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Fem ale athletes: vicious cycle B y K irstie H u d so n

When we think of women and eating disorders, we tend to think of ballet dancers, gymnasts, and models. But these issues cross into all types of sport — from amateur to professional, from McGill ath­ letes to Olympic champions.

Eating disorders are portrayed as “feminine insecurity,” when really that insecurity, in sport espe­ cially, stems from competitiveness and the desire for optimal perfor­ mance. Athletes with eating disor­ ders have a hard time drawing the line between competition and health risks; one is often aban­ doned unwittingly in favour of the other.

“Eating disorders happen in any sport,” said Dr. Jackie Klvana, a doctor of sports medicine who specializes in the treatment of eat­ ing disorders. “It happens when an athlete thinks [she or he] can’t per­ form unless they have the ideal body.”

This issue is not new to women’s sport, but has become more prevalent in the 1990s. Since more and more women are com­ peting at increasingly higher lev­ els, female athletes are often sus­ ceptible to the same media-gener­ ated imagery blamed for eating disorders among other women.

The ideal body, said McGill cross-country and track coach Dennis Barrett, has arisen “from the perception from magazines of what a model is supposed to look like. Athletes feel that that is how they are supposed to look — but then they don’t realize they’re training a lot — a lot harder than the models are.”

Determining the exact number of athletes suffering from eating disorders is hard to pin down.

“That’ s a problem ,” said Klvana. “In studies, it varies; it all depends on how candid women C ontinued on p a g e 2 7

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B .C . considers introducing differential tuition

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and attractive for students from other provinces to study in B.C.,” he said.

Enrolment data already points to an influx to the west; for exam­ ple, the University of Victoria has seen a marked increase in the num­ ber of students coming from Ontario. As the B.C. government sees it, a better bargain is driving students to the province.

For instance, Ontario’s fees at $4,300 to $4,600 — a 10 to 20 per cent increase over last year’s rates — tower over B.C. tuition rates which have been frozen since 1995 at $1,100 to $2,350.

“Our problem is with the porta­ bility of the system because the province [B.C.] can’t handle that growth in students,” said the offi­ cial.

The Canadian Federation of Students, the organization that rep­ resents a majority of universities in B.C., thinks that the province would be going about the problem the

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Following Quebec’s unprece­ dented move, British Columbia’s Ministry of Education, Skills and Training is considering implement­ ing differential fees to combat the growing number of out-of-province students in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions.

Although no public announce­ ment has been made, B.C. Premier Glen Clark addressed students at Simon Fraser University last month with the idea that residents outside of B.C. could pay higher tuition to attend the province’s colleges and universities.

But a communications official at the premier’s youth office, who is required to remain anonymous, indicated that an adoption of differ­ ential tuition will not occur within the next few years.

“It’ s a growing concern that other provinces’ fees continue to increase. It’s going to be cheaper

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CFS has met with Clark on several occasions to unite against the federal government in opposi­ tion to implementation of an income contingent repayment plan for student loans. But CFS contends that a move by the province to introduce differential tuition will result in a discriminatory policy for Canadian students.

“CFS has called for a national standard. Quebec succeeded [with their differential tuition policy] because there were no standards,” said Maura Parte, B.C. chairperson for CFS. The prospect of differential fees in B.C. forms a series of paral­ lels with developments in Quebec.

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Departure o f A U S V P finance leaves president juggling jo b s B y Laura M a c N eil

Adam Giambrone, Arts under­ graduate Society VP finance, resigned on October 1 in order to go on a three month archaeology dig in Sudan, but has left behind an unratified set of financial by-laws and the new AUS convenience store, Snax.

Giambrone joined the expedi­ tion in late August leaving very lit­ tle warning for the rest of the AUS. AUS President Karim Bardeesy supported Giambrone’s decision to leave McGill and join the Royal Ontario Museum team but admitted Giambrone’s departure has strained the AUS. “No, there wasn’t very much time to react,” said Bardeesy. “It won’t be easy, but it’s been done before. Circumstances dictate this is what is going to happen so I’ll deal with it.”

Giambrone agreed that he was reneging on his obligations as AUS VP finance when he decided to go on the expedition, but felt he couldn’t refuse the opportunity.

“There are obligations for my duty” said Giambrone. “I am, in effect, being negligent of my duties. But there are no contracts, and it is a volunteer position.”

AUS council accepted Giambrone’s letter of resignation

and Bardeesy agreed to act as inter­ AUS.” Bardeesy cited this year’ s im VP finance until the October 14 and 15 by-elections are held to find AUS Frosh as an example for the a permanent replacement. need of a standardized financial Giambrone briefed the five candi­ operational system. At one point, dates for the position before his departure on October 5.

Giambrone drafted badly needed AUS financial by­ laws using other stu­ dent association by­ laws as models before leaving the country. He antici­ pated that the finan­ cial by-laws would easily be passed dur­ ing the AUS council meeting held the night before his departure, but instead they were Adam Giambrone oversees operation o f Snax tabled until the next meeting to give council members while Giambrone was still in time to review the motion. Toronto before the school year Bardeesy explained the need for officially began, Bardeesy found the standardized by-laws and that there were not enough legiti­ mate cheques to pay for frosh expected the table motion.

“There is no institutional expenses and was forced to use the mechanism to manage the budget,” last AUS cheque signed by the VP he explained. “It’s all a matter of finance to deposit a lump sum into discretionary power at the moment his personal account and from when cheques are signed. The there, distributed the appropriate financial by-laws aren’t a motion funds to various creditors.

“Those weren’t the ideal cir­ but a set of operational rules for

cumstances,” admitted Giambrone.

“We had a little difficulty and altered procedure, but it is impor­ tant to recognize that procedure was still followed. We have receipts for every transaction.”

Giambrone has also left Snax, the A U S-ow ned-andoperated conve­ nience store located in the Leacock building, while the store is still creating its product line in its first year under AUS supervision.

Giambrone’s depar­ ture is compounded by the recent resig­ nation of Snax Product Manager Stephanie Hight Erin McLeod. The remaining manager, Paula Hewitt, reorganized the man­ agement of Snax with Giambrone, and replaced McLeod with two assistant managers. Hewitt is now responsible for both her original job of operations and McLeod’s product management. Hewitt seemed unfazed by the added responsibilities.

“Adam [Giambrone] and I reorganized Snax [when McLeod resigned],” said Hewitt. “My work­

load right now is not overly bur­ dening. Everything is fine.”

The reasons for McLeod’s res­ ignation have been kept confiden­ tial by all parties involved but rumours of friction between Giambrone and McLeod have sur­ faced.

“There were disagreements between Erin [McLeod] and myself,” admitted Giambrone. “But it was a misunderstanding and [the disagreements] have been resolved.”

McLeod pointed to a full course load as reason for her resig­ nation but declared that she received little support from the AUS administration in her efforts to stock the shelves of Snax.

“I didn’ t have enough resources or support, so therefore, I was overworked,” said McLeod.

“Giambrone provided as much leadership as is possible when you don’t arrive in Montreal until September 2 ...I am just glad it’s over.”

Nonetheless, McLeod asserted her conviction that Snax will be a success despite her resignation and Giambrone’s.

“It’s a huge money maker,” said McLeod. “It’s all in the loca­ tion — it’s not as though Snax has to lure students into the store.”

First-year students to have own students’ association B y A n drew R oss

SSM U Council has moved forward and created a new associa­ tion to represent first-year students at McGill.

The First Year Students Association will take on the role of promoting the interests of all stu­ dents in their first year of under­ graduate studies — including outof-province frosh as well as CEGEP graduates from Quebec.

The new association was pushed forward by SSMU President Tara Newell, who saw a definite need for more participation of first-year students in SSMU activities. “[FYSA] provides more legiti­ macy for first-year students,” she said. “It’s a medium for them to get involved, both politically and academically.”

But the formation of a firstyear students’ association is not an original idea. In fact, McGill is one of the few universities in North America that does not already have a group representing first-year stu­ dents. Over the past few months, SSMU has been consulting univer­ sities with first-year representation for ideas.

resentatives and edu­ Chris Muldoon, a for­ cation, engineering, mer member of the management and sci­ Constitution and Policy ence will each have Review committee responsi­ two representatives. ble for writing FYSA’s con­ All other faculties and stitution, still thinks it is a schools will have one great idea. seat each.

“W e’re trying to get Representatives will people involved in SSMU, be elected by the involved in general,” he members of the asso­ said. “[FYSA ’s goal is to] ciation, made up of foster more school spirit all UO and U1 stu­ using a democratically elect­ dents at McGill. ed body to address first-year But there has concerns.” been debate on the FY SA does have one status of transfer stu­ example at McGill to follow. dents in the FYSA — The Science Undergraduate a debate that remains _ Society founded the unresolved. Some Freshman Undergraduate members of SSMU Society of Students in 1996 have argued that to represent first-year inter­ transfer students com­ ests within the faculty. Anne ing from other univer­ Topolski, one of the FUSS sities should not be co-founders and current included. According SSMU science councillor, to Newell, there is a warned that the SSMU b elief that FYSA should not follow FUSS too Tara Newell: prom oting interests o f frosh Diana Anderson should be open only to closely. those experiencing “[For FYSA,] this year already been determined through university for the first time. will be a trial period, to get out all the association’s new constitution: Furthermore, there is the ques­ the glitches,” she said. “We need the faculty of arts, the largest fac­ tion of excessive SSMU bureaucra­ those fresh ideas coming in.” ulty at McGill, will have three rep­ cy in adding this new association.

The composition of FYSA has

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Topolski received a lot of feedback from students on the issue and said that there was a fear that “SSMU might abuse [FYSA’s role].”

However, Newell has tried to put those fears to rest.

“FY SA will not feed into SSMU,” she said. “It will create its own terms, find its own place.”

There w ill, however, be a FYSA representative on SSMU council. Whether or not that repre­ sentative will have voting power in SSM U decisions has yet to be determined. A referendum would have to be held to get student con­ sent for any amendment to change the composition of council and extend any new voting rights.

The McGill administration has been very positive about the cre­ ation of FYSA. Trish Duff, former First-Year co-ordinator now work­ ing in Alumni Relations, applauds the idea of first year representation. “[McGill] is for improving the first-year experience,” she said.

“Getting first year students involved is important.”

The first elections for FYSA executives and council reps will take place in late October or early November.

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France and Quebec to promote Athletics department under fire from students French in Business through M cG ill

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was a matter of miscommunication.

“Money was never allocated for the staffing and operation of the centre,” Prohar said, “but this wasn’t articulated well to the stu­ dents.”

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SSM U council mandated President Tara Newell to oppose a possible student user fee for the new fitness centre set to open at the Currie Gym and accused the athletics department of deception in last year’s student referendum.

At a SSMU coun­ cil meeting last month, Athletics rep to SSM U Derek Prohar presented two proposals for imple­ menting fitness centre user fees. He was seeking SSM U endorsem ent o f the proposals to take to the Board of Athletics.

Last spring, stu­ dents voted in a refer­ endum to pay an extra ten dollars per semes­ ter each year for the next five years in order to com plete Phase Three o f the ath letics com plex which includes the construction of the Rebecca Catching new fitn ess centre, Userfees proposed f o r centre squash courts, lockers and storage rooms. Most students adamantly to the supposed miswere under the impression that by communication between SSMU paying ten dollars per semester, and the athletics department.

“There was no miscommunithey would have access to the new facilities without paying any cation — there was a lack of communication,” said Reid. “The extra fees.

The SSMU council rejected athletic department withheld the user fee proposal in protest inform ation that they thought over the deceptive language used would influ ence the student in the referendum question. vote.”

Dubeau explained that many Citing the brochure issued by the athletics department last year athletic p ro jects are largely used for the referendum question, dependent on student service fees Newell reacted strongly to the as well as other, self-generated funds through private donations suggestion of imposing user fees.

“This brochure very clearly and fees from courses.

“We are not part of the uni­ im plies that all services are included in the ten dollar fee,” versity budget,” said Dubeau. she said. “Few students knew that “We have to break even at the operational costs weren’t includ­ end of the year.”

Even with two other func­ ed in the semester fee, and no one had any idea of impending user tioning work-out facilities, the fees. The athletics department athletics department seems broke the good faith of its con­ unwilling to offer the use of this tract — the referendum question.” new facility without extra fees to SSMU VP Finance Duncan students. Prohar, however, under­ Reid explained that the informa­ stands that some sort of fees are tion regarding the new student necessary for the running of the new centre. fees was unclear at best.

“Bob [Dubeau] never talked “I don’t think that [the athlet­ ics department] was honest,” he about opening the fitness centre for free,” he said. said.

Students have been paying, According to the athlëtics department, the referendum ques­ through various fees, for the tion was not deceptive because expansion o f the gymnasium the money raised from the ten complex since 1983 and the new dollar student fee was to go construction fee is just one in a towards com pletion o f Phase long line of similar fees. The user Three but not for its operational fee would only be charged to those who want to use the new costs.

“In the minds of the athletics work-out facilities even though department [the student fee] was all students have contributed to for construction costs only,” said financing construction of the D irector of A thletics Bob complex.

The A thletics Board will Dubeau. “There was no decep­ meet this week to consider all tion.”

Prohar, who supports the user options regarding the new centre. fee, explained that the situation

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In association with M cGill and the Université de Québec à Chicoutimi, the Paris and Quebec Chambers o f Com m erce have signed an agreement to promote French in the business world. The agreement was signed as part of the Quebec trade mission initiat­ ed by Premier Lucien Bouchard.

The project was started by Hervé de Frontenay, M cG ill’ s program director for French as a Second Language in conjunction with Damien Ferland, director of UQAC’s French language school.

De Fontenay and Ferland have both been members o f the A m erican A ssociation of Teachers of French. While work­ ing together on this committee, they realized the need for a North American version of the Paris Cham ber of C om m erce’ s Practical Certificate in Business and Professional French. Demand from many international business schools prompted the plan to pro­ vide certification in professional French to be used to facilitate dealings with Quebec businesses in their own working language.

When the proposal was brought to the Quebec Cham ber of Commerce, it was initially met with surprise. However, the pro­ posal was accepted and has been in the working stages since.

De Fontenay explained that the QCC will provide a web site so that information about the pro­ gram can be downloaded by teachers world-wide.

“The Quebec Chamber of Commerce is the host member,” he said. “This web site will give access to specialized material for French classes. Materials for spe­ cialized courses are available, but they are much more accessible to teachers if they are available on the web.”

In addition to funding the new web site, the QCC will also set up a program to create intern­ ships for university students from McGill, UQAC and other univer­ sities across North America.

“Currently, it is quite hard for students to get any type of internship positions in French firm s in C anada,” stated De Fontenay.

Dr. James Archibald, direc­ tor of M cG ill’s department of languages and translation, feels that the new language agreement will help expand business hori­ zons in Canada since it will make international business easier to conduct and will encourage more people to get involved in the French business world.

“It will allow us to have peo­ ple in the United States, South A frica, Latin A m erica, and throughout the world sit a North American version of an interna­ tionally recognized test of busi­ ness F ren ch ,” Archibald said.

“This really means a Quebecbased test in international French for professionals and business people interested in the Quebec economy — a North American economy that happens to function in French.”

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Although the proficiency test is not yet finalized, a finished copy will be available next year.

“The next step is to create this new exam ,” said De Fontenay. “Next spring w e’ ll have the trial run of the exam.”

As stated in a press release from M c G ill’ s C entre for Continuing Education, “the agreement will be an important cultural and economic bridge for the 54,000 members...4,000 busi­ nesses and 215 chambers of com­ m erce under the Quebec Chamber’s umbrella and a multi­ tude of businesses abroad, includ­ ing those in France and the United States.”

The Tribune would like to apologize for grammatical errors in the September 23 article by Sonia Brault. A ny errors should be held to the Tribune and not the author.

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Student battles S S M U for ju d icial board retrial over C K U T B y La u r a M a c N eil

Alex Roshuk is suing McGill’s Students’ Society in Quebec Superior Court claiming that the SSMU Judicial Board did not give him “natural justice” in a previous board hearing against Radio M cGill, CKUT and asked for a retrial.

A recent graduate from the McGill law school, Roshuk is con­ tinuing a lengthy and costly legalbattle against SSMU with a petition to the province’ s highest judicial body that could threaten the legiti­ macy of SSMU’s Judicial Board.

With a trial date tentatively set for the end of October, Roshuk hopes that the Superior Court will overturn the previous decision and order another judicial board hear­ ing.

“I want the judical board deci­ sion to be overturned by the Superior Court and then order a retrial,” said Roshuk. “I don’t know why- SSMU is paying high-priced lawyers to defend themselves when all I want is a meeting with the judi­ cial board.”

SSMU president Tara Newell is apprehensive of the possible implications that could result if the judicial board’s decision was over­ turned by an exterior legal council.

“Roshuk’s interpretation sets a very dangerous precedent — one

that I do not want to set,” said administration of CKUT was not Newell. “I want the Superior Court accountable to students and that its to recognize SSMU as an internal, administrative decisions over the independent organi­ zation with our judi­ cial board decisions as final. SSMU has no option but to have a lawyer because it is incor­ porated.”

Roshuk called for a retrial because he believes the judi­ cial board denied him his fundamental student rights.

“The petition­ er’s [Roshuk] right to a full, equal, and fair hearing under the Charter of Students’ Rights (20.1) was, with great respect, denied,” wrote J-R oard decision on CKUT becom es subject o f court Roshuk in his April 17 letter of Formal Objection to the past three years were not constitu­ SSMU Judicial Board. “These tionally valid.

“Radio McGill has not had a things that I alleged, did happen— I was cut off and treated unfairly valid annual meeting in many years [during the hearing],” Roshuk due to a lack of quorum ...and because of this many of the elec­ added later in a phone interview.

Roshuk’ s objections were tions and reports...have never been noted, rebutted and dismissed by validly approved,” wrote Roshuk in his original petition to the board. the board on April 30.

The final judgement of the Roshuk’ s original petition against CKUT charged that the judicial board supported CKUT and

immediately following the dis­ missal of his objections to the board’ s proceedings, Roshuk appealed his case to Quebec Superior Court.

T h e Superior Court amended a few of Radio M cG ill’ s by­ laws in direct response to two i nt egral charges against the station over the summer.

CKUT Station Manager A d r i a n Harewood retained a posi­ tive view of the legal process with Roshuk case «acheI Ong even though the cost of hir­ ing a lawyer for the Superior Court appeal impacted on station finances.

“This case forced us to focus on areas where we were weak,” said Harewood. “In some ways, [Roshuk] has contributed to the sta­ tion because we now recognize that these are problems and we have moved on them.”

But SSMU does not have such an optimistic attitude towards

Roshuk’s charges. If the Superior Court decides to rule in Roshuk’s favour, SSM U ’ s Judicial Board would be considered only an arbi­ tration board and Newell fears it could lose all its legitimacy as a court of final appeal.

“I want [the Quebec Superior Court] to see that their intervention sets a bad precedence on our orga­ nization,” said Newell. “I don’t want to spend student money going to court against a student, but I have to defend the power and legitimacy of the judicial board.”

Roshuk insists he is not threat­ ening the legitimacy of the judicial board, but feels strongly that CKUT remains unaccountable to McGill students.

“I’m not attacking the legitamacy of the board but the way the orginial hearing was held,” said Roshuk. “I believe it is in the best interests of the students to bring this matter to resolution but my petition has not been addressed adequately.”

CKUT Sales Manager Louise Burns asserted that Roshuk’s latest petition has lost much of its rele­ vance since CKUT has already complied with elements brought forth in his original petition. “[Roshuk] loves the legal process,” said Burns. “He really loves the fight. But I think he lost sight of his point a long time ago.”

Overhaul o f Arts gets final approval Differential fees in B.C .

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The McGill Senate unanimous­ ly passed a multi-track Arts program last week although financial implica­ tions of the program remain unclear.

The introduction of the multi­ track program is scheduled for the 1998-99 academic year and will replace the existing 54 credit major/ 24 credit minor degree program. The current honours degree program will remain intact.

Three major goals of the multi­ track program are to distinguish a major from an honours degree, to offer a modern, interdisciplinary approach to post-secondary educa­ tion and to prepare students for a broader range of career paths. After extensive consultation with partic­ ipating departments, the curriculum committee and student representa­ tives, the multi-track committee decided upon a concentration design.

Three options will be offered to obtain an Arts degree which involve various combinations of a 36-credit major concentration, an 18-credit minor concentration and 6 or 12 dis­ tribution credits. Distribution cours­ es are special, broad foundation courses which will be offered with­ out prerequisites, outside the major/minor concentration. These courses are currently still in the development stage.

According to Dean of Arts Carman Miller, response to the multi-track program has been posi­ tive. He hopes that a liberal Arts education will introduce students to more areas of knowledge and give them more flexibility in the choice of career.

“The support for the multi-track program has been overwhelming; departments are busy reorganizing

and professors are concentrating on developing new courses. The pro­ gram is in sync with the current trend of interdisciplinary studies,” he said.

SSMU President Tara Newell suggested that a liberal Arts educa­ tion is an excellent option for stu­ dents who are interested in numerous disciplines.

“I like the well-rounded approach of the program and believe that the degree will be more mar­ ketable,” she said.

Not everyone, however, gave initial support to the multi-track pro­ posal. Elizabeth Gomery, SSMU VP university affairs, expressed concern at preliminary meetings in May that the program would result in course cancellations. After meeting with M cG ill’ s Academic Policy and Planning Committee, Gomery changed her mind and now believes that the program might lessen the effects of course cancellations.

“The multi-track program may atone for the ‘black dot syndrome’ by requiring students to take courses from outside their concentrations,” said Gomery. “I was initially con­ cerned that other faculties such as Science would experience an influx

of Arts students in their courses, but the issue has since been resolved.”

Faculty members and student representatives contend that the new program may even reduce class size in certain cases since students may decide to take courses in smaller departments if restrictions on course requirements are relaxed. However, Miller explained that the financial implications of the multi-track pro­ gram are still not completely clear.

“The greatest cost of the restructuring would be the purchase of a new student record service which would accommodate the three choices of the program.

Coincidentally, McGill has already committed to acquire a new student record and financial record service,” he said. But the Dean made clear that “the curriculum reform was not financially motivated” and explained that the process leading up to the implementation of the program has been long and careful.

“The multi-track program has been in the conception stage for the past thirty years,” he said. “I hope for a complete revamp of the current Arts program.”

debt,” said the official, “that often creates a situation where students ly followed large increases to owe $10,000 to $20,000 at the fed­ eral level, while nothing is owning international students’ fees.

Despite the similarities, the to the province.”

Director of Academics at the B.C. communications official refus­ University of Victoria Students’ es to view Quebec’s radical imple­ mentations as a direct precursor to Society Anita Zaenker doesn’t feel whatever solution B.C. chooses to policies favouring B.C. residents are fair or required. In fact, Zaenker integrate. thinks that any “W e’re not special treatment using a Quebec “W e ’r e n o t u s i n g a will only rein­ model at all. force discrepan­ We’re just mak­ Q u e b e c m o d e l a t all. cies within the ing a statement W e ’r e j u s t m a k i n g a national system. on risk for B.C. s t a t e m e n t o n r is k fo r “ W e ’ re residents: How opposed to differ­ B .C . r e s i d e n t s : H o w d o do we deal with ential fees in all the pressure on w e d e a l w ith t h e p r e s ­ forms because it our system that s u r e o n o u r s y s t e m th a t leads to a twocomes from other tiered system provinces?” he c o m e s fr o m o t h e r where students asked. p r o v in c e s ? ” pay different rates As well, — c o m m u n i c a t i o n s for the same edu­ B.C. and Quebec o f f i c i a l a t t h e p r e m i e r ’s cation. The stu­ are the only two dent body here provinces that y o u t h o f f i c e doesn’t see lower offer first and tuition as a disad­ second-year grant programs to post­ secondary students. This means that vantage for the school — we just although students who take out consider ourselves lucky to be in loans receive portions from both the one of the few provinces with low provincial and federal governments, fees. And I don’t think there’s a the two provinces have financial aid competitiveness within the school programs that can award provincial between B.C. and out-of-province grants while the Canadian loan students,” she said in reference to the limited number of spaces for remainder is entirely a debt.

In part, the uniqueness of which applicants compete.

“A way to avoid differential B .C .’s student loan program has provoked provincial leaders to tuition would be to lobby the feder­ lobby for a national remission plan. al government for grants to level Such a plan aims to bring what the the playing field and ensure that all nation financially offers students students have access to the spaces into accordance with what the available in whatever school,” she stated. province offers.

“There’ s an imbalance between federal debt and provincial C ontinued from p a g e 1

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Extremist student group occupies government office B y La u r a M a c N eil

Extrem e student protest group, le Mouvement pour le droit à l ’é d u c a tio n , occupied the offices of Immigration Minister André Boisclair in Montreal last W ednesday to dem onstrate against on-going cuts to educa­ tion.

MDE President Jean René Lévesque explained that students occupied Boisclair’s office to get M inister of Education Pauline M aro is’ attention, and raise awareness of their demands con­ cerning educational reform.

“The occupation was basical­ ly to launch our ultim atum ,” Lévesque stated. “I f Quebec doesn’t respond by October 23, we are going to demonstrate and take things further.”

Press secretary to Boisclair’s cabinet Elaine Lorraine refused to

comment on the student occupa­ tion of the office.

“The students were using B o is c la ir’ s o ffice to get to Marois,” said Lorraine. “We will not respond because we were not asked, if you will.”

M arois did not answer MDE’s request for a phone con­ versation and her press secretary was unavailable for comment.

The demands in MDE’s ulti­ matum included, requests that stu­ dent loans be changed to student grants and that provincial univer­ sity admissions be democratized to give students from less presti­ gious CEGEPs an equal opportu­ nity to university education.

Currently, university admission openings are divided unequally between CEGEPs with admis­ sions priority given to those from the richer, private CEGEPs. Patrick Bord in, a fellow

B rie fs New co m p u ters f o r Leacock Lab The Faculty of Arts Computer Laboratory in conjunc­ tion with the Arts Undergraduate Society has unanimously voted to purchase 10 new computers for use in the Leacock Macintosh Lab. The decision was made in order to reach out to areas not heavily serviced by computers. “‘Have-not’ faculties such as arts often get behind the times with respect to technology,” said Professor Anthony Masi, director of the FACL. “We cannot get any

further behind the wave.”

Other proposals include the implementation of ‘info points’ around campus. These computer­ ized stations will allow students to have access to Internet as well as Info McGill at various points on campus. However, this issue remains on the table until further discussions in November.

First Year Seminars set fo r expansion M cG ill’ s Senate recently approved a plan to expand both the number of First Year Seminars

occupier but not an MDE mem­ ber, explained that the secrecy of the organization and its occupa­ tion inhibited the clarity of their message.

“Even some o f the M DE members occupying the office didn’t know what their demands w ere,” said Bordin.

“Communication always suffers in clandestine operations.”

MDE members voted to end the occupation after eight hours due to the threat of impending police intervention.

“The protesters believed it was really important that the occupation be ended by the occu­ piers’ own choice, and not be forced out of the o ffice ,” said Bordin.

Lévesque was proud of the proceedings during the occupa­ tion and described the democratic procedures taken by the occupiers available and the enrolment limit in each course. But there are con­ cerns that the program’s quality will be compromised by increased class sizes.

First Year Seminars started in the 1996-97 school year in response to concern that first year students did not have much oppor­ tunity to interact with professors and other students due to large class sizes. Registration in the 16 seminars was limited to 20 stu­ dents.

Senate approved the recom­ mendation to extend the program to include 20 seminars with a maximum enrolment of 25 stu­ dents. The work group on the First Year Seminar plans to monitor the effects of changing the cap and report back to Senate next year.

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each time a decision had to be made.

“Every person in the office had the opportunity to speak and vote,” said Lévesque. “That’s the way it always goes with the MDE.” Bordin had a slightly more cynical view o f the occupation and criticized it for its lack of organization.

“The decisions in the protest were made with all process and no dem ocratization ,” Bordin pointed out. “Everyone talked but no one listened. They backed down at the first mention of a possible repercussion for their actions.”

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Division of Senate B y R enée D unk

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It conies as no surprise that in the game of politics, personal priorities often get in the way of what should be a common vision.

At an institution like McGill, the fate of an entire student body of over 30.000 is controlled by the Senate — a club of elites totalling approxi­ mately 100 members. Student representatives make up only 20 per cent of the entire group while the remaining 80 per cent of Senate seats are held by faculty and administrative members. Far too often, the result is that stu­ dents’ needs and requests are either entertained, dismissed or ignored.

Consequently, the personal agendas of certain members of Senate are affecting student life.

Three weeks ago, the main topic of discussion was the Sexual Harassment Policy. In the revised SHP, all assessors must be reviewed by the principal after a three year period. Student senators made a motion for this item to be ammended since, as in previous years, over 75 per cent of all complaints were made by students. Therefore, student senators felt there should be an opportunity for student input in the hiring and dismiss­ ing process of assessors. This motion failed miserably and worse, an administrative member challenged that student representatives were engag­ ing in a campaign of distrust against the administration. With comments like this, it is no wonder that there is student/administrative division among senators. By protecting the personal power and interests of the prin­ cipal, this senator was protecting his precious administrative position. It is attitudes like this that are reminiscent of the old McGill, the old money and how the institution as a whole has not necessarily evolved with the times.

This week, after a twenty minute discussion about whether or not to discuss the issue, the Bookstore Committee presented a report on the potential of the McGill Bookstore. The Committee’s report to Senate was vague and rather uninformative, mainly outlining the process by which the committee decided to outsource bookstore management. Evidently, many concerns were brought to the table. But while student senators inquired about the price of books and the efficiency of management during peak times of book purchase, faculty members questioned the rate of profit per square foot. The Committee assured Senate that outsourcing the bookstore would bring in a net profit higher than current statistics but the question of availability of books still remains unanswered. Is the administration trying to cover their tracks in case of failure by bringing such an issue to Senate?

Ultimately, the decision to outsource the bookstore is administrative, not collective. Will Senate further discuss this issue to protect the administra­ tion?

Perhaps some of the administrative/student problems that Senate encounters are due to the fact that there is a complete turn-over of student participation each year in Senate and currently, there is no process by which any level of continuity is met in students’ requests. Everyone wants to be represented, everyone needs to be heard. On the other hand, perhaps certain administrative senators have been rooted in their positions of power for too long. Maybe the politics that belabour the decision-making processes at Senate are caused by a lack of fresh ideas on the part of the administration. Collectively, however, between the administration and stu­ dents, there is no long term clout, no ultimate goal.

As part of a committee that “exercises general control and supervision over the academic activities of the University” shouldn’t the ultimate goal for Senate be the well-being of the academic body, the students? One would think so. However, it is possible that power really does corrupt.

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Athletics department acting in bad faith This question of whether or not to charge user fees for the new fitn ess centre as part o f the upgraded athletics complex will be going to the Athletics Board of Directors on Monday, October 6 for final approval. SSM U Council, with an overwhelming majority, mandated the President of the Students’ Society to oppose these fees at all costs. Before that happens, it is crucial that students understand how athletics has tried to fool us and use us as cashcows.

As you may recall, a referen­ dum question was passed by stu­ dents last spring that asked all undergraduate students to con­ tribute $10 per semester, for a total of 10 semesters, towards the com pletion o f new A thletic Facilities. In the promotion of this question, it was clearly implied that students would be given the opportunity to use all the new facilities, including the Fitness Centre, which was targeted to open this fall. One week after the referendum passed, however, the Athletics Department presented a

new budget for the operational costs of the new Fitness Centre.

This new budget would require students to thus pay user fees to use the facility. The issue of user fees had never been mentioned to students prior to the presentation o f this new budget. I f the Students’ Society had known that additional fees were going to be levied, it is possible that the ques­ tion to fund the completion of the facility would never have gone to referendum in the first place.

Further, if the issue of user fees had been presented honestly dur­ ing the campaign period, students may have never passed the refer­ endum question. This is exactly what the Athletics administration understood: they thought that it would be easier to pass a $10 ref­ erendum and then quietly assess a user fee later. We are here to serve notice that this type of uni­ versity-student relationship is completely unacceptable.

The issue here is one of prin­ ciple. The Athletics Department broke a contract made in good faith with the students. Why were

students not informed that there would be additional fees levied to use the new facilities? Students may or may not be willing to pay for more facilities (that is what referenda are for), but the point here is that we should be treated fairly and openly if we are to pay directly for our own services.

Students, by the vote last year, obviously believe that there is a deficiency in the quality of our athletics complex. As such, the fees themselves are not so much objectionable as the dishonesty of the process. If we are to pay for the facilities, we should be privy to such obviously important infor­ mation as an upcoming additional user fee. In short, we are no longer w illing to work with Athletics in this manner without some measure of genuine budget transparency.

— Tara Newell SSMU President — Duncan J. Reid SSMU VP Finance

L e tte rs to the Editor

Sam & Ilker promoting voyeurism The T rib u n e’s, publication policy includes the statement “subm issions judged by the Editor-in-Chief to be libellous, sexist, racist or homophobic will not be published.” In light of this, I was disappointed to see printed, without comment, an illustration for the September 23 piece, “Sam & Ilker jo in forces to create unstoppable promotion team.”

The illustration (a poster from the Sam & Ilker-produced Saturday Night R&B/hip-hop show at Club K okino), titled Kama Sutra, shows a woman in a bra, short skirt (or slip), thighhigh stockings and high-heeled shoes, removing a garment over her head — all this through the frame of a keyhole.

Writing this letter is hard for me because it is likely that people who found this illustration sexist reacted to it right away (possibly the same people who found the

latest half-naked promotion for Holy Bonkers! questionable), and those who don’t already have a problem with it may have a hard time understanding why I do: 1. A woman is not an object (yes, we know this already).

2. It is nearly impossible and certainly uncom fortable for a woman to remove her clothing while balancing on the toe of one high heel.

3. If you can’t see a person’s face in an illustration, s/he has been turned into an object (with some exceptions — I don’t think this is one of them).

4. A half-naked, faceless woman, wearing ‘sexy’ under­ wear and balancing on one heel is definitely an object.

5. A half-naked faceless, bal­ ancing woman through a keyhole is not only an object, she is also the object of desire for a voyeur — in this case, anyone looking at Staff

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the poster is invited to be a voyeur.

I ’ m not sure whether the designers of this poster have read the Kama Sutra, but one thing they have not included in the visu­ al package is a partner. This is not the portrait o f an o b jectified woman: it is the portrait of the masturbator just this side of the poster. Thanks anyway, but this is one reader who won’t be calling Sam & Ilker Productions for advice.

— Rebekah Blok POWE Chair (Promoting Opportunities fo r Women in Engineering) U3 Chemical Engineering

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Waiting for Jojo and other bleached-blonde phenomena I was sitting in my apartment wondering if I should take my LSATs — Do I want to be a lawyer? — What about journalism?

— Should I get my master’s in L9th century romantic poetry? — Do I even like the T y g erl — when I decided I needed some guidance. I needed help. I needed answers...

I needed Jo-Jo. Unfortunately, her hotline has mysteriously disap­ peared from the classified ads in Cosmo and from the infomercials on Channel Two. So instead I found the number for NAPP — National Association of Professional Psychics — AS SEEN ON TV. Unlike their competition, these psy­ chics are certified by an indepen­ dent review board. They promise to give me answers to my questions.

Love. Money. Destiny. Plus the first two minutes are ABSOLUTELY FREE, followed by a charge of only $3.99 U.S. per minute. After dialling the 900 number, a syrupy recorded woman’s voice welcomed me to the certified psychics line and bid me to wait for the tone which would signify that I was now being

charged.

Beep.

“H ello...

If... you... know...the...extension...of... the psy­ chic... you... wish...to... speak... to, please... type... in... the... exten­

S - F ile s Sarah Mlynowski sion... number. Now.” Shouldn’t they know the extension I want?

Lengthy pause. “Otherwise ...please... hold.” Pause. Ring.

Ring. Ring.

Ring. Ring.

At this point I finally met Lewis. “Hello,” said Lewis, a sixty­ something-year-old man with a southern drawl. Not what I expect­ ed, but who am I to interfere with the paranormal? “What is your name and birthday?” Hey! Shouldn’t he know this too?

I told him anyway, and waited for the unravelling of my future.

“You are a generous person by nature,” he said, sounding like he was reading off a computer screen.

your car. October 27 is your lucky day. Any time within 72 days around that date you might receive good news.” Thank you, Lewis, for covering half the year.

I decided to interrupt and ask Lewis some questions. “How will I do in school this semester?”

“Is there a specific course you are worried about?”

“How will I do in Literary Criticism? I just finished a paper and can you tell me how I’ll do?”

(By the way— the timer is at six minutes and thirteen seconds now.

That’s about sixteen dollars U.S.) “You will pass with flying colours,” Lewis assured me. “Your paper is very effective. You may even receive extra credit for it.” Extra credit? At McGill? Is he insane?

“While I have you on the line, can you tell me who will win the world series this year?”

“You will have good results in sports. You are very motivated and have good endurance. You....”

“No, not me. The world series.

Baseball? Hello?”

“You will have good results. I see you playing golf. Maybe tennis.

And...” Lewis...Lewis, answer the

“You would give the shirt off your back to someone in need. You will have romance and security. You love young children. The coming week will be very good. You will have good news.”

“Sorry?” I interrupted.

I wanted to be sly and test to see if he was just a recording. “I can’t hear.

Can you repeat that?”

He ignored me and continued. “You have excel­ lent communication with someone in your life.” Obviously not with Lewis. “Within thirty days, all your problems will be solved. You will do some travelling. Possibly you will move; maybe to another city, maybe to another state. You may not actually move, or may not have the opportunity to move, but if you did it would be better.” What are you talking about, Lewis?

“Your life is now at a stand­ still. Something will happen with transportation. A new car is coming into your life.” WOOHOO! A new car? What, was Bob Barker an ‘independent reviewer’?

“What kind of car?”

“You will be very happy with

damn question.

The time is now over seven minutes... I know I should hang up the phone but...I have to know more. I need to know more. Tell me more!

I asked about my health — ’’Very good health”, and if I’ll be rich — “Very, very rich” — and then eight and a half minutes later I said thank you, and he told me to call again soon. I hung up, and real­ ized I had never asked my original question. But now I had a new plan.

Forget the lawyer thing. Forget William Blake. Can I be a psychic instead? Even better, can I be an independent reviewer? Can I be JoJo? I want to be Jo-Jo! Maybe I am Jo -Jo. Please call me at 1-900NEW- JO -JO . Have your VISA card ready.

Ms. Mlynowski has discovered ways to take the art o f procrastina­ tion to new heights and is currently shopping fo r her own blonde wig and poodle.

SSM U rips off idea and launches its own Junior Wanker Club Every two weeks, the SSMU Council meets. Usually on Thursday at six, usually in room 107/108 of the Shatner building.

This is convenient because around nine o’clock you start to hear bass thumping from Gert’s across the lobby, the councillors get antsy because there’s drinking underway and they’re not involved, and the meeting comes to a pretty quick end. The last meeting was September 25, and I went.

The one issue that seems to perturb a lot of SSMU people is apathy.

Voter apathy (20 per cent turnout for March elections, less for the Fall referendum), activist apathy (“Yeah, I was going to protest tuition hikes, but I had some reading to do and then it was dollar-beer night at Annie’ s, and...”), and so on. The Science Undergraduate Society confronted this problem two years ago by intro­ ducing a sort of SUS sub-council of freshmen to organize events for first-years, give opinions on acade­ mic issues, and generally put the word out on other SUS events — get ’em when they’re young, I guess, and maybe you’ll get to keep them. The driving force behind this initiative was Anne Topolski (her­ self in first year at the time, and who ended up on that freshman council), who now sits on SSMU as a Science Senator. Now SSMU is ripping off the idea lock, stock, and barrel. In November there are going to be elections for the First Year Students’ Association — “SSMU Junior” — and it’ll have a represen­ tative on SSMU Council.

Aside from the questionable but not disprovable claim that SUS h#s been revitalized by its freshman

council in the last two years, there are a few elements of the Smoo Junior plan that weren’t quite ready for prime time. FYSA will be open to anyone in the first year of an undergraduate program, and that includes Law and Medicine stu­ dents, even if they’ve been at M cGill for four years already.

Looks like a prime opportunity for a highly politicized grad student

W anker W atch David Reevely who wants a soapbox. Two words: “Don McGowan.” And the constitu­ tion that SSMU adopted for SSMU Junior (which includes all the pro­ cedural stuff that keeps SSMU Senior, which isn’t struggling with finals for the first time, moving so glacially) has its VP University Relations sitting as part of SSMU Senior’ s Senate/Board Caucus, which made VP University Affairs Elizabeth Gomery — the de facto head of that caucus — very, very angry.

SSMU deserves some credit for having its heart in the right place. But, at that same meeting, it demonstrated that it has its head in a place where the sun is rarely seen.

VP Internal Sarvesh Srivastava, who has control over most of SSMU’s committees, asked Council to ratify a couple of appointments.

First was Karen Pelley as a co-chair of the Frosh Re-Evaluation Committee (he didn’t mention that Ms. Pelley was a frosh co-ordinator this year, incidentally). She’s keen and bright and, except that maybe a frosh co-ordinator isn’t the ideal

person to figure out how to improve the frosh program, it was no big deal. Until someone asked if the existing chair of that committee knew that a co-chair was being added.

Sarvesh mumbled something into the collar of his denim shirt.

Seems that the existing committee chair, Stephen Orr, hadn’t been in contact with Sarvesh since his appointment last spring, so Sarvesh wanted to replace him. Council suggested that maybe Sarvesh try to contact him. Sarvesh withdrew the appointment.

The next appointments were co-chairs of something called the SSMU Programming Network, Brock Macdonald and Tara LastName-Embarrassingly-Not-in-MyNotes. Someone asked if the posi­ tions had been advertised.

Sarvesh mumbled something into his collar. He’d “put the word out inform ally,” had been “approached by a number of peo­ ple,” and so on. These appointments were ratified.

I’m told that in spite of its eye­ glazing name, the SSMU Programming Network is responsi­ ble for things like Four Floors par­ ties. Now, it’s entirely possible — probable, even — that Brock and Tara are the best people on campus for the job. But Sarvesh, what were you thinking on this one? You’re not a bad guy, but jeez. If SSMU is concerned about why people aren’t involved in what it does, this is the reason. Appointing your friends, no matter how qualified they are, to positions when most people don’t even know those positions are avail­ able is textbook political Wankerism. And even if they had been advertised, how many people

would have realized what they had an opportunity to do? How many people with organizational gifts but no SSMU knowledge wouldn’t have known what the hell the Programming Network does?

This is why SSMU Junior, though it’s obviously well-intended, probably won’t work. It might get a few more people involved in SSMU, but because of how the whole system works, the primary result will be to enlarge just slightly the Wanker Mafia of two-bit stu­ dent politicians who know someone who knows someone, not to mobi­ lize the masses. Adding another layer to the SSMU bureaucracy is not the answer.

Ju n io r W anker w annabes bew are: Mr. Reevely will not rest until a Four Floors party is thrown in his honour.

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Move over Jean: A modest proposal for Canada Everyday, editorial and op-ed pages across this country are filled with essays and columns about the future of a united Canada.

Separatists, partitionists, federal­ ists, economists, nationalists and the simply apathetic have all been called upon to share their views.

And yet we seem to find our­ selves no closer to a solution for our unity woes. While we occupy our time with this age-old problem, others multiply and proliferate.

Clearly, we need to put this dilemma behind us and con­ centrate on our other national worries. Only then can we achieve the true potential of our country. With the millen­ nium just around the comer, we must confront all of our problems immediately.

The problem of Quebec’s place in Canada is obviously the most urgent of Canada’ s woes.

Francophone society has embraced sovereignty to the point that French federalists feel they must keep their allegiances in the closet. If federal­ ism was seen as the choice of the vocal majority, it could be more easily embraced by all Québécois.

The most obvious place to infuse Quebec society with federalists is Montreal. A strong economy in Quebec’s largest city would attract Canadians and immigrants who would more often than not support Canada. So to solve the Quebec

problem, we need to rejuvenate Montreal.

Some may think it difficult to return Montreal to its former role as one of North Am erica’ s top cities. Such high profile disasters as the Olympic Stadium and Mirabel Airport seem to be hall

marks of Montreal’s decline.

We must roll up our sleeves and turn these citrons into lemon­ ade. If the Big Owe and the neglected airport can be fixed while jump-starting Montreal’s economy and cementing the Quebec-Canada bond, we will be doing pretty good. But Canada has more problems than these. Other regions will become cranky upon

seeing all of this energy being devoted to Quebec. So let’s help the rest of Canada out along the way.

Atlantic Canada simply cannot seem to find an economic niche as successful as the fisheries once were. The depletion of cod stocks has been sadly accepted as a fact of human negligence. With scientific advances in aqua-culture, we need not suffer from past mistakes. By flooding the Olympic Stadium, we can create a giant cod farm. This would pump mil­ lions into the Montreal economy and provide a wel­ come addition to the dull Biodome exhibits. But how do we get the fish back into the Atlantic, you ask?

This is where Mirabel comes in. Specially, outfitted jumbo jets designed by Bombardier will fly fish back East. The planes would belong to cash-strapped Canadian Airlines, thus ensuring the airline’s long term viability. They could be flown in formation by Canadian Forces pilots, thus giving the military some relevance as well as prevent­ ing the need for low-level Arctic flights that have been a source of repeated irritation for northern Native groups.

But what about the perpetual­ ly beleaguered Expos? In the inter­ est of national unity, this plan must

not be seen as pandering to Quebec. Thus, the Expos franchise will be given as a gift to Vancouver by the city of Montreal. This will quell Western discontent.

Finally, who will run this whole operation? To solve one more problem, we can give this job to John Nunziata, allowing the vocal backbencher to quit whining about his lack of a role in our nation’s politics.

This plan deserves and requires rapid implementation.

With the majority of our nation’s problems solved, Canada can take its rightful place as the undisputed best nation of Earth at the close of the twentieth century.

— Ben Errett, UO Science

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Montreal’s youngest entrepeneurs work on street corners 10 people in a one room apart­ ment,” stated Montreal Urban Community Police O fficer Representatives from one of Tanguay of Station 22.

“They will Montreal’s fastest growing profes­ send someone else in to rent the sions did not come out to recruit on apartment and then move in. We Career Day. sometimes get complaints from Had they attended, they would landlords, especially since some of have been easy to spot with eye­ the floors are covered with mat­ brow rings, combat boots, ripped tresses and create a fire hazard.” clothing, and window wipers in The police are frequently hand. With its dismal economy, called to “do something” about the Montreal has the illustrious honour kids — but there is really very little of being the city with the highest they can do. number of street youth in Canada, “Only a minority of the kids and squeegeeing is the profession are aggressive,” said O fficer of choice for many of these kids.

Tanguay. “[Those who are aggres­ Unsolicited window-wiping is sive] destroy the reputation of oth­ not a new profession, and it is not ers.

Usually they are just trying to unique to Montreal. Kids do it in do their job. [But] when people file Toronto and Ottawa, but there are complaints, then it is up to us to do generally fewer of them and they our job.” tend to be older and more cleanWhile the kids are usually cut. In Miami, Florida, bronzed non-aggressive, large bands of Ken-and-Barbie types on roller squeegee kids create problems for blades make a living squeegeeing. some businesses along St-Laurent But in Montreal, squeegeeing is no Boulevard. after-school job.

R eb e cca Catching “We call the police daily,” said Squeegeeing is the economic Arnold Anthony, manager of activity of a viable subculture and “You too would do drugs if Quatre Frères, a twenty-four hour it is also the primary source of visi­ you lived on the street,” Piotte said. supermarket on St-Laurent below bility for a group of disenfran­ “They [the street youths] have no Pine. “They are a security problem. chised teens. For various reasons, hope — they don’t see themselves Sometimes they come in and steal squeegee kids live on the street, living a couple of months later. beer, sometimes they come in and have no family life, and generally Shooting up is a way for them to vomit. have not graduated from high “The police come and take kill a little time.” school. In fact, squeegeeing providthem away, and the same ones I noticed that the kid had a big des the only means of visibility for scar on his face, which stretched return the next day.” some of these kids within main­ Anthony speaks about the from the comer of his mouth to his stream culture chin. I asked him about it — only I squeegee kids m atter-of-factly, could not remember the word in with no contempt or anger. “They A personal approach French for “scar,” so it sounded come in to change bills for coins.

I hit the streets in order to get more like, “where did you get that Sometimes they throw their money first hand accounts of life as a at the cashiers. But they don’t make thing on your face?” squeegee kid. I put on a pair of any money. Maybe enough just to “Heh?” He turned around to ripped jeans and borrowed a pair of survive,” he said. “Some people are look behind himself, then looked combat boots from one of my behind me. He moved his tongue scared of them at first, so they may slightly-m ore militant friends. across his lip, intertwining his not want to walk past them to come Maybe I could blend in. After look­ tongue and lip rings in the process. into the store... No one really ing at myself in the mirror, I real­ notices them after a while. No one We were not connecting. ized I looked more like a sub­ really cares.”

He continued talking — but urban grunge wannabe than a I ask the kid about his interac­ slurred his words so much that I squeegee kid. I knew I had could only understand half of tion with the police. nothing in common with these “Some of them are more sym­ what he said. I became some­ kids — so why even patronize pathetic than others,” he said. what fixated on his teeth — they them by pretending? were quite white and straight, “Sometimes they tell us to leave, so I put my earrings back on the sort of teeth that have grown we clean their windows for them, and went to talk to them in up under care of annual trips to and they leave us alone. I get tick­ full middle-class attire. 1 the dentist and had maybe even ets for $35, but I have never paid stopped to talk to a 16-yearthem,” he said. been straightened by braces. old squeegee kid working the MUC Officer Roberge, who I was feeling pretty good intersection of St-Laurent about myself for talking with works at the District 34 station, Boulevard and Pine Avenue. him. Maybe I would even con­ commends the squeegee kids in I started by asking him sider volunteering at the bunker their effort to offer a service in how long he had been work­ with kids like him. Suddenly he order to make money. ing on the street. He explained “It’ s a form of working — laughed, and a silver droplet of that he had droppped out of they are their own boss,” he said. spit leapt from his mouth onto school at 13, and had been “They are faced with so much me. sqeegeeing ever since.

The raw fish I had had for bureaucracy. If you want a real job, “Are you part of the dinner violently turned in my you need a place to live, clothes, economy?” I asked him. stomach. Attempting to regain and an education. These kids do not “Yes, I am working. I am Squeegee kids solicit their services on St. Denis R eb e cca Catching my composure, I asked him if he have any of that.” doing a job and making some Throughtout the interview, I uses the money he makes from money,” he answered. had been looking at the kid with a “Yes — I have shot up every­ kids who admitted that they shoot squeegeeing to buy drugs.

“Are you an entrepreneur? A “Yes. Other things too.” He mixture of pity and disgust. Before day for two weeks. But I do not do up told researchers they did not capitalist?” I enquired.

“No, I am definitely not a cap­ heroin because it is physically care whether or not they contract showed me the soles coming off his I could ask him another question, boots and told me he will have to he asked me if he could go. Startled HIV or AIDS. addictive. I do coke.” italist.” by his docility, I mumbled a get new boots for the winter.

The kid went on to explain that He explained that he takes “Would you prefer to work at In addition to the money they “thank-you” for his time. He scur­ McDonald’s if you were given the drugs because he gets nervous run­ he lives on the streets, but sleeps in ning in front of cars in the middle the bunker when it gets too cold. make from squeegeeing, many of ried off into the street. I then real­ opportunity?”

“No — like this, I work when of the street, and the drugs relax The “bunker” is a shelter for street the kids get about $180 in welfare ized that I had not even asked him kids run by the charitable organiza­ each month. With this money, his name.

I want to work,” he said before him.

“Sometime I wake up in the tion, Le bon Dieu dans la rue. The some street kids are able to manage explaining that he sometimes works — with files from Steffi Von Beoczy morning and I say that I am not service was started by Father John living accommodations. as much as 12 hours a day.

“Squeegee kids will live with “Do you think that squeegee­ going to shoot up today. But then I or “Pops” who has achieved almost B y H eather S o k o l o f f

see a friend, and he will just give ing is begging?”

“It’s different — I am work­ me some, so I do it again.”

Last week The Mirror report­ ing.”

“But do you think that people ed last week that 36 per cent of really want you to wipe their win­ Montreal street kids have injected drugs intravenously, ranking dows?” I asked.

He shrugged. “In the winter I make more money because people feel sorry for us.”

“Do you think that peo­ ple give you money because they are scared of you?”

“Y e s ,” he answered.

“Sometimes when I come over, they roll up their win­ dows. Or even if they give money, they still roll up their windows almost all the way and just stick out their fin­ gers.”

As the kid continued talking, I supplied him with cigarettes and quarters. His hair was cut in a Mohawk and he had beaded rings in his eyebrows, lip, and tongue. He looked remarkably On the outside looking in young. We stood outside Mr. Montreal at the top of the list for intravenous drug use among youths It a p p e a r s t h a t t h e c a m a ­ in North America. The number of r a d e r ie th a t u n ite s t h e s e 12- to 18-year olds regularly taking drugs has increased five times in k id s is b a s e d o n a the last five years. s h a r e d s e n s e o f fa ta lis m I wondered if I should mention a n d a p a th y . these stats to the kid. Instead, I asked why he chose a needle as his Falafel. I watched him go inside to route to inebriation.

He shrugged again. “That’s use the bathroom and then waited about ten minutes for him to come how everyone does it.”

I contemplated asking the kid out again.

When he emerged from the if he cleans his needles, but decided fast-food restaurant, he was visibly against it.

To an outsider, it appears that high. His eyes were glazed and his pupils dilated. He moved his neck the camaraderie that unites these from side to side as he spoke, look­ kids is based on a shared sense of fatalism and apathy. The.M irror ing everywhere at once. reported that 30 per cent of street “Do you do drugs?” I asked.

saintly status in Montreal.

“Rampant drug use is merely the symptom of a much larger problem ,” explained Martine Piotte, a representative from Bon Dieu.

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Debate continues over numbers game at McGill Registrar’s B y C h r is A llen

With each academic year, a few hundred more students are qui­ etly enrolled in undergraduate pro­ grams, and calls for a smaller M cGill from members of the administration are raising eyebrows across campus.

Back in 1980, McGill had only 12,000 full-time undergraduates registered; now the number exceeds 16,000. Whether or not M cGill should continue to grow at such a pace is a controversial question for many members of the university community.

Dean of Engineering John

Dealy stated in the September 25 issue of the McGill Reporter that he is in favour of a smaller McGill.

“I n c r e a s i n g e n r o l m e n t y e a r a ft e r y e a r is n o t t h e b e s t o p t i o n . T h e r e ’s n o t e n o u g h c la s s r o o m a n d s u p p o r t s p a c e . ’’ — T a r a N e w e ll, S S M U P r e s id e n t Dealy emphasized that M cG ill’s reputation is its most valuable asset, but asserted that higher numbers of

students indirectly damage the impression that outsiders have of McGill.

“Increasing the size of the stu­ dent body without a concomitant increase in staff and facilities will inevitably reduce the quality of instruction and life for students.

Any degradation of the quality of instruction and quality of life... hurts our reputation and we must therefore avoid such degradation,” he stated.

Is the impact really this acute?

Dean of Arts Carman Miller told the Tribune that although “staff-stu­ dent ratios are not as favourable as we would like,” larger class sizes

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do not necessari­ ly downgrade academic quality and student life.

“The size is not the crucial thing. I think the real problem is what resources we have to ser­ vice the stu­ dents,” he said.

W i t h respect to quality of student life, Miller added that “people create c o m m u n itie s wherever they are, and I’m not sure it’s directly related to size; smallness is something one can and does create.”

Shapiro attributes growth to external factors File photo Mi l l e r admitted that another ten years.” “students are clearly the most lucra­ SSMU President Tara Newell tive source of income for McGill.” agreed with M iller’s estimation Yet, for the past six years, McGill regarding the strain being placed on has been pursuing a strategy to current facilities and levels of ser­ increase the proportion of graduate vice. students who bring in more govern­ “Increasing enrolment year ment revenue per capita than under­ after year is not the best option. graduates. For this reason, the num­ There’s not enough classroom am. ber of graduate students may be support space.” slated for the heaviest increases in But what is the best option? the years to come.

Part of the mandate of M cGill’s But M iller stressed that he Alternative Budget Group, which does not think “present facilities C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 14 could sustain [similar increases for]

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All you have to do is read the M aclean’s annual report, and you find out that we spend a tenth of what the average Canadian school does on student services. I don’t feel like I’m integrated in school in that regard. It also annoys me that you go into a conference and there’s 40 kids for a TA. But I think that the quality of teaching, at least in my experience, has been quite high, and in that regard, I’m quite pleased.

I believe the class size is good as it is. I don’t believe any other university is much different. McGill has 30,000 students, and it’s a very prestigious school. But the library resources are really lacking. Half the time when I go to the library, I end up having to buy the book because they don’t have it.

We have 100 students in a class in elec­ trical engineering, and it’s a big room full of students for one teacher. Per course, we have about four to six TAs, and we can go to see them whenever we like. The library definite­ ly has lots of books; the problem is that they only have one copy of each book. But McGill’s good. It has immense resources.

Classes are quite big. In every one of my classes, the professor was saying that maybe they’d try to find a larger room. In each case they did not find one, and people weren’t able to register for courses they wanted to take. That’s the only size issue. I like the atmosphere on campus. Part of the purpose for coming here is to meet lots of people and see lots of different things, and that’s fostered better here than at a small lib­ eral arts college.

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A world with a different centre: Dr. Oliver Sacks awakens B y Jo s h u a F inkelstein

Blending the scientific study of the brain with questions about the soul is a challenge rarely attempted by doctors today. But last Tuesday night, renowned neurologist and author O liver Sacks addressed a packed Leacock auditorium with a lec­ ture entitled “Neurology and the Soul.”

Sacks was a guest o f the B eatty M em orial L ectures Committee, which is responsible for bringing prominent nonCanadian scholars to M cG ill.

After acquiring a medical degree in his native London, England, he came to North America in his late tw enties. In 1965, he settled down in New York City at the A lbert E in stein C olleg e of M edicine as a P rofessor of Clinical Neurology, where he has remained for the past 32 years.

Sacks is best known to the public as the author of several books which document his excep­ tional experiences as a neurolo­ g ist, including A w a k en in g s (which was made into a film star­ ring Robert de Niro and Robin Williams), The Man Who M istook H is W ife f o r a H at, An A n th r o p o lo g is t on M a r s , and Island o f the Colorblind. He has written about patients’ lives, their

perceptions, and their mental sta­ mina throughout their disabilities.

In his research, Sacks has explored the link between the

tion was fatal. spent a majority with the patient, even though the

Instead, Sacks of his free time and learned that patient spoke in

its robustness.

A sig n ifican t number of members of the deaf community were in the audience, and Dr.

such as cochlear implants, that could allow them passage into the world of the hearing. This sur­ prising attitude is illustrative of the dualism associated with the S a c k s b e l i e v e s t h a t it is p o s s i b l e t o t h r iv e n o t o n l y in t h e “n o r m a l ” p e r ­ c e p t u a l w o r ld o f a l l f i v e s e n s e s , b u t a l s o in a w o r ld f r o m w h i c h o n e o r m o r e is m i s s i n g . In S a c k ’s o w n w o r d s , “it is t h e lim b o b e t w e e n th e tw o w o r ld s th a t is t h e s o u r c e o f c o n fu s io n . ”

Humanitarian a n d neurologist Oliver Sacks redefines “norm al” an d “disabled”perceptions brain and the soul, an interest that stemmed from an encounter early in medical school with a patient suffering from a delirium. One of the other doctors suggested that Sacks examine the patient briefly and then move on, as his condi­

a stream o f con sciou sness or dream -like manner, he still retained his sense of self. This indicated that the personality, or self, was strong enough to occa­ sionally break through the deliri­ ous state of the mind, hinting at

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Sacks discussed at length the debate associated with hearing “impairment”. Whereas conven­ tional thought would dictate that all five senses are a blessing, the deaf community has repeatedly rejected technological advances.

term deaf. The most common usage of the word is the medical term “deaf,” but the word “D eaf’ describes a community with its own language, culture, and per­ ceptions. They live in a “world with a different centre,” not an inferior or insubstantial one.

Neurologically, the parts of the brain that are unusable by someone who is lacking one or more senses (i.e. the visual cortex of a blind person) do not atrophy.

Surprisingly, following birth and during adolescence, the brain C o n t i n u e d o n p a g e 13

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Montreal with lecture “Neurology and the Soul” Continued from page 12 reorganizes and adapts resulting in the heightening of the other senses.

Thus, there appears to be a neurological basis for the “oldw iv es’ ta le ” of blind people hav­ ing an acute sense o f hearing, and deaf people being more sensitive to visual stimuli such as colour or move­ ment. A deaf per­ son who gained the ability to hear would make a sudden transition from one percep­ tual world to a radically different one.

S a c k s recounted the story of another patient who was born sighted, but due to an accident suffered damage to the V4 centres in his visual cor­ tex, rendering him permanent l y colour-blind. This patient was an abstract im pres­ sionist, and when he re-exam ined his paintings after the accident, they Sacks decodes seemed “grey and lifeless.” Not only had he lost his ability to see colour, but he also lost his ability to dream, imagine, or even remember the concept of colour.

Although initially he was extremely depressed, he eventu­ ally adjusted to his colourless world and he began to paint

condition praised his “remarkable black and white period.” Three

accident gave him the ability to understand movement, luminosi­ ty, and shad­ ing better, transform ing him into a new artist in a dif­ ferent world.

Though Sacks was not a strong ora­ tor, his charis­ ma, com ic rem arks, and innate story­ telling ability made the lec­ ture seem more like a personal con­ versation than an o fficia l seminar. This was reinforced the following day at the press co n fer­ en ce, where his benevolent tem peram ent was evident in the small set­ ting.

He expressed great insight about people that are com ­ monly desig­ nated “dis­ abled,” and his empathy was encouraging.

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In the preface of The Man Who M istook His Wife f o r a Hat, he reminds the reader that “ani­ mals get diseases, but only man falls radically into sick n ess.”

Through his work, Sacks has clearly become more understand­ ing of human nature as “the sick and their sickness drives [him] to thoughts which, perhaps, [he] might otherwise not have.” This leaves one to believe that the term “disabled” is a misnomer, as it is prejudice that obscures soci­ ety’s perceptions of those with alternate abilities.

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Increasing student enrolment at McGill a cause for concern Continued from page 10 was formed late last year, is to encourage debate on M cG ill’s future and financial options.

Principal Bernard Shapiro explained that external forces have impacted on the university and that McGill has had little choice but to accept change.

Shapiro asserted that during the last 20 years, “there has been a development completely outside of M cGill that has been affecting McGill, and that has been a trans­ formation of higher education from T h e m a r g in a l c o s t o f e d u c a t in g e a c h a d d itio n ­ a l s t u d e n t is g r e a t e r th a n th e r e v e n u e th a t a s tu ­ d e n t b r i n g s in f r o m t h e Q u e b e c g o v ern m en t.

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a small to a mass institution.”

Accordingly, Shapiro thinks that McGill’s growth has been in line with higher education in gener­ al, with the exception of small pri­ vate universities.

“There are two ways...to create a context in which a great universi­ ty can emerge. You either are going to be very' small but very high cost — places like Swarthmore or

Princeton. The other way is by hav­ ing a much lower cost but much larger student body, which creates the economies of scale that make comprehensive programs possible.

[The latter] is the route that McGill has taken.”

Shapiro stated that at present, the marginal cost of educating each additional student is greater than the revenue that a student brings in from the Quebec government.

Consequently, he does not see enrolment ten years from now as higher than it is at present. Rather, he suggests that it will level off and “decline a little bit” perhaps to pre­ vious levels.

Newell, however, is more sceptical.

“We know how much we’re going to cut [in the budget] next year. It would be very difficult to manage the budget with reductions of students due to operating deficits.”

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M ore than 10,000 expected at B la ck & B lu e benefit bash S onali J o h n s o n

Chaos reigns at the BBCM (Bad Boy Club M ontreal).

Phones are ringing, people are dashing about, but there’s not a sour face in sight. In fact, every­ one looks really happy. “W e’re just so nervous and excited about the fe s tiv a l,” said C aroline Rouse, one of BBCM ’s represen­ tatives.

Black & Blue promises to be one of, if not the best gay festival in North America. It has already received an award for the “world’s best gay circuit party” in the Out & A bou t Party Pick Awards of ‘95/’96. This year, Black & B lu e’ s organizers are expecting to beat last y ea r’ s attendance of 10,000 by offering an even greater entertainment line-up over the week (W ednesday O ctober 8 to Tuesday October 13).

The Black & Blue festivities have becom e a m ainstay o f BBC M since the organization was founded in 1991. Its incep­ tion realised the aspirations of two Montrealers who sought to bring together people from all

over North A m erica to raise money for charity. One of these Montrealers died of AIDS and the other, Robert J. V ezina, becam e BBCM ’s president and contin­ ued the project, mak­ ing A ID S research the main beneficiary of the organization’s funds. Only six years old, B la ck & B lue has already proved to be a tremendous suc­ cess. This success is reflected in the dra­ matic increase in par­ ticipants from a mere 6 0 0 to 1 0 ,0 0 0 last year, providing $ 2 5 0 ,0 0 0 for AIDS charities.

Regardless of the enthusiasm of partygoers, the event could not take place without sponsorship.

V ezina said that the city of Montreal has given them huge support, as has the rest of the province. The federal government and “big business” have, in the

past, been less co-operative. This year, however, BBCM is starting

to crack the corporate market; IBM, American Express and Air Canada have recently come on board.

Vezina stresses that Black &

Blue is not an exclusively gay festival. “We are not a discrimi­ natory event. Everyone is wel­ come,” he said. He did empha­ size, however, that the gay nature of the event should be respected by the straight com m unity.

Apparently, certain attendees last year made homophobic remarks while waiting in line-ups, appar­ ently unaware that Black & Blue was principally aimed at the gay community.

This having been said, the “mega-party” is set to attract all types of people. The theme is “A Magical Odyssey” and includes such events as cocktail parties, drag queen shows, exhibitions, dance performances and films.

Many of the performances have been organized in collaboration with André Simard, the research and development co-ordinator of the acclaimed Cirque du Soleil.

The festivities reach their peak on Sunday night (October 12) with a huge dance party at the Montreal Convention Centre. The BBCM staff insist that it is not a rave or any other techno-related event, but rather a house party for which celebrated D Js w ill be

flown in from around the world.

Brent Nicholls is one such DJ, spinning at H eaven, one of London’s biggest and most popu­ lar clubs. Joining him will be Danny T en aglia, a renowned New York DJ who will make his second consecutive appearance at the Black & Blue Party. There will also be live performances by artists such as U ltra Nate (“Free”), Urban Soul (“Alright”) and M ich elle W eeks ( “Ten Minutes High”), where the latter will be performing at “Tom ’ s B all” on Friday night (October 10) at the Medley (corner of StDenis and René-Levesque).

With such a fabulous line-up it will be hard to resist participat­ ing in this dynamic event. The cultural component will witness a creative outpouring from many of Montreal’s young gay artists, as well as others from across North America, while the dance parties will further enrich M ontreal’ s lively night scene. Black & Blue promises to accomplish its two main aims — to lend support to AIDS research while showing everyone a great time.

Art exhibit about A ID S seeks to raise funds and hope B y B rian G a b o r

Upon entering the art show entitled Hope, one is confronted by a large photograph of pristine white condoms floating in a pond.

The work is playfully called “Water Lilies” and it effectively communicates the mandate of the exhibition: “to explore issues regarding dismantling negative stereotypes and myths surrounding HIV/AIDS.” The show is sponsored by the Bad Boy Club of Montreal and is part of the organization’s annual Black and Blue Festival. This year’s fest is bigger than ever, involving twelve thousand people.

Hope is an effort to reach out to people who don’t want to be part of the parties that comprise the majority of the events.

The exhibit includes fifty-five works from over thirty artists, mainly from Montreal and New York. Paintings, photographs, sculpture, installation art and one video-montage make up this mul­ timedia collection.

The goal of the show, accord­ ing to Hope’s producer Kat Coric, is to educate the public about the lifestyles of gays and of people with AIDS. “It’s more important to know that someone is a good person, who has positive energy, than to concentrate on his sex life.”

Guest curator Salman Husain inspiring faith in life.

There are also several works says that society still doesn’t want to accept the truth about what life which portray (and lament) soci­ with AIDS is like. Consequently, ety’s ignorance of the AIDS reali­ victims are less willing to reveal ty. Symbolic masks and the theme their own reality and “the truth of isolation are prominent in many never gets out in the open. If the issue stays closeted like that, the public will never take it serious­ ly. Hope tries to open society’s eyes to that reality and to show the courage that so many people pos­ sess.”

That courage is evident in several works which illustrate the more sensitive, intimate side of vic­ tims’ lives. The best example is an installa­ tion piece, “Lullaby”, which includes a short poem that is a poignant reminder of a departed victim ’ s humanity. It reads, “My lips against your stubble like a child of Contributing artist adds to his work four kissing his father goodnight.” Other works are more of these paintings. One photo­ hopeful in their subject or tone. graph, by Magalie Guérin, shows a The most effective piece at the female nude whose genitals have show is Raoul’s photograph of a been supplanted by a menacing brightly-illuminated man which skull.

Not all the works here have a conveys an intensely powerful and

direct statement to make about A ID S, however. Says C oric, “Many artists don’t do paintings on AIDS, but have something to say about it. So they give a piece, even if it’s not specifically about

it relevant to the theme of the show — “See how each one is dif­ ferent... but gets along with its neighbour?”

Because Hope is a BBCM project, it is also a fundraiser for the non-profit, vol­ unteer organization.

Most of the works on display are part of a silent auction and the remainder are reserved for a live auction which will take place at the end o f the show. The artists are contribut­ ing to the cause by taking a reduced per­ centage of the pro­ ceeds o f the sale.

Coric is enthusiastic about the success of the show and intends to make it a perma­ nent addition to the Black and Blue line­ up.

The Hope exhib­ it is on until Friday Catherine Farquharson O c to b e r 10 at the Maison de la culture AIDS, and many of them write a M arie-U gu ay, lo c a te d a t 6052 little quote [to be displayed beside b o u le v a r d M onkland. The live their work].” Code’s own work, auction will take p la c e at 4pm, for example, is a colourful abstract October 11 at Sky Pub. F or infor­ painting which is not strictly about mation call 875-7026.

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Latin theme heats up the stage between pairs of dancers and their entrances and exits were seamless and ritualized, with dancers being carried onstage as though they were walking dreamily on cush­ ions of air. With a background of thousands of flickering candles, Saez captured a m otif deeply ingrained in Iberian culture — that

B y M ichelle C han

Vicente Saez was given the honour o f opening the Festival international de nouvelle danse with his electrifying tribute to the Virgin Mary (Mother Goddess), R egin a M ater. Set to Mozart’ s Requiem and strategically placed moments of silence, the small Iberian company of three men and five women performed Sa ez ’ s choreography of quick footwork and sharp turns with tech­ nical brilliance and passionate Spirituali­ tyWhirling bodies criss-crossed the stage with dizzying speed. Those highenergy flashes of stormy emotion were counterbalanced by serene moments reigned by their tender Stark decor an d vivid emotion collide facial expressions. It was as though a battle were raging of the Virgin Mary. Despite the within the dancers’ bodies; a strug­ source of the inspiration, this piece gle between life and death which looks beyond a Catholic perspec­ pulled them from one extreme to tive to the life-cycle of birth, death another as their arms and torsos and rebirth and the atavistic expe­ jerked and swayed with violent rience of religious reverence.

Appropriately, at the closing of the abandon.

A force field, generated at the piece, the lights dimmed and the opening of the piece, gradually silhouette left was that of a woman spread from individual dancers to carefully folding a man’s hands encompass the rest of the company over her breast and guiding them and then the audience as well. slowly down, in a gesture of bless­ Religious gestures, performed on a ing, to her womb — to the germ of stage which seemed at once theatre new life. And so, the cycle was and shrine, sought to explore the complete.

“Dance,” Saez says, “is the dichotomies of culture and faith.

Amidst all the em otional expression of our being in move­ changes, the physical transitions ment and the call to manifest the

energy of life in its purest form.”

Hence, the existentialism of his choreography is evidence of his lack of fear of approaching the themes of love and death.

Following the opening, the company of Metaspora Danse per­ formed the choreography of Irene Stamou. The solo pieces of Corpus Delirium and Ravished by the Break o f Dawn, featuring a female and male dancer respec­ tively, were shown in the intimate theatre of Agora de la Danse.

The m inim alist set suited the fusion of contemporary and tra­ ditional Mediterranean dance idioms with only light design as the decor.

Such presenta­ tions are indicative of the great range of styles featured in this year’s 8th edition of Press Photo the dance festival.

While paying special tribute to the dance of Spain and Portugal with flamenco dancers from the ballet of Cristina Hoyas and choreographers like Saez, some major Canadian and interna­ tional talents are also being show­ cased. It is a worthwhile spectacle that crosses the boundaries of cul­ ture to reveal a deeper, human per­ spective.

The fe s tiv a l continues until O cto b er 11 a t v ariou s venues.

Ticket are available at P lace des Arts o r by callin g adm ission at 7 90-1245. S e le c te d s e a ts a r e available at student prices.

Another violent effort directorial tricks. This prediliction of Stone’s to pour on the blood is, unfortunately, detrimental to the movie.

Other than the gratuitious vio­ lence, however, U-Turn is a very well-acted movie. Sean Penn’ s natural intensity is evident, Nolte

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U-Turn is a disturbing psy­ cho-thriller which takes place in the desolate town of Superior, Arizona. A fter B ob by’ s ‘64 Mustang breaks down, the movie deals with his ultimate quest: to leave Superior.

Of course, noth­ ing is simple in life and the same is true for O liver Stone m ovies. B ob by’ s broken-down Mustang will cost money to repair — money Bobby doesn’t have. He is accosted by a sleazy real estate agent, Jake (Nick Nolte), with a scheme that Penn just being Penn could earn Bobby some big money. Then Jake’s wife is convincing as the sleaze and the enters the scene with an attractive supporting cast proves to be more counter-offer and things get really than adequate. Darryl, the extraor­ dinarily filthy car mechanic interesting.

Ston e’ s direction is at the played by Billy Bob Thornton, is same time purposeful and confus­ one of the best-acted roles of the ing. Much as he does in Natural movie.

If you’re planning to go see B om Killers, Stone uses powerful images in U-Turn to foreshadow this movie, go with a strong stom­ the mayhem to come. Slow pans ach and an open mind. Get beyond of the Arizona desert, other desert the graphic violence and there imagery fraught with symbolic lurks a complex character study meaning and more gratuitious vio­ with lots of interesting plot twists. lence than is probably necessary round out Stone’ s little bag of

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A tom -ic cinem a B y J ane Llewellin

Written and directed by Atom Egoyan and based on the novel by Russell Banks, The S w eet H e r e a fte r is a story about the impact of a terrible tragedy on a small town. The winner of three

Hollywood flick — the characters aren’t pretty by any means, but the narrative is believable and easy to follow. It is presented in a similar style to that of F a rg o , with its quirky, small-town characters. As the story progresses, the grief and sorrow experienced by the towns­

Coldcut

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chainsaw loop. Solid.

The second disc is a CD-Rom to dazzle your eyes, ears, hands and brain. Among other electronic good­ ies is “My Little Funkit,” an interac­ tive toy which allows the user to create their own remix of one of three Coldcut tunes. Quite effective and highly amusing, it follows in the DIY spirit which informs the Ninja Tune posse. Coldcut close out the CD-Rom by appearing in the “Beats & Pieces” video as a cute pair of dolls, with Jon sporting a fetching powder-blue three-button baby jumper. Yes, mate!

— Robin Ahn

Physical an d emotional paralyses m ar a small town prizes at The Cannes Film Festival, Canadian director Egoyan displays one of his best works yet. “It is a story about repairing deep wounds to the soul,” he explained, “and the moral choices that have to be made in the process of healing.”

Ian Holm plays a big-city lawyer driven by his own demons.

A complex, troubled figure when he arrives in town, he stirs up the anger of the townspeople in order to prepare a class-action law suit against the root of their misery.

This isn’t your usual glamorous

people unfolds in their hope to pick up the pieces and re-unite their community. Sarah Polley plays the part of Nicole brilliantly, convey­ ing a wide emotional range with little apparent effort. Maury Chaykin provides some comic relief in a fine cameo.

Overall, The Sweet H ereafter is a tale wrought with emotion, which powerfully conveys a sense of dread. As usual, Atom Egoyan has managed to produce a slick piece of work, exhibiting his con­ sistent originality.

One great thing about Coldcut is that, although they’ve had numer­ ous opportunities to settle into a comfortable rut making millions in a major-label “hit factory,” our boys have stuck to their guns, saving us, no doubt, from the inevitable Jive Bunny cash-in medley of their great­ est hits (shudder).

The duo’s fourth album and their first on Ninja Tune, the label they founded, draws on a diverse range of influences and collabora­ tions. Coldcut manage to weave an album which keeps the mind (as well as the butt) moving. It’s the only place you’ll find spoken word from Jello Biafra and Selena Saliva on the same album as Talvin Singh’s tabla mastery. Ninja’s mul­ timedia wing, Hex, turns out for the standout track “Timber.” Check that

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Judy Bari

The most “unique” thing about this band is their amalgamation of beat box and “garage rock” sounds — go figure. The guitars screech and the bass thuds alongside the dancefloor beats and hyper-digital­ ized keyboards in a most awkward fashion. And the vocals? Let’s just say they fall somewhere between Stevie Wonder and a pre-pubescent Perry Farrell. Fresh Meat is yet another marriage of “electronica” and rock, inevitably creating a sound with no direction and nothing new to say.

— Chris Colley

Who Bombed Judy Bari?

(Alternative Tentacles) A stirring docu-disc chronicling the career of the celebrated labour unionist, feminist and Earth First! leader, Who Bombed Judy Bari? fea­ tures 23 tracks of rousing speeches, protest songs and radio clips culled from hundreds of hours of tape. On May 24, 1990, Bari was the victim of a car bomb that crippled her for life. The FBI, adding insult to injury, attempted to frame her for the tragedy, insisting that a con­ cealed bomb of her own was

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The McGill Young Alumni Association is proud to present a special live taping of the critically acclaimed PBS show The Editors. The show centres around a panel of six guests, who have been invited from diverse fields to discuss and debate specific issues and events of the day. Three of the panel members invited include, Principal Bernard Shapiro, Dr. Margaret Somerville, and a member of the McGill Debating Union; a graduate of the Class of 2000. Previous panelists have included presidents and CEO's of important corporations and institutions, offi­ cials from the academic world as well as illustrious guests from the arts community.

The upcoming shows to be taped on McGill campus focus on issues and concerns pertaining to the Class of 2000, Broadcasting in the New Millenium and Current Political and Social Events. This special taping will be hosted by former McGill Principal David Johnston and there will be an open microphone to take questions from the audience consisting of students and recent graduates. So come early to get a glimpse of television in the making and participate in a bit of McGill University history. The taping of the three shows will take place on Saturday, October 18, 1997, at Moyse Hall, Arts Building, 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Main Campus. To attend this event, please call Kathy Bowman(398- 6888) to register. Seating is limited. Doors open at around noon.

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C o n t in u e d fro m P a g e 1 7

— Kris Michaud M ary Coughlan

After the Fall (Big Cat/BMG) This red-headed Irish pop singer’s new album is a dark, angst-

responsible for the explosion.

Nearly seven years later, still bat­ tling the feds, Judy Bari died of breast cancer. This disc is a living, breathing testimony to her spirit.

Bari speaks and sings throughout with the passion, intelligence, wit and biting humour that made her indispensable to the Earth First! movement. This one belongs in the libraries.

D is c o f t h e W e e k Portishead Portishead (GO! Beat/Polygram)

— Tyler Hargreaves Bench

Manic Suspension EP

ADT New Dawn 12” (Oxygen Musicworks) filled production. Most songs are built around gentle piano work with

r M cGill

her haunting voice alongside. A notable exception is “Lucy’ s Dream,” a straightforward-but-great country song. Her lyrics are poignant, yet not a huge step away from other female songrwiters who have come into prominence lately.

Singers such as Ani DiFranco, Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos have tread similar ground before Mary, who brings little to the genre.

Nonetheless, this album is well-pro­ duced and is a good showcase for the singer.

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Neither Bench nor ADT has produced a slick technical master­ piece here. Both are traditional, verging on old school, drum & bass music — dramatic synth melodies, driving breaks and the usual dose of effects. These tunes stand out because they sound natural — not at all contrived. There’s a very good musical sense here despite the somewhat muddy production and minor programming mistakes. But, there’s nothing to stop these songs from having a serious impact on the dancefloor.

The highlight, without a doubt, is the tune “New Dawn” which makes excellent use of a mesmeriz­ ing blues vocal that lies diametrical­ ly opposed to the musings of your average wispy trip-hop diva.

DJs: If you want to sound “cut­ ting edge” you might not play these (at first). Even so, the careful listen­ er gets the sense that they’re listen­ ing to some developing talent. Keep your ears open.

Portishead play the studio like it’s an instrument itself, alwàys pulling new tricks out of their hat. The group’s self-titled second album, tor example, was first recorded on vinyl and then remixed to fit the digital sound of CD. With less sampling, the group’s innovative techniques pro­ vide a fuller backdrop to Beth Gibbon’s melancholic voice.

The album includes a layering of sound, ranging from orchestral music to the group’s unmistakable ambient beats. Combined with the scratching of acetate, the longing nature of Gibbon’s vocals is heightened and consequently recieves more attention, but her particular brand of mis­ ery doesn’t love company.

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Home court fiesta as M cG ill Redm en host first tournament B y Paul C o n n er

The Redmen tennis team has only been com peting on the interuniversity circuit for a year and a half, but in that time, it has made waves throughout the Ontario Universities A thletics league.

Saturday afternoon the team hosted its first tournament, taking on the U niversity of Toronto Varsity Blues and the University of Ottawa Gee Gees at the Mirabel Racquet Club in Pointe Claire. The Redmen, favoured to beat Ottawa and drawn about even with Toronto, came away with a 1-1 record, bringing them to 3-3 for the season.

The Gee Gees played well, but were not strong enough to beat the Redmen. M cGill swept the doubles competition and easily won their singles matches against the team from the capital city.

The Toronto gam es, a rematch of last season’s league semi-finals, were tight all the way.

In doubles, M cGill won two of three pro-set matches to take the single point. The two teams squared off again in six singles matches in the late afternoon, with each win worth one point. By 7:30 p.m., the teams were knotted at three points apiece, with one deciding face-off still in progress.

On the Blues side, no. 2 player

Maury B èrco against player/coach Ghazal.

The match went to three sets, with the momentum constantly changing. Ghazal fought off three set points in the first to take it in a tiebreak, 7-6 (8 -6 ). Berco bounced back to take the second 7-5. At 5-4 in the third set, Ghazal came within inches of winning when at match point, he hit the tape on a would-be backhand winner down the line. The win was not to be, though, as Berco charged back to take the decider 7-5.

But the day was not only about wins and losses — last weekend, the Redmen proved they belong among M cG ill’ s interuniversity sporting teams by successfully and flaw lessly hosting their first-ever event.

“So far, i t ’ s been a lot of fun,” said Ghazal, sometime between his first and second match, while trying to accommo­ date three schools and get pre­ pared for his next two games later in the day. “The last thing on my mind was playing tennis today —

Destination unknown

I just wanted everything to run smoothly,” he smiled.

“I don’t mind taking all of the burden because I know I can deal with it. I just want the other guys to relax, have a good time, and concentrate on winning.”

The only problem the team had with the tournament was finding a location. W hile now given free practice time at the Fieldhouse by M cGill (last season the team had to pay), the Redmen were left home­ less for the weekend as McGill had a prior com­ mitment to host a high school basketball tourna­ ment.

“They weren’t able to accommodate us [this y ear],” said Ghazal of McGill. “[For next year], the intercollegiate direc­ tors Lisen Moore and Ken Schildroth have assured us that if there would be no conflict, that we would host either in the Fieldhouse or if it was early enough in the season, on the outdoor courts.”

After M cG ill, the Redmen approached Tennis Canada about the possibility of hosting the tour­ nament at Jarry Park.

“We wanted to host the event at the Jarry Tennis C en tre,” explained Ghazal. “ [Tennis Canada] didn’t really help us in any way. We got a better deal and

were accommodated in much bet­ ter fashion at Mirabel. Basically what we got from Tennis Canada was the favour to allow us to pa\ and use their courts.”

Despite the problems of find­ ing weekend courts, the Redmer were able to pull off the event off Mirabel offered good support foi the team and gave its members f. show which gathered increasing attention throughout the day.

The fate of the Redmen in the upcoming years appears to be in good hands.

“I think we all have a little extra responsibility because we have no organized coach,” said U1 management student Adan Fisher. “We’re really in it for eacf other; we have to really be posi­ tive with each other and cheet each other on. When Mike [Ghazal] is playing on the court, another one of us assumes the coaching position.”

Fisher, Ghazal’s doubles part ner, showed signs of future lead­ ershiphelping teammates out with changeover support and instruc­ tion during the pivotal singles match against the Blues.

In two w eek s tim e, the Martlet Tennis team will be host ing its first tournament also to be h e ld at M irab el. The M artlets matchup against York.

Close call leaves Redm en soccer lucky in the end

Team wins to stay on top o f the QUSL Division with 4 wins to their name B y H u s s e i n N anji

Two hours on a chilly Friday night could have turned the tide on the Redmen soccer team’s first place foothold in the Quebec University Soccer League but, they fought hard and came out of the game with three more points after defeating L ’Université de Québec à Montréal Citadins 1-0.

The first half of the game was seemingly endless as the McGill Redmen and UQAM Citadins jos­ tled back and forth with scrappy play in the midfield, resulting in few scoring chances.

To the Redmen’s credit, the defence squad kept the opposition’s chances to a minimum. The few chances the Citadins were able to put together were turned aside by Redmen goalkeeper Eddy Zuppel, who made several solid saves. The best scoring opportunity for the Redmen offence was whistled down due to an offside. Captain Marc Mounicot got a corner kick but his team failed to convert it.

The second half was a differ­ ent story as Mounicot was moved to defender by head coach Pat Raimondo. The strategy was taken to attempt to disrupt UQAM’s con­ centration.

Around the 65th minute, the

week) faked the kick, jumping over the ball while Mounicot (tailing him) hammered the ball over the Citadins wall and hit the UQAM goal­ keeper. The ball fell out of the g o a lk e e p e r ’ s hands, hit the left post and dribbled in for the goal. Les Citadins tried to answer back but failed when their penalty kick hit the post.

T h e increase in intensity led to a rise of tempers and the referee handed midfield­ er Refan Ali a second yellow card and ejected Intensityprevelant on Redm en bench File photo him from the game. Redmen Redmen received a freekick. assistant coach Adam Mar was Forward Marc Labrom (former upset with the call and asserted that Canadian Interuniversity Athletics “the reffing was poor and the red Union and Quebec athlete-of-the-

card was not deserved.”

Playing one man short, McGill played solid defence for the rest of the game and tried to keep UQAM a safe distance from the cage.

Zuppel, however, had to come up with some crucial saves during the rest of the game in order to earn the shutout.

Mounicot had one more scor­ ing chance near the end o f the game when he sped into UQAM territory on a partial breakaway.

His kick went wide left, and in the end no more was needed since the Redmen racked up the 1-0 win.

Attributing the Redmen win to “a little bit of luck,” Mounicot was proud of his team for playing a very strong mental game which was crucial since they had to play half the game with ten players.

“It was not a good technical game but the work ethic and team­ work was there,” said Mounicot.

Assistant coach Mar asserted that the team gave a “good effort all around” while playing “good, solid defence” in the first half. He especially liked the output given by midfielder Andrew Eisenstark and forward Justin Student, who received player of the game hon­ ours.

With the win, the Redm en im proved their reco rd to 4-1-1.

There next game will be played at 9 :0 0 on F rid a y n ight ag ain st UQTR at Moison Stadium.

Coming up this week Mens Soccer, Friday, October 10, vs UQTR at Molson Stadium. 9p.m.

Womens Soccer, Friday, October 10, vs UQTR at Molson Stadium. 7 p.m.

Baseball. Wednesday, October 8, TMR vs Concordia. 7:30 p.m.

Womens Hockey, Wednesday, October 8, vs TMR (exhibition game), at McConnell winter arena. 6:45 p.m.

Mens Rugby, Wednesday, October 8, vs Concordia, at Leber Park. 6:30 p.m.

Field Hockey, Friday October 9, vs Trent, 2:30 p.m.

Saturday October to, vs Carleton, 10 a.m. vs Queen's 2:30 p.m. All games at Molson Stadium.

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From Dust to Dives

Volleyball struck with firing bug B y S anjeet S ujela

The sports world has been struck by a firing bug the last few months. From NHL coach of the year Ted Nolan to Blue Jays man­ ager Cito Gaston, team heads have been asked not to return for the 1997-98 season. This summer, McGill University entered the fray with the removal of Redmen vol­ leyball coach Normand Bouchard.

The situation surrounding his departure was source of controver­ sy on the McGill volleyball scene.

There were some who believed that Bouchard left on his own accord, while other rumours indicated that the players themselves pushed him out. Team executive and player Peter Haughton admitted that the situation was actually a little of both.

No starters from last year’s squad returned this year. In fact, Haughton is only one of two return­ ing members from last year’s team.

The departures came as a result of a lack of interest in playing for

McGill — many could easily have made the team but simply chose not to tryout this year. One of last year’ s starters transferred to l’Université de Montréal to play with their team; what makes this move so remarkable is the individ­ ual does not speak a word of French.

The turmoil came as no sur­ prise to former assistant coach Chris Gilbert.

“I could see the team was in trouble and that change was inevitable,” said Gilbert. “While Normand is a nice guy and a very easy-going coach, his recruiting methods were just not effective.

Last year, the team did not win one match during regular season play.

Sure, they had their moments, but Normand’s leadership still did not put anything in the winners col­ umn.”

The record of losing was not limited to last year. For the past three years, the men’s team has fin­ ished last in the Quebec confer­ ence.

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Now playing for a Toronto based volleyball club, Gilbert felt that Bouchard’s departure was in the best interest of McGill volley­ ball.

“For the past few years, this team has been the jo k e of the Quebec volleyball circuit,” said Gilbert. “The players were tired of being thought of as third-rate vol­ leyball players and Normand just did not pick up on it. I knew last year that the majority of the team would not be returning, and I really don’t blame them.”

The revealing psycholo­ gy behind the visitors’ locker room

of the seven-foot ceilings which had proven a sore point among the larger breed of athletes the Garden was attracting.

The savings, as anticipated, were an overwhelming success and covered beautifully the costs of the state-of-the-art entertainment and work-out facilities in the newly renovated, and sweet-smelling Boston locker room.

The wily Leprechauns of the Garden were on to something in their perverse decorating scheme, a phenome­ non that Freu d first

By January of 1998, the fabled Boston Garden will official­ ly be in the hands of the wreckers.

Not since Eden will a garden have fallen so mightily.

The wrecking ball, like one last Cousy no-look pass, will tear through the archaic structure caus­ ing over a half century’s worth of championship banners and retired jerseys to col­ lapse to t h e ■*’****” A new start ground The fact that only two people like so are returning from last year’s squad m u c h does not worry new coach Jose Ryan Murphy unchecked Rebelo. “I like the team this way. dust. And yet This gives me a chance to build the addressed as if we choose only to selectively players on my style of volleyball “not worth my time or energy” but and the two veterans will be a remember the championship years later reluctantly referred to as “the source of leadership on this team.” of the Celtics and the Bruins, psychology of the visitors’ locker While Rebelo admitted that he sport’s last great shrine will have room.” won’t have a conference title this taught us very little indeed. It was, Freud recognized that locker coming year, he said that this after all, in the visiting locker rooms are to athletics what cram­ year’s rookie squad is showing room, and not on the often soggy ming is to thé typical college stu­ much promise. and ill-fitting parquet, that history dent: preparation. If you’re not “I realize that we are in a was truly made. mentally and physically ready as rebuilding phase and that we will The visitors’ locker room was you emerge from your locker have problems with our opponents built in 1923. When the wreckers room, you probably never will be this year. However, I plan on devel­ lay it to rest it will mark its first Therefore, the environment of the oping a very competitive team in major overhaul in over 65 years. locker room is essential for the the next two years.”

That is not to suggest that the lock­ welfare and performance of the Currently a member of the er room has not undergone certain team it services.

Canadian National Disabled team, changes. Far from it. The spend­ With the demise of the Boston Rebelo has eight years experience thrift front office officially elimi­ Garden, the last great visitors’ coaching the College Notre-Dame nated air conditioning in 1964, and locker room will be little more than volleyball squad. While coaching five years later, heating as well. an unpleasant memory. Yet it need both College Notre-Dame and In the financially tight years not be. With only a few dollars and McGill, Rebelo will be able to use preceding the Bird era, they also a vivid imagination you too can his CEGEP team to scout for future changed the room’s colour from construct your own visitors’ locker talent. the more expensive eggshell white room. Join me as we use the distin­ Asked how he plans to lure latex paint to the far prettier peri­ guished example of Boston players to come to McGill, Rebelo winkle blue lead-based paint. Not Garden, and others since, to create simply said, “Well, I will have to satisfied by the savings, however, a blueprint for our own perfect be able to sell my product. I will try management later resolved to space for visiting athletes. to recruit my players by showing remove all wall hooks and the com­ First of all, our visitors’ locker them that we are going to be a con­ plimentary towel service. After room should have a plentiful score tender in the future and that they years of intense deliberation, they of functioning vents. During their should hop on now before the train also decided to forestall renovation basketball championship years of leaves the station.” the ‘70s, the UCLA Bruins discov­ ered that the vents could be used to project the mildly disarming smells of ginger, honey and other baked treats. Not satisfied with merely a domestic motif, the University of Wisconsin was said to have used the vents to filter in the scent of marijuana.

Here our hats must go off to Wisconsin. While players preoccu­ pied with obtaining recipes may be less effective than the average sabre-toothed gladiator, one can hardly argue that those with the body control of Jell-0 would not make more appealing foes.

Texas Commonwealth also picked up on this theme in the past, and has been known in various instances to spike the visiting team’s Gatorade with small doses of laxatives.

Secondly, our visitors’ locker room will come complete with its Positions own entertainment. Southwestern available: 2 College in Missouri seemed to have this principle in mind when they sent in female strippers into the visitors’ locker room before the k ick -o ff of their homecoming match in 1979. McGill students SSM U Shatner Building have also been known to send in sheep when Queen’s comes to play. Chacun a son goût!

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Redbird baseball split double-headers in drive for playoffs

By Scott W illis The McGill Redbirds baseball team played host to cross-town rival Concordia and first-place Laval last weekend in a pair of double-headers that decided the team’s post-season fate.

The Redbirds started the week­ end in third place in the Quebec University Baseball League and were able to improve their chances at sec­ ond place by splitting both their dou­ ble-headers against the Concordia Stingers and Laval’s Rouge et Or. Saturday started well for the Redbirds as they scored early and often. As a result, they headed into the top of the seventh and final inning with a commanding 8-1 lead.

Undaunted, Concordia stormed back with five runs—four of them on a grand slam courtesy of first baseman Scott Rainey. But Redbirds’ closer Pat Gonsalves slammed the door to preserve the 8-6 victory. Craig

McFadzien pitched six strong innings for the win and paced the offence by going 3-4 with 3 RBIs and a dinger, while Freddy Fafard went 2-3 with 2 doubles and 2 RBIs. The second game did not go as well for McGill. They jumped out to a 3-0 advantage only to succumb to the visitors 5-3. Dave Carson went the distance and took the loss for McGill, despite striking out nine and allowing only four hits. Dan Stober and Ryan Avey were both 2-3 for the Redbirds.

“Carson pitched well enough for us to win,” said Redbird shortstop Shiraz Rehman after the game. “It’s up to us to get him the run support he needs. Regardless, I’m still feeling pretty good about our team and our chances tomorrow.”

On Sunday, the Redbirds faced two of the toughest southpaws in the CUBA. In the opener, Patrice Plante took the hill for Laval, and McGill countered with rookie John Baudway. Laval opened the scoring

in the top of the first, scratching out three quick runs on a series of singles and doubles.

In the bottom half of the inning, the Redbirds answered with five runs of their own to make the score 5-3.

From that point on, both teams see­ sawed back and forth, with Laval taking the lead only to see McGill manufacture a run of their own to knot the score back up.

The score was 7-7 heading into the seventh and final inning when Laval put two runs on the board on a towering blast to left field by first baseman Patrick Belanger. Laval fol­ lowed up with a two-out, run-scoring single that put the Rouge et Or ahead to stay. The final score was 9-7.

Rehman and Dan Vexler both went 3-5 with an RBI apiece for McGill.

The second half of the doubleheader was a must-win for McGill if they wanted to be able to capture Concordia’ second place and earn the right to host their one-game semi­ final in two weeks’ time. They had

Barrett stated that he has seen anywhere from 30 to 50 per cent of his female athletes “having a prob­ lem with body image and the whole cycle of eating and not eating, watching intake and fat content” during the course of a given season.

One McGill athlete coping with bulimia contends that maintaining control over one’s body includes keeping silent about risky health practices.

“A lot more athletes have eating disorders than anywhere else because athletes are supposed to have good bodies; they have to have everything under control,” said the athlete who asked that her name not be used.

“One of my close friends was an Olympic-level gymnast and she became anorexic, but we never talked about it — you couldn’t talk about it — and now she’s wasted away. She’s probably going to die from it,” she said.

She went on to say that an obsession with body image over­ shadows health concerns, especially for athletes driven to conform to an unrealistic ideal.

“I wonder if you’ve never had people talk about your body, if then you don’t feel as self conscious. I kept hearing that I had such a good body and I became so aware of it. I had to keep this body up, then this became all that I was.”

It is often hard to define where this pressure comes from. Dr. Klvana described an instance where a coach told his 12 year old gymnast that ‘“she has to stop eating or else she’s not going to make it’, but, I can’t blame the coach,” she said.

“An anorexic seeks support or approval from everybody around her; then you have an instance where you get such an impressionable per­ son whose coach is very important to her and she’ll do anything her coach asks her.”

But the consequences for young female athletes suffering from eating disorders are dangerous — ironical­ ly, measures taken to reach optimal performance can result in an inabili­ ty to perform at all.

“We’ve lost a couple of athletes due to eating problems in the past few years and it continues to hap­

pen,” said Barrett.

Eating disorders can often become the most important thing on athletes’ minds. In some cases, the sport becomes secondary to the sick­ ness.

“The athlete gets to the stage where she can’t perform because she does not have the energy, but in her mind she will be at the perfect weight,” said Dr. Klvana.

Coach Barrett agreed: “The ath­ letes are not correlating the fact that you have to eat and eat well, and that eating well associates itself with per­ formance. It’s tough when you can’t get it across, and then [the athletes] don’t perform well and everything exacerbates itself and gets worse.”

The effects of eating disorders on the body are numerous, ranging from malnutrition to stress fractures in the short term, to problems such as amenorrhoea and osteoporosis which may not manifest themselves later on.

Dr. Klvana asserted that educat­ ing female athletes with eating disor­ ders about the effects “will give them something tangible to understand.

We tell them, (this is what has hap­ pened in the past and these are the studies to prove it.)”

“When I run, I feel like I can handle anything.”

Sport becomes a vicious cycle, perpetuating eating disorders and then maintaining body image prob­ lems by being an outlet for control. It ultimately comes down to how women perceive themselves, in sport and in society. “[Female athletes] have to look at themselves and be satisfied with themselves, and that’s hard to do because of this image of what a woman is supposed to look like,” said Barrett. “I think we will always have people with these problems; it’s the nature of life itself and the soci­ ety we live in.”

The McGill athlete agreed.

“Eating disorders have affected everything in my life — sports, school, family, and relationships. It’s always there in the back of my mind and I don’t know if it will ever be gone.”

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Ideally, our visitors’ locker room will have the scintillating smell of rotting flesh. During the 1951 football season, the masochis­ tic boosters of the University of Arkansas would slaughter a cow before every home game and then dispose of its corpse in various lockers and crawl spaces in the visi­ tors locker room. Surprise! It’s ground beef, and it’s fresh!

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Finally, we’ll supply the tunes.

A proper musical selection is always key to setting the right mood, and New York University perhaps found the best solution when they started the tradition of blaring Barry Manilow and Neil Diamond Musak into their visiting team’s locker room.

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“Running saved my life,” said the McGill athlete. She turned away from bulimia and maintained control by obsessive exercising and running.

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bater as he was touched for five runs before being pulled in favour of Pat Gonsalves.

Gonsalves went to work on Laval, walking two and inducing a foul pop-up. This left the bases loaded and two out, with McGill clinging to a 6-5 lead. Like those before him, the next batter worked the count full, fouling off ten pitches while waiting for Gonsalves to make the mistake that would bring home the tying mn.

That pitch never came. He popped up to third baseman Craig McFadzien to end the ballgame. “It feels like the team is rolling for the playoffs. We’re putting it together at the right time.” said Redbird Brian Titherington.

The split means that McGill can still catch the Stingers fo r second place in the division by winning big when the two team s m eet on Wednesday in TMR. Game time is 7 p.m.

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their work cut out for them in this one, as the Rouge et Or were going with their ace, 27-year-old Bert Chabot. Chabot had not lost a game in two years, and boasted the best ERA in the country (0.00).

The first few innings gave every indication that it was becoming a vintage pitchers’ duel, with neither team able to get on the board. In the top of the third, centre-fielder Dan Vexler made a spectacular diving catch to save what would have been a two-run double to end the inning.

In the bottom of the fourth, McGill was finally able to solve Chabot, and pounded him for four runs. Before the Laval manager was able to pull him, however, Chabot was ejected for arguing once too often with the home plate umpire.

Superb pitching by Jeff Pertsch kept the Rouge et Or batters on their heels until the seventh. Perstch, who had gone six full innings and was ahead 6-0, simply ran out of gas. He was able to retire only one Laval

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B rie fs the weekend, winning 8-1 over l’Université de Québec à Montréal and losing 2-1 to Laval.

Neither game was a big sur­ prise; Laval is considered a favourite to take the league and advance deep in the national cham­ pionships. The game marked the first loss o f the season for the Martlets. McGrath scored the only goal for McGill, while Laval for­ ward Marie-Eve Laflamme scored twice for the Rouge et Or. In Friday night’s action, the Martlets easily took care of UQAM. McGrath scored four goals including the game winner.

The player of the game honour went to Amanda Shaw, who notched one of M cG ill’s eight goals.

The split leaves the team with a 7-1 record on the season. The Martlets will next play Friday night when they host UQTR at Molson Stadium.

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The Martlets placed eight ath­ letes in the top ten, taking the top four spots. The squad was led by Tambra Dunn, who captured her first victory of the season. Dunn was followed by teammates Robyn Hurley, Steph Welsh, and Elaine Penny taking the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th

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ond place behind former McGill athlete Jean-Nicholas Duval, now competing for UQTR. Veteran Tom Greenberg followed, with a strong fourth place finish, edging

. Crew g ra b s two golds in Peterborough McGill’s rowing team contin­ ued their strong performance this weekend at the Head of the Trent Regatta. On the men’s side, the heavyweight eights took first place while the lightweight singles took second. The heavy fours and light eights both grabbed third place fin­ ishes both.

On the women’ s side, the lightweight eights, the team’s core group, took gold. In addition, the heavy eights took a bronze.

The crew team will return to the water next weekend when they travel to Rochester and Brock.

Women’s lacrosse loses to York Tara Upshaw, McGill’s goaltender, was named the game MVP despite being on the short side of 10-1 score to York University.

Abigail Tennebaum scored the lone McGill marker in the game.

The loss leaves the Martlets with a 1-4 record heading into their next match at the University of Toronto on October 18th.

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teammate Chris Barrett.

Martlet tennis improves to 6-0 The women’s tennis team travelled to Toronto Saturday and came away with two victories. The Martlets defeated the University of Toronto 5-2 and McMaster 6-1 in the three-team tournament.

M cG ill’ s Jean Dixon and Stephanie Rhode won all four matches they played in, two in doubles and two in singles. The team moved to 6-0 on the season and will now look forward to host­ ing its first-ever event in two weeks vs. York University.

M artlet hockey loses opener This past weekend saw the Martlet hockey team play their first game as an official Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union participant, losing 9-1 to Concordia. The Stingers, still con­ sidered one of the top teams in the country, dominated play in the game, scoring six goals in the sec­ ond period alone. The McGill goal came courtesy of Julie Hornsby.

The Martlets will next play Wednesday night at the McConnell Winter Arena in an exhibition game against TMR starting at 6:45 p.m.

U Q T R smoked by M cG ill rugby B y D e sir ée L i d o n

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For the women, the game was on the heels of a 10-5 loss to Macdonald Campus last Wednesday in Ste-Anne de Bellevue. Scrum+ R e lia b le ♦ A ffo r d a b le 4 fA ir T ra v el half Samantha Morency was the sole Martlet try scorer in the match.

Saturday’s game, however, had a more positive outcome with a 22-0 win over UQTR. M c C o n n e ll A re n a McGill began the game on an interesting note, with several key players either absent, on the side­ I c e T im e F o r R ent lines, or playing in completely dif­ ferent positions. The changes were made to give the players practice Throughout the school year, our arena against a weak opponent. This deci­ sion resulted in a rather uneventful has many rental opportunities. first half with neither McGill nor Please call our office for more information; UQTR acting as the dominant force. ball was continuously D i a n e at 3 9 8 - 7 0 1 7 j madeThe available to the Martlet backs, but unfortunately they were never able to break through UQTR line.

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The Redmen also dominated the top ten standings, placing six athletes. The top Redmen was rookie Paulo Saldahna, taking sec­

stepped up a notch and held UQTR in their own end for the duration of the game. Tries were scored by Morency, Coby Squires, and Michelle Donnelly, who had one each, while all the convert attempts were unsuccessful. This win gives the Martlets a 3-2 record in league play.

The Redmen also went into Saturday’s game following a recent loss, but they, too, left disappoint­ ment behind them, crushing UQTR 47-7. The game started off at a quick pace with the McGill backs immedi­ ately setting up and executing a vari­ ety of plays. Only 10 minutes into play, however, the match was sud­ denly halted due to a concussion received by a McGill back. From this point on, the Redmen meant business and became an unstoppable force for the rest of the half.

Scoring began promptly after the delay, with Alcide Deschesnes making the first try of the game.

From there, McGill went on a scor­ ing frenzy adding four more unan­ swered tries all within 5 minutes of each other. These were supplied by Andy Harrison, Deschesnes, Duncan Jacks, and a final one by Dan Benoit. Bemie McMullen added to the scoring by easily completing all four converts, in the half, including a beautiful convert from the sideline.

The half was highlighted by excel­

lent passing and maneuvering by the back line which continually broke through the UQTR defence to give McGill a comfortable lead.

The second half of the game began with UQTR holding McGill out of their end for a short time, but this effort was soon overcome by the Redmen backs, who once again managed to outrun their opponents.

The only scoring in the half for McGill, however, was provided by forward McMullen, who scored two tries and succeeded in converting them both. A third try was almost made by back Tim Dickson who slipped by UQTR and ran almost the whole length of the field, but was struck by misfortune when a knockon was called in the UQTR endzone.

It was only in the dying min­ utes of the game that UQTR con­ tributed to the scoring with a try that came off of a blocked kick in the McGill end. The easy conversion wrapped up the match, improving the men’s team’s season record to 31.

The Redmen p lay their next home game against their Montréal rivals, Concordia, at Leber Park on W ednesday at 6 :3 0 p.m. The Martlets will play at home again on October 26 at 11:00 a.m. against the Ottawa Gee Gees.

7 October 1997

Tuesday, October 7

TUM will be taping LATE NIGHT MCGILL at 7:15 P.M. live from Gert’s Pub. Prizes, Fun and Entertainment.

McGill Contemporary Music Ensemble presents works by Takemitsu, Ye, Raskatov and Jean Lesage at 8:00 P.M. at Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. West. Admission $5.00 The McGill Society of Montreal invites you to attend a session in which Professor David Saunders, Associate Dean and Director of the McGill MBA program will lead an interactive workshop on the art of negotiating. Stephen Leacock Building, Room 232, 855 Sherbrooke St. West. For ticket information, please call 398-5000 ($5.00 per per­ son).

Wednesday, October 8

There will be a general meeting for all Native, Inuit & non-Native students, faculty and staff interested in McGill’s House for First Nations at 3505 Peel St. at 5:30 p.m.

The Refugee Research Project presents François Crepeau and Julius Grey and “Closing the Asylum Gates in Europe and North America: An Interim Report” at 12:15 P.M. at 2020 University/Suite 2401. Please bring your own lunch, beverages will be provided. For more information, please call 398-8408.

Meeting of the Montreal Alternative Budget Group on the third floor in Thompson House, 3650 McTavish at 7:30 P.M. Get involved in planning for the educational and promotional campaign around the 1997-1998 Alternative Federal Budget. For more information, please call 282-9631.

McGill Hellenic Students Association General Assembly.

Shatner, Room 435 at 6:00 P.M. Positions available: President, V.P. Internal, Social Co-ordinator, Yearbook Co-ordinator. Attendance is mandatory.

Thursday, October 9

The Atheist, Agnostic, and Secular Humanist Society presents an open forum on Ethics and Religion: Morality Without God. Shatner, Room 435 at 7:30 P.M. All view­ points welcome.

McGill Faculty in Concert pre­ sents Tracy Davidson, Tom Talamantes and Thomas Davidson at 8:00 P.M. at Pollack Hall, 555 Sherbrooke St. West. Admission $5.00.

Friday, October 10

Pianist Bruce Mather at 8:00 P.M. Pollack Hall (555 Sherbrooke St. West). Admission $5.00.

Upcoming and Ongoing

The Atheist, Agnostic, and Secular Humanist Society meets every Thursday at 7:30 P.M. in Shatner, Room 435. Come and dis­ cuss issues such as church-state sepa­ ration and non-religious ethics in a relaxed and open atmosphere.

Brown bag seminar by Ms. Diana Bronson on “APEC and Human Rights in the Context of

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Globalization in the Asia-Pacific.”

October 15, 12:30 - 14:00, 3715 Peel, Seminar Room. For more informa­ tion, please call 398-3507.

The Siamsa School of Irish Music is sponsoring a fundraising Irish Ceili Dance on Saturday, October 18, 1997 at 8:00 P.M. at the Royal Canadian Legion Hall.

Admission $5.00 (in advance), $8.00 (at the door). For more information, please call 483-4064 or 484-7192 or 484-8054.

Rotaract Club will hold Toastmasters sessions to improve and practice public speaking skills.

Meetings are on Tuesday at 5:00 P.M. in the Shatner cafeteria. For more information, please call Chi at 256-0745.

Professor Henriette Walter from the University of Rennes will be pro­ moting her new book L ’aventure des mots fran çais venus d ’ailleurs on October 16, 1997 at 8:00 P.M. at the Bibliothèque Nationale, 1700 St. Denis. For ticket information, please call 790-1245.

The Refugee Research Project presents Stewart Istvanffy and “The Law of Refugee Determination: Standard of Evidence in Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board.”

Thursday, October 15, 1997 at 12:15 P.M. at 2020 University. Please bring your own lunch, beverages will be provided. For more information, please call 398-8408.

LBGTM (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender Students of McGill) are seeking volunteers to facilitate our Men’s, Womyn’s and Bisexual discussion groups. If you are interested, please call the LBGTM office at 398-6822 or stop

by Shatner 429 in person.

The McGill Eating Disorder Unit is a multi-disciplinary unit that includes: individual/group coun­ selling, medical assessment, nutrition consultation, psycho-educational groups and support groups. Call 3983601 for info about fees and appoint­ ments. Support groups are free of charge to McGill and non-McGill students. Call 398-1050.

The McGill Eating Disorder Support Group open to all students 18 years and up in Montreal. There is no fee and no need to sign up. Just show up Thursdays from 9:00 to 10:00 P.M. at the Newman Centre, 3484 Peel St. For more information, please call 398-1050.

The McGill Eating Disorder support groups are available to both McGill and non-McGill students, FREE OF CHARGE. We offer a variety of support groups for students with eating disorders as well as body image groups for those who wish to learn about and improve their body image. We also offer support groups for partners and friends of individuals with an eating disorder. For more information, please call Jessica Schwarz at 398-1050.

The Montreal Assault Prevention Centre offers a selfdefence course for women called ACTION. Appropriate for all ages and physical abilities. No simulated attacks with a padded aggressor. $75 per person. Information: 284-1212

The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society returns to regular hours on October 6. Infoline 398-2700, Mon. - Fri. 10:00 - 5:30.

Helpline 398-8500, every night 6:00 midnight. All calls are confidential.

SACOMSS also offers a number of support groups. Call for info.

The Sexual Assault Centre of McGill Students’ Society seeks female and male volunteers to facili­ tate support groups. For information, please call 398-2700, A.S.A.P. Bereavement support groups are being offered free of charge through the McGill School of Social Work for adults, children/adolescents, young adults and family survivors of sui­ cide. New groups for 1997 include “Motherless daughters” and “Loss of an adult child.” Anyone who is expe­ riencing any type of loss including the loss of a family member or friend, please contact Estelle Hopmeyer at 398-7067.

Free support groups for adults living with loss. A confidential bimonthly opportunity to meet with others who have experienced loss of relationships, career, health, finances, etc. Please call Estelle or Sandy at 398-7067 Big Red Herring clambake/meeting every Monday at 5:00 p.m. in the Shatner compound.

All invited. Meeting room number will be posted outside of room B01-A or call 932-8448 for more informa­ tion. Bring stuff.

Compeer Montreal is presently recruiting volunteers 18 years and over interested in working in the mental health field. We are a non­ profit community based organization.

We provide support services to those suffering from mental illness provid­ ing them with a volunteer to facilitate their reintegration into society. For more information, please call 4891007.

Canada World Youth launches its recruitment campaign. Seven month exchanges are offered to women and men (17-20 years old, students, workers or unemployed) wishing to live an intense and rewarding cross-cultural experience both in Canada and abroad. The deadline for applying is November 14, 1997. Programs begin next July, August and September. For more information, please call Canada World Youth at 931-3933.

L a s t w eek ’s a n sw e rs a re cornin’ a t y a:

W e lc o m e to th e Q u iz o f the week!

1. Michael and Ralph Shumacher compete against each other in F-l racing 2. Bob Marley’s nephew com­ peted in the CFL for the Ottawa Roughriders 3. Alison Sydor converted from road racing to mountain bik­ ing and won a medal in Atlanta.

4. Women’s hockey received CAIU status at the end of last year.

5. Percival Molson Stadium was constructed in 1919 6. Last Saturday, the McGill men’s tennis team hosted its first ever event.

The Yellow Door “Elderly Project” has been helping seniors in the downtown area for the past 25 years. We are in urgent need of vol­ unteers to accompany seniors to and from appointments, to help hem with their shopping or to have a “friendly visit” once a week. For more infor­ mation, call Leah or Danielle at 3986243.

The Maison de Jeunes de la Côte-des-Neiges is seeking volun­ teers to help youth between the ages of 11 and 18 with their homework (French, English, chemistry, biology, history and especially math). This will be a good opportunity for future teachers and social workers to gain experience. For more information, call Sandra at 342-5235 Come to the McGill Christian Fellowship. We believe in building meaningful relationships, having fun and having honest and open discus­ sion. Every Friday at Shatner Cafeteria. 7:00 P.M. Please call Josh at 484-3480 for more information.

What is the point of life? What happens when we die? What rele­ vance does Jesus have for our lives today? How do we deal with guilt? A place to explore these kinds of ques­ tions is at McGill Alpha - a 10-week course for anyone interested in inves­ tigating a Christian position. Tuesday night from 7:00-9:30 p.m. (dinner included) at 3484 Peel (Newman Centre). Please call Mariah 482-5766 or Peter 682-3098 for more informa­ tion.

Queer line is a confidential, nonjudgmental peer support and referral phone line which runs MondayFriday 8:00 P.M. - 11:00 P.M. Give us a call at 398-6822. We are here to listen to you.

Non-McGill

1. Name the ten North American cities which have all four major professional sports teams (NHL, NBA, MLB, and NFL or CFL)?

2. What is considered the most difficult shot to complete in ten pin bowling?

3. What is the function of the Cyclops in a tennis match?

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4. Who was the leading scorer of the McGill Martlets basketball team last season?

5. What two teams competed for the CIAU football’s Atlantic Bowl last season? Where was it played?

6. What McGill club is the old­ est of its kind in Canada?

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