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Sex Toys tic kle s yo u r g -sp o t Judith Drory_________________ “What’s more important is not what sex should be like, but what is sexfor you?”

-Front Page o f Program Guide If all classes at McGill consist­ ed of flashy lights, TV cameras, dance music and a man who is so off the wall that you expect him to explode, the university would, par­ don the pun, stimulate more inter­ est in classes.

That was the scene I found upon entering Leacock 26 on Friday March 23rd. An energetic crowd awaited the entrance of Norman Nawrocki, acclaimed oneman sex comedy show maestro.

And Nawrocki sure knows how to make an entrance. Who else would have the capacity to pull off a giant, neon-pink, talking Vagina?

Virginia Vagina, as she prefers to be known, was hill of advice for both men and women, as to her proper care and treatment, while at the same time educating us on the dif­ ferent parts of the vagina.

Nawrocki is a Montreal-based cabaret artist, violinist, actor, author and educator. He is part of a band, Rhythm Activism, which has produced such CDs as Jesus was Gay and Zapatistas rule! Sex Toys is his third cabaret show, after the immensely popular I Don’t Understand Women and My Dick dr other ManlyTales.

Sex Toys was brought to McGill as part of Queer McGills pride week. It is a co-presentation of Queer McGill, Sexual Assault Centre of McGills Students’ Society, McGill Health Services and Students’ Society of McGill Please see SEX TOYS, page 17

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by Marina Hilaire and which gave Philippa Davis’ piece “Phil’s Angels” a definite edge.

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remained consistently polished throughout the program, it could have been further highlighted in some pieces had the dancers pro­ jected more attitude. This was par­ ticularly the case in the piece, “Something’s gotta give.” There was never a step out of place, but choreography this bold demands an attitude to match; at times that extra bit of chutzpah didn’t come through.

Some of the more lyrical pieces had weak endings, and would have benefited from a more defined, col­ lected finish. Just because a piece emphasizes ‘fluidity’ it doesn’t mean

that it has to end in a lackluster way. Also, the music should have been louder, particularly for the piece “Poison.” Mosaica has the solid dancing talent and choreogra­ phy to go full throttle, and had the music been louder, it would have been even more striking.

The kinetic energy in the opening sequence was followed by the piece “So as it goes...” which had a more balletic, lyrical focus.

The artistic balance in Mosaica was achieved by juxtaposing the pieces with a hip-hop influence with pieces of a more experimental tone, Please see MOSAICA, page 19

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Station 19 offers students safety tips Mike Bargav With the academic year clos­ ing, the perennial apartment hunts are well underway, leaving students frantically shifting through the clas­ sifieds for that perfect fortress of solitude. Many however, remain oblivious to the unsavory baggage of leaving the nest — breaking and entering. Montreal might be a rela­ tively safe city, but the McGill Ghetto and its surroundings are certainly no strangers to theft.

“Between University and St. Laurent, the victim is usually the student,” said Constable Patrick Jodoin of Station 19, the prefecture responsible for the area. “The prob­ lem is that we are not concerned when we are not victims.”

Jodoin explained that the best safeguard against burglary is early preventive measures. Measures such as changing locks upon moving into a new apartment, he said, ensure that only the current tenants have access to the apartment, thus helping eliminate possible robbers with access to keys.

“You have to be sure to change the lock. We have a lot of breaking and entering without any tamper­ ing with a door.”

Following in the vein of such measures is a current program oper­ ated by the Montreal Police and

Tandem to offer free security visits that provide a rubric for improve­ ment. As a precursor to security vis­ its, a program of sending safety brochures via mail is currently

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underway to inform residents of possible hazards. High risk areas, those with a history of breaking and entering, are doubly targeted, del­ uging residents with an increased number of brochures to elicit con­ cern.

“If they receive that form, it is very important that they schedule a safety visit. They are under very high risk,” said Jodoin on the importance of taking heed of the brochures.

The prospects of recovery after a robbery, however, are less than ideal. Only 10 to 15 percent of theft cases are actually solved.

Commonly stolen items include

those that form a rather standard repertoire for most students. While Ikea furniture remains thankfully safe, VCRs, CDs and televisions are common game. But, while prospects of recovery remain bleak, bleakness is reduced to impossibili­ ty if the items are not marked and catalogued.

“If you have a list of posses­ sions, and they are engraved, we put stickers on the doors that note your possessions are engraved. The rob­ bers know that when the goods are engraved, they can’t sell it in pawn­ shops or on the streets. Robbers are looking for an easy theft,” said Jodoin.

“If the goods are engraved, and we have a serial number, if we find these goods, we know that they are stolen. If I only think it’s stolen, I cannot do anything.”

With the summer approach­ ing, many students resort to storage areas to hoard a year’s worth of accumulation. Jodoin explains that storage areas are often poorly guard­ ed, and unless regularly inspected pose a threat.

“The problem is you have to be sure that someone can go one to three times a week to check the door. Storage spaces are usually in the garage or basement where there are no cameras or people.”

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Robinson describes FTAA as corporate im perialism Shehryar Fazli________________ New Democratic Party Member of Parliament Svend Robinson likened the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas to a cor­ porate blitz on culture in a lecture held at McGill on Thursday.

The FTAA will be brought to the table in the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Quebec City from April 19-22. While hundreds of protestors are expected at the event, a recent 32-31 vote by the University senate means that stu­ dents cannot defer final exams in order to attend the rallies.

The reason for protest, accord­ ing to Robinson, is clear. In his lec­ ture he argued that the FTAA sym­ bolizes an imperialist trend. “[The FTAA] is not about trade,” he said. “It’s about power in democracy. It’s about the struggle between corporations and democra­ cy over our decisions about environ­ ment and culture... Elected repre­ sentatives like me are losing the abil­ ity to make these decisions.”

Robinson suggested that the FTAA will allow large US corpora­ tions to penetrate the Canadian social fabric, degrading the cultural substance that makes the country distinct from its neighbour to the

south. Robinson pointed specifically to the case of Quebec in characteriz­ ing the government’s support of the agreement as a contradiction of its

ment of the text as a sign of its weak­ ness.

“This process is about stripping away democracy,” he said. “That’s

Robinson is familiar with allows cor­ porations to force the government to defend its actions in the interest of citizens. Such a clause exists in the North American Free Trade Agreement, signed between the United States, Canada and Mexico in 1994. Robinson described a recent incident where the Mexican government prevented a metal cladding corporation from dumping toxic waste in an ecological reserve.

Under the stipulation set in NAFTA, and in a tribunal estab­ lished through the agreement, the corporation was able to sue the gov­ ernment for $20 million. Robinson claimed that governments involved in the FTAA are seeking to extend this clause to the entire hemisphere, arguing that such an agreement is an attempt to confer power to corpora­ tions over elected government offi­ cials.

principles.

“Flere’s a government that says it believes in the sovereignty of the people of Quebec,” he said. “Yet they are one of the most zealous advocates of these trade deals... that takes away from the sovereignty of the people of Quebec.”

The details of the deal have not been made available to the public yet. Robinson described the conceal­

why it has to be kept a secret. If peo­ ple knew what the agenda was... and if citizens knew what is being negotiated in their name, they would be outraged... If it’s such a great deal why won’t they let us read it?

So far, no members of the opposition party in Canadas govern­ ment have access to the document.

However, one of the provisions that

Quebec City Protestors will have a difficult time if they want to get close to the table at the upcoming Summit of the Americas where representatives of the 34 states (all the American states except for Cuba have been invited) will discuss the FTAA. Citizens will be denied access through the city’s surrounding walls. According to

Robinson, individuals wishing entry into the summit must pay between $75,000 to $500,000.

“They’re turning Quebec City into an armed fortress to protect [the representatives involved],” he said.

“There’s [a system] of buying your way into the corridors of power while the rest are left outside.”

Many of those who are left out­ side will be protestors. Robinson claimed that he was proud of the determined support from citizens to challenge the FTAA, stressing the need for support both inside and outside Parliament. He pointed to the Concordia University adminis­ tration’s decision to grant academic amnesty during the current session’s final exam period to students wish­ ing to participate in the rallies as an important victory in the battle against the trade agreement. He described the upcoming demonstra­ tion as a stepping stone on which to expand efforts in this battle.

“There are other options and alternatives,.. We should build on these alternatives. I hope we can take this energy and charge it towards building that alternative vision. This is not just a Canadian movement. It’s a global movement... I think were going to look back at Quebec City in a few years and we’re going to be proud that we were part of it.”

When is free speech hate speech?

James Grohsgal What happens when the desire to protect freedom of speech clashes with the need to suppress the prom­ ulgation of racism?

Free speech suffers, says Alan Borovoy, general counsel to the Canadian Civil Liberties Union, who spoke last week at the Moot Court in the Faculty of Law. The Canadian Hate Crimes Act, he believes, is a weak weapon against prejudice and a dangerous threat to legitimate expression. “[The Hate Crimes Act] has been used or threatened to be used against those without the slightest resemblance to the hate-mongers,” said Borovoy. With this type of legis­ lation, he claims that the govern­ ment can “legally harass people involved in legitimate protest activi­ ty.” He added that in the hate crimes law “there is no defense for intent or reasonable belief.”

Borovoy noted a change in Canadians’ reaction to discrimina­ tion.

“Yesterday’s discrimination was practiced overtly with public accept­ ance,” said Borovoy. “Today’s dis­ crimination is practiced covertly over public objection.”

Given modern society’s rejec­ tion of intolerance, Borovoy’s prob­ lem with the hate crimes law is “not so much whether it’s desirable to repress expressions of hate but how to cast the net to protect” legitimate forms of speech.

He concedes that while free victed before they won on appeal.”

Weinfeld supports the use of speech is the “lifeblood of the demo­ cratic institution,” it is not absolute the Hate Crimes Act when it is clear and that “the anti-hate law has been that racist speech is being dissemi­ used successfully in a handful of nated because he believes racist cases,” but asserts that other types of thoughts can have physical conse­ laws are more responsive against quences. He cited the case of Douglas Collins, who wrote an arti­ racists.

“Not to muzzle racists but to cle in a British Columbia newspaper marginalize them,” said Borovoy. entitled “Hollywood Propaganda,” “Employment, accommodation, which claimed that the film housing — this is the area of the law Schindler’s List presented a false his­ to properly address racism. We don’t tory of the Holocaust.

“There is a link... between have to choose between prosecution racist thought and racist action...” and doing nothing.”

Morton Weinfeld, a sociology said Weinfeld. “‘Hollywood propa­ professor who holds McGill’s chair ganda’ is a perfect example of of Canadian Ethnic Studies, dis­ Holocaust denial. If this is not hate agreed when he offered a brief speech or literature, then nothing in opposing rejoinder at Borovoy’s lec­ Canada is.”

Borovoy fears that the Hate ture last week.

“We both agree that freedom of ■Crimes Act can be used against legit­ speech is not absolute,” said imate speech, offering as an example Weinfeld. Where the two authorities the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ statements differed, Weinfeld asserted, was in against the Catholic Church when “the boundaries to define the rare Maurice Duplessis was premier of occasions when we have to curtail Quebec. Although the Supreme freedom of speech... I leave it to the Court of Canada overturned courts to decide where to draw that Duplessis’s attempts to curtail the Witnesses’ religious and free speech line.”

Borovoy believes that people rights, Borovoy claims the outcome can suffer unjustly because of hate- could have been different had the crimes laws even if they are eventual­ Hate Crimes Act existed then.

“This would have become a ter­ ly acquited. rific weapon in the hands of “Even if I were to share [a faith Duplessis,” said Borovoy. “The court in the courts], and in large part I do, the problem is not simply whether would have been obligated to con­ the judges get it right, but if the cops vict the Jehovah’s Witnesses.” and the politicians who initiate get it right,” said Borovoy. “It happened in this country with this law. They were arrested, investigated, tried, and con­

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What was Lacking in the last SSMU election ?

Shehryar Fazli Councilors raised complaints about Chief Returning Officer Brain Lack’s decision not to censor candidates from the Red Herring Institutionalized Revolutionary Party during the Students’ Society of McGill University election debates.

In a recent letter to the Tribune, Lack responded to criticisms about his refusal to intervene when RHIRP candidates, among other antics, used a bass guitar to accom­ pany their debates, and displayed a cardboard box bearing a reference to “slutty virgins” during the question period. Many believed that this quote made female members of the audience uncomfortable, that it constituted sexual harassment and that Lack was obligated to prevent such behaviour from continuing.

Lack, however, argued that

while the RHIRP’s campaign tactics may have been tasteless, they did not violate any of the elections by­ laws. In his letter, the CRO suggest­ ed that those who disapproved of his lack of intervention during the debates were students involved in SSMU and who were therefore sub­ jects of the RHIRP’s mockery. His reference to these individuals as members of “the SSMU clique” elicited complaints at Thursday’s meeting.

Arts representative to SSMU Danielle Lanteigne described his statement as an attack on members of the Society, and argued that Lack should have accepted the blame rather than making derisive com­ ments about individuals who raised their concerns. Lanteigne, who was eventually the winning candidate in the contest for the community and government affairs portfolio, claimed that the CRO should be

sensitive to any objections made, and that in this case Lack was shying away from his responsibilities and conducting himself unprofessional-

•yWojtek Baraniak, president of SSMU, similarly argued that Lack was ducking the blame.

“The debates were a mess,” he said. “People were leaving in disgust.

Yet Elections McGill is claiming that the elections went smoothly. I think [Lack] should have accepted responsibility instead of passing on the buck.”

Lack stressed that while the debates may have been frivolous, it would have been inappropriate for him to censor any particular contes­ tant’s presentation.

“The debates were silly,” he said. “But the complaints were from a minority of the audience. The majority was laughing and on the same wavelength [as the candi­

dates]. I don’t think it would have made sense for me to go up there pull the plug on the mike... I don’t have an authoritarian dictator’s approach [to the elections].”

SSMU’s constitution prohibits candidates from discriminatory actions. It also requires candidates to have full respect for human dignity.

Some councilors argued that the word ‘slut’ is an offensive term that discriminates against women.

Furthermore, Jen Sloan, Arts Undergraduate Society VP external, argued that the RHIRP did not consider human dignity.

Lack contended that the remark on the RHIRP’s box was not discriminatory. He also argued that if the phrase is to be considered prej­ udice at all, it can only be so against “slutty virgins.” He pointed to the constitution’s lack of clarity in the matter, and asserted that if coun­ cilors want the CRO to stop strate­

gies similar to the RHIRP’s in the future, they should state it more explicitly in the by-laws.

Deputy CRO Michael Liebman added to Lack’s argument, stating that if Council were to pass a motion stipulating that debates be exclusively serious, it would insti­ tute a very fine line where modera­ tors would have to judge whether any mildly frivolous remark or teas­ ing comment constitutes a viola­ tion.

Mark Chodos, SSMU vicepresident communication and events, suggested that complaints towards Elections McGill were petty.

“I think Elections McGill did their best,” he said. “If people have problems, they should look in the mirror, because they’ve made mis­ takes too.”

Laval University to house 3,000 anti-FTAA protestors Jonathan Colford While some universities have refused to accomodate students who want to travel to Quebec City to protest the upcoming Summit of the Americas, Laval University is taking the word “accomodate” liter­ ally.

The university announced last Friday that it would open up some of its facilities to house up to 3,000 protestors during the Summit, slat­ ed to take place from April 19 to 22, 2001. However, while it is pleased to help out, the University is not taking a political position on the Summit.

Laval’s communications office referred all inquiries on the logistics

of hosting 3,000 people on campus in the middle of exams to Laval’s two major student unions. While the undergraduate student union, la Confédération des associations étu­ diantes de l’Université Laval, and the graduate student union, l’Association des étudiants inscrits aux études supérieures, will take care of the logistics of housing and feeding 3,000 people, the University will provide extra securi­ ty to make sure that the campus is disturbed minimally.

AELIES VP Internal Sébastien Bouchard said that reaction from students has generally been posi­ tive. He noted that there was a very strong demand for housing in town — the university and the stu­

dent unions have received over 10,000 requests for housing from demonstrators so far.

“Politically, we had to do something,” he said. “Logistically, we realized that if they didn’t find any room to sleep they would come here anyway.”

Laval University is located approximately a half-hour bus ride away from the site of the Summit.

The student unions are not fund­ ing protestors’ bus fare.

So far, the student unions have not spent any money to acco­ modate the protestors. They are planning on charging $5 per per­ son per day and will provide food, day care services, and medical care to protestors.

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McGill Senate has twice reject­ ed a motion for academic amnesty for students who wish to go protest in Quebec City. As the Summit is taking place in the middle of the Spring exam period, students would likely have to defer at least one exam in order to preserve their aca­ demic standing.

Concordia, however, is allow­ ing students to defer exams if they pay a $15 administration fee. A report in La Presse said that as of Friday, only one student had deferred an exam in this way, but more were expected to return their exam deferral forms this week.

The Students’ Society of McGill University, while it support­ ed academic amnesty, will not fund McGill student protestors directly by, for example, renting buses.

“There is very little money for that as it is,” said SSMU President Wojtek Baraniak. “Obviously we support clubs and services who are involved by funding them through direct subsidies.” SSMU donates $130,000 annually to clubs and services.

“At the end of the day we have a bottom line to uphold and we never budgeted for this,” he added.

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Arguing for the right to know about fee increases International students hold rally in response to possible $500 tuition fee hike Crofton Steers International students held a rally last Wednesday on the steps of the Arts building in an attempt to fill a petition to be presented before the University’s Senate in the hopes of obtaining advance notice of an increase in international student fees.

The rally itself was prompted by the possibility, first introduced by Vice-Principal Administration and Finance Morty Yalovsky and VicePrincipal Academic Luc Vinet, of a $500 fee increase to full-time inter­ national students’ tuition fees begin­ ning as early as next semester. The McGill International Students’ Network, the organization responsi­ ble for the rally, feels that interna­ tional students are being notified of the possible increase far too late. The organization believes that some inter­ national students may find out about the fee hike only when they see their bills in August, after they may already have made other financial commitments.

MISN President-elect Miguel Bernal-Castillero insisted that the rally was about the prior notice of increases and not about the fee hike itself.

“This is about knowing. This is about the spread of information.

This is about being able to know by how much the fees are going up and being able to plan ahead,” Bernal-

Castillero explained. “If we are told about the fee increase in May, a large part of the McGill community does not find out. They come back in

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August, have a lease signed, they have plans to come to University and the fee increase is just too much and they economically cannot cope.”

Current MISN President and recently elected VP University Affairs for the Students’ Society of McGill University, Jennifer Bilec, concurred with her successor’s views on the notification period.

“The raising of the fees is seen as a separate issue. There are two issues on the table: there is the raising of the fees but what’s more important at this point is the fact that they don’t

not hiding it in any way,” he said.

tell students, or that they are not officially bound to tell students,” said Bilec.

Yalovsky, however, insisted that

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the University is in no way one is try­ ing to hide the possibility of a fee increase to foreign students.

“Last year we started talking about an increase in terms of the stu­ dent administrative fees we were being very open about it. We were

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McGill’s newfound control over student fees stems from the provin­ cial government’s decision last year to deregulate international students’ tuition to each individual university.

“The Quebec Ministry of Education collected [the fees] from all from the Universities and then distributed them how they felt fit, explained Bilec. “McGill University always lost money in that deal because it has a high percentage of international students and out-ofprovince students so in return for giving $8000 for international stu­ dents they got back $5000.”

Yalovsky stressed how beneficial deregulation of the fees would be for the quality of education at McGill.

“We felt that since we didn’t adjust [the international student fees] last year that we should do it this year. We don’t feel that we are shift­ ing the burden of the University finance on international students.

We are talking about a 5 per cent

increase. It is really an expense to help increase the quality of educa­ tion, no one’s going to become rich­ er off this.”

Bilec also agreed that deregula­ tion would be positive for McGill.

“Once you give students the assurance that they want, I do feel that having that discretionary power closer to home is a better way to go about it because they are much more able to be in touch with students,” she said.

Ultimately the MISN rally did not deal as much with money as it did with information. While the organization’s petition will attempt to gather more names before the end of the semester, MISN will be doing what they feel the administration should be doing better: spreading information about the possible fee hike to international students.

“Students have the right to know and we have to plan around that. We are the customers here.

McGill is providing a service and they should care about their cus­ tomers, especially when it regards their education.”

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MeatOut day only halfway Christina Heyding Students were urged to “kick the meat habit” around cafeterias at McGill last Wednesday. EarthSave, a Quebec Public Interest Research Group working group, noted that no food providers, however, elimi­ nated meat from their menus for MeatOut Day. “Residence food services had a contractual obligation to make meat available everyday,” Patrick Guyer, a member of EarthSave, explained. “They did, however, agree to provide one more vegetari­ an option and one less meat option.”

It was clear on MeatOut Day, however, that vegetarians had hoped for more.

“I was disappointed that meat was being served. I felt it under­ mined MeatOut Day. But it was nice to have a choice and I hope to see it go even further next year,” said Danielle Kangalee, a first year student living in Douglas Hall.

Despite EarthSave’s task force of fifteen people stationed through­ out the day at various cafeterias, menu items with meat were popu­ lar.

“Out of the three hundred and thirty portions of ginger chicken produced for Bishop Mountain Hall, three hundred were sold,”

Monique Lauzon, the food service supervisor, said.

Many students not only demanded meat to be served, but also felt that there was something fundamentally wrong with the con­ cept of MeatOut Day. “It’s wrong to make the blan­ ket statement that ‘meat is bad and vegetables are good.’ It’s not so clear cut. There are still problems with [agriculture]. Land has to be cleared and pesticides are used. Yes, I have my beefs with MeatOut Day,” James Renihan, a first year student living in Molson, said.

From EarthSave’s perspective, however, the benefits of a non-meat diet outweigh the alternative. A pamphlet distributed on MeatOut Day listed benefits from reduced risk of heart disease to helping solve world hunger.

EarthSave has been promoting vegetarianism at McGill since 1996. QPIRG, EarthSave, and other groups such as The QueerStraight Alliance, help to advocate for social justice and promote envi­ ronmental awareness.

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Feminism is a broad philosophy

Helplessly headlined

Pickup is every Monday morning

The word “feminism” is often differential in society, that of gen­ I would like to express my dis­ derided and misunderstood. Your der. The patriarchal power struc­ gust with the headline of the coverage of International Women’s ture is global in scale, and is experi­ March 20th issue: “Helplessly Week (IWW) made this painfully enced in many different forms in Homeless.” A person having diffi­ clear. The reader is assured that many different societies. One man­ culty locating an apartment in the IWW is not “a mere feminist event” ifestation of this hierarchy is sexual ghetto is not the same thing as because it goes beyond “advocating assault, where most assaults are per­ Eric Oest____________________________________________________ being homeless. Moreover, the the merits of being a woman” petrated by men against women. headline, along with much of the (Michaud, Thurs. March 13). We would ask that major features of With Mir’s spectacular descent into the Pacific now complete, the article, displays an elitist disregard Feminism is not a word that every­ the Tribune, published in honour of world can once again rest easy knowing that heaps of burning, metal for, not only the truly homeless, one feels comfortable claiming for International Women’s Week no debris will not be falling into their backyards anytime soon. But to the but also those McGill students who themselves, and IWW is for all of less, refrain from trivializing the relief of many, falling metal debris on the scale of Mir does not happen too actually do face real financial diffi­ us — those that identify with the experiences of the millions of peo­ often. Rather, the tonnes of man-made materials used to push us into the culties. word feminist and those who do ple who cope with this power final frontier have been left behind in our extraterrestrial garbage dump.

Whomever is responsible for not. imbalance daily and are seeking Just as the gas giants have their rings, we humans are determined to give that headline should have their But those of us that do so with change. our little, blue planet a defining feature: a ring composed of millions of bank account drained, be evicted pride would like to remind the pieces of man-made garbage. Latest counts show that our collection of | from their apartment, and experi­ Tribune that the broad philosophy Naomi Lear and Judith Rae orbiting garbage now numbers approximately 60,000 objects. ence the severing of all personal ties called feminism is not just about a External Coordinators It seems that regardless of where humans dare to go, be it the top of so that maybe she or he will under­ few women praising the virtues of Sexual Assault Centre o f the the world or the bottom of the sea, we are never able to leave any place as stand the disgusting implication of being female. It is about men and McGill Students' Society we found it. As any dog will tell you, if you haven’t marked your territo­ women identifying a basic power Please see NO PITY, page 8 ry, you were never there and it isn’t yours. Still, unlike the relatively benign oxygen masks on the slopes of Everest or the tattered flags at the Earth’s poles, this stellar garbage is moving at speeds approaching 18,500 miles per hour. Now, to understand this kind of speed, consider that a marble-sized piece of orbiting space debris contains the equivalent amount The McGill Tribune is seeking c o lu m n ist a p p lications fo r th e 2001 - 2002 year of energy as a 400 pound safe after falling 10 stories. So, while our terres­ trial debris may be adversely affecting nature’s aesthetic beauty, our speed­ ing space garbage threatens to adversely affect our beloved cable TV satel­ lites. And while I admit that such a collision would be quite spectacular, I realize that it would also result in the loss of millions of dollars. My only hope would be that the fatal blow would occur at an exceedingly apropos moment such as during Star Trek or something of that ilk.

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You are me, Mir, and I am you Open Letter

Am y L a n g s t a f f To: Mir From: Amy Langstaff Re: The End Dear Mir, By the time you read this, everyone will know what ultimate­ ly became of you. Even now, as I write, we know the ending more or less: we know that after fifteen years of cosmic orbit in the vast black silence that enfolds the hectic little anomaly we call here, you are coming down. We know that you have served your purpose in space, and that you must make way for less dated equipment (your name, Peace, smacks of the Cold War 80s — they might as well have called you Tootie or ALF, for all the cul­ tural longevity of the name). And, Mir, I don’t know whether I should be the one to tell you this, but we know something you don’t know.

Things have happened down here. Strange things. Everything is different. We don’t hear the big guys talk about peace much any­

more. It’s not that there isn’t any conflict, it’s just that what there is is seen as, shall I say, peripheral.

Lives lost, things damaged — the usual — but nothing that threatens to impede the Great March Forward, if you know what I mean.

We still hear some talk of safety, which is the new version of peace, I think, now that there is no real enemy — only blips of protest and the odd rash of terrorism on the radar screen. Peace is what’s called for when parties are at war, safety is what’s required when WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME SIDE. Anyway, Mir, what I’m trying to tell you is that it’s a different world (where is Dwayne Wayne now?). And the thing that I have to tell you has to do with the way this new world works. You see, Mir, everyone knows you are coming down. And there has been some concern as to where you might land. We worry, Mir, that the 28 tons or so of you that won’t burn up upon entering the atmosphere might not land exactly on target (in the specified zone near Fiji, that is). But that’s not the strange part.

The strange part is that the good people at a certain giant US Mexican food chain have spied an opportunity in this global unease

about where you, massive mechan­ ical friend of our youth, will crash.

And the marketers at this chain have thought to “make it interest­ ing,” as they say. They have set up a target somewhere between Australia and Chile, in the region in which the Russians have fore­ casted your landing. If any part of you, Mir, hits any part of this tar­ get, then everyone in the United States will receive one free taco, courtesy of the chain. (You may also be interested to know that there have been attempts to auc­ tion parts of you on eBay.) But what is my purpose in writing to you, you may be won­ dering by now. I don’t know any­ thing about space, I’m not a proud old Russian congratulating you on 86,331 orbits well run, and, being Canadian, I don’t even stand to gain a taco from your fiery descent.

So why am I initiating this corre­ spondence in these final hours before the flat earth rushes up vio­ lently to meet you?

Because you are me, Mir, and I am you. During the almost two decades of your construction and orbit, I have been down here receiving a respectable public edu­ cation and attending the (in rela­ tive terms) modestly priced univer­

sity of my choice. As you have dwelt in the heavens and been peo­ pled by astronauts from all over our humble blue sphere, I have dwelt below, peopled by a range of characters from Beatrix Potter to John Milton to Ingmar Bergman.

As you have moved ponderously, I have pondered (and, on occasion and with some effort, been moved). As you have weathered devastating computer failures and lived to undertake another project, I have — actually, I’ve done exact­ ly the same. They have been privi­ leged places, these zones we have occupied, and ones we could not expect would remain ours forever.

And now what is to become of us, old friend? You, you will plunge to a fiery end. And even as you draw near this, your terrestrial birthplace, we denizens of the world that didn’t exist when you left — the world in which, having woken up from dreamy ideology, WE ARE ALL ON THE SAME SIDE — will scramble to sell you off in pieces. If the name Mir, by some miracle, remains on any part of your broken body, it will not mean Peace as it once did, it will mean Added Cash Value. And if, by an even greater miracle, you hit the Mexican food chain’s target, we

will wave to each other as we wad­ dle across parking lots and shop­ ping mall food, courts, raising our free tacos in the air and crying, “Mir! Mir!” As for me, I too am off to mar­ ket. Goodbye, Beatrix; see you, Ingmar; so long, Open Letter; goodbye sweet silent orbit. My splash won’t be as large as yours, Mir. More of a whimper than a bang, I suppose. And I’m sure I’ll miss my happy sojourn in this loftier place when I’m down below in the briny seas of earthly com­ merce. But I’ll make you a deal. If in a year we find that my landing has been smooth and that I haven’t inexplicably ended up in Fiji, call me: I’ll buy you a taco.

Until then, Amy Langstaff

The ramblings of a twenty-whatever slacker Depraved Indifference D u n c a n Reid When Leah McLaren told me straight-up that she scored her job by a combination of good timing and knowing the right people, I knew I was in good company.

Leah is the young columnist for The Globe and Mail who writes the irreverent column ‘Generation Why in the Saturday section every week. If you haven’t read her col­ umn, which is aimed at what she calls her ‘twenty-whatever slacker’ peers, you need to dump that rightwing Post or give your roommate back her Gazette and go get the Globe this weekend.

By last fall, I had decided that Leah’s consistently amusing columns were easily the most enter­ taining in the country. Then, when Trudeau died, she wrote one of the tribute articles in the Globe, describing how she and her friends had enjoyed ‘The Look’ from the former prime minister while at McGill. That look, which I had heard about as well, was the special smile that the elderly but, ahem,

energetic Trudeau reserved for attractive young ladies that he passed on the street.

But wait a second, I thought, she’s a McGill alum? I hadn’t known that before, and I thought it was the perfect pretense to arrange an inter­ view and write a column about a prominent young McGill grad.

So when I was in Toronto a few weeks later with my girlfriend, I arranged to meet Leah at a café on Queen Street West near her apart­ ment. Problem was, she didn’t show up. As it turned out, she wasn’t a prima donna journalist, she was just a little bit disorganized, so we met the following day at another local café.

As is my unintentional custom, I arrived late: perhaps fashionably Montreal-style late or more likely just a little bit disorganized. So we had one thing in common right from the beginning.

Actually, make that two things: we were both a wee bit sore from various bar stops the night before.

That hangover, on Leah’s part, ensured that she looked like a nor­ mal, relaxed young urban half­ adult, half-kid. She was clearly not the high-maintenance yuppie that her (slightly absurd) almost full

length photo in the Globe makes her seem.

She was just as forthright in person as she is in print, and she has a knowledgeable and faintly cynical charm. She also clearly has a quick mind (although, it turns out, she left McGill for, uh, Trent in second year).

But behind her personability and intelligence, Leah certainly has her contradictions. She is a selfdescribed ‘twenty-whatever slacker’ who teeters on the brink of fullscale yuppiedom. She is a young, relatively inexperienced journalist who writes one of the most visible columns in the Globe. She is per­ haps the wittiest columnist at the Globe — where such cleverness can be in short supply — and yet she considers her talents insignificant next to those of the stuffy, serious columnists like Margaret Wente and Jeffrey Simpson. She is a selfdescribed slacker who obviously cares very much about the quality of her column. She writes very frankly and openly about her pri­ vate life in her column, and yet she is not writing about herself, she is capturing the essence of the twentywhatever slacker’s common per­ spective and putting it into print.

By the very nature of her con­ tradictions, Leah succeeds in cap­ turing some of that perspective in her column. Take, for example, my favourite column (which she also believed was her best) where she describes why she’s not ready for a cat. It was clearly a satirical take on soap/sitcom/friends dithering over whether one is ready for parent­ hood - applied to a more realistic issue for most urban twenty-whatevers: whether one is ready to care for a pet. Leah’s mockery of the clichéd language used in parent­ hood discussions was superb, and the column was both entertaining and right on the money in sub­ stance. (I, for one, don’t think that my lifestyle is mature enough to care for a cat or dog yet....)

Leah’s insights, while some­ times trivial, are sometimes brilliant and worth looking for. I even get email comments on her columns from friends as far away as London and New York who read the Globe online. And academics have noticed as well: a friend of mine knows a University of Toronto professor of communications who thinks that Leah is one of the best of the wide­ ly-read pop-culture critics.

This is my last column in the

Tribune, and as I look back over the past two years I realize that Leah’s columns were the ideal standard that I set in my mind, despite the fact that I’ve usually aimed more for news-focused, serious columns than she does. (I think that the style of writing she has, while seemingly informal and not news-focused, is actually extremely difficult to do on a weekly basis.)

Early last semester, I had pretty much decided to give up this col­ umn — it was just one responsibil­ ity too many. But after chatting with Leah in Toronto, I realized that having the space to express myself like this every two weeks was a real privilege, and something I should care about. So I carried on thinking that maybe, once in awhile, I could write a clever col­ umn. Too late, however, I realized that wit rarely falls off the fingertips when you only give yourself two Friday afternoon/ Saturday morn­ ing hours to work in.

Nevertheless, writing for the Tribune was a privilege - and even sometimes a pleasure. I hope that you enjoyed the ramblings of this particular twenty-whatever slacker.

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The true face of bio-chem

I am appalled at the Tribune’s lack of coverage for the McGill Drama Festival. Last time I checked the Tribune was a student publica­ tion and in theory would want to report on student events. M.D.F is an event entirely created and organ­ ized by students. All of the plays were written, directed, produced, and starred McGill students. But the Tribune decided that they should only review 3 of the 8 plays.

Plays that took hours of rehearsal and organization. And not only did they only review 3 plays, but the accompanying picture was from a totally different production (Being in Love with Bea). The review of “Four is an Odd Number” mixed up the characters of the play. Sal is Cass’s girlfriend. Cass talks to Aaron on the bench. I don’t see how

Although Mr. Speigel was cor­ rect about biochemists being pecu­ liar, his article contained egregious errors, and glaring omissions. For example, contrary to the beliefs of Mr. Speigel, most biochemists do not study it because they think it’s “fascinating.” Rather, they persue a degree in biochemistry because they think it’s a golden highway to med school. He also neglects to men­ tion the shame that all biochemists feel because the BUGS office is nothing more than a mop closest on the fifth floor of McIntyre.

Moreover, Mr. Speigel neglect­ ed to mention the malicious com­ petition which is commonplace in biochemistry courses. He also must be commended for his colourful

use of euphemisms. He describes biochemistry courses as challenging and rewarding. In reality, they are nothing more than a mindless exer­ cise in memorization. A wise man once said “Education is what you remember after you’ve forgotten everything you’ve memorized.” If that is true, biochemistry isn’t much of an education. It’s time someone uncovered the true face of biochemistry: an experiment in organic chemistry, gone tragically wrong.

David Kolin U1 Representative o f McGill University Chemistry Undergraduate Society

Bshara not consistent This is in response to your arti­ cle on the plight of Palestinians in Israel. First of all your reporter couldnt even get Mr Bishara’s name right.

He called him “Mr Rishara” throughout the article unfortunate­ ly the rest of the piece wasn’t much better. Mr Bishara who claims that Arabs are oppressed in the Jewish state actually ran for Prime Minister of Israel in the last general election!

If an Arab Israeli can run for the job of leading the Jewish state (the highest office in the country) it does not seem to be consistent with his assertion that Arabs cannot advance in Israeli society. Moreover while Mr Bishara advocates a multicultur­ al state of Israel and rejects Jewish

Commending hungry students David Schanzle “can’t recommend this play” if he doesn’t know the names of the characters. We give you a program— use it! I think this just another example of the sloppy reporting that has occurred con­ cerning McGill theatre. I know that each theatre executive works very hard to get the school newspapers to cover our shows. After all, we are student theatre — we would like students to come review it. I do commend the Tribune on one thing. You actually reviewed some of the shows. The McGill Daily did not. Thank you for at least partially acknowledging our hard work.

Kathleen Grace U2 English Co- VP Production Players Co-Publicity Director TNC

The efficiency of the system

Ed note: The wrong version o f this story was uploaded to the internet, and it was there was there that his name was incorrectly spelled.

According to press releases, his name is Bshara. The Tribune regrets the error.

would not have to check infomcgill every day. However, it would also force lower income students to relo­ cate to far-removed areas.

Mr. Colford would also proba­ bly argue that McGill’s recent deci­ sion to start capping classes is due to the University’s inability to charge market value for a postsec­ ondary education. If fewer people could afford to attend McGill, there would be no need for limiting class sizes. He could then put his feet up on the seat in front and marvel at what an efficient system we have.

in Canada. Canadians never recog­ nised le fait français as a different cultural manifestation in Canada.

They used legalistic and humanitar­ ian discourses to undermine this fundamental difference of Québec.

We are accused of of being racist, cultural isolationist and narrow­ minded, the traditional stereotypes condemning the affirmation of our specific culture.

Mr Reid accused us of being culturally narrow-minded. I just want to remind him the importance the Quebec government accorded to education, public libraries and our coming national library, the reading policy, the subvention accorded to cinema, modern dance, circus, music... And I am talking only of the cultural policies...

The cultural openness of the sovereignists can be also find in the local dynamism in Montréal.

Outside the McGill ghetto, in areas like Côte-des-Neiges, Saint-Michel, Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, and Montréal Nord existed different organisms intermingling the differ-

ent strata of the urban population.

These organisms are composed of multiethnic population living in close contact in community activi­ ties such as sports, cultural events, and different types of courses. The Parti Québécois is influential to teachers, social workers, and doc­ tors over-represented in these local associations. These sovereignists and social militants are largely pres­ ent in these local activities at the core of Montreal’s social harmony.

Duncan Reid tried to prove the affiliation between the sovereignists and racist ideas by linking Prime Minister Landry to his “great friend” Yves Michaud. First of all, it is the first time I heard about a friendship between Landry and Michaud. Secondly, Reid referred to the “anti-semistic comments” of Michaud. I am asking myself why some persons are talking again about this “over-mediatized” affair because it is now widely accepted that Michaud was not normalising the Jewish Holocaust. He was talk­ ing about the importance to

remember not only the Jewish genocide but also the Armenian genocide, Rwanda’s genocide... He also attacked Bnai Brith organisa­ tion as a lobby Read a little bit about American policy and you will discover that clash between lobbies is a major dimension of 19th and 20th century democratic system.

I want to conclude this article on the cultural curiosity existing among sovereignists. Within the sovereignist coalition, you find unknown sovereignists travelling around the world, reading foreign literature, learning foreign lan­ guages. You are accusing two or three leaders of a movement com­ posed of persons enjoying the highquality works of Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davies, and Timothy Findley. Canada and Ontario have a rich culture, and I hope it is not the one present in Duncan Reid’s article.

Mark Eltis

Dan Rosen U3 Economics

Stop the Press Cultural curiosity Who are Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findley?

So Quebec sovereignists had a narrow vision of culture. In his arti­ cle “When A.L. Van Houtte takes on Tim Horton,” Duncan Reid accused Quebec’s government of having a “narrow-minded culturalist isolationist movement.” I am a sovereignist French Québécois, and I was particularly shocked to read Duncan Reid’s article. It is based on a serious misunderstanding Québec sovereignist movement.

First of all, when Diane Lemieux declared that Ontario had no culture she meant by that this province shares a common culture with the other Canadian provinces.

She never denied the fact that Ontario as a part of Canada had a cultural life. She was just decon­ structing the Trudeau-Dion’s vision of Québec as a normal province without any distinctions from the other nine provinces. This is one basic incomprehension of Québec

Richard Retyi New Medical School Liker

Shame on Stockwell

Jonathan Colford seems to believe that because he learned that rent control causes housing short­ ages in his first year microeconom­ ics class, and because it is hard to find an apartment in the ghetto this year, the root of the problem must be rent control (Editorial, March 20). However, Montreal landlords have a large amount of freedom in determining the rental prices of new dwellings and so they continue to invest in Ghetto housing. Rent control laws affect the landlord’s ability to raise the price from year to year so that students and others can continue to live in the same area. Getting rid of these laws would mean that if he could afford the new higher prices, Mr. Colford

nationalism he has no problem with Palestinian nationalism. He also demands the evacuation of all Jews from the Palestinian territories a sort of ethnic cleansing in my opin­ ion. If Arabs can live in Israel, Jews should be able to live in the future Palestinan state. In fact, it is illegal to sell land to Jews in the Palestinian areas. If this isn’t discrimination and hypocrasy [sic] I don’t know what is!

During my years at McGill I happened upon many McGill Med School students, many of whom struck me as self-centered and selfimportant. This perception unfor­ tunately stuck with me through 7 years at McGill — but today my tune has changed. It was nice to read about the Med School twentyfour hour famine and realize that there are still many future M.Ds who are trying to make a difference worldwide. Yes, a turn-out of 30 people is small, but it’s a good start.

Samir Hussain, Rahda Jetty, and Mark Corden — as well as the other 27 or so participants should be commended for their efforts.

Jean-Francis Clermont-Legros

Shame on Stockwell Day for questioning Jean the Dictator and Paul Martin on the value of the Canadian dollar. Now the news media is telling us that thanks to Mr. Day’s comments and the Alliance Party’s public concern that it will certainly cause a further de­ valuation of the Canadian dollar.

Why don’t those Canadian Alliance types just keep their mouths shut and stop causing us Canadians all these problems?

After all, the low value of the Canadian dollar couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the fact that the Liberals are shelling out money like drunken sailors instead of paying down the debt. And we all know that the political unrest in this country inflicted upon us by the “Chosen Province” and its illus­ trious new leader can only help to bolster our dollar. So Stockwell, quit asking dumb questions and ruining our country!!

Mike McLarty Ottawa

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that headline. Forgive me, but I don’t really feel any pity for those poor babies who can’t find an apartment within five walking minutes of campus without having it cut too severely into their beer fund, and they certainly are not homeless.

So, if we are to believes that these students who might just have to “live in [their] car,” who “sit anx­ iously in front of their computers,” and offer “cash rewards to anyone who nabs [them] ... an apartment for next year” are “helplessly home­ less,” just how seriously are we sup­ posed to take the rest of the your newspaper.

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Now, stirring constantly, wait until almost all the stock has boiled off, then add some more. This should be a slow process - if the stock is boil­ ing quickly, turn down the heat. A good guideline is about five minutes per cup of rice. When about half the stock is gone, add the mushrooms and stir them in, then get back on that stock. Keep adding it until it’s all gone. Usually, when there’s about a cup left, I like to try the rice. It should be getting soft by this time, but the core should be al dente, which is to say hard. This is a bit of a delicate process, and to tell you God’s honest truth, you’ll probably fuck it up the first time you try it.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 27 March 2001

Winners prosper the rest falter Shirlee Engel It was a time when 18-year old high school dropouts could spend a summer reading manuals resem­ bling phonebooks in size, and become multi-million-dollar ven­ ture capitalists as autumn leaves fell to the ground.

We saw our shopping options grow exponentially, our homes invaded by Internet-ready PCs and new web-based companies waiting for us to robotically send the digits of our credit cards swirling into cyberspace for products delivered to our doorsteps. It was a time when stocks soared to record highs and young investors became overnight additions to the list of the wealthiest North Americans.

It was the birth of the dot-com boom, those cunning laptop-toting Silicon Valley geeks, who moved to paradise, and in only a few short years turned the region into a nest of dozens of budding entrepreneurs who spread across the world and embraced a new way of doing business — e-business.

Everyone wanted to hop on the e-business bandwagon, including Spencer Borland, a computer sci­ ence student in his final year minoring in management. Driven by an entrepreneurial history in his fami­ ly, an interest in computer software, and the boom in Internet-based companies, he started his own ebusiness with partner Amos Amit in the summer of 1999.

“During the time that all this dot-com stuff was going crazy, we started it for kicks to see what hap­ pens,” says Borland, whose compa­ ny, Conlatus, which sells its soft­ ware products online, has recently started hiring full-time staff to ful­ fill duties he previously shared with Amit. Borland assumes the com­ puter tasks while Amit works on the selling aspect of the business.

“It’s grown quite a bit. We have about 100 clients,” he says. “We’ve been hiring people and that has added to expenses a bit, but it’s starting to pay back. We have yet to see the effects of that.”

But, much to the chagrin of Borland and many young likeminded entrepreneurs, the get-richquick, retire-by-the-time-you’re-35 model of e-business has crumbled to the ground as companies are going under and larger corporations are giving the pink slips to thou­ sands of employees. In November 1999, Montreal-based Zero Knowledge Systems Inc., a large Internet-privacy software company,

shed more than one-quarter of its workforce.

Such has been the case with scores of e-businesses. According to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a Chicago, Illinois-based executive search firm which has been con­ ducting an informal tracking of

dot-com layoffs for nearly two years, more than 65,000 people at Internet-based companies have been booted since December 1999.

And the number is not decreasing.

With stock markets taking investors for a ride and the U.S. Federal Reserve slashing interest rates to try and save a volatile economy, layoffs continue.

However, with big companies such as Compaq, Cisco and Intel cutting out thousands of employees and reporting major revenue reduc­ tions, many are left wondering if is this just a really good weight-loss plan for an industry carrying a great excess of useless equity-based busi­ nesses.

A m uch-needed dip

Gerry Ross, dean of McGill’s School of Management, says that concern for the future of the tech­ nology industry should not be based on what he sees as a muchneeded dip in a sector that was growing out of control.

“The current downturn reflects a much-needed correction in an unsustainable trajectory,” says Ross, pointing out that a similar situation occurred when PCs began flooding the market in the early 1980s. “All of [the] companies have disap­ peared but the PC is still alive and well.. .This sort of shakeout is prob­ ably a natural transition for a dynamic new industry.”

Despite the recent downturn in the tech industry, some compa­ nies are still going strong, and even recruiting new talent.

“We are actually hiring more people because of increased demand for our services,” says Leerom Segal,

CTO (chief technology officer) of Kick Communications Inc., a Toronto-based marketing and com­ munications company providing Internet consulting and Internetbased solutions. “I believe that the market is currently punishing com­ panies with unprofitablé business models that didn’t justify their valuations. Ultimately, this is creating a stronger marketplace where the sur­ vivors are those companies that were generating real revenues, showing profits, and managing their growth.”

As a result, says Segal, companies like Klick have been able to capture more market share and hire toptalent. “We are actively seeking those talented indi­ viduals and we have the luxury of being pickier with our hires and less frivolous in dealing with their previouslyinflated salaries.”

Survival of the fittest

Prospects for e-business are now being examined by some from a Darwinian perspective.

“I believe that overcapitaliza­ tion has to happen when nobody knows which ideas are going to win, but eventually the market will stabi­ lize and smart organizations will continue to invest in their future,” says Segal.

Many feel that those who start­ ed e-businesses in the hopes of making a quick buck got what they deserved when their faulty business models broke down, their capital ran out and their doors had to close.

Mike Krofchick, a management information systems student who is graduating this year, is one such believer. “There are too many com­ panies, they’re too fragmented and too many people are trying to do the same thing with no added value. You have to take a lot more factors into account these days when you’re thinking about who will possibly be around in two years.”

For those seeking to apply their degree expertise in the dot-com world, the outlook seems at first discouraging. Dan Hoffard will be graduating from Minnisota State University in May with a B.S. in computer science. He recently began consulting experts online in his search for employment in the tech industry.

“I spend 2-3 hours a night researching companies and apply­ ing for jobs. My resume has been viewed over 500 times,” he asserts.

“I get calls every now and then from recruiting companies and HR departments, in which they discuss my resume, and then the conversa­ tion ends with them saying they will be ‘in touch’ with me. They never call back.”

Indeed, the prospects for employment are not as rosy as they once were. Hoffard is looking for a job in Seattle, and has encountered many employers who speak quite frankly about a grim situation.

“The recruiting companies tell me that ‘the economy is bad in Seattle...there are layoffs everyday’ and that ‘companies are not paying nearly what the online salary sur­ veys say.’ I just can’t convince any­ one to fly me out for an interview,” says Hoffard.

However, there is still reason to remain optimistic. Alan Hoffman, Tech Jobs expert for Monster.com, a web-based global online employ-

The current downturn reflects a much-needed correction in an unsus­ tainable trajectory.

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55 ment network connecting compa­ nies with those looking for employ­ ment, thinks the problem is more about a barrier of entry.

“The economy isn’t that bad, but — for techies — it’s hurting people new to the industry more than others. Those with 3-5 years of experience in the right skill...still have lots of options.”

Planning a career in the world of dot-coms will take some skill, says Ross, who asserts that the Internet is metamorphosing dra­ matically. Offering hope for stu­ dents, Ross stresses that just because many people made money quickly on the web, it doesn’t mean entre­ preneur hopefuls can gloss over effective planning.

“Clearly the dot-com model of 18-year-olds receiving $50 million in funding with no customers is not a sustainable model for growing a healthy business.”

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Beyond the dow nturn

At the end of his bachelor’s degree at McGill, Borland acknowl­ edges that those aspiring to enter the tech industry will not be held in the same esteem as their predeces­ sors. “Two years ago, you told someone you worked in a dot-com company and they were like ‘whoa!’ but now you tell them the same thing and it’s almost like it’s out-ofstyle.”

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Michelle O’Brodovich Ah coffee — that wonderful black swill loved by students and professionals alike. Every morning it tempts you with promises of good mood and energy — a warm caf­ feine-filled hug to help you get started on your day. It is the second most valuable, globally-traded com­ modity behind petroleum and it employs over 20 million farmers and workers in over 50 countries.

Especially after pulling an allnight study session with good of Joe by your side, it seems there is nothing that coffee can’t do. But can buying certain types of coffee actually make the world a better place? Advocates of fair trade coffee certainly seem to think so.

Fair trade coffee is a concept that emerged four years ago in Quebec under the title “Un Just Café,” asserts the fair trade McGill web site (ssmu.mcgill.ca/qpirg/coffee.html). The campaign was initi­ ated by a social change group called Équiterre as a means for dealing with the inequalities of the global coffee exchange where small coffee farmers are dependent on middle­ men referred to as “coyotes” for transportation and credit for their product.

“It’s a vicious cycle,” says McGill management professor Louis Chauvin. “The coyote has the trucks and gets the beans to market

as well as lending the small farmers money... [the farm­ ers] tend to live in iso­ lated areas, speak only local languages and are very dependent on the coyotes.

The interest rates [the coy­ otes charge] range from 20-60 per cent and the farmers are paid ridiculous prices for their coffee.”

According to fair trade McGill, an Students Society of McGill University organization affdiated with Quebec Public Interest Research Group (QPIRG), fair trade coffee helps the small farmers by eliminating the “coy­ otes.” Buyers instead do their busi­ ness directly with the small farmers’ cooperatives. Purchasers of fair trade coffee have to fulfill several criteria, such as direct trade with the farmers, a long-term commit­ ment of between one and ten years, as well as support for initiatives concerning democratic manage­ ment of the cooperatives, education and the environment. Perhaps most importantly, the buyer is responsi­ ble for providing credit to the farm­ ers at the beginning of the growing season, up to 60 per cent of the value of the contracted crop. This job was previously filled by the

middlemen.

So who's guzzling?

Does this mean that now you can enjoy your morning buzz sur­ rounded in an altruistic glow of smugness? Maybe not. In fact, according to Transfair Canada, the organization responsible for the labeling of fair trade coffee, though 30 per cent of consumers say they are willing to pay extra for justice, only five per cent actually do so.

This seems to be the general attitude on campus as well. Though fair trade coffee is sold at many places at McGill, including the Shatner and Bronfman cafeterias, the Architecture Café and Sadies, many student consumers of fair trade coffee would not make a spe­

cial effort to seek it out.

“I’ll buy it when I see it,” says U2 stu­ dent Julie Boileau. “It will not change the state of the world...but if I get a coffee I will choose fair trade coffee.”

Sometimes, find­ ing fair trade coffee can be rather diffi­ cult. For example, in Shatner cafeteria, only one of the five coffee canisters has the fair trade seal, and it is located in a separate area next to the cash regis­ ter. Logically, students waiting in line would see the other four canis­ ters first, and not see the fair trade one until after paying.

“I know about [fair trade cof­ fee], but I never see it around,” he says, adding that he probably wouldn’t buy it even if it was,” says U2 student Adam Baxter.

Another possible area of con­ cern with fair trade coffee is the requirements a company must ful­ fill in order to sport the fair trade logo. Thé actual percentage bought in order to receive the logo “can be a very small percentage,” says Chauvin, adding that including minimal percentages in the buyer’s contract are currently being dis­ cussed.

Courting the bucks

A grass roots campaign by Global Exchange recently persuad­ ed Starbucks to incorporate fair trade coffee into 2,300 stores in the United States, with promises of more in the future.

Here at McGill, Fadi Issa, manager at Veggie Rama in the Shatner Cafeteria, added that even if only one person had persistently asked for fair trade coffee he would have supplied it anyway.

“I don’t want people to go somewhere else — that’s what we call service,” he says.

The power of word-of-mouth in the campaign is evident. When Équiterre first began the “Un Juste Café” campaign in 1996, it had only two outlets in the province.

Just four years later, the company has over 350 outlets, two importers and 15 roasters. And though the market is small, Transfair Canada argues “this five per cent is.. .a large enough market share to convince manufacturers and retailers to pay a license fee to cover the costs.”

Ultimately, the decision whether fair trade coffee is worth­ while is left to the individual.

Whether you like your coffee with cream, sugar or political debate, it still does the trick during this time of year.

Keeping your options open Rhea Wong Increasing awareness of men­ strual health has led many women to look for alternatives that don’t treat their periods like car collisions to be cleaned up and hauled off the road quickly.

“My vagina is pissed off because of dry, motherfucking tam­ pons being stuffed in it,” said a line from the recent hit The Vagina Monologues. For most, tampons and pads are the most common men­ strual products available. Recently, however, alternative products have become available outside of main­ stream marketing campaigns.

O f the most popular, there is the Keeper, an "internally-worn cup made of rubber that creates a seal against the vaginal walls. The cup collects blood, can be worn for up

to 12 hours and can be emptied as often as necessary. It’s reusable, environmentally friendly and eco­ nomical. a.d., a member of the Montreal-based Bloodsisters, explained the appeal of the Keeper.

“We’ve been distributing the Keeper for five years and we advo­ cate the Keeper as an alternative to tampons. Environmentally, it reduces waste because of the over­ packaging associated with tampons and applicators. The Keeper is envi­ ronmentally more positive because of the lack of over-packaging,” she said. “Also, you can use it up to ten years and it’s a one time buy. We find that the convenience and ‘lib­ eration’ of tampons to be con­ tentious. What liberation means is active women who have choices and who may not find that cloth pads are not for her lifestyle.”

Though the Keeper may be a

good option for many, it may not be for everybody. Among the criti­ cisms of the Keeper is that it only comes in two sizes in a world of dif­ ferent-sized women.

Erica Weinstein, events coordi­ nator at the McGill’s Women’s Union, commented on different responses to the Keeper.

“With the Keeper, most of the problems have been women saying it’s messy. Some say that when they pull it out, it might hurt until they get used to it,” she said. “Some say they get more cramps with it. There are women who just can’t use it because they have a problem with inserting things in their vagina.”

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product has been around since the 1920s, according to the Menstrual Museum (www.mum.org). a.d. cited corporate interests as the main reason behind leaving the Keeper off the shelves.

“In the last year, the sale of the Keeper escalated. According to the company that makes the Keeper, sales are up every year. It’s definite­ ly great, but with the onslaught of commercial products; it didn’t get shelf space because it’s reusable and therefore not profit-generating,” said a.d. “Feminist activists brought back the Keeper and it’s grown since then by women telling women, which is really a great com­ munication and activist phenomenon. »

origins Looking for alternatives

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natives emerged in the 1970s dur­ ing the feminist and sexual revolu­ tion, where a growing concern with women’s issues sparked a sense that tampons might not be the way of the future.

“There didn’t used to be a need for alternatives. In the 70s, compa­ nies were selling the idea of going with the flow and freeing women by selling tampons. They were trying to commodify women’s bodies and women started to go back and look for alternatives to this,” opined Weinstein.

Additionally, concerns about toxic shock syndrome (TSS) and chemicals in tampons compounded a search for something new.

Harry Finley, founder of the Menstrual Museum, presented his view about women looking for a different way.

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“I think women have learned more about the possibility that tra­ ditional products may have con­ taminants, such as dioxin and some are willing to try methods that are possibly less hazardous,” he stated.

Marie-Elaine Delvin, nursing coordinator for the McGill Health Services, pointed to lack of research in the early days of tampons as a major cause ofTSS in the 70s.

“I’m not aware of any studies showing a risk with the Keeper. O f course, there’s a risk ofTSS anytime you put a foreign body into your body especially if blood is sitting there either in a tampon or a cup,” she said. “It’s a risk, but not very frequent.

“People are more aware of risks involved with menstrual products, there’s more regulation about the amount of blood a tampon can hold and how long it should stay in.

When super-absorbent tampons

were on the market and people started to get TSS, companies took the tampons off the market.”

Other alternatives to The Keeper

Rest assured that there are other choices aside from the Keeper if it’s not your cup of tea.

“There are reusable pads, flan­ nel and terrycloth, which are nice and cozy in funky pattern [s], which is why a lot of women buy a lot of them. There are, of course, all-natu­ ral sea sponges which you can insert like a tampon and then squeeze out the blood as necessary. A lot of older women I’ve met use these instead of tampons,” Weinstein said. “We also sell organic tampons which are made of organic cotton made without pesticides, herbicides and bleach.”

Again, there are downsides involved with reusable pads and sea sponges. Some women find that

cleaning pads is not convenient, while sea sponges tend to leak.

A newer product on the market, called Instead, is worn up near the cervix like a diaphragm and allows women to engage in intercourse during their periods.

Possible negatives for Instead include the fact that it’s not reusable, which cre­ ates waste and that it is made of latex, which may cause allergic reactions among some women.

“I’ve met women, mostly in the [United] States, who use Instead. They told me that they reuse the cup and I did some homework and it was a little bit nerve-wrack­ ing when I learned you’re not sup­

posed to reuse the cup. If it’s not designed that way, there could be health risks associated with it,” said a.d.

Delvin, however, said that a woman’s choice of product should be a purely individual decision, unhindered by medical cautions. “ [Alternatives] are very person­ al. Those decisions are individual and TSS is a low risk now, but still a risk. You can look at all the options that you have and ask for more choices. From a medical point of view, there’s no best way of using menstrual products. Respect what you want to do.”

The Keeper is available through the M cG ill’s Womens Union or Elle Corazon a t 1 7 6 Bernard West, 2733933.

Religious education: Teaching values and spirituality to students Sara Cornett Religion is an integral part of human existence, it always has been.

History is replete with the ponderings and notions of humans grap­ pling with the meaning of life.

Religion provides some answers to otherwise unanswerable questions.

“To understand the human journey, one must understand reli­ gion. To neglect religion is to neg­ lect an essential room in the house of culture,” said Dr. Spencer Boudreau, director of student teach­ ing at McGill.

Today, the role of religion in elementary and high schools is a hot issue. In Quebec, specialized Catholic and Protestant education is allowed for those who choose it, as guaranteed in the Canadian consti­ tution.

However, the status quo is under some pressure to change. The Quebec government is currently deliberating on the elimination of religious education from the school system in favour of moral educa­ tion.

Since the 1960s, schools have become increasingly secularized, with authority passing from the

hands of religious institutions into the hands of the secular state.

Though belief in God is certainly not declining (it hovers above 80 per cent) religious education, and atten­ dance at religious institutions, have been in decline over the past forty years.

“Nothing is inherently second class about religion,” remarked Eric Caplan, director of the Jewish teacher-training program at McGill.

“However, greater respect has been given to mathematics, and science — professional tools which help to earn a living.”

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“Essentially, education has lost its spiritual dimension, that is to say, it has lost the element of reflection upon its overall meaning. Religious education, or spiritual education, implies addressing fundamental questions of meaning and purpose,” said Ghosh.

Many perceive the loss of reli­ gion in the classroom as a defect in the quality of education. A philo­ sophical void exists that is only exac­ erbated by the lightning-quick pace of life pervasive in North America.

“Children need to nourish their spiritual being,” says Boudreau.

“How are we going to define our­ selves today? Through technology?

Via Internet? The human struggle has value in itself. Things have meaning in themselves. Technology is just a part of the world; its value is what we give it.”

On a practical level, propo­ nents of religious study point to the fact that students must be made aware of the religious culture that surrounds them, just as they must be aware of other facets of society. In a country as religiously diverse as Canada, a broad knowledge of vari­ ous customs can only enhance and foster understanding.

“I was taught all religions in my school and I think, consequently, I have an advantage over many because I have learned to appreciate other faiths and people,” said Amy Sanderson, a McGill student.

So, how should religion

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what is being discussed at the moment between die minister of Education and the Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA),” said Boudreau.

The CRA is presently working on teacher and curriculum develop­ ment. Boudreau, a member of the CRA, would like to see Quebec adopt Belgium’s public school sys­ tem, where different religions are offered as parents express the wish for it. This requires more work and flexibility in terms of coming to a consensus, but Boudreau sees it is better than having private schools that adhere to one religion in partic­ ular.

Though religion in the class begins at elementary school, univer­ sities have also begun to discuss the role it should play in higher educa­ tion.

“One of the frequent criticisms of education is that educational studies have become increasingly atomized, fragmented, and lacking in any coherence,” said Ghosh.

“The steps that are being taken by the department of culture and val­ ues in education are to develop spir­ ituality education and holistic edu­ cation at both the undergraduate and graduate levels to address these questions.”

The issue of religion in schools has no perfect or obvious solution, but a belief that a complete lack of religious schooling is detrimental to students’ development is becoming a more common assertion. The dif­ ficulty lies in constructing a curricu­ lum where everyone feels respected in their faith.

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It's a hard knock hip hop life Raisin' Kane documentary outlines Canadian hip hop scene at the underground level Ricky C. Gordon

To many trying to gain fame, hip hop is just a game. R a isin ’ K ane: a ra p u m en ta ry takes a look at people who view hip hop as life and food on the table.

The documentary focuses on the Canadian urban music industry by following the up and coming hip hop group Citizen Kane from the ‘back in the day’ 80s and 90s to today and their Juno nominated album (2000), D elivera n ce. It’s an insider’s point of view that is gritty and truthful in portraying the reali­ ties of independent labels and the struggle for longevity without the aid of major record companies.

On the issue of hip hop artists and the business aspects of the industry, Alison Duke, the director, said, “We’re doing something new by showing young Black people as entrepreneurs. Hip hop is life for them, but it’s business too.”

Citizen Kane is about loyalty to hip hop, Toronto and each other.

The group mainly consists of Rob Paris (a.k.a. Rob Byle), Jeff Duke (J Spade) and Adrianne Perry (manag­ er) who have been friends since childhood. They grew up loving and respecting the various forms of

hip hop such as breakdancing and rapping. The documentary shows that their love for hip hop is for more than merely monetary rea­ sons. They use it to reach a greater fan base in order to spread their messages of unity and equality against discrimi­ nation and racism.

They want to better their lives away from the hard­ ships within the housing projects where drugs, crime, violence and despair are predominant.

“Hip hop is struggle; it’s hap­ piness and it’s love. You can’t have hip hop without the streets. You have to rep­ resent the streets first before you represent anything else. Know where you come from as much as you know where you are going.” J Spade said.

Rob Byle added, “This is life to me. Citizen Kane is a part of me.”

Citizen Kane represents the

plight of many independent artists who must fight to be heard by a mass audience. These individuals focus more on what they know and where they are from than on surreal

material. Hip hop is stricdy real for them and garnering the respect of their neighbourhoods is foremost.

R a isin K a n e is an instrumental piece of work that has the power to influence one’s mindset on a part of the Canadian music industry that has not received much attention.

Hip hop in Canada has been

vibrant since the 80s with Maestro and earth-shaking since the 90s with the Rascalz rapping and break­ dancing their way to world-wide acclaim. R a isin K a n e shows that hip hop in Canada must receive more radio play on major stations in order to move to the next level.

Nelson George, author of H ip H op A m e ric a , said, “Every major U.S. city has at least one station that plays almost all hip hop.” Yet until recently, Toronto didn’t even have one.

The docu­ mentary makes it clear that radio support here in Canada is vital for these independent artists who need it as much as they need to tour in each city. Milestone Radio, led by CEO Denham Jolly, was granted radio frequency of 93.5 just last year in Toronto and it became the first station to exclusively play hip hop music.

This kind of initiative must be spread across the country for Canadian hip hop to flourish.

R a isin K a n e focuses on the now, in the situation where the majority of hip hop artists are inde­ pendents. It features interviews with Canadian music mogul Ivan Berry, manager Farley Flex, record­ ing artist Michee Mee and MuchMusic’s Master T comment­ ing on the hip hop scene and inde­ pendent mentalities.

Maestro, Choclair and Mike Bullard also make cameo appearances. Alison Duke has done a commendable job in showing that hip hop in Canada will continue at the underground level until more support is gained from Canadian fans. R a isin K ane: a ra p u m en ta ry fittingly begins with the subtitled message: “Hip hop is a worldwide phe­ nomenon, yet independent rap artists are not being heard. But that’s never stopped’em from try­ ing...”

For inform ation on how to p u r­ chase a copy, check o u t the website, w w w.njb.ca a n d look fo r Raisin’ Kane or call (514) 2 8 3 -9 0 0 0 . A review o f C itizen Kane’s d ebut album ,

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Bill Seaman's endless possibilities A continuing combination of states awaits the "vuser" at Red Dice Adam Kaufman

Mother Nature, in association with the M c G ill T rib u n e, sent me on a long, wet, and treacherous journey this past Thursday evening.

I made my way with extreme loss of coordination (due to an eclectic March-in-Montreal mix of rain, snow and wind) to the opening of internationally renowned American interactive artist Bill Seaman’s newest exhibition, R ed D ice, at the Cinémathèque Québécoise on Maisonneuve.

Celebrating the revolutionary poem “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” (Dice Thrown Never Will Annul Chance) written in 1897 by French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé, the exhibit challenges the viewer to a sensory overload o f images, music, and words.

Disorder, movement, and con­ fusion reflect the viewer’s personal search for meaning, and are com­

mon themes in Seaman’s work. An electronic tablet and pen allow the participant to surf through the full text of “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard” alongside an array of images, all of which are

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simultaneously being displayed on a wide screen for the non-navigating viewers to soak up.

Seaman’s haunting baritone voice serves as narration to this media carnival, interspersing his own words along with a sensual reading of Mallarmé’s masterpiece.

Seaman’s compositions of musical phrases serve as a backdrop to the constantly evolving experience as it

digitally unfolds before the audi­ ence.

A contemporary and friend to such illustrious artists as Edouard Manet and James MacNeill Whistler, Mallarmé was well ahead of his time when he wrote “Un coup de dés...,” completed just one year before his death. Influential in establishing new directions in poet­ ry, Mallarmé challenged the reader’s sense of order by placing words and phrases on the page with irregular and uneven spacing, encompassed in odd, uncentered arrangements of lines. This literary mayhem means it’s unlikely that any two people will have the exact same reading experi­ ence, paving the way for a complex variety of interpretation. As the title of the poem reflects, not even the throw of dice can interfere with the infinite possibilities of chance.

Seaman is extremely concerned with how meaning is constructed by both the visual and aural senses of the viewer who is, in essence, the

creator. He serves to facilitate this interest by referring to his audience as “vusers” who have an ever-broad­ ening role in constructing meaning through the use of modern interac­ tive technology.

He gives his “vusers” a choice of images, ranging from picturesque nature scenes of waterfalls and freely soaring birds, to close-ups of the cylindrical, interconnecting, constant motion of industrial machines such as the mechanical loom and the player piano.

These images, all of which are ancestors of today’s cultural and technological weapon, the comput­

er, serve to comment on the current ‘Electronic Age’. He continues to make a connection between old and new technologies, bombarding the viewer with what he calls recombi­ nant poetics.

More confusion is added into the mix with a bilingual aspect, allowing the viewer to switch back and forth between French and English, both of which are narrated by the clever Seaman. Constantly reminding us of the “sea of proba­ bility” and “the thrown potentials of doubt”, Seaman seems optimistic in an era plagued by cliché, where artists struggle to express original and inspiring innovations.

Seaman speaks in metaphor of “eternal worlds and eternal words” and of “the life of variance,” bright­ ening the tunnel to endless possibil­ ities, as well as the mood of this weathered journalist.

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S e l e c t Start Vid E. Oest o you know that game where the object is to strike your opponent’s praying hands? You know, the one where your hands are placed at your side and, in order to maintain advantage (i.e. to be the bringer of pain, not the receiver), you must make contact with your competi­ tor’s outstretched hands before he retracts them?

Well, I’m really good at this game (For those of you who read an earlier piece of mine, might I also mention that, this time, I’m actually telling the truth; I really am good at this game). I’m so good that, in most situations, long before they ever get the chance to strike my hands, my opponents leave the gam­ ing arena running away screaming about the sad state of their bruised and bloody hands.

Why do I mention this fact, you ask? Well, I believe that there is a direct correlation between my affinity for videogames and my abil­ ity to successfully execute my thoughts of pain infliction through the administration of my lightning quick bodily movements. You see, videogames are not entirely without purpose; the hours spent honing your fine motor skills can sharpen your mind and improve whatever motor skills deficit you might have.

To help prove my hypothesis, let me begin by recounting a partic­ ularly successful endeavour that could only have been achieved after hours of videogame practice.

I like to drive really fast and, as my insurance company friends implicitly tell me (in my premiums), fairly recklessly with no concern for

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One such episode is worth mention­ ing: Last summer, I was deeply engrossed in my virtual racing career, winning races and making lots of money. Every day I was becoming a better driver and, even­ tually, I ceased making those careless rookie mistakes. Naturally, the

responsibly decided to conduct my preliminary time trial on a deserted road that was to become the main artery for a giant housing develop­ ment. Shady Acres, as the develop­ ment was to be called (I think that’s what they’re all called, by law), had the right name and atmosphere to become the perfect track for my debut run. After driving over the track to check the turns and clear the road of potentially dangerous debris, I drove my car back to the entrance of the development. After a couple of gentle revs I released my foot from the accelerator and anx­ iously awaited the signal to let er’

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money and the virtual fame were well received, but I knew something was missing: my racing talents were being restricted due to the finite number of virtual racers and tracks.

The solution seemed obvious: why didn’t I take my acquired virtu­ al skills and apply them to the real world?

So, on a day when the race con­ ditions were perfect, I decided to take the family car out for a little spin. Fully aware that this could land me in a heap of trouble, I

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Sadly, my car has an automatic transmission and so there would be no popping of the clutch. Still, my foot was all the way down and our modest Sedan was beginning to gain speed. At about 1000 metres I was approaching 100 miles an hour and, yes, the rush was peaking. Soon, the first turn appeared in the distance.

Now, unlike videogames, real cars and drivers are not as well equiped to handle the serious amounts of braking required to make it through

a turn without wrapping yourself around a telephone pole. This was a lesson that I learned very, very quickly. As I began breaking, I real­ ized that I wasn’t going to be able to slow down without locking the wheels and spinning out of control.

As I pondered what to do next (this was a very quick ponder) I luckily remembered what my crazy, Russian driving instructor once told me: “Whatever you do...don’t lock the wheels! Go straight and pump the brake at regular intervals like a good citizen” (this was a requisite finish to all his sentences.)

Keeping his sage advice in mind, I decided that I would attempt to jump the curve and manoeuvre the car across a plot for a house. If my idea worked, this would allow me to drop the car back down onto the road after riding through the middle of the s-curve.

It worked beautifully and there really wasn’t that much damage to the car. I’m sure the underbelly and the shocks didn’t benefit from our brief flight but, in the end, if my dad can’t see the damage, then there is no damage.

After the first run I decided that I would have to take the first turn a little slower; I enjoyed the rush associated with being com­ pletely out of control in a life-threat­ ening situation but I had to return the car. For the next hour, I drove the course without incident and was constantly beating my lap times.

Still, I knew that I was capable of more; I knew that I could achieve the speed of my first run without losing control of my vehicle.

Apparendy, the cop who had been watching me didn’t agree.

Before I could even begin my record breaking run, his car pulled in front of me and, without protest, I sheep­ ishly took the key out of the ignition

and waited for judgement.

“Do you have any idea how fast you’ve been going?”

Hastily I replied: “Actually, no.

I was concentrating on the road. If I took my eye of the road I could’ve been hurt.”

Upon recollection, I think that there were better answers.

I thought about telling him the story of my videogaming addiction | but before I could qualify my response I noticed the writing on the hood of his car: this man was a toy cop! I couldn’t believe that I had been scared by Mr. Shady Acres. In my head I thought: no gun equals no respect from me. On that note, the power window went up and I J put the key back into the ignition. I j slipped into reverse and slowly pulled away from my new friend who, at this point, was wildly wav­ ing his arms around like a banshee.

I had thwarted his lame attempt at a bust. I thought about driving by and rolling over his hat which, presumably during his crazy dance, had fallen off but I reconsid­ ered; this man had gone through ( enough for one afternoon.

As I drove into the family garage and placed the car in park, I knew that my racing career was over.

Racing in the family car was fun, but any sort of serious injury could end my videogaming career and that, my friends, was not the kind of risk that I was willing to take.

Correction In the pr(object)ion article, we mispelled the name of one of the artists. Her name is Masha Bogushevsky.We also incorrectly identified the band Detroit Metal as The Sun and The Moon.The

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GRADS 2001 YEARBOOK PACKAGE Andy Votel S ty les o f th e U n e x p e c te d XL/Select Andy Votel, co-founder of Manchester’s Twisted Nerve Records, is indisputably well-connected. He’s col­ laborated with U.K. hip-hop outfits Phat City and Mr. Scruff, done remixes for Lamb, Broadcast and Pram, and is best friends with Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy), whose music he arranges.

And though Votel is probably too hip to cite Beck Hanson as an influence, his first mini-LP, Styles o f the Unexpected, comes right out the prodigious-oneboy-band/everything-and-the-kitchensink recording aesthetic Mr. Hanson helped incite. Like his compatriots in this genre— Cornelius, Money Mark, and most recently, Looper— Votel’s music relies heavily on a vast complex o f references. This is music made by obsessive record collectors, combining hip-hop, 60s film scores, Krautrock, indie, yé-yé, or whatever’s in the 99cent bin.

T hat said, Styles is an even, laidback effort, and (unlike some o f the above artists) never touches on abrasive sound collage as a way to display influ­ ence. The opening track, ‘Urbanite Rocks,’ draws on a sm ooth, Stone Roses-ish beat, and adds a funky spy melody to the mix. The single, ‘Girl O n A GoPed’ follows a similar trajectory, and features Jane Weaver (who sounds like Sarah Cracknell would if she were a member of Luscious Jackson). ‘Diode’ and ‘Doe-Eyed’ go mellower, using the standard Tortoise-does-Steve Reich vibraphone sound in search o f filmic, “post rock” atmospherics. The EP ends with the dark, impressive ‘RiderBrow,’ dom inated by Lee G orton’s T hom Yorke-esque vocals behind a soaring cello. Votel’s not breaking new ground here, but the songs are accomplished, seamless enough to work. Though not entirely unexpected, Styles o f the Unexpected evinces a considerable musi­ cian and arranger, anticipating Votel’s forthcoming full length.

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Sex Toys page 1 University. The content was not specifically queer focused, but it did promote a sex positive message, stressing that all kinds of sex are good and targeting all people, straight, gay, single or attached.

S ex Toys is in your face. It pro­ motes the message that we should­ n’t feel so repressed about sex, and that we really need to talk about it more. Nawrocki used the leg­ endary Mrs. Robinson as a guide to the real sex education. It was inter­ esting to go back down memory lane, where, as Mrs. Robinson reminds us, boys and girls were in fact purposely separated over the teaching of the two Ms: masturba­ tion and menstruation. Even more delightful was the aspect of song and dance that Mrs. Robinson led the ‘class’ in. Tunes about sex, such as ‘Breasts, WhooWhoo, Stick it in’, really revved up a sometimes shy audience.

Nawrocki uses several costume changes, props, blown-up sex toys, special sex guest lecturers— includ­ ing Monsieur STD— and sound bites from real people. Even Celine Dion gets her 15 minutes of fame/parody in this show.

Nawrocki used hundreds of excerpts of interviews with friends, colleagues and strangers from across Canada as the basis for the stories in this show, in much the same fash­ ion as the V agina M onologues. Like the V agina M onologues , S ex Toys also has a very strong feminist message, promoting female orgasm, ejacula­ tion and attention to women’s bod­ continued from

ies. Whereas main character Rachel was seen enjoying sex toys and girl power, her boyfriend Eric was often painted as shy, weak and incapable.

In one short hour, S e x Toys goes through all the conceptions, joys and fears of sex. It deals with sexu­ al insecurity, infidelity, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual protec­ tion, pleasure, curiosity, gay and straight sex, relationships, orgasms, fears and fantasies, taboos and of course, different types of sex toys.

All this to promote a healthy envi­ ronment for an often overpoliti­ cized event that no one can ignore.

Nawrocki’s goal is “to make people laugh, cry and think about what everyone avoids: honest talks about sex. It has a sex positive message and it will help anyone become a better lover.”

S e x Toys also actively seeks to break down common stereotypes of sexual identity. When we first meet Andy, a friend of Rachel’s, a a result of his mannerisms, bartending job at Gert’s and behaviour we assume him to be straight. It is only upon further conversations that we learn that he is in fact gay. This is the power of S ex Toys. Stereotypes are destroyed and you don’t know what to expect, other than the unexpect­ ed. I particularly enjoyed the audio clips of women talking about sex today, especially that of the empow­ ered girl who talked about how she would kick a guy out if he refused to use a condom.

Nawrocki both wrote and per­ forms S ex Toys. His energy level is through the roof, and he actively

tries to get the audience to partici­ pate. Acting-wise, it isn’t easy to put yourself through such fastpaced sketches. On a deeper level, it proves especially difficult to get your message out on sometimes touchy subjects (Mrs. Lube being an example.) For this accomplish­ ment, Nawrocki’s acting talent must be loudly applauded for its ability to pull the whole thing together.

While the show didn’t quite live up to the hype, I am sure that no one left without having a good time: the majority of sketches always got a giggle or two.

Nawrocki opens the floor to think­ ing about sex, all types of sex. If anything, he makes sure to leave you with resources of all kinds, from sex books worth reading, to campus resources and a web site for female friendly sex toys and sexual aids (www.joytoyz.org for those wondering).

Inventive, honest and in good taste, S ex Toys is definitely gets a multiple O. While I don’t think I left with any new sex education per se (I have known about the risks of STDs since grade school), to teach sex in such a new way needs to be heralded. We all need some sex toys in our lives, as it is the little pleas­ ures that count.

For those o f you who missed out on the M cG ill show, you have a second chance to catch Norman, a t 8pm on A pril 11 a t Café Campus. For more information feel your way over to www. nothingness, org/music/rhythm or em ail Norm a t rhythm@nothingness.org

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DJ Trüby spinning as art D i Zacks

In the end, a DJ just plays records.

But a good DJ is able to create an experience so much greater than tw o turntables, a mixer and a crate o vinyl. A good DJ reads the crowd, appreciates their mood, understands their concept of the music, and challenges boundaries.

A good DJ seamlessly blends tracks w th direction and purpose into one cinematic progression of sound. A good DJ has crates so deep that even the most knowledgeable crowd experiences something new and dif­ ferent. A good DJ innovates and never rests on laurels or allows the ignorance of a crowd to justify a substandard performance. Rainer Triiby is a good DJ. A very, very good DJ. Based in Germany, Rainer Triiby enjoys massive renown in

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downtempo/acid-jazz/nu-jazz/people-with-excellent-taste-in-music circles. Though best known for his four Gliicklich compilations—sen­ suous mixes of obscure Brazilian gems with contemporary nu-jazz and broken-beat—his greatest work is as a producer in The Triiby Trio, whose Brazilian-influenced tracks are genre standards.

As a DJ, Triiby holds a residen­ cy at one of the world’s greatest monthly parties, Rootdown in Freiburg, and' is, they say, the favourite spinner of iiber-DJ and musical institution Gilles Peterson (perhaps the highest accolade a DJ could ever hope to receive). In short, Triiby is one of the most sought after DJs in the world, and for the few Montrealers who paid the reasonable $ 15 cover to hear his set Thursday night at Jello Bar, there are no questions as to why.

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ambled onto the stage, raffled through his crates, and cued his first track. Now, the first track is an important one. It sets the tone for the set, should pull the crowed to the dance floor (where, of course, they belong) and, ideally, make some jaws drop. Triiby did not dis­ appoint. The unmistakeable intro­ duction to Swell Session’s ‘Music in Her Eyes’ unrolled and the charac­ teristically uninformed Jello Bar crowd, who after a long series of warm-up DJs had yet to realise Triiby was spinning, hit the dance floor in droves as the track broke down with its unbelievably driving bass line.

A sweet series of deftly mixed broken-beat, house-not-house numbers followed while an uniden­ tified tenor-saxophonist unpacked his instrument and, standing beside an ever-smiling Triiby, began to accompany his tracks. This was amongst the greatest, most innova­ tive and natural amalgamations of the organic and electronic I have ever experienced. As he played against the rhythms and breaks of Triiby’s mixing, the relative intima­ cy of the room allowed the un­ amplified sax player to be heard clearly over the throb of the speak­ ers. Not for a second was the sound contrived; on the contrary, it was borderline transcendent. As Triiby spun The Triiby Trio’s ‘Carajillo’

and a blistering batucada remix of Sylk 130’s ‘Happiness,’ the saxo­ phonist kept pace with witty, intel­ ligent solos.

This brilliant duo climaxed when Triiby seamlessly shifted gears into Brazilian dance-floor jazz with a killer version of ‘Mas Que Nada.’

As the inimitable brassy theme played out from the speakers, the saxophonist echoed it in a style so hard-hitting it brought to mind memories of James Moody on Dizzy Gillespie’s 1967 version.

Whether the folks blissfully danc­ ing away on the dance floor recog­ nised it or not, they witnessed the next step in jazz-fusion, and it was seriously promising.

As the saxophonist packed up and left the club, ‘Mas Que Nada’ was cut short and mixed into an unrecognised, crazy piece of Brazilian jazz-funk, circa 1970. It was unfortunate that Triiby left the jazz vibe so quickly, given his repu­ tation for playing choice jazz obscu­ rities, but when he eased into DJ Patife’s ‘Sambasim’ for the climax of his set, all was forgiven. This drum n’ bass/samba fusion (samba n’ bass?) is a rollicking, brilliant cut that got the dance floor pounding like Jello Bar has never seen.

To their credit, the folks at Jello Bar worked hard to create a decent scene. Their sound system is mediocre, they have a small dance

floor, their crowd is occasionally obnoxious and the venue, ultimate­ ly, is better suited to live acts than DJs. But they offered cheap beer, did not force expensive drinks on their patrons, were exceptionally courteous and stunningly beautiful.

DJ Misayo even offered dancers vodka shots from the bottle. It was a far cry from the Movement party that Triiby played Friday night in Toronto, but Jello Bar made the effort and this was appreciated.

The worst thing about Triiby s set was that it ended. Mixes were flawless, innovation was abundant, and the music was top-notch. The crowd was thrilled, many danced, and turnout was not all that embar­ rassing. In the end, a DJ may just play records, but only a DJ of Triiby’s calibre can make it such a thrilling experience.

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“Summertime, and the livin is easy,” Sublime sings the boarder anthem, ‘Doing Time’.

As we have only a few more lectures and some finals to go, sum­ mertime is approaching us McGill folk at the speed of light. A couple weeks — then boom! — warmth, an office job or tree-planting or waitressing, or even maybe long days on the beach, radio blaring, surfboard in hand.

And what better sport and embodiment for summer is there than surfing? While surfing, you can build patience and persistence and obtain so much: exhilaration, a deep tan, time hanging out with friends while waiting for a wave, that aura of cool captured in 60s beach movies and songs like ‘Surfer Girl,’ and—best of all— the flow of the ride once you catch a wave.

Though Roy Bar, located on Roy Street just west of St. Denis, is located in our chilly city’s Plateau area, its boarder-oriented atmos­ phere reminds me a lot of summer and the relaxed vibe of surfing.

Roy Bar’s ambience is as chill

as a warm summer day. Roy isn’t a place to chug, be loud, or disrupt people (read: it’s not Peel Pub); rather, it’s somewhere to just shoot the shit or some pool over a cheap beer. Its staff is composed primari­ ly of young females who look a lot like surfer girls and happen to be some of the most amiable women bartenders you’ll find in this city.

Mostly McGill upperclassmen fre­ quent this bar, and as U1 Science student Jane Moran puts it, “The people are all very friendly...laidback McGill folk that like a good drink.”

Roy Bar is full of cool little trinkets like boarding parapherna­ lia, supersized animals, and kick-ass lighting. Its one-room layout, replete with tables, a bar, a DJ booth, pool, and payphones, is highly reminiscent of a summer­ house or cottage. If you look up in Roy’s vestibule upon entering, there’s a fake little piece of sky, while lights like east Asian lamps, illuminated masks, and red candles further spread the feeling of the warmth of summer. Huge fish are mounted on the walls, a gigantic shark hangs over the pool table, and a stuffed deer with a cigarette in its mouth presides over the bar (don’t worry, the animals aren’t real).

Snowboards hang, bumper stickers for surf/skate/snow companies like Billabong cover the area behind the bar, and skateboarding videos play on the TVs, incorporating the action of board sports into this chill environment. The music adds to the laid-back flow of this place.

Spun by a deejay, it includes good hip-hop like Jurassic 5 (no trashy “blazin’ hip-hop and R&B” like you’d hear at most bars), Sublime, and the Chemical Brothers, among others. Roy’s wooden décor and abundance of plants complete the warm, relaxed atmosphere of a sea­ sonal cottage.

So why should you go to Roy Bar? First of all, it’s cheap Monday nights have $1.50 drafts.

Secondly, it’s McGill-oriented but in a different and cool setting populated mostly by upperclass­ men, its locale is the Plateau. Also, it’s friendly but very laid-back aside from the rare barfight (like the one that happened last Monday), it’s not the place to go if you’re looking for a wild night. But most of all, Roy Bar is like surfing on a warm summer day: full of flow, friends, a cottage-y atmosphere, sweet music, and good times.

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 27 March 2001

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The Future New Skin for the Old Ceremony Chris Essert I was watching T erm in a to r 2 : last night, and something occurred to me: over the last ten years, our society’s per­ ception of the future, as reflected in our most popular action movies, has changed drastically and I think it has become more accurate. Let me explain.

Early on in 72, there’s a scene where we get flashed-forward to 2029, the quasi-mythical year where John Connor, leader of the fight between humans and robots, lives.1This scene is what I want to concentrate on. The battle between the humans and robots is depicted as a ‘good’ old-fashioned war: what I imagine the Second World War would have looked like, had it been fought with lasers instead of bullets and against robots instead

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of other people. There are planes flying around, things exploding, people falling in agony. Connor, the only time that we see him as an adult, comes across as a real battle-hardened general: his face is scarred, and the look in his eyes tells us that he’s seen some major shit. He looks like William Wallace, one thousand years later.

So, back in 1992, James Cameron seemed to realize that there would be something going on with computers and robots in the future. His view, though, is stuck back in 19842: some large, geographically-spread-out comput­ er system has managed to become self aware, but it wages war against humans the old fashioned way by creating legions of robots that it controls, and having those legions wage war against humans using guns and tanks and explosives.

What Cameron is saying is that, in the future, computers are going to become more powerfully intelligent that humans and turn . against us. Sound familiar?

It should, because it’s the same

Footnotes 11 don’t want to go into this, because if you haven’t seen 72, like, where the fuck have you been, but basically, Term inator and its (for once) superior sequel, Term inator Two: Judgm ent D ay concern a future where humans and robots are at war, and in both movies, the robots send one o f their own (a so-called ‘Terminator’) back in time to eliminate the existence o f John Connor, the leader of the hum an army in the future, either a) by killing his mother before he is born in 1984 or b) by killing him as a young child in 1992. 72, every teenaged girl would be surprised to find out, is unquestionably James Cameron’s best film, and I would say that Terminator is his third best after Aliens. [Ed note: So...w ho does Arnold play?] [Chris note: It’s not im portant to what I’m writing about, but in the first movie, he plays the titular killing machine, and in the sequel, he plays the same machine, reprogrammed by the John Connor o f 2029 to protect the John Connor o f 1992 from a more advanced titular killing machine sent back to kill the John Connor of 1992 by the robot command o f 2029] 2As it were.

3As I’m sure you’ve noticed, this isn’t The N ew Yorker, so I’m not sure about that fact, and quite frankly, I’m not too concerned. The only possible competition for The M a trix would be The P hantom M enace, but in our demographic, I have

such as “Liquid” by Melisa Audet and “Pelierinage De L’Ame” by Mary-Anne Wong. In both pieces, Wong displayed unmatched musicality and refined sense of movement as both a dancer and choreographer.

The highlight performance in the first half of the program, “Carmen,” was choreographed by Mariella Volio and was delivered right before intermission. Wearing white feather boas and naughty atti­ tude to match, while executing con­ trolled leg extensions, Philippa Davis, Marina Hilaire, Hailey Sarno and Mariella Volio gave new mean­ ing to the term “high voltage”. In “Carmen” the dancers amalgamated their acting and dancing talents, elic­ iting shouts and whistles of approval from the receptive crowd.

The piece that brought down the house in the second half of the program was a joint collaborative effort between Tafadzwa Sibinidi, Kwaadwo Adjei-Barwuahm, Moses Sitati and Hanif Pabani. Wearing red

because that’s our nature, but it’s about subtler things, like the loss of privacy in the information age6, or more general fears about science overstepping its bounds and creat­ ing as they say, a monster.

So as interesting as this culture-reflects society observation is, what really fascinated me in the middle of 72, which is when I thought of this, was how much things have changed between 1992 and now. Not in terms of how we actually live our lives, because that’s stayed mostly the same7, but more in terms of how important information has really become.

Did anyone think, less than ten years ago, how much a bunch of computer dorks would change the world? Can you really imagine, if we create artificial intelligence8 and then if computers somehow turn on us’, that the Computers v.

Humans war will actually be a series of pitched battles? That’s about the most ridiculous thing that I’ve ever heard. That battle, more than any other, would be a battle of information, of program­

no doubt that The M a trix has more widespread appeal.

‘Again, we’re not going into it, because see above, but The M a trix is based on a future about a hundred years from now where computers (notice the differ­ ence) have taken over after becoming self-aware, and subjugate humans to become a power source for their computational needs, keeping the humans’ minds occupied by virtue o f a multi-interactive simulation o f the world known, o f course, as The Matrix.

5 Now. The original idea for this column came about rather differendy. I guess because we got a D VD player for Christmas (see my column of January 23, or Eric VidiOest’s column last week) the number of Arnold Schwarzenegger movies being watch in my house has increased about a million-fold. Recendy, while watching The R u n n in g M an, my DVD-obsessed roommate Eric made the astute observadon that the heavily jumpsuit-based fashions o f the fictional 1999-future of The R u n n in g M an look suspiciously unlike the fashion o f 1999 as he recalled it, and more like the fashion of 1983, when The R unning M an was made.

We extrapolated on this brilliant observadon to make a gross.generalization, (which is something that anyone who knows me will assure you that I am an expert at). In every single movie about the future, the clothes that seem to be in fashion at the time are just ‘futurey looking versions’ [Eric’s phrase] o f the

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message behind the most popular action movie of the last five years, T h e M a tr ix :' '1 The difference is that in a movie made in 1999 instead of 1992, the battle between humans and computers is waged via information: the computers want the codes to the humans’ mainframe, presumably so they can mess it all up, or whatever com­ puters and their nerd operators do to screw around with each other.

What matters, what they’re all fighting over, doesn’t exist in a physical sense any more: only Is and Os are important.

Movies about the future can’t help but reflect the time that they’re made in5: in 1992, everyone was still jittery about nuclear war, and if the Russians weren’t going to make it happen, somebody else would have to do the trick. In more, uh, realistic art, like let’s say the work of Tom Clancy, that somebody else was usually terror­ ists, usual Arab, while in James Cameron’s more elaborately thought-out future, that somebody is the robots. People are still jittery,

and blue overalls, the dancers grooved to the South African beat known as ‘gumboofi. Smiling, confi­ dent and with excellent chemistry between them, the dancers revved the crowd to its most vocal. When the music stooped, the dancers stomped out a rhythmic and unex­ pected addition to the performance.

Mosaica ended with a two-part finale, involving the company mem­ bers. When the dancers rushed onstage wearing bright tank tops and huge grins, the artistic complicity between the performers was as obvi­ ous as their dedication to dance.

Shifting in tone, the last portion of the finale showcased the dancers wearing black and moving more solemnly.

With its eclectic variety of music and choreography, this year’s produc­ tion of Mosaica has added another successful performance to its 17 year legacy.

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ming, of communications and energy. A cyber-battle, if you will And think about it in more concrete, realistic terms: who’s the richest man alive? Bill Gates, the world s greatest-ever computer dork, not a head of state like in 1992. Who, speaking as cynically as possible, controls you?

Companies who create and distrib­ ute information: biotech compa­ nies with their patented organisms and companies like MCI and Sprint who control how and when you get to communicate with oth­ ers. Big Brother left government service in 1995 and had the most successful IPO of all time.

Remember last week’s column where I sung the praises of a fellow called Daivd Foster Wallace?

Check out this month’s H a rp e r’s magazine for a really neat article by him about the battle over whether or not there’s a correct’ way to use English and what that means.

clothed that are fashionable at the time the movie is made.

Take a look, for example, at: • Mark Hamil’s I Define W hat is Cool in Nineteen Eighty Three hair style in The R eturn o f the Jedi • T he mod-inspired costumes o f the Original S tar Trek tv series, and their updated’ counterparts in S T :T N G \ • Jean-Paul Gauthier’s entire wardrobe design for The F ifth E lem ent which looks suspiciously like the clothes that he makes his models wear every year, I guess because he thinks that in the future, people will have caught on to his aes­ thetic sensibility, which must be way, way before its time.

• The fancy jacket, but besides that the basically exact same outfits people are wearing in 1985 as they’re wearing in 2015 in Back to the Future II.

‘Yes, those areTVshows, but the point is the same.

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7 Although I knew about 2 people who had email in 1992 and now I know about 2 people who don’t. * W hich we will. ’ W hich they won’t.

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Chevrier woos Colts scout in NFL try-out R ed m en sta n d o u t seem s poised to g et shot at the b ig -tim e Jeremy Kuzmarov

A beefed-up and super-nervous Randy Chevrier worked out before Indianapolis Colts scout Cal Murphy on Wednesday at the Currie Gym. The Redmen football star, who won the J.P Metras trophy as the top defensive lineman in the coun­ try, managed to make an impact and earn himself a viable chance at being signed to a pro-contract, despite having some butterflies.

The first player to undergo the scrutiny of a National Football League try-out at McGill since Michael Soles worked out before the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1988, Chevrier ran the 40-yard dash in under 5 seconds.

His snaps, timed well below the NFL average at .65 seconds, had enough zip and mustard to bedazzle Murphy, a former coach of the Wininipeg Blue Bombers in the Canadian Football League.

Chevrier’s long-snapping abili­ ties looked to be on-par, if not supe­ rior to former teammate JeanPhilippe Darche, who became the first McGill player ever to suit up for an NFL team after cracking the roster of the Seattle Seahawks last fall.

Darche, who’s currently on leave from McGill medical school, played one season for the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL before jump­ ing ship down south.

“Chevrier looks like he was

better than Darche at the stage he’s at. He gets the ball back there as well as anybody I’ve seen,” said Murphy. “I’ve coached some great

ing a future in the league, and not necessarily just as a long-snapper.”

Since completing his studies in the fall, Chevrier, an all-Canadian

long-snappers, like Tom House in Edmonton, who didn’t have the smoke Chevrier’s ball does. Neither do a lot of current NFL guys."

Murphy was not taken aback just by Chevrier’s long-snapping abilities.

“I was impressed with his agili­ ty. He’s at a good weight, and has great quickness, and he showed that today with some good times,” said Murphy. “I’m not the one who makes decisions on signing guys, I just give the info to the important people, but I definitely see him hav­

who co-captained McGill to a 5-3 regular-season record this season, has been dedicated full-time to real­ izing his dream of playing profes­ sional football.

His hard-work and dedication in the past few months are evident just by looking at him.

Now listed at 6”2, 293 pounds, Chevrier, who notched 48 tackles and five sacks in 8 regular season games despite facing con­ stant double-teams, has improved his strength and muscle tone a great deal during the winter months.

He began to bulk up after competing in the Shrine Bowl clas­ sic in San Francisco in January, when he more than held his own against many of the top seniors playing National Collegiate Athletics Association Division I football.

At the weigh in before NFL scouts, a slimmer Chevrier chimed in at 280 pounds.

“The Shrine Bowl was a great experience football wise, there was a buffet I enjoyed too and I gained some weight in the five days spent there,” said Chevrier, who bench pressed 228 pounds 24 times on Wednesday. “Since then I’ve been working out hard, and I’ve put the extra weight into muscle. I don’t think that’s detracted from my quickness though. I’m feeling strong.”

Despite a gaunt look on his face at the sight of Murphy, Chevrier was able to pull it togeth­ er, and show off his talents to the Indianapolis talent evaluator.

“The media watching made me even more nervous, but I’m real­ ly happy with the way things went,” said Chevrier, who can lift up to 385 pounds. “I knew if I had a good day, I could open some eyes, and I made sure I gave it my all. It’s not every day that the Colts come to Canada, and I’m glad that I was able to show them something.”

While the NFL is his most desired destination, Chevrier is geared towards the CFL combines in two weeks, where he will under­

go more scrutiny by scouts.

Touted as a sure-fire first round CFL pick, Chevrier will be looking to raise some eyebrows with the top Canadian football brass, just like with Murphy.

“I want to impress the guys up in Canada too and show them that I can play,” said Chevrier. “The combines are real important to me.

I’m in an exciting position right now.”

Though not nearly as highlybilled as Chevrier, all-Canadian Redmen slotback Ben Wearing, who shattered the all-time single season school receptions record, also may have a shot to play profes­ sionally.

While he may have a hard time competing for the eye of NFL scouts against the likes of mega-talented University of Miami product Santana Moss, Wearing — who possesses great speed and hands — has a good chance of being drafted by a CFL team.

Wearing, who will also be making the trip to the CFL com­ bines with Chevrier, was there to assist his teammate during his Colts try-out.

In the process, Wearing got to show off some of his own skills, and possibly helped to boost his own future pro-prospects.

“It was good for Ben to get the exposure,” said Chevrier. “It was also nice to have him around. He’s a natural at removing the tension and lightening up the mood, and he helped me to relax.”

Making his Marc on the basketball court Basketball sophomore Domenico Marcario improving steadily Mark Kerr

As winter rages, it’s not hard to see the sensibility in Domenico Marcario’s future goal of playing basketball in Italy.

Fortunately for McGill basket­ ball fans, the goal is a couple years off.

In the meantime, Marcario intends to continue contributing to the Redmen; the success of the team over the past year is attributa­ ble in large part to the continued improvement of the sophomore guard.

“I guess I am quick...”

Marcario answered when asked what he brings to the team.

The modest attitude of Marcario is also reflected in the

leadership position that he assumes on the Redmen squad. Although he is certainly the star player, he does not see himself as controlling the team.

“I try to be a leader, but I don’t think it is my given attribution,” said the kinesiology student. “I like to analyse but I don’t always give my input. I give minimum as pos­ sible. That’s just the way I am.” .

Much like the old sports cliché, Marcario lets his game do the talk­ ing. In his second full regular sea­ son, Marcario averaged 18.9 points a game. He was second in the Quebec Student Sports Federation in this category to Laval rookie Charles Fortier, one time CEGEP teammate, and now archrival.

“One [rivalry] that has grown

Marcario stood tall for Redmen

and one that was beyond my power was against Charles [Fortier],” said Marcario when asked if individual competition had developed at the university level after two years.

“When we lost the first game versus Laval it was written ‘Charles schools Marcario.’”

The CEGEP portion of Marcario’s basketball career in which he played with Fortier would rather be forgotten. Because of injuries and disagreements with the coach, Marcario admittedly did not play to his potential.

The experience overshadowed earlier positive experiences. In high school, he received vital encourage­ ment from a female coach. She basically told him that he could do anything that he put his mind to.

Before that his passion for bas­ ketball was lighted in his last year of elementary school. At that time, he began to play mini-basketball. He won the all-star award, despite play­ ing in an age group higher than he should have been.

“Nobody pushed me to it. I just started playing and it just con­ tinued on. I never thought I would get to where I am today,” said Marcario, a first team QSSF all-star.

Away from the court, Marcario is involved in Giovita, an Italian youth organization.

“We raise money for the Italian community, fashion shows and socialize,” Marcario said of the organization’s activities. “We do all sorts of stuff.”

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Chevrier cleans up at awards banquet Retired football Coach Baillie given memorable send-off before former players Jeremy Kuzmarov

In front of hundreds of exRedmen players who came to pay homage to legendary coach Charlie Baillie who recently retired after 29 years on the job, Randy Chevrier added to his already cluttered tro­ phy case at the annual McGill foot­ ball banquet.

Chevrier, a dominating force for McGill this season who notched 48 tackles and five sacks, won the Touchdown trophy as the team’s best defensive lineman, and the Friends of McGill Football trophy as the best defensive player.

He also took home the Student’s Society trophy as most valuable player, and the Alouette Alumni Trophy awarded to the most outstanding player in Quebec University football.

Chevrier— a fifth year senior who has a great shot of making the leap to the National Football League next season — beamed with pride after receiving each distinc­ tion.

“I didn’t expect this, and it’s great to be recognized by your teammates and coaches,” said Chevrier, who earlier in the year won the J.P Metras trophy as the top defensive lineman in the coun­ try. “I came to McGill a wiry 215 pounds with a lazy attitude towards school. Now I’ve got a shot to play professionally, and a degree to back me up if it doesn’t work out. I’ve been lucky to have played for great coaches and with great players who’ve taught me a lot. It’s been the best five years of my life.”

Chevrier’s profound impact on the Redmen program was evident in the high praise accorded to him by his coaches at the banquet.

“Randy was a model in terms of dedication and hard-work, he

raised the bar for the entire team,” said Redmen offensive coordinator George Wall. “He overcame a bad off-season injury and got himself in peak shape in very little time. He

coach Baillie who was given a mem­ orable send-off from McGill.

The over-filled banquet hall at the classy Ritz-Carlton Hotel was filled with generations of former

faced double and triple teams, and just couldn’t be stopped, even though opposing coaches devised their whole game-plan around him.

“An emblematic play of his sea­ son was against Laval when he forced and recovered a fumble and carried five guys on his back before finally getting taken down near the goal line,” added Wall.

Chevrier’s impact extended off the field, where he earned wide­ spread respect for his vibrant per­ sonality and leadership capabilities.

“Everyone loves Randy,” said coach Baillie. “When I went down to see him at the Shrine Bowl in San Francisco, they all called him Canada. He was the most popular guy on the East team, and he got a huge standing ovation on the side­ lines when he got a sack.”

The only person to receive more adulation than Chevrier was

players dating back to the 1970s, many of whom traveled a long way to be in attendance.

A special table was reserved for the 1987 Vanier Cup winning team which was led by McGill Sports Hall of Famer Michael Soles, who after his McGill playing days went on to a successful 11 year pro­ career.

“The support is overwhelm­ ing,” said a teary-eyed Baillie, who received numerous momentos including a stunning self-portrait, and a scholarship for a worthy stu­ dent-athlete named in his honour.

“Seeing all these old faces going back to the 1970s come back is truly incredible. Every day while coaching I woke up and looked for­ ward to going to work. It was great time, and I’ll have to find some new challenges in retirement.”

The all-time winningest coach

in McGill football history, Baillie’s most profound impact with the Redmen came on an inter-personal level, where he was able to have a positive influence on his players and fellow-coaches.

The polar opposite of Bobby Knight, Baillie’s calm and collected leadership style is something his suc­ cessor Chuck McMann, and others affiliated with the McGill football program will undoubtedly try and emulate.

“Knute Rockne had a saying — ‘Players do not care how much you know until they know how much you care’ — and this applies to Baillie who’s always been there for his team,” said Redmen defensive coordi­ nator Mike Maurovich, who was first recruited to play for McGill in 1977. “Baillie maintained a program of substance while also making sure his players didn’t neglect the academic side. He never got in guys’ faces, but he was a great leader. He’s a molder of men who touched the lives of countless players.”

While the Baillie farewell trib­ ute was a highlight of the evening, there were some other awards given out.

Chevrier’s good buddy and sidekick on the defensive line John Macdonald, AKA “The first Prime Minister of Defence” received the Willie Lambert trophy as the team’s most dedicated player.

Macdonald, returning for his fifth and final season next year led McGill with seven quarterback sacks, and also tallied 36 tackles in eight games.

Another Redmen defensive stalwart honoured on Saturday was

Ryan Grad, who won the Lois Obeck Trophy as the team’s most improved player. Grad went from being a back-up linebacker to lead­ ing the team in tackles with 50.

Andrew Cooke, a 6-foot 174 pound receiver turned defensive back won the Charlie Baillie Northern-Telecom trophy as the best team player. Cooke, adjusted to his new position with ease, and had 25 tackles, and 11 knockdowns including two interceptions.

“Cooke made the ultimate team sacrifice, he gave up a starting position at receiver in order to add depth on defence,” said coach Wall.

“He turned himself into a first-rate defensive player in the process, and looks, with his versatility and quickness, to be a great player in years to come.”

On offence, wide-receiver Jeff Derman was presented with the Fred Wigle Memorial Trophy as the most sportsmanlike player.

Derman, a senior, was third in the team in receptions with 25 for 307 yards and an average of 12.3 yards per catch.

• Offensive lineman Jonathan Csoman also received the Fred Dupre Trophy as rookie of the year.

Csoman quickly established himself as McGill’s starting centre this sea­ son, and was named blocker of the game twice.

Redmen strength and condi­ tioning coach Gary Kirschner, another former player under Baillie, also received an award for his self­ less dedication to the program.

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The kids are all right McGill Ski Team led by women to silver finish James Empringham

The McGill ski team feels good about their season. They may not be the best ski team in Quebec, but the team’s cool with that. They really are. Perspective is important to the ski team. It’s what they’re best at.

“For other teams it’s more

which only made us better.”

Law’s title, as opposed to the women’s team championship, was­ n’t secured until the last meet of the season. Finishing only eight points behind her (1138 to 1130), was another McGill skier, LiseMarie Acton. Despite the incredi­ bly slim point differential between her and Law, Acton says she never felt that it was a rivalry between

The McGill Ski Team celebrates another strong season

about individual, performance,” explained Coach Dominic Frappier. “For us it’s more about the team’s performance.”

The story of the team’s 200001 performance must be told in three parts. The first part features a talented cast of young female skiers who pretty much had the women’s championship wrapped up shortly after the season’s first snowfall.

“We knew from the start that we’d win the women’s title. There was no question,” continued Frappier.

If the women were expecting to win, their margin of victory must still have been somewhat of a surprise. For the second year in a row, McGill’s Brianne Law set the high expectations by winning the women’s individual championship.

Law, who was also the only McGill athlete to compete in last February’s World. University Games in Poland, compares this season to last, saying that “this year’s team had more cohesion than last year’s. There was no divide between the rookies and the veterans at all. But at the same time there was more competition,

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“Yeah, you always want to win, but it was more like Brianne and I were pushing each other to attain a better level of skiing all year.”

Other top women’s team skiers for McGill were Lesley White, who completed the podi­ um sweep by finishing third over­ all, Kveta Safarik (sixth), Margaret DeBruyn (11), Liserl Woods (15), and Megan McCourt (25). Add Kristie Robson (26) and Lauren Head (28) and the McGill women’s team had an astonishing four out the top six and nine of the top 28 female skiers in Quebec.

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Part two of the 2000-01 story played itself out differently. While the women were racking up acco­ lades of all sorts, the men found themselves in the middle of what fifth year graduating senior Eric Mullaley deemed a “rebuilding year. » “The team was full of rookies and second year skiers, and they’re going to get better,” said Mullaley.

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third overall, though they were never close to l’Université de Montréal or Bishop’s who finished first and second respectively. The top performer on the men’s team was Joachim Hrasky who placed thirteenth.

Coach Frappier doesn’t see it as the men’s team failing expecta­ tions, rather more like surpassing them.

“The men’s team was the difference between our team fin­ ishing in second and finishing in third. They were pulling their weight, and their third place finish was a nice surprise for us.”

Combined scores from both teams placed McGill second in Quebec behind the Université de Montréal, and comfortably ahead of third place Bishop’s.

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It would be remiss to omit the third part of the story, a.k.a. the McGill Ski Club. It is the club and their affiliation with the team which sets the McGill Ski Team apart from every other sports squad at McGill. Acton for one, who was a rookie on the team this year, credits the club for contribut­ ing to the team’s success.

“I wasn’t sure what to expect when I joined the team, but 1 found that the atmosphere among the skiers was amazing, and I think that the club is a main reason for that. They cheer us on, they love to ski, and they make it a much more relaxed atmosphere,” said Acton.

The ski club consists of close to 200 students who ski, organize, fundraise, in short, everything the team does, except compete.

“When skiers from other schools are coming down the hill it is silent. When a McGill skier is competing, there is a huge support group cheering them on,” explained Frappier.

It seems that the results of a meet are sometimes almost an afterthought. No one on the team necessarily views that as a problem either .

“I tell people joining the team at the beginning of the year that we like to be social but you have to be prepared to race when it comes time. It’s a good balance,” said Law. When it comes to evaluating a team’s performance, a little per­ spective goes a long way.

Continued from page 20

There is more time for it these days with the season ending a cou­ ple of weeks ago. Needless to say, the inability of the Redmen to win a playoff game weighs heavily on the mind of Marcario.

“It’s disappointing, it’s hard, especially when people didn’t think that we would make it to first place and we proved them wrong,” said Marcario, noting that the little things cost the team. “We didn’t adjust. That really hurts: when you know you can beat someone and it doesn’t happen.”

The sophomore sees reason for optimism in the year to come .“Compared to last year, we have been a much better team this year.

With one or two recruits, maybe it will be even better. Everybody’s a year older, more mature.”

And that includes himself. If the progress that Marcario has

shown over his first two years at McGill is any indication, he should be able to challenge Fortier as best guard in the conference and lead McGill past Laval. The challenge to improve, as Marcario realizes, is a constant thing.

“I take it very seriously, getting better as a player. Personally, I’m going to work even harder than last year. Last year I worked hard and it brought up my game; this year?”

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McGill’s top guard came clean and told the M c G ill T rib u n e what team he is rooting for in the NCAA basketball tournament.

“Duke. I hope they go all the way. Jason Williams is an amazing player. Unstoppable.”

So far so good for that predic­ tion, they’ve made it to the Final Four.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, 27 March 2001

The Tribune nominees for McGill's athletes of the year Guy Anaba-Anaba — Soccer Anaba-Anaba, or the Magician as he is affectionately called, had an outstanding year for the Red ‘n W hite.

The Cameroonian midfielder led the Quebec confer­ ence in points with eight in eight games. This helped bolster a powerful Redmen attack allowing them to go undefeated in the QSSR He was named 2000 QSSF player of the year as a result. At Nationals, the Magician helped the Redmen to a fourth place finish, which some regarded as disappointing but was nonetheless impressive. Anaba-Anaba’s outstanding season led to him being named a CLAU first team allCanadian.

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Sarah Ali-Khan — Track and Field McGills star middle distance runner once again dom ­ inated her events this year. The 26-year old pharma­ cology student set the McGill record for most medals won at Nationals with eight including four golds, three silvers and one bronze. This year, she struck gold in the 1000 meters at the CLAU track and field Nationals held in Sherbrooke and added silvers in the 1500 meters and the 4x800m relay. At the St. Valentine’s invitational held in Boston, Massachusetts, Ali-Khan ran the CLAU’s best time of the year in the 1000m. She also led the Martlets to a first place finish at the provincial championships. She was named QSSF athlete of the year and was also named allCanadian in both cross country and track and field.

Amber Allen — Soccer Randy Chevrier — Football “Crash” Chevrier, to cap off a great career, was the heart and soul o f the Redmen defense this year.

Despite facing constant double-teams , the fifth year co-captain tallied 48 tackles and five sacks. The allCanadian became the first McGill player ever to win the J.P Metras trophy as the top defensive lineman in the country for the third place Redmen. He also han­ dled the team’s long-snapping duties succesfully, and holds a good chance of playing professionally next sea­ son either in Canada or in the U.S.

Allen, a first-year striker from Pitt Meadows, B.C., led the Martlets soccer team to an unbeaten regular season and a 4th place finish at the Nationals. Her 24 regular season goals led the CLAU, and her total of 29 goals in 22 games overall broke the McGill single season record.

As a result of her efforts, she was named QSSF Player of the Year, a First Team All-Canadian, and a Tournament All-Star at the Nationals. An MBA student, Allen also had a knack for scoring clutch goals for the Martlets, notching the game winner in their 1-0 win over Laval in the QSSF finals, and scoring two goals at the Nationals.

Julie Brisebois — Rugby Greg Davis — Hockey Joltin’ Greg Davis did a great Joe DiMagio impression this sea­ son, garnering a point in 28 consecutive games for the Redmen hockey team, breaking an all-time McGill record.

Davis’ fine play earned the attention o f numerous N H L scouts like Philly’s Ron Hextall, who made the trek up to McConnell arena to catch a couple o f games. During the regular season, Davis, a first team conference all-star, led McGill with 21 goals and 20 assists in 24 games. He and linemate Dave Burgess formed a potent one-two scoring punch on the third place Redmen.

Yohsuke Hayashi — Track and Field All-Canadian speed demon Yohsuke Hayashi had another banner year for the McGill track team. At the CIAU track nationals in Sherbrooke, Hayashi won a silver medal in the 1,000 meter run, and anchored the 4x800 McGill relay team to a fifth place finish. Named the conference male track athlete o f the year, Hayashi obliterated the pack at the provincials two weeks earli­ er, bringing home four medals including a gold in his trademark 1,000 meter event.

Brisebois was the most explosive player on an excel­ lent Martlet rugby team that annihilated their com­ petition in the Quebec conference and won a silver rriedal at CLAU nationals. The Martlets outscored their opponents 504-39 this year in QSSF play.

Brisebois was unsurprisingly named MVP of the QSSF. In the conference semi-finals of the playoffs, Brisebois tied a team record with six tries in one game. She was also second on the team with ten tries in ten games, one behind team leader Jessie Matiaszuk. Julie Brisebois is also a two-sport star, playing for Canada’s national team in European handball.

Maude Vallieres — Basketball Rookie guard M aude Vallieres from Fleurimont, Quebec gave the McGill Martlets program some much needed respectability with her fabulous rookie season.

The Martlets improved to a 6-14 record this year after struggling to win any games last year. Vallieres was 13th in the CIAU with 16.4 points per game. This number put her second in the QSSF in scoring.

Inexplicably, Vallieres did not make either the QSSF’s first or second all-star teams. She was, however, named to the CIAU’s all-rookie team.

Kim St-Pierre — Hockey Ben Wearing — Football All-Canadian Wide-Receiver Ben Wearing was the cen­ trepiece o f a Redmen offence that showed flashes of explosiveness. Wearing hauled in 43 receptions and broke a sixteen-year McGill record with 653 receiving yards. He also scored five touchdowns, including a game-breaking 94-yard punt-return against cross-town rival Concordia in the Shrine Bowl. Wearing led the now defunct O Q IFC conference with 1,442 all-purpose yards.

St-Pierre, sometimes called the “Patrick Roy o f women’s hockey” was her erstwhile self for the McGill Martlets this season. She almost single-handedly backstopped the Martlets to a bronze medal at the CLAU nationals in a 1-0 victory over Concordia. This win was the first over McGill’s cross-town rival since 1985. St-Pierre had her usual great season between the pipes during the regular season as well. She had a 9-10-3 record along with a 2.81 goals against average. St-Pierre also stopped 92.3 percent of the shots directed at her. This strong season was good enough for her to win the QSSF’s most valuable player award. As usual, she was a CLAU all-Canadian as well as the most valuable goaltender at the CLAU Nationals.

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