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R ed m en ro m p M c G ill c o n t in u e s o ffe n s iv e w iz a r d r y a g a in s t O n t a r io riv a ls B y J eremy Kuzmarov Throughout his McGill hockey career, Redmen captain Mathieu Darche has repeat­ edly proven that he is the type of player who is at his best with the game on the line.

Leading the nation in scoring, Darche lived up to his reputation as a clutch per­ former in a big way on Friday night against York.

Receiving a crisp break-away pass from linemate David Gourde, Darche burst in on goal and beat the York netminder to the glove side 39 seconds into overtime to give the Redmen a 5-4 victory before a packed house at McConnell Arena.

“I was due for a goal, I missed a lot of chances during the gam e,” said Darche, whose tally marked the 14th game winner of his career. “We outplayed York all night but had trouble putting the puck in the net. Last year our team might have lost a game like this but we hung in there and showed some character tonight.”

Carrying the momentum from Friday’s win over York, the Redmen easily defeated a chippy and overmatched Laurentian squad 10-2 on Saturday. The four point week-end left McGill in second place in the Ontario University Athletics Far-East division with an 18-4 record and an outside shot of captur­ ing its first division title since 1946.

“W e’ve got some big games coming up against Concordia and UQTR, but right now things are looking good for our team,” said Redmen coach Martin Raymond after the game on Saturday. “We did some good things this week-end. W e’re happy we had over 120 shots in two games. The key right now for us is to stay healthy and to keep improving as a team which is what we’ve been doing.”

M cGill’s weekend dominance was most evident on Saturday against a Laurentian team which proved from the opening whistle that it simply wasn’t in the same league as the Redmen.

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S h o w i n g o f f M c G il l t o t h e c o m m u n i t y CEGEP Open House an attempt to reconnect with Quebec students B y Asch Harwood O rganizers o f this Su nd ay’ s Open House, which targets graduating Quebec CEGEP students and francophones in partic­ ular, are hoping to increase McGill’s profile within the francophone community.

“We want to give people a perspective of the school, what it is like to be involved in an institution like M cG ill,” said Wendy Hough-Eyamie, the open house co-ordinator.

Changes to McGill’s admissions criteria should help CEG EP students applying to McGill, according to Robin Geller, head of admissions, recruitment, and the registrar’s o ffice. Starting in Septem ber 2 0 0 0 , five

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M cGill faculties will be implementing the “cote R ,” a value used by all Quebec univer­ sities in assessing C EG EP applicants for admission. Cote R is calculated for each stu­ dent, in each class, based on the student’s grade, the class average, and a factor reflect­ ing the strength of the class cohort.

“We are adopting the cote R for three reasons,” said Geller in a press release put out by McGill’s University Relations Office.

“It’s a better predictor of performance at McGill than CEGEP grades, it compensates for different grading practices, and it will help us make admissions decisions more quickly.”

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Cathy Guilietti, the new assistant first year coordinator, is involved in easing the transition for francophone students into the McGill community. She explained that the point of this open house is to show francoph­ one students that not only are they welcome at McGill.

“Many francophones do not think of coming to McGill,” Guilietti said. “McGill is an option and we are trying to promote that.”

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M c G ill s t u d e n t s r a lly a g a in s t g o v e r n m e n t c u t s t o e d u c a t io n Post-Graduate Students' Society joins the CFS in demonstration on the streets of Montreal B y C arolyn Kessel M cG ill students took to the frigid downtown streets to protest government funding cuts to post­ secondary education last Wednesday afternoon.

Two hundred and fifty stu­ dents from McGill, Concordia, and UQAM took part in a nation-wide protest organized by the Canadian Federation of Students as part of their Access 2000 campaign.

Across Canada, the campaign organized walkouts, strikes and demonstrations to call on the feder­ al government to create a compre­ hensive system of student grants, and to work with the provinces to freeze and reduce tuition fees.

The Post-Graduate Students’ Society, a member of the CFS, was resp onsible for organizing the event this year. At least one hun­ dred students from McGill turned" out, a much higher number than a previous CFS rally held earlier this fall.

“I think this was a really good turnout for M cG ill and that it is representative o f how basic the issue is,” Kate Meier, PGSS extermal affairs and governmental rela­ tions coord inator, said o f the

demonstration. “It is not just a few wonky rad icals who were out here.”

That b asic issue seemed to encompass different notions to var­ ious students. With slo­ gans like ‘Paul Martin robs the poor to save the rich ’ , and ‘Rot in Hell Banker Scum’ stu­ dents spoke out against everything from M cGill’s student apathy to the proposed cold beverage agreement to student loan programs.

Although the main theme was reinvesting the fed eral govern ­ ment’s surplus into edu­ cation and other social programs, individuals had varying motivations for attending the protest.

P o s te r s s a y “A lot of it had to do with the fact that I do not think McGill has a lot of spirit, especial­ ly when it com es to im portant aspects of funding for education,” Sarah Resnic, a U1 Arts student, explained. “With cutbacks I’m also scared I’m not going to be able to

Senate takes action regard­ ing breach of confidentiality B y T asha Emmerton Senate passed a resolution last week calling for the resignation of the individual(s) responsible for a breach of confidentiality over hon­ ourary degrees at McGill.

The action came as a response to the information leak from a con­ fidential session of Senate, where , according to the M cG ill D aily, members allegedly voted on and turned down a proposal to award an honourary degree to John Cleghorn, a M cGill graduate and chief executive officer of the Royal Bank.

The Senate held a discussion on the issue in a confidential ses­ sion because of the sensitive nature o f the topic, but returned with a resolution stating its position on the subject.

With regard to the impact of the leaked information, the resolu­ tion states: “Senate extends its most profound regret to any person who has been embarrassed by the violation of our rules.”

“It is not justifying any deci­ sion that may or may not have been made,” said Xavier Van Chau, VP University Affairs for the Students’ Society of McGill University and a member of Senate. “It is apologiz­ ing for the breach of confidentiality and any undue embarrassment it may have caused.”

The message being sent is that any wrong that has occurred is a result o f som eone choosing to ignore the rules that generally guard against situations such as the present one.

In order to address this prob­ lem, the resolution calls for “the most severe censure against the

person or persons who are respon­ sible for the violation” and for the person or persons to resign. As of yet, though, the Senate remains unaware of the identity of the indi­ vidual^) who leaked this informa­ tion to the Daily.

Senator Sam uel N oum off, who moved the resolution in Senate, believed this was the nec­ essary action for the Senate to take.

“My personal preference is to have these things [confidential ses­ sions] open, ... but the rules are as they are,” Noumoff explained. “I have to defend them. Some person or persons violated those rules. I do not know who it is. As such, there is no other remedy that we have.

What can you do but condemn the action?”

Van Chau also found the reso­ lution appropriate.

“I think if whoever has broken the trust of Senate wishes to see Senate continue to be confident in what they do and what they speak of, they should honour the respon­ sibility they have undertaken and let people know who they are and what they did. I b eliev e they should resign.”

Until the party or parties responsible can be discovered, however, there is little more that the Senate can do to resolve the sit­ uation.

When asked if he believed that sufficient action had been taken, Principal Bernard Shapiro respond­ ed, “I do not think that anything is sufficient to deal with what has occurred. We will have to wait and see what the consequences will be, but I think that Sam Noumoff’ s resolution was the appropriate measure.”

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vate banks that issue student loans and are now requesting a $50 bil­ lion bailout. He also expressed con­ cerns about the new proposal of a private college at M cGill, McGill College International. “[The banks] in-debt students

for years after they get their diplo­ mas,” McLauchlan argued. “Why doesn’t the government just get rid of the banks and give the money to us directly?... I think that the gov­ ernment has enough money to fund us. I think that higher education is the basis for a citizen’s ability to function in a democracy. And to privatize McGill, to restrict educa­ tion to the rich, restricts democracy to the rich.”

According to the CFS, single students receive a maximum o f $8,840 in loans for two semesters.

After tuition fees and books, stu­ dents are left with about $680 per month for rent, transportation, food, personal care and all other expenses. Living on a student loan is living below the poverty line, according to C FS’ numbers.

Students at the demonstration were also concerned about McGill’s “exclusive cold beverage agreement” that would grant campus-w ide d istribu tion o f Coke products for the next 11 years. The deal is initially estim ated to be worth well over $1.5 million for the University and should be worth several million more over the next decade. McGill will receive both an exclusivity fee and commissions on

product sales.

“I am here because it is a vio­ lation o f student choice to sign exclusivity contracts,” U1 History student Melina Hoffman, said of the agreement. “I do not like the idea o f C oca-C ola extending its tentacles into universities.”

Jarrett Rudy, a PGSS member, was there to support the CFS and call for fully funded education.

“We [the PGSS] have a zero tuition fee policy and we believe that university education should be federally funded, totally,” Rudy explained. “Along with health care W e’re looking for it to be as acces­ sible as possible.”

Comments on the CFS website from its N ational C hairperson Michael Conlon argue that the fed­ eral governm ent is not putting money in the right places.

“Instead o f lining the coffers o f the banks and creating gim ­ m icky program s like the M illennium Scholarships Fund, Ottawa should be investing the fed­ eral budget surplus back into social programs,” Conlon said. “It’s time for Ottawa to implement measures that work, such as funding increas­ es, student grants, and tuition fee reductions.”

G o v e r n m e n t b a ilo u t o f b a n k s Student leaders suggest alternatives to reduce student debt loads B y N ilima G ulrajani The federal government is set to rescu e private banks losing money in administering the Canada Student Loans Program, although the bailout is expected to be less than the $100 million originally reported in The Globe and Mail.

In 1995, the government con­ tracted out delivery of the CSLP to the Canadian Im perial Bank o f C om m erce, the R oyal Bank o f Canada and the B an k o f Nova Scotia. It agreed to pay a five per cent risk premium (around 50 mil­ lion a year) as compensation for higher than average defaults rates for students.

The government considers a loan to be in default when the bor­ rower omits to make three pay­ ments for the lifetime of the loan.

A ccording to Gino T rifiro , senior communications administra­ tor for Human Resources Canada, a rise in default rates have cost pri­ vate banks over $300 million since 1995. With their existing contract set to expire in August, the govern­ ment is currently in negotiations with private banks. No student leaders have been invited to the negotiating table.

The government has proposed that each year the student default rate should be compared with the bank’s average default rate for its other borrowers. When the student rate is lower than this benchmark, the government would receive an inflow of funds from private banks.

Therefore, although the govern­ ment is proposing a rise in their risk premium to seven per cent, its true costs will actually depend on

student borrowers repaying their loans. The government does not intend to make retroactive pay­ ments to banks for losses incurred in their first contract.

“There will not be any retroac­ tiv e paym ent,” said T rifiro .

“Fin an cial institutions in 1995 agreed to enter into a contract. For that period, they are responsible for the financial losses incurred. The

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Government of Canada always had in mind that any of the costs of the new arrangement will not be from student borrowers.”

According to Kieran Green, communications director for the C anadian A llia n ce o f Student A sso cia tio n s, the governm ent would be better o ff investing in students rather than banks.

“If the government has this money to combat default problem, the money may be better spent decreasing the interest rate so stu­ dents aren’t crippled, reinvesting in educational core funding, improv­ ing youth em ploym ent pro­ gram s... there are better ways to spend money than subsidizing banks.”

A ccord ing to S ta tis tics Canada, student default rates for the first year o f borrowing rose

from 32 per cent to 38 per cent for private vocational institutions and from 11 per cent to 14 per cent per cent for universities between 1991 and 1997.

“If there is an increase in stu­ dent default rates, there a couple of larger points going on here,” said Kate M eier, external affairs and governmental relations coordinator for the M cG ill Post-G rad uate Students Society. “Debt loads are much larger now, there is increas­ ing debt after graduation, the inter­ est rate has gone up....[I]f the gov­ ernment wants to put dollars into education, they should put it in grants, infrastructure of the univer­ sity system. The recognition o f where the problem is coming from is not going on.”

A ccord in g to W ally H ill, director o f communications and brand management for Edulinx, the organisation that administers the CSLP for lenders, a rise in the risk premiums paid by government to private lenders is both fair and nec­ essary.

“T he program needs to go through fundamental reforms, how­ ever, but it has to include improve­ ments for all the different parties involved,” said Hill. “[We need] more management debt levels for students, a streamlined more effi­ cient program that is simpler and clearer for students, educators and government, good program integri­ ty. Financial viability is only fair for the people operating the pro­ gram. The program needs to work in a balanced way for everyone.”

In 1 9 9 6 -1 9 9 7 , the C S L P loaned 350 000 students over $1.4 billion.

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C E G E P C o n t in u e d C o n tin u ed from P ag e 7 dents in their study skills, along with other functions, given that they are studying in a second lan­ guage.

“T hese francophones are choosing to study in a second lan­ g uage,” she said. “W e want to build support mechanisms, like a student network. We are planning for workshops in a second lan­ guage. Right now they do not have a contact.”

Events and goals The ev e n t’ s slogan is “Opening doors to your future” or, in French, “Portes ouvertes sur un nouveau monde,” and is broken down into many activities, tours, lectures and performances through­ out the day. Many of the faculties will be in their respective buildings doing presentations, while others will be represented in the Shatner Ballroom.

Vice-Principal Academic Luc Vinet saw the open house as a way to increase McGill’s pool of appli­ cants and notes that McGill has a better chance o f getting the best students because of its internation­ al reputation. He also noted that the open house was not only for fran­ cophones but for anglophones as well.

“Som e francophones don’ t consid er M cG ill an option and [these are] indeed students we would like to have,” Vinet said.

“We need to have a good pool of applicants from Quebec. It is a concern that if we only focus on anglophones, then the [number of] Quebec applicants would decrease.

We want to increase our standards.

We aim at getting a larger pool of applicants from which we can

choose. The better the students are, the better the University is.”

The idea for a CEG EP open house partly came from the idea that many schools already offered something similar. As M cG ill is trying to increase its pool of appli­ cants, there is a desire to demon­ strate to students from Quebec that McGill is an option and is support­ ive of francophone students. There is also an attempt to capture the best students in the province.

“M cG ill has done M cG ill Days for students already accepted, and what happened, by the time people came, they had already cho­ sen [which university to attend],” Hough-Eyamie said. “We wanted to invite people before they make their decisions.”

So far, the response to the open house has been very good.

Hough-Eyamie felt very positive about the outcom e o f the open house, with requests for more fly­ ers, and questions about the event.

“We have spoken to guidance counselors from every CEGEP in the province,” Hough-Eyamie said.

“We sent posters and made phone calls. W e’ve been getting more requests for fly ers for the stu­ dents.”

“In my mind, it is important that we capture the best students across the province,” she contin­ ued. “We need to get to word out that this a place where they can belong. We want to show them that McGill offers Quebec students to have a world renowned diploma, to have a worldly opportunity to meet people. It is a Quebec experience, a Canadian experience and a world experience which you can’t get at other Quebec universities.”

A p o lo g y Last week, as part of a campaign to promote Valentine’s submissions, The McGill Tribune printed posters unwitting­ ly containing a derogatory term. The word appeared in' a cartoon taken from a Robert Crumb anthology.

Though four members of the Editorial Board proofread the poster, none were aware of the derogatory definition of the term used in the cartoon.

Within two hours of being alerted to the error, members of the Editorial Board had removed the posters.

For any harm done due to this error, The McGill Tribune offers its most sincere apologies.

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ing. “How can we get this soap to sell five more units? Instead of get­ ting students to do a theoretical marketing plan, why not get them to do say a fundraising plan for a food bank. Then when that plan is done we will give it not just to one food bank, but to all the other food banks that can use it to raise funds.”

Baraniak and Sheremeta began working out the idea for a centre at

B y ]. Kelly N estruck Plans for an innovative new anti-poverty centre at M cG ill in collaboration with the Students’ Society o f M cGill University are underway. The centre, tentatively called Impact: The Anti-Poverty Action Centre, would direct the energies o f students’ scholastic work towards helping to eliminate poverty in Montreal and Québec The endeavour began last summer when Wojtek Baraniak, VP Community and Government Affairs for SSMU, received a call from the project founder Peter Sheremeta, a 1991 Management graduate, “He had this idea,” B aran iak recalled .

“Wouldn’t it be interest­ ing if students and profes­ sors started gearing their course work towards an area o f Montreal that is severely underdeveloped - the poverty s e c to r.”

Baraniak was very inter­ ested and together they began com ing up with L e n d in g ideas.

“Every management student at one point or another does a marketing plan for a fake brand of soap. Wouldn’t it be interesting if [they] started doing marketing strategies for food banks and shel­ ter — concrete plans that the stu­ dent could give them for free and they could use, and in return the student could get course credit for it, as well as experience in that field.”

Im pact is the brainchild o f welfare agent and former McGill student Sheremeta. He came up with the idea during his six years working at the welfare office with the impoverished.

“As a civil servant, you run into a lot of people who believe in what they do, but you run into a lot more who are ju st there for two coffee breaks a day,” Sheremeta said.

He became particularly disillu­ sioned with those who held higher positions in the government.

“You just don’t get the feeling that they really care.”

Sh erem eta decided to take matters into his own hands. He knows that the work students put into their term papers and projects could be put to good use.

“I used to do a lot of market­ ing plans, for say, P roctor and Gamble,” he explained, elaborat­

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McGill that would take control of the project and work with the dif­ ferent faculties. Those plans are approaching fruition and Baraniak anticipates opening the centre next September. “[We] will create a centre with a s ta ff o f two or three people, through the [SSM U ], that would run everything,” Baraniak said.

Baraniak does not believe that the new centre will overlap with what the Quebec Public Interest Research Group, does and has the group’s support. Unlike QPIRG, Impact will focus solely on pover­ ty“W e ’ ll put the students in touch with all the food banks and any other organization that fights poverty in M ontreal: hom eless shelters, government institutions, job search [agencies] that cater to anyone that is below the poverty lin e,” Baraniak explained. “We want to equip them with basically a consulting service o f M cGill stu­ dents.”

B aran iak com m ented that there was already a trial effort underway.

“We have one pilot project going right now with the Salvation Army, where there are four stu­ dents in physical education that are doing their practicums, which is 80

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hours each.” he said. “They are doing it with people that are in a drug treatment centre. We are try­ ing to see if a physical training pro­ gram can help fight depression among drug addicts.”

In total, the physical education students will have put in a total of 320 hours to help develop a pro­ gram that will directly benefit the community. If their findings are helpful, the Salvation Army will distribute the infor­ mation through their netw ork across North A m erica, Sheremeta said.

A nother plus side to the centre, Baraniak added, was that it would not cost McGill students a penny.

“T im es are tough, we don’ t have all that much money and students are not w illin g to pay h igher fe e s ,” Baraniak said.

“T h ere are grants out there like Nema Etheridge you w ouldn’ t believe for $25,000 to $40,000. We could‘fund a pro­ ject like this and, at the same time, create student jobs.”

Impact has already received a small grant for a feasibility study and is up for one o f the bigger grants on February 16.

Sheremeta has been working to make sure that the plan is air­ tight. “If that grant goes [through] then the centre is official,” he said.

E v en tu ally , B aran iak and Sheremeta hope that the idea will spread to other universities across Canada.

“We [the SSMU] use our net­ work of schools to start branching out across the country,” Baraniak said. “SSM U would organize the pilot project.”

The plans are still only in the fundraising stage, but both Baraniak and Sheremeta are opti­ mistic that Impact will be making its impact on the M cGill campus next year.

“Personally, it is nice to leave something behind,” Baraniak, who is running for SSMU president this spring, said of the project.

He gave all o f the credit to Sheremeta, however, for coming up with the idea. “He is one of the m ost sincere individuals that I know. He cares so passionately about this.”

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S t e p p in g o u t fo r t h e M ille n n iu m B y S hehryar Fazli Important university-related issues were raised to students, Student S o cie ty o f M cG ill University representatives, and fac­ ulty staff in a discussion session organized by SSM U University A ffairs Committee, aptly titled, “M cG ill in the M illenium ” last Friday in the Shatner Ballroom.

In a tw enty-m inute PowerPoint presentation, SSM U VP University Affairs Xavier Van Chau outlined the m ajor issues relating to, and the problems faced by, McGill University as an institu­ tion. Van Chau stressed the advan­ tages o f having such discussion sessions at the university, which he believed can bring to the forefront the various interests encountered at the institution.

“The idea,” Van Chau said, “is to hold a public forum, and in this public forum we want to talk about what the main issu es that are becoming priorities at the universi­ ty are. We then follow up by dis­ cussing what the student priorities are, and seeing how together we can make the institution of higher learning that we would like through working together.”

In speaking of the importance o f integrating the interests of the M cGill student with those of the ad m in istration, Van Chau d is­ cussed a number of administrative concerns. One of the most impor­ tant among these, he believed, is the question of academic renewal, which he referred to as being the number one priority for the admin­ istration.

“Not many students know about academ ic ren ew al.” Van Chau remarked. “What academic renewal basically means is that over course o f next five years, ninety-five professors have to be hired per year in order to maintain the current teacher/student ratio.

This takes a lot o f planning. It relates to new programs; when

there are new professors, that has to be com plem ented by new research and new co u rses. We should devise a system o f estab­ lish in g what we, the students, would like to see in those new pro­ grams.”

Van Chau stressed that what he really wanted to bring out in the session was the student perspec­ tive, which he believed is notice­ ably different from the university’s perspective.

Money talks Among the other issues raised at the discussion session, university funding was the m ost notable.

Andrew T isch le r, Presid ent o f SSM U, discussed the role o f the student body in tackling the finan-. cial problems faced by the institu­ tion.

“I think it’s important for us to recognize what it is that we all share, and the challenge that we all have; that is the fact there is a crushing under financing o f the university. McGill is under funded by $23 million a year. The revenue per student is $9000, whereas at Queens they have at their disposal, $ 1 7 0 0 0 per student. Despite all this, McGill still maintains what it is. I think this is in no small part to the dedication o f the people who work at the university, namely the faculty administrators, who work, I think, on shoe-string budgets and crushing resou rces -or lack o f them, rather- in order to give what they do.”

T isc h le r believ ed students should, by pushing aside smaller interests, unite and pressure the government into improving fund­ ing.

“We must come together in light o f what is happening.” he said. “W hat’s been happening is that because of a lack of resources, there tends to be friction between the different groups which we are part of. We do not have a unified voice vis-a-vis the government,

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which is truly where we have to be focussing what we’re doing.”

Follow ing the presentation, Wojtek Baraniak, VP Community & Government Affairs added his own views on issues such as fund­ ing, and on what he believed would help the university in dealing with such problems.

“M cGill is massively under­ funded.” Baraniak asserted. “If we properly funded, notions such as a Cold Beverage Agreement, notions such as privatization, wouldn’t even be debated. But the fa ct remains that in 1995, the federal government cut $11 billion out of the transfer for education, there’s still $3.7 billion missing. Last few years, the Government of Quebec has consistently cut back on fund­ ing. McGill cannot, for example, get PQ Government money to fund a brand new music building which

N E W S b rie f C o ld B e v e r a g e A g r e e m e n t REFERENDUM QUESTION

T he Stu d en t’ s S o ciety o f McGill University rushed to pro­ pose a referendum question solicit­ ing student opinion about the Cold Beverage Agreement with Coke in an effort to diffuse a student-initi­ ated referendum question on the same issue at an emergency coun­ cil meeting last Thursday.

SSMU VP Operations Kevin McPhee explained that the SSMU referendum question wâs presented on Thursday as reaction against the student-initiated referendum ques­ tion which he claimed was biased when compared with the SSM U generated question.

“At Thursday’ s em ergency meeting, at the first session there was a notice o f motion presented that a CBA referendum question be submitted. During the second ses­ sion, I proceeded to present such motion. The referendum question asks for student input on the cold beverage agreem en t.” He later added, “A group o f students who

they’ve been promising that they’d fund since 1989. That’s the reality we’re faced with and that’s why we have to focus on alumni and corpo­ rate sponsorship.”

In adding to Van Chau’s and Tischler’s comments about bring­ ing the student perspective to the forefront, Baraniak suggested more active participation in student soci­ eties.

“Involvement is a key aspect.” he claim ed . “The more people within the general infrastructure of the SSMU, the more people know what’ s going on, and the closer they are to doing something. When people say things like, ‘Oh I know that guy, he’s the vice-president of this society’, or ‘He’s organizing this event’ , that is exactly direction we should be going in. And when students are critical of the SSMU, that’s a good thing. It means that

people are watching what w e’re doing. When I first came to univer­ sity, the individual student didn’t know what the SSMU did. I think it’ s better now. So w e’re on the right road.”

Baraniak’s optimism is reflect­ ed by other representatives and stu­ dents.

“No matter how many prob­ lems students have with the univer­ sity, I think when they graduate, the say, ‘You know, over the course of my years in this universi­ ty, I have ultimately enjoyed it, and I felt fulfdled by the program that I followed’.” Van Chau stated final­ ly, “We have pride and respect for students, and so long as we have that pride and respect for students, then I think that together we can really move forward in the direc­ tion that we want.”

represent the thousand students they say signed on for the studentinitated referendum [presented their question], Francois TanguayRenaud, Tamana Kochar, Philip Gohier, the Fair-Trade Coffee peo­ ple. The last week they’ve been working on a referendum question which they’ve initated by getting 500 student signatures.

“The problem is, their ques­ tion is biased and one-sided right down from the preamble and ques­ tion itself. The question is a dou­ ble-negative. Andrew worked with them last week to see if they could make the question more fair and neutral and they really didn’t want to move on that. So, we had to take the action to present a more fair and neutral referendum question with the hope that the students would recognize the importance of a more neutral question and with­ draw their question.”

McPhee cited other problems with the student-initiated referen­ dum which would not only render the SSMU question moot.

“Andrew’s working with them to work out our preamble and they say [that] if it’s not satisfactory to them, they’ re not going to with­ draw their question. “ LIf th at’ s the case], w e’ re going to have problems because

we’re going to have a student-initi­ ated referendum question on the C BA , which is one-sided, whose results will be skewed, land] which is not effective or useful at all.” he said. “Also, the student council ref­ erendum won’t be allowed because you can’t have two referendums on the same issue.

M cPhee explained that the question may, as well, be in viola­ tion of the SSMU constitution.

“There are laws in the consti­ tution that say that student-initiated referendum questions can’t directly affect the finances o f the student society because there's so much money involved in the C B A , it does that. And then, it goes against the rule stating the question must be clear and concise.”

M cPhee continued that the SSM U question was much more clearly stated than the other. “Their double negative question which is ‘ refrain fro m ’ . I f a student answered ‘no’ to the question it wouldn’t be clear what mandate they were actually giving to the students’ society. Whereas with the SSM U , it’s clear that if stu­ dents answer ‘yes’ we’ll sign it and if they answer ‘no’ we won’t sign it. It’s clear-cut.”

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F ig h t in g a g a in s t c h ild p o v e r t y Teenage child poverty activist speaks out at Redpath Museum

By W ill S acks Arnold Engel, the 14-year-old founding member of the Montreal chapter of Free The Children, spoke at the Redpath museum on Friday night to open the Conference on the Rights of the Child presented by Amnesty International McGill.

Engel, whose poise and fluid speech did not betray his age, spoke of the current state of child poverty worldwide. He spoke about the roots o f the problem and posed viable solutions for the future.

“Child poverty is very much alive in C anada,” he said. “Ten years ago, when the convention on the rights of the child was passed, the Canadian gove r n m e n t pledged to elim­ inate child poverty, as a whole, by the year 2000, since then the poverty rate has risen 46%.”

C h ild p o v e r t y E n g e l spoke deliberately and slowly as he related disturbing statistics about child labour in the D eveloping World.

“Every day over 250 million children go to work instead o f school. Think about that for a minute, that’s as many children as the entire population of the United States. Fifty percent of the workers in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa work an entire day— from 96 under exploitive conditions, for less than the price of [a] can of Coke.”

Engel used the first five min­ utes o f his lecture to outline the

problems and the next ten to talk about possible solutions. He empha­ sized Free the Children’s commit­ ment to motivate children to partic­ ipate in decisions on issues that affect them.

“Children are the generation of the future, that is what society says, but I don’t believe that. Why is it that children have to be the next generation? Why can’t they con­ tribute to this one?”

Engel believes that the solution to child poverty is based on the three ideals of health, education and economy.

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and an educated child, what you have is the potential for growth in the economy.”

Engel spoke o f Free the Children’s efforts to work with gov­ ernments and other relief organiza­ tions to provide health care and schools for those in need.

“We need to look not for an overnight solution, but on the basis of trends, we have to work towards a common goal.”

The fourteen-year-old Engel first got involved with Free The Children when he was 11 years old after he attended a speech by 14 year old Craig K illburger, the

founder of the organization. Since 1996, Free the Children, whose members are almost entirely under the age of 18, has grown to 50 000 members worldwide and has over 40 projects planned in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Rwanda, Columbia, Uganda and others. After Engel finished speaking, he invited those in attendance to browse through a collection of children’s artwork from around the world. The artwork showed, in striking reality, the horrible situations in which some o f the world’s youth reside.

Police brutality, forced service in the army and backbreaking labor were all depicted with disturbing candor.

The conference, officially titled “No Exceptions: Children’s Rights Are Universal” was organized by the M cGill Amnesty International group and consisted o f E n g e l’ s speech on Friday and an all-day lec­ ture and workshop series on Saturday. Over 50 people were in attendance to witness the opening of the conference.

The three coordinators of the event, M eghana Shah, Suzanne Loney and Elizabeth Grier wanted this y ear’ s con feren ce to be an awareness-related event and that’s why Engel was chosen specifically.

“Our primary objective is to raise awareness and to give people something to think about,” said Shah. “We tend to focus on the problems and we wanted to map out some possible solutions as well as give people a way to participate.”

Engel received a healthy round o f applause and answered a few questions before the reception got under way. When asked what role the W estern world must play in eliminating poverty in other coun­ tries, Engel answered, “our role is to be a people who care.”

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As most o f you are no doubt aware, there was an evacuation o f the Leacock Building on January 28, 2000.

T h is was a re su lt o f the Security Services department having received a bomb threat.

In general, everything w ent sm oothly during the evacua­ tion exercise. There were, how­ ever, odd in d iv id u a ls who needed to be convinced that the evacuation was in fact nec­ essary. You m ust appreciate that when an alarm is sounded, unless advised o f the contrary by a University official, you must evacuate.

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E D I T O R I A L M ake money, money by fa ir means i f you can, if not, by any means money. —H orace

D o n't gun fo r bum deal B y Karen Kelly

Newfoundland and Labrador is a province with a history of bad deals and poor negotiations. N o wonder everyone was so excited when one of the largest nickel and cobalt deposits in the world was found in a little place called Voisey's Bay, an otherwise unremark­ able area in northern Labrador. Inco Ltd. was even more excited.

If ever a huge prospect would be enough to bring tears to Inco executives' eyes, Voisey's Bay w ould be it — and, yes, they are probably crying now. The Voisey's Bay Nickel Company, child of Inco, acquired the sizable deposit in August of 1996 and the mining company has been embroiled in a bitter battle to the death with the Newfoundland government ever since.

If Voisey's Bay is ever mined, it w ill take a 25 to 30 year com ­ mitment on Inco's part to get through most of the deposit. In the pop­ ulace's eyes, this equates to 25 to 30 years of job opportunities relat­ ed to every facet of the mining industry. This is where the happy tale ends for Newfoundlanders awaiting the wealth of Voisey's Bay. Inco did not want to process the ore in the province. Their plan was to mine it and ship it somewhere on the mainland for processing, some­ where cheaper to operate that was taxed less. So, for the last five years the project has been at a veritable standstill.

O n one side w e have Inco, a big, powerful and rich m ining com pany that says it w ill hold off on the m ining until it gets its cheaper w ay. O n the other side w e have Prem ier Brian Tob in.

Taking a somewhat headstrong stance on the issue, he has said more than once that if there is not going to be a smelter in the province for processing, then there w ill be no deal. Add on concerns regarding environmental damage from mining and protests from Labrador Inuit claiming Voisey's Bay as their own, and the skies are not so blue for Inco anymore.

Newfoundlanders are now getting frustrated. Investments in the Voisey's Bay area that were expected to bear fruit when the mining and processing began have been left hanging. The whole thing has, so far, been a flop and everyone is laying blame. Most of it has been heaped on Tobin, but let us be fair. Allow ing Inco to process the ore from Voisey's Bay elsewhere w ould make the Labrador mine the crown jewel in a sea of bum deals for the province.

Newfoundland never comes out on top. Under a long-term con­ tra c t n e g o tia te d by fo rm e r p re m ie r Joseph S m a llw o o d , Newfoundland began selling electricity from the Upper Churchill Falls in Labrador to Quebec in 1972. The deal was a bad one and Quebec has been getting hydro power for bargain basement prices every day since. O nly in 1998 was a deal involving market-value payments for the power finally agreed upon by both provinces. This was about tim e, since the original contract w ill not run out until 2041. Newfoundland also lost out when it came to the fishery. The province's fishermen were forced into a cod moratorium in 1992 and it has been determined scientifically that the cod stocks off the Grand Banks have been drastically depleted. M any argued that the cause was unchecked foreign overfishing off the Newfoundland coast.

W h y are Newfoundlanders com plaining about Tobin's persis­ tance, when all he is trying to do is stop the province from being swindled out of another natural resource? If Tobin were to give in to Inco and let the ore be processed outside the province, sure, the ini­ tial result would be economic prosperity in the Voisey's Bay region and increased employment as a result of the mining. All the money, however, is going to follow that ore right off the island.

The long-term economic benefits w ill be focused wherever Inco builds its smelter. Frustrated Newfoundlanders need to be reminded of the terrible deal with Quebec that was borne out of an eagerness to sell hydro-electricity. If they do not want to be faced with another 30 years awaiting the end of a bad contract, they should stop com ­ plaining about Tobin and instead tell Inco they w ill wait as long as they have to. After all, the nickel and cobalt in Voisey's Bay w ill still be there 30 years from now. It w ill still be there a thousand years from now. W h y screw it up by rushing?

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A recent editorial (25/1/00) fails to acknowledge the threat to Canadian and global security that religious fundamentalism and international terrorism pose. The recent hijacking o f an Indian Airlines jet is a recent indicator of the resolve that religious fundamen­ talists have towards realizing their objectives.

As Canadians, we consider ourselves distant from much of this fanaticism. The only major terrorist attack on Canadians was the bomb­ ing of an Air India flight by Sikh extremists. Nonetheless, we should not underestimate the threat posed by religious fundamentalists and the hatred they nurture, nor should we consider ourselves to be immune to, or free of, religious and political bigotry.

One frightening example of religious intolerance was recounted to me by a neighbour who teaches in a culturally diverse district of Montreal. In his class, the Muslim students began to mock their Hindu and Sikh classmates during a dis­ cussion of the world’s major reli­ gions as they considered Islam to be the only true religion. Ironically, many of the Muslim students are children of parents, mainly from Pakistan and Bangladesh, who have been granted political asylum based on claims of religious and political persecution.

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I have resently read the article in the M cG ill Tribune by L isa Kearney, and I would like to add thatt I too am infuriated by the unproffesesionalalism of the author of the article. I most assuredly agree thatt the McGill tribune has a fine and not eworthy readers, and Ms. Kearney especially comes to mind. I too was extremely disgruntled and enraged when I discovered that Ms. Kenry’s name had been spelt rong, and I merely write this article, so that such an incident will never hap­ pen again.

First, I might suggested that won consult a spell-checkers and a diction before writing such articles.

Quite frankly, I was extremely dissappointed with the authorfs article.

After all, mistake somteimes do hap­ pen, and though no offense was intended, it would be easy to state in the next issue that a mistake was made. However, this was extremely inappropriate and I believe that fur­ ther action must be takenn.

I have already informed the Montreal police force of the author’s location within Montreal, and at pre­ sent, he is suspended in a holding cell awaiting charges. I have been intensely reviewing the constitution of Canada in attempts to find some way of increasing any possible pun­ ishment the author might recieve, because I just want to emphasiize on the unproffesionalism that was dis­ played within your paper. I would like to emphasize wunce again, that what was written in the tribune was completely unacceptable, and while I took it personally, there was no harm done because it was just a silly mistake. I just wanted to inform the editors of the situation.

I w ish to cla rify the “NEW Sbrief” which appeared in your February 1, 2000 issue per­ taining to the FYSA Referendum.

In it you state that “[t]he Judicial Board challenged the interpretation of the results from the fall referen­ dum. They have not yet made any ruling on these results, however.”

In fact, the Judicial Board has no power to independently chal­ lenge the interpretation of referen­ dum results and did not do so in the case of the FYSA referendum.

The SSM U Ju d icial Board can only make such interpretations if a petition is made to this effect by a member of the SSMU. The reality is that SSMU filed a petition with the Judicial Board contesting the actions of the Chief Returning Officer of SSMU relat­ ing to the validity of the FYSA ref­ erendum. The two parties have since come to an agreement and the petition was subsequently with­ drawn.

It is important for your read­ ers to note that the Judicial Board cannot and does not act indepen­ dently, but acts only based on thepetitions it receives from mem­ bers of the SSMU.

I sincerely hope that this is not a portent of things to come.

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As the acquaintance to which Kent Glowinski refers in his arti­ cle “Time to say goodbye: elimi­ nating ‘queer-friendly’ spaces”, I feel I should respond to it. I still feel as I felt during that conversa­ tion (which was held in a gay bar, no less). The ultimate goal o f the gay-liberation movement is that queer people should feel comfort­ able in all areas o f society. Until that happens — and we are work­ ing towards it - we need places to ourselves.

He takes the community to task for “ghettoizing” ourselves, for “defining general society as heterosexist.” W e don’t need to define general society as hetero­ s e x is t; it * i s * h e te ro s e x is t.

Adm ittedly this is less true in, say , M o n treal than it is e ls e ­ where; this is laudable. But het­ ero sex ism still e x ists, and we need to respond to it. And we are.

B u t as we attack heterosexism and striv e to integrate so ciety (not integrate ourselves into soci­ ety; integrate society) we need places to retreat, gain support, and feel accepted.

M r. G low inski attem pts to construct a slippery-slope argu­ ment, talking about an avalanche o f “exclusively queer university g ro u p s, q u eer s o c ia l g ro u p s, queer bookstores...” He seems to posit an entire separate society, hermetically sealed and isolated for eternity. This is not quite true.

W e as queer people create sepa­ rate institutions when the main­ stream institutions do not speak to our needs. It is not as if I ride the gay metro to go to my gay u niversity and do gay a ssig n ­ ments in my gay notebooks. But since I can’t buy certain books at the mainstream bookstore, I go to the queer bookstore to buy them.

This isn’t difficult to understand.

He may talk about not need­ ing queer institutions, ensconced comfortably in his out gay life in a tolerant institution in one o f the most gay-positive cities in North A m erica. But for a frightened, confused teenager in a repressive high school, desperate to receive support to be reassured that his or her very life is not a disease, a group o f other gay people is a paradise. In a gay youth group you don’t have to look over your shoulder.

Y o u d o n ’t have to p o lic e your speech for the correct gen­ der pronoun, and you don’t have to worry constantly about your se c re t being d isco v ered , your friends turning against you, or being beaten up. I should know.

I’ve been there.

This is a society where the suicide rate among gay teens is fourteen times higher than that o f straight teens and where one gay­ bashing tak es p la ce per w eek even in a reasonably tolerant city.

W e should actually m ake sure we’ve been accepted first before throwing our support system to the w inds. A fu lly in teg rated com m unity is indeed our goal, but it is possible to build a gay com m unity w hile fig h tin g for acceptance in the outside world at the sam e tim e. A c tiv is ts have been doing both since Stonewall.

Besides, even when we reach our goal, and society is complete­ ly accepting - it’ll still be easier for me to pick up guys at Sky than at the Dôme.

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Recently, the federal govern­ ment announced that it would increase by $50 million its contri­ butions to major Canadian finan­ c ia l in stitu tio n s fo r bad debt incurred by students and this, at a time when the banks are making profits in the billions o f dollars. By this action, we clearly see whom the government is trying to please: the rich and powerful and not those clearly in need.

Canadian university students, 85 per cent o f whom live in pover­ ty, should obviously be given this additional funding instead o f the banks. The governm ent should attack the real source of the prob­ lem (i.e. rapidly increasing tuition

W e ll, V a le n tin e ’ s D ay is coming up. But I didn’t need to tell you that did I? You already knew. M e, I lov e V a le n tin e ’ s D ay. I ’ m a b ig ro m an tic, and any h o lid a y so c o m p le te ly d ev o ted to th e id e a o f lo v e makes me feel all gooey inside.

It might be the cheesiest holiday aro u n d , w ith fa k e se n tim e n t poured on like so many layers of crusted salt on your pant legs, but I don’t mind. I love it.

B u t m ay b e you d o n ’ t. I don’t know why. Could it be a fear o f sharing one’ s most pro­ found em otions with everyone in the world, including people as ugly as Linda Tripp or as frivo­ lo u s as the S p ic e G ir ls ? A F E A R O F M E D IO C R IT Y ? !?

H eaven fo rb id ! I t ’ s p ro b ab ly because these cheesy em otions hit a little too clo se to hom e, and th ey m ake you q u e s tio n things you would rather have left in your subconscious. I f you feel this way, and you think that this level o f kitschy lovey-doviness is ju st too much to handle, this column is for you. What can you do to m ake y o u rse lf feel better?

Some people would suggest eating chocolate. B u t com e on.

The reason that you don’t like Valentine’s Day is because you fe e l u n a ttra ctiv e and in fe rio r because nobody loves you. Do you seriously think that eating a w h o le b u n ch o f c h o c o la te is going to make you feel better?

O f course it isn’t. It’ s going to make you feel like a fat loser.

F in e . C o n sid er the o p p o ­ site— taking yourself for a nice healthy workout at La Cité? You cap get on the stairmaster, work up a sweat, and stare at all those sexy people wearing tight little sp an d ex sh o rts. B o y oh b o y , they sure are cute. B ut wait— they ju st remind you that you’re single. You suck.

So go home and turn on the computer, light up that modem and h it www.lotsofnakedgirls.com (this is ju st something I made up— I don’t doubt it e x ists, but I ’ ve

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and ancillary fees that lead to huge student indebtedness), rather than caving in to the preposterous demands o f the too-p ow erfu l banks.

Mr. Chrétien, to get the best bang on your buck, give the blank cheque to the bright deserving stu­ dents and the institu tion s they attend instead o f the banking bigbusiness establishm ent, please!

L et’s keep education public and accessible!

Stephen Déry University and A cadem ic Affairs Coordinator PGSS

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I want to congratulate and thank the P o litic a l S c ie n ce Students’ A ssociation for the amazing three-day national con­ ference they hosted last weekend.

From keynote speakers Stéphane Dion and Daniel Turp, to a great wine and cheese and phenomenal w orkshops, they should be applauded and thanked. Thank you to G a llit D obner, F raser Galipeau, Michelle Ratpan, Ben Lee and everyone else who was involved for a great weekend!

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never seen it). Looking at porn on the in tern et is d efin ite ly a w ell-w o rn w ay fo r guys (and girls?) to relieve their stress. But what could possibly make you feel more pathetic?

W e ’ re ru n n in g ou t o f options here. W hat about calling your M um ? S h e ’ s p red ictable, she m akes g reat co o k ie s , and hey, SH E lov es you. Y ou can talk about the weather (ah em ...) and D ad’ s new g o lf clubs. It’ ll b e ju s t lik e h o m e. B u t w a it!

Does she love you ju st because

your feet and fly you to V enice?

W h a t h av e we g o t h e re ?

W ell — I think maybe we’ ve got th e a n sw er. V a le n tin e ’ s day d o e s n ’ t h av e to b e so m uch about being in love as it should be about love, in general.

And th a t’ s it. T h a t’ s the answer. If you don’t have some­ one to love, no lover to celebrate — celebrate love itself. Celebrate the lo v e th at you h ea r in a Schubert lied, the love you read abou t in F u g itiv e P ie c e s , the love that we smell in roses, the

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C om e on. A re n ’ t you ju s t k in d o f p re te n d in g ? Y o u say you’re rejecting Valentine’ s day b e c a u s e you th in k i t ’ s too c h e e s y , but a re you r e a lly ?

E v e ry b o d y is a r o m a n tic , at heart.

Stop kidding yourself. You wake up on February 14th and, h a v in g re a liz e d th a t i t ’ s Valentine’ s Day, you can’t help b u t w o n d er: w ill my d ream com e true? W ill that beautiful girl/lovely boy in your Romantic L it class who you’ve never spo­ ken to come up to you, roses in hand, and profess her/his undy­ ing love to you, sweep you o ff

lo v e th a t you ta s te in y ou r mom’ s home cooked-dinner.

S o q u it it. S to p b e a tin g y o u rs e lf up. E v ery w h ere you look you can find the treasure o f love. I t ’ s all around you— and m aybe m ost im p o rtan tly , you can find the hope o f future love.

W h at b e tte r tim e to do it than now? The tim e o f love is upon you—- do something about it.

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9 Suchot: You are the most beautiful person.

Happy Valentine’s Day from one of your biggest fans.

Oh — and go for him, damnit!

9 SU PRISE!!!!!

I love you forever my Tonnio!

Happy Valentine’s Day Love Always Gindina

9 CRACKRATS, May the rat be with us always as we begin to go down our separate paths. Happy Valentines.

Steph

9 Bemie S. You are the message in my fortune cookie! I want to smother you in orange sauce! 3:30 Fri Leacock 132.

Yours Forever, “Ruby”

Roses are red...

JC

Although you do not know who 1 am, 1 still love you. You are always in ray mind and in my heart and every time 1 see you, I feel happy. I wrote a message to you last year, yet my identity remains hidden. 1 will always love you. Our passion for English Literature will bring us together

9 Maria, Champion or not, you are the most amazingly relaxed S.R. player I’ve known, pc v DJX, Having you in my life is like wear­ ing red socks with a black outfit.

Chaos and control combined.

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9 Aaron I, Science guy...will you 9 Max Deshamais:

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Your secret admirer

Be our valentine...

Love, the girls

9 Happy Valentines Day to the BROW NSTREET BOYS; Winston, Manish, Arif, Nadir and Grover.

9 To my Beowulf;

9 Jane, 1 have learned immensely from your sagacity. Thank you for what was; I am ready now for what is.

Yours, Not John Ralston Saul

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9 Flowergirl, 1 challenge you to a 21 question round. Dress appropriately.

Reindeerhoy

9 To my monster of three years.

9 Tisch - will you do something

You’ve been the best partner with which to Monkey around.

Love M.’’C ”

already? The Student Body

9 Dear Fraggle, I love the way you dance. W on’t you be mine?

Your truly, AGHB

9 Mikey - DON’T SAY I DO!

9 Xavier, you have nice nads.

Do that sexy shuffle for me and I’ll make you mine forever. Handsom sack o’ girl

9 To my special girl AM,

■ 9 AO - I loathe watching you go

If 1 had a dollar for every time 1 thought about you, you would have a lot of presents and 1 would have a lot of video games. 1 love you. Happy 2nd Anniversary. EO

for coffee every day with that girl...

I’d love to use your rock-solid ahs as a wash-board.

Big Cans

One day I know I’ll see your name in the papers - with any luck, the byline will be mine, but if not, I’ll be proud to say I knew you when.

Steph

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9 Azim, you are the cutest guy in

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9 L.,

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9 Neil Durling:

1 still love you so much. It’s only when you’re gone that I realize how much 1 miss you and how much you mean to me.

P.

9 Chris Farber:

9 To the executive of ADAM —

Be our valentine...

Love, the girls

Thanks for a great year. Keep up the good work! 1 love you all.

Happy Valentine’s Day! — RZ

9 Would a med-school student

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Love, the girls

who’s also the owner of a beautiful, dark, BMW make his way to my place sometime?

-Shaheena

9 To the Immortal Acronym, Your 9 David Allard:

many manifestations (CBA, MSF, SSMU, MCI, etc.) permeate my literary double life. See you in the News section. JC

Be our valentine...

Love, the girls

9 Sexa: from floormate to roo-

9 Braeden MacGuire:

mate, we’ve had lots of laughs.

I’m glad there is still time for more. Steph

Be our valentine...

Love, the girls

9 Dear Mike, Why yes, I do like long walks on the beach.. .No, I don’t like that... or that... It’s not that I’m afraid...

Hee hee Paul

9 Phillipe Leblanc: 9 O T -1 wish 1 could awaken every morning with your reed­ like figure next to me. Then I’d watch you dress in your golf-pro clothes. Anonymous

Be our valentine...

Love, the girls

9 Paul Biloserskyj:

* JF Sorry that I was more excited about Tibetan food than bus passes.

SL

Be our valentine...

Love, the girls

9 Dear Annex,

Ju n e sunset in Idaho

9 To all our News writers; We love you Karen, Jonathan and Rhea

9 six,

Thanks for being so great every day and for not locking your­ selves out as often as last semes­ ter... I love you guys!

Paul Conner LuV Karen V Another year has passed and my love for you has not yet died. My Beowulf, I want to taste your lips on mine. Although I do S in c e 1 9 7 8 not see you as often as I would like, I wish you all the best on your dis­ sertation.

9 Nick Bakish: 9 yany love jerome and all guy

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9 Maria, Thanks for all our pre and post ed board chats and for making the

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Happy Valentine's Day. djx

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9 Dearest Lucille,

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Babe, you’re my favourite birthday girl! Luv you.

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Sherbrooke, You brighten my day and make me smile every week.

Paul

9 A big love you to The from the 9 Ode to a Kellog’s Box: Roses are red, violets are blue, Kellog’s boxes are funny Just not when they fall from your ceiling at 3 am.

9 Dearest B, I want to rock you like a Hurricane.

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Steph v To the A&E team If you’ll have, I’d love to write for you before March J PC ¥ Steph W. - I’ve only recently joined the group but I can already tell that there will be lots of high and low pressures between us. JG

¥ To My Excellent Lover (Tim M.), You make my pulse race, my heart throb and my soul sing... being in your arms is pure heaven! !

I love you!!!

Lynda (aka LMG) ¥ P C V '*

¥ The Mouse, The Minh, The Man, The back of the paper is where it all starts.

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¥ ToM r.T ., Do you know of a good place where f can exercise (my

¥ Pat - some consider me beauti­ ful... Sometimes you seem to think I’m dumb. All I know is I want you as more than a T.A. Blondie ¥ Ozzy - You are the sexiest leo and skin babe! ¥ MY BEOWULF: HOW CAN I CALL YOU MINE IF YOU KNOW N O T WHO I AM? YOU HAVE IGNITED A FIRE OF PASSION INSIDE OF ME. I LOVE YOU.

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¥ To the Chateau Concorde land­ lords!! Vous etes super-bons!! Love, Saj, Rahim, Zameer, Shel ¥ Chrysta - My eyes lay glued to you every morning while you sweat on them machines.

Try mine. Strong Bod. ¥ The Minh, Don’t you just love the number four? pc ¥ Roses are red, our desks are green, Without you, no reason to be mean, To the unexpected office surprise — And perhaps our last

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¥ G-Money - Oww oww oww. If only you weren’t in Cocagne, then you could show me your bunny outfit!

Chip & Dale ¥ Any girls interested in a guy with 20 stolen hockey sticks?? — Nartjini

19 issues down and 7 to go, hut the fun’s just starting... Elections season begins next week! JC ¥ The Ladies of JK would like a chance to give KN, our favourite Mookie Sahcb, a “pleasurable” experience ¥ Fuzzy B - because I think you’ll read this...Happy Valentines. ¥ Herk, let’s cuddle up to a nice Canadiens hockey game tonight!

Love, Kyle ¥ Dot Com - Thursday nights just aren’t the same anymore. ¥ That C S ski trip had some fine lookin ladies...Love, “Boy Toy” Bharwani ¥ John Paul: So glad we made it!

Communication can be tough over phone lines and noisy internet connections, but this year you have helped me immensely and we have growh together.

I love you more than ever.

Courtney

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Elections McGill wishes to announce that nomination kits for the following positions shall be made available at the SSMU Front Desk from 6:00pm Friday, 4 February, 2000 to 6:00pmW ednesday, 16 February, 2000: •President •Vice-President, University Affairs •Vice-President, Operations ■Vice-President, Clubs & Services Vice-President, Communications & Events •Vice-President, Community & Government Affairs

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The bright green glow of the IMac is nothing compared to how sexy your back is.

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Breathe. Just breathe.

There. Feel better?

Happy Valentine’s Day guys.

Karen

¥ Nandi: I love you in more ways than i can count (money) — Farrah-Naaz

¥ John F. You’re so JIGGY!

V a le n t in e s

Undergraduate Senators from each faculty Undergraduate Member of the Board of Governors Financial Ethics Research Advisors Members of the CRUT Radio McGill Board of Directors

C o m p leted kits a re due by 6 :0 0 p m W ednesday, 1 6 F e b ru a ry , 2 0 0 0 a t th e SSM U Front D esk. There will be a m andatory Electoral Regulations M eeting a t 7 :0 0 p m on

that day in Room 1 0 5 fo r all candidates.

Elections McGill wishes to announce that student-initiated referendum kits are available at the SSMU Front Desk. They must be returned to the CR0 byThursday, 10 February, 2000 with 500 signatures.

There will be a m andatory referendum com m ittee m eeting a t 8:00p m on Wednesday, 1 6 February, 2 0 0 0 in Room 1 0 5 for all com m ittee chairs.

Elections McGill wishesto announcethat it isaccepting applications for the paid position of Poll Clerks. Application form s available at the SSMU Front Desk. Subm it formstotheattentionof BenDavies, ElectionCoordinator.

¥ Sandon, Maybe the reason we don’t have “it” is so we can talk about “it” with each other and I’m glad we could.

Steph ¥ Jr_GONEWILD....

Your ass makes the world go round.

And those wet clothes......MMMMMM Big Show ¥ Dear DJX, Thx for your help this year and good luck with all future e-grocery shopping. Luv you much!

KKX. ¥ Emu, Even though you're in the next office, I still miss you.

Aunt Sally ¥ Alex M. Assuming we ignore the rest of the weather, it hasn't rained here in over 3 months. = ) love, dirty ¥ Big Show... Hey baby, the cap­ tain is out for the evening, so why not COME (in more ways than one)and c me 2night.

Teletubbie ¥ To my dear friend Ned, Have a great SVD but no STD! Stay cool, be safe, keep in touch. Your friend and admirer, Steph ¥ BB Happy Valentine’s Day Love you lots oxoxoxox...

CG ¥ The Bioré girl: She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

-afk ¥ Kim - The way the word “deutrium” rolls off your tongue pecifically turns me on!

Admirer ¥ Stevie B., W e love you too.

Your favorite Teletubby, the purple one ¥ To Sheils, Happy Valentines Day!!!

I hope I get a blowjob for this one.

Love, P ¥ Hello Old Man, I do miss you.

Plenty of nose eye... ¥ Aaron, Just in case Julie P. didn’t send you a valentine, PC ¥ Regina S Don’t you think it is 80% physical and 20% emotional? If so, I’ll let my interests vest in you anytime.

Mike F ¥ From Ricky chaud to Helen

Ringrose:- T his taste o f sw eetnes& love so deep so true I’ve found in you S o many reasons in so many ways N eed you forever, 1 need you to Stay You are the O ne, you are the O ne I LOVE THE M OST..! ¥ Girl from Ipanema, I miss council.

Happy A l. ¥ From Waqas to dear Mom, Dad and Brothers, I love you all very m uch and you are the m ost pre­ cious things to me in the world may u all live longer and happier, bye G od bless you..! ¥ D ee, You are definetely the L.I.F.E force that keeps me balance. Keep on show ing me w hat real and good love is all about.

Loving you always, N esha ¥ Sweep me off my feet and take m e to morning JK you big hand­ som e m an you! ! Love, Yasmin ¥ A do, you ow e me dinner after I wipe the floor w ith your pants in the hockey pool — Saj ¥ Newsies: JC, KK, RW I'm sorry for harassing you on Saturdays. I just like the sound of your voices. = ) Happy V alentine's Day. djx ¥ Olga, H ave a great V alentine’s Day! From? TH E FR O N T C O U N T E R STAFF! ¥ Pomstar - You couldn’t get any hotter than with your swinging step and all-terrain tw o-tone shoes. I could Stare at you all day.

Psycho ¥ Goatmar, I would like to wish my future sports rep a memorable V alentine’s Day, Love A Secret Admirer ¥ M ike C ., m en w ho take pictures and have vibrating pagers T U R N ME O N ! ! -Secret Admirer ¥ T h e broomball rink bunnies would like to send out a special hello to our favourite team, La Familial see you guys after the game *wink* ¥ S.M - Let’s get back together...please? I miss you! Shivji ¥ Sandi, I still w ant you to be my valentine ¥ rex, Thanks for the rides - they would have been very cold walks hom e.

Happy Valentine's djx ¥ Andres, my favourite little M exican, com e to buffet lunch

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T he M c G ill T ribune , T uesday , today for an afternoon you’ll never forget!! -Your favourite stripper! ¥ Farhan: Keep the drinks to a minimum tonite, ok? -Saj and Rahim ¥ A .A ., let’s see if all that working out has made your “endurance” any good! -Fareen ¥ T o the M ISA ballhockey team: may you fire to the top like red hot julab! Love, T h e Fieldhouse Floor Bunnies. ¥ T o the execs, It’s all about the m ood music and the Ruffian! Happy V-day from your P om Director! !

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¥ Steph, You are my hero.

Karen. ¥ U l Architecture: Hang in there, ‘cause you guys rock my world.

Happy V alen tin e’s Day...

Love, A llison ¥ My Sweetheart, Krista...

O n ce by the river on Rue De La C om m une...

“Five Roses” (and ours) came into bloom.

I love you, my

¥ A lki, you make my spine tingle! — Anar ¥ Linds - T he last 3 months have been amaz­ ing.

Happy V alentine’s Day! ! !

Love Jon ¥ Mildred & Andre, So w hen do we m ove into a flash animated, backend oracle-databased, e-com m erce full service por­ tal? O h, and can we do this by n ext weekend? = ) Happy V alentine's j¥ Z. Taher: “S h e’s got that special sauce, she’s my baby” T oo m uch love -me ¥ T o Paul Conner, Thanks for being a great editor and for supporting us all year.

Karen ¥ H ello Old Man...

I just wanted you to know, I am aware o f your dress code, and will conform. In the m eantim e, don’t miss m e too much, you are the bestest...

Me xxx ¥ A ma chere Marie-Eve Ross: Je te souhaite un bon jour de la Saint-V alentin -Your curly cousin ¥ Samir, please “U SE ME” more!!

I’m just begging to make you some money! Love, Samosa Sales ¥ msx, Diplom acy isn't easy. Happy V alentine's Day. djx

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¥ W indow -shopping for a message box & #8230; I stop to jot down: &#8216;can&L#8217;t believe it has been a year&#8217;. Clara, a Skittles hunt perhaps? ¥ H annah banana, I don’t know where this shooting star w e’ve wished upon is destined for, but for today, my sister, will you he my valentine? -Paul ¥ T o M cGill, You’re a fine college and I appreci­ ate your international aspect, but don’t becom e M cG ill C ollege International. JC ¥ T o L.L.C. W ill you be my Valentine?

J.L.W. ¥ Reid, I can ’t get the Days Inn and breakfast out o f my mind. I regret not exchanging numbers.

Please get in touch at nerka69@ hotmail.com. Karen. ¥ A n d then i want Jordan to take a deep deep breath w hile i .... Love Franchi$e

very special girl!

'J ¥ Dear Cindy You are a h ot girl! Keep it swinging and jiggling Baby! W e love you always!

Erika, T eo and Sabrina ¥ M att W yndowe, I have always admired you in the SSM U office. I even com e by to sneak special and little glances at you in action. A t snowap I was overwhelm ed by your leadership skills and your love for the SS M U student body! I hope on e day I will be able to speak to you and let you know how I feel!

A secret crush ¥ to the newest member of blur...you’re the cutest! ¥ A little bit o f S& M always makes me happy - Ellipsis

¥ T o the M ISA girls ballhockey teams: you guys would be better if you practiced shooting on your couches, love Saj ¥ Dear Blaise You are a wonderful guy!

Secret Admirer ¥ This is for som eone who means a great deal to me, w ho’s very manly hut has some moose-like features as well! ¥ A ., Thanks for letting me w in in wrestling sometimes, G oofy Lover.

Love your D -D -T ie partner ¥ C O U N T R Y GIRL - Everyday the sun w ill rise and set, the tides will m ove in and out, and everyday, 1 WILL LOVE Y O U - j h

¥ JEF: can astronauts really touch the stars? Best wishes from the UK.

¥ Claudia - Seduce me w ith your lights, observe me w ith your detec­ tors, feel me w ith your probes and let me tem pt your analytical senses.

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¥ T o my valentines A ndria and M ichael... May W awi live forever in our hearts!

¥ Boys o f 2075 D e La Montage: Thanks for being the brothers I never had. Steph

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¥ A lpha Love to all my sisters, I am so glad that I have all of you.

Kathleen ¥ N icky B, I’m eighteen and have plastic surgery — and I get steamy thinking about you! Britney S ¥ M RH, I am sorry. Please be my friend, 1 need you so much in my life. KEM ¥ “A n y water anywhere?”-(#T 7) N o o n e ’s love can compare!

-T.M . ¥ T o Carolyn K., Your cheerfulness and patience with a som etim es difficult news ed i­ tor is appreciated. Happy V-day. JC ¥ Dear Yoga Babe, it has almost been a year and I can’t wait for our reunion breakfast at eggspectations.

You mean everything to me and there is nothing else in this world that 1 love more! Your V alentine, Hotstuff. ¥ O h, my darling, oh my darling, oh my dar­ ling Ashley!

W e all want to wish you agreat V alentine’s Day! T he SSM U FRO NT

C O U N T E R STAFF! (you know who we are!) ¥ T O SCOLB: to the underappreciated! you’re wonderful! ¥ RCX, despite heavy edits, I still like your manifestos. SLX

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¥ bag bag, W e missed Sunday! W e need a catchup round. T hink full-plate, dirty ¥ T o everyone at DES A , It’s been a great year,, let’s have dinner som etim e. T he lit stream rep. ¥ T eo Lasarte tu es “ a sweet senor” from all the girls at the front counter o f the SSM U .

TH E W O M EN A T TH E FRO NT ¥ N ancy, Adm iration of your strengths eclipses your weaknesses, C ontem plation to venture and embrace mine would be absolutely divine. ¥ Dear Erika, You are the sw eet­ est candy in the world!

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¥ T o the Tribune staff... A lthough I’m usually hammered at ed-board, a m illion drunken kisses to each and every one o f you. -M S

¥ A M el haiku: Grey urban winter Stills n o t the liquid colors, Vibrant in your soul.

¥ Dear Pufneddy, I’ve loved having this year w ith you. tua valentina

¥ CPX, Thanks for caring about all my trips to the A lley and for w elcom ing me into the world o f features. It’s fun not having to worry anymore.

Steph

¥ T o all my friends at the PGSS: I love you! Have a great St.V alentine’s Day, and see you at the H ollyw ood Party! Luv, Steph

¥ T o KM AW SX: T o the office, the parties, the laughs ... the stress. Happy V alen tin e’s Day!

¥ T o Xavier V C & W yndowe You’re the man, baby.

Jenna J.

¥ N isha, Apprend-moi à aimer !

A lasily enigm atic X

¥ Dearest Pan, Tw o things: 1. Squish; 2. Squash — Panda

¥ Bobby, my fellow lounge cat... perhaps our days o f watching m ovies, eating sushi and playing Scrabble are just beginning. I love you. -MS

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¥ Paul Slachta: w ithout you, I’d be a measly tw elve page paper. Thanks for giving me life. T he Tribune.

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W h en are we going for our coffee?

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¥ DJ and KP, maybe n ex t year you’ll have an office romance???

¥ Features writers everywhere: thanks for being interested in the world at large. Your editors

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¥ DR, T h e old media strategy may have been more fun, hut it’s still good to be queen.

SL ¥ T o Maria... Happy V alen tin e’s Day. Love, A Secret Admirer ¥ A & E writers...

W ithout you, this paper would have no soul. Thanks for your hard work and patience (especially for my naps in the office). -Maria. ¥ N ewsies (KP, R W , JC): Prepare for the most chaotic m onth o f your lives- but you’ve made it this far and you’ll make it all the way.

Happy V alentine’s. Steph ¥ Rodentia, You may not he blue, but you have an awesome startup sound.

Love, Ingrid ¥ ngx, Take me with you - 1 fit in mid-size suitcases.

Happy V alentine's Day. djx ¥ Shmarkey, you’re my bower! ¥ IGOR V A L E N O V IC H , It has been many moons since I’ve caressed your knuckle free hand.

W hen again shall I feel shivers of delight brought o n by your humped back ? 1 miss you so.

Stephanie

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¥ T o Maria, Rylee, Tigger, Katie, R onel, Jeff and especially John and Myma: You guys are awesome.

Karen.

¥ Yo Yo Ma, W hat could words say that my face could not? H ow much I shall miss you w hen you go.

Steph

¥ T o my adoring Front Desk Staff I know you love me for everything I am...

I am still thinking o f what to say to you!

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¥ A d èle T h e rock upon w hich I’ve built my life here.

Blond, brunette, 21 (either tim e) You’ve been there.

My love is w ith you always. ¥ Sarah, You’re all 1 need, my love, my V alentine — Ed

¥ SR - 1 love your hair just the way it is...

Love, JF

¥ Photo kids: thanks for all the conceptual shots. Steph

¥ C ornett,

¥ Sandon,

Dude, what happened? How did we get this job anyways? Thanks for “keepin it real.”

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— 3573 ¥ G enevieve, Happy Birthday! j-

¥ Finnigan, C om e visit the round table som e­ time.

Yours, iMacDaddy ¥ H eather R - 1 w ish I had the gift o f making rhymes, for methinks there is poetry in my head and heart since I have been in love w ith you. Faithfully, DK ¥ R eevely...SSM U is worse off for not having you to keep them in check. ¥ M om, I love to hear your voice over the phone, and even more to see you. I love you, Paul ¥ My favorite A tlantican — Som e “Real Love” for my *1 regular even though I’m way too young for you.

But the potlucks make it all worth­ while. ¥ Rebecca, Every tim e I turn on the radio and roam the channels, 1 think o f you and circus music. PC ¥ Elspador Dayly, T h e fnusic w e’ve made together has been as wonderful as our friendship.

Steph ¥ dearest sean, Thanks for making me smile, love ya, bee ¥ Mutz!!! W ill you be my Secret Valentine? W ith tenderness and affection, W ally ¥ T o all those SSM U boys, D o n ’t pretend you’re me. There can be only one. If you’re too naughty I m ight just have to spank you. Happy V alen tin e’s Day. Love, T he real J. Jameson. ¥ Dearest Rachel, T u me manque déjà — Sandon ¥ T o the Tribune girls... A lthough n on e o f us can ever run for office, you are all awesome. -M S ' ¥ Chris, My head says no but my heart says yes. \

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¥ Blinique, You’re a bad,bad man!

— Dr. Brown ¥ Maria, Is it alm ost 4:30? W ant a beer?

M mmmm... Beer.

Karen. ¥ T o Carrie... Happy V alentine’s Day. Love, A Secret Admirer ¥ Paul Conner...

My V alentine’s Day vow -1 WILL BEA T Y OU A T SE G A RALLY. W e both know this is fate. -MS ¥ Derek, Carrie and Laura...

“T here’s no grief, it’s all love.” Isn’t that the truth.

-MS ¥ Dearest Tasha, cleaner o f floors, washer o f dishes, best o f all ITWP players, rocketeer o f parties. Happy V alentine's Day. Love Kirk. Just kiddin' —W e love you. Kerri and Keri ¥ rian, Glad you're back from the Emerald Isle so you can keep m e in line.

H ave a good one, You-know-who. ¥ T o the Rubber Duckies!

Som e day the point spread will reflect our true abilities. W e know we rock. Happy V alentine's Day! ¥ Keri You are TH E R ocket Party com ­ panion. Here's to all our broken hearts... A S IF! ¥ Brittany, Here's a big sm ile from m e to you...

H ave a great V alentine's... ¥ T o the best 1/3 o f apt. 307; valentine's is just one more excuse for rocket-parties...hint hint! Luv the other 2/3 o f 307 ¥ T o the six beautiful babies on L.Crescent, we think you're real hot- can we suck face? Love, all the boys in the ghetto. ¥ Kiai,

As if that weren’t enough, from5 to 7 p.m at the Bookstore Café you can swoon to the cosmic stylings of Montreal jazz sensation Jazzma'

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Op/Ed Page 13

Pow erPoint Prom otes Piss-Poor Perform ance T h e A m e r ic a n w a r r io r p h ilo s o p h e r D a v id H a c k w o r th has d ecried h ow d ep e n d e n c e on P ow erP oint is eroding leadership in th e U S m ilita r y . L e a d e r sh ip has so m e th in g in c o m m o n w ith le c t u r in g an d p r e s e n t in g . Y o u have som e exp erience (ev en if it is o n ly a c o u p le o f d a y s worth o f library and Internet r e se a r c h ) in an u n fa m ilia r a r e a , t h r o u g h w h ic h y o u lead your a u d ien ce, aim in g to m ake them m ore M arine by the en d . U n fo rtu n a te ly , relian ce on P ow erP oin t can detract from this as w ell.

P ow erP oint is a “presentation graphics program m e.” T hink o f it th is w ay. Y o u k n ow th o se slid e c a r o u s e l s s c i e n c e p r o f s a re a lw a y s lu g g i n g around?

P o w e r P o in t is a s lid e c a r o u s e l packed in to a 3 -1 /2 in ch flop p y.

But P ow erP oint d o esn ’t ju st show static slid es o f photos y ou to o k or

c o p ie s you m ade. T ake your ty p i­ c a l c la s s o u tlin e , w ith h e a d in g s “I., II., and III.,” , w ith sub-head­ in g s “a), b), c ).” P ow erP oint lets y ou m o v e each o f th ese onto the screen on e by o n e. Y o u can u se a lm o st an y fo n t y o u w a n t, y ou can put a v a riety o f c o lo u rs and

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T h a t ’ s p r e c is e ly th e p r o b le m .

W hen som e p e o p le u se P ow erP oint, th ey fall into think­ ing that this toy can B E the w h o le show . Lecturers/presenters d evote so m uch energy to p erfecting the t e c h n i c a l m in u t ia e th a t th e y n e g le c t th e ir o w n p resen tation sk ills.

S o, you g et a S p ie lb e r g - q u a lit y slid e sh ow narrated b y P h o e b e fr o m Friends. ( I m a g in e th e R o c k s ittin g b e s id e s K in g and J.R., h is craptop con n ected to the T ita n tro n ; “Turn th at su m b itc h sid e w a y s (p lick !) and stick it up (p lic k !) your r o o d y -p o o ( p lic k ! ) ...” U gh , w h ere’s a PortA -John w hen y ou need one?)

I t ’ s n o t o n ly th e a u d ie n c e w h o s u ffe r s. H u m a n s, F ear F a c t o r y n o t w it h s t a n d i n g , a re

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im a g e s (in c lu d in g im p orted c lip art) in the background. H ell, you c a n e v e n th r o w in s o m e c o o l sounds. O nce yo u put it together, all y ou n eed to do is insert your 3 - 1 / 2 in t o th e c o m p u t e r , a n d press the right arrow k ey for your n e x t p o in t, and th e n y o u r n e x t s l id e (a n d s p e c i a l e f f e c t s ) , to c o m e on.

H a p p y You live in beauty You change my life I want to lie beside you Love, afk

¥ T o Paolo M angalindon, Be our valentine, love the girls team V T o Erik Shessler Be our valetine. love the girl's team

¥ T o Keith Sutherland Be our valentine! ! love the girl's team * T o N athan Sutherland Be our valentine!! love the girl's team

¥ to my roomie Stay cooool Stacy and be mine! luv Jac aka. the butterfly! ¥ o Luvleee... each tim e 1 see balloons, it's you 1 think about...thank you soo much, it was really sweet! it was done beautiful-leee! luv J. ¥ Z: so you refer to m e as m ini-you but m eanw hile it's really you that's m ini-m e...to my favourite Cheerleader o f the pack, let's go dance to some more BSB songs!

Happy V-day Jac ¥ K: will you be m ine and go out to sushi w ith me? Happy V-day ~J

¥ T o Shane U tter Be our valentine!! love the girl's team

¥ T o M atthew Walker Be our valentine! ! love the girl's team ¥ T o the Men's Swim Team,

¥ Hey R V C T 2-T 3 (1998-99), Happy V alentines Day! I miss you all!

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You rock my world! Happy V alentines Day! -(M am a) Tams

¥ H ello R VC W 2nd, T o my FAVORITE floor, 1 have 4 words to say to you- 'I love you all' -nough said!

T amana

¥ Flo aka Warden, 'WE LOVE YA'.

P.S. W e look forward to Lily Pad! Your Y2K girls- Tam, N at, Carma, A lice, Cindy, N im o ¥ Looking into your eyes...

It’s Just more than words T o the most wonderful thing that ever happened to me, Happy V alentine, H anahino ¥ It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart, w ithout saying a word you can light up the dark...,Love, H anahino

N O T ob solete. In the end, w e still n eed to co m m u n ica te w ith other PEO PLE. That m eans b eing able to o r g a n iz e y o u r id e a s s o th at there is a clea r and lo g ic a l flo w b etw een them . It d oes not su ffice to m erely splash your thoughts on paper or on a P o w erP o in t slid e.

Y o u s t ill n eed to sp ea k so that your au d ien ce, be it o n e, be it a hundred, understands and is co n ­ verted by your work.

I h ad to d o a p r e s e n ta tio n w h e r e in th e u se o f P o w e r P o in t w a s a de fa cto requirem ent (i.e . not o ffic ia lly m andated, but n ec­ e ssa ry to c o m p ete w ith the o th ­ e r s ) . O n ly , th e c o m p u t e r w a s to a s t th at c la s s . W e s t ill g o t a 15/15. W hy? M y partner w as an e x c e p t io n a lly b r a v e and g if te d p erso n , and I can h o ld m y ow n w h ile sp eak in g p u b licly . R eason is , I w a s b le s s e d — y o u rea d it right, B L E SSE D — to have an ear­ lier p rof w ho forced m e to g iv e a

D a y ¥ T his is a shout out to my honey JAC! girl, you so fine you know you blow my mind you , me, & Dawson !!!

¥ It has been the most wonderful year ever,hoping that it will be till forever, Hanhoun. ¥ Gerasimos, you w ill always be a part o f me and my love for you will always grow stronger.

Love, Radoslava

¥ T o my lovely girlz... no matter what happens, i love you guys and really want you to know that you are both very special to me! happy valentine's day! love Med V.

¥ Dearest Radoslava, Your presence shines so brightly that I can't remember any V alentine's o f the past and can't con ceive o f any in the future w ith­ out you.

Love Always, Gerasimos

¥ G enevieve, you are the most beautiful girl 1 have laid eyes on. I hope to get a chance to talk to you soon...Thierry ¥ Happy V alentines day to the best floor in residence: G A N D N E R 4th

¥ Dearest Radoslava, Because o f you I can't remember any V alentine's o f the past and can't conceive o f any in the future w ithout you.

Love, Gerasimos

¥ I love you, Dabadibo (w ho talks!!)

¥ Happy cupid to the lovely ladies Fiona and Megan. ¥ T o the Martlet hockey team, T w o words: Beat U Q T R - JC

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W ishing you a happy V alentine's Day and the best o f luck at QFs this weekend, love the W om en's Team

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I ain ’t Tipper G ore, eternally lam enting the passing o f that era w hen “m other” w as a word all by itself. I am sayin g that each and every one o f you has the potential to be a decent speaker. D o n ’t let P ow erP oint sn u ff that out.

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By S. Farrell a n d M . Lazar

D ear S&M, M y b e s t f r ie n d and I went to the last B lood D rive to give blood and he was not a llo w e d to g iv e because he is a homosexual male. I f e e l that this is a discrim inatory practice and I d o n ’t want to sup­ port an organization that is preju­ dice against groups o f people. So, I am unsure if / should give blood a g a in . I t ’s a g o o d ca u se , b u t H e m a -Q u e b e c is run b y som e idiots. What do you think?

Queer Positive Dear Queer Positive, Y es, you should give blood at the next b lood drive. It is not the peop le’s fault w ho need blood that

the drives are disrcriminatory. And y e s, they are discrim inatory. D id you know that a man w ho has had sex with another man, one time, in 1970, can not g iv e blood ? T hink about it. A ll b lo o d is tested and there is no reason that people who w a n t to g iv e b lo o d s h o u ld b e refused solely based on their sexual o r ie n ta tio n . If there has to be a screening process, it should ask if a p erso n has had u n p ro tected se x with another person, in the last six m o n th s, p e r io d . T h e p e o p le at H e m a -Q u eb ec n eed to w ak e up.

HIV/A1DS is not a gay m an’s disease-it never has been. Everyone is at risk to aquire it. In fact, the high­ est rising rate o f people with HIV is young fem ales. It is absurd that an o rg a n iza tio n that is b a sed on

scientific know ledge is being con­ trolled by stereotyp es and preju­ dice. But, Q ueer P ositive there is som ething you and the rest o f our readers can do to try to change the w ay blood drives are run. Write to H em a-Q u eb ec and tell them that you think their practices are d is­ crim inatory, and w ell, ridiculous, and that you w ould like to see them changed. H ere’s the address: Hema-Quebec 4045 Cote-Vertu Boulevard V ille St. Laurent Quebec, H4R 2W 7

Give blood, but fight the hate. Thanks to Queer McGill fo r helping us out with the column.

Questions, Comments?? email us at: mlazar@po-box.mcgill.ca

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T h e g ift s • The story o f St. V alentine g iv es som e in sigh t into w hy cards and flo w e r are tr a d itio n a l g if t s fo r V a len tin e’s D ay. T he w itn essed m iracle o f St. V alentine happened on the day o f his death. V alentine, both a doctor and a C h r is t ia n p r ie s t , wrote a note to one o f h is p atien ts: a y o u n g b lin d g ir l.

W h en sh e o p e n e d the note, she w as able to see a y e l­ low crocus inside for her ey esig h t had been restored.

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film s, he also invented the artifi­ cia l heart. H e donated the patent for it to the U niversity o f Utah.

• Z eppo M arx o f Marx Brothers fa m e o w n ed a patent for a w rist w atch w ith a heart monitor.

• A n cien t E gyptians regarded the heart as the center o f in telligen ce and em otion.

• A w o m a n ’s heart b eats faster than a m an’s.

Source: www.absolutetrivia.com C h o c o la t e • C hocolate w as once considered a t e m p ta tio n o f th e d e v i l . In C entral A m erica n m ou n tain v il­ lages during the 18th century, no o n e u n der th e a g e o f s ix ty w a s perm itted to drink it, and church­ g o e r s w h o d e fie d th e ru le w ere threatened with excom m unication.

• A ccording to U .S. candy m anu­ f a c t u r e r s , A m e r ic a n s s p e n d $ 1 ,1 0 5 m illio n each V a le n tin e ’s D a y on candy, m aking it the fou rth b ig g e s t h o li­ d a y o f th e y e a r fo r c o n f e c t io n e r y p u r ­ chases. In order, the top three h o l­ id a y s fo r c a n d y s a l e s are H allow een , Christm as, and Easter.

• C itizen s o f D enm ark con su m e m ore c h o c o la te and ca n d y than anyw here e lse in the w orld at 29.5 p o u n d s per p erso n per year.

Canadians are now here clo se , not e v e n ra n k in g in th e to p tw e n ty c o n s u m e r s o f c o n f e c t io n a r y goods.

• C h o c o la te m a n u fa ctu rers cu r­ r e n tly u s e 4 0 p e r c e n t o f th e w o r ld ’s alm on d s and 2 0 p ercen t o f the w orld ’s peanuts.

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• In Idaho, a citizen is forbidden by la w to g iv e another c itiz e n a b o x o f ca n d y that w e ig h s m ore than 5 0 pounds.

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History of Little Burgundy: Montreal's original black community he history of blacks in Canada is often a silent one - Canadians often assume that the atrocities against black communities that occurred in the United States did not happen here. Yet, since the sixteenth century Canada’s black community has faced the same challenges as their southern brethren, dealing with racism on economic, social and political levels. Dorothy Williams in her book The R o a d to Now: A H istory o f B lacks in M ontreal, tells the story of Montreal’s black community and their contribution to the city of Montreal, which is reflected in the photos of various black community landmarks seen below.

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By Paul C o nner a n d S tephanie Levitz

C o m m e r c e o n S t. A n t o in e

M c G ill U n iv e r s it y In the late 1960s and early ‘70s, McGill was home to a growing black student movement made up o f students from both M cG ill and Sir G eorge W illiam s University (now Concordia). A s the students began to establish links they realized that almost all blacks attending the two uni­ versities were not natives o f the Montreal black communi­ ty, but instead from communities in the United States or overseas. The students determined that a lack o f black involvement in both the administration and the lack o f pro­ motion o f education for black students was what led to such low representation o f the Quebec black community at area universities. In April o f 1970, these students persuad­ ed the Academic Policy committee o f the McGill Senate to accept a summer program for high school students that would stream them into M cGill. Successful graduates o f the new program would be accepted into the University as if they had graduated from a Quebec school.

R u fu s R o c k h e a d “Ah when it came to jazz, Montreal never had it so good. The m ost fam ous club w as in that now vacant lot on the corner — Rockhead’s Paradise at 1258 St-Antoine W. Rufus Rockhead quit the railroads in 1928 and opened the first nightclub actually owned by a Black” - A Guide to Ethnic Montreal Back in the 1920s, Little Burgundy was a hotspot for jazz clubs and bars. The large workforce that worked in the area railyards com ­ bined w ith a sig n ifica n t resid en tial population to m ake L ittle Burgundy a vibrant part o f the city.

Today, seventy years later, a sm all street near the Atwater Market is named after Rockhead. Just south o f the street, adjacent to the canal, a plot o f land has been set aside for a park to be named after one o f the community’s strongest ties to historic jazz music.

St-Antoine Street, historically, was a commer­ cial neighbourhood centre not unlike Victoria Street in the Cote-des-Neiges district. In the 1960s, how ev­ er, urban renewal and a highway building boom hit M ontreal and changed all this. The arrival o f the V ille Marie Expressway meant the demolition o f half the streetscape and the loss o f most o f its businesses.

The Guide to Ethnic Montreal writes that this store, Marché St. Antoine, is one o f only handful o f vestiges left from a fairly vibrant West Indian com ­ mercial centre. A bove the store, a man named Joe w ho has lived in the building for forty-plus years explained that most people shop at A lexis Nihon Plaza instead o f in Little Burgundy. Inside the store, the former owner talked briefly about a W est Indian community that, irrespective o f the number o f busi­ nesses in the area, continue to thrive.

U n io n U n it e d C h u r c h The Church is often viewed as the center o f spiritu­ al and cultural unification for many ethnic communities.

At the turn o f the century, Montreal’s black community belonged to a wide variety o f churches, but lacked one central place o f worship. The push for a comm unity church was led by a group o f Canadian Pacific Railway porters and their wives who sought to create an institu­ tion that could be the focal point of a growing communi­ ty. The Union Congregational Church was founded in 1907 and moved into its first home on Inspector Street in 1910. The congregation took over its present location on D e lisle street in 1917 and becam e known as the Union United Church in 1925.

photos: Paul Conner

T h e N e g r o C o m m u n ity C e n tre The 1920s were a period o f rapid growth for the Montreal black community. With the establishment o f the Union church as the spiritu­ al centre, the community turned its focus on creating a cultural home as w ell. In 1927, the Negro Community Centre was founded on a mandate o f advancing the social and economic conditions o f blacks in Montreal with activities that were social, recreational and educational in nature. Originally located in the basement o f the Union Church, the NCC moved into its current home on Coursol street in July o f 1955.

The etym ology o f the Canadian Alliance D is c o v e r in g a p o p u lis t n a t io n a l m o v e m e n t a t t h e U n it e d A lt e r n a t iv e c o n v e n t io n

By Jeffrey D erman Public appeal w ill always be a d ecid in g factor in the su c c e s s or fa ilu r e o f p o litic a l p a r tie s. T h e M cG ill Tribune w as at the United Alternative conference ten days ago in Ottawa w itnessing the formation of th e C a n a d ia n R e fo r m Conservative A lliance, an off-shoot o f the Reform Party to see behind the new mask o f Preston M anning’s leadership.

Politicians in attendance were

primarily associated with either the R efo rm Party n a tio n a lly , or the P r o g r e s s iv e C o n s e r v a tiv e s at a p rovin cial le v e l. Other groups in a tte n d a n c e in c lu d e d th e A c tio n Dém ocratique du Q uebec, and the Saskatchewan Party.

The word going around in the Tory and Liberal Party cam ps, is that the Canadian A lliance is just a rein ca rn a tio n o f the o ld R eform Party; a sort o f w o lf in s h e e p ’s c lo th in g . C h ristin e St. P ierre o f R adio Canada su g g e ste d that the

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R eform Leader M anning “d o esn ’t g et a lot o f co v era g e in Q u eb ec” citin g the “language barrier” as a primary cause.

S h e a ls o a c k n o w le d g e d the core Reform platform seem ed to be adopted into the Canadian Alliance.

One wonders why M anning seem s so determined to forge ahead with the new party. D o e sn ’t he realize that everybody w ill figure him out?

It seem s that that might be exactly what the Reform leader is banking on.

O c c a s io n a lly ca st as a right w in g , p s e u d o -fa c is t, so m e tim e s racist, anti-Quebec, Bible-thumping W esterner, M anning’s sharp co n ­ trast between this caricature and his s e lf-d e s c r ip tio n in th e a u to b io ­ graphical 1991 book N ew Canada, admittedly raised my eyebrow more than once.

In his book, M anning outlines h is life and contributing personal and p r o fe s s io n a l fa c to r s w h ic h form ed his personal and political view s. He worked out o f university

as a m a n a g in g c o n s u lta n t in A lb erta . H is fo r m a tiv e ven tu res were focused on the reconciliation, at a local and private level, o f col­ lective interests.

W orking c lo s e ly w ith native groups, and local citizens in Slave Lake, A lberta, M anning attributes much o f his developm ent to politi­ c a l th o u g h t, to th e s e a c tiv itie s , w h ich is lik e ly the sou rce o f his “grass roots” populist dem ocratic sta n c e . A t tim e s it s e e m e d h is

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SSMU Progress Report W H A T 'S G O IN G

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Here's a brief update. Questions or comments? Give us a shout at 398 -6800 , or check out ssmu.mcgill.ca Paid Advertisement

SSMU COMMITTEES, COUNCILLORS, COMMISSIONERS, COMMITMENTS AND VOLUNTEERS

■SSMU Executive Committee (President, Vice-Presidents and General Manager) ■SSMU Legislative Council (34 Faculty, Clubs & Services representatives and Executive Committee) - Speakers of Council (Melissa Pallett &Ayana Hutchinson) - Recording Secretary (Brigitte LeNormand) •President's Council - Presidents of all faculties and the Post Graduate Students' Society (PGSS) •Senate Caucus •Commissioners - Faculty Relations Commissioner (Danielle Lanteigne) - International Students Commissioner (Nasreen Jessani) - Francophone Commissioner (Louis-Philippe Messier) •Presidential Affairs Committee (Environment and Constitutional Sub-Committees) - Councillors: Francois Tanguay-Renaud (LSA), Hugh Sturgess (MUS), Shelina Jiwa (SUS), Lisa Silver (EdUS), Chase Robinson (AUS) - Members-at-large: Yousuf Aftab, Sarah Rachlin - Presidential Attaché: Jesse Andrews - Volunteers: Jeff Roberts, Vito Chelli, Mark Unger, Nathalie Ivanov, Kathy Grace, Andres Friedman, Jonathan Bonder, Shannon Sutton, S.Sabahath Ahmed, Maryam Mahallati, Aya Larson, Claire Walsh McGILL ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEES AND COMMITMENTS

•Board of Governors (BoG) - Executive Committee - Building and Property Committee ■Senate (including University Bookstore subcommittee) ■Budget and Planning Group •Committee for the Co-ordination of Student Services - Financial Sub-Committee ■Athletics Board of Directors •Alumni Board of Directors •Special Committee on Residences •Vice-Principal Finance Selection Committee

CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES

Hello and Welcome Back!

In these last few weeks before the provincial and federal budgets, the SSMU and its execu­ tive have been working on pressuring the government for re-investment while maintaining representation on over 50 university committees and creating new events and services to improve student life on campus.

As president, I am currently working on projects that cover a range of areas that the SSMU deals with. Aside from my regular representation to the Board of Governors, Senate and several other committees, I have been working in conjunction with VP Community and Government Affairs Wojtek Baraniak to increase our force in external representation and am pleased to announce that for the first time in years, a partnership has been agreed to between the SSMU and the student associations at Université de Montréal and Laval in Québec. An upcoming joint letter and petition to the Quebec Government will be a great force in the SSMU's continued pressure for re-investment from the Quebec Government (uni­ versities need $800 million more a year!).

Closer to McGill, I have been working in conjunction with VP Operations Kevin McPhee in the drafting, negotiating and general work on the Cold Beverage Agreement. The negotiations with the Administration have been in good faith in these negotiations and concerns and demands of students are continually being sent and added to the agreement with the univer­ sity. Overall, this agreement and the funds it will add to McGill University should prove to be a good venture for students at McGill.

I am also proud to announce three new programs/services to benefit McGill students. The new SSMU Travel program, under Yousuf Aftab's direction, is ready for use, and offers the best prices in travel for McGill students to travel this upcoming summer for less — please contact us for cheap flights home. Secondly, through discussion with the vice-principals, the university administration has agreed to co-sponsor the first year of the new SSMU shuttle service. This shuttle, under the co-ordination of Shannon Sutton, will make travelling to and around McGill easier for all students, and the first buses will be running within the next few weeks. Finally, I am happy to announce, after meeting with the Mayor and his office, the SSMU and the fondation du Maire will be in partnership to create and fund the first SSMU Small-Business Start-up Centre. All students will be eligible to present their idea and receive grant monies to get their ideas and own businesses on their feet.

The upcoming months will definitely be exciting ones, with continued pressure on the govern­ ment, consistent strong representation of student needs to the University and new SSMU services and programs to make your McGill experience the best it can possibly be. If you have any questions about these or any other issues, or would like to get involved in any way, please contact me at pres@ssmu.mcgill.ca or drop by the office in the new Student Services Building. Have a good semester.

V P U n iv e r s ity A ffa ir s * • • •

Senate is the highest deci­ sion-making body of the University, which decides all policies and legislation with regards to our academic pro­ grams and anything relating to university activity. My consti­ tutional mandate is to chair the student Senate Caucus with the implications that I will coordinate student represen­ tation to the University, and appoint and advise student representatives. Additionally, I am responsible for ensuring communication between SSMU Council, the student senators, and all student members of university com­ mittees.

Xavier Van Chau ua@ ssmu.mcgill.ca

PEOPLE I WORK WITH

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Finance Committee Councilors Rich Retyi Sheriff Abdou François-Tanguay Renaud Phillipe Gohier AJ Silber Members at Large Sarah Rachlin Catherine Weiler Andres Friedman Heidi Smith Executive VP CS Sam Gross Financial Ethics Research Committee: Councilors Hugh Sturgess Dusty Okazaki Rich Retyi Research Advisors Jay Antao Charlotte Garden Vito Cheli Sam Kamhawi

Andrew Tischler pres@ ssmu.mcgill.ca

CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES

•To be the chief officer of the Society; •To ensure the long term integrity of the Society; ■To be the spokesperson for the Society in a manner not inconsistent with policies set out by Council; ■To enforce the Constitution and By-laws of the Society; •To chair and coordinate the activities of the Executive Committee; ■To call meetings and set the agenda for Council •To co-ordinate relations between the Society and the administration of McGill University; ■To coordinate Society representation on University selection committees for senior administrators and University representatives; ■To ensure communication between the Society and the Board of Governors; ■To attend meetings of the University Senate and Board of Governors; •To Develop external policies with the Vice President Community and Government Affairs; ■To reside in the Montreal area throughout the term in office.

•Appeal Committee for Student Discipline and Grievances •Advisory Council on the Charter of Student Rights •Equity Committee ■Joint Senate Board Committee on Technology Transfer ■Nominating Committee ■Senate Steering •All ad hoc committees, subcommittees, workgroups, and boards that fall under the jurisdiction of any of the above -mentioned committees.

UNIVERSITY BODIES

■Senate •Academic Policy and Planning Committee The following is a list of the major projects I will be working on for the remainder of the ■Planning and Priorities semester: ■University Admissions Committee ■University Bookstore Committee •Implementing a Course Evaluations system to be effective as of September 2000.

•Committee on the Coordination of •Getting students to sit on University Tenure Committees Student Services ■Improving the user-friendliness of the Course Calendar ■Honorary Degrees and ■Lobbying for a structure for internships in our academic programs Convocations Committee •Committee on Information Systems I also wanted to take this opportunity to thank all the people I have been working with to and Technology make this year a real success for the UA portfolio. Special thanks to: Catherine Weiler, ■Committee on Libraries from FYSA to FYCC, Zainab Abdurrahman from UAC to WAK, Michelle Dean, from ARO to •Committee on Physical ARC, and especially to Clara Peron for all the hard work, commitment, encouragement Development and the Course Evaluations.

■University Committee on Scholarships and Student Aid WHAT IS THE SENATE? The McGill Senate is along with the McGill Board Of Governors the highest decision mak­ •Committee on Student Affairs ing body of the University. All plans related to the development of our academic pro­ •Committee on Student Discipline grams, university research and teacher and student related services see their way to the •Committee on Student Grievances McGill Senate to be discussed and decided upon. The McGill Senate is composed of administrators, deans and faculty members as well as students__________________

SSMU COMMITTEES

■Student Senate Caucus •SSMU University Affairs Committee •Library Improvement Fund Committee

V P O p e r a tio n s We are just over a month into the semester and already a number of developments have been made in the Operations portfolio. Renovations to the Education cafeteria have been completed. Starting this week, Fair Trade Coffee will be sold at Sadie's making this alternative caffeine fix more available on campus. The Alley is finally open. MSF Opt Out, the week of January 17th to 21st, was successful in allowing McGill students to make a choice about where their money goes. An agreement has been drafted to create an income tax office in the Shatner Building to help students file claims at reasonable rates. I have also had the opportunity to work shifts at both Sadie's and Gert’s. This insider’s view will allow me to work more effectively in maintaining the efficiency of these operations.

With only three months left in the semester, there are more things I hope to accomplish before the end of the year. With the upcoming referendum question, the student body will have an opportunity to voice their opinions about the Cold Beverage Agreement. Adecisive answer from the McGill community will allow for decisive steps towards accepting or rejecting this agreement. We are also hoping to increase postal services in the student union building. I also plan to complete the negotiations of any outstanding leases in the Shatner Building.

If you ever have any questions about what is going on within the Student's Society's operations or if you have suggestions for operations you'd like to see operated by the Students' Society, feel free to give me a call at 398-6802 or email me at operations@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES

■Manage SSMU's operations in Shatner (Gerts, Sadies, Cafeteria) •Manage SSMU's operations outside Shatner and off-campus ■Manage SSMU's Health and Dental Plan •Provide input to the General Manager on staff initiatives •Oversee the management of technology within SSMU

Kevin McPhee

operations@ ssm u.m cgill.ca

WHO I WORK WITH

cscoc (clubs and services committee of council) Mark Reich Yuja Kang Andres Friedman Clementine Riant Paris Jane Ng Claire Jennings Ismael Coulabili Ian Simmons Activities Day Coordinators Sam Ntomne Nick Brandon Culturefest Coordinators Sylvia Assad Sukaina Leadership Conference Coordinators Andria Samis Ashley Zarella Alcohol Awareness Committee Taken up by CSCOC

CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES

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•I am the link between SSNIU and its clubs, services and publications (SSMU currently funds over $100,000 to over 130 clubs, services and publications, with over 10,000 members!)

•I communicate the policies and procedures of the Society, financial and otherwise, to the clubs services and publications.

■I meet with the officers of the Societies clubs, services, and publications to discuss their budget submissions.

•I provide activities, events, and support services to enhance the well being of the Societies clubs services and publications.

•I maintain relationships between the Society and independent student groups, not including Faculty Associations.

•I manage the use of the University Centre in conjunction with the general manager ■I coordinate the physical development of the University Centre

The past two months have seen the completion of several projects under the clubs and services portfolio. The Students' Society offices, SACOMSS, and MISN have all been moved to the new Student Services Building, Activities Night and the Presidents’ Dinner have come and gone, and progress has been made in making the University Centre a more secure space. The clubs and services committee has been working on the implemen­ tation of two new services to be introduced next September 2000, which I plan to continue working on all sum­ mer. Culturefest is coming March 6-10, Leader Appreciation Night February 11 and Awards Night in April. Also, 8 clubs have been created over the past couple months, along with the revival of some of the old. All in all, it has been an action packed period. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who I have worked with over the past year. To all the clubs, services, and publications executives — congratulations. You are the strongest, most innovative, and interesting group I have ever had the pleasure of working with. To all, my door is always open. I thank the students for entrusting me with this position and for the most memorable and rewarding year of my life. I wish you only the best.

HOWDO I START A CLUB?

To start all club, just bring two friends and your idea to my attention. You will need to write a constitution out­ lining the mandate and guidelines for the clubs operation. Once we have completed bringing the constitution into line with that of the SSMU your idea will be passed through council for approval!

Sam anthaG ross clubacc@ ssmu.mcgill.ca

WHY WOULD I WANT TO ASSOCIATE MY GROUP WITH THE SSMU?

Being a SSMU club gives you access to recruiting events, email, web space, room bookings, funding and vari­ ous other privileges.

WHAT'S IN THE NEW BUILDING ON MCTAVISH?

That's the William and Mary brown Student Services Building. Basically, all of the Powell Student services have been moved along with a couple SSMU services and the executive offices.

V P C o m m u n i c a t i o n s ............................. & E v e n ts Just to recap what this new position of VP CE entails, for those of you who don't know: it's VP Internal minus the clubs stuff and plus this new idea of focusing on communications with students at large.

On the events side of the portfolio, the semester kicked off working with Snow-AP. The event was a lot of fun thanks to some great coordinators, volunteers bands and DJs. Even with the unusually cold weather later on in the week, people managed to have a good time; the best description I heard of Snow-AP was a “unique Celebration of the Canadian Winter." Due to the terrific response we got from McGill bands and DJs wanting to play at the event, I'm working with some coordinators on organizing an open mic night at Gerts for local bands and DJs to play at. If you’re interested in getting involved in this, call 398-8208.

In terms of communication, I’m quite happy with the progress that SSMU has been able to make this year. Previously, if SSMU had a message we wanted to get across to students, whether it was McGill's Y2K readiness or information on a club event, we had virtually no formalized way of doing it. Nowthere exists the POST postering service, a monthly campus events listing, the SSMU Open Meeting forums, the E-McGill email list including most undergrad students, and a more effective and used SSMU web page.

MattW yndowe

ce@ssmu.mcgill.ca

CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES

■To promote communication between the society and its membership, utilizing a variety of media.

■To develop and implement a communications strategy for the SSMU Executive.

■To assist each individual Executive, where possible, in matters of communication.

•To coordinate and oversee the programming of activities and events in a manner not inconsistent with policies set out fromtime to time by council.

The next big steps in terms of communication will be increased student feedback and involvement. We have already taken some steps to allow students a direct voice to SSMU including the Open Forums and the first SSMU Student Survey (the results of which are currently being tabulated). I am working on creating more formalized vehicles for this type of communication, and creating a new position of Involvement Coordinator to act as a liaison between SSMU and students who want to get involved.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to give me a shout: Matt Wyndowe, VP Communications and Events, ce@ssmu.mcgill.ca, 398-6799 WHATEVER HAPPENED TO 4 FLOORS PARTIES?

Unfortunately 4 Floors parties had to be stopped due to Shatner being just shy of fire code for large events. But now that the MSF has come to the rescue, the building will be up to code for large events and 4 Floors will return next September.

WHO I WORK WITH

Frosh Coordinators Jeff “JeffJoeJimbob" Heaton Nick “Nickolai” Reithmeier Una “Bomber” Roh Sylvia “Sly" Assaad DriveSafe Coordinators Samar Breitem Jeff MacDougall Meaghan Obee Anne Topolski Laurel VanBuskirk SSPN Shelina Jiwa (chair) Jay Antao Jen Cavasin Jon Feldman Dave Galpern Hugh Sturgess Jaime Stein Catherine Weiler Shirin Yeganegi Welcome Week Coordinator Victoria Lakers Athletics Marketing Coordinator Yousuf Aftab Webmasters Brent Charbeneau Cavan Huang SSMU Handbook Editors Sean Jordan Chris Selley

V P C o m m u n i t y & .........................................................

G o v e r n m e n t A ffa ir s LOBBYING:

I have continued to work with the Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA) on the federal lobby. Furthermore, I serve as Board Director for the organization. In the last few weeks CASA has been tackling the issue of the taxation of scholarships. At McGill, close to 1000 signatures were collected in a matter of hours from students all asking the Federal Government not to tax scholarships. This is in response to situations where an individual might be worse off financially by receiving a scholarship. We are also eagerly awaiting the tabling of the Federal budget. Back in October, CASA met with over 100 MP’s and education stakeholders informing them of the importance of a well-funded and accessible education system. We are looking to see an additional 1 to 2 billion dollars transferred to the provinces for education and health.

The Committee of Com. and Gov't has been examining the issue of privatisation at McGill and the impact that it would have on students.

COMMUNITY OUTREACH:

W ojtekBaraniak external@ ssm u.m cgill.ca CONSTITUTIONAL DUTIES

The Constitution states that the VP Community and Government Affairs is to lobby the governments of Canada, represent the positions and views of the SSMU to external bodies, and to initiate projects in the McGill off cam­ pus community.

I am pleased to announce that the Anti-Poverty Action Centre of the SSMU, dedicated to the assisting those most needy in our community, is working well towards a start date this summer. We are in the process of collecting government grants to fund the project.

In the coming days look for a food drive organised by the McGill Ghetto Residents Association (MGRA) along with the AUS. Myjob is to communicate McGill student opinion to governments and other student organizations. Your input is crucial. I've encountered many of you while raising awareness on issues facing students today. I've learned that the Students' Society must take on a more prominent leader­ ship role with respect to issues such as corporate involvement on campus and the privatisation of education. I will continue to seek your out your opinions. But at the same time I encourage you to contact me at 398-6798 or email me at external@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE DIFFERENTIAL TUITION FEE COURT CASE?

We are currently waiting for the Quebec Court of Appeals to set a date for our hearing. However, over the course of the year I have been speaking to Politicians from Ottawa and Quebec City on the issue. Furthermore, I have been working on a policy document on Differential Tuition to be sent to the Minister of Education to inform him of the importance of out of province students contribution to the Montreal econo­ my.

WILL McGILL UNIVERSITY RECEIVE MORE MONEY FROM THE GOVERNMENT NEXT YEAR?

The indications are that the Federal government will be increasing transfers for education as well as increased monies to professors and research. There is no guarantee, but Quebec's Minister of Education has also alluded to some sort of reinvestment into education system ds'welf.ÿriHwd'vëWrried tïïâtwë'PS' wriakbri promises.-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mini Course Coordinators Dani Organ Sarah Rachlin POST Coordinators Megan Abel David Bledin Communications Commissioner Beth Cohen CE Committee Rahim Surani Sage Firman Yousuf Aftab Beth Cohen Blood Drive Coordinators Lily Chhatwal Alice Ma Danish Niamat Elections McGill Paul Ricker (CRO) Ben Davis (DRO) Bryan Lack (EC) Alex Bryson (EC) Winter Frosh Coordinators Angela Cavalluzzo Sarah Tremblay Snow-AP Coordinators Jay Antao (chair) Jesse Andrews Sylvia Assaad Karen Dickmann Jeff Heaton Eleanor Stewart

WHO I WORK WITH

Members of the Committee on Community and Government Affairs: Chairperson: Dusty Okazaki Councillors: Jeremy Farrel Sheriff Abdou Clare Jennings Members at large: Carolyn Law, Vitto Cheli, Marc Rynn, Danielle Lanteigne, Tasha Nijjar McGill Ghetto Residents' Association Director: Fred Sagel Members: Matylda Gamu, Kathy Grace, Tamana Kochar, Tobin Cable Zubair External Volunteer Committee: Many individuals!

Safety Commissioner: Tamana Kochar

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A Living Hell - Portrait o f an Anorexic

By Emilie W ilcox A c c o r d in g to th e N a tio n a l E a n n g D is o r d e r I n fo r m a tio n Centre located in Toronto, 9 0 per cent o f w om en have body im age is s u e s , 8 0 per ce n t h a v e d ie te d before age 18, and 15 per cent o f w om en have sym ptom s that su g ­ gest an “eating disorder” .

E atin g D iso rd er A w a r e n e ss W eek w a s p r o m o te d at M c G ill from January 31 to F eb ru a ry 3 through w orkshops and in form a­ tion s e s s io n s and a b o d y im a g e forum.

So what is an eating disorder?

One, it’s a disease. T w o, it’s not so much an addiction than psycholog-

It b e ca m e a n o b s e s s io n . I th o u g h t a b o u t fo o d th e s e c o n d I w o k e u p . I w o u ld r u n o n a s t o m ­ a c h t h a t h a d n 't b e e n f e d in n e a r ly 2 4 h o u r s .

ical confusion. And three, the per­ son sitting next to you could have one and ab solu tely no on e in the world, not even them selves, know s about it.

W hy are eatin g disord ers so important? What is it that m akes a y o u n g fe m a le (or e v e n a y o u n g m ale) fall into a cy cle o f not eating and e x e r c is in g , or b in g e in g and then p u rgin g, or ju st e a tin g w ay too m uch? T o try and shed som e light on the phenomena, I’d like to share m y struggle w ith fo o d and my body and the little dem ons that to o k up space for so lo n g in sid e m y head.

I ’m 5 ’ 8 ” an d w e ig h s o m e ­ w h e r e b e tw e e n 135 an d 140 p ou n d s. M o st p e o p le p e g m e at 125 or so. S ize 6 . I’ve never been

much more than that except once. I w as 16 and after six w eeks o f lead­ ership camp I gained ten pounds. It didn’t bother me m uch at the tim e, but w h en 1 g o t h om e and had to buy je a n s w ith 3 1 ” on the ta g , I d e c id e d it n e e d e d to c o m e o ff .

Over eight months, w hile working ou t fa irly reg u la rly fo r the first tim e in m y l i f e , I lo s t th e ten pounds, maybe a bit more.

I recall this scen e so viv id ly , i t ’s lik e it h a p p en ed y este r d a y : standing in m y best friend’s bed ­ room, looking sidew ays in her full len g th m irror w e a r in g her tig h t black dress w hich I needed for m y trip to England. I w as sm oothing m y stomach when she com m ented on its flatness. I w as shocked and h a p p y th a t su c h a c o m p lim e n t c o u ld c o m e from her tin y 5 ’6 ” , 105 pound frame about m y much larger, o a fish b o d y . I ’m a lm o st certain that it w as that night when I resolved not to let the huge buffets I’d en c o u n te r at m y f a m ily ’s in England ruin the flatness.

That’s w hen I started running.

N ot stopping for breath or joggin g but running up to tw elv e m iles a day, I calculated. A ll on one meal, I m eant b u sin e ss. I w o u ld stand sidew ays in the mirror in m y hotel r o o m at n ig h t , a p o s e w h ic h becam e secon d nature to m e, and m ake sure that m y p e lv ic b o n es were displayed prominently.

I d on ’t know all the roots o f my eating disorder. M onths before it su r fa c e d , I w o u ld p u ll at m y extra tum my flesh and gaze en v i­ ously at tiny girls in tiny tops with n oth in g b u lg in g an yw here. I felt g u ilty e a tin g m y R e e s e ’s P ie c e s D airy Queen Blizzard, but so did e v e r y o n e , rig h t? A n d I h a v e no id ea w h y the outw ard sym p tom s surfaced when they did, except that I w anted to lo o k go o d . I thought that thin equaled attractive. I guess I h a d n ’t s tu d ie d enough R enaissance art yet.

There are com m ercials on tv w h ic h a ttem p t to w arn v ie w e r s about the dangers o f eating disor­

ders. One profiles a slim girl look ­ ing in the mirror, w ith her body sort o f b a llo o n in g out to d em o n ­ strate what it is that she sees. It’s not lik e that. Probably b eca u se I w as never on acid when I studied m y s e lf in the mirror. W hat I did see w as a young w om an equal in size to. at least som e w om en on tv or the runway and asked by most p e o p le sh e m et i f sh e had e v e r th ou gh t o f m o d elin g . I a lso saw b on es sticking out, w h ich w ere a sort o f trium ph over the e v ils o f to o m u ch fo o d . B u t I a ls o sa w where I could be thinner. I always saw w here I co u ld be thinner — and that’s where my focus landed every time.

It b e c a m e an o b s e s s io n . I thought about fo o d the se co n d I w oke up. I w ould run on a stomach that hadn’t been fed in nearly 24 hours. I remember once being dou­ bled over on the path, hands shak­ ing to stay on m y k n ees and dry h eavin g for ten w h o le m inutes. I couldn’t finish a six-inch sub from Subway.

Over the next winter, I gained w e ig h t again , but it d id n ’t m ean that I w as h ealth y. W hen I w ent out drinking, I w ould take shots so I consum ed as few calories as p os­ sible. I w ould try to eat as little as I had in the summer, but it w as more difficu lt because I had to m ake it through an entire day at school.

I’ve alw ays had a sw eet tooth.

B u t I started to eat m ore ca n d y than anything else in a day because it w ould quell m y hunger without making m e feel full. That was the im p o r ta n t p art. T h e f e e l in g o f instant sugar gratification caused m e to m o v e on to d a n ish e s and cook ies and cakes instead o f lunch.

I w o u ld buy a c o ffe e cake and a bag o f can d y or c h o c o la te . Four hours later it would all be gone.

I d o n ’t r e m e m b e r th e fir s t tim e I tried to make m y self throw up. I do r em em b er that it to o k m any tries for it to w ork. I even a tte m p te d s h o v in g a b o u t th ree str a w s d o w n m y th r o a t o n c e ,

because they were longer, but all I ach ieved w as a sore throat and a small cough the next day.

I h ated m y b o d y , but m ore th a n th a t I h a te d m y s e lf fo r attempting to throw up, for eating

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I h a te d m y b o d y , b u t m o r e th a n th a t I h a te d m y s e lf fo r

a tte m p tin g to th r o w u p , fo r e a t i n g t o o m u c h in t h e f ir s t p la c e a n d fo r b e in g m e . A n y l i t t l e th in g t h a t h a p p e n e d to m e c o u ld e ith e r m a k e m y d a y o r r u in m y m o n t h . too much in the first place and for being me. A ny little thing that hap­ pened to m e could either make my d ay or ruin m y m on th . M y lif e depended on what others said and how m y jeans fit.

M y frien d s and fa m ily w ere fr ig h te n e d o f m y h a b its. S o m e n ic k n a m ed m e A n n ie , sh ort for A n n ie-rexic. M y m om w ou ld tell m e I needed to gain w eight and I’d start scream ing at her about alw ays trying to control m y life and never thinking I w as good enough. The disorder slo w ly pulled m e out o f all control.

I started b in g ein g regu larly.

W h en I th rew up, I w o u ld h a v e tears rolling dow n m y cheeks and snot dripping o ff m y nose. Saliva w ould cling to m y hand and smear on m y face.

But life w ent on. I did normal things and worked hard to get into U niversity. Certainly not everyone around me noticed. The day I told my m om , w e were w alking dow n abandonned railroad tracks and I started crying hysterically for the first tim e in about a year. She w as calm . She had known. I think she has suffered as much as I had.

1 still didn’t love my body or m y s e lf, d id n ’t ev e n r e a liz e how

m u ch I h a d n ’t u n til I c a m e to U n iv e r s it y . I t ’ s b e e n a lo n g process, and it ’s been a different kind o f d iffic u lt but I’v e fin a lly figured out that I’m a valuable per­ son. It used to am aze m e that peo­ ple w ould want to talk to m e, now I sta rt c o n v e r s a t io n s w ith strangers. I like m y body, too. It’s athletic and healthy and strong. It’s a big part o f w ho I am, but it’s not all.

There w as an instance where a friend o f m ine w as trying to hook m e up w ith th e g o a li e on her b o y fr ie n d ’s h o ck ey team . W h ile th ey w ere talking about it in the dressing room, another player who k n ew m e sa id , “E m ilie ? G o for her, man. S h e’s got a hot body!” I raged at him when I found out.

I still don’t know where it all ste m m e d fro m , m y in s e c u r itie s about m yself and the need to con­ trol m y lif e th ro u g h m y e a tin g habits. I hated being looked at as sim p ly a b o d y , but that w as the only w ay I view ed m yself.

E ating disorders aren’t about m aintaining w eig h t. T h e y ’re not even about looking good, necessar­ i l y . A n d i t ’ s n o t as s im p le as H ollyw ood ’s obsession with skin­ ny. What they are about is this: a little idea, maybe a voice, suggest­ ing that eating a little less, working out a tiny bit m ore and trim m ing those love handles can make a per­ so n w o r th ie r . O f w h a t, I d o n ’t know.

I don’t think I’ll ever be free o f all m y thoughts, but I know I can control them now , instead o f m y w eight. I don’t want to cure the w orld o f all its d iseases, either. I don’t really think it’s possible. But I w a n t to s a y th a t I ’v e b e e n through the h e ll in m y head and now that I’m outside again, maybe I can flow towards the heavens like the person in the painting on the Eating Disorder A w areness W eek poster.

S id e w a lk C o w b o y s : F e a r in t h e S tr e e ts T here rea lly is n o th in g lik e having som eon e gen u in ely try to run you over on the sid ew alk , as you struggle to survive m inus 30 te m p e r a tu r e s . A h , w in te r in M ontreal; it's certainly character­ building.

I've alw ays admired the e ffi­ c ie n c y o f th e M o n tr e a l s n o w rem oval tea m s, w ith th eir dum p trucks, tow trucks, fo o t so ld iers, and m ultiple kinds o f heavy equip­ m ent that you ju st don't see an y­ where else. W atching these team s work through the city after a heavy sn o w fa ll is a testa m en t to c iv ic organization, and they are the rea­ son w hy M ontreal w ill never suc­ cum b to calling in the army after a dusting o f the w hite stu ff (unlike that oth er m ajor C an ad ian c ity , w hich seem ed not much better pre­ pared to handle 2 0 centim etres o f snow a year or tw o ago than, say, North Carolina.)

T he 3 0 -fo o t lo n g in s e c t-lik e

m achines with the 5-foot tires are definitely crow d pleasers, but I've alw ays been particularly enthralled b y th e m a d m e n (a n d y e s , th e y seem to be alw ays men) w ho roar around in the sid e w a lk -c le a r in g

p la y in g ch ick en w ith their "ene­ m ies'' o n d e se r te d s t r e tc h e s o f road.

B ecause I liv e near St. D enis, I u s u a lly sp e n d an h o u r or so w alking every day, and in snow y w eeks like this one, that means m ultiple encounters with the sid ew a lk c o w b o y s.

This w eek , one ran m e o ff the sidewalk on P r in c e A rth u r, b u t at le a s t I had the space to jum p into the street.

The p eop le in front o f m e had to sq u e e z e in to the b rick w a ll o f a b u ild in g not to be hit, lik e back­ p a ck ers c a u g h t in a S w is s train tunnel. T he driver, w ith h is redwhite-and-blue Canadiens baseball hat on backwards, kept thundering a lo n g , p r o b a b ly g i g g l i n g th a t so m e o n e ’s actually dumb enough to pay him to do this.

B u r n e d in m y b r a in is t h e

False Teeth

Duncan Reid

m a c h in e s at 3 0 k ilo m e tr e s per h ou r. C a ll th em s id e w a lk c o w ­ boys.

A s a p e r so n a lity ty p e, th e se are the gu ys w h o never quite got o v e r p la y in g w ith th e ir T o n k a trucks in the sandbox. M aybe they m oved on to hot-rod snow m obiles an d m o n s te r tr u c k s , b u t th e ir m indsets never really changed as they g o t older. A nd the b est part ab ou t h ig h sc h o o l for th em w a s

im a g e o f an o ld er w om an I saw r u n n in g up M c T a v is h fro m Sherbrooke, jostlin g her bags and looking over her shoulder. H aving j u s t s e e n “ W a g th e D o g ” , th e scene w as instantly rem iniscent o f the fleeing-peasant scene. But as I w a lk ed to w a rd s her, s e e in g the fear etched on her face, I becam e w o r r ied that so m e th in g se r io u s w as happening. This w om an’s fear seem ed incongruous with her sur­ roundings, being as it w as midday in d o w n to w n M o n tr e a l. In an instant, though, everything becam e clear: one o f the sidew alk-clearing m achines roared into v iew around the corner and p roceeded to gain o n th e p o o r w o m a n f l e e in g up M cTavish. She eventually realized that he w a s n ’t a c tu a lly c h a sin g her, that she could step aside. To the driver, how ever, this appeared to be great fun.

A lth ou gh the sn ow c o w b o y s . . if .

■ are obviously necessary in a w in­

try c it y lik e M o n trea l, th ey are o c c a sio n a lly a p u b lic m en ace. It m ay g e t w o r se : I h eard on th e radio that the authorities w ant to raise the m axim um that the snow rem oval em ployees can work in a w eek, from 70 hours to 77 hours.

Hearing this, I w as flabbergasted: those guys m ight be exhausted and s le e p -d e p r iv e d as w e ll as b ein g m aniacs with the em otional matu­ rity o f a 16 year old? 77 hours is a lot o f work in a w eek- more than som e M cG ill em p lo y ees seem to do in three w eek s. I'm convinced the authorities are drivers and not p e d e s tr ia n s : w o u ld th e y r e a lly want to encounter a power-crazed sidew alk cow b oy as he w orks his 75th hour in six days?

M ay you be n im b le on your fe e t, la d ies and gen tlem en : your life may depend on it.

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 8 February 2000

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Deepak Chopra and S pirituality for the Masses

By C arrie S choemer Spiritual healer Deepak Chopra is a household name for many citi­ zens o f the world. His books, with p r o m isin g title s su ch as P e r fe c t D ig e s t io n , A g e le s s B o d y , and Tim eless Mind, are all infused with his spiritual m essages and practical advice. When he's not busy writing books, Chopra teaches using various o th er m eth o d s — m o tiv a tio n a l sp eaking, sem inars on health and w e ll- b e in g , a u d io ta p e s, and an interactive internet site — anything to rea ch th e p e o p le . B u t o n c e Chopra reaches the people, he tends to be at a loss for what exactly to tell them.

On the back o f one o f his selfhelp spiritual guides, The Path To L o v e , C hopra d escrib es h is ow n teachings as a "remarkable fusion o f Eastern wisdom and Western practi­ c a lity , or ancient k n o w led g e and cutting-edge research." More specif­ ically, his teachings adapt and mod­ ernize ancient V edic teachings, in such a w ay as to be relevant to a contemporary audience.

S c ie n c e ... s o r t o f

to "look deeper into quantum space, w here all lig h t disap p ears and is replaced by darkness," where one w ould "arrive at the w om b o f the universe." The way to get there — b e sid es by reading m ore from A Chopra C om panion — is through m editation. O nce in the w om b, a person would understand the truth o f 'm atter': that it is 9 9 .9 per c e n t empty space. By extension, the exis­ tence o f the five human senses is an illusion.

N e x t, C hopra p e rfo rm s an amazing feat o f logical gym nastics as he defines thought. First, he uses a le a p o f lo g ic : th o u g h t a r ise s because o f karma. Second, he uses pseudo-science: karma is "the proba­ bility amplitude to the field o f infi-

R e lig io u s In c o n s is t e n c y A main drawback o f Chopra's writings is his lack o f consistency.

At times, his teachings closely relate to those found in various schools o f Buddhism, despite his assertion that he personally does not adhere to any particular b elie fs. A t other tim es, th e y d ir e c tly c o n tr a d ic t b oth

Cw L« K a rm a p o lic e A r r e s t th is m a n H e t a l k s in m a t h s H e b u z z e s lik e a f r i d g e — " K a rm a P o lic e ," s o n g b y R a d io h e a d

The most interesting aspect o f Chopra's writing is his creation o f new , hip spiritual term inology. To situate ancient teachings in a mod­ em context, he simply applies con­ temporary scientific and technologi­ cal adjectives to traditional words and ideas. One defense for him is that he updating old language into m odem "lingo" that he feels is more appropriate for a contemporary audi­ ence.

Nevertheless, he does not aban­ don ancient words because they lend an air o f authenticity to his argu­ ments.

Chopra's quasi-scientific vocab­ ulary lends itself well to the vague scientific reasoning he uses to prove som e o f his theories. For instance, in order to deny the true existence o f a material world, he advises his reader

nite possibilities in the gap." For his logical finale he uses Eastern terms: action, or karma creates memory, or samskara; which in turn creates the p ossib ility o f desire, wasana; and this desire creates the possibility for more action, or karma. He refers to this cy cle o f karma, samskara and wasana as "the software o f the gap."

Chopra tends to refer to the "gap" by many nam es interchangeably: the fie ld o f in fin ite p o ss ib ility , pure p o ten tiality, universal c o n sc io u s­ ness, the cosm ic computer, or "pure" anything. The gap's exact qualities are left unclear, but whatever it is, it's go o d . In fa ct, the gap is "the source o f all the joy and creativity in our lives."

D eepak Chopra Buddhism and them selves. Perhaps C hopra's sp iritu a lism tran scen d s religion in its resistance to system ­ atization. Or perhaps not. It is more likely that his spiritualism is a con­ fu se d attem pt to e n c o m p a ss and accept many religions with different fo u n d a tio n s o f truth. In order to prove Chopra's in con sisten cy as a teacher, one need not look deeply into his teachings. He refuses to sys­ te m a tiz e h is th o u g h t p ro b a b ly because he encourages plurality o f e x p e r ie n c e — h is a u d ie n c e is allowed to believe in both their reli­ gions and his belief system o f "spiri­ tuality."

Unlike Buddhists, who believe that life should be lived as a path to

n ir v a n a , C hopra b e lie v e s that humans should not focus heavily on goals that extend past this lifetime.

This is because the only goal that his teachings strive towards is that o f happiness in this lifetim e. He fully e n c o u r a g e s liv in g in th e w o rld , developing meaningful relationships with others, working at a job, and b e lie v in g in a n y th in g at a ll. In Chopra's cosm ology there is no dis­ c u s s io n o f e sc a p e fro m th e c y c le o f sam sara. H e so m e­ tim e s a lig n s w ith Buddhist notions o f karm a w h en he d e s c r ib e s it as a force which binds us to reb irth . Or he redefines it whenev­ er necessary: in The S even S p iritu a l L aw s o f S u ccess, Chopra teaches peo­ ple about the inner workings o f karma, so th at th ey can secure happiness for th e m se lv e s, and in T he Path to L o v e , Chopra offers advice on how to use karma to im p ro v e o n e's lo v e life . H e does Press Shot not offer solutions for how to attain a version o f nirvana or heaven. Still, he does not dism iss these afterlives as impossible, because som e people believe in them. After all, they are manifestations o f human interpreta­ tions o f a universal truth.

T h e V e r d ic t In all, the only possible conclu­ sion for Chopra's spirituality is that it is eastern sounding and readily applicable to virtually any situation.

Chopra's sloppy theorizing is dis­ heartening, as it points to a lack o f rigour in a very famous and popular leader o f the people. It is unfortu­ nate that so m any p eo p le turn to

Chopra when they are looking for spiritual gu id an ce, b ecau se he is incapable o f offering clear advice or

66 Q :D r . C h o p r a , w h a t is y o u r r e lig io n ?

A: I a m o n a s p ir itu a l jo u r ­ n e y , w h ic h I f e e l m a k e s m e d e e p l y r e lig io u s . H o w e v e r , i f b y r e lig io n , y o u m e a n d o I b e l i e v e in a n y p a r t i c u l a r f a ith , d o g m a o r b e l o n g t o s o m e o r g a n i z a t i o n , th e n I d o n ' t M y r e lig io n is a b e l i e f in t h e s a n c t i t y o f lif e a n d t h e u n i t y o f a ll h u m a n ity .

— " Q u e s tio n o f t h e D a y ," w w w .c h o p r a .c o m , 1 2 A u g .

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wisdom. Deepak Chopra doesn't just celebrate capitalism , stressful rela­ tionships with others, and unhealthy lifesty les; he ju stifie s them using quasi-eastern relig io u s id eas that seem ancient and exotic, thus vali­ d a tin g w estern c o rru p tio n . W e sh o u ld n ot b e a sh a m ed o f our desires, instead, w e should follow eastern-ish philosophies in order to m ake them r e a lities. A t the very least, his vague and unclear theories do fo rce h is readers to think for them selves, because he fails to offer them anything substantial.

I f D eep a k C hopra w an ts humankind to attain happiness, per­ haps he should refrain from intro­ d u c in g them to su ch b lin d in g headaches.

Preston M anning places his cards w ith the C.A. C ontinued from Page 15 em phasis on com m unity d evelop ­ m en t sh ould have painted him a socialist more than a conservative.

B ut the lab el w as stuck and M a n n in g has n o w g a m b le d h is p olitical future on this “Canadian A llia n c e ”. M anning has already indicated his intention to run for the lead ersh ip o f the n ew party, w hile inviting others to run against him. This is, at minimum, a gutsy m ove by the Reform Leader, espe­ cially considering he has opted out o f the cozy Pension plan offered to members o f parliament.

T h e C B C ’s C ra ig O liv e r d e sc r ib e d th e w h o le p r o c e ss as “skydiving...no retreat....suicide or victory”.

Other interested candidates for th e le a d e r s h ip in c lu d e J o e P eschilsolido o f the Reform Party in O n tario, and S to c k w e ll D a y , Treasurer o f the Alberta PC g o v ­ ernment. Both candidates have the distinct advantage over Manning in that they are more fluent in French, you nger, and con seq u en tly m ore appealing.

A new appeal appears to be p a r tic u la r ly im p o r ta n t to th e

Canadian A lliance, especially with­ in Q uebec and Ontario, fortresses o f the B loc Québécois and Liberals respectively. The “new federalism” e sp o u s e d by the R e fo r m Party seem s to have been accepted, with a few m o d ifica tio n s in to the C A platform. It is som ewhere between the trad ition ally cen trist L iberal Party, and sovereigntist B loc. The sp e a k e r s at th e c o n fe r e n c e described their position as a revisi­ tation to the original vision o f the fath ers o f c o n fe d e r a tio n , w ith a clearly defined boundary o f power between the Federal and Provincial g o v e r n m e n ts, as o p p o se d to the v e r ita b le tu g -o f-w a r , w h ic h has been popular in recent decades.

Quebec City Lawyer G illes StLaurent, b elieves that this w ill be accepted in Quebec, a place where the p e o p le h a v e b een p resen ted w ith “ tw o d is h e s ,...w h a t Q u e b e c k e r s are w a itin g fo r is som ething new on the unity front, certain ly not the L ib erals or the B lo c .” St-L au ren t s e e s th is as a d ic h o to m y o f m u tu a l n e c e s s ity where “the existence o f the one ju s­ tifies the existence o f the other.”

Speculation as to the participa­ tion o f popular Q uebec p olitician P i'/ E Ar ' Ti f I P,' *

M a r io D u m o n t w e r e v o ic e d as m e m b e r s o f h is c o n s e r v a t iv e p r o v in c ia l party l ’A D Q w ere in attendance. Dumont him self has not publically expressed interest in the in it ia t iv e , b u t R a d io C a n a d a ’ s Christine St. Pierre suggested other­ wise.

“M aybe he is interested in ties w ith the new national party,” she said.

T h e c o n s e r v a tiv e , p o p u list leanings o f both groups, does pre­ sent a potential for realignment.

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W here minds m eet A V a le n t i n e 's D a y D e b u t

By Catherine St-Laurent

1. What does chivalry mean to you?

2. If asked for a Valentine’s Day gift idea by a friend of yours for their part­ ner, what would you suggest?

3. What is the sexiest part of a man’s / woman’s body?

Renee B. Faculty of Arts—North American studies U3

Alirio Ferreira Arts Faculty (U5)

Eileen Quashie Faculty of Arts (U2)

1. “Chauvinism. Chivalry is an outdated fantasy.”

2. “Anything that would require a lot of work for that person. If they’re really busy, take time to make them dinner and if they have way too many 1.

“Chivalry, if I’m not mistaken, things to do, try to pitch in a lot more. refers to some kind of etiquette in the And, of course, take them out to dinner Middle Ages between horsemen. In somewhere, it’s always appreciated.” terms of gender roles? I think it’s nice to open doors for people for the sake of 3. “Ummmm..... Pause your tape being courteous, not anything else. for a second, I don’t want you to waste it...

2. “I think I would suggest a book “Her belly.” but if it’s a rather intimate relationship, perfume is always a good idea.”

Paolo Torchetti Faculty of Science (MAI)

1. “B eing rom antic, opening doors.... But I also think chivalry goes both ways. A guy can be chivalrous and a woman absolutely has to be chival­ rous too cause you can’t just expect it to be one-way all the time. Basically it means showing the person you care.”

2. “Anything that they wouldn’t be expecting normally, not the usual flowers and chocolate. I mean, it’s great and everything but I just think chocolate is boring. Flowers yes, but chocolate is boring so no, something different 3. “Everything!

“W ell...h is butt, definitely his butt.”

3. “The back, definitely the back.

1. “Chivalry would mean the guy, and I guess nowadays the girl too, just looks out for the comfort of the partner — be it by opening a door or pulling out a chair or making sure that if you’re inviting them somewhere their glass is always full and they always have what they want and... they always get to choose their channel on the T.V.” 2. “To rent a hotel room that has a jacuzzi in the room and then you have wine and then you have room service come up with a really nice dinner. Now if a guy is doing it for a girl there defi­ nitely has to be roses but girls, forget it, I don’t know that many guys that really appreciate them... (meanwhile, a guy standing nearby points out how expen­ sive roses are on V alentine’s Day) Fine, then just one rose or any kind of flower like a carnation or something..”

3. I think it’s an overall package, there isn’t really anything I would pick out more than anything else. You can have a really nice butt with a really ugly face so they cancel each other out.

It’s gotta be everything, the whole package.”

1. “To me it means an equality 1.

“Guys being complete gentle­ between a guy and a girl and respect for men like opening the door, pulling out one another. So... if a guy is chival­ your chair for you before you sit down rous with me then, I would like to act for dinner, ummm.... Paying for din­ like that with him.” ner.... Basically sweeping you off your feet.”

2 . “I think flowers are always nice for both guys and girls. Mostly because 2. “Anything that is really senti­ th ey ’re liv in g and beautiful and mental but intimate. Nothing specific because it’s winter and everything else but something that would relate to your is dead! ” relationship like an inside jok e or something...”

3. “I think his back is the sexiest part” 3. “His back”

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2. “Maybe something that comes directly from the heart, not necessarily something very material but something that comes from what you feel, what you value, and what you think. Not necessarily something very expensive or flashy” 3. “I think all of the body can be sexy! A nything can be sexy on a woman”

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Ma’ayan Steinberg Faculty of Science (U2)

Kinsley Wilson Faculty of Science (U l)

Michel Hardy-Vallée Faculty of Arts (U l)

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“Why should we have V a le n t in e ’s D ay w h en e v e r y d ay sh o u ld be devoted to love?”

T h e r e ’ s n o th in g q u ite as p a th etic as the c la s s ic c lic h e o f many sorry individuals. The bottom lin e is that V a len tin e's D ay hap­ pens once a year and for good rea­ son.

Could you im agine every day being Valentine’s Day? 1 know that I don’t speak only for m yself when I say that a perpetual V alentine’s Day w ould cause chaos. Y es, the world needs love, enjoym ent, hap­ piness and all that other stuff, but w e as h u m a n s can o n ly tak e so much o f it at a time. It is hard to even be so loving and caring for the w h o le d ay on F eb ru ary 14. W e need our space. In fact, I recom ­ m end that c o u p le s h a v e the odd a r g u m e n t or li v e ly d is c u s s io n .

D oing so is proof that you and your partner are having a healthy rela­ tionship. W e need to vent our frus­ trations, w e need to argue and find w ays to bring different em otions to the surface. Som etim es w e can’t do this with our friends or parents.

T h is is part o f w h at m ak es r e la tio n sh ip s so in te r e stin g . W e argue and have heated discussions with each other but, when it is over, you're the same person, so is your partner, and you just released a lot o f built up emotion. N ow , if every d a y w a s d e d ic a te d to lo v e , w e would not have the opportunity to do all that fun stuff! N o one would

have the chance to be them selves or relax. More serious fights and prob­ lem s w ould occur because o f built up te n s io n s and rep ressed e m o ­ tions.

There are a few fundam ental problem s 1 have with V alen tin e’s D ay that neutralize the so -ca lled “specialness” o f it. T o start with, I fin d th e ta le s o f th e h is to r y o f V alentine’s Day hard to believe. A lo n g tim e ago there w as a priest that secretly married p eop le in a tim e w h en m a rria g e w a s not allowed. Coincidentally the priest’s name w as V alentine and when he was caught, he was put to death on February 14. T hus, the notion o f V a le n t in e ’s D ay w a s sp a w n e d .

Regardless o f whatever version o f the story you have heard, they are all m uch too con ven ien t. Even if there is a legitimate story that pro­ vides a rational explanation for the day, V alentine’s Day is no longer what true romantics once celebrat­ ed it to be. Today, Valentine’s Day has b e c o m e to o c o m m ercia lized and serves more an aesthetic pur­ p o se than for anything e lse . The importance o f the day builds to its climax: the presentation o f the gift or card. Many o f us get caught up in a competition trying to give the nicest gift or write the best card and forget what the day is really meant for.

A n oth er problem l se e w ith this “Hallmark Holiday" is the fact there is an actual set day for which w e are meant to express our love w ith on e another. Let us say, for in s ta n c e , that on th e n ig h t o f

February 13 you decide to bend fairly hard and you w ake up the next morning with a raging han. over. N ot only w ill you have spe most o f the day sleep in g, the la ; thing you will want to do is attemi n to show affection (even though y< u mean it!) when your primary cot cern is r e -h y d r a tio n and a fe T y le n o l. A ll 1 am sa y in g is th. t February 14 may, in a lot o f case not be the best day for the W estei W orld to celebrate adoration for one another. D on’t get me wrong I lik e the c o n c e p t o f V a le n tin e Day, it has the right intentions, but 1 think that couples should choo their own day that suits them bcw K now ing that w e are g iv in g pr< sents and love because it is a soci : norm ju st d o e sn ’t m ake sen se me.

L et’s fa ce it, n oth in g that i have said is going to change an thing. Next Monday we all (in d u .I ing m yself) are goin g to g ive o ; girlfriends, boyfriends or whatev i we are with, som e sort o f gift, cai d and kiss on the cheek. You will k your partner that you love him m her, sm ile and enjoy each othei company. To be honest, I find pat s o f the day entertaining and know that it w ill be in my life, whethe like it or not, forever. 1 w ish th it the day w asn ’t taken so serious • by so many people. For now ho\ ever, 1 suppose 1 can live with O n a p o s it iv e n o te , at le a st V alentine’s Day is the holiday 1 which the most intimate apparel purchased!

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By M arie-H elene S avard W ith the c lo s in g o f n ot o n e but three theatres, m oviego ers and M o n tr e a le r s in g e n e r a l sta rt to w o n d e r w h e r e th e y f i t in th e grand schem e o f things.

G ro w in g up in M on treal, as m o s t o f us lo c a ls c o u ld a tte s t, isn ’t as ex citin g as it m ay seem : h a n g o u t at E a to n C e n tr e o n Friday afternoons; try (and fail) to get past the horrible M usiq u e Plus r e c e p t i o n is t w h e n a f a v o u r it e b a n d is in to w n ; try (n o t v e r y h a rd ) to g e t p a st th e P e e l Pub b o u n cer w h en y o u c le a r ly lo o k like the 14 year old that y ou are.

O u t in g s r e v o lv e a r o u n d S t e C atherine Street, w ith its Burger K in g s™ , sh o e stores and c o u n t­ less m o v ie theatres. A t least, until n o w . W ith th e c l o s i n g o f th e P a la ce, C e n tr e -V ille and L o e w s th e a tr e s, th e E n g lis h - la n g u a g e theatres on Ste-C atherine can be counted on one hand.

T h e c l o s i n g o f th e P a la c e (J a n u a r y 2 4 ) an d C e n t r e - V ille (February 1) affected students the m ost because o f the reduced tick­ e t p r ic e s — o ffe r e d b y b o th — an in stitution for cash-strapp ed stu­ d e n ts , o ffe r e d th r e e -m o n th o ld

m o v ie s fo r $ 2 .5 0 (un til a recen t raise to $ 2 .9 9 ) and w a s m ost pop ­ u la r fo r its la t e -n ig h t w e e k e n d s c r e e n i n g s . O p e n e d in 1 9 8 0 a m id st c o n tr o v e r s y a ro u n d the destruction o f its h istori­ c a l in t e r io r b y F a m o u s P la y e r s, th e P a la c e had the lo o k and fe e l o f a 2 0 -year-old th e a t r e , b u t c o u ld b e as packed as the new Paramount on Saturdays. If y o u ’re lo o k ­ ing for som eon e to blam e for this c lo sin g , blam e the ow ner o f the b u ild in g , not F am ou s Players.

T h ou gh rum ours w ere c ir c u la tin g th a t th e P a la c e w o u ld b e c o n v e r te d in to an indoor parking lot, the ow ner g o t an o ffe r from M eta fo ria E n te r ta in m e n t In c. he c o u ld n ’t refuse: a subm arinethem ed entertainm ent centre, w ith a 4 5 -m in u te r id e th at w ill enable clien ts to exp lore a n c ie n t c i v i l i s a t i o n s fr o m w ith in a s u b m a r in e . V e r y King T itanic. V ery u seless.

C in e m a C e n t r e - V i l l e , a lso k n ow n as the m o v ie theatre w ith the sm allest screen s in tow n, w as a favourite o f m any students.

B a sica lly , it w as a P alace for the

cou ld n ’t overcom e.

Students m ay be upset about the death o f discount-run theatres, but it is the clo sin g o f the L o ew s that has h eritage a c tiv ists w o r r ie d a s w e l l . T h e L o e w s w a s b u ilt in 1 9 1 7 and w as the m ost beautiful o f M ontreal theatres, w ith its stained glass and archi­ te c tu r a l d e ta ils . B y n e x t year, the L o ew s w ill have been converted into a Club M e d r e c r e a t io n c e n t r e , though no one is quite sure w hat that entails. A report in th e M o n tr e a l G a z e tte revealed that the new o w n ­ ers o f the b u ild in g w o u ld not be ob liged to preserve any o f its current architec­ tural features.

W ith the arrival o f the T ech n od rom e, C lub M ed , subm arine sim ulations and th e rebirth o f th e F oru m into an entertainm ent co m ­ p lex, M ontreal is d ev elo p ­ o f the second-run theatres dethroned. pabi0 Rodriguez ing into the tourism m ecca it dreamt o f b ecom in g. A s for the p eo p le w h o stay here for anyw here e lse. S till, the decrepit 2 0 0 1 C in e p le x , w a s in n o v a tiv e lo n g e r th at 3 w e e k s in J u ly , at t e c h n o lo g y an d th e d e c li n e o f b ecau se o f its m any screens. O nly least w e still have Parc. b u sin e ss at th e 2 0 0 1 U n iv e r sity in recent years did it start offering b u il d in g w e r e o b s t a c l e s it r e d u c e d -fa r e s. T h e p rogram m er art-house crow d, m ore in the line o f P a rc a n d P a r a llè le th a n P a ra m o u n t. W h e n it o p e n e d in 1 9 8 1 , C e n tr e -V ille , th en c a lle d

o f C e n tr e -V ille to o k so m e risks th a t w e r e a d m ir a b le f o r a C in ep lex O deon outlet, screening m o v i e s th a t w e r e n ’ t a v a ila b le

Star Spangled Girl pronounced DOA: Players cast perform a valiant rescue effo rt

By D avid S chanzle The cast and crew o f the Players' Theatre1 all put tremendous energy into their production o f N eil S im on's Star S p an gled G irl. T he stage and lighting look good and the entire set is well-designed. The cast jum ps all over the stage, talk at a break neck pace and really try to b rin g h um our in to th e p la y .

Unfortunately there is only so much that can be done with a generally unfunny script.

D espite the efforts o f the cast, the sh ow still co m es across flat. E ither N e il S im o n ’s play is very dated or it w asn’t very funny to begin with. The play takes place in 1966 and concerns the relation­ ship b etw een tw o sta ff m em bers w ho work for the political protest magazine, Fallout, and the woman who walks into their lives.

A n d y H ob art (R ic h a r d Gasee) and Norman Cornell (James Spearing) are tw o room m ates who are trying to keep their, financially struggling publication afloat. One day S o p h ie R au sch m eyer (Laura Quinn), a southern belle, m oves in to the apartment next door. Norman im m ediately falls in love with her and starts clum sily trying to impress her. H e brings her fo o d that sh e doesn’t like, scares her on the bus, follow s her to her job at the YW CA and gets her fired. To make amends

for getting her fired, Andy hires her as a secretary despite her inability to type. The rest o f the story concerns A ndy’s desperate attempts to keep Sophie from killing Norman while

gives an exuberant performance as a man w ho is desperate to keep his world from falling apart. The cast pulls o ff a difficult feat in convinc­ ingly portraying characters who are

Richard G asee, Laura Quinn an d Ja m es Spearing ensuring that Norman stays focused on the magazine.

James Spearing’s perfor­ mance is the best o f the show. He co n v in cin g ly portrays a man w ho has fa lle n b lin d ly in lo v e . Laura Q uinn slip s e ffo r tle s s ly in to her sou th ern a ccen t and m a n a g es to m ake her ste r e o ty p e d ro le seem humorously unique. Richard Gasee

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considerably dumber than anyone in the audience.

The problem with the play is that it takes a joke much too far.

N orm an’s clu m sy attem pts to get Sophie to fall in lo v e with him is funny ... for about three m inutes.

A fter that, the shtick gets old and consequently causes the audience's in te r e st to w ane.

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exam ple,w atching Norman follow S o p h ie to the Y W C A is funny at first. F inding out that he did this three tim es and eventually got her fired is not. Furthermore, at times N orm an's stocker rouitine co m es a c r o ss as a lit t le d istu r b in g .

N everth eless, Spearing's portrayal o f th is a n n o y in g ch aracter is so e ffe c tiv e as to incite anger in the audience.

The play feels more like a sitcom than anything else. The char-' acters com e across as one dim en­ s io n a l and th e p lo t tw is ts are painfully predictable. W hen A ndy offers Sophie a job in their m aga­ zin e, it seem s to have little value other than to keep the play going (if he doesn't then Sophie leaves and the play is over). Similarly, the con­ stant phone ca lls A ndy gets from th e bank and h is la n d lo rd don't serve any purpose other than to give the character som ething to do and also don't provide any com ic relief.

Director Jennifer Sussman fin d s in terestin g w ays to fill the space on stage. She gets very phys­ ic a l p erfo rm a n ces ou t o f all her actors and keeps the action moving at the quick pace that the material requires. E verybody put a lot o f effort into this project and it shows.

U n fo r tu n a te ly , th ere is o n ly so much you can do with a dated piece.

In terms o f entertainment, this show is more annoying than funny.

T R I B p ic k s THE STAR SPANGLED GIRL

At Players' Theatre. All shows at 8pm. February 812. $5 P h o n e : 3 9 8 -6 8 1 3

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A STREETCAR A collaborative piece strips A Streetcar Named Desire to its bare elements. In Moyse Hall, February 9 - 12 and 16 - 19. All shows at 8 pm. $6 P h o n e 3 9 8 -6 0 7 0

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Even though Gert’s is funny without stand-up comedy, on Wednesday it will feature a comedy night. Should be hilarious. $3.

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Monkeys open restaurant in M aine. It was funny on paper!

Som etim es I think it would be fu n n y to m ake a m o v ie a b ou t a fam ily o f escap ed m on k eys from the zoo w ho open a restaurant in M a in e. T he film w o u ld co -sta r Mr.T as a zoo em p loyee and Bart the Bear and w ould be called Them

by it ’s very nature, v isu a lly por­ trays e v e r y th in g in v iv id d etail; there is less room for anyone to use their im aginations. A written piece o f com edy, by contrast, only sug­ g ests an im age, lea v in g room for th e re a d e r to c r e a te th e ir o w n

The Film Buff David Schanzle Monkeys Sure is Strong. The idea sounds funny on paper but proba­ b ly w ouldn't w ork on film . A nd for good reason.

T here are so m e id ea s w h ich sh o u ld sim p ly rem ain on paper.

There is a big difference betw een what is funny on the big screen and what is funny in a script. A m ovie,

im ages . What might be hysterical as a script could be very disturbing as a film .

K e v in S m it h ’s D o g m a is a good exam ple o f this type o f film .

W hen I w atched D ogm a I did not laugh. I could appreciate the humor in Sm ith’s ideas, but they failed to p lay out w e ll on the screen . For

in s ta n c e , th e id e a o f a “ S h it M onster” that attacks en em ies o f the d ev il is funny in concept, but on screen it w as on ly d isgu stin g.

S m ith , m o st lik e ly , talk ed about this m ovie to his friends for months and m a n y o f th e m p r o b a b ly la u g h e d . H o w e v e r , h e d id n ot undertake the crucial task required o f any film maker w hich is to visu­ a lize w hat h is m o v ie w o u ld lo o k lik e. H e did not ask h im se lf, are th ere any o th er r e a so n s fo r m y c h a r a c te r s to e x is t o th e r than I think it would be funny to put them in?

A good com edy is like a w ell told drinking story. After the fact, a d rin k in g story can be h y ste r ic a l because the listener and story teller h a v e s o m e d is ta n c e fro m th e events. B eing arrested is not funny but the story can be. Talking about som eone throwing up in the wrong

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p la c e can b e fu n n y , w a tc h in g som ebody throw up in the wrong p la ce is not. F ilm m akers so m e ­ tim es fall in the trap o f assum ing that drinking stories, or their equiv­ alents, w ill be funny to watch. This is one o f the reasons why there are so many unfunny m ovies with oth­ erw ise good premises.

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Our Lady Angst— now lost in the crowd o f whiny guy bands

By Rebecca D oiron

Clumsy, a super-success, w as released in 1997. Today Our Lady Peace sound like ju st about every other guy band: w hiny and overemotional. Clumsy was zany because it w as som ew hat original, but the trend has been set and is simply old news. D on’t get me wrong, the band doesn't suck or anything, but there just didn’t seem to be any spark. At last w eek’s Our Lady Peace concert however, the audience proved to be quite entertaining.

Comprised o f Raine M aida as lead vocal, M ike Turner on guitar, J erem y T a g g a r t on dru m s and D uncan C outts on bass Our Lady Peace is m ostly from Ontario with the exception o f M ike Turner, the lead guitarist from England. They got together in 1993 and released their first album in 1995.

The concert w as nothing sp e­ cial. O ff-key once in a w hile, they basically sang like they did on their albums. There was the ceremonious attempted phrase in French “Ca va bien?” and the “Montreal is, next to hom e, our favourite Canadian city to play in” sp eech to appease the local fans. But other then that, the band’s performance was quite rou­ tine. So, my attention drifted away from the stage tow ards the au d i­ ence.

I’ve c o m e to the c o n c lu sio n that there are several very specific, disjointed, groups o f people that go to concerts o f this nature. I’ve nar­ rowed the number o f categories to '■

“T h e y p la y e d m u s ic , and th ey jum ped up and dow n, now they’re flashing strobe lights . . . ” T he tickets had non-sm oking sy m b o ls on them . D id that m ean that the concert was intended to be a sm o k e-free environm ent? H aving been to a few concerts in my time: yeah right! A s expected, the stadi­ um w as awash with sm oke (o f dif­ fering origins). Behind me and to m y left, there was th is a n cien t b ik er-d u d e.

H e had one o f those long gray beards and a black bandanna on his head. In fron t o f m e to m y right were a group o f university k id s. I w a s sa n d w ich ed b e tw e e n c lo u d s of raunchy odours, many o f w h ich I fea r w ill n ev er leave m y clothes.

I n ev er e x p e c te d so many different characters at an Our Lady Peace con­ cert. The colourful make­ up co n tr ib u te d to so m e pretty cool conversations and an enjoyable evening.

Everyone was very friend­ ly and it s e e m e d lik e everyone was having fun.

Although my focus w asn’t Raine M aida fails to hit the right n otes crystal wreden t o t a lly d ir e c te d at th e band, they weren’t bad. N o one can be innovative and fresh all a promoter). The high school couple tion o f the lead sin g er’s butt and the time. A lthough this w asn’t the had an aunt who did something for claim ed her desire for a chance to best concert they’ve ever given, it th e M o ls o n C en te r . A rep o rter get with him. All I could think was certainly w asn’t the worst I’ve ever behind me was from a French c o l­ “okay, you ’re like tw elve, and you witnessed. lege in the old port and took notes seriously think you want this (rela­ fo r th e d u ra tio n o f th e c o n c e r t. tiv e ly ) o ld dude w h o se probably

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L iv e s h o w p r o v e s t h e K id s h a v e s t ill g o t i t

By O livia Pojar There’s som ething utterly sur­ real about seeing the Kids In The Hall live. I’ve alw ays been a reli­ gious Kids fan. The soundtrack to the show evok es m em ories o f late nights watching CBC at hom e...but not sitting in a crowded theater on St. D en is. H o w ev er, the slig h tly irregular setting didn't dampen the sp ir its o f th e cro w d at S u n d a y night’s show.

W hen the infam ous bass riffs from the them e song, “H aving an Average W eekend,” started playing th ere w as no tu rn in g b a ck . T he crowd went wild, cheering, scream­ in g , and c la p p in g . A nd then the Kids appeared...fittingly in drag.

K e v in M c D o n a ld , M ark M cK inney, Bruce M cC ulloch, and Scott Thompson entered the stage as the girls from A T & Love, complete with nylons, w igs, and fake boobs.

T h ey w ere soon jo in e d by D a v e Foley and already the show was in full swing.

But was it funny?

That was my fear as I shelled out money in November for exceed­ ingly good seats. ‘W ill it still be the sa m e ? ’ I w o n d ered , ‘W ill a g in g h a v e d a m p en ed th e h u m ou r o f C a n a d a ’ s fa v o u r ite sk e tc h -c o r n boys?’ After all, everything changes with age. In the words o f the Kids, “G irlfriends turn into w iv es, Jobs turn into ca reers...A n d R eg turns into a lifeless corpse in your arms.”

Excuse me?!

O f c o u r se th e K id s h a v e n ’t changed. I think it’s safe to say that

I haven’t laughed that hard in years.

The show was absolutely hilarious.

The Kids mixed in old classics like The Chicken Lady, C ops, and Mr. H eavyfoot with new sketches such as the A T & L o v e reunion, J e su s 2 0 0 0 , and an in te r a c tiv e Head-crusher.

M cK in n ey p la y ed the H eadcrusher with his usual energy, this tim e directing his m alice towards the audience with the aid o f a flash­ light. He even debuted a new tech­ nique; shining the flashlight up into the balcony McKinney crushed with glee saying, “From this distance it’s mass murder!”

A lso equally hilarious was the sk it, D a d d y ’s D y in g . D a d d y ’ s D ying featured F oley as a country doctor who takes his time curing his patient (T h om p son ). M cC u llo ch w as e x tr e m e ly fu n n y as T h o m p s o n ’ s so n /d a u g h te r , the object o f the good doctor’s a ffec­ tions. It was a bizarre skit involving M cD onald in drag beating D eath (M cK inney) over the head w ith a broom and it spawned many classic lines including, “Is that apple pie I sm ell?” (Foley) “N o, it’s the sm ell o f my Daddy dying.” (McCulloch).

H ow ever, in my o p in ion , the fu n n ie s t sk it w a s T h e P it o f Ultim ate Darkness with M cDonald as Dr. Simon M illigan and Foley as his ever-faithful and creepy servant Hecubus.

T h e c h e e r in g sta rted e v e n before the skit did when the audi­ e n c e c a u g h t sig h t o f the crew w h e e lin g out M illig a n ’s fa m o u s desk complete with candelabras and

a skull. Fake smoke filled the stage responded with, “W ell what did you ship for you!” To which McKinney expect? A kinder, gentler Buddy?” and M cDonald appeared in the rear replied, "Isn’t that every Christian’s o f the stage. B u lgy ey es and high I don’t think anyone expected a dream?”'' kinder, gentler Kids In the Hall and voice intact, one would never notice A lso, in true Kids In the Hall that M c D o n a ld had a g ed at a ll. th ey d id n ’t disap p oin t. The K ids form, there were plenty skits with had am ple material on their usual A ls o , s e e in g a s lig h tly p u d g ier th e K id s in d rag, a p a rticu la rly David Foley in spandex was a defi­ risqué subjects, taking shots at the rau n ch y se x sc e n e b e tw e e n police-force, suburban life, and best n ite p lu s as w e ll as M c D o n a ld ’s Thompson and M cDonald, and the uncontrollable laughter and ad-lib o f all, Christianity in the skit Jesus a lm o st o b lig a to r y k is s b etw een 2 0 0 0 . prior to his grabbing F oley’s crotch, McKinney and Foley as gay lovers.

“You know M y summary: this was w h a t’s c o m in g lik e ly o n e o f the fu n n iest next buddy.” things I’ve seen in my life.

Y ou n ev er However, I may be biased. know w h a t’ s I do have an extremely c o m in g n ex t unhealthy obsession every­ w ith B uddy th in g C anadian in c lu d in g C o le .

C o le K evin S u lliv a n T V sh o w s (T h o m p so n ) and all things Don McKellar. was as flamingA ls o , th e fa c t that I w a s ly gay as three row s from the front, e v e r ...a n d ju s t could have reached out and as ru d e. H e touched Mr. Heavyfoot, had m ad e v a r io u s K evin M cD on ald craw ling jo k e s about the around at my feet, and met disap p oin tm en t three o f the K ids after the that w a s Y 2 K , show might have heightened the gay comm u­ my experience a little. nity, and robotic But I w ill say this, The dogs. After the K id s in th e H all h a v e n ’t sh o w w h en I ch a n g ed and a n y o n e w ho met T hom pson, lik ed the T V sh ow w ou ld he said, “Buddy Olivia Pojar an d on e o f the kids Olivia Pojar have loved the live version. was a little racy T he K ids h a v en ’t lost any tonight.” likely referring to C o le’s Jesus 2000 was a farce o f both com ic tim ing w ith age. They also line about the joy o f natural disas­ te le v a n g e lis m and in fo -m e r ic a ls h a v e n ’t lo s t any o f that bizarre ters. with M cCulloch as a pitchman try­ humour that m akes us Canadians “ I ’ m su re so m e c o u p le in ing to sell an efficient and m oney­ lo v e them so m u ch . W ith o u t a saving Christ to McKinney.

V en ezu ela are putting o ff divorce doubt, the Kids in the Hall remain p r o c e e d in g s ...w e ll, at le a st until J e su s 2 0 0 0 is ‘‘n ew and the pinnacle o f Canadian humour. improved for the new millennium,” they clear the rubble o ff their dead children.” Responding to the audi­ said M c C u llo c h , “If you g et the e n c e ’s good-natured b oos. Buddy deluxe version, he does your w or­

A n d y S to c h a n s k y : a b o v e a n d b e y o n d th e A n i a rm y

By S ue Krashinsky "This band makes me happy," stated my friend L iv o f the stellar band P igeon h ole, by far the m ost impressive o f the three opening per­ form an ces at A ndy S toch an sk y's show at the Jailhouse.

The even in g did not start out quite as impressively. The first act, Janet W eeden, was yet another in the long line o f one-girl-and-a-piano sh tick s. T he artists, such as Tori A m os, who are able to uphold this m usical style, do so by m eans o f im pressive stage presence, energy and m u sic a l v a r ie ty . T h o u g h W eeden showed promise, she lacked the essentials to captivate her audi­ ence.

In the seco n d band, lea d by Tara Martin, a viola added richness to the folky texture o f their sound, a refreshing departure from the typical guitar band structure. T heir stage presence, however, left something to be desired. A synthesis among the band m em b ers w as the m is s in g ingredient that could have made this solid set a really great.

The incredible energy and wond e r fu lly la y ere d m u sic of P ig e o n h o le sto o d on its o w n amongst the openers. The band was tight, and their upbeat sound meshed with their eloquent lyrics. The confi­ d e n c e o f v o c a lis t and g u ita r ist N a ta sh a S zu b er w as e s p e c ia lly impressive, and though lead vocalist Isabelle Fahmy seemed a little stiff, th eir v o ic e s b len d ed for a great sound. It was a performance that got the crowd primed for the brilliance

that w o u ld f o llo w in A n d y Stochansky's set.

Many know Stochansky mainly from h is w ork as A ni D ifran co's drumm er— a p o sitio n he held for eight years. His performance clearly established him as more than just a n oth er m em b er o f w h at he has called "Ani's army."

At the beginning o f his tour 6 or 7 m o n th s a g o S to c h a n sk y explains, "[Ani Difranco’s legacy] is really difficult to shake and I'm wor­ ried about it. But after the first few w eek s o f p layin g...th e com m ent I got was that ... people are forgetting about that whole side.” Stochansky expressed relief and gratitude stat­ ing: “It's really a thrill and an hon­ our that I have that chance, it's like so m e b o d y sa y in g h ere's another chance at bat, p eo p le are lending their ears and ... I always see that as a privilege."

S to c h a n sk y has earn ed that honour. H is m usic has an ethereal q u ality to it w h ich is q u ite c o m ­ p e llin g . H is p erc u ssiv e roots are c le a r and S to c h a n sk y ta k es the opportunity to play auxiliary percus­ sion by beating on an oil drum. He is at once completely entrenched in the rhythm and above it, his breath­ taking voice soaring languidly inside o f the wonderfully synthesized and complex structure o f the music.

S to c h a n s k y ’s v o ic e ca rries poetry that is at o n ce sim p le and incredibly evocative— a fitting com ­ panion to the m u sic. "It’s not my fo rte," h e in s is t s . "I s e e p e o p le around me that are my heroes...M ichael Ondaajte or Anne

M ich a els...I'll ju st work tw ice as hard after thinking about those peo­ ple and to have somebody say, 'these lyrics are really good, I want to talk about them,' is a real honour."

Stochansky was not always so fo c u se d on the ly rica l a sp ects o f music. "Generally speaking, I think that I was more attracted to music when I was younger,” he noted. “I think that I learnt that from the women who were around me in my life and influenced me, taught me how to listen to lyrics in songs and read poetry and things like that."

This kind o f maturity is a strik­ ing feature about Stochansky's per­ s o n a lity , and h is v a lu e s ab ou t women and people in general come through clearly in songs like "Talk Letter to a Friend," about a cheating friend. "When I was writing 'Talk'...I was trying...to do a check on m yself that I wasn't preaching."

Stochansky also takes pains to see him self in the subjects he exam­ ines. "Everybody has the opportuni­ ty to kick the cat and be an asshole," he says. "Talk is just...thinking how h a v e I d o n e that, w h ere h a v e I screwed up?... And when I finished writing 'Fuse Box', [his new album] I r e a liz e d all the so n g s w ere, in som e w ay about me. ... [The song 'Fly'] was completely autobiographi­ cal, which is great, amazing thera­

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Stochansky says that he gets the inspiration for his music by keeping his eyes open to the people around him. Part o f what makes his lyrics so effective and touching is that they fu se Stochansky's ideas about his

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inner se lf w ith those he has about the o u ts id e w o rld .

W h ile Stochansky's music seems to almost reach an oth er p la n e , h is ly r ic s remain grounded in the most basic, yet mysterious aspect o f our lives: the human heart. "If I'm aware, if I fin d m y s e lf aw are o f everyth in g around me, then things start coming

in," he says. Stochansky him self is in sp ir a tio n a l. H is lu m in o u s and touching art is what m usic should be. This band makes me happy.

To fin d out more about Andy Stochansky, his upcoming tour dates and available albums, visit his web­ site at www.andystochansky.com

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S o m e o n e W h o ' l l W a t c h O v e r M e is a c a l l t o a r m s I 'm g o i n g t o i g n o r e Y e llo w D o o r 's la t e s t p la g u e d b y w e a k s c r ip t a n d d ic h e d h u m o u r review s.

T h e p lo t is f a i r ly s im p le : three m en - an Irishm an, a B rit, a n d an A m e r ic a n - a r e ta k e n hostage during the Beirut hostage c r is is du rin g the 1 9 8 0 ’s and are fo rced to sp en d hours in a sm all cell alternately talking, bickering, a n d c li n g in g to e a c h o th e r fo r com fort. N o n e o f them are ex a ct­ ly su re w h a t th e y h a v e d o n e to end up there: o n e w a s o n h is w ay to the market to buy pears w hen h e w a s snatched and throw n into the b ack o f a van.

S in c e the h o sta g es are n ever told n e w s o f the ou tsid e w orld, or the p o ssib le dates o f their release, the play takes p la ce in a strangely tim e le s s n eth er w o r ld - th ere is v irtu ally n o “a ctio n ” in the c o n ­ v e n tio n a l s e n s e , or forw ard p lo t d evelop m en t. A s a result, this is a very chatty p lay, w h ich is fittin g fo r an Irish p la y , as drama critic Richard K earney o n ce wrote: “the t e n d e n c y in Ir ish d ra m a is fo r w ords to dom inate over character, action and plot.” W h ich is fin e if y o u ’re d e a lin g w ith a b r illia n t s c r ip t - T u e s d a y N ig h t C a f e ’ s recent production o f R osencrantz and G u ild e n s te m are D e a d is a p erfect ex a m p le o f th is - but not g o o d i f your d ealin g w ith on e full o f ju v e n ile hum our, tired national ste r e o ty p e s and c lic h é d w ritin g , w h ic h is u n fo rtu n a tely th e c a s e

By M aggie G ilmour W e sit in a darkened theatre, th ick b lack b lin d fo ld s o b scu rin g ou r v ie w , s h iftin g n e r v o u sly in o u r c h a ir s a s w e a w a it fu r th e r c o m m a n d s . A f t e r g u id i n g u s d ow n a set o f precarious, tw istin g stairs, w e h a v e b een lea d to our seats by in visib le hands. N ervous la u g h te r f i l l s th e ro o m as lo u d v o ic e s bark at us: “S to p la u g h ­ in g !” and, “S it still!” B efore lo n g , lo u d h ea v y m etal m u sic fills the room , fo llo w e d b y sh o u tin g and sirens, a clank o f a clo sin g door, and th e a n g u is h e d sc r e a m th a t f ills the room , scream in g : “I ’v e done nothing w rong!” Our blind­ fo ld s are rem oved and the sh o w b egins.

The clever op en in g fiv e m in ­ u tes o f S o m e o n e W h o ’ll W a tch O ver M e set the m ood fo r Frank M cG u in n ess’ tense and o cca sio n ­ ally funny play, a T alking C am el P r o d u c tio n p la y in g n o w a t th e Y e llo w D oor. In case yo u hadn’t h e a r d o f h im (I h a d n ’ t) M c G u in n e s s i s an I r is h p l a y ­ w right w ho w en t to u n iversity in D u b lin and w rote h is fir st p la y , F a c to r y G ir ls , in 1 9 8 2 . A f t e r M c G u in n e ss w r o te S o m e o n e W h o ’ll W a tch O v e r M e in th e early n ineties, the play op en ed in L o n d o n a n d th e n p la y e d s i x m o n th s on B r o a d w a y , to m ix e d

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Y aw n. A nd then there is the unre­ str a in e d h y s te r ia th a t s e e m s to operate for 75% o f this play - lots o f racing about, shouting, banging on the ground, co lla p sin g in each others arms, m ore shouting, m ore h u g s, y o u g e t the pictu re. There are m any m om ents lik e this, that are ju st so overw rou gh t, that the a u d ie n c e f e e l s w r u n g o u t , a s though th ey ’v e b een grabbed b y a n o i s y m a n o n th e s t r e e t a n d d e m a n d e d to “ f e e l s o m e th in g !

R ea ct!” O n e ’s atten tion w anders but it is not b eca u se o n e is bored: it is b e c a u s e th e a tte n tio n ca n on ly be held hostage for so lon g i f the audience is exhorted in en d ­ le s s ly h y ste r ic a l to n e s to S Y M ­ P A T H IZ E W IT H M Y P L IG H T th e y are b ou n d to sh u t d o w n at som e point.

T h is production has so m any stren gth s: th ere is the se t its e lf, the actor’s co m m itm en t, and the o c c a s io n a l m o m e n ts o f h ila rity .

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A n audience, in general, d oes not w a n t to b e to ld h o w to fe e l fo r tw o hours, and the ending o f this play a llow s the beleaguered audi­ en ce m em ber a chance to feel an array o f em o tio n s, as op p osed to b e in g h a n d e d a p la c a r d an d sh o v ed on to the p ick et lin e. T he fin a l s c e n e is so g o o d , I m ig h t a ctu ally say se e th e play fo r the last fiv e m inutes alone. It’s one o f th ose dark, com p lex m om ents that h appen so o fte n o n sta g e w h ere there is n o c le a r d e v il or a n g el, w inner or loser, that keeps theatre audiences com in g back for more.

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b ulb han gs from the c e ilin g , the hard cem ent floor is unforgiving, the room is b leak and cold . Josh B lo c h an d D a v id G a lp e r n are strong and flex ib le actors, w h ose ch a r m an d v e r s a t ility k e e p th e p la y sa ilin g through m any o f its dull m om ents. There are the occa ­ s io n a l m o m e n ts o f c o m ic b r il­ lian ce the characters share as they try to m ake lig h t o f their situation, a s w h e n th e th r e e m e n m a k e im a g in a r y m a r t in is w ith th e ir im a g in ary sh ak ers, and then sip them , grinning, know in g that they m ay n ever drink a martini again.

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Redmen drop crucial gam e to Bishop's T e a m g o e s 1 -1 o v e r t h e w e e k e n d a s t h e y p o u n d L a v a l o n S a t u r d a y

By C hristian Lander

bench. S eco n d , Frederic Bernard h it a th ree p o in t sh o t to tie the gam e at 39-39.

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said Hunter, w h o had a team high eigh t rebounds. “W e lost because o f lack o f execu tion on the o ffen ­ siv e end and becau se o f our lack

gam e by less than fiv e points and still hold the tiebreaker advantage.

H o w e v e r , th e y l o s t b y s e v e n points, w hich g iv e s the G aiter’s a tw o point advantage and the right to h ost the gam e.

“I d o n ’t care w here w e play t h e m ,” s t a te d R e d m e n r o o k ie Frederic Bernard. “W e ’re goin g to beat them , that’s all that matters.”

In l o s i n g to B i s h o p ’ s an d pounding L aval the R edm en pret­ ty m uch did w hat w as expected o f them th is w eek en d . T h ey beat a team that they w ere sup­ p osed to beat, and they lo st a c lo s e on e to a team that they match up ev en ly against. The o n ly p rob lem is that the lo s s M c G ill s m o k e s L a v a l m ay have ram ifications beyond February.

O n S a tu r d a y th e R e d m e n H aving beat both team s on took a big step towards guarantee­ the road earlier in the year, the in g th em selv es a p la y o ff spot by R e d m e n w e r e lo o k in g fo r a pounding Laval 85-66. sw eep that w ould secure them T h e g a m e w a s ju s t a sh o w ­ a secon d p lace spot and guar­ c a s e fo r stron g M c G ill d e fe n s e , a n te e th e m a h o m e c o u r t the o ff e n s iv e p o ten tia l the team advantage for the first round o f h o ld s, and the lo n g range ability the playoffs. o f M ark R awas.

Searching for that guaran­ W ith the gam e locked up for tee, the R edm en cam e out with the R edm en, the team inbounded a lot o f energy on Friday night the ball w ith on ly secon d s left to as they w ere able to jum p to an p lay. E ventually it found its w ay early lead on the play o f cap ­ to fourth year center M ark R aw as tain Kirk R eid and the energy w h o w a s a lo n e fa c in g the L aval o f the crow d. T he g y m saw a basket w ith the ball in his hands. m uch larger crow d than usual Rather than attempt a dunk like he thanks to a healthy contingent did last w eek, he squared aw ay for o f vocal Gaiter supporters. th e th ree p o in t sh o t. F o r m o s t For m ost o f the first half, other players this w ould b e a nor­ a ll o f th e c h e e r s c a m e fro m m a l o c c u r r e n c e , but R a w a s had M c G ill su p p o rters.

The never attem pted a three let alone R edm en w ere controlling both m ade o n ein h is entire U n iversity e n d s o f the g la s s , th e y w ere c a r e e r . In an y c a s e , h e s e t up p assing w ell, and scoring. The properly and knocked it dow n. o n ly th in g that B is h o p ’s fans “It w as the last second and I c o u ld c h e e r w a s th e s t if lin g thought that I m ight as w ell take d efen se that the G aiters w ere o n e b e f o r e I g r a d u a t e ,” s a id k eep in g up. T he cheers w ere R aw as, w ho scored fifteen in the perhaps a little louder because w in . “I put it up, and it w en t in. they knew that ev en tu a lly the T hat’s it for m e, no m ore threes, R edm en w ou ld crum ble under I ’m sto p p in g w ith a 100% aver­ such tight defense.

McGill to o k a m orale boosting win on Saturday vs. Laval Patrick Fok a g e.”

T h e start o f th e R ed m en Other than that shot, the gam e d ecline began w hen they start­ o f d efen siv e intensity. It hurts us, type o f series that typ ified the rest w a s w ith out any m ajor m om en ts e d to m o v e th e b a ll o u t s id e . w e n e e d e d th is w in to se c u r e a o f the gam e. M c G ill w o u ld fall and w as just a good m orale boost­ N orm ally solid three point shoot­ er for the R edm en. secon d place finish and w e n eed­ beh in d , stage a strong co m eb a ck ers like Kirk R eid and D om en ico “I hope w e w in like this every ed it to w in hom e court.” to tie th e g a m e a n d th e n f a l l M arcario suddenly w ent ice co ld T h a t n e e d fo r h o m e c o u r t behind again. n igh t,” said Bernard, w h o scored an d th e t'eam s h o t an a b y s m a l seven points and took an unheard advantage is w hat m ade this gam e “ W e tr ie d , i t ’ s n o t lik e w e 1 6 .7 % in th e f ir s t h a lf fr o m o f fiv e charges during the gam e. so im portant for both team s. In d id n ’t try,” added M arcario, w ho beyond the arc. the even t that both team s end up scored fourteen points in the loss.

“A fter the lo ss last night, it’s good “ It h appens,” said M arcario to w in on e like this. I hate lo sin g .” w ith the sam e record, the deter­ “W e ju st c o u ld n ’t pull aw ay and after the gam e. “Som etim es, you m ining factor o f w ho gets to host take a lead. W e m ade som e stupid The lo ss to B ish o p ’s hurts the just have an o f f night, and that’s te a m fo r c e r ta in , b u t i t ’ s n o t the p la y o ff gam e w ill be decided tu rn o v ers and th e y to o k a d v a n ­ what it w as tonight.” b y a tieb rea k er. I f M c G ill had tage.” i m p o s s i b le to o v e r c o m e . T h e W h eth er th e p o o r sh o o tin g w on both gam es, then they w ould R edm en are on 3-1 over their last T h e b e s t c h a n c e fo r a w as due to a bad night or a go o d four ga m es at h om e, and lo o k to o b v io u s ly h o st th e g a m e , b u t i f R ed m en v icto ry c a m e w ith 1:07 d efense w as made irrelevant by a they each w on a gam e, the point left in the gam e with the R edm en push that to 5-1 next w eekend as B is h o p ’ s tea m that sh o t 4 2 .9 % tra ilin g 6 6 -6 4 . M c G ill forw ard they take on Y ork and Toronto differential w ould determ ine w ho from three point range in the first. h o sts th e g a m e . S in c e M c G ill Ari Hunter drove hard to the bas­ W h en th e situ a tio n has M c G ill beat B ish o p ’s 5 9 -5 4 in N ovem ber, ket m ad e the la y u p , and d rew a c la n g in g sh o ts o f f th e iro n and they cou ld have lost last Friday’s fo u l. H e h it the free throw and B ish o p ’s h ittin g their sh o ts, it ’s g ave the R edm en a 6 7 -6 6 lead that in e v ita b le that the R ed m en w ill q u ic k ly f e l l apart a fte r a th ree fall behind. from G aiter Paul S tep h en s, w h o QSSF Men’s Basketball Standings Fortunately M cG ill w ere able d estroyed the R edm en by hitting to u s e s o m e s o lid p o s t p la y to fiv e o f seven from the three point k eep the G aiter lead to 3 6 -3 0 at line. the half.

A la t e M c G i ll c o m e b a c k G o in g in to the se c o n d h a lf, attem pt lead to a sle w o f m issed M cG ill n eed ed a b ig p lay in the baskets and B ish o p ’s free throw s to try and spark the team T hey got w hich finalized the score at 77 -7 0 . it from tw o players; first, Mark “W e beat B ish o p ’s earlier; w e R aw as had a huge b lock that sent sh o u ld h ave beat th em to n ig h t,” the ball fly in g in to the B ish o p ’s

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M artlets end streak S t r u g g lin g te a m ta k e s o n e ove r B i s h o p 's B y D avid S chipper In basketball action on Frida ' night, the M cG ill Martlets erase'1 th e ir th r e e -g a m e lo s in g streaK against the B ish op ’s Gaiters dating b a c k to la s t y e a r , and in th e p rocess notch ed their first hom e w in o f the season.

The win momentarily prevent ed the G aiters from c lin c h in g a p layoff berth and show ed the rest o f the league that M cG ill w ill no longer be anyone’s pushover.

T h e M a r tle ts o v e r c a m e a s e v e n p o in t d e fic it in the ea rly m om ents o f the secon d h a lf and ultimately, M cG ill secured a 47-4<> victory w ith tw o key free throws from veteran p oin t guard A liso n S ch a fer w ith 1 3 .6 se c o n d s le ft.

S e c o n d -y e a r c e n tr e S h a n n o n H o w a rd le d th e tea m w ith 10 points in an outstanding tw o-w ay performance. Howard also led the team with four offensive rebounds, and added three on the other side o f the floor.

M cG ill bounced out to a quick 8 -4 lead due in large part to tw o outstanding 3-point shots by guard Jen de L eeuw , w hom head coach L isen M oore ca lls “the best pure shooter in the country, she plays with confidence.”

M o o r e s e e m e d e s p e c i a ll y excited about H ow ard’s play and w as pleased that her natural talent sh o n e through. A fter the g a m e.

Howard explained that; “W e ’ve b een dow n all se a ­ son, depending on Jenny to score, but tonight everybody w as into the gam e.”

T he first h a lf w as rela tiv ely c lo s e , w ith B is h o p ’s m a tc h in g M cG ill basket for basket until the

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Comingupthis week Martlet hockey vs. Ottawa, Friday, 5:30 p.m at McConnell Arena.

Martlet Volleyball vs. Montreal, Friday, 6:00 p.m at Currie Gym. Redmen Volleyball vs. Montreal, Friday, 8:00 p.m at Currie Gym Synchro swimming Watershow Saturday, 3:00 p.m at Currie pool.

Redmen hockey vs. Concordia, Friday 7:30 p.m at Loyola arena.

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Kim St-Pierre puts up another Herculean effo rt S t a r n e t m in d e r m a k e s 5 7 s a v e s a s M a r t le t s lo s e 5 -0 t o t o p r a n k e d C o n c o r d ia their co m p o su re seem ed to w ain after the tough goal.

This lack o f focus attributed to the third goal o f the game. Kendra M acD onald w as left unattended in

By M ark Kerr

T en m in u tes m ay se e m lik e n o th in g . In w o m e n 's h o c k e y on Friday, though, it w as the d iffer­ e n c e b e tw e e n a w in an d a loss.

T he C on cord ia S tin gers c a p it a liz e d o n th e M c G ill Martlets' lapse in the final ten minutes o f the second period to score three goals. T his led the top ranked C IAU team to a 5 -0 w in at L o y o la A rena.

J e s s ik a A u d e t e a r n e d th e shutout for the Stingers.

"I d o n 't k n o w i f y o u w ou ld call it a breakdow n," said M cGill coach Peter Smith after the gam e. "The seco n d p e r io d w a s th e b e st p e r io d th e y p la y e d a g a in s t u s a ll year."

G o in g in to the se c o n d , the M artlets w ere on ly dow n 1-0. It stayed that w ay until the m idway point o f the peri­ od when Stinger Catherine D e Abreu broke it open.

D e A b reu w a s a b le to Concordia p ep p ers Kim St-Pierre all g am e break up a clearing play out o f front o f the Martlet's net. A beauti­ the M cG ill z o n e . M artlet g o a lie fu l p a ss cam e across from team ­ K im S t-P ie r r e , c o m p le t in g th e m ate D e A breu, and M a cD o n a ld hom e and hom e series w hich saw wasted no time in putting the shot her start last Friday at M cC onnell past St-Pierre.

Arena, w as able to get a p iece o f A fte r th e g a m e , S t- P ie r r e D e A b reu 's sh o t. H o w e v e r , the echoed the sentiments o f the entire p u c k g o t p a st S t-P ie r r e and team. bounced just over the line.

"The third goal w as more o f a To that point, a good jo b had let dow n than the second," she said. been done o f checking the speedy Concordia increased its lead to C o n c o r d ia fo r w a r d s, e s p e c ia lly four before the end o f the second returning forward Corinne Swirsky. period. W ith A llison Ticm anis o ff U n fo r tu n a te ly for th e M a r tle ts,

fo r r o u g h in g , M o n e lle H e b e r t w a lk ed out from the sid e boards and let a wrist shot g o on St-Pierre.

O nce again, St-Pierre w as able to get a piece o f the shot, only to see

long by racking up 62 shots it deflect over her and into the net.

T h e th r e e g o a ls in th e ten m in u te sp an q u ic k ly er a se d the Martlets' superb performance in the first half o f the game.

D e s p it e L e a n n e M a r te ll putting Concordia up 1-0 just tw o minutes into the gam e, the Martlets had a stronger first period than in la s t F r id a y 's g a m e a g a in s t th e Stingers. T he play w as balanced.

M cG ill, led by the fast skating o f C indy-A nne Carufel w ho was able

to g e t th e p u ck d e e p in to Concordia's end.

This created som e chances for M cG ill. M idw ay through the first, the rebound from A nna C ooper's p o in t sh o t cam e out but c o u ld n o t be put h o m e . On another p la y , D ana R ittm a s te r h ad th e g o a lie beat but ju s t m is s e d the top corner.

Perhaps the best chance c a m e w ith ju s t over f iv e m in ­ u tes le ft in the second.

M e g a n H e w in g s , g o in g hard to th e n e t, phniip Trippenbach c h i p p e d S o p h i e A c h e s o n 's r e b o u n d h ig h o v e r Audet.

"W hen w e p la y a g a in s t Concordia we're surprised when w e g et scorin g ch an ces. W e have to capitalize on the few chances that w e do get," said Smith o f his team's struggles finishing in the offensive zone.

In th e third p e rio d , M c G ill r e g r o u p e d an d had a str o n g e r effort. Only one goal w as allowed.

It cam e when Marie-Claude Allard

picked the puck out from a scrum in front o f the net. She was able to get it past the helpless St-Pierre to finish the scoring.

"I thought Kim played a great game," said Smith. "We are going to m iss her. She plays aggressive and handles the puck very well."

T he M artlets w ill be w ithout its star goaltender for a w eek. StPierre le a v e s for G erm any at the start o f the w eek to play for Canada at the Four N ations Tournament.

"I am alw ays proud to play for m y country," said St-Pierre, w ho has a 1 0 - 0 record when playing for Team Canada.

St-Pierre, unquestionably, is a h u ge part o f the M artlets' team .

H ow ever, the players have c o n fi­ dence in back-up A m ey D oyle. " N o, n o th in g is g o in g to change," said Sophie A cheson after last Friday's hom e game. "We have a lot o f con fid en ce in A m ey. She has played a lot o f big gam es for us."

D o y le w ill be called upon to p lay som e d e c is iv e g am es. N ex t w eekend sees M cG ill play Ottawa at hom e on Friday night and then U Q T R in T r o is R iv iè r e s on Sunday. T hose gam es w ill decide the final standings, and w hich team gets the all important hom e playoff game.

D o y le has large skates to fill this com ing w eekend. H ow ever, it w ill allow her the chance to con ­ tribute to the effort to bring playoff hockey to M cC onnell Arena.

Team effo rt gives M artlets basketball first hom e win P la y e r s , c o a c h lo o k t o u s e v ic t o r y a s t e m p la t e f o r f u t u r e w i n s a n d s u c c e s s e s C o n tin u e d fr o m p a g e 2 7 last tw o m inutes o f the half w hen the G aiters’ L eanne Clarke m ade tw o 3 -p o in ters to break a 2 0 -2 0 deadlock. Howard scored to make it 2 6 - 2 2 , b e fo r e ea c h te a m la id down free throws to leave the court down 27-23.

The Gaiters opened the second half with another three-point basket but the M artlets roared back w ith de L eeuw m aking a nifty pass to forw ard Erin M ullan for an ea sy sco re. On the n ex t p la y , M u llan cam e up w ith an im p ressive steal and p assed it to L y sia n e van der Knaap for another score.

Van der Knaap w ould make a defensive rebound on the next play, one o f five in the gam e for the tow ­ ering player. Such plays were typi­ c a l o f th e e f f o r t and in t e n s it y show n by M cG ill throughout the evening.

D ow n 32-27 four minutes into the second half, Howard again rose to the challenge, scoring tw o quick baskets, the latter on e on an easy lay-u p . A fter a B is h o p ’s b ask et, r o o k ie g u a rd C h e e k a M it c h e ll stripped the ball and streaked down the court for an easy basket. W hen Mullan scored on the next play, it w as the first time M cG ill had lead sin ce the m iddle o f the first half.

T h is s e e m e d to give the team the spark it n e e d e d to c lo s e out the game.

A fte r th e gam e, M oore p r a i s e d M itc h e ll’s le a d ­ ership in the sec­ ond half.

H o w a r d co m m en ted that “nobody rem em ­ bers that Cheeka is a r o o k ie , sh e p la y s lik e s h e ’s b een around for so lo n g .”

T h r o u g h o u t, M it c h e ll d is ­ p la y e d the kind o f g r it th at th e M artlets need to w in more basket­ ball games.

T h e p iv o ta l p o in t o f th e gam e cam e w ith seven minutes to p la y . H o w a rd sco r e d , but on the ensuing Gaiters drive dow n the court, Howard blocked a pass and leap ed through the air to retrieve th e b a ll. A s H o w a r d r e c o u n te d

la te r , at that p o in t “ w e had th e m om entum that w e hadn’t had all year.”

M itchell scored again to tie the

score at 41 and a fter a G a ite r s b a s k e t, de Leeuw promptly d r a in e d a ja w d ro p p in g th ree p o in t sh o t to p u ll M c G ill a h ea d 4 4 -4 3 .

A fter S c h a fe r ’s g a m e - w in n in g free throw s, the Gaiters had tw o a tte m p ts to sc o r e but w ere sty m ie d b y the M a r tle ts’ ten a ­ c io u s zone defence.

“M y jo b is to stop the base­ lin e d r iv e ,” M itc h e ll o ffe r s in r e s p o n s e to th e c o a c h ’s c h a lle n g e , w ith a radiant s m ile on her fa c e . “ I ’m g o in g to cherish the v ic ­ tory.”

A fte r th e gam e, M oore w as grateful for the moral victory in what was an excit­ in g w in. She saw this gam e as a step forward for “a team with a lot

o f heart.”

Still, M oore feels that there is m ore w ork to be d o n e in future gam es. “W e m issed a lot o f shots tonight,” she offered. The Martlets fin is h e d 6 fo r 14 fro m th e free throw line, som ething that has hurt them in the past.

Howard recounted a pre-game story in w h ich S ch a fer sp ok e in front o f her team m ates: “A li told us, ‘If you w on’t w in the game for you, w in it for m e!” ’

L o ss to Laval T h e n e x t d a y , th e M a rtlets played another solid gam e against the ninth-ranked L aval R ou ge et O r, bu t c a m e up sh o r t, 7 7 - 6 6 .

M cG ill remained within five points for m ost o f the match before Laval pulled away late in the second half.

Erin M ullan led the w ay w ith 10 p o in t s an d an im p r e s s iv e 16 reb o u n d s, w h ile C y n th ia S a n ta m a r ia w e n t 4 - f o r - 6 from t h r e e - p o in t r a n g e to s c o r e 1 2 p o in t s . S h a n n o n H o w a r d and L ysianne van der Knaap each had 11 points for the Martlets, w ho outrebounded Laval 48-31.

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Redmen forw ard Dave Gourde: m aster o f his dom ain M c G i ll's p la y m a k e r r e b o u n d s f r o m p o o r y e a r t o h a v e h is b e s t s e a s o n e v e r

By James Empringham W hen applied to D ave Gourde the phrase “calm , cool and collect­ ed” is more than a cliché.

A sk his b est friend and lin em a te M a th ieu D a rch e. “D a v e ’ s very laid back, nothing seem s to w o r r y h im .” C o a c h M a rtin R aym ond adds “H e’s calm , but at the sam e tim e D a v e ’s very c o n fi­ dent. I never have to talk to him because h e’s extrem ely se lf m oti­ vated.”

A se lf a c k n o w le d g e d “ S e in fe ld super fa n ,” he h im se lf w ill tell you that o f the entire cast h e r e la t e s m o s t to Jerry; D a v e Gourde is truly the m aster o f his domain.

To anyone fortunate enough to have seen him play this year, this com es as no surprise. Gourde is in the m idst o f having his best season e v e r , le a d in g th e tea m in g o a ls go in g into last w eek en d ’s hom estand with 25 in only 24 games.

B y anyone’s standards this is an im p r e s s iv e fe a t in it s e lf .

C o n sid er the fact that he m issed nearly all o f h is last sea so n w ith m ono and a separated shoulder, and h is s u c c e s s th is yea r is n o th in g short o f amazing.

“Last year w as frustrating for m e. I w a n ted to sh o w e v e r y o n e what kind o f year I’m capable o f h a v in g w h en I ’m h e a lth y ,” sa id Gourde.

U nfortunately, G ourde hasn’t b een healthy for ev en all o f this year. H e’s m issed three gam es to date with an elbow infection called c e llu litis but by his ow n estim a ­ tions he is now finally 1 0 0 per cent healthy as the team heads down the stretch run towards the playoffs.

This is m usic to the ears o f R edm en fans w ho know that a healthy D ave Gourde is imperative to M c G ill’s q u est fo r th eir first d iv ision title sin ce 1946. B esid es c e n te r in g M c G i ll’ s to p lin e between the nation’s leading scorer D arche and D a v id G renier, he is M cG ill’s top faceoff man, winning draws at an astounding rate o f 60 p er c e n t. A fo u r th y e a r s e n io r , Gourde’s influence on the M cG ill dressing room can’t be underrated either.

“C oach talked to the fourth y e a r p la y e r s b e fo r e th e s e a s o n

began about taking more o f a lead­ ership role,” ’ he said. “I’ve tried to do that.”

This being his fourth year and final season with the R ed’n W hite, there is nothing Gourde w ould like m o re than to g o o u t a n a tio n a l c h a m p io n . O f c o u r se h e is w e ll aw are that th is m ea n s d e fe a tin g Trois R ivières, a team M cG ill has had no success against in the past.

“W e ’ve alw ays struggled

Dave Gourde credits training with NHLers for his success in Trois Rivières. They w ill be our b ig g e st c h a lle n g e ,” said G ourde.

W e ju st have to say fo c u se d and not think about our previous losses.

It’s more o f a mental hurdle than anything e lse.”

W h eth er the team is ab le to finally jum p that hurdle remains to be seen, but either w ay this season can already be deem ed an unequiv­ o c a l s u c c e s s fo r G o u r d e . A fte r choosing M cG ill for it’s com bina­ tion o f athletic and academ ic ex cel­ len ce over alternatives lik e Major Junior “A ” h o c k e y or a certain aforem entioned school an hour and a h a lf n o r th -e a s t o f M o n tr e a l, G ourde set high e x p ecta tio n s for him self.

In his first season he won the R ookie o f the Year award tallying 2 4 p oin ts to raise th ose e x p e c ta ­ tions. In only his second season he em erged as the number-one centre

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“ I w o u ld lik e to p la y in Germany for a few years. It w ould be a great experienc,” said Gourde.

H o c k e y i s n ’t h is o n ly p la n th o u g h ; G ou rd e s im p ly h a s to o many interests.

“I d o n ’t w ant to be p la y in g hockey forever. After a few years I w o u ld lik e to m o v e b a c k to Montreal and find a job in advertis­ ing,” he said.

Gourde is currently single but after his hockey career is over h e’s looking forward to starting a fam i­ ly. Just don’t expect him to m ove out to the suburbs and settle down r ig h t a w a y ; h e ’ s n o t L e s te r Burnham (from American Beauty).

“I th o u g h t A m e r ic a n Beauty w as a great description o f a lo t o f suburban p e o p le that liv e boring, artificial liv es,” he says.

Gourde, som ew hat o f a “film b u f f ’, c u r ren tly lis t s A m erica n Beauty as his favourite m ovie. He also recom m en d s H urricane and Three Kings. D esp ite the obvious tie-in o f g o lf and hockey, he didn’t lik e H a p p y G ilm o re, sin c e h e ’s “not a big Adam Sandler fan.”

S o w h o w o u ld star in T he D ave Gourde M ovie?

“M aybe Keanu R eeves. H e’s calm and dark-haired like me. H e’s an action hero,” Gourde laughs.

D a v e G o u r d e : L a st A c tio n Hero. C om e p layoff time, Redmen hockey fans w ould love to see him save the world, score the last sec­ on d g o a l in th e c h a m p io n s h ip g a m e , and g e t th e g ir l. T h o u g h th ey ’ll happily settle for ju st the goal.

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“A lex and I are from the same area (L a c E tc h e m in , Q u e .) and w e ’re g o o d friends. W orking out w ith N H L co m p etitio n w as very m otivating,” said Gourde.

It w as actually Tanguay’s g o lf to u r n a m e n t in th e su m m er that Gourde and Darche w on together, sh o o tin g a b est ball score o f 73.

G ou rd e’s lo v e for h ock ey is per­ haps surpassed only for his love o f golf.

“I like p eop le, but I also like to be b y m y s e lf s o m e ­ tim e s,” he said . “I can be som ewhat o f a lo n e r . G o l f is great because when you make a mistake you can only blame yourself.”

W h ile G ourde enjoys his summers training and golfing ,h e k n o w s h e has so m e d e c is io n s to make regarding his future. He wants to c o n tin u e p la y in g hockey but at 5 ’ 10” and 165 pounds he professes that h e’s a little sm all for the N o rth A m e r ic a n professional Avina Cupta gam e, particularly the AHL or IHL. “I’m a free agent so it’d be hard. I w o u ld lik e to try o u t t h o u g h ,” Gourde noted.

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- “Paul w as nervou s but I talked to him before the gam e and told him he w as playing on a line for a reason,” com m ented Darche forw ard D a v id B u r g e ss and after F rid a y ’s g a m e.

D arche, the frustration “ H e d id a g r ea t jo b o f th e V oyageurs out there.” began to set in. U nable - V e r y q u ie t ly , to k e e p up w ith th e R ed m en rearguard q u ic k n e s s of th e D avid B ahl is en jo y ­ M c G ill p la y e r s , in g a banner season .

Laurentian resorted to The O U A conference the ta ctic o f tryin g to le a d e r in p o in t s o u th it and o u tm u s c le a m o n g a ll d e f e n c e the R edm en. m an, B a h l, w ho The strategy didn't p la y e d fo r th e B a ie w ork.

R e s e m b lin g . C om eau D rakkars o f more a team out o f the th e Q M J H L b e f o r e m ovie Slapshot than a j o in in g M c G ill, has collection o f bright and notched 1 0 go a ls and skilled university play­ 25 assists in 29 gam es e r s , th e V o y a g e u r s p la y e d . O v e r th e a m a sse d 1 2 1 p e n a lty w e e k -e n d , B a h l had m in u te s co m p a r e d to o n e g o a l an d th r e e M cG ill's 39, including assists. several gam e m isc o n ­ - M c G ill’s o p p o ­ ducts. nents on Friday night, A t one point m id­ th e Y o r k Y e o m e n w a y th ro u g h th e s e c ­ w e r e a b e tt e r te a m o n d p e r io d M c G ill then their 6 -11-3 reg­ e n jo y e d a s ix m in u te p o w er-p la y , in clu d in g Redmen use h o m e ice ad v an tag e to clinch fifteenth p la y o ff berth in seven teen years Avina Cupta u la r s e a s o n r e c o r d in d ica ted . Y ork w h o a fiv e on three for four p la y s in th e O n tario U n iv e r sity in c lu d in g o n e o n a b r e a k -a w a y s u c c e s s i v e m in u t e s w h ile s ix to talk about m uch o f w hat w ent A th le tic s’ M id -W est C o n feren ce from Gourde in the final secon d s Laurentian players sat cramped in out there. Laurentian w a s taking w as forced to forfeit four w ins and o f th e th ird p e r io d to se n d th e ch eap sh ots all night, and it w as the penalty box. tw o ties from 1 0 gam es played in gam e into overtim e.

"They w eren't p la y in g m uch em b a r r a ssin g at tim e s. It w a s a the fall due to the use o f an inelliIn the extra period it w as all h o c k e y o u t th e r e , I d o n 't w h a t sad display." gib le player.

R edm en, as D arche and com pany sport they call it," m used R edm en - W ith th e ir v i c t o r i e s th is w asted little tim e in securing the forward Greg D avis w h o scored a F r id a y n ig h t m a t c h u p victory for the hom e team . fa n ta stic g o a l on an e n d -to -e n d "W e w ere all over them and rush w h ile also adding an assist in T h e g a m e a g a in s t Y o r k on cou ld have w on by a m uch bigger the game." Our gu ys w ere able to Friday w a s m uch m ore c o m p e ti­ score, but w e g o t the tw o points in sta y d is c ip lin e d an d sh y a w a y t i v e a n d f a n - f r ie n d l y th a n C IA U M e n 's H o c k e y the end, and that's w hat counts," form the dirty stuff. It wasn't such Saturday's affair.

R a n k in g s c o m m e n te d R a y m o n d a fte r th e an intense gam e out there, not like T he b oisterou s R ed 'n W hite g a m e ." D a r c h e is o u r le a d in g ag a in st U Q T R for e x a m p le , but N ig h t c r o w d , w h ic h in c lu d e d scorer and he's the gu y w e look to w e stuck to our gam e and played M o ls o n - E x c h e e r l e a d e r s , w a s w hen w e need a big goal. H e cer­ w ell. Our o ffen ce is rollin g right tr e a te d to an e x c it in g an d fa s t tainly cam e through in a big w ay now , and the d efen ce is chipping p a c e d c o n te st d o m in a ted b y the for us tonight." in too. Everything's clicking."

R edm en, despite the c lo se score.

4. M cG ill (5) O f f to th eir b e st start in 6 0 W hile able to concentrate on A fter c o m in g out fla t in the years, the '99-2 0 0 0 R edm en seem h ock ey for the m ost part, several fir st p erio d and fa llin g to a 1 - 0 to be g ettin g better and better as R edm en w ere in volved in alterca­ d e fic it, M c G ill sh o w e d spark in the year progresses. W ith the top t io n s w ith L a u r e n tia n . O n e o f th e s e c o n d , s c o r in g tw o q u ic k ranked o ffen ce in the nation, and a th o se w a s assista n t cap tain D an g o a ls in the first tw o m in u tes o f d eep b en ch , M cG ill shouldn't be M c C le a n , a k e y c o m p o n e n t o f the p eriod . G ourde and B u rg ess u n d e r e s t im a t e d a s th e s e a s o n M c G ill's s ta b le d e f e n c e c o r p s , w ere the R edm en m arksmen. reaches its crucial juncture. w ho w ill be forced to serve a one M cG ill look ed like it had the "Guys are a ccep tin g o f their gam e suspension for fighting. g a m e se w n up la te in th e th ird roles, and everyb od y on the team R e d m e n n e tm in d e r B e n o it p e r io d w h e n D a v is sc o r e d o f f a is w orking hard and contributing," M enard, w ho picked up the w in in lo w sla p sh o t fro m the slo t. T h e s a id D a r c h e , w h o le d th e w a y b oth w e e k -e n d g a m e s, w a s a lso Y e o m e n , b attled back, h o w e v e r , o ff e n s iv e ly fo r th e R ed m en th is forced to leave the gam e early in and were able to tie it up on a goal w eek -en d w ith eigh t points in the the seco n d p eriod after tak in g a by defencem an Sean M urphy on a tw o g a m e s . " W e'v e g o t a g rea t late hit after a w h istle. R ep laced tw o-on one. team spirit and everybody's on the

by Murray C obb, M enard's injury C o n tr o llin g th e flo w o f the sam e page this year. For m e and a wasn't serious. g a m e , th e R e d m e n c o u ld h a v e lot o f other gu ys it's our last year "McClean didn’t deserve what e a sily b lo w n out their op p on en ts on the team and we're gonna m ake C o n c o r d ia it a good one."

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 8 February 2000

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Julie Hornsby brings experience, leadership, and scoring

By Jo nath a n C olford There w as one question on my mind as I sat down in the half-reno­ vated W ilso n H all cafeteria w ith Martlet centre Julie Hornsby: what drives her?

Hornsby is the dynamo o f the M artlets’ offence, having either led or tied for the M cG ill lead in scoring all three years she has been with the team, and current­ ly tops the offensive charts with 2 0 g o a ls and 34 p o in ts in 23 games.

Her athletic achievem en ts g o b e y o n d h o c k e y , th o u g h .

Before joining the Martlets, the 3 2 y ea r o ld H o rn sb y w a s an in t e r n a tio n a lly renow ned ringuette player, participating in e ig h t national ch a m p io n sh ip s and tw o world championships.

W hen I asked my question, the sim plicity o f her immediate answer took m e aback a little.

“T here’s som ething really special about being on the ice,” Hornsby answered. 'T’ve played basketball before, I’ve p layed fie ld sports, so c c e r , b a seb a ll, and softball, and there’s som e­ thing about putting on a pair o f sk a tes and ju s t b e in g a b le to skate and glide and be out there on a hard surface in the cold.”

“If you talk to other peo­ ple that skate th ey ’ll say the same thing: there’s som ething real­ ly special about being on the ice.

It’s an a m azin g fe e lin g . I g u e ss with the blade you ’re able to glide and not n ecessa rily w alk in g and running which is what w e do every day.”

M aybe it w asn’t so surprising that sh e a n sw ered m e th is w a y .

Concordia Stingers head coach Les Law ton, w ho attempted to recruit H ornsby to play h ock ey after she graduated from Durham C ollege in 1989, indicated that skating is the skill w hich translates best between the tw o sports.

“O bviously the skating [trans­ fers b est],” Lawton said. “I think

[ringuette players] develop a lot o f bad h ock ey habits in ringuette in the sen se that the gam e is not as intense as hockey, you can stay out th ere fo r fiv e m in u te s, and you don’t have that high intense play.”

“Julie has done as good a job as a n y b o d y in the g a m e ... from b e in g a real star at r in g u e tte to

SPORTS briefs M ar tlets volleyball

COMES AWAY EVEN T he M artlets volleyb all team w as defeated by Laval on Friday, but reb ou n d ed to p ick up a w in a g ain st Sherbrooke on Saturday.

F a c in g th ir d -r a n k e d L a v a l, the Martlets were dow ned 3 - l ( 25 -1 5 , 2 5 -2 2 ,-2 2 -2 5 , 2 5 -2 1 ). In the lo ss Anouk Lapointe had 17 digs, four stu ff b locks, three a ces and eigh t kills. A lso o f note, Marie-Andreé Lessard had 16 d igs and 11 kills.

T h e M artlets had b etter luck on Saturday, beating Sherbrook e 30(25-22,25-18,25-17). Lessard was a star once again notching 1 0 kills, 11 d ig s , and th ree s t u f f b lo c k s.

M arie-Claude Ferland had 8 kills, 11 digs, and a 2.5 passing ratio in th e v ic t o r y . T h e M a r tle ts n o w stand at 5 -6 in Q S S F league play an d h o s t M o n tr e a l at h o m e on Friday with hom e-court advantage for the play-offs on the line.

R edm en v o lley ba ll: c l o se

ro a d , lo s in g to b o th L a v a l and S h e r b r o o k e . On F r id a y , se c o n d ranked Laval hung in for a 3-0 (2519, 2 5 -1 8 , 2 5 -9) victory. Against su c h to u g h c o m p e titio n , p o w e r Ryan Frank was able to put up nine kills in a losing cause.

O n S a tu r d a y , M c G ill w a s blanked by the Sherbrooke Vert et Or 3 -0 (2 5 -1 8 , 2 5 -1 9 , 2 5 -2 3 ).

Frank led the way once again with 13 k ills and tour d ig s, w h ile h is teammate Peter List registered nine k ills tw o s t u f f e d b lo c k s . T h e Redmen, despite being mathemati­ cally eliminated from p lay-off con ­ tention, have som ething extra-spe­ c ia l rid in g on th eir F riday night h o m e -c o u r t m a tc h -u p v e r s u s M ontreal. T he inaugural Ornada Cup w ill be handed out for the first tim e to the w inner o f the contest.

The gam e w ill be a charity event, and fans are encouraged to bring can n ed g o o d s, used clo th in g and other donations to help support the Old Brewery M ission. Gam e time is eight PM.

BUT NO CIGAR M c G ill p u t s u p s t r o n g The still w inless Redmen team had another tough w eek-end on the

FINISH AT SKI COMPETITION

transferring that over to hockey to develop good solid hockey skills,” Lawton added.

For H o rn sb y , h er o ff e n s iv e m o v e s h a v e tr a n s la te d w e ll to h o c k e y . U n lik e m o s t w o m e n ’s hockey players, she w ill not dump and chase, preferring to hold onto the puck and stick-handle through the defense. “ F or su re th e skating aspect o f the gam e,” Hornsby said. “ A s far as m o v e s , d e k in g a ro u n d th e net, all o f my hockey m oves are ju s t in stin ctu al ringuette m o v es that I ’v e had for fifteen years. Just th e s e n s e o f w h ere p la y e r s are, d ek in g and p a s s in g .

P o sitio n a l p la y is a b it d if fe r e n t, and s h o o tin g , th o s e are the tw o things that I had to [le a r n ].

D e fen siv e zone c o v ­ erage as a centre [is] so m e th in g that I ’ve s tr u g g le d w ith and I’m learning.”

H o rn sb y ’s slick d e k in g m a n o eu v res s a v e d th e M a r tle ts fro m w h a t w o u ld have been a narrow 1 - 0 lo s s to th e ir p la y o f f r iv a ls U Q T R P a tr io te s w h en sh e w en t around the Patriotes’ defenders and goalie to pot the tying goal with 80 seconds left three w eeks ago. Just doing her job, Hornsby w ould say. “ I s e e m y r o le as s o m e o n e w h o has to b e p ro d u ctiv e o ffe n ­ s i v e l y , ” sh e sa id . “ I ’m a firm

believer in never quitting.”

A t M c G ill T r a n s it io n s After graduating from Durham C o lle g e w ith a d e g r e e in sports ad m in istra tion , H ornsby w orked for tw o years in custom er service fo r G r a y ’ s S p o r ts A g e n c y , a S c a r b o r o u g h -b a s e d w h o le s a le sp ortin g g o o d s distributor. A fter losing her job due to the recession, Hornsby did som e heavy thinking about what direction to take in her li f e and d e c id e d to c o m e to Montreal.

“A t that point I did n ’t really know what I wanted to do and the ow ner [o f G ray’s] asked m e back and I said I didn’t want to go back.

I had to try to figure out what to do with my life.” “ W h ile I w a s at D u rh am C o lle g e so m e fr ie n d s c a m e to C oncordia to study, and also play h o c k e y . I a ctu a lly m et w ith L es Lawton and m y friends were ... try­ ing to get m e to com e. At that point I w asn ’t ready. I decided to com e to Q u e b e c a fte r I w a s la id o f f because I wanted a new experience after h a v in g so m e sta b ility w ith w ork in g and I d id n ’t quite know w h at I w a n ted to do as far as a career.”

H o r n sb y m o v e d to Q u e b e c and, after working for six months, did a three-year degree in Special Care C ounseling at CEGEP Vanier.

B y th e n sh e had r e tir e d fro m ringuette, and did not play a com ­ petitive ice sport for one year until sh e began p layin g h ock ey in the W e st Isla n d in 1 9 9 5 . S h e a ls o decided to pursue her studies in the field o f social work and applied to M cG ill in 1997.

A t M o n t-J o y e , Q u e b e c th is weekend the M cGill ski team par­ ticipated in a tw o day slalom meet.

In the w o m e n ’s co m p etitio n , the first day was dominated by Brianna Law w ho finished first out o f thirty competitors, which was good for a g o ld m ed a l. T ea m m a te Lauren Head finished twelfth. On Sunday, L aw finished secon d out o f thirty fiv e and netted a silver, her second o f the w e e k e n d . A ls o Shaunna B u rk e w o n b r o n z e , and Lauren H ead fin ish e d sixth . T he m edals kept on com ing as the men brought one home on Saturday when Dave Prchal w on a silv e r by fin ish in g secon d out o f six ty -fiv e co m p eti­ to r s . In th e sa m e r a c e S h a w n B o n n y f in is h e d fo u r th , P atrick B o u lv a n a b b ed ten th s p o t, and Brian H arris c lo c k e d in at fo u r­ teenth. On Sunday, Andrew Biller sk ied to a six th p la ce fin ish and Prchal rounded out M c G ill’s top ten finishers by com in g in eighth.

The show ing w as very important to M c G ill w h o is lo c k e d in a tigh t three w ay race for the seven team Q uebec d ivision with Montreal and B ishop’s.

tition o f the year. Q u een ’s took hom e the top spot, w hile Western, M c G ill, T o r o n to , T r e n t, and McM aster follow ed in order. Four M artlets were named to the M eet a ll- s t a r tea m ; J e n n ife r C la r k e , L e a n n e B o u r a s s s a , M e la n ie G o o d d a y , and C in d y R o b in so n .

C la r k e e a r n e d h er sp o t o n th e sq u a d by w in n in g g o ld in th e Interm ediate S o lo T ech n ical rou­ tin e , an e v e n t w h e r e tea m m a te A r ia n n e P u r v e s f in is h e d fif t h .

Bourassa and G oodday got the allsta r n o d by w in n in g g o ld and bronze, respectively, in the Senior S o lo routine. R ob in son fin ish ed fifth in that sam e e v e n t. In th e S o lo F reestyle R outine, Bourassa fin is h e d s ix th , w h ile G o o d d a y cam e in seventh. T he N o v ice solo saw Jill Smith finish fourth, and in the team routine, M cG ill finished th ird . T h e sp o t o f c o n tr o v e r s y cam e in the Duet Freestyle routine where Clarke and Robinson won a silv e r m ed al. T here are rum ors sw irling about som e poor judging that may have robbed this duo o f the gold.

S y n c h r o sw im m in g

2 4 HOUR OUTDOOR HOCKEY

e m b r o il e d in c o n t r o v e r s y

m a r a t h o n ; a r o u s in g

SUCCESS At the O U A cham pionship in Toronto this w eekend, the M cG ill sy n ch ron ized sw im m in g fin ish ed third out o f six in the final com pe­

W ho says M cGill students are ap a th etic? K udos to J e ff H eaton and the rest o f the organizers o f the

Hornsby has seen the transfor­ mation in M cG ill’s w om en’s hock­ ey program, w hich has gone from perennial doorm at in the Q uebec c o n fe r e n c e to n a tio n a l c h a m p i­ onship contender, placing fifth in the national tournament last winter in Toronto.

“T his year w e ’re just fo llo w ­ in g on th e f o o t s t e p s o f th a t ,” Hornsby said. “Our play this '/ear has taken a h u ge step forw ard... w e’re a better rounded team, as far as our o f f e n s iv e and defensive strengths.”

Hornsby’s athletic success has not g o n e w ith o u t r e c o g n itio n as w ell. Talking to her teammates and c o a c h e s , I g e t th is s e n s e o f a trem endous respect they have for h er. H er o ld c o l l e g e , D u rh am C ollege, w ill induct her into their sports hall o f fam e on April 7th.

“S h e’s our m ost prolific goal scorer on a team that doesn’t have a lot o f goal scorers, so sh e’s huge­ ly valuable to us,” M artlets coach Peter Smith said. “She works hard, she sets the tone, she really sets a standard for her teammates both on and o ff the ice.”

“S h e ’s a really g o o d person, h er h o n e s t y s h in e s th ro u g h in ev ery th in g sh e d o e s. P e o p le are draw n to th at,” fou rth -year le f t­ w in g e r M e g a n H e w in g s ad d ed .

“It’s nice to see som eone working very hard. It kind o f trickles down to everybody.”

24 hour hockey marathon held last Thursday through Friday on lower campus. The all night event raised 4 0 0 dollars for the Y M C A youth services.

L aw a n d D a r c h e n a m e d M c G ill - a d i d a s a t h l e t e s o f

THE WEEK B r ia n n a L a w , a fir s t y e a r member o f the Martlets alpine ski team , is the fem ale athlete o f the w e e k . T h e 1 9 -y e a r o ld s c ie n c e freshm an from H am ilton, Ontario fin ish ed first out o f 3 0 racers on Saturday, and second out o f 35 the next day in tw o separate sla lo m events in Mont-Joye.

M ath ieu D arch e. a m an age­ ment senior on the M cG ill Redmen hockey team, is the male athlete o f the w eek. The 2 3 -year old from St. L aurent had e ig h t p o in ts in tw o g a m e s o v e r th e w e e k e n d . T h e fourth-ranked R ed m en ’s captain scored the w in n in g goal in ov er­ tim e against York in overtim e and ad d ed tw o a s s is t s , and had tw o g o a ls an d th r e e a s s is t s v e r s u s L a u r e n tia n th e n e x t d a y . T h e C IA U ’s top scorer (2 3 g o a ls, 31 assists in 22 gam es) broke M cG ill records from most shots on net in a p e r io d ( 9 ) and in a g a m e ( 1 5 ) against Laurentian.

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