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First-Aid Service seeks direct student funding Service wants Judicial Board to circumvent SSMU Council

By S hehryar Fazli

The S tudents’ Society of McGill University’s Judicial Board will be hearing a petition on behalf of the McGill University First-Aid Service to determ ine w hether SSMU violated its own constitu­ tion in allocating funds to the group for the current academic year.

The McGill University First Aid Service’ (MFAS) mandate is to offer pre-hospital volunteer care to the McGill community, especially with large crowds such as during Frosh Week and sporting events. In its proposed budget for the current academic year, MFAS’ requested funding from SSMU amounted to a total of $11,000. The group

received no funding from the Society in 1999-2000, $2,400 in 1998-1999 and $400 in 1997-1998.

Follow ing a review by SSMU’s Finance Committee on MFAS’ budget proposal, a decision was made to allocate the MFAS $1700 for the 2000-2001 academic year. MFAS believes that this amount will prevent the group from fulfilling the tasks it has set forth to perform.

"Due to past underfunding we were required to ask for [$11,000] in order to meet our mandate and provide a high calibre service to the students of McGill University," said MFAS President Elizabeth Wooster. "With the amount SSMU put forth, we would not be able to

operate as a viable service. We would be unable to even adequate­ ly train our members let alone pur­ chase supplies or communication devices."

The $ 11,000 request, however, represents one-third of SSMU’s budget for service groups on cam­ pus. SSMU VP Clubs and Services Chris Gratto argued that the McGill community’s first-aid needs could be more effectively met through existing non-student services.

"A much more cost-effective way would be to [improve] McGill S ecurity’s [training]," he said.

"They have greater resources. If there’s an emergency in Upper Residence they have cars and can get up there in two or three min­

utes. There’s no way for a studentrun service to get up there in that time... I think in major emergen­ cies, students would be more com­ fortable with a more professional service."

SSMU President W ojtek Baraniak also commented on the presence of current first-aid resources at the University.

"You have to remember that McGill Security is also trained in first-aid, so a lot of [these services] exist already," he said. "There’s also a hospital up the street, a hos­ pital about a kilometer and a half away, and there is the Health Services [facility] that is open on regular basis."

Wooster, however, contended

that despite the extent of health ser­ vices already available at the University, these services do not cover the wide range of first-aid needs facing the McGill communi­ ty"Health Services is not open during the hours of the majority of the events we cover," she said.

"Security, while trained, is not on site for these events and is often difficult to locate. This is due to the fact that provision of first aid is not their primary job. In most major first aid emergencies, including [blocked] airway emergencies, it is the fii^t four minutes that are vital to the survival and wellbeing of the Continued on Page 4

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Election candidates debate environmental policy Explanations fly over water trade, Kyoto Agreement, and GMO's B y D avid M a

The McGill University School of Environment hosted a debate on environm ental issues called ‘Building an Environmental Vision for Canada’ on November 16. The organizers invited five candidates representing the New Democratic Party, Progressive Conservatives, the Liberal Party, the Canadian Alliance and the Green Party. The candidates debated on three issues that concern all Canadians: trade of bulk water, ratification of the Kyoto Agreement and regulations of the genetically modified organ­ isms.

Water Trade The question of the trade of bulk water was the first debated.

As Canada has 20 per cent of the world’s fresh water supply, 9 per cent of the word’s renewable fresh water supply, preservation of bulk water is an im portant issue in Canadian environmental policy.

The Liberals promised to include the issues of water trade in the NAFTA agreement in the 1993 election. But so far this issue is still

not in the agreement.

Marilyn Churley, an Ontario NDP Member of the Provincial Parliament, accused the Liberals of being unwilling to renegotiate the NAFTA deal to protect Canadian water. She believes that the Liberal government should “swallow [its] pride” and deal with the NAFTA problem directly by negotiating the exemption of export of water in all trade deals and ban the trade of bulk water. The NDP Party, she explained, is lobbying for the ban­ ning of the trade of Canadian water.

The leader of the Green Party, Joan Russow, said that her party is in favour of banning the trade of water. However, she believes that the solution to this problem lies in the enforcement of the international law over trade agreement.

“We all hear from the Canadian governments that they have obligations and commitments under international trade agree­ ments such as the WTO and NAFTA, but rarely do they acknowledge that they have obliga­ tions and commitments under inter­ national public trust law. One of the reasons that we have the prob­

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lem with NAFTA is because they don’t want to use the bio-diversity convention. If all the international environm ental agreem ents are enforced, we can ban the trade of bulk water without worrying about the NAFTA because the interna­ tional law can supersede these trade agreements.”

C lifford Lincoln, a Liberal MP, believed that changing the NAFTA agreement is not an easy process. “There have been debates inside the party on whether to ban the trade of water or not. WTO and

The D e p artm en t of Italian Studies p resen ts

D a n te A lig h ie ri N icolo M a ch ia v e lli F ed erico Fellini In th r e e c o u r se s to b e g iv en in E n g lish d u rin g w in te r 2 0 0 1 DANTE AND THE MIDDLE AGES 132-355B (3 credits) Instructor: Prof. Elena Lombardi This course traces D ante’s personal, theological and poetic jo u rn ey in the Divine Comedy and covers major episodes from Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso.

D ante’s m asterpiece is located w ithin the background of M edieval history, philosophy and lite ra tu re and issues such as autobiography and conversion, language, intertextuality, authority and authorship, the body etc., are examined to highlight the qualities that make Dante’s poem one of the masterpieces of world literature.

Schedule: Monday and Wednesday, 13:30 - 15:00 DIRECTOR IN FOCUS: Federico Fellini and the Circus of Life 132-377B (3 credits) Instructor: Dr. Eugenio Bolongaro Federico Fellini is w ithout a doubt one of the m ost acclaimed and influential film directors of all tim es. Spanning th e second h alf of th e 2 0 th century, Fellini’s oeuvre plays a crucial role in the evolution of the contemporary cinema.

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Schedule: Monday and Wednesday, 15:30 -17:30 MACHIAVELLI 132-464B (3 credits) Instructor: Prof. Sergio Gilardino Through a reading of The Prince as well as selected plays, letters and other writings, this course will delve into some of the reasons for Nicolo Machiavelli’s renown as well as the trem endous controversy surrounding his ideas.

Schedule: Tuesday and Thursday, 16:00 - 17:30 For further information, please contact the Department of Italian Studies, 688 Sherbrooke, rm. 441, 398-3953, italian@po-box.mcgill.ca

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NAFTA agreem ents ca n ’t be changed overnight. It would be too simplistic to think so. My party has introduced am endm ents to the International Boundary Waters Treaty Act today to prohibit bulk removal of water from Canadian boundary water. I know it’s not sufficient. But it’s an important first step.”

Kyoto Agreement The second question the debate addressed concerned

whether or not Canadian govern­ ment should ratify the Kyoto agree­ ment, an agreement that obliges C anada to cut greenhouse gas emission six percent below the 1990 level by 2010.

According to the Canadian Alliance candidate Dean Drysdale, it is hard for the current govern­ ment to reach this objective as the greenhouse gas em ission level actually increased since the Kyoto agreement was reached in 1997.

Churley stated that the NDP prom ises to renew efforts to achieve short-term reductions in greenhouse gas emission and to negotiate em ission restriction agreements with different indus­ tries.

Russow expressed that the Green Party had similiar feelings about the need for regulation to fight against the climate change.

“We need mandatory regula­ tion to drive the industry. We don’t need the industry to drive the gov­ ernment,” she explained.

L incoln avoided directly answering the ratification question.

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Keepin' the peace Importance of conflict resolution stressed at SSUNS B y C arly Johnson

R etired General John De Chastelain was the keynote speaker at Wednesday night’s opening cer­ emonies of the Secondary Schools' United Nations Symposium, hosted

by McGill.

Addressing an audience of 585 student delegates, De Chastelain, a member of the Order of Canada who has served as Canada’s Chief of Defence Staff, former ambas­ sador to the U.S., and current chair of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning in Northern Ireland, spoke about the renewed importance of peace­ keeping in the new millennium.

“As the world is getting small­ er in terms of space and conflicts are increasing, it seems to me that there is a much greater requirement for peace in places where it doesn’t exist... There is a much greater need for people in peace divisions, people who understand the diffi­ culties of conflict resolution,” he said.

Conflict resolution, and foster­ ing “a culture of peace instead of a culture of violence” is a major theme of the four-day conference, which brings together students from across Canada and the U.S. to debate a variety of pressing world issues.

Julian Casai, under secretarygeneral of UNS AM and one of the organizers of the event, was pleased that De Chastelain could speak at the opening ceremonies.

“We sent out invitations to about 20 people, and he was the first who responded. He answered us seven months ago — it was just amazing,” he said. “He is a fasci­ nating guy — I could listen to him talk forever.”

Students in attendance were equally im pacted by De Chastelain’s message.

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“I think he promoted a very positive message, in that youth today can make a difference achieving peace in the world,” said Katharine Slocombe.

While De Chastelain spoke of the difficulties of achieving peace in a perennially conflict-ridden area such as Northern Ireland, he expressed his optimism regarding the possibility for peace. “[The Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland] was not per­ fect, but it was a spark of hope for those who believed decommission­ ing would never happen,” he said.

Furthermore, he feels that a new generation will bring with it even more hope for peace in the future. “Some of you no doubt will go on to be the peacemakers of the future,” he said, “and God bless you for it.”

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CSU passes motion condemning Hillel Concordia

By M ike B arcav

Tension flared in the Concordia Student Union last week after Hillel-Concordia was repri­ manded for the distribution of allegedly discriminatory materials pertaining to the Arab-Israeli con­ flict.

A motion in CSU council was passed 12 votes to four outlining that Hillel owes a formal apology for the distribution of literature that was racially, ethnically, and reli­ giously discrim inatory to the Concordia student body.

“Hillel was passing hateful and ethnically discriminatory mate­ rial. It was material stating that Palastenians did not exist, their cul­ ture does not exist, and that they had no Holy Sites in Israel. As a precursor to rationalizing the con­ flict in the Middle East, the state­

ment that ‘You [Palastenians] don’t have a right to exist’ was made,” said Tom Keefer CSU VP commu­ nications. “So that is why these extreme measures exist.”

Avi Finegold, co-president of Hillel expressed displeasure at actions he felt to be out of line and unfair.

“We don’t have a response.

Hillel is in the process of separat­ ing from the CSU; that will be our response. We find that we cannot exist within a student society that clearly prefers one club over anoth­ er.”

Keefer however, maintained that such a reaction would be elicit­ ed by discriminatiory actions by any Concordia club, and is not merely an isolated attack on Hillel.

“Had any group passed around material against the Jewish people or Jewish culture, then we would

have passed the same motion. The thing that boggles my mind is that Hillel would be crying bloody mur­ der if this was directed against the Jewish community.”

Finegold further further criti­ cized the CSU for acting in a way that took a political stand that over­ steps its role as a student organiza­ tion, “Student unions exist to make decisions on campus sudent life.

It’s not for them to decide a global political issue.”

Students’ Society of McGill U niveristy president W ojtek Baraniak expressed similar senti­ ments on the role of students’ soci­ eties.

“No student society executive is elected on a mandate of taking a stand on the Arab-Israeli conflct. It is not the students’ society’s role to take sides, but to promote a dia-

logue.”

Keefer however , maintained that the motion was not a political statement.

“The CSU has taken no posi­ tion whatsoever [on the ArabIsraeli conflict]. These are just two separate and distinct issues that happen to occur close to each other.”

Roger Koetay, acting Dean of Concordia said that although it is not Concordia’s role to intervene in internal CSU m atters, attempts were made to maintain a discourse.

“Our issue was to encourage the parties involved by doing so in open discourse... Certainly a con­ tinued dialogue is a good thing.

The CSU decided to take it a step further and demand an apology, and whether it is appropriate or not is really up to the CSU.”

BSN demands answers SSMU open meeting taken over by discussion over constitution B y A liza S hupac

The Black Students’ Network constitution dominated the second S tudents’ Society of McGill University open meeting this year, held last Wednesday.

The BSN submitted a copy of their newly drafted constitution to be ratified by SSMU Council. The constitution, however, was not rati­ fied last Thursday for reasons that were not made clear to the BSN. M em bers of the BSN came to Wednesday’s meeting in search of answers.

Akin Alaga, the chair of the BSN constitutional committee, was concerned that one member of the SSMU executive explained the problem with the constitution as being of a procedural nature, while another member explained that the problem was one of context.

“I was a little alarmed at the level of misinformation within the SSMU,” he said. “Different execu­ tives were telling me different things at different times.” Alaga claims that he was told by a SSMU executive that the preamble was inflammatory because it states that James McGill had owned black slaves. Also, he was told it was exclusionary because it implied that black students at McGill have a special responsibility.

Gratto however, maintained that the constitution was not passed due to procedural problems. He explained that in order for a consti­ tution to be ratified by SSMU, a letter signed by its coordinators is needed. This letter acts as a form of docum entation when m aking changes. Gratto emphasized that the BSN constitution was not rejected by the SSMU. “It was just put off a little bit to clarify things,” he said.

The SSMU executives made no attempt to deny the statements concerning the inflammatory and exclusionary preamble that they allegedly made. “[The BSN] seem[s] to think that I’m trying to dictate their man­ date to them,” said Gratto. “That’s

not what we do as Clubs and Services. We just try to make sure that all bases are cov­ ered... I raised a few points, I passed on a few things that other people had said and I’m not sure how this got blown out of proportion.”

S S M U President W o j t e k Baraniak agreed that procedural problems kept it from being passed, but the content of the pream ble was still important.

“Of course S S M U e x e c u t i v e f ie ld q u e s t i o n s f r o m B S N Masha Bogushezsky it’s a very pro­ Negro Community Centre and an found statement and I agree with informal mentor to a number of the it,” he said. “But it’s a very pro­ BSN members. found statement, and I thought it Although a letter from the was important that procedure was BSN is not required by SSMU leg­ followed.” islation, Gratto explained its impor­ The BSN also wanted to know tance. why they had not been informed of “[A letter is] something that’s the situation in an official capacity. done out of courtesy and to keep “We have not received a note, records.” He assured the BSN that a letter, a phone call, an e-mail, no had there been any problem with type of revision, and no suggestion the content of the constitution he in our mailbox,” said one upset would have written them an official BSN member, who w ished to letter. rem ain anonym ous. Because M embers of the BSN want SSMU legislation requires that more than just an apology from the clubs be notified of any changes to SSMU. They want to see that the procedures and policies, she won­ SSMU receives mandatory racial dered why SSMU failed to inform sensitivity training. the BSN that their constitution had “W e’re going to work to see not been ratified. In addition, she that that happens,” said Peter wanted to know why the BSN was Flegel, a mem ber of the BSN. required to send a letter when such Baraniak openly welcomed this a procedure is not called for in the suggestion.

SSMU legislation.

“There is definitely a commu­ “In this case it seems to be nication problem between the two evident that a procedure was devel­ organizations.” He later added, “I oped in regards to one organization wish I could correct the past... I that does not apply to anyone else,” can’t, but I can do everything pos­ said Reverend Daryl Grey, presi­ sible to make sure this doesn’t hap­ dent of the [form erly named] pen again in the future."

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Enviro-debators leave much unanswered Continued from Page 2 importance of reducing the green­ house emissions. But the strategy to fight this problem lies not only on laws, and agreements, but also on developing new tools to protect the environment, he explained.

“Climate change is the biggest environment issue today. We are committed to this issue by having a climate change fund, one covering public transportation and the other for infrastructure. It will help build buildings that are energy efficient and retrofit houses.”

GMOs The final debate question con­ cerned each Party’s position on the regulation of genetically modified organisms. The NDP, according to Churley, supports mandatory label­ ing for genetic m odified food.

Furthermore, the NDP will try to establish legislative power to regu­ late food safety under food and drug law and to conduct indepen­ dent analysis on the potential impact of the GMO. For Russow and the Green party, banning of all GMOs is the only solution.

“How can we say that the mandatory labeling is the solution?

We have to relate poverty to health.

What happens if you can’t afford to buy organic food, and someone tells you it is ok to eat that? What we propose is a ban on all geneti­ cally engineered food. It has to be

done immediately. It’s a fundamen­ tal human rights issue, the human right to eat non-genetically engi­ neered food,” she said.

Bernard Cote, the Progressive Conservative party candidate at Verdun, said that PC supports the mandatory labeling of the GMO. Furtherm ore, the PC will work with the biotechnology industry to establish rules and regulations and to ensure the safety of the public with GMO. Clifford Lincoln, Liberal MP, believed that the GMO problem is more complicated than other par­ ties think. “[The regulations of GMOs] is not an easy thing to do once you are inside the government. This question now is more about what kind of society we want to have.

There have been lots of debates within the party on what’s happen­ ing in Europe. In Europe, many countries have subsidized the organic agriculture over genetically engineered agriculture. We are try­ ing to put far more money in organic research, in organic farm­ ing today. We are working very hard on this now. This is the way it has to go.”

Afterthoughts A fter the debate, Joe Rasmussen, a McGill Biology pro­ fessor, expressed with disappoint­ ment that most party candidates avoided answering many specific

questions during the debate. He believed that North American par­ ties no longer considered the prom ises on the environm ental issues important during an election.

“You can see the questions on the Kyoto Agreement are not really answered by most parties. Today, most major parties platforms are more centered towards tax cuts than environmental issues. They think that’s what attracts voters the most. Only the Green party’s plat­ forms are more centered towards environmental protection. They know they are not going to get elected. It’s ironic that a hundred years ago, environment protection was an important issue [in North America] during the election. Look at today’s election. The society kind of degenerated,” he observed.

Jay Ploss, a U4 Environment Science student who also served as a panelist during the debate, felt that Green Party and NDP seem to have better environmental plat­ forms than other parties. However, considering other factors, voting still remains a hard decision for students to make.

“I’m worried but at the same time optimistic. My first question approaching this election is: “Is it acceptable to accept the principle that the only way to solve environ­ ment problem is to get richer? So after we can clean up the mess we made?”

McGill fraternity raises funds for Children's Foundation

By G race C arter The Montreal chapter of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity has awarded a cheque for three thousand dollars to the Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation. The donation, which will go towards the Foundation’s oncology department, is the second contribution it has received from a group of university-aged students this year.

The bulk of the money was generated at “Concert for a Cure,” a fundraising event put on by the Pi Lambda Phi on October 23 at Café Campus on Prince Arthur. Four local bands volunteered their ser­ vices, playing to a crowd of about 400.

The concert was organized by Robbie Praw, the Pi Lambda Phi public relations representative. All proceeds from the event went towards the fraternity’s gift to the Children’s Foundation.

The fraternity’s President, Neil Rubin, hopes that the success of Pi Lambda Phi’s fundraiser will reflect favourably upon public perception of fraternities in general.

“The event was special because for once fraternities as a whole were being publicized as doing something good for the com­ munity instead of being arrested for some drinking or hazing incident... it really was a win-win situation for everyone involved.”

Praw explained why the frat chose the Children’s Foundation.

“It took us a long time to decide what charity we were going

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to support. We eventually chose the oncology departm ent of the Children's Foundation because can­ cer is something that affects all of us. We wanted to focus on children, specifically, to help give sick kids a future they might not have other­ wise," Praw noted.

At the moment, it is unclear whether Pi Lambda Phi’s donation money will go towards research or equipm ent.

According to Emmanuelle Rondeau, the Foundation’s special events coordi­ nator, is still negotiating which areas are in greatest need of assis­ tance Pi Lambda Phi is not the only fraternity giving to charity this sea­

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son. Last Thursday, Phi Delta Theta held its “Hearts for the Homeless Marathon” event. Fraternity mem­ bers played cards for 18 hours in the Shatner Building to raise money for the Old Brewery Mission, a non-profit organization that pro­ vides shelter and food to Montreal’s homeless.

Another fraternity, AE Pi, has raised funds for the McGill Cancer Center this term, with a 24 hour gangster movie marathon held out­ side the Leacock building on October 24th.

The M ontreal C hildren’s Foundation receives approximately 30,000 contributions a year and raises close to ten million dollars.

J-BoarcTs role unclear Continued from Page 1 patient... We believe that it is within SSMU's responsibility to provide emergency first aid treat­ ment for students who will be attending events sponsored or host­ ed by SSMU. We believe that we are the best vehicle to provide this first aid service."

Baraniak, agreeing that the availability of first-aid services for individuals at the University is essential, argued that the existing precautions taken by SSMU during special events sufficiently serve the McGill community, and suggested that these extra measures are not necessary for the everyday func­ tioning of the University’s students and staff.

"During Four Floors [parties] we hire St. John’s ambulance; dur­ ing Frosh Week we have McGill U niversity ’s First-A id Service available," he explained. "I think it’s a necessary and wise precau­ tion at events such as those. But to have a service that operates 24 hours a day and on call, is ludi­ crous."

Judicial Board motion According to MFAS, SSMU violated the Society’s constitution and by-laws in its review of the group’s proposed budget. The Constitution requires that all deci­ sions made by the Finance Committee can only be implement­ ed if quorum is met. One of the statutory provisions that MFAS believes was breached sets quorum in a m eeting of the Finance Committee as the presence of "five voting members in addition to the chairperson." MFAS is arguing that quorum in this case was not met during the MFAS’ budget defense meeting, and was only satisfied later when the final decision of the C om m ittee was made. SSMU, however, claims that because five voting members were present in addition to the chairperson when the final decision was made, quo­ rum was indeed met.

The Judicial Board has been asked by MFAS to intervene in the dispute by enforcing a remedy that would see a new Financial Affairs Committee appointed jointly by MFAS, SSMU and the Judicial Board to decide on the group’s funding; alternatively, the group seeks to be allow ed to bypass SSMU council and set a Councilinitiated referendum question in the w inter coting period. The question would ask the student body to vote on the collection of non-tuition fees directly from stu­ dents to generate funding for the MFAS. MFAS needs what is termed a ‘C ouncil-initiated’ referendum question because ‘Student-initiat­ e d ’ referenda cannot alter the Society’s finances.

The g roup’s request that SSMU Council’s decision be disre­ garded has left the Society’s execu­ tives concerned about the implica­ tions of such an action on a system that is based upon elected represen­ tation. "[MFAS] is trying to circum­ vent the authority vested in the

council... by students through a democratic process, and is trying [to] use essentially the court sys­ tem — the Judicial Board — to issue an absolutely ridiculous rem­ edy that contravenes all principles that [our] society functions on," said Baraniak.

SSMU believes that the Judicial Board, whose role is to construe the legality of SSMU’s actions and is the final arbiter on the interpretation of the Society’s constitution and by-laws, does not have the authority to impose reme­ dies in the case of disagreements between SSMU and another orga­ nization. Furthermore, according to the C onstitution, “the Judicial Board shall have the power to order the placing of a referendum question on a ballot in cases of undue procedural delay.” SSMU does not believe the case in point qualifies for the Board to inter­ vene.

"This is completely out of the ordinary," said G ratto. "The [Judicial] Board does not have the power to do what it is being asked to do."

"It’s a waste of our time, when we could be working on other things," explained Baraniak. "And at the same time it sets a very dan­ gerous precedent where people look at student fees as the easy answer to everything. Well, I for one don’t believe that student fees should be the easy answ er for everything."

Gratto also asserted that the University’s students should not have to pay for the extra first-aid services. Wooster disagreed with this point of view. "[MFAS] believes that it is fair [to set the referendum ques­ tion] in that we serve the entire McGill population. In entering this question into referendum we feel that we are giving the McGill stu­ dents a voice in deciding how their funds are distributed," said Wooster.

SSMU also claim s that MFAS’ decision to petition before the Judicial Board was hastily reached, and that the group should have explored all available avenues of appeal before coming to such a decision.

"The proper way [for MFAS] to proceed would have been to approach the executives, to have a debate, to consult students on w hether they want such a farreaching service, to appeal to Council," Gratto said. "They didn’t do any of that and instead went to the [Judicial] Board."

Both G ratto and Baraniak maintain that once MFAS filed its petition to the Board, it offered to drop the petition if SSMU agreed to set the Council-initiated referen­ dum question to students for the winter period.

“No matter which way you look at it, this is b lackm ail,” Baraniak said.

Wooster denies going directly to the Judicial Board and refused to com m ent further on M FA S’ actions regarding the Board.

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Kermit's contribution to modem medicine B y D orotha N owodworski

Mother Nature never ceases to amaze scientists with her evolu­ tionary innovations. The camel, for instance, possesses three eyelids as protection against blowing sand.

Once mature, the sea squirt attach­ es permanently to a rock and pro­ ceeds to digest its own brain, no longer needing it for movement.

Closer to home, in temperate and polar regions, there exist reptiles and amphibians that survive harsh winters by simply playing it cool.

Several species of terrestrial frogs join the likes of TV dinners and ice cream and allow their extracellular fluids to crystallize in winter. As spring turns up the heat, the frogs defrost, good as new, ready to proceed with their amphibian duties.

Various problems arise, how­ ever, with the freezing of a living organism. Dr. Kenneth Storey of Carleton University has dedicated over a decade of research to deter­ mining how frogs develop this handy faculty.

According to his research, tree frogs survive the cold using stores of specific components.

“Seed proteins regulate freez­ ing by causing crystals in the blood to form at two below zero rather supercooling to fifteen below as [a human’s] would,” Dr. Storey said.

XXX MIKE: reread last sentence & fix XXX In addition, an abun­ dance of sugars, such as glucose, act as cryoprotectants and disarm the thawing process.

“Freezing naturally turns off genes,” explained Storey, “and the cell is left in a state of suspended animation.” In plain English, as the mercury drops the frog’s cells fill with sugar. The high-energy sugar works to produce a m ilder ice form, while nucleating proteins keep the crystals in their proper place outside cells.

The frogs cannot, however, remain in this state of suspended animation for extended periods of time.

“In nature, frogs are adapted to the environment that exists. You wouldn’t be able to send the frogs out into space to populate other planets,” explains Storey. “First off, they’d be very, very lonely.”

Dr. Storey turns his attention nowadays to the initiation of the process within the genetic code of

the frog’s DNA. Genes signal pro­ duction of the proteins that serve the master plan, termed survival of the fittest. Interestingly enough, the nucleic acids that make up DNA are essentially the same across the species barrier. Bottom line, the talent of these frogs may prove to be beneficial to humans.

Chilly Kidneys Organ transplants are delicate and difficult proceedings. As many as 68,000 people sit on waiting lists hoping for an ideal organ match.

Time is as a key factor in organ transplants and surgeons must work with speed and accura­ cy. According to information given by the United Network for Organ Sharing, allotted times can be as short as four hours when dealing with a heart. Though methods for freezing blood are widespread, analogous versions for organs do not exist. This is the where Dr. Storey and his frozen frogs’ legs enter.

By discovering which genes activate to preserve living tissue at low temperatures, Dr. Storey, who

in 1990 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and this year received the Public Awareness Prize, hopes to be able to relay the ability to humans.

Though Pauly Shore and Encino Man come to mind, Dr. Storey’s research quickly dismisses the possi­ bility of applying the process to an entire body.

The sheer level of glucose found in the cells should cause diabetes.

“Glucose damages proteins,” states Dr. Storey, “but the frogs are cold, which takes advantage of the fact that glucose is not as harmful at low er tem p eratu res.” These unusual amphibian capabilities fit on the smaller scale of organ trans­ plants. The option of freezing organs would greatly increase the possibility of finding accurate com­ patibility without the inherent rush.

Dr. Peter Metrakos, attending staff surgeon at the Royal Victoria Hospital and assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill, is aw are o f Dr. S to rey ’s frog research and comments, “we wish we had him on our team.”

He also m entions other approaches being taken to fill the organ shortage, such as xenotrans­ plantation, the transplanting of ani­ mal organs into humans. A suc­ cessful freezing method, however, would “make life more flexible for transplant surgeons,” rem arks Metrakos, “we might be able to work during the day instead of all hours.”

The idea of applying the freez­ ing frog phenom enon to organ transplants came easily, according to Dr. Storey. Nevertheless, the professor’s first priority is his spec­ imens. “Frogs are really, really cool,” he quips. “I love working with them, and if there’s a reason that benefits humans, all the bet­ ter.”

Third parties play a bigger role than expected in U.S. presidential election B y J ulie N orwell U-W IRE (D C BU REA U )_________

(U-WIRE) WASHINGTON — In a presidential election that has not yet declared a victor, the candidate considered least likely to win may be the most satisfied.

Last Tuesday’s election pro­ duced some of the most narrow margins of victory, statewide as well as nationally. Third-party votes, which traditionally make up a very small percentage of the overall public vote, are playing an unlikely role in determining the nation’s next president.

Though the Green P arty ’s Ralph Nader garnered only 3 per cent o f the national vote, Democrats blasted Nader for spoil­ ing their races in several close states. Exit polls indicated that 47 percent of those who voted for Nader would have voted for Gore if Nader had not run.

“He denied A1 Gore a clean v icto ry ,” Senate D em ocratic Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) told The Baltimore Sun. “He has had a consequential impact on this elec­ tion.”

Nader denied responsibility for hurting Gore’s presidential bid.

“I’ve always said it was A1 Gaore’s election to lose,” he said in a press conference. “Only A1 Gore could beat A1 Gore.”

N evertheless, the roughly 97,000 votes N ader pulled in Florida, where Bush continues to lead Gore by a small margin in a still-undeterm ined race, is well more than Gore needed to win the presidency.

The Reform Party fared less well in this election than in the two previous elections with only 0.4 per cent of the vote. However, Pat Buchanan’s candidacy has also hit the headlines as thousands of

angry voters in Palm Beach County protest that the ballot’s confusing design misled them into voting for Buchanan instead of Gore.

"I've always said it was Al Gore's election to lose...

Only Al Gore could beat Al Gore."

— Ralph Nader Green Party presidential candidate “Like everyone w e’re sur­ prised about the close ra ce,” Sharon Korchank, an administrator for the Reform Party campaign, told U-WIRE. “Of course, [the election results] are disappointing for us. Pat hasn’t said he’d run again ... but the Reform Party will be a party that grows at all levels.”

Interestingly, the overall pres­ idential vote for third parties was significantly down this election as a result of the extremely tight race between Gore and Bush.

Harry Browne, L ibertarian Party presidential candidate, won just less than 400,000 votes — only 64,000 votes behind Buchanan. A L ibertarian Party press release claims that this is about half of what pre-election polls had been predicting.

“It’s clear that the closeness of the race between Bush and Gore depressed vote totals for every third-party candidate,” Libertarian Party N ational D irector Steve Dasbach reported on the party’s Web site.

According to Greg Moeller,

press contact for the Constitution Party, Howard Phillips, the party’s presidential candidate, won about 100,000 votes, w hat the party expected in the close race.

“There was a desire on the part of the people to rid the coun­ try of Clinton/Gore, so more peo­ ple voted for Bush than might have,” Moeller told U-WIRE late last week. “But we’re building a foundation for the future. We’re in the early growth cycle, so we’re really working on 2002 and 2004.”

John H agelin, presidential candidate of the N atural Law Party, fared even worse with only 87,646 votes despite a significant increase in national support and exposure during the 2000 cam­ paign.

“This is significantly below the 250,000 1 had hoped for, but it’s enough,” Hagelin said after the election. “The real victors in the race are the American people, who will benefit from the ideas we have brought into the political debate. Our job d id n ’t end on Election Day. We have laid the foundation for far greater success­ es in the coming years.”

The Socialist Party’s presi­ dential candidate, David McReynolds — who was only on the ballot in seven states — also did worse than expected according to Shawn Richm an, cam paign manager of the Socialist Party. But party supporters are “enjoying the results [of the election],” he admit­ ted in an interview.

“These irreg u larities [in Florida’s vote counting system] are always happening, and they alw ays hurt third p a rtie s,” Richman said. “[The sudden pub­ licity of this problem] makes clear how corrupt the system is and how much it needs to be reformed.”

Reform of the voting system

may yet become a significant topic of debate after this election. But for now D em ocrats and Republicans are prim arily con­ cerned with determining the out­ come of the presidential race.

“The vote here in Florida was very close, but when it was count­ ed Governor Bush was the win­ ner,” James A. Baker III, Bush’s chief representative in Florida, said at a news conference last week.

“For the good of the country and for the sake of our standing in the world, the campaigning should end and the business of an orderly transition should begin,” Baker said.

R ick H ess, D em ocratic National Committee deputy press secretary, disagreed.

“W e’re still waiting — but that’s not a bad thing,” he told UWIRE. “Sometimes things take time and you got to get it right. If [a recount] shows that more people voted for Gore, in the end that determines the truth.”

“It’s all about the voters of Florida. We must honour their votes,” Hess added.

A lthough this presidential election has cast the nation into uncharted territory in many ways, Hess believes that it is a credit to the country’s orderly system.

“That w e’re [several] days after the election but we have no coups or riots is a credit to our Constitution and the democratic process,” Hess said.

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EDITORIAL “The love of money is the mother of all evil.”

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Tiger: Grow Up B y N eil Schnurbach Sin ce 1998, Tiger W oods has taken over the role of the world's most popular and recognized athlete. His predecessor in that position, Michael Jordan, also set a high standard for dignity and respect. W h ile Tiger Woods' excellent play may be compa­ rable to Jordan's, Woods does not even come close to Jordan when it comes to being a gentleman.

In a recent interview for G olf World magazine, Tiger threat­ ened to leave the PGA tour because of a lack of respect shown to him. Among other things, he was upset that commissioner Tim Finchen does not "ask him how he's doing."

G ive me a break. This is a man who is making over $40 m il­ lion this year alone. Is he really so self-conscious that he needs to be asked how he's doing? I would imagine that he's doing pretty w ell. If I was being paid in the tens of m illions for hitting a little white ball into a little hole, I would be happy too.

Later in the interview , W oods claim ed that he w as being cheated out of money because the golfers do not receive any television revenue from the PG A. Tiger is only half right about this point. W hile he w ill not receive a set amount from the tele­ vision companies, part of the large purses available to the w in ­ ners of golf tournaments are from these large television contracts.

So indirectly, Tiger is indeed getting money from the TV deals.

But even w ith o u t the te le v isio n co m p an ies p aying him directly, Woods is doing quite well for himself.

The main issue at hand is that Woods feels that he is bigger than the PGA tour. He says that he could take his game to any country in the world and people would still watch him. W hat Tiger does not realize is that he is trying to bite the hand that feeds him. W hile Tigermania has bolstered the success of golf, there was still a large core base of golf fans without him. The PGA tour would survive without Tiger Woods — Tiger Woods might not survive without the PGA tour. He would surely lose a lot of the money com ing to him right now. W ithout Woods beating the likes of David Duval, Phil M ickelson and Davis Love his marketability goes down exponentially. Nike would probably not be interested in their poster child any more. Furthermore, no other tour in the world pays their golfers money even compara­ ble to what he would make playing for the PGA. More importantly, Tiger Woods is using his position as role model and am bassador the wrong w a y. M any im poverished, inner-city children have taken up golf to try and emulate their hero. The message that they are getting now is that money is more im portant than anything e lse, and you can never get enough greenbacks.

Tiger Woods should take a step back and realize how easy life is for him. He tours the world free of charge and has millions of adoring fans lining up just to get a glimpse of him. He makes more money than the G D P of some small countries. The man should just shut up and play golf. Otherwise, he may start to lose all of his fans.

He has already lost one.

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I would like to commend Ms. Rhea Wong on a very interesting and well-thought out commentary on Anna Kournikova and women in sport. Though this was a very keen insight into women’s roles in a specific area, I believe this topic to be pertinent in all aspects of society. I would like to suggest a follow-up article, along the lines of “Britney Spears and the rise of women in music.”

I read the article on Depression (dated Nov 14, 2000).

I feel that we at McGill do need support groups that tackle such dark issues. It’s hard for me to admit it but I too was depressed, maybe I am depressed as I write this letter, the point is that stu­ dents need to know that its not only them but many others like them. Maybe surrounded by stu­ dents they may be able to accept their problem and get support from people who are going through such bad times. My only hope is that we do get to start sup­ port groups like these, depression is certainly not a light matter.

Sincerely, Mike Pagilarulo M. Sc ‘00

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As a someone who has actual­ ly been a guest o f the Royal Canadian Legion on several differ­ ent occasions, I have some com­ ments on Mr. Seth L eon’s 14, November Letter to the Editor (“A M inute of Silence for D iscrim ination: N ever” ). The L egion’s disallow ing “covers” (headgear) on their premises is not intended to discriminate against any particular groups. ALL who enter the Legion must uncover.

My best friend is a paratroop­ er who served in Central America, including several tours as an advi­ sor to Guatemala’s élite “Kaibil” Special Forces Group. He served, not during the “good years” of World War II, but during the sev­ enties and eighties when Carter and then Congress put a strangle­ hold on anti-communist forces in that region. As a paratrooper, his beret and his jump wings hold a religious importance, signifying that he is one of the truly few who “stood at the door” of a perfectly good aircraft , and who had the guts to jum p out into the sky below. Asking him to remove his beret is tantamount to rejecting him and his contributions and sac­ rifices.

My friend still “uncovers” when entering the Legion, because

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was standing in Future Shop the .other day admir­ ing the dazzling dis­ play of com puter peripherals, when my eyes landed on the CD burner section. I began to think of all the thousands of people who own these contraptions, whose CD collections con­ sist of those gold discs with the artists’ names scribbled illegibly on the front.

Are these people criminals? Do they have a weak moral fiber? Could it really be evil to burn & return?

How about another scenario...say you’re sitting on the ‘stairs to nowhere’ outside FDA, low and behold a rather conspicuous black mark is left on the seat of your relatively new Gap khakis. Now you could accuse the Sharks and break into a lovely rendition of “Cool”, or you could return the pants, tell a minor fib about not seeing the mark when you bought the pants originally, and presto!

New khakis for you!!! Having had some previous Gap experience, I think it’s pret­ ty safe to say that the average sales per­ son making minimum wage (damned multinationals) is really not going to give a flying monkey’s ass whether or not the returned item is ‘legit’. In fact, I remem­ ber my old manager telling me - “Just believe the custom er and return the clothes - you’re really not paid enough to care.”

The point is - hey if you can pull it off, score! Are you telling me HMV doesn’t suspect people have burnt the CDs they return? 1 mean they sell blank

CDs and now th ere’s a tax levied on blank tapes and disks to reconcile this very isstje. If merchandisers really want­ ed to circum vent this nonsense, they should not even have a return policy.

They tell you, as long as you’ve got the receipt, you can return within whatever number of days. Seriously, if you really need that Jacob dress for the wedding this weekend, buy it, be careful with your champagne and when you’re finished, present the-still-m int-condition-dress with receipt to the sales clerk, and all is w ell...as if that dress was worth $125 anyway. Just make sure you wash what­ ever you buy for keeps, before you wear it...how else are you going to get rid of those dressing-room-deodorant-stains?

The bottom line is yes, it is wrong to steal, and a criminal record would proba­ bly ruin your political career (of course, not if you want to be President and your last name starts with ‘B’, and ends with ‘ush’). But, burning and returning, buying and trying, th at’s all part of the vast micro-molecular, super-sonic, inter-galac­ tic system. So get your free laundry with stir-sticks instead of quarters; tell the waiter there was a zillion problems with the food and enjoy your free dessert; keep the mistaken extra change; and damn it, hold your head high! Sure, you’re going to hell, but hey, you’ll have the best CD collection and look chic, all on a budget!

veryone likes Robin Hood. “He obeys them. However, the stole from the rich and gave to offenses described in this artithe poor!”, people exclaim, ful­ cle certainly do deprive filling their delusions about a herosom in eone of a product or finances which are indeed tights. Similarly, in the musical Les Misérables, it is Inspector Javert, who theirs. If you worked at the pursues a thief throughout his life who Gap, and was about to be fired because the store was not meeting quotas, I’m is mocked.

Why do we exalt the guilty, and sure you’d not be too pleased when you condemn the innocent? Perhaps because see a questionable item returned. in our day-to-day life, we all commit Similarly, it is one thing for a merchant crimes, and simply want to tell our­ to agree to pay either the GST or PST, selves we are not crim inals, even but to pay in cash so that there is no though we often are. This article was record of the transaction is blatantly designed to talk about simple petty fraudulent, and should be treated as crimes that many of us perpetrate every such. We must not delude ourselves day: using stir-sticks to rig laundry into believing that an offense is accept­ because it is done. machines, buying clothes we wear once able and then return, paying in cash to avoid Of course, assessing penalties in these taxes, burning CDs and then returning crimes would be difficult. One of the them. We rationalize these actions reasons why they are done frequently is many ways. Either everyone does it, or because the ease with which these it hurts only a large corporation who crim es are com m itted makes them has enough money, or the government essentially undetectable. I also don’t gets enough from our pockets anyway. like to envision a society of snitches, Whatever the explanation, we must not wherein you call the police when a delude ourselves into thinking that friend of yours returns a CD to HMV. these are not crimes. Certainly, they are Each person must make their own deci­ not great offenses, but as soon as you sion as to whether they wish to abide by deny someone something that is right­ property regulations, or live in a society fully theirs, you have committed theft. bent on anarchy. And, when the answer Moreover, the offenses listed above are is the latter, I propose the death penalty not of the paternalistic variety, where for anyone caught. the law is formulated to protect you from yourself. Such laws, such as seat belt laws, drug laws, and cigarette laws seem to me to be more acceptable to be broken because they do not harm any­ one else except the person who dis­

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ne would think that the are well established and powerful federal election and the entities. The youthful Alliance, National Hockey League meanwhile, is much like the hock­ are worlds apart. After all, ey oneteams of the South: wealthy, keen and contemporary. The tradi­ involves the election of our Prime Minister, while the other consists tional hockey organisations of in shooting a black disc towards a Canada — so rich in partisanship, m esh-w oven hunk of m etal. but so lucratively weak — are Arguably, then, the two are like metaphorically embodied in the night and Day. But the way in j Conservative Party. Back in 1867, which the two institutions have the governing Tories played a big evolved suggests something quite part in founding Canada, while different. It demonstrates that the hosers invented hockey in the arenas in which they participate j Nova Scotian countryside.

As for the others, the compar­ are in fact strikingly analogous in a num ber of ways. This year, isons stoop much lower. The Bloc, ladies and gentlemen, the Stanley for instance, is like the struggling International Hockey League, a Cup is coming early.

A m yriad of professional league long since forgotten, hockey franchises exist, just like despite its perpetual omnipresence. there endures an array of federal The NDP, on the other hand, is political parties. Of course, one both keen to make a difference and could say this about a lot of things, so propitious to idealism, a reality but the plausibility of comparing encom passed in the dream s of the Liberal Party to the ensemble Canada’s junior hockey teams and of northern A m erican hockey their up and coming stars.

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So there you have it, the year of the Tories’ federal man­ McCallums of the hockey world. date, a m andate in which the Obviously, only our loaded-to-the- Stanley Cup playoffs have arrived Oilers, Habs, and Flames won a tits coun ter-p arts to the south \ prematurely. And as we approach combined eight trophies. The end could pull this one off. Indeed, our the final round, the Am erican powerhouses and the Southern of the Tories’ reign thus correlated Leafs tried and failed.

Amongst this frenzy of analo­ keeners continue to dominate the with the culmination of Canadian gy, you’re probably wondering | game; of course, seeing as the cen­ Cup victories.

Since their defeat, Team PC where the Alliance comes into the tre usually scores the most goals has been drowned in financial picture, and therefore the hockey anyway, the powerhouse will sure­ debt, a predicament in which the franchises of the South. Much of it ly emerge victorious. A couple of Sens and Canucks have found is obvious, for the two are virgin Canadian goals would be exciting themselves as well. In fact, in an to their trade, but keen to over­ nonetheless, be it by left wing or effort to fund their 1997 election come their ignorance. Deeper still by the moderate right, even though campaign, the Tories sought offi­ is the fact that they are both rolling neither party has got a hope in hell cial party funding from the federal in cash and rob Canadians of their J of w inning. S till, w o u ld n ’t a government. Their request was j precious belongings; the Jets were Mississauga Ice Dogs’ triumph be denied. Coincidentally, Industries indeed stolen by Phoenix, while just dandy?

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T his week’s recipe is the first in a series of recipes that will help you out when you’re stuck on what to make for potluck dinners.

Hummus is always a good bet, and this recipe will make enough for you to keep some leftovers for yourself. There are tons of recipes for hummus floating around, so you’re probably asking yourself why I’d bother writing yet another one down. The answer is that this is possi­ bly the easiest recipe I’ve come across for it, not to mention the healthi­ est. So here goes: Ingredients: 2 cans of chickpeas 3 tbsp. Olive oil 4 tbsp. Lemon juice 1 tbsp. Peanut butter A squirt of sesame oil (optional)' 4 cloves of chopped garlic ltsp. garlic salt Salt and pepper

Spice options: cumin, curry or chili (powder or flakes) Add-in: Roasted red pepper Dipping options: Pitas2, tortillas, crackers, chips, etc.

Appliances: Blender or Food processor

Instructions: Start by draining almost all the juice from the chick peas. Put both cans (with some of the juice) into your appliance of choice. Then add the olive oil, lemon juice, and chopped garlic. You can also add some of the peanut butter (and if you want it, sesame oil) here. I know peanut butter sounds weird but we use it to recreate the taste of the tahini (the stuff made out of sesame seeds that makes regular hummus bad for you). I would hold off adding it all at once because it can tend to get overpowering- do it gradually for best results. Blend all of this stuff together and have a taste. If you feel the need, add more of any of the above to taste. You’ll then want to add your spices- the salt, pepper and garlic salt as well as any of the spice options.3 You can also add more or less of the spices- it is up to you. If you want to add the red pepper you’ll want to roast it first. The way to do this is to cut it in half and put a little oil on it. Stick it under a broiler until the skin bums.

Then put the peppers in a bag and shake them until the skin comes off.

You can put the pepper right in the blender as your last step. Choose a dipping option and that’s it, you’re ready to party.

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Footnotes: 1The more health-conscious cooks among you may want to avoid this stuff. : These are especially good when cut into triangles and put in the toaster oven with a little olive oil and garlic powder. ’My favourite is cumin but if you like it hot, go for the curry or chili.

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cuts heal faster if th ey ’re allow ed to ‘breathe’. OK but so camphor and menthol actually dry your lips out, which is impor­ tant when you’ve got a cold sore or some­ thing, but when you don’t these products actually end up creating a physical depen­ dence; they moisturize your lips a little bit in the short term, but they actually end up drying the poor guys out, so you’re forced to apply more of the product to make your lips feel better.

What should one do about this clearly society-threatening threat? Good question, I would recommend using only camphor and menthol free lib balm - non medicated vari­ eties only. Or, if you’re really concerned, you can make your own lip balm. This seems a little kooky to me, but hey! what do I know? As a brief evaluation of what you’ve just read would reveal, not bloody much.

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A Tribune guide to the federal elections

BY STEPHANE LEVITZ______________

Next Monday, Canadians will take to the polls to elect a new gov­ ernment. The McGill Tribune pre­ sents a voting guide to the candi­ dates and parties running in the W estm ount-V ille-M arie and Laurier-Sainte-Marie(Plateau) rid­ ings, the two with the highest con­ centration of students in Montreal.

Bloc Québécois Leader and Laurier-Sainte-Marie: Gilles Duceppe Westmount-Ville-Marie: Marne le Valdiva What they promise students: • an increase to the Canadian Health and Social Transfer.

• more control to provinces for their areas of jurisdiction, including educa­ tion.

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Why they say you should vote for them: • Quebec wins by voting Bloc.

For more: www.blocquebecois.org

Marxist-Leninist Party

Marijuana Party

Leader: Jean Chrétien Westmount-Ville-Marie: Lucienne Robillard Laurier-Saint-Marie: Jean-Phillipe Côté What they promise students: • a doubling of the tax credit that full time students can receive for educa­ tion.

• a creation of a tax credit for the interest paid on student loans.

• extending the period of interest

Leader: Stockwell Day Westmount-Ville-Marie: Felix Côte Laurier-Sainte Marie: Stéphane Prud'homme

Leader: Sandra Smith Westmount-Ville-Marie: Saroj Bains Laurier-Sainte-Marie: Ginette Boutet

Leader and Laurier-Sainte-Marie: Marc-Boris St. Maurice Westmount-Ville-Marie: Patrice Caron What they promis** students: • the development and integration of legislation to end cannabis prohibition.

• if this were to happen, the potential revenue the government would earn could go towards social programs, such as health and education.

Why Marc-Boris St. Maurice says you should vote for him and for the Marijuana Party: "The majority of arrests for marijuana occur with younger people - it is more likely that a student will be arrested for marijuana than an adult. [A vote for the Marijuana Party is] removing yet anoth­ er impediment to higher education. A criminal record for marijuana will pre­ vent studies in the U.S.A.” For more: www.partimarijuana.org

What they offer for students: • using the surplus to increase Canadian Health and Social Transfers to the provinces so more money will go to edu­ cation.

What they promise students: • increase in funding to social pro­ grams such as education wit!) the eventual goal of making education free.

• set up national student committees so the student voice is heard.

Why Stéphane Prud'homme thinks you should vote Alliance (and for him): " I know what it is like to be a student. It is important to be able to focus on your studies instead of on finding the money to pay for them. The Alliance will encourage provinces to give more money to education.”

For more:www.canadianalliance.ca

Leader: Alexa McDonough Westmount-Ville-Marie: Willy Blomme Laurier-Sainte-Marie: Richard Chartier

by a strategy to roll back fees to 1995 levels through federal reinvestment in the core budgets of colleges and universities.

• Deny federal funding for the establish­ ment and operation of private, or-profit universities.

What they promise students: • Make the Canada Student Loan Program interest-free during the life of a loan and credit all interest repaid since 1995 as payment on the principal of the loan.

•Work with the provinces on an immedi­ ate freeze on tuition fees to be followed

Why they say you should NDP: “We’ve got a vision of society that is a fair vision We want to make sure society affords everybody a better opportunity.

And one of the ways to do that is access to education.” — Philip Toone communications director, Quebec NDP. For more: www.ndp.ca

The New Democratic Party

Why Saroj Bains says you should vote for her and for MarxistLeninist: "The propaganda is that youth are apolitical - this isn't true. The Marxist-Leninist party has many youth candidates and youth should come forward and vote for these candidates because they can repre­ sent their interests. This is a matter of creating a youth agenda.”

For more: www.cpcml.ca

Progressive Conservatives

Liberal Party

Canadian Alliance

Leader: Joe Clark Westmount-Ville-Marie: Bryan Price Laurier-Sainte-Marie: JeanFrançois Tessier

relief on student loans from 18 months to .four and a half years.

• a boost to the Canada Health and Social Transfer to help provinces give more money to education.

Why, says Jean-Philippe Côté, you should Liberal: 'T he Liberal Party is the one party with a proactive focus on reasearch and innovation to enable Canada to be proactive in building a stronger tomorrow for today’s youth.”

For more: www.liberal.ca

What they promise students: • Change the repayment terms for Canada Student Loans to provide tlvat loans are repaid as a percentage of net after tax income starting the first full working year after graduation.

• Introduce a tax credit for post-sec­ ondary students repaying Canada Student Loans to a maximum of 10 per cent of the loan principal, per year, for the first 10 years after gradu­

ation, provided they remain employed in Canada..

• End the taxation of scholarships awarded to students in colleges and universities.

Why Bryan Price says you should vote for him and the Tories: "1 find that the business agenda has taken over government. Government and education are not capitalist busi­ ness. One of the things I'll bring is a less business agenda and more com­ mon sense. You can't expect students to pay more because the product costs more.

For more: www.pcparty.ca

Green Party Leader: Joan Russow Westmount-Ville- Marie: Brian Sarwer-Foner Laurier-Sainte-Marie: Dylan Perceval-Maxwell What they promise students: • commitment to an environmentally friendly Canada which can only benefit everyone.

Why you should vote for the Green Party: Brian Sarwer-Fonen "For students who want a decent place to continue their life on and have their offspring on it is important to vote Green.”

Dylan Perceval-Maxwell: "Climate change makes life unpleasant now, it’s nothing compared to what we’ll se in 20 years.”

For more: www.green.ca

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Instructions for mixing the perfect bartender B y Leora W ise

The perfect martini: • 1 oz. Vodka • dash of extra dry vermouth • dash of sweet vermouth • Shake ingredients with ice and strain into a chilled martini glass • Garnish with an olive M ixing perfect drinks is a good skill and a good living too.

Though there are many amateur bartenders, official trade protocol can be learned in courses, memo­ rizing endless pages of drink recipes. Although not included in the job description, curiously, most M ontreal bartenders are young, gorgeous, and scantily clad.

Perhaps more important than the training involved, you need some­ thing else before you’re given the martini shaker and rights to the draught tap. But just what are the appropriate proportions of sex appeal and good looks when mix­ ing the ‘perfect bartender’?

Drunken youth in Biftek, Le Swimm ing, C ock’n Bull and

Sainte-Sulpice, confessed their take on bartenders and how essential they perceived sex appeal to be as criteria for the job.

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Connor, 18, stated that as a general rule, “girls will tip guys less than guys will tip girls.”

Explaining this phenomenon, Becka, a university graduate, elab­ orated.

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knows she’s not gonna get any from the bartender. The guy some­ how thinks that he might.”

On the other side of the counter, Eric, a Québécois bar­ tender at Sainte-Sulpice, dressed in the “Montreal Chic” uniform of a tight black t-shirt, gelled locks, and trendy facial hair, disclosed some trade secrets. When asked whether he acted differently towards cus­ tomers of opposing sexes, Eric admitted.

“Kind of, yeah. It’s the boys drinking the most, making me more money, but the boys is where the girl is. If you’re friendly with girls, boys come.”

Does Eric mean he flirts with girls in the bar?

“Not flirting,” responded Eric.

“Trying to be friendly.”

N otw ithstanding his good looks, Eric seemed to think that his tips were dependant on his efficien­ cy. He did agree though, that an element of charm is involved in his line of work. “Yeah, there is. But not the first part, the major part is the speed. [The] most important part of the job is the way I’m mov­

ing behind the bar.”

Moving up the chain of com­ mand, Carlos Morais, one of the co-owners of St-Laurent’s very trendy, smurf-village-motif bar, â Gogo Lounge, was asked what he looked for when hiring staff.

“I like hiring characters. They don’t have to be the best-looking person in the world, they have to have style, personal style; [they] don’t have to be a model, that’s boring,” he stated.

So, does the staff play an over­ whelming role in making the bar?

Morais seems to think so.

“Yeah, big time. It’s the staff that is there on the floor greeting everybody, shaking hands, serving, saying thank you, taking order. In a bar, it’s the staff that has the most contact with the customers, so it’s very important. Every customer should be treated like a regular.”

Good service and smiles are assets in all custom er-service industries, yet a distinction must be made between employees who are ‘characters’ and employees who look good in their clothes.

With regards to staff having a

dress code, Morais was hasty to reply.

“We do n ’t allow certain things. We don’t allow basics like running shoes, and yo u ’re not allowed to wear jeans, but that’s about it, just a rule so that nobody starts coming in here like they just finished cleaning their car or some­ thing.”

Why do staff tend to show a lot of cleavage?

“They all like to wear what they wear when they’re going out.

But that they wear specific outfits to attract more customers, that’s normal. I mean if it’s not here, if she’s going to go out, as a girl, they’re going to wear certain out­ fits to attract guys. And the guys the same thing, they wear what they would wear on a night out,” Morais said.

Shaken or stirred, it takes more than a quick hand to mix the perfect bartender. Though a nice smile and competent service are im portant qualities in barstaff, there’s no denying the primordial powers of sex appeal.

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What's that on my grocery shelf?

Genetically modified ingredients in your everyday foods no idea — and who could blame you? A recent U.S. study found that only 43 per cent of people know that some of the food they are purchasing in their local gro­ cery store is genetically modified.

Along with the new forms of many traditional crops, have come cries of opposition from con­ sumers, environmental groups and other non-governmental organiza­ tions on the grounds that this new technology has not been tested for risks to humans and animals, and that biodiversity and environmental hazards need to be better assessed.

In a recent incident thousands of Kraft Taco Bell brand taco shells were pulled off superm arket shelves because they contained a genetically modified ingredient, BT corn or StarLink. It had not been approved by the Food and Drug A dm inistration and sparked an already heated debate about the risks and ethics of this new trend.

B y S hirlee Engel

What did you have for break­ fast? Chances are you probably couldn’t cite the ingredients on the side panel of your cereal package.

In fact, have you ever read any­ thing on your Cheerios box except how to enter the latest contest? À11 those long, hard-to-pronounce chemical names are just included for your information, right? And if you pulled something off the gro­ cery shelf, most likely it’s been tested and it’s safe to eat, right?

Chow down.

But what if someone told you that the wheat in your Wheaties came from a genetically-modified crop?

Everyday foods are being taken over by biotechnology, and in the past couple of months have worked their way into the ingredi­ ents of the stuff you have been eat­ ing for years. You probably have

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Cultivating a dream So what exactly is involved in genetic engineering? W e’re not talking abnormally large com ears and larger-than-life tom atoes.

Contrary to the stereotype of genet­ ically engineered, or GE, foods tak­ ing on mutant-like appearances, many are actually identical to their natural counterparts, only with small genetic modifications you could never detect.

Since Dolly made her debut on the international stage barely two years ago, many scientists have scrambled to create copies of other organism s. But while cloning involves a literal Xerox of an organism ’s genetic makeup, GE foods involve a unique process of introducing desired genes into plants from completely different species.

Advocates of GE foods argue that increased herbicide, pest and disease resistance, as well as im proved nutritional value and shelf life will benefit food produc­ tion in the world. For instance, a new variation of rice, a common crop around the globe, is being engineered to contain extra vita­ mins. GE is even being sold as a solution to world hunger, with many claiming that third world countries will use the technology to increase yields and feed their starv­ ing populations.

“I ’ve been associated with agricultural biotech research and commercialization of products for 21 years. I clearly see, and have seen the benefits of this technology — from Australia to Argentina, from Canada to China...to the envi­ ronment and to society in general.

If that makes me ‘pro-biotech’ then let it be,” says Gary Barton of Monsanto in St. Louis. Monsanto is one of the world’s leading biotech companies, perhaps most widely known for its patent on foods resis­ tant to herbicide— or Roundup, as it is com m ercially known.

Soybeans are among the crops that have been engineered with such traits.

With many trans-national companies now practicing what some have coined ‘biopiracy,’ a process whereby traditional plants are only slightly modified and then patented, some say that this is a big m oney-m aking business that demotes safety to second priority status.

Dennis R. M cCalla of GE Alert in Canada, and author of Why We Should Proceed Cautiously with Plant Biotechnology, feels that GE foods were rushed to the mar­ ket before they could be adequately tested. He believes that risks such

as genetic pollution, long-term effects on health, allergic reactions, interference with natural pollina­ tion and the uncontrolled spreading of genes to other species are seri­ ous concerns.

“At the very least, years of careful testing and research will be needed to provide the scientific basis needed for rational decision making,” he states. “In the mean time, a moratorium on the introduc­ tion of new GE crops as well as a those currently in use is in order.”

Regulating GE foods According to Health Canada’s w ebsite, safety assessm ent on foods developed using genetic modification includes five consid­ erations: how the food was devel­ oped, its composition compared to its non-modified counterpart, its nutritional information, potential for new toxins and potential for causing an allergic reaction. To date, 42 GE foods have been approved for use in Canada.

However, many charge that Canadian regulations are much more lax and that many products are finding their way onto super­ market shelves w ithout proper labeling. There is currently no law in Canada that informing a con­ sumer that a particular product uses GE ingredients.

“The federal and some provin­ cial governments in Canada have become unquestioning cheerlead­ ers. Their websites and advertise­ ments elaborate paeans of praise for biotechnology while providing not even a hint that there may be a worm in the apple, that there are concerns that need to be addressed,” says Dr. Richard C. Bocking in a submission by the Royal Society of Canada to the Expert Panel on the Future of Food Biotechnology. “To any queries as to the safety of GE products, the response is, ‘don’t worry - we have the finest, most stringent regulatory system in the world.’ We may well have, at one time. But the advent of GE has thrown that assertion into question.”

North American countries lag behind in legislation on GE food labeling. Critics are urging Canada and the U.S. to follow the example of the European Union, Japan and other nations by requiring labels so shoppers know what they are buy­ ing. For B ocking, the issue of labeling GE foods in supermarkets elucidates a conflict of predomi­ nantly Western ideology.

“In a democracy, basic free­ doms must include the right to decide for ourselves what we will buy and what we will eat,” he says.

“Without labelling, we are denied that right. But biotech companies are terrified of labels identifying their products, because polls show clearly that the vast majority of people, given a choice, would not buy them.”

The view that the government is allowing huge corporations cash in on these products, Somerville feels, is rather reductionist. She says that some of the hard-line crit­

ics rely too heavily on an anti-capi­ talist sentiment, and that alone the patent argument does not consider the bigger picture.

“It’s too sim plistic...I think that the reality is far more complex than that. I think we’ve got to try to create structures that can help us make decisions on the basis of how we can do the most good and do the least harm.

“One of the problem s with corporations is maybe they haven’t expanded their concepts of ethics— business ethics and institutional ethics— to understand their impact outside their immediate environ­ ment,” she says.

According to Somerville, we should proceed with caution with our present technologies. But despite all the arguments against the use of GE products, she says that we should not lose sight of what we could gain with genetic engineering in agriculture. “ [We must] recognize that there are enormous benefits with this new knowledge that we have and that this [should] not be simply a kind of reflex reaction against a scientific endeavour or progress, but an attempt to bring ethics and good judgm ent to the ways in which we research, develop and then ultimately use that science.”

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Natural Law Party Leaders: Dr. Neil Paterson, Dr. Ashley Deans Westmount Ville Marie: Allen Faguy Laurier Sainte Marie: no can­ didate What they offer students: • financial support for every stu­ dent who wishes to pursue high­ er education • more years in higher education • opening Canadian universities in other countries, so that Canadian university students can attend branches of their own universities in several countries for two to three years.

• programs to help students access and harness their creative potential through a study of con­ sciousness and natural law.

Why Allen Faguy says you should vote for him and Natural Law: “We deeply believe we can rep­ resent the interests of students because we promote the devel­ opment of the person through the Vedic Tradition - total knowledge of natural law.”

For more: www. natural-law.ca

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Soy palloi !A food for the masses B y Raquel K irsch

Imagine a plant so versatile that it could be used to make ink, flour, hand cream and mock cheese. Sound like something out of Star Trek or the latest product being m arketed by Amway? It shouldn’t seem futuristic. This multipurpose plant is the soybean.

What? The stuff for health freaks that tastes like garbage?

The simple mention of the word soy will either perk up your ears or cause you to make the most disgusted face. But don’t be so quick to judge. While this food is certainly not new in Asian cultures, it’s become a hot product for the health-conscious North American.

It’s gone from an item available only tucked-away in health food stores to being a regular item in any neighbourhood grocery store.

I t ’s a product, says Wen Zientek of iVillage.com, that not many people know how to prepare.

If you don’t add any flavour when you prepare it, you’ll probably end up with bland and insipid tasting soy. Sound familiar?

Soy comes from the soybean, a plant that originates in Asia, and can be made into dozens of prod­

ucts. It’s probably best known in its milk and tofu forms. The milk is extracted after the soybeans are cooked and crushed. Tofu is made by coagulating soymilk, similar to

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the way cheese is made.

The closest encounter you may have had with soy is the sauce in your Won Ton soup, but there are hundreds recipes available on the web that can help jump-start a real culinary venture into soy land.

The key to cooking tofu is the use of spices and sauces. Tofu has very

little flavour on its own, but if drained before cooking, it can absorb any flavour.

For student Jennifer Kim, cooking soy is second nature.

“I ’m K orean,” she says. “Tofu is in almost all the food I prepare. I t’s nothing really new to me.

You can stick soy into any thing you want. It’s really easy.”

The soy community is a-bustlin’. There are web sites and e-zines that are dedicated to the members’ favourite organic food. This year, Joe’s Auto Park Lot was the site of the fifth LA Tofu Festival, produced by the The L ittle Tokyo Service. For only $1, soy fans could gather and share recipes and consult with nutritionists on the benefits of soy. There was also live enter­ tainment and a guest appearance from Mr. Universe 1999.

The main reason for soy’s popularity are its numerous health benefits. A ccording to Cheryl Sullivan and Kathy Rhodes of soy.com, people who eat a lot of soy foods have lower rates of many

types of cancer, including breast, colon, lung and prostate cancers.

They also have much lower rates of heart disease. Studies have also shown that adding soy protein to the diet can dramatically lower cholesterol levels and significantly reduce the risk for heart disease.

“Soybeans are a nutritional superpower,” they said. “They con­ tain high-quality protein, fat and carbohydrates, and a virtual drug­ store of phytochemicals for the pre­ vention and treatm ent of many chronic diseases.”

Vegetarians stand to gain the most from soy. Because it has a high-protein content, it can make up for the protein they’re not get­ ting from meat. This is especially helpful for vegans who don’t eat any animal products, and can’t get their protein from dairy products.

For students on a tight budget, soy is a great product because it offers a lot of protein for less than the price of store-bought meat. One pound of tofu costs about 2 dollars, and is usually good for two or three meals.

P olitical science student Daniel Ehrenfeld isn’t a vegetarian, but he enjoys soy because there’s no meat in it. Like some fellow

Jewish students, he is forbidden to eat meat and dairy at the same sit­ ting, or to eat meat that is not pre­ pared under strict supervision. By substituting soy for meat he can eat a mock cheeseburger or a mockpepperoni pizza.

“I can go to a vegetarian-style restaurant and order a dish with tofu instead of meat, and I’ll be full afterwards,” he says. “Otherwise, I’m stuck eating salads or dairy if I want to eat out.”

But soy isn't just Garden burg­ ers and veggie hot dogs. It can also be used to make snacks. The Dixie Diner Club, a Texas-based food retailer boasts “Health Food That Tastes Like Junk Food”. They sell chocolates, pudding, cakes, and cookies made from non genetical­ ly-modified soybeans.

Does this mean that eating a whole pan of soy-based brownies should be guilt-free, knowing that you could be preventing heart dis­ ease? Not quite. Soy may be able to help prevent certain illnesses, but it cannot work in isolation. A normal balanced diet and regular exercise can play an equally impor­ tant role is disease prevention.

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Vegan lifestyle isn't easy... but is it worth it?

B y A nna Soloman

What does the word ‘vegan’ mean to you? It may be a dinner­ party host’s worst nightmare, or a preferred lifestyle — one that many M cGill students have begun to adopt.

A vegan is someone who does not consume animal products, ani­ mal by-products and products that have been tested on animals. But why would anyone actually choose to forgo the Big Mac, the Holy Grail of fast food, for a vegepate sandwich?

“Most vegan people are people who have taken their consumption as a responsibility and not just as an action that you do three time a day,” explains M arie-Pierre Michand, manager of Les Vivres, a vegan restaurant in Montreal.

Michand claims that people are motivated to adopt a vegan diet because they are concerned with their health, they oppose the inhu­ mane treatment of animals used in agriculture and they do not want to support the way the meat and dairy industries pollute the earth.

The staff of Les Vivres attempt to combat each of these problems. The restaurant offers meals made of grains, veggies, legumes and fruits, prepared with high quality oils, whole spices, organic flour and unrefined sugar.

Michand claims that these ingredi­ ents provide the correct kinds of fat, calcium and protein that are easiest for the body to digest and they strengthen the immune system and prevent disease. In addition, these foods can be obtained with­ out exploiting animals to fulfill human needs.

Les Vivres is also the first restaurant to conduct its own com­ posting and recycling. Once a week, the staff recuperates organic vegetables that would otherwise be

vegetarianism and veganism,” explains Alida Farrell, coordi­ nator of EarthSave.

EarthSave reaches out to the student body by tabling once every month in one of the large buildings on campus.

The committee members dis­ tribute pam phlets and sell vegan baked goods so that people can try these foods for a small price. Once a month, they host a potluck. Although you don’t have to be a vegan to go, the dish you must bring a vegetarian dish. EarthSave has also hosted lecturers like Howard Lyman, Brenda Davis and Joseph Pace who d is­ cussed the benefits of vegetari­ an and vegan diets. They con­ tinue to plan similar events.

P a ss th e p e a s Jenny George “W e’re an educational organization, that’s our main thrown out. The restaurant uses some of these vegetables, sells purpose but in that same motion we a portion of them and composts the don’t want to just convince [stu­ dents] without giving them the rest.

Les Vivres is one of several means to make the transition so we vegan restaurants frequented by help to facilitate that,” clarifies Farrell.

McGill students.

EarthSave has two functions: “There is a good portion of our clientele that comes from McGill. to convince people to adopt a If you compare UDM, UQAM, vegan lifestyle and to connect veg­ Concordia and McGill, definitely ans with inform ation regarding McGill is the one that promotes restaurants and recipes that are health in a real way and it has the available to them. The committee longest tradition of offering stu­ accomplishes the second objective dents a place to talk about it— by m aking its Vegetarian they’re more open-minded,” asserts Manifesto available at the McGill Bookstore and by selling a discount Michand.

EarthSave, a committee within card, which is recognized by many the Quebec Public Interest vegetarian and vegan restaurants in Research Group at McGill, strives the city.

The committee is planning a to educate students about the envi­ ronm ental and ethical conse­ conference scheduled for March 3rd, which will feature several lec­ quences of their food choices.

“We promote the benefits of turers. In addition, EarthSave is plant-based diets and facilitate the attempting to institute “Meat-Out transition for students and for other Day” in March. The committee members of the community who members are contacting cafeterias are interested after hearing all the on campus and motivating them to great things we have to say about eliminate meat from their menus

for that day. Farrell feels that the response to this project has been fairly positive and even the cafete­ rias which are reluctant to cut out meat completely that day are agree­ ing to offer vegetarian and vegan options. EarthSave still faces many challenges that prevent them from reaching their goals.

“There is general apathy, resistance from the public, many of the businesses that we contact for the discount card are small busi­ nesses that don’t have the money to fund us even though they’d like to, and others don’t care,” elaborates Farrell.

In some cases the many chal­ lenges presented to a vegan have actually prevented students from adopting the lifestyle.

Christie Young, a McGill stu­ dent, found that she was unable to maintain her vegan diet because it was not conducive to life at McGill.

“It’s way too hard to do — to live a student life and be a vegan. It costs way too much money and you ca n ’t eat anyw here,” explains Young.

Young applauds EarthSave’s efforts to prom ote veganism .

However, she thinks that more resources should be dedicated to educating people about the broader issues, and that veganism should be promoted as something more than ju st a consum er choice. Young feels that real progress requires Continued on Page 13

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ary is up to her ears in debt. She has maxed out her credit cards and the money from her student loans has almost dried up. Her rent is way past due and her landlord is threat­ ening to change her locks if she doesn’t pay. She bought her TV and microwave from a store that let her pay on a monthly installment plan and she is a month behind on that too. The store sent her a letter say­ ing that if they do not receive pay­ ment within ten days, she can expect them to show up at her home to pick up the merchandise.

Peter doesn’t have any serious debt problems. Although he does live on a typically tight student bud­ get, he has enough to live comfort­ ably. Peter’s problem was that a year ago, when he wasn’t doing as well, his sister’s boyfriend gave him a few hundred dollars to help

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him out. When Peter’s sister broke up with that guy, he suddenly want­ ed the money back, claiming it was a loan. He even sent some papers about it asking for the money back, but Peter ignored them because his sister said not to worry, she would take care of it. A few days ago, a bailiff showed up at Peter’s apart­ ment and explained that he was there to seize property that would be sold to pay for that debt. The bailiff left with Peter’s stereo and his roommate’s mountain bike.

W elcome to the world of repossession and seizure.

Mary and Peter may have dif­ ferent types of problems, but both their stories indicate a few things to watch out for if you are ever in a situation that touches on any of these types of issues. The first thing to note is that there is distinct dif­ ference between seizures and repos­ sessions, although both generally involve the person who has a bad debt losing some property.

Many commercial contracts, like the installment agreement Mary signed for her TV and microwave,

have built in repossession clauses that allow a store (or some other creditor) to retain ownership over the items until they are fully paid for. The store reserves the right to take back the items that are the sub­ ject of the contract if the customer misses one payment in many cases, even if the item is almost complete­ ly paid off. This kind of clause can often be found in the tiny print sec­ tion when you buy big ticket (or even small ticket) items like house­ hold appliances, computers or even cars.

Seizures operate entirely dif­ ferently. A seizure is something that can happen when a judgement has been rendered against you in court and you still fail to pay what you owe on that judgement. After a req­ uisite waiting period, a bailiff, armed with a court order, can go to your home or place of business (depending on the facts of the case) and seize your belongings to pay off the sum that you owe. In Peter’s case, his sister’s boyfriend sued him (that’s what the papers were about).

When he didn’t respond, a judge­

ment was rendered against him in default, which is what happens when you fail to show up to court when you are sued.

Take heart; there are proce­ dures available to people who have default judgements against them to try to reverse that and get a new trial, although it’s not always easy.

Also possible, but not easy, is reversing a seizure once it has been made. Take, for example, the situa­ tion that Peter’s roommate, Mike, is now in. His mountain bike is gone through no fault of his own, merely because he lives with a guy who doesn’t read his mail. Mike has a few days before the b ailiff is allowed to sell the bike, during which he can try to go to court and prove that the bike is actually his and not Peter’s. He will have to bring sufficient proof of this fact, as the courts are very familiar with the “Please Mr. Bailiff, don’t take my uh, I mean my roommate/wife/father’s - foosball table” defense. So if you are con­ testing a seizure, do it with evi­ dence and do it fast.

As for Mary, she is probably out of luck with respect to her TV and microwave, but not with her landlord. Landlords generally do not have the right to kick you out of your home because you’re late on rent. They will have to take you to the rental board first (although if they have already done this in the past, it will be much easier for them to throw you out later). But the fact that her landlord threatened to change her locks is indicative of the fact that many creditors believe that seizures, repossessions or other kinds of foreclosures on bad debt can be effected by any interested party who is owed money, and that is just not true. Things like contrac­ tual clauses, requirements for court orders and rental law regimes are in place not merely to make it hard for debtors to get away with not paying what they owe. They also protect people from living in fear that they will usually only be subject to these measures when all else fails.

Can echinacea cure the common cold?

Gaia Remerowski

elcome to cold and flu season. It’s that time of year when the sniffles, sneezes and coughing plague so many of us. We all know that the best thing is to get plenty of rest, eat right and take it easy — not very realistic remedies for the aver­ age stressed-out student. This may be why more and more students are turning to the widely available herbal remedies. The most com­ mon one on campus (and in the herbal m arket) these days is Echinacea (pronounced EK-in-AYshah).

So what’s the deal with this herbal cold and flu fighter? Is there any scientific basis to the curative claims of this little purple

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flower?

Echinacea (common name: purple cone flower) comes from the flower Echinacea purpurea. It has a long history, starting with the North American natives who used it to heal wounds. It later gained popularity around the 1800s in the US when it was used to treat wounds, cure bacterial and viral infection and even get rid of pain caused by arthritis. With the advent of antibiotics and other modern drugs, its use diminished.

But in the last ten years it’s been making a comeback.

We’re now getting interested in the proposed immune system boosting properties of this herb which might help us in our fight against the common cold. Parts of the Echinacea flower may contain ingredients that increase production of germ-fighting white blood cells as well as increasing levels of a chemical messenger called interfer­ on which is especially useful in

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fighting off viruses. they may be slightly more reliable What does the scientific litera­ in terms of content. ture say? The earliest studies done Then you have to consider on Echinacea were mostly from j doses - a difficult task seeing as Germany and focused primarily on there isn’t a clinically acceptable Echinacea’s benefits in helping one. This is partly because no one with respiratory infections. The knows what the active ingredient is more recent studies showing the j in this mysterious flower. The gen­ herb’s immune-boosting properties eral recommendation is to take a used the injected form of higher dose at the first sign of a Echinacea. This doesn’t help us cold or flu and continue taking the much since you can only buy the recommended dose for the next product in pill or liquid form. In two weeks. But be careful because the few studies looking at oral j two studies have indicated that tak­ doses, results were quite inconsis­ ing Echinacea for too long (i.e. tent. At best these studies show longer than two weeks) might end Echinacea being able to shorten the up weakening your immune sys­ length of a cold but there’s still no tem, making it harder to fight off convincing evidence that it pre­ cold viruses. vents colds.

There have been rumors going Then there’s the problem of around that Echinacea may cause brands. Some brands may have birth defects or infertility. This almost no active Echinacea at all. past month a study was done at the The bottle may say ‘This product H ospital for Sick C hildren in contains pure extract of natural Toronto where women who had Echinacea.’ But did that extract used Echinacea before and during come from the p la n t’s leaves, their first trimester of pregnancy stems, roots or a combination of did not show any increased risk for these? It makes a difference. Not birth m alform ations. A nother to mention the fact that there are claim is that Echinacea causes liver actually three types of Echinacea damage. People have developed plants: purpurea, pallida and angus- liver problem s from taking tifolia (though purpurea is the most Echinacea for longer than eight com m on).

Echinaforce and weeks, but these patients were also EchinaGuard are two brands that taking liver-damaging drugs such have been used in clinical trials so I as kétoconazole and anabolic

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steroids which were the more likely causes of the liver problems.

A legitimate warning you’ll come across if taking Echinacea is to avoid the product if you have an autoimmune disease such as, multi­ ple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis or lupus (since Echinacea increases white blood cell levels and it’s these cells which are out of whack in autoimmune problems). You’re also supposed to avoid it if you’re allergic to flowers in the daisy fam­ ily. Finally, in the case of cancer or HIV there may be some negative interactions with certain chemotherapy drugs.

On the whole, the verdict’s still out on the effectiveness of this trendy herbal cure. But the debate on echinacea’s effects raises an important point: the need to regu­ late and investigate more of these popular herbal remedies. So for now unless you have a chronic or autoimmune disease there doesn’t seem to be any real danger in tak­ ing Echinacea at the first signs of a cold. Even if it does turn out to be a placebo (and a rather expensive one, at that) it’s often more feasible for the student on the run than rest and relaxation. Of course there’s always the chicken soup remedy — but that’s a whole other bowl of science.

Flexing your civic muscle Continued from Page 9 • In order to vote, you must be a Canadian citizen, over the age of 18 and on the vot­ ers list.

• If you are not on the list, or wish to vote in your home riding (not Montreal) you must to your closest riding office with identification that has your name and the

address for the riding in which you wish to vote.

Catherine.

• If you want to vote in your home riding you have until November 21 to register to do so. Your ballot must arrive in your home riding by November 27.

• To find out where you vote next Monday call your riding office: Westmount-Ville-Marie: 2835600 Laurier-Sainte-Marie: 496-1 151

• The closest riding office to McGill is located at 1255 University, just below Ste.

• For more information and random election trivia go to www.elections.ca

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T he M c G ill T r ib u n e , T u e s d a y , 21 N o v e m b e r 2000

By Ian Speigel About a month ago, Digital Culture got bit by the scientific bug, and decided to do some work in the field. Our aim was to investi­ gate the phenomenon that is the ‘gam er’. So leaving the dank Tribune office behind, we went out and we got ourselves a human guinea pig, “D w eezel” (he wouldn’t reveal his actual name).

The experim ent was rather simple: First, we asked Dweezel to convey his opinion on games and gamers in the form of an essay.

What he produced was decidedly negative and, in hindsight, indica­ tive of the impassioned and fantas­ tic nature of his personality. What is clear is that Dweezel held quite a belittling view towards gamers, especially people who were really into Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater II (“Hawk-Obsessed-Kids” he termed them). In fact, he went so far as to insinuate that there was no differ­ ence between a HOK and a coke­ head. He took a clear stance on the issue. It was time to move on to stage two.

This involved, though a series of m anipulative m easures and counter-m easures, pressuring Dweezel into trying Tony Hawk.

We finally got him playing, and once he started, he went through the night and into the morning.

After his 14-hour binge, it was time for stage three - another essay on gamers. (We suspected he might have an altered opinion on the sub­ ject.) However, when it came time to contact him, he was nowhere to be found. We exhausted our resources trying to locate him: hit­ ting up his friends (they told us he disappears all the time, but we got the feeling they weren’t really his friends), calling his mom (we found out his real name is Marvin), and visiting the local house of ill repute (“Qui, M arvin? Ahh, Muddy Marv! Non, we ‘aven’t seen ‘im since a month ago...Hey, you’re cute!”)

It appeared as though Muddy Marvin had disappeared. It wasn’t until a week later that D igital Culture received an anonymous email (we suspected it was from

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Muddy Marv), which contained a simple sentence, set in the impera­ tive tense, which read: “Stop looking for me.”

Sleuths that we are, Digital Culture managed to ascertain that Muddy Marv had taken so strongly to Tony Hawk, which he quickly parlayed into a general gaming devotion, that he dropped out school. He joined the online gam­ ing community and he’s been gam­ ing full time for the past month.

From what we can ascertain though hanging out in certain chat rooms, Muddy Marv has become quite a shady and notorious charac­ ter in certain gaming circles. Ask about a guy named Muddy Marv, and y o u ’re liable to hear the phrase, “dirty cheatin’ slick”. He has become a veritable gaming monster.

Well, Frankenstein was not lost on D igital C ulture, so we quickly resolved to hunt Muddy Marv down, perhaps in hopes of changing him back to former mal­ adjusted self, perhaps just to satisfy our own guilty curiosity. However, our pursuit had proved fruitless until two days ago, when, via ICQ, a user named MaRverickl contact­ ed us. Here’s the transcript of the dialogue: (we used an ICQ account with ‘sadru’ as the screen name) MaRverickl 11/13/20 1:15 AM I read your article. The term ‘trite’ comes to mind, sadru 11/13/20 1:15 AM who the hell are you. sadru 11/13/20 1:20 AM u scared? Talk.

MaRverickl 11/13/20 1:23 AM Yes... who am I. Funny you ask because you seem to know more about me than I do. Apparently, I’m a freak. At least, that’s what you’d have the entire fucking cam­ pus of McGill believe. I could sue your ass so fast you wouldn’t know what hit you. sadru 11/13/20 1:24 AM hmm.. .give me a minute to change my soiled pants.

MaRverickl 11/13/20 1:25 AM I’m not playing games you pompass jackass. You’re gonna pay for your blatant misrepresentation of

my personal being. You’ve got libellous fraud written all over you, so you can shove your bluntside heelflips and your evil temptresses up your ass. sadru 11/13/20 1:26 AM marvin, is that you???

MaRverickl 11/13/20 1:28 AM What happened to Dweezel, jack­ ass. sadru 11/13/20 1:31 AM O marvin! Omuddy marvin!

H a v e y o u s e e n this m a n ?

praise’a’lord our boy’s come home, listen up everyone, marvin’s back! (family hurrah) O my muddy mar­ vin, give your momma a kiss you sexy boy! sadru 11/13/20 1:50 AM ok bye then At this point, Digital Culture was still a little sceptical that we were, in fact, communicating with the true “Marvin”. We thought it was a silly gag being initiated by un-friends of the Tribune. The saga, however, did not end with that exchange. A couple days later, we called up his mom to ascertain if Marvin had made contact with her yet. She informed us that she had just received an email from him, and that he was doing fine. It did strike her as odd, however, that he signed the message: “sincerely, MarVerick” But, she also pointed out that no one every accused Marvin “of

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being like all the other boys. You know, normal.” So she wasn’t too concerned.

We, on the other hand, were.

Mostly because, after reviewing the previous ICQ transcript, we came off as pretty rude and callous (But what the hell! We didn’t know it was really him.) Desperately, we tried to appease this frightened and hurt gamer on the lam. After a few false starts, we finally got him to respond: sadru 11/17/20 2:45 AM marvin, please don’t ignore, every­ one here is sorry about what hap­ pened, especially me.

MaRverickl 11/17/20 2:55 AM Oh? And why would that be? Is it because you connived me into a stupid experiment? Is it that you portrayed me like a damn fool who should be rendered several strong prescriptions, or is it that you bla­ tantly invaded my personal space?

You phoned my mother for chrissake! Then you fuckin insult me with this “Muddy Marv” bullshit.

Do you ever seek the truth or is it whatever is most entertaining for your pea-brain? sadrull/17/20 2:59 AM ouch ! sadru 11/17/20 3:00 AM you know what, you’re right mar­ vin. in many ways, what has gone on is really unfair to you. for that i apologise, i didn’t realise the pos­ sibility for harm, and with regards to the muddy marvin stuff, i’m sure she was lying, i can’t believe that i actually believed her! (im a suck­ er).

MaRverickl 11/17/20 3:06 AM And... sadru 11/17/20 3:08 AM and...you’re smart, and I’m stupid.

MaRverickl 11/17/20 3:10 AM And... sadru 11/17/20 3:11AM and you’re a good looking guy whereas I am very ugly, also, I smell. sadru 1/17/203:15 AM (listen, we could go on about me, but we already determined that I suck, where are you? what has happened to you? what have you been doing for the past month?

Seriously, I’m interested.)

MaRverickl 11/17/20 3:16 AM Ya, I’ll bet your interested. What makes you think I have anything more to say to you? sadru 11/17/20 3:18 AM come on marvin, let me into your privileged world

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MaRverickl 11/17/20 3:25 AM Fuck off.

MaRverickl 11/17/20 4:17 AM http://maniac.deathstar.org/~ucon/ Fuck off still.

This was the end of the trans­ mission. We checked out the URL address, and it appears to be the homepage of a gaming convention that was held in Ann Arbor, M ichigan this past weekend.

We’re trying to contact him. This could be good.

Check out the October 11 edi­ tion of Digital Culture,www.tribune.mcgill.ca, to see why Marvin is so pissed.

Eat veggies Continued from Page 11 changing agricultural practices; moreover, McGill can contribute to implementing change by mak­ ing more ‘ethical’ food deci­ sions, starting with cafeteria menus.

“They could actually pro­ vide better types of food and more whole food, instead of just fast food. They should provide a vegan option. It’s not hard to bake things without milk and eggs in them but I can’t imagine that happening,” states Young.

She is not alone in her belief that McGill is capable of making changes to aid contributing to the vegan cause.

Farrell believes that the uni­ versity should establish an orga­ nization that focuses upon improving the global environ­ ment — presently there is only Greening McGill, and it restricts its focus to the campus’ environ­ ment. She also feels that the Faculty of A gricultural and Environmental Sciences should shift their concentration from the classic schooling of nutrition, which is still very much based on the four food groups, to the benefits of a vegan diet.

“Half of the food groups are meat and dairy. This is very out­ dated and the data was funded by the meat and dairy industries.

It’s just very warped and I think that many dieticians are coming into the world with this still in their minds." protests Farrell.

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The Master of Suspense is in town "Hitchcock and Art" opens in the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts

By Stephanie Kwoo Think of filmmakers that have changed the look of cinem a forever.

Think Lucas? Think Spielberg?

Think Hitchcock.

Why would he matter now?

The movie industry is all about computer generated effects and digitization anyway. How can he compare to the universe of Luke Skywalker or the flying E.T.?

Hitchcock, before all the com­ puter gizmos, could already scare and thrill the audience. His films have fascinated moviegoers for generations and inspire waves after waves of filmmakers to uphold the motto, “movie is magic.” Each year, there is always that one cul­ tural event somewhere in the world held in honor of his work. In Montreal, it is the opening of the exhibit “Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences” at the Fine Arts Museum that once again proves the prestige of the much celebrated director.

them atic experim ent, where he formed many of the ties that shaped his later work. Hitchcock landed in Hollywood in 1940, with Rebecca.

The Magic of Hitchcock S h h ! H itch co ck 's th in k in g

Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) began making movies in the 1920’s after he left Britain for Germany.

The first movie that brought him a taste of fame was The Lodger (1927), a story based on the infa­ mous Jack the Ripper. His time in Germany was a time for artistic and

His twisted sense of humor resulted in films such as Rope (1948) and Strangers on a Train (1951), where the m atter of life and death becomes trivial and murder, an art to master.

To audiences 50 years ago, Hitchcock’s movies symbolized

excitement and suspense, what cul­ tural theorists would later term “the cinema of attraction.” Hitchcock entered into his creative peak and artistic maturity in the mid-1950s. His work displayed a definite sense of style achieved through elaborate setting and elegant yet innovative cinematography.

T hem atically, he was very consistent - an icy blond, and the tortured male protagonist who patronizes her, both in search of a truth that can only be found deep within the human psyche.

His most acclaimed works were pro­ duced in this period: Rear Window (1954), Vertigo (1958), North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960).

Professor Internet shot Trevor Ponech, who taught a class on Hitchcock three years ago, believes that the power of Hitchcock comes from his rich visual imagination. Hitchcock was an auteur because, despite the col­ lective effort involved in producing a film, his aesthetic style and vision was still able to shine through.

He was a visual storyteller this exhibit will indubitably spark who effectively and ingeniously up some unforgettable memories of juxtaposed images to establish a his films while fans of traditional narrative. In many ways, he art can enjoy the many paintings. assumed the same role as a painter, As Professor Christine Ross, chair who, before any stroke, hits the of the Art History departm ent, canvas, has the completed work in explains, this exhibit can help us to his mind. Professor Ponech further ^realize that more and more, the tra­ stresses that there is a similarity ditional art form and movies are no between watching H itchcock’s longer two separate discourses films and looking at a painting: the since paintings and films draw ref­ texture, color and lighting are all erences from each other and move basic visual aesthetics that could be each other into new directions. “[One of the objectives of the uncovered in his work. exhibit] is to reveal the growing dialogue between paintings and "Hitchcock and Art" film, and how they have influenced each other. How they are perhaps C ontaining more than 600 more exposed right now to some items, with some 200 pieces of art­ sort of a hybrid form,” she said. work from the 19th- and 20th cen­ This exhibit, running until tury and 300 cinema documents, March 18th, is worth a look if you the design of this exhibit is an have the slightest interest in art or attempt to mingle the more tradi­ film. W orkshops, lectures, and tional art forms with modem visual screenings of Hitchcock’s fifty-five arts created by Alfred Hitchcock. films will run in conjunction with This exhibit aims to enhance the the exhibit, most of them free of experience of looking at the paint­ charge. If you want to buff up your ings and Hitchcock’s works, allow­ Hitchcock database, now is the per­ ing room for fresh insights into isfeet opportunity. both. The different display rooms hold film props, promotional stills, The exhibition hours are personal photos, film stills, paint­ Tuesday to Sunday, I lam to 6pm ings, posters, storyboards, as well (Wednesday till 9pm). Admission as film sets (The jungle gym in The fee $6 for students. For further Birds and the m otel room in inquiries, you can contact the Psycho). The first display room, museum at (514) 285-1600 or showered with dramatic lighting check out its website at and haunting film score, transports www. mmfa. qu. ca you right into the center of Hitchcock’s cinematic world of make-believe. For Hitchcock fans,

Talking about a revolution? Meet Holly Cole The famous Canadian jazz songstress on drums and fans in Japan

By Sara C ornett Everyone rebels in their own way. Some become gogo dancers, some writers, some revolutionar­ ies— and some become jazz singers. Such is the story of acclaimed Canadian jazz singer, Holly Cole.

Cole grew up in a family of classical musicians in Nova Scotia.

When her educated ears discovered the radical interpretive abilities of the likes of Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holliday, she was blown away. In jazz, she found the same musical complexity and sophistica­ tion of classical, but with an added element of intimacy, freedom and

what she finds to be the most com­ pelling aspect of the genre: “It sounded bad.” C ole’s spirit of rebellion found its home.

Cole spends a lot of time and energy on the road, doing what she likes best: perform ing. “Its my lifeblood,” she says. Singing is her first love, but Cole revealed to me her adulterous devotion to drums.

“My living room used to be a really nice room, with a fireplace and art, and now its a huge drum room. I miss my drums more than anything when I’m on the road. If someone broke in and stole my big screen T.V., I couldn’t care less, but if someone came and took my drums, I would be devastated.”

Ever the non-conformist, she started playing drums in music school.

“I don’t think they thought it was lady-like, so that was fuel for my fire.” While her singing under­ goes incessant scrutiny, drumming has become her own thing.

“It’s so much fun and the cool thing about it is that I could suck for my whole life, but no one

would care except me. They’re my most prized possession. They’re my source of freedom and creativi­ ty. I mean apart from singing.”

Apparently while touring, Cole is now the one to play the drums dur­ ing soundchecks.

In keeping with her unlikely penchant for the drums, Cole also has a country band called Half Jaw. She came up with the idea of creat­ ing a band, composed of already great musicians, under the condi­ tion that none of them can play the instrum ent that they know. So, none are very good at their instru­ ment, but all are musical. “It's an exercise in humility,” says Cole.

They rehearse and perform at her house for friends and family. Cole hopes the band will remain lowkey.

Cole’s best friend is her elder brother Allen Cole. When she was sixteen, she joined him at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has been a huge influence on Cole musically and otherwise. As well as playing with his sister in the Half Jaw band, Allen is a success­

ful composer of theater music.

Cole’s fanbase is largely con­ centrated in Japan—in fact, she has more fans there than in Canada.

When asked why she thought the Japanese liked her so much she said, “Right away, they seem to understand and like the concept of taking jazz music and fusing it with a whole bunch of other kinds of music.” She also believes that the Japanese have less preconceived ideas about music. “They do not need categories, as in ‘Is this coun­ try? Is this rock? Is this folk?”’

Holly Cole has done 16 tours in Japan and her sales are big.

Initially, Toshiba EMI had turned down Cole’s music, but by pure chance, a Japanese DJ heard her album at a listening post in an import store and liked it so much, he bought the album and played it on his show. The radio was flooded with calls and within the course of a few weeks, the song ‘Calling you’ became a hit single while there still was no record to be found in the country. 10,000

records were sold on import, flood­ ing in from the US. The Japanese record company had to summon their courage and swallow their pride to call Cole back asking to release her album in Japan. It became the number one selling record on that label that year.

“That’s kinda a good story. To me, it gives me faith in the notion that something like that can hap­ pen— that it has nothing to do with the hype factor, but it has all to do with people getting to listen to it and liking it and then creating the thing on their own.” Cole said.

In Canada, women form the m ajority of her audience. Cole thinks it’s because they view her as an anomaly.

“A lot of women come to the shows and I think they are interest­ ed in someone doing something that is both elegant, but really inde­ pendent and individual.”

The quirky siren struts her stuff at Place des Arts Nov. 22nd

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Your guide to Montreal nightlife trademark name conveys a particu­ But this place isn’t entirely lar image to people, and companies different than what’s suggested by use that image to sell a product or the telly, and it can also be quite place to a potential target audience. fun. The TV show and its fran­ The im plications of the name chised Montreal “incarnation” have Jennifer T ra w in sk i “Cheers” - a friendly local tavern - pool tables and the same catchy all me a staunch idealist. make the chaotic, three-level theme song (which plays at Bill Between Nick-at-Nite and Mackay Street franchise something Edwards’ closing time). And both are really good places to “pick up.” post-prime-time-program­ of an anomaly.

The significant discrepancies Sammy hit on every chick who ming, my developm ental years were heavily influenced by reruns betw een the TV show and its came into his little bar; at Montreal of Donna Reed, Mr. Ed, Car 54, downtown namesake -the devia­ Cheers, which has a swarming Bewitched, the Brady Bunch, tions of reality from expectation - abundance of hormonally raging Murphy Brown, and Cheers (to are rooted in bar population, atti­ young adults and a complementary name a few). Every night at 11 PM tudes of employers and clientele, atmosphere, he’d go nuts.

The downtown bar’s ample E.S.T. for at least a couple years, and general bar setup. Fictional I’d perch myself on the living room Cheers always had its consistent space and dance floor (which couch and share in the happenings core group of m iddle-aged pumps those jams you’re too cool of that place “where everybody B ostonians and a few extras; to ever admit you love) render it a knows your name” - and heck, I Montreal Cheers continually packs great place to shake your booty itself to the max with an ever- and maybe even get a little action always WAS glad I came.

W itnessing the developing changing composition of university in the process.

Thanks to its lively atm os­ lovelife of Sam Malone (from male students and visitors from below phere and pool tables, Cheers can slut to Diane to Rebecca), hearing the border.

At TV Cheers, Sammy knew be a great university bar: think Peel mailman C liff C laven’s stories about his mom, and seeing Frasier everybody’s name, story, and drink Pub’s unrestrained fun crossed pre-spinoff and Woody before he’d of choice; in M ontreal, you’re with Winston Churchill’s degree of ever dream of being a “Natural lucky to catch the b artender’s “class” and cheesy pickup lines.

Born Killer” never failed to make attention, which isn’t so much of a Although a shared name can ’t travesty as is the inflated price equate a jam-packed mega-bar with my night.

So why is it, then, that the sup­ you’ll pay for your beverage. And a fictional after-work tavern, and posed “real thing” - Bill Edwards’ at Bill Edwards’ Cheers, there are even though Bill Edwards’ Cheers Cheers on Mackay Street - rarely [ bouncers willing to make you wait sure ain’t worth a three-hour wait leaves me with that same warm out in the snow for three hours to or risk of frostbite, it does prove feeling I got from the TV show at get in (this happened to me last St. what most developed countries Patrick’s Day) - somehow I doubt have known for ages: the effects of the tender age of ten?

Obviously TV and reality are that this sort of thing would have unbridled capitalist commercialism can be hedonistically fun. separate spheres of life. But a happened on the TV series.

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Timely irony First explodes the truth of new millenium

By D rew Halfnight

so ciety ’s façade of m orality.

Marriages are broken, love is trivi­ alized, babies are priced, and sisters betray one another. Each couple maintains a front of affluence, but secretly plummets into financial trouble. The spirit of Christmas is made laughable, as one wife sym­ bolically packs away the Yuletide decorations. A massive painting hangs above the hearth, depicting two naked, haloed individuals caught in the act. Light, jazzy music ushers characters on and off of the stage, a comic contradiction to the dark storyline. Fishbane, as director, uses every available device to convey the underlying corruption of superficial virtue.

This premiering of First show­ cases an excellent cast of young Canadian talent. Shawn Baichoo, as the phallic pool cue-wielding Steve, was fantastic. His wife Juliet was played with brio by McGillian Maggie MacWhirter, who will appear next in Fishbane’s Rhapsody in Paris at the Tuesday Night Café. Lauren Waisbren, was

The play: F irst. The w riter/director: up-and-coming author Joel Fishbane of Montreal.

The verdict: $$$$$.

The actors shuffled onto the stage in darkness, found their places, and opened with this line: “December 31, 1999. Where were you when the clock struck mid­ night?”

In shock, I realized I couldn’t recollect that supposedly historic and much-anticipated eve.

Joel Fishbane’s brand-new play, which runs until November 26 at the McGill Player’s Theatre, is full of defeated expectations and sordid secrecies.

It exposes the fanatical pomp, novelty, and global excitement sur­ rounding Y2K for what it truly was: a commercialized sham, and an absolutely forgettable anti-cli­ max. If nothing else, this play jus­ tified my shitty New Years’. Of course, unlike Y2Krappy, First exceeds the critic’s expectations.

With well-cast actors, a mostly unified and sym bolic set, snappy dia­ logue, an appro­ priately cheery soundtrack of jazz, and an allegoric story­ line, this play is far from am a­ teur. Fishbane is certainly one to watch on the Canadian the­ atrical scene.

In this play, inspired by the procre­ ative frenzy in April ’99, when lovers vied for their fifteen minutes as ‘blessed parents of the millenni­ um baby’, three couples wager $3 m illion on who will have the first baby after Y2K. Such a whole­ n /Co O v a l some, heart­ D e c k th e h a lls w ith b o u g h s o f m o n e y in First warming premise, isn’t it? The plot twists and thickens but, as might be com pelling as Fiona, and Ian expected, eventually stumbles into Young nailed the typed yuppie doc­ a mire of greed and infidelity. tor, Erickson, with dollar signs for Apart from its amusing, pupils. Overall, a very impressive explicit meaning, First also pre­ cast. sents a broad, critical look at First is playing at the McGill Western culture (or lack thereof) at Players’ Theatre in Shatner, and the turn of this century. Fishbane tickets are available at the door. paints a bleak picture of our (permit The play is brand spanking new, me to speak for all of us) money- thus “a hard animal to find these driven generation’s aspirations and days”, as Fishbane puts it. True values; not only is the picture enough. There’s something special grave, but painful in its self-reflex- about witnessing theatre at its ini­ ivity. tial unveiling; an atm osphere In this light, First is themati­ buzzing with expectation and cally reminiscent of Yeats’ The uncertainty.

Second Coming, which describes a Admission is an easy $5, a similarly dismal scene at the turn of great deal for well-written novelty the last century. such as this. See it anytime from By juxtaposing treasured now ‘til November 26, before the Western ideals with a perverse real­ animal is extinct. Ha! ity, Fishbane de-constructs our

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Ten things I hate about movies Anewskinforthe oldcerem ony C h ris

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or this week’s column, I'll try to descend from my pedestal of cultural pretension and attempt to write about something a little more mainstream: movies.

So let me ask you, Have you seen any good ones lately? I haven’t. In fact, I don’t think I’ve seen a good movie this whole year.

People who know me would warn you that my personal taste is skewed and that I like far fewer movies than I hate1. In fact, my roommate, who loves every single movie he sees, no matter how bad

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it is2 would go so far as to tell you to im m ediately disregard any advice I give w/r/t movies.

But I’m trying to be a little more objective here. A brief survey of the people in the room where I currently find myself reveals that nobody can think of a new movie that they’ve seen this year that they would describe as "good"3. Some people, including this illustrious paper’s very own editor-in-chief, pointed out that how could they see a good movie if they haven’t seen any movies at all since who can possibly afford to see a movie for 12 fucking dollars.

Sorry. My point is that there hasn’t been even a single movie that stands out as being even of

1A bit of reference w/r/t my personal taste: Here is a list of movies that I didn t like: “F ig h t C lu b " "The S ix th S en se" "F orrest G u m p " "H igh F id e lity " "B lair W itch Project". Here is a list of movies that I did (and do) like "The Spanish Prisoner" "The C radle W ill R ock" "The Game".

-Seriously. It’s sort of a joke among our friends: this friend liked "She’s a ll That"

So fine. Hollywood's favourite high quality this year, nevermind very or extremely high quality. So: movies are those that will make them the most money with the least why?

OK listen, if this comes as a amount of risk. This is a fine busi­ surprise to you, maybe you need a ness strategy, but a horrible cre­ refresher course in The Way that ative one. Admittedly, good movies Our Society is Com pletely and do end up getting made: sometimes Totally Dominated by Capitalism people can't deny the quality of a in Every Way, but the compelling film, even though it may be uncon­ motive behind the world's biggest4 ventional. Again nothing new here. creativity factory (i.e. Hollywood) Hollywood sucks, get a helmet.

So why is is that this year, isn't creativity. It's profit. So look at this: except for unexplainable things seem to be so much more mistakes like "Blair W itch” the bleak than in the past? Nothing's movies which are the most success­ changed in Hollywood: the same ful, monetarily, are the movies that methods are being followed, the stick to the formula: they cost a lot same second-rate movies are being of money, they have lots of a) produced, but for some reason, explosions, b) sex and c) bankable j there don't seem to be any first-rate ones slipping through the cracks. stars.5

and "V arsity Blues" and "Ten Things I H ate about you"* ♦Actually, I sort of liked that, too.

'Except "C h a rlie’s Angels" but that’s not the ‘good’ that I mean.

4In terms of influence, accessibility, pervasiveness and whatnot.

5Incidentally, has anyone besides me (and David Foster Wallace, in W aterstone's

Poet-musician Dan Bern unites the generation

M agazine , spring 1998) noticed the similarity between the movies which most suc­

cessfully adhere to this formula and video pornography? The weak plots? The card­ board acting and wooden dialogue? The repeated, tumescent set pieces building up to climactic money shots?

6Thanks to movies like “A m erican B e a u ty”, ‘M a g n o lia ”, et al.

Take the A-Train to Pennsylvania 6-5000

By A dam Kaufman

By D ale W atson

W o u ld y o u ta k e h is p a n ts d o w n ? B e rn sm ile s

shirt and jeans, he looked more like a high school jock than a poet. To the swooning crowd’s satisfaction, he snarled out “Aliens came and fucked the monkey!” a lyric from ‘No Missing Link’ The free spirited, electric Bern refused to hold back. During “Talkin, woody, bob, bruce & dan blues” off his most recent double disk Smartie Mine, Bern stopped the song mid way to the complete shock of the crowd. “My pants are falling down” he said as he let them fall to the floor. Bern pro­ voked the crowd: “Now everybody take off an article of clothing.”

The free spirited Montreal crowd soon littered the stage with an array of tank tops, bras and assorted under garments.

Bern proved his lyrical domi­ nance with a stirring rendition of ‘Jeru salem ’ off his self-titled album . “I am the m essiah,” preached Bern as topless women ruled the dance floor. Indeed, for this urban paradise, he was.

When I caught up with Bern

I don’t have an explanation for this phenomenon. Another, more cinematically high-minded one of my room ates suggests that Hollywood has just discovered6 that people may actually want to see movies which adhere to some sort of quality standard, and since it takes time to make movies, the m ovies based on this new improved formula won’t be avail­ able until next year.

Of course, this fails to take all the quality movies of the past cen­ tury into account, but the editorial staff of this paper kicked me off the computer before I could do a good job of finishing this column, so that’s the best explanation you’re going to get.

McGill's Big Band II shines at Pollack

M e s s ia h in B rie fs “If you must put me in a box, make it a big box,” proclaimed Dan Bern to an eclectic audience at Café Campus on the evening of Monday night, November 13.

Energized students searching for a voice for their generation romped their way across the dance floor. Their gray-bearded counter­ parts of that last rebellious genera­ tion looked on with a sense of nos­ talgia as they hid behind pitchers of beer.

Bern, who at the start of his career was labeled as the ‘next Dylan, Guthrie, or Springsteen’, has moved further away from his influences by creating his own original style. With an un-refined voice, Bern, who hails from Mt.Vernon, Iowa (a small town in the mid-western United States) car­ ries on the art form of the talking blues while fusing aspects of punk, funk, and blues music. With his 4 piece band (keyboard, guitar, drums, and bass), Bern completely rocked the packed Prince Arthur bar for an outrageous four hour set.

Bern, 41, is working on a new album set to come out sometime next year. Form erly on the Sony/Work label, he is currently in search of a new recording contract.

On this, the 15th show of his tour, Bern told the audience at the outset that he had-“seen enough of the Buffaloes of the world”.

“This is going to be the best band you have ever seen! A com­ bination of all the greats,: Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, and Woody Guthrie all in one.” he announced.

His prediction wasn’t too far off as the band launched into an energized version of ‘Tiger Woods’ off his second CD, Fifty Eggs.

The crowd (which had now moved from their comfy coffee tables to the dance floor) was in a state of complete mayhem. The lights shone down hard on a bare footed Bern. Wearing a cut off t­

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after the show he seemed to have a determined outlook on his song writing.

“There is a part of all of us that is conservative, looking to the past, and there is a part of us that is radical and wants change,” he said.

“I’m trying to create a balance between these two parts in my songs. When I think about my songs I don’t think of them as per­ sonal or political because the two become intertwined. There is the ‘inner’ or soul of my music ( my thoughts and em otions ); then there is the ‘outer’, the things that are happening all around me, pop culture and stuff in the news.”

“Sarcasm and irony function as the grease of civilization, the thing that makes this all run sm oothly. I want to touch on everything, never stop learning and do it better every night. Whatever someone thinks or does as a result of my m usic, th a t’s their own song.”

In traditional M cG ill jazz fashion, McGill’s Big Band II’s w inter concert in Pollack Hall started fashionably late last Wednesday night.

The band, led by esteemed jazz trumpet player and conductor Ron DiLauro, did not disappoint.

The program started with a classic big band tune Fun Tim e, by Sammy Nestico.

Right off the bat, the audience was treated to red-hot swing. The band was tight and the blend was great. A notable performance by lead trum pet player C hristian Morissette highlighted the evening.

The stylish and creative arrangements of pianist Josh Rager was also a pleasant surprise. Rager arranged two pieces for the con­ cert, his own ‘Phoenix’ and an interpretation of jazz classic Israel.

His talent is evident as the tunes both showed great development and hip layering throughout the sections. ‘Phoenix’ also featured the harmonic stylings of tenor sax­ ophone player Jeremiah McDade.

This fourth year jazz performance student was a real standout all night long, wowing the crowd with great displays of his technical skills and improv chops.

The program continued in typ­ ical Ron DiLauro fashion, with a L atin/sam ba tune: ‘Southern California Sam ba’, which con­ tained an incredibly tight a cappel­ la section. What concert could be complete without the Tom Kubis number ‘Who Can I Turn T o’?

Mixed into the first set were some classic moments as well as more great solos from the aforem en­ tioned McDade.

The second set opened with the w ildest, and perhaps most entertaining tune of the night, ‘Nasty D ance’, featuring (who else?) McDade. Here he was given more of an opportunity to experi­ ment and play some tasty licks, again putting in an amazing perfor­

mance.

This number was invigorating as it seemed to come in waves of sound and energy. At times the band pounded on aural senses with loud hits and crazy m asses of group improv, while at other times it carried a pleasant, flowing tune.

The second set also featured two vocal charts, sung by second year music student Bohdanna Novak. It’s always great to hear vocal Big Band charts, and Bohdanna put on an impressive and energetic perform ance.

Though I typically like more diver­ sity when hearing jazz vocal tunes, both ‘You Made Me Love You’ and ‘Bye Bye Baby’, came off with a great am ount of energy and excitement. If they had been per­ formed anywhere but Pollack Hall, the crowd would have been clap­ ping and singing along.

Finally, what Ron DiLauro concert w ouldn’t be com plete without a Matt Catingub tune? The final num ber was called Blooszball, and gave us a chance to hear all the players. However, drum m er Jonathan M cCaslin turned in one of the highlights of the night with an innovative and inspiring drum solo that had both audience and band members smil­ ing. After the concert, DiLauro said that he really likes to push his band, because he knows what great potential they have. Choosing tough pieces that are full of techni­ cal and stylistic challenges, it keeps the band on their toes.

When asked about Jeremiah’s numerous solos, and the hard work the great sax player put in, Ron responded that he didn’t realize until all the tunes were played back to back that the tenor player had so much work to do that night.

For those o f you who missed it, the concert was recorded and w ill be available in the M usic library in the coming weeks. Big Band IFs next concert is March 28, 2001 at Pollack Flail.

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Do it a capella

Y u k k in g it u p a n d k ick in g b a c k w ith T o n a l E c sta sy

By B en H unt The ringing of a cellphone is perhaps the most annoying sound in the world. When it is your cell­ phone that tears through the harmo­ nious fabric of a musical perfor­

mance being enjoyed by 200 peo­ ple, you can be certain y o u ’re going to pay dearly. Fortunately for you, your name is Ilan Muskat and you are a member of Tonal Ecstasy, the performers in ques­ tion. To the delighted relief of the

audience at A One Note Stand last Friday night, the ringing of the phone turned out to be a segue into one of the several comic interludes during Tonal Ecstasy's extravagan­ za at the Birks building chapel.

The bill was shared with Effusion, another a cappella group. Both groups managed to squeeze some damn fine music around the jokes.

Tonal Ecstasy is the first a cappella group at McGill and was founded in 1998 by Felicity Amos.

They are talented enough to have influenced the creation of other a cappella groups around McGill, including their opening act, the grey-and-black clad Effusion.

Regardless of their staid attire, Effusion hummed, oohed and crooned tunes that enticed even the most sombre folks to throw their hands in the air. A smooth rendi­ tion of the Bee Gees' 'Flow Deep is

King Crimson's romance with Montreal continues V e n e ra b le b a n d still vita l a fter 3 1 years

Continued on Page 21 B y D avid Schipper King Crimson, scheduled to play at Metropolis this Thursday, will wow if their performance is anything like their intelligent and powerful show at Theatre St. Denis in the spring of 1995.

The group now consists of founder Robert Fripp on guitar, singer-guitarist Adrian Belew and because bassist Tony Levin and drummer Bill Bruford are on tempo­ rary hiatus to work on other projects, bassist/guitarist Trey Gunn, and elec­ tronic percussionist Pat Mastelotto.

King Crimson has gone through

myriad incarna­ tions over the years, and has worked assiduous­ ly to shed the “pro­ gressive rock” label that has dogged them in the past. They have largely succeeded with their trio of 1980s albums, and their extensive discography of the last six years, including 1995’s spellbinding Thrnk.

Their most recent studio album is The ConstruKction o f Light.

Fripp has relaxed his dictum that there be no songs before 1994 in the setlist, as was the case during the four Nashville warm-up concerts in May. Those concerts were ferocious­ ly and tightly played in an intimate setting.

There will be songs like 1974’s “Red” and a healthy dose of the 1980s repertoire on Thursday. Also, as is their wont, the band will most likely play an improvisatory piece. If you decide to attend the show or if you already have tickets, arrive early.

The showtime is 8:00 but King Crimson are notorious for surprises.

Hip Hop Fest One Stage and Many Voices BSN presents Polyphony Live 2000 at Gerts B y R icky C. G ordon

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Floors of Fun for only $ 4

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ShatnerBuilding. 3480McTavish Drivesafe will be available from 12-3 For more information, contact Mark Chodos. ce@ssmu.mcgill.ca

McGill representative for the 2000 edition, and she will be keeping up M cG ill’s Black S tu d en ts’ the tradition of dub poetry.

Network will be showcasing an Polyphony Live 2000 will clearly event in celebration of the Hip hop be a means of opening doors for culture in M ontreal Saturday, local Hip hop acts to shine.

November 25th. It promises to be The local main acts consist of a time of linking all lovers of Hip Buttababees, JJ Rock, Motion, hop from within the community to M ystical, D iam ante and Phily McGill on common ground.

Damas. The Buttababees clique is Polyphony Live began two made up of the dynamic duo of years ago when BSN members Manchilde and Ziplok. They have Karen Richardson and Yvonne a reputation as rappers who politic Botchey decided to put on a poetic about issues of today and issues event focusing on the major themes pertaining to black history here in of the network, ranging from the Montreal. They aim to make you socio-political to the educational. not only bop your head, but under­ Karen Richardson commented on stand their underlining message of polyphony as being a musical tex­ equality and self-empowerment. ture that incorporate the jarring of You can hear them on CKUT 90.3 melodies to produce a harmonic on Sundays at 11PM (II Groove Garden). overtone.

“The title of Polyphony was McGill Hip hop heads will be seen as an appropriate means to able to em brace the visionary express the ideals of BSN through process at work without leaving the a multiplicity of ideas,” she said. confines of the campus. This is a “Poetry was the centerpiece for the unique opportunity for like-minded first two years, and last year was individuals to come check out a very progressive as Hip hop fol­ portion of Montreal’s Hip hop cul­ lowers from within the community ture at Gerts. came out to support the show. We had an equal amount of acts from For all interested parties McGill and from within the com­ on and off campus Adm: 6$ munity. This support was the rea­ son why we decided to give Hip 9 PM @ Certs hop focal attention.”

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Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You while The Love Talker questions contemporary issues

By A mira R ichler If you’re a devout lover of the institutional Catholic Church, stop reading immediately.

It would be easy to perceive Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You, a dark comedy directed by Kate Hahnen and presented by the Tuesday Night Café Theatre, as downright offensive. When the play (w ritten by C hristopher Durang) was released during the early 1980’s, many Catholic groups attempted to prevent its appearance onstage, assaulting it as controver­ sial and anti-Catholic.

U nder the guise of bleak satire, the play manages to address a number of very serious issues regarding the nature of church dogma. The crisis of faith that has plagued the West during the mod­ ern era is blatantly referred to, as Catholic practices and beliefs that have been faithlessly adhered to since time immemorial are con­ stantly questioned.

The comedy revolves around the authoritative yet humorously configured Sister Mary (Melissa Thingelstad), who conducts a dis­ cussion about the details of C atholicism . As S ister Mary munches on cookies, she asks sig­ nificant questions for which simple answers are offered. The implica­ tion is clear: as long as we keep the sacram ents and obey the Ten Commandments, we are insured eternal bliss and a place in heaven.

Of course, if we murder, commit

adultery, engage in homosexual activity, or masturbate, we will be

Conception and crucifixion. Even the V irgin Mary questions her son’s godlike status: “Do you think maybe the Holy Ghost isn’t his father?”

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sent straight to hell.

According to Sister Mary, G-d has a special reason for allowing tragic things to happen to good people.

We soon discover that Sister Mary’s teachings have had serious repercussions when several of her former students put on a play that mocks C h rist’s Im m aculate

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church’s rigid attachment to doctrine is most rigorous­ ly attacked when the stu­ dents present the nun with controversial issues that affect their lives. Not only does Sister Mary rep ri­ mand Diane as a murderer in a state of mor­ tal sin for hav­ ing no ch il­ dren and two abortions, she Icnny George rebukes Gary for being a hom osexual .and Philomena for committing adultery.

Ironically, she excuses Aloysius for beating his wife.

It becomes clear that the church’s infallibility and simplistic responses to serious concerns is no longer acceptable. Diane confronts the nun with the fact that she lost faith in the church when forced to

endure her mother’s illness and her own rape. She wonders why God would allow her to suffer to such an extent, and is angry with Sister Mary for encouraging her to believe in an orderly world that m akes sense. The church is exposed as hypocritical and inca­ pable of listening to the legitimate concerns of its followers.

It felt strangely sacrilegious to enjoy this satire. I suppose that in itself might be a testimony to the power the institutional church still holds over the W estern world, however much it may be mocked and held accountable for itself.

The Love Talker Deborah P ry o r’s The Love Talker, directed by Heidi Rosbe and Evelyn Orenstein, is a dark fairytale that combines elements of fantasy and reality . C entered around a quaint home located in a rustic forest in the Southern United States, the play at once assumes a deliciously timeless quality.

A large part o f the perfor­ mance’s success lies in the tension that m anifests its e lf onstage between the actors. Bun (Heather Peters) is overprotective of her younger fourteen-year old sister, Gowdie (liana Zarankin). Whereas Bun constantly stresses the impor­ tance of keeping o n e’s mind ordered, Gowdie is much more reckless. She lives in the magical universe of the supernatural, where events transpire that cannot neces-

sarily be explained by logic and reason.

The safety and peace of the small family is threatened when Gowdie realizes Bun’s fears and extends beyond the confines of the home into the potentially danger­ ous and sexually explosive world o f the forest. It is here that she meets the Love Talker (Grant Spurling), a spirit that thirsts after her with insatiable lust. Once Gowdie encounters the Love Talker, she is forever tainted and tempted by her awakened passion.

Bun’s attempts to tame her chaotic and disorderly sister are futile. Her superstitious endeavors to shield their home with charms from the Love Talker and his spirit aid, the Red Head (Kristy Munro), similarly prove unsuccessful.

One of the most interesting elements of “The Love Talker” is that the seduction comes from a male (an entertaining contemporary twist). Generally, it is the females in literature, theatre, and film that tempt men into a state of sin. In this play, however, the Love Talker is the one who entices Gowdie to eat the apple. This strange sexual being is coded as a transgressive and foreign element. What roots this play in its contemporary period is the fact that the “devil” is never exorcised (as Bun desires).

Ultimately, the fairytale celebrates disorder and sexual freedom over superstition, order, and sexual repression.

The Deftones redefine heavy music in Verdun Progressive set mesmerizes an unlikely crowd Cunningham) first exploded onto the scene with 1995’s Adrenaline, Rem em ber that Sim pson’s an aptly-titled record of heavily episode where Chief Wiggum is distorted métal which saw Chino taking Bart on a late night cruise of alternating from an oddly compas­ Springfield’s streets and, looking at sionate whine to an unparalleled the riffraff walking by, he says scream. The record got them a something like, “Oh man, they only loyal following as well as many come out at night”? Well, he was at comparisons to Korn.

They then began to switch least half-right. They only come out at night, but they also only tend gears, adding turntablist Frank to come out when the music calls Delgado to the fold. The next record, 1998’s Around the Fur, was for them. Really, really loudly.

The usual grouping of angry- a far better display of what the looking CEGEP kids, shirtless band was capable of, taking many skinheads, assorted freaks and of the heavier aspects of stoners, and, uh, my friends and 1 Adrenaline but displaying some packed into the Verdun Auditorium true song-writing prowess as well, to see the Deftones last Tuesday particularly on the subdued ballad night, as they made their tri­ ‘Mascara’ and their ode to spiritual umphant return to Montreal for the empowerment ‘Headup.’ And then, first time since their legendary as you may be aware, things began M etropolis gig in November of to get a little strange in the indus­ try, as some MTV or record label 1998.

It should be noted, of course, executive somewhere decided that that the m usical landscape has WHITE GUYS WHO THINK changed considerably since then, THEY CAN RAP IS THE NEXT and that the Deftones have not BIG THING, BABY! Korn sucks, but they exploded exactly taken the easy road to suc­ cess, even though such a path cer­ in popularity anyway. Limp Bizkit tainly opened itself up to them. The is even worse, and consequently Deftones (singer Chino Moreno, got even bigger. Everyone seemed guitarist Stef Carpenter, bassist Chi to assume that the Deftones would Cheng, and drum m er Abe be next, due to their early connec­ tions with those bands (despite the

By Peter Koven

fact that they’re neither Caucasian nor rap). In an expression of their disgust with that scene, the Deftones went back into the studio in 2000 in an effort to create their own sound and put as much dis­ tance between themselves and Fred Durst’s crew as was humanly pos­ sible.

The result was the wonderful White Pony LP. While Around the Fur began to expose some of the more melodic and less harsh ele­ ments of the band, White Pony was the real thing, with the band creat­ ing an awesome melodic soundscape for Chino’s tales of hard life and transgressive sex (he once referred to it as “A Fuck record,” incidentally). Despite little to no radio or MTV support, the album has achieved gold status in the United States and Canada, and the only question now was whether the songs would carry over live.

The openers of the proceed­ ings were a band called Taproot.

The lowdown on these guys is pret­ ty funny: they were going to sign with Interscope (Limp B izkit’s label) but backed off and signed elsewhere instead, leading an irate Fred Durst to leave them a nowinfamous answering machine mes­ sage, in which he threw out about

every expletive known to man, and more or less promised to do every­ thing short of murdering their fami­ lies to prevent them from ever obtaining success. Have I men­ tioned how much I like these guys?

Just kidding. Fred Durst mes­ sage aside, there’s not a whole lot to this band that you can’t already hear in Soulfly, Godsmack et al, but the singer’s attempt to sing while being tossed around the mosh pit was appropriately insane.

Next was Incubus. Yeah, they’re the ones that had that repre­ hensible ‘Pardon Me’ single play­ ing all summer on the radio, in case you were wondering. But, to their credit, they came off reasonably well live, adding some interesting DJ experiments and bongo drums to tracks taken primarily from their most recent record, Make Yourself.

‘Pardon Me’ sucks, but it was a pleasant surprise to see that Incubus doesn’t.

The 5000+ audience was wait­ ing to explode in an orgy of vio­ lence, but the D eftones have matured a lot since their last visit here. They opened with ‘Korea’ and ‘Feitceria,’ two of the more subdued tracks from White Pony, and immediately I could tell this wasn’t the same Deftones that I had

already seen three times previous.

At a small club show in Toronto last July, the band focused almost exclusively on older tracks, seem­ ingly concerned about how their fans, many of whom are clearly metalheads. would react to the soft­ er new material. All fears were quelled on this night however, as the fans took to the band with a passion, and the Deftones in return were truly electrifying.

Following the opening, the violence commenced in full with old favorites like ‘My Own Summer (Shove it)’ and ‘Root,’ all well received, of course. New sin­ gles ‘Back to School’ and the ethe­ real ‘Change (in the house of flies)’ came off very well, and DJ Frank Delgado brought in brand new ele­ ments to help shake up the older tracks like ‘Lotion’ and ‘Bored.’

The encore was the true shocker, however, as they took their heavi­ est song, the profanity-laden anthem ‘7 Words,’ and turned it into a medley involving a cover of Weezer’s ‘Say it Ain’t So.’ The fans loved it. This is hardly the type of thing that you would expect angry young males to respond well to, but on this night at least, they didn’t seem to mind. Drugs have their advantages, I suppose.

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The Saidye Bronfm an C en tre’s production o f Harold P inter’s 1978 play Betrayal is spare, darkly funny, and surpris­ ingly moving.

When it originally premiered on the London stage over twenty years ago, Betrayal was a shock to many audiences: it casually detailed an affair between two mar­ ried people betw een 1968 and 1977.

Many of Pinter’s plays are being mounted this year in celebra­ tion of the playwright’s seventieth birthday. Coming on the heels of another successful production, D onald M argulies’ C ollected Stories, the SBC seems intent on elegantly showcasing thoughtful plays.

The play opens in 1977, and Jerry meets Emma for a drink in a London pub. Their affair has been over for two years, and Emma informs Jerry that she has told her husband Robert, Jerry’s best friend and publisher colleague, about the affair. In the next scene, Jerry has invited Robert over for a drink to

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discuss the affair and the status of their friendship.

The play then steadily goes back in time in the next seven scenes.

This clever construction is part of the reason why the play is highly regarded; another is that Pinter dis­ plays an ear for crackling dialogue.

As w ell, director Daniel Brooks has his actors conveying a range of emotions and traits here: bemusement, shock, anger, guilt.

Diego Matamoros, in the role of Robert, has the most challenging role for reasons that should not be wholly disclosed for the sake of any who intend to attend. He plays the husband of an adulterer, and the character is purposefully under­ w ritten as calm and detached.

Matamoros plays him perfectly, capturing all of the necessary nuances that serve both him and the audience well later in the play.

Albert Schultz, as Jerry, is less successful in his guilt-filled role, and seems to be attem pting an occasional British accent.

Susan Coyne, as Emma, actu­ ally flubs her lines at times, but not enough to seriously derail a scene,

entire room is black save for an illuminated shape, whether it be an imaginary painting or a window.

or throw off the other actors’ tim­ ing. Tony Nappo has a small role as a waiter in a fancy Italian restau­ rant.

Brooks has envisioned a mini­ malist approach to the play. John Thompson’s set design consists of one large wall with a door. In fact, the theatre itself has never looked as naked, arranged with so much space separating the actors from the audience.

Richard Feren’s use of sound is instructive: noise is often at the periphery of the characters’ con­ versations and then becomes loud­ er when only one actor is left onstage. Andrea Lundy’s lighting design is also notable; at times the

The one-act play runs about 75 minutes without an intermission, and student tickets are $17, avail­ able at noon on the day o f the per­ formance, which runs until this Sunday. The theatre is dark on Fridays. Show times are Tuesday at 8:00, Wednesday at 2:00 and 8:00, Thursday at 8:00, Saturday at 8:30, and Sunday at 2:00 and 7:00.

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B u t t h a t ’s lik e p u t t i n g W e s l e y W il l i s in th e s a m e c a t e g o r y a s J o h n L e n n o n ( n o t to s a y th a t L i m p B i z k i t is g r e a t) . T w i z t i d ’s s o n g s w e r e a d i s a p p o i n tm e n t to th e h y p e o f th e c o v e r a n d n a m e . T h e n a g a i n , th e ir s o n g s w e r e a d i s a p p o i n t m e n t , p e r io d .

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Your Love?' was followed by clapalong soul, but the finest cut of the evening award went to their fantas­ tic arrangement of 'Sir Duke' which set the tone for the entire night.

Having never seen Tonal Ecstasy before, I was astonished at the anticipation of the audience waiting for them to alight on the stage. Their introduction was in an appropriately ostentatious style but this quickly gave way to a much | more intimate and demure atmosj phere with their first cut, Sade's 'Smooth Operator'. The group is coed and eighteen strong, each with a distinct voice and style and, pre­ sumably, musical influence.

More than a third of the 21 songs on the set list were arranged by the gifted Matt Dacso, but the others were spread fairly evenly among the other members.

This fact lent itself to a diverse repertoire, from Stan Getz to Scots traditional and Gospel to Gangsta's Paradise. Highlights for me were a beautiful rendition of 'Shenandoah' sung by Aditi Vidyasagar and (I never thought I would ever say this) the popular anti-ballad 'Bills, Bills, Bills' sung by Dee NeddRoderique with enough soul and attitude to put Destiny's Child to shame. The only faltering moment of the show was an off-tem po 'Satellite' by Dave Matthews Band, but the same singer (and incumbent president of Tonal Ecstasy), Matt Chelew, more than compensated with a flawless 'Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes' during the encore.

Midway through the perfor­ mance, the departure at the end of the year of two of the members of Tonal Ecstasy (Dacso and Amos) was announced. This portion of the show revealed some intim ate

details of the departing members' lives and was on the one hand, funny, warm and heartfelt. On the other, however, for the members of the audience that weren't part of their immediate families or didn't live in Douglas Hall, the necessary but unnecessarily long departure speeches had all the appeal of a Lifetime Achievement Oscar.

The show was peppered with farcical interludes including the aforementioned cellphone fiasco, a spoof of Survivor (something I thought I would never have to experience again) and a particularly clever reproduction of Dangerous M inds to lead into 'G angsta's Paradise'. Appropriately, Tonal Ecstasy closed their main set with the rem otely pious lyricism of Madonna's 'Like a Prayer'.

Of course, an a cappella group is greater than the sum of its parts, an inequality manifest most reso­ nantly in their encore performance of Suavemente, a Latin number picked up in Argentina by Dacso.

This was the highlight of the night, with Dacso having swapped jacket, khakis and cropped brown hair for red velvet, gold chains, blue sequins and a flowing, pitch black mane. He sung the lead part while directing the sixteen separate parts of this remarkable piece. All 33 members of the am algam ated Effusion and Tonal Ecstasy man­ aged to cram on the dais for this penultimate performance.

There is no musical instrument in the world that can reproduce the range of tone, timbre, colour and creativity in the human voice.

Sometimes it is necessary to do away with the instruments them­ selves to be reminded of this fact.

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Alouettes toast of town after clinching Grey Cup berth Team shows character in 35-24 come back victory over Winnipeg quelling streak of play-off futility Philpot, ran roughshod over the Als defense in the early going, and Left heartbroken for the past was able to control the game.

The potent Als attack was four years in the conference finals, the M ontreal A louettes were unable to get going, and managed focused on not letting the past only five net yards in the first repeat itse lf in their m atch-up quarter, and zero first downs.

A major turning point came ag ain st the W innipeg Blue Bombers on Sunday, with a spot in mid-way through the second quar­ ter when Als safety Irv Smith the Grey Cup on the line.

While many players felt antsy picked off an errant Jones pass after the team trailed 13-0 early in deep in the Winnipeg zone.

That shifted the momentum the second quarter, M ontreal’s on Montreal’s side, and quarter­ resolve proved to be unremitting.

Sparked by its sw arm ing back Anthony Calvillo responded defense and resurgent offense, the on the next series, hitting Climie Als rallied from the early deficit to with a perfectly thrown 35-yard crush Winnipeg 35-24 before the touchdown pass on a slant setting custom ary packed house at the tone for the rest of the game.

As usual, Mike Pringle, the Molson stadium.

For the first time since 1979, CFL’s top rusher, was a force for Montreal travels to play for the the Als. Despite a brief hiatus due Canadian Football League champi­ to a leg injury, the elusive back onship as the Eastern Conference scored a touchdown, while rushing for 89 yards on 16 carries. He representatives.

They w ill face the B ritish helped to provide a strong comple­ Columbia Lions, who upset the ment to the dangerous Montreal air Calgary Stampeders 37-23 in the attack.

“U nless there was a bone West division final, at McMahon hanging out, I was going back in Stadium in Calgary next Sunday.

“There was no talk this week the game,” said Pringle, who last of history. It’s a new team this played in a Grey Cup game for the year, and th ere’s not much we now defunct Baltimore Stallions. could have learned from our per­ “I came out for precautionary rea­ formance in previous conference sons and I’ll be OK for next week. finals,” said wide-receiver Jock Our offense didn’t play much the Climie, with a radiant smile on his first quarter because they con­ face. “It’s a thrilling win for our trolled the ball, but we took advan­ fans who can be characterized as tage of our opportunities starting long suffering, and for all the guys in the second quarter. We fed off on the team. For me, it’s exciting the defense which came up with a after 11 years in the league to great effort.”

The Als got interceptions finally get a shot at the Grey Cup. It hasn’t sunk in yet, but when I from Stefen Reid with two, and get a moment to myself I’ll be able from Lester Smith in the end-zone late in the fourth quarter. to really savour it.”

Deftly anticipating the play, The key for the Alouettes was their ability to remain unfazed by Smith streaked in from his safety the early dominance of the Blue- position to step in front of intend­ ed receiver Milt Stegall and thwart Bombers.

W innipeg’s offense, led by the late Winnipeg drive with the explosive quarterback Khari Jones, game still in their grasp.

On the ensuing series, a dar­ and all-purpose threat Cory B y J erem y K u z m a r o v

ing long-bomb thrown by Calvillo to Kevin Alexander, followed by a subsequent Bruno Heppell touch­ down run proved to be the nail in the Bombers’ coffin.

“T h ere’s some decisions I made, and some balls I threw that I’d like to have back,” said Jones, a mobile fourth year pivot who tossed for 297 yards and two touchdowns on the day. “We start­ ed off well, but their defense was tough. We came close, but we forced ourselves into too many second and long situations late in the game. That c a n ’t happen against the Alouettes. It’s a harsh ending for us to what’s been a bit­ tersweet season.”

In contrast to the tense mood of the Bombers dressing room, the A louettes were jubilant, as the champagne bottles were cracked open and the celebrations were ini­ tiated.

The wave of euphoria will be short-lived however, if the team d o esn ’t deliver a victory next week.

“It’s a great win for our team, and it’s well deserved. Guys didn’t panic after we were down, or start pointing fingers like in past years.

Everybody took an onus upon themselves to step up their play,” said Lester Smith, amidst the post­ game frenzy. “As big as this win is though, we can’t be satisfied. It’s a stepping stone to where we want to finish. It’s only part of the equa­ tion in our quest for a cham pi­ onship.”

Additional Al player reactions Anthony C alvillo (QB) — “Our defense came up with a courageous effort. They gave the spark for our offense which pulled together starting in the second quarter. I’ve been here seven years, and it’s nice to finally feel a real sense of accomplishment.”

Stefen Reid (LB) — “It’s been a long wait. I’ve been in the league six years, and it’s been hard losing four straight. It’s a big win for guys on the team: we’ve just got one more to go.

We won today as a team.”

Bruno Heppell (FB) —“It’s an emotional win. It’s been four years coming, and it’s a real thrill to finally get past the con­ ference final.”

Darren Joseph (FB) — “We were anxious in the beginning, but we settled down. It’s a great feeling, but we’re not done yet.

W e’ve got to focus on next week.”

J a s o n R ic h a rd s ta k e s d o w n B o m b e r s 'Q B K h a ri J o n e s

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Gam e Notes Marked Man You’ve got to pity those quarter­ backs. W innipeg’s Khari Jones was walloped on numerous occa­ sions by the Als — and especially defensive tackle Ed Philion who had Jones' number all afternoon.

While several of Philion’s hits looked late, he was only flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct one time.

“I felt if we could take a good shot at him, it would take him off his game,” said Philion after the game.

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Jones could be great Bombers head coach Dave Ritchie was full of praise for his quarterback in the aftermath of Sunday’s game.

“This youngster is going to rule the league in a few years,” said Ritchie.

Jones, who played in college for University of California at Davis, indeed showed flashes of bril­ liance on Sunday, though he also was stricken with a bout of interceptionitis which cost his team in the end.

Long and cold w in te r ahead in Winnipeg

Homecoming Part I Blue-Bombers head coach Dave Ritchie is well-aware of the recent Alouettes play-off foibles which were finally quelled on Sunday.

He coached the team for two years prior to the arrival of Charlie Taffe. Many current Als had high regards for their former boss.

“Ritchie's a great motivator as a coach, probably the best in the league,” said Lester Smith, a seven-year Als veteran.

Homecoming Part II Another Blue Bomber with close links to the Als was Elfrid Payton, the former sack-maven who got a one-way ticket out of town because of his poor disciplinary habits. Payton, who has now lost the last five Eastern division con­ ference finals, was a non-factor in the game for Winnipeg.

The frigid temperatures will only exacerbate the woes of the Bombers this off-season. Despite their upset of the Hamilton TigerCats in the conference semi-finals after a mediocre 7-10-1 regular season record, the Winnipeg play­ ers were hardly upbeat about their accomplishments in 2000.

“It's gonna hurt this winter more than last knowing we were 30 minutes away from the Grey Cup game,” said Bomber running back Wade Wilson, a Winnipeg native who starred for the Manitoba Bisons during his collegiate days.

“Even though we may have exceeded public expectations, we d id n ’t exceed our own. We expected to win. Our job is to win, and every athlete plays for the championship. We didn’t give enough protection for our quarter­ back and kicker, and didn't get the job done today. We beat our­ selves and that’s disappointing.”

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Runnin' Redmen chase Kingston schools out of town Men's basketball team sweeps weekend series against Queen's and Royal Military College

By Jeremy McC ann The McGill Redmen team bench looked more like a business meeting than a basketball team over the weekend, due to the amount of injured players wearing suits.

Snake-bitten by injuries all year, this weekend was no different.

With injured star “Captain” Kirk Reid joining starters Ari Hunter and Andrew Beir in business attire due to an injured arm and freshmen sparkplug Denburk Reid playing with an injured hand, the Redmen needed solid efforts from all of their players in order to come away with victories over the weekend.

Despite some difficulty, the Redmen managed a sweep of their weekend games against two schools from Kingston, Ontario. On Friday they slipped by the Queen’s Golden Gaels 61-54. On Saturday, the undermanned Redmen pounded the under-talented Royal M ilitary College Paladins 93-64.

Anyone who has made it down to the Currie Gym to catch some varsity m en’s basketball action knows just how exciting and fun this team can be. After a decent sea­ son last year, much is expected of the current team.

The Queen’s game started ugly and stayed that way. Facing a team that lost all five of its starters to graduation, the Redmen probably expected that all they would have to do was show up in order to come away with a victory.

The team struggled badly in the first half, executing poorly both on the offensive and defensive side, frequently turning the ball over. It was not until the 16-minute mark of the first half that the Redmen man­ aged to pull things together.

They went on an 18-1 run to end the half, sparked by consecu­ tive three pointers by super sopho­ more Domenico M arcario, and steals by both Denburk Reid and Fred Bernard.

Despite the struggle in the half, the Redmen entered the locker room leading 38-16. The team came out flat in the second half.

Obviously feeling secure about their lead the Redmen allowed senior Q ueen’s guard Reilly Mussleman to come out of the lock­ er room and torch them for three three-pointers and a lay-up, pulling the Golden Gaels within five points with less then nine minutes to go in the contest.

With the small Queen’s crowd starting to get louder, and a Golden Gaels squad starting to believe they

Fred Bernard quashed any idea of a Golden Gaels victory by skying to block a lay-up by Queen’s guard

with a victory.

“It was a sloppy game but we are looking to improve on that as the season goes on,” he said.

Also chipping in were M arcario with 15 points and Bernard with 14 points and 11 rebounds.

RMC taken care of easily

could steal a win, the Redmen looked to be in trouble. However, the team still had something left in the tank, and were not going to give up easily to their Ontario rivals.

Pat Kieran quieted the building momentum with a buttery-soft jumper from the top of the key.

Then Denburk Reid did what has come to be expected of him, faking a pass in which his Queen’s defend­ er hopelessly lunged at nothing but air, and pulled up for a three-point­ er.

Queen’s mounted one last gasp pulling within six, 57-51, with 1:15 left to play, but defensive specialist

Reed MacMillan, who looked like he was glued to the floor.

The Redmen iced the game by nailing their free throws. The win snapped a five game losing streak for McGill against Queen’s.

Despite the win head, coach Nevio M arzinotto was not impressed with the game.

“We got nothing from our offense and nothing from our defense,” said M arzinotto.

“Queen’s makes you play ugly bas­ ketball.”

Leading the Redmen was Denburk Reid with 20 points and 5 steals. Reid was happy to escape

Saturday afternoon the Redmen played Canada’s Royal M ilitary College, a team with a Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union basketball program for the first time in 10 years.

The talented Redmen looked like they were going to steamroll over the competition pulling out to a quick 10-2 lead in the opening three m inutes. However, the Paladins started to fight back at the end of the half.

Scrappy, tenacious defense and clutch shooting from form er Redmen member Bayo Ajayi, enabled RMC to pull ahead 35-31 at the half. Head coach Nevio Marzinotto obviously had some inspiring words for the under­ achieving Redmen during his half­ time speech.

Exiting the locker-room like they were being shot out of a can­ non, the team proceeded to give the crowd a second h alf firew orks show. Shooting a mind-boggling 67 per cent in the second half, the run­ nin’ Redmen piled up 62 points.

Offensive wizard Dominico Marcario kept the RMC defense spellbound, dropping 21 second half points, including four threepointers from well beyond the arc and a dazzling array of fancy foot­ work lay-ups. The team’s 19-6 clos­ ing run was a glim pse of what many expect to see from the Redmen for the rest of the season.

Marzinotto, once again, was not thrilled with his team’s play.

“We can’t just feed off our offence,” said the rookie coach.

“Someone hits a three and all of a sudden everyone is happy about the game”.

Marcario led the Redmen with 27 points including five three point­ ers. Savvy veteran Brady Murphy broke out of a shooting slump by dropping 17 points and corralling 8 rebounds. Murphy was pleased with the weekend’s outcome.

“We should have played the

whole game like we did in the sec­ ond half,” said Murphy. “But it is good to get two wins out of the weekend.”

Other impressive perfor­ mances came from Brent Prowse who com piled 12 points and 9 rebounds, and Fred Bernard with 15 points.

The two wins over the week­ end left the Redmen with a 3-1 con­ ference record.

Gam e Notes Clean sweep for Montreal teams C oncordia also played these same two teams over the week­ end. While the Stingers also took both gam es from the Kingston squads, the victories were not as im pressive as M cG ill’s. C oncordia needed overtime to get by Queen’s on Saturday, while on Friday night they needed a late run to beat RMC.

Frankenstein the second?

Veteran forward Brady Murphy needed eight stitches to fix a wound suffered on Saturday against RMC. Murphy is lead­ ing the team in stitches this year with 21. No one is trying to beat his record.

Speaking of Injuries...

Add Quebec U niversity Basketball League all-star Kirk Reid to the list of w alking wounded for the Redmen. He suffered a hand injury but should return next weekend.

Andrew Beir should be back soon as well. Ari Hunter is a real long term injury. We won’t see him back until Santa Claus leaves town.

I can't see the court On Friday night, play was halt­ ed for a few m inutes while Queen’s freshman guard Reed MacMillan was looking for his contact lens. Although he did find his lens, he did not find the basket many more times in the evening: perhaps he couldn’t see it.

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McGill's Big Six Quebec champion soccer teams yield three All-Canadians apiece he suffered during practice earlier this season.

“Having to step down as soon momentum was ris­ ing was one of the most dif­ ficult things that I ever had to do,” said Zullo.

Even though he was not present on the field during the season’s final games, his natural soccer abilities won’t be taken away from him.

M cGill’s African con­ nection lies in the soccer team’s star midfielder, Guy Anaba Anaba. Unanimously named player of the year in the Quebec U niversity Soccer League, Anaba Anaba’s inclusion as an AllCanadian suprised no one.

“Winning All-Canadian was a great feeling; I ’ve been working hard all sea­ son and winning MVP in Quebec soccer gives you a good chance at becoming an All-Canadian, and I guess it worked,” said Anaba Anaba.

Anaba Anaba was voted to the QUSL first all-star team; he won the Quebec conference scoring champi­ onship with 8 points in 8 games and he was named McGill’s player of the game three times this season. The F ro m le ft to rig h t, M c G ilr s A ll-C a n a d ia n s: G a e ta n o Z u llo , A m b e r A llen , G u y A n a b a A n a b a , A s h le e G e n try , S o p h ie L a b ro m , E d d y Z u p p e l Patrick Fok Redm en are also lucky enough to be able to keep the Labrom, a third year player champion Dalhousie] three quar­ next season are going to be high B y A ndrew Raven Magician for another two years, as from Pointe Claire, was a second ters of the team didn’t show up. and rightly so.

Following a perfect regular team All Canadian. The midfielder Next year we should start with the On paper, the Martlets will be he is only a sophomore.

The Redmen’s goalie, Eddy season and a Q uebec Student led the team in assists with 9 and goal of winning nationals. Don’t an improved team with the addi­ Soccer Federation title, striker added 8 goals. Her golden goal bother coming out if you don’t tion of Melamed. But as Gentry Zuppel is incredibly deserving of Amber Allen, midfielder Sophie against Concordia propelled the want to go all the way”. pointed out, the team is more than his All-Canadian honour, as he did Labrom and defender A shlee Martlets into QSSF finals. She was “There are a lot of excuses for any one player and to have success a great job stepping in for the G entry were nam ed C anadian also named to the QSSF first team why we didn’t do well,” Gentry everyone has to be on the same injured Jason Forsyth. Although to Intenmiversity Athletics Union All all-star. added. “But the reality is we came page. The Martlets have to be the him, the real honour would come “ft’s nice to win individual out slowly in the first game and it prohibitive favorites for next from a gold medal at the National Canadians.

Allen, a first year MBA stu­ awards, but for me what really cost us. In our league if you start year’s national title and will proba­ Championships.

“The team’s success is much dent from Pitt Meadows BC, was matters are team goals,” Labrom badly the teams won’t capitalize, bly begin the year ranked number named a first team All Canadian. said. but at nationals the teams are so one in the nation. They shouldn’t more valuable to me,” Zuppel said, Gentry, in her third year, also good and they jump all over you.”

She led the nation with 29 goals in have too much trouble in the QSSF “I don’t put much importance on 22 games. Her total eclipsed the made the second team . She On the positive side, most of either but as this season showed, the award I got.”

Zuppel’s overall record was McGill record of 27 set by Eva anchored a defense that only the players on a team that finished for McGill to win its first women’s allowed four goals in 12 league 18-3-1 will be returning next sea­ soccer medal since 1992 is going 12-1-3, with 11 shutouts in total.

Melamed last season.

He only allowed 5 goals in 10 reg­ In a list alm ost too long, to gam es, the low est total in the son. The two notable exceptions to take a little bit of luck. ular-season games which gave him mention, Allen was also named nation. She was nam ed to the are QSSF all stars Julia Scrase and an average of 0.50 goals a game; McGill Player of the Week three QSSF and National Championship M aite C reixell. Scrase, a solid Redmen winners the best average in the CIAU. times, McGill University Athlete Tournament first teams as well. defender from D orval, will be As for the future, Zuppel “Ashlee is one of the hardest graduating while Creixell, an elec­ em phasize team over of the month for September, the plans on continuing with soccer Player of the Year in the QSSF and workers on team and she is the trifying forward from Mexico City, after graduation. a first team and an All Star at the heart and soul of the defense,” said was only here for the season on individual honours “My dream is to play profes­ N ational C ham pionships in Mounicot. exchange. sional soccer in Europe once I am All of these accolades aside, Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

“It will be tough losing Jules,” finished here at McGill,” he noted.

“Amber has an unbelievable many o f the players were not said Gentry. “She’s a great player B y Sarah W right _________________ This might come as a shock to combination of speed and pace,” happy with the outcome of the sea­ and my best friend on the team.

After having tremendous sea­ some considering he is just as tal­ said head coach Marc Mounicot. son, particularly Gentry.

It’ll be tough seeing Maite go sons for the Redmen soccer team, ented in the academic world as the “It seemed as though a lot of because playing with her is just so “She is one of the best players I Guy Anaba Anaba, Eddy ZuppeT sporting world. Zuppel is studying have ever coached. I haven’t seen the players were just happy getting much fun.” and Gaetano Zullo were named to become a mechanical engineer that [kind of talent] in women’s to nationals,” said Gentry. “In our But the team could receive a and has been on the Principal’s soccer very often”. first game [a 2-1 loss to eventual huge boost with the return of strik­ All-Canadians last week.

For team captain, Gaetano student-athlete Honor Roll for 4 er Eva M elamed from a y ear’s exchange in Israel. Melamed held “Gaets” Zullo, this is his second years running. Mixing a demand­ the school record for goals in a A ll-C anadian aw ard, and he ing workload along with the busy Don’t forget your season with 27, until Allen broke describes it as bitter sweet com­ soccer season can be very difficult, breakfast card! but Zuppel does it with ease. His the record this year. The combina­ pared to last year’s award.

• “I would have traded it for four years of being named CIAU tion of Allen and M elamed up front is a scary proposition for medal in a second,” said Zullo, “it Academic All-Canadian proves feels way better to win as a team that. opposing defenses.

The Redmen and their AllThe Martlets can take many than to receive an individual Canadian connection will try to positives out of this season. They award.”

The team’s appearance at the recapture past glories next year, finished 12-0, won their confer­ B t a a k fa it ence and came within four minutes national championships this year of w inning a bronze medal at was Zullo’s fourth, but he wasn’t nationals. The expectations for able to play because of an injury

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M artlets7slow start derails effort against Golden Gaels 42 second half points not enough to secure hoop victo ry

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A torrid second half and a stellar perform ance by Cynthia Santamaria were not enough for the McGill Martlets to win their first game of the season.

Santamaria set several career highs on Friday night in the McGill Martlets’ 79-61 loss to the Queen’s Golden Gaels. The fourth year guard and team captain had 20 points, including six spectacu­ lar three-pointers. The defensive workhorse also played every sec­ ond of the game. Unfortunately, 17 of those points came in the second half when the game was already out of reach.

A phantom out-of-bounds call after the opening tip-off provided an unintentional metaphor for the M artlets’ play on the basketball court. The team seemed to lack focus and intensity in the opening minutes.

Queen’s scored the first nine points of the game in ninety sec­ onds. After a Maude Vallieres bas­ ket, Queen’s then went on an 11-0 run in the next five minutes, and McGill found themselves down 20-2 before the game was seven minutes old. The halftime score was 48-19 for the visiting team.

In the second half, the Martlets played their best basket­

ball of the season. Santamaria’s outstanding performance sparked her team m ates to perform at a higher level.

Cheeka M itchell scored 10 points in the second half, shooting 4-for-9 from the field, including a three-pointer, and made three out of four free throw attem pts.

Lysiane van der Knaap was perfect from the field in the second half, scoring six points and adding six rebounds.

S antam aria’s perform ance was the talk of the game.

“That was the greatest game ever by Cynthia Santamaria and one of the top ten by any McGill leader ever,” offered coach Lisen Moore. “Her performance, leader­ ship, and great shots sparked this second half perform ance. The players followed her lead. This just shows the power of leader­ ship,” Moore enthused.

A few of the concerns for this young team are a lack of consis­ tency in practice, relative inexperi­ ence, and slow starts in games. As the team captain, Santam aria acknowledges that she will have to bear some of the responsibility in helping her young teammates to learn from their mistakes on the court.

“It starts from having focus and intensity during practice. You

have to work hard, and not just in the warm -up. W inning has to come from within. You have to want it for yourself,” Santamaria explained. “I have to share my experience, teach on the court and in practice. I get ticked off when we lose. It’s all about pride. We just didn’t show up tonight.”

Santam aria continued to address some of the concerns that she had about the Martlets’ future, and stressed that she would have to become more vocal as well as continue to provide leadership on the basketball court.

M oore and Santam aria acknowledged that more work will need to be done during practice because that will largely determine success in games.

“The players should take an example from me. I work hard and the players listen to what I have to say. I’m not afraid to tell them to work harder. I think they respond­ ed in the second half,” Santamaria offered. “We rushed baskets, and missed some easy ones too. We didn’t play with poise at all. That’s why we have so many turnovers,” she concluded.

“Our performance was down in practice this week. Nobody was ready to play. Their maturity and enthusiasm hurt our inexperience,” Moore said. “The young players

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Soccer Coach Raim ondo nam ed CIAU Coach of the Year

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After an impressive season for the Redmen soccer team which saw them win the provincial champi­ onship, head coach Pat Raimondo was honoured as the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union coach of the year.

Raimondo, a Montreal native, has been with the McGill Redmen for seven seasons, in which time he has produced a career record of 7532-32.

On top of his CIAU coach of the year award, Raimondo was voted the QUSL coach of the year for the fourth time in five years.

An intense and fiery leader, coach Raimondo has earned the

respect of his players.

“Raimondo has deserved this award for a couple of years,” said current team -captain and AllC anadian Gaetano Zullo. “He keeps moving up and up every year and the team only improves with his guidance. He is the best coach I have ever had, and I’ve played soc­ cer my whole life. He’s here to win and he knows his soccer better than anyone I’ve ever met.”

Pat R aim ondo’s success at McGill began almost immediately upon his arrival as head coach in 1994. He has raised the bar for the men’s soccer program at McGill, and brought a great sense of dedi­ cation to his job.

He has m aintained a team

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Toron to On Saturday, the McGill Martlets dominated the York Yeomen in a 6-2 victory. The Martlets outshot their opponents 42-18 in the con­ test.

McGill was led by two goals by Sophie Acheson as well as one goal and two assists by Cindy Carufel. Kim St. Pierre stopped

16 shots for the victory and also picked up the first assist in her long illustrious McGill career.

Sunday’s game was less success­ ful for the seventh ranked Martlets. They were ousted 3-1 by the n atio n ’s top team the University of Toronto Varsity Blues. McGill was outshot 44-27 in the contest with St. Pierre mak­ ing 41 saves. Sophie Acheson scored the lone marker for the los­ ing side. The Martlets were done in by a hattrick by U of T ’s Urszula May.

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which has been consistently ranked in the top ten nationally.

M cGill-Adidas A th le te s o f th e W eek David Allard- The 21 year old computer science student helped the McGill Redmen swimming team win the QSSF cup I at l’uni­ versité de Montreal on Saturday.

Allard won two golds, one silver and finished in fourth in one event. He was named to the meet’s all-star team and was the male swimmer of the meet.

Marie-Andrée Lessard- Lessard was the MVP in the omnium Vertet-O r held at l ’université de

“He has brought the whole group together,” said Guy Anaba Anaba, the team’s midfield star and All-Canadian, “He brings a good mix to the team and he is the rea­ son why we finished first this year.”

One of the major highlights in his Red and White career came in 1997, when he lead the team to win the Nationals against UBC, the team favoured to win. In a very unusual match, Raimondo opted to protect his net as much as possible and play a very defensive game.

He did this in hojîes the game would come down to a penaltykick shoot out, which was one of the teams’ major strengths.

The Redmen were outshot 20-

0, and, as he had predicted, the league title was decided by penalty kicks after a 0-0 tie in overtime.

U nheralded defender Peter Bryant’s fabled goal gave McGill the 5-4 victory.

Current Redmen goalkeeper Eddy Zuppel was a back-up to Jason Forsyth on that cham pi­ onship team. “ [Coach Raimondo] made us win the Nationals in ’97,” said Zuppel. “He puts so much effort into his coaching, that we couldn’t help but win.”

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Speed dem on Ali-Khan repeats as All-Canadian Cross-Country team finishes sixth at Nationals a fter w inning provincial cham pionship B y J erem y K u z m a r o v

cial championship.

She earned McGill-Adidas ath­ lete of the week status with her first-place finish in Trois Rivières, in which she set a course record.

the semester.

McGill was able to benefit from the coaching experience of Dennis Barrett, and assistants Alex Mcleod, a Ph.D student in English

Mental toughness is an indis­ pensable characteristic of any top flight long-distance runner.

There is no doubt that Sarah Ali-Khan, who recently became a first-team All-Canadian with her bronze medal winning performance in the five kilometer race at the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union championships in Toronto, possesses that quality.

A third year member of the McGill wom en’s cross-country team who earned second team-All Canadian status last year, Ali Khan is not only M cGill’s preeminent track star; she is also an exemplary student pursuing her Ph.D in phar­ macology.

Ali-Khan’s superb finish at the Nationals made all of the long hours of training — which severely cut into time spent preparing for her dissertation — worthwhile.

“It’s a hard-core season which can be difficult to balance with A li-K h an h a s le d tra c k tea m to ste lla r se a s o n Patrick Fok school, but its satisfying in the end.

I’m really excited with my finish,” Other key contributors were literature, and his wife Crystal said Ali-Khan. “ I had some nerves returning veterans Carly Moher, Garrett. before the final race, and it was a Genevieve Shurtleff, Laura Wakely Both were form er Alldifficult course. There was a long Carolyn Handschuh, and Zane Canadians who were able to make a uphill portion, where there was no Odeh. profound impact on Ali-Khan, and The team, which will remain her teammates. passing. All of the running during the semester on Mount Royal gave largely intact for next season, was “I ca n ’t say enough good given a strong boost by an influx of things about the coaching staff. me a bit of an edge for that part.”

Prior to the Nationals, Ali- talented rookies, including Caitlin They created a great team environ­ Khan had played a key role in lead­ Davitt and Lise-Marie Acton who ment, and did a great job sharing ing the women’s team to the provin­ joined the team mid-way through their knowledge of the sport, “ said

Ali-Khan, who still has two years of cross-country team will begin eligibility left after this season. “I preparations for the winter indoor give the track program here an 11 season. on 10. There was a great team spirit After finishing fourth at last overall, and that was a real strength year’s track Nationals, held at the for us. The work-out schedule is McGill fieldhouse, the Martlets draining, but it’s a great for morale hope to reclaim their title in the to have a good group of teammates 4X800 meter relay. to work hard with together.”

Not just a cross-country won­ While able to dominate the der, Ali-Khan is determined to pre­ local com petition, the wom en’s serve her slot as an All-Canadian in team wasn’t able to parlay its early the indoor season. season success to a top three finish Besides the 4X800 which she at the Nationals, as it had hoped. anchored last year, Ali-Khan hopes Despite Ali-Khan’s heroics, the to repeat as the gold medallist in the team finished a disappointing sixth 1500 meter run, which she captured at the year-end event held at the in a memorable photo finish against University of Toronto a couple of rival Barbara Brych of the weeks ago.

University of British Columbia. She McGill was greatly hindered also strives to im prove on her by the absence of Wakely, and by national silver-medal winning per­ the presence of an ineffective formance in the 1000 meter run.

Moher, who injured her Achilles A part of her though, will miss heel last month, and wasn’t able to those long runs up Mount Royal, compete at her top level. and the intense training of the cross­ “It was a successful season on country season. the whole, but we w eren’t too “I’m looking forward to the thrilled about the finish at upcom ing season, but I ’m also Nationals,” said Ali-Khan. “Besides looking forward to the break,” said injuries, one factor was that we only Ali-Khan. “I need some rest. competed in one major event during There’s something special about the year at Western. It was a much cross-country which I’ll miss. The higher skill level than we face in camaraderie of the training, and the Quebec. There’s also a scary psy­ feeling of accomplishment after fin­ chology about com peting at ishing a race just isn’t the same in Nationals. There’s a lot of pressure, indoor track.” and it’s tough to come out with your best race.”

After taking a well-deserved two week break, the majority of the

Ottawa to m eet Regina in Vanier Cup finals Churchill Bowl: Ottawa Gee-Gees 20, McMaster Marauders 15 The Ottawa Gee-Gees out­ lasted the McMaster Marauders 20-15 thanks to a tenacious defense denying the top-ranked Marauder offense the end zone until the end of the fourth quarter.

The top-ranked Ottawa defense made the Marauders pay for every mistake in the game, while McMaster was able to con­ tain the potent Ottawa offense as well.

Backup pivot James Baker, late of the defunct C arleton Ravens program which shut down after the 1997 season, filled in for injured Gee-Gees starter Phil Coté with a 15-for-29, 201-yard perfor­ mance. In the second quarter, Baker led Ottawa to its first score with a 6-play, 81-yard drive, cul­ minating in an 18-yard pass to receiver Mike di Battista.

The Marauders were unable to get anything going in the third, with both team s’ defenses stym ieing the other. O ttaw a extended its lead to 10-6 with a 14-yard Lee-Yaw field goal.

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The Gee-Gees managed to do did some damage in the fourth, getting a field goal and a TD early on in the quarter. Ottawa led 20-6 with under nine minutes to go in the game.

McMaster was able to threat­ en the Gee-Gees with a safety and a late TD pass from Chapdelaine to Ryan Janzen which brought them to within five after the con­ vert. A fter a fru itless Ottawa series, McMaster recovered and promptly marched to the Ottawa 37. Ottawa secured the victory however, as with 11 seconds to go C hapdelaine attem pted a Hail Mary pass which sailed over the arms of his receivers.

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Husky fans, held on the edge of their seats as the Rams stormed out to a 24-14 lead at the half and w atched the home team come back by the eight-minute mark of the fourth quarter with 22 consec­ utive points.

But the Rams just wouldn’t give up. W estern C anada’s Cinderella squad, whose 4-4 regu­ lar season regular-season record barely qualified them for the play­ offs, had scored narrow upset wins against Calgary (33-32) and M anitoba (25-22) to reach the national semifinal and were deter­

mined to inflict such a fate on the Huskies as well.

After the Huskies had scored with 7:04 left in the game and put themselves ahead 36-24, Regina kick retu rn er Neal Hughes returned the kickoff 89 yards to bring his charges within five after the convert.

Both team s’ defenses then m anaged to hold each o th er’s offenses off for the next five min­ utes.

The Rams got a safety with barely two minutes remaining to close the gap to three. On the ensuing kickoff, Hughes scam­ pered up the field to the Huskies’ 12. R egina quarterback Daryl Leason then threw a 12-yard TD pass to Chris Warnecke and the Rams took a 40-36 lead with 1:39 to go.

As time expired, the Huskies managed to move the ball to midfield but could not pierce the Rams’ defense. Regina earns its first-ever Vanier Cup berth with the win.

The Rams (7-4) will meet the Gee-Gees (10-1) on Saturday, D ecem ber 2 at the T oronto Skydome for the V anier Cup. Game time is 4:00 pm.

-compiled by Jonathan Colford

Sports Briefs Continued from Page 25 Sherbrooke, leading the second ranked Martlets volleyball team to a gold medal in the event The 22 year old management student had 41 kills, 8 aces, 63 digs and five stuffed blocks for the victorious Martlets.

The second ranked Martlet vol­ leyball won the Omnium Vcrtet-O r at l ’université de Sherbrooke.

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team wins tournament In the finals, McGill beat the seventh ranked Sherbrooke team 3-1. The scores of the sets were 17-25,27-25,25-21,25-16. The win avenged an earlier loss to Sherbrooke in the tournament McGill had three all-tournament players including MVP Marie Andrée Lessard. Middle blocker Elizabeth Jamieson was recog­ nized for her 48 kills and 39 digs for the Martlets. Center Shauna F orster was also honoured because of her astounding 186 assists in the tournament, which averages to 38 per game.

In ju ry plag ued men's hockey team wins one of two over weekend The McGill Redmen managed to escape with a split of their week­ end games against York and Guelph.

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McGill swimming makes a splash at QSSF meet

By N eil Schnurbach In a swim meet worth 25 per cent of the overall points for the year, M cGill came away with impressive victories on both the men’s and women’s side.

While there were seven uni­ versities competing at the Quebec Student Sport Federation Cup I event held at l ’U niversité de Montréal, McGill and Laval were clearly the class of the field. On the men’s side, the Redmen bested the Rouge et Or 156-114 while on the wom en’s side, the M artlets edged Laval 150-137.

Leading the way for the victo­ rious men’s team was David Allard who won the 200m individual med­ ley as well as the 200m breast­ stroke. Allard was named the male swimmer of the meet and was satis­ fied with his and the team’s effort.

“We are really a group of strong swimmers,” said Allard.

“We put it all together today.

Personally, I feel like I am at my best. I am swimming even better than I did when I broke many McGill records [two years ago].”

A confident Allard is clearly important for McGill to make a serious run at winning the QSSF championship. He is not, however, the only contributor for the men’s team.

Alexander Pichette is another standout for the Redmen. On

Sports Briefs On Friday versus York McGill won 5-4. Freshman Matthew Singerm an’s first two CIAU goals helped spark the victory.

Dave Burgess scored the winner for the Redmen.

Luc Vaillancourt made 38 saves for the Redmen who were outshot 42-26.

Saturday saw the Redmen lose a 2-1 heartbreaker to the Guelph Gryphons in overtime. McGill was trailing 1-0 in the 3rd period until Greg Davis knotted the score with a powerpiay marker.

The Redmen had a couple of good chances in overtime. A goal was waved off because the Gryphons' goalie lost his mask.

One minute later, Guelph star Jason Jackman scored the win­ ner. Benoit Ménard made 31 saves for the Redmen who were outshot 33-31.

Fencing team com petes in St. Henri In the men’s sabre competition, Francois Ares finished in fifth out of eighteen competitors. In the m en’s épée com petition Patrick Keating finished 14th of 30 while in the women’s épée competition, Isabelle Reed fin­ ished 6th of 8.

Saturday, he was named to the meet all-star team on the basis of his wins in the 50m and 100m backstroke events as well as the 100m freestyle. Pichette’s times in all of these events are good enough for him to qualify for the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union national championships.

Others who have already qual­ ified for the CIAU nationals include Allard, Keith Sutherland in the 50m butterfly and Doug McCarthy.

Three Martlets named to meet all-star team The wom en’s team had an impressive meet on November 18.

M artlets Kelly Cregan, Elaine Duranceau and Jessica W arren were all named to the meet all-star team.

Cregan won the 200m breast­ stroke and Duranceau won the 200m individual medley. Warren did not win any events but scored many points by consistently plac­ ing in second and third place.

The women’s 4x50m freestyle relay team of Christina Hassell, Beth Carmody, Carolyne McCabe and Andrea Speltz came away with an impressive victory for McGill as well.

M artlets who have already qualified for CIAU nationals

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include McCabe in the 50m butter­ fly, Cregan in the 200m butterfly, Warren in the 200m freestyle as well as M arie-Hélène Gagnon, Carmody and Duranceau.

The team is especially upbeat because the men’s and women’s teams are peaking at the same time.

In the recent past, one team has excelled while the other has fal­ tered. Allard is happy about this turn of events.

“I t’s amazing that we have really good teams for both the men

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and the w om en,” stated Allard. “This has definitely led to a lot of team spirit. We are a close knit group and we really get excit­ ed for each other. This team can really go places.”

Allard and the other swimmers are hoping that the im pressive showings of the swim teams so far will translate into a successful trip to the nationals this year. McGill will be trying to crack the top five at the Canadian Interuniversity Athletics Union championships to

be held at Guelph University next semester.

“The top four teams are usual­ ly the same every year,” noted A llard. “But if we continue to swim like we have been swimming, maybe we can take down one of the powerhouse like the University of Toronto or the University of Calgary. I’m really excited with this team. It’s hard not to be.”

The Montreal Alouettes are hottest ticket around — and with good reason O ut of Left Field Jeremy Kuzmarov

growing rift between play­ er and fan has character­ ized the professional sporting industry in the past decade.

Escalating ticket prices and exorbitant player salaries have been the main catalysts for this trend. A proto-typical example is the Montreal Canadiens, who offer a lacklustre product, for a ridicu­ lously lofty price, which is out of the reach for the majority of peo­ ple.

Seats in the reds cost upwards of 100 dollars, and even a ticket in the boonies can be worth more than 40 dollars, making it more expensive than front row digs for an Als game. The food - which stinks - is also vastly overpriced, making the general Molson centre experience dour and frustrating.

In this volatile age for sports fans, the Montreal Alouettes are a welcome anomaly.

B esides reasonable ticket prices, which allow for the “real fans” and not the corporate suits to dictate the atmosphere, the players themselves are down to earth, and appreciative of their following.

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Lester Smith, for example, one of the hero’s of the Alouettes’ splendid victory over the W innipeg Blue Bom bers on Sunday, made sure to recognize the impact of the fans on the team.

“We’ve got the best fans in the Canadian Football League,” said Smith boisterously. “We get 19,400 some odd fans every game, it’s the same story. The atmos­ phere in here is always tremen­ dous, and that pumps us up. It’s a great win for them, and for the city of Montreal which is a great football town.”

Smith was not alone in laud- j ing Montreal, and the effect of the fans on the team’s performance.

Jock Climie, echoing the sen­ timents of many of his teammates, ! added. “It’s been an incredible | atmosphere here. This win means a great deal to our fans, and I'm happy for them.”

Now when’s the last time you heard Patrice Brisebois reap praise upon the bleu, blanc et rouge faithful?

For that matter w hen’s the last time you heard any profes­ sional athlete express gratitude tow ards their fan-base, which ironically is the sole reason for their stardom in the first place.

W ith this in mind, the Alouettes experience offers the complete package: affordable pric­ ing, great stadium environment, a quality product on the field, and

the opportunity to watch athletes who are humble, and viable rolemodels.

No wonder demand is so high that tickets are becom ing more and more scarce, and plans for expansion of the crum bling con­ fines of M olson stadium , which add to the allure of the A louettes experience, are in the works for the future.

The sports w orld can d e fi­ nitely learn a little som ething from the Als, who look to spark a major celebration in this city, not likely to be derived from any other sport, if they win the Grey Cup next week.

M aybe the folks at M olson brewery should be taking notes.

I t ’s already too late for Réjean Houle and Alain Vigneault.

The Als have endeared themselves to their fans

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