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TAs vote against strike Executive criticised for inability to understand membership B y Ja s o n Y o u n g ______________

A s M c G ill s tu d e n ts p r e ­ pared for final exam s last semes­ te r, T A s n a rro w ly d e fe a te d a m otion to strik e — a d ecisio n that has left the A ssociation of G raduate Students Em ployed at M cGill with a questionable level o f support.

Despite the push for a strike vote fro m the A G SE M ex e c u ­ tive, TAs defeated the motion to strike by only three votes. This apparent lack o f solidarity is a fa r cry from the situ a tio n last y e a r, w h e n T A s v o te d o v e r ­ w helm ingly in favour o f a oneday strike held in March.

AGSEM , which is Q uebec’s only u n io n o f te a c h in g a s s is ­ tants, was recognised by M cGill in January 1993. The union has spent the last few years tied up in fruitless contract negotiations with the university ad m in istra­ tion. A G S E M ’s m ain dem ands include pay equity for TAs in all faculties, protection against TA exploitation, and better jo b secu­ rity. The union cites pay equity as a central problem, pointing to a s ig n if ic a n t d is c r e p a n c y between TA salaries in different departments. For instance, while f u ll- tim e T A s in th e h is to r y d e p a rtm e n t earn up to $ 3 ,6 5 0 per semester, an engineering TA earns roughly $800.

History TA Andrew Bennett asserted that the union’s inabili-

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SSMU VP University Affairs Don M cGowan dropped a bomb on last Thursday’s SSMU council m eeting when he announced his plan to go to the Judicial Board w ith a case a g a in st c o u n c il.

McGowan walked out of the meet­ ing and vowed not to return until he has received an apology from SSMU President Chris Carter.

During his report to council, McGowan handed out a copy of a le tte r a d d re sse d to SSM U VP In te rn a l M ark F eld m an w hich requests a meeting of the SSMU Judicial B oard. A ttached to the letter was a statem ent o f claim made by McGowan against SSMU council. The claim pertains to a d e c isio n m ade by co u n cil at a meeting on September 12, 1996 to amend SSMU Bylaw III and cre­ ate fiv e new co m m itte e s.

McGowan’s case is based on arti­ cle 31.5 of the SSMU Constitution which states that “All amendments to this constitution and By-laws

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shall be adopted in both official languages.”

Although no French version of the amendment existed, council w en t ah ead and a d o p te d the E n g lish v e rsio n d u rin g the Septem ber 12 m eeting. Council speaker Sky Jondahl was responsi­ ble for the decision to allow vot­ ing on the amendment.

“Council disgusts me, and I include myself in that.”

— SSMU VP University Affairs Don McGowan McGowan is now looking to have J o n d a h l’s d e c isio n o v e r­ turned. McGowan seeks a decision w hich w ould rule that the five committees have never been valid.

While the lack of a French version is central to his case, McGowan

insists his pursuit is not about lan­ guage.

“I am not going to pretend that this is a francophone rights issue — that would be patronis­ ing,” McGowan said. “I’m doing it to show that there are rules we have to follow . SSM U council showed no concern for the rules.

They have been making them up as they go along.”

One of the five com m ittees that was created with the amend­ m ent o f B y-L aw III w as the Constitutional and Policy Review C om m ittee. T his co m m ittee is scheduled to meet on January 13.

“I think it is really inappropri­ ate that we are asking a committee created unconstitutionally to tell us how to am end our c o n stitu ­ tion,” McGowan said.

After handing out his notice of motion, McGowan announced that he was leaving the m eeting and would not return to council u n til he had receiv ed a form al apology from Carter. McGowan’s reproach of Carter is related to the negotiation of SSM U ’s letter of

agreement with the university. The letter o f agreem ent dictates the terms under which SSMU occu­ p ies the W illiam S h atn er University Centre and it expires on A pril 12. C arter and SSMU General M anager Guy Brisebois were supposed to have had meet­ ings last semester to discuss bar­ gaining table tactics for negotiat­ ing with the university administra­ tion.

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Executive in-fighting and personality conflicts disrupting council and P olicy R eview C om m ittee, calling for serious restructuring of “L ast sem ester, [Carter] led th e SSM U g o v ern m en t. C arter us to believe that he had been hav­ contends that McGowan’s actions in g p ro d u c tiv e ta lk s w ith are motivated by an unwillingness [Brisebois]. He said he was having to e n g a g e in the d e b a te o v er m e e tin g s ,” M cG o w an said . “I restructuring. don’t think he lied — I think he “ [M cG ow an’s] challenge is m islead council. T herefore, I ’m fine, but it is another attem pt to required to bring it to the attention frustrate the democratic process. of council.”

No m atter w hat it takes, certain C a rte r re sp o n d e d to individuals do not want to see the McGowan’s actions by stating that re p re s e n ta tio n d e b a te ,” C a rte r he had, in fact, been meeting with said. “Either everything is wrong Brisebois to dis­ o r n o n e o f it is “This is a turning w rong. I do n ’t see cuss the letter of agreement. point because it’s [M cG ow an] c o m ­ “I d o n ’t plaining about the know what he is clear how immature h ealth p lan in fo r­ talking about. I we are and how low mation not being in have had in fo r­ French.” m al ta lk s w ith we’ve sunk.” several people,” Respect for C a rte r sa id . “ I knew th is w as — Arts rep. council in com ing, I knew Mera Thompson decline he was going to M cG ow an’s walk out. If peo­ e ru p tio n w as the ple are so concerned with these finale after a long night o f fire­ issues, and are not ju st trying to w orks as councillors shouted at frustrate dem ocracy, why has it each other w ith insinuations of n ev e r b een m en tio n ed b e fo re ? im p ro p rie ty . L ast T h u rs d a y ’s Why did no one come to me?” drama seems to have been the cul­ In resp o n se to M cG ow an’s mination of a growing rift among c a se w ith th e J u d ic ia l B o ard , executive and council members.

Carter argued that the action is a W ith th is y e a r’s id e o lo g ic a lly calculated move to prevent discus­ diverse group o f representatives, sion o f a rep o rt he w rote. L ast s h o u tin g m a tch es and in su lt se m e s te r, C a rte r su b m itte d a exchange are no longer uncom ­ report to the new C onstitutional mon at the twice-monthly council C o n tin u ed from Page 7

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Counter-productive council: Political agendas and personal issues getting in the way meetings. Faith in, and respect for, th e SSM U le g is la tiv e body appears to be on the wane.

“Council disgusts me, and I include myself in that,” McGowan said. “People act in SSMU council in a way that is completely unre­ lated to the world outside SSMU council, and with complete disre­ gard for what their actions would do to students.”

With such a lack of solidarity am ong co u n cil m em bers, prospects for efficient governing are bleak. Karen Hurley, arts rep to council, suggested that as long as the e x e c u tiv e m em b ers are unable to get along, council as a whole is doomed.

“If council is divided, it raises questions o f w hether or not the executive is able to work togeth­ er,” she said. “If the executive is divided like Thursday night, then it is very hard to solve this prob­ lem of divisive politics.”

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Council’s future seems bleak At present, however, it looks as if unity among council mem ­ bers is a long way off. Pervasive antagonism betw een councillors raises new questions regarding the effectiveness and legitim acy of the SSMU council.

“Are we going to rise above events like those at the last meet­ ing? I do not see that happening this year,” said VP Internal Mark Feldm an. “I have chosen not to

focus on council. The real work g o es on b e h in d th e sc en es.

Council is a legislating m echa­ nism, but what do we need legis­ lated? You cannot do anything by legislating.”

S cience rep V alerie P anetR aym ond feels that good work can com e o u t o f c o u n c il if an effort is made to make it a pro­ ductive forum. Part of the reason c o u n c il is n o t g e ttin g th in g s accomplished is due to executive in-fighting since their disputes are usually carried over into council meetings.

“The last time the executives had to do something that involved w o rk in g to g e th e r, it w as p u t a s id e ,” sa id P a n e t-R a y m o n d .

“There needs to be change. I’d like to see the executive take more initiative.”

A rts rep M era T h o m p so n believes that the executives have all done a good job dealing with th e ir ow n p o rtfo lio s , b u t th a t things go wrong when they try to work in council.

“T hey’ve all done their jobs in m aintaining their portfolios.

T hey’ve all done what they said th e y ’d do in th eir cam p aig n s,” asserted Thompson.

H ow ever, when it com es to working with others in a council m eeting, the executives are not able to rise above personality con­ flicts.

“In their squabbles, they keep bringing things up over and over.

It serves no p o in t,” T hom pson

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said. “We are there longer and we are accomplishing less.”

T here is alm ost unanim ous agreem ent that political agendas and personal issues are getting in the way of the proper functioning o f SSM U, and this com es from both councillors and executives alike.

“It’s the nature of the people there — it’s a m atter o f putting th o se agendas aside and doing what’s best for students,” said VP External Affairs Chantal Da Silva.

T he a rg u m e n ts at the la st c o u n c il m e e tin g b ro u g h t in to focus the huge rift between Carter and th e re s t o f th e e x e c u tiv e .

A lth o u g h som e c o n c ilia to ry speeches were made, it’s not clear w h e th e r th e re is any hope for improvement. “ I ’m n o t th a t h o p e fu l,” Thompson said. “This is a turning p o in t b e c a u se i t ’s c le a r how im m ature we are and how low w e’ve sunk.”

Arts U ndergraduate Society President John Provart attended h is firs t c o u n c il m e e tin g last night, and his optimism about the potential for good work to come out of SSMU was challenged. “ It w as very p e rso n a l and m uch o f th e d e b a te w as q u ite petty,” he said. “Everyone on that council takes things much too per­ sonally. There was a lot of skirt­ in g aro u n d issu e s and d ealin g with minor points. It was bizarre.”

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A G SEM seeks provincial arbitration to settle contract dispute C ontinued from Page / ty to understand its m em bership w as a c e n tr a l re a s o n fo r th e N ovem ber strike vote defeat.

“I have respect for the union but they autom atically assum ed th e T A s w o u ld ra lly fo r th e cause. A G SEM presen ted their case that M cG ill w asn’t negoti­ a tin g in g o o d f a ith , b u t th e m a jo rity j u s t d i d n ’t w a n t to strike,” said Bennett. “The union does not appreciate the pulse of th e m e m b e rsh ip , an d th a t ’s a problem.”

R egin a H arriso n , jo in t c o ­ ordinator of AGSEM , disagreed with B ennett’s interpretation of events and defended the union’s role in negotiating on b eh alf of TAs. “W e didn’t really misjudge.

W e in fo rm e d th e m e m b e rsh ip and they m ade a decision,” she said. “W e felt a strong level o f support for the strike, but some m em bers were not in the finan­ c ia l p o sitio n to strik e — they w ere not prepared to give up a w eek’s pay.”

A cco rd in g to B e n n e tt, the p re s e n t r if t a m o n g A G S E M m em b ers can be a ttrib u te d to d if f e r e n c e s in th e s itu a tio n s faced by individual TAs. W hile m any agree w ith the union and feel the u n iv ersity ’s contract is unfair, B ennett believes that the majority are content with the sta­ tus quo. “ T h e u n io n sa y s T A s a re ex p lo ited , but m any d o n ’t feel

that way,” he said. “Many TAs feel th a t th e ir pay a d e q u a te ly reflects the work they do and the pay equity issue is a bit m islead­ in g because, w h ile T A s in engineering receive less pay, th e ir d e p a r t­ m ents get ex ter­ nal grants.”

In re sp o n se to B e n n e tt’s

position at the bargaining table.

The failed strike vote last semes­ ter also calls AG SEM ’s legitim a­

strike was the wrong way to go because it would have penalised both students and professors at

argument, H arrison defend­ ed th e n eed fo r equal pay, despite the addi­ tio n a l fu n d in g that gives certain departments m o re m oney than others. “ W e c a n ’t g u a r a n te e th a t the outside fund­ ing for faculties AGSEM jo in t co-ordinator Regina Harrison wants TA salaries in line Tribune File Photo like engineering with those o f other Canadian universities w ill be th ere in cy into q u estio n . F or his part, exam tim e.” th e f u t u r e ,” H a rris o n sa id .

P o s t G ra d u a te S tu d e n ts ’ B en n ett stro n g ly b e liev es th at “ F u rth e rm o re , all e n g in e e rin g T A s d o n ’t g e t g ra n ts sin c e it AGSEM will suffer as a result of Society President Linda Carlson depends on the professors they the way that the last m eeting was fe lt th at lo sin g the strik e vote was unfortunate, but agreed that conducted. work w ith.”

“The union coloured the dis­ the strik e tactic its e lf w as too L a s t M a rc h , a fte r a la rg e majority voted in favour o f a one cussion with their own agenda. drastic.

“The union did their b est,” day strike, the union’s negotiat­ T h e p o litic s o f th e A G S E M Carlson said. “They let the mem­ in g p o sitio n w ith M cG ill w as executives cam e across clearly strong and united. However, the and it b a c k fire d on th e m ,” he bers decide on their own and the m a jo rity s id e d a g a in s t the current lack of cohesive support argued. “The union’s legitimacy union’s suggestion to strike.” has been c a lle d into q u estio n . from the A G SE M m em bership m ay h inder the u n io n 's current T hey ju m p e d the gun and the

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Briefs Improved SSMU health plan Benefits have been added to SSM U’s student health plan due to the recent implementation of a Quebec universal drug plan. The new provincial drug plan now covers Quebec students for many of the prescription drugs originally supplied by the SSM U p lan. As a re su lt, an im p ro v ed SSM U health plan was developed this past month.

While Canadian students from outside Quebec will still be covered for 80 per cent o f the cost of prescription drugs, Quebec residents will be able to receive 100 per cent coverage. As well, vision care and out-of-province emergency medical ser­ vices have been included in the plan. M edical treatment coverage has been expanded to include injuries resulting from both accidents and illness­ es.

“Everybody is winning from this at no addi­ tional cost,” said SSMU VP Finance Jon Chomski.

Financial Awareness Week SSMU is conducting a Financial Awareness Week from January 20 to 23 in order to make stu­ dents better aware of their Financial options.

“The objective of the week is to educate stu­ d ents tow ard prudent m oney m anagem ent and recent changes made to the Quebec and Canada loans programs,” said SSMU VP External Affairs Chantal Da Silva, who is in charge of coordinating the week at McGill.

The event is being held simultaneously by ten universities across the country. Information per­ taining to student loans, investment opportunities for students, and advice on financial planning will be given throughout the week. Noted speakers will be invited.

AGSEM asks province for arbitration L a s t s e m e s te r ’s d e fe a te d strike vote does not spell the end of negotiations. At the end of last semester, AGSEM requested that the Q uebec M inistry o f Labour appoint an arbitrator to help set­ tle the conflict between the union and the university administration.

In the official statem ent regard­ ing their decision to enter arbitra­ tion, AGSEM wrote: “W e have taken this step as it has become in c re a s in g ly c le a r to the B a rg a in in g C o m m itte e th a t a n eg o tiated settlem en t w ith the university is im possible without com prom ising many of the core values of this union.”

H arrison argued that w hile M c G ill is c o n s id e re d a to p Canadian university, the pay for McGill TAs is nowhere close to the national average. “ I ju s t w ish p eo p le w ould read the co ntracts o f o ther TA unions across Canada,” Harrison said. “T h e y ’ll see th at M cG ill TAs rank near the bottom of the pay scale and they’ll see that our dem ands are m ore than reason­ able. A leading u n iv ersity like M c G ill s h o u ld h a v e its TA salaries in line with other leading universities.”

As a rb itra tio n b e g in s and each side pleads its case, the con­ flict betw een the university and the TAs may be approaching res­ olution. AGSEM is expected to announce the name of the arbitra­ tor within the next few davs.

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Bitter feuding over SSM U plans to restructure executive positions B y L u cy L owes

In SSMU council last week, a motion was passed to hold a mini­ mum of three open forums regard­ ing the issue of SSMU council and executive restructuring before a referendum question is posed on the subject.

The motion was put forth by VP Internal M ark Feldman, who feels that student representation and awareness of SSMU must be increased.

“As a student it doesn’t seem to matter what the constitution is but it does matter what the society is and that is based on the constitu­ tion,” said Feldman. “The execu­ tives are the skeleton of the organi­ sation.”

SSMU President Chris Carter argued that he has a m andate to restructure SSMU before the end of his term. It is his intention to focus predominantly on the struc­ ture of the five executive positions.

“We have been in a deadlock for years. E veryone agrees that rep re se n ta tio n is not rig h t, but everyone falls back into saying it can be dealt with next year,” said Carter in a speech to council. “It has been going on for the last ten years and it is about time someone put themselves on the line to make the society effective.”

The two main recom m enda­ tions made in Carter’s document, “A New Vision of SSMU,” are the VP finance position to merge with the presidency and the VP univer­ sity affairs to split into two posi­ tions. Presently, university affairs is responsible for every academic and every equity issu e, for the

Mark Feldman seeks student input in debate over SSMU structure physical maintenance and develop­ ment of McGill, and for all areas o f contact betw een the students and the McGill administration.

“It does not take a mathemati­ cian to figure out that all this is too big a job for one person,” said cur­ rent VP U niversity A ffairs Don M cGowan. “The problem is that all these responsibilities intermesh weirdly and I am not in a position to tell w here the jo b should be split.”

Both McGowan and Feldman feel, however, that this is an issue th at should not be rushed into, despite Carter’s mandate to resolve it.

“A $2.5 million corporation is run by the SSMU and more stu­ d e n t in p u t is n e e d e d ,” said

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Feldman. “A democracy is not just having a referendum, it is formu­ lating a way to find out what stu­ dents want.”

N uno G am a, c h a ir o f the Constitutional and Policy Review Committee, which is looking into

of students,” he said. “I am a firm b elie v e r in dem ocracy and if that means consulting the students, so be it.”

As of late, there has been much friction between mem ­ b e rs o f the e x e c u tiv e and council — the issue of restruc­ turing in particular has caused a lo t o f h e a te d d eb ate.

According to the minutes of a November 28 m eeting of the C o n s titu tio n a l and P o licy R eview C o m m ittee w hen Carter’s report was discussed, th e re w as in te n se feu d in g between Carter and the other ex ecutive m em bers. At one point, C arter asked th at VP Finance Jonathan Chomski be removed from the meeting.

As restructuring has thus far been a controversial topic, Tribune File Photo Feldman sees the open forums as a w ay to g et stu d e n ts the restructuring, voiced his con­ involved in order to generate pro­ cern over Carter’s proposal.

“I worry that by rushing to ductive debate. “ O p in io n s o f stu d e n ts are make a referendum deadline we n eed ed b e fo re ch an g e is p ro ­ might be getting a half-assed solu­ posed,” he said. tion. This is a big job that needs enough time to get all the opinions

Liberal governm ent draws fire from university and student groups Proposed amendment threatens access to copyrighted material

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Heritage Canada has met with protest and concern from student and teacher associations across the country after submitting a proposal which would increase the costs of certain course materials at universi­ ties.

The C anadian A llian ce of S tudents’ A ssociations issued a press release last Tuesday regarding to a proposed amendment to copy­ right law in Canada. The amend­ ment, which has been put forth by H eritage M inister Sheila Copps, w ould reduce the num ber of exemptions from copyright law that universities receive, thus raising the cost of certain textbooks.

T he pro p o sed am endm ent applies to Bill C-32, which dictates copyright law in Canada. Copyright law was updated for the first time in more than half a century in 1987, when Phase I of a new copyright law was implemented. Phase I pro­ tects all copyrighted material in Canada, and Phase II, which was supposed to come soon after, would give certain exem ptions to these laws to various parties, including universities. These exem ptions, however, have never been legislat­ ed.

Bill C-32, which has now been m oved into the H ouse of Com m ons, is m eant to legislate these exemptions and further quali­ fy copyright law. Copps, who is presently working on this bill with Minister of Industry John Manley, has expressed her intent to create a bill which is impartial and which neither penalises nor favours any­ one.

Janet Bax, a spokesperson for C opps, stated “M in ister C opps

wanted a fair and balanced budget at the end of the day.”

The A sso ciatio n of U n iv ersities and C o lleges of Canada, which represents universi­ ty administrations across Canada, is still assessing the situation. They were pleased with the bill when it was first introduced, but now feel that the proposed amendments are unfair to universities. Bob Best, AUCC director of government rela­ tions and public affairs, called Bax’s statement “nonsense”.

“The government said it was a fair and balanced bill when they tabled it,” said Best. “The pro­ posed changes to the bill risked undoing that balance.”

B est m aintained th at the exemptions which are being given are outdated, as they apply only to hard cover library resources. He criticised this decision based on the in creased p o p u larity o f d ig ital transmissions as opposed to hard cover resources.

“Now, most things are digital,” he said. “This is like giving us an exception to use horse and buggy on the freeway. Thanks a lot.”

When Bill C-32 first came out last A pril, it was supported by CASA and o ther stu d en t and teacher associations. However, the proposed amendment, which was introduced in November, has met with considerable disapproval from these associations.

M atthew H ough, national director of CASA, argued that the proposed amendment is just another obstacle for Canadian students and teachers. Hough pointed to a recent article in The Globe & M ail, in w hich the L ib eral p a rty ’s two biggest mandates were stated to be health care and education, specifi-

cally post-secondary education.

H ough q u estio n s the m otives behind Copps’ actions, as he feels that she is not demonstrating the Liberals’ commitment to university education.

“Student access is going to cost you ‘x’ dollars more,” he said. “[The Liberals] support education but they make it difficult to deliv­ er.”

Copps has maintained that as heritage minister she is simply try­ ing to protect the arts community in Canada.

“She wanted amendments that would strengthen Canada’s cultural industries,” said Bax, claiming that the amendment was simply trying to give “distributors of books better protection” and “provide protection for Canadian writers.”

Hough, how ever, suggested that Copps’ motives were far less noble. Specifically, Hough argued that Copps is trying to improve her relationship with the arts communi­ ty, after a Liberal proposal last year to strip arts events of sponsorships from cigarette companies.

“The anti-sm oking win last year pissed off the arts communi­ ty,” he said. “Copps’ office saw this as an o p p o rtu n ity to m ake peace with the arts community.”

The bill has now been passed on from the standing committee to the House of Commons. If it pro­ ceeds to pass through the Senate, Hough stated that universities could face a la rg e r strain on th eir resources.

“The o rig in al ex em ptions allow teach ers to w rite on the blackboards, use overheads, and put questio n s on ex am s,” he said.

“These are practical things, things we definitely need.”

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January 14th, 1997

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Sim on Fraser ‘pornogate’ scandal ends in im peachm ent Impeached student executives, accused of downloading child and bestiality porn, plan to sue media over unfair coverage “Everyone should have had a burning torch in their hand as far as The Simon Fraser Students’ I’m concerned,” he said.

At the m eeting, Cailey Society’s president and treasurer were both impeached at a special general Crawford, SFSS resource co-ordina­ meeting over allegations that they tor, presented a motion passed by viewed, dow nloaded and stored SFSS employees at their staff meet­ pornographic images using the stu­ ing. dents’ society computer system.

“The use of the university com­ Despite initial concerns that the puter system to download, store, and quorum of 550 students would not be print pornography has created a poi­ met, over 80 per cent of the 885 pre­ soned workplace, induced an atmos­ sent at the special general meeting on phere of disgust, distrust and fear; November 20th voted to oust Kristjan and that, in the view of this, the staff Amason and Frank Karabotsos from express a complete lack of confi­ their positions of president and trea­ dence in any working relationship surer, respectively. The impeachment with those responsible,” the motion ends several months of controversy stated. which began when a pornographic Crawford continued by directly image was discovered in a printer tray addressing the poor state of the work in the SFSS print shop last March. environment.

In April 1996, an executive “I have never been more fearful.

SFSS member informed then stu­ I don’t trust that [Karabotsos and dents’ society President Lee-Anne Amason] can represent any woman. I Clarke that pornographic files were can’t believe it. It’s so clear to me found on the computer used by presi­ that you don’t understand your dent-elect A m ason. Follow ing a responsibilities as a students’ society search of the entire SFSS system, representative,” she asserted. additional pornographic files were Arnason and Karabotsos were discovered on the ____________ suspended with computer shared by pay at the meet­ “T h e o u tg o in g Clarke and ing. They were, p re s id e n t in te n s e ly Karabotsos. Some of however, rein ­ the files contained stated by the d is lik e d m e ... images of bestiality new sem ester’s H e r b a s ic p la n w a s and child pornogra­ executive. The phy.

E l e c t o r a l to m a k e th in g s s o Clarke consult­ S t a n d i n g u n c o m fo rta b le fo r ed with the students’ Committee, society lawyer, who us th a t K a ra b o ts o s struck during the suggested that the 1996 summer a n d I w o u ld re s ig n .” m aterial violated session, reported both the university’s its findings to the Code of Conduct -K ris tja n A rn a s o n , student body and the Crim inal through an open im p e a c h e d S F S S letter written by Code of Canada.

Clarke pro­ p re s id e n t Chief Electoral ceeded to contact O fficer Guy the Burnaby RCMP, __________ Letts prior to the who attem pted to special general meeting. retrieve the files for evidence in con­ junction with Academic Computing Services. Although they arrived to find the files erased, ACS managed to recover those files that were not pass­ word protected in the treasurer’s parti­ tion of the hard drive.

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“[NJobody has come forward issues and was pleased with the and claimed responsibility for the response of the student body at the images, though several people have special general meeting.

“We’re encouraged that so many stated that everyone in the executive was aware of the pictures and that people showed up to vote, which Amason did, in fact, engage in such indicates that this is an important behaviour. However, these accounts issue on campus. Many people — can neither be proven or disproven,” especially women — I’ve talked with the letter stated. “The images found are angry that both Arnason and range from Calvin Klein underwear Karabotsos think it’s ‘not such a big ads, to soft ----------------------- ----------------- d eal’ and aren ’t really taking the porn, and from “ M a n y p e o p le — issues or their hard core pom, e s p e c a illy w o m e n — responsibilities seri­ to three pictures ously,” she said in of bestiality.

I’v e ta lk e d w ith a re D e s p i t e a n g ry th a t b o th A rn a s o n an interview with the Simon Fraser rum ours, only a n d K a ra b a ts o s th in k one child porn News. picture was it’s ‘n o t s u c h a b ig d e a l’ retrieved which Due process a n d a r e n ’t re a lly ta k in g was found on a followed? disk in the th e is s u e s o r th e ir The outcom e executive of the special gener­ re s p o n s ib ility s e rio u s ly .” offices well al meeting has been after the initial challenged by seizure of the — L is a H a llg re n , Arnason on consti­ computer.” v o lu n te e r c o - o r d in a to r tutional grounds.

Karabotsos “Our constitu­ contends that o f S F U W o m e n ’s C e n tre tion states that, to the ESC cannot achieve quorum , link the disk --------------------- ___________ 550 people must referred to in show up within half an hour, and it the letter to either him or Amason.

“The only instance of child took about 40 m inutes for the pornography was found on a disk in a required number of people to show vacated office which we would move up,” he argued.

The Peak reports that Scott into later. It was found by someone who was vocally pro-impeachment Newman, economics representative, — someone who essentially wanted mounted the stage and declared the meeting over after 30 minutes as it our heads,” Karabotsos said.

He continued, “the fact is you had not reached quorum. Due to can’t pin it on anyone. The commit­ pressure from the angry crowd, a tee has seemed to ignore this, and it’s recount was conducted ten minutes what has annoyed me throughout the later. Quorum was attained, and the meeting proceeded despite constitu­ entire process.”

Lisa Hallgren, volunteer co-ordi­ nator of the SFU women’s centre, expressed disappointm ent with m Amason’s and Karabotsos’ inability to directly come to grips with the

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In an interview with The Peak, Arnason described the emergency meeting of the executive on April 24 as a lynching.

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Karabotsos blames Vancouver media and their coverage of the story for the intensity o f the student response at the m eeting. He has launched a lawsuit against Globalaffiliated station UTV. “The fact is they stated hearsay as fact. They stated we viewed, down-loaded and stored rape pom, bestiality pom, and child pom. When students showed up to the special general meeting, they were all hand­ ed their ballots — before they could listen to any of the presentations. I would say 20 per cent just marked their ballots and left,” he contended.

“It was really frustrating to see peo­ ple base their votes on ‘facts’ from the media.”

Arnason added that the cover­ age was one-sided and any attempt to rectify that came too late.

“The TV station, UTV, didn’t bother trying to investigate the report, they never tried to contact me. ...W e forced them to broadcast a complete retraction and apology for the report, but the retraction came two days after we were impeached,” he stated.

Karabotsos has filed preliminary papers for his law suit, although he is waiting to receive a full copy of the broadcast and a transcript from UTV so that he can finalise his legal action and receive a court date. He antici­ pates needing an injunction to speed up the process. Amason may formal­ ly jo in the court case later this month.

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C a n a d a ’s la rg e s t stu d e n t organisations have been invited to m ake p re s e n ta tio n s to the C anadian Senate regarding the current state o f post-secondary education.

Initiated by Senator L om e B onnell last A pril, the federal government has been in the midst of reviewing Canada’s post-sec­ ondary education system . The in q u iry is co n cern ed w ith the re c e n t m o v em en t to p riv a tise many universities, the affordabil­ ity and accessibility of post-sec­ ondary ed u catio n , and student m o b ility rig h ts b e tw e e n p ro v in ces. C o n sid e ra tio n w ill also be given to the non-comprehensive nature of the Canadian system as a whole, including the p ro b le m o f c re d it tra n s fe r between schools within Canada.

Jam es van R aalte, research a ssista n t to B onnell, hopes to pro d u ce reco m m en d atio n s for nation-wide changes to post-sec­ ondary education which will be submitted for debate to all levels of government. “ W e w a n t to p ro v id e the governm ent w ith future d ire c ­ tio n ,” stated van R aalte. “W e hope to present research to the g o v e rn m e n t th a t in c lu d e s the effects of rising tuition fees and the level o f student debt upon graduation on the students in the system.”

In v ite d by the S en a te inquiry, the Canadian Alliance of S tudents’ A ssociations and the Canadian Federation of Students m ade p re s e n ta tio n s la st N o v em b er m ean t to h ig h lig h t stu d en t concerns. M em bers of CFS, whose presentation concen­ trated on levels of student indebt­ edness, are cautiously optimistic about the outcome of the inquiry.

“This sort o f inquiry can ’t hurt the current situation and it is a good sign of possible things to com e. The work that has come out of B o n n ell’s office is phe­ nomenal — he has shown a lot of personal involvement,” said CFS

researcher Denise Doherty.

In its p resen tatio n , CASA argued that the Canadian educa­ tion system needs to be unified because the current system of ten provincial programs has proved to be neither comprehensive nor cost efficien t. CA SA N ational Director Matthew Hough feels a more cooperative system and a n a tio n a l v isio n are n eed ed in order to connect students across the country. “ In C an ad a, th e re are ten systems of post secondary educa­ tion. This is both impractical and expensive,” stated Hough. “All these systems must find identity as one. The Canadian post-sec­ ondary education sy stem ...is a system that is well worth main­ taining. We hope that the study will help the government recog­ nise how to work effectively with diversity.”

T he A s s o c ia tio n of U n iv e rs itie s and C o lle g e s o f Canada will be m aking its own p re se n ta tio n la te r th is m onth.

Robert Best, AUCC director of governm ent affairs and public relations, feels that although the S enate m andate is very broad, important issues such as universi­ ty research , fin an cial aid, and international activity with other h ig h er edu catio n com m unities must take priority.

“It is important to focus on the changes that have happened in the university environm ent.

We want to look at how research, enrolm ents, and finances have changed over the past few years,” he said. “We hope that the feder­ al government takes an interest in these areas. Ultimately, we hope for more federal investments and fu tu re in te rn a tio n a l a c tiv ity including academic relations.”

After the completion of pre­ sentations from the various sec­ tors of the post-secondary educa­ tion community, Senator Bonnell plans a period of regional consul­ tations w hich w ill include two days in Vancouver, Regina, and Halifax.

Yep, we want NEW writers, photographers, and production assistants to come to our general meeting.

It's fun!

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Attention to current writers, photographers, and production assistants: don't worry, we stili love you, it's just that you already know what we do, so you don't necessarily have to come to the meeting. Dig? Dig!

NeWS

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M cGill faces off with government over differential tuition fees B y La u r a M a c N eil

The h ig h est d ecisio n -m ak ­ ing body o f M cG ill U niversity, the Board o f Governors, passed a motion stating its opposition to Q u e b e c ’s d if f e r e n tia l tu itio n policy in its most recent meeting on N ovem ber 25.

The motion serves to clarify and publicise M cG ill’s position for students and the government.

M cG ill’s main objection to the differential tuition fees concerns its d isc rim in a tio n am o n g s tu ­ d e n ts an d its a c c o m p a n y in g threat to student mobility.

“I know this may be unpop­ ular, but I am not opposed to the increase o f tuitio n fees, nor to Q uebec’s argum ent that Quebec students have already paid high­ er taxes to pay for their educa­ tio n ” , sa id P rin c ip a l B e rn a rd S h a p iro . “ I do o b je c t to th e threat to inter-provincial student mobility. In the view of Canada as a nation, Q uebec’s action is inappropriate.”

In N o v e m b e r, Q u e b e c E d u c a tio n M in is te r P a u lin e M arois announced that Canadian stu d en ts from o u tsid e Q uebec would face an increase in tuition fees. In S hapiro’s m emo to the Board of Governors he elaborat­ ed further on his disapproval of the policy.

“The decision to differenti­ ate b e tw e e n Q u e b e c k e rs an d other Canadians raises a genuine pro b lem o f d isc rim in a tio n . It seems to me inappropriately dis­ c r im in a to r y to d if f e r e n tia te betw een Q ueb eck ers and nonQuebec Canadian students all of whom — and all o f whose par­ e n ts — p a y t a x e s ,” w ro te Shapiro.

T he B o a rd o f G o v e rn o rs ’ u n d e rg ra d u a te re p re s e n ta tiv e , Sevag Y eghoyan, proposed the m o tio n a g a in s t d i f f e r e n tia l tuition fees, and saw it passed unanimously “Unfortunately, there isn ’t a great am ount of action attached to this motion, but it’s im portant

Student privacy protected once again at Western The University of W estern O n ta rio h a s re v a m p e d its “Finding People at UW O” web site after fielding a num ber o f com plaints from students who w e re c o n c e rn e d a b o u t to o much inform ation being made available. “ I t ’s o n e th in g fo r y o u r nam e to be p u b lish e d in the student directory, it’s another

to get the m essage across,” said Yeghoyan.

SSM U V P U n iv e rs ity A ffairs Don M cG ow an is con­ s id e rin g la u n c h in g a la w s u it a g a in s t th e Q u e b e c g o v e r n ­ m en t’s differential tuition poli­ cy. Along with a researcher, he h as re c e n tly d is c o v e re d le g a l w r itin g s u p p o r tin g S S M U ’s c a s e . W ritte n b y th e F e d e ra l Ju stice D epartm ent, this paper deals solely with Canadian stu­ dents’ rights to mobility.

“Quebec courts differ from m ost other court system s in the value they place upon legal writ­ in g o v e r p r e c e d e n ts ,” s ta te d M cGowan. “I think this case is even stronger than we originally thought.”

“ I do object to th e thre at to in ter-pro vincial student m obility. In the vie w of C a nada as a nation, Q u e b e c’s action is in a p p ro p ria te .”

— Principal B ernard S hapiro T he Q uebec g o v ern m en t’s p o lic y is c la rifie d in a m em o sent by Shapiro to the Board of G overnors. W hile the province rem ains under a tu itio n freeze fo r the next 2-3 years, tu ition fees for Canadian students from o u tsid e Q ueb ec in B a c h e lo r’s and M aster’s program s will dou­ b le , e x c lu d in g d o c to ra l p r o ­ gram s. M cG ill itse lf w on’t see an increase in funds as the extra tu itio n fees go d irectly to the government.

M aro is’ announcem ent has s tim u la te d c o n c e rn over M c G ill’s f in a n c ia l s itu a tio n .

S h ap iro sees M cG ill as being c a u g h t b e tw e e n d im in is h in g governm ent grants and a tuition freeze for Quebec students.

“M cGill is exploring differ­ e n t b u d g e ta r y m o d e ls and so u rc e s o f in c o m e ,” a d m itted P r in c ip a l S h a p ir o . “ M c G ill

to be published on a w eb site that someone 6,000 miles away c a n a c c e s s ,” s a id D e p u ty Registrar Robert Tiffin.

P rio r to the c h an g es, the search engine could provide a s tu d e n t's fu ll nam e, facu lty , hom e ad d ress, phone num ber and em ail address. The revised site provides only the name and e -m a il a d d re ss o f th o se s tu ­ dents w ho have authorised its release.

— with file s fro m The Gazette ( University o f Western Ontario)

"A ll I know is w hat I read in the p ap ers."

— W ill Rogers

m u st, it se e m s to m e, d e v e lo p a new m odel o f itself,” he went on to say in a m em o to the B o a rd o f Governors.

Q u e b e c ’s d ifferen tial tuition policy is turning out to be kinder to internation­ al students than previously e x p e c te d . N e x t y e a r a ll international students face an increase o f tuition rang­ ing from $500-$ 1,500.

M c G ill a lso ra is e d tu itio n fo r in te rn a tio n a l students in the Bachelor of C om m erce and D en tistry p ro g ram s in an in d e p e n ­ dent v e n tu re la s t N ovem ber. Now, with the introduction of the govern­ m e n t’s tu itio n in creases, th e lo n g -te rm fa te o f all in te r n a tio n a l s tu d e n ts remains to be seen.

Chris Carter, president of SSMU, is working with Principal Shapiro to clarify the exact fee increases for international students, and is d ev eloping an in te rn a ­ tional student netw ork for McGill.

“I have a m ailing list o f all the international stu­ dents, the labels are here on my desk,” said Carter.

“The m om ent we get defi­ nite inform ation it will be m ailed out in both official languages.”

Principal B ernard Shapiro voices his disapproval over differential tuition fees.

H o w w o u ld y o u lik e to be a Peer A d v is o r f o r A r t s o r S c ie n c e s tu d e n ts ?

The Arts U ndergraduate S ociety (AUS) and the Science Undergraduate Society (SU S ), in c o n ju n ctio n w ith the S tude nt Affairs Office of the Faculties of Arts and Science, are looking for dedicated U2 stu­ dents to become peer advisors.

Responsibilities would include: helping fel­ low students in decision making, explaining drop/add procedures, clarifying university p o lic ie s and p ro c e d u re s , a n d m o re .

V olun tee r accepted to the program are expected to make a commitment of at least one academic year, and will receive a letter of re c o m m e n d a tio n fro m th e F a cu lty, attesting to the services provided.

Rebecca Catching

Q u a lif ic a t io n s re q u ir e d : Applicants must: • have a minimum CGPA of 3.00

or above (special cases to be con­ sidered individually) • be in U2 (second year of a three year program, or second/third year of a four year program) at the time of application • have an a b ility to lis te n , to respond in a n o n -ju d g e m e n ta l manner, to be compassionate, and to be interested in others • be prepared to commit to a mini­ mum of two hours/week fo r the academ ic year 1997/98 (Sept.Nov. and Jan.-Mar.) • to attend six training sessions (90 minutes each) during the months of February and March 1997 (vol­ unteers will be trained by an advi­ sor from the Student Affairs Office of the F a c u ltie s o f A rts and Science). The training sessions will take place in room Arts160, from 10-11:30 am on the following Tuesdays: March 4, 11, 18, 25 and April 1,8.

It is not necessary for applications to have prior experience, however, rele­ vant skills would be an asset. If you have any questions please call Karim Bardeesy AUS VP Academic, at 398-1993, Dustin Issacs AUS VP External, or Karen Kwok SUS VP Academic, at 398-6979.

Applications and position descriptions can be picked up from an envelope posted in the lobby of Dawson Hall as of January 14, 1997. Completed applications (and related documents) must be subm itted to Dawson Hall, Room 110, in a sealed envelope labelled “Peer Advising” by January 31, 1997.

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As it stands right now , SSMU VP U n iv ersity A ffairs Don M cGowan is refusing to return to another council m eeting until President Chris Carter gives council a formal apology. McGowan is also saying that council is disgusting. VP Internal Affairs Mark Feldman is saying that council itself is useless, and anything of real value is done behind the scenes. Carter is saying that he is the victim of repeated per­ sonal attacks because he is gay and left wing. VP Finance Jonathan Chomski is saying that Clubs Rep Steven Erdelyi is a coward, and Erdelyi is saying that it is a waste of time to say anything at all.

Since SSMU councillors and executive members are elected by the students, the unfortunate state of affairs might not be so bad if it was caused by real issues that council was debating in the spirit of elected representation. Unfortunately, that is not what has happened at all.

Instead, petty squabbling has caused SSMU council to deteriorate into something that approaches a party system, and it is left deadlocked in bitter feuding.

At the last council meeting, it came time to pass a motion which would provide the SSMU health and dental plans with an underwriter.

Certain councillors spoke against the motion, however, because the Financial Ethics Research Committee had not yet seen the contract. The FERC is, according to the constitution, supposed to see the contract. The choice was, therefore, to either pass the motion and forego giving the FERC the contract, or vote down the motion, upholding a constitutional formality, yet creating an uninsured health plan which could bankrupt the students’ society. Clearly there was only one acceptable option — especially since FERC has had six months to review the company in question without seeing the contract. The motion was passed, and now SSMU is insured.

Interestingly, those who spoke against the motion constitute the same group that supported Chris Carter all the way through the blood drive fiasco, and also wanted disclaimers on all Pepsi ads in the Tribune.

While there is something to be said for solidarity, this type of uncondi­ tional loyalty at council serves no valuable purpose, as it imposes a party system on SSMU. Now council is left with a situation where people are voting with their friends and against their enemies, as opposed to with their heads. Furthermore, this loyalty is too often based on confused notions of what is left wing and right wing. Therefore, instead of being able to discuss issues reasonably, council suspends itself in problems that it has created. This problem manifested itself before the end of last Thursday’s meeting, when McGowan announced his intention to go to the judicial board, and then walked out of the meeting.

McGowan will not come back to council until Carter apologises.

Because McGowan wields a dangerous amount of moral authority, councillors and executives are left scrambling trying to find a solution.

Those who have supported C arter unconditionally in the past are spooked by the seriousness of McGowan’s actions. Those who feud with Carter are hoping that he will apologise, but know that he will not listen to them. Therefore, pathetic as it may seem, McGowan is forcing coun­ cil to deal with its problems. If councillors and executive members suc­ cessfully urge Carter to apologise, council will be left with a president that can no longer be trusted. If Carter maintains his innocence, council will be left with a sense of panic, as the most morally authoritative exec­ utive member will not return and participate. The only way for council to find a solution that works is for the members to put an end to party politics and start working as elected individuals.

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Dental plan leaves a bad taste in my mouth The new SSM U Dental Plan is a decent plan for students who want to be insured for unexpect­ ed dental operations. It is merely annoying fo r stu dents w ho are already covered and go through the hassle o f opting out. But for those students who do not have dental insurance and do not want to pay $77 p er y ear fo r it, the plan is unfair.

M o st s tu d e n ts can g e t a yearly check-up and tooth clean­ ing fo r o n ly m a rg in a lly m ore than the am ount SSM U is tack­ ing on to your bill. The average dental check-up is $120, and the M cG ill plan covers 80 per cent o f th at only after each student pays $77 per year. Each student will effectively pay $101 for a $120 check up. Nineteen dollars!

W hat a savings!

If you decide to see a non­ network dentist outside Quebec, (since you may be afraid that the Q uebec dentist may not legally be allowed to speak English with you) you would pay $60 for each check-up on top o f the $77 paid to S S M U , e ffe c tiv e ly p a y in g $137 for a $120 service. Now that’s good business sense!

C h a n c e s a re if a s tu d e n t

w o rrie s a b o u t an u n e x p e c te d need for dental work, they will likely stay in the plan. On the o th e r hand, if a stu d en t is not planning on having oral surgery and does not wish to visit their dentist more than once a year, he or she would be better off find­ ing their own dentist and opting out o f the plan.

H ow ever, under provincial law, if a student does not have alternative dental insurance they CANNOT opt out. Should it not be the decision o f each student w h e th e r or not to have den tal in s u ra n c e ?

B ill 3 3 , w h ic h requires students to have dental in s u ra n c e , w as e n a c te d on January 1, 1997, according to the Quebec Student Health Alliance.

Perhaps the Parti Q uébécois, in an effort to facilitate separation, will soon be able to identify its c itiz e n s by th e ir w h iter teeth .

T h e S SM U D e n ta l P la n w as ap proved in a stu d en t re fe re n ­ dum in N ovem ber before the law was introduced. What if we had voted no? Did we really have a choice? Proponents o f the plan suggest that it offers extensive dental coverage at a variety o f dentists. At $77 per student, or

o v e r $ 1 .5 m illio n in to ta l, w ouldn’t the majority o f students p re fe r th a t th e ir m oney go to im p ro v in g M cG ill fo r all stu ­ dents? But hey, m aybe M cGill could reclaim the No. 1 spot in the M a clea n ’s survey if its stu­ d en ts ju s t had n ic e r te e th and smiled more.

W ith m ore dentist appoint­ ments, students will be less hesi­ ta n t to show o ff th o se p e a rly whites. Maybe this “shiny white teeth” policy will fit in well with the wind tunnel tested, perfectlycoiffed hairdos in the Bronfman b u ild in g . O r m a y b e , it w ill b rig h te n up th o se ta r-s ta in e d m ouths o f all those black clad pseudo-intellectuals on the Arts B u ild in g step s. M aybe hom op h o b ic s tu d e n ts w ill n o t be o ffe n d e d at th e n e x t L G B T M public kiss-fest if all participants have clean teeth.

P erh ap s th e p o litic ia n s o f tomorrow will have an enhanced ability to tell lies through their perfect looking teeth.

Peter Wortsman U3 Economics

L e tte rs to the Editor

add significant value to our uni­ versity student body and it is this international presence that makes I was disappointed by Susan M cG ill one o f the m ost unique P eters’ latest Black Coffee (“Elearning environments in Canada. mail petititions, Can Con, Kids in 2. T he tu itio n in c re a s e s the Hall”) which failed to distin­ passed by McGill (not the recent guish the subset o f crappy CBC Quebec increases) will only apply programs from the larger body of to new m a n a g e m e n t s tu d e n ts c ra p p y C a n a d ia n te le v is io n . from outside Canada. These stu­ Looking at the list of shows that dents will be completely aware of P eters finds o b jectio n ab le, one the cost to attend M cGill before finds that the most pathetic ones they make their decision whether (Learning the Ropes and Check it to attend or not.

Out) were produced by CTV. 3. Last year, when the same O b v io u sly th e “ c u ltu re o f hikes were enacted in the MBA mediocrity” has more to do with pro g ram , in te rn a tio n a l stu d en t a system where CTV can profit Management e n ro llm e n t in c re a se d , and the by sim ulcasting m ediocre U.S. tuition hikes total num ber o f applications to sitcom s w hile churning out the I in ten tio n ally em p h asised the program was only negligibly odd C a n a d ia n show to m eet the following points to Ms. Laura low er. In addition, the average licensing requirem ents. V erily, M acN eil befo re she w ro te her GMAT scores and other relevant one could add many examples to article of November 12, 1996, but criteria o f the successful appli­ the lis t o f e m b a rra s s in g C TV she chose not to include them in cants did not su ffer due to the show s, lik e N eon R id er, Snow her article. I assume this was in increase.

Job, and Katts and Dog. order to raise m ore controversy I can understand as well that Even a “M orley C allaghan th ro u g h a sla n te d a rtic le . som e stu d en ts w ould be up in c u ltu ra l f a s c is t” lik e m y s e lf C o n g ratulations, M s. M acN eil, arms after reading Ms. M cNeil’s a d m its th a t th e C B C has p ro ­ for a job well done. article th at took my com m ents d u ced som e c la s s ic fro m a g e , 1.

F ir s t an d fo re m o s t, oIu t o f c o n te x t. A s fo r M s. although this is largely a “ side believe that international students Mushtaq in particular, perhaps if e ffe c t” o f the C B C ’s T orontoshe knew that the m anagem ent Advertising and faculty was not targ eted as the Marketing Manager first victim o f these hikes, but Staff Paul Slachta that it was the management facul­ ty itself that initiated the hikes, What’s On Coordinator Mila Aung-Thwin, Rebecca Catching, Chris Colley, she would understand it was not Winnie Lai Stuart Detsky, Renée Dunk, Daniel Farb, Shaun Goho, the grand scheme of the McGill Graham Kay, Kevin Koch, Leslie Kriekle, Lucy Lowes, Ad Typesetters administration to start with man­ Laura MacNeil, Dont Michaud. Kris Michaud, Reuben Levy agement and spread this increase Dave Morris, Lee Oberlander, Susan Peters, James Senior Tara Van Zuiden, Michael Weinstein, Jason Young a c ro ss c a m p u s. M a n a g e m e n t Web Page Design asked for it and we got it.

Adam Sennet Imran Amed Drummer Associates U3 Management VP Academic, Management

The cult of mediocrity

centricity. Yet, when one consid­ ers the sheer mass of unimagina­ tive drivel that the U.S. networks have reg u rg itated this fall, the C B C ’s o c c a s io n a l fa ilu re s (M o sq u ito L a k e , C e le b r ity Talkabout, Constable Constable) hardly bespeak a cult of medioc­ rity. O bviously, I would like to p la y B en S a v a g e to P e te r s ’ Marcia Dumbrowski on this sub­ ject. Unfortunately, I have to play Relick to her Nick instead.

Lou Ciccone U3 Arts

Opinion

January 14th, 1997

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A p o ca ly p se M eow ! or, T hey shoot m ice, d o n ’t they?

When I first became aware of Mouse, I occasionally heard him tunneling through my w alls. He seemed content to scratch at what­ e v e r cru n c h y in s u la tio n lie s behind the drywall. I could not im agine how it got there, or what the goal of the scratching was. Instead I would pound my fist in whatever place I thought the sound was coming from. He would stop for a while, then start again, then I would punch the wall a g ain . O u r r e la tio n s h ip m a in ­ tained this perfect symmetry for a few years.

The m o u se fu n d a m e n ta lly changed the nature of our relation­ ship a few m onths ago when he (She? It? M a’am ? Sir? R eally , does the mouse’s gender matter?) began to appear in my apartment.

He helped him self to a packet of chicken noodle soup in my cup­ board. The loss of the soup didn't b o th e r m e in its e lf (it had belonged to a roommate of mine w h o ’d m oved out several years earlier), but I was naïve to think

that the mouse would be content with one Cup o’ Soup.

His favourite place becam e the area under my kitchen sink

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w here my (lidless) garbage can was placed. I don’t think I would have m inded as m uch if I had a c o lle c tio n o f p la s tic bags th at w ere silent. M ine (and perhaps yours) make a wonderful KRINK LE! R U S T L E ! n o ise w hen Mouse plays in them, if the bags were silent — maybe canvas ones — then I am sure M ouse and I could have co-existed.

The noise, it turns out, is to be M ouse’s downfall. When I am awakened at 1:13 A.M. by KRINKLE! RUSTLE! I have learned how to trap Mouse in his garbage can Xanadu. I cartoonishly tip-toe

over, and place my chessboard over the top o f the garbage can, sea lin g h is fate! H a, HA. The chessboard, in fact, belongs to my brother, which makes him my a c c o m ­ plice. Ha! T he only thing I can bring myself to do is to take the captured mouse outside. I find it difficult ju stifying m urdering the mouse, because he is not near­ ly as loud as my techno-m usic deejay-manqué neighbour, whom I co u ld ju s tify m u rd erin g . My mother said releasing the mouse outside is doomed to fail because the m ouse can alw ays fin d his way back to w here the food is.

My mother cited as examples the numerous tales of pets who have trekked thousands of miles after having been lost by their owners.

But I don’t know if mice count, because the pets are always mam­ mals and mice are rodents and I don’t know if rodents are mam­

mals but I think they are.

E v e ry tim e I c a tc h M o u se w ith my b ro th er’s chessboard I take it outside and release it, and each time I release it farther from my apartment. The first time was right outside the door, then down the alley, then a few blocks away, and so on. I suppose this may be a trick the mouse is playing on me, as eventually I ’ll w ander so far aw ay I ’ll get lo st and die in a snowbank.

A n o th e r th e o ry is th ere is more than one mouse. I suppose that I should tag the mouse some­ how, like wildlife people do, so I can see if I am constantly evicting the same guy. H owever, I don’t have the dexterity to wrap a twist tie around one of his legs, and if I spray paint him 1 may kill him so that would ruin the experiment.

Perhaps I have gone insane. I believe it is possible to go insane when a m ouse w akes you co n ­ stantly and interrupts your REM sleep. I also believe it is possible to go insane when all your spare

time is devoted to the design of hum ane m o u setraps b u ilt from household items and Lego blocks.

Hey! Now that I ’ve finished this colum n, I realise that I no lo n g er have any qualm s ab o u t killing the mouse. I imagine I kept him around so I could eventually write about him, and now that I’ve done that I don’t feel the need to be hum ane anym ore. M ice eat th eir own young, spread p e sti­ lence, shit co n stan tly and burrough tunnels through my raisin bread, so I doubt th e re ’s much point applying hum an values to them. And if they eat too much, I think they grow into rats, or bats, and Lord knows I don’t need that.

Mr. Aung-Thwin has in fa c t gone insane. When Tribune sta ff mem bers visited him at the asy­ lum, the wardens had given him several pet mice to keep him com­ pany which have all — m ysteri­ ously — disappeared.

W inter in M ontreal — m ore to worry about than the weather Now that w e’re all back and experiencing the frigid cold that is M ontreal in January, we som e­ tim es forget that there are more hazards than just the weather. You see, if you haven’t already learned th is, one th in g (g o o d or b ad depending on your perspective) about atten d in g M cG ill is th at frien d s from o th e r “less c o o l” cities often want to come and visit.

In most cases this is a good thing as people generally like spending time with their friends, but some­ times unwanted guests will arrive at your door.

Picture, if you can, spending your days holed up inside your house in some shitty little town like T ragic, N orth D akota. The w eather o utside is m uch w orse than in Montreal, the heat in your house is constantly broken, and even if it’s nice outside you never leav e y o u r p la c e b e c a u se you don’t want to bump into your ex­

boyfriend.

Y ou’re sitting in the den of your smelly little house that you share with five other roommates w ho are as dull and dimwitted as you are and you th in k b ack to that great tim e you had w hen you w ere in Montreal visiting the guy that you met over the summer. As you let out a loud burp from what must be your seventh or eighth beer you tell one of your room m ates how m uch you love R icki Lake, and how Je rry S p rin g e r’s F in a l T h o u g h ts have re a lly chan g ed y our life. T hen su ddenly, as if lightning has struck you, a thought e n te rs y o u r head . “ How nice would it be to visit my “friend” in Montreal? Oh how much fun that would be!”

So w h at do you do? W ell

th a t’s an easy one. Y ou call American Airlines and you book yourself on a flight to Montreal.

Because it’s so shitty and boring

Rearview M irror D a n ie l Farb

where you live you decide to stay in Montreal for a week. You don’t b o th e r c a llin g y o u r “ frie n d ” , whose house you plan to stay at, because you think he will enjoy the “surprise,” and of course, the ticket that you buy is non refund­ able and non exchangeable. You never think that your “frie n d ,” who you haven’t spoken to in a couple of months might be busy, or that he won’t want to see you.

A fte r y o u ’ve m ade yo u r arrangements you begin counting down the tw enty one days until

January 9: the day you’re sched­ uled to leave for Montreal.

The night before your sched­ uled departure you decide to call your “friend” in Montreal and let him in on th e big su rp rise .

W hen you get in touch w ith him, at 4:00 a.m. on the morn­ ing of your departure, he sounds a little tired. But after you’ve told him the good news he makes a miraculous recovery and sudden­ ly he is wide awake. He tells you that he doesn’t think that its such a good id ea th a t you com e to M o n treal. No, i t ’s not th at he doesn’t want to see you, its just that h e ’s really busy. He hasn’t spoken to you since the beginning of November, and you know...

W ell, now you d o n ’t know what to do. You start crying and hyperventilating, and in between sobs you m an ag e to ask y o u r “friend” how he could do this to you after all the trouble yo u ’ve

gone to. You tell him that your ticket is non refundable, and that y o u ’re co m in g to M o n treal whether he likes it or not. You tell him that you ju st w anted to get away from Tragic and spend some time in an exciting city. Finally, he relents and tells you he’ll get the p u llo u t ready fo r yo u r arriv al.

When you hear this, your tears dry up and an huge smile covers your face. Springer was right: “People do love surprises.”

As my Final Thought, let me leave you with this: when you’re sitting in your apartment freezing in the middle of the winter, when i t ’s too cold and un p leasan t to venture outside, ju st rem em ber that the cold weather is only one o f the m any h azard s o f life in Montreal — especially if you have any friends from T ragic, North Dakota.

Mr. Farb has problems with long distance relationships.

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Tip toe through the tulips, to m y w in d ow capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Since 1989, you’ve felt the weight of the world on your back. Take a load off this year. Try to redistribute your stress by assigning specified cate­ gories of your life to more capable people — that 1-900 psychic, the sociopath down the hall, or even your Art of Listening prof. No one can accuse you of screwing up when you give up your autonomy.

aquarius (Jan. 19-Feb. 18) My stars see ample amounts of shag mg in your future. Invest now before the craze hits the population at large.

For once, lead the revolution.

halter tops. So what if its 50 below?

Who likes short shorts? We do, we do!

gemini (May 21-June 20) Little fairies continue to fly in and out

aries (March 21-April 19) Kick a nasty habit.

Spending money to feed a family at the casino, taking stocks in strip b a rs...it’s bad karma. Fight the Kapitalist system and put your moral philosophical leanings to the test. Aim for reincarnation as a human.

Unlucky in love since kindergarten, it’s time to take back the night.

Parade your wares in hot pants and Last night 1 had this dream. I war driving this car but it was this machine kind o f car (well, I guess all cars are machines, I ’m just saying it wasn't matchbox style) and there was a spirit in the car, and it would control the car, and 1 couldn ’t drive because I was shooting up heroin, and my sister and best friend were in the back and they were screaming, “you’re killing us. ” I ’ve heard that driving a car rep­ resents driving into your future — maybe if a spirit is driving I feel out of control, and the fact that the two closest people to me were in the back and felt I was hurting them, maybe that means I ’m afraid my selfdestructive behaviour is hurting other people. I have had a bit o f a problem with heroin use lately...do you think the dream is related?

—T. Leary

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taurus (April 20-May 20) pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)

winning project and protest the ban on pesticides instead.

Don’t let the Man keep you down.

Start peddling the Marxist daily and take up issue with a good cause.

“Don’t Buy Grapes” is passé, join a

Dreamscape Sheila E.

Dearie, it would be best to leave your dreamscaping to an underpaid professional. Obviously, you have bought into that psycho babble in the Freudian summary textbook required in your psych 101 course. I have found with my patients (well, my cof­ fee-swilling Alley friends) that those who have held The Psychoanalysis of Dreams as a bedfellow began to dream in formulas that fit well into Freudian paradigm scenarios. Quick, quick, they hop up after awaking from a nightm are to write their dreamscape in some cheesy dream journal (probably well-hidden under

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of your window as you sleep, planting the seed of discontent in your cere­ brum. Lock the door, pull the shades, and sleep until your bouts with insani­ ty stop.

cancer (June 20-July 22) Make the ultimate sacrifice and cut down on the Laura Secord sugary lock and key). The next m orning, over Frosted Cheerios, they analyse their tired old formulated jokes (no offence). I call this phenomenon the dumbification of the arts student. Because of some sad and temporary foray into the out­ dated land of McGill psychology, their dreams are forever marked by the insipid and predictable character­ istics of Eva and little Albert. The only way to break the pattern I’ve found is to take above the recom­ mended dosage of the contraband Melatonin half an hour before you go to sleep (it’s stronger then your cur­ rent predilection). Then, as you lie in bed contemplating the fuzz on your teeth with your tongue, try to think of the most obscure ideas your little, under-exercised brain can fathom.

Write back to me when you do.

goodness to reach ultimate cool.

Replace your gobstoppers with some­ thing more hip. Chewing tobacco works well to cultivate that urban cowboy look.

libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Try to regain equilibrium this year.

D on’t go down the slide of moroseness, don’t take that carousal of pain, don’t enter that freaky weird-mirror house of false consciousness. Accept that your life is a haus of randomness and realise that nothing’s a big deal.

scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Take the hair out of your drain and unplug your secret desires for the other world. Sacrifice a goat with Bucky Haight and set fire to the shower curtain.

Define your pecks and gain rippled abs to win the affection of your mate.

Remember, it’s not who you are, it’s who you pretend you are.

Computer programming is a highly underrated fun past-time. I’ll leave it at that — you figure out how you can apply this to your life, and how it doubles as a deep and meaningful insight characteristic of the other horoskops.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Read the classics this year. Stock up now at Chapters with the Kama Sutra: Modern Adaptation fo r the Western Practitioner (it’s illustrat­ ed!!), The Celestine Prophesy (it’s not!!), and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyday Meat-Eaters.

38 UC Berkeley 39 Assinine game of your childhood in which you would run around and pre­ tend to be “it” 40 Auricle 41 Your in Shakespeare slang 42 The compass point midway between northeast and east 43 The compass point that is one point east of due south

ACROSS I Insecticide 4 Dali Lama, take away the “1”, and the lama 7 God Does Exist 10 No (Scottish) II Own (Scottish) 12 Largest English dictionary, abbr.

13 Defensive nuclear weapon. Alpha Bits Motorhead 14 Time units, abbr.

15 Slam dunked a hamster on the Simpsons 16 The range of colors used by a par­ ticular artist 19 Afresh 21 More dear 24 Personification of fate, Class.

Myth.

26 Disease marked by spots. Kind of car popular in the 70s with high school students, with an “a” instead of an “o” 27 Wakes up 29 Tide. New Ethical Animal Product 30 In a way, advances. What your most hated prof must have to not have gotten kicked out of the school by this point 32 Turns into noun. Alien Does Edmonton 34 Government language. Aliens Do Applebee 35 Engine additive Work shirts bran­ dishing this sign was hip for gas atten­ dant wannabes

DOWN 1 A nucleic acid consist­ ing of large molecules shaped like a double helix 2 What you do with a pot of blistex and your finger before you apply it to your lips 3 In a moderate way 4 One of the blander Indian Currys usually eaten with rice 5 Made public by radio or television 6 The arch of the foot 7 Chick governors 8 River in NE Scotland. Dalmations Eat England 9 Sun up in New York 17 Woke up 18 Hippolyte__, French historian 19 Doctors’ group in America 20 This moment 22 The 7th letter of the Greek alpha­ bet. England Takes Aliens 23 Type of music targetted by snotnosea American presidential hopeful Dole 25 Assembly possessing high legisla­ tive powers. Aliens left this branch intact in Mars Attacks 28 A region of N Africa south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts 31 Feel intense anger. — Against the Machine 32 Play a role 33 Dash. Dalmations Are Horrible 36 The bill in a restaurant. 80’s soft drink 37 Pakistani rupee Created by the Amazing Rundela Smith

Highlight of last week’s council meeting: J.C.: How dare you? How dare you?

C.C.: How dare you? How dare you?

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N an cy Thong: projecting the darker side o f A sian history

By Sa m a n t h a Lapedus

Bringing her work to Canadian audiences, New York-based documentary fdmmaker Nancy Thong speaks to the Tribune about her film on the Nanjing Massacre and her most recent trip through east and southeast Asia.

Tribune: What inspired you to produce a documentary on the Nanjing Massacre?

Nancy Thong: Many people are unaware of the events that happened in Asia during World War II, and look at Japan wholly as the victim because of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So in the past 50 years or so, Japanese war crimes have been allowed to be forgotten. The young generations, Chinese and Japanese alike, as well as people of the rest of the world, are not kept informed about the consequences of imperialist militarism. So I wanted to inform them.

Trib: Can you give us a bit of a history les­ son?

Thong: The Japanese invasion of China immediately before and during World War II lasted from the early 1930s to 1945. The Japanese military was basically motivated by an uncontrollable desire for expansion and imperi­ alism. The Nanjing Massacre was probably one of the biggest atrocities in Asia during the war.

Japanese troops launched a massive attack on Nanjing in order to secure control over the city.

In three days in 1937, the Japanese took over Nanjing. But in the following six weeks, the Japanese committed the infamous Nanjing Massacre, or the Rape of Nanjing, during which an estimated 300,000 Chinese soldiers and civil­ ians were killed, and some 20,000 women were raped. There was mass execution, raping, loot­ ing, and burning. There were atrocities with extreme cruelty.

Trib: Why do you think the Nanjing Massacre has been so ignored?

Thong: Because the Nanjing Massacre has been denied right and left from 1937, right up until now. During and after the war there was a total cover-up. In the 1950s and ‘60s there were a number of Japanese books published that were confessions or diaries by Japanese soldiers which confirmed and gave detailed accounts of the massacre. But during the 1970s and ‘80s, when the right-wing political force in Japan began to rise, there was an outright denial of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese officials, Diet members, and leading journalists. In the history books of Japan, it reads that the Nanjing Massacre was a minor incident which occurred because the Japanese soldiers were frustrated by the strong resistance from the Chinese army.

And probably the most famous denial came from Shintaro Ishihara, a popular contemporary writer in Japan, in an interview with Playboy magazine in 1990, who claimed that the mas­ sacre never occurred, and that it is a story made up by the Chinese — and that it is a lie.

Trib: With this widespread denial, how did you go about researching for the film?

Thong: It was extremely difficult to find sources for the film. No one wanted to talk. The Chinese government refused to answer my ques­ tions, most likely because they didn’t want to stir up any controversies and may have been afraid that talking would affect Japanese invest­ ment in China, which is needed. It was also hard to find survivors since it was 58 years ago, and many have died or are very old. So, after months of nothing, I decided to try Japan. Officials of the Japanese government would not speak to me, most likely because they have never admit­ ted to their war crimes. But eventually, I found three soldiers who had actually taken part in the massacre. They felt very sorry, and were eager to share their stories because they didn’t want it buried with them. The stories of these soldiers led to the basis of the film. Also, missionaries who were in China at the time had actual

A n estim ated 3 0 0 ,000 Chinese soldiers a n d civilians were executed in the N anjing Massacre o f 193 7 footage from the massacre which I was able to incorporate into the film.

Another interesting source I found was a German-Canadian who was in Nanjing living in an international compound at the time of the massacre. He had written a diary and taken pictures which his daughter found after he died. This man was a high Nazi official, and decided to return to Germany and send his diary and the pictures to the Führer, Hitler, to give the message that Germany should not follow the same example. He was subsequently arrested by the SS and interrogated for days. He was then told never to speak of the incident again and was exiled to Afghanistan. He returned to Germany after the war, was de-Nazified, and then died of exhaustion. His daughter is a source for my film.

Trib: How was the film received in America and Asia?

Thong: Well, probably the most interesting response was by Asians in America. Many said that there was not enough footage, and that the film only scratched the surface. I found this very interesting.

Trib: Why is the North American media only picking up on this now?

Thong: Well, the massacre has been talked about in Asian communities for years and years.

I think that since Schindler’s List, people have been ready to hear about atrocities in other countries. The Nanjing Massacre used to be an Asian problem, among Asian countries, that need not concern us. I think a German white man brought it home.

Trib: Can you tell us about your recent trip to Asia and your latest project?

Thong: Well, I recently spent two months in Thailand to research my next film which will focus on AIDS in Asia, and child prostitution. I felt that this is something that is quite close to my heart right now and I’d like to spend a cou­ ple of years researching these issues. The BBC has done bits on it, but from a very ‘white’ point of view. I hope to be less biased.

Trib: Could you tell us about your research for the film so far?

Thong: Well, the issue is basically that in the countryside, or even within the cities of Thailand, there is a huge amount of poverty, a lot of homeless people, and people marginalised by this whole economic boom. There is a huge discrepancy between the haves and the havenots, and that’s why there is this huge problem of women being disenfranchised, women having no other means of earning an income except to sell their bodies. And that’s not just happening to women, but also to children. Children are now becoming a commodity. At a certain age, once they reach puberty, some are being sold into this trade.

Trib: So you see the exploitation of women in Asia getting worse because of eco­ nomic growth?

Thong: Oh yes, definitely, much worse.

The trafficking of women is very organised in the sex trade, but also in other industries.

Women are often used as a commodity. For example, I was told that in Thailand everyone is craving for any kind of foreign pastries, like croissants and cream pies, but a lot of people don’t want to work in a bakery where it’s hot and there are long hours. So now there is organ­ ised crime going on where young Burmese women are being shipped to Thailand to work in bakeries. These women typically don’t know the language, don’t have any type of foreign ID, they’re illegal workers so they have no rights, and they’re exploited and put to work 18 hours a day. And they have no way out of the situation.

This is happening all over Asia, and not only Asia, but over here in North America too, where you find women being trafficked.

Trib: How have social workers in Asia reacted to your research? Have they helped you hook up with sources?

Thong: Social workers have helped a lot.

In Asia, I managed to contact a lot of people in Taiwan, Thailand and also Hong Kong, and the social workers were quite helpful. I spoke to social workers, organisations, and basically any­ one who would talk to me. Every day I would have two or three meetings, and it’s difficult because I don’t speak a lot of local languages. I could not afford a local interpreter so I was doing most of the travelling myself. In Thailand, I was in Bangkok and a social worker took me by motorcycle all the way to the northern part of Thailand, which is the golden triangle by the Burmese border, and over there I interviewed some of the younger women whose families were about to sell them to prostitution. It’s quite amazing to hear their stories, and how this trade is widely accepted in communities basically because of economic reasons, Trib: How do you go about funding your films?

Thong: What I do is I work on other peo­ ple’s projects, I then save some money, go on these trips and try to learn about what’s happen­ ing in the rest of the world, come back, and then see what other issues I want to concentrate on.

And then I’ll start writing proposals, and pro­ grams to television stations and also try to apply for funding through foundations and see whether anyone is interested in these subjects.

Then, hopefully I get some more money to go back again and do some filming.

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January 14th, 1997

Jum ping genes: parasitic D N A needs sex to survive Recent research has provided new insights into the evolutionary significance of transposons, mobile pieces of DNA.

DNA is said to be the blue­ print of life, yet we are not merely the p ro d u c t o f o u r g en es.

“Identical” twins, though geneti­ cally identical are very much dis­ tinct individuals. And ju st as we are “more than our genes,” recent studies in molecular evolution are

making it increasingly clear that our DNA is more than “us”.

If one thinks of DNA as the p lan for an o rg an ism , it seem s in tu itiv ely obvious that a m ore complex organism should require m ore D N A than a sim p le one.

However, when one looks at how m uch DNA o rg anism s actually have, one is faced with a conun­ drum. Why does it take 50 times m ore D N A to m ake a lu n g fish than a human being? Or even more to make an amoeba? If we see our­

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selves as the m ost com plicated organism s on earth , then these results are both perplexing and threatening to our anthropocentric hubris.

An answer that was proposed about 15 years ago is that much of an organism’s DNA is essentially “genetic junk.” These bits of DNA don’t do anything useful for the organism that carries them, but are along for the free ride provided by the c o m p lic a te d c e llu la r DNA replication machinery.

“There doesn’t seem to be a good way to prevent the accumula­ tion of junk, up to some maximum tolerable amount of junk,” said Dr. Clifford Zeyl, a postdoctoral fel­ low at Michigan State University and a M cGill graduate. “Natural selection apparently acts only very weakly on genetically inert DNA.” W hile this ex p lan atio n for variation in the am ount of DNA carried by organisms is generally accepted, it has become clear that a lot of “junk” DNA is not nearly as inert as its name might suggest.

Instead, much o f it seems to be in the form o f M obile G en etic Elements, which include a curious class o f elem en ts called tra n s­ posons.

Transposons are short bits of DNA that have some very surpris­ ing p ro p e rtie s. W h ereas m ost DNA sequences rem ain in one place on a chrom osom e, being passively moved about by the cel­ lular processes of replication and division, transposons take matters into their own hands. They can escape cellular control and move around from chromosome to chro­ mosome within the nucleus. It is easy to see how this can soon lead to a genome full of such “selfish” bits of DNA. “The classic example is [the fru it fly] D ro so p h ila melanogaster,” said Zeyl. “About 15-20 per cent of their DNA is tran sp o sab le elem ents, and the total junk fraction is about 85-90 per cent. O thers like ferns and sa la m a n d e rs have im m ense am ounts o f to tal DNA and are probably about 95-99% transpos­

able elements and other repeated posons only as parasites, and did stuff.” not consider the possible, benefi­ A cco rd in g to Dr. John F. cial effects they could have once M cD onald o f the U niversity of they were present.

“We now know that there are Georgia, there are two main ques­ tions to be answered about trans­ some fixed features in species that are caused by ancient transposition posons.

“You want to know first, how events,” said McDonald. “This has these elements evolved, and sec­ legitimised the role of transposons ond, how they have affected the in long-term evolution.”

“I think that transposable ele­ evolution of their host organisms,” ments increase the evolutionary said McDonald.

Zeyl thinks that the answer to fle x ib ility o f som e lin e a g e s ,” the first question is simple: sex. explained Zeyl. While most of the When transposons jump around in m u ta tio n s p ro d u ced by tr a n s ­ the genome, they often land in the posons will be harmful, occasion­ middle of a gene or a regulatory ally they will “hit the jackpot” and sequence. Obviously, the presence produce a change helpful to their of a large chunk of unnecessary host organism . So w hile tra n s­ posons are alm ost DNA in such always bad for the T ra nspo sons are p la c e s w ill individual that car­ m ess up the bad fo r you, but ries them, they will normal expres­ you ca n ’t get rid of som etim es benefit sion o f the the species. them if you w a n t to gene. This sort Y et a th ird of m u tatio n have sex. q u e stio n can be should alm ost asked about trans­ alw ays be bad news. Therefore, natural selection p o so n s: w here did th ey com e should tend to favour organisms from?

One group of transposons are th at do not carry tran sp o so n s.

H ow ever, this assum es that lin­ known as retrotransposons, which eages of organisms reproduce sep­ share a unique mechanism of repli­ arately from each other, that is to cation and structural sim ilarities say asexually or clonally. As we with retroviruses, such as HIV. Dr. Mary Lou Pardue of the know only too well, this is often M a ssa c h u se tts In s titu te of not the case.

“Sex permits the infection of T ech n o lo g y stu d ies telo m eres, new lineages by parasitic DNA,” “caps” at the ends of chromosomes said Zeyl. If one parent carries the which prevent the chrom osom es transposon, then all of the children from being shortened by w earwill, even if the other parent does a n d -te a r. P ard u e and h er c o l­ not. He tested this idea in experi­ leag u es have fo u n d th a t in ments on yeast. As expected, the Drosophila, the ends of chromo­ transposon he was studying spread somes are not telomeres, but rather in sexual, but not in asexual, popu­ things that look much like retro­ lations of yeast. The conclusion is transposons. They have suggested clear: transposons are bad for you, that these transposons may have but you can’t get rid of them if you evolved from the genes that pro­ duce more conventional telomeres. want to have sex.

M cD onald th in k s th at too Moreover, this phenomenon may much emphasis has been placed on be widespread.

“We have discovered an evo­ the p a ra s itic a sp ects o f tra n s ­ lutionary path,” explained Pardue. posons.

“Some m athem atical b io lo ­ Cells probably have lots of sys­ gists show ed that [transposons] tems like those that produce telom­ could be purely parasitic and sur­ eres. “If they get out of control, vive,” he said. As a result, some you have a retrotransposon.” scientists began to think of trans­

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Bradley Taub, U3 English The woman on MARS [McGill’s Automated Registration System] is going to have a nervous breakdown and end up in a mental asylum because I’ve noticed that this year she sounds really exasperated for a computer voice.

You call up and she’s like “THANK you for calling MARS,” you know, really snippy. I think she’s overworked and underpaid, and I think that she’s going to break down and her doctor will order her to get some serious rest.

And she’ll be replaced by Suzie Slavin the librarian.

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‘A ngryphone’ hangs up: G alganov retires anglo rights crusade the whole thing out and abolish language legislation altogether. I think that was wildly unrealistic.”

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Howard Galganov, the illus­ trious Montreal anglophone rights activist whose professed mission is “to beat the hell out o f sepa­ ratists,” has announced his deci­ sion to w ithdraw from politics.

Galganov has been the subject of h eated co n tro v e rsy in Q ueb ec since he began his campaign in the spring of 1996.

T he p rim a ry ta rg e t o f his attack has been the legislation that re stric ts th e use o f E n g lish on commercial signs, seen by many as an in frin g e m e n t o f hum an rig h ts . P ro u d o f h a v in g b een dubbed Quebec’s leading “angry­ p h o n e,” th e fo rm er ad v ertisin g executive sees his insurgence as long overdue.

“W e ’ve sto o d up fo r o u r­ se lv e s fo r th e firs t tim e in 20 years,” he said. While some have hailed him as a brazen hero who gave much-needed support to the cause of downtrodden anglophone Quebeckers, others have accused him of upsetting the delicate har­ m ony anglos and francophones have achieved since the referen­ dum. His decision to give up came after what he felt to be a particu­ larly biting C JA D com m entary aired on New Year’s Day. “When you’ve dedicated and sacrificed a year of your life, and a year of your wife’s life, and enor­ mous wealth to fight the fight for everybody else, to be told w e’ve done absolutely nothing, it’s too much,” Galganov explained to the Tribune.

Clarification or vilification?

According to Avril Benoit, a CJAD com m entator on the show that chose Galganov as personality of the year and prompted his resig­ nation, his accusations of vilifica­ tion on the part of the radio station are unfounded. She says the seg­ ment in question was only seven and a half minutes long and dis­ cussed both his strengths and his weaknesses.

Apart from revealing her per-

What kind o f leadership do anglos need?

Closing up shop: fla m b o ya n t anglo-rights activist H oward Galganov retires fro m cam paign sonal dislike, comparing him to a “schoolyard thug,” Benoit raised c o n c e rn s a b o u t G a lg a n o v ’s fundraising endeavours for his sin­ g le -m e m b e r Q u eb ec P o litic a l Action Committee.

“There is no way for people to know how he spent his money,” Benoit remarked.

“Does it not concern you that this is a charity without a board of directors, and all the money is just going into G alganov’s pockets?” she asked a c a lle r on the show w ho sp o k e o u t in G a lg a n o v ’s defense.

Flamboyant campaign made him a media sensation G alganov executed his first coup in April of 1996, leading a p ro test o f 2,500 people outside Pointe Claire’s Fairview Shopping Centre to demand the restoration of bilingual store signs. On June 9, he o rg a n ise d a u n ity ra lly on P arliam ent H ill w hich attracted between 10-12,000 supporters. He suffered som e em barassm ent in September, when a conference that he organised in New York City to encourage Wall Street investors to wield their influence to suppress separatism in Quebec was attend­ ed by only three New Yorkers. In November, he opened up Presque

P u re L a in e , a b o u tiq u e on M on k lan d A venue w hich sells federalist paraphernalia to fund his anglo-rights campaign. His politi­ cal statement, in clear violation of Q uebec’s language laws, was to make the English and French on the sto re’s signs equally prom i­ nent.

H is daring and flam boyant cam paign m ade him a fam iliar face in Montreal media, and won him recognition from newspapers an d te le v is io n sta tio n s a c ro ss C anada and even in the U nited States.

Q u ebec’s anglophone com ­ munity remains divided over this controversial figure. Some dislike him; some former supporters feel that his effectiveness has waned; others are distressed by his resig­ nation.

Jo an F ra se r, d ire c to r o f re se a rc h fo r th e C e n tre for Canadian Unity, said that in the period leading up to the New York conference, Galganov was effec­ tive in bringing an important lan­ guage-rights issue to the forefront.

Subsequently, how ever, she felt that his efforts became counterpro­ ductive. “ A t the very firs t, he w as extremely effective and had a well chosen targ et. It had a m arked effect in sensitising francophones to the fa c t th a t a n g lo p h o n e s

predictions for the n ew year Lolly Berman, U1 History/Political Science The weather on the North American continent will go completely crazy.

There’s going to be an explosion, somewhere in the west. It will be something that we have never seen before. A brand new weather phe­ nomenon. It will probably destroy a few states.

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weren’t blissfully happy,” Fraser commented. “After [the news con­ ference], he lost his focus. The issu e w as c le a rly b e y o n d his strategical grasp. A compromise was achieved. He wanted to throw

Don Donderi, a McGill psy­ chology professor and president of the CIT-CAN organisation, fully supports Galganov and aligns him­ self with his fight. CIT-CAN buys store signs in deliberate violation of language laws, and then leases private space to display the signs, making them privately owned and thus free from the jurisdiction of the Commission de Protection de la Langue Française. A ffixed to each of the approximately 35 signs CIT-CAN has leased is a sticker reading: “Before Bill 101 this sign was legal. Vote to make it legal again.”

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It’s going to be an electric and static year. Something is going to happen, but unfortunately I don’t have the powers to predict just what it will be.

Adrian Speyer, U1 History.

It’s not looking too good. Mother Theresa is dying. Pope John Paul is pretty sick, too. Frank Sinatra just had a heart attack. It seems like a lot of important people aren’t going to see the end of 1997.

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Trust no one: the cam era is w atching X -F iles has gradually taken o v e r my life . I t ’s b eco m e the essential guide to the clim ate of mistrust.

Y et I know I ’m not the only one w atching X-Files. In the lobby of the A rts B uilding, the nam es o f M c G ill’s C h a n c e llo rs and Principals are written in m etal letters on the stone wall.

Som e d is g ru n tle d p e rs o n had recently been swiping letters off Bernard Shapiro’s name, perhaps eventually intending to reduce it to “ N ard S a p ” or a s im ila r moniker. But evidently Shapiro, or the university, or even both act­ ing in tandem, was upset by this vandalism . A video cam era has been installed in the hallw ay to watch for the letter thief. (It’s nice to know the m oney raised from tuition increases will at least be put to good use.)

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A t th e v ery le a st, I a n tic ip a te m icrophones hidden in the bath­ rooms, and plain clothes security officers to follow around suspi­ cious-looking characters, although th is la s t w o u ld p ro b a b ly only result in a number of cultural stud­ ies students being harassed.

But after the video cameras, it’s only a m atter of time before our stu d en t cards are changed.

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(The unfortunate side effect may be that McGill students start set­ ting off the scanners at supermar­ kets. But then Scully was never able to use the gym w ith h er ch ip , so this may be a fair tradeoff.)

And the new chips would no doubt make it easier fo r the fu n c tio n a rie s to keep track of our student records.

Instead of asking to see our card, they can just unlatch the side of our heads and read the data off.

M cG ill’s com puter files already know my entire life.

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of my last three em ployers. No doubt if I had small children, the loan sharks w ould also w ant to know the name of the kids’ prima­ ry school.

Like McGill, my bank knows e v e ry th in g a b o u t m e. So does Bell. And Hydro knows I use elec­ tricity. See? They’ve got me right where they want me. My paranoia also prevents me from applying for a Bay card. You know how the Lone Gunmen say there are track­ ing devices em bedded in dollar bills. I shudder to think what the Bay might do with the even more precise information acquired from a department store card, as to how often I buy new socks, or whether I really kept those Christmas pre­ sents or exchanged them for cash.

X -F iles is about cov eru p s, conspiracy, betrayal, bureaucracy, and dingy offices in the basement, to p ic s m any m em b ers o f the M cGill com m unity are fam iliar w ith. A nd given the ease w ith

w hich in fo rm atio n flow s these days, we all have good reason to be p a ra n o id . T he d iffe re n c e b e tw e e n my p a ra n o ia and M cG ill’s is that M cGill installs video cameras.

Yet I suspect the administra­ tio n has a deep re a so n to be scared, far beyond a few missing E ’s. Professors have started disap­ pearing at a disturbing rate in the p ast few y ears. My th eo ry is: aliens are ab d ucting my profs.

They were particularly interested in picking up political theorists la st y ear, and T a y lo r, T u lly , Booth, and Schindler must all be mere brains in vats by now. Or p e rh a p s th e y ’re b ein g clo n ed along with Samantha Fox. We a t the T rib u n e have in s ta lle d o u r ow n e le c tr o n ic devices and know who the Bernie defacer is.

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guage restrictions is an extremely im p o rta n t one th a t has been received with dangerous apathy by m uch o f th e E n g lish -sp e a k in g community of Quebec.

“Any intelligent person living an y w h ere in C anada w ould be angry with the flagrant violation of human rights,” said Donderi. “The collection of people who are will­ ing to a d o p t the a ttitu d e o f a p p e a se m e n t are ex trem ely destructive to the Quebec econo­ my and morality.”

D ale T hom pson, a political science professor at McGill, dis­ a g re e s. He fin d s G a lg a n o v ’s a p p ro a c h “ e m b a ra s s in g ” fo r Montreal anglophones.

“He is an intelligent guy and knows how to communicate, but

there is no room for extremists in Quebec,” said Thompson.”He sim­ ply w asn’t helping a conciliatory line nor was he offering any solu­ tions. He was confrontational.”

Thompson said that for seri­ ous, dependable leadership, anglo­ phone Quebeckers should look to federalist organisation A lliance Quebec. “Alliance Quebec has its ups and do w n s, but g e n e ra lly speaking it’s doing a good job,” he stated.

Alliance Quebec members are somewhat frustrated by the atten­ tion that Galganov has received as an activist.

“To say that he typifies [the anglophone fight] is an overinfla­ tion o f his c o n trib u tio n ,” said President Michael Hamelin. “This is not a debate over personalities but a debate over issues. A lot of

the work we do is not sexy,” he added.

T he p a n o p ly o f issu e s A llia n c e Q u eb ec is w o rk in g towards include the provision of E n g lish la n g u a g e h ea lth care, access to English-language school­ ing, and a probe into electo ral fraud during the referendum.

A comeback not out of the question A lthough many Quebeckers predict G alganov’s return to the public eye, there is m uch doubt that he will continue to be taken seriously as a political activist. At a press conference held on January 9, Galganov retracted much of the blame that he had laid on the radio show fo r h is re sig n a tio n .

S ubsequently, he adm itted that

pragmatic considerations, such as finding extra funding and his fami­ ly life, have played a role in his decision.

A ccording to Benoit, CJAD has received more letters of con­ gratulation than criticism for its treatment of Galganov.

“There are two types of feder­ alists: bridge building and bridge­ burning. G alganov is a bridgeb u rn e r. P e o p le g et th e w rong im pression o f anglophones and th eir level o f disen ch an tm en t,” said Benoit.

A c c o rd in g to F ra se r, Galganov is celebrated more for his entertainm ent value than for any real goals.

“He has come to be seen as a figure of fun rather than a general menace,” she remarked.

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H acking up a hairball and eclectic groove: Soul C oughing B y St u ar t D etsky

Soul Coughing is carving itself a bit of an anti-niche in American m usic. T he New Y ork b a n d ’s hybrid of rock, pop, funk and hip hop has been demonstrated on two major label releases: the debut Ruby Vroom and th e sophom ore Irresistible B liss. T heir eclectic sound has attracted an audience of varying musical tastes that denies categorisation. SC ’s live shows, incredibly tight and fueled by an unparalleled groove, have cemented their appeal and attracted countless new ears.

A lth o u g h unknow n by the mainstream, Soul Coughing (a term denoting very heavy vom iting) seems destined for CHOM FM. The band has re c e n tly su ffe re d the o n slau g h t o f the m usic m edia, including the trendy Details which published a feature story on the band.

“It’s a pretty shallow affair, all things co nsidered.” explains M. D oughty, the frontm an for Soul Coughing. “When you’re in a shitty mood and you’ve been on the road for a month and there’s this guy from Fucktooth Monthly or what­ ev er han g in g out i t ’s really bizarre.”

Doughty’s dislike of the press stems primarily from their dubbing his lyrical style (which consists of

Jason Priestly or M. Doherty? whimsical, stream-of-consciousness writing) ‘neo-beat’ poetry.

“T h a t’s som ething I ’ve got nothing to do with,” he responds. “I

Despite his off-thec u ff w ritin g style, Doughty’s lyrics are not all meaningless. In fact, some songs have interest­ ing stories attached to their inception.

“I was coming from a recording session and I had a guitar with me and there was this drunk guy standing on the corner and he said ‘Excuse me, how do you get a white woman to love you?’ I couldn’t be fucked so I was like ‘You write her a song, w hatever’ and he got all pissed off and was like ‘You got the fucking guitar kid, you write her the song. H er n am e’s Janine.’ You get an omen that obvious you can ’t really just ignore it.”

“Ja n in e ,” the last track from Ruby Vroom, is a beautiful love ballad which may or may not have caused num erous w hite w om en to love strange, drunken men.

On the flipside, Rachel Ong m ean in g less n e o lo ­ gisms can have fabu­ think it’s sad that people define something in poetry to be related to lous uses in concert. A popular a bunch of drunk guys with bon­ song, “Casiotone Nation,” consists mostly of the line “The five-percent gos!”

nation of...”, followed by a random word to complete the sentence. In concert, the concluding words are always off the top of D oughty’s head or supplied by the audience, resulting in hilarity inspired by Mad Libs. And where else but at a Soul Coughing concert will you hear a mass of people chanting an indus­ trial dye colour in unison (“Yellow number five, yellow number five...” from "Bus to Beelzebub”).

The hum our of the band — essentially Doughty’s humour — is unshakeable. It becomes the band’s demeanor, and in live shows, the humour becomes interactive. SC’s songwriting demands listener inter­ pretation. The self-reflexivity that actively involves fans counters what Doughty calls ‘90210 Rock.’

“90210 Rock ... is something that demands absolutely nothing of the listener.”

On the topic of the indelible Beverly Hills 90210, Doughty has his own analysis o f the cultural phenomenon. “There is no reason to turn it on other than to watch someone on television,” he notes.

However, Doughty doesn’t just ignore w hat he disco u n ts. He acknow ledges passive entertain­ ment as “the future of television.”

On the Soul Coughing website on the Internet, he provides an indepth synopsis of 90210 each week.

Sultry plants and crazed dentists: taking a stab at Little Shop to tone down the special effects and bring out the tragedy gives the pro­ It is never easy for performers duction an entirely different feel to successfully combine tragedy and from the musical’s other stagings.

The dark interpretation of the comedy but the Players’ Theatre pro­ duction of Little Shop o f Horrors musical mixes well with the satirical does a great job of mixing the sillies humour of the script. It pokes fun at ‘50s ideals, sci-fi and even musical with the willies. Based on Howard comedy itself. The A shm an’s offscript has been Broadway musi­ slightly updated to cal, Little Shop Its sillin e ss is e n te rta in ­ give it M ontreal offers several references — men­ surprises to those ing, w ith a few serious tioning numerous who only associ­ m essage s snu ck in for landmarks includ­ ate Seym our flavour. ing Westmount and with Rick Schwartz’s.

Moranis.

Seymour (Jake “Basically, my take on the w hole show was Seldman), a shy and bumbling work­ downplaying the kitsch and the camp er in a plant store, buys a mysterious and the 1950s parody,” said director plant that brings his employer back from the brink of bankruptcy.

Kevin Clément.

“I w anted to em phasise the However, the plant (Olivia Saragosa, interaction of the characters and the in an inspired bit of casting) turns out telling of the tragic story. One thing to be a man-eating carnivore, that that really struck me about the origi­ tries to convince Seymour to commit nal production’s reviews was that a murder so that it can be fed.

Seym our is faced with the lot of it was commenting on the spe­ choice of feeding the plant, which he cial effects.”

Clément is in his last year of the dubs Audrey II, or giving up any drama program at McGill. He has chance of getting the fame and for­ been involved in musical theatre for tune that he feels will win the affec­ 16 years, although Little Shop is his tion of his love interest, Audrey — first foray into directing. Both he and the plant’s namesake — played by choreographer Dana Glassman were Ellen McKinney. Steven DeMelo, members of the cast in last January’s who plays A udrey’s dentist A Chorus Line. Clément’s decision boyfriend and Seymour’s rival, is

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hilarious com ic relief from the moment that he walks on the stage.

The choice of a female actress to play Audrey II puts an interesting

Out, D a m n spot! or Bob Sh-bop?

spin on the production. Saragosa’s husky voice makes the plant both seductive and comical.

Another interesting P layers’

touch are the Shakespeare allusions.

T here are several references to Macbeth, such as the depiction of the shoo-op girls as the three witches at the beginning o f the show.

Seymour himself has much in com­ mon with Macbeth — a hero with a tragic flaw.

Dana Glassman’s choreogra­ phy enhances L ittle Shop's humour. The music of the show, directed by Margaret Parkin and played by a liye band, mixes well with the lurking sense of evil that hangs over the production. The singing is generally g'ood, although the vocal ability of some support­ ing cast members pales in compari­ son to the leads.

This production of Little Shop o f Horrors is best described as a lot of fun. Its silliness is entertaining, with a few serious messages (“The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth”) snuck in for flavour. Despite the sometimes dark interpretations of Little Shop o f Horrors, its humour is fully preserved.

Leslie Kriekle

Little Shop of Horrors is per­ forming at the Players’ Theatre stage in Shatner at 8 p.m., January 10-18 and 21-25. A special matinée performance occurs on January 18 at 2 p.m.. Tickets are $12 ($8 for students) and can be reserved by calling 398-6813.

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Cheaper than Prozac: m o v ies to beat the m idw inter blues B y K ris M i c h a u d

When the Montreal winter is at its worst, when it ’s too cold to ven tu re out, a n d w hen y o u r though ts begin to d rift to such (de)pressing topics as that pesky student loan, sometimes the best solution is crashing in front o f the box with a good video. Rent one o f these Gen-X comedies and you ’re guaranteed to stop feelin g sorry fo r yourself.

Slacker Slacker, a tour de force from w riter/director/producer/w orkaholic R ichard L in k later, puts a sleepy Texas collegetow n under the lens, one person at a time. No sooner is a character introduced than the camera is whisked away to follow somebody else. Everyone gets equal time, from conspiracy theorists, to pathetic college bands, to The Girl With M adonna’s Pap Smear. Take the “attention deficit” tour of this artificial cultural cen­ tre, gawk at the wildlife, and for­ sake the M ontreal w inter for the sun-baked lunacy of slackerdom.

Threesome Andrew Fleming’s take on the sexual self-discovery of three uni­ v ersity stu d en ts w ill to u ch the heart and tickle the funnybone of just about anyone in possession of at least half an open mind. Alex

Flirt “To f l i r t ,” as d e fin e d by W ebster’s Dictionary is to “behave amorously without serious intent” and to “deal lightly.” It’s an appro­ priate title for Hal H artley’s new film.

Flirt scratches the surface of the attraction between people, yet never manages to delve beyond, in order to offer insight. Almost iden­ tical stories being told in three dif­ ferent locales with different char­

(Lara Flynn Boyle) has her eyes on c h a ste b o okw orm E ddy (Josh Charles), who finds himself con­ fused by his feelings for his jock ro o m m ate S tu art (S tep h en B ald w in ), w hose lust for A lex completes this convoluted love tri­ angle. A little suspension of disbe­ lie f is ric h ly re w a rd e d , as the unique bond shared between this

S a tu rd a y N ig h t L iv e ’s D avid Spade. What’s a group of fun-lov­ ing students to do, caught between political extremes? George Clinton and the P arliam en t F unk ad elic conveniently arrive to set things right. P.C.U. sometimes descends into slapstick. In the end, it man­

ages to deal with the taboo topic of campus politics while leaving the viewer with a clean conscience — a sharp contrast to the guilty plea­ sures of Animal House.

Bottle Rocket R em em ber those kids from

S o m etim es the best solution is crashin g in fro n t of the box w ith a good video. unlikely trio blossoms into hilarity and light drama. Threesome holds up to repeated viewing. Like the other films listed here, it has the m akings of a cult classic, while illustrating how far we’ve come as a society in dealing with sexuality.

P.C.U. To tru ly u n d e rsta n d w hat P .C .U . m eans fo r frat cinem a, spend another five bucks and rent the classic A n im a l H ouse for a quick comparison on the offenseo-meter. P.C.U. takes aim at the politically correct agenda of the fictitious Portchester University, blowing campus liberalism out of proportion, while slamming a sin­ ister group of yuppies-to-be, led by

acters is an interesting concept.

However, by the third cloned seg­ ment all suspense and emotional in v o lv em en t has been lo st and b o red o m ab o u n d s. W hen the m o v ie asks at one p o in t if its experiment has failed, the unmis­ takable response is: yes, it has.

New York is the setting for the firs t love sto ry (o rig in a lly intended to be the entire movie).

Hartley expands the project by car­ rying the same clichéed dialogue and w eak sto ry lin e to B erlin , where a gay couple play the part of

Glorious alternatives to m id-w inter blues —aah, escapism

the troubled lovers. Finally, the lines are uttered a third tim e in Japanese (with subtitles) when the story unfolds in Tokyo. The mes­ sage becomes annoyingly obvious: repetition proves that relationships and their complications are univer­ sal.

The actors, o v er-reh earsed and stiff, seem weary of the dia­ logue. Even Parker Posey of Party Girl fame puts on a dismal show.

U n n atu ral p erfo rm an ces by all contribute to the drudgery of last­ ing through this entire film.

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Hartley doesn’t fail complete­ ly. If being over-choreographed causes the film to lose some of its m om entum and sp o n tan eity , it makes up for it in grace and pic­ ture-perfect cinematography. It’s alm ost like w atching a series of well-positioned photographs.

F lirt p la y s a t C iném a Parallèle, 3682 St. Laurent. The film will run from January 10 - 30 at 9:30 p.m. and at 3:30 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.

— Lee Oberlander

I Am Cuba / Am Cuba is an in ten sely visual film. Shot throughout the early 1960s, this beautiful blackand-white epic was a co-produc­ tion between the Soviet Union and post-revolutionary Cuba. As such, its current re-release carries some baggage for post-communist audi­ ences.

7 Am Cuba is pure propagan­ da. All segm ents of the soaring film aim to portray the B atista regime as the sole contributor to the e v ils o f C uban so ciety .

high school who lived in a world all their own, spending their week­ ends playing Dungeons & Dragons and mem orising every line from Bruce Lee movies? What happens w hen they g ra d u a te ? W es Anderson can tell you.He and his co-screenw riter, the film ’s star, O w en W ilso n , show us w here th e y ’d be if they h ad n ’t started m ak in g m ovies. O w en p lay s a twentysomething loser who enlists the aid o f tw o frie n d s (B ob M usgrave and O w en’s real-life brother, Luke Wilson) in the dar­ ing robbery of a university book­ store (don’t get any funny ideas, kids). The team breaks up in hid­ ing when Luke falls for a lovely Mexican housekeeper and returns to an honest life as a soccer coach.

You c a n ’t keep an o v e ra c tiv e im agination dow n, how ever, as O w en m o -p ed s h is way in to L u k e’s life once again. O w en’s new boss (James Caan) has assem­ bled a crack team of professionals fo r a slick o p eratio n involving industrial sabotage. The voice-acti­ vated w alk ie-talk ies, cool code nam es, and flu o re sc e n t orange ju m p su its prove im p o ssib le to resist, and Luke rejoins his friend for one last caper. The undoing of these “Reservoir Dorks” is a thing of beauty, as is the entire picture, put to g eth er by a bunch o f e x ­ slackers no different from the rest of us.

Prostitution, murder, unem ploy­ ment and displacement are worked into a tidy equation that points to communism as Cuba’s only solu­ tion.

R u ssian d ire c to r M ikhail Kalatozov set out to create a pro­ p ag an d a m a ste rp ie c e akin to Eisenstein’s Potemkin. Regardless of whether or not he achieves the feat, today’s wary audiences might be tempted to reject / Am Cuba, knowing that the w ork’s motiva­ tion is political brainwashing, not artistic merit.

In terestin g ly , 1 Am C u b a 's artistry is hauntingly beautiful.

Even when the didactic nature of the film fails to subside, incredible cinematography and high-contrast photography hold a powerful grip on the v iew er — in g ra in in g images of the film well after leav­ ing the theatre. Sugar cane fields come alive to meet their slashing harvesters and funeral processions for political martyrs glide across the screen from an always alert, sensitive lens.

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Trailblazing sounds from 1996 herald trends for 1997 W ho needs a n o th e r Billboard-styled ranking explain­ ing what we stocked our CD rack with over the past 365 days? No one could escape the noise pollu­ tion o f songs like “Ironic ” and “Champagne S u p ern o v a " — so why bloat egos any fu rth e r by rehash­ ing their chart con­ quests in some odd, r itu a lis e d 1996 su m m a ry ? We at the T rib u n e f e e l discerning M cG ill m usic fa n s re a lly want a sneak peek a t the fu tu r e h itm a k e rs o f 1997.

Well, a t lea st our fearless music crit­ ics want that...

1997 aims to shock listeners not by turning up the audio discom ­ fort, but by injecting a little sac­ c h a rin e to c re a te tru ly sa lie n t sounds.

“Gold Dust Woma,”, Hole

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“Trash,” Suede

T he T o ro n to o u tf it o n ce known as NC-17 serves up har­ monies as sweet as lilting lulla­ bies am idst barbed guitar licks.

“Morale” in particular soared with a dynam ic that w ound beautiful crooning with edgy power chords.

S onic Y o u th have b een lacin g unsettling sounds with hooks for years. Last year, the NY quartet re le a se d h ard e v id e n c e o f the mixture they champion. The video for “Little Trouble G irl” depicts an angelic Kim Gordon serenely singing to a freakish alien-child.

O f course, the music is an alarm­ ing com bination of Phil Spector sh-booms and out-of-tune guitar.

ball for the next B rit in vasion (those lim eys try it every year) will really be rolling. Just remem­ ber who got it started.

They once were four. But in 1996, with the on-set of impend­ ing w orld d o m in atio n , E nglish band Suede added to their ranks, bringing in a new keyboardist to rebuild their sound with the 80’s w u n d e r-in s tru m e n t. E la s tic a w e a th e re d a s im ila r lin e -u p change. But while Elastica waits for an early 1997 release for their s y n th e d -u p ro c k re v iv a lis m , Suede got the jum p on the scene with Coming Up. Layering tradi­ tional rock structures with swel­ tering keyboards, “Trash” ushers in the neo-N ew W ave era. Blur has also been experimenting with keyboards, and once they fully embrace the instrument in ‘97, the

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Hole’s last album reached its peak during the punk resurgence of listener-friendly bands like The Offspring and Green Day. “Gold Dust W oman,” a Fleetwood Mac cover found only on the City o f A ngels soundtrack, directs their ‘97 summer follow-up. If the ‘96 so n g is any in d ic a tio n , th e ir b each-tune bingo w ill give the fin a l blow to th e faux p u n k renaissance, and probably swirl th e ir m u sical fo llo w e rs in the business around the same m an­ date. Expect songs that break the 3-minute barrier, lusher arrange­ m e n ts, and the d e m ise o f the m o s h p it... p e rh a p s the la s t is wishful thinking.

— Marc Gilliam

T r a in s p o ttin g

Soundtrack F rom th e rip e mind of Irving Welsh came a flick of smack v illa in s and m oral e n o r m i t y .

S o u n d tra c k in g the characters’ plight are UK titans Pulp, hero­ in has-beens Iggy Pop and Lou R eed an d , most significantly, a ju icy chunk o f electronica. The result is a ‘90s Saturday Night Fever that will round o u t the d e c a d e and provide the sought-after replace­ ment for grunge and britpop. And it would seem, after Tarantino set the barometer with Pulp Fiction, a hip soundtrack is a clear precursor to music that prospers.

O d e la y ,

to pop: a buffed shot of insubordi­ nation that we can hum to. With Beck fave Stereolab also at their creative peak, expect more of the sam e in n ex t y e a r ’s m u sical crossovers.

— Dave Morris

Beck

B eck’s sophomore release is a warm slice o f the psychedelic, rep lete, o f course, w ith drum m a c h in e s and all th e d e lic io u s f ix ­ ings. Beck “Loser” Hansen has created a groovacious tum­ ble o f b e a t-h e a v y tunes and trip-laden lyrics. Best of all is the genre-blending lifted from the last 30 years of music’s finer ear-massages.

B eck’s effort gives to the “alternative” what Garbage gives

S a tu rn a lia ,

The Wedding Present A n o th e r y e a r, a n o th e r W ed d in g P re s e n t alb u m . The band’s evolution over the past 12 m onths has been m o n um ental.

But, despite a proven knack for w ritin g p o w er-p o p love songs w ith an edge, they still rem ain largely overlooked. Saturnalia is fresh and original output from a band born of the same flesh as the crop o f o th er m id -’80s altern a bands. The W edding P re se n t’s faith in the spirit of that by-gone age will spread to yield more stikingly familiar yet radically unique music. They spoke in ‘96, wait for the scream in ‘97.

— Chris Colley

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M any scen es su rp ris in g ly share a se n su a lity best seen in high-budget m usic videos. In a brilliant catharsis, an insecure call g irl th ra sh e s m adly am ong the bamboo curtains w hile a stirring soundtrack of Cuban music blares from the house band.

Meanwhile, the daughter of a sugar cane farm er gets the after­ noon off (not realising that their displacement from the land relin­ quishes her labour) and visits an outdoor jukebox in town with her brother. As she prances up and alo n g a fla tb e d c a rria g e and engages in dance with a young boy drinking sugar cane juice, it’s hard to tell how much of the perforSubmit to . . .

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mance is natural and how much staged. The Coca-Cola she finishes beside the jukebox should be so lucky as to have the endorsment of this dancing duo. Instead, it is the sugar cane that is depicted as the elixir of Cuban life. (Ironically, the fath er is shown dead in his cane field in the very next scene.)

As in th is seg m en t, I Am Cuba always builds up the rich­ ness and exuberance of Cuba only to wrench it away from the viewer in an attempt to fuel anti-govern­ ment feelings. The formula wears thin as the tw o-and-a-half-hour mark approaches.

Although the second half of the film addresses the incendiary events of the Cuban Revolution, outright propaganda mars its his­ torical value. A stute film buffs may wish to treat I Am Cuba as a fascinating relic of a specific point and point-of-view of history; most of us will find the movie’s manip­ ulation offensive — its incredible (F o r

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presentation its only saving grace.

And while the makers of / Am Cuba w ere unsatisfied with the film ’s m essag es, one w onders w hether rapturous film ing is the most subversive appeal to convert­ ing an audience. M ore than any other film witnessed this year, all aspects of the engaging / Am Cuba are “viewer beware.”

I Am Cuba runs at various times every day fo r the month o f January at Cinéma du Parc, 3575 Parc. C all 28 7 -7 2 7 2 f o r m ore information.

— Marc Gilliam

Scream Wes Craven, of Nightmare on Elm Street fame, surprises with his latest film, the unexpectedly funny and intelligent Scream.

M ore b lack co m edy than sla sh e r m ovie, Scream com es across as Craven’s revenge on the genre in which he has been unfairin n o c e n t)

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ly pigeon-holed. Not content to be a paro d y o f sla sh e r m o v ies, Scream uses classics of the genre such as Prom N ight to comment on both society and the inanity of the slasher flick.

Scream 's villain is first seen in Halloween costume attacking a cute blonde teen ag er (a cam eo appearance by Drew Barrymore) after she fails to correctly answer slasher movie trivia questions.

Scream exploits all the con­ ventions. The typical psycho stalk­ ing the typical victim in the ulti­ m ate c o n v e n tio n a l lo c a tio n , a lo n ely house in the m id d le o f nowhere.

A g a in st the lush co u n try background, the killer terrorises yet an o th er local teen, Sydney Prescott (N eve C am pbell), still haunted by the brutal m urder of her mother a year earlier. As she fights off attack after attack by the unknown slasher, the plot thick­ ens. Her father goes missing, she fights with her boyfriend, and is pestered by a tabloid jo u rn alist (C o u rtn ey C ox) d eterm in ed to prove th at S y d n ey ’s testim ony convicted the wrong person for her mother’s murder.

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It becom es evident early on that Scream is a spoof, as Sydney comments on the unaware, help­ less female victim who “runs up the stairs when she should be run­ ning out the door.” Just a few sec­ onds later she h e rse lf does the same thing.

W hile the film pokes fun at the conventions of horror films, it is also genuinely scary. The differ­ ence between Scream and a typical slasher m ovie is that Scream is se lf-a w a re . A lm o st C u ltu ral Studies 101, it is continually ironic and self-reflexive. At one point a ch aracter says that things have become so creepy it’s “almost like one o f th o se W es C a rp e n te r movies.”

Scream has d efin ite k itsch ap p eal. The h o rro r m aster has proven surprisingly adept at craft­ ing comedy that is both intelligent and tim ely. Go and see it — if you’re not too scared.

S cream has been p la y in g around town fo r some time now.

See it befo re it D ISA P P E A R S! Moowaw-haa-haa!

— Anya Spethmann

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Martlets trounced by hockey super-powers: Concordia and UQTR B y Franklin R ubinstein

The McGill wom en’s hockey team found out this weekend that they still have a long way to go before they can be considered a Quebec hockey power.

The Martlets were blasted by the C oncordia Stingers 11-0 on F rid a y n ig h t, b e fo re b e in g trounced by the UQTR Patriotes 7-1 on Saturday evening.

F rid ay n ig h t’s c o n te st was c o m p le te ly d o m in a te d by th e cross-tow n Stingers. C oncordia has many national women’s play­ ers and displayed their superior ta le n ts by p e p p e rin g M c G ill goalie Lucie Fortan with 61 shots.

A lth o u g h C o n c o rd ia w as without American hockey sensa­ tion Cami G ranato, the Stingers o ffe n c e d o m in a te d th e e n tire game. Forward Corinne Swirsky

sc o re d fiv e g o a ls and evening, M cGill ju st did p icked up three assists in n o t h a v e th e a b ility to le a d in g th e S tin g e r com pete w ith the b etter onslaught.

Patriotes squad.

“I think we played well “ W e h av e re a lly in two periods, but our lack im p ro v ed o v er the p ast o f conditioning caught up year. We work hard, and with us,” remarked Martlets our defence is getting bet­ coach Dan Madden. ter, but we still don’t have T he M a rtle ts w ere the goal-scoring capabili­ unable to create any offen­ ties,” explained Madden. sive chances since much of E v id e n c e o f the the gam e’s play took place M artlets’ hard work and in th e ir d e fe n s iv e zo n e . improvement can be seen S tin g e r g o a lie L ian e in the reduction o f goals Mayor, who only faced four sc o re d a g a in st them as shots, posted the shutout. w ell as in th e ir play o f The M artlets played a more competitive games. b e tte r gam e on S atu rd ay M adden pointed out night since they were able the team is continueing to Kevin Koch im p ro v e , and M cG ill to c re a te m o re o ffe n siv e McGill goalie Lucie Fortin fa c e d 61 shots in m atch-up against Concordia. chances. Consequently, the h o p e s to re c ru it m ore team experienced more success shutout was prevented w ith the te n t o ffe n s iv e th re a t fo r the play ers from the U nited States Martlets this season. on th e ic e . A n o th e r M a rtle t lo n e g o a l sc o re d by K a th le e n and the rest of Canada.

O ’Reilly, who has been a consis­ As was the case the previous

H ock ey split lea v es R edm en in second

Gendron turns down pro contract offer

By Paul C o n n er

The Redm en’s leading scor­ e r P ie rre G e n d ro n re c e n tly received and declined an offer to play professional hockey for the D a lla s S t a r s ’ I n te r n a tio n a l Hockey League affiliate.

Gendron, a U3 physical edu­ cation m ajor, turned dow n the o ffe r fro m th e M ic h ig a n KW ings in favour o f com pleting his bachelor’s degree.

“I ’m pleased that Pierre has decided to com plete his educa­ tio n and w ill rem ain w ith the team for the balance of the sea­

Poor special teams perform ance means lost opportunity for McGill B y Franklin R ubinstein Pa u l C o n n e r

and

After a long break from league play, the M cG ill m en ’s hockey team took to the road to face divi­ sional rivals RMC and Ottawa.

Prior to the games, RMC was mired at the bottom of the stand­ ings, while Ottawa held third place behind the Redmen in the Ontario U n iv e rsitie s A th le tic s Association’s Far East.

The McGill crew came home with a weekend split; acceptable, but not anticipated. After downing the Royal Military College 3-2 on F riday, the R edm en lo st to the U n iv ersity o f O ttaw a 6-3 in a penalty-filled affair Saturday night in the nation’s capital.

On Friday evening, M cGill built a 2-0 lead behind the goals of Nicolas Cantin and Benoit Rajotte, but let the tying goals past before Benoit Leroux scored the game

C o m in g u p th is w e e k Redmen Hockey at Concordia.

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Women’s Hockey vs. UQTR, Sat. 7:00 p.m.

Synchronised Swimming at McGill, Sat. and Sun.

winner with two minutes left in the second. Cantin’s goal was on the powerplay, the team’s only marker in four tries with the man advan­ tage.

The Redmen outshot RMC 3124. Jarrod Daniel made 22 stops to post the victory.

Saturday evening, the Redmen travelled to Ottawa to face the Gee Gees. In a game marked by 104 minutes of penalties, the Redmen su rre n d e re d tw o sh o rt-h an d ed goals en route to a loss against the underdogs.

“In Ottawa, the referees were more strict. He [the referee] got both teams off the ice,” said coach Martin Raymond.

M c G ill’s d ynam ic duo of Pierre Gendron and Kelly Nobes c o n tin u e d th e ir o ffen siv e fire ­ works. Gendron scored two more goals, w hile N obes knotted the other.

T he R edm en w ere larg ely ineffective on the powerplay, scor­ ing in only two of their eleven man advantages. The bottom line is that the Redmen do not deserve to win any games where they blow nine pow erplay chances and give up two short-handed goals against.

“It d o e sn ’t help our tem po when there are so many penalties.

We are working hard, but we are not clicking as well as we did earli­ er in the season. It’s been tough, but we have to keep w o rk in g ,” remarked Raymond.

The Redmen outshot the Gee Gees 37-32.

McGill finishes the weekend in second place in the Quebec divi­ sion, with a 9-6-1 record.

s o n ,” said M cG ill head coach M artin R aym ond. “T h e re ’s no d o u b t P ierre had to fin ish his school first.”

Gendron is in the final year o f w hat has been a spectacular career at M cG ill. He leads the C a n a d ia n U n iv e r s itie s In te rc o lle g ia te A sso c ia tio n in scoring this season by a com fort­ a b le m a rg in o v e r te a m -m a te Kelly Nobes.

The decision to turn down a pro contract was not difficult for Gendron. In the fall, he declined an offer to play in France — a m ove that form er captain Todd

M a rc e llu s ch o se a fte r h is last seaso n at M cG ill in 1995-96.

“Pierre knows h e’ll have oppor­ tunities to play elsewhere — he doesn’t have to jum p at the first offer,” explained Raymond.

A fte r th e w e e k e n d s p lit against Royal M ilitary C ollege and the University o f Ottawa, the R e d m e n sta n d at 9 -6 -1 . T he M cG ill m en rem ain in second p la c e o v e ra ll in th e O n ta rio U n iv e r s itie s A th le tic s A ssociation’s Far East division.

G endron’s decision to stay with the Red ‘n ’ W hite has been a big boost for the entire team.

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F rid a y n ig h t’s ‘T w o n e y ’ R ed ‘n ’ W h ite n ig h t p its M cG ill’s men and w om en’s bas­ k etball team s ag ain st the Y ork Y eom en and Y eo w o m en . T he wom en’s squad will be the main focus as they are aim ing for their 16th straight victory overall this season.

Led by their big three on the floor, the M artlets have m oved up to third in the national rank­ ings. Vicky Tessier, Jen Stacey, and Anne Guildenhuys have pro­ pelled the team to easy victories o v er m ost o f th eir com petition this year, again dem onstrated by la s t w e e k ’s 8 0 -6 3 r o ll o v e r Laurentian.

York and M cG ill m atch up well on the w om en’s side. The Y eow om en are ran k ed fifth in th e c o u n try , and p la y sim ila r wide-distribution games.

“The M c G ill - Y ork w om en’s gam e could be one of th e b e st in C a n a d a a ll y e a r ,” e x p re sse d M a rtle t h ead co ach Lisen Moore.

The player to watch out for is Yeowoman Karen Jackson. In h e r fo u rth se a so n , Ja c k so n is considered one of the top players in the country. In the sum m er of 1 9 9 5 , sh e w as a m e m b e r o f C anada’s student national team, and has been nam ed an O ntario Universities Athletic Association all-star. She won OW IAA rookie o f the year honours, as well as b ein g nam ed an A ll-C a n a d ia n rookie.

In se v e n g a m e s to d a te , Jackson is averaging an amazing 25.3 points-per-gam e. In short, she has led the Yeowom en to a 13-3 reco rd o v erall, and a 6-1 record in league play.

On the m en’s side, the game looks to be a good battle between a v e ra g e te a m s. T h e R e d m e n , coming off a 84-50 beating from L a u re n tia n U n iv e r s ity , are m atched up ag a in st a Y eom an sq u a d w h ic h h as g o n e 3-1 in le a g u e p la y th is s e a s o n , b u t w hich is not ran k ed in the top ten. The Redmen will look at this game as a chance to get back on the winning track.

The R e d ‘n ’ W h ite n ig h t, scheduled to sta rt at 6 p.m . on Friday with the w o m en ’s game, w ill be a ‘tw o n e y ’ affair. Two gam e fo r $2, fo o d fo r $2, etc. An ad in the section tells more about it. T h ese g a m e s a re b o u n d to take dow n the r o o f i f exp ected c ro w d s show up. T h ere a re tshirt give-aways and rumours o f a party afterwards.

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N othing ‘S u p er’ about this gam e gam es, w hile B led soe has not.

Favre disposed of San Fransisco three times in the past two seasons and led his team’s offence against an incredible Carolina squad.

Moreover, Favre is armed with tight ends Mark Chumara and Keith Jackson, and acrobatic wide-outs Antonio Freeman and Andre Rison.

These Packers’ pass receivers know how to get open and make things happen.

Bledsoe played in some big games but had some rather disap­ pointing results. New E ngland’s trips to Denver and Dallas earlier this season provide note-worthy examples. Bledsoe would probably like to forget these instances when he, in the quaterback position, was thoroughly outclassed and his team was thoroughly outplayed.

D o n ’t p reten d B ledsoe is Favre. He isn’t.

B y F ranklin R u binstein

During the cold, late afternoon Sunday, the New England Patriots were able to win a mistake-filled stru g g le w ith the ex p an sio n Jacksonville Jaguars. While many fans predicted a Jaguar upset, the P atrio ts handily conv erted Jacksonville errors into points.

The Patriots appeared confi­ dent in their Super Bowl crusade since they had just defeated a team that had won seven consecutive games. They won with an oppor­ tunistic defence and few mistakes on offence. Even coach Bill Parcells was not excited when the Gatorade was poured over his head after his AFC title game victory; perhaps he’s waiting until he has the Pete Rozelle Trophy in hand before he succumbs to celebration.

Maybe this is the year the AFC gets a Super Bowl.

Maybe not.

L et’s not p reten d that this Super Bowl is going to be any dif­ ferent from the staged extravagan­ zas of previous years. Let’s not per­ suade ourselves that Parcells can coach this team to victory. Instead, we should acknow ledge that the Green Bay Packers is the superior football team — which they will no doubt prove when the Patriots take the field.

Running game: Edge Patriots The only area w here New England may have an advantage over Green Bay is in their running game. Patriots running back Curtis Martin has emerged as one of the game’s top runners — his evasive­ ness gives New England a chance to run the clock and stay close.

The Packers have im proved their once dism al rushing attack behind Edgar Bennett and Dorsey Levins. Both played integral roles in the Packers’ two playoff victo­ ries.

Passing Attack: Edge Packers This analysis begins with a look at the quarterback position.

The Packers boast the NFL’s MVP Brett Favre, while New England has pivot Drew Bledsoe. Lately, Bledsoe has been hot, mainly by resisting his tendency to force the ball into costly interceptions.

The difference between these two quarterbacks is that Favre has proven to play big in im portant

Defence: Edge Packers The Patriot defence has come alive as of late. In its past seven games, the New England team shut down opposing offensives and cre­ ated many im pressive turnovers.

U ndefeated M artlets rout Laurentian

Linebackers Willie McGinest and Canada’s third-ranked basketball team continues Chris Slade anchor a quick attack­ winning ways ing defensive front.

Green Bay is led by their mas­ time, as the stingy McGill defence B y T ribune S taff sive front of Reggie White, Sean limited the Lady Vees to few qual­ Jones and Santana Dotson. By tak­ ity scoring opportunities.

The McGill Martlets travelled ing the running game away from McGill was able to maintain to Ontario last Saturday to face the opponents, the Packers have been seventh-ranked Laurentian team the lead throughout the second able to force an air gam e thus with the expectation of a stiff chal­ half, as S tacey’s sharp-shooting allowing their pass rushers to tee boosted the Martlets’ attack. lenge. off on the offensive line.

S tacey sco red 23 p o in ts B eh in d the q u ick sta rt by A lthough the P atriots have behind her incredible seven for | Vicky Tessier and the hot-shooting shut down their opponents, little eleven three-point shooting. Last of Jen Stacey, the M artlets were credit is due when the Steelers’ able to defeat the Lady Vees 80- week’s Canadian Inter-university lacklustre offensive is taken into 63, th u s im p ro v in g M c G ill’s A th le tic s U nion a th le te o f the consideration. Yes, the Patriots week was given the game MVP record to a league-leading 18-0. were able to stop a potent Jaguar T essier’s efforts carried the award. offence, but Jack so n v ille was The M artlets received other severely ham pered by the cold { Martlet offensive load early in the sig n ific a n t c o n trib u tio n s from c o n te st.

She sc o re d 14 o f the weather and their own mistakes.

The Packers will not be so gener­ j team’s first 15 points, en route to A nne G u ild e n h u y s and In g rid her 23-point game total. Tessier M archant. Both players supplied ous. was rewarded for her work beneath som e o ffe n siv e p u n ch , w ith G uildenhuys co n trib u tin g nine the basket with 9 rebounds.

Intangibles: p o in ts and M arch an t sco rin g The Martlets carried a 41-31 Edge Packers lead into the locker room at half­ seven.

One may point to special teams as an edge for the Patriots. The electrifying play of the multi-talent­ ed Dave Megget has triggered his teams on many occasions.

However, the Packers have the hottest special teams player in the league in Desmond Howard. This former Heisman winner is finally making good on his potential as demonstrated when he had virtual control during the Packers’ playoff game against San Fransisco.

A lthough P arcells has won Super Bowls, Packers coach Mike Holmgrem knows how to prepare for the big game.

If the Patriots are to compete in this game, they will need a huge effort out of Martin. This will take the pressure off of Bledsoe, and allow the Patriots to keep the ball out of Favre’s hands. If Martin is not established early in this football game, the Packers will undoubtedly roll right over the Patriots.

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The University of W estern Ontario stole the show F rid ay and S atu rd ay at the D on W right Invitational track and field meet in London, Ontario.

The Mustangs took first place in both competitions, with Windsor taking second, McGill third, and the U niversity of B uffalo fourth on the m en ’s and women’s sides.

For McGill, the women’s events proved golden three times over, as the women captured a total of seven medals en route to a 49-point performance.

T am bra Dunn led the way w ith a silv er in the 1500m and a gold in the 4 x 800m relay, which included team m ates C hristine B ergeron, Kelly Malony and Lisa Thauberger. Other winning events for the M artlets were the 300m and 600m, with Marie Hidebrand and Stephanie Walsh taking the honours respectively.

To add to this tally, the 4 x 200m and 4 x 400m relay teams, and Gretchen Dumolin in the 300m all took home bronze medals.

On the men’s side, another seven medals took the team to th ird p lace w ith 59 p o in ts. A lex Hutchinson, after finishing third at the cross-country CIAUs in the fall season, continued to show his strength in the longer events, capturing first place in the 1500m. Kurt McNally took silver in the 300m, as did the Redmen’s 4 x 200m relay. Bronze medals went to Ravind Growel in the 600m, and to three other McGill team members in field events. Peter Pound (high jum p), Max Oates (triple jump), and Sahir Chahin (shot put) all grabbed third place medals.

The track team has a week off before taking to the M cG ill F e ild h o u se at the M cG ill Team Challenge January 25t.

Briefs Redmen trounced by Voyageurs The McGill Redmen travelled to Laurentian Universioty this weekend, and were easily beaten by the Voltageurs 84-50.

Hubert Davis was M cGill’s only double-digit scorer, posting 18 points.

Davis received little offensive support, as many of the Redmen scored well below their season aver­ ages. Consistent shooter Matt Watson scored only seven points in the defeat.

Be lair leads soccer team The McGill indoor soccer team played a strong game on the weekend, defeating their opponents from Hampstead 5-1.

Sue Belair led the Martlet scoring, posting two g o als. O th er goal sc o re rs in c lu d e d L u cian n a C ifa re lli, Jen G o o d fello w and Jan e M oran.

Goodfellow’s goal proved to be the game winner.

The team improved their overall record to 4-2 in league play.

Martlet volleyball places fourth The McGill women’s volleyball team lost the bronze medal game in the Université de Montreal Open.

McGill lost to the Celtique Seniors 15-10, 9-15, 15-8, 11-15 and 16-14 in an exciting bronze medal match.

In earlier rounds, McGill lost to U de M, but dispatched Concordia 15-6, 15-4 and 15-0 and beat the CEGEP squad Bois-de-Boulogne 15-9, 15-11, 815 and 15-11.

Wendy W helan was voted to the tournament all-star team. She had 25 digs, 31 stuff blocks, 41 kills and 1 ace.

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Hutchinson shone as McGill's only gold medalist at the Don Wright Invitational meet in London Ontario, grabbing the honours in the 1500m event.

Stacey scored 23 points and was 7 of 11 from beyond the arc to lead her team to an 1 8th straight win dating back to the end of last season. Stacey was game MVP in the 80-63 win over Laurentian.

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TUESDAY JANUARY 14, 1997 18:30 hrs.

FIELD HOUSE - COURTS A-C McGill Sports Complex

TEAM SPORTS BASKETBALL BALL HOCKEY BROOMBALL

INNERTUBE WATERPOLO INDOOR SOCCER VOLLEYBALL

Registration closes Tuesday, January 14, 1997 at 17:00 hrs.

OFFICE G-35 - McGill Sport Complex

A representative for each team must attend the Captains’ Meeting for that sport. An individual may represent only one team at the meeting. (Note: that a captain may represent both a co-rec and a men’s or women’s team in the same sport).

League schedules are planned and rules are distributed. A team that is not represented will not be included on the schedule.

O FFIC IA LS’ M EETING Students interested in sports officiating should apply to the Campus Recreation Office and attend the Officials’ Meeting on January 14, 1997 at 18:30 hrs. in the Field House of the McGill Sports Complex. Experience is an asset but not a necessity.

Training Clinics are offered according to the following schedule:

TRAINING CLINICS SCHEDULE SPORT Ball Hockey Basketball Broomball Indoor Soccer Innertube Waterpolo Volleyball

DATE Jan. 16 Jan. 16 Jan. 16 Jan. 15 Jan. 15 Jan. 15

CROSS COUNTRY SKI EQUIPMENT RENTAL Cross Country Ski equipment is available on a rental basis for McGill Students, sports complex members, faculty, and staff.

Rental days and times: Mondays & Fridays: 15:30 - 18:30 hrs Saturday: 09:00 - 15:30 hrs Rental Rates: Saturday:

Skis $5.00 S pecial S tudy Boots $3.00 Package $8.00 B rea k Pa c k a g e Poles $ 1.00 Saturday to Monday or Monday to Friday: Skis $6.00 Boots $4.00 Package: $ 11.00 Poles $2.50 From Feb. 21 Weekend: $kis $9.00 TO Boots $6.00 Package:$15.00 March 3,1997 Poles $3.00 G roup rates available for Weekly: Skis $15.00 10 o r m o r e people Boots $7.00 Package:$25.00 Poles $4.00

LOCATION Rm 305 Rm 305 Rm 305 Rm 305 Rm 305 Rm 305

TIME 17:30 hrs.

17:30 hrs.

17:30 hrs.

17:30 hrs.

17:30 hrs.

17:30 hrs.

Through the winter, the Department will be offer­ ing an exciting Pay-AsYou-Go Fitness program.

Classes will feature Step and Aerobics. Both activities are designed for total body workout.

Step is a challenging low impact class based around stepping onto an adjustable platform.

Aerobics is an upbeat, advanced high impact class.

Aerobics

Tues & Thurs Friday Sat & Sun

17:30- 18:25 16:00- 16:55 12:00- 12:55

Step

Mon/Wed/Fri Sat & Sun

17:00- 17:55 13:00- 13:55

Cost

Sports Complex Members $1,70*/$2.50/class

Tickets go on sale in the Sports Complex 15 minutes before class. ** Booklets of 10 tickets for $17. purchased in advance (Members only)

INSTRUCTIONAL ATHLETICS PROGRAM COORDINATORS: Philip Quintal & Maria Gold • ALL COURSES ARE CO-ED • YOU MUST REGISTER IN PERSON WITH A FULL-TIME MCGILL STUDENT ID OR MEMBERSHIP CARD • REGISTRATION IS CONDUCTED ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE BASIS • CASH, CHEQUES, MASTERCARD, VISA AND DIRECT PAYMENT ACCEPTED

The instructional Athletics Program at McGill University features a wide variety of non-credit physical education and recreational courses. The program provides an opportunity to use the athletic facilities and to acquire or improve athletic skills. Members of the Department of Athletics staff, as well as qualified part-time instructors, teach in the program. Courses are open to all full-time McGill students holding a validated student ID card. Full-time McGill students are entitled to register for courses at the member’s fee. The General Public, Staff, Faculty, and Graduates holding a Sports Complex membership card may also register for courses.

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OUTDOOR PURSUITS

Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Saturday Saturday Sunday Sunday Monday

Squash Inter

Wednesday Thursday Saturday Sunday Squash (Private)

By Appointment

Squash (Semi-Private)

By Appointment

Tennis Intro

Monday Wednesday Friday Saturday Tues & Thurs Monday

Tennis Inter

Wednesday Thursday Friday Friday ' Saturday Tues & Thurs Tuesday

Tennis Advanced

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By Appointment

Tennis (Private)

By Appointment

Tennis (Semi-Private) * Starts week of January

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15:00- 15:55 16:00- 16:55 09:00- 09:55 09:00- 10:55 16:00- 16:55 15:00- 15:55 15:00- 15:55 15:00- 15:55 09:00- 09:55 18:45- 20:10 11:00- 12:55 16:00- 16:55 15:00- 15:55 20: 15- 21:40

25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 25/40 17/20 24/30 30/45 30/45 30/45 30/45 60/90 30/45 30/45 30/45 30/45 22/37 30/45 60/90 30/45 22/37 17/20 24/30

6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 1 1 6 6 6 3 6 6 6 6 6 3 3 6 6 3 1 1

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Saturday

Cross Country Ski Clinics

Saturday Sunday Sunday Friday

Equestrian

Saturday Sunday Sunday Ice Climbing

Sat, Feb.

Kayaking

Monday

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08:30- 09:15 09: 15- 10:00 16:00- 16:45 16:45- 17:30 17:30- 18:15 09:15- 10:00 12: 15- 13:00 13:00- 13:45 16:00- 16:45 16:45- 17:30 08:30- 09:15 09:15- 10:00 14:30- 15:15 15:15- 16:00 16:00- 16:45 10:45- 11:30 12: 15- 13:00 11:30- 12:15 13:00- 13:45 16:45- 17:30 08:30- 09:15 17:30- 18:15 11:30- 12:15 12: 15- 13:00

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Squash Intro

Thursday Sunday Sunday Monday

Kayaking Advanced

Thursday

Aero Step & Pump Aerobics - Advanced High\Low Aerobics - Advanced Low Impact Aerobics -Superfit Bodv Design

Tues & Thurs Mon & Wed Mon\Wed\Fri Tues & Thurs Mon & Wed Mon & Wed Tues & Thurs Saturday Tues & Thurs

Cardio Funk Cardio Funk Advanced Kickboxercize

Tues & Thurs Mon & Wed

Intro Step

Monday

Step & Pump

Mon & Wed Mon\Wed\Fri Mon & Wed Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Mon\Wed\Fri Tues & Thurs

Super Step & Pump

Tues & Thurs Saturday Total Body Conditioning

Tues & Thurs

Weight Training - An Introduction

Monday Wednesday Saturday

Flamenco

Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs

Jazz I

Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs

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Jazz III

-Tues & Thurs Friday

Social Dance I

Monday

Jazz

Monday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Social Dance II

Monday Monday

12:30- 13:25 20:30- 21:25 08:30- 09:55 17: 15- 18:25 18:30- 19:55 20:00- 21:25 18:00- 19:55 20:30- 21:55 20:30- 21:55 19:00- 20:25 19:00- 20:25 20:30- 21:55 20:30- 21:55 19:00- 20:25 19:00- 20:25

50/95 50/95 45/90 40/85 45/90 67/112

10 10 10 10 10 10

33/53 33/53 33/53 33/53 33/53 33/53 33/53 33/53

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10:00- 12:00 13:00- 15:00 10:00- 12:00 13:00- 15:00 16:00- 17:00 14:00- 15:00 13:00- 14:00 14:00- 15:00 07:30- 17:00 21:30- 23:00 20:30- 22:00 21:30- 23:00 21:30- 23:00 10:30- 12:00 11:30- 13:00 20:30- 22:00 20:30- 22:00

V A R IA

24/30 24/30 24/30 24/30 85/90 85/90 85/90 85/90 70/75 90/110 90/110 90/110 90/110 90/110 90/110 90/110 90/110

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Weight Training - Advanced

Saturday

Weight Training (Private)

By Appointment

Personal Fitness Appraisal

By Appointment

Fitness Instructor Training

Monday

Personal Trainer Development

Wednesday

Advanced Instructor Training (Pre-Requisite Instructor Training Program)

Wednesday

50/95 33/78 40/85 33/78 32/77 32/77 32/77 21/46 33/78 33/78 40/85 21/46 46/91 62/107 46/91 46/91 46/91 46/91 67/113 52/97 52/97 33/58 52/97 27/40 27/40 27/40 55/70 27/40 36/45/60 18:30- 21:30 190/230 18:45- 21:30 190/230 18:30- 21:30 250

12:00- 12:55 17:45- 18:55 16:30- 17:40 16:30- 17:25 08:30- 09:10 13:15- 13:55 13:00- 13:40 11:00- 11:55 18:30- 19:25 19:30- 20:25 12:00- 13:10 12:00- 12:55 16:00- 16:55 12: 15- 13:10 18:00- 18:55 08:00- 08:55 16:00- 16:55 18:15- 19:10 18:00- 19:10 12:00- 13:10 17:00- 18:10 10:00- 11:25 16:00- 17:10 20:00- 22:00 20:00- 22:00 09:00- 11:00 09:30- 12:30

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 4 4 4 6 1 1 14 14 10

MARTIAL ARTS Aikido

Tuesday & Friday

Capoeira

Mon\WedVFri

Judo

Monday & Wednesday

Kung Foo

Mon\Wed\Fri

Muay ThaiVShooto

Tties & Thurs

Shorinjiru

Mon & Wed

TKDVBox Française

Mon\Wed\Fri

Women's SelfDefense

Tues & Thurs

18:00- 19:55 17:00- 19:55 16:30- 17:55 17:30- 19:30 17:30- 19:30 15:30- 16:25 15:30- 16:55 19:00- 20:55 14:00- 15:25 17:00- 17:55

Basic First Aid (Includes CPR Heart

Saver) CPR Basic CPR Re-Cert Fencing

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18 & 19 10:30- 17:30 Sat., Jan. 25 & 10:30- 17:30 Sun., Jan. 26 09:30- 17:30 Sat., Jan. 25 08:00- 08:55 Mon & Wed 19:15- 20:10 Tbes & Thurs 20: 15- 21:10 Tues & Thurs 12:00- 13:00 Tuesday 16:00- 17:00 Thursday 09:00- 10:00 Friday 11:00- 12:00 Saturday Sat, Jan. Sun., Jan.

Golf (Private)

By Appointment

Golf (Semi-Private)

By Appointment

Hockey I

Wednesday

Hockey II

Friday

Staff Hockey

Monday

Skating

Wednesday

Skating

Saturday

Skating (Private)

By Appointment

Skating (Semi-Private)

By Appointment

Tai Chi I

Mon & Wed

Hatha Yoga I

Mon & Wed Mon & Wed Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Tues & Thurs Mon & Wed

Hatha Yoga II

Tues & Thurs Mon & Wed

Pilâtes Mat

15:15- 16:45 14:00- 15:30 15:15- 16:45 14:00- 15:15 10:30- 11:50

16:00- 16:55 08:00- 08:55 18:15- 19:25 08:00- 08:55 16:00- 17:10 17:15- 18:25 17:00- 18:10 18:30- 19:40 12:00- 12:55

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2

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AQUATICS Aqua Adult Aqua Adult

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Tuesday Thursday

Aqua Adult Aqua Adult

Tuesday Thursday Saturday

1to 3 (Children) 4to 7 (Children) Aqua Quest 8to 12 (Children) Aqua Tots 1to 3 (Child & Parent) Aqua Quest

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Aqua Quest

Saturday Saturday Sunday

Swim (Private)

By Appointment

Swim (Semi-Private)

By Appointment

Aquacises

Tues & Thurs

Swim Fit (Cardio-Respiratory Endurance)

Tues & Thurs

09:00- 09:55 17: 15- 18:10 18:30- 19:25 10:00- 10:55 18:15- 19:25

28/48 28/48 28/48 28/48 30/50

8 8 8 8 8

19:30- 20:25 11:00- 12:10 09:00- 09:55 10:00- 10:55 11:00- 12:10 10:00- 10:45

28/48 30/50 28/48 28/48 30/50 28/48 17/20 24/30 40/80 40/80

8 8 8 8 8 8 1/2hr 1/2hr 10 8

12: 15- 12:55 12: 15- 13:10

18:30- 19:25 40/80 18:30- 19:25 25/45 Thursday 18:30- 19:25 25/45 Wednesday 19:30- 20:25 30/50 88/113 Wednesday Class 18:30- 19:30 Pool 19:30- 21:00 Tues & Thurs Classl8:30- 19:30 100/140 Pool 19:30- 21:00 Tues & Thurs C!assl8:45- 20:15 240/270 Pool 20:30- 22:30 Tues & Thurs

Stroke Improvement

65/110

10

67/112 60/105

10 10

Diving

45/90 45/90 60/105 67/112 45/90

10 10 10 10 10

Leaders

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Bronze Cross (Prerequisite Bronze Medallion)

S.C.U.B.A. (Good Swimmer Screen Test Required M ust Attend First Class)

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Begins Wednesday. January 15, 1997 08:00-18:00 hrs at the Sports Complex and continues through Friday, January 31 ,08:30-18:30 hrs in office G-35 Most courses begin the week of January 20, 1997____________

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Jan. 20 Investment Basics (Leacock 232) 12:00 pm Opening Remarks (VP External) 12:30 pm Ron Laursen, Senior Vice-President (Scotiabank) 2:30 pm James Mousseau, Manager Retail Services, Tour Scotia 3:30 pm Q A 4:00 pm Refreshments

Jan. 22 Starting Your Own Business (Leacock 232) 2:00 pm 2:30 pm

3:30 pm 4:00 pm

Jan 21* Student Loans (Shatner i 07/108) 12:00 pm Introduction (VP External) 12:30 pm Murray Baker (Author of “The Debt Free Graduate”) 2:30 pm Judy Stymest (McGill Director of Student Aid and International Student Advisor) 3:30 pm Q 8. A 4:00 pm Adrienne Haswell, McGill Peer Counselling Advisor, Budgeting workshop, tips for Money Management.

6:00 pm

Introduction (VP External) Professor Peter Johnson (Director of the Dobson Center for Entrepreneurial Studies) Q 8. A Micheal Haberman, President of Global Initiatives, and past President of Consumer’s Distributing and Steinberg’s Refreshments

Jan 23. Credit Wise 101 (Shatner 107/108) 12:00 pm 12:30 pm 2:00 pm 2:30 pm

Introduction (VP External) Gilbert McMullen, Co-ord. for Credit Counselling Canada Q8.A Closing Remarks

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