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M c G illx a m e e ts D is c o v e r y . c a Jay Ingram comes to McGill to discuss the ins and outs of sci­ ence in the Media B y Aaron Izenberg A room full of intent listeners got an earful last Saturday when Canadian TV and radio personality Jay Ingram cam e to the MacDonald Medical building to speak.

Known prim arily from his daily appearances on television as host o f @ D isco v ery .ca on the Discovery Channel, Ingram spoke about communicating science to the public.

M cG ill Student Pugwash hosted Ingram’s talk as part of a larger forum entitled Peanut Butter

C auses C an cer: S cien ce, M edia and Popular Delusions. Pugwash, a student organization that holds weekly meetings and larger events, focuses on the theme of the social implications of scientific and tech­ nological developments. The day’s events also included a set of work­ shops in the afternoon on effective methods o f communicating sc i­ ence.

Science on the tube Ingram began with a discus­ sion on the general public’s lack of scientific literacy. He argued that many topics in science are not well understood by the general public, and that one of the main causes for this deficiency lies in the methods that are usually used to deliver sci­ ence knowledge to common peo­ ple. To illustrate the point, Ingram used a recent study that showed that only five per cent of the gener­ al population can understand a sci­ ence article that appears in Time C o n tin u e d o n p a g e

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E le ctio n s M cG ill C h ief Returning O fficer Paul F lick er ruled early Monday evening on which Cold-Beverage-Agreement referendum question students will be asked.

Flicker decided to reject the co u n cil-in itia ted question that em erged from last T h u rsd ay’ s council meeting, as well to suspend a student initiated question which had been presented to Elections McGill first.

This left only SSMU council’s in itial question, presented two weeks ago, to be put forth to stu­ dents in the March voting period.

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dents is: “Do you authorize the Stu d en ts’ S o ciety o f M cG ill University to enter into a long-term campus-wide cold beverage agree­ ment?”

SSM U Presid ent Andrew Tischler was happy with the deci­ sion.

“The CRO has made his deci­ sion as an independent body, in the best interests of students according to the bylaws and the constitution...

[A]t end o f this process, students [now] have a... clear and unbiased question.”

Law co u n cilo r F ra n ço is Tanguay-Renaud argued that the rejected question was as good as council’s initial question.

“The ‘opposed’ question was as clea r as [the one that got approved]. The whole attitude [SSMU] has had is one of partisan­ ship. They say they are neutral...”

Tanguay-Renaud explained.

“What is important now is... that debate on the CBA takes place.

I hope SSM U understands this,” said Tanguay-Renaud.

Rejected questions Flicker applied two articles of the Students’ Society o f M cG ill University constitution in handing down his ruling.

Flicker explained that the con­ stitution requires “clear [and] con­ cise” referendum questions, ruling that the council and student group’s negotiated version was not clear and co n cise, and consequently rejected it. The negotiated ques­ tio n ’ s rejectio n left the student group’s initial question to be dealt with.

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“If we had two questions on similar issues yielding disparate results nothing would be resolved,” Flicker said. “Since the issue o f the day is the C BA and council has clear authority to deal with finan­ cial matters, the clearest results would be yielded by the councilinitiated question rather than with the philosophical question posed by the student initiated question.”

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CBA continued ••• C ontinued from Page 1 students had previously agreed on a question worded as follows: “Do you oppose the Students’ Society of M cGill University’s participa­ tion in a campus-wide exclusive Cold Beverage Agreement?”

This question replaced an ear­ lier submission by the group of stu­ dents which council did not agree with.

“W e both ag reed ... that it w asn ’ t bad faith happening between us, it wasn’t confronta­ tional,” said Tischler. “We went through three different negotiation sessions totaling about sixteen hours or less.”

Council ended up having to make a choice last week: to accept the question negotiated in conjunc­ tion with the student group, or to stick with a question council had previously decided upon. Council voted 12 to 5 for the acceptance of the negotiated question, with 4 abstentions.

At the time, not all councilors felt that the negotiated question was the best resolution. Still others expressed concern that a question phrased in the negative might result in an unclear response.

Tischler, who abstained during the vote, explained on his feelings about the resolution.

“If you look at it in terms of a political solution, [the negotiated question] seems to resolve a lot of issues, but if you look at it in terms of the question, I think it’s a poorer question than the one [council] passed unanimously last week...

“The people here on behalf of the [student] group said that [their] point [was] to stop the Cold B everage A greem ent,” he said, referring to the discussion which took place and led to the neogtiated question. “It’s not their major con­ cern to give the students a choice.”

Tanguay-Renaud responded to the allegation that the student-pro­ posed question was leading, explaining that co u n cil’ s initial question also had a wording which was leading.

“It is very beautiful that the Faculty Associations all voted in favour o f the stu d ent-initiated question... It’ s good that people have com e together behind one question so there can be a real debate,” Tanguay-Renaud said.

Voting fo r both the referen ­ dum qu estion an d the electio n s takes p lace on M arch 7-9. Advance p olls are February 26 and M arch 2.

McGill grant m oney subject o f HRDC audit B y Karen K elly Two M cGill research grants w ere im p lica ted in an audit released by the Federal Human Resources Department last week.

The audit included 459 dif­ ferent projects that were approved for funding during the last three years. Sixty-five were selected for a random on-site visit by inspec­ tors from H RD C last summer.

One o f the projects visited was an international exchange program run throught M cG ill’s Chemistry department.

D irecto r o f the U niversity Relations O ffice Kate W illiam s commented on last year’s visit.

“Apparently there was a rou­ tine check o f one o f [M cG ill’ s] p ro je c ts,” W illiam s explained. “[HRDC investigators] visited the C h em istry d ep a rtm e n t... [the department] gave them the docu­ ments and [HRDC] left. The next thing we knew was this [HRDC] thing this week.”

“T h e way [the a u d ito r’ s report] is phrased [suggests] that [McGill] was at fault. In fact we had all the documentation.”

The grant attracted attention because M cG ill reportedly only asked for $60,000 in funding but u ltim ately re ceiv ed $ 1 6 0 ,0 0 0 grant from H R D C . W illia m s explained that HRDC liked their proposal so much they decided to fund it with more than twice the amount requested.

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returned to the U niversity and acco rd in g to W illia m s, things seemed back to normal.

“They cam e back on [last] Monday and [left the impression] that ev e ry th in g was f in e ,” Williams explained.

Ian Butler, associate VP o f research in Graduate Studies, was left with the same impression of the Chemistry department grant.

“It has since b een cleared up,” B u tle r said o f that audit. “[H RDC] had lost some paper­ w ork... paperwork that showed that [the money] was approved.

As fa r as we are co n cern e d , everything is fine. In fact, we are applying for an extension for that program.”

The actual project, the EU Canada consortium, was based on a European project, the Erasmus Project. It is a student exchange between 8 Canadian universities and 22 European universities. The universities agreed to exchange 56 Science students over a period o f 3 years. So far 20 Canadians and 25 Europeans have gone and, according to W illiam s, approxi­ mately $70,000 have been spent.

The second M cG ill project being audited involves research into computer technology and its viability for instruction for the p ro fe ssio n a l d ev elo p m en t o f teachers in Nunavut.

B u tle r said the o ff ic ia l reports on the audit o f the second grant would not be released until

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Communication is key at the second Open Meeting B y N ema Etheridge

can’t debate it.”

T isch ler expounded on McPhee’s ideas by explaining that communication between the entire student body is essential and that SSM U does not intend to give a biased representation of the Cold Beverage Agreement.

“I t ’ s d efin itely not SSM U against students,” explained Tischler, “It’s so easy to put this as

strong opinions,” Matt Wyndowe, VP communications and events, said after the meeting. “It is a group of people who we see, but not possi­ bly as much as we should.”

Pleased with the meeting over­ all, Wyndowe was, however, con­ cerned with the amount of attention given to the CBA when other issues could be com m unicated in this open-house format.

Standing-room-only was the scene as roughly fifty concerned students poured into Shatner 302 last Wednesday to attend an open meeting hosted by the Students’ Society of McGill University.

The second o f its kind, this meeting gave students an opportuni­ ty to express their opinions to the executives of SSMU on all University issues including the Cold B everage Agreement, the privatization of McGill, and differential tuition.

The meeting began on a calm note with a welcome address from SSM U President Andrew Tischler, and a brief report on each executive’s current projects.

Student discounts on airfares, low-cost cafeteria meals, SSM U shuttle ser­ vices and a small-business start-up program were among some of the topics introduced to the student body. In addition, executives noted their progress on existing concerns, among them university renovations Nema Etheridge Cold beverages hot topic and the a ccessib ility of course evaluations — both of “The only problem that some­ ‘us against them.’ The fact of the which have seen a marked progress times we fall into is that we hit one matter is that we want the mandate since the last open meeting held in to be given by the students. It’s their issue and we talk about it the entire November. time. The only other thing that I’ve choice.”

He went on to explain that been thinking of doing is setting up CBA dominates SSMU was designed to communi­ forums like this with a specific topic meeting cate to the student body, and with — like having a CBA forum and the implementation of a referendum what not.”

The meeting took a decisive Tanguay-Renaud discussed the on the subject, SSM U would be turn once the floor opened for ques­ able to “enact whatever the students implications of the open discussion tions. The six-person executive was on the CBA. bombarded with an array of ques­ want.”

“Now they know that students With these thoughts in mind, tions and concerns regarding the the discussion on the CBA agree­ want to speak out about it, and Cold B everage Agreement. ment continued between the two we’re not just a small group of radi­ Exclusivity rights of Coca-Cola on groups and dominated most of the cal students,” said Tanguaycampus, as well as the company’s Renaud. “Now we have to get down reputation in the developing world meeting.

“I feel it very interesting to see to business.” were two topics of concern at the how many students have such meeting, but it was SSM U ’s han­ dling of the agreement since the beginning, with respect to student input, that generated the most criti­ cism from the audience.

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ASEF needs Clarification B y Kerri S nowdon An Arts Undergraduate Society work study program, approved last year in student referendum, has potential employers scratching their heads over unclear hiring practices and access to the program.

The program, the Arts Student Employment Fund, which draws on $6.50 per semester from each Arts student, was designed to create career-related jo b s within the Faculty of Arts. In return, AUS sub­ sidizes fifty percent of the wages for Arts students.

In an attempt to distribute the money equitably, a system was set up whereby seventy-five per cent is allotted to students in financial need and the remainder goes to students who do not meet the need require­ ment. The U niversity and the Faculty of Arts match the two funds respectively.

The fund-matching is intended to give an incentive to create more jobs.

Confusion over distribution Whereas the larger bracket, reserved for those in financial need, has been relatively successful in its inaugural year, confusion has sur­ rounded the sm aller group. The initial advertising brochure, sent to potential employers, was unclear as to w hether the 25 per cent bracket would be based on acade­ mic achievement.

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“The ASEF is for all students; the qualified student gets the job.

There are smart people on work study. The 75-25 [division] put a stigma on the students in the 75 per cent [who qualify for work study].”

Peralta admits a misunder­ standing in the way the funds were divided, stating that she read the advertising brochure written last year before she took office.

“The fund was not advertised properly,” she said.

Shaun Rein, Assistant Director for the Centre for East Asian Research, said that he cannot find the appropriate channels in which to hire students in this 25 per cent bracket. He is frustrated by the fact that he cannot seem to get any answers from either the AUS or Student Aid. “I have hired people who are part of the 75 per cent [who do meet this need-based requirement], which is fine, but I have students with 3.98 GPAs who are going into this field, but do not demonstrate financial need. I would like to hire [these] East Asian studies students, but I am not able. You can’t get access [to these monies] without financial need.”

Rein is also upset with the fact that the majority of the jobs are on a financial need basis. Since all the jobs are academically based, many of them involving research assistantships, he feels that more emphasis

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“The jo b s are academ ically based,” he said, “but hiring is based on financial need. I thought this was supposed to be an elite academ­ ic institution.”

Co-ordinator of McGill Student Aid Sandy Chopko argued that for a program in its first year, the ASEF is running smoothly. She stressed that it is too soon to tell how suc­ cessful the program is, but added that a similar program was imple­ mented in the Faculty of Science in 1994 and the Arts program will fol­ low suit over time.

“Tons of jobs were created for science students. Those jobs that were created and held by science students, even without the [subsidy] money, are still there and students fill them,” says Chopko.

“I have a feeling that there are about 100 jobs in Arts, but due to the nature of subsidies, I can’t report on anything final. The program is running and the AUS has set aside money already, but it is hard to give feedback since the program began in September 1999.”

Peralta stressed the need to clear up the confusion related to the new program. \ “Despite the opposition for the fund, in the future we can change things. It is the inaugural year, we need to set a precedent and get it up and running before we can tinker with the distribution. Some are quick to criticiz e it, but Rome wasn’t built in a day. [But] if the professors don’t get involved, we will miss funding from Arts.”

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B y J onathan C olford M ontreal-based F iberal Members of the National Assembly met with McGill administrators and student leaders on campus yesterday.

A fter meeting with M cG ill Principal Bernard Shapiro and taking a walking tour of campus, the MNAs sat down for lunch and a meeting with Students’ Society of McGill University representatives to discuss issues including provincial funding to education.

McGill university is underfund­ ed by $23 million according to the provincial government’s own fund­ ing formula, says Tradition and Innovation, M cG ill’ s discussion paper presented to the minister of Education. In addition to an increas­ ing student-teacher ratio, cutbacks to library funding and fewer, larger classes, out-of-province McGill stu­ dents are paying 106% more tuition than their Quebec counterparts.

In addressing such funding issues, Jacques-Cartier riding MNA Geoffrey Kelley prioritized reinvest­ ment in essential services over new spending. Funding education, according to Kelley, is part of the “essential mission of the state.”

“I think there’s a quite clear message from taxpayers today that before governments embark on any new programs or bailouts for hockey teams or anything else like this, it’s far more important to reinvest in... the essential mission of the state. I think the university is part and parcel of that essential mission. You’re penny-wise and pound-foolish if you make cutbacks today on the quality of the education.”

“There are huge issues that must be addressed as both govern­

ments move into a budgetary surplus position,” Kelley continued. "There is an important reinvestment that has to be done” Reinvestment in education is only one solution to the difficulties of replacing the soon-to-be-retiring baby-boomer workforce.

“The huge challenge I think that we see across our society of a job shift that’s coming up as the baby boomers start to retire. Half the pro­ fessors at McGill will retire in the next ten years...there are huge chal­ lenges to get our society ready for the changing of the guard. I think it’s very important that our universities can both furnish educated and cre­ ative minds for society in general...”

“It’s a huge challenge but it’s going to be an exciting one.”

One issue the Liberals are going to have to give serious thought to is their tuition policy, according to SSM U VP Community and Government A ffairs W ojtek Baraniak. In the last election, the party proposed indexing tuition to inflation, an idea which was extremely unpopular amongst stu­ dents.

“Where they’re going to run into problems is when they sit down and start formulating tuition policies next election,” Baraniak said. “They are going to have to sit and seriously think about whether they should go for the tuition freeze, which is what the Parti Québécois promised for the next four years.”

“They were absolutely ham­ mered [on the tuition policy],” he continued. “Students completely opposed that policy decision. So they’re are in a very very rough posi­ tion as far as students and educa­ tion.”

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Elections process demystified

U n it e d C o lo u r s s p a r k s o u t c r y Benetton ad campaign featuring death row inmates draws criticism

By Ambika Kumar T he C hronicle (D uke U.) ( U - W I R E ) DURHAM, N.C. — Benetton’s lat­ est advertising cam paign in the United States is raising more than a few eyebrows. The campaign, which blurs the line between social activism and advertising, features photographs o f 26 death row inmates and has drawn criticism from prison officials who claim Benetton misrepresented itself to obtain the pictures.

Company representatives said the photo essay is just the latest in a series of campaigns designed to raise social awareness, but correc­ tions o ffic ia ls in M issou ri, Kentucky and North Carolina claim lawyers for Benetton misled them when requesting access to inmates.

State officials are now discussing taking legal action against the com­ pany. North Carolina Correction Secretary Theodis Beck wrote a let­ ter to Benetton on February fourth explaining his concerns.

“At no time did the representa­ tives o f the Benetton campaign advise the D epartm ent o f Correction that inmate photos and inform ation would be part o f Benetton’ s commercial advertis­ ing,” he wrote.

He has requested that the com­ pany stop distributing the material they obtained in North Carolina prisons. Benetton officials, howev­ er, denied any wrongdoing, claim­ ing they informed officials of the project’s nature.

“In all the letters, it clearly mentioned that Benetton is the sponsor,” said Mark Major, director o f communications for Benetton USA. “I’ve heard of nobody being able to take any kind o f legal action, and I doubt they’ll be able to.”

In a preliminary letter dated July 14, 1999, Project Coordinator Julie Wasson did mention that the photographer for the project was sponsored by Benetton and even titled the letter “Benetton project.”

But Tracy Little, a spokesperson for the Department of Correction, pointed out that there had been no mention of “billboards, web sites or advertising associated with the Benetton name.

The decision to expand the campaign beyond the photo essay took place November 18, long after the interviews, said Speedy Rice, a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, which conducted much of

Benetton’ s original negotiations with officials.

A letter dated July 20 claimed that the compilation would take no stance on the death penalty and Major still argues that it did not.

Layout and interviews in Talk magazine are among the most con­ troversial. The supplement opens with the quote “I ’m not ready to die” spread out over two pages, and the remainder is filled with striking images of inmates and articles that suggest an anti-death penalty stance.

R ice says the articles are intended to “hum anize the inm ate.... If humanizing a death row inmate is considered a bias against the death penalty, it is another reason to consider why we have a punishment that we can only live with if the inmate is dehuman­ ized,” he wrote.

The compilation has sparked nation-wide debate between death penalty advocates and opponents.

Several family members of the vic­ tims of the pictured inmates have organized a February 16 protest in front of Benetton’s New York City corporate headquarters.

Although Dr. Joanne Wilson, a Duke gastroenterology professor whose deceased brother’s murderer is featured in the campaign, will not join the rally, she praised the protest and criticized Benetton.

“I applauded the efforts that they were taking to at least express more public outrage,” she said. “I was most dismayed that [Benetton] would use the suffering o f v ic­ tim s... and in m ates... to sell clothes.”

N onetheless, death penalty opponents have praised the cam­ paign.

“I think it’ s g re a t....[I]t’ s a really innovative idea,” said Kara M innix, president o f the North Carolina chapter of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty. By argu­ ing that the campaign has nothing to do with promoting its products, Benetton has raised larger ques­ tions about the definition of an ad and, consequently, the ethical foun­ dation of the campaign.

John Sweeney, a journalism professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the effort is clearly a publicity stunt, while also criticizing this tactic.

“The goal... is to have people throughout the world shocked at the images and to associate that shock and edginess with Benetton,” he said. “There’s a place where you cross the line into significant issues that are profound. Advertising has to watch its step th ere-[th e Benetton campaign] is not that sig­ nificant and not that profound.”

By Carolyn Kessel W ith stu­ dent election season afoot, students across campus will be heading to the polling station Elections to cast their votes.

The process of elections seems as mys­ terious as the ex isten ce o f a Siberian Yeti. When you hand over your student card to the polling sta­ tion clerks are they secretly check­ ing to find out whether you have paid your library fines?

Fear not, they are calling in to Elections McGill “command cen­ tral” where your student number is entered into a software program that confirms that neither you, nor your evil twin, have already cast your ballot.

The E lectio n s M cG ill team began making arrangem ents in January for the March 7-9 vote on the Students’ Society Executive, Board o f Governors, and various referenda. This four-person crew is entirely responsible for regulating and organizing the nominalist campaigning and election pr< dures for this coming election. The had their trial run this fall with First Year Council Committee el tion and now feel more prepared the big one next month. v \) “Last semester was a pra run for us,” said elections coord tor Ben Davies. “Nobody’ s really prepared though and sc thing always falls through at the 1 minute.”

Logistics are handled b ^ jh fc' staff of Elections M c G ill,1 consists of Chief Returning Officer Paul F licker, Deputy Returning Officer Brian Lack and Elections Coordinator Jo Morrow. The com­ mittee is responsible for the reserva­ tion of space on campus for all fif­ teen polling stations, as well as set­ ting up phone lines to each one.

According to Students’ Society of

McGill University constitution elec­ vote. As the results from each tion bylaw s, “For all e le c ­ tions and regular referenda, there shall be at least one polling sta­ tion convenient for each co n ­ stituent faculty and school.” The El ect i ons McGill commit­ tee also set up command ce n ­ tral, where votes w ill be orga­ nized and tallied in the basement o f the Shatner Building.

Philip Trippenbach Where the process is decided

P ro cess, process, process The first step for a candidate is to get the required number of signa­ tures in support of your candidacy, in other words, nominations. To qualify for an executive position one hundred signatures are needed.

Candidates are held to strict requirements wjhen it comes to camtjdng; Not1 ttsSments are ailowî campus, nor are radio broadcd public serv ice announces^ allowed^ jjad all campaign publjji must b^T)t( recycled paper. sure how we’re gè jie fact that each to regull of paper hii É,to be at least fiftfj percent recy$|d.’j $aid Davies.

C an d id a^ / are allowed/fo spend three hundred dollars and/no .more on campfiign expenses, 'hjul je Students’ Society if they garner TO percent of%?student vote.

Votes will be counted at com­ mand central in the basement of the Shatner building where four tables are set up with tour people to a table. One person will read aloud the individual ballots while the other three manually register each

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polling station are tallied the results are relayed to a scoreboard erected outside of Shatner’s Gerts.

Campaigning officially beings February TTjând/uns till March 6, however considering that most stu­ dents wi]J be cdT campus during reading^wéek, the season will last abdjiptweek and a half. Limited to a dttCi campaigning period, candi­ dates must therefore make the most of their allotted time.

“The worst aspect o f cam ­ paigning is that it bums people out and I see that taking its toll on peo­ ple all the time. They are making classroom speeches, they don’t have time to go to class, they are going twenty-four hours a day, trying to meet as many people as they can, while studying full-time,” says cur­ rent SSM U VP Operations Kevin McPhee. The successful candidate must possess certain qualities if he/she expects to be a winner this former candidate explains.

“You have to be dedicated, a half-assed effort won’t do it. You also have to have persistence, be organized with a good team of peo­ ple, be glowing with some sort of aura, excited, and pumped up on adrenaline and give it one hundred and fifty percent.”

Come write for the News section.

We have meet­ ings every Tuesday @ 5:30 in the T r ib u n e office (Shatner B01A) or call 3986789 and ask for Rhea, Karen, or Jonathan.

T he M cG ill T ribune, T uesday, 15 February 2000

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Africana Congress 2000 discusses future of program at McGill

By Stephanie Levitz and N ilima G ulrajani A surprise announcement at last w eek ’ s A frican a C ongress 2000 has given the African Studies Program at M cG ill reason to believe it will soon receive a new chair and an injection of funding.

The announcement by Dean of Arts Carmen M iller that African Studies is on the Faculty of Arts Alist for a program chair came as a surprise to m em bers o f the Africana Studies Committee, a stu­ dent group formed in 1994 to pre­ serve and improve the study o f Africa and the African diaspora at McGill. ASC was formed after the African Studies major was threat­ ened with the axe in 1994 due to U n iv ersity budget cuts. The A frican a C ongress 2 0 0 0 was a forum organised by the ASC to cel­ ebrate and critically re-evaluate 30 years o f A frican a Stud ies in Canada.

“We know that there may be some more funding, that the gov­ ernment may be reinvesting in the University,” said Audrey Sasson, a longstanding m em bers o f the Africana Studies Committee. “ASC has been an ensured that a chair for African Studies is on the A-list.”

According to Miller, however, being on the A-list does not mean that an infusion o f government funds w ill result in a chair for African Studies. Rather, A-list des­ ignations are top priority items for which funding is sought from pri­ vate sources only.

“The A-list includes things we can’t do with our operating funds

directly,” said Miller. “Our A-list includes a new building for the A rts F acu lty , and a number o f chairs including African Studies.

These are things we have targeted as important but this doesn’t mean we’ll get the funds easily. We have to go out and target our donations.”

S o licitin g private donors seems to be the next step to making a chair for African Studies a reali­ ty. A new chair requires approxi­ mately 1.5 million dollars.

Despite the prospect of a chair for A frican Stu d ies, Sasson nonetheless remains somewhat dis­ mayed about the condition of the African Studies Program at McGill.

She feels that a lack of will more than a lack of resources threatens the program.

“If there is new money, ASC will have to push to ensure Africa content is solid ified across the board. It’s also important to hire new profs too. [H ow ever], the administration lacks pride in the program...[I]t’s not really a ques­ tion of funding but a question of will and political investment in the program.”

“A chair is n ’ t n ecessarily going to ensure that the exclusion of Africa in the curriculum is going to be rectified. A chair can also be a token position. [ASC’s] real goal is to in filtrate and incorporate African content into learning at all levels.”

Africana Congress 2000 The C ongress provided a forum for approximately 200 par­ ticipants to discuss the status of African Studies in Canada. In addi­

tion, the Congress studied a pro­ posal prepared by the ASC regard­ ing the African Studies Program at McGill.

One of the main debates at the Congress revolved around whether African Studies should focus on the study o f the African continent or the study of the African diaspora, including the African-Am erican and African-Canadian communi­ ties. C urrently at M cG ill, the African Studies Program includes courses covering both continentspecific issues and diaspora-related m aterial. A ccord in g to Sasson however, this ‘mixed’ program is more the de facto result of a lack of course offerings at McGill.

“We are fighting for a compre­ hensive program at M cG ill,” said Sasson. “The reason the current program is on the diaspora and the continent is because there aren’t enough courses. [Advocates] o f African studies believe that it can help dispel myths and display what really goes on in A frica for the sake of knowledge. [At McGill] the focus now is on anthropology and underdevelopment o f Africa and not its complexities.”

A lthough no consensus emerged on the nature of the cur­ riculum, the dialogue the Congress generated seemed to be an accom­ plishment itself.

“There were a lot more ques­ tions than answers. But it provided an inspiration to keep pushing,” said Sasson. “[T]here was a sense that there was strong support among the community, that exter­ nal support had been garnered.”

McGill w restling team involved in car accident, one man dead

By Karen Kelly One man died as a result of a highway collision between a minivan and a sport-utility vehicle in New Brunswick last Friday night.

The minivan was full o f M cG ill wrestling team members on their Way to a com p etition in Fredericton.

The accident occured about 30 kilometres outside of Fredericton during deteriorating weather condi­ tions. The m en’ s and w om en’ s wrestling teams were on their way to a competition at the University of New Brunswick when they lost control of the minivan they were driving.

“There was snow, rain and extrem ely icy co n d itio n s,” explain ed M cG ill D irecto r o f Athletics Robert Dubeau, whose account of the incident was based on what the wrestling team mem­ bers and coach told him. “ [The minivan] went over a hill at this point... and they hit sheer ice. The vehicle went sideways a little bit and on the oncom ing side they were hit by another vehicle.”

25 year-o ld Joh n Edward M e lv ille , a corp oral out o f Gagetown, N.B. in the other car,

was killed in the crash.

Alex Smirnov was driving the m inivan when the c o llisio n occured. He was the most seriously injured McGill student, with a shat­ tered patella (kneecap). Smirnov went into surgery on Saturday night and Dubeau anticipated he would return from Fredericton on Tuesday or Wednesday. Dubeau also explained that arrangements had been made for Smirnov to see an orthopedic surgeon upon his return to the University.

Assistant coach Dave Chodat was riding in the minivan as well and suffered two cervical vertebrae fractures as a result of the impact, and is presently wearing a neck brace.

Melissa Wong of the women’s team was thrown from the minivan, still in her passenger seat and was later treated for cuts to her face.

She required 34 stitches and will later need plastic surgery.

K alem K achur was also thrown from the vehicle and suf­ fered damage to his hip and knee.

Nic Leipzig, Robert Roulston, Amy Delday and M ilv i T iisla r were also in the collision, but suf­ fered mostly minor injuries as a result.

Though Smirnov remained in Fredericton for further treatment, the University arranged for trans­ port back to Montreal for the rest of the team members early Sunday morning.

Dubeau could not give a defi­ nite answer when asked about seatbelts in the minivan and if all the students were using them.

“I do not know if everyone was wearing seatbelts... I have not spoken with everyone yet,” Dubeau said. “I do know for sure that two people who were wearing them were the two [in] the front two sea ts... It probably saved their lives.”

There were two team members not in the minivan. Paul Yuen and Erin Cawley were driving with coach Rick MacNeil and were not involved in the collision.

MacNeil would not comment on the details surrounding the acci­ dent.

Yuen and Cawley competed on Saturday morning at U N B, Yuen capturing a gold medal. Both w restlers q u alified for the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union championships.

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The Students' Society o f McGill University will be present­ ing a motion in Senate this Wednesday to designate this Friday.

February' 18, as a campus-wide day of protest over the provincial gov­ ernment’s underfunding of McGill.

The “whereas” clauses o f the motion cite several problems McGill faces due to a $23-million shortfall in provincial funding, including a severe difficulty in cop­ ing with the deterioration of M cG ill's physical infrastructure, lower salaries for all University employees, increases in studentteacher ratios. It accuses the provin­ cial government o f reneging on promises for substantial reinvest­ ment into education, “leadfing] only to irreparable damage to post-sec­ ondary education, M cG ill U niversity, and the future o f

Quebec society,” according to the text of the motion.

SSM U President Andrew^ Tischler said that the protest, the exact form o f which is as o f yet undecided, seeks to draw together students, faculty, and administra­ tors.

“We’re coming out as a com­ munity saying 'not only students at M cG ill, not only professors at McGill, not only the administration of McGill, the McGill community together recognizes in the face of this massive problem of the lack of responsibility of the Quebec gov­ ernment something has to be done.”

The goal of this day of protest “would demonstrate the results of this lack of funding and not re­ investing in universities and McGill,” according to the text of the motion.

D ip lô m e d e d r o it n o t a r ia l A la recherche d'une expérience u n iv ersitaire stim u lan te et en richissan te? L a F acu lté de d ro it de l'U niversité d e Sherbrooke sau ra répondre à vos attentes.

Le programme Le programme de diplôme de droit notarial de la Faculté de droit de l'Univer­ sité de Sherbrooke est un programme de 2ecycle con­ forme au protocole d'entente intervenu entre la Chambre des notaires du Québec et les facultés de droit. Le diplôme comprend 36 crédits de cours répartis sur deux trimestres. Les enseigne­ ments offerts assurent une solide formation dans les domaines traditionnels de la pratique du notariat : exa­ men des titres, contrats, successions, sûretés, droit corporatif, fiscalité, etc. Sou­ cieuse par ailleurs de répon­ dre aux besoins de nouveaux champs de pratique en émer­ gence, la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke a développé et intégré dans son programme de diplôme de droit notarial, de nou­ velles voies pour l’exercice de la profession de notaire : la prévention et le règlement des différends, de même que la réorganisation, la fusion, le financement et la fiscalité des sociétés. Ces choix qui carac­ térisent le programme ont été identifiés par plusieurs intervenants du monde juri­ dique et des affaires comme des secteurs d’avenir pour le notariat.

Conditions d'admission Grade de 1ercycle en droit reconnu à l’article 184 du Code des professions.

Bourses La Faculté de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke offre huit bourses de 1000 $ chacune attribuées à autant d’étudiantes ou d’étudiants qui s’inscriront au pro­ gramme de diplôme de droit notarial. Quatre seront décernées selon des critères d’excellence et quatre autres sont prévues pour aider financièrement les étu­ diantes ou les étudiants qui en démontreront le besoin.

Régime des études Régime régulier à temps complet et activités péda­ gogiques obligatoires.

Date limite du dépôt de la demande d'admission La date normale d’inscription à ce programme pour le trimestre d’automne est le 1er mars de chaque année.

Renseignements M' Lucie Laflamme, notaire Directrice du programme de Diplôme de droit notarial Faculté de droit Université de Sherbrooke Sherbrooke (Québec) J1K2R1 Téléphone : (819) 821-7518 Télécopieur: (819) 821-7578 Courriel : lucie.laflamme@droit.usherb.ca

Contenu actuel du programme Visitez notre site Internet : http://www.usherb.ca/droit

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T he M c G ill T ribune, T uesday, 15 February 2000

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EDITORIAL Great events and personalities in world history do reappear in one fash ­ ion or another—the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. — Karl Marx

Err w ith caution

By Eric O est and Sandon S hogilev Jo e rg H a id e r 's ris e to p o w e r in A u s t r ia is o n e th a t h a s b e e n m e t w ith a g re a t d e a l o f s k e p t ic is m . H is N a t io n a l F r e e d o m P a rty r e c e n t ly fo r m e d , a lo n g w ith th e t r a d it io n a l c o n s e r v a t iv e P e o p le 's P a rty , a c o a l i ­ t io n g o v e r n m e n t in A u s t r ia a fte r g a r n e r in g p e r c e n t o f th e p o p u la r v o te .

T h e r e a re th o s e w h o p o in t to h is a n t i-im m ig r a n t p o lic ie s a n d c o m ­ m e n ts p r a is in g th e e f f ic a c y o f N a z i e m p lo y m e n t p o lic ie s w h e n c r i t i c i z ­ in g h is p o lit ic a l id e o lo g ie s . O t h e r s , h o w e v e r , h a v e a r g u e d th a t t h is c r it ­ ic is m is s im p ly t h e re s u lt o f H a id e r 's d is r u p t io n o f th e sta tu s q u o , b o th o n a d o m e s t ic le v e l w ith r e s p e c t to A u s t r ia n P r o p o r z s y s te m o f p a rty p a tro n a g e a n d o n a n in t e r n a t io n a l le v e l in te rm s o f c o n f o r m in g to th e lib e r a l in t e r n a t io n a l s tru c tu re a d v o c a t e d b y th e E u r o p e a n U n io n .

In r e s p o n s e to t h is n e w ly fo r m e d c o a lit io n g o v e r n m e n t , th e E U h a s c e a s e d a ll d ip lo m a t ic re la t io n s w ith A u s t r ia . T h e s a m e h a s b e e n d o n e b y Is ra e l, th e U n it e d S tate s, a n d C a n a d a .

T h e q u e s tio n in tu rn a r is e s : a r e th e s e a c t io n s ju s t if ie d ? W h i le th e tru e a n s w e r c a n n o t y e t b e d is c e r n e d , it is n e c e s s a r y , n o n e t h e le s s , to q u ic k l y b r in g th e is s u e to th e a tte n tio n o f th e in t e r n a t io n a l c o m m u n it y to m in im iz e th e d a n g e r o f a llo w in g a n e x tr e m is t p a rty to r e m a in d o r ­ m a n t a n d g a in p u b lic s u p p o rt. G iv e n M r . H a id e r 's q u e s t io n a b le p a st, o n e c a n n o t d e t e r m in e w h e r e h is in t e n t io n s lie . H is s u p p o r t e r s ' a n t i­ im m ig r a n t s e n t im e n ts a re d ia m e t r ic a lly o p p o s e d to th e d e m o c r a t ic p lu ­ r a lis m t h e o r e t ic a lly u p h e ld b y th e E U . S im ila r ly , th e N a t io n a l F r e e d o m P a rty is in f a v o u r o f a s tro n g W e s t p h a lia n s y s te m o f s o v e r e ig n state s a n d p re fe rs a p a rt is a n a llia n c e w it h N A T O . T h e s e r e a lis t p o lit ic a l t e n ­ d e n c ie s r e v e a l t h e in h e r e n t p o t e n t ia l o f A u s t r ia b e c o m in g a n u lt r a ­ n a t io n a lis t state th a t is r e lu c t a n t to c o -o p e r a t e w ith th e E U .

F o r s o m e , h o w e v e r , th e re a l c o n c e r n lie s w ith H a id e r 's id e o lo g ic a l c o n n e c t io n s to N a z is m . T h e p o s t -W W I I b a c k la s h a g a in s t N a z is m th a t w a s p r e v a le n t in G e r m a n y w a s n o t p a r a lle le d in A u s t r ia : th e A u s t r ia n g o v e r n m e n t h a s n e v e r f o r m a l l y a p o lo g iz e d f o r a n y w r o n g d o in g .

A c c o r d in g l y , M r . H a id e r ' s a u d ie n c e is o n e th a t is p o t e n t ia lly m o r e r e c e p t iv e to f a s c is t r h e t o r ic a n d m a y b e m o r e r e a d ily p e r s u a d e d b y H a id e r 's c h a r is m a t ic p e r s o n a . T h e r e a re a ls o c la im s th a t M r . H a id e r h a s p u b lic a l ly p r a is e d th e S S in c lu d in g J o s e p h G o e b b e ls a n d fe e ls th a t it is a p p r o p r ia t e to h o n o u r t h e m a s h e ro e s o f th e S e c o n d W o r ld W a r .

It is u n c l e a r , h o w e v e r , h o w s u b s t a n t ia l t h e s e a f o r e m e n t io n e d c la im s a re . F o llo w in g th e f o r m a t io n o f th e c o a lit io n g o v e r n m e n t , th e

S to p th e p ress D

In the M cGill Reporter's, last (issue no.9) “Slice of life” we heard some newly nom inated deans together with higher university offi­ cials talk about their opinions and reflections concerning the Alma Mater leadership. Mr. M cCabe’s “L esson s in L ead ersh ip” (www.mcgill.ca/media/reporter/09/1 eadership/) represents an ideal reportage with two levels, the first giving the authorities’ views and some personal details, the second giving us a basis from which we can reconstruct the rulers’ leader­ ship profile. The author’s approach encouraged openness and elicited the leaders’ views on their respon­ sibilities, hard work and skills in understanding others or predicting future developments.

Thus the top administration answered two “taboo” questions: “Why doesn’t our university have a democratic election?” and “Why are our leaders paid up to 5-6 more than professors?” These questions have long been wandering around not only under university’s roofs decrepit but also between many sneaky privatization projects and controversial Pepsi vs. Coke con­ tracts.

A very straightforward answer to those questions is provided by Mr. R. Rosenzweig, a natural guru o f our “American thinking” top lead ers, who says: “ ...to see requirements for these jobs as being the talents that superior lawyers had — rule-making, negotiating, poli­ ticking.”

Here we can see the Canadian example of the Third World way of

N a t io n a l F r e e d o m P a rty h a s state d th a t t h e y a r e s t r o n g ly c o m m it t e d to p r o v id in g r e p a r a t io n s f o r t h o s e w h o w e r e e n s la v e d

e m a n d in g h e a l t h y c o m p e t it io n

p h o b ic la w s h a v e b e e n im p o s e d a n d t a lk s h a v e b e g u n r e g a r d in g th e e s t a b lis h m e n t o f s e p a ra te S lo v e n ia n s c h o o ls — a n in d ic a t io n o f H a id e r 's

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T h u s t h e r e s e e m s to b e a t e n s io n b e t w e e n w h a t p e o p le t h in k H a id e r w ill d o a n d w h a t h e h a s a c t u a lly d o n e . S o m e , lik e N a z i h u n te r S im o n W e is e n t h a l, b e lie v e th a t H a id e r 's c o n v ic t io n s h a v e m o r e to d o w it h r ig h t -w in g c o n s e r v a t is m t h a n w it h b la t a n t N a z is m . A s a re s u lt, m a n y fe e l th e re s p o n s e to H a id e r a ls o h a s m o re to d o w it h c o n c e r n s a b o u t t h e im p a c t o f h is r ig h t w in g c o n s e r v a t is m

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A u s t r ia n g o v e r n m e n t th a n h is p u rp o rte d tie s to N a z is m .

S in c e th e e n d o f W W I I , c o u n t r ie s in W e s t e r n E u r o p e h a v e b e e n

Here is a big “Oh Hell Yeah!” to Mr. Makan for reminding every­ one about the real dangers of ter­ rorism and intolerance (Letter, “Terrorism is real”, issue 19). It is nice to see that someone has a pair regarding this issue.

g o v e r n e d b y t w o -p a r t y s y s t e m s w it h s o c i a li s t s a n d c o n s e r v a t iv e s e x c h a n g in g p o w e r o n a r e g u la r b a s is . T h e N a t io n a l F r e e d o m P a rty r e p ­

Thank you,

re se n ts a th re a t to t h is b a la n c e o f p o w e r a n d , c o n s e q u e n t ly , it h a s b e e n m e t w ith o p p o s it io n fro m b o th s id e s . T h e d if f ic u lt y o f ju d g in g H a id e r is

— Jose-P ierre Fernandez

t h u s a p p a re n t , a lt h o u g h it is im p o r t a n t to le v y a th o r o u g h c r it ic is m o f

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th e m a n 's p o lic ie s to a v o id fu tu re c o n f lic t e s c a la t io n . W e m u s t, h o w e v ­ e r, m a k e s u re th a t t h is c r it ic is m is b o rn fro m a c o n c e r n a b o u t h u m a n rig h ts ra th e r th a n th e s p e c ia l in te re sts o f th e p o lit ic a l e s t a b lis h m e n t .

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Americanization, where everything extreme in the States is uncritically copied. It looks as though our noisy people on the margin of the educa­ tional establishment like all the privileges (the boards of trustees nom ination and their salaries), while treating the tax-paid universi­ ty as if it already were a private operation. It seems they’ve forgot­ ten about the numerous state uni­ versities which not only provide excellent education, but are also more affordable. Only through a perspective of their existence we should look at only a few extremely good private universities and notice a low-level majority on the private universities market.

So, if in our financially trou­ bled reality, somebody from our peculiar fin an cial and political spheres wants to steal our best uni­ versities with shallow arguments, we must quickly find a healthier strategy for improving our academ­ ic education.

First, Canadian universities should be ranked according to edu­ cation and research quality. Next, some u niversities from the top should receive full support from provincial/federal budgets so that they can keep tuition down. Only after this process should other uni­ versities be allowed to privatize in A m erican or indeed any other ways. We must avoid the classic situation from former Communist countries, which were also plagued with networked influential people who were called apparatchiks and who are now turning into global­ ized businessmen. Those people

were also fond o f privatization.

Unfortunately they targeted only the best performing companies at first, which should have been left alone as profitable for society as whole.

We should not be afraid of the privatization of some Canadian uni­ versities, as long as we start with those with the worst educational performance. That should be chal­ lenging for visionary investors and “rule-making, negotiating, politick­ ing superior lawyers...” who were only chosen for the top university jobs. Probably some of our leaders should be exported to those schools.

Our M cG ill, which has dropped in ranking for the last cou­ ple of years, should demand healthy competition among other universi­ ties. This sort o f rivalry is also needed inside our own structures, which are petrified and plagued by parasites. We must hurry to be the first provincial or federal university with full financial support........This idea has a big chance of developing a creative battle o f wills among provinces to have at least one or two of the best universities, which will promote wisdom over the poli­ tics. So, why not go further and after winning a status o f the best Quebec university not to propose: "Vive M cGill!" as replacement of “Je me souviens”? Let us remember that the best d efense is being aggressive.

— Slavek Poplawski

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In this issue o f the Tribune, there should be an advertisement pointing important concerns about Cold Beverage Agreement. This is part o f a campaign by the PostGraduate Students’ Society that was initiated by a unanimous vote of the PGSS Council on a motion that I brought forward. It has come to my attention that as of last Thursday the executive of the SSMU were likely aware of the contents of this adver­ tisement. I am not writing to discuss the arguments, or lack thereof, that each side has concerning the CBA. I am asking how the SSMU executive could have known the contents of the P G S S ’ s advertisem ent last Thursday even though it was not

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published until today. Is it normal practice for the Tribune to screen political advertisements through the SSMU executive? I understand that the Tribune is the ‘SSMU paper’ , but this sort of thing reeks of corrup­ tion. Recently, the SSMU president has harshly criticized the journalistic integrity of the M cG ill D aily for publishing information that was leaked by a McGill Senator; some­ thing they had a fundamental right to do. Before throwing stones, I sug­ gest that the SSMU president may want to exam ine his own glass house.

— Damian G. W heeler

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Myths and misunderstandings seem to be rampant around cam­ pus these days. Importantly, I ’d like to dispel a couple. First of all, neither I nor the BSN as far as I know believe that the Tribune is racist. If anything the controversy was centred more around the racial im plications o f the Crumb car­ toon. Admittedly, I did accuse the en tire T ribu n e s ta ff o f ra cia l insensitivity and that was unfair. I take this occasion to retract the rash statement and issue an apolo­

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In the ultimate breakdown, too many people were hurt despite the measures Editor-in-chief Paul Conner and I have since taken to establish healthier links between the organizations we represent.

Much o f this has to do with the issue o f sensational journalism .

Close examination o f the original Daily article reveals that no one in story actually accused the Tribune of racism. Why then the sensation­ al title? (“M cGill Tribune Accused o f Racism ”) I am not convinced that it is helpful when dealing with delicate issues to carry them with such sensationalist or scandalous tactics. Such hypersensitive topics with deep rooted historical lega­ cies require accuracy, nothing less.

The headline was particularly dis­ appointing considering the sincere value I have for the D aily as an institution. Enough said.

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the trust between the Tribune and the BSN is the only constructive solution. In this regard, it is com­ m endable that the T ribu n e has made moves to improve upon its editorial review policy to include the posters within the rigorous routine it uses before publishing articles. Particularly, the whole editorial board will discuss posters to ensure they are reaching their goals through their content.

At the same tim e, clea rer communication links between the institutions are being encouraged to deal with the issue o f inade­ quate coverage not only o f the B la ck community but all other minority groups on campus. My point: when talking about serious issues like race, real people with real histories are getting hurt. Let's all learn how deal these topics positively, without blowing things out of proportion and deteriorating a potential crisis. On that note I'd like conclude by inviting anybody and everybody who's interested to submit their ideas on relations can be improved between the Tribune and not only B SN but all clubs and services at bsn@canada.com or tribune@ssmu.mcgill.ca — Akinwunmi Alaga P olitical Coordinator B lack Student Network

Many people say that the one thing that distinguishes humans from other animals is language. For some reason, and scientists still haven’t worked this out, primate DNA hiccuped and produced homo sapiens - talking apes.

I am not here to give an account of the evolutionary biology of language. I am, however, inter­ ested in making an observation about something that appears to have co-evolved with language: the instinct to harass and criticize peo­ ple about the way they talk.

In the university set­ ting in which most of'us find o u rselves, this instinct tends to manifest itself as the idea that there is “good” or “proper” grammar, and that devia­ tions from this norm equal devia­ tions from general intelligence. To put it more concretely, imagine reading a paper or book that con­ tained words like “ain’t” and gram­ m atical “errors” such as double negatives. Provided these “errors” w eren’ t there for rh eto rical or comedic effect, we would hastily conclude that the author is “poorly educated” and, consequently, prob­ ably just plain stupid.

I am here to make the radical suggestion that what we call bad grammar is no worse (or better) than what we call good grammar.

Think about it: When we refer to “good” grammar, we usually are usually referring to an agreed upon standard. But what’s the definition of a standard dialect of a language?

It’s the dialect of whomever is in power in society. Thus in North A m erica, w hite, m idd le-class

English is the standard. This is sim­ ple sociology that can’t be argued with - it’s a demonstrable fact. But the crucial conclusion that must be drawn is that in any given society, then, the standard language is always going to be a sociological artifact, not a linguistic one. There is nothing inherently “better” or more “correct” about one dialect as opposed to another.

The idea of what is “correct” in English dates back to 1762 when Bishop Robert Lowth wrote a book

French and Italian illogical, does one?) Lowth’s book was popular with the elite, presumably because it gave them a way to distinguish themselves from the common folk, and consequently, more such pre­ scriptive grammars were written, giving rise to such classic rules as “it’s I” and not the “incorrect” “it’s m e” , and “bigger than h e” as opposed to “bigger than him.”

Thus this is the tradition we have inherited: “education” con­ sists o f forcing people to make non-meaningful changes in their language so that they no longer speak like T a le s of the rid icu lo u s most native speakers of that language.

J a s o n M c D e v itt P arad o x ically , the pedants that en fo rce these grammatical norms - educators, editors, etc.called A S h ort In trod u ction to don’ t necessarily know anything E n glish G ram m ar with C ritical about language per se, as much as Notes. Bishop Lowth decided that they happen to work with language certain aspects of current English in their jobs. Professional linguists were “wrong”, even though every­ have long recognized what I am one used them. He based his ideas trying to get across here: no lan­ o f what should be “co rrect” in guage is better or more complex English on Latin, the language of than any other, and no dialect of the educated m inority and the any one language is more logical or Church. Thus he decreed that, since better suited to communicating you don’t say “I don’t have none” important ideas than any other. in Latin, that we could not longer So, please, remember all this. say it in English (even though that And the next time some arrogant, was the standard, and that it was anal, ass-head professor or TA tells “illogical” because “two negatives you that your paper’ s arguments make a positive”. (Lowth apparent­ would be a lot stronger i f you ly chose to disregard the fact that in didn’t end sentences with preposi­ all the Romance languages - the tions or split infinitives, look them modem day descendants o f Latinstraight in the eye and tell ‘em it ain’t necessarily so. such double negation is not only allowed but obligatory. But one doesn’t hear those embittered old C om m ents? S u g g estion s?

English teachers who wield the “no jm cdev @ po-box. megill, ca double negatives” stick calling

S lo w new s d a y c a ta p u lts SSM U H a n d b o o k to in fa m y Last Wednesday Chris awoke, as usual, to the sound of Le D evoir hitting his doorstep. Nothing like the news of the world and a skim milk latté to start the day. So you can im agine his surprise, then, when news o f the Stanstead hijack­ ing was bumped to middle-of-thepaper obscurity to make room on the front page for a piece entitled “Des propos salaces et sexistes dans l ’agenda étudiant de McGill.”

Jaw agape, Chris watched as his friendly letter carrier bounded up the stairs and handed him his usual parcel o f correspondence.

Among the letters was the speci­ men you see here, a splenetic dis­ patch from an old human resources blunder o f ours, one Dwayne Williams. We were working on the Handbook in question one steamy June night, and cabin fever had

Above: Page 1o f Mr. Williams' most recent letter. Inset: Dwayne Williams.

most definitely set in. So when this vulgar young turk named Williams mailed us his unsolicited thoughts about a certain downtown bar, the verdict was unanimous: start the presses! (Consult page 123 of your SSMU H an d book for his testimonial).

Jeezum Crow, the buf­ foon is barely lite ra te !

That's the last time we hire an intern from R obert F. Kennedy High. But perhaps we're being a little too hard on Dwayne. After all, he’s a fictional character, a hapless composite of rude, drunken tourists sighted in or around M ontreal nightsp ots.

Dwayne is a Plattsburgh boy, born and bred, but he could just as easily be any out-of-province long week­ ender. In the SSMU H an d book, released last August, he lives a lonely life as a transparent ves­ sel for an old fallacy— namely, the myth that M ontreal is a year-round Mardi Gras where the gutters run honey-brown with the spilt b eer o f the wicked.

Fast forward six months.

Le Devoir scribe Marie-Andrée Chouinard is delivered a SSMU H andbook by her own personal Deep Throat, who also tips her off that Dwayne Williams might be less than he seems. Armed with this revelation, she gets on the horn with five people who had nothing to do with the handbook's production. Two

m em bers of the M cG ill Administration wash their hands of the whole affair, but go on record against vulgarity. Bernard Shapiro declines comment. Two student politicians plead misunderstanding,

T h e S ly C h ise le r ( w it h M r. R a d o n J e a n s )

C h ris S e lle y & S e a n Jo rd a n one o f whom we are saddened to learn had not read the entire book b efo re it went to press. Ju lie n L ap lan te, ed itor o f L e D élit Lrançais, frets that out-of-province students use the handbook— and the handbook only— to inform their opinions about Quebec politicians.

Meanwhile, we were at home lamenting that no one ever calls.

Back to the allegations of sex­ ism. T h ere’s a K ids in the H all sketch about terriers, in which three young women appear out o f nowhere. “Excuse me, ladies,” says an apologetic Bruce McCullough.

“You 're scantily clad and have nothing to do with the narrative.

Therefore, it's sexist. Sorry.” To compare: the ladies in Dwayne’ s sketch have everything to do with the narrative, and they emerge, vic­ torious and unmolested, from their unfortunate en counter with Dwayne. They are the level-headed ironic device that makes him look the fool. In addition to being a drunk and a true vulgarian,

Dwayne is a sexist pig. That said, the body of the world’s fiction con­ tains much worse. Do you have any idea what kinds o f things Philip R o th ’ s ch aracters say about women? Let’s just say they make Dwayne look like Bruce Cockburn.

As for Ms. C hou inard ’ s other allegations, we’re left rubbing our eyes in wonderment. To wit: that we, in the bar & restaurant review section, consider the lan­ guage of the majority a deciding factor in avoiding a night club. We only ask that interested parties read som e o f our over 5 0 0 capsule reviews and hope that they will agree that the polar opposite is in fact the case. The pure insanity of the accusation prevents us from adequately defending ourselves in the space allotted. Thankfully, her a rtic le , with its w him pering finale— “I understand that people could m isinterpret certain s e c ­ tions”— writes itself out o f exis­ tence.

Indeed, Ms. Chouinard suc­ ceeded most in depicting the hand­ book as an endless litany of vague­ ly subversive cursing, which is in itself a story so utterly insignificant that the rest o f the Quebec and Canadian media wisely ignored it.

Meanwhile, back on the farm, the S S M U receiv ed no com plaints regarding the handbook in the months prior to Le D evoir's big

scoop.

For all our insidious linguistic agitprop and devastating put-downs o f Quebec p o litician s, Dwayne appears to have scandalized the most. His vignette was part o f a shameless knockoff of online mag­ azine The Onion's infinitely more skilful (and ribald) parodies of the point/counterpoint convention. The American mainstream media, erst­ while known for its blushing prud­ ery, seems willing to overlook the odd cuss-word and wildly offensive headline in order to gush its enthu­ siasm for The Onion. We would expect nothing less of the presum­ ably more liberal Canadian media.

So, as the trees said to the lumber­ ja ck s, w e’re stumped as to why we’re front-page news. It's almost as though Le D evoir has a hidden agenda, a different set of criteria by which they judge what is newswor­ thy. That also might be what has thus far kept our concerned response— considerably more sin­ cere and polite than this one— from being printed in Le D evoir's letters page. Puzzling, no?

Sean Jord an is fin ish in g his studies and sells sex toys on the in tern et in o rd er to m ake en ds m eet. H e stron g ly su p p orts in stallin g a “sw ea r j a r ” in the Tribune office.

Chris Selley has a respectable internet job.

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Collectanea — compiled by R ebecca Catching W ith the d o m in a n ce o f sta p le fo o d s such as co rn , flo u r, m ilk and b e e f in our diet, we often forg et that humans have trad itionally eaten alm ost ev ery ­ th in g in t h e ir s u r r o u n d in g s .

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D e v io u s D u r ia n T h is u n u su al lo o k in g fr u it w ith its o v a l shape and c o n ic a l sp in es lo o k s lik e a creatio n o f the cu bist m ovem ent and its reputation is no less co n tro v er­ s ia l. T h is n a tiv e o f So u th E a s t A sia has been reported to have an atrocious

sm ell during its ripen in g. T h is o ffe n ­ s iv e o d o u r h a s b e e n c o m p a r e d to sew age, stale onions and ch eese. This p a r t ic u l a r g r o w in g p a in in th e D u r ia n ’ s li f e has m ad e it il le g a l to b rin g D u r ia n s on p u b lic b u s s e s in In d o n e s ia . T h e D u ria n a ls o w rea k s havoc in its grow ing stage when it is not uncom m on fo r the fru it to plum ­ met from a branch and k ill an unsus­ pecting passer by. During its two days o f r ip e n in g , th e d u r ia n is s a id to b e c o m e s l ig h t ly a l c o h o l i c and th e Jav an ese believ e it to be an aphrod isi­ a c . T h e f le s h o f th e f r u it h a s b ee n lik en ed to a rich b u tter lik e cu stard , with hints o f alm ond s, cream ch e ese , onion sauce and brown sherry.

S tin k H o rn A nother fragrant food is the stink horn m u sh ro o m o r p h a llu s im p u d ic u s (s h a m e le s s p h a llu s ). T h e m u sh room g ets its E n g lish nam e from the sm ell o f ro ttin g c a rrio n w h ich , it em its to a t t r a c t f l i e s in o r d e r to s p re a d its spores. The stinkhorn is sold in a dried form in m a rk ets in C h in a and Hong K ong. A re la tiv e o f C h a rle s D arw in , nam ed A unt E tty , w as an avid stin k horn fa n and w as ru m ou red to hunt stin k h o rn s in the fo r e s t, sn iffin g out her prey.

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D ear S&M, This is my fir s t y ea r at M cGill and my first time living in a big city. I com e from a sm all town w here no one locks their doors and where everyone knows each other. Here's the thing, I have heard a lot o f rumors about sexual assault occurring in big cities. I'm a little sca red that I m ight get attacked. Is there anything I can do to p re­ vent this from happening, or at least m ake mys e lf fe e l a little more com fortable?

Signed W orried A i

Dear Worried, In order to answer your question to the best o f our knowledge, we picked up the "Sexual Assault" pamphlet which is put out by the Montreal Health Press. There are sev­ eral things that you can do to help prevent sexual assault. But before we address that there is one thing that you should always remember: sexual assault is NEVER the vic­ tim's fault.

First, it is important to keep in mind that about 80 per cent of all sexual assault crimes are committed by someone known to the vic­ tim. Obviously, we don't intend to imply that you should fear all o f your friends and acquaintances, but that more than likely, should something bad happen, it will be with someone you know.

Keeping this in mind, one o f the best things you can do is to pay close attention to how you feel and to act on those feelings. If

you are ever uncomfortable in a situation, leave. "... [I]t always better to terminate an uncomfortable meeting rather than to wait and have your fears confirmed." You don't owe anyone any excuses and your comfort should be the priority.

In order to make sure you can leave an uncomfortable situation easily, it is a good idea to carry "mad money" around with you in case you want to grab a cab home.

Another precaution to take it that if you are meeting someone that you do not know very well, try to meet with them in a public place.

This allows you to leave easily if you do feel unnerved and also provides a pretty safe atmosphere because other people are around.

One thing you could do to feel more com fortable in general is to take a selfdefense class. Concordia usually offers one every semester, so you could try to sign up for one there. The class focuses on empower­ ing women and gives women resources to try to prevent sexual assault. A friend of ours took the one at Concordia and she loved it.

Worried, try to not worry. Although sex­ ual assault is a threat, it is important to real­ ize that enjoying the experience of living in a big city does not have to be limited, and meeting new people can be an exhilarating experience. Do everything you can to prevent sexual assault but ultimately, don't let the threat of sexual assault stop you from being who you are and doing what you want to do.

S o u rce: "Sexual A ssau lt" M on treal Health Press. Got a question? I f so, e-m ail S&M at m lazar@ po-box.m cgill.ca

Though we often only think o f oxtails or lo b ster tails as tails we would co n ­ sider eatin g, humans have been in ter­ ested in m any d iffe re n t kinds o f a n i­ mal ta ils. T h ere are recip es fo r c ra y ­ fish ta il, k an g aro o ta ils , b e a v er ta ils (n ot the kind they sell at W interlud e) lam b ta ils and pig ta ils . L a m b ta ils used to be av ailab le in European sheep farm in g com m u n ities at certain tim es o f year when the tails would be lobbed o ff the live anim al. At o cca sio n s such as pig roasts, pig tails were cooked in an o v en and g iv e n to c h ild r e n as a “crunchy sn a ck .”

J im m y is a F ig p e c k e r !

A m n o t!

Though this sounds like a playground taunt, this bird a ctu a lly co n sid ered a d e lic a c y in So u th Ita ly and C yp ru s.

T h e w ee l i t t l e b ird n a m ed f o r its appetite fo r fig s has been a fav ou rite since m edieval tim es. The bird is eaten w hole and is o ften sold in lo c a l g ro ­ cery stores, preserved in ja rs o f v in e­ gar.

B u r n t to a c r is p — C u lin a r y a s h e s F o o d is o ft e n f la v o u r e d w ith th e sm oke o f d iffe re n t kinds o f ch a rco a l but N ativ e A m erica n s h av e, fo r c e n ­ tu ries, added d iffere n t kinds o f wood a sh d ir e c t ly to t h e ir d is h e s . T h e C r e e k s and S e m in o le s u se h ic k o r y w hile the Navahos use ju n ip er to pro­ duce a powder, which is often used in

The fragrant and phallic Stinkhorn

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broths. The Hopis often use d ifferent m a te ria ls su ch a s v in e s, p o d s, c o r n ­ c o b s and th e fo u r-w in g e d s a ltb u s h .

The ashes raise the m ineral content o f the food but also contribu te to its a es­ th e tic q u a litie s . W hen co o k in g w ith blue corn m eal, the H opis exp erien ced p ro b lem s w ith b lu e co rn m e a l, w hich tu rned p in k w hen h ea ted . T h e a sh es fro m the fo u r-w in g e d sa ltb u sh w ere a d de d to p r e s e r v e t h e b l u e c o l o u r which, has spiritual value for the tribe.

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Howto love your summer: finding the rightjob B y S h ir l e e E n g e l

It’s at the back of your head and it bothers you like that brim­ ming pile of dishes in your sink that keeps growing as midterms hit you one by one. But how to make time for it when you have to find an apartment, write exams and plan your reading week all at the same tim e, though, is the question.

Finding a summer job is not easy. Sure, you could always work for your dad or go back to your community summer camp.

But there are a wide variety of opportunities available, from showing kids around the United States or Europe to simultaneous­ ly traveling and working or mak­ ing up your own job. You may not realize it, but there are a plethora of off-the-wall, exciting jobs out there to be had.

You’re probably waiting for the punch line. But unless you consider time and effort a catch, read on for some useful informa­ tion on how to snag that perfect summer job.

According to McGill Career and Placement Services, less than 20 per cent of today’s employers post their summer openings. That being said, finding the ideal job may seem daunting and unlikely.

Remember, though, that a decent summer job provides you with

income to finance your studies while increasing your chances of getting employed when you grad­ uate. It can also serve as a great way to relax after a long and hard year of classes.

“Right now it looks as though I will be working as a tour guide in New York City,” says U1 political science student Dia Dabby, who applied for a job with Educators, a company that takes 10-18 year-olds on tour along the East Coast. She explained that the McGill CAPS website was her source of infor­ mation, adding that she checks the job postings regularly throughout the year.

“I only have camp experi­ ence on my CV,” says Dabby, who said she wanted to try a dif­ ferent setting this summer. “I think that it’s great but without other experience it makes it hard to break into other fields.”

Many former camp employ­ ees are eager to make the transi­ tion to other kinds of work. But according to Youth Employment Services career counselor Susan Molnar, camp jobs can provide important skills and are a good addition to a resumé. YES is a non-profit organization created to provide programs and services to help young English-speakers equip themselves for the competi­ tive Quebec job market.

“Camp counseling provides you with many transferable skills,” she said.

She mentioned public service and effective crisis management as some of the marketable skills that camp counselors develop.

Molnar has some ideas for creative summer jobs that won’t merely fill voids in the market.

She says that creating your own job is great if you have a prof­ itable ability, such as dog walking/grooming, selling a product, or her own idea- an adaptation of counseling that she calls “child care with a twist.”

“Child care is a needed ser­ vice,” she says. “If you combine it with a talent such as tutoring or teaching a special skill, it could make for a great summer job.”

For those who would rather not take the entrepreneurial road, Molner suggests that the best way to start is to target a specific place of interest and simply approach employer in person.

“Start off in your home city, and find the best paying jobs,” she said. “For the most part, you have to decide what it is that you really want to do, then revamp your CV in such a way that your employment experience is rele­ vant to what you want to be doing.” She says that some things to consider are your passions, degree, major and possible career

aspirations.

According to the brochure “looking for a summer job” dis­ tributed by McGill CAPS, degree-related jobs tend not to be posted and the majority are found through netw orking. This involves meeting people and let-ting them know about your skills and interests.

“The best way to get a good summer job is to know someone,” says Philip Trippenbach, a sec­ ond-year international develop­ ment studies student. “If your uncle is photography editor for the National Geographic, guess what? He could probably land you with a cool internship.”

Trippenbach, who doesn’t have any major connections him­ self, says that he has “a couple of options in mind” but has not yet finalized his summer plans. The top job on his list would involve collecting pinecones for a biodi­ versity company in Lake Placid.

“Spending 10 weeks in the woods for $250 a week sounds like a great deal to me,” he says.

Jobs in the great outdoors are extremely popular. Tree planting can be a very rewarding experi­ ence, paying up to $200 a day and serving as a great way to see Canada.

But for those who prefer to sidestep the soil and travel instead, there are several options

McGill researchers to develop genetic test for cancer B y A r ia n a M u r a t a

A simple blood test could soon determine your chances of getting cancer, reports a study spearheaded by M cGill researchers.

“The key to curing cancer is early d e te c tio n ,” says Greg Matlashewski, recently appoint­ ed chair and associate professor of microbiology and immunolo­ gy at McGill. “It might be possi­ ble in the future to tell from DNA obtained from a blood sample or even from a mouth scraping whether you are suscep­ tible to cancer.”

Along with Eduardo Franco, professor of epidemiology and oncology, M atlashew ski is studying the cell protein p53.

When cells are infected by virus­ es, p53 in some cases will cause the cell to “commit suicide” in a process known as apoptosis.

Apoptosis is done in an effort to keep other cells from becoming infected.

A virus such as human papilloma virus, however, can produce a gene product that can interfere with cell apoptotic m echanism s, resulting in the uncontrollable replication and

multiplication of cells. The end result, in some instances, is can­ cer.

An earlier study in London, England found that some p53 DNA sequences were found more often in cancer patients.

Matlashewski and Franco will be using data collected from cervi­ cal cancer patients in Brazil to confirm these results.

In Canada, there are about 1,500 cervical cancer cases each year. Brazil, in comparison, has cervical cancer rates that are ten times higher. Cervical cancer is the most common form of cancer in developing countries.

“Cervical cancer is highly preventable, and many of the deaths attributed to it are unnec­ e ssa ry ,” says M atlashew ski.

“Cervical cancer is very slowgrowing; it typically takes five to ten years for it to develop. The Pap smear has saved millions of lives, and has been proven to be effective at saving lives.”

Cervical cancer is caused by human papilloma virus, which also causes the sexually transmit­ ted disease genital w arts. In Canada, HPV is found in 10-20 per cent of the population. HPV is usually not harmful, but may

cause cervical lesions in one per cent of those infected, potentially resulting in cancer. HPV pro­ duces the protein HPV E6, which will bind to p53—thereby inhibiting apoptosis.

Different people have differ­ ent p53 DNA sequences, a phe­ nomenon known as polym or­ phism. By determining which p53 sequences are more preva­ lent in cervical cancer, a quick, effective diagnostic test could be developed. This test could then be used in conjunction with the existing method, the Pap smear.

During the Pap smear process, cells are scraped off the surface of the cervix, then exam­ ined under a microscope for evi­ dence of cancer. In developing countries, such as South America, Africa, and parts of Asia, access to Pap smears is limited and expensive—resulting in cervical cancer rates that can be 10 times higher than those in Canada.

With the new test, individu­ als who are at risk could then be m onitored more closely, thus decreasing their chances of developing cancer.

Discoveries about p53 could also help in the treatm ent of

other forms of cancer, since the majority of cancer types result from some form of p53 inhibi­ tion.

Matlashewski is also investi­ gating new treatments against the parasite Leishmania. Leishmania is the second most common para­ sitic infection in developing countries, and is transmitted by sandfly insect bites. Certain types of Leishmania will cause leprosy and loss of the nose, while other types can result in breakdown of the bone marrow and eventual death. Drs. M atlashew ski and Ward (Montreal General Hospital) will be testing a new anti-Leishmania drug in Cusco, Peru.

M atlashew ski hopes to soon develop a Leishmania live-atten­ uated vaccine, for use in devel­ oping countries such as India and Peru.

The cancer study is being funded by the National Cancer Institute of Canada; the Leishmania trials are being spon­ sored by the W orld Health O rganization, the M edical Research Council of Canada, and 3M Pharmaceuticals.

for interesting summer jobs. The Federal Student Work Abroad Program gives students’ names to federal government employers based on year/level of education, skills and field of study. Other w ork/travel programs include Placement Etudiant du Québec, Interprovincial Exchange Program, and the Student Work Abroad Program, run by Travel Cuts, a program that provides stu­ dents with Visas and search strategies to find work in the United States and overseas.

W hatever it is that you choose to do, it is important to start early, Molner said.

“You might not be doing the thing you dream of, but you can definitely find something in the industry,” says M olner. “Just make sure that you are clear about your objectives and what you have to offer.”

(For more information on the job placement services listed in this article, visit the CAPS wesite at http://www.mcgill.ca/stuserv/caps/ or pick up a copy of CAPS Scoop on how to find a summer job.)

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Must a Jew Believe Anything?

Giving some to get some B y Ia n S peig el

Barry White’s melodious bass streams out of giant speakers. Your arm feels just right, exactly as it should, resting lightly around her gorgeous shoulders. The lights are dimmed, but you are blinded by a radiance that emanates from her perfect smile. Resolutely, you remove the glass of red wine from her hand. Gently taking hold of her chin, you stare, intoxicated, into the depths of her eyes. The moment comes, and both of you lean in for an impassioned kiss.

Reality flees. You are amazed at the smoothness of her skin. Your mouths seek out each other, not wasting a precious moment for breathing or smiling. You drift into the surreal. Without conscious effort, you feel yourself taking her into your arms and carrying her to your bedroom. Her beauty capti­ vates your gaze, and you cannot wrest your eyes from hers. As you walk, her body floats in your arms.

You approach the doorway, and carefully manipulate her inside the room, mindful of her head and feet.

You watch as she grins (she’s never been carried to a room before), and then you grin too (you’ve never carried anyone to a room before).

You take one step inside your room, and then another. Instead of finding flat ground, however, your left foot rolls awkwardly along three tennis balls that had escaped their open container. Robbed of equilibrium, your right foot jets for­ ward and stomps down. The surface it finds, however, is not stable.

Rather, your foot slams down onto a partially inflated basketball that had rolled discreetly into the centre of your floor. The velocity and

plane of attack combine to send you airborne.

Understandably, she flings free of your arms and crashes into your closet. Your rotational acceleration at lift-off results in a vertical invert, and you crash to the ground head­ first. And, as your head and torso land, your legs soon follow, crash­ ing onto the shaft of a hockey stick.

The blade snaps, and a jagged shard rockets towards your closet. The flying wood strikes a hodgepodge of pucks, croquet mallets, and court shoes that you keep on the top shelf of your closet, releasing an avalanche of rubber, wood and Reebok onto the delicate cranium of your love-interest.

A night that had once seemed so promising is now completely dif­ fused by two medium-grade con­ cussions, one bloody nose, and a severely sprained right shoulder.

And why? You might ask.

Although the answer may prove elusive, the solution is at hand. Carly Moher and Elaine Penny (both gold-medal track and X-country runners) have co-ordi­ nated the McGill division of SPUNC (Sporting Partnership of Universities with Northern Communities), which is a non-prof­ it organisation designed to get used athletic equipment out of your way and into the arms of children who need it. McGill and 11 other univer­ sities across Canada have each paired up with a small, poorer, northern community. McGill’s sis­ ter city is Kimmirut, (a town on the southern tip of Baffin Island) and all sporting equipment collected at the Currie Gym will be shipped there, to be distributed among chil­ dren of all ages.

Anything that you can trip

over, from hockey helmets to base­ ball gloves, is a veritable windfall for the kids, many of whom lack gear as simple as swimming trunks.

Carly takes an optimistic view, “I think that a lot of people would do this. It’s just a great opportunity to support and change the lives of growing children.” And, as Elaine points out, “Sport allows you to develop self-confidence and really shapes you as a person.”

Most of us take sport for grant­ ed, having grown up with ample supplies of cleats, balls and rackets.

However, in Kimmirut, prohibitive shipping costs and under-funded schools make something like a bas­ ketball worth its weight in gold.

This is why it’s so easy to make a huge difference to the kids, simply by donating a little.

When asked if this was just a clever ploy to recruit and nurture talent, commit it to McGill’s athlet­ ic program, and ultimately crush Queen’s once and for all, Carly merely chuckled, “Maybe it’s going to develop kids into high perfor­ mance athletes, maybe it’s not. But, that’s not the point!”

Whether it be for philanthropic reasons or otherwise, equipment can be donated at the Currie gym­ nasium when classes resume after reading week (which is perfect, because you can grab all that dusty stuff stashed in a closet at your parent’s house and bring it back to school).

SPUNC donation boxes will be located at the Currie Gym, and will be gratefully accepting, any and all, sporting goods from February 28 to March 3.

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Menachem Kellner's newly-released book B y Ia n D is e n d

Professor Menachem Kellner of the University of Haifa in Israel has a theory that a certain set of jokes can summarize “much of what’s important in Jewish theolo­

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With that, he provided a sam­ ple pertinent to his new book, Must a Jew Believe Anything?, for the audience that had gathered at the McGill bookstore February fourth for the book’s launching.

A group of nine Jewish men, so the anecdote goes, are seeking a tenth to complete a minyan — the ten adult males necessary for a prayer service in traditional Judaism — for their minhah (afternoon) service. They happen across a gentleman who looks Jewish, and ask him to join.

“That w ouldn’t be such a good idea,” replies the man.

“Sure, I’m Jewish, but I’m a total heretic! I don’t believe in anything at all!”

“So?” asks the leader of the congregation. “Where is it written that a heretic can’t perform min­ hah?”

The seeming absurdity of the punchline is an issue allotted sig­ nificant space in Kellner’s book, which investigates the history and logic behind the fluctuating con­ gruency between Judaism and Jewry.

To the average Christian the­ ologian, Kellner notes, the sce­ nario described in the joke is a lit­ tle lacking in the rationality department. “What sense does prayer make if you don’t believe in the object of your prayer?” he paraphrased. Yet in Jewish tradi­ tion, the issue of belief often takes a back seat to being a member of the community.

“Very little attempt is ever made within the whole range of [Jewish texts] to specify what it is that Jews are supposed to believe,” says Kellner, citing mediaeval Spanish Jew Moses Maimonides as the innovator in codifying Jewish belief. With his Aristotelian rational approach to theology, it was he who first “set Judaism on firm dogmatic foot­ ing.”

In Maimonides’ own time, he was largely ignored by his peers, according to Kellner. It was only when oppression against Jews, and the frequent religious

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polemics that accompanied it, erupted in Spain in 1391 that Jews were forced to subscribe to his doctrines in order to enter disputes on the same plane as their Christian opponents, whose priori­ ty was invariably belief.

Dogmatism has been with Jews ever since.

Even still, dogmatic argu­ ments have rarely spilled off of paper and onto the battlefield in Jewish history. The type of dis­ agreement capable of sparking wars in Christendom was seldom more than verbal among Jews.

Kellner points to the French Revolution, and subsequent ‘Jewish Em ancipation’ as the main break with the past.

Presented with the opportunity to be European citizens, many Jews chose to leave their religion at home, and ‘be European’ in public life. What was once a big, com­ pressed ball of combined Jewish identities—ethnic, religious, polit­ ical and more—has since “been fractured into its components.”

And at times, those individual fragments of the ball bump into each other.

“At every junction in Jewish history,” Kellner said, “the river of Judaism is composed of lots of currents.” However, there was always one group that viewed itself as the mainstream, includ­ ing, at one point, Christianity.

Since the Emancipation, inter­ group relations have changed.

The new environm ent reshaped Jewish religious dynam­ ics, introducing ‘holier-thanthou’—literally speaking—mutual exclusivity of different belief sys­ tems. Following the European model, many Jewish groups were led to conclude that anyone who interprets the religion differently than the group’s own method, basically, “is a heretic.” But Kellner’s opening joke showed that, despite the kulturkampf, even heretics are often welcome as members of the community.

What Kellner does in Must a Jew Believe Anything? is examine both the pre- and postMaimonidean eras in an effort to explain how things have come to be the way they are; why the selfproclaimed unbeliever can still be invited into a congregation. He also devotes space to the lack of pluralism often associated with Orthodox Judaism, hoping to bring that stream “to a more con­ structive, positive light.”

Finally, bothered by the growing polarization in Israel between the eternally secularizing majority and the religious (espe­ cially Haredi, Or ultra-Orthodox) minority, Kellner also advocates a religious ‘third way’ to fill the gulf. One of his purposes in the book is to “stimulate that argu­ ment.”

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What our history books left out After being treated as less than second rate, many Nova Scotian Black loyalists sailed for Sierra Leone B y Pa u l C o rn ett

In matters of Black history, Canada’s image fares better com­ pared with our southern neigh­ bour’s. Our history books are more likely to tell us how Canada was the promised land for run­ away slaves stealthily travelling the underground railroad to free­ dom.

The story of David George and the exodus of the Black loyal­ ists to Sierra Leone, a Canadian story that is virtually unknown to all, testifies that the freedom Canada offered most blacks didn’t protect them from oppression.

Born into slavery in 1743 in Essex County, Virginia, David George decided at the age of 19 to run away from his master. With the outbreak of the American rev­ olution, the governor of Virginia sent out an edict that promised freedom to any rebel-owned slave who enlisted with the loyalist forces.

After the Americans won their indépendance, George, along with many other Black loyalists, accompanied the British and thou­ sands of white loyalists to Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Having converted to Christianity, George moved to Nova Scotia to carry the Gospel as a Baptist preacher in Shelburne, where 1,500 Black loyalists were settled. G eorge’s missionary efforts achieved the greatest fol­ lowing of any Baptist preacher of his time, white or black. James Walker, expert on the history of Canada’s Black loyalists, com­ ments in his biography of George and The Black Loyalists, that his immense success was because his sermons addressed the needs of the Black loyalists.

“From the time of their arrival in Nova Scotia, they had been treated in a discriminatory fashion, unlike their white coun­ terparts, who received three years’ provisions upon settling in the colony. Black loyalists received enough to last only 80 days and as a result were forced to support themselves by working on the roads...,” writes Walker.

“Under such conditions, it was hardly surprising that George enjoyed great success as a preach­ er, for his chapels offered blacks freedom and equality, the very things they did not enjoy in a soci-

ety dominated by whites.”

In response to the complaints of the black settlers, the philanthropic Sierra Leone

as less than second rate citizens.

They legally had the same rights as the whites, but in terms of privileges and creature com­ forts, what one needed to sur­ vive in this Canadian envi­ ronm ent...they w eren’t offered any of th at,” she expressed.

The consequences of omitting this part of history, Williams pointed out, reveals that Canadians have been more preoccupied with their image than knowing the truth of their past.

“What it says about Canadian history is that because we’ve left out stories like David George and the lessons we can learn from that and about ourselves,” says Williams. “[W]e have whitewashed ourselves, taken a brush and painted into our concepts of The Black Loyalists, p.334 only what we wanted, only what we can deal with, only what makes us look good, what about their own history.”

Williams points out that black makes us look better than the history — as a crucial dimension Americans. But in fact Canadians of Canadian history — completes were just as racist, Canadians our conception of Canada. have shown in many different “I t’s very clear [from the places to have killed Blacks with­ story of David George] that these out provocation, ...to have mur­ Blacks wanted to get out of here,” dered without having taken states Wiliams. account for what they’ve done.”

“That really dispels the myth of Canada being a haven for Blacks. They were being treated

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intended to build a colony of freed slaves in Africa, giving them free land and full rights under the B r i t i s h e m p i r e .

George was an avid sup­ porter of this project and became the assistant of L ie u te n a n t J o hhn Clarkson of Freetown in 1798 the Royal Navy who was to lead the recruit­ ed black loyalists to Africa.

The project met a lot of resis­ tance from the white community.

Walker quotes George regarding the resistance they faced.

“The white people in Nova Scotia were very unwilling that we should go, though they had been very cruel to us, and treated many of us as bad as though we had been slaves,” states George.

Walker points out that the main reason the white community was resistant to their departure was because the Black loyalists were a source of cheap labour.

He explains, “ ...landless Black loyalists provided the bulk of labour available in Nova Scotia, and as customers they cre­ ated a market for the produce of white-owned farms.”

Despite the spread of false rumours that the Sierra Leone Company was going to sell the Black loyalists into slavery, 1,196 black loyalists, a third of their total population, left for Sierra Leone in 1792.

The story of David George and the exodus of Nova Scotia’s Black loyalists reveals that the common conception of Canada as a bastion of inter-racial harmony is false.

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Hating anti-hate legislation American society where legal sys­ tems respect the values of “equal protection of the laws” (14th Amendment, US Constitution) for all citizens and “equal protection and benefit of the law” (s. 15, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms), how can we rationally justify giving extended protection to certain people?

Legislation which makes it wrong-”plus” to commit crimes against people with certain charac­ teristics creates a system which puts more worth on O ver the R ainbow specific human beings. Thus, anti­ hate laws create divides and differ­ ing the federal Hate Crimes ences between individuals rather Prevention Act. In Canada, since than assist in closing them. , I would argue that all crimes 1995, section 718(2) of the Canadian Criminal Code has stated against persons are hate crimes. that “A court that imposes a sen­ Why should we limit the definition tence shall also take into considera­ of “hate” crimes to specific tion the following principles: (i) groups? Whether a person attacks evidence that the offence was moti­ another because they are anti-gay, vated by bias, prejudice or hate or kills someone because they are based on race, national or ethnic angry, it is still the product of hate. origin, language, colour, religion, Restraining the definition to a short sex, age, mental or physical dis­ list of enumerated characteristics ability, sexual orientation, or any only devalues each and every per­ son’s ‘natural’ intrinsic worth as other similar factor.”

While these efforts seem com­ human beings. I want to be sure mendable, they are highly problem­ that whether my straight friends are atic. They present a paradox in the killed by heterophobes or my par­ liberal democracy of Canada and ents are viciously murdered in a home invasion, that the law will the United States.

What the proposed changes to respect equally the value of their American legislation and the cur­ lost human life.

Society as a whole should rent Canadian laws effectively do is make crimes against certain peo­ have the assurance that regardless ple more “wrong.” In a North of their personal characteristics, the

Since the murder of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, new life had been breathed into calls for fur­ thering and strengthening American and Canadian laws which would make it a greater offense to commit crimes against persons if they were motivated by hate or discrimination.

In the United States, this would mean extension of protec­ tion for sexual orientation into all state hate-crime laws, and amend­

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law. We should send the message to society that we will not allow anyone, regardless of their charac­ teristics, to be treated in such a manner.

Many will say that my attack on anti-hate legislation promotes crimes motivated by the dislike of certain groups in society but these criticisms will actually challenge soci­ ety to acknowledge the equal worth of all peo­ ple. Crimes against any human being will be treated with swift and harsh punishments.

Moreover, is anti­ hate legislation an actu­ al deterrent to violence?

While many would argue that these laws send a message to crim­ inals considering crime against certain groups, do we really accept that those capable of mur­ Palais de Justice Rebecca Catching dering someone based on sexual orientation, ment for the reasons people mur­ or rather, capable of murder at all, der, we should increase punishment are rationally deductive enough to for the severity of the act. In the weigh the inherent wrongness of case of Matthew Shepard, I think the act they are committing? his assailants should be punished as Regardless of what the motivation, harshly as possible for the unbe­ those who are able to terminate the lievably horrific way he was killed: lives of others are sick people. it was purely inhumane. Anyone There is no evidence to show that guilty of torturing another human anti-hate legislation will reduce the being (gay, straight, black or number of assaults or murders in white), stringing him up like a Canada nor in the United States. scarecrow and leaving him to die Instead, anti-hate legislation is a should face the fullest force of the mere symbolic gesture. However,

law is blind to differences, and they know that their life is as fundamen­ tally important and worthy as any­ one else’s.

Instead of increasing punish-

the symbolism itself puts identities above universal human value. The legislation solidifies an institution­ alized inequality in our legal sys-

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tern, which, ironically, we are try­ ing to eliminate completely from society.

Instead of focusing our soci­ etal and legislative energy on retroactive and negative measures to actively deal with intolerance, we should be focusing on positive­ ly promoting tolerance in our plu­ ralistic world. Anti-hate legislation is not a proactive measure, but a reactive one.

On the other hand, within our education, health and welfare sys­ tem as well as within our govern­ ment, we can institutionalize mea­ sures which will recognize our equal worth as human beings, with equal protection from society and the law, while recognizing and cel­ ebrating our differences.

Until that point, we are stuck with a legal system which will neg­ atively reinforce our differences and gives unequal value and pro­ tection to our lives.

The brain of Jay... Ingram: speaking to McGill students Continued from page 1 magazine.

Ingram went on to evaluate television as a medium for the communication of science.

“TV is very good in some ways, and not very good in other ways. When you watch television, you need to bring a certain degree of skepticism.”

One of the advantages that television has over other media is that it makes use of a large variety of visual stim ­ uli, he said.

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dem onstrat­ ed, using several clips from his program, how images and moving footage are used to help explain science topics on television.

“I think that there is an unequal competition in your brain when vision and the spoken word are presented...the visual is everything in television.”

Ingram was quick to point out that although the visual can do a lot for the presentation of

science on TV, there is also a lot that it can’t do. Some ideas or concepts, especially those that are theoretical, are very hard to illus­ trate using pictures and footage.

Visuas can help to tell the story, but they can also be misleading.

“While pictures are great, they can also be lim iting,” he said. “Take the big bang for example; this is a topic that is extremely interesting, and very catchy, but it is very hard to depict it visually.”

Ingram later argued that media, like newspapers and TV programs, do not do much to raise people’s scientific literacy; he believes that most of the basis for scientific literacy comes from education.

“The critical thinking that is needed for science in the media requires a lot of background. In our program, it is hard to provide that kind of depth in 43 minutes.”

At the closing of his lecture, Ingram took a variety of ques­ tions from the audience. One audience member asked him what he thought the perfect medium for science was.

“There is no single perfect medium; there are significant advantages and disadvantages to

most types. I regret that this type of forum is so rare. It is best when there is some kind of infor­ mal interaction.”

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Up close and personal After the talk, the Tribune got a chance to sit down with Ingram, and pick his brain just a little more.

While the central topic of the forum was the communication of science, the question arises as to whether or not science literacy is even desirable or necessary.

“As our society becomes more and more technologically based, surely it must be good for people to understand science and technology. But yet, for example, the whole goal of computer design these days is to make it

more and more transparent, with less of need for the user under­ standing. Basically, I think that its just as important for people to be literate about science, as it is for people to be literate about movies, literature, sports...any­ thing; because science is such a big part of our culture.”

Science, most people would agree, is one of the less broadly understood aspects of our culture.

Ingram explained that part of the reason for this deficiency is a lack of human content.

“The information that people choose to consume tends to be human oriented; it’s all about people, and a lot of science is not directly about people. Astronomy is a good example; often the only reason why people find the idda of planets orbiting around stars interesting, is because of the idea that there may be life on these planets.”

In order for topics in science to be understood, there need to be people who have the ability to explain and communicate it effec­ tively. Ingram disagreed with the stereotype that science people tend to lack these communication skills.

“I have met people in all dis­

ciplines that have bad communi­ cation skills,” he said. “I think that a big part of being able to communicate is being able to pro­ vide context. If you supply people with too little background, they will not know how to take what you are saying.”

It is also important for the person on the receiving end to have the ability to properly ana­ lyze the incoming information; science-media consumers need to have at least some background in science. Ingram feels that much of the basis for this background and ability to think critically begins in the classroom.

“In grade four, five and six, you have to sustain the wonder that children have about the w orld,” Ingram noted. “Then when you get to grade eight and nine, you have to keep them from turning off. By the time you get up to grade twelve, you are left with a relatively small group. It comes down to having teachers that love science. There are teach­ ers who never took science, and are uncomfortable teaching. The enthusiasm within the teacher is picked up by the students.”

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Special Section Modern society shares a complex relationship with food which has developed over thou­ sands of years.

Initially, food meant eating fruits, seeds and killing animals for survival but grad­ ually human cuisine became more refined with the domestica­ tion of animals and pjants. As tech­ niques, flavours and recipes travelled across continents bringing England tea front China and transporting native North American tomatoes to Italy, for­ eign foods became staples in the devel­ opment of domestic cuisines. More recently, national cuisines have migrat­ ed and fused togeth­ er to produce the myriad of flavours, colours and textures which make up our contemporary diet in Canada. While our diet has become sophisticated, conve­ nience foods have also given us an excuse to forego home-cooking tor the t.v. dinner. By the same token, we've also made strides in nutrition, albeit for many, our health obsession has turned eating into a sin. Yet food and cooking are, in a sense, forms of therapy which provide a sense of acomplishment for the cook, and a sense of com­ munity for the diners.

In this issue, the Tribune offers you a mouthful of inspira­ tion to celebrate the acts of cooking, eat­ ing and drinking.

Bon appétit!

o me, the Polo Grounds always meant Christy Matthewson and the NY Giants, Bobby Thomson and the shot heard around the world. To me, the Polo Grounds always meant baseball.

And baseball, of course, always meant hot dogs. With sauerkraut or onions. Or maybe both. The logical conclusion then is that the Polo Grounds must have also meant hot dogs.

I am willing to con­ cede that my reasoning here may be a little off, but let us look at the facts. The term hot dog was coined in 1901. O n a cold April day, ice cream ped­ dler Harry Stevens was losing money and decided to buy up all the dachshund sausages he could get his hands on. In less than an hour his vendors were selling hot dogs from portable hot water tanks and reeling folks in with the slogan: “They’re red hot! Get your dachshund sausages while they’re red hot!”

Nearby, cartoonist Tad Dorgan in desperate need of a story quickly drew a cartoon with a barking dachshund nestled warmly in a bun.

Unsure of how to spell ‘dachs­ hund,’ he simply wrote “hot dog!” And so was the birth of America’s favorite snack.

The place of this leg­ endary event: the New York Polo Grounds. But I didn’t really need to tell you that.

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Most things go together nice­ ly because they should: Abbot and Costello, Tinkers, Evers and Chance, Batman and Robin, kids and baseball, and baseball and hot dogs.

But like baseball, which probably owes more to an old Oltech stickball game than to Abner Doubleday, the hot dog has roots much older than Harry Stevens or Tad Dorgan.

There is mention of sausages in Homer’s Odyssey as well as the Frankfurter school of thought which traces the origin o f the hot dog (i.e. the Frankfurter) back to 1484 in Frankfurt-amMain, Germany. Others note that the first sausages to appear in the US were of the aforem entioned dachshund variety and point to their cre­ ation in the late 1600’s hy German butcher Johan Georghehner who wanted to find a niche in the meat mar­ ket by creating a snack-like “little-dog” sausage. Still oth­ ers feel that the people of Vienna (Wien), Austria deserve credit - noting the widespread use of the term wiener.

Others have less con­ ventional ideas. C om pton locals have argued Snoop Doggy Dogg is responsible for the hottest dog of them all, while ski buffs point to the 1980’s flick “H ot Dog” as the

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The hot dog on a bun was probably made popular in St. Louis by Bavarian conces­ sionaire Anton Feuchtwanger.

In 1904, he responded to complaints by his customers that they were burning their hands by asking his brother-in law, a baker, to make some long soft rolls that fit the meat.

I would rather not get hung up on dates or details, but if you must know, my opinion on the subject is that the hot dog really became an American staple in 1893 at the Colombian Exposition in Chicago. Vendors sold vast amounts of sausages and real­ ized that Americans like food that is easy to eat. That same year, sausages began being sold at baseball parks, a tradi­ tion that was first implement­ ed by the owner of the St. Louis Browns Chris von de Ahe. And once again we see that most things go together because they should, like Ruth and Gehrig, Brooklyn and the Dodgers, Americans and fast food, baseball and hot dogs, hot dogs and buns.

Americans seem to be aware of this tendency. They

consume around 20 billion hot dogs a year, 26 million a year in major league ball parks and 2.2 million at Dodgers’ Stadium alone. They can be barbecued, boiled, or (though this not recommended) heat­ ed in the oven — a favorite of my 97 year old Great Uncle Joey, though he also likes to fry his loafers.

Doctors probably say that hot dogs are bad for the heart, mothers are scared that they don’t “know what kind of junk is in those things”, and dads complain when kids put too much ketchup on their dogs. But this all goes with the territory.

Me, I’d rather worry about whose going to win the world series, why ball players get paid so much, and what the hell we’re doing with Astroturf. At least I should be able to enjoy a hot dog. I’ll see you at the Big O, Lafleur’s or Moe’s.

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Drink and be merry! hat goes up, must come down. Fish gotta’ swim. Birds gotta’ fly.

Every restaurant has a wine list. Did you ever wonder why?

A friend’s uncle’s who is, incidentally, a really suave guy, once said of a particular bottle, “this wine goes down like the baby Jesus in velvet.” No matter how you describe it, wine is here to stay. There must be something magical about wine. While some restaurants offer liqueurs, special coffees, or beer, almost all offer wine.

There is, of course, a practical reason. Wine is histori­ cal. It has been used for thousands of years to complement food with its delicate flavour and as a source of nutrients. Unlike fruit juice, wine can be stored for ages and shouldn’t go bad if it the bottle/barrel/urn is sufficiently airtight. It is an antiseptic drink and can store carbohydrate calo­ ries for extended time periods.

This has made it a popular bever­ age in many places, be it from areas with limited water supplies to long-wintered Scandinavian countries. Never underestimate the power of the grape!

But why here, in Montreal, where we have all sort

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Obviously the European influence plays a role.

They have been guzzling the stuff for years. Drinking wine has become so entrenched in some Euro-cultures that individuals have begun to try to justify mas­ sive imbibing binges with logic.

According to Dr. John Teifella, a Vancouver wine connoisseur, many wine-tasters know all about the “French paradox”: the claim that they must drink often to drive down cholesterol levels raised by all that French cheese.

Beyond historical habit and Euro-influence, it’s hard to say what makes wine so ubiqui­

tous. I decided to do some empir­ ical research in order to discern the answer. The following are some of the responses given: Dorothee Leclair, roommate from France: It’s good, you know.

Nice to feel it run down your throat like that. And it helps with indigestion.” (Is this answer an extension of the French paradox?)

Pascale, waiter at Maestro S.V.P. (St. Laurent and Prince Arthur) who seemed rather taken aback by the question: “It makes things more convivial—is that a word in English? It complements the food and the food complements the wine.”

Steve Rosenberg, ventriloquist: “It’s a first-date drug for the ner­ vous individual. Once I discov­ ered wine I was finally able to stop taking tranquilizers before dates to calm myself down. And it totally cured my spontaneous stutter.” (Whole answer spoken without moving his mouth.)

Rowan Palmer, U0 student living in Douglas residence: “People like booze better than juice.”

For whatever reason, it’s there. It’s everywhere. Never underestimate the power of the grape.

Of course, there are drawbacks too. Wine can be ridiculously overpriced at restau-

rants. Often an identical bottle at the SAQ will be 30% cheaper. As well, any of you compulsive “I’mgoing-to-conquer-my-first-datenervousness-with-alcohol” people may have discovered that, in Dionysian proportions, wine can leave a person gazing into the cold, white enamel of a toilet bowl. Much less romantic than the face of the current object of desire.

And speaking of desire, Dr. Teifella intimated one of the drawbacks that he claims Shakespeare discovered.

“Increases the desire, but decreas­ es performance,” he assured me.

Despite the drawbacks, I think wine will continue to make its present felt. Maybe it’s that sit­ ting at a decent restaurant, a glass of garnet-hued Merlot dangling from the fingertips, can make even the most humble of us feel a bit sophisticated, a bit romantic.

Maybe it’s the indulgence, a pleas­ ant assurance that we can take time to enjoy ourselves once in a while. Maybe it’s the intimate sense of comradeship, the warm fuzzies that come from sharing a bottle of wine with a friend.

Whatever your reason, Cheers!

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Not a food for the squeamish, but an art form nonetheless orget lobster, caviar, and filet mignon— sushi is the latest status food. As the celebri­ ties come and go, talking of Michelangelo, they are invariably devouring bit-sized morsels of raw fish and rice. But what about the rest of us? Never fear, gende read­ er, there are tons of great sushi restaurants in Montreal, and even better, sushi is incredibly easy to make.

According to the book, Sushi (by Ryuichi Yoshii, Periphis Editions, $26.95) sushi was origially an innovative way to pre­ serve the staples of a Japanese diet, i.e. fish and rice. The method is thought to have been imported from Southeast Asia or China.

People layered fish and rice in a jar, which was then allowed to fer­ ment. The fish was eaten, while the rice was thrown away. As methods improved, the fermenta­ tion process became shorter and people ate the rice along with the fish. This type of fermented fish and rice is called Osaka sushi.

In the 1640 s, someone in Tokyo got impatient. Instead of waiting for the process of fermen­ tation, this person added vinegar to the rice to make it taste fer­ mented. It was at this time that it became common to sell sushi at your fishmonger stand in the mar­ ket. This allowed customers to sample the catches of the day and make their selections accordingly.

Sushi Made Easy (by Nobuko Tsuda, Weatherhill, $18.95) explains that there are more sushi restaurants than any other type of restaurant in Japan. It is a fairly expensive dish because Japan has been so over-fished that finding high quality, fresh fish is difficult.

Sushi is not usually made at home because it is considered an art that takes years of training to perfect.

Sushi chefs must go through a long apprenticeship before they are prepared to open their own restaurant. For the first two years, the apprentice only practices mak­ ing sushi rice, an art unto itself.

Making sushi is more than slap­ ping ingredients together and shoving it on a plate. The Japanese believe that food should satisfy all

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Sushi restaurants are popping up in Montreal like groundhogs, and there are a variety of kinds to choose from. There are several places just west of Campus, including Jardin Sakura, which has a wonderful lunch special.

Also near campus on Union Street is a small sushi bar called Ogura.

For $10, a person gets 10 pieces of sushi, plus a small salad, a bowl of miso soup and ice cream.

Although you will literally rub elbows with the downtown suits that crowd around the bar at lunch time, it is well worth the value. Sakata and Ginger are located a bit further afield on Saint-LaurentT Sakata has a huge menu and a variety of options. A typical meals runs from $20-25, but beware— the service is erratic at best. Ginger is a slightly more expensive option, but the meals are artfully composed and the mod-decor and dim lighting make for a cool, laid-back atmosphere.

A new restaurant opened very recently on Parc Ave between Sherbrooke and Milton. Their menu is extends far beyond sushi to some very exotic options. The sushi is dense, moist and deli­ cious, perhaps some of the best sushi I’ve sampled.

Although sushi seems fairly straightforward to eat, Ryuichi Yoshii explains that there is a correct way to eat it. It is prop­ er to use hands or chopsticks, but never bite the sushi in half and leave it on your plate. Instead of mixing wasabi (the green, spicy horseradish paste used as a gar­ nish) in with your soy sauce, take a small dab of wasabi on your chop stick, and then dip it in soy.

Many people enjoy sticking their sushi rice side down in the soy sauce and allowing it to soak up the juice. Yoshii finds this appalling because it makes the sushi taste only of soy. Instead, the sushi should be dipped fish-side down and then placed in the mouth so the fish is on the tongue and the taste buds can appreciate

the flavours. Tea or sake is an appropriate complement to sushi because it removes the oiliness of the fish while preserving its taste.

For those who have a light wallet, or would prefer to try making sushi at home, the process is surprisingly easy. Maki-sushi (rolls of fish and rice) and nigrisushi (balls of rice with fish on top) are probably the easiest to master. To make sushi you need a bamboo mat, sheets of seaweed, a sharp knife and relevant ingredi­ ents. Most important is fresh fish, which can be difficult to find. A fish store such as Waldman’s (cor­ ner of Roy and Saint-Laurent) will often have fish marked “sushi quality,” but you should still ask which fish is the freshest. Some options to look for include salmon, tuna, and red snapper; fish roe can also be good in makisushi. The rice, bamboo mat and seaweed sheets can be found in Chinatown, but Fruits des Parc in the La Cite also carries these items.

To make maki-sushi, place a sheet of seaweed paper on your bamboo mat. Place a mound of sushi rice (see box) horizontally, making sure it is fairly uniform. Place strips of fish, green onion, cucum­ ber, avocado or what have you along the length of the rice. Roll the mat over the roll, encasing the rice within. Roll and knead the sushi into a long log, moistening the end of the paper if necessary to seal it. With a sharp knife, cut the log into pieces and serve with wasabi, ginger and soy sauce. To make nigri-sushi make balls of rice and place slices of fish on top.

The gastronomic and health benefits of sushi need not be enjoyed by celebrities alone because there are many affordable alternatives to the pricier restau­ rants. And if you’re still wary of the idea of raw fish, check out some of the books mentioned in this article. Even if the food gross­ es you out, you can still admire the pictures.

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Deconstructing the aphrodisiac desire for an increased libido. t’s the perfect romantic There is also an ancient belief that evening — wine, soft lighting, foods that resemble genitalia, like candles, and bubble bath — but somehow, you’re still not in oysters, ginseng (whose root is shaped like a penis), and, in some the mood. What’s missing? Could cultures, the horn of a rhinoceros it be the aphrodisiacs? are powerful aphrodisiacs.

An aphrodisiac is a food Sex shops and erotic bou­ that is rumoured to induce sexual tiques make a large part of their excitement and can consist of profit on products like chocolate anything from the traditional oys­ body paints and fruit flavoured ters, chocolate, or chilli peppers, edible underwear, using the to such foods as lard and power of the aphrodisiac myth to anchovies.

Named after make these sex toys appear even Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of more, appealing. For example, the sexual love and beauty, the tradi­ label on the Sensual Body Paint tional power of such foods has a made by Fantasy Club Chocolates history that is over 5,000 years reads, “Chocolate has been old. Legend has it that Aphrodite known to arouse the senses.” was a sea-goddess, hence many “We sell quite a lot of types of seafood have been linked aphrodisiac products,” said to her supposed powers.

Diane, an employee at Boutique Many theories hypothe­ Erotique Eros, a sex shop in size on what exactly gives an Montreal. “I know they’re popu­ aphrodisiac its mystical powers. lar and [they work] because cus­ For example, spicy foods such as tomers come back and buy chilli peppers and curry dishes are more.” said to produce effects that are similar to those of sexual arousal, such as an increased heartbeat and T h e e x p e r t s a r e u n d e c id e d an adrenaline rush. Foods which are considered rare, such as caviar There is no consensus and at one time even chocolate, among researchers on aphrodisi­ are also endowed with sensual acs regarding their arousal proper­ powers, connecting the desire to ties. The US Food and Drug eat a certain delicacy with the Administration has found that

some foods contain nutrients that will increase overall health and energy, and by consequence increase libido in the process.

What the FDA has not found is a direct link between certain foods and the immediate and significant increase in sexual desire that aphrodisiacs are supposed to pro­ duce.

Scientific studies on this subject are difficult to conduct, as any method for observing a change in sexual activity among humans might prove to be diffi­ cult to monitor in a laboratory environment, in addition to hav­ ing major ethical considerations.

“In people, the only available evidence is anecdotal and subjective,” said Tamar Nordenberg, a representative with the US FDA. “To scientifically measure sexual stimulation, a valid human study would have to be performed in a laboratory, comparing a placebo to the test aphrodisiac. Preferably, neither the researchers nor the patients would know who was getting the test substance. Because of cultural taboos, few such studies have been undertaken.”

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“I have recently completed a PET (brain imaging) study where I fed subjects chocolate until they basi­ cally cried uncle,” Small explained. “In essence, their expe­ rience of eating chocolate went from highly pleasurable to highly unpleasant (i.e. they were almost sick). The brain areas that were active during the pleasant part of the experiment were similar to the areas that are activated by cocaine, or by looking at sexually explicit material.”

Although the actual test­ ing of aphrodisiacs is not particu­ larly common, Small’s study demonstrates that the chemicals that are in chocolate may have some drug-like properties that have the ability of affecting sex drive.

This may not be the case with other aphrodisiacs, and although reactions to chocolate

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Despite the ambiguity of the effectiveness of aphrodisiacs, people can’t seem to get enough of them. There are over 9,000 sites on the Internet related to the sub­ ject, and many internationally published aphrodisiac cookbooks are available for those willing to try their hand at concocting them. The most popular aphro­ disiacs today, however, seem to gain their effectiveness from somewhere other than simply a chemical reaction. Taste, smell, texture and the environment where the food is served seem to have the greatest impact on the sexual arousal that follows.

Imagination is also a key ingredi­ ent when any kind of outside sex­ ual stimulant is introduced as a variable, whether it is be food, a toy, or erotic clothing.

As Dr. Ruth has said in the past, “The most important sex organ lies between the ears.”

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Be it blonde or stout, beer is one of the most widely celebrated and appreci­ ated beverages on the earth. We as stu­ dents are amongst some of the heaviest consumers, and yet we know very little about the anatomy of our vice.

Considering the fact that for some of us, beer-drinking is as much a part of life as tooth-brushing, it is worthwhile to take a look at the science of beer-brewing.

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The brewing process begins with barley. It is allowed to sprout, then it is heated, dried, and often roast­ ed. The degree to which the barley is roasted plays a large part in deciding the colour of the beer.

“All beers, no matter what their colour, begin with a pale malt,” explained Nathan McNutt of Gordon’s Cave à Vin. “It is then largely the roasting of the barley that determines the colour of the beer.”

A mash of water and the malted barley is mixed and heated in a cooker which converts the starch from the mixture into sugar, which is later fermented by yeast.

This resulting mixture, which is called wort, is then put through a boiling process. During this process, the hops are added. The quality and quantity of the hops contribute significantly to the unique taste of the beer. Specifically, there is a close relation between the amount of barley that is used, and the bitterness of the beer.

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The wort is then pumped into fermentation tanks. The fermentation process is one of the main deter­ minants of the resulting type of beer.

“The cooler [the temperature] that the beer is fermented at, the clean­ er the taste you get.” explains McNutt. “A fruitier beer is brewed at warmer temperatures.”

Cooler fermentation processes take longer to complete, and tend to yield lager beers. Ales usually undergo warmer fermentation processes.

Since the lager process can be more complex and can take longer, most microbreweries tend to brew different types of beers.

“Lagers are more commonly brewed on a commercial level,” explained Fletcher, “[because] microbreweries do not always have the facilities to brew Lagers; they tend to brew more specialized types of beers.”

McNutt offered similar sentiments.

“Lagers have to be made properly, because any imperfections are very easy to detect. Ales tend to have a more complex flavour.”

D is tin c tiv e B eers Aside from the major discrepancies that arise in different brewing processes, there are other unique traits that many beers have.

Some beers have a characteristic creamy foam head that is as much a substantial part of the beer as the liquid. A thick head is often the result of the use of pure malt, as opposed to the commonly used malt blends. Lower alcohol content can also contribute to a foamy head. There are also more artificial methods for attaining a crown of foam.

“Some beers use Nitrogen, which has less sur­ face tension than other ingredients, and can often help to give a thick head,” explained Fletcher. Cans of imported European beers often make use of nitrogen cartridges to yield this effect.

Another distinct type of beer that is commonly brewed in North America is the dry beer. Typically, dry beers have had their carbohydrates fermented out. This type of beer can be contrasted to thicker, heavier beers such as Guinness.

Sometimes, ingredients such as honey are added to give the beer a unique taste. “When adding extra flavouring ingredients, the timing must be right,” explained McNutt. “The addition should be made after the boiling process, to ensure that the taste and aroma of the extra ingredients are maintained.

B e e r by th e B u cket For the aspiring brewmaster, there are ways to brew your own beer. There are simple kits that can be bought for as little as $40 that will do the trick. These kits include some basic apparatus, and a can of malt extract.

The at-home process involves diluting the malt extract, cooking the solution, adding yeast, and letting the mix­ ture sit in a bucket for five to seven days. The end result may not be comparable to Lowenbrau, but it’s not bad for forty bucks and a bucket.

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here is a common conception that certain individuals p o s s e s s a rogue gene which m akes them physically incapable of cooking. Some common excuses include "My mom does the cooking, It’s not really my thing, I could burn water with my cooking skills" and “I don’t have the right c lo th e s.” These excuses, however, will not make the hunger pangs disappear once they cut off your tab at Mama’s. Learning to cook is like learning to d ress yourself—everyone has to learn how to do it. All it takes is a few good cookbooks, patience and concentration. This survey of cookbooks is just a s ta rt­ ing point for the beginner cooker; other im portant reso u rces include cooking m agazines, the internet, friends and family.

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These surrogate grandparents are so charming they will make you J u l i a and J a c q u e s feel as gooey as cherry pie. It is fun to cook along with Gram and Gramps using the great how-to sections. It is really a cryin’ shame that this book C o o k i n g at H o r a e is not geared toward students as the ingredients are a little pricey.

For the 300 level cook who’s looking for a challenge, there are some interesting tips on how to get the most egg white out of an egg and a full two pages about how to resuscitate a hollandaise sauce. When expe­ riencing these kind of “ER” cooking dramas, it can be helpful to know you’re in good hands. The step-by-step photo illustrations are reassuring to the brave chef attempting the cooking equivalent of tight rope walking.

This book, however, is definitely for the advanced cook. It will JACQ U ES PEPiN not indulge in the convenience of pre-made staples such as sausage, pâté 1 and mayo, giving a new meaning to “from scratch.” On one hand, the book deals with some complex techniques, although many recipes were deceptively simple and almost a waste of space. Is it worth the $62.00 Ju lia and Jacq u es Cooking at Home plus tax to learn the secret recipe for Jacques’ Classic Omelette which involves 3 eggs, salt, pepper and butter? The $62.00 can be considered an by Julia Child and Jacques Pepin initial start up cost, as the recipes are not cheap. While the omelette is a Photos by Christopher bargain basement special many of the recipes involve expensive ingredi­ Hirsheimer ents such as duck, mussels and filet mignon.

Last year, the cookbook to end all cookbooks came out with a new edition. For those who have lived in a cave for the past several decades, the Joy of Cookitigis often touted as the bible of cooking. It has a cornucopia of recipes and a lot of background on different foods and cooking techniques. The first edi­ tion was published in 1931 by Irma Rombauer and was a pivotal book in the thirties—a time when domestic help stopped being a common element in many households. The book helped make cooking not only socially acceptable, but fun and easy. In the newest edition, the interesting anecdotes which orig­ inally gave this book its warmth, have been sacrificed.

Not only is the new edition more thorough and func­ tional, however, but it is also more relevant to our contemporary diet.

Though grandma Rom won’t be along for the ride, this book is still an excellent primer for someone who is willing to get serious about cooking.

The informational background is fabulous (I once spent half an hour reading about olive oil) and will enable you to develop a large repertoire of dishes.

Not only, does the Joy provide basic reliable recipes, but it also includes little tidbits of wisdom which help develop a sense of cooking intuition.

Though it is a great educational tool, the recipes are, on the whole, aimed at a culinary conser­ vative crowd and can sometimes be a little bland.

Avoid the recipes for ethnic food, such as Indian curry, green curry, and pad Thai because they just don’t taste authentic. This is, however, a minor flaw as there are many great recipes such as the vegan

orange cake and potato patties. The Joy is also an important resource as it has a recipe for almost any­ thing and you can search the index by food type.

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In seeing Martha Stewart’s dazzling presentations which involve tasteful cutlery, hand picked flowers (from Manhattan’s flower markets) and placemats by Chanel, it is easy to forget that food is meant to be eaten. Wraps are a triumph of convenience food and Martha can eat her heart out because the food looks just as tantalizing.

With a funky layout, witty text and unique yet simple recipes, this book is a great buy for a stu­ dent.

Some interesting recipes include, the “fertility special”(think eggs),” Sook and Jimmy”(names of the male and female crab),”Hoppin Johnny” (black-eyed peas)”Santa-Fe fetish” and “German Engineering”(mustard, sausage and potatoes.) The book boasts that a wrap should be “a hand­ held meal that explodes with flavour with each bite.” This is not hyperbole. The humble Mexican tortilla has swallowed up the cuisines of the world with the “King Creole,” “California wrap”(similar to the California roll, yes it involves nori), “Vietnamese wrap ease,” “Thai one on,” “Taj Mahal,” and the “Hungry Hungarian.”

Wraps also provides solutions to the “I never eat breakfast food because it tastes like fodder” problem with some tortillas entitled, “this lox rocks” and “trail mix.” The book also ventures into uncharted territory with its desert wraps. The Abba Zabba, which includes cream cheese, peanut butter, chopped yoghurt covered pretzels and white chocolate chips is reminis­ cent of the ludicrous ice cream sundaes of childhood. Though it seems kind of impractical to buy a book devoted to one kind of food, this book was one of the most attractive because of the simplicity of the recipes, the beautiful photos and the unique flavours it suggests.

Speaking of carnivores, every­ one’s favourite kitchen witch has a new cookbook. If you can see past your Martha disdain/jealousy, this book is actually quite good. The evil homemaker-bot has snuck her way into hearts (or stomachs) with these gorgeous photographs. Martha’s seductive­ ly beautiful photographs make french fries look like a class act.

The recipes are not exactly revo­ lutionary, but they are always good, and undeniably comfort­ ing. With its drool worthy pho­ tographs, Martha’s book provides not only reliable recipes but one of the most important ingredi­ ents in any recipe—motivation.

The New Moosewood Cookbook Mollie Katzen

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As one of the first widely pub­ lished vegetarian cookbooks, the Moosewood Cookbook (of the Moosewood restaurant in Ithaca New York) has developed a strong following and has pub­ lished many other titles as off­ shoots of this original idea. The New Moosewood Cookbook strongly resembles the original Moosewood Cookbook with some new recipes and photographs.

The recipes are good and simple and the hand drawings make the book extremely charming. The food is hearty but sometimes needs a bit more spice and flavour. This endearing book will spark anyone’s interest in cook­ ing, be they vegetarian or carni­ vore.

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Sports fans prefer to concen­ trate on the action on the field or on the rink, downing food that satisfies their vora­ cious appetites while not remotely tasting like steamed vegetables.

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theme restaurant, with lots of m emorabilia hanging around, showing mostly events like Habs or NFL football games. The food is decent; you probably won’t get a better meal of bar­ becue chicken and fries, just don’t expect anything fancier.

This also isn’t the best place to get drunk after you’ve lost your Mise-Au-Jeu wager, as there are generally a large number o f families who come to the Cage for dinner.

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Considering most N orth American sports fans probably possess lim ited cooking skills, the best and most convenient solution to find food while checking out the latest game at home often consists of a call to the local pizzeria. For those looking for a better meal and some atm osphefe, the Tribune searched M ontreal for the best places to watch sporting events around town.

Champs (3956 St. Laurent) The best known, and pretty much the only real all­ sports bar in Montreal, with six giant screens. This is 'one of the few places in the city to watch events not covered by TSN or Sportsnet. If you’re a die-hard fan of the Chicago Cubs, New York Rangers, the English N ational Soccer Team, or any other team not remotely associated with our fine city, this is the first place check out their games. This place was packed during the 1998 soccer World Cup, and was the only place to watch the World Cups of cricket and rugby last year. I know of a couple of people who complained, however, when they had only a live audio feed of a rugby test match.

This place possesses qualities that may not suit everyone’s taste.

Chances are if you like watching sports, you won’t exactly m ind the blaring alternative music as long as you don’t feel you have to discuss the finer points of the ame w ith your uddies.

T here’s a large collection of big screens show­ ing mostly m ain­ stream hockey and baseball events.

The food is, to put it lightly, forgettable, but the people here usually don’t notice after downing typical Peel Pub amounts of beer. As a result, there’s a pretty lively, if not comical, atmosphere during playoff games (well, maybe not this year) which makes this place sort of enjoyable.

Wally’s (1100 de Maisonneuve O) Situated on the same block as Peel and occupying the same location as a former branch of the Peel Pub, this place has features the similar types o f food. It may be a bit less crowded because the crowd is a bit more limited to athletic types.

G ert’s (3480 McTavish) A good place to watch events in the company of others more familiar, in this case exclusively McGill jocks.

N ot much here in terms of food, however this might be good since it encourages the viewer to eat a real meal. In addition to the mainstream events, they also sometimes show some huge events like boxing heavyweight title fights.

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Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2000 roups in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia were all talking body image last week to mark Eating Disorder Awareness Week, an international event to educate the public about current body image issues.

Organised at McGill a week prior to the official EDAW by the Peer Health Education Committee, McGill’s body image aware­ ness week also paralleled the EDAW’s objectives.

Events included a vari­ ety of workshops and lectures that dealt with health-related issues like eating disorders, fitness and nutrition.

The week promoted awareness and urged people to think about body image issues, stat­ ed Kathleen O ’Connell, one of the two co-ordinators of Peer Health Education.

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Education pre­ sented both information and samples of healthy recipes in the Shatner Building. The demonstration, which included a display of brochures and pamphlets, was an attempt to induce students to adopt a nutritious diet. An interactive workshop at Royal Victoria College also prompted the stu­ dents to respond to many contempo­ rary body image topics like eating dis orders.

The final event was the Body Image Forum which featured three lecturers on body image. James Mark Shields, professor of religious studies at McGill, began his lec­ ture with a brief overview of the evolu­ tion of male body image and proceeded to explain the social causes for male dissat­ isfaction with their bodies and the ways in which this dissatisfaction manifests itself. He identified three central forms: excessive exer­ cise, plastic surgery, and eat­ ing disorders, and ended by drawing attention to the oftmissed problem of male body image. Rabbi Moishe New, founder of the Montreal Torah Center Congregation Beis Menachem Chabad Lubavitch, centered his lec­ ture on a biblical passage stating that man was created in the form of G-d. He con­ tinued to explain that the

Torah views the body as a creation of the Divine and, as such, it is a holy and sacred reflection of the Divine. He explained that a human being is capable of further extending this reflec­ tion of G-d by using his body to fulfil holy acts like giving charity., and that in order for a person to achieve a positive body image he must first recognize the beauty and divinity that he has been endowed with.

“The quest for the perfect image is the quest for self,” stated Rabbi New. Jennifer Poole, co-ordinator of the Ontario Self-Help Network and a former McGill stu­ dent, based her lecture on a personal experience with an eating disorder.

Poole discussed the caus­ es of eating disorders, their effects on the indi­ vidual involved and on their relationships with others, finish­ ing with the ways in which an individual can go about overcom­ ing an eating disorder.

Rayzie Shulman, a co-ordinators with Peer Health Education, attributes the forum’s success to the diver­ sity among the panel of speakers.

“The choice of speakers was meant to explore the topic from an atypical perspective,” stated Shulman. “James Mark Shields explored the topic of body image from a sociological perspective, Rabbi New approached the issue from a theolog­ ical perspective and Jennifer Poole came at the topic from a per­ sonal angle.”

The Peer Health Education Committee’s ultimate message?

Students should take responsibility for their health and develop good habits for a healthy lifestyle.

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ost athletes have heard the talks about nutrition — what and when they should and should not eat, and in what proportions they should eat certain types of foods.

It is also very likely that if you’ve been competing in sports for an extended period of time, you’ve heard all kinds of nutrition philosophies, many of which con­ tradict one another. Like someone who is desperate to lose weight, I too have been caught up in these fads, frequently changing my mind about what works. My conclusion is that in their pursuit to capture the market and become nutritional experts for athletes, the people who devise these diets forget that there are tremendous differences between sports, individuals, and for the same athlete at different times in his/her life.

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Sorting out the alternatives So, how exactly is some­ one supposed to process all of the information that is being thrown at us? First, it depends on the level of concerns with your diet. Some people are extremely concerned with diet and are likely to carefully monitor what they eat each day. It is these types of athletes who reli­ giously consume the same spaghet­ ti or steak dinner the night before every competition. There are also those who are moderately con­ cerned. They make sure they drink

enough fluids during practices and competitions. They try to eat healthy meals as competitions approach and otherwise attempt not to live off of pizza and french fries. Then there are those who just don’t care. A perfect example of this is a guy I used to swim with who drank Mountain Dew during practice. Mind you, he was a national level competitor, so as long as he was swimming fast, the coach couldn’t have cared less. As for the rest of us. ..that was a differ­ ent story.

drates before competitions. While many athletes adopt this strategy, others believe that the energy­ boosting effects can be more psy­ chological than real.

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increases with the amount of exer­ cise that person does. Of course, every diet has its critics, and “the Zone” is no exception.

“The Zone is quite popu­ lar, but again, the author is not a

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Carbo diets The main focus of high carbohydrate diets like the Pritikin Eating Plan is to limit the amount of fat and protein to less than ten percent of your total daily caloric intake respectively. The idea is that carbohydrates are the best source of energy that an athlete can get.

Keep in mind we are talking about complex carbohydrates (breads and vegetables), and not simple carbo­ hydrates such as chocolate bars.

One of the best features of diets such as this is that caloric intake is unlimited. In fact, eating is encouraged whenever you are hun­ gry. Suggested snacks include bread, bagels, granola bars and fruits.

The carbo-loading idea is like a short-term version of the Pritikin Eating Plan in that it stresses eating mostly carbohv-

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Canada Food Guide. I want my athletes to eat balanced meals that meet their bodies’ needs, and fol­ lowing a guideline put together by nutritionists (like the Food Guide) makes sense,” Jackson said.

Philip Trippenbach that if you eat a pasta meal before a game you will have more energy,” explains José Rebelo, McGill’s Men’s Volleyball Coach. “It will become true if the body has reached its energy peak. You can then create a debt and when you have all that pasta, your body is going to use the maximum it can...so it won’t get caught in a debt again.”

The Zone The 40-30-30 diets, which are exemplified by what is now referred to as “the Zone”, sup­ port nearly equivalent amounts of caloric intake of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Developed by Dr. Barry Sears, “the Zone” diet has gained popularity as a result of its use by members of the NCAA championship winning Stanford swim team. As a result of its sup­ port by Stanford team coach Richard Quick who also manages the national US Olympic swim program, the diet has a growing following among athletes.

“The Zone” is based on a block of food consisting of 9 grams of carbohydrates, 7 grams of pro­ tein or 1.5 grams of fat. The num­ ber of blocks allowed per meal or snack for an individual athlete

nutritionist. He’s a good example of someone who knows a lot about something, but from what I hear from dieticians, he’s twisted the facts just enough to be wrong,” stated Nat Jackson, the Martlet rowing coach. Eileen Coleman, a registered dietician, also added her opinion on “The Zone” diet.

“At the very least, following the Zone diet may impair athletic per­ formance due to inadequate dietary carbohydrate...”, said Coleman. “The diet encourages the consumption of too much fat.

Athletes don’t usually work out long enough to burn significant amounts of fat during exercise.

Rather, it is the caloric deficit resulting from the exercise session that promotes body fat utiliza­ tion.”

But, as Jackson says “There are athletes who swear by this 40-30-30 diet, so who knows?”

An alternative to “the Zone” and other carbo-loading nutritional intakes is the ever-pre­ sent ‘balanced diet’, which is sup­ ported by many, including Jackson.

“If I recommend any diet, it’s one that follows common sense and the basic principles of the

The one thing that all of these diets have in common is their insistence that athletes drink lots of fluids. Sports drinks offer a viable alternative to water.

During all-day outdoor sports events, athletes may lose essential nutrients like sodium and potassi­ um. While foods are a much better source of these nutrients, eating is often not an option. (Who wants to eat a banana right before they step up on the starting blocks?) In this case, sports drinks provide somewhat of a substitute.

If you choose to grab a sports drink, those that contain between 6-8 per cent carbohy­ drates are suggested. Gatorade is right around 6 per cent and Powerade is just under 8 per cent carbohydrates.

With regards to diets, sports drinks, supplements and the sort, “It all depends on the sport, the training period and the objec­ tives we want each athlete to reach,” explained Rebelo. “The key is balance between the energy consumed and the energy used or needed in relation with the effort.

Nutrition in training is complex.

Too many coaches or simple folks look for the easy trick that can make them better. It doesn’t work that way. There are too many fac­ tors,” he said.

What it all comes down to is that the best diet depends on what works for you as an individ­ ual. Hey, if you believe drinking Mountain Dew during practice is the key to your success as an ath­ lete, good for you! I’m sure my friend Will would love to find out that there’s someone else like him out there somewhere.

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At the end of the nineteenth century, a colorful new art form swept Paris.

Posters lined the city streets, transforming the dirty walls to pieces of decorative art. And now, 75 prints are here, a century later, for a new generation to embrace.

From February 3 to April 16, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is host to this exhibit of French prints by artists Gauguin and T oulouse-L autrec.

Two rooms house “French Prints of the 1890’, a blast from the past that swept “an entire generation of young Parisian T h e W a v e by Henri-Gustave Jossot PressShot artists,” according to the exhibition guide. making because it doesn’t Lithography, the technique involve the physical manipula­

tion of a hard surface. Instead it the Fine Arts Museum, on his changed the Parisian landscape involves the use of chemicals, signature canary yellow paper. as they brought “a richly vibrant and the non-mixing properties of Printmakers found they were visual culture” to magazines and oil and water. “Greasy ink” is newspapers which, enlight­ used to create a design on a ened people to “both fine and stone such that print ink is decorative arts.” drawn to it and repelled by Despite its feverish rise the area left blank. Unlike to popularity, this art form traditional printmaking, litho­ disappeared as quickly as it graphs often contained was born. After the death of vibrant colors never seen Toulouse-Lautrec in 1901, before in print. The guide to (who was closely connected the exhibit states, “the to the artists of the Nabis) style...was one of bold lines, inspiration was lost and litho­ simplified forms bordering graphy seemed an old fad. on the abstract [with] twoAlthough the exhibit is dim ensional space, and relatively small, it is an inter­ unmodulated planes of flat, esting piece of history and— colour.” it's free. “Gaugin to Novice artists were T oulouse-Lautrec, French swept away by the compara­ Prints of the 1890’s” is an tive ease of the medium, and interesting exploration of the in 1888 many became part of birth of a new form of public a new group called, The art. Observing art that was Nabis. The group was coined, created with the publid in after the Hebrew word for mind makes us look at adver­ prophets—Nebiim . Inspired tising in a new way.

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mainstage. With Brisindi’s talents makes for a more thorough under­ for exploiting the radiance of the standing of the complexity of the human form, and Selkirk’s expert characters.

The McGill English direction, the actor’s do a remark­ Department’s movement based To go into too much depth on able job of manipulating their bod­ the way in which the play evolves, adaptation of Tenessee Williams’ A ies and personalities in an effort to would be to defeat the purpose of Streetcar Named Desire is some­ symbolically portray the the production itself. Therefore, I what reminiscent of childhood: a world of lust, greed, betrayal refrain from any explanations of time when emotions raged pure and and resignation that are pre­ the plot and will not expand on the unharnessed, when dreams were sent in A Streetcar. real, and boundaries were tested story line. I do so for one reason fearlessly.

There is another aspect and one reason only: this is a play of the production that must that is most definitely worth seeDirector Myrna Wyatt Selkirk and the students of 110-375A col­ not go without mention: the ing. laborated to create this emotionally costumes. Costume designer It does not matter if you have Catherine Bradley and her never read or seen A Streetcar, for and spiritually draining production that, like many of us did during our students have outdone them­ Selkirk has done a magnificent job childhood, tests boundaries. The selves. The costumes not of weaving together all the ele­ only compliment the set and ments necessary for audience com­ show in its entirety can be broken the characters’ personalities, prehension. The show’s relentless down into many different and but they seem to truly high­ pace will have you mesmerized for equally powerful elements which light the individual actors’ the full hour. It is a bombardment each work to support the final most striking features. A of images, symbols, and text, that product. The set, costumes, chore­ truly stunning addition to the kept me hanging on each picture ography and direction all come overall radiance of the pro­ and wanting more. I felt like a together delicately to reveal the duction.

F o r enchanting relationship of one of child watching a horror film those of you who that are through her fingers, knowing that I America’s most famed couples. familiar with the play, I can may not be able to handle that Selkirk has chosen to adapt the guarantee you that no matter which was still to come, and yet script in such a way that regardless what version of it you have completely unable to separate of the lack of constant discourse— , , seen, and no matter how myself from it: too involved to turn 3 at the bather Phillip _.

Trippenbach Selkirk and the class made the Pointing many times you have read it, the television off. decision to abandon a majority of the original text-little is lost. throughout the show in a manner you have never experienced A If you are in the mood for a Rather, Selkirk has gracefully which not only aids the spectator in Streetcar as it has been interpreted catharsis, or if you just want to woven together images and sym­ maintaining a temporal under­ by Selkirk and her collective. come out of a performance feeling bols in such a way that the specta­ standing of the piece, but also There is not one, but a group of that your money was well spent, go tor is affected on a visceral level. serves to support and compliment Stanley’s. Not one, but a group of see the McGill mainstage. In giv­ Stella’s. And you guessed it, not ing one hour of your time to these The brilliance of Williams’ cre­ the on-stage action.

The work of choreographer one, but a group of Blanches. It is actors, it is in fact you who will ation unfolds before the spectators eyes so completely, that I found Annick Brisindi also plays an inte­ truly remarkable the way in which have gained something. myself forcibly torn between the gral role in the creation of the work each actor has managed to assimi­ beauty of the picture in front of me, as a whole. Brisindi has, once late a different aspect of the char­ A Streetcar plays at Moyse and the horror of the acts to which again, left her mark on the McGill acter into their performance, which Hall this week.

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Just about anyone would expect being cross-examined by Satan while in Hell a slightly overwhelming experience-right?

In the play Wilhelm Reich in Hell written by Robert Anton Wilson and directed by David Lewkowich and Taliesin McEnaney, William Reich (Terrence Metz) discovers that being cross examined in Hades is more than overwhelm­ ing— it’s plain bizarre.

With a trumpet blaring “ goat” (Dave Lewkowich); whis­ tles; a spastic, torquise lashed clown (superbly played by Heidi Rosbe); Playboy bunnies (Lauren Lareau and Hadji Bakara); and a bottom slapping Marquis de Sade (Becky Lazarovic), the play is a hallucinatory collage of characters that is by turns shocking,unpre­ dictable and chaotically hilarious.

The play begins with Dr. Wilhelm Reich, a psychologist and scientist who has far flung theories about an “emotional plague” which he believes to be the root of cancer, schizophrenia and war. He is dragged off into Hell, kicking and screaming.

Once there, he is forced defend his beliefs in the surreal “court” while being interrogated by the Marquis de Sade and her booty swatting clown, Masoch.

Reich finds himself in eclec­ tic company while on trial, with

Marilyn Monroe, Prince Peter Ouspensky (Raphael Cohen) and an ardent Comrade Kate (Yetide Badaki) not to mention the brigade of the American Medical Association making appearances on the witness stand. The scene in which the Association sing, “ We hate to say it but, he’s nothing but a nut” jingle is not to missed, par­ ticularly with the short but sweet singing solo by Yetide Badaki.

Dave Greenwood rules over the courtroom antics as Satan with malevolently sarcastic humor, rem inscent of his role in The LoudSpeaker. Greenwood’s per­ formance is largely responsible for lending the play it’s shock value, particularly when Satan fantasizes to the infamous nude Marilyn Monroe picture.

Each of Reich’s beliefs is challenged, wrung out and hung to dry, with Reich hollering his convictions from beginning to end, save for a few select scenes in which he comically and rela­ tively calmly makes his defense.

The scene in which Reich makes his final defense, singing part of it, is when Reich truely won the audience over.

Granted, Reich is in Hell being sporadically swatted by a manaical clown — not the best of circumstances to be in, but the play could have toned down some of the character’s screaching and yelling. The script, acting, cos­ tumes and overall flamboyancy of

the play could have easily sus­ tained it’s dramatic tone even without some of the overdone vocals. Louder doesn’t equal bet­ ter or funnier. Pointedly, Zim Pickens (alternately playing the characters Bailiff #!, Abbyjerry Hoffrubin and Calley Eichmann) steals the show with his compara­ tively quieter role(s) which are amply entertaining despite the tamer tone.

The play hits it’s stride after a rather lackluster beginning, with Satan “ rapping” unconvincely away to the weak tempo of the M arquis de Sade and Masoch slapping their thighs. While the mid-section of the play is held together by a com bination of entertaining characters and chore­ ographed scenes, the ending, in which the phantasmagoric sce­ nario dissipates into a “ it was just a play” framework is disappoint­ ing in contrast to the bulk of the production. A play of this intensi­ ty deserves to go out with a bang but it doesn’t.

William Reich In Hell was wacky, wild and not for those looking for a quiet evening of the­ atre. With a host of bold charac­ ters, an unapologetic script and a strong cast this play warrants a repeat session.

Wilhelm Reich in Hell is no longer showing, but stay tuned for the upcoming M cGill Drama Festival.

Immediately and for 2000/2001 The publications office of SSMU is seeking someone to layout and design ads for*the McGill Tribune, the most widely read student n e w sp a p e r. You must be well organised, dependable, and able to work a flexible schedule. Knowledge of computer graphics and artistic flair are MAJOR assets. Expertise in Quark, Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator is also ESSENTIAL.

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Gordon Eriksens new no budget film The Love Machine is a very odd little film. It is neither a satire, nor is it completely serious about its subject matter. The small documentary examines the double lives of people who maintain per­ sonal Internet sex sites, and how their public personas are very dif­ ferent from their alter egos on the web.

The film begins when docu­ mentary filmmaker Becca (no last name) discovers an Internet web­ site called thelovemachine.com where people post anonymous erotic pictures and stories of them­ selves and their lovers. She finds and interviews the creator of the website, NYU computer science graduate student Marcus. With some prodding, Marcus gives Becca a list of people within the University who maintain pages on his site on the condition that the website or his name are never mentioned to these people. At this point, the film gets rolling as Becca finds and interviews the people on the list with the pretense that she is making a student movie. Among the characters are Julio, a tenured professor who has pictures of students he has slept with on his site Machotime; Beverly, a librarian who has a very active fantasy life; and Akira , a photography student who denies that he is gay even though his site has naked pictures of him and his lover.

All these people deny that they use computers for anything other than word processing.

Repeated attempts to get them to reveal their secret internet lives are not sucessful as they have all spent a great deal of time at seperating their private lives from their public lives. None of these people are bizarre eccentrics and all appear to be regular people from different walks of life.

The Internet gives them an outlet to express parts of them­ selves that the rest of society in the real world would find disturb­ ing. Becca’s inability to get these

characters to open up forces her to become more direct and she shows some of them their own websites.

As expected, everybody is angered that they have lost their anonymity. On the Internet others only know what these people want them to know, the unpleasant parts of their character are kept private.

Julio's site gave them a way to tell the world of his conquests without threatening his professional or family life. When he is discov­ ered and subsequently harassed, the real world is intruding on his imaginary life. He becomes angry and violent as a Way of not dealing with his new situation.

Parts of the film are painful to watch. As Becca starts accusing her subjects of lying to her for not disclosing their Internet lives, one wonders is it really any of her business? In many instances she treads a thin line between forcing these people to admit who they are, and prying in on their lives. It is like Candid Camera taken to an extreme. She subtly hints to Akira that she believes that he is gay, but doesn’t want to break the heart of his sweet fiancé Kyoko.

Coming out of the closet is very hard for him; it ruins his plans to return to his family in Japan. N evertheless, though Becca is destroying the comfort­ able equilibrium of his life, she is also helping him come to terms with who he really is. It is unclear whether or not she is helping or hurting him.

At one point, the filmmaker says that she believes the Internet is not the collective conscious of all its users, but their collective unconscious. In this film this is certainly true, though it is less about the Internet than how it affects the lives of those who use it. In focusing on the lives of par­ ticular individuals, the movie explores this theme on a very per­ sonal level and avoids forming too many generalizations about “Internet culture” as a whole.

The Love Machine is playing now at Cinema du Parc.

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Exploring Sugar and the buzz on the MUS fashion show

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Rumour has it that Sugar is the place to be on Wednesday nights. This roving reporter and friends decided to check it out.

2:00 PM: We call the promoter, Bob Tarie, on his cell phone to let him know of our visit. He tells us tonight should be particularly busy because he's bringing in the mod­ els from the Management Undergraduate Society fashion show.

10:55 PM: Someone should sue the builders of Sugar for visual

special tonight, I'm expecting a crowd of management students, but Bob contends the crowd will include a varied bunch. “I’m in Education myself, and because I did the frosh coordination, I have freshmen coming in, and most of my friends are in fourth year. It’s pretty diverse.”

11:25 PM: If Bob wants Sugar to become the place to be on Wednesday nights, he's on the right track with his choice of DJs. The first, unidentified DJ plays quality tracks like Macy Gray's "Do Something", while the sec­ ond, DJ Jester, has an ear for giv­

pollution.

Those two stat­ ues belong in a n o t h e r

decade, or at least on anoth­ er street. We're ushered in to meet Organizer Bob, who's busy making sure everything is ready for the opening at eleven. Bob's the consum­ mate host:

fashion show, set to occur in March. The private aspect of the night is confirmed by the fact that people not on the list haven't been able to get in. Bob reassures us this is an exceptional situation.

12:10 AM: The crowd is getting dense, and it's time to go see what the downstairs washrooms look like.

12:13 AM: A girl is trying to fig­ ure out which is the women’s washroom. The doors are adorned by pictures of the outside statues, so you can’t blame her for being confused. In the end it doesn’t matter, because she gets into the men’s washroom with some guy.

In the washroom, you have a choice of a stall with a door, and a stall with a cur­ tain. Couldn’t they afford two doors?

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extremely sociable, Striking a pose at the Sugar polite. In addi­ tion to taking over Sugar every Wednesday, he's ing the crowd exactly what it a fourth year education student at wants. He’s scheduled to DJ at the McGill. He makes it look easy, but Spectrum on Sunday. despite his bed hair, we suspect he 11:45 PM: The photographer has doesn't get much sleep. set up Bob and the models in the 11:15 PM: Sugar's grotesque exte­ back, and the whole thing looks so rior is misleading. The interior is professional we're starting to feel designed for comfort, with couch­ like Ocean Drive writers. es set as little alcoves, a small dancing area way in the back by 11:50 PM: Bob had provided us the D.J. booth, and lighting pro­ with our own bottle of vodka, but vided by red Chinese lamps. The by the time we return from the crowd is sparse, but it’s still early. back, there’s none left. Time to go “We’ve been at capacity, 205 peo­ ask him for some bar coupons. ple, consistently since Christmas break except during Carnival. It's 12:00 AM: We're still unclear as been word-of-mouth for the past to how this all relates to the MUS month and a half,” explains Bob. fashion show. A choreographer Pretty impressive for a Wednesday explains to me that tonight is a pri­ night. Because of the fashion show vate party to help promote the

W here’s Bob when we need him? Sugar has a mirrorball-deerCryslal Wreden head on the wall. You have to see it to believe it. "Return of the Mack" is playing, so we decide to go outside and talk to people waiting to get in.

12:33 AM: There are 15 people

It's all sugary smiles for the beautiful people waiting outside. We talk with a dreadheaded French-Canadian guy who’s never been inside, but heard about the “belles chicks” that are supposed to be there. He’s been waiting outside for half an hour, and despite the cold, he’s still determined to get in. The next per­ son we talk to, a McGill senior, explains that this is her regular spot because “the music is good, the guys aren’t too sleazy, every­ body respects your space, [and] the drinks are great.”

12:40 AM: A lot of lascivious dancing going on. Bob wasn’t lying, the place is packed.

12:50 AM: We finally find some­ one who can provide more infor­ mation on the fashion show.

Emmanuelle Khoury, the assistant director states, “The date is March 24, and it’s going to be in the W indsor Train Station, we’re making it a bigger-scale event. It's an AIDS benefit fashion show, run

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by the MUS, and all benefits go to the Farha foundation.” Over.the years, the show has raised more than $50,000.

1:00 AM: We spot our dreadhead­ ed friend. He's annoyed that he had to give $20 to the bouncer to get in.

1:15 AM: Because one of us has a midterm in eight hours, we decide to call it a night. Our job here is done, and our investigation con­ firms what people have been say­ ing: if you want to go out on Wednesday, Sugar is the place to be. Not only does it attract a great crowd, but it’s run extremely pro­ fessionally by a McGill student who could do this for a living if he didn’t want to become a teacher.

The MUS fashion show takes place on March 21. Go to http://www.musonline. com/events/ events.htm fo r details. Sugar is located at 3616 St-Laurent.

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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble traces black music across two continents E H E s h a k e s it u p w ith M a rim b a , b e lls , ta lk in g d ru m s , c h im e s a n d A fric a n t h u m b p ia n o

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For those of you who are exhausted by the Montreal winter and the stress of midterms, relief is closer than you think— and no, I don’t mean reading week. I am talking about the World Beat Lounge’s Black History Month concert series.

The first installment, this past week, was headlined by eclectic and spiritual Chicago-based trio the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble.

With the crowd nicely toasted by the percussive Senegal sounds of openers Obuku, EHE performed a set that proved that music is the universal language.

Led by drummer/percussionist and founder Kahil El’zabar, and joined by trombonist/percussionist Joseph Bowie and saxophonist/percussionist Ernest “Khabeer” Dawkins, the group provided rhythms and melodies that acted as a history lesson, illus­ trating the journey of Black’s from Africa to North America. This mélange of sounds encompassed tribal beats, slave hymns and more progressive be-bop and free jazz.

The show began with an Ornette Colman-esque number.

El’zabar’s kit was finally tuned, his toms acting as the bass, while his other three limbs lay the foun­ dation for the groove. The horns

provided a dissonant melody that succeeded in unhinging the audi­ ence’s imaginations, jolting them in to what would be almost twohours of sensory candy.

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sively dynamic, more extraordi­ nary was EHE’s ability to create a mood in which everyone could fully share the experience.

The audience seemed particu­ larly moved during “Katon”, a bal­

Kahil EiSabar of the EHE abandon the rhythm instruments and explore the sounds of the African thumb piano or the Marimba. This allowed Bowie and Dawkins to explore world beats on the congas, bells, talking drums, or chimes that were attached to their ankles. Though their musicianship was impres­

lad that had powerful melancholic tones. The horns carried the melody and Bowie and Dawkins created wind-like sounds by play­ ing in a way that allowed the audi­ ence to hear their breath pass through their respective instru­ ments. El’zabar took an inspiring thumb piano solo that was com­

plemented beautifully by the aux­ iliary percussion. The song seemed to be unconscious of time—flowing serenely and effort­ lessly from the trio’s fingers— teaching the audience that patience is truly a virtue.

It is often easy to forget that music is not only about tech­ nique and melody, and as a reviewer it is even more diffi­ cult to discuss the intangibles that enhance a show. All that can be said is that EHE provid­ ed a religious­ like experience that could not only be seen and heard, but felt, tasted and smelt (perhaps even a Sandon Shogilev sixth sense of sorts was also awoken). I have never seen God, but there is good reason to believe that these three have, because their music suggests a close relationship with the divine.

The World Beat Lounge was exceptional in establishing the ambiance of the evening. The

open room was nicely carpeted, encouraging its patrons to park themselves close to the action. The exotic fruit drinks contributed to the atmosphere, and the flavourful Ginger Tonic was an experience in itself. An enthusiastic kudos must go out to organizer and promoter of the event, Andy Williams. The evening was flawless and his pres­ ence had a great impact in creating a warm and hospitable atmos­ phere.

Music is a great emotional and spiritual provider, and last Thursday, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble taught a lesson much greater than that found in a text book. During the last number, Dawkins encouraged the crowd to chant, “We are Black M usic.”

Though EHE's sound celebrated this statement, this description is lim iting to what they actually achieve. They are world music— their performance reminding us that we are all one nation under a groove.

EHE has set a high standard for the Black History Month music series that continues this Thursday with a performance by Billy Robinson at the World Beat Lounge (1590 St. Laurent). If this is a sign of what is to come, it would be safe to predict that the Messiah will be in Montreal by the end of February.

Gutsy viola performance breathes new life into Bach B y S ue K r a c h in s k y

This is not your grandmoth­ er’s viola music.

Laura Wilcox’s performance at Pollack Hall on February 9 began as one might expect. The suite #2 in D (from the unaccom­ panied suites) by Bach was a love­

ly piece, ideal for bringing out the rich tones of the viola, an instru­ ment that is rarely showcased in solo works.

In her programme notes, Wilcox states, “I try to approach every new piece of music as I would a solo work of Bach (mean­ ing that the majority of rich pieces

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This proved to be a fitting introduction for the rest of the show, which focused on modem, experimental pieces for the viola.

The comparison and contrast of Bach with contemporary works was an intelligent approach, which legitimized the value of these new pieces.

The premiere performance of Tim Brady’s “Struck Twice By Lightning,” which was written for Wilcox, was a perfect example of this modern experimentation.

Brady made the instrument and the music almost secondary to the drama of this piece, which is very rare. Form and musicality seemed to matter less than the intended poetic overtones and the illustra­

tion that he was trying to evoke.

Though not tonal or especially pleasing to the ear, “Struck Twice

by Lightning” was a poetry of noise, both interesting and effec­ tive.

Ligeti’s “Sonata for solo viola” created an ethereal illusion of space with a compelling and, at times, dreamlike texture. It was easy to get lost in the music, yet, the lack of percussion or ear-catch­ ing changes made it difficult to fol­ low the progression of the work.

By far, the most effective piece of the night was the “Cronicas II” by Sergio Barroso, inspired by the work of Hispanic writer J.V. Foix. The full title in English means “chronicles from beyond dreams,” and is a fitting

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The synthesizer began the piece with a gentle tinkling that summoned the imaginative, beauti­ ful feeling of the dream state.

Underneath this delicate ringing, began a tense and eerie build-up.

The viola added wonderfully to this tension which, seemed to come from behind the music. The journey and revelation of the frightening climax invoked the nightmarish monsters that loom in the back of one’s mind. The end­ ing was so charged that it was like waking from a dream. If only everyone could hear their psyche this clearly.

Barroso has taken the inexplicable part of our inner workings and given it a musical vocabulary. By showcasing these three exciting modem pieces next to a timeless composer like Bach, Wilcox makes a convincing point: The experiments of today may be the old standards of the future.

Wilcox urges her audience to reassess the traditional ways in which they view the value of musi­ cal pieces.

These experimental works may not have the ear pleasing musicality of the established baroque and classical composers, but the dramatic energy and the courage of experimentation give the pieces a poetic universality that enhances their worth.

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Into the depths of madness: Aguirre the Wrath of God Wemer Herzog's haunting film Aguirre the Wrath o f God is a movie about a man's descent into madness. Set in 1560, it tells the story of Gonzolo Pizarro's doomed expedition to find the lost city of El Dorado deep in the jungles of Peru.

It is based on Father Gaspar de Carvajal's journal which, is the only record of the actual journey.

The film opens with a scene of Pizarro's expedition scaling the mist covered hills of the Peruvian rain forest. Dressed in battle armor, the men traverse the rugged terrain carrying their women in covered carriages. They look dressed for an outing in the Spanish country side, not a journey into the middle of the jungle thousands of miles from home. Thick brush and deep mud halt the large expedition, and Pizarro sends a smaller team fur­ ther up the river to search for El Dorado. The smaller dispatch is lead by a nobleman with the cruel Aguirre (Klaus Kinski). After get­ ting through a set of rapids, they build rafts and drift down the river looking for the lost city. The thick jungle presents no suitable shore on

which to land, and as they drift along, one of the rafts becomes trapped in a whirl pool. From across the river, the hidden eye of the camera watches as the oar men

deeper Aguirre descends into mad­ ness, and the further he takes his men with him.

The natives are everywhere watching the helpless raft stuck in the middle of the river with the strange looking T h e Film Buff men on board.

When they drift past a small vil­ lage and voices are heard, a native slave says struggle in a futile attempt to free they are saying "Fresh meat comes the raft. down the river." Arrows silently During the night, a canon and wisp out of the jungle hitting the muskets are heard going off and in desperate men in the back and the morning all the men on the raft neck. Others start dying due to jun­ are dead. The cause of their death gle diseases, yet Aguirre pushes is not important except as an indi­ them on. cation of what will happen in the He drafts a document naming course of the journey. The leader of all lands found on the expedition to the expedition is arrested and be ceded from the Spanish Empire Aguirre sets up Fernando de and to be controlled by the new Guzman, a man who he can easily Emperor Guzman—even though control, as the new leader. Aguirre there is no shore in sight for them ruthlessly pushes the men to the to stake a claim. Despite the fact brink of starvation and disease as they are in the jungle, the men still they drift ever more slowly through insist on following formal the heat. The further they go, the European tradition. Aguirre is tried

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for treason (because of his drafting of the aforementioned documents) in an official court with witnesses, defense and prosecution with chat­ tering animals in the background.

This reflects the attempt made by those in charge to maintain formal order in an environment character­ ized by madness.

The wild Klaus Kinski, who starred in four other Herzog pic­ tures, gives a haunting performance as Aguirre. The role is as much physical as it is vocal. Kinski plays Aguirre with his eyes bulging, lips pulled back and body hunched over. It is hard to think of another actor who could have done this role as well as Kinski did.

The music is as much a part of the film as the action. Unusual equipment produces eerie other­ worldly sounds that echo like the voice of the jungle. The soundtrack sets up the mood for the entire piece and often acts as foreshadow­ ing.

Herzog has made some of the strangest and most powerful movies in modern cinema. His films are like Apocalypse Now or

Leo's massive skull, puny body loom in B y C h r is t ia n L a n d e r

Before anyone even saw The Beach, two criticism s were inevitable: one, the book is better and two, the movie is just Lord of the Flies all over again.

The second point is easier to address than the first. Thanks to the brilliant marketing team behind the trailers for this movie, we have seen nothing but death, daring escape and Leo yelling “I will not die today!” From those clips the film is made out to look like a bunch of refined adults turn­ ing into savages after leaving the constrictive rules of society. In actuality, the movie reflects quite the opposite since the film deals with the oppressive rules that gov­ ern the beach community. Because the scenes in the trailer are mostly from the last fifteen minutes of the film, they end up selling some­ thing that the movie doesn’t deliv­ er.

The argument that the book is superior is a bit tougher to gauge.

Those who enjoyed the book will be disappointed by the sacrifices made for the time restriction of an hour and a half. More specifically, many of the tensions between characters that the book builds up over the chapters must be created instantaneously in the movie. The

best example is Richard’s (Leonardo Di Caprio) hatred of community member Bugs (Lars Arentz Hansen). In the book, there

It's hard to have a huge head are more chances for interaction between the two men as well as more analysis from Richard about why they are so antagonistic. In the movie this translates into Richard saying “I didn’t like Bugs,” and a rather predicatble tension created over Bugs girl­ friend Sal (Tilda Swinton).

Though this relationship lacks complexity, the film version actu­ ally has some plot variations that are an improvement on the book— namely the addition of more sex and violence to the story line. In the book, Richard and Françoise

(Virginia Ledoyen) never become romantically involved. Hollywood changed that causing her to dump her French boyfriend and begin a relationship with Richard. Also in the book, Sal is depicted as rather unattractive, but in the movie she’s much better look­ ing and Richard has sex with her too. As for vio­ lence, calling it increased may be an exaggeration since there are no extra murders, but Press Shot the graphic footage makes it feel more violent than a textual description. So, the film is not Lord of the Flies, nor is it a direct and faithful translation of the book. So what is it?

The Beach is actually a pretty mediocre film peppered with price-of-admission-worthy ele­ ments. Stars sell tickets, and the actors in this movie should sell a boatload. Heart-throb Leonardo DiCaprio could release a movie of him eating breakfast and make $50 million. Give him a real movie and the receipt should at least equal that. His newfound celebrity status

after Titanic helped him consume food and supermodels at roughly the same speed. The producers let him know that he needed to hit the gym for this movie to try and put on some muscle. For the most part he succeeds, but his body is still not big enough to balance out his massive skull. The secondary star of the film, Virginia Ledoyen, is clearly overshadowed by Leo when it comes to fame, but as far as sex appeal and acting go she’s got him beat.

2001 A Space Odyssey in their vision. He uses exotic locations and bizarre stories to show audiences new sights that are more original and awe inspiring than most mod­ em day special effects extravagan­ zas. His other films include Nosferatu, which is still probably one of the creepiest versions of Bram Stoker's tale of the vampire and Fitzcaraldo the story of a man who wants to build an opera house in the middle of the jungle and drags a 320 ton ship over a small mountain to realize this goal.

Aguirre the Wrath o f God, however, is clearly Herzog's most powerful film. The piece works as a whole—effacing plot and struc­ ture leading the audience on a jour­ ney. It has one of the most haunting endings of any film made to date leaving indelible images in the viewers' mind. In comparison with the banal Hollywood movies that presently dominate the theatres, this film is a testament to what can be accomplished in film.

Beach

credits. During the actual movie there are maybe five or six shots that show the film was shot on location. It’s a shame that he would have all of these fantastic rolls of film and not use them until the credits when most of the audi­ ence is leaving.

Finally, the soundtrack is one of the best in recent years. The artists read like a music hipsters shopping list: blur, UNKLE, Moby, Junkie XL, Leftfield, and Asian Dub Foundation. The songs mesh perfectly with scenery, the characters, and the settings. So, if you read the book, you’ll have a solid enough under­ standing of the plot to fully under­ stand absolutely everything that takes place. If you haven’t read the book, then you will be left with some lingering H e c a n 't s ta n d u p b ecau se his h e a d 's to o b ig press shot questions about the plot. In both Shooting in Thailand, director cases you’ll be provided with Danny Boyle was more than able some candy for your eyes and ears, to showcase the natural beauty of and in the end we can ask for little the South Pacific but hoards the else to create a positive movie gorgeous footage until the closing experience?

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Celebrating non-traditional families

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“Wouldn’t it bother you if your parents were gay?”

That was what one of my friends back home had to say on the subject of gay and lesbian fami­ lies. The idea of gay, les.bian, bisexual and two-spirited people (GLBT-S) families still seems to bother many individuals. The exhibit, “Love Makes A Family,” put on by M cGill’s Project Interaction, is trying to change our

They are pictures one might find in a small-town family room or on the desk in an office which, convey the aims of the project through their personal nature.

Family values The whole point of Love Makes A Family is to show the public that GLBT-S families, or “alternative families” as they’re often called, are completely normal and that the whole basis of a family is love, not sexuality.

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conceptions of family.

“Love Makes A Family” is a traveling exhibit from the U.S. which features photographs and texts about GLBT-S families.

Project Interaction’s Kim Meyer says, “it’s sort of a visual depiction that goes along with the stories so rather than just having a whole bunch of texts, [the photos] actual­ ly let you see the family...the way they are together.”

The exhibit has been criticized for it’s lack of photographic quali­ ty. However, Meyer says that the real purpose of “Love Makes A Family” is the stories behind the photographs.

“The photographs aren’t meant for their photographic value...[they] are beautiful, but the message is in the people in the photographs.”

tured in the exhibit explains, “We are real people, not a lifestyle, a behavior, or a way of being.”

“A lot of people don’t see [GLBT-S families] as normal or as healthy for the children...there’s tons of reasons why many people don’t think that gays and lesbians should have kids,” said Meyer.

“We aren’t the perpetrators of hatred," says Doug Robinson, another man featured in the exhibit.

"We are the ones who are living our lives trying to pass on the same good values that our families passed on to us. These folks who are against us are the ones who are hurting our children, not us.”

A child's experience The exhibit also looks at this

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issue through the eyes of children.

The exhibit uses testimonies from kids serve to underline the normal­ cy of this family dynamic. Elevenyear-old Sol Kelley-Jones says, “I am a really lucky kid because 1 have two parents who love each other and love me very much. Not everyone is lucky enough to have two great parents, so I know I have a lot to be thankful for.” Another child, nine-year-old Amy Lavandier puts it simply. “All I know is that I love my mom, and I really like my mom’s girlfriend. I keep bugging her because I want her to marry my mom. That’s all.”

Meyer discussed the many obstacles to societal acceptance in saying, “ [Homosexuality] is becoming more accepted but by no means is it accepted. Lesbians and gays still don’t have the right to marry. There’s tons of politics out there that prevent them from being what is accepted with a het­ erosexual couple as a fami­ ly. I mean, as the title says, 'Love Makes A Family' and that’s what it should be all about.”

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Mission of project interaction Project Interaction, an initia­ tive organized through the McGill School of Social Work, is a fairly new program dedicated to the health and well-being of the Queer community. They are hoping to provide services that may include counseling, community/political organizing, advocacy, education and training for and about the Queer community.

Although the project’s orga­ nizers recognize the contribution and good that other, already estab­ lished groups such as Queer McGill are doing, Meyer says that Project Interaction was formed to fill in the gaps in gay-positive ser­ vices in the Montreal community.

“There’s tons of services out here and in no way am I saying hat they’re not good at what they io. There’s also tons of services hat aren’t out there, especially low-cost services or free services,” she states.

This exhibit is informative, moving, and definitely worth a because, as Robert Cooper says in his essay, “It’s very important for people to understand that love makes a family. Without love, there is no family. Gay and lesbian parents have the same power of love as anyone else. All they do is love their children and try to do their best to raise a family.”

“Love Makes A Family" is available fo r viewing MondayFriday, February 14-18th from 9am - 6pm in the Social Work Building Basement (3506 University). For more information, call 398-7055.

For more information of Project Interaction, visit their office at 3506 University, room #313, phone 398-7055.

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Ethnic Heritage Ensemble Freedom Jazz Dance Delmark Saxophonist Ernest Daw kins, trom bonist Joseph Bowie, and percussionist Kahil ETZabar have been together sinçe the 1970s. Never have they dropped som ething like this.

The title, named after an Eddie Harris tune, is appropriate. The term freedom alerts us to the open-ended m usings of both horn players, though it is Dawkins whose quick phrases and breathy sounds most clearly recalls the fierce playing of Ornette Coleman. His abstract m elodic departures are best heard on the fairly slow "Katon."

The term jazz alerts us to the strong tics that the band mem­

bers have to the jazz idiom , despite lacking the usual har­ monic rooting of a piano and bass. Tunes like the traditional "This L ittle Light of M ine” reveal the blues/gospel influ­ ences that unexpectingly perme­ ate in their music. And then there is the term dance. Freedom Jazz Dance is replete with polyrhythmic African percussion that make the listner want to move — not in that sort of "style I'm dancing in a club so come grind with me baby" way, but in a more entranced, focused, sub­ tle fashion. In the music of the EHE, one can hear the transfor­ mation and fusion of African, European, and wholly American sounds that precipitated the development and growth of jazz as a whole. Though some may brand what the the EHE plays Jazz, others may choose to call it World Music. The distinction, however, is somewhat arbitrary.

What counts is that what they play is good.

(See concert review of EHE on page 24) — by Sandon Shogilev

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Redmen hockey loses to future playoff opponent Redmen bounbce back to defeat Ottawa Gee-Gees, but lose top centre Dave Gourde for season B y Pa u l C o n n e r

The playoff picture was set a week ago, with the Redmen hockey team second, sandwiched between then-undefeated l’Université de Québec à Trois Rivières and Concordia.

Last weekend’s games were gravy — an opportunity in one to get a feel for a team they’ll be fac­ ing come the postseason, and, in the second, to work on the details.

Or so it seemed at the time.

Two days later, the Redmen had been shown up by the Stingers, 9-6, and were without their top-line centre, Dave Gourde. Gourde, the team’s second-leading scorer, left part-way through Sunday’s 8-2 win over Ottawa with a broken leg and will miss the rest of the season.

In front of a near-full house at Concordia Arena, the Redmen took an early lead but simply made too many mistakes to win.

“In a way, we’re kind of glad we got our ass kicked, said Redmen hockey head coach Martin Raymond, adding that his team hadn’t played well the weekend before despite a pair of wins over York and Laurentian.

The team, closing out its best season in over a decade, had been riding a four-game winning streak and were given a reminder not to take Concordia lightly as they pre­ pare for a three-game elimination series next week.

“We w eren’t prepared, we were too slow,” said Raymond on Monday. “They had jump on their side, we had none.”

After Concordia’s Martin Corbeil and McGill Mathieu Boisvert traded goals at the mid­ way point of the first frame, a flur­ ry of penalties left the Stingers with a 5-on-3. Good defence gave way to better offence seconds after the first penalty expired as Concordia took the lead for the first time.

Concordia simply outplayed the Redmen the rest of the night, despite a short-lived, mid-game comeback by McGill.

With nothing left to dispute in the standings, Raymond explained, his team had had a let down.

“On Friday, [The Stingers] were desperate. We played like we weren’t ready.”

The difference showed with just under five minutes left in the first. With McGill on the power play, a poor cross-ice pass led to one of a handful of Stinger break­ aways and gave left Alexandre Charette a shot on Menard.

Mathieu Fleury followed up on the rebound to give Concordia a twogoal advantage.

After M cGill’s comeback early in the second frame, the game settled down until André Plourde took a double-minor and tenminute misconduct penalty for roughing. On the ensuing powerplay, Concordia took the lead with two goals in a span of 22 seconds.

From there, the Stingers never looked back, outlasting the Redmen 9-6.

least. The winner of the RedmenStinger series will face UQTR for a three-game title matchup in TroisRivières.

Raymond summed the week­ end’s events nicely.

“When you don’t have the edge, you’re a different team,” he said, reffering to both the Redmen and the Patriotes. “It’s the differ­ ence between playing a practice round of golf and a tournament.”

— additional reporting by Jennifer Lorentz Concordia 9. McGill 6

Gourde out on Sunday “We had an excellent practice on Saturday,” Raymond said after Sunday’s 8-2 win over a disap­ pointing 1999-’00 Ottawa GeeGees team.

Team captain Mathieu Darche led the Redmen with a hat-trick in the first period, while goaltenmder Luc Vaillancourt, returning from a leg injury suffered in practice last month, stopped 18 of 20 shots against for the win.

Gourde’s injury took place partway through the second period.

After apparently catching his skate blade in the ice, the country’s thirdleading scorer was hit and fell awk­

Redmen captain Mathieu Darche prepares for shot

Redmen need to be sharper come playoff time wardly to the ground. On Monday, Raymond confirmed that Gourde’s injury will sideline him for the rest of the year.

“He’s out for the season. But that’s the way it goes,” he said.

Gourde will be missed. On a team known for having two attack­ ing lines which have generaterated the most most offensive production in the country, losing the team’s first-line centre will mean having to undergo adjustments.

“It will change the make-up of this team, but it gives us an oppor­ tunity to show that we’re not a one- or two-line team and [show our strength as two-way team].

We’re not going to mourn about it,” he said.

T r a v e l li n g back from Ottawa Sunday evening, the Redmen learned that Concordia had defeated UQTR earlier in the day, giving the Patriotes their first regular-season loss of the season.

Asked how his players reacted to the news, Raymond was blunt. paui Conner

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“We don’t really care,” he said. “There were no reaction on the bus. It doesn’t change our situa­ tion, because it was a meaningless game.”

For both McGill and Concordia, however, UQTR’s loss must be a little encouraging at Concordia 9. McGill 6

at Concordia First Period 1. McG, Darche (pp) (Gourde, Burgess).................... 1:01 2. Ott, Turcotte (Johnston, Decaens)................. 2:00 3. McG, Davis (pp) (McClean)............................. 5:31 4. McG, Darche 2 (Gourde, Giroux)...................... 5:47 5. Ott, Benoit (Hall)................................... 6:57 6. McG, Darche 3 (Burgess, Gourde)................... 16:36 Second Period 7. McG, Grenier (M.Boisvert, Bahl)...................8:10 8. McG, Davis 2 (Perrault)............................ 12:44 9. McG, M.Boisvert (pp) (Bahl, Shell)......................... 13:49 ThirdPeriod 10. McG,Theriault (Lizotte, McClean).................... 4:56 Shots on goal 1 2 3 T McGill... ,. 13 8 10 -31 Ottawa.... 11 5 14 -30 Three Stars 1. Mathieu Darche, McGill 2. GregDavis, McGill 3. Stéphane Ducharme, McGill

Upcoming this week Redmen Hockey vs. Concordia, Corey Cup, Friday 7:30pm, vs.

UQTR, Saturday, 7:00 pm, At McConnell Aren.,

at Concordia First Period 1. McG, Rajotte • OUA Far East semi-final (Burgess).............................. 4:23 2. Cone, Corbeil (best-of-three), vs. Concordia, (Barrette, Pelchat)....................8:09 3. McG, Darche(pp) (M.Boisvert, Gourde)............... 10:20 1.Wednesday, 7:00 pm McConnell, 4. Cone, Pelchat (pp) (Fleury, Castonguay)................14:09 2.Thursday, 7:00 pm at Concordia, 5. Cone, Fleury(sh) 3.Saturday, 7:00 pm (TBC), (Charette)............................16:14 6. McG, Grenier (pp) McConnell (Rajotte).....................

17:25 Second Period Martlet Hockey, QSSF semifi­ 7. McG, Shell nal, vs. UQTR, Saturday 1pm, (Burgess, Rajotte).................... 4:05 8. Cone, Castonguay(pp) (Barette, Burazerovic)...............18:20 QSSF final (three game series,game 9. Cone, Barette (pp) (Castonguay)........................ 18:42 one) vs. Concordia, Sunday, 2pm, at Concordia ThirdPeriod 10. McG, Lizotte (Theriault, Ducharme)...........

3:10 Martlet Basketball vs.

11. Cone, Tilley (DiPaolo, Levac)...................... 3:53 Concordia, Thursday 6pm , vs.York, 12. Cone, Levac Saturday, 2pm, at Currie Gym (Fleury, Labossiere)................. 12:44 13. Cone, Burazerovic.................13:01 14. Cone, Charette (pp) (DiPaolo, Pelchat)....................14:16 Redmen Basketball vs.

15. McG, Gourde Concordia, Thursday 8 pm, vs York (Darche, Rajotte)....................17:33 A-497 Saturday, 4 pm, at Currie Gym Shots ongoal 1 2

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Women’s Volleyball QSSF semi-final (best-of-three): vs.

Montreal, Friday, 6 pm, at Montreal, Saturday, 7:30 pm, Sunday, 2 pm, at Currie Gym

Wily veteran Schafer imparts wisdom on young Martlet team Graduating senior has seen it all in her five years of college hoops

B y N ic o le C . R eese

Martlet guard Alison Schafer has seen some highs and lows in her five year tenure with the Martlets.

From Provincial champions and national sem i-finalists in Schafer’s rookie season, the Martlets have struggled in recent years with the graduation of sever­ al All-Canadians.

Through it all Schafer has been a mainstay for McGill. In this, her fifth and final season with the team, she has been able to translate her experience into tangi­ ble leadership on and off the court.

In her very first year at McGill, a time of adjustment for any student, Schafer was thrust into the limelight as a starter. That initial campaign was certainly a difficult for Schafer as she learned most of her lessons through mis­ takes. A season like that can be discouraging for any player, but Schafer’s exceptional basketball skills proved to be an asset to the team as she played a crucial role in McGill’s national championship title run.

While the Martlets haven’t been able to duplicate the success of the ‘95-’96 season, Schafer’s value to the team has grown sub­ stantially. While her play on the court has always been consistent, she has developed into a team leader, and role model for the younger players on the team as co­ captain with her long-time team­ mate and friend Jen De Leeuw.

“She’s a coach on the floor,” says Martlets head coach Lisen Moore. “Usually a player like that has to talk a lot, but Alison is not vocal, she just does what she

needs to do and leads by example.

Her influence on the younger play­ ers on this team has been invalu­ able.”

Long tradition with Moore Indeed, Moore has quite the history with Schafer. Not only has she coached her during her five years on the McGill team but she also guided her during her CEGEP years at John Abbott College.

Even during those formative years, Moore says Schafer, an honour roll student at John Abbott, was very serious and focused on improving her basketball skills.

“She’s never been a fancy, dribble the ball through the legs kind of player,” says Moore of Schafer’s level-headed attitude .

“She’s very efficient and she plays very tough defence. Above all she is a hard-worker who is committed to her teammates” Knowing the type of player Schafer was, Moore hoped that she could persuade her young star to join her at McGill. In the end, she had little to worry about since Schafer’s decision to come to McGill was purely in her best interest.

“I knew McGill was a good school academ ically,” says Schafer. “The Martlets were also a really good team in Quebec, and I had my mind made up about which school I was going to. They had everything I needed.”

In her first few seasons at McGill, Schafer was lucky enough to play with some very talented players including All Canadians Vicky Tessier and Anne

Gildenhuys. Both of those legendary Martlets served as very positive role models for Schafer.

“I learned so much from those two,” adds Schafer.

“They are some of the best basketball players I’ve ever seen, there was no way I couldn’t get better by just being around them.”

Maturity Schafer has exhibited determi­ nation in both her personality and in her playing tech­ niques through the five years she’s been at McGill. In the beginning, Schafer started as a com plim entary Schafer's presence will be missed next season player and has matured to the point where she.has preparing their younger players for the future. Schafer believes become a vital leader of the team.

Though Schafer certainly car­ there’s a lot of talent and potential ries a big load on her shoulders, on the young team despite its lack­ she is fortunate to have it consid­ lustre 2-14 record.

“They’re young and athletic. erably eased by her old friend and fellow teammate de Leeuw, with We have some good rookies, and whom she’s been playing with this season they’ve played and gained experience.” says an opti­ since the seventh grade.

“Jen has given me confidence mistic Schafer. “I’m sure the team throughout the years,” says will be more competitive by next Schafer. “She’s a great player, an season.”

While proud of all that she incredible leader, and just simply a has accomplished during her great shooter” As they both prepare to wrap McGill career, Shafer is somewhat up their careers as McGill Martlets dissapointed by her performance they have been working hard this season which hasn’t been up

photocredit to the level she had originally hoped.

“I haven’t been playing to my full potential this season,” says Schafer. “It’s frustrating to go out there and not be able really do what I know I can. I’m still posi­ tive though, we will all learn from this season and be better next year.”

It’s hard to believe, though, that the Martlets will be better team without the leadership and ability of Alison Schafer on the floor next season.

Martlets clinch second place in division with weekend wins Team clicking on all cylinders heading into first-round play-off series

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Revenge may or may not have been the objective for the McGill Martlets in Friday’s game. Either way, it their 4-0 win against the Ottawa Gee-Gees was satisfying.

Amey Doyle redeemed the Martlets’ 6-4 loss to Ottawa on January 22nd by stopping 17 shots for the shutout. At the offensive end, Julie Hornsby returned from serious injury in a big way by reg­ istering two goals and an assist.

Her offensive contribution was more than enough as the Martlets cruised to victory.

The win, combined with their 4-1 victory at UQTR on Sunday, clinched second place for the Martlets in the Quebec conference.

“They (the Gee-Gees) played well in Ottawa,” said coach Peter Smith refering to Ottawa’s only QSSF win this season, which came against McGill. “We were missing Sophie (Acheson) and Julie (Hornsby) at the time. It was a good learning experience for the team though.”

Smith saw the loss to Ottawa as a wake up call for the players.

McGill played that game without

its two top-scoring forwards, the penalty kill early in the period, team’s players would have to pick Cindy-Anne Carufel broke up a up the slack. The Martlets posted a play at the McGill blueline and got respectable 2-4-1 record during a breakaway on Danschinko. the absences. With Hornsby and However, she was unable to Acheson healthy, McGill is unde­ increase the lead to three.

Where Carufel failed, niably a much more dangerous Hornsby was able to succeed. team.

This was evident early on. During a stretch of 4-on-4 action, With the score 1-0 on a goal by Anna Cooper intercepted an errant Sarah Lomas, Hornsby dazzled the crowd with a highlight reel goal.

The third year social work major gathered the puck in the corner. She faked as if she might come in front but instead utilised her speed and swept around the net.

Before Ottawa goalie Natasha Danschinko could get across to cover the post, Hornsby had stuffed the puck into the net.

“We pressured the puck well tonight, forc­ ing them to make mis­ takes,” said Smith.

The pressure paid dividends again in the second frame. On a Photo Caption

clearing attempt by the Ottawa defence. Combining a slap shot and pass, Cooper hit Hornsby at the side of the net. With the Ottawa goalie out of position, Hornsby nonchalantly stepped out in front of the net and backhanded the puck in for her second goal of the game.

At the other end, Doyle, play­

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ing in place of Kim St-Pierre, had to make key saves at important times. Ottawa got its best chance of the second period while on the power-play when Doyle bailed her teammates out with a neat pokecheck on streaking Gee-Gees for­ ward Crystal Sauk.

Before the close of the second period, Sophie Acheson made the score 4-0 with a power play mark­ er. The play started with Acheson leaving the puck for linemate Hornsby. By throwing several moves on the goaltender, it seemed as if Hornsby would be rewarded with her third goal.

Hornsby was stymied, howe'ver by the Ottawa netminder who got her pads in front of Hornsby’s shot to deny her the hat trick. Acheson, smartly followed up the play and somehow jammed the uncovered rebound into the net.

“To their credit, they buried their chances,” remarked Ottawa head coach Normand Chouinard.

“We had only six to eight scoring chances.”

With the game well in hand heading into the third, the only question was whether Doyle Continued on page 3 7

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Swim team takes home women's crown at provincials B y Jeremy K u z m a r o v

McGill swimmers are indeed a dedicated bunch.

Practicing upwards of 30 hours per week, including almost daily morning practices com ­ mencing at the ungodly hour of 6:30 AM, members of the team are among the fittest athletes in the school.

And among the most domi­ nant in their sport.

For the second straight sea­ son, McGill took home the women’s and combined titles at the Quebec student sports federa­ tion championships held this past week-end in Sherbrooke.

“We won because we swam as a team ,” said McGill head coach Francois Laurin.

“Everybody worked so hard on the team this season, and their hard work paid off this week­ end.”

On the m en’s side, once again David Allard stole the show.

Last year’s winner of the D .Stuart Forbes trophy as McGill’s male athlete of the year, A llard was- named the QSSF swimmer of the year on Sunday.

On the week-end, Allard anchored a men’s team that was Short of swimmers because of injuries. He captured four gold medals including the 100 and 200 meter breast-stroke events, as well as in the 200 and 400 meter individual medley races.

While Allard was his usual dominant self, it was the out­ standing perform ance of the McGill’s women’s team which clinched the combined title.

Winning a total of 11 gold medals in 18 events, as well as three silvers, and one bronze, the women’s team was able to easily surpass its closest rival l’Université de Montreal, notch­ ing 307 compared with the

Carabins’ 228 points.

Senior swimmer Lisa Virgini, the McGill-adidas female athlete of the week came up with a par­ ticularly clutch showing.

The science senior from Dollard des Ormeaux captured four gold medals in the 100m backstroke, 200m backstroke, 50m backstroke, and one bronze in the 50m butterfly. Virgini was also a member of the gold-medal win­ ning 4x100m medley relay.

Elaine Duranceau was also able to rise to the occasion, notching three gold medals in the 400 meter freestyle, 200m indi­ vidual medley, and 800m freestyle and a silver in the 100 m buttefly to secure McGill’s third straight women’s provincial title.

“This was my third year com­ ing home with a banner and it feels great. Winning the com­ bined title feels wicked,” com­ mented elated women’s captain Sue McKay after the meet. “We were short four swimmers, the least of our worries being the case of the flu. But we were able to overcome the setbacks faced because of all of our hard work during the long season.”

The entire wom en’s team contributed to the victory.

Kerry Cregan struck gold for example in the 200 meter breast­ stroke, McKay won the 200 meter butterfly. In addition, Beth Carmody won the 200 meter freestyle, and Tara Kuchmach won the 400 meter individual medley. Besides winning the 4x100 meter medley relay, M cGill also took home the 4x200m freestyle relay.

Cregan also won silver in the 100m breaststroke, McKay was second in th 400m IM and Duranceau won silver in the 100m butterfly.

The men placed well too, fin­ ishing in second behind Laval despite missing four swimmers,

including Alex Pichette, who is training for the upcoming Olympics.

In addition to Allard’s gold medal performances, the 4x50 meter freestyle relay team of Max D esharnais, Phillipe Leblanc, Keith Sutherland, and Paolo Mangalindan graced the winner’s podium.

The McGill men’s team also captured three silvers and five bronze medals.

All in all, it was a very suc­ cessful weekend for the swim team which demonstrated that their intense year-round training is paying off. The long hours are more than just for honing their skills, i t ’s also to bond as a stronger unit. Even though swim­ ming is termed as an individual sport, there are few sports which are more team-oriented.

“Training is only part of the equation. When you have the sup­ port of your teammates it makes all the difference in the world,” said McKay. “When you’re in the water and you can see and hear your teammates cheering for you, which happens during each and every swim here, how can you lose?”

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M ale A th lete of the W eek

David A llard, from the Redmen swim team, is the male athlete of the week. The 20 year old com puter science sophomore from Dorval, Quebec won four gold medals in the QSSF championships and a silver. Last year’s McGill male athlete of the year was also chosen as the conference swimmer of the year.

Lisa Virgini, a swimmer for the Martlets, is the female ath­ lete of the week. The 23 year old Biochemistry student from Dollard des Ormeaux, Quebec won four gold medals and a bronze in last weekend’s QSSF championships, and was named female swimmer of the meet.

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Martlets volleyball heads into playoffs with big win Team clinches second place in the QSSF by sweeping rival Montreal Carabins at home

The Martlets' veteran powers and they seemed to lose momen­ serving."

"We varied the plays a lot," Ferland and Marie-Andreé Lessard tum afterwards."

Ferland added. "Everybody was The Martlets had a great alleach had huge matches, hitting For Lop teams, the regular sea­ playing their role, no one was try­ around game, with each member of hard and precise spikes to pace the son generally means little more than riding out the schedule in Martlet offence. contrast, anticipation for the playoffs. By However, last Friday's match at Montreal made Currie Gym between the fifth- n u m e r o u s ranked McGill Martlets and sev­ unforced errors enth-ranked Université de Montreal and left some Carabins was much more than a open holes that were easily typical regular season game.

With second place in the divi­ exploited by the sion and home-court advantage on M artlets’ deft The the line, the Martlets came out with offence. one of their finest performances of Carabins' hard­ the year, sweeping rivals Montreal hitting attack was 3-0 (26-24, 25-21, 25-18). Both additionally neu­ teams finished with a 6-6 season tralized for most record in the tough Quebec Student of the match by Sport Federation volleyball league, the solid play up but McGill gets the higher position front of Mariedue to their better head-to-head M i c h e l l e Corrigan and record.

"Finishing second in this Anouk Lapointe, ïeague is a good accomplishment," who had 13 kills. said Beliveau. "This is a very tough The defense was league, all four teams were in the outstanding, with Ferland, Lessard top ten for most of the year."

"This was a big win; we need­ and Elizabeth ed to go into the playoffs with con­ Jamieson each fidence," added Martlets captain having 11 digs.

The superb Marie-Claude Ferland. "Everybody played well, when that happens, it's defensive play Martlets use overpowering offense to take home court advantage in playoffs was best exempli­ much easier to win the match." on the The Martlets used aggressive fied play in the first set to build a 24-21 Martlets' winning point of the sec­ their starting lineup contributing a ing to compensate for another girl."

The standout performance in lead. After a time out, Montreal ond set, when the Carabins hit a large part to the victory. They con­ was able to keep the set going by couple of hard spikes straight into a sistently scored points in a variety the season finale bears good news of different ways, from soft lobs for the Martlets, who have steadily scoring three points to tie it up, but McGill wall of arms at the net. into holes in the Montreal defence, climbed the CIAU rankings The teams exchanged points the Martlets quickly responded with two of their own, including a for most of the third set. But with to hard spikes just inside the line. throughout the year. The team is huge block by setter Shauna McGill holding a 20-18 lead, This play was typical for most of now peaking at the right time, just Montreal hit the ball just outside the match, where the Carabins as the playoffs are starting.

Forster to win the first set 26-24.

"We worked really hard this Montreal started off the sec­ the line. The Martlets then rattled seemed to have difficulties in ond set strongly, and led 5-2. off five straight points to put away adjusting to the Martlets' play in all year to position ourselves in the top ten," said Beliveau. "It was a bit areas.

However, the Martlets showed a lot the match 25-18. difficult; we had some injuries, and "We worked a lot on all our "They (Montreal) didn't play of composure and ultimately turned the momentum their way in win­ their best game, but they didn't play skills before (this match)," said there were no breaks because all ning 12 of the next 16 points to badly," said Ferland. "We con­ Beliveau. "Our defence was much the teams in the league are very trolled the match at the beginning, better, we had good blocking and tough.” build a 14-9 lead.

Both teams won't have much time to reflect on their regular sea­ son matches, as they square off in this weekends QSSF league besto f - Lh r e e s e mi finals, a change from last years’ sud­ den death semis. The upbeat M a rtle ts are clearly lo o k in g forward to the series.

"T h e mood is very good, we're very anxious," s a i d F e rla n d .

"The three g a m e series is even bet­ ter, the whole sea­ son doesn't depend on Patrick Fok just one game."

top placer, winning a bronze medal in the open solo dance. In the open gold singles, Robyn Spencer was fifth, Alice Han was sixth in the intermediate free skate, and Kinsley Wilson fin­ ished seventh in the senior ‘A’ singles. Other finishers were Laura Speltz (ninth, seniot solo

dance), Kimberley Sullivan and Sarah Cox (ninth, intermediate solo pairs), Wilson and Spencer (ninth, senior similar pairs), Kerri Asselin and Marie-Eve Charbonneau (tenth, senior similar dance), Amelia McMahon (tenth senior ‘B’ singles), and Shannon Keith (tenth, short program).

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In the Omada Cup Challenge on Friday against the Université de Montréal Carabins, the Redmen came oh-so-close to win­ ning their first match of the year, and first in a long time. They lost a close 3-2 (24-26, 25-23, 25-17, 27-29, 15-12) decision. McGill's standouts were Peter Li si with 18 kills and four digs, Jonathan Faucher with nine kills, and Costa Lambrakis, the country's second leading digging specialist, who had 15 digs. The result not only nteans that Redmen lost the inau­ gural Omada Cup, but they finish 0-12 in the QSSF. R edmen

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The Redmen had a tough weekend on the road, losing two games to OUA opponents Queen’s and Ryerson. The losses put the Redmen in third place in the divi­ sion. In Kingston on Friday, they blew a 12-point lead against Queen’s and lost 72-59. If looking for a simple explanation, it can be staled that they failed to contain All-Canadian Golden Gael Derek Richardson, who scored 28 points.

McGill’s top players were Kirk Reid (18 points), Domenico Marcario (12 points). Art Hunter (nine points), Mark Rawas (eight points, eight rebounds) and Frederic Bernard (eight points, six rebounds).

They were blown out the next day by nationally ranked Ryerson 91-64, despite having four players score in double digits. Kirk Reid (11 points), Pat Kieran (ten points), Nick Edkins (ten points) and Mark Rawas (ten points).

They were out rebounded by a margin of 49-30.

The Redmen fall to 6-10, two points behind second place Bishop’s (7-10) and only two points ahead of Laval (5-12) in the QSSF. In other notes, Reid is the conference’s sixth leading scorer

(13.7 points per game), and rookie Marcario is seventh (12.9 ppg).

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Numbers-wise, Martlet guard Jen de Leeuw is the conference’s eighth best scorer, with 8.5 points per game.

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At the OUA Figure Skating championships in Kingston, the Martlets finished ninth out of ten teams. Jenny Roper was McGill’s

These two teams have a long history in playoff action, as the Martlets have been eliminated by Montreal in the last two playoffs.

McGill is 4-3 overall, and 3-1 in league play against Montreal this season.

"We know each other pretty well," noted Beliveau. "We have a game plan for them, I'm sure they have one for us. The winner will probably be the one who applies it the best."

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Martlets to face UQTR Continued from page 28 would finish with a shutout.

Her teammates did not make it easy on Doyle. Near the midway point of the period, Allison Ticmanis took a double minor for butt-ending. This left the Martlets two players down for over a minute since Geneviève Cormier was already serving a penalty for tripping.

During this five-on-three situ­ ation, Doyle made a save on Jane Kocourek and followed that up with another big stop off of Jennifer Cox. There were a few more chances down the stretch but noth­ ing of substance. Doyle recorded her second shutout win of the year.

The Martlets showed they are contenders once again in Trois Rivières, with a convincing 4-1 victory over UQTR. The Martlets took a 4-0 lead, and only a late goal from UQTR spoiled Doyle’s bid for a second straight shutout.

Doyle made 32 saves. McGill’s goal scorers were Sarah Lomas, Julie Hornsby, Sophie Acheson and Dana Rittmaster.

It was a huge victory, consid­ ering the win gave the Martlets second place and home ice advan­ tage for this weekend’s QSSF semi final against the same UQTR team. If the Martlets advance to

the finals, they will clinch a berth in the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletics Union championships which will be held later this month at Concordia.

With their wins this week­ end, The Martlets finished the reg­ ular season with a record of 5-5-2 and had three players named to the QSSF all-star teams. Hornsby and St-Pierre were first all-stars, and Rittmaster was named to the sec­ ond team.

With a solid record, a roster peppered with all-stars, and some momentum, coach Smith is upbeat heading into the post-season.

“I like the way the team is playing,” he said. “We are peaking at the right time.”

Things definitely look posi­ tive for the Martlets. The offence is back in full stride with the return of Hornsby and Acheson and seems to be clicking on all cylinders. The defence is also looking strong, and has been a presence on both the offensive and defensive ends of the rink.

Combine this with excellent goal­ tending from both St-Pierre and Doyle, and McGill should be a force to contend with in the play­ offs that start this week.

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