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Sadomasochism is usually regarded as sexual behaviour at the extreme margin of society. The popular conception of BDSM (Bondage, Dominance, Sado­ masochism) typically includes | leather pants, a whip and kinky fetishes. Yet the undercurrents of this phenomenon lie beneath the surface of many common social | interactions.

P s y c h o lo g y o f a n S & M r e la tio n s h ip In fact, feminist scholar Lynn S. Chancer, author of Sadomasochism in Everyday Life (1992) and Reconcilable Differences (1998) points to a paradoxical dynamic in S&M that reflects common human needs.“[Just] as the sadist cannot entirely escape evidence of his or her actual dependence on the masochist, the masochist can never completely wipe out evidence of her or his actual independence. " Sadomasochistic dynamics exem­ plify perhaps the ultimate ‘push/pulT form of an interactive relationship" which is character­ ized by insecurity and crisis.

Chancer asserts that the defin­ ition of sadomasochism “rests on the impossibility [of allowing] both sides of our human needs- for simultaneous dependence on and independence of others-to be acknowledged.” There seems to be a search in BDSM for what Chancer called mutual recognition.

This becomes more evident in the words of Kate, owner of Montreal BDSM club Fetish Funhouse and Cabaret: “After the scene(of BDSM) there should be special care, special attention that you should give [the other person].”

She also stressed that these games, ranging "from tickling to a heavy caning" are strictly done with the mutual consent of both players.

Nonetheless, Kate emphasized that

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The introduction of a pro­ posed by-law would give the Students' Society o f M cGill University and faculty associa­ tions the power to bypass current electoral processes and appoint students to the University Senate.

The Senate is the highest decision making body in the University and sets the agenda on issues such as academic programs and resources. Currently, the 13 student positions on Senate con­ sist of two SSMU executives and eleven elected Senators from the various faculty associations. VP University Affairs Xavier Van Chau discussed his proposal to change the process from electing faculty Senators to an appoint­ ment process ultimately decided

by SSMU. “There is legislation pro­ posed to change the way we work

Senate. The first problem is strat­ egy and we can't have the best strategy in the current system by which Senate Caucus works,” Van Chau said. “E ssentially, everyone is elected on their own mandate and they run for a very specific platform which they've said they will run for and after that everyone's an independent actor whereas our power through Caucus comes from the fact that we have numerous student sena­ tors who should try to lobby a perspective in a unified way.”

“If you look at people nomi­ nated on committees at committee level here at the Students Society, and you look at a SSMU council­ lor, there is a very different tone and attitude that are taken by these individuals because of the way in which they are brought to their positions.”

Van Chau said, “When you're elected from the student body, you set your own pace, your own mandate. When you're appointed via SSMU or faculty association or a proposed conjunction of the two, you have an individual who has a responsibility to the people who have brought him to that position.”

Jon Feldman, president of the Managemènt Undergraduate Society, expressed his concern over the so-called responsibility that the faculty senator would have to the SSMU. “It sounds like the VP

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The assembly o f Senators under SSMU, however, raises questions about the unbiased rep­ resentation of students' voices as a whole on the Senate committee.

Van Chau stated his belief that the new system would change the capacity of the faculty Senator.

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Van Chau is quick to point out that eliminating the possibility of students representing their own mandates would improve the effi­ ciency of Senate as a collective, decision-making body.

“The big problem with our University representation in gen­ eral is that we have too many stu­ dents who act as independent

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N e c e ssa ry c a m p u s re n o v a tio n s c a m p u s b e in g co m p le te d T h e M c G ill S t u d e n t F u n d g o e s f u l l s t e a m a h e a d w i t h it s r e n o v a t i o n p la n s f o r M c G ill B y N a t a l ie R u s k in

McGill University is in the stages of a makeover. From Upper Residences to the Engineering complex, university buildings are undergoing renovations.

According to the director of Residences and Student Housing, Florence Tracy, these renovations are required to comply with new municipal fire regulations. "[Safety] codes have changed.

Municipal law dictates that our residence buildings observe these new regulations in order to ensure fire safety and security. Sprinklers must be installed in all residence establishm ents. Specifically, rewiring is being done in Douglas Hall as well as the placement of fire exits for the students' safety.

This is mandatory, a must do... we really have to comply with the new safety standards."

Tracy voiced concern, howev­ er, about the lack of funds avail­ able for the residences to subsidize these safety upgrades. "Since the Residences are a self-funded orga­ nization, we could not pay for the construction through our own funds. We had to borrow money from the university and now we have to pay them back."

to meet new safety codes and regulations. The renovations for the Shatner University Centre building have been underway since August 2nd and are slated to be complete

by October 15th. As well, a new university complex is being built directly next to Shatner which will house the student council offices as well as a new daycare centre.

McPhee equally stressed the need to ensure safety and as well as the necessity for the student body to have a recre­ ational space to socialize.

"The biggest problem with Shatner that influenced Renovations on campus Mike Coiweii our decision to renovate the becom ing a fam iliar building was that we were not sight up to par with municipal fire codes and law. We needed to Tracy added that the all­ update the building to ensure the female residence complex, Royal security and safety of both our Victoria C ollege, w ill also be staff and student body. In addition, undergoing renovation and should we are planning to restore other be completed by next summer. parts of the building. Within the next couple of weeks, a new cafe­ teria will be built on the south side S h a t n e r R e n o v a t io n s of the building. There will be a new serving area with a food court Kevin McPhee, SSMU viceset-up,” McPhee explained. president Operations, also stressed “Gerts is to be moved into the the need for renovations in order basement of Shatner to replace the

Alley and Travel Cuts.” McPhee added wryly with respect to suffo­ cating Thursday nights at Gerts, “I believe that it is time for a new ventilation system.”

N o t B u s in e s s a s U s u a l While McPhee remained enthusiastic about the renovations, including the opening of a new student lounge and cafe on the first floor of the Shatner building, Vice President of Clubs and Services Sam Gross, was more concerned about the disruption that the con­ struction has been causing.

“For the first month of school, there will be some trouble with transferring meeting locations for various clubs since most of them normally operate in the Shatner building. We had trouble packing up and moving our stuff to its tem­ porary location while the construc­ tion went on... I am most con­ cerned about the helpline clubs who need phone lines at their dis­ posal. Specifically, the QUEER helpline which operates during the late hours of the night will run into difficulties due to construction.”

Ultimately, however, Gross was supportive of the Shatner ren­

ovations, explaining that the clubs have adjusted to the temporary, awkward situation and are looking forward to moving into their new offices.

“We've made great efforts to help all the clubs find new loca­ tions to meet, they've arranged for space in the basement of Peterson Hall. Ultimately, we look forward to our new fourth floor offices, especially the clubs lounge which will double as both an area to chill and an impromptu meeting space for last minute club gatherings.”

Funding for the Shatner reno­ vations is coming from the 'McGill Students' Fund, a $38.00 fee increase which students voted to pay as part of their McGill school fees.

“One half of the funding for this construction will come from the MSF building funds that were voted for last year by the stu­ dents,” McPhee explained, “The other half is being matched by the cold beverage corporations who share a contract with McGill.”

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actors, who represent themselves and their perspective. What we are trying to do is change so that we can discover, in a more pro­ fessional and formalized way, what the students want to do and disseminate that at all the com­ mittee levels.”

The point of contention is the very loss of diversity within the Senate. The preservation of

individual faculty concerns is the very power of a Faculty-elected Senator, according to Matt Erskine of the Medical Students' Society.

“I like the way it is now because, unfortunately or fortu­ nately, we work differently than other student associations.

[Medical students] don't operate like the rest o f the students because we start classes earlier and have different academic

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needs,” stated Erskine. “With the system like it is now, we're guar­ anteed to be heard on Senate with our concerns. I don’t think the Medical Students Society will be very supportive o f this idea.

We're happy with the status quo, to be honest. As it is now, the Senators are elected and voted in by the students and that gives a certain amount of accountability and responsibilty to the students.

Being ultimately appointed by SSMU is not the same effect than if you're elected by your peers and classmates.”

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As of last year, SSMU has been making a concerted effort to encourage more student participa­ tion and create more transparency within the Society. With a propos­ al that would by-pass direct stu­ dent input on Senatorial positions, this new by-law seems to contra-,, diet SSMU's goal. Van Chau dis­ agreed.

“I would argue that it brings more transparency and more pos­ sibility for student involvement if those [electoral] races are replaced by nominations very simply because what you have most o f the time are people becoming Senators who were pre­ viously bigwigs in faculty associ­ ations or [the] Students' Society.

There's no chance for an average student to get on that committee.”

Van Chau added, “Now, if a nom­

ination process occurs between the faculty association and Students' Society, then there's less possibility for that occurance to happen and greater possibility for student involvem ent

T h e b ig p r o b le m w ith o u r U n iv e r s it y r e p r e s e n ta tio n in g e n e r a l is t h a t w e h a v e to o m a n y s t u ­ d e n ts w h o a c t as in d e p e n d e n t a c to r s , w h o re p r e s e n t th e m ­ s e lv e s a n d th e ir p e r ­ s p e c t iv e .

SSMUVPUniversity Affairs Xavier Van Chau generally. It increases transparen­ cy because they aren't elected on mandate, it really allows an indi­ vidual to go back to the students and ask what they want to do.”

Nevertheless, Feldman felt that Van Chau's plan would nec­ essarily revoke students' voices thereby further isolating student politicians from the constituents they represent.

•Feldman affirmed, “Senate elections are an important and integral part of student democra­ cy. To turn an elected position into a clandestine backroom deci­ sion could further alienate our

students from student govern­ ment.”

Van Chau felt, though, that the proposal is hardly a move to redistribute power in SSMU's favour. According to Van Chau, the position o f VP University Affairs is already empowered to decide Senate positions.

“It really has little to do with appointments or appointment pro­ cedures because if you consider appointment procedure, the VP University Affairs already has the authority to sit anyone he desires on any University committee, period. I have the end-all say-all on who sits on any committee, be it APPC or any other standing committee. In terms of strength and power of position, it really doesn't change my authority that much-I already have a lot of authority. What it does do is help differentiate what the VP Academic does at the the Faculty position and the Senator does at the Senatorial level.

“Keep in mind, though, that even though I will be really inves­ tigating what the faculty associa­ tions think, the 13 seats for Senators were given to the SSMU, not the to individual fac­ ulty associations,” Van Chau later added. “We [SSMU] gave them to them [the faculty associations].”

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CKUT staff try to fill the bill while looking for a new station manager "First we panicked," said Louise Burns, Sales Manager for McGill's radio station. "It was a complete surprise to us." Then, the adrenaline kicked in and after sev­ eral long meetings, CKUT’s steer­ ing committee came up with a plan to make the best of a potentially crippling situation.

Until a new station manager is found, three members of the steer­ ing committee — the CKUT equiv-

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Staff at CKUT-FM were left scrambling to get ready for the Fall season last week when they found themselves without a station man­ ager. The night before he was to come to Montreal, the candidate selected to replace long-running station manager Adrian Flarewood, withdrew from the position, leav­ ing the station up in the air.

S tu d e n ts fig h t a g a in st C y stic F ib ro sis Golden Key Vice president of community affairs, M ichelle Robinson. "It's a really important cause, and it's good for school morale to have students involved in a project like this."

The organization behind this annual campaign is the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. It is the main group in Canada that funds research and treatment of the disease. Shinerama is one of the biggest annual fundraising events for the Foundation.

"It's a really important event for two reasons," stated Coordinator of Fundraising Programs Julie Cookson. "First of all, a lot of money is raised, but even more importantly, it's one of our best opportunities to get the word out about the disease, and about our organization."

Cystic Fibrosis is a fatal genetic disease. The median life expectancy for an afflicted person is 32 years old. The disease is also usually more common than percieved; one in every 25 Canadians carries the gene responsible for CF, and roughly one in every 3,000 people suffer from the disease.

With Quebec having one of the highest rates of CF victims in Canada, it is fitting that McGill is getting involved in fundraising.

The goal for the McGill campaign this year is to raise $50,000. The total raised for research last year was over $520,000, and this year the goal has been set at $535,000.

Since 1964, when the first cam­ paign was organized, a total of $11,100,000 has been raised in Canada.

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On September 17th, McGill students will be joining over 20,000 others across the country to participate in Shinerama '99, a fundraiser organized by the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Students will be hitting the streets of Montreal to shine shoes for donations to benefit Cystic Fibrosis research. There will be a headquarters set up at the Roddick gates of the University and, from there, groups of students will be dispatched to local business build­ ings, street comers and parks One notable location that will be visited is a Montreal morning radio show. Two McGill residence floor fellows will be going to the Aaron and Tasso show, which airs on Q 92, to shine the shoes of the two radio personalities, and to talk briefly about the campaign.

A committee from The McGill Golden Key Society initiated involvement in the campaign this year. Shinerama has not taken place at any Quebec University since 1995. This year, McGill and Bishops Universities will both be participating.

The McGill Golden Key Society was formed three years ago and this is one of its first big pro­ jects. The main purpose for the Golden Key Society is to get stu­ dents more involved in the Montreal community, be it through charity work, or other activities.

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aient of an executive committee — will be covering the station man­ ager's duties at the radio station.

Karl Jarosiewicz, Claudette Demers-Godley and Fortner Anderson are filling in the holes in the administration for the time being, rather than immediately returning to the search for a new station manager.

"It wouldn’t be very productive to launch a search for a station manager right away," Jarosiewicz, chair of the steering com­ mittee said. “It is a time consuming process and right now the station is focused on co-ordinating its fall schedule.”

"We want to make sure we don't rush into a bad hiring," Burns agreed.

Harewood resigned last year to move to Toronto after three years at CKUT, and the long process of selecting his successor began.

After many interviews, Mopa Dean, former Program Co-ordina­ tor at the University of Toronto's CIUT, was chosen as heir to the Harewood throne. The evening before he was to begin work at CKUT, Dean called and notified CKUT that he was unable to take

the job.

Melanie Benard, a volunteer who works on the popular Monday night show Underground Sounds, was dismayed to find out that Dean would not be coming after all.

"He sounded like he was going to be really amazing," she said. "I'm wondering what's going to happen."

Jarosiewicz is very pleased with the way the station is handling the crisis.

"Everything is running remarkably smoothly," he said.

"There aren't any gaps in the administration. Everyone is shoul­ dering extra work.”

"The first week we all went 'Oh my God!'" Burns said. "In some ways, it's a good thing," she added. The board, which is usually far removed from the day to day running of the radio station, is

being forced to get involved in all facets of production. "We've been given the opportunity to get the board more involved. [The board] is getting to taste how the other half lives."

It is not known exactly why Dean withdrew so suddenly. A CKUT memo says that, "[Dean] cited personal finances and turmoil as difficulties impeding his being able to accept the job." He expressed his dismay and embar­ rassment at having to withdraw so suddenly, and by all accounts was quite sensitive to the impact that his sudden decision would have on the station.

Most staff believe that Dean must be going through some diffi­ cult personal problems that pre­ vented him from beginning work.

Others believe that a low salary may have been a mitigating cir­ cumstance in Dean's departure.

Burns explained that the salary may have been too low for some-' one coming from Toronto.

The hiring process is set to resume at the end of September.

"We have to start all over again, basically,” Burns said. There was no runner up for the position from the earlier interviews.

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Long lines and empty shelves have many students feeling dis­ gruntled concerning the availabili­ ty and accessibility of textbooks at the McGill Bookstore.

Many students are finding that much of their required read­ ing is not available in the book­ store, a situation which is begin­ ning to impact their scholastic performance. Benton Foster, a UO Science student, commented on his inability to do his homework.

“It would've been nice if they'd been here because I have reading due on Friday and it's a little hard to do the reading with­ out the book,” Foster stated.

Other students felt much more strongly about the lack of textbooks at the bookstore.

“I’ve been looking for two books and I've looked and looked and I can't find it anywhere and I

need to read and I can't read,” said dents come in here asking why Jessica Filipovitch, a their books aren't here. All I can U2 Arts who say is, expressed her publishers 4 4 This bookstore has frustration, at the have a book buying no idea about supply and mind of process. demand. They don't realize that their own.

It doesn't “It's a little stressful. The a textbook halfway through the mat t er line-up is stress­ school year doesn't do any good. when they o r d e r ful because I've — Andre Nance been waiting in them, the U2arts publishers line with one book when I just send could be waiting with many books them out whenever they want. and now I have to come back and They just arrive and we shelve them. We have no control when wait again,” said Filipovitch.

Employees at the bookstore we get them, we're just workers.”

Sheafe also shared her have had to deal with complaints from both professors and students approach to pacifying impatient about textbooks not being in and angry students.

“We tell them we only have stock. Bookstore employee AnnNatasha Sheafe, however, places two hands and to wait in line. We the blame on the doorstep of the just tell them that if the shelf is empty, your book hasn’t arrived publishers, not the bookstore.

“A lot of professors and stu- and to come back next week.”

The lack of textbooks brings into question whether a company such as Chapters can effectively handle the demands of University students who cannot wait on books. Andre Nance, a U2 Arts student, complained about the nature of Chapters in relation to what a university student requires.

“This bookstore has no idea about supply and demand. They don't realize that a textbook halfway through the school year doesn't do any good. Mainly, it's because Chapters caters to the commercial crowd which doesn't have spikes of demands. I can't wait for a textbook while it's on back order when my professors want me to read now. The book­ store just isn't holding up to the academic standard.”

Books, books, books galore... Why is mine not in the store?

THE PUBLIC IN HOMETOWN

The HMCS Montreal will return to the city for which it was named on September 10. The Halifax class Canadian Patrol Frigate will be at the Alexandra Pier in the Port of Montreal until September 16.

Since 1993, HMCS Montreal has done several tours on NATO’s Standing Naval Forces A tlantic. She has also been involved with fisheries patrols, pollution monitoring, drug inter­

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dictions and search and rescue, within Canada. The warship, which possesses two missile sys­ tems and anti-submarine capabil­ ities, will be open to the public from Septem ber 11 to 15, between 1:00 and 4:00 pm.

“I am delighted with the idea of Canadians visiting one of the best equipped frigates in the w orld,” Commander Norman Jolin said in a Department of National Defence press release earlier this month. "We are expecting a large number o f Montealcrs to come and see us.”

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Catherine Paris, U1 French “$250-300. A little bit down from last year... I'm taking mostly novel courses...it is a bit cheaper. Rather than text­ books, it is a more valuable investment.”

Mike Perez, U2 computer engineering “About $600. It's about twice what I paid last year... there is no book that I bought that was less than $100.”

Amy Krawczyk, U3 management Jessica Caruso, U3 management amPfinance “We've already spent $350 and we still have two more classes to buy books for. It's like a week's salary - very expensive. They change editions every year and the bookstore never buys back books.”

Jennifer Vani, U1 education “I've already spent $100 but there are still some books I have to buy and I don't know how much that will be. I think it is fair though, it was about the same at CEGEP and my parents are paying.”

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A r e y o u i n t e r e s t e d in g e t t i n g i n v o l v e d w i t h a c t i v i t i e s o n c a m p u s t h i s y e a r ? T h e S t u d e n t s ' S o c i e t y o f M c G ill U n i v e r s i t y i s c u r r e n t l y l o o k i n g f o r p e o p l e t o fill t h e f o l l o w i n g p o s i t i o n s :

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Snow-AP will be the first ever Open Air Pub in the win­ ter! This soon-to-be-farnous event will take place in a fully heated tent on campus during the first weeks of second semester. The Snow-AP team will work throughout first semester planning the event, seeking sponsorship and recruiting volunteers. They will also run the event during the first weeks of second semes­ ter.

We're looking for people who are creative, enthusias­ tic, and hard working who truly want to make this an event to be remembered! Note that planning this momentous event will be a heavy time commitment throughout both semesters (15+ hours per week dur­ ing first semester, 10-24 hours a day during January!).

Send resume and cover letter to Matt Wyndowe at ce@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

0 2 . c u ltu r e f e s t c o o r d in a to r Organize the weeklong celebration of cultural groups on campus in March. Events will include food tastings, dances, shows, speeches, et cetera.

Time commitment will begin at the end of October with approximately 5 hours a week, and will go up to a minimum of 10 hours per week during second semes­ ter.

Send resume and cover letter to Sam Gross at clubacc@ssmu,mcgill.ca.

03. a lc o h o l a w a r e n e s s g r o u p p r e s id e n t Will help spearhead the creation of a new Bacchus Canada affiliated club to promote the awareness of campus issues regarding alcohol. This person will work in conjunction with the VP Clubs and Services to attract membership and organize alcohol awareness weeks on campus, as well as eventually creating a new server-training program. involvement: approximately 5 hours per week throughout the academic year.

Send resume and cover letter to Sam Gross at clubacc@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

0 4 . fin a n c e c o m m itte e m e m b e r s -a t-la r g e Will review and make finance-related decisions consis­ tent with the long term financial stability of the Society. The Committee's responsibilities include making recommendations to council on Clubs, Service and Publication budgets, Special Projects Funding, operating budget, et cetera.

Send resume and cover letter to Kevin McPhee at finance@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

05. fin a n c ia l e t h ic s r e s e a r c h c o m m itte e m e m b e r s -a t-ia r g e The Financial Ethics Research committee shall research the business ethics of corporations who do business with the Society.

Send resume and cover letter to Kevin McPhee at finance@ssmu.mcgill.ca

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Full-time position. For more information contact Wojtek Baraniak at 398-6798.

08. m e m b e r s -a t-la r g e fo r th e c o m m itte e o f u n iv e r s ity a ffa ir s The Committee of University Affairs works on all pro­ jects spearheaded by the Office of the VP university Affairs. Projects this year include improving the Francophone and the first-year experience, assessing our academic programs, and enhancing our university services. There are two Members-at-Large positions available.

Send resume and cover letter to Xavier Van Chau at ua@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

09 s tu d e n t r e p r e s e n ta tiv e s fo r s e n a te c o m m itte e s a n d s tu d e n t s e r v ic e s s u b c o m m itte e s University student representation on active university decision-making bodies is the reward and responsibili­ ty of the Society's fruitful lobby to the administration.

Many different committee positions are available, for more specific information contact or send resume and cover letter at Xavier Van Chau at ua@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

10. o t h e r p o s it io n s 0 7 . a c a d e m ic r e s e a r c h o ffic e r * In an effort to better the coordination of the Society's dialogue with the Administration and Student Services.

Many new measures will be taken in the upcoming year to consolidate and formalize our information.

Assistance with respect to these new measures will be needed. The Academic Research Officer will serve as a researcher, archiver, database-assistant and pub­ lic relations officer.

Mini-course instructors LSAT instructor * GMAT instructor * Call Sarah at 398-2453.

* th ese positions offer financial compensation

We are looking for someone with research, database and communication skills. The positions will be rewarding for anyone interested in lobbying experi­ ence and learning how the university's academic com­ munity works as an institution. The position runs from September to May on fixed hours.

Send resume and cover letter to Xavier van Chau at ua@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

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McGill Students in Science and Mmanagement may save a few dollars on books this semester. A new website launched by the Science Undergraduate Society and EDge Interactive Publishing Inc., a new Toronto-based media compa­ ny, is making used books available to students in those faculties.

A t www.Books4Exchange.com, stu­ dents can post used books for sale at whatever asking price they choose. Students can also search for books by entering the book title, their program or the course number in which the book is used.

A book is listed along with the email contact of the person who posted it.

Since its launch on August 23, the Books4Exchange website has accumulated over 250 registered users. As of Sunday, 793 used text­ books had been listed on the site and 236 had been reported as sold.

SUS President Andrew Kovacs, pleased at the site’s success, is already talking about expansion to other faculties at McGill.

“This website is the first of its kind,” he said. “We hope to have it up for the rest of the university by January.”

The site caught on quickly in

the first few days of classes, according to VP Academic of SUS Manish Srivastava.

“It’s been going really well... [considering] we only advertized hard core for two days,” he said on Friday, adding: “Yesterday alone, 150 books went up [on the site] and today another 30 books went up.”

Students are discovering that the site may be the cheap alterna­ tive they are looking for.

Textbooks can cost upwards of five hundred dollars a semester when bought new.

“It’s good if you’re on a bud­ get and if [the books] are in good condition,” UO science student Elizabeth Kornaga commented.

“It’s cheaper than buying them new.”

The site is also gaining popu­ larity with students trying to unload old textbooks. On the site, hun­ dreds of buyers may see a used book advertisement in one day, making the process much quicker. “[The site] is an easy way to sell your books from last year,” U1 nursing student Katie Bateman said. “A friend of mine put one of her books on the list yesterday and today she sold it for seventy-five dollars.”

Due to the website’s success, Srivastava is now looking further down the road and beyond McGill

University. Student associations at other universities have expressed interest in the project, according to SUS, and will soon be sharing the service. Profit from advertizing on the page will be shared between student associations that sign on.

“We want the site to go on for a really long time,” Srivastava explained. “W e’re planning on bringing the site national in a few weeks.”

The Books4Exchange website has another perk for students who decide to take advantage. It gives unlimited access to www.ScholarshipsCanada.com, a free scholarship database with approximately sixty thousand list­ ings. The scholarship search engine is another product of EDge, which publishes several educational ser­ vices on the World Wide Web. Srivastava says Books4Exchange will keep operat­ ing throughout the school year, although most purchases will prob­ ably be made over the next few weeks and around the time winter semester begins. By that time, however, the new website may be providing cheaper textbooks to a much larger group of students.

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Conversations around campus this time of year are remarkably uni­ form. Following innocent questions about summer vacations and current living situations, the talk turns to academia - d then to the inevitable inquiry, have you been to the bookstore yet?

Going to the bookstore is a biannual event. We all stand in the lines and hunt through shelves for those elusive used copies of texts we know we will only read three chapters of.

When Chapters Inc. took control of the bookstore two years ago, both student leaders, and Chapters management extolled the virtues of the resources and expertise that the chain would bring to McGill. Geoff Swift, president of the College Bookstore division of Chapters promised McGill better and faster service, citing changes that would "make sure texts are available." VP Finance of the Students' Society of McGill University at the time Duncan Reid added, "There are people who can do this better. Chapters has the expertise for this."

Chapters has used some of the expertise for the benefit of students — we now have a coffee and meeting place right on campus and the store looks much better. According to Chapters, it is the biggest univer­ sity bookstore in Canada. However, the bookstore has not lived up to Mr. Swift's and Mr. Reid's prophecies.

The current trend at universities across the country is to contract out business such as food services and bookstores to local and national com­ panies who pledge that they will provide quality service to students along with extra bucks for the nicer things in life, like event sponsorship and free t-shirts.

However, these corporate giants in their quest for student dollars have not realized that providing a service to students on campus is not the same as operating a major store in a downtown centre.

Students are unique consumers. Almost all of us are on fixed bud­ gets and operate under a consistent set of deadlines that revolve around midterms, papers, labs and finals. Whereas your average consumer in a bookstore can certainly wait a few weeks for the newest Globe and Mail bestseller, your average student cannot wait a few weeks for the Intro to Organic Chemistry textbook. Nor can your average student choose from among many bookstores to get this product — we are limited. The McGill Bookstore sells texts and course packs that are not available any­ where else in Montreal.

The McGill Bookstore is also supposed to be in the business of buy­ ing back old textbooks. Unbeknownst, to the average student is that the bookstore places limits on how many texts they will buy back, and if your professor has chosen to use a newer edition of a book (maybe they added pictures in) then you are out of luck when it comes to the selling books business. End result: you are left with a whole bunch of texts you don’t want and can’t get your hands on some that you do.

Certainly it is futile to blame all the problems of the bookstore on the store itself. Part of the problem lies with professors and publishing companies who seem to forget when school starts and the fact that maybe getting those books in on time is good idea.

Nonetheless, big businesses will not be leaving campus any time soon, that's a guarantee. They must take care to remember the basic tenet of their industry — the customer is always right. And with that, not for­ get who their customers are — the students.

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Letter to the Editor Thanks for the phone info, but what about the numbers?

I’d like to record a few com­ ments about the first issue of the Tribune this year. I’ll give you that it was fairly informative, and almost useful. Yet you still man­ aged to screw up: The artic * on Telephone companies faileu to give contact information! Do you guys really think I’m energetic enough to flip through a phone book and find these numbers myself!?

And about those damn differ­ ential tuition fees! Why is it that every secratary, every official, every peon in the deepest dun­

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geons I have asked here at McGill has never been able to tell me how to get my Quebec residency?? I now know, thanks to your article, that I *am* eligible. Course, you failed to mention how I would go about obtaining. And there isn’t anyway I’m going to find out ask­ ing any at McGill..

AND Ms. Maria Simpson, In your “Breaking the Mystique of the Faculty of Music” article, you failed to mention that there is a reason for it all: they don’t want you. I recently found this out when I discovered that the music minor I wanted to take was ♦restricted to TEN people* per year!! What the hell is this??

There are 16,000 + undergrads

here! If I wanted entire programs with only ten people in them, I would have gone to some damn liberal arts school like the College of the Atlantic and started hug­ ging trees!

To top things off., of the five required classes I have left in my major, four are offered this semester, and only one is offered next semester. Way to go, you scheduling morons in CS. But now I’m just griping.

Michael Batchelder U2 computer science

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S top th e Press Cold Beverage Agreement clarification The Students’ Society of McGill University and the Law Students Association would like to clarify some miscommunications in the McGill Tribune article entitled ‘‘Beverage giants court McGill for exclusive contract”, last week.

The two quotes, from Andrew Tischler, President of the SSMU and François TanguayRenaud, VP external of the LSA, in the article were separated by a meeting that took place between the faculty associations and the SSMU. Of course, prior to this meeting, there as a certain degree of miscommunication concerning the Cold Beverage Agreement due

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W A N T (T O ) H E L P ? to a full change of Faculty associ­ ation and SSMU executives. I fact, many student concerns were discussed at this last meeting, including contractual issues and the division formula.

The quotes in the last two columns were not direct responses to the other. In fact, we did not have the opportunity to address each other’s statem ents, and would like to do so now.

Mr. Tanguay-Renaud, when commenting upon monetary argu­ ments made by the SSMU to con­ vince students associations, was in fact referring to the approach taken by the previous executive, which he has dealt with up to that meeting. It is not directed towards this year’s executive. “Tischler and the others” never said the line

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“we’re giving you money so you should shut up”.

Furthermore, Mr. Tischler’s quote to the effect that the LSA was “negotiating in good faith” refers to the SSMU and Faculty consultations. The LSA does not directly negotiate with McGill University on this matter.

We look forward to a mutual­ ly beneficial relationship on this issues and throughout the upcom­ ing year.

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My new roommate has a relationship with a serious other — but all o f the sudden it seems like Pm living with two roommates, and not just the one who’s paying rent. Don’t get me wrong, I like this person, but the disappearing food and bedroom noises at two in the afternoon are getting on my nerves. What should I do?

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L ig h tn in g strik e s a n d o p iu m d e n s s tra n g e r th a n fictio n Hey, where were you on the weekend of April 17-18th, 1999?

Chances are, not in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.

But le t’s say you had been. And let’s say, oh, I don’t know, let’s just say that, at some point in your life, you had been hit by lightning.

Im plausible, I know. But again, just supposing this was the case, I sincerely hope that you would have got your ass over to the Music Road Hotel for a bit of bonding with some o f your brethren, at the 9th annual Lightning Strike and Electric Shock Survivor International Conference. Every year, this gala event unites hundreds of lightning strike victims from all over the world for a few days of empathy and understanding from those pre­ cious few peers. And could one pick a more festive place for the, uh, festivities, than right down the road from the country music Mecca that is'Dolly wood?

At this point, you may need some assurance that I am not mak­ ing this up. I am not. This event actually takes place. I swear.

Besides, I am much too sensitive a person to be making up funny sto­ ries about such a misunderstood and trod-upon group as lightning strike and electric shock sur­ vivors. Really.

Tales of the Ridiculous Jason McDevitt In fact, I am particularly sen­ sitized to the plight of this seg­ ment of the population, as I grew up down the street from someone who had been struck by lightning, a quirky old Chinese man named Mr. Li. At least he said he had been struck by lightning. Actually, now that I think about it, it seems that many people in the neigh­ bourhood started to doubt the veracity of Mr. Li’s claims after what came to be known, informal­ ly, as “The Tool Throwing Thing”.

Apparently (I did not witness this) one fine day Mr. Li took to assailing some of the neighbour­ hood kids, who were riding their bikes past his house, with a bar­ rage of garden tools, which he launched with uncanny precision from a second story window of his home. When the police came to investigate the incident, they dis­ covered Mr. Li’s “garden” (where the aforementioned tools were presumably used), which consisted of a bunch of poppy plants from whose seed pods Mr. Li was distilling opium.

A crazy old man doped out on opium to the point of inventing stories about getting hit by light­ ning? Or a beleaguered soul dri­ ven to opium abuse by the pain and humiliation of getting hit by lightning? You decide. My point is only that I was very happy to read about the Lightning Strike and Electric Shock Survivors

Conference (or LSESSC, as I like to call it) because it reaffirmed by b elief that reality is the most entertaining show around.

Truth is stranger than fiction.

However you want to put it. It seems like I can’t open the news­ paper without ending up shaking my head at some story or another, grinning impishly, while quietly saying to myself, “I can’t believe how ridiculous this is!”

Thus this is my mission, my commitment to you, chers lecteurs. I shall troll the mass media venues and keep vigil on the world around me, searching far and wide for wacky, far­

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B o g m e n , lu n a tic C h ré tie n o m ic s a n d o rg a n d o n a tio n First of all, I suppose I should thank Sean Jordan for taking the reigns so ably last week and filling my space with his wizardry. It was typical Jordan fare, really, begin­ ning as so much fluff but eventual­ ly gathering itself into a tumble­ weed of Angry-Anglo resentment, all thinly veiled by a shroud of Carre St-Louis ennui.

All of which is a rather unfor­ tunate introduction to my own col­ umn, and indeed Mr. Jordan’s choice of photograph displays, I think, a callous disregard for the tenor I’d hoped to establish in the pages of this year’s Tribune. With dozens of shots to choose from — Chris lost in thought, Chris hard at work, Chris helping out at the soup kitchen — he instead opted for Chris, drunk and stumblebum, grin­ ning ear to ear in spite (because?) of the phantom hand gripping his right shoulder. You will note too that Mr. Jordan, the sly boots, has used the wonders of Adobe Photoshop to add a second chin to my handsome visage — an ama­ teurish job at best.

But alas, Mr. Jordan is quite correct about my running afoul of an Irish ‘bog-hole’, which is essen­ tially a hole in a bog, invisible from above and filled with warm, putrid ooze. I say running afoul, but in hindsight I realize it might not have been such a bad way to go. As I picked the millenniums-old slime off my boots and legs and plotted revenge on my companion, who was doubled over in gales of laugh­ ter, I ruminated: ‘I am covered in shit. It’s five miles home. It’s throwing it down. It’s cold. The hole, though terribly smelly, was warm and deep. Do I really want to go on?’ Then it hit me: I could have been a bogman. I could have been immortal.

Bogmen, besides being Irish slang for ‘idiots’, are those well preserved pieces of human leather they pick out of the peat every so often and which set the Richard Leakies of the world on their ear.

Think of it! I, Chris Selley, might have been Letterfrack Man, plucked out of the bog in the year 3140, dissected to find out what I ate and drank, my flowing locks lovingly examined for split ends and evidence of provitamin usage, my possessions examined and their significance debated (‘Ahem, yes, John Mortimer, Rutgers University.

I wonder, sir, if you have any thoughts as to why Letterfrack Man, equipped as he was with a compass that still functions today, might have fallen into a boghole in the middle of this particular pisspot dead-empty piece of real estate.’

‘Oh, damn it, Mortimer. Would you please confine your comments to the relevant!’ and much beating of chests ensues).

And then — or so went my train of thought — they’d bring me back to life. Surrounded by my adoring descendants, they’d hook me up to the reanimatrix and poof!

A new life in the 32nd century.

From a boghole to a hovering

condo, a jetcar and my own video game in 1141 short years. Now who’s laughing, guy!

Oh hell, so much for my column about free speech at the dawn of the mil­ lennium and its rela­ tionship to lunatic Chrétienomics. But speaking of dissection (fourth paragraph), I’ve recently been thinking about my organ donor card and that ominous

‘send my body to a medical school’ box. Now, given that I have just

They can hook me up to the Concorde and drag my sorry dead ass along the run­ way and up, up and away at the Paris Airshow for all I care, so long as my pants stay up. So why won’t I give my body to a medical school to aid science or — more likely — to at least give those poor bastards a good laugh? Tough to say, really. I

like making people laugh, which may explain my desire to specify ‘appendix, spleen, brain’ as my only transplantable organs and then write ‘just kidding’ on the other side of the card. Because if we can’t laugh at organ donations, people, at what can we laugh?

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T h e r is e o f t h e e n t e r t a in m e n t c o m p le x in M o n t r e a l contains three cinemas with state of the art technology, production stu­ dios, and the offices of the Montreal International Festival of New .

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“There is a surge in entertainment complex construction in this city,” states Collier’s International, Canada’s largest commercial real estate services company and book publisher on the subject. Not that it isn’t obvious just walking down St. Catherine street.

In addition to the new Paramount the­ atre, the old Forum is undergoing spurts of renovation on its Way to becoming the new home of at least 30 film screens.

Francophones are being exclusively catered to by a new Cineplex Odeon complex on St. Denis, while rumours abound about a new Technodome scheduled for the year 2002 in the Old Port.

Colliers International continues, “St. Catherine street is bouncing back. More businesses are opening than closing and low end businesses like arcades are being replaced by boutiques and national retail­ ers.”

Famous Players is only half way through developing its new fleet of enter­ tainment complexes across the country.

These self proclaimed ‘entertainment desti­ nations’ take the form of ‘highly themed’ centres which use ‘movie characters’ to ‘generate movie excitement’ within the building.

In that vein, they have branded four different theatre themes in their repertoire: the Coliseum, the Paramount, Silver City, and the Colossus. The most original-look­ ing one would have to be the Colossus, which is designed to look like the landing pad of a UFO, complete with the space ship and a few token aliens on the roof. Look out for this travesty in Kirkland in the coming months. The Paramount type theatre is the one that can be spotted on St. Catherine street, cornet;.Metcalfc. sporting an ‘urban, downtown’ look.

Maybe one reason that Famous Players i^uanconcerned about the compe­ tition between movie theatres in the crowded three block stretch between University and Metcalfe along St,. * Catherine is because it owns thetffall anyway. ' But the move towards more and better facilities leaves older Famous PIayefs"theatres in the lurch.

Depressed théâtre sales in thé late ‘70s and ‘80s motivated Famous Players to carve up the then one-room Palace and Loews theatres in order to D j y * many screens as possible into th^ame structure. Most of thc^omafe decoration and porticoes werjftfestroyed for the most efflçjppSfSe of space. Utilitarian archi­ tecture replaced the neo-classical plaster, in the process destroying the integrity of both theatres, and leaving cheaply carpet­ ed husks behind. Of all the old-style the­ atres which once dominated Montreal cin­ ema, only the Imperial on de Bleury remains in a mostly original state.

Now that cinemas are enjfying a renaissance of sorts,-Wfnous Players has remembered what it is that makes the cine­ ma experience so unique. They have begun constructing these branded theatres to improve upon the facilities it had previous­ ly gutted. The old, cheapened theatres are now being auctioned off to create larger profit margins; Loews is already up for sale.

p le x , it costs n o th in g fo r them to g et t h e s e m o v ie s , I d o n 't k n o w w h a t t h e ir ju s t i f i c a t i o n i s .I g u e s s th e b u ild in g is h ig h c o s t, b u t th e r e 's som e high p ro fits in th ere a s w e ll."

Isa Tousignant, assistant director of Theatre du Parc Cinema and New Media. For them, encouraging the production of art, not money, is the primary goal. It is fully financed by Daniel Langlois, the Québécois founder of the digital imaging company Softimage Inc. “You have to give people the choice,” said Adrian Gonzalês from Ex-Centris. “It’s not a war. We just have such different visions that it doesn’t really affect us.”

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D e s t r u c t io n o f t h e P a la c e a n d L o e w s Famous Players public relations employee Kevin Ellis maintains that the complexes do not threaten already exist­ ing theatres, instead increasing theatre business for everyone.

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Walking on the McGill campus, you might notice groups of kids sitting under the trees, smoking cigarettes, having lunch, and looking way too young to go to university. They don’t go here.

Those kids actually go to FACE, the fine-arts-core-education public school on University St., right across from the McConnell engi­ neering building. And you’d bet­ ter get used to them because they aren’t going away any time soon.

The school yard o f FACE consists of one asphalt-covered square in the front of the building.

So, starting in seventh grade, these kids are allowed off school property for lunch time, and can be seen anywhere on the McGill campus from McGill cafs to the campus fest. FACE kids are fre­ quently caught smoking outside the McConnell engineering build­ ing in order to get around one of the few rules at the school forbid­ ding smoking directly in front of the school steps.

Former FACE Student Rebecca Baugniet reminisced about her young days spent roam­ ing the wilds of McGill’s campus.

“Back in the day it was the cool thing, for some reason, to have a McGill backpack. So we’d wait until campus fest came around and raid that place all the time. Whenever anyone ques­ tioned whether or not we were

actually McGill students, w e’d just turn around, point at our backpacks, and sarcastically answer ‘What do you think?”’

Another FACE graduate, who prefers to remain anonymous, remembers throwing cherries and apples at McGill students before being banned from the campus.

Anecdotes aside, FACE is an unusual public school because it considers the fine arts to be an essential elem ent to a ch ild ’s developm ent rather than an option, finances allow ing. At -FACE, the school day is made longer in order to fit in all the required courses in the visual arts, graphic arts, music and theatre.

The sch ool’s founder, Mr. Baugniet, articulated the school’s philosophy of education with his usual aplomb.

“The philosophy of education at FACE is a holistic one, where the development of a child is only considered to be on its way to being complete when all facets of cultural development are met, when not simply the so-called academic endeavours [are met].”

The goal isn’t to hone a par­ ticular child’s talents in a certain area, but to use the arts to enrich a child’s total sense of self.

“I have no illusions about my sk ills,” admitted Rebecca Baugniet. “But therapeutically, art is great for everyone.”

Rebecca described the required art courses as a sort of

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built-in down time to socialize with her friends and explore another part of her brain.

“The ability to express them­ selves through music, graphic arts, and singing,” said Baugniet, “cre­ ates a sense of esteem that then transfers to other areas, which is the whole point, really.” While the

role of arts as an integral part of learning is beginning to be recog­ nized by other school administra­ tors, “as far as I’m concerned, it’s 25 years late,” commented Baugniet. “But better late than never.”

The school is also interested in promoting cultural integration

as part of learning. During band and choir practice, kids from the English and French sides of the school could mingle, which is an infrequent phenomenon in Montreal public schools. “This is where Quebec really happens,” claimed Rebecca, “because all these kids are just playing and singing some songs in French and others in English. You just put up with all the Franglais that ensues.”

As for mingling with univer­ sity students on the McGill cam­ pus during lunches, Mr. Baugniet seemed convinced that the influ­ ence of older students was benefi­ cial for high school students.

“Learners are not limited by age,” stressed Baugniet. “I think isolat­ ing kids in school is to their detri­ ment. It creates a pool of com­ monality, but if you extend those perimeters those kids become worldly and learn more things about themselves.”

Each year there is a waiting list to get into the school, but other than having an interview with Principal Nick Premiano, there are no entrance exams.

“FACE has always had a close rapport with McGill,” stated Mr. Baugniet. “In fact, they should be on campus in a learning environment. It is only public edu­ cation that breaks students apart by arbitrary elements of age.”

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S&M is a search for an "experience...[and] not necessarily to establish a relationship." Kate referred time and again to the word play which suggests not only the importance of mutual consent, but also the need to reconcile or escape the often difficult and neg­ ative relational dynamics of the outside world.

L a t e n t S & M in f a m i l y d y n a m ic s Chancer gives a variety of examples where shifting sado­ masochistic dynamics are present in everyday life. “[A] woman perhaps masochistically (in a position of submission), situated in relation to her husband may become sadisti­ cally (position of domination), abusive toward her child. The man who is masochistically powerless at his job may act quite sadistical­ ly at home where he has relatively greater power." Despite the possi­ bility for S&M type familial rela­ tions, there need not be an inti­ mate relationship to find the soci­ etal manifestations of S&M.

S & M tr a n s fe r in g to t h e w o r k p la c e Chancer asserts that, many people “fear being unable to survive-literally or figuratively, emo­ tionally or bodily-if workplace authority is challenged, then everyday relationships at work may also possess a sadomasochis­ tic character.” Kate admits that submission and domination within a BDSM context “has played an important part of my life . . .[in that] it can be very character building because you learn to play with power dynamics. Somehow these role-playing games give you a sense of who you are and what you are, and what your limits are psychologically, emotionally and physically. You assume a role that gives you power and then you go out there and you’re just that more able to defend yourself and take on whatever the male world dishes out.”

Kate goes on to compare the power games we find in the out­ side world to the well-known game o f Risk. “When you ’ve never played [Risk], you may not be a good strategist, but when you’ve played for a few years, you become a good strategist.”

Kate, has found that S&M role playing can be applied to her

public life and this is not surpris­ ing considering the often sado­ masochistic nature of the work place. Chancer stresses that an advantage to referring to these workplace dynamics as sado­ masochistic, is that an intrinsic part of the S&M relationship is that role switching can occur.

Even though some people are more fixed in dominant or submis­ sive role-playing games, Kate admitts,"it isn’t unusual for play­ ers to switch roles.” This mock role switching can be an empow­ ering and a sensitizing experience which can help to dissolve the rigid domination and submission roles found in the work place and at home.

Often a corporation w ill not acknowledge its dependence on its employees, while workers, for fear of losing their livelihood, keep from acknowledging their inde­ pendence from their employer.

The fem inist approach of Chancer reveals that in relation­ ships, whether they be between individuals or institutions (such as a corporation to a union), mutual dependence and independence fail to be recognized at varying degrees, sadomasochism being the culmination of this dynamic. The

question remains whether playing by sadomasochistic dynamics has the capacity to heal as much as it is desired, or whether it affirms and encourages the impossibility of mutual recognition.

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S & M a n d c a p it a l is m The S&M paradigm can bear great similarities to the structure of western society as "it is the social psychology that correlates more precisely to the characteris­ tics of class-divided (and there­ fore, capitalistic) and male-domi­ nated (and, therefore, patriarchal) modes of social organization. The often unstable push/pull negotia­ tions between corporations and unionized workers is a fitting exam ple o f the connection Chancer was trying to make between S&M and capitalism.

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Media coverage could make or break East Timor's future The two issues rest, tries.” undeniably, hand-inH e The turbulent and violent hand. continued The media has events surrounding the recent refer­ to explain endum for independence in given East Timor a lot how in Indonesia’s “province” East Timor of attention in the last Somalia, has drawn significant attention from few weeks, but this has media the international public. Few been only a small slice coverage noticed, however, when this small of the area’s recent his­ may have island just north of Australia was tory. It remains to be damp­ invaded and subjected to atrocious seen whether the media e n e d human rights violations in the past will see the Timorese American through their suffering. two decades. resolve to C h o m s k y The international community continue expected East Timor to vote for expressed concerns i t s independence in this referendum, about present media efforts. but has doubts about its upcoming coverage. His hot and The success in maintaining peace. contentious statements U.S. was The role of North American about the portrayal of Journalists evacuating Dili, East Timor's capital Daily News@Yahoo.com ttOt able to media in the proceedings has been a this and other issues keep popu­ subject of contention. Noam turn, at the very least, a number of of these incidents. He charged lar support after they lost 18 men Somalia and Kosovo as sim ilar and media coverage reported that Chomsky, renowned linguist, politi­ heads. cal scientist, and media analyst, “[N]o power interest is served political situations which delivered their effort in Somalia was proving looked at East Timor as a fragile by attending to the suffering of the different outcomes due in part to to be completely ineffectual. case of meandering media attention.

[Timorese].” They are considered media coverage.

Chomsky’s appeal to a popular “Attitudes about Kosovo reaction is but the beginning of a Chomsky argued that for two “unworthy victims. [Without a sig­ decades, the media has accepted the nificant popular reaction, the long- changed drastically depending on long discussion on how to make former Indonesian leader Suharto familiar story will continue, in East how the media covered issues,” he East Timor one of the few success­ said. “In October of last year when ful stories of human political histo­ despite his being involved in “a Timor and throughout the world.” record of murder, terror, and corrup­ Mark Brawley, professor of there was fighting going on in ry. The obvious issue at hand for tion that has few counterparts in Political Science at McGill, Kosovo, the coverage was more like East Timor is what measures need postwar history.” explained this statement in terms of ‘well there’s a war going on there,’ to be taken to ensure a peaceful Further, he addressed the pre­ the importance of public support for but when the...expulsions [of the establishment of a political infra­ Kosovars] occurred, the media cov­ structure now that the Indonesian carious involvement of the U.S. in international political operations.

East Timor and called for He cited recent international erage changed a lot and analogies authority will be picking-up camp.

Americans to be concerned about upheavals as examples of how the media began to make with Brawley, however, warned the events surrounding the media can shape public opinion, Hitler’s policies...had a powerful against relying wholly on public Southeast Asian island. and, as a result, shape the outcome impact on the public of some coun­ support in the west to push through B y Pa u l C o r n ett

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Media while arguably creating the pressure to force a UN referen­ dum in East Timor, may not follow through with the same pressure when viewers are looking for some­ thing new. If popular support depends on a comprehensive media coverage that escapes the dynamics of dom estic politics, and if it depends on the rate of success like in Somalia, then popular support may well become an obstacle as well to bringing peace to war tom countries.

For real change to occur, Brawley said, residents of East Timor must be assured of safety.

Therein, he explained, is the biggest challenge.

“Convincing [Indonesians] who have been [in East Timor] for 10 to 15 years that they will be OK, that ethnic violence won’t be ram­ pant, and convincing the authorities that they should accept whatever the ruling is going to be on this referen­ dum, that’s going to be the hardest part because it’s not clear that even if the authorities back in Jakarta tell the troops and the police to pull out that that means they all will and that the militias left behind will pull out...so let’s just say the odds are not too positive.”

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A rtists such as Amanda Marshall and members of the band Moist appeared in a Much Music/ Musique Plus special last June that kicked off a nation-wide youth ori­ ented AIDS awareness campaign.

The show challenged Canadian adolescents and young adults to step up AIDS prevention.

The Canadian AIDS Society and Health Canada have teamed up for this latest campaign due to the alarm ing rate at w hich Canadians aged 24 and under are contracting the HIV virus. Sexual behaviour and intravenous drug use data suggest that adolescents and young adults could soon be the fastest growing group of HIV victims.

H elene G ayle, d irecto r of AIDS prevention for the Centres for D isease C ontrol and Prevention, spoke at an HIV pre­ vention conference held in Atlanta August 30. At the conference she stated what she believed to be the two main reasons for the contin­ ued spread of HIV. “If you think about why peo­ ple are getting infected - it’s sex and drugs,” she said, bluntly. She appealed to the government for Ad geared towards youths to prevent HIV infection Canadian AIDS society more action to prevent the spread of HIV. While some wonder what else street youths who have injected addict, who w ished to rem ain can be done, others believe that drugs in their lifetime, more than anonymous. “For some of them it there is a long road ahead. Gayle half had borrowed used needles, was even their own personal form thus putting themselves at serious of suicide. No government pro­ claim s th at a risk of infection. A former drug gram can stop that.” g re ater co m m it­ a d d i c t A ndré H urteau, a form er ment must be made responded to addict who contracted Hepatitis C to keeping people T he a d d ic ts I k n e w a s G a y le s’s cry through drug use, holds out some o ff drugs, and to treat addicts appro­ a k i d o n t h e s t r e e t s d i d n 't for increased hope that “with a hospital specifi­ priately. c a r e a b o u t [ c o n tr a c tin g ] a aid with cyni­ cally for drug addicts and research,” more can be learned I n t r a v e n o u s d ise a se . For s o m e o f th e m i t cism. “ T h e about the special help required by drug use am ong stree t , o u ,h S in even t addicts I knew addicts. According to both, how­ Montreal is an area fo r m O f SUICldC. N o Q0V~ as a kid on the ever, much still needs to be done streets did n ’t in o rd er to p revent infection that needs immedi- e r n m e n t p r o g r a m c a n s t o p care about through drug use. ate atten tio n . A f f a f [contracting] a recent study reveals , ... . disease,” said that o f the 4 2 per - a fo r m e r a d d ic t Condoms may not the form er cen t o f M ontreal prevent HIV

The prevention of risky sexu­ al beh av io u r is an o th er c o n ­ tentious issue. Gayle claims that it can easily be prevented with bet­ ter information. “[WJe’ve got to give young people the information they need.

We’ve got to be able to talk open­ ly and h o nestly about sexual behaviour.”

Ten different studies conduct­ ed by the U niversity of Texas Medical Branch found that con­ doms have a 31 per cent failure rate in preventing the sexual trans­ mission of HIV. Doctors such as Dr. John E. Dietrich, an infectious disease specialist, lam ents the popular “safer sex” slogan. He does not believe that condoms are an effective method of prevention.

He points out that HIV virus­ es “are so small that 5,000 HIV w ould fit side by side on the diameter of the period at the end of this sentence.”

D octors from the Santé P ublique de M ontréal C entre believe that this failure rate may or may not be fully representative of the situation because much depends on proper condom use.

S pokesperson B laise L efèbre explained that condom failure is higher among youths because they may not apply them correctly.

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The battle against AIDS and youth infection seems really to be a battle to keep youths informed about methods of prevention and to convince them to follow those methods. To compound the prob­ lem, not all officials are in agree­ ment as to what methods of pre­ vention are specifically needed.

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An in sig h t into M cGill's local m usic scen e

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The intermingling of univer­ sity students with a multitude of backgrounds has h isto rically spawned both academic and artis­ tic constructs of great worth. What better example of such artistic, expression than in the music of the student body. Presently, the most appropriate venue to hear student bands is the Open Air Pub (OAP) — the proverbial stomping grounds of McGill students for the first two weeks of the semester.

After checking out several bands that played there, I attempted to delve a little deeper into the stu­ dent music scene. What I found was a wide range of innovative music, a whole lot of ambition as well as an interesting take on the local student music scene.

One of the first bands that I checked out, Equalizer, is a seven piece family affair, composed of b ro thers M ike (vocals), C hris (guitar), and Nick (bass) Velan, and brothers Mike (Trumpet) and Ray (Alto Sax) Murray. Drummer Johnny S kykofsky and k e y ­ boardist Mark Kingston have no relativ es in the band, but, are nonetheless integral members.

They play fairly straig h t ahead Roots Reggae, the steady sk an k in ’, held down by solid drumming and bass grooves, and highlighted by well arranged horn lines. Most impressive, however, were Mike Velan’s vocals, melodically expressing an authentic island sound, though he admits to being a local M o n trealer. All tunes are originals. The band has been together for about a year and a half, and has upcoming shows at Q-Stix on September 10th and at Studio Main on September 13th,

where they will be opening up for Andrew Tosh, the son of leg ­ endary R eggae rev olutionary Peter Tosh. This show should definitely be worthwhile for reg­ gae fans.

The Potholes are another prolific band on the local scene.

Guitarist Jean-Michele, in describ­ ing the band has suggested that they’ve, “taken a funkier root this past little while.” Sounding fairly Steely Dan-esque, they chum out heavy, consistent funk that never fails to please th eir dancing

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crowds. The band, however, goes beyond typical funk standards, em ploying B eatles influenced vocal harmonies, complex chord progressions, and kickin’ into an old school hip hop jam (read Young MC) every once in a while. The band’s four core mem­ bers; Eric B iounno (drum s), A ntoinne C ratton (keyboard), Seamus Cowan (bass), and Jean M ichele C ohalan (guitar), are often accompanied by a full horn section. Founders Jean Michele, Antoine and Eric began playing together six years ago, but are quick to note that their music has evolved trem endously from its

more rock and roll influenced concep­ tion. The band is made up of mostly non-m usic m ajors but all seem to have the desire to pursue music seriously fol­ lowing their gradua­ tion. An album is p resen tly in the works and the band w ill be fu n k in ’ around at Le Sw im m ing on September 11th.

At the opposite end of the gamut is Winnipeg bom, solo guitarist-song writer Ted Strauss, whose m usic is selfdescribed as draw­ ing from, “60s folk revival, blues, jazz, A frican m usic, as w ell current elec­ Ray Murray of Equalizer Rebecca Catching tronic tre n d s.”

Com ing from W innipeg, Ted previous gigs knew that they were entered the music scene last year in store for something awesome. by talking to promoters, finding Lead guitarist N atasha Szuber open mikes, playing regularly at describes her band as “rock and certain venues, and working with funk and folk or something weird poet and writer Kaie Kellough in like that.” The mixture of styles is the spoken word scene. His next clearly prevalent, yet, in my mind, gig is at the Y ellow Door on the result, rather than ‘weird’, is a October 1st and he currently has a progressive, harmonically com­ CD entitled Seed which you can plex, melodically soothing, and obtain by calling 273-5399 or by overwhelmingly fun musical treat. e-m ailing him at: Founding members Natasha and ted_strauss @hotmail .com.

Isab elle Fahm y (v ocals) have L ast w eek, when 54-40 played together since grade 7 (I played the Metropolis, some of wish I would have had friends that the 1700 people attending were cool when I was th at age.) pleasan tly surprised w ith the Originally a duet, their style has, supreme quality of opening band naturally, evolved considerably Pigeon-hole. O thers, who had since the early days. The two play seen any one of P igeon-hole’s a style highly influenced by earli­

er icons of the female-folk genre, reflecting the lyrical subtlety of Joni Mitchell, the sensitivity of the Indigo G irls, w hile still encompassing the female aggres­ siveness of Ani DiFranco. More recently however, with the addi­ tion of a drummer (actually three to date, with most recent being Wade (fill in last name)), and bass player Adam Blinick, the band has begun adding jazz, funk, and other dynam ic rhythm ic elem ents to their underlying folk basis. Look for their CD Natural Dissent in the folk section of HMV or you can e-m ail N atasha at szu b ern @ h o tm ail.co m . The band’s next gig is on September 9th at the C o n co rd ia L oyola Campus.

Checking out these bands, I realize that I only have scratched the surface of what students are capable of accomplishing musi­ cally, let alone artistically as a whole. One opinion is that the tal­ ent emerging is clearly trem en­ dous, a view especially noted by members of both The Potholes and Pigeon-hole. Ted Strauss, by contrast, has commented that he feels the scene can be somewhat fragmented, or creatively hostile, but that, “the tension that results only promotes artistic develop­ ment.” The band members seem to be at home sharing their cre­ ative visions as demonstrated by Mike Murray of Equalizer, who plays in a variety of other groups including a computer generated drum and bass rig. In any case it is refreshing to see students still pur­ suing music while undertaking academic pursuits - a testament to the true versatility and talent of our generation.

Sloth slinks out of Open Air Pub to inhabit the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art F ran ço is G ira rd B y R e b e c c a C a t c h in g

In the academic limbo which characterises the first few weeks o f school many stu dents seek refuge in languid, lazy atmosphere of the OAP. Sloth— the Deadly Sin most fam iliar to university students, runs rampant on camputs as young scholars guzzle beer and drool on themselves.

Installation artist and film maker François Girard has chosen to explore this concept of sloth in

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his latest installation, La Paresse (S loth in F rench). M ost will recognise Girard as the director of internationally-praised The Red Violin and Thirty-two Short Films about Glen Gould, but Girard has created several e a rlier video installations and has even directed a few operas. Girard’s interdisci­ plinary background is evident in his discussion o f La Paresse.

Girard professes that in creating the in stalla tio n , he w anted to experiment with dramatic manipu­

lation within the format of a slide.

The installation environment Girard has created makes refer­ ence to the two-dimensional medi­ um of painting, as the viewer is greeted with an image through a golden frame. This is significant to the them es of the w ork, as painting has somewhat commer­ cial undertones, being a medium which has been fetishized by the art market due to its salability.

The frame is actually a window with a fine screen through which

La Paresse

the viewer can see a pile of bones and an old man, whose long white h a ir flow s to the ground and spreads out in all directions. On the screen a close-up of the man’s face is projected so the audience can see his various movements and expressions, while strange, oraganic yet am biguously mechanical breathing noises play in the background. The installa­ tion is visually fascinating, yet the extensive subtext and research which makes the work significant,

is only accessible by purchasing the twelve dollar catalogue at the gallery’s book store.

We often think of the Seven Deadly Sins in a fictional context, and G irard has explored th eir mythology using other links to the Sins, such as the Seven Virtues, the Seven Ages, the seven days of the week, the Seven Colours and various groupings of seven ani­ mals. Girard has incorporated a few of these mythological sevens Continued on Page 21

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Lingering legacy of the World Film Festival B y M a r ia S im p s o n

Although M ontreal has a plethora of entertainment options, there are some nights when only sitting slack-jawed in front of a movie screen will do. We trust m ovies to p rovide in teresting worlds to tantilze the imagination, but the current market shows a def­ inite homogenization of themes.

Can we really tell the difference between Deep Im pact and Armeggedonl Or 10 Things I Hate A bout You, S h e ’s A ll That and Varsity B lu es? Are we m erely watching the same 3 or 4 movies over and over again, and for $8 plus a pop?

Hollyw ood has dom inated Montreal screens leaving smaller films without distributors or audi­ ences. However, a breath of fresh air swept through M onrteal’s streets these past two weeks in the guise of the World Film Festival.

At last, small films found voice.

Two films, The Bone Collector and Pups are from the m inority of films that will be shown again in Montreal once the festival is over.

The Bone Collector will be distributed on a large scale at the beginning of November. Filmed in Montreal and New York, The Bone C ollector opening at the Film Festival was attended by its star, Denzel Washington, as well as the director P h illip N oyce and

Montreal’s mayor, Pierre Bourque.

However, despite the hoopla sur­ rounding the premier, The Bone C ollector is fairly standard Hollywood fare. Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel W ashington) is a New York City police detective and one of the world’s leading criminolo­ gists. He is left parapalegic after a near fatal accident and begins to make plans for his “final passage.”

Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) is a young police detective who feels ready for a desk job after wit­ nessing too much suffering and death. On her last assignm ent before the transfer she discovers a homicide and a perplexing set of clues. She photographs the site, and her photos attract the interest of Rhyme. Struck by her attention to detail and sensitive eye for clues, Rhyme comissions her to be his eyes and legs in an intricate path of clues left by a serial killer.

Washinton and Jolie both con­ vincingly portray the psychologi­ cal hardship of being a cop. As the crimes unfold, Jolie’s face regis­ ters the horror of each crime. This is a far cry from the usual bravura dem onstrated in movies of this type. However, the plot, while grit­ ty, strikes the view er as fa r­ fetched, because the realism Noyce is striving for is unconvincing.

Donaghy and Rhyme’s relation­ ship seems feasible in their link of pain- Rhyme’s loss of legs and

bank. The audi­ ence is swept away w ith the m e d ia -h y p e which envelopes the k id s’ clash with the law, paralleling the th rill the neo­ phyte delin ­ quents ex p eri­ ence them ­ selves. The film WFFPress release Gun toting teens in Pups follows the con­ sequences of Donaghy’s loss of her father. Yet their real-life video-game to its when Donaghy, a low level officer tragic conclusion. with little experience, becomes the Pups’ portrayal of two gunonly person with the know-how to crack the case, Rhymes confidence toting kids had the unfortunate disin her seems over-abundant. We tiction of being released two days are never convinced of Donaghy’s after the Columbine High School innate nose for crime because of shootings and as such, no media her continual reluctance to devote distributor would touch it despite herself to the case. On the whole, its powerful message in an package. this movie is a satisfying whodun­ entertainin g nit, but lacks the substance to Unlike Kids or Gummo make the audience understand the two film s that also grisly reality of being a homicide depict the violence of teen life, Pups is dark­ detective. ly funny. Stevie (played brilliantly by Culture of violence?

Cam eron Van Hoy) and his g irlfrien d Pups, on the other hand, is a Rocky (Mischa Barton) refreshing independent film , wrap the media around directed by Ash. Two 13 year old, media saturated suburbanites find a f£ $ iM L m f m w M o parent’s handgun before school M O N TREAL one day and decide to hold up a

their fingers, ordering pizza, wav­ ing to the television cameras and demanding that MTV newsman Kurt Loder (playing him self) interview them. The tone is light which effectively carries the audi­ ence along with the two teenagers’ farce, making the shifts in tone all the more disturbing and poignant.

When Stevie uses his gun for the first time, the audience realizes how easily a m edia saturated youngster can fall into a virtual mindset about violence and crime.

Instead of inspiring revulsion as films with excessive violence can easiy do, Pups demands serious contemplation by its audience and, sadly enough, society at large.

Both The Bone Collector and Pups will be showing in theatres this fall.

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T m Black and I'm proud" - the World Film Festival honours Irish Cinem a B y R o bert Sa m pso n

In a m ovie adaptation of Roddy D o y le’s novel The Commitments, soul-man trumpet player, Jimmy Rabitte compares the Irish to the Blacks of Europe and exclaims: “Say it loud, I ’m black and I’m proud!”. A snappy witticism, the remark is nonethe­ less apt as a description of ele­ ments of the resurgent Irish cinema industry, as this year’s 17 selec­ tions for the World Film Festival’s Focus on Irelan d have plainly demonstrated.

Ireland has experienced an unprecedented economic boom in the 90’s, becom ing one o f the world’s most-developed nations. A product of this boom, Irish cinema has experienced an astonishing renaissance, becoming staple fare in commercial movie-houses and serious film festivals the world over. Interest in Irish film has extended far beyond the limits of the international ethnic Irish popu­ lation. As Lynn Doyle, president of Cina Gael M ontreal, puts it, “Irish cinema has become a genre in its own right. It’s a thriving cul­ tural form that reaches beyond Irish limits, as testified to by inclu­ sion in the World Film Festival.”

Why are we, the audience, so interested? In a recent piece, Luke Gibbons of the Film Institute of

Ireland gives us a possible answer. “[I]f Ireland is a first-world country, it is also a culture with a third-world memory. Historically, it enjoys the invidious distinction of being a colony within Europe, and that this troubled past extends into the present was made abun­ dantly clear....”

As “proud” as Irish cinema has undoubtedly become, the films shown at this years’ festival were indisputably bleak. Ireland’s cul­ tural landscape has been shaped by centuries of religious and political strife which have not created happy memories, as was reflected by the subject matter of many of the films shown. We’ve seen Irish films, such as Neil Jordan’s The Commitments, that highlight Irish humor and “craic” (Irish for “a good time,”) and create film as entertainm ent. Bufr of the films screened at the Festival, it seems to be that the Irish cultural legacy is not as entertaining. Although seri­ ous Irish cinema may be rarely amusing, it is nonetheless intellec­ tually challenging, emotionally dem anding and ultim ately very rewarding.

Ireland on screen In Cathal Black’s Love and Rage, the wildly beautiful Achill

Island is the setting for a disturbing love affair between a Protestant land owner and divorcee, Agnes Macdonnell, and her estate agent James Lynchhaun. Dangerous and disturbed, Lynchhaun is a Catholic peasant and actor who exploits Agnes and finally destroys her strong and independent character.

L ynchhaun’s evil streak arises from his refusal to confirm to boundaries defined by class and religion. His over-powering confi­ dence and acting talents allow him to move beyond his simpleton role as a Catholic peasant. Love and Rage addresses issues of sexual politics and power, class and reli­ gious boundaries and sexual orien­ tation. Though disquieting and unpleasant, this film dem ands thought and does these issues jus­ tice.

A Love Divided tells the true story of an inter-denominational couple in a village o f county Wexford, Ireland. Wife Sheila, a Protestant, is opposed to sending her children to the local Catohlic school as the parish priest insists, and so kidnaps her children in defi­ ance. Her flight sparks a manhunt that destroys the lives of many of the villagers in her P rotestant hometown. The violence and ugli­ ness of this film which takes a solid look at the realities of acri­ m onious religious divisions in

Disgruntled youth in Acclerator

Ireland is tempered, however, by the poignancy of the love story it depicts .

Director Vince Murphy, intro­ duced his film Accelerator by say­ ing that it seemed that you had to be either under the age of six or over the age of 60 to get a role in an Irish movie these days. His film about young people in contempo­ rary Ireland was clearly in defiance of this trend. His concept was cer­ tainly well-conceived- 12 workingclass Irish youths steal cars and race each other from Belfast to Dublin, though his execution was less than satisfactory.

Not only did almost all 12 of them end up either dead or in a hospital, but his portrayal of Irish youth was less than representative of reality. Although once the gen­

WFFPress release eralization that the vast majority of Irish youth were depressed parochial blackguards may have had some credence, this is quickly changing.

U nfortunately, Accelerator does not provide an antidote to contemporary Irish cin­ ema that has a tendency to live and draw on its past all too frequently.

If you missed the Irish flicks at the World Film Festival, there is a strong possibility that Cina Gael Montreal, will run some of these films later in the year. Cina Gael Montreal runs a weekly series of screenings at C oncordia. The series usually starts up in January.

For more inform ation, contact Lynn Doyle at 481-3503.

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Cream, not just for ravers any more

Cream CD Mixed by John Aquaviva

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By Maria Simpson Time to dust o ff your hot pants boys and girls because 2 0 0 0 0 people are expected to dance away the night (and part of the day) on S eptem ber 11th at Cream, the annual giant rave at the Olympic stadium. As the cul­ mination of a 10 day musical fes­ tival, Cream’s promoters promise to transfom the Olympic Stadium in to ”a tem ple o f urban sound, elec tro n ic fren zy , and body grooves.”

A ccording to R icardo Cordero of Productions 514, the producers of Cream, this festival puts music above all else. “We choose our DJs more carefully than other festi­ vals, such as the Black and Blue.

F estiv als like that have maybe one big act and the rest are local D Js,” says C ordero. “We put most of our focus on the m usic and its production. For ex am ple, the stadium will have tw ice the sound that Pink Floyd had when they perform ed there a few years back.”

Cordero w ent on to em phasize that the o rg an izers really care, about the people attending the rave. “Our philoso­ phy is that we try to create a cozy atmosphere, no matter how many people are there. This year we have lasers to create a fake ceil­ ing at the stadium to m ake it seem smaller, like a club, so it has a m ore p ersonal v ib e ,” explains Cordero. The stadium will be divided into three areas: the main area, the hip hop area and the chill out area. Cordero also m entioned that an indoor fireworks display would be on the agenda, along w ith som e other unexpected suprises.

In addition to the visu­ als, this year Cream has succeed­ ed in lining up some big names.

On Saturday night Moby will be playing at midnight with a five piece band. Next up at 1:15 am is the Parisian duo Daft Punk, fol­ low ed by John A cquaviva, Lafleche, Luc Raym ond, Tiga and fin ally , from New Y ork, Roger Sanchez at 9:00 am. Flip hop fans will be well served by

l i |f T the line-up w hich includes R hazel, the B eatn u ts.an d F af Larage.

Although the large rave is intended to be the highlight of the festival, there will be m usical ev en ts every n ight until the weekend. These have the advan­ tage of being at smaller venues and costing less than the $30 charge for the rave. This year’s show s w ill provide for m ore diverse tastes with some alterna­ tive and punk shows, in addition to the usual house and hip hop fare.

The p re-rav e line up begins on Wednesday, September 8 th, when Bionic will be playing

$ Thum p, thum p, thump, thump...the official soundtrack of 514’s mega-dance event delivers 15 tracks of, as Aquaviva terms it, “pumpin’ house music”. For you ravers, DJ Sandy vs. Housetrap’s “D isco H ighw ay” and Stacey Pullen’s “Sweat” will no doubt trigger hazy memories of frantic dancing, swinging glow sticks, and guys with whistles. Make sure your stereo has a ‘loudness’ function to turn up the bass, or the meaning of this music will be completely lost to you.

Terror Twilight

Star producer Nigel Godrich com pletes a hat trick with Pavement’s fifth album. The rich, organic feel he gave to Radiohead’s OK Computer and Beck's Mutations works well with the band’s lo-fi sound. Steven Malkmus’ enjoyably incomprehen­ sible lyrics (“Speak, see, remember/The crimes it took to get you t h r o u g h / D e a d b e a t at the stadium, several smaller acts will be playing on Saturday night such as the female alterna­ tive duo Cibo Matto at Cabaret (2111 St. Laurent) or the Punk-orama Tour at Rainbow (5345 de Maisonneuve West) This week’s Cream festival promises to be an intense m usic exp erien ce for raver, punks, hip hop fans and pop divas alike. For tickets call 790-1245, or for more informa­ tion call 723-CREW.

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at C afe C am pus (57 P rince Arthur East). This local pop-punk group, describes themselves as a cross betw een A bba and Selpultural Walis. DJ Develope will be demonstrating his scratch­ ing turntable techniques at Studio St. Laurent (2109 St. Laurent) on Thursday, Sept. 9th. Friday the 10 th has a few different acts per­ forming such as L7 at the 11th at Jailh o u se (30 M ont R oyal), M arco C arola at Sona (1439 Bleury) and the Herbaliser at the S pectrum (318 S te-C atharine West). As well as the huge party

Decem ber/There’s blood in the butter/The kitchens are closed”) are once again in bloom. Terror Twilight's odd tempo shifts and spontaneous jam sessions may con­ fuse fans of Blink 182. However, those of you with a taste for indierock will enjoy the slow, subtle pleasures of “Spit on a Stranger” and “Cream of Gold.”

8:00AM TO4Æ0PM

Me’shell Ndegeoeello-Bitter Bitter

In a day and age where most pop albums read like comic books, Me’shell has gone out and written an epic.

Bitter is the journey of a love gone awry and one’s struggle to regain faith in romantic relation­ ships. While songs like “Fool of Me” and “Faithful” explore the betrayal and hurt experienced in love, “Loyalty” and the mystic cover of Hendrix’s “May this be Love” both musically and lyrically evoke hope.

Me’shell sets aside her funky bass and groove oriented lines and establishes herself as a extraordi­ nary songw riter. The album is greater than its parts, which some­ times prevent the tracks from stand ing on their own. For this reason, Me’shell’s third release most likely will see minimal commercial suc­ cess. Either way, there is little denying the beauty and brilliance of Bitter.

Review by Adam Blinick

The Chemical Brothers con tinue to create and develop the foundations of the electronic music scene with their latest album Surrender. Their blend of hard techno and house music continues to push th‘e envelope, creating a sound that is impossible to ignore.

They get a little help from hip hop maven Missy Elliott on the first track “Music Response,” though she only gets credit in the liner notes for her writing skills. The fourth track, “Orange Wedge” is a prim e exam ple of what the Chemical Brothers are capable of involving numerous complicated rhythms which create one sound that is amazingly infectious. Their intricate beats are mirrored in other tracks on the album such as, “Hey Boy Hey Girl” and "Dream On. Throughout the album, it is diffi­ cult to suppress the urge to turn up the volume and dance. Written and produced by the Chem ical Brothers, this album was released

by Astral Werks, the same label that has brought us other gems such as Cassius, Basement Jaxx, and Fatboy Slim.

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From myth to modern life: the role of sin in society old herm it, as G irard wants to refers to sloth as a bête noire of convey the idea that we can learn capitalist society, yet the work into the actual work, in the form a great deal about the w orld ethic mentality is not as perva­ of donkey bones— the seventh through deep thought and obser­ sive as it seems. animal, and indigo—the seventh vation. Even w ithout knowing colour. In doing so, he stresses the Girard’s ideas about contempla­ p erv asiv e— yet o u td ated and tion, the atmosphere of the instal­ Girard's paresse taps almost folkloric— ' into rising social lation im parts to the view er a nature of the Sins. sense of the sentiment Girard conducted need for p ro ­ extensive research fun d ity and As a reaction to the materi­ on artistic rep re­ G i r a r d q u e s t i o n s t h e m editation. It alist Zeitgeist o f the eighties, sentations of sloth, is an arresting which he includes i n g r a i n e d w o r k e t h i c e x p e r i e n c e , there has been a new awakening to the importance of inner con­ in the lite ra tu re w hich m akes accompanying this o f W e s t e r n c u l t u r e b y us feel that templation. One outgrowth of this sentiment is the creation of work. perhaps there c o n t r a s t i n g i t t o Sim plicity C ircles, which are In addition to are greater mutual support groups designed his research on the E a s te r n B u d d h i s t issues in life to encourage people to simplify visual cu ltu re of than getting an their lives and to skim off the sloth, G irard has t h o u g h t , w h ic h advising extraneous elements in order to exam ined how appointment at these moral tenets p l a c e s a m u c h h i g h e r D aw son Hall enjoy what is truly important to them. Joining a simplicity circle have been used as or learning the to ols o f social v a l u e o n c e r e b r a l in tricac ie s of does not mean giving up all one’s Installation's main character lends a contemplative air possessions to join a commune, en g in eerin g . For the multi-track w o r k , N i r v a n a i s but it does mean determining pri­ ilies cannot partake in this privi­ with students as we enjoy our last in stan ce, the system . The orities. In order to reclaim their lege. The government has set up days of freedom. screen through i m p o s s i b l e w i t h o u t quiet and wise, lives, a growing number of work­ week long vacation packages to which we view the old ch aracter ing people have made choices to help remedy the situation yet the installation refers c o n t e m p l a t i o n . in G ira rd ’s work less, perhaps get a smaller demand still exceeds the current to w hat G irard work seems t o , house, and buy less expensive cars supply. G irard has o bviously calls the “ethical be the type so they can enjoy the things that tapped into a strong sentiment, grid” of the Seven who w ould really matter to them: their chil­ one which will surely ressonate D eadly Sins as a set o f moral stick it to the McGill bureaucracy dren, their friends and hobbies. parameters to guide and monitor and head for the hills, bidding the This concept has been coined so cietal b eh aviour. G ira rd ’s viewer to do the same. Girard’s m ‘more time, less stuff,’ and has screen, as a metaphor for the ethi­ aim was to turn this Deadly Sin 107, r u e P rin c e cal grid, not only serves to guide, around and point to the virtue in been thriving in many other parts A rth u r E st of the world for years. In the spir­ but to filter how we see reality. slacker behaviour. He proclaims The Christian sin of sloth was paresse as an ideal state of being. it o f La P aresse, F rance has R es.: 8 4 9 4 6 8 0 crucial to the developm ent of Girard’s is not the kind of paresse recently passed legislation that F ax: 662 0828 will help to facilitate relaxation industrial capitalism, as it ensured that involves a twelve pack and and co n tem p latio n for over a the availability of a docile and reruns of Baywatch, but the spiri­ 1 1 a m - la m productive workforce. In explor­ tual, intellectual and emotional thousand fam ilies who cannot 7Z. '-~7, afford to take a yearly vacation. ing this them e, Girard encoun­ contem plation that is not often tered scholar Paul Lafargue and valued in a society which praises Workers in France have an aver­ his work Le droit a la Paresse productivity above all else. Girard age of five weeks of paid vacation a year, yet many low income fam­ (roughly translated: the Right to Sloth), which attacks the institu­ tion of work as “the cause of our intellectual degeneracy.” Lafargue speaks o f how work has been “sacro-sanctified” by the priests, econom ists and m oralists, who 106-200A I ntroduction to the S tudy of Canada. Economic, political, historical, cultural approaches to the study of Canada.

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1999 Redmen football season preview Strong veteran nucleus and promising rookie class should enable Red 'n White to improve on last season's finish

By Jeremy Kuzmarov

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Despite the gradua^ tion of linebacker J.P Darche and run­ ning back Shawn Linden — two of the greatest players to ever play McGill football — the Redmen appear to be a team on the rise in the O-QIFC conference and are poised to improve on last season’s .500 record.

“Those two guys will be missed, but others will step up to fill the void," commented McGill head coach Charlie Baillie, who is enter­ ing his 28th season at the helm of the Red’n White. “ We’ve got a lot of experience on this team, and that should help us improve from last year.”

In addition to a strong veteran presence, which includes defensive standouts Olivier Lefebvre, Randy Chevrier, and Tim Tosh as well as quarterback Josh Sommerfeldt, receiver Rob Posthumus, and full­ back Marc Freer, McGill should benefit from an influx of talented rookies and newcomers.

Several first year Redmen have made their mark in the pre-season training camp and will look to make even greater impacts once the sea­ son begins. McGill fans should keep an eye on upstarts Jim Merrick, Mike Mahoney and Pat Porco on

defence, as well as running back Nick Hoffman and receiver Ben Wearing, a transfer from Brown University who look to provide a

along with Chevrier, Posthumus and hard-nosed running back Louis Duchçsne. Lefebvre will have the the tough role of replacing Darche at

excited heading into the opener.”

For the past few years, defence has been team’s cornerstone, and that shouldn’t change this year.

However, the Red ‘n White look to be more well rounded in ‘99, and hope to improve o ff e n s iv e ly and put up more points on the board M c G ill finally seems to have found stability at the q u a rte rb a c k position with Sommerfeldt, who showed great play­ making abili­ ties and lead­ ership quali­ ties in his stint last year, and is expected to The gruelling practices are over and the Redmen are ready to kick o ff the season Patrick Fok be the starter.

Furthermore, stong complement to the veteran the middle-linebacker position. the roster includes a plethora of nucleus.

“We have a great returning speedy running backs and wideouts “W e’ve got a lot of good core, and also some quality young who should provide some great recruits who should help to shore up players, “ added Posthumus,, excitement and help in getting the some of our w eaknesses,” said returning for his fifth and final sea­ ball in the end zone.

Lefebvre, recently named co-captain son with McGill.” We’re all really “We’ve got good running and

good passing, the key is for our offensive line to protect the quarter­ back and create holes to run through,” said coach Baillie. “We’ve got a well-balanced attack this year and a great set of receivers. I’m real­ ly excited about our team’s speed on offence, and defence too.”

The first major test for the newlook Redmen will come in their sea­ son opener when they face cross­ town rival Concordia, the defending conference champions on home turf at Molson stadium this Saturday.

While Stinger legend Sylvain Girard has moved on to the Alouettes, Concordia is looking strong having lost only 4 starters from their ‘98 team which went all the way to the Vanier cup.

McGill’s other division rivals — Laval, Bishop’s, Ottawa and Queen’s — also are expected to field strong teams, leaving the Redmen with their work cut out for them.

“Two good teams are going to miss the play-offs because of the strength of our conference, “ said Coach Baillie em phatically.

“Nevertheless, we’ve got a very good feeling heading into the open­ er. We’ve been working hard all off­ season and in training camp and we expect to keep on improving as the season progresses. Our goal is to make the play-offs and give our­ selves a shot at the conference tide.”

The offensive outlook at Molson Stadium The Redmen are stocked at least two deep at every offensive position from quarterback to wide reciever

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Things are looking up for the M cGill offence. That, of course, means an increase in scoring output in ‘99.

New offensive co-ordinator George Wall has implemented a simpler game-plan than last year, which should be more readily understand­ able to all the players, meaning that the formations should be in line right from the first week.

The new offence should also enable M cGill to capitalize on speed at the quarterback, receiver and running back positions.

“We hope to have a well bal­ anced attack,” said Wall. “We’re gonna run the ball a lot, throw in some play-actions and get the pass­ ing game going. We’ve got a lot of talented players who can make things happen.”

Quarterback Low and behold, M cGill is facing a quarterback controversy entering the ‘99 season. While Josh Sommerfeldt is expected to be the starter in the opener against Concordia, hot on his heels is Dave M cKinnon, a ju n io r who has enjoyed a strong training camp thus far. Redmen fans will remember

McKinnon stepping in as the starter two years ago and perform ing remarkably well for a first year player. In ‘98, though, he was inflicted with the famed “sopho­ more jinx” and struggled early on in the season. Eventually he was replaced by Sommerfeldt, a rookie who showed tremendous poise and played exceptionally well down the stretch.

W hile not a vocal guy, Sommerfeldt quietly works hard and displays leadership at the helm of McGill’s offence. He is extreme­ ly mobile in the pocket and rushed for an impressive 265 yards last season, including four touchdowns.

With a year experience under his belt, Sommerfeldt believes he can improve on his performance last season and help spark a high-pow­ ered Redmen attack.

“I ’ve got a lot more confi­ dence being in my second year,” said Sommerfeldt. “I feel more com fortable out there and am learning to read the plays better.”

Sommerfeldt indeed looks like the real deal, but Redmen fans shouldn’t discount M cKinnon.

Should Sommerfeldt falter or go down with injury, McKinnon will surely be ready to take over and adeptly lead the McGill offence.

Phillip Couillard and Tristan Hovey round out McGill’s depth chart at quarterback. Couillard has

been particularly im pressive in camp and could see some playing time.

Wide receiver The Redmen possess on their roster a nice basket of players with speed, agility, soft hands and play making ability at the wide receiver positions. Fifth year wide out Rob Posthumus, who averaged a tidy 26.4 yards per catch last season, will be one of the go-to guys.

A fter sitting out a year because of league regulations, Ben Wearing, a transfer from Brown U niversity, is finally ready to become the other starter at inside receiver. Others com peting for playing time include Jeff Derman, Phillip Lebel, and Pat Langtot, all of whom have considerable talent and are fully capable of excelling this season.

“Our receivers are going to make plays for us this year, it’s gonna be fun to watch these guys play,” said offensive co-ordinator Wall. “We’ve got a lot of depth and speed and some real great athletes.”

Running back It is never easy for a team to recover from the loss of an impact player like Shawn Linden, who

broke M ichael S o les’ Redmen career rushing mark last season.

Nevertheless, the McGill coaching staff is confident that a strong run­ ning game will be in place this year.

“You never replace a Shawn Linden,” said head coach Charlie Baillie, “but w e’ve got a lot of good running backs with good speed and ability who can as a group make up for the loss and pro­ vide a solid ground game for us this year.”

McGill is fortunate to return its starting fullback form last year, Marc Freer. A versatile back, Freer was the team s’ second leading receiver in ‘98 with 11 catches for 169 yards.

Other veterans returning from last year include co-captain Louis D uchesne and ju n io r Femi Dawodu. Pumalo Sikaneta, a for­ mer Redmen standout is back on the team after taking a year off from football. Perhaps the most heralded of the Redmen backs is rookie Nick Hoffman, a top flight prospect from the CEGEP ranks where he played at Cham plain College. Look for him to be an impact player for the Red ‘n White this year and in seasons to come.

Offensive line

The performance of the offen­ sive line remains a key to success for McGill in ‘99. Solid pass-pro­ tection will need to be generated in order to enable the Redmen passing attack to take off. Furthermore, McGill’s running backs will need the line to create holes to run through.

Several starters on the front line are returning from last year, including junior centre Guillaume Couture, junior Benoit Richard, and senior Craig Pinches. 6”4, 295 pound senior Andrew Castellarin is expected to start at right guard, while fifth year veteran Martin Denault returns to the left guard position. Several youngsters have shown some great prom ise in camp, most notably Nick Landry and Evan Blaney. Both could see a considerable amount of playing time during the year.

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Three Redmen to watch for the upcoming season 6”1, 223 lbs.

Aerospace Engineering, M5 St. Bruno, Quebec former team: Vanier College Cheetahs Look for big things from the im posing Lefebvre this season who is expected to anchor the Redmen defense and fill the hole at middlelinebacker created by the departure of J.P. Darche.

Lefebvre was a dominating force for McGill last season and led the O-QIFC in tackles with 92. He also had one sack and made 5 tackles for loss.

“We haven’t lost a step up the middle despite the loss of Darche,” said Coach Baillie, “Lefebvre is an out­ standing player with the potential to be an All-Canadian this year. He also provides strong leadership, and has been doing so for the past two years.”

—Jeremy Kuzmarov

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Industrial Relations, U3 Montreal Quebec former team: Brown University, NCAA Division 1-AA

While CIAU football [ may be a far cry from NCAA I division 1-AA, Ben Wearing is nevertheless ecstatic to be playing for McGill this season, and has been working hard during the summer in order to step up his game.

Wearing, an inside receiver, possesses great hands, and has also greatly improved his speed. He is a sure-bet starter and should be a favourite target of Sommerfeldt and the other Redmen quarterbacks.

“I’ve got a great rapport with Sommerfeldt, we’ve both got a lot of faith in each other,” said Wearing, “McKinnon and I click well too, we both played together in high-school. I’ve got high expectations for the season and hope to make all the hard work put in during the off­ season pay-off.”

— Jeremy Kuzmarov

Physical Education U1 Simcoe, Ontario former team: Simcoe Composite School Sabres M errick has raised more then a few eyebrows in training camp with his tremen­ dous strength and athletic abili­ ty. Look for him to start on McGill’s front-line alongside returning stalwarts John Macdonald, Scott Arnold and Randy Chevrier. Judging by his performance in camp, Merrick should be an intimdating force for the Redmen this season, and looks to be a cornerstone at the lineman posi­ tion for years to come.

“I’m so happy to have an opportunity to contribute to the success of the team this year,” said Merrick, “I’ve been playing shockingly well so far, and hope to keep working hard in order to realize my potential.”

-Jeremy Kuzmarov

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The departure of J.P. Darche doesn't look to slow tenacious Redmen defence

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When a graduating 1 player moves on to the CFL’s Toronto A rgonauts, i t ’s rather obvious that a team will have a void to fill. The Redmen defence will adapt, change, and do its best to prepare for the upcoming season.

“The first major change is that J.P. Darche is gone to the Argos,” said defensive coordinator Mike Maurovich. “That means we will have to find someone that can play the middle linebacker position, and I don’t think anyone can play it like J.P. But, we feel the changes w e’ve made this offseason will make us a very fast defence. I think we’re going to be in good shape.”

Defensive line Three veterans will anchor a unit that looks to be one of the strongest and quickest in the league. On the outside, ends Scott Arnold and John Macdonald return for what looks to be a promising year. At tackle, Randy Chevrier returns for his fourth year. The Sri Leonard, Que. native was a big part of last year’s line and is set to play an even bigger role this time around.

“The defensive line is looking very good. We have a powerful, fast defensive line, some of the fastest guys on the team ,” said Chevrier, “John (Macdonald) out­ side will be a huge threat, I’ll work hard in the m iddle, and Scott Arnold is a potential all-Canadian this year.”

The only possible question mark would be at the other tackle position. Fortunately for the Redmen, freshman Jim Merrick erased all possible doubts with a huge training camp this summer.

At 6’1” and 237 lbs, the first year physical education major made enough of an impression on his coaches and teammates to have all but sewn up the final starting spot.

“Jim is an outstanding prospect, but this early into camp it’s unfair to the other rookies to say he’s going to start,” said a diplomatic Mike Maurovich on Friday afternoon. “Jim has come prepared and he’s making his mark on the team. As a player, h e ’s strong, has very good feet, he’s fast, and most importantly he fits into the mold that we like for our line. H e’s one to watch for the future.”

Linebackers A lot of changes at the line­ backer position have taken place

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since last year. Not only have they lost Darche, but former defensive linem an O llie Lefebvre has switched positions and will play middle-linebacker for the upcom­ ing season. Already established as one of the best players at McGill, Lefebvre will guide a group that includes veteran Shawn Koch, and second year player Steve Colwell.

“Without Darche we will have a quicker team, but we will miss him. I know I have big shoes to fill, but I can handle it. I mean I’m not J.P. but I can pursue maybe a little better than he could. He was such an intimidation on short yardage and hopefully 1 can do the same thing,” said Lefebvre, “As far as the other linebackers, they are guys that never quit, and that’s the most important thing. We don’t accept failure and we just want to be the best.”

Defensive backs With the front seven looking so strong and figuring to play such a big role for the Redmen, it’s easy for the defensive backfield to go overlooked. This part of the team also lost a great player in Sal Brohi, who holds the school record for interceptions, but a veteran core of players returning should more than fill the void. As the vocal leader of the team Andrew

Scuccato will be the focal point of a unit that includes veterans Tim Tosh, Loris Lucchetta, and Scott Hamlin.

With a solid defence lining up in 1999, the keys to victory look be the same as always.

“We need to increase our turnover ratio, we were plus 29 last year,” reiterated Mauravich. “We’ll have to do a better job on second and long beacuse we didn’t shut the door like we should have. Also, early in the season last year we did n ’t tackle well, we have to change that right from the start. But probably the most important thing for this team will be to get off to a good start against Concordia in the opener.”

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The Tribune's 1999 Redmen soccer preview Veteran core, promising rookie class need to perform if team to return to Nationals

By Jonathan Colford_________

dropped consecutive 1-0 decisions to Alberta and UQAM en route to placing fourth out of six teams overall.

Although the Red-and-White side failed to defend its 1997 N ational C ham pionship, head coach Pat Raimondo disagrees with the notion that the last season was a disappointment.

“People say finishing fourth is a disappointment because we won the Nationals the previous year,” the sixth-year head coach said.

“I think it’s going to be anoth­ er great season,” said Raimondo.

“We’ve been by far the most suc­ cessful program at McGill and I think this year is going to be no dif­ ferent.”

team last year. Originally a striker, Zullo was converted to defence and learned the position in three months.

Raimondo expects a big year from his defender, whose steady play is a force for stability on the defence.

“I hope he builds on his AllCanadian performance last year,” he said. “It’s his graduating year so I’m expecting him to go out with a bang.”

Attem pting to make com e­ backs from season-ending injuries are defenders Gino Lalli and Philippe Lazure.

Lalli, in his fourth year in Electrical Engineering, has recovered from a concussion which sidelined him for the entire 1998 season. Lazure, a second-year Arts student, is attempting to return from a broken leg he sustained at the Nationals last November.

For their 106th season, the McGill Redmen soccer team is hoping to build on last year’s fourth place finish at the Nationals.

The veterans T hey’re looking to do it with a solid core of veterans and with Six Redmen were named to what looks to be an exciting rookie the conference all star team last class. year, four of which are returning in McGill was 9-6-3 overall last 1999: Forsyth, defender Gates season and the team ended their Zullo (also named an Allregular season with a 3-2-2 record, good for third place in the Q u e b e c University Soccer League.

In the QUSL sem i-final game against UQAM, McGill trailed their cross-town rivals 2-0 with ten minutes left in the Promising rookies second half before head coach Pat Raimondo boldly The Redmen lost seven pulled goalkeeper key players to graduation, Jason Forsyth for including conference all-star an extra attacker. defender Peter Bryant and I t ’s a com m on­ All-Canadian midfielder Sean place strategy in Shepherd. Expecting to fill hockey but „ „ , , ,. those considerable shoes is a file photo believed to be a T" e Redmen are lookmg to breeze past opponents and back into the Nationals highly-touted freshman class. first in Canadian university soccer.

“It’s a great class. At any one The extra attacker gave McGill one “We don’t see it as a disappoint­ Canadian), midfielder Rehan Ali, time any of them could be in the goal back, but UQAM took charge ment since there are team s at and forward Andrew Eisenstark.

Raim ondo praised Ali, the game,” Raimondo said. In his inter­ McGill that haven’t made the play­ and won 5-1.

Redmen’s captain this year, while view with the Tribune, he singled D espite the loss, though, offs in fifteen years.” out Brian Tobin, Scott Johnson, Raimondo, 49-25-25 over his revealing his high expectations for and Guy Anaba as rookies he’s McGill was delivered a bye into the N ational as host school. A fter first five seasons as head coach of the third year physical education especially excited about, although student. opening the tournament with a 2-1 the Redmen, is optimistic about his “[Ali is] definitely one of our he expects all seven of them on the victory over Toronto, the Redmen team’s chances going into 1999. elder statesmen, one of our leaders. roster to contribute during the year..

He needs to be vocal and present “I’m comfortable putting any this year,” Raimondo said. “He was the best player on the field against of our seven rookies in at any time,” Raimondo said.

Alberta [at the Nationals].”

Rounding out the first-year “We’ve set the bar at the level he’s playing at, that’s where we group are Jorin Mamen, Justin Humes, Ian Bair.d, and Jeanshould be playing,” he added.

Francois Bouthillier.

Eisenstark, along with forward Jamie Watson (who has graduated), led the balanced Redmen attack with four of the team’s 27 goals in 1998.

Forsyth, nicknam ed “Superman” by his teammates, has been entrenched as the Redmen’s starting goaltender and, according to Raimondo, is “fitter, meaner this year, and focused on winning another national title before he and Eisenstark graduate next year.”

Also in his final year with the team, defender Zullo brings a con­ siderable amount of experience to the team. A first team QUSL allstar and second team All-Canadian, the M ontreal native was also named to the CIAU National Championship tournament all star

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The Redmen were winless against Montreal university teams last year, twice tying regular season champion Concordia and going 03-1 against UQAM. While acknowledging the importance of these games against cross-town rivals, Raimondo was immediately concerned with avenging a 5-0 exhibition drubbing at the hands of the University of Vermont.

“We got smoked last year at their homecoming in front of five thousand people,” he said. “I guar­ antee it won’t be 5-0 this year.”

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McGill plays Vermont again on September 19, 1999. ' For now, the goal the team has set their sights on is to recapture the national title and the Sam D avidson M em orial Cup that comes with it.

“Guys seem to be hungry again,” Raimondo said. “Our five players left over from the ‘97 team are hungry to win another, to bring Sammy D avidson back home again.”

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At the old four soccer tourna­ ment at Western Ontario, McGill started play by losing 2-1 to Queen’s. The game ended in a 1-1 tie, and subsequently was sent to a penally shootout which Queen’s won 3-1. In the game, Redmen rookie Scott Johnston scored the lone goal of regulation, while Andrew Eisenstark nailed the only goal in the shootout. The team rebounded with a 3-2 win over Toronto the following day. For McGill Mathieu Harding, Andrew Eisenstark and Guy Anaba Anaba all scored.

M a r t l e t s b e f a l l id e n t ic a l R ed m en at W e s t e r n O n t a r io fate a s

The M artlets, also at the Western tournament, fared equally well. They too lost their opener against Queen’s. The 4-3 win for the Gaels, also went to a penaly shootout after the game ended tied at three. There Queen’s shot home a 4-3 win. M cGill’s regulation goals came from Eva Melamed, and Sophie Labrom who scored twice. Rebounding from the heart­ break, the Manlets pounded U of T 4-0 the follow ing day. Eva Melamed had a great game where she scored all four goals. Keeper Jessica White notched her second shutout of the season.

Mc F a d zea n and M ela m ed NAMED M c G i l l - A d id a s ATH LET ES OF THE W EEK

C raig M cFadzean, a first baseman with the Redbirds, pounded out 11 hits in 18 at-bats over the weekend, four of them home runs, in leading McGill to a 3-1 start to 1999.

M eanw hile, Eva M elamed took hold of the Old Four soccer tournament in London, Ont., scor­ ing seven goals in hree games, including all four in a 4-0 win over Toronto.

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The McGill Redbirds kicked off their baseball season with an exhausting but successful labour day w eekend. The scorching weather provided a classic climate for the Redbird bats; offensive surges helped them win three of four games played.

“I’m pretty impressed by the way the team has started out the season,” said Redbird manager Ernie D’Alessandro. “We had the bats going for most of the week­ end and our pitching held up pret­ ty well.”

The Redbirds split Sunday afternoon’s doubleheader against cross-town rival Concordia.

In the midday game, McGill jumped all over struggling Stinger pitching in a 23-3 drubbing. The Redbirds scored at least twice in every one of the six innings in which they came to bat. Rookie Kabeer Burman went the distance to pick up the win for McGill.

Second-year catcher Clayton Pope got the ball rolling in the first with a two-out, bases-loaded double to give McGill a 3-0 lead.

Pope’s three hits, which inluded two homeruns and five runs batted in, placed him among a handful of Redbrid standouts on the after­ noon. F irst basem an C raig McFadzean, for example, went 4for-4 with a home run (his fourth of the weekend) and eight RBIs. The post-gam e celebration was sh o rt-liv ed as C oncordia pulled off an impressive come­ back 10-9 victory in the nightcap.

The 12 inning marathon featured everything from botched squeeze plays to manager ejections.

M cG ill looked to have its way after pounding C oncordia starter Paul Surette for seven runs

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in the first two innings to grab a 7-0 lead. Redbirds rookie Jason Katz had a relatively easier time retiring Stinger batters in the early stages of the contest.

Surette then settled down for the rest of the game, striking out a number of impatient Redbird bat­ ters with a variety of breaking pitches out of the strike zone. It proved important, especially after the Stinger offence chipped away to make the score 7-3 going into the seventh, the last regulation inning in a Quebec university league double-header.

After Katz failed to retire the first three batters of the inning, shortstop Brad Pelletier was sent in to close out the game. Stinger catcher P.D. Labre’s double to the gap drove in two, and he later scored on a ground out to tie the game.

C oncordia had several chances to break the game open.

They had the bases loaded with none out in the ninth, but a nifty p itch -o u t from P e lle tie r on a squeeze attempt helped in quelching the rally.

After Concordia took the lead in the top o f the 1 0 th inning, Drew Reid rocketed a pitch just to the right of the left-field foul pole, his second of the season.

Pelletier walked the first four batters in the 12 th to push home the go ahead run. McGill center fielder Dan Vexler then threw out a Concordia runner at home after a fly ball to get two outs. Vexler had kept the Redbirds in the game with several difficult warningtrack catches earlier in the game.

However, Concordia short­ stop Dan Nathan’s ensuing run­ scoring single to center proved to be the difference. McGill touched Concordia closer Vick Smyk in

the bottom of the inning for three hits, but could only manage a run on Cam Davies’ two-out single.

“We didn’t put them away when we should have,” explained D ’Alessandro. “I didn’t like the fact that our intensity dipped after we built that lead. Concordia’s a good team, we underestim ated thém at the end.”

Dom ination in Quebec City

The Redbirds swept a doubleheader the previous day at the University of Laval against last year’s champions, the Rouge et Or. The wins were all the more impressive considering they came against Laval’s top two pitchers, P atrice P lante and B ertrand Chabot.

Craig McFadzean and rookie Drew Reid powered the McGill offence in the first game, won 10 4. McFadzean had two home runs, and Reid hit the first pitch of the season he saw out of the park.

Geoff Pertsch pitched a complete game to pick up the victory.

Brad P e lle tie r’s tw o-run hom er in the top of the eighth proved to be the difference as McGill pulled out a 10-5 extra­ inning victory. Reid solidified his place as a two-way threat, work­ ing all eight innings for the win.

McFadzean hit another home run, while Cam Davies went 3-for-3.

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Redbirds looking to contend in '99 With the nucle,m m » m us of last year’s il W 1 division finalM ists back for another season in Q u eb ec’s four team university baseball con­ ference, the Redbirds are looking to improve on their performance.

Last year, they lost to Laval two gam es to one in the Q uebec league finals after posting an impressive 14-2 record in regular season play.

Coach Ernie D ’Alessandro believes his team has a good chance to end up at the Canadian In terco lleg iate B aseball Association’s finals, to be held in October in St. Catherines.

“We fully expect to win our division,” he said. “All the teams make the playoffs, which makes the regular season almost mean­ ingless, but we still want to finish first in the division and see what happens after that.”

Lakeshore teammates Drew R eid and Jason K atz w ill be counted upon as two of the team’s top rookies. S luggers C raig M cFadzean, Reid and C layton Pope will lead one of the league’s most potent batting orders, while shortstop Pat Gonsalves, second

baseman Danny Stober and center fielder Dan Vexler provide the team with superb defence up the middle.

As last weekend showed, the club’s Achilles heel may well be its lack o f p itch in g depth.

Following the graduation of sev­ eral key starters and a crushing injury to former ace Dave Carson, who blew his arm out early last season, the team has a shortage of relievers.

“Our offence is real strong and spread throughout the line­ up, but the fact that we don’t have a lot of relievers makes it a bit dif­ ficult for me to make moves” said D ’A lessan d ro . “ I think our strongest point is that we’ve got a good team chemistry, everybody’s got good baseball sense, and we really fight until the end.”

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