympathetic to Telecom’s problems.

“When you’re away from home for the first time and you’re used to a system that’s already in place, it’s just one more thing to be stressed out about,” said Robyn Abrahams, a floor fellow in Molson Hall.

Hye-Sook Kam, President of RVC, stated that her personal frus­ tration was a result of Telecom’s poor customer service and lack of advertising.

“Many students felt like they were being forced into it,” she said.

“The only reason I didn’t go with Bell was because of my position as a leader.”

Bernstein maintained that the necessary corrections will be made to the system. Telecom plans to equip each room with an inexpen­ sive, throw-away telephone. The dialtone will be turned on in August and students will receive a week of free local service. After this time the line must be paid for and the throw­ away will be exchanged for one of Telecom’s permanent telephones.

With the wiring now in place, delays are not expected to recur.

“I think in theory, what they are doing is really good,” said Abrahams. “I just don’t think enough people are aware of how its going to be in the long run.”

Eventually, Telecom hopes to provide a cheaper telephone system.

“I predict that after 5 years one will pay proportionately more for a Bell dialtone than for a McGill dialtone,” Bernstein said.

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M cG IL L T R IB U N E “When you get an idea before anyone else, you put a patent: it is yours. So with me: I own the stars because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry S y l v ie B a b a r ik

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D a i l y referendum slanted B y Jo y c e L a u _________________________________________ ___________

“I ’m not really sure, but l don't read the Daily everyday and 1 want lower studentfees.” — a typically confused response, from a student after she signed a petition handed to her in class.

The aforementioned petition was the one students signed if they sup­ posedly approved of SSMU’s proposed referendum question, which will ask the undergraduate student body (Oct. 23-25) whether or not they agree with SSMU’s proposed appeal to the Board of Governors to end the col­ lection of fees to the Daily Publications Society.

Confused? Perhaps it would help to read the Stop the Press sent in to the Tribune this week by lan Hay, chair of the not-quite-two-week-old “Committee for Student Accountability” a.k.a. “The YES Committee”.

Aside from the lovely referendum humour, Mr. Hay expounds upon the grave topics of constitutionality, student accountability, and democracy in cutting the Daily budget.

In the name of ‘journalistic integrity’, we will try to explain Mr. Hay’s words, and for your reading pleasure, rebuke some of the more common myths and arguments used against him:

Myth #1: A student should support student services, even if he/she does not use them regularly.

Why should you pay, if you do not read $3.35 worth of the Daily per semester? In the same vein, why should a non-rape victim contribute a few dollars to the Sexual Assault Centre? Why are white students paying for the Black Students Network? Should students with no sense of humour opt-out of the Red Herring? Exciting questions! Whether he knows it or not, Mr. Hay might start a radical new trend in student budget-cutting.

Myth #2: The Daily needs the money.

Why would the Daily need money? Student-run, non-profit, volun­ teer organisations are rolling in it. Student fees ($3.35/student/semester) only account for 1/3 of the Daily's budget. The rest comes from student ad-sales efforts. Since the Daily (unlike most other student groups) actual­ ly works to fund their operations, we might as well cut. It will only leave them with an extra $113.900 to raise. Perhaps they can have a bakesale.

Myth #3: YES Committee politicians only seek personal revenge/protection from a newspaper which gives them bad press.

As every YES committee person has told us, this is not actually about the Daily. Content is not even an issue. This is about student choice, specifically, the choice to cut all the fees needed to keep the Daily in print.

Despite his actions, the kindly Mr. Hay really does care about free­ dom of the press. As he says in his letter, “(The Daily] are free to publish whatever slanted, single-minded editorials and ‘columns’ they wish — we just refuse to pay for it”.

Myth #4: The Daily supports the democratic student vote.

Surprisingly, the Daily does not support the ‘right’ students have to abolish them in a rushed campaign of mis-information. These fascists stubbornly refuse to be wiped out of existence without a say. In addition, they insist on choosing their own representatives, and do not have a clause in their constitution which allows for their self-destruction. According to Mr. Hay, this is illegal, unaccountable, undemocratic and manipulative.

The Daily can’t seem to understand that student votes are a fair means of determining budget cuts, especially when only one club has been singled out for the ballot.

It has been proposed that a budget-cut Daily might survive if it starts charging per issue. Perhaps a similarly ‘democratic’ vote can do the same to other student services — and result in ‘listening fees’ for CKUT, ‘walk­ ing fees’ for Walksafe, etc.

Perhaps holding referenda to determine funding for student services is a good idea, though a dangerous one if misused. Let’s just hope that the YES Committee are fully aware of what they’re asking for.

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Manufacturing a mandate...

There are deeply disturbing going-ons in the SSMU this fall. I here deal with only one of these, namely one of the questions being brought to McGill undergrads in the October referendum.

Before I explain, let me be clear about my position and what some may wish to classify as my bias. I am a member and an avid supporter o f The Canadian Federation of Students Local 79 (The Post-Graduate Student’ s Society of McGill University or PGSS). The CFS is a progressive and democratically-run organisa­ tion which doesn’t acknowledge a new member-school until a majori­ ty of students at that school vote to join in a referendum. In a similar vein, at the PGSS, no change to our student fees can legally be imple­ mented until a majority of us vote for it in a referendum.

For the past two years, SSM U ’s vice-president external affairs has been representing the SSMU as being a member of the Canadian A lliance of Students Associations, while the members of SSMU, in other words, the under­ grad students o f M cG ill, have never been asked whether they want to be members. Nor have they - you - ever been asked whether you mind the SSMU exec­ utive paying fees into CASA from

your SSM U fees to the tune of approximately $15,000 per year.

Now, as I mentioned earlier, this would be illegal in the PGSS; I don’t know if it is legal in the SSMU. Legality aside, it is question­ able ethically, to say the least. It is no accident that CASA was set up not to require referenda. Its mem­ bership consists mostly of conserv­ ative types who are in favour of curtailing accessibility to educa­ tion, ICLRP’s (the government’s income-contingent loan scheme) and raising tuition fees, among other atrocious notions. They know that they could never get a majority of students to vote to join an organisation with such an agen­ da. So, they structured their alliance so as to enable them to sidestep this inconvenience of democracy and only require a motion to join from a school’s Student Society Council, which is more easily manipulated. This is exactly what we have seen in the SSMU. Back to the upcoming referen­ dum question. For those who haven’t yet had the pleasure, it reads as follows: “Whose policy approach to post-secondary educa­ tion do you prefer, the Federal Government’ s or C A SA ’ s?”

Forgive me but, what a ridiculous and irresponsible question to put to an o fficial referendum! What about the numerous other (to be sure, more reasonable...) “policy

approaches” that are available?

What about the “policy approach­ es” of the other federal political parties? or of the other student organisation? What about space on the ballot for the third option NEI­ THER! I would like to know why the VP external will not ask his con­ stituents whether they want to join CASA or if they mind his spending $15,000 of their money annually to serve his own ends, but he will bring such a question as this. We can be sure that if the VP external now feels able to say with a clear conscience that SSMU is a member of CASA when really only he is (and I suppose by default, the exec­ utive and the 1993/94 Council), then with any kind of vote in this referendum he will proceed to pro­ claim from the rooftops his “offi­ cial mandate” to continue with CASA initiatives, obtained democ­ ratically of course. So the only recourse left to the majority of McGill undergrads, who will surely disagree with both “policy approaches” is to spoil their ballot.

Not a very attractive option for those wishing to participate in what is supposed to be a democratic process.

In the absence of a fair and responsibly-worded question, I strongly recommend a spoiled bal­ lot in this referendum question.

Finally, I urge you to join me in deploring these serious attacks on democratic process.

Stephen Targett President, Post-Graduate Students’ Society o f McGill University.

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vigorously demand that the con­ tract be awarded to Pomerleau?

4. Mr Kingdon, once again, . . . t o th e E d ito r conveniently forgot to tell you that the university had sought an inde­ pendent opinion. They had appointed the law firm of 2.

Mr. Kingdon strongly stated M a gil resp o n d s to that McGill had not signed with McCarthy Tetrault to unofficially Kingdon statements Pomerleau before obtaining the arbitrate the issue but, somehow, Court’s decision and that they were McCarthy Tetrault’s opinion was This has reference to the arti­ awaiting this decision before sign­ not made public.

U nofficially, however, we cle “Magil construction questions ing the contract with them.

M cG ill construction”, which It is amazing how short Mr. know that our tender, in the opin­ appeared in the October 11 issue of Kingdon’s memory is. It was he ion of McCarthy Tetrault, was the Tribune. who delivered the university’ s deemed to be valid.

5. Mr. Kingdon, again, conve­ We would like to comment on September 5 letter to Mr. Sol a few statements, which were Polachek, our chairman of the niently forgot to mention that it made by Mr. Kingdon, or that he board. This letter informed us of was his people — Mr. Daniel conveniently “forgot” to mention, the university’s decision to award Garant and Mr. Roy Dalebozik — who asked us if we could provide or that he simply lied about. the contract to Pomerleau.

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Mr. Kingdon “forgot” to However, the injunction was another bid bond and we con­ mention that the university had only initiated after we had received firmed to them that we could do issued a letter to us, dated July 13, this letter, dated September 5. Mr. so.

We did not “attempt to come 1995, which informed us that our Kingdon’s statement that the uni­ tender had been accepted — sub­ versity had waited for the Judge’s up with a new bond”, nor did we ject to the approval of the min­ decision is ridiculous, to say the request that the university replace our bonds as, again, we do not con­ istère de l’éducation du Québec. very least.

It was only after Pomerleau’s If the university had really sider our original bid to be invalid. letter to the Ministère de l’éduca­ wanted the judge to make the deci­ Joseph Gutstadt, tion, dated August 3, 1995, that the sion on the awarding of the con­ President o f Magil university halted procedures to tract, as Mr. Kingdon stated, then Construction award the contract to us. why did the university lawyers so

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A politics of absurdity poisons our passion for participation U1Column Z 2CÙ C h atterb o x CÙ j t CornellW right 1In last week’s Tribune, Ian Richler bemoaned M cG ill stu­ dents’ lack of interest in the refer­ endum debate that threatens to destroy Canada. Richler writes: “There are no rallies, no banners, no jeering crowds. In a word, there is no passion.” I sympathise with his eloquent observation.

Perhaps we take our good lot for granted. After all, M cG ill would probably assert its own right to self-determ ination if Quebeckers voted to separate from Canada. We’d fence off the Ghetto and become the Students’ Republic of McGill. W e’ d print our own beer coupons as currency and initiate embargoes against such odious enterprises as LSATs, MCATs and GMATs. We could even follow management’ s fine example and make every Friday a statutory holiday. However, given

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the extensive diplomacy required to accom plish most things at McGill, I suspect that our campus would be immersed in civil war within days of our declaration of sovereignty.

For instance, political science (whose right to exist I would defend until death) would be pitted against biochemistry in a bloody clash of egos. Over-burdened bio­ chemists would label arts students as slothful freeloaders, prone to oppose with violence any attempt to require that they attend more than 15 hours of class per week.

M cG ill C hief Ju stice Sevag Yeghoyan would rule that arts stu­ dents rightfully have so few hours of class before graduating, if only because they have so few career options afterwards.

Similar absurdities pervade the referendum debate. Watching

the evening news, I am amused by depictions of our marvellous polit­ ical satire. It’s as though our politi­ cal performers are purposely engaging in self-parody, mimick­ ing themselves and mocking their public, while disillusioning the young and driving the polity even deeper into disrepair.

Consider, for example, my good friend Jacques Parizeau. Clad in three-piece silks fit for an emperor and bubbling with selfimportance, Prince Parizeau attacks “the elites” of Quebec! He who would deny a dime to any street-person unable to speak the French of Voltaire is now a man of the people. Marie-Antoinette is storming the Bastille.

Jean Chrétien, by contrast, shuns change, let alone revolution.

He recently reminded Canadians that he’s been giving the same speech for 30 years. Never one to burden himself with new ideas, Jean is nothing if not consistent.

Nevertheless, as a disciple of his Party of Progress, I was honestly surprised by that unprofessional admission. Chrétien, to my knowl­ edge, has three speeches: one fea­ tures “I love Canada” in English,

another proclaims “I love Canada” in French, while the third contains an awkward admixture of English and French, designed to plant con­ fusion in even the sharpest of minds. Chrétien is PM because, no matter what language he’s speak­ ing, most of what he says gets lost in the translation.

Finally, I must mention the newest member of the No Committee: The Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. For years, Canadians suspected that their prime minister aspired to become an American. This week, Bombastic Brian entered the refer­ endum fray, not from the pages of the Gazette or La Presse, but from the New York Tim es. He then delivered his first speech about the referendum in Colorado.

Meanwhile, his dear friend Lucien Bouchard, a man who holds his cause in only slightly higher esteem than he holds himself, has agreed to negotiate ties between a separate Quebec and the rest of Canada. I wonder if it has ever occurred to President Parizeau that Backstabbing Bouchard might not be Q uebec’ s most successful ambassador to Canada. Having

destroyed the Canadian dream, odds are that Lucien may not be too popular in the nation’s capital.

Absurdity abounds. Our poli­ tics feature elections and referenda which offer a cornucopia of false choices. Politics is now about entertainment rather than participa­ tion. No political option makes our spirits soar in the hope that we might thereby effect an important, forward shift in the social order.

We vote for the best of a bad lot; we elect the political comedian who seems least offensive. I sym­ pathise with Richler’s lament for the apathy prevalent on campus. If McGill students appear unmoved by the referendum debate, howev­ er, to what extent is their lack of interest merely a logical reaction to a tiresome public drama that seems increasingly irrelevant to their everyday lives? Perhaps, in speak­ ing about political absurdities and lamenting an absence of political passion, we should speak in terms of tragedy rather than comedy.

In an in d ep en d en t M cG ill, Col. C ornell Wright would lead the McGill Militia in daring pou­ tine raids.

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I can’t wait until the M aclean’s acknowledge that not all universities issue comes out, the one where they are equal. I think we hesitate to ver­ balise this because it smacks of aca­ rank all the Canadian universities.

Some people think the demic elitism.

Academic elitism seems unde­ Maclean’s ranking is arbitrary, but I argue it’s at least as valid as when mocratic, and it also makes us think universities assign marks to stu­ of other kinds of elitism: snobbery dents. Actually, M aclean’s should based on wealth, social position, evaluate universities in the same and size of country manor. Note the ways grad schools evaluate their distinction, though, between saying: applicants. Principals could write “McGill is a better university than the USAT, university standardised Concordia;” and: “Concordians are aptitude test, to measure how well peons.” The only alternative to clus­ students would do in that school. tering bright students at a few top Universities could provide explicit universities is to try and distribute letters of intent, saying what they an equal number of Canada intend to do to the student. And stu­ Scholars to each university in dents could check letters of refer­ Canada. Since it’s natural that some ence, which would answer questions universities will be better than oth­ like: would you recommend this ers, there’s no reason not to try and university? How long have you objectively measure them.

This year, McGill definitely known it?

Naturally, universities act needs to score high. To do that, slightly hypocritically towards the M aclean ’s may have to warp the Maclean’s ranking. A lot of schools study slightly and, for example, boycotted it this year; U of T and throw out any questions on libraries, Queen’s and UBC weren’t among except if it’s a survey of students on them. Sure, M aclean’s methodology how easy it is to pick up in them. is flawed, but what student’s term Personally, I want McGill to do well paper is flawless when faced with a in the ranking just so I can get a job deadline? Among other functions, when I graduate. But besides which, the ranking articulates the criteria it’ll give us something to put on our for a good university: classes should T-shirts besides “Kingston is like a be small, libraries should be large, bad night at Annie’s.”

An old saying goes, “Pride and it’s a good thing if people grad­ uate and don’t drop out. The comes before the fall.” Actually, I M aclean’s ranking also makes us find that at McGill pride comes dur­

by a Royal Commission. ing the fall, for a brief period adults should behave. And, so?)

Of course, if McGill comes out between the start of school and the Notice Susan Peters neglected day you actually start doing work. in 16th place this year, then the to mention the Sassy university Low points for pride are the ends of M aclean’s ranking is incontrovertranking issue. semester, and those January days ibly flawed and should be studied your apartment door freezes shut.

In recent years, despite clauses The alma mater sentiment seems j in the Daily Constitution which curious, given it’s not that students | Stop the P ress explicitly allows a wide range of suffer any illusions about McGill, at least not after their first month here.

As undergraduate students may referendum questions, every pro­ Still, every time I see a “Queen’s know, we are all members of the posed question has been ruled Sucks Sheep” T-shirt I always sort SSMU. As you may also know, we unconstitutional and hence are out­ of snigger. There’s nothing like are concurrently members of an lawed as future proposals. putting down other universities to organisation called the Daily Shockingly, these proposals have make you feel pride in your own.

Publications Society (DPS). As included such benign issues as “optWe clutch this pride to ourselves as members of the SSMU, you will be out” clauses allowing non-readers we trudge off to meet our doom in asked whether you want this body to leave the DPS — a right which, midterms among hundreds of fellow to request the M cGill Board of for instance, QPIRG allows. Any classmates/victims. How good a Governors to stop collecting the and all fee reductions, furthermore, school I think McGill is directly mandatory fee which goes to the have been outlawed. (Imagine a clause in Canada’s Constitution correlates to my workload for the DPS. week. During exams, my mantra is One might ask why this issue is which made tax reductions illegal!)

More shocking is the fact that the story about the Rhodes scholar, not being conducted under the aus­ fresh from Oxford, who applied to pices of the Daily Constitution, the original 1981 Autonomy cam­ do grad work at McGill and was since this issue affects the Daily. paign promised students that this turned down. But then, they don’t The simple answer is that members referendum process would be their really do any work over on that side of the DPS (i.e. you and me) have primary mechanism of accountabili­ of the ocean. had their rights under this ty, and yet not a single student-initi­ My only criticism of the I Constitution steadily and utterly ated question has actually reached M aclean ’s ranking is that people eroded since its inception in 1981.

Continued on Page 8 W don’t take it seriously enough. For starters, if a school’s ranking slips more than two notches from year to year, we can execute random Board of Governors members; heads must roll. Conversely, if a school’s rank­ ing improves dramatically, it can christen a new building after the principal: at McGill, the Bernie Building of Cultural Studies.

Moreover, universities could place bets among themselves. If Queen’s tops McGill, we can send over a truckload of sheep. If they lose, same thing. (That’s childish and immature and not how responsible

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Maybe living alone ain’t so bad...

It’s once again that time of year, when those losers who haven’t yet found roommates start rifling desperately through the bar­ gain bin, taking whomever they can get. Unfortunately, it usually ends up being the equivalent o f the choice between Lynard Skynard and Jethro Tull. When it comes to this, heed these danger signs; they could save your sanity.

1. When asked about past cult participation, s/he smiles shyly, looks down at the floor and gig­ gles.

2. As you return from fetching a cold beverage, you notice prospective roommate looking anx­ iously for loose floorboards and crawlspaces.

3. A definite no-no: prospec­

tive roommate mumbles foreigntongued sentiments into a dicta­ phone when s/he thinks you’re not looking.

4. Prospective roommate rings the doorbell and then hides behind a bush.

mind staying behind furniture and away from windows “Just because”.

10. Hopeful is a one-man Whitesnake coverband.

11. S/he likes to wear your fruit bowl “as a hat”.

5. Your prospective roomie quips, “Wouldn’t it be neat if we had the same PIN number? What’s yours?”

12. Prospective roommate dons a red cloak and inquires about the possibility of preparing a basket for Grandma’s house.

6. When you answer the door, prospective roommate waves a hook and shouts “AHOY!”

13. Prospective roommate travels to your apartment in an ark and boasts about having “two of everything”.

7. A real door slammer: prospect comes to your door carry­ ing a staff, with a herd of sheep fol­ lowing close behind.

8. S/he has more identification than “Fletch”.

9. Prospect asks if you would

14. Hopeful asks if s/he could make an emergency call and dials 1-900-GET-IT-ON! 15. S/he is a Blood — asks that you call him/her “gangsta” or “g-money”.

And I never did find out what was eating Gilbert Grape UJColumn z D flû g-p Trouble cind Desire cc DavidBushnell b LLj J There are some things in life that I’m not proud of. Wilfully dis­ regarding the rules of English grammar, for instance. Eating fatty foods. Dancing. Liking Elvis. Not shaving. Being bad at poker. Not being sober during the Winter semester last year. Not going to class. Hurting the ones I love because that’s how I was raised.

Not seeing a Johnny Depp movie since Platoon.

I could feel sorry for myself and keep drinking Scotch, but is that what Ernest Hemingway would do?

OK, bad example.

This week I decided to change my life for the better, to rid myself of the secret shame that has been gnawing at my gut for years. Yes, I rented all six Johnny Depp movies made after Platoon.

I thought it might get painful, so I called a friend, Patsy, and said, “I ’m watching six Johnny Depp movies tonight. Come over.”

You bet I was surprised when she said, “OK.” Though she stayed for only two films, Patsy’s presence was invaluable; how else was I to know that “Johnny Depp is so fucking hot”?

The first film on our schedule was Don Juan de Marco, in which Johnny plays a swarthy, slicktalkin’ pick-up artist who’s just been institutionalised. He was per­ fectly adequate in the role, as evi­ denced by Patsy’s uncontrollable swooning and lamenting.

“He made women feel sexy,” she sighed.

Mercifully, it was only hinted at when beached whale Marlon Brando and non-acting non-entity Faye Dunaway had sex.

It was during Benny and Joon that I discovered that whereas Johnny Depp’s characterisations are excellent, his characters are annoying as hell. In Benny and Joon, Johnny plays neither Benny nor Joon; he is Sam, some eccen­ tric asshole who gets his own theme music whenever he tries to im itate Buster Keaton and/or Charlie Chaplin. His acting was superb; at no time did I believe he w a sn ’t trying to imitate Buster Keaton and/or Charlie Chaplin.

Patsy raised the question that was on everyone’s lips: “How fucking hot is Johnny Depp?” Holding my hands a metre apart, I answered, “Uh, this hot?”

Patsy left midway through the third feature, the Tim Burton suckfest, Edw ard S cissorhands. The “make-out movie” feel of Johnny’s films was reinforced by this story of love between two criminally attractive youngsters, Winona Ryder and the aforementioned Depp, who was apparently portray­ ing the archetypal German club kid in all his skin-tight-black-leatherbody suit-with-myriad-bucklesand-straps-and-crazy-black-moptop glory. Halfway through the movie I went to bed.

I got up at around eleven the next morning and went to school. I really did not want to go back and continue with the Deppfest, espe­ cially since most of the alcohol in

my apartment had been drunk the night before, and I would be sub­ jected to Johnny Depp without an inebriated wall of safety between the television and myself.

Yet go back I did. I had a col­ umn to write, dammit.

The second half of John n y D ep p : C utlery Man was as thrilling and thought-provoking as the first half, i.e. it wasn’t.

Thankfully, the next film , C rybaby, was directed by John Waters, who is French toast to Tim Burton’ s m ilquetoast; when it comes to pretentious kitsch, Waters is the last word. Even more exciting was the fact that Crybaby’s plot was paper-thin and predictable, a pathetic vehicle to carry the kitschy elements from one scene to another, which meant that I could take a nap while the movie went on without me.

After Crybaby, I was down to two films: What’s Eating Gilbert G ra p e? and E d W ood. I was almost home.

Unfortunately, the Deppfest had sapped my strength. I was so beaten that I was weeping during the preview for S ea rch in g f o r Bobby Fischer, a film about chess or something. To make matters worse, W h at’s E atin g G ilb ert G rap e? has got to be the most painful movie ever made. I’ll spare you the details, suffice it to say that Juliette Lewis is in it.

Eventually, the films had lost any sense of definition and instead became a massive onslaught of Johnny Deppitude. I never did get around to E d W ood and I don’t think I ever will. After five Johnny Depp movies, I cried to a friend on the phone, “JOHNNY DEPP WON’T LEAVE MY HOUSE!!”

D avid B ushnell sa id that a Keanu Reeves film festival would have killed him.

October 17th, 1995

Stop the press. » Continued from Page 7 the ballot.

Students have tried this method frequently, only to be confusingly rebuffed. Students have tried to exact accountability by joining the Daily Board of Directors, only to discover that a staff veto prohibits decisions which they perceive as threatening. Hence the students you elected have no say within the Daily. Undergraduates societies as a whole have attempted to opt-out of the DPS, only to be told that they have no choice but to remain in an organisation in which every con­ ceivable right of participation has long-since ceased to exist.

And so, as a last refuge after a 14-year process, the undergraduate student population, as members not of the illegitimate DPS, but as members of SSM U, will ask McGill’s highest body — the BoG — to end this madness of manipula­ tion and illegality by ending the col­ lection of D aily fees which all undergraduates pay.

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by TH O M A S JO S E P H

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Goblet parts 11 Labor group 12 Computer screen dot 13 Aquarium fish 14 Ouzo flavor 15 Incline 17 Smidgen 18 State of violent excite­ ment 22 Norway’s king of old 23 Plaza resident of story 27 Frenzied 29 One Way sign shape 30 Make fond 32 Pre-dial sound 33 Sketches 35 lota 38 Piece of foliage 39 Wash­ ington neighbor 41 Actor Hawthorne 45 On the up and up 46 Plow pioneer John 47 Survives 48 Idolize 6

DOWN 1 Except 2 Low digit 3 Tantrum 4 Made stronger 5 Walking (elated) Flapjack flipper 7 Badge metal 8 Way out 9 Piece of Western topogra­ phy 10 Winter glider 16 Deceit 18 Rotunda topper 19 Verve 20 Come to earth 6

This is not about the content of the McGill Daily, nor will it kill it: they are fr e e to publish whatever slanted, single-minded editorials and “columns” they wish — we just refuse to pay for it. The Daily has broken a contract it made with us in 1981, and we are ending our part of the bargain. 758 students signed a petition endorsing this question, and over 1200 signed to support last year’s questions.

The D aily brought this on themselves, not we. Who is, in fact, afraid of democracy? This referen­ dum will be the first indication of exactly what support the Daily has on campus: as we speak, the Daily is busily trying to squash the ques­ tion itself, rather than conjuring up non-existent reasons why you should vote no.

But then, this is what they’ve done every time.

Ian Hay U3 Chair o f the Committee fo r Student Accountability (Yes Committee)

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Recent advances in AIDS research has impact on cancer B y E r in D o l a n

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and I ’ m still with it ,” said Wainberg.

N orm ally, when the HIV virus infects a cell, its genetic material and the enzyme reverse transcriptase enter the cell.

Reverse transcriptase converts the virus’ genetic material into DNA

n a lecture last Tuesday night, Dr. Mark A. Wainberg, pro­ fessor of medicine and micro­ biology at McGill and director of the McGill AIDS Centre, spoke about 3TC, a drug designed to treat AIDS. 3TC may also benefit can­ cer patients.

3TC was developed

by Dr. Bernard Belleau, a McGill scientist who has since passed away.

Belleau developed the drug while working for Biochem Pharma.

Although McGill does not own the rights to the drug, 3TC is still being researched at M c G ill’ s chemistry labs.

Wainberg’s role was to demonstrate that the drug has anti-HIV activi­ ty. He has gone on to show that patients might develop a resistance to the drug through a mutated form of an enzyme (reversed transcriptase).

Now Wainberg’s team is trying to figure out why the drug is so effective.

“I ’ve been with the drug from the beginning, Wainberg speaks abou t the drug 3TC.

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which is then incorporated into the c e ll’ s genome. The cell becomes a producer of viral DNA. 3TC works by preventing the body from producing the AIDS virus. In a sense, the drug tricks the enzyme reverse transcriptase into absorbing the drug — bring­ ing viral DNA pro­ duction to a stand­ still.

The drug is now being given to patients in combina­ tion with another drug called AZT. The virus can become resistant to either AZT or 3TC alone, but together the two drugs seem to be effectiv e in preventing reverse transcriptase from assembling the viral DNA. When com ­ bined, the two drugs are an effectiv e AIDS treatment.

H epatitis B is in the same family o f viruses as HIV. For years, it has been known to sci­ entists as a major cause o f primary cancer of the liver.

W ainberg has demonstrated that

3TC can also prevent the replica­ tion of Hepatitis B. “If we can stop Hepatitis B from replicating, we can stop the cancer from developing,” he said.

“It is more of a cancer prevention drug than a treatment p er se.”

Dr. Wainberg spoke for some time on the ways AIDS can and cannot be contracted. When he mentioned that AIDS cannot be contracted from a visit to the doc­ tor, someone in the audience quipped that one can get it from one’s dentist.

But Dr. Wainberg tried to dispel this myth. He said the

“If w e can stop H epatitis B from replicating, w e can stop th e c a n c e r from developing.” famous case in Florida (in which a woman claimed to have con­ tracted AIDS from her dentist) is now suspect because there is rea­ son to doubt the credibility of the victim who claimed never to have had sexual relations with other high risk people. It is also now known that one dentist who was suspected o f transm itting the AIDS virus may have wilfully transmitted the virus through a

needle.

“We can’t stop living because these things happen,” Wainberg said. “There is a greater chance that I will get hit by a truck if I cross the road without looking both ways. We can’t run and hide in a closet.”

“Outside of a sexual context, AIDS is transmittable but not very contagious,” Wainberg said. “It can be transmitted through blood, semen, vaginal secretions, and the use of contaminated needles.”

AIDS is the result o f the destruction of the immune system

by HIV. Researchers are puzzled by people who seem to have a natural immunity to HIV. These people have been exposed to the virus repeatedly and yet they have not become infected.

A Manitoba researcher has studied a group of prostitutes in Nairobi who have not contracted the virus despite having sexual relations with as many as 1000 infected men.

In Montreal, many female spouses of infected haemophiliacs remain uninfected even though they frequently practise unprotect­ ed sex with their partners.

Although there are many questions which have yet to be answered, the research of individ­ uals like Wainberg is the source of tremendous hope for anyone with cancer or HIV.

The gloves are off: Yes and No committees organise at McGill B y J a c k S u l l iv a n and

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McGill is slowly waking up to the referendum.

Last Friday, the Tribune dis­ cussed the referendum with the leaders of McGill’s YES and NO committees.

Atim Leon, a U3 Physics stu­ dent and the editor-in-chief of the McGill Daily fran çais is trying to organise a Y E S com m ittee on campus while U1 Arts student Paul Robichaud has already enlisted 400 student volunteers to help with the NO committee.

Tribune-. What do you think is the main issue in the referendum?

What is the biggest reason that we should vote YES or NO? Leon: In my view, there is first of all a cultural problem within Quebec. Once you recognise that there is a cultural problem in Quebec, and there are a lot of Canadians who don’t recognise that there is a problem, either you change the constitution or you give Quebec its independence.

Personally, I think this is the best way for Quebec to meet its goals and achieve whatever it wants to politically, economically, and cul­ turally.

R o b ic h a u d : I don’t agree that there is a cultural problem .

Twenty-five years ago 85 per cent

of Q uebeckers spoke French.

Today 94 per cent of Quebeckers speak French. This progress was made within the Canadian federa­ tion. We are able to make laws like law 101, laws that allow us to develop ourselves as a French speaking society, a distinct soci­ ety, within the Canadian bilingual context. I don’t see how separat­ ing us — creating political insta­ bility, creating economic prob­ lems — how that context will help our culture in any way.

T r ib u n e : How do you see Canada today?

R o b ic h a u d : I see Canada as a co llateral agreem ent between francophones and anglophones.

I ’m not saying Quebec and the provinces, I’m saying francopho­ nes and anglophones, the two founding peoples of our country. I see Canada as a collection of val­ ues, democracy, bilingualism, and m ulticulturalism . Canada is a mosaic of different cultures.

L eo n : Bilingualism. It’s obvious that the only bilinguals are fran­ cophones. You don’t apply bilin­ gualism to anglophones. Do you think I could go to Toronto and start speaking French? Get real.

Paul sees Canada the way Canadians view Canada. It’ s a multicultural mosaic, and they’re happy with that. I think that’s the main point of disagreem ent

between Canada and Q uebec.

Quebeckers are saying “We are not equal to Pakistanis, we’re not equal to Chinese. We were here first and we want to preserve our culture because we don’t want to speak English.” We want to speak French.

I ’m not saying sovereignty will solve all our problems, I ’m saying sovereignty is a tool.

We’re not going to vote YES and it w ill be “Y A Y ! — problem solved.” The Y E S is a tool to change.

T rib u n e : Do you think there is an identity problem in Quebec?

R o b ic h a u d : I don’t think I am any less of a Quebecker because I’m Canadian. Look at the ads for the Conseil de souveraineté that were playing on the radio. They we saying “W e’re different, we listen to the radio in French, most of our TV stations are in French, we speak French. We’re different, let’s separate.” My point is why separate? Even their ads said w e’re a French living culture.

We’re a much more vibrant cul­ ture than English Canada, you can’t deny it. The problem isn’t as big as they say and scream it is.

L eo n : I think there’s a self asser­ tion problem with this ambiguity.

There’s the Canadian identity and there’s the Quebec identity. What is the difference between them?

How do we make them work in conjunction? How do we make them assert a Canadian and a Quebecker identity?

T rib u n e : What will your commit­ tee be doing in the coming weeks?

R o b ich au d : We want to get the vote out. In the last election there was only a 25 per cent voter turn­

out. W e’re going to try to get more of a turn-out.

Leon: Our main goal is to act as a neutral forum for debate.

O bviously at M cG ill it seems foolhardy to have a YES commit­ tee — I think that’s the point. We don’t want people to think there isn’t a YES side at McGill. We’ll also do a little publicity.

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We need credibility. The kind of ;redibiltiy that a great name jives you.

“Our top VPs, Skooter and I^hip, came up with the new tame and it’s really great. We aiew those guys would come up vith something great on account

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by L arry Tate, He’s a good baseball player He’s a great football player. And by all accounts he’s an ever greater poet. It was announced yesterday that next week’s featured poet at the English facul ty’s poetry series is the Dallas

Frank Cannonfodder calls Deion “poetry in motion. The man’s a -----------genius.”

Is Deion Sanders the new driving force in American poetry', Has he taken the reigns from the likes of Walt Whitperson, Ezra Pound of Flesh and Robert Frostedflake? Will he singlehandedly take American litera-

,urv ° nt w. heiç K? Dr l miss next weeks readings. With special guest reader Chris Nilan.

F e a tu re s

October 17th, 1995

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Protest by indigenous groups mark 503 years of resistance B y Kate G ib so n

As a Mohawk warrior during the Oka standoff, Joe David experi­ enced the extremes of resistance .

Last Thursday, David was protesting again, this time in down­ town Montreal for a rally marking “ 1492-1995: 503 Years of Resistance.” He stares across the street at the Bay department store.

“Looking at the two signs, the 503 years of resistance and the 325 years of celebration, I see that they’re celebrating and we’re not,” David said, noting the irony.

Protesters for the solidarity of indigenous peoples throughout the Americas gathered in Philip’s Square for a rally jointly organised

by Food not Bombs, the Regroupement de solidarité avec les Autochtones, and various groups from Concordia and UQAM. Similar rallies were held in many major cities throughout North and South America, including Toronto.

Protesters hoped to present a new perspective on the 1492 ‘dis­ covery of Am erica.’ They have renamed Columbus Day, or ‘dia de

la raza’ (day of the race) as it is known in Latin America, the International Indigenous Peoples Day. Although Columbus is credited with the discovery of America, indigenous peoples note that in 1492, an estimated 80 million people inhabited the American conti­ nent.

When ques­ tioned before the protest, officials at the Bay were unaware of the rally.

The Hudson’s Bay Company has been criticised by indigenous groups as a symbol of the exploitation of native peoples and Protestors rally the environment.

Although organisers of the protest claimed that the location was partially coincidental, some admitted that they wished to send a message to the Bay. “If anything, the Bay stands for

the subjugation of the north, the rape of the environment and the suffering that native peoples have endured,” argued David.

Following a speech calling for the Canadian government to recog­ nise native self-determination,

in fr o n t o f d ow ntow n B a y store.

Jeanne-Mance Charlish, a tradition­ al Innu spokeswoman for the Coalition at Nitassinan, also attacked the Bay. “Today, I will go into the store with a beaver pelt, and you can be

certain that they won’t recognise the fur with which they built their com­ pany... the fur they took from our lands and the fur with which they profited from our labour,” she said.

McGill anthropology professor T. Morantz agreed that the ‘discov­ ery of Am erica’ was the beginning of a process which led to the death of millions of aborig­ inal people through disease and violence.

She hopes that people will not continue to believe that the O discovery of O' c America was a o purely positive c: c: event.

-c Morantz, however, dis­ agreed with the image of the Bay as a symbol of native subjugation and the rape of the environment.

“Until the beginning of this century, when the government got involved, the Hudson’ s Bay

Company involved a partnership between Native and non-Native peoples,” she said. “While the Bay may be a convenient symbol in Montreal, it is not one which would bear the notion presented by the native groups in Philips Square.”

The possible effect of the sov­ ereignty of Quebec on indigenous peoples was also raised at the rally.

“I don’t think that the sover­ eignty of Quebec will change any­ thing with either the provincial or federal governments,” Mance said.

Mance explained that the chief concern of her group is Native sov­ ereignty, not Quebec’s.

David shared Mance’s cyni­ cism of an independent Quebec’s willingness to address native issues.

“Whether it’s a YES vote or a NO vote, I really don’t think it’s going to change the situation for either the Mohawks or any other Native group in Canada,” David said.

Despite a limited turnout of about 50 people, the rally addressedthe need for the continued resistance of Indigenous peoples.

The five groups which organised the event felt they had gained soli­ darity by cooperating on the project.

High text prices are beyond control of McGill Bookstore B y B arry C am pbell

Every year, the M cG ill University Bookstore publishes a full page advertisement which claim s that they “don’t make a bean selling textbooks.” But it seems hard to believe after spend­ ing several hundred dollars on texts.

“The bookstore lost money every year from 1950 to 1978 selling text­ books,” said Horst Bitschofsky, the general manager of the bookstore.

This changed in 1978, when the bookstore began to sell stationery and other school supplies to sub­ sidise the cost of selling textbooks. It began to break even, and for the first time make a profit.

Senate proscribes that all profits be turned over to the Students’ Society. In

fact, prices at the bookstore for course materials must be “as low as is consistent with the break­ even principle of financing.”

However, SSMU has never received any money from the bookstore. In the mid 80s, the bookstore’s management decided to expand and move out of its location in the basement of the Bronfman building by constructing a new building.

The bookstore will start turning over a portion of the profits to SSM U once the mortgage is paid in fifteen years.

It is extrem ely d ifficu lt to keep prices low since wholesale prices for texts are very high.

To cover the costs of shipping, receiving and distributing over 9,000 titles a year, the bookstore charges a price approximately 20 percent above the

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C olleen O ’ Neil of the Canadian Book Publishers Council

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The art of flag football B y P eter Y a tes

At this time of the year, the sight of flag football being played on lower campus field is as com­ mon as bad poetry and cigarettes on the steps of the Arts building.

While many of us have heard the referee’s whistle while in class or have even stopped to watch a game in progress while walking past the field, few of us have any idea how important this game has become for the engineering stu­ dents who started the tradition several decades ago.

Engineering flag football is much more popular and intense than its counterpart offered through Campus Recreation.

There are 23 men’s teams and 12 women’s teams comprised of approxim ately 375 players.

Considering that there are only around 1500 full-time students in the faculty of engineering, this is a remarkably high percentage.

What is eerily fascinating about engineering flag football is the level of dedication many of the players bring to the game.

Many of the teams hold two or three weekly practices honing their skills for the battlefield.

Developing a team playbook and having former high school football players on your team are commonplace.

Many players will gladly miss an afternoon class or two to participate in this ritual. Some even go to class immediately after their games bruised, bloody and covered from head to toe in mud, much to the chagrin of their pro­ fessors. However for the more civil (small c) engineers, showers were installed in the basement of the McConnell Engineering build­ ing two years ago for the explicit purpose of bathing the soiled stu­ dents.

Perhaps the most important function of engineering flag foot­ ball is that it serves as a vehicle for expressing pride in one’s fac­ ulty (such as civil, electrical, and mechanical).

“There is a lot competition between the faculties,” explained U3 civ il engineering student

Domenic Idone.

Idone said most teams are composed of students from only one faculty, although a few are a “mish-mosh” o f students from different faculties. As a result, intense rivalries develop between the faculties in an attempt to gain football supremacy and win the right to take a drink from the flag football trophy (which, incidental­ ly, has to be the largest Campus Recreation trophy).

This rivalry is exacerbated by the fact that many of the players know each other from class. There is a generational rivalry amongst the engineers as older students who have been playing several years derive immense amounts of pleasure from soundly trouncing the freshman teams.

Another crucial function of the flag football league is the social aspect. For many engineers,' the football league is a chance to meet other engineers as well as to develop a network of friends with­ in a player’s individual faculty.

And of course, what would foot­ ball be without beer?

“It’s a lot of fun. After the game, everybody heads over to Blues Pub [a make-shift pub in the engineers student lounge] to have a few beers and hang out,” said U3 civil engineer Jason Switzer.

This love affair with beer is taken one step further at the end of the year with “Flag night” in the student union ballroom. For a four dollar admission, each stu­ dent receives five cups of beer.

“The whole purpose of these five cups of beer is to throw them on other people and get them soaked. Some people even get pulled along the floor which is covered in about an inch of beer,” said Tom Kennedy, a U3 mechan­ ical engineering student.

After an eleven game regular season and a playoff round, the engineers shake hands and leave the field. For some, there is the familiar “maybe next year”, while others must graduate and take the memories with them. But for the vast majority, there are only a few short weeks before broomball.

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It takes approximately three to five years to develop, write, and bring a new text to market,” O’Neil said.

Including printing, design, editing and other expenses, the costs associated with manufactur­ ing a textbook can often represent 50 per cent of the retail price.

Many specialised publishers lose money publishing small run schol­ arly works.

“Grants from various organi­ sations such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada represent a significant

portion of our incom e,” says Philip Cercone, director of McGill-Queen’s University Press, a specialised publisher of short run scholarly monographs.

Without these grants, many titles could not be printed. As the budgets of the SSHRC are cut, the long-term viability of scholarly publishing in Canada is threatened.

Authors of scholarly works earn very little from the sale of their texts. One university profes­ sor, who asked not to be identified, expects to earn about ten dollars a copy for a book he has just com­ pleted, which will have about 1000 copies printed. However, he esti­ mates that the money will not even begin to cover his expenses incurred while preparing the book, nor the significant investment of time involved. Authors of high selling textbooks can expect to

make a little bit of money because of the higher print runs of their books.

“If your book is reprinted, you can expect to get maybe even 50 percent off the cover price, but more often than not, scholarly works are never reprinted,” he said.

Professors can help reduce costs at the bookstore by not order­ ing texts which will not be used a great deal, since returned books must be sent to their publishers at the bookstore’s expense.

Unfortunately, there is not an adequate system of feedback at McGill to help instructors deter­ mine the effectiveness of course books. A system for student evalu­ ation of texts would help lower the high costs of the bookstore and would allow for smaller margins on texts.

Referendum will affect McGill... ►I Continued from Page 1 funding will be regained from Quebec taxpayers, but many have their doubts.

Pierre Bélanger, McGill prin­ cipal of research, said that in a separate Quebec, the university could lose a substantial amount of research funding.

“One of the first things to go will be research funding. It will not be a priority. In a depressed economy, research is drastically effected,” argued Bélanger.

Gautrin doubts that research funding would be a priority.

“Sovereignty will have a tremendous effect on the econo­ my and revenues of taxpayers.

The money they reclaim will not be put back into research ,” Gautrin said. “Research is impor­ tant but it does not touch many people. When money is scarce, they will invest in health care and secondary education because that’s where you touch the great­ est amount of people.”

Shapiro said that research quality also depends on how many experts scrutinise the work being done. Currently McGill is part o f the large Canadian

research pool. In a separate Quebec, M cG ill would be in a much smaller research pool.

“There will be something lost on the research side even if Quebec provides as much money as was previously provided,” Shapiro said.

Gautrin agreed that Quebec separation would be a serious blow to McGill.

“One o f the main factors which makes McGill a prestigious international institution is its research. After sovereignty, the future of M cGill as an interna­ tional institution is in question.”

Sucking on Jawbreaker B y S ue G lover In the scramble between major labels for the next big thing in music, a lot of terribly mediocre bands have been signed. Strangely, instead of heaping scorn on those bands, it is the really talented ones that the kids brand “sellout” when they sign on the dotted line.

Being both recently signed to MCA Records and extremely talented, San Francisco punks, Jaw-breaker, have suffered more than their share of vilification. Made up of bassist Chris Bauermeister, singer/guitarist, Blake Schwarzenbach and drummer Adam Pfahler, Jawbreaker gave me their side of the story in a recent phone interview. I talked with Bauermeister, who had just woken up and was both sleepily charming and happy to dish me the facts.

Like most of the musi­ cians who have been tar­ geted as sellouts, Bauer­ meister is surprisingly even-minded about the issue.

“I would hope that if you like the music, you will listen to it, and if buying it directly offends you, you can always tape it from some­ one else,” he added, “There comes a point in the life of a band where either you stop playing music to go make a living or you decide to play music for a living,”

Bauermeister concluded the sellout debate by stating that MCA has the option to make suggestions, but absolutely no creative control.

Having exhausted that topic, we talked about Jawbreaker’s histo­ ry. The band was formed in 1989, toured and subsequently broke up so the members could finish their uni­ versity degrees. Having obtained a

higher education, they took a look at the job market and decided to go the rock'n'roll route. As Bauermeister put it, “Our 7” from that summer was doing really well, and the opportunity was there, so we took advantage of it while we were young. At that point, I never thought we’d get this far.”

Jawbreaker has released four

albums, the first three on TupeloCommunion Conspiracy and Dear You with MCA. On the new one, the band has managed to merge the complexity of the first two, Unfun and Bivouac, with the brilliant song­ writing found on 24 Hour Revenge Therapy.

“I guess it’s natural that after the poppiness of 24 Hour we would follow with a more complex one.

We don’t plan it, we just put to­ gether what’s coming out,” Bauer­ meister said.

I note that a lot of the lyrics seem very personal, almost tortured, on Jawbreaker albums. The words “Honey, i t ’s d ep ressin g what depression does to some. I ’ll play the part fo r hours but I know you ’ll never come ” spring to mind.

Bauermeister replies, “That’s Blake mostly — he’s come into his own. He wrote all of the lyrics on the last two albums. He says he’s a frustrated writer, he’s trying to bring short stories to life on the songs. It’s funny — I go through the words and I recognise this person and that per­ son that we all know.”

Finally, I asked Bauermeister what he thinks of the state of alter­ native music today.

“It’s weird,” he admitted, “You end up in a warehouse in Wyoming playing to two hundred kids beating the shit out of each other and it’s the same thing I was doing twelve years ago. There’s a hardcore level of teen angst that will never go away, I guess. Even when this punk fad dies out, there will still be kids listening to it, somewhere.”

Chipping away at T h e S to n e A n g e l B y T a n y a M e in eck e

Margaret Laurence’s novel, The Stone Angel, has gone through a number of incarnations in its play form. Directed by Allen Maclnnis, James W. Nichol’s adaptation is currently being shown at the Centaur Theatre. It maintains the strength of the novel with the added dimension of the visual.

The play, like Laurence’ s novel, relates the life story of Hagar Shipley (played by Joan Orenstein), a 90-year-old, headstrong, cantan­ kerous woman of Scottish descent who is living her last days in a hos­ pital. The title alludes to Hagar’s character, who is strictly restrained for her whole life due to a crippling sense of pride.

The style of narration in the play, often with Hagar facing the audience directly while she speaks, gives it an intimate tone. Split between past and present, The Stone A ngel moves smoothly between Hagar’s life in the hospital and her past experiences as daugh­ ter, wife, and mother. These flash­ backs show the audience how Hagar has come to her current alienated and isolated situation. The play’s ability to make the audience constantly aware of past and pre­ sent simultaneously is specifically visual; this aspect is in sharp oppo­

sition to the experience of reading the novel.

While Orenstein has played the character of Hagar before, she agreed to repeat the role due to the different approach taken by Maclnnis. The play was construct­ ed around the final hospital scenes, with prompting for Hagar’s memo­ ries coming from the hospital envi­ ronment itself.

Because the other actors play multiple roles, the doctors and nurs­ es which surround her in the hospi­ tal are the same as the characters in her flashbacks. While this may or may not have been a purely artistic move (as opposed to an economic one), it effectively gives the audi­ ence the feeling that she is being haunted by memory.

The brilliance of Orenstein’s performance brings Hagar into sharp focus as a woman who is dealing with age and approaching death, while still struggling to maintain her ever-diminishing authority. For the most part, the other performances are strong, though the play clearly relies on Orenstein’s role. Hagar is the centre of The Stone Angel, with the other characters seen as much through the veil of her perception as by the audience.

At a “Theatre Talk” in Moyse Hall on October 12, Orenstein,

Marcel Jeannin (who plays her favoured son, John) and members of the McGill community formed a panel to answer questions about the play.

Orenstein answered questions poetically, without hesitating to vis­ ibly show her distaste for some of the questions. She compared acting the multiple aspects of Hagar’s character to “different angles of light hitting stained glass.”

Commenting on the process of aging and self-identity, Orenstein stated that she was not specifically trying to portray different ages in The Stone Angel, but rather was “playing [Hagar’s] inner self.”

The Stone Angel is about one woman’s ultimate attainment of peace with herself, finally achieved only moments before death. The process by which she comes to terms with her life is painful, which makes this play hard to watch at times. There are light moments to provide balance, however. As Orenstein said, “Hagar has a sense of humour ... it’s beneath the mar­ ble, but it’s there.”

6 tt £ & The Stone Angel plays at The C entaur (453 St. F ra n ço is Xavier St) from Sept. 28 - Oct.\ 22. Tickets range from $15 (students) to $34 (Saturdays).

The little show that couldn’t: A C lo ck w o rk O ra n g e , the Musical B y J e s s ic a W e r b

My theatre-going companion and I ventured out for some thought-provoking, and innovative theatre at the Rialto: Anthony Burgess’ famous A C lockw ork Orange re-interpreted as a musi­ cal.

The evening started promis­ ingly — a theatre full of artsy folk milling, an almost sold-out show, and an undeniably cool bowl full of syringe-struck oranges. And when the curtain went up, the music pulsed with electronic sounds, and the stage became a

P erh ap s the price of th e ticket w as w orth it, just to s e e s o m e ­ thing so epically bad. hub of activity.

Unfortunately, the cast exploded into an energetic but inane song-and-dance. The lyrics were repetitive and dull, the song neither melodic nor catchy — a lit­ tle too music-theatre-ish for the type of production we had come to see. I got a slight sinking feeling in my stomach, which grew in intensity as the production continued.

Alex (Paul Hopkins) was flat, unconvincing, and had an annoying habit of constantly switching accents between Canadian, Cockney Brit, and one with slightly rolled R ’s. Alex’s gang members were undif­ ferentiated and amalgamat­ ed into a single entity. In all, the cast had difficulty delivering Burgess’ won­ derfully creative and expressive dialogue. After the intermission, the audi­ ence had (not surprisingly) shrunk visibly in size, with a few having filed out dur­ ing the first act.

Perhaps the repetitive musical numbers were to blame. I had the same phrase running over and over through my head, though the songs them­ selves all blended into one, the songs themselves and remained completely unmemorable. The music should have provided an eerily-cheery backdrop to the hor­ rific violence, as well as serving as a tool to juxtapose and question the violence of the story. Instead, they grafted the badly-acted vio­ lence into the dance numbers.

Whereas the first half of the show had been a confused mass of singing, yelling, dancing and fake violence, the second act was very, very slow, with quieter numbers,

drawn out scenes, and strange little songs and solos that were com­ pletely out of context. Just when I wished that we had joined those people who had fled after intermis­ sion, a remarkable solo began on stage — remarkable because it was so undeniably and unforgettably terrible. A small character, F. Alexander (Glenn Roy), sang a song about his wife, whom Alex had killed. It was out of tune, out of character, and incredibly painful to watch and listen to. I thought that perhaps the price of the ticket was worth it, just to see something so epically bad.

When I recognised the closing scenes, my spirits began to lighten, but Bulldog Productions was not going to let us off so quickly. They had tacked on an entirely new end­ ing to the story where Alex grows up, falls in love, and renounces the gang life, claim ing it was all because of his ‘youth’. The show closes with Alex smooching his girl who clutches a rose, while the rest of the cast runs in circles around them.

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This non-profit organisation, whose goal it is to bring good English theatre to Montreal, had presented the little show that tried, but just couldn’t.

6 A Clockwork Orange plays at the Rialto theatre, at 5723 Parc Av October 12-Nov 5th.

F or tickets call, 790-1245

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October 17th, 1995

SOUTHERN ROCK Fried chicken fancy pickin’ genre kickin’; B y K u r t N ew m an

Perhaps the first exposure the average easterner youth got to south­ ern culture was the scruggs-pickin’ banjo lick that kicked off the theme to the The D ukes o f Hazzard. Never mind that the “good ol’ boys” of the song’s first line was from a phrase coined by Tom Wolfe, or that Uncle Jesse was nothing but Ronald Reagan in a Santa Claus suit — within that bizzare con­ federate acid trip were the seeds of the latest cultural morph.

Louisille, Kentucky’s Palace Brothers and North Carolina’s Southern Culture On The Skids work with various aspects of the Dukes’ legacy.

Palace play off of the Kentucky mythology — including the Daisy Duke incest taboo motif — from which the television program and musical progenitors like Bill Monroe (the father of bluegrass and the author of Blue Moon of Kentucky) borrowed. SCOTS mine the fertile, Wagnerian stock car drama in which the General Lee was such a pivotal icon.

Palace started the whole trend with their 1993 release You Have No One That Will Take Care Of You .

Will Oldham, lo-fi country pharoah, drawled out loopy answers to my queries over the phone, reminding me very much of the rambling Southern Gothic narrators of Cormac McCarthy’s novels, and of his songs, alternating between down-home charm and ritalin nic fit.

Tribune: For most of my friends, your album was the turning point after which they could start lis­ tening to country music.

Oldham: The country music industry doesn’t need the money.

Tribune: Well, I don’t think anybody was going out to buy Randy Travis records.

Oldham: Randy Travis is on the same label as everybody on the back catalogue.

Tribune: You’ve been tagged a Southern Gothic songwriter.

Oldham: What does that mean?

Tribune: I guess people were referring to Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner...

Oldham: I never read any Faulkner.

Strike two. At the time, the stoned bluegrass feel of You Have No One sounded like a revelation, along with the radical bumpkin cult’s other fetishes — the nouveau Skynyrd stomp of Mule and the record shop country eclectica of Giant Sand. That said, any notion of an indie country revolution, or even renaissance is a little shortsighted.

The indie rock consumer has a mem­ ory shorter than Daisy Duke’s cut­ o ffs and an aesthetic more tightly wound than a banjo string.

Tribune: The song “Work Hard/Play Hard” (‘don’t you know you gotta work hard/ don’t you know you gotta play hard’) is won­ derfully ironic.

Oldham: Are you saying that we don’t work or play hard?

Tribune: No, it’s just that the average indie rock kid isn’t neces­ sarily subscribing to a protestant work ethic...

Oldham: I dunno. Most people you’re talking about are a bunch of wussies. I couldn’t be happy about being such a loser.

The history of punk has been carved around country references:

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The Velvet Underground’s mellower stuff was all in an essentially pas­ toral, country mode — their album.

Loaded, featured the rodeo lament “Lonesome Cowboy Bill.” With the advent of punk came countryinformed acts with each wave — Los Angeles’ X in the late ‘70s, the Butthole Surfers and the Flaming Lips in the midISOs, and then 'everyone from the Bad Livers to the Cowboy Junkies were tipping their hats to tears in beers and steel guitars.

Palace’s new album, Viva Last Blues, deviates from the Woody

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L o s t S o m ew h ere B etw een the Earth and My Home (Virgin)

Sparklehorse Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionp lot (Capitol)

Friends of Dean Martinez The Shadow o f Your Smile (Sub Pop) It’s hard not to notice the recent flood of indie-rockers who are trading in their Esso shirts and Converse one-stars for Stetsons

and banjos, at least metaphorical­ ly. But it doesn't come as much of a surprise. Sure, punk rock is perky and (comparatively) new. and it is fun to jump around like a stuck pig, but at a certain point, the whole thing becomes redun­ dant and insufferably self-con­ tained. Country, even as the lilywhite and many-sequinned beast that rears its head on the Nashville Network, provides a sense of context, a history that goes back farther than, say, 1972.

The Geraldine Fibbers' Carla Bozulich fronted anarchy ‘n' rub­ ber industrialists Ethyl Meatplow back in the heyday of the late 80s L.A. “punk” scene. Fortunately

Guthrie strum-and-warble of previ­ ous releases, adopting the lazy, elec­ tric sound of late ‘60s Rolling Stones and The Band.

Tribune: Talk about the new album...

Oldham: That’s a question?

Tribune: I suppose it’s a state­ ment.

Oldham: I don’t have much to say. Between the last record and this one everything changed. I lost my virginity...

Tribune: The new record and the first one both feature tigers on the cover.

OldhanrWell, my parents were killed by tigers.

Nowhere do the relevant issues in rock culture come into play more ferociously than in trying to figure out how country and rock interact.

Country is where the lines between

for everyone (except maybe Throbbing Gristle fans) she’s set to work redefining American roots music as a means to vent her personal demons. Like Come’s Thalia Zedek, Bozulich uses her gravely ex-junkie voice to its maximum visceral effect, while her bandmates alternate flu­ idly between searing noise and arcing melody. But unlike Come, who get stuck spouting white-girl blues, the Fibbers unselfcon­ sciously mine country’ s rich melodic tradition.

“Marmalade” is a real tower of a song, building a simple hero­ in dream into a hazy hayloft of tragic proportions. Sometimes Bozulich goes over the top: her L.A.-bred rock instincts often jar with the rural-Gothic tone of her writing. But just when the groan starts to form in your throat, a swooning violin or double-bass swoops in and rescues you: the honesty and lyricism of the music always keeps Bozulich from slip­ ping into melodrama.

Mark Linkous’ strippeddown Sparklehorse has a rougher time o f if,V iv ad ix iesu bm arin etransm issionplol is almost as confused as its title. Linkous, a Virginia native, has written a country record without the coun­ try, opting for only the occasional pedal steel or slide guitar. While

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black and white, American and European, and east coast and south get drawn. Cultural wires get crossed, though it’s all the fault of the wireless — the tangled ‘show and tell’ of hillbillies listening to ‘race records’ on black radio, blues musicians copping ideas from the Grand Ole Opry, and art students in England getting bored. The 4/4 jump and verse/chorus structures of rock and roll are undoubtedly countryderived —- where rock and roll owes its greatest debt to blues music is the lyrical swagger, the sexual presence, the promise of danger and violence.

Country is relevant in 1995. It is the re-emergence of vulnerability as authenticity. While one faction of music listeners veers towards hip hop and electronic music (the former a genre in which many enthusiasts can aspire to only cultural tourism, and the latter unaccesible by design), country offers a cultural context in

Bozulich and the Fibbers explode musically, Linkous’ one-manband sounds oddly uncomfortable and constricted, afraid to commit to both his audience and his own music. What we’re left with is the skeletons of songs and occasional hints toward a true aesthetic.

Although these skeletons can be beautiful in their bony way, Linkous has the bad habit of lift­ ing lyrics from obvious sources without any irony, sounding more like a rip-off artist than a master o f Post-mod pastiche. “Sad & Beautiful World” could easily be a sad and beautiful song, but with lyrics copped from both Jim Jarmusch and Lou Reed, it just can’t stay on the right side of that wobbly line between homage and pure laziness.

The debut record by the Friends of Dean Martinez is pure homage, yet also startlingly origi­ nal. The instrumental Friends, featuring members of Giant Sand, side-step the whole indie-country pile-up and create sad and beauti­ ful songs without words, evoking a fading American Southwest, populated yet empty. The Friends of Dean Martinez can do sleazy tongue-in-cheek lounge, rockin’ Ventures-style surf, mournful tumbleweed laments, and even a macabre Klezmer waltz, and still sound amazingly cohesive. The Shadow o f Your Smile gives a nod to every American instru­ m ental-m usic genre of the 1950’s, at the same time manag­ ing to be entirely relevant. Now that’s context for ‘ya, kids.

Puzzlingly, the multitudes of indie-rock aficionados who keep rushing out to buy the latest Palace-whatever record don’t seem to realise that the recent surge of “indie-country” is a reaction a g a in s t punk, not a movement within it.

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October 17th, 1995

CONFIDENTIAL New currents in Southern F rie d Rock which victimhood can be played for fun and profit.

As Oldham says, “Sometimes when you listen to a Dinosaur Jr. song, you can’t turn around and talk to your friend about it. It loses the

that chooses the psychobilly heritage of Hasil Adkins et al over the “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” rehash­ es. SCOTS frontsman Rick Miller answered my questions in a charm­ ing Carolina accent.

major label release, the brand new Dirt Track Date is a paean to all things bucolic and trashy.

This, too, is a major transfor­ mation — starting from the double prong of network TV and anti-aes­

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reason it began as a necessary aspect of other life, a way to blow off steam. Country music and a fair amount of pop — you can listen to it and learn how to deal with an old relationship, your friends, family, your job. It’s cool to be able to listen to a song.”

Coming from a different place, spiritually and musically, Southern Culture On The Skids shoots holes in that thesis like .22 gauge shotgun practise on paint cans. Vulnerability, it can be argued, was co-opted by the hippies so succesfully that anything cool about it was destroyed. The new indie kids all worship Neil Young, the theory would go, who was the east coast (Winnipeg is honorarily east coast in rock geography) subject of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s polemic “Sweet Home Alabama.”

While many of the tougher-sounding indie country artists sound nothing like the Van Zandts (SCOTS mem­ bers Rick Miller, Dave Hartman and Mary Huff most emphatically included), there is a prevailing ethos

Tribune: Who do you borrow

from musically?

S C O T S : We borrow from some, steal outright from others.

Slim Harpo, Link Wray, Dick Dale, Stax, the Memphis sound, surf music. When music was just called rock and roll. When it dropped the roll, I stopped being interested.

Tribune: So the current indie rock scene...

SCO TS: Everybody’s looking at each others’ butts.

When artists reel off their list of musical influences, the “ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer” factor usually comes in — the catalogue is often less musically informative than the artist’s grocery lists. Not so with SCOTS. Their music veers from p s y c h o t i c Stax square dances, with Jon Spencer and Rudy Ray Moore calling the do-si-do’s, to Tarantinotoned tremelo rave-ups. Their first

thetic art — Married With Children and Mike Kelly. The twain meet in the current Detour magazine music issue.

T rib u n e : What was up with that fashion shoot?

SCOTS: They just came down and wanted to do a ‘white trash’ photo shoot. We took the photo right next to Dave’s mobile home. The kids next door had a kiddie pool, so Dave ran and got his “goo and poo is all I do” T-shirt, and jumped in.

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Tribune: Who comes to your shows?

S C O T S : All kinds. The first time through a town, it’s usually col­ lege guys, roots rock guys. After we’ve been, we get a lot of different people — people who are into the old stuff, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, middle-aged people, all kinds. We do street fairs, weddings, blues clubs. Most of the blues bands are kinda boring, so we’re kinda the weirdos.

Tribune: So when SCOTS are big and famous and living in Beverly Hills, are you gonna still be making the same kind of music?

SCOTS:I think we’ll have to, cuz we don’t know anything else.

Just as the Dukes o f Hazzard attempted to fashion a new version of the ‘don’t tread on me’ , Southern bands such as SCOTS pick up the debris of ‘white trash’ heritage to see if there might be something useful. Much like the redneck service killer film, the Film Threat noir that has dominat­ ed the anthems, SCOTS are mani­ festly anti-intellectual, but not unaware of the necessary marriage of art and trash.

SCOTS certainly have influ­ ences outside the realm of the church bazaar 50-cent record bin.

Sue’s vocal inflections recall Athens College heroes the B -5 2 ’s and Pylon - and the skrowl of many con­ temporary rockabilly’s interpreters rears its head. It’s not so far from the “Dukes” to Duke University.

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Tribune: So you work with a ‘white trash’ aesthetic?

SCO TS: Oh, sure. There’s no escaping your history. We’re some­ what self-conscious about all of it, though. My dad built mobile homes, Sue’s dad worked in an RC cola bottle cap factory. RC, moonpies, mobile homes — it’s all part of our history. It’s not just fashion (laughs).

Tribune: You guys have a car racing motif...

SCOTS: Well, nowadays it’s all hot rods, muscle cars, instead of stock cars, the rock and roll of the car racing world. It’s punk rock.

It’s balls ^nd attitude. Three chords, stock cars. That’s why we called the record Dirt Track Date. I grew up in a town with a dirt track.

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DDT Lot Good (Shake the Record Label)

Various The All-Skanadian Club (Stomp Records) L ot G o o d is one of those little records that your roommate always puts on to get everyone in the hoppin’ , drinkin’ -type mood. My roommate and I are too poor to go out, so I just played this a lot and pretended I was on my way to a bar. OK, so that’s sad, but I don’t see any of you buying me a beer, so quit jeering. On the Quebec label Shake, DDT have a ska-ish, jumping sound that would fit right into the Montreal scene. They sound a bit like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones except DDT have only one horn, a little like the Red Hot Chili Peppers before the Chilis got all cheesy, and a lot like 311, but not so obviously pothead-y. The playing is good, but not earth-shat­ tering, and the lyrics sometimes reach heights of idiocy, so the album is (luckily) carried by the band’s remarkable energy. By far the best song on Lot G ood is “Blue Hair Crime.” I can’t for the life of me figure out what the singer is saying through the megaphone, but it sounds cool and makes one want to hop around. “Blow” is another goody, although it is disconcerting to find oneself singing along to the words “Bag in your face, bag in your face”. In small doses DDT is fun (Lot G ood is only six songs long.), but if they put out a double album, I’d avoid it.

Also on the skankin’ tip is The All-

Location

October 17th, 1995

Skanadian Club comp. Like most compilations, this collection of six­ teen songs by Canadian ska bands ranges from great to seriously awful. The idea is| cool — get bandSi from across the] country to submit songs and then pick the best ones.

Oddly enough, it1 seems that in many cases the s e c o n d best songs were chosen, leaving one feeling a little bit let down. Canada has a whole slew of happening ska bands, and this compilation doestf t quite do the scene justice. Thera are standouts, of course, such as “And the Clicker Goes Pow”, a simply wonderful track by Montreal’s A Dream I Had. “Dr.’s Orders” by Halifax natives Dr. Skankworthy is a jump­ ing number that makes me want to see them live. Winnipeg’s J.F.K. and the Conspirators offers the slow, swanky “Boom Sha La La”, and Skaface from Toronto turn out fast, almost jazzy ska on “Bed of Nails”. Also from Toronto, Venice Shoreline Chris breaks from King Apparatus to sing low and sweet on “Rock Steady”. Ska-punks Gangster Politics and two-tone masters the Kingpins do our fair city proud with “Mr. X ” and “Spy vs. Spy”. Many of the other songs fell slightly short of my expecta­ tions, unfortunately. “Pierce Me”

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by local faves the Planet Smashers is nice, but they have other songs that kick its ass out of the water.

Likewise, Toronto legends King Apparatus have finer things to offer than the vaguely annoying “You’re Not My Type”. “Duckie” from Toronto’s Skanksters, sounds like a

Cocteau Twins poor rip-off of the Selecter. The other six are adequate songs, but it seems that better material would have evened out the album and given a more accurate repre­ sentation of Canadian ska.

-Susan Glover

Green Day Insomniac (Reprise) After listening to In som n iac, Green Day seems like an ill-suited name for the band. Something sug­ gestive of amphetamine overdoses or caffeine abuses might be more appropriate then a pot-smoker’s label for a day well spent on a good dose of green. Their newest album rings heavily of Dookie. And why not? Dookie made the band world superstars. Cocaine-charged bar chords and frantic rhythms vibrate

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once again on Insomniac. So does the muddiness that makes me won­ der if my ears need cleaning. Green Day’s stigma as “the band with one song that lasts the length of the album” is still true. But what a song. D ookie, Part II has subtle differences to its predecessor. The trio’s conscientiously expanded their guitar-based repertoire. The album blasts into being with Tre Cool’s opening drum assault. And like a crafty first line in a book, gives hints of what's ahead. Mike Dirnt hammers his bass into the larger spotlight as well. In true pop rock form, the tunes are carried by the catchy melodies and hummable choruses. The ever popular domes­ tic disorder theme is a favourite and profanity pervades to keep the younger fans feeling cool. It’s good seizure-provoking fun.

-Dave Morris

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Twinlights (4AD) Think Cocteau Twins unplugged.

For such an ethereal outfit, the prospect seems laughable, but think again. These Scots have always

made their mark with guitars plugged in. The first and last songs of this EP best represent their new acoustic ideal. “Rilkean Heart” fea­ tures a hook as luscious as 1988’s “Carolyn’s Fingers.” The notes descend beautifully but quickly as the track barely lasts two minutes.

The Cocteaus know that a song should only be as long as it is m usically dense. “H alf-G ifts” brushes awfully close to the melody of Leonard Cohen’ s “Suzanne.”

Nevertheless, songstress Liz Frazier makes it her own. As Frazier sings of loss, she enunciates “I have my friends, my family; I have myself, I still have me.” The way she hesitates the final cadence, one might say her sanity is lost. Others report that the band is lost — recording has become so dysfunctional that no two members are in studio at once.

In the end, Twinlights offers the lis­ tener little material. However, the Cocteaus often punctuate their evo­ lution with EP’s that suggest their next musical move. Essentially, T w inlights functions only as a look into the band’s future.

- Marc Gilliam

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te r m a tch p ro v ed to b e a p a rticu la r­

v o lle y in w h at is sh ap in g up to b e a

c o rp s, led by M a rc e llu s and fe llo w

S a s k a tc h e w a n

ly

p iv o ta l c a m p a ig n f o r th e b o y s in red . F a c in g th e P a trio te s w ill b e a

fou rth y e a r retu rn ee M ik e B u ffo n e

C a n to n is p o ise d to m a k e th e m o st o f c o a c h B a n g e n ’ s d e fe n siv e m in d ­

g reasy

s h is h -ta o u c

fo r

th e

N ic o la s

y e a r a g o . T h e n e w f a c e s o n th e

a m o n g s t th e s e y o u n g lio n s is fir s t

now be h in d th em , th e R e d m e n are

m ou n tain start at the top w ith head

y e a r p ip e d w e lle r J a r r o d D a n ie l.

lo o k in g forw ard to T u e sd a y n ig h t’ s

coach

m id -w ay thro u g h la st se a so n ,

F r e s h o f f fo u r y e a r s in th e m e a n s t r e e t s o f th e W e s te r n H o c k e y L e a g u e and th e S p o k a n e C h ie fs , he

c h a n c e to g e t a ju m p o n th e d iv i­ sio n , as w ell a s so m e a to n e m e n t fo r

B a n g e n ap p ears to h a v e w on

a p p e a r s t o b e t h e f r e s h f a c e to

la st s e a s o n ’ s p la y -o ff d e fe a t. A 7 - 3

e m o tio n

o v e r h is tro o p s w ith a m o re

w a tc h

f o r in t h e p o n d o n t h e

lo s s to th e s e sa m e P a tr io te s o n

r e g u la r

“ r e a l w o r ld ” a p p r o a c h to

m o u n t. D a n ie l w as p iv o ta l fo r the

O c t o b e r 1st h a s k e p t th e R e d m e n

p ra c tice .

Team

R e d m e n , t a k i n g th e t i t l e a t th e

r e s p e c t f u l o f th is p e r e n n ia l d iv i­

Todd

R y e r s o n I n v it a t io n a l to u r n a m e n t

sio n a l p o w er.

up

tw o w eek s a g o and p o stin g im p re s­ siv e w in s o v e r b o th Q u e e n s and the

“T r o is -R iv iè r e s is th e team to b e a t a g a in t h i s y e a r ,” M a r c e l lu s

“C oach B angen a p p r o a c h e s p r a c t i c e s w ith

U n iv e rsity o f T o ro n to .

In ad d itio n to D a n ie l, fir s t y ear

s a id . D e s p ite th e l o s s , a n d a tw o and fo u r p re -s e a s o n reco rd

UQTR

g a m e s i t u a t i o n s in m in d ,

fo rw a rd D a v id B u tle r , ou t o f Jo h n

M a r c e llu s re m a in s o p tim is tic abo u t

in t h e f i r s t

fo c u s in g on d e fe n c e and so lid fo r e -c h e c k in g ,” h e said .

A b b o t t C o l l e g e , h e a d s up w h a t p r o m i s e s to b e a b u m p e r r o o k i e

M c G i l l ’ s c h a n c e s in th e d iv is io n

“ S tr e s s in g th e te c h n ic a l

c ro p th is s e a s o n . D e f e n s iv e ly ,

a ttr a c t c o m b a ta n ts and fa n s a lik e .

O n e n e ed o n ly r e f le c t on th e g reat

do

r e g u la r s e a s o n m a t c h ­

T u e sd a y n ig h t w ill b e th e o p en in g

not

a

season

m ake.

A nd

up s o f th e L a k e r s and C e ltic s , L e a fs and C a n a d i e n s in o r d e r to g rasp

th e

b e h in d

th e se

se a so n g ru d g e m a tch e s.

A s im ila r s itu a tio n s h o u ld o c c u r T u e s d a y

T e r r y B a n g e n . H a v in g r e p la c e d J e a n P r o n o v o s t

w in te r A re n a w h e n th e M c G ill H o ck e y R e d m e n th e

c o n fe r e n c e g a m e o f th e 12 0 th se a so n o f R e d m e n R edm en

c a p ta in

M a r c e llu s su m m ed B a n g e n ’ s p h ilo so p h y .

n ig h t at th e M c C o n n e ll

a sp e cts o f th e g a m e m ak e ic e p ra c tic e tim e fa r m o re m e a n ­

go

in to t h e ir h o m e o p e n e r

in g fu l, a p p lic a b le an d , h e y ,

fre sh o f f a d isa p p o in tin g

ju s t a h e c k o f a lo t m o re

p re -se a so n

to u r, lo s in g to M e r r im a c k (M a ss­ a c h u s e t t s ) C o ll e g e 3 -1

fu n ,” he added.

In te r p re tin g th e t a c tic a l p h ilo so p h y o f C o a c h B a n g e n th is y e a r is a r o s t e r w e ll

and

sto c k e d w ith e x p e rie n c e d ta l­

so u th e rn

d r o p p in g

o v e r tim e

a

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to

U M a s s L o w e ll. T h e la t­

W h e re th e by

G o ld e n

G a e ls

B y K a s h if Z a h o o r

Queen’s 20 McGill 7

‘k i l l ’ M

fro m last w eek , althou gh on ly m ar­

quarter. B o o n w as fo rce d to co n ced e

g in ally . L a st Satu rd ay , the R ed m en

a safety a fter a high snap on a punt

ru n n in g c o r e c o m p lie d 1 9 9 y a rd s,

attem pt sailed o v er h is head.

T h e p a s s in g g a m e , ir o n ic a lly en ou gh , set up M c G ill’ s on ly points

th e

o f th e g a m e . R e d m e n q u a rte rb a c k

R e d m e n a re c o m in g a p a r t a t th e

D a n a T o e r in g c o n n e c te d w ith ru n­

C h ad L eu d tk e at 1 0 0 per ce n t, co u ­

seam s. T h e p la y o ffs a re around the c o r n e r , a n d it i s n o w o f f i c i a l l y ‘cru n ch tim e ’ .

n in g b a c k D an P ro y n k o n a q u ic k

pled w ith op p osin g d efe n ce s k ey in g

p a s s . P r o y n k r u m b le d 7 4 y a r d s d o w n fie ld b e fo r e b e in g ta c k le d at

p le a s e

h u rry

b ecau se

In th e f ir s t fo u r g a m e s th e

th e Q u e e n ’ s 3 -y a r d lin e . H e th e n

on run, a o n c e leth a l gro u nd g am e h as b e c o m e m ortal d ouble qu otes.

So u l A sy lu m m igh t as w ell had

R ed m en posted 8 7 p o in ts, and w ere

fin ish ed the d rive w ith a three yard

the R ed m en p a ssin g g am e in m ind

o f f to a 2 -1 -1 start, good fo r second

to u c h d o w n ru n tw o p l a y s l a t e r .

w hen

p la c e in th e O - Q I F C . In th e ir la st tw o g a m e s , h o w e v e r, th e R e d m e n

Q u e e n ’ s s l i c e d th e R e d m e n le a d b e fo re h alftim e w ith a 3 2 -y a rd field

“ F ru s tra tio n In c o r p o ra te d ” . A e ria l a s s a u lt se e m s lik e a c o n tra d ic tio n

s c o r e d a m e r e e i g h t p o in t s a n d

g o al late in the secon d qu arter 7 -5 .

w ith the R ed m en . T h e p assin g g am e

p lu m m e te d in to f if t h p la c e in th e stan d in g s. A nd lik e th e C a n a d ien s,

T h e second half, fro m a M c G ill sta n d p o in t, b e lo n g e d in a S te p h e n

has no t m aterialised the w h o le se a ­ so n , and the g am e ag ain st Q u e e n ’ s

u n less th e d e fe n c e ca n c o m e aw ay

K in g n o v e l. T h e w h e e ls c a m e o f f

w a s n o e x c e p t i o n .T h e a ir a t ta c k ,

w ith a shutout ev ery g a m e , M c G ill’ s

the o ffe n c e , and th e u su ally reliab le

ex clu d in g

o ffe n c e w ill hav e to put m ore points

d e fe n c e f e ll a p a rt. T h e d e fe n c e

virtually n o n -ex isten t. T h e R ed m en

on the sco reb o ard in ord er to w in.

C o a c h B a illie and his R ed m en find th em selv es slo w ly fading from

y ield ed 15 un an sw ered p o in ts, and

p a s s e d f o r an a n a e m ic 4 6 y a r d s ,

the o ffe n c e m anaged only 4 2 yards, in clu d in g m in u s e ig h t n e t y ard s in

c o m p le tin g fo u r p a ss e s th e w h o le a f t e r n o o n w h i l e t h r o w in g t h r e e

the p la y o ff picture. T h re e w eek s ago

the fin a l quarter.

in tercep tion s.

th e y

san g

th e ir

h it

P ro n y k ’ s rec e p tio n , w as

th e R e d m e n a p p e a r e d to h a v e a

T h e G a e ls reg ained th e lead fo r

T h e R e d m e n r e a lis e th a t th ey

b e r th in p o s t - s e a s o n p la y a ll b u t

g o o d o n a M c G ill tu rn o v e r in th e

n eed to m o v e th e b a ll th ro u g h th e

w rapped up, bu t tw o lo s se s and tie hav e sent the R ed m en in to an aby ss.

th ird q u a rte r. Q u e e n ’ s c o r n e r b a c k

air i f th in g s are g oin g to im prove.

M a x T u r n e r th w a rte d a M c G ill d rive at the 35 -y a rd lin e. T h e G a els co n v erted th e R ed m en m is cu e in to

“I f w e are ev er g o in g to b e su c­ c e s s fu l, w e h a v e to p a ss th e b a ll,”

T h e Q u e e n ’ s G o ld e n G a e ls

field g o al. R o b W e ir nailed h is se c ­

noted B o o n .

T h e b a c k - t o - b a c k lo s s e s h a s

w ith an im p ressiv e 2 0 - 7 w in b e fo re

o n d f ie l d g o a l, th is o n e fr o m

ta k e n its to ll o n th e m o ra le o f the

a c r o w d o f 2 , 1 0 0 a t R ic h a r d s o n

yard s ou t, putting Q u e e n ’ s ahead 8

Stad iu m la st Satu rday.

M c G ill o p e n in g d riv e sh o w ed

to 7.

“W e w ere m o v in g th e b a ll up

to g e th e r a s a te a m . I s e e a lo t o f

p ro m ise, as th e o ffe n c e foun d so m e

th e fie ld , g e ttin g c l o s e to s c o r in g

d ow n fa c e s. W e hav e to m ak e so m e

rhythm early . T h e R ed m en m arched

p o sition , and to m e that in tercep tion

g uys b e lie v e w e hav e th e a b ility to

to the G a el 3 0 -y a rd lin e , b e fo re the

w as the turning poin t o f the g a m e ,”

w in. I know w e h av e the p o ten tial to

d r iv e s t a lle d . T h e s lip p e r y f ie l d ,

said B a illie .

b o u n ce b a c k ,” said B o o n .

le a p fro g g e d a h e a d o f M c G ill in to th e fo u r th a n d f in a l p l a y o f f s p o t

th an k s to th e stea d y ra in , p lay ed a r o l e in t h e e n s u i n g f i e l d g o a l a tte m p t. M c G ill k ic k e r A n d rew B o o n lo st h is fo o tin g and m issed the 38 -y a rd fie ld g oal.

T h e G a e ls d rew fir s t b lo o d in

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a

w e r e n ’ t a b le

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G a el lead to 1 5 -7 .

T h e ru n n in g g a m e im p r o v e d

this Saturday a t 1:30pm in the

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fa c e

th e

C o n c o r d ia S tin g e rs a t L o y o la annual S h rin e B o w l gam e.

T hrou g h in vo lv em en t o f D r. B la in e

h e m a jo r ity o f stu d e n ts and

H o s h iz a k i , an a d ju n c t p r o f e s s o r w ith th e D e p a r tm e n t o f P h y s ic a l E d u ca tio n , an on g oin g in vo lv em en t

facu lty e n ter the C u rrie G y m

w ith the h o ck e y equ ip m en t co m p a ­

w ith h o p e s o f e s c a p in g th e

ny, C an star, has lead to an em p hasis

rig ou rs o f a ca d em ic life . B u t, fo r the s t a f f and stu d e n ts o f th e P h y s ic a l

on im provin g e x c e lle n c e in h o ck ey .

In co lla b o ra tio n w ith the m ech a n ica l

E d u c a tio n D e p a rtm e n t, th e M c G ill

en g in e e rin g d epartm ent, re se a rch is

S p o rts S c ie n c e C en tre in th e C u rrie B u i l d i n g is h o m e t o i n t e n s i v e r e s e a r c h in c l u d i n g s u c h d iv e r s e areas as the m e ch a n ics o f m ov em en t

b ein g perform ed, under the su pervi­

and sports p sy ch o lo g y .

b io m e ch a n ics.

Sp o rts scie n ce en co m p a sse s six

sio n o f D r. L a rry L e ssa rd , w ith the g o a l o f o p t im is in g th e s la p s h o t v e lo c it y th ro u g h s t ic k d e s ig n and “ In fo rm a tio n

can

o b t a in e d

sep arate d iscip lin e s o f stud y: e x e r ­ c is e p h y s io lo g y , b io m e c h a n ic s , sp o rts p s y c h o lo g y , p e d a g o g y (th e

th ro u g h h ig h v e lo c ity f ilm in g and during p la y b a ck poin ts can b e d ig i­ tised and brok en d ow n in to m ech a n ­

te a c h in g o f s p o rt), s o c io lo g y , and

ica l co m p o n en ts,” stated P errault.

m o t o r l e a r n in g . A l l o f t h e s e a re

T h e hum an p h y sio lo g y testin g

investig ated at the cen tre.

T h e cen tre is headed up by Dr.

la b o r a to r y is a c c r e d ite d b y th e C a n a d ia n

H e le n e P e rra u lt w h ile th e c u rre n t

P h y s io lo g y a s a s ta n d a rd la b f o r

d irecto r, D r. D a v id M o n tg o m e ry is

te stin g e lite athlete. T e a m s ran g in g

on sab b atica l. T h e e le v e n p ro fesso rs in v o lv e d in e x e r c is e re s e a rc h have b ack g ro u n d s ra n g in g fro m b io lo g i­

from the N ational A lp in e S k i T e a m to th e M o n t r e a l C a n a d ia n s h a v e

c a l s c ie n c e to p sy ch o lo g y and ed u ­

a sp e cts o f th eir team m e m b e rs’ fit­

catio n .

n e ss le v e ls. D e p e n d in g o n th e ath ­

“ I t ’ s im p o rta n t to u n d e rsta n d w h a t s p o rts s c ie n c e is a b o u t ...f o r e x a m p le w e ’ re n o t ju s t th ro w in g

le te ’ s sport, d ifferen t a sp e cts o f fit­ n e ss are m o re im portant. Su stain ed e x p lo s iv e p o w e r is im p o rta n t f o r

b a lls around in h e re fo r the sa k e o f

h o c k e y , w h e re a s e n d u ra n ce p o w e r

th ro w in g b a lls , b u t in th e h o p e o f

is n e c e s s a r y

a n sw erin g s p e c ific q u e stio n s,” said

sk iers. A e ro b ic and a n a e ro b ic pow er

Perrau lt.

T h e cen tre is co m p rised o f fou r lab o rato ries, ho u sin g a co m b in a tio n

c a n b e a s c e rta in e d w ith a v iew to e n h a n cin g area s o f fitn e s s s p e c ific

o f b o th s p o r t in g e q u ip m e n t a n d m ach in es that reg ister p h y sio lo g ica l

S o c ie ty fo r E x e r c is e

u s e d th e f a c i l i t i e s to te s t v a rio u s

fo r c r o s s -c o u n tr y

to the a th le te s’ p articu lar sport.

S p o rts p s y c h o lo g y d e a ls bo th

r e s p o n s e s , su c h a s e le c t r o c a r d i o ­

w ith o n - f i e l d s t r e s s a n d m e n t a l p r e p a r a t io n .

D e c is io n -m a k in g

g ra m s and s o p h is tic a te d co m p u te r

p r o c e s s e s an d r e a c t i o n t im e s a re

softw are.

In the e x e r c is e p h y siolog y la b ­ o rato ry , they m e a su re th e e f fe c t o f

studied in an e ffo rt to p ro vid e ath­ lete s w ith a co m p etitiv e ed ge.

p h y s ic a l a c t iv it y on th e h u m an b o d y . W ith th e a id o f l a s e r s an d

C u r r i e G y m h a v e p r o v i d e d th e

e le ctro m y o g ra p h y th e co o rd in a tio n

expanded fa cilitie s. W ith co lla b o ra ­ tiv e e ffo rts in v o lv in g o th e r d epart­

o f m o v e m e n t and m o to r c o n tr o l

tou chd ow n pass to W e ir, (w h o also p lay s w id e r e c e iv e r in ad d itio n his ro le as p la c e -k ic k e r ) ex te n d in g the

The

T h e b io m e c h a n ic s la b fo cu se s

resh a m

r— —

c G ill

9 7 b e tte r than in th e g am e a g a in st B is h o p ’ s tw o w eek s ag o. M ed io cre at b e st by M c G ill standards.

W i t h o u t S h a w n L in d e n an d

S o m e o n e fin d the p an ic button,

a t h le t ic s m e e ts

n ew a d d itio n s . T h e v e te ra n

th e w a n in g m o m e n ts o f th e f ir s t

Continued on Page 18 I»

on th e m e c h a n ic s o f m o v e m e n t.

e n t a s w e ll a s s o m e b r ig h t

G etting re a d y to d ro p the p u c k o n a n o th e r season.

m a tc h up w ith th e P a t r io t e s a s a

a c a d e m ic

D a v id G

T

and

n a tiv e

ed old tim e h o c k e y ap p roach .

T h e dry run o f th e p re -se a so n

R e d m e n to sw a llo w h av in g sq u an ­ d e r e d a 6 - 3 le a d in t h e w a n in g sta g es o f th e bout.

P re -s e a s o n m a tc h e s, h o w e v e r,

h o ck e y .

The

stro n g

p r o m is e to d e liv e r th e n e c e s s a r y le a d e r s h ip to g u id e a h o s t o f im p r e s s iv e y o u n g s te r s . F o r e m o s t

P o s t - s e a s o n r i v a l s e n g a g in g

P a tr io te s

s t ill g o in g

d e cid e d ly d iffe re n t R e d m e n sq u ad th a n th e o p e n in g d ay r o s t e r o f a

o n e a n o th e r in th e re g u la r se a s o n

m eet

is

p rin cip le s are ex p lo re d . T h e a ffe c t o f s t r e s s , g e n d e r , a n d c o n g e n it a l h e a rt c o n d itio n s o n c a rd ia c c y c le s are a lso an a rea o f in terest.

T h e r e c e n t a d d i t i o n s to th e M c G ill Sp o rts S c ie n c e C e n tre w ith

m en ts, u n iv e rsitie s, lo c a l h o sp ita ls, an d in d u stry th e c e n tr e is su re to co n tin u e in its qu est to b e tte r under­ stand the scie n ce o f sport.

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October 17th, 1995

M a r t le t s c o n t in u e B y A n d rew B o o n

w in n in g

w a y s

R e d b ir d s

w in

B y D a n a T o e r in g

E a s te rn

t it le

given up by the L av al pitchers. H ow ever,

th e o p p o s i t i o n t h is s e a s o n . It

th at, M c G ill b u ck le d d ow n lik e

se e m s that th is d y n am ic duo has

R ocky

F e a r . I t ’ s s o m e t h in g th a t the M c G ill M a rtle ts h av e had to

a h e a lth y sc o rin g ra c e g o in g o n th a t c a n o n ly b e n e f it th e

U n f o r t u n a t e ly , T r o i s - R i v i è r e s

d e a l w ith a ll y e a r . N o t l it e r a l

M a rtle ts o n c e th e p la y o f f sea so n

c o n f o u n d e d th e M a r tle t s u n til

T h e M c G ill R e d b ird s w e re b e h in d the U n iv ersité de L a v a l at the b egin n in g o f th e w e e k . W ith a t w o -g a m e s e r ie s

fin a lly

against C o n co rd ia and then a th ree-g am e

In th e s e c o n d g a m e o f th e t r i p l e ­

s e r ie s a g a in s t L a v a l, th e R e d b ir d s h ad J a i m e “ P e l e ” S o c h a s k y [ their w ork cut out fo r them . T h e ir ch a n ce s o f re a c h in g th e c h a m p io n s h ip to u rn e y s m a c k e d a b u l le t th a t h it th e seem ed slim . c ro s s b a r and then ric o c h e te d o f f O cto b er 10, the R ed b ird s too k on the a T r o is -R iv iè r e s p la y er and in to C o n co rd ia Sting ers. the o n io n b ag . T h a t g o a l w ou ld T r a ilin g la te in th e g a m e b y e ig h t b e th e o n ly o ffe n s iv e ou tp u t as ru n s, th e R e d b ir d s ’ m a d e a tru e c o m e ­ M c G i l l c a m e a w a y w ith a 1 -0 b a c k . S p a rk e d by a th re e run trip le by v icto ry .

J a s o n E g b u n a , th e y fo u n d th e m s e lv e s M id -fie ld e r A ly so n W a lk e r only trailin g by th ree runs in the bottom a ss e sse d th e low sco rin g g am e. o f the sixth. “ N e i t h e r m y s e l f , n o r th e W ith th e s c o r e a t 8 - 5 f o r C o n U , te a m are sa tisfie d w ith th e e ffo rt M ich e l C arrier w ent to bat. H e sm ack ed a w e put fo rth . It seem ed as i f w e grand slam that g a v e M c G ill a 9 -8 w in. w e r e p la y in g in s lo w m o tio n .

T h e n ext gam e o f the d ouble-h eader W e p u sh ed th e b a ll aroun d but w a s a d i f f e r e n t s t o r y . T h e R e d b ir d s ju s t c o u ld n ’ t ca p ita lis e n early as slau ghtered the Stin g e rs by a fin al sco re m u ch as w e ’re u sed to .” o f 11-1.

I f the M a rtle ts are g o in g to B ria n T ith e rin g to n w as the w innin g ta k e c o n tro l o f th e ir le a g u e , the p i t c h e r , im p r o v in g h is r e c o r d to an b ig t e s t w ill b e th is w e e k e n d . im pressive 5 -1 . T ith erin g ton had a strong

header, the R edbirds beat the R o u g e et O r

O t h e r g o a l s c o r e r s in th e

i n s t i l in o t h e r t e a m s w h i c h resu lts in bad so c c e r, b ad sh o es,

gam e

and bad d ream s.

S a s c h a M c L e o d , M a r e -C la u d e

The

poor

so ccer

w ere

O d ile

D e s b o is ,

S a ra h P en tlan d .

a g a in st U Q A M th is past F rid a y n ig h t a s th e M a r tle t s d ru b b e d

S till, o n e is le ft w on d erin g

th em 8 - 0 . T h is ca m e as no su r­

w h y M c G ill d id n ’ t s c o r e as

p r is e o f c o u r s e . T h e la s t tim e

m an y g o a ls as th ey d id in th eir

M c G ill

last en co u n te r v ersu s U Q A M .

fa c e d

o ff

a g a in s t

M i d - f i e l d w iz a r d S a s c h a

U Q A M th e y w o n 1 8 - 0 . A f t e r that d ru b b in g , U Q A M w en t out

M c L e o d o ffe re d h er v ie w s. “ I t ’ s d iffic u lt to m a in ta in a

and recru ite d so m e fre sh b lo o d .

S t i l l , th e o n ly

w ay

UQAM

h ig h in te n s ity a g a in st a w ea k er

th e ir

te a m . U Q A M s h o w e d a l it t l e

c h a n c e s w o u ld b e to l a c e th e

im p ro v em en t, but e ss e n tia lly w e

fie ld w ith b a n a n a p e e ls. P erh ap s

h a v e to k e e p up th e p r e s s u r e ,

th e n th e te a m s w o u ld b e eq u a l

re g a rd le ss o f ou r o p p o n en t.”

m ig h t h a v e

im p r o v e d

in te rm s o f fo o tw o rk . F a n s w ere

I f k e e p in g up th e in te n s ity

a ls o su b je c te d to a m a jo r fa s h ­

is th e p ro b le m , the M a rtle ts had

io n f a u x - p a s a s s o m e o f t h e

b e tte r fin d a w ay to m ain tain it.

tw e lv e .

th e

re d

and

w h ite

m a ch in e c lic k e d .

S a v a ria , T a n a q u il C h a n trill, and

gam e

ro u n d

i m i t a t e d a R u b i k ’ s C u b e an d

b e g in s.

fe a r o f co u rs e , b u t th e fe a r th ey

in

th e th ir d a n d s i x t h i n n in g s p r o d u c e d o f f e n s iv e p o w e r fro m th e R o u g e e t O r fro m w h ich the R ed m en co u ld not re c o v ­ er. T h e fin a l sco re w as 9 -4 .

5 -4 in an extra inning battle.

W i t h M a r k D e B o e r c o m i n g in t o p itch in the fifth inn in g, M c G ill w as down 2 - 0 an d lo o k in g fo r a m ir a c le . T h e R e d b ird s did no t g e t a m ira cle , but they g ot both solid d e fe n ce and seriou s o ffe n ­ siv e produ ction fro m veteran p lay er S te v e M u n roe. T h e R ed b ird rig h t fie ld e r ca m e to th e r e s c u e w h e n h e g u n n e d d o w n a L a v a l runner at the plate o n a sa c rific e fly attem pt.

In the sixth in n in g , M u n roe stepped up to th e p la t e a n d r ip p e d a tw o -r u n h o m e-ru n that tied th e g a m e , sen d in g it into e x tra inn in gs. In ex tra in n in g s, w ith the ba ses loaded, the hot handed M u nroe w as up again, and delivered. H e hit a sin­ g l e , d r i v in g in th e w i n n in g ru n a n d putting the ‘B ird s in a first p la ce tie w ith the R o u g e e t O r w ith on e g am e rem aining

U Q A M p la y e r s tr o t t e d o u t in

O n S u n d a y , th e M a r tle ts

w h ite s h o e s , a d e fin it e s o c c e r

h ad h o p ed to g ra b a n o th e r tw o

O n F rid a y , M c G ill h o sts L a v a l

outing in this six inning co m p lete g am e as

T h e fin a l g am e w as d elayed by rain,

n o -n o .

p o in ts as th ey tra v elled to T ro is -

in a k e y m a tch -u p . In th eir last

he g ave up on e ran on tw o hits, w ith nine

in the season.

S o c c e r w as in d eed p la y ed ,

R iv iè r e s . In th is la s t m a tch -u p ,

m e e tin g th e tw o te a m s fo u g h t to

a n d i m p r e s s iv e l y a t th a t . T h e M a rtle ts pu shed th e b a ll around

t h e M a r t l e t s r o m p e d to a 6 - 2 w in. In d eed the w in w as a c o n ­

a h ard e a rn e d tie and L a v a l

strikeouts and a sin gle w alk.

M ark D e B o e r w as an o ffe n siv e spark

re d u cin g th e m o m e n tu m th a t had lifte d the p revious g am es to such heights.

P it c h e r M a r k D e B o e r p itc h e d th e

se e m s to b e the o n ly team that is

fo r th e ‘ B ir d s a s he w en t o n e f o r th re e

fir s t th re e in n in g s b e fo r e th e ra in . D an

in a n a u th o rita tiv e m a n n e r and

v in c in g o n e . B u t w ith s ta r te r s

g iv in g th e all p o w erfu l M a rtle ts

w ith a three run hom er.

kept the fie ld w id e op en , resu lt­

K ir s t e n “ T h e T a c k i e r ” G r e e r ,

an y rea l c o m p e titio n th e s e d ays.

B r o c k c a m e in o n r e lie f to n o -h it L a v a l

T h ese tw o w ins w ere cru cial fo r the

f o r th re e in n in g s b e fo r e th e g a m e w as

in g in s c o r i n g o p p o r t u n i t i e s .

an d D o n n a “ T w in k le T o e s ”

R edbirds. It le ft them only a gam e behind

ca lle d b e ca u se o f m ore rain.

P e r e n n ia l g o a l - s c o r e r L u c ia n a

P r a h a c s o u t w ith i n ju r ie s , th e

C i f a r e l li le d th e o th e r M a r tle t

M a r tle t s k n e w th a t th e m a tc h

the L a v a l R o u g e et O r in the ra ce fo r the E a st D iv isio n title.

T h e f i n a l s c o r e o f 7 - 4 g a v e th e M c G i l l R e d b ir d s th e C I B A ’ s E a s t e r n

s c o r e r s b y p o tt in g tw o g o a l s ,

w ou ld b e tou gh.

F r id a y n ig h t, th e ‘ B ir d s lo s t by a

D iv isio n ch a m p io n sh ip and be rth in the co lle g e w orld series.

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G a m e t i m e is F r i d a y a t 7 :0 0

T h e o p en in g m in u tes o f the

w h ile h e r t a le n te d c o u n te r p a r t

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p .m .

at

M o ls o n

m a tch w e re slo p p y , and a tired

S ta d iu m . O n O c t o b e r 2 2

T h e C ifa re lli-M a u g h a n duo

M c G ill a lm o st let in q u ic k g o al

th e

are d o in g th e ir b e st to terro rise

in th e f i r s t 1 0 m in u t e s . A f t e r

B is h o p ’s in L e n n o x v ille .

J u lia M a u g h a n added a sin g le.

M a r t le ts

ta k e

on

sco re o f 9 -4 . U n fortu n ately , th is lo ss set them b a c k at tw o gam es.

D o w n 3 - 0 in the first inning, M c G ill c a m e b a c k w ith th e h e lp o f fiv e w a lk s

T h e c h a m p io n s h ip s e r ie s w ill b e ho sted by M c G ill and a ll g a m e s w ill b e played at C en tennial Parc.

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October 17th, 1995 clubs. Phone 286-5274.

Tuesday. Oct. 17 T he F acu lty o f M u sic’ s Alum ni Series presents a piano concert by Sandra Murray and C laire O uellet tonight at 8p.m. in Pollack Hall. Free admission.

Wednesday. Oct. 18 Women in Science and Engineering meeting at 7p.m. in Thompson House, 3rd floor. View ing o f “A W eb Not A Ladder" discus^g£ t h ç ^ r ie s .o f sùyjuccessful businessw om en. For int'p cjill Andrea Godfrey at 843-4978.

The 1995 McGill Book Fair is on! ; Thousands of new and used books are;on| sale in Redpath Hall. Drop % between® 9am-9p.m.. Free admission for everyone.

Continues tomorrow.

M cG ill Outing Club meets every Wednesday at 7:30 in Leacock 132. For info on upcoming trips call 398- 6817.

Membership is $15.

Thursday. Oct. 19 CBC/M cGill Concert Series pre­ sents Daniel Taylor and friends exploring the relationship between Purcell and his 2 0th cen tu ry co u n terp art, B e n ja m in Britten. For more information call Gerald Winck at 597-6665.

L B G T M ’ s W omen’ s Group meets at 5:30p.m. in Shatner 423. Drop by for a chat.

SSM U ’s Service Coalition holds a meeting at 6:45p.m. in Shatner 108. VP finance will attend as well as a variety of

The UN C onference in “W om en ( B e ijin g ): R e fle c tio n s ” m eets this evening in room S 1 4 o f the Penfield B io lo g y B u ild in g at 5 :3 0 p .m .. F ree admission, stacked guest list. Call 3985286 for more info.

The M cGill Book Fair in Redpath Hall ends today at 9p.m..

Friday. Oct. 20 Mode ‘95 ■ B e n ts a benefit fashion show for Resto-Vie at Centennial Centre Ballroom oni tthe Macdonald Campus at t f B G T f t l’ s C om in g Out Group meets in the basement of 3421 University (U TC). D on’t be shy to drop by! Stick around for the general meeting at 7p.m..

Monday. Oct. 23 P R O B E . (P u b lic R esea rch On Business E thics) is a Q PIRG working ground interested in finding out the real story behind trans-national corporations.

F o r m ore in fo rm atio n , co m e to the QPIRG office on Mondays at 6p.m„ L B G T M ’ s Bisexual Group meets this evening for a 5:30p.m. for a discus­ sion in Shatner 423.

Upcoming and Ongoing M U S p resents M c G ill’ s A ID S Benefit Fashion Show. Try-outs for mod­ els will be held on October 24-25, 7-9 p.m. in the Shatner cafeteria. Everyone is welcomed.

H o c k e y . .. » Continued from Page 17

ly p o s itiv e o p in io n o f “ ro u g h and tu m b le m a ritim e sty le h o c k e y ” c o r ­

a d d in g th a t “T h e y [ U Q T R ] d o n ’ t

r e c t. T h o u g h th e r e w ill b e n o

Player’ s Theater is now accepting one act student-written plays to be per­ formed in the M cG ill Drama Festival.

P rop o sals w ill be accep ted until December 1st 1995. For more info con­ tact Meredith Caplan at 398-6813.

Interactive reflections on the Future o f Quebec, Canada, and the First Nations will take place on October 26. The event will be chaired by Gazette columnist Ed Bantgy and has been organised by the Daily . Everyone is welcome to partic­ ipate in the round table debates. Check ihe Daily for exact time.

Tuesday Night’s Café Theatre pre­ sents Judith Thom pson’s W hite Biting Dog, directed by Judi Pearl. Production dates are Oct. 19 to Oct. 21 and from Oct. 26 to O ct. 2 8. Show tim e is 8p.m . in Motrice Hall Theatre. Tickets 7$/5$. For info and resevation call the TNC at 3986000.

S p o rts

B r ie f s

• M c G i l l f i e l d h o c k e y s p lit w e e k ­

v e r y s u c c e s s f u l r e g a t t a f o r th e

e n d s e rie s a n d g a in n a tio n a l ra n k ­

M c G ill clu b .

At

in g

T h e M a rtle ts had a n o th e r su c­ ce s sfu l w eek en d a s they travelled to d o b a ttle w ith tw o to u g h O n ta r io te a m s . In th e ir fir s t c o n fr o n ta tio n , M c G ill lost to p erenn ial p ow erhouse Y o rk by a re sp e cta b le 2 - 0 . In their n e x t g a m e , th e M a rtle ts b e a t T re n t handily by a fin a l sco re o f 4 - 0 . T h e s h u t o u t w a s a c h ie v e d b y r o o k i e g o a lten d er G e o rg ie A g u irre -S a ca sa .

G o a ls w e re s c o re d b y K a ty P ille r , B e th R o b e r s to n , S a n d ra A v en d a n o and C h ristin e W a tso n . T h e M artlets a r e n o w in f o u r t h p l a c e in th e

eig h t w on gold fo r th e secon d y ear in a row .

T h e M c G ill U n iv ersity R o w in g C lu b and th e M o n treal R o w in g C lu b a re h o s tin g a re g a tta S a tu rd a y , O c t o b e r 21 at th e O ly m p ic B a s in (m e tro S te - H é lè n e ). R a c e s w ill be held all d ay, so co m e on dow n and w atch the b e st c re w s fro m O n ta rio and Q u e b e c.

Latitudes, a student publication, is looking for someone to coordinate pro­ motional and fund-raising activities. Gain experience and boost you C.V. For info contact Brenda 8 4 2 -6 4 2 2 or B B A A @ M USICB.M CGILL.CA

O W IA A , and a re ran k ed tenth in the

M UPS (M c G ill U n iv ersity Photographic Society) is now offering photo classes. Drop by Shatner B 0 6 for more info.

R e g a t t a in S t . C a th a r in e s O n ta r io

A

th is w eekend , the M c G ill U n iv erstiy

• W o m e n ’s s a ilin g te a m a d v a n c e s

R o w in g clu b show ed the rest o f the

to th e U .S . N a tio n a ls

L ivin g with L oss: B ereavem ent support groups offers six sessions free of charge for those who have suffered the lo ss o f a fam ily m em ber or friend .

Contact Estelle Hop.m.eyer at 398-7067 for details.

The Alley holds jazz bands MonThus at 8p.m. and professional bands FriSat at 9:30p .m .. 3 4 8 0 M cTavish. side entrance to The Alley.

“The Story o f Outremont: Three Centuries o f History” exposition in the School o f Architecture continues until Oct.31. Hours are Mon-Fri 9-5p.m..

nation.

N ote: V o lu n te e rs are needed in ord er to m ak e this reg atta a su cce ss.

• M c G ill ro w e rs

c o n tin u e

to

im p re s s in e a r ly s e a s o n re g a tta s

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