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A p p a re n tly i t w a s re a lly b rig h t; th e y w o re th e ir sunglasses a t n ig h t. S lo a n croons to th e y o u n g ; n u b ile c ro w d a t th e M e tro p o lis la s t Friday.

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J . P. D a r c h e m a k e s h is t o r y Med student becomes first McGill football player ever to crack NFL roster. By Jeremy K uzmarov It’ s a long road from Molson Stadium to "The Show", but JeanPhillippe Darche has defied all the odds. A star lin e b a ck e r on the Redmen football team from 19941998, Darche last week became the first player in school history to reach the N atio n al F o o tb a ll League. A fiv e-tim e acad em ic a l l Canadian on leave from M c G ill m ed ica l sch o o l, D a rc h e , who briefly held the Redmen all-time tackles record, earned a spot out of training camp on the reigning west ern d iv isio n cham pion Seattle Seahawks as a long-snapper, and a back-up on special teams. In doing so he became only the 11th player ever coming out of the Canadian University ranks to

make the N FL. "Its an unusual route for a player to take after graduation but J.P Darche is a guy with a tremen dous work-ethic who has excelled at the top level of athletics and aca demics because of his sheer deter mination and effort," said Redmen Head Coach Charlie Baillie, "I'm extremely proud of J.P. I thought of him as a potential C F L player when he was w ith M c G ill, but never thought he could reach the N F L . I t ’ s am azing what he's accomplished. He's a role model." F o r D arch e, suiting up for Seattle against the Miami Dolphins at Pro-Player stadium on Sunday represented a dream come true - à dream w hich didn't seem to be realistic until very recently. "I never thought about making the N F L while I was at M cG ill or C o n tin u e d o n P a g e 2 6

Finding a place to keep Froshies fresh By Stephanie Levitz First year students were carry ing around bigger backpacks than usual this week, as overbooking in resid en ce has left clo se to 200 frosh sleep ing on liv in g room floors, in basements and even the Delta Hotel. U niversity residences across Can ad a and the U .S . generally overbook residence in anticipation of students dropping out or chang ing their m inds after they have been accepted. "People have massive anxiety attacks and leave," said R ia Rom bough of the M c G ill Residence Admissions office. "If we didn't have people on reserve, we would not fill the rooms. It is a policy that makes sense." A cco rd in g to Rom bough, there are usually 200 people placed

on the waiting list for residence at the start of every summer. Midway through, the number usually drops to around 80, as students choose to look for apartments rather than wait to get into residence, or sim ply decide not to go to M c G ill. This year, however, 470 students were on that list, leaving the resi dence office with a major problem. "We realized mid-June that the situation was getting out of hand," said Rombaugh. M c G ill R e sid e n c e s began sending letters to incoming stu dents offering alternative solutions, such as living in Laird H all, the residence at Macdonald campus. W hile the Residence O ffice felt that they did their best to commu nicate the problem to students, some felt that not enough was done. "I was c a llin g a ll sum m er

long," said Brett Bundale, a first year student. "Over the phone they told me nothing except that I would be living in Solin Hall." Bundale is indeed bunking in Solin Hall at the moment, except she is not in one of the spacious apartments. Rather, Bundale is liv ing in the basement, in a room with 10 other girls who are all sleeping on bunk beds. "It's nice to be living some w here co o l right now ," said Bundale. "But there is no privacy, not to mention that I am paying full fees for living in the basement." Ashleigh Akalehiywot, a stu dent also living in Solin, comment ed on the absurdity of the situation. "I'm liv in g in a two person apartm ent, but w ith two other roommates," she said. "Both of C o n tin u e d o n P a g e 3

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New face in AUS executive board By W isam A l-Monthiry The A rts Undergraduate Society executives appointed a new V P Finance over the summer as last year’s acclaimed V P Finance Steven G old resigned from the position three days after taking office.

A U S appointed Greg Aronson on August 15 to fill the position, which oversees budgeting for Frosh Week, and payment of suppliers. "I was told by one of last year’s executives that the V P Finance quit and that they were looking for somebody," said Aronson. "So I

offered to take the position, and they gave it to me." A cco rd in g to the A U S Constitution, when council is not meeting, such as in the summer, their executives act as council and make decisions which are reviewed upon Council’s return. These deci-

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sions are then either accepted or rejected. Chris Gratto, the former A U S V P Finance and current Students’ Society of M cG ill University V P of Clubs and Services, spoke positive ly of the appointment. "The A U S was stuck," he said. "You just can’t have an election in the summer, and you have to have someone [fulfilling the responsibili ties]. I thought it was a good deci sion by the executives." Gratto extended his term as A U S V P Finance into the summer until the A U S filled the vacancy left with Gold’s resignation. Chase Robinson, the president of the A U S , had sim ilar feelings about the decision. "We were faced with a serious situation," Robinson said. "We lacked a V P Finance and there’s a great deal of work to be done with respect to [Frosh W eek], and the overall planning of the budget for the coming year. 1 trusted that my executives would make the right decision, and I think they did." A ronson has alw ays been involved in student life, and in the A U S in particular. His credentials include work for the Faculty of Arts Committee, Curriculum Committee, and work for the Political Science Student A sso cia tio n . T h is past semester, he ran for president of the AUS. "Greg was one of the few peo ple that was around who knows the organization and could do the job well," Robinson said. "I think he is going to do a great job." Aronson was happy about the appointment. "I was not surprised by the decision at all," he said. "I know all the executives well, and they know me. I knew they had confidence in me."

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"Throughout the course of the election, people simplyrealize that they are not going to win, so they do not fight it through, and drop out early" —Chase Robinson require such a hassle to get. R o binson agreed w ith this notion but added that certain people may lack confidence in themselves, sometimes leaving a single person running for the position. "Throughout the course of the election, people simply realize that they are not going to win, so they do not fight it through, and drop out early", Robinson remarked. The student council will review Aronson’s appointment as the new VP Fin a n ce of the A rts Undergraduate So ciety when it meets for the first time in the begin ning of September. Meanwhile, Aronson is busy carrying out the spending allocated for Frosh Week, and his duties in the near future will include work in the Arts Improvement Fund, and budgeting for the new offices that the A U S will be moving into in the next couple of weeks. One resp o n sib ility the V P Finance w ill not have to face this year is the budgeting of the A U S Snax, whose management will now be left to the SSM U. "Maybe more people will run for the position now that it’s less work," joked Robinson.

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V P Finance, offered his opinion on why the position has been difficult to fill. "It’ s a lot of work for a job whose duties can be carried out in smaller roles...People realize that they want to be involved in a certain financial aspect, but that they do not have to go through all the trouble of running for V P Finance to do so. It’s like fighting for a quarter when you can have twenty-four cents for free." He described the positions of treasurer, financial controller and positions in the Financial A ffairs Committee, and pointed out that these positions include some of the work of a V P Finance, yet do not

The Science Undergraduate S o c ie ty ’ s executive co u n cil

appointed A rif Chowdhury as inter im president in mid-August. C how dhury is the form er C h ie f Executive O fficer of SU S and was runner-up to K ev in McPhee, the Students’ Society of M c G ill U n iv e r s ity ’s VP Operations, in last March’s SSM U election. Winston M aricar, the presi dent-elect, resigned for personal reasons. Also resigning in August was V P Academ ic Andrew Organek, who was unsure about returning to M cGill this fall. The SUS will hold a by-elec tion to fill the positions of V P Academ ic and C E O at the same time as its Freshm an Undergraduate Science Society election.

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Vying for the space: Daily and Students' Society of McGill University caught in a lease dispute By S hehryar Fazli T h e M c G i l l D a i l y and the Stu d en ts’ S o cie ty o f M c G ill U n iversity find them selves in a heated court battle over a lease dis pute between the two parties, after the Students’ Society deemed it necessary to lock the paper out of its offices. For several years now, SSM U has been planning renovations to the Shatner Building to make it a more student friendly facility. In doing so, the organization felt that to im prove a c c e s sib ility to the building for all students, especially disabled students, it needed to add a ground level access on the south side of the building. T h is means taking over part of the area occu pied by T h e D a i l y ' s offices. A s a result, SSM U is seeking to restruc ture the paper’s lease agreement, removing 229 of the 1700 square feet o f space from the pap er’ s offices. Negotiations towards a new lease, however, were plagued over the sum m er by disagreem ents between the two sides. This stale mate eventually led SSM U to put a bolt on T h e D a i l y ’ s o ffic e on August 4, denying the staff access. Representatives from the paper question whether S S M U ’s motives are only to improve the conditions of the Shatner Building. According to Jaime KirznerRoberts, co-ordinating news editor of T h e D a i l y , the student goverment’s actions symbolize a long standing anim osity towards the publication. "W hen the Student U n io n cam e and changed our lo c k s, turned off our power and forced T h e D a i l y staff to leave — that was nothing but politics, and that was nothing but an attack on free press," she says. "We have a valid and existing lease...[SSMU] finally decided that they were tired of hav ing a free press on campus, and

they thought they’d take the oppor tunity in the summer — when T h e D a i l y editors w ere not around, when our Board of Governors was not meeting, when their council was not even there to approve their actions — to come and evict us from our office." Kirzner-Roberts believes that S S M U ’s disdain for the universi ty’s longest-running student publi-

"This has never been politi cally motivated...This is about space. This is about 230 square feet, and they don't want to lose that space. "—Wojtek Baraniak cation stems from the student gov ernment’ s own arrogance, and its resentment towards negative cover age. She claims that under the new plan proposed by SSM U , costs to T h e D a i l y would be unaffordable. She furthermore claim s that the S S M U is aware of this, and that that is exactly why the organization decided to impose the extra costs on the newspaper. Kirzner-Roberts feels that ever since T h e D a i l y severely criticized the student government for its per formance during the Cold Beverage Agreement referendum, SSM U has been more determined to prevent, or hinder, T h e D a i l y from reaching its readership, thereby controlling the information that is accessible to the student body. "[This] is a long-term plan to marginalize an independent student voice, to bankrupt a student voice," she says. "This is simply not the way to deal with the free press in a free and democratic society like Canada...The act of locking us out of our office was an act of arro gance [and] of tyranny worthy of dictator in a Third-World country,

not of a student government in a democracy." S S M U P resid en t W o jtek B a ra n ia k , how ever, rejects the notion that the S S M U ’ s actions were politically motivated, saying instead that the situation relates only to space, and the expiry of T h e D a i l y ’ s lease. "If this was a political issue, we would have told them to get out of the building back in May," he says. "This has never been politi c a lly m otivated. Just because they’re a newspaper doesn’t mean that the law does not apply to them... This is about space. This is about 230 square feet, and they don’t want to lose that space. They don’t need 1700 square feet, and for the sake of the community they should be willing to give some of it up. Thirty years ago, before the age of digital cameras and computers, maybe they needed that space... but what they’re losing now is essen tially the room where they have their couches. W e ’ ve told them they can use other meeting rooms in the building just like everyone else." A ccording to T h e D a i l y , its lease agreement guarantees them the space they currently occupy. After their eviction, the newspaper sought an order from the Quebec Superior Court for the newspaper’s staff to be allowed access to its office. The court granted the paper access pending a hearing on the lease dispute.

Confusion over lease A c c o rd in g to the S S M U ’ s lawyer, Jon Feldman, changes to the agreement between T h e D a i l y and its landlord over the past two years have affected the conditions of its occupancy, and these changes are not being taken into considera tion by the paper. " T h e D a i l y is occupying space

in the Shatner Building in virtue of a lease signed September 1993," he says. "This lease guaranteed them space for the next three years. Subsequent agreements seemed to guarantee that T h e D a i l y would have space for a few more years, until 2003. However, in January 1998, all agreements between T h e D a i l y and [its landlord] were can celled, and were replaced by a new agreement that did not guarantee them space in Shatner." Feldman and SSM U maintain that according to this new agree ment, T h e D a i l y ’ s lease expired on M ay 31st, 2000. H ow ever, T h e D a i l y ’ s lawyer, Michael Bergman, believes this to be a misinterpreta tion. "We disagree with the student government’ s interpretation of the issue," he says. "This is one of the questions the court w ill have to decide on. Our argument is that T h e D a i l y has a valid, existing and continuing lease, which does not expire until 2003."

Surprise? Kirzner-R oberts claim s that T h e D a i l y was caught completely

off-guard by S S M U ’ s action s, receiving no warning nor response when a letter w as sent to the S S M U , asking about their plans regarding negotiations between the two parties. "We did not know," she stress es. "This was a bombshell." Baraniak, however, claims that representatives from T h e D a i l y were present during meetings over the past two years when the reno vation plans were being discussed, and has presented documentation, including sworn affidavits from participants of the meetings, that support his claim. Kirzner-Roberts, however, contends that the infor mation provided in these affidavits is false.

Baraniak notes that a plan was approved by S S M U co u n c il in A p ril 1998, w h ich asked for a reduction of space provided to T h e D a i l y , and that no objections were raised at the time of these meet ings. "The decision was made two years ago, and the current council is merely seeing it through," he said. "If we didn’t touch [the issue] then it would be pushed off to next year, or the year after that." Baraniak stresses the impor tance of using the extra space for other u n iv e rsity -re la te d goals, asserting that under the new plan, it would be converted into a pathway for disabled students, thus allowing them greater accessibility to the building. He furthermore explains that when one part of the planned renovations is stalled, a domino like effect prevents the entire reno vation process from continuing. Thus, according to Baraniak, when T h e D a i l y faile d to respond to S S M U ’s willingness to consider a counter-offer of the council’s origi nal proposition, the student govern ment had to resort to desperate measures. "We had a few options," he explains. "One: either file for a legal evictio n , w hich would be extrem ely expensive and would take months. Two: we could have done nothing and left them there. Three: we could change their locks and thus contest their right to the premises. That way we don’t tacitly renew their lease, and it puts the onus on them to sue us. We knew that this had to be settled through legal means because nothing else was working." Before taking this final step, however, SSM U did, according to Baraniak, contact T h e D a i l y one last time. "We complained to them, say ing: ‘You had asked us to extend C o n tin u e d o n Page 4

"Delta, Delta, Delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya?" C o n tin u e d fro m Page 1 them are on the temporary list too, so they could be moving out at any time. No one knows what’s going on - the whole situation is up in the air.” "What’s more," said Bundale, "is that in the basement with me are girls from Jamaica, Bulgaria and Turkey. They've come all this way to a brand new country and are stuck like this, w hile girls from Toronto live in upper rez. That's not fair." Rombough agrees. "It’s a tough situation for first year students," she says. "We feel awful and it weighs on our con science.”

Construction part of the problem Although residence was sig nificantly overbooked, part of the problem has also been the slow completion of renovations on sev eral new buildings that M cG ill has bought to accommodate its grow ing population. Some of the build-

She also looks for landlords that ings still had tenants whose leases she knows w ill take good care of did not expire until August 31st, so M cGill could not even begin reno their new occupants. This summer vations. "In some c a se s, we weren't told until two weeks ago that the b u ild in g s w ouldn't be ready," said Rombough. One of the other options that Residence A dm issions provided for incoming stu dents w as an apartm ent placement service run out of Off-Campus Housing. Sarah Kroll, who works in the housing office, began systematically walking every street between St. Laurent and Atwater, in May, looking for suitable housing for stu dents. "I m ake co nn ectio n s with landlords so that they phone me first when anything opens up," said Kroll. K roll tries to place first year students in sm alle r b u ild in g s that are m ostly Better call quick if this is the place for you! occupied by other students.

she placed 150 people in new apartm ents, w ith rent going to M c G ill through agreements with landlords. Those 150 people, in addition to the rooms that M c G ill purchased in the ghetto, have created a hous ing shortage for upper year students looking for some place to stay. "I cam e down three separate weekends over the sum m er to lo o k for a place," said Alex Minard, a U3 C u ltu ral Studies stu dent. "I started lo o king close to school but moved further and further out as I kept fin d in g abso lu tely nothing. It wasn't as if I was being picky and turn ing places down, there just wasn't anywhere to live." Minard was doing the u su al, ch e ck in g InfoM cGill, reading classi fied ads and looking for posters, but was unsuccess ful. Finally, he hopped on

his bike and started driving around every street he could find. He ended up finding a place because it had a sign in the window. "Something's happening this year with Montreal apartments," said Déborah D eslierres. "They must be haunted." Soon, the rooms at the Delta will be haunted only by memories of frosh as they began Monday to move into new accommodations. However, some students currently doubled up in rooms at other loca tions are not expected to take up new hom es u n til the end of September. Rombough hopes that this is a situation that w ill not be repeated. "W e support any p o lic y change that will not let this happen again," she said. "We hope that the Board of G overnors have taken note that this is not cool." The situation may not be cool, but at least the Delta had air condi tioning.

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Faculty of Music sings a happy tune as funding comes through for new building By N ema Etheridge S in ce 1991, students and administrators within the Faculty of Music have been struggling to find the proper funding to construct a new music facility and renovate the old one. T h is summer they finally did. Not only did the Music Department receive around $17 million from the Quebec govern ment to work towards this project, but it was also awarded a research grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation that totals around $6.5 million. Both grants came as a surprise to members of the music depart ment, as the outlook for the project has been bleak for several years. At the end of the winter semester few w ere o p tim istic about the b u ildin g’ s construction because anticipated government funding had vanished. Students and faculty had expected the Quebec govern ment to provide almost $16 million toward their project and later real ized that such funding had been omitted from a provincial agenda announced that spring. Many frustrated individuals sent their protests through mail to Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard, w h ile others protested on the streets of Quebec. Bernard Shapiro, M cG ill principal and L u c Vinet, M c G ill vice-principal academic, met with Quebec officials in the Ministry of Education to renegoti ate the government’ s decisions. Despite such efforts, few thought the government would be inclined to budge. " I’ m not sure w hy they

changed their m ind," D ean of Music Richard Lawton said. "We have commitments now from the Minister of Education for partial funding. They’re only funding less than half the cost of the building. The rest must now come from pri vate funding." With these two new grants and other resources, the department

building...Six months ago we had a commitment of less than onefifth of the cost. I don’ t rea lly know yet how much that’s going to affect the construction, but I ’m very confident that we will get the money." Lawton is especially confident as he will be working with the uni v e rsity 's D epartm ent of

now has over $30 million in hand to put towards the building’s con struction. But with its estimated costs being around $40 m illion, private funding is the only way to make up the difference. Lawton believes finding the appropriate funds won’t be a problem. "I think it should be easier to ra ise money now that we have com m itm ents of roughly threequarters of the total cost of the

Development which w ill assist in locating additional funds for the project. A s proper funding has bounced in and out of the Music Department’s hands, building plans have changed over the years. So, w ith su ffic ie n t funding alm ost available for the project, plans must be discussed and revised. Law to n hopes the building will be ready within the next twoand-a-half-years, but believes that the necessary rev isio n s w ill be lengthy. "This project has devel oped over the past several years and the plan that was submitted to Quebec back in 1995 has changed somewhat. The university has held off developing the final plan until we’ve gotten the announce ment of the funding. So we now have to spend some time in the fall developing that." Associate Dean Don M cLean feels similarly about the plans.

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"The very good new s for music students," Lawton explained, "is that there have been a million and a half dollars worth of renova tions done to this building. We had a great deal of w ater damage because o f a leaky roof in this building over the last decade. They started repairing it last summer and fin a lly finished it this summer. Then, in A pril and May, the uni versity gave us money to basically solve the problems resulting from those leaks. We painted the build ing inside, got new floors where the floors were damaged, as well as new windows." Lawton also noted that a new ly renovated Po llack concert hall would be o fficially unveiled by the end of October, just in time for its 25th anniversary celebration.

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"I hope to be able to finish the design this year; that’s my goal,” he says. “W e’ve had a long time trying to set the budget, now we can finally do something." One major project designed for the new building is the con struction of a scoring stage, which will function as a small concert hall and recording studio. Its presence w ould foster unprecedented research in the M c G ill m usic department, as w e ll as develop stronger programs in media and technology. It would be the first of its kind in Canada, and is rare even throughout N orth A m e ric a . M cLean believes that government o fficials changed their decision about funding once this facility and other programs associated with the new building were finally given the attention they deserved. "I do n ’ t think th ere’ s any question that the publicity had an impact on the government. I think it helped demonstrate the strength of the people and the research impact of the project that the gov ernment wasn’t aware of." Although construction on a new building probably won’t begin for another year, returning music students do have new changes within the existing building to look forward to.

for one month so we could negoti ate. Now you’re saying you can’t’ ? ...We knew they were stalling, so we told them: ‘You have till noon on Friday August 4th to contact us and start talking’...But August 4th cam e, noon cam e and w ent. I checked my messages, looked in my box, at the fax machine, and that was it." A c c o rd in g to B erg m an, regardless of the factors that drove SSM U , their decision to change the locks was entirely inappropriate. "In Quebec, a landlord is not entitled to u n ila te ra lly change locks." he said. "If a landlord wants to contest its tenant’s right to occu p an cy, it m ust go through the

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courts. [SSM U ] did not have the right to simply go in and change the locks." A s the court case continues, both sides remain confident in their positions. According to Feldman, however, the court case itself is directing funds away from what he believes to be more worthwhile endeavours for M cGill. "A lot of money is going to com plete w aste. T h is money should have been used in a way that would benefit the students at the university." The next trial date is Friday, September 8.

7 3 7 a n d S U S F r o s h ie s c o llid e By M ike Bargav ___________________ The night of Tuesday August 29 marked a high point of embar rassm ent for S cie n c e Undergraduate Society as inebriat ed froshies tore through the interi or decor of Club 737. "We have had many events w ith M c G ill before and it has never been a problem. But this time everybody was just too drunk and too stoned... [froshies] were smoking up in the club and tearing stu ff of the w a lls," said an incensed Robert R yan , the 737 event coordinator responsible for the SU S party. Later, however, a much more diplomatic Ryan spoke of the inci dent as ‘kids being kids’. "People had had a bit to drink and it was ju s t k id s having fun. N obody should start the year off on a low point. We have always had good relations with M cG ill in the past and there is no reason that should change."

"...this time everybody was just too drunk and too stoned... [froshies] were smoking up in the club and tearing stuff off the walls" T h e S U S response to the debacle however was considerably more subdued. "One Fro sh group that had gone binge drinking between the dinner and 737 had problem s around 10:30," said S U S interim president A rif C h o w d ry. Chowdhury further expanded on the situation that he saw as a minor problem. "We had 600 froshies and 150 leaders in 737. A ll the people were having a good time, and it was unfortunate that 60 or 70 people had problems." "We can’t identify the exact individuals responsible so we can’t take punitive action. A ll the frosh leaders were spoken to separately the next morning and the general image [that this behaviour was unacceptable] was given to the froshies. The S U S frosh leaders weren’t allowed to drink during the pub-crawl that night to keep a handle on the fro sh ie s," said C h o w d h u ry , sp eaking o f S U S reactions. "In the future, I don’t see any real consequence. I see this as a group that drank too much and the only consequence is to tell leaders not to let their froshies get too hammered. There have been a lot of rumours flying around about damage costs, but in the end it came out to roughly $400, mainly from broken lights and disco balls. T h e y [737] are happy to host M cG ill parties in the future," said Chowdhury.

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University of Wisconsin student fees case returns to lower court By Ra c h el C am pbell B a d g e r H e r a ld (U . W is c o n s in )

(U -W IRE) M A D ISO N , Wis. For the past five years, the name of Scott Southw orth has echoed throughout the U n iv e rsity of W isco n sin -M a d iso n cam pus, threatening the downfall of the segregated-fee system of the Universi tySegregated fees are fees the university collects on behalf of stu dent organizations, and are charged to all students. While the courts have handed both U W alum Southworth and the U W Board of Regents victories, the Regents won the ultimate tri umph last spring in the U .S . Supreme Court. N evertheless, in a case that seem in g ly w ill not die, the “University of W isconsin System Board of Regents v. Southworth” is back for a fourth round. On M arch 22, the U .S . Supreme Court voted 9-0 in favor of mandatory student fees at U W w h ich support v ario u s student organizations. Many other univer sities across the nation use a simi lar system of distributing student fees. However, the manner in which these fees are designated, previous ly in the form of a student referen dum, was not upheld by the ruling

and w ill return to U .S . D istrict Judge John Shabaz for considera tion as to its constitutionality. “The First Amendment per mits a public university to charge its students an activity fee used to fund a program to fa c ilita te extracurricular student speech if the program is viewpoint-neutral,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in the court’s ruling. It is this “view point-neutral” aspect of the ruling that is currently being applied to the university’s segregated-fee sys tem. The segregated-fee system ’s flaw would fail to provide unbiased funding by using student referen dums, said Pat Brady, senior sys tem legal counsel of the universi ty’s legal services department. “A referendum involves peo ple voting and expressing their views supporting one organization or another,” she said. “By its very nature, a referendum is not view point-neutral.” The Southworth case was first filed with the U .S. District Court for the W estern D is tric t of W isco n sin on A p ril 2, 1996, by plaintiffs Scott Southworth, Keith Bannach and A m y Schoepke, all former U W law students. Southworth claimed the uni versity’s mandatory segregated-fee system v io la ted th eir F irs t Amendment rights of freedom of

speech and association by forcing them to affiliate with and support organizations they objected to. The Supreme Court’ s ruling overturned previous decisions and backed mandatory segregated fees at the university, but questioned w hether or not the p ro cess by which funds are distributed from

the fees is viewpoint-neutral. If the distribution process is found to be tainted by opinion, this will render the process unconstitu tional by virtue of the Supreme Court’s March 22 ruling. A sso c ia te d Students of Madison Chair Mike Dean said he believes U W ’s system qualifies as viewpoint-neutral, and funds are allocated without bias. “ T h e problem is that the Attorney General [James Doyle] was a bit off about our operations.

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and that was kind of a misunder standing,” he said. “W e are cur rently in the process of proving that we are, in fact, viewpoint-neutral.” The referendum system has been given more credit than it is due in terms of its use as a deci sion-making tool, Dean said. “ O ur referendum s are only advisory,” he said. “Our decisions are not solely based on the referen dums. There are many hoops [a possible organization] has to go through in order to go through the budget.” These hoops include factors such as how long a certain student organization has been in existence, and how m uch the u n iv e rsity would or does benefit from the presence of the organization. If the lower court should over turn the Supreme Court’s decision, U W and hundreds of other schools would be forced to reevaluate their system of distributing mandatory student fees supporting campus organizations. “We consider ourselves viewpo int-neutral in the w ay these things are processed,” Dean said. T h e case w ill be brought before Judge Shabaz on Dec. 8. Shabaz o rig in a lly ruled in favor of Southworth, but was over turned by the Supreme Court’s rul ing. A final pretrial conference will be held Nov. 17.

Q u e e n 's cra ck s d o w n o n Fro sh W e e k The supervisory board for O rientatio n W eek at Queen's U n iv e rs ity w ill be enfo rcin g stricter p o licies to ensure that things don’t get out of hand as students "get oriented" this week. According to the new rules, house parties can only be held between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m., and hosts must serve food if alcohol is consumed. Queen’s is seeking to avoid a repeat of last y e ar’ s incidents such as a prank in vo lvin g the plastering of lewd signs along hig hw ay 401 ju s t outside of K in g sto n , and keg parties in which 11 students were arrested for underage drinking. Officials from the Senate O rientatio n Advisory Review Board will be visitin g the locations of sanc tioned house parties to ensure that they are complying with its new guidelines. S O A R B ’s approval is requ ired for all o ffic ia l Orieptatiün events, ' ' Follow ing these incidents, thê first d f whidnf jfcç^tved national media attention. SO A R B unsuccessfully sought a ban on many traditionai frosh activities. kA \ \ \ y i w — w it h f i l e s f r o m th e Queen's Journal

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EDITORIAL “I AM CANADIAN.” — J o e C a n a d ia n

Canadian fervour By John Salloum ______________________________________ _______________________ Not since Trivial Pursuit turned into the party game of choice has a Canadian cultural export been such a hot commodity south of the border. The only catch? Nobody south of the border is actually going to know that it was Canadian. Anybody who was in the country and listening to the radio or watching television over the summer, has probably heard of Jeff Douglas. Douglas is more commonly known as Joe Canadian in the “I am Canadian!” rant advertisement for Molson beer. A quick refresher just in case: The meek looking Joe steps up to a microphone on a pole and begins a quiet speech while a Canadian flag is projected in the background. “Hey, I ’m not a lumberjack or a fur trader... I speak English and French, NOT American, and I pronounce it ‘about’ not ‘a-boot.’” Joe Canadian’s speech deals with one Canadian stereotype after anoth er, put to the music of Sir Edward Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance. As his monologue progresses he gets louder until, in a moment of patriotic pas sion, he finally exclaims, “My name is Joe, and I AM C A N A D IA N !” For a country that is not typically outspoken with respect to patriotic fervour, Canadians responded with uncharacteristic enthusiasm to the rant. It is interesting to note, of course, that it took a beer ad of all things to get us pumped. They responded so favourably that Joe Canadian ended up doing tours shouting his rant to crowds across the country. He even did a single day coast-to-coast tour on Canada Day. Another measure of the rant’s success was that it spawned a number of knock-offs, the most successful of which was a rant by radio station C F N Y 102.1 in Toronto. They came up with Guy Québécois. Same music, but in a distinctly Francophone accent, you hear Guy step to a microphone and begin: “I ’m not unemployed, or smuggling cigarettes across the border... I smoke in church. I speak Québécois and Jouai, not French or English.” As Guy’s monologue progresses, he gets louder until, in a moment of sepa ratist passion, he finally exclaims, “Je m ’appelle Guy, and I am N O T Canadian!” Now everyone knows that Canadian beer is sim ply better than American beer, apparently it extends to our beer advertisements as well. If you have been watching N B C lately, you may have noticed a meek looking gentleman step up to a microphone on a pole and begin a quiet speech while an American flag is projected in the background. As the monologue progresses, he gets louder until, in a moment of patriotic pas sion, he ends with “ ...I believe the American dream lives on right here in the best town in the whole world! I live in Stuckeyville. I am Ed !” Sound familiar? N B C ’s new sitcom “Ed ” will attempt to grab ratings by inspiring American viewers’ patriotic sentiment using a Canadian tem plate. Admittedly, it is a beer advertisement template, but it is our beer advertisement template nonetheless. The kicker is that the actor hired to perform the part of ‘E d ’ is a Canadian. It is heartening, however, to see that in a country so worried about being overrun with American schlock, a piece of our own culture is infil trating their network television. After a summer of appearing across the country and just before the “Feature Presentation” screen in movie theatres, the response to Joe Canadian’s rant is now somewhat diminished. When N B C starts broadcasting “E d ” in primetime each week, the response will be that much more deadpan. Canadians should remember a few things we learned from Joe before Molson replaces him: (a) imitation of our cultural products is the sincerest form of flattery by our neighbours; (b) beer can get Canadians to rally together; and (c) Canadians can indeed be passionately patriotic when the situation demands it. In the future, when somebody says Canadians are not patriotic enough, politely tell them we can be, it just takes the right stuff to get us going.

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The occult versus the Alliance Dear Mr. Clark: You don’t know me, but I am about to save both your party and your career. (Indulge me for a moment; this may be your only chance.) Mr. Clark, there are two people about whom I have heard altogether too much this summer. One of these people is your worst enemy at present. The other is, through my counsel, about to become your best friend. The former character I surely needn’t name, but will nonetheless because nothing must be left to chance. The Enemy of whom I write, Mr. Clark, is Mr. Day. The Friend, though, is the meat of this scheme. The Friend, a familiar character but one whose identity yet remains obscure to you in the context of The Plan, can help you to lay waste to the Enemy. How? It’s all star tlingly simple. This Friend, like Mr. Day, is a media darling. This Friend has an irrepress ible charm, the interpersonal equivalent of Mr. Day’s corn-fed good looks. This Friend, quite sim p ly , C A N D O N O W R O N G . Therefore, in order to undermine Mr. Day and do irreparable damage to the garish and distasteful locomotive he has dubbed “The Canadian Alliance Freedom Train,” you need to do just one thing. You need to subtly s u b t ly , Mr. Clark, so that no subterfuge is detected by the public - yes, subtly but firm ly, plant the idea in the Canadian conscious ness that there is a certain natural enmity between Mr. Day and this Friend-who-can-

immovable Liberal Establishment by wield ing the so-called will of the majority like a reactionary mace. But who w ill be Man of the People when Canadians realize that you, Mr. Clark, are f o r Harry Potter while Mr. Day is a g a i n s t Harry Potter? Imagine the outcry. Imagine the shock. Imagine the onehundred-eighty degrees of total public aban donment the Enemy w ill experience. I can see it now: Mr. Day at the centre of a hostile media scrum, struggling to draw on his own forehead with a ballpoint pen one of those little lightening bolts of H arry’s in a vain effort to signify some sympathy with the young magician. And you far away, borne aloft by a crowd of adoring Tories, many of whom will be wearing little trilliums on their lapels, and all of whom will be giving thanks for your subdued, small-c conservative sani

people that your f a m i l i a r secular cards have been on the table from the very beginning. T o that end, I propose you suggest to Canadians that Mr. D ay may just be dis turbed and even disgusted by young Harry Potter’s clear affiliation with the occult. I propose that you go on to hint even more gently that Mr. Day, if elected, might possi bly seek to thwart H a rry ’s aspirations of becoming a full-fledged wizard by prevailing upon Harry’s creator to preempt his wizardification with some sort of religious awakening episode in book #5. O f co u rse, this may not all be entirely true or entirely fair. Perhaps Mr. Day has no desire to stomp on dear Harry’ s boyish dreams. But you know perhaps better than I that True and Fair are abstractions that some times offer woefully little guidance on the briny seas of Canadian public life. Is it true that Mr. D ay is in fact introducing, as he repeatedly insists, new ideas and a fresh per spective into Canadian politics? Is it f a i r that Mr. Day has ridden a Sea-Doo or a kayak or whatever cursed vessel it was into the hearts of so many right-of-centre Canadians while you, you who were fairly b e g g e d to return to the federal stage have been greeted with rela tive indifference? No and no. The gloves are off, Mr. Clark, and the time has come for Operation Harry. Mr. Day, to your detriment, has dubi ously cast him self as Man of the People, ready to do battle w ith the seem ing ly

do-no-wrong. You may be wondering how it is that your suggesting the existence of some oppo sition between these two characters will be so sure to tarnish the public’s image of Mr. Day. After all, couldn’t the public just as eas ily turn on the Friend and champion Mr. Day? No. NO. And it is in this fact that the true genius of The Plan resides. The Friend, you see, is a mere boy. The Friend is an innocent. T h e Friend is endlessly winsome - spirite d som e ti mes m ischievous, but profoundly decent. And this above all: th e F r i e n d is a f i c t i o n . I pro pose to you, Mr. Clark, that you neutralize the insidious growth that is the Canadian Alliance by convincing the Canadian people that Mr. Day detests and seeks to destroy Harry Potter. Despite their summer honeymoon with Mr. Day (his ready wit, his white teeth, his appealing physique etc. etc.), you and I and he all know that Canadians are ready and willing to be spooked by his religious ardour. At the first sign that said ardour may inform his politics without a referendum-stamped AO K thumbs-up from the folks, there will be capital-E-capital-T Electoral Trouble. I ’m sure that you and your colleagues have been wondering how best to exploit this latent concern on the part of voters and remind

To: The Rt. Hon. Joe Clark Fro m : Amy Langstaff Re: Operation Harry Potter

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tyThis, Mr Clark, is The Plan. I offer it to you in hopes that it w ill infuse your party with new life while simultaneously dealing a mortal blow to the machinery of the afore mentioned “Freedom Train.” I may not plan to vote for you, Mr Clark, but the thought of you in office doesn’t make me want to move to Vermont. And for that reason alone, I am pleased to bestow Operation Harry and all good wishes upon you. May you employ the former as you see fit, and accept the latter in good health. Yours in strategy, Amy Langstaff

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Reach out and connect By S hirlee E ngel Y o u have mastered the plan and prepared what you want to say. E v e r y word w ill be eloquently communicated, and the answer will be yes. Y o u feel the excitement stirring in your stomach. You have finally worked up the nerve to call your crush and ask for a date and all that you have to do is pick up the phone. It will be perfect. But when you raise the deli cate receiver and rest the pads of your fingertips on those digits, an incredibly irritating moan cries into your ear. A s you m iserably put down the phone you wonder why every time you decide to risk rejec tion your roommate gets the urge to surf the information highway. Yo u can work out whatever compromises you want with the people you live with, but wouldn’t we a ll get along better if the Internet didn’t have to take up the phone line? "I would definitely love to get net access that lets me talk on the phone at the sam e tim e," says S h ire lle S eg al, a second year M cG ill arts student. "It’s a better idea than paying for a second line." T h at is p re c ise ly what is

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-more expensive for non-cable subscribers -must buy Ethernet card -rent modembecause it is too expensive to buy

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G e t t in g t h e g o o d s : a g u id e to f o o d s h o p p in g B y S t e p h a n ie L e v it z Apartment dwellers and rez kids beware — w hile shopping at the nearest d épan n eu r m ay w ork in a fix , repeated trips to these student institutions can get pretty p ric e y . A n d u n le ss you plan on eating Kraft Dinner and potato chips a ll year, you'd be better o ff heading to the grocery store. T w o such places exist in the d o w n tow n area — M etro and Provigo. W h ile their prices are still higher than those found in s u b u rb ia (ta k e an e c o n o m ic s course to find out why) all your food essen tials are there. Plu s, the beer is cheaper than the stuff at the dep. The T r i b u n e offers a com parison between the two stores. W e h ave se le cte d a b asket o f goods that we fe el re fle cts an average student purchase. A s the p r ic e d iffe re n c e between the two stores is negli g ib le , it is g e n e ra lly p erso n a l p re fe re n c e that d e te rm in e s w h e re m ost stu d e n ts sh o p . S o m e , lik e Ja re d L ig h ts t o n e , switch depending on the weath er. "Metro is that m uch clo ser to the ghetto," said Lightstone, "so in the w inter it is less o f a w alk. B ut when the w eather is nice, I shop at Provigo - you can get President's Choice there." A h y e s, D ecad en t c o o k ie s and o ther asso rte d P C go o d s have been availab le at Provigo since last year. W hile Metro has

inspiring some M cGill students to spit up the extra dough for high speed and cable con nections. T hese two types o f net access both allow the user to su rf and ch itch at simultaneously. W ith high-speed connections such as B ell Simpatico, voice and data can concur rently be sent over an existing phone line. This is possible since only 1% of the capaci ty of the phone line is used when speaking, a llo w in g the other 99% to pow er your internet connection. W hen you use cab le, you are not a ctu a lly using the phone at a ll. Therefore, you need a special modem to plug in your T V cable. Both high-speed and cable access necessi tate a com ponent c a lle d an Eth ern et card, a piece of net

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its o w n sto re b ra n d - M e rit Selection, w hich is cheaper than P C , nothing beats Decadent Ice Cream. Som e students say that the p ro d u ce is better at P ro v ig o , while canned goods are cheaper at M etro , another reaso n w hy many shop at both stores. " F o r a w h ile I w as b u yin g e v e r y th in g at M e tro ," sa id S h e ry l H arriso n , a fourth year En g lish major."But I noticed that the produce seem ed to go bad pretty quickly and the stuff from Fruits du Parc (the gourmet fruit and vegetable store on the first P.oor of G allerie s du Parc) was w a y too e x p e n s iv e . S o I switched to Provigo." A lte rn a tiv es: Fo r those who w ish to avoid the sc e n e that is M e tro and Provigo, 4-Freres and W arshaw's on St. Laurent offer an alterna tiv e . T h e fo rm e r is open 24 hours and sto ck s pretty m uch everything, although the prices re s e m b le th o se at a dep. Warshaw's is packed with cheap kitchen goods and produce, but their canned and packaged goods lo o k lik e th ey've been on the shelf since about the mid-1960's. Eat drink and be merry - and don't forget to check expiration dates.

w ork equipment that allow s the computer to adapt to the special connections required. Both types of access sidestep the phone-hog problem. The prices are all based on unlimited access. Yo u can lower your monthly rate if you get a plan that lim its your hours. There are ups and downs to both kinds of connections, so it’ s really up to what you prefer. Although they sound wonder ful, many feel that the latest inno vations in getting online are still out of reach for the average M cG ill student struggling to pay for rent, bills, books, tuition and loads of other expenses when the M c G ill Dial-Up Access System is free up to a maximum of twelve hours and only $0.40 per hour after that. "I think that many students w ould probably not be able to afford the luxury," says Segal. But hey, instead of succumb ing to the chicken-way-out method that technology has offered us, why not act on a sudden boost of confi dence with real courage. T h in k about how much of a difference it would make to actu ally see the reaction on your crush’s face.

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The science of summer A look at what McGill scientists have been up to while you were away B y M ich ael A yles Sum m er vacation may be a time for students to get away from their academics for a few months, but professors and graduate stu dents haven’t stopped working in their absence. H ere ’ s a look at some of the discoveries that were made over the last four months.

test that is about 88 per cent effec tive in detecting the ailment. It is hoped that this new test w ill eventually allow doctors to uncover A lzheim er’ s earlier and therefore begin treatment before it has significantly advanced. The blood test should be available to the general public in about a year.

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Study highlights risks of premature birth

Alzheimer’s disease is a seri ous n eu ro lo g ical d iso rd er that afflicts a large number of elderly people. V ic tim s of the disease gradually lose their ab ilitie s to think and remember correctly and may experience other symptoms such as paranoia or mood changes. W h ile the disease is cu rre n tly in cu rab le, there are treatments available that slow the onset of symptoms and help reduce mental deterioration. It comes as good news then that the M c G ill Departm ent of Medicine's Dr Hyman Schipper has devised a new test that has proven e ffe c tiv e in d iag no sin g Alzheimer’s disease. While it was p re v io u sly p o ssib le to detect Alzheimer’s disease in people who had a family history of the illness, it has been much harder to diag nose in the general population. Schipper has developed a blood

A new study headed by M cG ill professor Michael Kramer has shown that children bom pre maturely face much greater health risks, even if the birth should occur only shortly before the full term is completed. Babies born in these situations were found to have over twice the risk of dying in their first year of life when compared to fullterm babies. While it has been known for a long time that premature birth leads to health complications in infancy, this study has shown that these risks are greater than was previous ly believed. Furthermore, the study stresses that many obstetricians may be unaw are o f the risk s involved in forcing early birth by induced labour. The study w ill also examine the g e n e ra lly accepted lin k between premature childbirth and

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TB susceptibility and genetics W hile tuberculosis was once believed to have been completely erad icated , it has once again become a m ajor health problem around the world. Scientists have been puzzled by the fact that while there are m illio n s of new cases reported every year, not all individuals who are exposed to T B become infected while others are infected but do not develop any of the associated symptoms. A new study by Dr. C e c ilia Greenwood of the Department of Human Genetics may be able to shed some light on the situation. They have found a genetic region that seems to be strongly linked to susceptibility to T B . In their stud ies, they found that ind ivid uals w ith one copy o f this genetic region were about ten times more likely to develop the disease than those without it. The study was performed on a group of aboriginal C an ad ian s, since their exposure to the disease dates back only as far as the late 19th century. It is believed that European populations are less sus ceptible to tuberculosis after sever al centuries of exposure, as the dis ease weeded out those who were most at risk.

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W h ile pond scum m ay not seem to be a very exciting subject to study, a joint project between M cG ill and Oxford is finding the answers to some very old questions in the muck. A recent study of a bacterium called P s e u d o m o n a s f l u o r e s c e n s , one of the many species that make up pond scum , has turned up some interesting infor mation on the subject of biodiversi tyScientists from the two univer sities studied the bacteria in glass vials that were set up to simulate different growth conditions. It was found that regions with moderate growth rates would have higher d iversity than those with either high or low growth rates. At inter mediate growth rates, the popula tions of different bacteria grow at sim ila r speeds, and d iversity is maintained. This is not the case in high growth areas, as one species will often overwhelm another that is less productive. The group plans to continue studying pond scum in the future and hopes to find out how diversity patterns are affected by predators, as well as by physical and environ mental factors.

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C a n a d a (3credits) An overviewof approaches to U n d e r s t a n d i n g W e s t e r n C a n a d a (3credits) This the study of Canada, including economic, political, interdisciplinarycoursewill attempt to“understand” M u s e u m s a n d A r t G a lle r y E x h i b i t i o n s (3 credits) historical and cultural dimensions. Prof. Mary the West byexaminingways throughwhichwe have This course examines 20thcenturyCanadianpublic exhi come to"see”it, using cultural sources rangingfrom bitions, featuringdocuments, photographs, film, fineand MacKinnon reminiscences and memoirs to novels, art, and film. decorativearts, andhowtheymayreveal historical truth 106-300A T o p i c s i n C a n a d i a n S t u d i e s I: Prof. Robert A.J. McDonald, SeagramVisiting Chair and/or create myths about Canada’s past. Dr. Jane Cook N a t i o n a l i s m s in C a n a d a (3credits) a study of theories andexperienceofethnic, sodo-political, eco 101-361AT h e C a n a d ia n W e s t t o 1 9 0 5 (3credits) The development ofwhat is nowtheCanadianWest fromthe nomic andcultural nationalismin Canada, andthe 17thcenturytotheentryofSaskatchewanandManitobaintoconfederation. Topicsinclude: culturecontactbetween impact ofnationalismonthe shapingandevolution nativeandEuropean, thefurtrade, entryoftheWest intoconfederationandits evolutionfromcolonial toprovincial status. Prof. Robert AJ. McDonald, SeagramVisitingChair ofConfederation. Prof. DesmondMorton S tu d y in g t h e C a n a d ia n P a s t th r o u g h M e d ia ,

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, _ „ _ ., „ . . ___ 106-20ZB Canadian Cultures: C ontext and Issues (3 credits) Asurvey course tracingthe history ofCanadiancultures fromthe middle ofthe 19thcenturytothepresent throughliterature, drama, art andthemass media. Mr. DavidMcKnight 1O6-303BTopics in Canadian Studies HI: Canada’s Official Language 10MO6BCanadian Studies Sem inar OT: Canada’s M ilitary Experience (3credits) AninterdisciplinaryseminaronCanada'smilitaryexperience M inorities: H istory and D em ography (3credits) This course looks at Confederationwithreferencetosocial, economicandcultural factheimportanceofCanada’sofficial languageminorities: theAnglophone tors>French-Englishrelations andCanada’s international relations ex inQuebec, theFrancophoneintherestofCanada. Dr.JackJedwab pressed through military alliances and operations. ^ Prof. Desmond Morton j

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Is your French getting a bit rusty? Do you not feel comfortable using it around Montreal? Then consider our mini-courses led by a McGill Graduate student in French Literature. This weekly discussion group is an excellent way to acquire confidence in your spoken French. Section 01 is for beginners who have a basic knowledge of spoken French, Section 02 is for students who have a more advanced knowledge of the French language.

Speed Reading Run by the Harris Institute, this extremely popular speed read ing course is once again being offered at McGill. This 1-day class always gets rave reviews and regularly has students improve 50-150% in reading speed. As well, comprehesion and retention are maintained and sometimes improved. Don’t miss your chance to improve your reading skills for life!

Shiatsu Massage Due to its overwhelming success year after year, we continue to bring you this fantastic massage course. Shiatsu is one of the most complete massage techniques in the world. It is an incredibly effective relaxation technique, based on concepts of physical and spiritual balance. Pressure is applied to accupoints to unlock stagnant energy in order to lessen or rid the body of aches and pains. Shiatsu Can be done through the clothes so there is no need to get undressed. A partner is rec ommended. Bring a towel. Mats will be provided.

Kickboxing This course will combine basic martial art techniques with modern aerobic movements to deliver an intense workout that improves strength, muscle tone, and endurance. By the end of this eight class session you willl experience improved cardio fitness, stress reduction, and self-defense tactics. Whether you are in shape, out of shape, beginner or advanced, this class is for you. Taught by an accomplished and experience instructor, you will receive the best method of instruction possible.

Yoga Yoga is a science which explores ways to reduce stress, improve concentration, tone muscles, and increase flexibility. Sessions include physical postures, breath awareness, deep relaxation and guidance on better nutrition. The benefits of yoga are far-reaching. Control of appetite and increased alert ness are only two examples of how yoga can help you. Wear loose comfortable clothing and bring a towel. Mats will be pro vided.

Ballroom Dancing

Have you always wanted to dance like Fred Astaire or Ginger Rogers, but never had the time to take lessons? Now is your chance! Join the ballroom dancing course and learn the waltz, foxtrot and more. Your session with instructor Linda Chou will be filled with fun, exercise and great music. Leather soled shoes are recommended.

Latin and South American Dancing Be the star on the dance floor this year! Keep up with the lat est trends in dancing by learning the modern twist or the tango, salsa, merengue, cha cha and more with instructor Linda Chou. Music from Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, or bring in your favourite tape. Leather soled shoes are recommended.

Rock ‘N’ Roll Swing Dancing Now is your opportunity learn to dance to the great rock ‘n’ roll and big band music of the 40’s and 50’s, as well as the mod ern swing revival! Swing, jive, rock ‘n’ roll steps, and individual choreography geared towards you will all be part of the ses sions taught by professional instructors from the Montreal renowned Miss Woolfs Jiving School. Leather soled shoes are recommended.

Israeli Folk Dancing Due to its overwhelming popularity in the Montreal area, we are pleased to introduce Israeli Folk Dancing as a course this semester. This unique form of folkdance has evolved since the 1940’s, based on historic and modern sources as well as on biblical associations and contemporary dance styles. Come and join the cultural experience of thousands worldwide who use Israeli dancing to exercise their mind, body and spirit! Both classical and recent Israeli songs will be used. No partner or previous knowledge necessary.

Intro to Bartending Tired of drinking the same drinks? Want to be a better host? Trying to find employment? Here’s the course that solves all your problems! Intro to Bartending will teach you the basics of being a bartender. You will learn the appropriate usage of glassware, different techniques of social preparation, as well as the mixing and tasting of tons of great drinks! What better way to start your Saturday? Instruction and equipment provid ed by the Masters School of Bartending.

Essay Writing Why settle for B's? Good essay writing skills will make the dif ference between getting a B or an A. Don’t wait until your last year at McGill to get the high marks, learn now! Our writing skills mini-course will teach you to convey your ideas effective

ly. Suitable for ESL students. The class size has been limited enabling our teacher to provide personal guidance to meet your specific needs. This course could be your smartest academic decision of the year!

Winetasting and Appreciation Once you graduate from McGill, you will hopefully make enough money to advance from Dep wine. So learn what lies beyond Baby Duck and SMSüSiü Our professional wine instructor will teach you how the wine is made, the appropri ate wine to choose with a meal, and wine tasting etiquette. Learn the difference between a Chardonnay, Cabernet and a Merlot. Wine samples will be available for tasting. Check the Mini Course website to know which date this course will be offered.

Conversational Italian Beginner

Planning to travel to Italy in the near future? Or always dreamed of learning the language of love? Our experienced teacher will not only guide you through the basics but will also enlighten you with her first-hand knowledge of the people, the culture, history and, of course, the food! No prior knowledge of the Italian language required.

Sketching for Beginners For the first time ever, we are excited to introduce a basic sketching class. Our instructor, an established Montreal artist, will help you develop the observation skills necessary for a basic rendering of shape. Objects, people and places (around McGill) will serve as subjects to draw as students explore form, proportion, texture, and light and dark contrasts. Classes will be held indoors and outdoors (weather permitting). A basic materials list, not in excess of $50.00, will be provided by the instructor.

Courses under consideration: These courses have yet to be finalized for this semester. Check the Mini Courses website or contact the coordinators to verify the status of the following courses: • Conversational Spanish • Cooking for a party • Holiday Cooking • Beer Tasting • Breakdancing • Poetry and Ultra-Short Prose - Photography • CPR — Adult Heart Saver • First Aid • Self-Defense

Registration in the Shatner Building, September 13th from 6 :00-9 :00pm

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C o lle g e By Bre Jones T he O racle (U. South Florida)

(U-WIRE) TAMPA, Fla. - As dawn beckons the sprinkling of stu dents with 8 a.m. classes toroll out of bed, a cluster of vans andtrucks rum ble to University of South Florida every Wednesday. Vendors rush to unpack folding tables and merchan dise, transforming Elm Street into a bustlingflea market by mid-morning. But perhaps the merchants who tender extra cash lure the most cus tomers. For newcollege students, just released fromtheir parents’ watchful eyes, these solicitors offer a small doseof freedom— credit. “When my parents were 26, they couldn’t even get a gas card without my grandfather co-signing,” junior David Keller said. “You just couldn’t establish credit easily. Now, you just signonthedottedline.” His parents’ struggle for credit sounds familiar, says Bob Hrabak, manager for theUSF Credit Union. “When I graduated high school and entered the service, I had the hardest time getting any credit card money,” Hrabak said. “They said I was ahigh-risk group.” Creditors shied away from tak ing chances. But their strategy has flipped. Now, credit card companies would rather award credit to a mass amount of college students and make money on the late fees, which now average at $29 apop. “In my first year of college, I acquired four credit cards and a huge amount of debt,” said Danielle Richie, a senior still battling her

s t u d e n t s t o ld freshman charges. “I didn’t have any credit before I applied. I was 18, naive and a student. That’s all it takes.” The spiral of student overspend ing, whether on Gucci sunglasses or pizza, poses a major problem in the United States, according to American Debt Management Services Inc. The average balance on a credit card tops out at $7,000, andthe average interest rateweighs inat 18.9percent. And that’s not all. Even if a stu dent sidesteps the shouting vendors, VISA and MasterCard applications sneak into mailboxes and textbooks purchasedon andoff campus. “The applications are every where, andwe want the cards because they markmaturity,” senior Glorianna Felix said. “It’s like we’re finally free to buy whatever we want, without having to ask our parents. We just go crazy.” Ritchie’s first application launched her collection of plastic money and awarded her a cuddly teddy bear. Piles of giveaways such as thermoses, two-liter bottles of Mountain Dew, stuffed animals and T-shirts crowd applicationtables. “I found myself filling out appli cations just for the free stuff,” Ritchie said. “Once the card was in my wal let, I used it in restaurants or for phonebills.” Ritchie isn’t alone. Keller’s credit balance swelled with obsessive long distance dialing. When his girl friend moved to California, chitchat ting on the phone turned into a pricy activity. “I didn’t want to get rid of my

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cards thoughbecauseI kept thinkingI might mn into an emergency,” Keller said. Instead, he filled a beer mug with water, dunked his cards — all sevenof them— andfroze theglass. “If I need touse one, it will take alot of effort,” Williams said. This compulsive swiping stifled recent USF-graduate Kathleen Piser’s finances, too. When her debt skyrock eted to $9,000 in a matter of two years, she whippedout the scissors. “I closed every account and chopped up all my cards,” Piser said. “I was out of control and uneducated about credit. I believe you can choose to use a credit card as a service or a slave master.” Although Piser insists 18-yearolds should take responsibility for overspending, she realizes creditors prey on the ignorance of young adults. “Creditors want us because they know we’re impulsive buyers who love the idea of quick money,” Piser said. As creditors enlist the unaware, credit counselors tag behind, armed with education—not afreebie. “Without education, giving cred it to teens or young adults is like handing them a key to ruin their future,” saidJoey Henderson, director of education for the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Florida Gulf Coast Inc. According to Henderson, research conductedby Good Morning America in 1999 revealed 40 percent of teens didn’t know credit cards charge interest. In addition, 28 per

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cent had no clue the cards are a form ofborrowing. “With these numbers it is clear that we are missing the boat in teach ing young adults money manage ment,” Henderson said. Henderson said a misunder standing of how interest works carves the financial damage. He stresses that if a student with $1,000 of credit debt only stuck to paying a minimum monthly fee of $25 at 17 percent interest, the student would take 12 years to slash the balance to zero. In the end, the student would have shelledout $974 in interest alone. However, if the student sent the minimummonthly payment plus $25, the balance would dwindle to zero in two years and seven months, paying only $200 in interest. “Some teens and young adults just do not realize that if you stick to the minimum, you’ll only pay the interest eachmonth,” Henderson said. While maxing out credit lines might restrain avid shoppers from picking up a newCD or dinner tab, it could also tamper with their futures. Henderson said a new wave of hiring has floodedcompanies. Employers don’t just check out GPAs anymore — they’re pulling credit reports. A good report reflects responsibility. However, some students wonder why creditors even give themthe tool tocreate avulnerable future. “The fees arenot out there inbig letters,” Hrabak said. “They are hid den.” However, Henderson believes the new strategy carries even more

logic. “If students can graduate high school, they are seen as future cus tomers,” Henderson said. “They want to get credit in the hands of young people early on because of brand favoritism. They know the student will continually use that same compa ny, even after they settleintojobs.” Hrabak’s suggestion: buy “con crete” things. He said students tendto rack up grocery bills and restaurant tabs on their cards, which vanish with every bite. “It’s better to make payments on apurchase you’ll have for along time because then it means more,” Hrabak said. “When you charge a $30 bill at Bennigan’s, you might pay $10 to $20 in interest.” So perhaps the next time you stroll through the market, steer away fromdebt and dig out a little change for ausedbookor beadednecklace. Henderson wishes he could be at themarket, too. “We’d like to set up a booth along side the credit-card people and educate the students. But howcan we compete with afreeT-shirt?” While both Henderson and Hrabak caution the use of credit by students, they don’t think it shouldbe kept out of their hands. “We live in a credit-card-driven society,” Hrabak said. “You need to establish credit in the real world because without it, you can’t exist. We just needtoconcentrate on teach ingyoungpeople thepitfalls.”

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Not a slow one: a night out with Sloan Shootin' the breeze with the band as they kick off Frosh 2000 By José Louren ço

Student's Society of McGill University Frosh 2000 commenced with the twang of guitars last Friday night as Canadian band Sloan gave the first performance of their University tour. Sloan is the greatest live band in the universe. They're like an older, cooler cousin who knows exactly what you like to do and want to see, because they see a little of themselves in you. Lucky guy that I am, I managed to catch a few words with Patrick Pentland, bassist, guitarist and singer of Sloan. T r ib u n e : What did you eat for breakfast today? P a tr ic k : I had a corned beef sand wich at the airport today. We did n't really get any food on the plane, so I just had that, and some Szechwan chicken. The rest of the guys probably had granola and fruit or something. When you're travel ing it's hard toget a good breakfast. T: The show in Montreal tonight is the first stop on your Canadian University tour. P: That's right. T: Do you and the rest of the band kind of feel like Tiffany in 1983 on her Malls of America Tour? P : Umm...no. And we're not doing only universities. We're doing some of those skate/snowboard festivals as well, as far West as Saskatchewan. But no, we don't feel like Tiffany. T : So there's not a Sloan cover of “I Think We’re Alone Now” in the works? P : Actually Tiffany covered that

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song. T : Really? Who sang it original ly? P: I don'f remember 100%, and I don’t want to say in case I'm wrong. But I do know that the guy who owned the publishing to that song and to “Mony Mony” went to Atlantic or some big name New York label and said he wanted Tiffany and Billie Idol to do these songs, and they did, and his pub lishing went fromlike 25 million to 40 million units in about a week. T: Wow. P : Yeah, that's why those songs came out like they did - if wasn't

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some kind of artistic thing, it was just some rich guy making a killing. That's how the music industry works, you see. T: Sloan - where does the name of the band come from? P : This friend of ours,. Jason Larsen, who lived in Halifax moved to Montreal and"had a boss with a French accent and we used to call him "the slow one" and he would slur it into "sloan." It became his nickname and we sort of took it fromhim. T : Is Sloan's songwriting more of a collaborative effort now that the whole band lives in Toronto?

P : Well, it's tough to say. We were really into the idea of collabo rating on the new record, the four of us writing each song together, but that really didn't end up hap pening. We are stepping up our ability to record, we have a new studio that we work in with our sound engineer, Brenden McGuire. Probably when this record's done, we'll record more as we're writing. Almost all of the songs on the new record, which should come out in May, are individual efforts. T: Will you be playing any of the new songs at the showtonight? P : No, we tried one at sound check today and it was horrendous. We didn't know the words. It's my song and I didn't even know the chords. And with Napster and everything, there's such a big MP3 bootleg thing that you could upload a concert and download it the next day. We don't want to let the cat out of the bag. Not that it'd be spectacular or anything. T : What do you think should hap pen with Napster and other file sharing software? P: Well, I'm split about it because I use it, I download all kinds of stuff, but I understand - 1mean, it’s not that Napster steals MP3s and houses them. There is a moral issue in terms of who owns music. Quite often an artist sells their pub lishing to a company who give you money in return for prospects. We were talking about that earlier with that “I Think We're Alone Now”, whatever, guy. Whoever owns the publishing should control that music. I don't think that it's a good thing for the public to have this

perception that an artist owning their own property is evil, because it's not. I also don't believe the whole "Metallica has enough money" argument. So what? They own it. It's theirs. The amount of personal sacrifice and gamble and risk that goes into a career in music [merits the money], and I'm sure they've gone though divorces and whatever because of it. They must be bitter that someone comes along and thinks it's not fair for them to own what they create. T : Sloan's had great success in the last couple years: the Molson com mercials, 4 albums in Chart's Top 50 Canadian albums of all time, a T w itc h C ity appearance, and a bunch of songs on T h e V ir g in Suicides soundtrack. P : Yeah, that's all through people we know. T: Really? P : Yeah. Sophia Coppola had a small budget for T h e V ir g in S u icid es and it was the same with the Molson commercials. We own our own publishing so we can go for a lot cheaper than other biggername acts. We're a pretty easy band to work with that way, as opposed to negotiating with Lenny Kravitz for 6 months. T: Oh man, you're crushing my impression of Sloan super-stardom! I wanted tobe the first on my block to own a real replica Patrick with kung-fu grip. What would your accessories be? P : You know what's funny, Todd McFarlane, the Spawn guy, has all these action figures of Bob and C o n t in u e d o n P a g e 2 0

How badly do you want a whipping? Peter Cohen's Are you a misogynistic, homophobic player? Are you a pseudo intellectual poseur in complete denial about your physical short comings? Or are you so bad at scamming that you tell your idiotic friends that you go out with a girl called Vaselina just to keep them off your back? If so, congratula tions, you just might relate to the three main characters in Peter Cohen’s directorial debut, W hipped.

Brad (Brian Van Holt), the leader of the pack, convenes regu larly for Sunday brunches with his two cave-men buddies, Zeke (the artsy-wannabe) and Jonathan (the sensitive guy) to brag about their respective conquests with as many girls as possible. Their married friend, the dorky, Cosmo-reading

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versations that arise are packed with phrases such as “did you stuff her,” as they each describe in minute detail the ways in which they were satisfied — or dissatis fied, as is most often the case. Yet, as proud as they are about their one-night stands, they all long for someone tolove; someone who will share some of their interests, be it stocks (Brad), screenplays (Zeke), or masturbation (Jonathan). And wouldn’t you know it, they all hap pen to fall in love on the same weekend. With the same girl. Mayhemensues. There’s nothing new to this “three-guys-one-girl” concept. It Eric, often joins them as he yearns was done years ago by Spike Lee in to escape his miserable state — S h e ’s G otta H ave It, and as recent because you know there’s nothing ly as last year in the Joseph Fiennes worse than being stuck with just flick The Very T hought o f You. Of course, W h ip p e d has a one woman. The excruciatingly crude con twist, but it’s a twist so completely

sure ain't cream unsatisfying and expected that I will not feel an ounce of regret by

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divulging it to you: said girl, Mia (Amanda Peet), is the real player of the bunch. She pits the guys against one another by announcing that she wants to date all three simultane ously though she cares for none of them, purposefully destroying their friendship. Who would have thought that women could be so manipulative? Who knew chicks could have sex with men without

getting emotionally involved? Cohen needs togorent the first season of S ex a n d the C ity to see that there’s nothing groundbreaking about self-fixated female charac ters. And while he’s at it, maybe he could take a look at T h e r e ’s S o m eth in g a b o u t M ary, where the crude toilet humour was actually funny, or In the C om pany o f M en and S w in g e r s , where the losers were well-developed characters and the screenplays were clever. If you insist in paying $8 to see W hipped, it does have a couple of redeeming qualities: it’s thank fully very short, and Amanda Peet does a fantastic job as Mia. Who knows? Maybe you’ll like it. But I wouldn’t count on it. W hipped p la ys in Kirkland, C ôte-des-N eiges a n d the Faubourg.

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Painting Montreal Red: Oh, the places w ell go! Even y o u n e w -c o m e r s t o th is c ity w ill have h ea rd a b o u t M o n trea l’s fla m b o y a n t n ig h tlife . In t h e sp ir it o f all th in g s co n v iv ia l, w e have c r e a te d a lit t le (a n d r a th e r o p in io n a te d ) g u id e t o s o m e o f t h e d rin k in g e s ta b lis h m e n ts in M on treal from t h e c h e e s y t o t h e d o p e -a s s . H appy tra ils!

corn, slightly warm, flat beer and slightly the best damn place to sit and get ridiculously drunk, then praise be to B if t e c k , by George! Although I don’t remember much of the time I’ve spent there, I’m pretty sure I had fun. And the If L e S w im m in g was a relative it coloured lights outside are a mustwould be the uncle who always see for any who appreciated the gave great gifts, but with whom it discoriffic style of S a tu rd a y N ig h t was really hard to have a conver F ever. sation. You better buy a martini or some other fancypants drink or B liz z a r ts isn’t just a place to lis the bartender and waitresses will ten to dope Hip Hop on Friday make fun of you. Play expensive nights (Brass Knuckles Crew) or pool and check out the funky jazz mad jungle funk breaks on stylings of many local and not-so- Saturdays (DJ Maus). It’s also a local-but-likely-still-Canadian place where you can buy over bands. Be ready to spend your priced drinks and stand up instead of sit down because there’s never cash and have a chill time. any available space. Their beats If praise be to slightly stale pop- are unmatchable, the seats are

untouchable and it’s more fun Geek Boutique/Brawd/FDCo. than Christmas at an orphanage. punks out there) will love it Check it out at the end of a night. upstairs on Tuesdays (D’n’B) and Thursdays (Jungle with Double A B a r S t. L a u r e n t is on St. Laurent and Twist). Meanwhile, all you (surprise!). It’s a pseudo-dive beer-guzzling jocks and girls in with a punk-rock night on Fridays tanktops will revel in the joys of that even Sid Vicious would stay the first floor games away from. Well, okay, he’d room/bar/club. Something for come by, but he’d bring mace. everyone. Enjoy. And he’d leave Nancy at home with the kids. Your request I watched New Jersey win the dreams will be answered if you Cup in 6 at C h a m p io n s and you buy the DJ a round. Leave the should have too. Where were fisticuffs at home, tough guy, you? They’ve got free popcorn because punk died in ‘82. and a big screen showing any of several satellite sports channels, Everybody in Rez goes to A n g e l’s and waitresses that act like they on Thursdays. If you haven’t got were on “Cheers”. Round up the ten over Rez, I’ll see you here, boys and drink beers during the too. All you little ravers and Canadiens games, you hoser. wannabes (I’ve seen you little

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S o n a may seem a frightening place because of the line-up, but don’t be intimidated. Bouncers pick up the hoochies first, then the girls, and THEN the boys. You may see a few unitards as well. Don’t be put off. Keep going because as soon as you are inside with a couple of friends, you will start dancing. Sona gets the headliners that are too expensive for small, independent parties but are still really worth listening to. All I have tosay is that the $20 was worth paying when I heardPaul Van Dyke.

Wahoo! You just won your intra mural league cup! Or youjust won a game! Or else you played an intramural game and lost badly! These are all valid excuses for going to B a r d e s P in s. Otherwise, you have no friends, you are 72 years old, and nobody likes you. Leave me alone and let me play foozball, creep.

and Juliana Hatfield to Shades of Culture. Whether you’re looking to In high school there were those rock the CEGEP scene or search kids who were cool and they knew ing for the St. Denis experience in it and they didn’t make a fuss an English part of town, Café about their coolness and they Campus is a solid spot to get your talked to everybody and they go to drunk on. E ls e ’s. It’s full of tables. It’s where you want to tell your kids your first And speaking of St. Denis, S t . date was. You may have to order S u lp ic e is the happiest place in the food with your beverage but if world. You remember everyone you’re surreptitious and sit in a you ever met at McGill? Well, comer, you might escape this fate. they’re there. Especially in the Have a McAuslan’s cream ale and summer when the massive patio soak up the unbelievable atmos opens up. The pitchers are very phere. Also, pay your respects to reasonable and even your little sis Else herself, who passed away last ter can get past the bouncers. Rub year, much to the grief of many shoulders with the French while staying safe in a satellite McGill Plateau-dwellers. community. Remember Sw ing Kids? Remember S trictly B a llro o m ? Remember F la sh d a n c el Remember F o o tlo o se ? Remember S cent o f a W om an ? If you can’t dance like Fred and Ginger, stay the f*ck away from J e llo B a r . It’s a Martini bar in the classiest sense, so you better show up in your Sunday best with the dance floor skills and a partner.

is notorious for its sound sys tem, which is at the topof its class. It is also notorious for its “happy” house music. It’s a lot like Sona (an afterhours club also) but Stereo attracts a very different scene, more fun-based, less hardcore. Generally, it has a very friendly atmosphere and is a great place to dance the night away. S te r eo

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is exactly the same. If you’re a 16-year-old Montreal-born Ginette or Gino, you already know what I’mtalking about. If not, go at least once to this notorious street and stop in at S ir W in s to n C h u r c h ill’s for a less pathetic experience. Them kids from the suburbs live and die for this area and I have no idea why. E very bar on C rescen t

If you live in Rez and it’s Wednesday night and you feel like sitting down in a downtempo, chill environment while Rez buddies buy rounds of cheap beer as you chat the night away, then you should check out D o u g P u b . The bartenders and servers live next door to you and there’s no attitude in this calm, check-your-ego at the door pub.

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A Montreal summer sampler A look back as the festival season draws to a close By B en H unt

Maybe the reason that drivers in Montreal are so bloody aggres sive is that the Montreal Urban Commission authorities constantly shut down major traffic arteries under the guise of “street festivals,” of which there is an incessant bar rage fromMay right through to the beginning of September. In case you were touring the wilds of Peru or trapped under a Toronto street car, we reviewed the summer’s good, bad and ugly.

Jazz Fest The Montreal Jazz Festival was sponsored by General Motors and Labatt’s this year, and they certainly let you know it: hot air balloons, murals and kiosks brim ming with logos as far as the eye could see. I suppose it is a small price to pay for the renowned

event, consid ering that 75% of the acts are free. The inte gration of the festival into the Place-des-Arts complex and surrounding area - Bleury to St. Laurent and St. Catherine to Sherbrooke - is a marvelous transformation of the down town area. I caught a couple of shows ranging from the soulful pop of Ivana Santilli to some knee-slappin’ zydeco that reminded me of the virtues of the aluminum washboard. Everyone I know who went found something different that appealed to them, including a hugely popular exposé of Brazilian music and the insanely

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talented Me’Shell NdegeOcello. Nothing but jazz? Not really. A great testimony to the celebratory spirit of Montreal? Absolutely.

Street sales The Saint-Laurent Street Sales were really nothing new this year, with the exception of a breakdanc ing crew alongside the turntable magician Kid Koala at the first sale in June, and an oversized Damoclean disco ball suspended over the unsuspecting masses. Highlights of the sales include the emergence of the Portuguese barbecue masters from their Northof-Pins obscurity and the myriad opportunities to sit outside and eat somewhere besides the cookie-cut ter Greek places on the cobble stones. On the downside, the ven dors are always disappointing, usu ally just spring-cleaning rather than showcasing anything interesting. And the Guru tent outside Angel’s - complete with bad house, postur ing pretty people and ferns - is pretty silly.

Gay and proud The Gay Pride parade in Montreal was, predictably, a week end of high spirits and celebration, although quite a great deal tamer than expected. We caught the tail end of a concert/drag show at Bern Square which ranged from very good (the drag show itself) to intol erably bad (a performance by locals One-976) think of a mirrorthong clad, silver-painted guy cov ering the Ramones). The cacopho ny from the band, which was hon oured a few months back with Worst Album Cover from Vice magazine, was exacerbated by the terrible sound system. The after-party was a mad rush to the monolithic bars that populate St. Catherine East - count

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to a slow start with a stream of unremarkable floats punctuated by fifteen-minute voids. However, after the distribution of flags to the moribund throngs, things started to pick up with dancing, singing, whistling (oh, those whistles!) Diesel floats and enough Jennifer Lopez to make even Puff Daddy bury his head in the sand.

slightly older demographic, there are tons of other improv stages and street acts that will keep you enter tained. Some of the ridiculous stuff that happens on the street - the schadenfreude of publicly terroriz ing innocent bystanders with bal loon animals and tales of long-lost brotherhood - is pure gold. There are plenty of other rea sons to stick around in the summer: the Mont-Royal street sale, Nuits Giggles and gags d’Afrique, Les FrancoFolies de Montreal, the three-day music fes I didn’t get to experience the tivals, the list goes on. So with all Juste Pour Rire festival in all of its

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yourself lucky if you didn’t have to queue up around the block - and some special performances, such as Dubtribe Soundsystem at Unity. The parade of the next day got off

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jocular glory, but some adults that were staying with us for a couple of days approved wholeheartedly. Even if you are of the opinion that stand-up appeals primarily to a

this great stuff in their city in the summer, how could Montreal dri vers still be so moody and aggres sive? One word: Decarie.

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Aural Pleasure A fte r receiving a fair sh a re of questionable C D ’s in o u r m ailbox, th e A r t s and E n te rta in m e n t section decided to find o ut w h a t th e youth of M cG ill would re co m m e n d for y o u r listening p leasu re. A to u r through th e O p e n A ir Pub and several in terv iew s later, w e g en erated a list of w h a t so m e stu d ents have spinning in th e ir stereo s.

K a te Starosina B u cc a h M a s k a n Connecticut, US Albany, New York It’s gotta be F a llin g I n to Y o u by Celine Dion because she is the I just started listening to T h ir te e n best, and that’s her best CD by far. T a l e s f r o m U r b a n B o h e m i a by the Dandy Warhols. It’s a phat album. They added a lot of ele ments, they are using some horns and some different drummings. They really matured as a band and this is just the product of that.

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Montreal, Quebec I just bought P r o s e C o m b a t by MC Solaar. Some really good stuff. He takes jazz samples and makes them incredible. Something that resembles this is the new StGermain album, but that’s a bit more electronic. MC Solaar is the granddad of French rap. He has good rapping skills, to say the least.

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Cambridge, Vermont Everyone should own the album A n d O u t C o m e t h e W o l v e s by Rancid ‘cause that’s a damn good album. It metamorphoses punk and L in d sa y W a lk e r Fred Fugère pop in a contemporary setting and I Oakville, Ontario Som ew here in Q uebec think it still holds true today even though it’s a few years back when T h e M a t r i x S o u n d t r a c k . Good Right now in my CD player I have P e r f o r m a n c e a n d C o c k t a i l s by songs fromevery industrial band. it first came out. Stereophonies, a British band. I’m all over the map, I like pretty much everything. The Stereophonies are more like Pearl Jam, kind of rock alternative. It’s hard to explain. One of my friends who’s into British bands got me into it only a Interviews by G race C arter & M arie-H éléne Savard , P ictures by few months ago. Stephanie L evitz

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S u f f ic ie n t ly d e m e n t e d .. . . a s a lw a y s .

chit-chat with Sloan...

Cecil B. is classic Waters (so don't say we didn't warn you)

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movies through their eye-opening gard for political correctness. This tone is common to many of John zero-budget epic. Invading the streets of Waters’ works, including the infa John Waters’ new film is, in his trademark style, a dark- Baltimore, the cast and crew ter mous P in k F la m in g o s , where a humoured journey into fringe cul rorize anyone opposed to their competition is fought to find “filthiest person ture. The bottom of society’s bar alive”. Twenty-five rel is scraped to collect the main years after its characters for this daring story release, it has about cinema terrorists kidnapping become an alterna a starlet. tive classic popular Melanie Griffith, an admitted in midnight screen ly loyal Waters fan, plays the ings. This new film Hollywood diva Honey Whitlock. will undoubtedly The arrogant and snotty actress is inspire a similar abducted at her movie premiere by cult-like treatment the title character, Cecil B. by the likes of DeMented (Stephen Dorff), and R o c k y H o r r o r and his slew of committed and dirty crew, The Sprocket Holes. The W ould y o u like a breathm int, or m a yb e so m e Binaca? F i g h t C lu b fans since it is a cross ranks include loads of colorful companions, including a sex-crav cause, including unsuspecting the between the two. Featured in the Montreal ing pom star, a heavy drug user, a ater owners and film convention heterosexual hairdresser who attendants. During such travels, World Film Festival, C e c i l B. yearns to be gay and a Satanist porn fans and action lovers unite to D e M e n t e d is slated to open in who enjoys the taste of goat urine. save the team from angry mobs. many theatres shortly. Is it worth All memorable characters, to say Meanwhile, Honey is enraptured seeing? It depends on who’s ask with the cause. This predictable ing. Waters is often operating on the least. DeMented heads a cult whose development occurs without a real the very edge of the line, taunting proclaimed mission is to punish antecedent, a mild flaw in the censors and, due to some quite commercial cinema. In their film’s consistency. Regardless, the unsettling themes, conservativeattempt to abolish sequels, foreign revolution continues. The sacri minded moviegoers should steer film remakes and the like, his fol fices of the unlucky sods falling clear. But if you’re into edgier lowers revamp Honey into a slutty along the way are taken in stride, movies left of the mainstream, Goth-meets-rock styled actress and since a main theme in the outlaws’ inspired by the dirty underbelly of force her into the lead role of their vision is dying for their cause. the streets, go for it. It is a highly creative piece of art packed tightly brutally “real” life film. Fueled by “Suicide for Celluloid!” The dialogue is filled with to ensure no dry moments. sexual frustration, DeMented’s supporters remit themselves whol vulgar obscenities and crass innu ly to bring an end to mainstream endo coated with a blatant disre B y R ebecca D oiron

Doug MacKenzie with back bacon and cases of beer. Probably some thing like that. T : No guitar? P : I suppose. T : What kind of guitar are you using tonight? P : A Rockjet that I've had for about five years. T: Oh. So you wouldn't want to give it tome after the show. P : Nope. T : What are you reading right now? P: I like Irish authors. I was read ing Roddy Doyle's new book, A S ta r C a lled H en ry, but I left it in Halifax at a friend's house. T: Good enough. There was a ref erendumon McGill campus yester day and if Sloan doesn't play "Deeper Than Beauty" at the show tonight then we're going to secede from any further association with Canadian pop culture. P: Oh yeah? T: Well, no. But it would make my girlfriend happy. P : We'll see. T : Thanks a lot Patrick. P : All right. No problem. Well, Patrick was a nice guy and all, but the night wasn't over yet. I love Sloan, but would their music satiate the voracious appetites of the McGill crowd? The guys didn't disappoint. Later the same evening, Sloan

and opening act Mike O'Neill (for merly of The Inbreds) rocked the party that rocks the party and treat ed thousands of McGill froshies, confused sophomores, content juniors, and bitter, jaded seniors to a musical spectacle unseen in this part of the island since... well, since the last time Sloan came to town. Mike O'Neill took the stage at 9:30 and the stage took to him for the following 40 minutes. He bust ed out a P rice is R ight- style show case of his diverse songwriting tal ents, highlighted by the moody and beautiful "I See Clearly." Elvis Costello would beat him up if he knew how good O'Neill sounded. Sloan then sauntered out onto the stage in classic RockStar™ fashion and pounded out a set that sampled from every album they've released. When not playing crowd favorites like "She Says What She Means", "Underwhelmed", and "Everything You've Done Wrong", the boys were spicing up the show with Jacques Pentland (Patrick Pentland's Québécois doppleganger), and invitations to the crowd to do the Arsenio whoop whoop. They even played my request. What swell guys. Chris Murphy punctuated the beat with nine ninja kicks over the course of the evening, closing the show with a Mike O'Neill-part nered double kick. It was crispy rock and roll that was raw in the middle -just the way you like it.

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Redmen football could be sleeper in conference Defensive depth, and secondary key uncertainties heading into opener By Jeremy K uzmarov

For Lhe second year in a row, McGill is faced with the daunting prospect of replacing the seemingly irreplaceable. After struggling to cope with the losses of Redmen all-time career rushing leader Shawn Linden, and current Seattle Seahawk J.P Darche last season, the 2000 McGill team will have to carry on without middle-linebacker Olivier Lefebvre. The anchor of the Redmen defence last season, Lefebvre broke Darche's previous school record of tackles in a game with 17.5, and also set the all-time career mark with 318.5. Fortunately for the Redmen there are some returning stars capa ble of picking up the slack. On defence, Coach Charlie Baillie and his staff will look to second team all-Canadian Randy Chevrier and fellow lineman John Mcdonald to stuff the run and put pressure on the opposing quarter backs. On offence, wide receiver and kick return specialist Ben Wearing, who racked up 1,261 all-purpose yards last year, looks to be the fea tured weapon in a potentially potent offence. The Redmen will need to improve on both sides of the ball in order to surpass last season’s 3-5 record and first round loss to Ottawa. "We've lost some key players but the outlook is positive, " said Wearing, a second year transfer from Brown who led the confer ence in kick-off returns with 330 yards and had the third best season ever for a McGill receiver with 33 catches for 592 yards. "On offence we have some explosive players like Marc Freer and Nick Hoffmann in our backfield. We’ll be good for at least 21 points per game."

The R edm en look to reach th e play-offs in their 126th season

The big question is who will throwWearing the ball. Josh Sommerfeldt, who looked like a future all-star as a rookie in 1998, but struggled last year during an injury plagued season, looks to be the front-runner for the quarter back job. He is being pushed in camp, however, by Phillipe Couillard who demonstrated tremendous poise under pressure last year as a rookie in leading the Redmen to a comefrom behind victory against Bishops late in the year, and to a near victory against the Gee-Gees in the play-offs. "The spot's still up for grabs and both guys are working hard to play," said Coach Baillie entering his 29th and final season as Redmen Head Coach. "Sommerfeldt is the better runner, but Couillard has shown more lead ership which is an important asset for a quarterback. Josh is more the laid-back type."

Regardless of who takes the snaps, McGill’s offence will stag nate unless the offensive line gels as a unit and is able to create some holes, allowing the players at the skilled positions to thrive. "Initially we were concerned since we lost three players, but we’ve got some young guys who look like they can do the job," said Coach Baillie, who will be count ing on veterans like tackle Tom Johnson, and 6"7 321 pound Nick Landry to provide some stability. "The returning guys worked hard over the summer and came to camp in shape. The line is looking solid." A major sore spot for McGill seems to rest in the secondary. While athletic cornerback Greg Shink, who also competes for the McGill track and field team, is a potential all-star, there will be a lot of unproven players in the starting line-up. The Redmen hope to get a boost from transfer Strachan Hartley, an all-conference defensive

Head to Head A bout the game: The S h a u gh n essy cup was introduced in 1969 to honour the legendary M cGill coach Frank S h a u g h n e ssy Sr. McGill and Concordia have b een p la y in g fo r it s in c e 1975, with McGill holding a 15-9 advantage in the series. L ast y ea r s S h a u g h n essy Cup result: Stingers 27-Redmen 16. C o n c o r d ia p la y e r s to w a tc h : Q u aterb ack Jon Kronemeyer is entering his first full season as the starter, after a s u c c e s s f u ll ro o k ie year. R unning back Jean-

M ich el Paquette is a workhouse, and should get a lot of c a r ries on S atu rd ay. On defense watch out for defen s iv e en d W ayne D u n n , a OQFIC all-star.

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K eys to M cG ill victory: It’s im perative for M c G ill’s confidance to score early. It is also important to win the bat tle o f p o s s e s io n , as the Concordia offen ce is always capable o f a quick strike. Last year’s records: M cG ill 3-5 (4th place) C oncordia 6-2 (tied for 2nd)

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back with the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds when they won the Vanier Cup in 1997. The linebacking tandem of Mike Mahoney, Pat Porco and senior Steve Colwell will collec tively try to alleviate the absence of Lefebvre who was dynamite for the Redmen up the middle last season. Another huge source of con cern rests with McGill’s depth

especially, on defence. It remains to be seen whether the Redmen could effectively deal with injuries to their starters with so many unproven players on the roster. "We've got a good starting twelve but after that there’s few guys with game experience," said assistant coach Shawn Koch, a standout linebacker on last year’s team. "Our depth is a question mark but a lot of our young players have great potential. There could be some surprises." If the Redmen hope to make the playoffs, they must come out with a strong effort in their opener against Concordia. Having lost to their perennial cross-town rivals 45-0 the last time the two teams played, and with the game broad cast live on Global television, the McGill players will certainly be fired up. "The Concordia game is huge," said Koch,"It'll set the tone for the whole season." Added Coach Baillie, who is super-motivated heading into his final year : "We improved a lot last year and we hope we can start off where we finished. The key for us will be for our second year players to step up. Our objective for the year is to host a game in the play offs, and we think that’s something which is realistic."

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#16 "We’ve got a good bunch of guys and we’re moulding nicely," said Mcdonald. "Making the play-offs is our goal. Anything short of that will beadisappointment.”

Tm not gonna get hurt this year, I’mgoing tobe injury free. Competing with Couillard for the #1 job has made bothof us better," said Sommerfeldt. "Regardless of who starts, I don’t think any defence in the conference will be able tostopus.”

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When I was a little kid, I was a lot like every other little boy. I used to play catch with my dad in the backyard. We both looked for

through. They told me that only pregnant women could pass. I was told to park my car on the street and get my cancer weakened father to walk to it. My question is this: What are Out of Left-Field the priorities of people in this Neil Schnurbach world? Yes, the hospital is beside the football stadi um, but isn’t the ward to his coming home from health of even one person more work so that we could do the things important than the enjoyment of that fathers and sons do. On week 20,000 football fans? If I had been ends, we had our classic tennis having a heart attack, I wonder if matches and we would always go the police would have let me go to to see a sporting event. Our the hospital. favourite spectator sport was foot Thankfully I'ma stubborn per ball and we used to love going to son. I argued with the police for see Alouettes games (until they about 20 minutes until they, finally temporarily left town). This year, let me go up to the Royal Vic. But however, the Alouettes and their by that time my parents had been staff disappointed us completely. waiting for me for quite a while. If You see, earlier this year, my the police involved had their priori father was stricken with melanoma, ties right, my parents would not the worst form of skin cancer. have had to wait at all. Early in the summer he was receiv I am a sports freak. I live ing treatment at the Royal Victoria sports and I breathe sports, but Hospital on the same day as an sometimes life has to be put into Alouettes game. My mother, a perspective. While the Alouettes devoted wife, was at the hospital have been having a great deal of with him while he was receiving success at Molson Stadium, maybe chemotherapy. She called me at it isn’t the best idea for a the team about ten o’clock to pick her and to have their games so close to a my father up from the hospital. hospital. Or maybe the Als staff When I got there, however, all the could be more sympathetic to the streets were blocked off because of patients of the hospital and their the football game. I tried to families. After all, how many other explain my situation to the police, sick people have been put at risk? hut they wouldn’t let me go

M c G i l l A t h l e t i c s r e t u r n s to its r o o t s w i t h t h e t r a d i t i o n a l M c r e s t ( l e f t ) , a n d l o ok s f o r w a r d to its f u t u r e w i t h the m e n a c i n g s p i d e r - l i k e logo ( r i g h t ) .

McGill's Men and Women Soccer Teams Win Old Four Tournament T h e m e n 's s o c c e r te a m c a p p e d t h e ir s u c c e s s fu l p re s e a s o n b y w in n in g th e O ld F o u r t o u r n a m e n t a t M o ls o n S t a d iu m . O n S a t u r d a y , M c G ill d e f e a t e d Q u e e n s 3 -1 w ith th e w in n in g goal c o m in g fro m P hillipe L a zu re . In th e fin a ls on S u n d a y , E ddy Z u p p e l b a c k s to p p e d M cG ill to a 2 - 0 o v e r th e U n iv e rs ity o f T o ro n to V a rs ity B lues. Justin S tu d e n t c o n tin u e d his h o t p lay w ith his fo u rth g o a l. T h e w o m e n 's te a m re tu rn e d fro m a d iffic u lt road trip to a ls o triu m p h a t th e O ld F o u r. On S a tu rd a y , M c G ill w o n 2 - 1 in a s h o o t o u t o v e r U o f T . T h e T r i b u n e 's 1 9 9 9 - 2 0 0 0 F e m a le A th le te o f th e Y e a r Julia S c ra s e s c o re d th e s h o o to u t w in n e r. In th e c h a m p i o n s h ip g a m e , t h e M a r t le t s w o n 2 - 0 w ith R a c h e l B o o m g a a rd t s corin g th e w in n e r. S a ch a Liben w a s th e w in n in g n e tm in d e r in b o th c o n te s ts .

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One last hurrah for Charlie Baillie Legendary McGill head football coach to retire after 29th season By Jeremy K uzmarov

Like Knute Rockne at Notre Dame, and Joe Paterno at Penn State, Charlie Baillie is an icon at McGill whose name has become synonymous with the Redmen football program. After leaving an indelible mark in his 28 years as head coach, and racking up the most wins in school history, the man known as the "dean of Canadian University football," will retire at the end of the season. What has distinguished Baillie as a coach is his superb knowledge of the game and its many intrica cies, and the tremendous amount of respect he has commanded from his players. "Coach Baillie is like an insti tution at McGill. He'll be remem bered forever," said former Redmen turned Seattle Seahawk J.P Darche. "He knows the game inside and out and is a great teacher and leader. I'mfortunate to have played for him." Baillie's football wisdom has been cultivated throughout the course of his 47 year involvement in the game. Prior to becoming a coach, Baillie, now 65, enjoyed a suc cessful nine year professional career with the Montreal Alouettes in the Canadian football league. After stints as an assistant coach with the Redmen and as a coach with Sir George Williams University (now Concordia), he was named McGill’s head coach prior to the 1972 season. Baillie's penchant for football isn't surprising considering his pedigree. Part of an extremely ath letic family - his brother Dave was a three time Olympian in weightlifting in 1952, ‘56 and ‘60, and his twin brother Ray competed in football and hockey - he was profoundly influenced by his

father Don who played for the Redmen between 1919 and 1923. His interest in football was also developed at a young age by his reverence for Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard, nicknamed the Touchdown twins, who both starred for Army in the 1940s. An autographed photo of the two col lege football legends still sits in his office nestled nicely along with countless other memorabilia acquired during the course of his career. "Those guys were heroes to us

then, as were some of the McGill players like Murray Hayes and Dr. Alan Mann whom I watched growing up." said Baillie with a nostal gic smile. "I still love the game now as I did then. Though I never looked at football as a career, I always had it in my mind as a player that I wanted to coach. Its been a rewarding experience." Unknown to many, Baillie, who has coached 28 CIAU All-Canadians, 100 Academic All Canadians and 17 Coach B aillie h a s a m a s s e d a 114107-2 record a t McGill Rebecca Catching future professionals, school and other things besides inherited a McGill football program in crisis. The football. His personality, and the team folded briefly after the 1970 tireless hours he spends at his job season before being rescued by motivates guys to play hard for alumni donations. With the pro him." "His door is always open gram still on the bubble, Baillie's presence and hard work ensured its whether you're the star or the last stability over the course of the next guy off the bench," added current Redmen quarterback Josh three decades. "The challenge when I initial Sommerfeldt. "There's a great aura ly came on was to rebuild the pro and tradition about him which he's gram," said Baillie, who juggled earned. There's no one I respect his coaching duties with full-time more." work at Northern Electric (now While still quick-witted and called Nortel networks) until 1990. committed to his job, Baillie's "We were eventually able to field decision to retire stemmed from some good teams in the 70's into his desire to spend more time with the 80's. The challenge now and his family, and to enjoy some of for my successor will be to main the things in life he's missed due to tain a nationally competitive his preoccupation with football. "I still love coaching and feel team." While thrilled to have won the I could stay on but it’s a time con Vanier Cup in 1987 and been a suming job and there are some finalist in 1973, and despite having things I feel I missed out on won numerous conference champi because of football," said Baillie. onships, Coach Baillie has derived "I’ve got 5 kids and 6 grand chil the most satisfaction from the one dren. I've also got a cottage up on one dealings with his players. north that I never get to use. It’s "The quality of players and time for me to do something dif people we've had here is why I've ferent." Before deciding on how he's enjoyed coaching at the university level and never pursued a profes going to fill the hours after his sional coaching job where the retirement, Baillie is focused on game is a business," said Baillie, a putting together one more run at four time Ontario-Quebec glory on the gridiron. Intercollegiate Football On the eve of his 29th and Conference Coach of the Year. final season with McGill, he finds "Winning is always the objective, himself as eager and excited as but my overriding goal has been to ever for the opening kick-off. He provide an environment where the is determined to finish his accom players enjoyed themselves and plished career with a bang, and his learned something along the way." players are equally focused on giv Described as being firm but ing their coach a memorable sendfair in his leadership style, Coach off. "Some coaches who’ve been Baillie, never the rah rah type, has in his own subtle manner been able around a long time just coast in to get the best out of his teams. their last year, but I’mputting a lot He has also been more then of pressure on myself to end my just a football coach but a mentor career on the right foot," said and role model for many of his Baillie. Added Koch: "It’s in the back players who are forthright about of every guy's mind that this is their admiration for him. "He's been a father figure for Coach Baillie's last season and that me," said first year Redmen assis we've got to make it a good one. tant coach Shawn Koch, a player He's one of the major reasons I under Baillie for five seasons. "He came on as an assistant coach. I knows more about the game of want to be part of something spe football than anybody, and he's cial." also always accessible and atten tive to players' needs regarding

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Darche does McGill proud Toronto Argonauts in special teams played National Collegiate Athletic tackles as a Canadian Football Association Division I football. even last year. I was all set to retire League rookie last year, still has a Fromday one in training camp after breaking my leg in the confer lot he wants to achieve in football. he felt like he belonged - largely a ence semi-finals credit to his against Hamilton. experience play My agent made ing professional some inquiries ly in Canada last over tbe winter, season. and that's when it "The differ became a possibili ence between the ty," said Darche NFL and CFL is who beat out the not as pro since released Ed nounced as most Kehl for the start people think," ing long-snapper said Darche, " job. "It's extreme Having played in ly exciting to play the CFL I felt at this level. There ready right away is so much media to compete and attention and hype make an impact surrounding our at this level. I team and games, was a little ner and its a major vous coming in thrill to be part of at first but I had a it all." good feeling Unlike many through the first of his fellow play few days of train ers, Darche isn't ing camp." looking to football Besi des as a full-time acclimatizing career. himself to the Granted a two calibre of the year leave of NFL, Darche has absence from also come to McGill to pursue develop a strong his dream of play rapport with ing professional many of his football, Darche is teammates. committed to fin Contrary to the ishing his degreeportrayal of pro at McGill and fessional football becoming a doctor players in Oliver even if he excels in Stone's recent the NFL. film A n y G iv e n That means potentially cutting Slated as the starting long Sunday, Darche has found Seattle's short his time in the NFL despite snapper for punts and field goals, stars, like Pro-Bowlers Chad all of its perks. Darche will be counted on to be at Brown, and Ricky Watters, to be "Making the NFL is a great his best as Seattle hopes to win more humble and well-grounded thing, but my medical career has another division championships than most people would think. always been my priority," said and advance beyond the first round "I've heard stories about divi Darche who's salary jumped from of the play-offs. sion between blacks and whites but the CFL league minimum of Darche's greatest asset to the there's no racism or conflicts on $30,000 to the NFL minimum of Seahawks is his ability not only to this team,” said Darche who's $193,000 American or $283,000 snap the ball well but also to get become especially close with many down-field on punts of his fellow rookies. "While guys and make tackles after are wealthy, their attitude and the the ball has been atmosphere in the locker room is similar to the CFL. The players kicked. "There is a lot of work hard and are dedicated to the pressure to perform at game. They're not prima donnas." "There's good team chemistry this level," said Darche, who received here," added Darche. "While I'm the Russ Jackson tro not tight with all the players - an phy in 1998 for best established veteran like Ricky combining academics, Watters, while a nice guy, for athletics and communi example isn't going to invite me to ty service as a his house for dinner - those who Canadian university have been around the league a long football player. "The time set a good example for the coaching staff is very younger players, and have made demanding and hard on efforts to reach out to me. Its a guys who make mis great environment toplay in." While Darche can boast to his takes; more so than in the CFL. The coaches grand-kids that he once suited up after all are under a lot for Mike Holmgren, a Super-Bowl of pressure too. So far winning coach with the Green Bay I’mhappy with the way Packers in 1997, he has been most I've been playing and I influenced by special teams' coach Darche Bros, side-by-side. J.P. (left) and Mathieu (right) think the coaches and Pete Rodriguez. Rodriguez is also wellmy teammates have Canadian. "The money's great at confidence in me. I feel that I keep renowned around the NFL, being this level but I'm gonna take it one getting better with every practice named special teams' coach of the year at a time. I don't plan on hav and game." year in 1992. He has worked with ing a long NFL career. I want to Despite his unconventional Darche a great deal to help him complete med school back at background for an NFL player, adjust to the fast-paced nature of McGill." Darche has not been intimidated the NFL game. Before adding the title of M.D suiting up with guys who mostly "Coach Rodriguez has a lot of to his name, Darche, who led the C o n t in u e d fr o m P a g e 1

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experience and is a terrific guy who's spent a lot of time with me and taught me so much," said Darche. "While Coach Holmgren patted me on the back and said it was nice to have me aboard when I made the team, he's not going to talk to me on a regular basis. He's a nice guy but he's busy as head coach and general manager. He can be tough, and there's no question that he's the boss." Remarkably J.P. isn't the only Darche to have a shot at the big time. His brother Mathieu, captain of the Redmen hockey team last season and winner of the national scoring championship with 82 points in 33 games, is vying for a spot with the expansion Columbus Blue Jackets of the National Hockey League. Two years younger than J.P, Mathieu, a great two way player with good size and a booming shot, was also an excellent student at McGill in the Faculty of Management. Besides receiving the D.Stuart Forbes trophy as McGill's Male Athlete of the Year for the 19992000 season, he won the national Dr.Randy Gregg trophy for athlet ics, academics and community ser vice. Darche was also the Quebec conference nominee for the Howard Mackie Award as the Canadian Intercollegiate Athletics Union athlete of the year. A workaholic like his brother, Darche, now fully recovered from the knee injury he suffered in the conference finals against L'Université de Quebec a Trois Rivières, spent his summer training vigorously to improve his fitness level and speed with McGill track coach Dennis Barrett. An intense competitor who's at his best under pressure, Mathieu is determined to crack the Blue Jackets opening day roster and become only the 8th McGill player to reach the NHL, and the first since Reggie Sinclair suited up as a rookie for the Boston Bruins in 1950. "My goal is to make the team," said Darche, the Ontario University athletics player of the year in 1999-2000 who started training camp last week. "The com petition is going tobe fierce but I'm confident. It's exciting to be in this position.

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Coming up this week... • Redmen football vs Concordia, Saturday 1:30 PM at Molson stadium. • Redmen rugby vs Dartmouth, Wednesday 4 PM at Rutherford Park, Sunday 4pm vs Queen’s at Rutherford Park. • Martlets Rugby vs Bishop’s, Sunday 1 PM at McEwen Field (Mcdonald campus) • Redbirds baseball tournament at Olympic stadium starts Thursday (Labatt 50 Classic).

Canadians to Make NFL After playing in Cl AU • lb J .P . D a r c h e - S e a t t le S e a h a w k s ( M c G ill U n iv e r s it y )

• db Mark Montreuil-San Diego Chargers(Concordia University) • db Mark Hatfield-Miami and Houston(Bishop’s) • wr Tyrone Williams-Dallas(Westem) • rb Tim Tindale-Buffalo and Chicago(Westem) • og Mike Schad-L.A and Philadelphia(Queen’s) • wr Jerome Pathon-Indianapolis(Acadia) • wr Brian Fryar-Washington(Alberta) • p Grayson Shillingford-Seattle(UBC) • wr Jim Young-Minnesota(Queen’s) •p Ken Clark-L.A(St.Mary’s)

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