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Ben Harper stays seated when he plays, but he stands and delivers when talking one-on-one.

Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals brought down the house hard during F riday night's s o u l­ shaking, roof-raising, aw e-in spir­ ing concert. W hether grooving on the beats or sw aying in the seats, Montreal was picking up the love th at B e n an d C o m p a n y w e r e throwing out.

A s the band took the m inim al­ ist stage and B en seated h im se lf atop h is p o n ch o -d ra p ed thron e, there was no doubt that the show was going to be all good. Though admittedly not as intimate as their previous M etropolis engagem ents, the band proved that the m usic was just as incendiary.

Starting o ff with Mama's Got a Girlfriend N ow , the band seem ed to be unsure o f its bearings. Yet, they hit their stride as they cruised their w ay to the Stoner's anthem Burn O ne D o w n . A s the crow d k ick ed back and lit one up, B en step p e d up the im p r o v isa tio n a l vocals and ow ned the audience.

W ith an im pressive backdrop o f m osaic ligh ts, Harper crooned his way through an im pressive c o l­ lection o f the soulful, political and u p b ea t.

A s a trib u te to J e f f Buckley, Harper let loose a spiritu­ al B u ck ley-esq u e w ail during the intro to F o rg iv en . A d d itio n a lly , Harper paid proper hom age to his in f lu e n c e s b y d e d ic a t in g T h e W oman in You to Curtis M ayfield.

The audience was treated to a healthy d ose o f Harper acoustics.

A little know n fact: Harper trades in guitars for every song because each on e is tuned d ifferen tly for the song whether they be standard tunings or ones he made up. A lso, the reason he sits during concerts is that he learned to play on the W eissenborn slide guitar and got u s e d to s it t in g d o w n to p la y .

Another o f Harper's unconvention­ al slide guitars saw him strumming

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The new school year has begun and sadly, students across M cG ill U niversity cam pus have started to | en counter the sam e reality: o v er­ cr o w d e d c la ssr o o m s. C r itic ism s regarding inadequate class sizes and lo w quality lectures arise, p osing | p r o b le m s M c G ill U n iv e r s ity promises to eliminate over the next decade.

Many students voiced their dis­ appointment over the chaotic situa­ tion in classrooms.

Patrick Guyer, a freshman arts student, explained the shock he had I when he arrived in his first class. “ I c a m e from a s m a ll h ig h sch ool and I’ve never had a large cla ss before. I have an afternoon anthropology class in the Stewart B io lo g y b u ild in g and u su a lly it takes me 15 minutes to walk there.

If I arrive fiv e m inu tes late, then

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there are no more seats — I have no ch oice but to sit on the floor. I’m taking tw o other intermediate lan­ guage courses. They are all pretty much overcrowded, too.”

S ze-M in Lau, U 3 C om p uter S c ie n c e M ajor, exp ressed sim ilar sentiments. “ M o st o f m y C o m p u te r Science classes are large and pretty much packed every time. If I com e to class and the lecture is boring, som etim es I fall a sleep .” H e later added, “If the class is large, the pro­ fessor can only lecture and cannot interact with students, why can’t the student just stay home and read the book?”

Professor Charles Snow , pro­ gram coordinator o f the Computer S cie n c e department, ob served the negative effects overcrowded class­ es have on students’ academic per­ formance. “ A c c o r d in g to m y te a c h in g

e x p e r ie n c e , in la r g e , e s p e c ia lly overcrowded classes, students don’t do as w ell as those in small classes.

Students learn more in small classes and marks tend to be better. In large classes, the only thing you can do is to lecture. You can’t have much dis­ cussion with students.” He pointed to the high teacher-to-student ratio as a major cause o f reduced lecture quality.

“M y d ep artm en t e n jo y s the dubious distinction being the depart­ ment that has the highest teacher to stu d e n t ra tio in th e F a c u lty o f Science: it’s about 30 to 1 w hile the average is about 18 to 1. This figure is the one w e can achieve after we hired six more professors this year.

T h e en rollm en t has grow n m uch faster than the increase o f teaching staff. That’s how w e end up with h uge-sized classes and the budget w e have now d o esn ’t allow us to open new courses or more sections

for the same course.”

S n o w , h o w e v er , is sa tisfie d w ith the U n iv ersity ’s response to requests for bigger classrooms after the maximum capacity o f the room is exceeded by the size o f the class.

“I requested a bigger classroom for one o f my classes last Monday and th e n e x t day I g o t m y n ew room,” said Snow.

C lara P eron , V P u n iv e r sity affairs o f the Students’ S ociety o f M cG ill U niversity, exp ressed her concern over this com m on experi­ e n c e m an y stu d e n ts h a v e to g o through.

“I d on ’t think it’s right for a student w ho has paid fu ll tuition fees to end up sitting on the floor during the w hole class. It d o esn ’t m ak e s e n s e . M c G ill U n iv e r s ity expects a steady increase in enroll­ m ent o v er th e n ex t fe w y ea rs. I

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Send in the clones Celebrity bull's reincarnation draws criticism from ethicist

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W h ile l e s s th a n a m o n th o ld , a y o u n g b u ll n a m e d S t a r b u c k II h a s a lr e a d y g a r n e r e d m o r e a t te n t io n th an m o s t farm a n im a ls w ill in a lif e t im e .

T h a t’s b e c a u se h e is a c lo n e , crea ted in a jo in t p r o je c t b e tw e e n s c ie n tis ts from the C entre d ’ in sém in a tio n a r tific ie lle du Q u é b e c an d th e F a c u lt é d e m é d e c in e v été rin a ire de l ’U n iv e r s ité de M o n tréa l.

S tarbuck II, born on S ep te m b er 7 , is th e c l o n e o f a f a m o u s H o l s t e i n b u ll n a m e d S ta r b u c k . T h e o r ig in a l a n im a l w a s w e ll k n ow n in the a g ricu ltu ra l c o m ­ m u n ity as an ou tsta n d in g sp e c im e n , h a v ­ in g sired o v e r 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 o ffsp r in g through a rtific ia l in se m in a tio n p rogram s around th e w o r ld . C e l l s fr o m S ta r b u c k w e r e taken during the m onth b efo r e h is death in 1998 and w ere u sed by the u n iv e r sity team in cr ea tin g the c lo n e .

A t th e h e a d o f t h is te a m w a s D r.

L a w r e n c e S m it h o f th e U n i v e r s i t y ’ s A n im a l R ep ro d u c tio n R ese a rc h C en tre.

A m o d ifie d v er sio n o f the te c h n iq u e that created the fa m o u s c lo n e d sh e e p , D o lly , w a s u sed to red u ce the c o s t o f the p ro ­ ced u re sig n ific a n tly .

“T h e e f f ic ie n c y o f the te c h n iq u e has b een grea tly im p r o v e d ,” sa id Dr. S m ith .

“S tarbuck II w a s [created ] by in se m in a t­ in g o n ly 15 h e if e r s , as o p p o s e d to the h u n d red s o f f e m a le s th at w e r e in s e m i­ nated to create D o lly .”

E v e n th o u g h the m o d ifie d p roced u re m a k e s it e a s ie r to p r o d u c e a h e a lt h y c lo n e , it is , a cc o rd in g to Dr. S m ith , still far from p erfect. “ M a n y o f th e e m b r y o s w e r e lo s t

v ery ea rly in d e v e lo p m e n t,” he sa y s.

A ls o , w h ile th e actu a l crea tio n o f a c lo n e is le s s e x p e n s iv e than it o n c e w a s, th e im p r o v em en ts in the te c h n iq u e co m e at the c o s t o f m any y ea r s o f research .

If Starbu ck II rem ain s h ea lth y , it is lik e ly that e v e n tu a lly h is sperm w ill be so ld to co n tin u e the le g a c y o f h is p r o g ­ en itor.

“T h is c lo n in g o p e n s up n ew m ark et­ in g p o s s i b i l i t i e s , ” s a y s S m ith , a d d in g that the c o n tin u e d sa le o f S tarbu ck I I ’s sperm to farm ers w o r ld w id e sh o u ld g e n ­ erate in c o m e for m any years to c o m e .

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M a r g a r e t S o m e r v i l l e , o f th e M c G ill C e n tr e fo r M e d ic in e , E th ic s and L aw , b e l i e v e s that c o n t in u in g to s ir e c a ttle w ith S ta r b u c k ’s g e n e t ic m a teria l co u ld b e d i m i n i s h i n g t h e d i v e r s i t y o f th e sp e c ie s . “ T h e o r ig in a l S ta r b u c k w a s a b ig g en er a to r, w ith so m e 2 0 0 ,0 0 0 p ro g en y .

A s it is , n ea rly e v e r y g o o d c o w in the w o r ld is r e la te d to h im in s o m e w a y ,’ sa y s S o m e r v ille . B y co n tin u in g to breed th is p a rticu la r b u ll p ast h is natural life sp a n , sh e b e lie v e s w e m ay be w o rk in g a g a in st e v o lu tio n . “ A n im a ls m u st b e a b le to ad apt to t h e s i t u a t i o n s th e f u t u r e t h r o w s at t h e m , ” s h e s a y s . “ B u t h e r e w e a re e n f o r c in g th e p a st g e n e t ic a lly . Is th is w is e ? ” M a in ta in in g d iv e r s ity in an a n im al p o p u la tio n m ak es it m ore stab le by ren­ d erin g it le s s s u s c e p tib le to d is e a s e , as w e ll as a llo w in g fo r greater a d ap tab ility.

S o m e r v il le b e l i e v e s it to b e e t h ic a l ly ir r e sp o n sib le to re d u ce the d iv e r s ity o f th is p o p u la tio n through hum an in terv en ­ t i o n , w h i c h m a y e v e n t u a l l y le a d to in sta b ility .

D r. S m ith a c k n o w le d g e s th is c o n ­ cern and sa y s that farm ers are aw are o f the p rob lem . “ W h e n fa r m e r s c h o o s e a s ir e fo r th eir c o w s , th ey w ill c h e c k to se e i f the c o w in v o lv e d w a s a ls o fa th e r e d by

S ta rb u ck ,” sh e sa y s. “P e o p le k n o w that c o n sa n g u in ity is n ’t id ea l, and they w ill try to m in im iz e it.”

Starbuck II: The Big Shot T h e g en eral p u b lic h as se e n en o u g h c lo n in g in th e la st three y ea r s that few p e o p le are su rp rised to hear about n ew c lo n e s as they arrive. Starbuck II, h o w ­ e v e r , h a s a ttr a c te d a la r g e a m o u n t o f atten tion by virtu e o f so m eth in g that no p r e v io u s c lo n e h as e v e r had: c e le b r ity lin e a g e .

“T h is b ull w a s n ’t hum an, but it had m any o f the ch a r a c te r istic s o f a hum an c e le b r ity ,” sa y s S o m e r v ille . “It w a s w e ll k n o w n by the a g ricu ltu ra l c o m m u n ity .”

S h e a r g u e s th at r e m o v in g s o m e o f th e a n o n y m ity o f the an im al b ein g c lo n e d is m a k in g p e o p le c o n sid er th e im p lic a tio n s o f hum an c lo n in g . T h e p e r s o n a lity that S ta r b u c k h a d m a k e s s u c h a c o n c e p t s e e m m u ch le s s d is ta n t. H o w e v e r , acco rd in g to S o m e r v ille , it is clea r that th is is s o m e t h in g m a n y p e o p le d o n ot w ish to se e happ en any tim e so o n .

“I th in k i t ’ s a p p a llin g to c o n s id e r c lo n in g p e o p le ,” S o m e r v ille s a y s.

“O p in io n p o lls h a v e fo u n d that there is an o v e r w h e l m i n g c o n s e n s u s : it j u s t sh o u ld n ’t be d o n e .”

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Land lo rd an d n ew sp ap er racing to a stan d still B y S h e h r y a r Fa z l i

A fter yet another court hear­ in g , th e b a tt le b e t w e e n The M cG ill D a ily and the S tu d e n ts’ S o c i e t y o f M c G ill U n i v e r s it y rem ains to be settled, leavin g both s id e s fru str a te d by th e la c k o f progress and angered by M cG ill U n iversity’s refusal to intervene.

R epresentatives for the D aily and th e S S M U c o n v e n e d at the P a la is de J u stice la st T h u rsd ay, Septem ber 21, hoping to resolve a con flict that started this past sum ­ m er w hen S S M U deem ed it n e c ­ essary to lo ck the paper out i f its o ffic es. Both parties are aw aiting a d e c i s i o n to b e m a d e a b o u t w h e th e r th e D a ily h a s a v a lid le a s e g iv in g th em rig h ts to the space they currently occup y in the Shatner b u ild in g, or w hether the lease has in fact expired. Lack o f agreem ent betw een the tw o sid es at T h u rsd ay’s hearing, h o w ev er, has d ela yed the d ecisio n until at least O ctober 4, w hen the o p p o s­ in g cam p s w ill g o to trial. That the issu e could not be settled out o f court has left both parties d is­ concerted, each blam ing the other for the standstill.

Jon Bricker, the D a ily’s n ew s editor, expressed his frustration at the duration o f the process.

“A fter the last hearing I had h o p e d that th ere w a s an en d to this, and that the end w as g oin g to be yesterday,” he said. “I w as also disappointed that the S SM U is not really w illin g to negotiate in good faith.”

S S M U P r e s id e n t W o jte k Baraniak had a different reaction to the ou tcom e o f the hearing.

“I think from the very b egin ­ ning, the D a ily has m ade m ou n ­ tain s out o f m o le h ills ,” he said .

“Their action s have been c o n sis­ te n t t h r o u g h o u t ... I ’ m v i s i b l y frustrated and I’m really sick o f this.”

Judge Irving Halperin recom ­ m ended that the parties m o v e to arbitration, w here an independent arbitrator w ou ld m ake a b ind in g d e c is io n on the d isp u te . S S M U agreed and the D aily refused this proposal.

B a r a n ia k a r g u e s th a t th e D a ily’s refusal to go to arbitration s ig n a ls a la ck o f c o n fid e n c e on part o f the paper.

“T his sh ow s the w eak n ess in their p osition ,” he said.

H ow ever, the D aily's law yer, M ichael Bergm an, b eliev es that to claim the D aily m erely refused to g o to arbitration is a m islea d in g in te r p r e ta tio n o f th e o r g a n iz a ­ tion ’s position.

“The ju d ge did su g g est arbi­ tration ,” he ex p la in ed . “B u t our u n d ersta n d in g from S S M U w a s that they w ould only go to arbitra­ tion if the D aily gave up its dark­ room . Certainly the D aily has not had a problem w ith arbitration... b u t w e c o u ld n o t a g r e e [to S S M U ’s con d ition s].”

B a ra n ia k , h o w e v e r , a sse r ts that no such condition w as set for goin g into arbitration. Instead, he claim s that the con d ition w as set on ly on ce arbitration w as refused by the D aily, w hen the non-bind­

ing alternative o f m ed iation w as available.

le a se w ith S S M U , and i f so for how long.

The Darkroom

A university matter?

The M cGill D aily's darkroom appears to n ow be the cen ter o f controversy in this heated dispute.

T h e S tu d e n ts’ S o c ie ty h as s u g ­ g e s te d th at th e p a p e r, w h ile it cou ld continue to occup y the rest o f its o ffic e space, should g iv e up its darkroom to enable the renova­ t io n s to th e S h a tn e r b u ild in g .

SSM U has plans that in v o lv e the construction o f an access for d is­ a b led stu d e n ts at the b a se m e n t level. A s a result, the D aily w ould h a v e to sh are a d ark room w ith tw o other stud en t organ ization s: the Photography S o ciety and The M cG ill Tribune. A fter estim ating how m uch the tw o organ izations use the facility, S SM U presented an arrangement w hereby the paper w o u ld h a v e e x c lu s iv e a c c e s s to the darkroom for up to four hours a day. In ad dition , the S tu d en ts’ S o ciety offered the D aily a ca b i­ net with locks on them , so that the g r o u p ’ s c h e m ic a ls c o u ld be secured away and not be tampered w ith. President o f S SM U W ojtek Baraniak b elieved this to be a rea­ sonable com prom ise. “ It d o e s n ’t se e m lik e a b ig d e a l [to sh are a d a r k r o o m ]...I t s e e m s k in d o f r id ic u l o u s th at every sin gle group have their ow n p ersonal darkroom ,” he said. “In th e d ig ita l a g e , I d o n ’t se e the need for it.”

Bricker, how ever, claim s that S S M U ’ s d e m a n d s d id n ot ta k e into consideration the im portance o f the darkroom to the paper.

“W hat S SM U asked us w as to make a big leap o f faith,” he says.

“T h ey h a v e n ’t r e c o g n iz e d from the b e g in n in g w h a t e x a c tly the D a ily is as an o rg a n iz a tio n . W e h a v e tw o d iffe r e n t n e w sp a p e r s, The M cG ill D a ily and the D élit Français. W e put out three issues a w e e k and that m a k es a lo t o f d e m a n d s o f a ll o u r f a c i l i t i e s in c lu d in g ou r d ark room . P retty m uch a ll day e v e r y d ay th e r e ’s so m eo n e w ho n eed s th ose fa c ili­ ties for one o f the three issu es w e p u t o u t e v e r y w e e k . S o w e do h a v e real d e m a n d s in ter m s o f tim e that w e need those facilities, that SSM U didn’t seem to reco g ­ n ize.”

“It is rather d ifficult to share a darkroom w ith your main co m ­ p e tito r ,” ad d ed B e rg m a n . “T h e D aily com p etes w ith the Tribune for ad vertising reven ue. It is not practical for tw o co m p etin g par­ ties to be sharing a darkroom.”

F e ld m a n , h o w e v e r , in s is t s that th e p aper is m a k in g u n d u e dem ands.

“The D aily is being absolute­ ly unreasonable,” he says. “SSM U h a s b e n t o v e r b a c k w a r d s to a cc o m m o d a te th e D a ily w ith or w ith o u t a le a s e . B u t th e D a ily b e lie v e s that it has a G o d -g iv en right to remain where they are for the rest o f their liv e s.”

T h e D a i l y ’s r ig h t to th e p r e m is e s w i l l b e c l a r if ie d on O ctober 4th, w hen the court w ill d ecid e on w hether the D aily has a

A s the tw o sid es prepare for tr ia l, M c G ill s t u d e n t s ’ m o n e y con tin u es to be d irected tow ards an e x p e n s iv e la w su it. B o th the

D aily and S SM U have exp ressed e x tr e m e sy m p a th y fo r th e s tu ­ dents.

“T he students are p aying for th e D a i l y ’s la w y e r ... an d [S S M U ’s] law yer,” Baraniak says. “ A n d p e o p le sh o u ld n o t fo r g e t that. U ltim a tely it ’s the students w ho pay for this.”

Bricker had a sim ilar view o f the situation.

“Students have every right to be angry,” he says. “T his is a case o f th e ir m o n e y g o in g w h e r e it

shouldn’t have.”

Both groups also agree that in such a case, the U niversity itself has a duty to ensure that its stu­ d e n ts ’ n o n -tu itio n f e e s are n ot b ein g directed aw ay from under­ takings that w ould benefit student life.

“M cG ill has m ade no effort

w h a tso ever, and students should b e e q u a lly a n g r y at M c G i l l ,” noted Bricker. “M cG ill has m ade it clear that they w ill not take a s in g le step to b a il out a student organization, to try to find a solu ­ tion to this in p rovid in g us w ith a lte r n a tiv e s p a c e , or [fin d ] an alternative source o f revenue.”

Bergm an also firm ly b elieves that the U niversity has an ob liga­ tion towards settling the dispute.

“Sadly, the U niversity feels it h as n o o b lig a tio n , and that the

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an d SSM U are a u t o n o m o u s ,” h e s a y s . “ B u t I frankly d isagree. The U niversity is the o v er a rc h in g au th ority on c a m p u s , and it s h o u ld at le a s t assist in resolving any con flict.”

Baraniak offered his perspec­ t iv e on th e U n i v e r s i t y ’ s d u ty towards its student organizations.

H e su g g ested that after recen tly im posing increased rental costs on th e S t u d e n t s ’ S o c ie t y f o r th e Shatner b u ild in g, the U n iversity s h o u ld in te r v e n e w h e n th e s e im posed costs are a subject o f d is­ pute b etw een S S M U and on e o f its sub-letters.

“It’s really M cG ill w e should be p ointin g the finger to, saying you put us in this p osition , both the S ociety and The M cGill Daily, and what can you do to help us?” he said . “I think the U n iv ersity has an o b lig a tio n to The M cG ill D aily and to the S S M U .”

B a r a n ia k e x p la in s that d e s p ite m any re q u ests m ade to M cG ill about in tervening in this matter, the university has refused.

“T h eir re sp o n se has a lw a y s been that this is a student matter, and w e shall leave this to the stu­ dents to figure out,” he com m ents. “ I w is h M c G ill w o u ld h a v e stepped in a lot sooner, and tried to help both organizations to pro­ ceed in this. H ow ever, they decid­ ed not to do it, so what can you do?”

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don’t see how the physical space we have now can cope with that.”

T h e p ro b lem n o w , sh e explained, is that M cGill University is n ot d o in g its duty in ord er to

K.C. Bolton c o m p ly w ith th e ‘' C o n tra t de Perform ance , ’ an agreem ent with th e g o v e r n m e n t that o u tlin e s a series o f perform an ce in d icators u pon w h ic h th e s c h o o l w ill be

judged in order to receive the addi­ tional governm ent funding. In this ‘e n te n te ,’ su b m itte d r e c e n tly to Q u eb ec C ity , M c G ill U n iv ersity p le d g e s a m o n g o th e r th in g s to improve the student-to-teacher ratio, to decrease the number o f students per course, and to achieve a zerodeficit situation by 2000-2003.

N ic k de T a k a c sy , a s s o c ia te v ic e - p r in c ip a l ( A c a d e m ic ), explained that this difficult situation faced by many students so far this year is not entirely unusual.

“The first tw o w eeks o f class have always been hard for faculties and students. Lots o f students are shopp in g around. It’s not hard to find students w ho carry more than 5 courses. I’m not aware that the situ­ ation is worse this year. There has been no increase o f the enrollment n um ber o v e r the la st fe w yea rs.

H ow ev er, it ’s p o ssib le that som e faculties, Arts for exam ple, where the enrollm ent is fairly large, stu­ den ts’ interests suddenly shift and certain courses becom e much more popular compared to previous years.

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demand in the Greek-Roman studies courses this year mainly because o f the popularity o f Gladiator this sum­ mer.”

W h en a sk e d a b o u t the University’s implementation o f stip­ u lation s stated in the C ontrat de Performance, de Takacsy explained that the University is attempting to comply. “ B e ca u se o f the bud get cuts o v er the la st fe w y ea r s, w e lo st m any professors, and the ratio o f students to teachers went up. With the additional funding from the gov­ ernm ent, w e are p lanning to hire around 200 teachers in the next 10 years to get back to the le v e l w e w ere 6 and 7 years ago. B ut that doesn’t happen overnight.”

In term s o f im p ro v em en t o f p h ysical space M cG ill U niversity o ffe r s, de T ak acsy n oted, “ ...th e fun din g w e get from the g overn ­ ment is barely enough to cover the cost o f building maintenance. Take a look at the music building. If we had th e fu n d in g to b u ild a n ew m u sic b u ild in g , it w o u ld already have been built. Only with the dona­ tion, plus the governm ent funding and other financial resources, can the University have new buildings.”

Even after the meeting o f man­ d a te s in th e C o n tra t de Perform ance, de T ak acsy warns, p o p u la r c o u r s e s or in tro d u cto ry lev el courses w ill alw ays be large and packed. “W e w ill never [be able to] afford to have 30 students for an in troductory-level scien ce course.

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“T he m inutes [o f clo sed se s­ sio n s] relea sed sh ow on several o cca sio n s they talked about other to p ics,” Thornton said. “M any o f the things they d iscu ssed should be d iscu ssed in front o f the pub­ lic .”

A t th e S e p te m b e r 1 an d 2 m eetin g, the board held a clo sed s e s s i o n . B o a r d m e m b e r s s a id they n eed ed to talk about person­ nel issu es, litigation and cam pus sa fety . T hornton said , h o w ev er, that the recently released m inutes o f the c lo s e d s e s s io n sh o w that th ey talk ed ab out the th e n -c o n ­ troversial issu e o f human testing at th e U n iv e r s ity o f I llin o is at C hicago, Thornton said.

T hey d iscu ssed m edia co v er­ a g e o f th e is s u e and sa id th e y thought adm inistrative com m ents quoted in new spapers w ere w eak and o n ly th e c h a n c e llo r sh o u ld speak on the issu e from then on, Thornton explained.

B o a r d m e m b e r K e n n e th S c h m id t s a id h e t h o u g h t th e board d id n ot v io la te the O p en M e e t in g s A c t , b u t w o u ld n o t com m ent further.

“I ’m a la w y e r , an d I h o p e everyth in g w e ’v e done has been l e g a l , ” b o a rd m e m b e r G e r a ld S hea said.

A t o n e m e e tin g , th e board said it w a s g o in g in to a c lo s e d s e s s io n to g e t le g a l a d v ic e , but records show its attorney w as not present at that m eetin g, Thornton said.

T he N ew s-G azette first start­ ed q uestionin g the board’s adher­ e n c e to the O pen M e e tin g s A ct w hen the board voted to re-open th e C h i e f I l l i n i w e k d ia lo g u e w ithout any m ention o f it on the o rig in a l m eetin g agen d a or d is ­ cu ssion o f the issu e at the tim e o f the p u b lic v o te . T h is su g g e ste d p revious d iscu ssio n s o f the C h ief is s u e d u r in g a c l o s e d s e s s io n , according to the N ew s-G azette.

F o r e m a n s a id th e N e w s G a zette ask ed the U n iv ersity to d iscu ss the board se ssio n s b efore it d ecided to file the law suit. “ I t ’ s th e s a m e p r o b le m w e ’v e ta k en to th e U n iv e r s ity a d m in istr a tio n , and th e y c h o s e n ot to ad dress th o s e ,” F orem an said. “T hey said they d idn ’t want to d iscu ss it.”

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B eat it before it b eg in s Free home security evaluations work towards preventing ghetto burglaries her VCR. “I came home to find my entry. But he remembers years past, door open with my couch against it,” in different residences, when he was she remembers. “I think [the thieves] less concerned about break-ins. “We In an effort to increase crim e must have been on the way out with used to leave our doors fully open,” prevention in the M cG ill G hetto, the VCR and then they heard us and he explained.

Tandem Montreal and Police Station dropped it on the bed.”

Leaving doors open and w in ­ 19 have recently team ed up for a Having left the door locked and dows ajar are issues Lobel and her community awareness project known th e w in d o w to h er grou n d flo o r partner, O ffic e r P a tr ic e J o d o in , as “cocoon.” apartm ent ajar, A rm stron g has a address when they go door to door The project is designed to give good idea o f how the burglars got for security evaluations. Also, they free hom e security evalu ation s to into her apartment. “I’m pretty sure take a ch eck list that g u id es them residents in areas that have recently th ey c a m e in th e w in d o w ,” sh e through an array o f potential security had a number o f burglaries. admits. problems.

“Cocoon” is not an entirely new Items like walkmans, CDs, and “W e start by lo o k in g at the program to Montreal, but video gam e consoles, are m ost fre­ grounds, to see if they’re well-kept in recent m onths, it q u e n tly sto le n fro m r e s id e n c e s or if the e x is tin g en v iro n m en t has taken a d if­ is , because they can be quickly picked w ould g iv e crim in als a safe ferent shape up and ea sily resold. “P eop le can exit,” Lobel explains. This in the j Æ ÊÊÊ t quickly enter an apartment, fill their includes checking the knapsack with CDs and get $5-$10 landscape to see if each on the resell,” Lobel explains. b ushes, trees and He suggests that residents mark both bad lighting could their CDs and cases with som e form p ro v id e a s u f f i­ o f identification — either their name c ie n t c o v e r for or their driver’s license number. criminals.

CDs can be easily branded with The pair then a permanent marker, but what about m oves th eir the bigger items that can’t be as dis­ inspection towards cretely marked? Items like comput­ areas o f the home ers, te le v isio n s, and V C R s are o f that w o u ld gain particular concern. Lobel and Jodion criminals access to suggest that individuals engrave their the inside. driver’s license number or medicare “W e check to number somewhere on such belong­ see if the doors are ings. This way, if stolen merchandise so lid and h a v e a Montréal is ever recovered it can be ea sily g o o d d e a d b o lt,” turned b ack o v e r to its o r ig in a l L o b e l e x p la in s.

Teas les objets de valeur de owner. Engraved identification also “M an y p e o p le cette propriété portent an cede grevé. w orks to deter crim inals, because don’t realize that a such la b e le d item s are harder to deadbolt should be Ils sent Identifiables. resell. Both Tandem Montreal and at le a st o n e in ch Police Station 19 loan out engraving lon g and that the Itllsiiii pens to residents that want to take hole must be deep such precautions. Once item s have enough for the bolt to fully extend Ghetto. Representatives from Station been engraved, both organizations inside o f it.” W indow s are another 19 and Tandem Montreal, an organi­ also give out theft-deterrent stickers concern that Lobel stresses, especial­ zation that works to increase safety for doors and w in d ow s that warn ly in the ghetto. and se c u r ity th ro u g h o u t urban would-be robbers an engraving pen “Many o f the residences in the Montreal, w ill now visit residents’ has been used in the apartment. ghetto area are older and often times homes to offer security evaluations.

T h e v isits L o b el and Jod oin the lock s [on the w in d ow s] d o n ’t Their services were previously avail­ make to homes in the ghetto can do w ork.” If such is the case, Lobel able by request only. The change nothing more than provide informa­ recommends that students w edge a comes as a result o f a lack o f public tion. But, according to Lobel, that’s c o u p le o f b rok en h o c k e y stic k s response to the previous program. the first step in crim e prevention. between the window and the top o f Jodi Lobel, a crime prevention “At least [residents] can be informed the fram e, as to prevent burglars c o u n se lo r for T an dem M on treal to m ake the ch o ic e o f w hether to from prying open the window. believes that, in many cases, people increase hom e security.” After all, A c c e ss through a w in d o w is are not aware that a free home secu­ she continues, “if you can prevent it, m o st lik e ly w h at c o s t K rista rity evaluation exists. then you don’t need the police.”

A rm stron g, U1 arts stu d en t, her “W e’re actually going door to walkman and computer, and almost door to be a little more straight for­ w ard ,” sh e e x p la in e d . S h e a lso believes that many people don’t con­ sider themselves at risk o f burglary, especially students.

“Students have a tendency to be A L G O R IT H M E a more vulnerable population,” she further explained, adding that stu­ dents are less pro-active about home security than other residents. “Often [students] feel that since they’ll only be liv in g in an area fo r a few A lg o r ith m e P h a r m a is a M o n tre a l f ir m th a t m o n th s, [se c u r ity ] is n o t a real co n d u cts resea rch stu d ie s o n p h a rm a ce u tica l p ro d u cts issue.”

Matt Copella, a U3 political sci­ in a m o d e m c lin ic in th e m e tro p o lita n area. ence major, never considered bur­ glary to be a problem until a few w eeks ago w hen he had over one hundred C D s, a V C R , and a Nintendo 64 stolen from his apart­ ment. f o r s h o r t c lin ic a l s e s s i o n s w ith c o m p e n s a t i o n “Y ou don’t think it’s going to b e tw e e n $ 5 0 0 and $ 1 ,5 0 0 . happen,” he exp lain s. “N o th in g ’s been stolen from me before in my life, and it’s odd that it finally hap­ (5 1 4 ) or p en s to m e in m y la st y ea r at McGill.”

B e c a u s e th ie v e s p ried in to M o n d a y to f r id a y B etw een 9 h a n d 20ft C opella’s fully bolted door with a crow bar, there was little more he cou ld have done to prevent their

By N ema Etheridge

M c G ill Senate debates Supervisor evaluations for grad students

T h e S en a te had a le n g th y d iscu ssio n on the id ea o f super­ v is o r e v a lu a tio n s for graduate s t u d e n t s at i t s m e e t in g on S ep tem ber 20. T he presentation g iv e n by M artha C rago, dean o f G r a d u a te S t u d ie s , e x p la in e d w h y su pervisor ev a lu a tio n s are n ecessary for graduate students an d h o w t h e y ’ v e w o r k e d fo r o th e r u n iv e r s itie s in th e p ast.

A lt h o u g h th e i s s u e h as b e e n b e f o r e th e S e n a t e in r e c e n t m o n th s, there w ere s till m any p o in t s of d e b a te in W ed n esd a y ’s m eetin g.

M any se n a to rs b e lie v e su pervisors can not be properly e v a l u a t e d in an a n o n y m o u s q u e s t i o n n a ir e . A l s o , o t h e r s ,

su ch as S e n a to r M ic h a e l D u B o w , w on d er i f u sin g c o m ­ p u te r s f o r th e e v a l u a t io n p r o c e ss co u ld p ro v id e a m ore e f f ic ie n t sy ste m . T h e d eb a te s on the topic w ill be con sid ered and sent back to co m m ittee to be reassessed b efore the Senate again in January.

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A rts & Scien ce jo b s at care e r fair B y Jo s e p h Q

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Y ou go to school for three or four grueling years just to get that d eg re e. B u t w h ere w ill that g et you? Ever wonder what y o u ’ll do when you graduate? W ell, that was precisely what was on the minds o f stud en ts at last w e e k ’s A rts and Science Career Fair. And the m es­ s a g e , a c c o r d in g to m a n y , w a s clear: there are p len ty o f career o p p o r tu n itie s fo r A rts stu d e n ts beyond academia.

Held on Sept. 20th in Shatner B a llro o m and sp o n so r e d by the A r ts U n d e r g r a d u a te S o c ie t y , S c ie n c e U n d erg ra d u a te S o c ie ty and M c G il l’ s C a re e r and P lacem en t S erv ice s, the fair fea ­ tured v a rio u s o r g a n iz a tio n s and com panies. And they were a many.

J en n ifer S lo a n , V P ex tern a l for the A U S ,said that the fair is supposed to drive hom e the point to Arts students that there is hope in the job market for them and that m a n y c o m p a n ie s are a c t iv e ly recruiting them.

"It g iv e s A rts s tu d e n ts th e chance to realize that every single ty p e o f co m p a n y is lo o k in g for [them]," she said, em phasizing that m a n y c o m p a n ie s are s e e k in g e m p lo y e e s w ith h o n ed re se a rch and com m un ication sk ills, so m e­ thing that arts students are trained in.

This is what m any o f the com ­ p anies at the fair w ere ask in g o f their new recruits. Kerry D ennison, an e m p lo y e r o f M B N A C anad a Bank, stressed that their com pany looks for em ployees w ho are good at com m unication.

"We’re looking for people in a

v a riety o f b a ck g rou n d s, su ch as b u s in e s s and s c ie n c e . W e w ant them to have the ability to interact effectively," she said.

M ost o f the financial planning and insurance com panies that were r e p r e s e n te d at th e fa ir so u g h t applicants in areas stressing co m ­ m u n ica tio n and p u b lic rela tio n s, skills w hich Arts students develop in the course o f their studies.

C ap tain B e n o it L a lib erte o f th e C a n a d ia n A r m e d F o r c e s e x p la in e d th a t th e r e are m a n y options for the recent graduate o f an y f ie l d . G r a d u a te s in a B a c h e lo r ’ s d e g r e e ca n a p p ly as D irect Entry O fficers earning $30 0 0 0 - $35 0 0 0 as en try-level o ffi­ cers.

"The A rm ed F orces o ffe rs a lo t o f d iffer en t o cc u p a tio n s. A ll o p e r a tio n a l tr a d e s are o p e n to those with a B.A," Laliberte said, stressing that the military is look ­ ing for officers w ho have the "abil­ ity to assim ilate and interpret a lot o f information." Incom e potentials are raised after every year o f ser­ v i c e in th e A r m e d F o r c e s an d cou ld reach $ 7 0 0 0 0 as a captain after 6 years o f service.

For those interested in having j o b s o u t o f th e o r d in a r y , th e C a n a d ia n S e c u r ity I n te llig e n c e S ervice w as present and accepted resum es. Hong Pham o f CSIS said that by far the demand is for intel­ ligen ce officers.

"W e n eed p e o p le to c o lle c t inform ation on threats against the security o f Canada. W e’re working in s id e C anad a w ith a d e fe n s iv e mandate," he said. "We’re looking for ability in inter-com m unication, in ter-p erso n a l s k ills and k n o w l­

ed ge o f the dom estic and interna­ t io n a l p o lit ic a l an d e c o n o m ic scene."

A s fo r S c ie n c e g r a d u a te s , pharmaceutical com panies such as M e rc k F r o st C anada and A s t r a z e n c a R & D , as w e ll as N e x ia B io te c h n o lg ie s , recru ited from the M cG ill pool. N exia is the w o r ld ’s la r g e st m an u factu rer o f B io steel, an extrem ely strong bio­ m aterial derived from spider w eb s ilk w h ic h h a s m a n y p r a c tic a l applications, such as the m aking o f bullet-proof vests.

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External o f the SU S said that he is glad to see a good representation o f b io te c h n o lo g ic a l and pharm a­ ce u tic a l co m p a n ie s at M c G ill as opposed to previous years.

"This year had more diversity than years b e fo re ...it used to focus m ostly on Arts. There’s a lot more sc ie n c e n o w , e s p e c ia lly b io te c h ­ nology," said biochem istry student Louis-Philippe Girard, adding that he is relieved to see m ore diversity in fields represented at events like the Career Fair.

Carmen M iller, dean o f Arts, said that he w as very interested in the fair, stressing its importance as a means o f allow ing Arts students to see that they have m any m ore opportunities than they think.

"I think it m akes them c o n ­ scious o f the fact that they’re very attractive to em p lo y ers. A n Arts d eg re e can o p en up a v a riety o f opportunities," said M iller, stress­ ing that students sim p ly need the creative energy and sense o f auton­ om y to find these jobs.

N ational N e w s B riefs Q ueen's Grease Pole stolen by U o f T engineers

A c h e r ish e d Q u e e n ’s frosh tradition may be in jeopardy as its main prop was stolen by engineer­ ing students from the University o f Toronto on September 9.

The Grease Pole, originally a goal p ost stolen by Q u een ’s stu ­ d e n ts fro m U o f T ’s V a r s ity Stadium in 1955, is used in a ritu­ a listic cerem on y that sig n a ls the en d o f frosh w ee k . T h e g re a se slicked pole is erected by organiz­ ers to its fu ll 2 4 fe e t and fro sh m ust clim b it and retrieve a tarn affixed to the top o f the pole.

A group o f U o f T engineer­ in g s tu d e n ts c a llin g i t s e l f th e “ B ru te F orce C o m m it te e ” rem oved the pole a few hours after th is y ea r’s cerem on y.

Complicating the matter is that the p ole was ostensibly under Q ueen’s U n iv e r s it y ’ s ca r e , so th e B F C members are under threat o f legal action by the University for break­ ing and entering and theft.

T h e d e a n s o f e n g in e e r in g from both sch o o ls are reportedly d is c u s s in g th e p o l e ’ s retu rn , a c c o r d in g to th e Q u een ’s Engineering Society.

N SER C calls for m ore research in northern Canada

A national task force is ca ll­ in g on C a n a d a to “ r e b u ild C anad ian northern re se a rch ” to help people in the Territories cope with social, physical, and environ­ mental problem s, according to its report released on September 21.

The problems include clim ate change, rapid population growth, pollution, and social and econom ic developm ent issues.

T h e N a tu ra l S c ie n c e s and Engineering Research Council and th e S o c ia l S c ie n c e s and H u m a n ities R esea rch C o u n c il’s task force is proposing a program to increase the amount o f research going on in the north o f the coun­ try. T he program ’s recom m enda­ t io n s in c lu d e e s t a b lis h in g 2 4 r e se a r c h c h a ir s d e d ic a te d to n o r th e n r e se a r c h ; c r e a tin g 4 0 northern graduate scholarships and 4 0 post-doctoral fellow sh ip s; and funding 7 0 “strategic research pro­ jec ts o f high social, industrial or environmental relevance,” accord­ ing to N SE R C ’s press release.

Ivey School o f Business ranked tops in Canada

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non-US school by Business W eek in a survey to be published in its October 2 issue.

T h e su r v e y , w h ic h a ls o ranked the U niversity o f Toronto’s Rotman S chool seventh-best nonU S s c h o o l, in te r v ie w e d 1 0 ,0 3 9 stu d en ts at 8 2 b u sin e s s sc h o o ls w o r ld w id e an d 2 4 7 c o r p o r a te recruiters.

M c G ill an d Q u e e n ’ s w e r e ra n k ed a m o n g th e “ th ird t ie r ” s c h o o ls , a c a te g o r y w h ic h a lso includes Oxford University.

Alew sc h o la rs h ip p ro g ra m in Ontario gives out first awards

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(U -W 1R E ) B O S T O N - T he grass was a little greener than usual on the west side o f Boston Common Saturday afternoon, as thousands lis­ ten ed to speakers and bands and protested for the legalization o f mari­ juana at the 11th annual Freedom Rally.

The rally, commonly known as H e m p fe st, is o rg a n iz ed by the M assachusetts Cannabis C oalition and the N ational Organization for Reform o f Marijuana Law. Organizers estim ated a crowd size o f between 80-100,000 people.

T h e B o sto n P o lic e D ep artm ent b eliev es that 3 0 -4 0 ,0 0 0 protesters were present, according to a Boston Police spokesman.

Police made about 70 arrests, 50 o f which were drug-related. One pro­ tester was charged with assault after attacking an officer with a beer bot­ tle.

Although organizers sought to create grass-roots support for the repeal o f marijuana laws, much o f the crowd seemed more interested in the music and the marijuana that cir­

culated freely. Early in the day, a flood o f people approached the stage w hen the punk band D arkbuster played and later retreated w hen a speaker replaced the music.

Many in the crowd purchased hemp jewelry, clothing, T-shirts and posters from more than 30 booths sit­ uated along the Common. Some o f the protesters on the hill near the war memorial felt comfortable enough to sm oke marijuana ju st yards away from uniformed police. Many speak­ ers at the rally were especially criti­ cal o f the undercover officers circu­ lating through the crowd.

“W e are turnin g our p o lic e departments against our ow n p eo­ ple,” said speaker Sylvester Salcedo, a former lieutenant com m ander in the Navy who once helped the FBI and C u sto m s S e r v ic e in terd ict Caribbean drug traffickers. “These people [in the crowd] should be free, free, free.”

Salcedo resigned his com m is­ sion after b ecom in g d isillu sion ed with American drug policy, which he described as “counterproductive and wasteful.”

Study: local colleges cause housing woes in Boston

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(U -W IR E ) B O S T O N - A y e a r ­ lo n g stu d y r e le a s e d la s t w e e k r e p o r ts s o m e th in g B o s to n s tu ­ d e n ts h a v e k n o w n fo r y ea r s: a f f o r d a b le h o u s in g is h ard to f in d . A n d a c c o r d in g to th e au th ors, lo c a l c o lle g e s and u n i­ v er sitie s are part o f the problem .

A cco rd in g to the study, c o n ­ d u c te d by N o rth ea stern U n i v e r s it y ’ s C en te r fo r U rb an and R eg io n a l P o lic y and funded by F le e tB o s to n f in a n c ia l, B o s t o n ’ s v a c a n c y r a te s are so lo w that h o m e p ric es and rents h a v e risen “su b stan tially faster” th an m o s t h o u s e h o ld in c o m e s .

S h o u ld the rates con tin u e to rise, the h o u sin g c r is is c o u ld p o s e a

barrier to th e fu tu re g ro w th o f the region.

T o h e lp e a s e th e d e m a n d , B oston -area c o lle g e s and u n iver­ sities sh ould build m ore d orm ito­ ry sp ace for students in order to “take p ressure o f f o f the n e ig h ­ boring h ou sin g sto ck ,” the study said . I f 7 ,5 0 0 n ew stud en t r e s i­ d en ces are created over the next fiv e years, pressure on the rental h o u sin g m arket w ill b e redu ced sig n ifica n tly .

T he study a lso recom m en d s b u ild in g a m in im u m o f 2 ,7 0 0 fa m ily h o u sin g u n its ea c h year for the n ext fiv e years.

C h o o s e a c a r e e r i n n a t u r o p a t h i c m e d i c in e D o c t o r s o f n a tu ro p a th ic m e d ic in e are lic e n se d

O v e r 4 ,0 0 0 h ig h s c h o o l seniors w ill receive the first-ever A im ing for the Top scholarships, w ith valu es up to $ 3 ,5 0 0 ap iece, D ia n n e C u n n in g h a m , O n ta r io ’s Minister o f Training, C olleges and U niversities announced September 22.

C lose to 1,400 students have received the maximum award this year. T he scholarsh ips are based on fin a n c ia l n eed as w e ll as on academ ic achievem en t. B y 20 0 3 , the Ontario governm ent w ants to g iv e o u t $ 3 5 m illio n in t h e s e scholarships to 10,000 students.

It cu rr en tly is sp e n d in g $8 m illion on the A im ing for the Top scholarships.

gen era l p ra ctitio n ers in natural m ed icin e .

N a tu r o p a th ic stu d e n ts re ce iv e m o r e than 4 ,5 0 0 h o u r s o f in stru ctio n in th e b a sic m ed ica l sc ie n c e s, d ia g n o stic m ed ica l sc ie n c e s a n d n a tu ro p a th ic therap ies.

P ro g ra m req u irem en ts: C an d id ates m u s t h a v e a m in im u m o f th ree years o f stu d y (15 full-year cred its) at an a ccred ited u n iversity, in clu d ing: g en eral b io lo g y , gen era l c h em istry , b io c h e m istr y , org a n ic ch em istry , p s y c h o lo g y .

M a r y B e t h M i c h a e ls A d m i s s i o n s & R e c r u it m e n t C o - o r d in a t o r w i l l b e h o l d i n g a n I n f o r m a t io n S e s s i o n o n T h u r s d a y , O c t o b e r 5 th fr o m 1 2 :3 0 p .m . - 1 : 3 0 p .m .

A r ts 1 6 0 , A r ts a n d S c i e n c e s D e p t .

M c G ill U n iv e r s it y T h e C anadian C o lle g e o f N a tu r o p a th ic M e d icin e 1 2 5 5 S h ep p a rd A v e . E ., N o r th Y o rk , O N M 2 K 1 E 2 (4 1 6 )4 9 8 -1 2 5 5 / in fo @ c c n m .e d u / viAVftAccnm.edu

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M o n tre a l o f the g o e s to s h o w th a t th e o v e r a ll B y M il d r e d W o n g am re fe r r in g to r o u g h ly e v e r y ­ early and m id -9 0 's w as a c ity in dem and for rental property in the M U C is q u it e lo w . M o n t r e a l, th in g e a st o f B o u l. S t. L au rent d e s p a ir , b u t h a s f o r t u n a t e ly W a tc h in g th e o p e n in g c e r e m o n ie s o f th e 2 7 th O ly m p ia d last (th in k O ly m p ic Park area). T he b eg u n to e x p e r ie n c e a b o o m o f w h o s e p o t e n t ia l is fa r g r e a te r Friday, I c o u ld n 't h e lp th in k in g that th e C a n a d ia n s w e r e th e b estth an th at o f o th e r c o m p a r a b le d is tr ic t of H o c h e la g a sorts. T h is c ity , h o w e v e r , has a d r e s se d c o n tin g e n t a ro u n d . It's t o o b ad th at o u r a th le te s h a v e n 't c itie s in Canada, has quite som e M a i s o n n e u v e h a s o n e o f th e lo n g w a y to go. h ad m u c h o p p o r tu n ity to s h o w o ff th e ir sty lin g R o o ts attire s in c e w ork to do b efore realizin g it. h ig h e s t u n e m p lo y m e n t rates in M o n t r e a l h a s o n e o f th e D a y 1. th e e n t ir e M o n t r e a l U r b a n h ig h est poverty rates in the co u n ­ T h is p a st w e e k h as b e e n w r o u g h t w ith d is a p p o in tm e n t for try, at an a p p a llin g 4 2 p er cent.

C om m u nity. If on e takes a stroll E m ile A m za lla g C a n a d ia n sp ort fa n s. A fter d ilig e n tly se ttin g o u r alarm c lo c k s to alon g rue Ste. C atherine, it is vir­ T h e gen eral a esth etic o f the city U 1 P h y sio lo g y c a tc h th e C B C 's la te -n ig h t c o v e r a g e o f o u r fa v o r ite e v e n t s , w e tu a lly im p o s s ib le n o t to c o m e is in se r io u s n e e d o f r e v ita liz a ­ a w o k e to fin d o u r h e r o e s' b e st effo rts w e r e n o t e n o u g h . C arol M o n tg o m e r y , J o a n n e M alar, B runy Surin, D o n o v a n B a ile y , D er ek O r g a n i s e d c r i m e : w h e r e o n l y t h e o u t l a w s a r e free Porter an d T an ya D u b n ic o ff w ill all return h o m e in a w e e k w ith little m o re th an th eir h o c k e y je r se y s as so u v e n ir s . l e s s , lo n e l y lo t . T h e y r e c e iv e T w o w e e k s a g o a m an w h o n ever let the m o st seriou s in tim i­ W h a t h a p p e n e d ? A re t h e s e a th le te s' e x p e r ie n c e s sim p ly is o ­ d a tio n d e te r th em fr o m s a y in g ex trem ely m eagre recom p en se in fig h ts fo r our fre ed o m w a s bru­ lated in c id e n c e s o f b ad lu c k or are th e y a pattern o f o u r d e c r e a s ­ proportion to w hat they g iv e , and tally shot in the b ack fiv e tim es. w h a t th e y h ad to s a y . L e t n o ing c o m p e titiv e n e s s in in te rn a tio n a l a m a te u r sport? that is the fundam ental in ju stice A t the tim e o f w riting, he is still o b s t a c l e s to p u s fr o m s a y in g A ustralia, w ith a p o p u la tio n o f n in e te e n m illio n , e x p e c t s to o f it all. a liv e , and still in hospital. w h a t w e w a n t. In th a t w a y , w in six ty m e d a ls at th e s e O ly m p ic s , w h ile C a n a d a , w ith a p o p u ­ O rganised crim e is in fin itely F o r th e o u t - o f - t o w n e r s , e v e r y o n e can c o n tr ib u te to the la tio n o f th ir ty -o n e m illio n , w ill lik e ly s e e th e m a p le le a f raised m o re p e r n ic io u s than is c o r p o ­ M ich el A u g er is a jou rn alist w h o d efen ce o f a free so c iety . le ss th an tw e n ty tim e s o v e r th e c o u r s e o f th e G a m e s . A th le te s, has d ev o ted d eca d es to u n cover­ T he alternative is w ritten on ra tism . N o o f fe n c e to a c tiv is ts , fa n s, a n d th e m e d ia b la m e a la c k o f fu n d in g fo r o u r s p o r tin g but it is d ifficu lt to recall the last th e w e b s it e o f th e A m e r ic a n in g o rg a n ise d crim e in Q u éb ec. w o e s . A fter a ll, h o w c a n w e e x p e c t o u r s w im m e r s to c o m p e t e t im e C o c a - C o la k i l l e d an 1 1 A h a z a r d o u s o c c u p a t io n to b e O u tla w A s s o c ia t io n (th a t's th e w ith Ian T h o rp e an d h is s iz e s e v e n te e n f e e t w h e n th e A u stralian su re, as M . A u g e r h im s e lf O u tlaw s M C , for those w h o pre­ y e a r -o ld b o y . M ic r o s o ft w a s sw im tea m h as fiv e tim e s th e r e so u r c e s th at S w im C a n a d a d o e s? fer tofu to t-b on es and Star Trek d in g e d b y the anti-trust law su it, a c k n o w l e d g e s ; " R e p o r tin g on H o w c a n w e e x p e c t o u r r o w e r s to r e g a in th e ir r e c o r d p e r fo r ­ b ik er g a n g s is a lto g eth er d iffe r ­ to S m ack d ow n !) b ut l% er M C 's (" b iker gan g s" ) m a n c e o f six m e d a ls in A tlan ta w h e n th eir b u d g e t is o n e quarter h ave y et to be scathed by RIC O en t from reporting on a ce re m o ­ " W h en F r e e d o m is o u t ­ o f th e A u stralian s'? It is th e s a m e story in e v e r y sp ort. C a n a d a 's la w e d , o n ly O u t l a w s w i l l b e or, its C anadian counterpart, Cny at St. Joseph's Oratory." m e d a l sta n d in g s re flect o u r in a d e q u a te fu n d in g o f a m a te u r a th ­ 9 5 . T h a t is w h y s p e a k in g o u t C r im e r e p o r t e r s l i k e M . free." le tic s in c o m p a r is o n w ith th e rest o f th e w o r ld . a g a in s t o r g a n is e d c r im e ta k e s A u g e r , Y v e s L a v ig n e , L e o L u c k ily , w e a r e b e g in n i n g to d o s o m e t h i n g a b o u t it. O n Thank you, th a t m u c h m o r e . It is tim e w e K n ig h t and J e a n - P ie r r e S u n d a y , t h e O t ta w a C it iz e n r e p o r te d th a t B ritish C o lu m b ia 's Joe Fernandez, re co g n ise and honour the sp eak ­ C h a r b o n e a u h a v e e a r n e d th e ir sp ort b ra n ch w a s n e g o tia tin g th e p u r c h a s e o f A u str a lia 's ta le n t ex -co lu m n ist, C hair S hots ers.

V icto ria C ro sses for bravery se v ­ s e a r c h p ro g ra m . T h is n a tio n w id e s y s te m u s e s b o d y m e a s u r e ­ W e can do that by speaking eral tim es over. W hat they d o is o u r m in d s o n w h a t w e f e e l is e s s e n t i a l to o u r s u r v iv a l a s a m en ts to m a tch ch ild re n w ith th eir id ea l sp orts a n d a ls o h e lp s to im p o r ta n t . T h e p e o p l e a b o v e c iv ilisa tio n , y et theirs is a thank­ id en tify p o te n tia l p h e n o m s lik e T h o rp e w h o are th e n o ffe r e d s p e ­ c ia l tra in in g o p p o r tu n itie s. By s u b je c tin g e v e r y BC h igh s c h o o l stu d en t to t h e s e tests, su p p o rter s o f th e p rogram h o p e to d u p li­ Lib r a r y a c t i n g r e s p o n s ib l y : r e s p o n d i n g t o th e n e e d s o f B irks users c a te A u stra lia 's in c r e d ib le resu lts, b u t at w h a t cost?

If th is sta te s p o n s o r e d sy ste m o f s c o u tin g so u n d s e e r ily fa m il­ I am writing concerning your agreem en t w ith the library d o es r ia ls th a t th e B ir k s a tte n d a n t iar, that is p ro b a b ly b e c a u s e it is b a se d o n th e sy ste m u se d b y w ould have d ifficulty handling in ed ito ria l ("W hen co m m o n se n se a llo w R e lig io u s S tu d ie s fa cu lty t h e f o r m e r S o v ie t U n i o n a n d o t h e r c o m m u n i s t n a t io n s lik e addition to other tasks. The princi­ c o llid e s w ith r e a lity " , S ep t 19, m em bers to restrict b ook s in the C h in a . In t h e s e c o u n tr ie s, y o u n g ste r s id e n tifie d a s p o te n tia l a th ­ p le r e a s o n fo r c e n t r a liz in g Issue 3) in w hich you accurately Birks Reading R oom to a non-cir­ le te s w e r e o fte n r e m o v e d from th e ir fa m ilie s to p u r su e fu ll-tim e reserves is a service consideration. quelled the rumour that the library culating status. In this w ay users train in g r e g im e s w ith th e n a tio n a l te a m . A u stra lia 's sy ste m is n o t The large majority o f students system w as planning to c lo se the can be assured that h ea v ily used materials should be in the Reading w h o u se these m aterials are from Birks R eading R oom . Part o f the as e x tr e m e b ut o n e w o n d e r s if in a d o p tin g th eir recru itin g m e th ­ F a c u lt ie s o th e r than R e lig io u s thrust o f this article w as that the R oom . I do not recom m en d this o d s , th e y h a v e fo rg o tte n th e spirit o f th e O ly m p ic s . If th e g o a l is S t u d ie s an d com e to approach since the selfish user can e n fo r c e m e n t o f the "reserves in to w in a b o v e all e ls e , th e n w h y sto p at sc r e e n in g c h ild r e n ? W h y M cLennan" p o licy not on ly real­ M cL en n a n /R ed p a th in the o rd i­ hide material from others. It does, n o t in stitu tio n a liz e th e p r a c tic e o f u sin g p e r fo r m a n c e e n h a n c in g nary cou rse o f their stud ies any­ ized no sa v in g s in term s o f sta ff h o w ev er, sh ow a w illin g n e ss on drugs? w ay. The Birks R eading R oom has the part o f the library to respond tim e but also resulted in a lessen ­ C a n a d a 's a m a teu r a th le te s n e e d su p p o rt a n d fu n d in g , b u t o u r v ery lim ited hours in clu d in g no ing o f service to users. I consider to the concerns o f the Birks users c h ild r e n d o n o t n e e d b ig b roth er to tell th e m w h a t th e y c a n and w e e k e n d and e v e n in g s e r v ic e . this v iew is quite inaccurate.

I w ill w h ile acting resp onsibly towards c a n n o t d o . A s w e w a tc h th e rest o f th e O ly m p ic G a m e s , le t us T h e r e f o r e a n y m a te r ia ls in n o t g o in to th e c o s t s a v in g s our other clientele. k e e p th in g s in p e r s p e c tiv e an d c o n g r a tu la te th o s e C a n u c k s w h o M cL enn an/R edpath are far m ore although th ese are sig n ifica n t — d e fie d th e "m edal drought" a n d c a m e th rou gh to sta n d a to p th e a c c e s s ib l e to u se r s an d th is is having m aterials on reserve is not Thank you, p o d iu m : S im o n W h itfie ld , C urtis M y d e n , N ic h o la s G ill, Karen e s p e c i a l l y c r it ic a l fo r r e s e r v e sim p ly a m atter o f g iv in g b o o k s C o ck b u rn , M a th ieu T u rg e o n , A n n e M o n tm in y a n d th e W o m e n 's item s. Your editorial also failed to o u t an d r e c e iv in g th e m b a c k .

John H obbins, Eights R o w in g C rew . W e sa lu te y o u ! m ention that, notw ithstanding the There is significant work involved A cting M cLennan Librarian ab ove service con sid erations, the with the processing o f these m ate­

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FALLACIOUS ATTACK A lr ig h t l e t ’s p la y m akeb e l i e v e . L e t's say y ou h a v e a k ille r m o v ie s c r ip t, an d y o u n e e d s o m e o n e to invest in it to get it o ff the ground.

Y o u h ea d o v e r to M o m an d D ad's, and they q u ick ly tell you to, "Get a real job, hippy!" U sing your better ju d gem en t, you head o v er to the bank to beg for m oney. Because Canadian banks are so damned gener­ ous, they g iv e you tons! N ow , w ho gets creative control o f the flick? Is it you, the one w ho know s m ovies, or is it the bank, those heartless bastards w ith the b illio n d o lla r p ro fits w h o w ouldn 't k n ow A to m E g o y a n from A d a m S a n d le r ?

"It's m e!" y o u exclaim , "I know what I need, w ho to hire, what kind o f donuts I need on the set, (mm m bits o f tim ), not som e damn banker, gosh darn it!"

Ordinarily, the bank asks, "So is this m ovie about the trials and tribu­ la tio n s o f a first-y ea r M a n agem en t s tu d e n t, or is it s o m e lo w - g r a d e porno?" Y ou naturally see no differ­ e n c e b e t w e e n th e tw o , b ut y o u explain the endeavours o f your film .

Inherent in the m oney lending is the understanding that the bank approves the general plan but T he M an a in ’t g o n n a co n tro l m e d am m it! In the

end, so long as you stick to what you told them, it's all good!

N ow what if Q uebec universities want­ ed to, oh I don't know, provide quality edu­ cation to thousands o f upstanding students ( n o t w ith s t a n d in g w h a t I s a id a b o u t M anagem ent students, I lo v e those kids!).

So the governm ent says, "Here's a b illion dollars, do your thing." O nly problem is, the Quebec governm ent wants creative con ­ trol; binding stipulation s that the sc h o o ls must m eet in order to qualify for the cash.

D oesn't seem quite right does it?

S o lon g as the u n iversity is g o in g to u se the m oney to better itself (I mean it's a r e la t iv e ly s a fe a ssu m p tio n that B e r n ie S h a p iro isn 't g o in g to run o f f to G rand Cayman with Quebec's m oney and open a martini lounge) then the governm ent needs to ste p o f f and a llo w th o s e w h o k n o w what's best for the universities, that being the schools them selves, to do what is n ec­ essary. If there is to be any sort o f Contrat de Performance, it should be no more than a good faith contract o f honoring the gener­ al purpose o f the investm ent.

T hen again, the Q u eb ec G overnm ent has done such a bang-up job o f m anaging its universities, esp ecially our fine institu­ tion, that m aybe w e sh ould let them lead the way.

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In the Septem ber 12 issue o f the Tribune, it w as reported that the Q uebec M inistry o f E d u c a tio n w a s d e m a n d in g that the S tu dents' S o c ie ty o f M c G ill U n iv ersity enter into a contract with the governm ent to ensure funding on a continual basis in e x c h a n g e fo r v a rio u s im p r o v em en ts to M cG ill. T hese negotiations raise the ques­ tion o f w here the sphere o f governm ent e n d s an d b e g in s to e n c r o a c h u p o n M cG ill's autonomy as an educational insti­ tution . S im p ly , lik e a sto ck h older in a com pany sin ce the governm ent contributes m o n ey , it has a right to dem and certain m inim u m requ irem en ts from its in v est­ ment.

A s Canadians, w e allow governm ent intervention into our liv es in social, e c o ­ nom ic and cultural arenas. A primary rea­ son w h y M c G ill tu itio n and that o f all C anadian u n iv ersities, is so m uch low er than schools south o f the border is precise­ ly b e c a u s e g o v e r n m e n ts s u b s id iz e so m u ch o f w h a t w e ta k e fo r g ra n ted . It w ould be som ew hat absurd to expect the governm ent to throw m on ey into public services, and not expect certain minimum criteria. W hat President Baraniak decries in the article as "government micro man­ agement" should instead be perceived as g o v e r n m e n t in v e s t m e n t m a n a g e m e n t.

N ow here does the governm ent purport to e ffe c t cu rriculu m — in stead the stip u la­ tions o f the contract w ould seem to make M cG ill more a ccessib le for m ore students,

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certain ly an im provem ent.

U n d o u b ted ly , the sp e c ific contract sp ec ifica tio n s for the Contrat de Performance b e tw e e n M c G ill and th e Q uebec governm ent do rep­ resent changes in M cG ill that w ould need be addressed, regardless o f any involvem ent from the government.

Included in the contract stipula­ tions are calls for reducing student to fa cu lty ratio to 2 0 to 1, a ch ie v in g zero -d eb t situ a tio n by 2 0 0 2 -2 0 0 3 , d ecrea sin g the num ber o f students per course w hile increasing the num­ ber o f courses taught by regular fac­ ulty, and hiring 100 professors a year for the next 10 years. T hese reforms w ill enable M cG ill to reach its high p otential as an ed u cational in stitu ­ tion, w hile at the sam e tim e ensuring that its fu n d in g from th e Q u eb ec g o v ern m en t is m ain tain ed . A p ro­ gram w hich a llo w s M cG ill to keep c o m p le te a u to n o m y o v e r w h a t is ta u g h t w h i le at th e sa m e tim e decreasing class size and increasing faculty can only help the school. In this scenario, not only does the g o v ­ ernm ent h a v e the rig h t to in v o lv e itself, but its involvem ent w ill alm ost certainly benefit M cG ill.

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The M cG ill D a ily p u b lish ed an e d it o r ia l on S e p te m b e r 18 ("Accountable G overnment O ff to a L o u s y S tart" ) d e r id in g th e S tu d e n ts ' S o c ie t y o f M c G ill U niversity for holding an in-cam era d iscu ssio n at its first co u n cil m eeting. The editorial states that w h atever the Students' S o cie ty 's attorney had to say "just wasn't fit for the ears o f the studen ts w h o are paying him through the teeth."

It's true — you and I, and all o f our frie n d s are p a y in g S S M U 's attorney a great d eal o f m o n e y .

N o t w a n tin g to b e o n e o f th e " u n in form ed " c o u n c ilo r s m e n ­ tioned in the D aily editorial, I took up the offer to hear both sid es o f the issue and spent a day last w eek at the Palais de Justice to se e the trial.

The SSM U an d D a ily Publications S ociety have been in court sev era l tim e s to se ttle the issu e o f w hether or not the D PS h as a v a lid l e a s e . T h a t's it!

N o b o d y is there to d efen d their a ctio n s, and the D aily's right to freedom o f the press is not being q u e s t io n e d . Y e t w e e k s h a v e passed, m oney has been spent, and no decision has been reached.

T h e j u d g e c o n s id e r in g th e case su ggested that the attorneys attem p t to n e g o tia te , h o p in g to avoid a trial altogether. M ichael B e rg m a n , the D a ily 's a tto r n e y , refused the judge's suggestion that m e d ia tio n or a rb itra tio n c o u ld offer quicker, cheaper solutions to th e d is c u s s io n s . Jon F e ld m a n , attorney for the S S M U , restated the Students' Society's w illingn ess to negotiate anything but the phys­ ical space in question, w hich has to be used as an entrance to the b u ild in g fo r d is a b le d stu d e n ts .

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D aily's attorney d ecided (later in the afternoon) that the DPS w ould not n egotiate. A nother trial date w as set, tw o w eeks later.

T hese wasted days cost thou­ sands o f dollars for each party. If you're concerned about w hich side you're supporting financially, don't be — you're paying for both. Your annual S SM U and D aily fe e s are both being used for this trial. It is the D aily that brought the issue to c o u r t, and it is th e D a ily th a t r e f u s e s m e d ia tio n a n d k e e p s stalling the trial. S SM U has been try in g ev e ry p o s s ib le a v en u e o f n eg o tia tio n , m ed iation, and arbi­ tration to get this matter resolved.

B y forcing the Students’ Society to w a ste tim e and m o n e y in cou rt, the D aily is d elayin g renovations in ten d ed to b e n e fit all stu d en ts, and d ecr ea sin g the q uan tity and quality o f the services S SM U can provide.

The needs o f the D aily do not su p ersede th ose o f other cam pus groups, and rem oving 2 3 0 o f their 1700 square feet (the equivalent o f their lounge space) d oes not co n ­ stitu te an in fr in g e m e n t o f th e ir freedom o f expression. If, as the e d it o r ia l s t a te s , " tr a n sp a r e n c y should be a hallmark o f account­ able institutions," I ch a llen g e the D aily to tell stu d en ts w hat their ta c tic s h a v e b e e n in co u rt, and prove that they are not w asting our m oney.

D anielle Lanteigne U 3 Political S cience Arts Rep to SSM U

1. Reduce 5. Partner o f 9 Across 9. Partner o f 5 Across 13. Very large continent 14. Precedes "a two, a three" 15. Tom m y James song, "I Think w e're____ Now" 17. In the U .S., they work in the House 20. Interac 21. Epic story 22. Am bulance service, abbv.

23. NFL murder suspect Carruth 25. Carl Reiner's son 26. Caustic chem ical 2 7 . E r s tw h ile p a rtn e r o f 4 7 A cross 33. Carrie Fisher's m ost fam ous role 34. Abby's sister 35. It ranks above a viscount and below a marquis 3 7 . F r e n c h -s p e a k in g A fr ic a n country 38. Rising aid 4 L A u th o r o f H o w th e O ther H alf Lives 43. Speech impediment 45. Casual negative 46. S ee you later, abbv.

47. See 27 Across 51. "___L oves You" 53. In addition 54. A ge 55. A ges?

56. R eggae legend Peter 58. N icholas and Alexander 6 2 . Id ea th at o p p o s e s F r e n c h speaking in 37 Across 66. Figure out this clue 67. The sm allest Great Lake 68. Peak 69. Jewish loaves?

70. Country o f 13 A cross continent 71. Subject necessity

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Smart remark Reject Farm tool Places to stay

8. Something on which to be hoist­ ed 9. A ble to go out for a m ovie?

10. Clay's M uslim name 11. Notable meter maid 12. The roadrunner to the coyote 16. Latin for "to be" 18. G aelic country 19. Very excited 24. River in 18 A cross country 27. Singular charity?

28. Kerouac's buddy Cassady 29. W ith care 30. Poker verb 31. Without meaning 32. Travolta's Battleship 36. M ikey's cereal 39. Identical

40. Depressing era?

42. T.V . com edy staple, abbv.

44. Toilets 48. Space 49. The Truth 50. Pedro's home 51. Traditionally, there are seven 52. Esteem , respect 57. Zeus's sister and w ife 59. "Actor" Thicke 60. He's certainly Suavé 61. M cGill acronym that's great for crosswords 6 3 . B e a t le s s o n g __ G o t a Feeling" 64. Brazilian city, abbv.

65. Bathroom sign

Once again, answers to last week's puzzle: September 19 Issue 3

Sto ckw ell Day's d e b u t: an o u th o u se of co m m ents H eh, how ya’ doin' out there?

W ell, I’m doin’ alright m yself. In fa c t, I ’m th r ille d . A t th e sa m e tim e, how ever, I’m a little ner­ v o u s , a tad b it a p p r e h e n siv e , w h ile p a r a d o x ic a lly ra th er e c s ta tic ab out m y brand n ew c o lu m n , T h e O u th o u s e o f Com m ents. In short, I’m quite am bivalent.

B y n o w y o u ’ ve p ro b a b ly realised that I’m the new kid on the block. Indeed, a frosh fa c­ ing the horrors o f m y first year at M cG ill; a 15 year-old gym nast at m y fir s t O ly m p ic g a m e s . B u t d o n ’t m is t a k e m e fo r a J o e M cIntyre or a D on n ie W ahlberg; in s t e a d , I ’ m a n e w ly e l e c t e d Stockw ell D ay taking m y first few steps into the H ouse o f Comm ons: pretentious yet naive.

S p e a k in g o f M r D a y , I th o u g h t I m ig h t b e g in th e y ea r with a brief discussion o f his ju g ­ gernau t arrival in the C an a d ia n p o lit ic a l a r e n a . Y o u h a v e a ll n o tic e d h im , I ’m sure, for h e is

o n e o f th e m o s t a e s t h e t ic a lly p le a s in g m e n to e v e r h it Parliam ent H ill. He is o b viou sly

aw are o f this co n sid erin g he has recently used his physique to show h im s e lf o f f on n u m er o u s o c c a ­ sions. But, as w e all know, there’s m ore to a person than their good lo o k s, there are their brains. O f cou rse, I hate to ju d g e p eop le by the breadth o f their k now ledge, but in terms o f p olitics, it is im perative that one be educated, particularly regarding the subtle nuances found in the British North A m erica Act, 1867. Stockw ell is not.

In n u m ero u s situ a tio n s, the lea d er o f the C anad ian A llia n c e

has in fa ct con trad icted h im self.

For instance, w hile stipulating that the p ro v in ce s sh o u ld b e granted broader jurisdiction over areas o f concurrent jurisdiction, Day has then proceeded to demand th a t th e C o n s t it u t io n be resp ected as it w as originally written in 1867. B ack in the 19th c e n tu r y , h o w e v e r , th e fed era l g o v ern m en t lib er a lly used Sections 56 and 90 o f the B N A A ct to override several provincial b ills, a legal procedure w h ic h th u s g r a n te d th e fe d s extended pow er over areas where p rovin ces had e x c lu siv e ju r isd ic­ tion . In sim p ler term s, the fed s had the right to interfere. W hat D a y n e e d s, th erefo re, is a crash course in Canadian history so as to u n d e r sta n d th e d y n a m ic s o f Canadian federalism .

N o n e th e le s s , d e s p ite a fe w c e r e b r a l f la w s , M r D a y d o e s indeed have a knack for learning.

J u st r e c e n t ly , fo r e x a m p le , h e spent a m ere w eek w ith a French

Canadian fam ily and em erged with a m o d e st grasp o f ru d im en ta ry F rench.

H is m o t iv e w a s , o f course, to attract Q uebec francoph­ o n es to h is party. H o w ev e r, he m ust first re a liz e that there is a h ellu v a lot m ore to Q ueb ec than language. In fact, French is only the starting ground.

Y ou see, Q u eb ec’s ex isten ce as a predom inantly French entity depends on its special rights; lan­ guage, civil law and its dispropor­ tionate amount o f federal cultural funding. The Canadian A llian ce, in c o n tr a s t, is fu n d a m e n ta lly opposed to this sort o f accom m o­ dation, in that they are essentially p op u list and therefore claim that there should be equal rights for all, and sp ecial rights for none. This poses a notable threat to the place o f Quebec in the federation as perp e tu a to r o f th e F r e n c h fa c to r .

S to c k w e ll n eed s to id en tify this, and i f he already has, he must do more than sim ply learn the French language to com pensate.

M ost evidently, Stockw ell has a lo t to le a rn . O f c o u r s e , as a rookie in journalism , so do I. In a w ay, then, w e are m omentarily on the sam e boat. S urely, both our sh ip s are d e stin e d to en co u n te r ferocious w aves and rocky shores in ou r r e s p e c t iv e ocean s.

H ow ever, faced with inherent val­ ues and the inveterate traditions o f this country, S to c k w e ll’s journey prom ises to be substantially more challenging than m ine. In fact, if indeed his goal is to becom e Prime M inister, he may have to rebuild his v e sse l and redesign his route altogether. For, as former Leader of th e O p p o s itio n P r e sto n M anning has proven, m oving east­ w ard from the w est is n ev er an easy task. This may leave kingpin p o m p o u s w h e r e h e s h o u ld be: alo n g sid e his p red ecessor as just another demonstration sport.

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Citizens settle down, but Fujimori crisis still hogging international spotlight B y S h ir l e e E n g e l In o u r s h e l t e r e d N o r t h A m e r ic a n l iv e s , m a n y o f us k n o w r e la t iv e l y li t t l e a b o u t a r e g io n so tr o u b le d b y m ilita r y c o r ru p tio n , p o litic a l in s ta b ility and c h a o s. “ B a s ic a ll y I ’ m h a p p y I ’ m ou t o f P eru, th a t’s a ll,” sa y s U 2 M a n a g e m e n t stu d en t M e l S lo c h o w s k i, w h o w a s b o rn and r a is e d in P er u , a c o u n tr y th a t h as taken h o ld o f in te rn a tio n a l m e d ia in th e p a s t f e w w e e k s .

H e m o v e d to C a n a d a d u r in g th e 1 9 9 0 e le c tio n that b r o u g h t a n o w d is g r a c e d P r e s id e n t A lb e r to F u jim o ri to p o w e r.

F u jim o ri, cu rr en tly s e r v in g a third term in a co u n try w h o s e c o n s t it u t io n h a s d e n o u n c e d a s e c o n d p r e s id e n tia l r e -e le c tio n , announced on S a tu r d a y , S e p te m b e r 16 that h e w a s s te p ­ p in g d o w n . T h e m o v e c l o s e l y f o l l o w e d t h e r e l e a s e o f an in c r im in a t in g v id e o in w h ic h h is k e y sp y c h i e f an d h e a d o f th e in te llig e n c e agency, V la d im ir o M o n t e s in o s , w a s s e e n b r i b i n g an o p p o s i t i o n m e m b e r w ith $ 1 5 ,0 0 0 to s w itc h p a r tie s. T h e m o v e se n t s h o c k w a v e s th r o u g h th e P e r u v ia n p o p u la tio n , g iv in g r is e to h y s t e r ic a l s p e c u la t io n a b o u t a n o th er m ilita ry c o u p in a c o n t in e n t th a t h a s s e e n fa r to o m an y.

F o u r d a y s o f tu r m o il a n d te n s io n w ere eased on T h u r sd a y , S e p te m b e r 21 w h e n th e m ilit a r y f i n a l l y b r o k e its s i l e n c e , a n n o u n c i n g t h a t it w o u ld b a c k F u jim o r i f u l l y in th e p r o c e s s o f a n o th er e le c tio n .

Its d e c la r a t io n im p l ie s th a t it w ill a llo w th e p r o c e s s o f a d e m o c r a tic e le c t io n to r e p la c e th e cu rren t le a d e r. “ I t’s n o w c le a r that w h a t­ e v e r h a p p en s th e re is m u ch m o re p r e ssu r e fo r it to h a p p en d e m o c r a tic a lly ,” s a y s P o litic a l S c ie n c e P ro fesso r P h ilip O x h o r n , w h o t e a c h e s th e P o l i t i c s o f L a t in A m e r i c a at M c G ill. H e s a y s th a t m u c h o f w h a t F u jim o r i h a s b e e n s a y in g in t h e p r e s s s i n c e h i s s c a n ­ d a lo u s p r o c la m a t io n is f e a s i ­ b le .

O ne o f th e se sta te m e n ts w a s th e d e c la r a tio n o f h is p la n to d is m a n t le th e i n t e l l i g e n c e a g e n c y , fo r m e r ly know n as th e N a t i o n a 1 I n t e 11 i g e n c e P o p u la t io n : 2 S .2 M illio n S e r v ic e (S IN ).

P o p . b e l o w p o v e r t y l i n e : 4 1% “ I t’ s c o m p lic a te d b u t i t ’ s n o t th a t G N P : $ 5 9 .3 b illio n 1 im p o s s ib le . H e G N P p e r c a p ita : $ 2 . c r e a te d it and i t ’s t a in t e d ,” says O x h o rn . “ I t h in k th a t F u jim o r i w ill p r o b a b ly do e v e r y th in g h e ca n to m a k e su re that he w ill be im m u n e fro m p r o s e c u tio n ,” h e s a y s . “ O n e o f the b ig s tu m b lin g Literacy Rate: ~90% b lo c k s is w h e th e r from World Bank 2000 or not [M o n te s in o s ] w ill

a c tu a lly b e p r o s e c u te d .”

O p p o s itio n m e m b e r s are c a l l i n g f o r t h e in d i c t m e n t o f M o n te s in o s and th e im m e d ia te r e p la c e m e n t o f F u jim o ri w ith a tr a n sitio n g o v e r n m e n t u n til the n e x t e le c t io n . H o w e v e r , as O x h o r n p o in t s o u t , th e r e a re d i s a d v a n t a g e s to th e id e a o f su c h a g o v e r n m e n t. “ O b v i o u s l y th e r e a r e n o t g o in g to b e a n y m a jo r p o lic y c h a n g e s b e tw e e n n o w and t h e n . F o r c e r t a i n r e a s o n s it m a y b e p r e f e r a b le to h a v e a tr a n sitio n g o v e r n m e n t fo r o th e r r e a s o n s it m a y n o t ,” h e s a y s . “ W h o i s g o i n g to f o r m i t — th e sa m e p e o p le w h o are g o in g to b e r u n n in g fo r e l e c t io n . S o th e r e m a y e v e n i r o n i c a l l y b e an a d v a n ta g e to h a v in g s o m e ­ b o d y d ista n t fro m th e e le c tio n w h ic h [F u jim o r i] n o w i s . ” B y t h e l o o k s o f it n o w , m a n y s p e c u la t e th a t le a d in g o p p o s i t i o n f i g u r e A le j a n d r o T o l e d o , a U S - t r a in e d e c o n o ­ m is t w it h n o fo r m a l p o lit ic a l background, w ill ta k e F u jim o r i’s sp o t in o f f ic e in the n e x t e le c tio n . A m an o f im m e n s e c h a r is m a , h e w o n o v e r m u c h o f th e p o p u la r v o te in l a s t A p r i l ’ s e l e c t i o n , b u t e n d e d u p b a c k i n g o u t in p r o t e s t to w h a t h e s a i d w a s fr a u d u le n t e le c to r a l p r o c e d u r e o n th e part o f h is o p p o n e n t.

L a t in A m e r i c a ’ s l o n g e s t s e r v in g , d e m o c r a tic a lly e le c te d le a d e r , F u jim o r i f i r s t t o o k o ffic e on P e r u v ia n I n d e p e n d e n c e D a y , J u ly 2 8 ,

1990. “ M y f a m ily m o v e d o u t o f P er u b e c a u s e it g o e s th r o u g h u p s a n d d o w n s . W h e n w e le f t it w a s th e w o r st i t ’ s e v e r b e e n e c o n o m ic a lly , p o lit ic a lly , s a f e ­ ty w i s e , ” s a y s S lo c h o w s k i. “ S u d d e n ly t h e r e ’ s F u jim o r i w h o had a m eta l f is t and c o m ­ p le t e ly b r o u g h t th e c o u n tr y b a ck u p .”

F u jim o ri is a p p la u d e d by s o m e fo r th e in c r e a se in e c o ­ n o m ic a c t iv it y e n jo y e d b y P e r u d u r in g h is r u le . T h e e c o n o m y b e c a m e in c r e a s in g ­ ly m a r k e t - o r ie n t e d , w ith m a jo r p r iv a t iz a t io n s c o m p le te d s in c e 1 9 9 0 , w h ic h lo w er ed h y p e r in fla ­ tio n . S tr o n g f o r ­ e ig n in v e s tm e n t and th e c o o p e r a ­ tio n b e tw e e n the F u j im o r i g o v , e r n m e n t , IM F and W o r ld B an k, b rought g r o w th fro m 1 9 9 4 -7 . “ [F u jim o r i] tu rn ed Peru in to a d e c e n t c o u n tr y fo r a c h a n g e ,” sa y s S l o c h o w s k i . “ T h e r e ’ s a lw a y s h o p e , b u t i t ’s c a lle d a m ir a c le . I h o n e s tly d o n ’t know an yon e w h o ca n r e p la c e h im rig h t n o w .”

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e c o n o m ic sta tu s an d s o c ia l p r o b le m s h a v e b y n o m e a n s b e e n a l l e v i a t e d d u r in g t h i s t im e . F u j im o r i’ s c r it ic s a rg u e that h e h as n ot d o n e e n o u g h to c o m b a t p o v e r ty an d th a t he s h o u ld in c r e a s e s p e n d in g . H e is a ls o w id e ly c r it ic iz e d fo r a u to c ra tic ru le and su p p r e ssio n o f o p p o s itio n v o ic e s . “ T h e i s s u e s [in th e n e x t e l e c t io n ] w i l l b e o n e o r m o re o p p o s it io n c a n d id a t e s c a l lin g f o r c h a n g e , m o r e r e s p e c t an d d e m o c r a c y an d h u m a n r ig h t s , d e a lin g w ith th e o b v io u s p ro b ­ le m s in P e r u ,” s a y s O x h o r n .

“T h e f o c u s w ill b e on p o v e r ty a lle v ia t io n an d j o b c r e a tio n w h ic h F u j im o r i h a s n o t d o n e n e a r l y a s g o o d a s h e s h o u ld h a v e , v e r y b a d ly in f a c t .”

A lt h o u g h th e s it u a t io n in P eru r e m a in s a h o t t o p ic an d m u c h w ill d e p e n d o n th e e v e n t s o f th e n e x t f e w w e e k s , th e o c c u r r e n c e h a s a t r e m e n ­ d o u s in te r n a tio n a l s i g n i f i ­ c a n c e . O xh orn f e e ls th e im p li­ c a t io n s are “ u n a m b ig u o u s ly p o s it iv e ” in term s o f th e re g io n a s a w h o le . “ A tta c k s a g a in s t fu n d a ­ m en ta l id e a s o f w h a t d e m o c r a ­ c y i s , a n d a ll w e ’ re t a l k i n g a b o u t is fr e e and r e la tiv e ly fa ir e le c t io n s , are g o in g to b e hard­ er and hard er to p u ll o f f ...I t w ill be m ore d iffic u lt fo r fu tu r e p e o p le lik e F u j im o r i to s u c c e e d .”

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Bank accounts and Interac myths: A student's guide to university banking B y K aren B orn R em em b er th e day y o u g o t your first bank account? Equipped with a catchy title like “youth” or “G etting T here,” it cam e w ith all sorts o f goodies— cool cheques you could write, your m om ’s signature on the back o f a shiny n ew bank card and o f co u rse, a b a la n ce o f y o u r b a b y s ittin g m o n e y , a lb e it m iniscule.

N o w that y o u ’v e p a ssed the kiddie bank phase, these m agical m om ents can be reproduced with a n ew ‘Student’ account— this tim e with your signature on the back o f the card. But now that y o u ’re the boss, don’t you w ish it could have stayed so innocent and fun?

The excitem ent o f having your ow n m oney is great, but the trouble o f m anaging it w hen you liv e on your ow n is a little short o f pleas­ ing. And to make matters worse, in a city teem ing with students, a m ul­ titude o f banks that line the south­ ern border o f cam pus is ready to cash in on student accounting with a series o f som etim es m isleading, s u p p o s e d ly “l o w - c o s t ” stu d e n t plans, and a stream o f lingo worth defining.

These accounts are reasonable and easy to use. They com e with an Interac or d eb it card, w h ich you can use to access m oney from your branch’s machine, pay for transac­ t io n s , c h e c k up on y o u r bank account and w ithdraw cash from any other m ach ine. H o w ev e r, as with all things too-good-to-be-true, th ere is a c a t c h ...t h e f e e s . A n d there can be many.

Banks can be quite intimidat­ ing for those o f us w ho do not yet understand all o f the jarg o n and features o f the banking machine.

“W e are h ere so that y o u n g people can learn to be comfortable w ith th e b a n k ,” s a y s D a v id C astongu ay, a B ank o f M ontreal cu sto m e r s e r v ic e re p r ese n ta tiv e w ho covers all aspects o f student finan cial planning from financial aid to MasterCard accounts. “W e want to help students learn how to m anage their fin a n ces. T h ey are our future and w e want to accom ­ m odate their needs.”

Castonguay says that he helps students understand the terms and p ractices o f the bank and g u id es them through the often com plicated practices o f managing an account.

For exam ple, there is a difference b etw een a se lf-se r v e transaction, such as withdrawing cash from the your ATM , and a full-serve trans­ action, where you take m oney from a n o th e r b an k or p a y fo r g o o d s using Interac.

Ask questions W hen setting up an account, advisors stress to always remember to ask about any student discounts that the bank is offering. W assim M oukhhal, a U 0 student, w as sur­ p r is e d to le a rn th at h is b a n k , N ational Bank, ev en offered stu ­ dent discounts.

“The bank did not inform m e o f any student discounts or special accounts,” he says. “I w ish I w ould have known, because then I w ould h a v e c e r ta in ly se t up a stu d en t

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There are a number o f additional fees that can add up very quickly, ranging from $0.40 to $1.50. They are ta k e n d ir e c tly from you r account when you use other ATM m achines, pay for good s at retail o u tle ts and d o y o u r b a n k in g through the teller. H ow ever, many students say that these fees, service ch arges really, do not stop them from using their accounts frequent­ ly-

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from the high tab o f fees. Chrisoula Pappis, a U 3 student, says that she k e e p s a c l o s e tab on s e r v ic e charges. She uses her card tw ice or three tim es a w eek and gets print­ outs o f her charges each month.

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Laura Flamm, a U1 student, is one o f these students.

“I figu re that the fe e s that I incur when I use my Interac are so little that it d o e sn ’t ev en matter.

M y bank plan has my first 12 trans­ actions free, and I try to not to use the card too often each m onth...it’s reassu rin g to not have to have a w hole stash o f cash with me when­ e v e r I g o ou t sh o p p in g for g ro ­ ceries, books, anything really.”

In today’s world, which many social commentators say is becom ­ ing a cashless society, the Interac card is the way to go. Flamm says she is already feeling the effects.

“I fin d m y s e lf u s in g m y In te ra c fo r e v e r y t h in g . I c a n ’t remember the last tim e that I paid for som ething with cash.”

Just make sure you watch how many times you swipe. Little num­ bers can quickly becom e a monster o f d ig it s . B e t y o u ’re g la d y o u didn’t deal with that with your kid­ die account.

b ills on tim e and n ot run a w a y fro m th e c o u n tr y w h e n y o u ’ v e m axed out your credit card.

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G a 1 i t and M itc h ju st b ou gh t th e ir fir s t h o u s e , and th e p la c e lo o k s g re a t.

It’s a b ea u ­ t i f u l o l d t o w n h o u s e in t h e h e a r t o f th e M c G ill g h e t t o , a n d j u s t a f i v e m in u t e w a lk fro m a n y w h e r e y o u w o u ld r e a lly w a n t to g o arou n d h ere .

T h e b e s t part o f a ll, th e y t e ll m e , i s th a t t h e r e is a l o v e l y fu r n is h e d b a s e m e n t a p a rtm e n t that th e y w ill ren t o u t to m a k e so m e ex tr a m o n e y , th e r e b y r e d u c in g th e o t h e r w is e c o n s id ­ e r a b l e im p a c t o f t h e ir m o r t ­ gage p a y m e n ts.

In fa c t, a lth o u g h th e p r e v io u s te n a n ts w e r e p a y in g $ 6 0 0 p er m o n th , t h e n e w r e n t i s g o i n g to b e $ 8 0 0 a n d t h e y h a v e a lr e a d y fo u n d a ten a n t w illi n g to p a y .

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I ’ m su re I m u st h a v e h eard w r o n g , g iv e n th a t a $ 2 0 0 p er m o n th in c r e a s e b e t w e e n t e n ­ a n ts is o n ly le g a l in th e m o s t rare and u n rea l s itu a tio n s - as in , w h e n y o u r la n d lo r d in v e s t s t h o u s a n d s u p o n th o u s a n d s o f d o l l a r s to m a k e s u r e e a c h a p a rtm en t in y o u r b u ild in g h as a s t a te -o f - th e - a r t h o m e th e a tr e w it h s a t e l l i t e c a b le a n d s u r ­ ro u n d s o u n d . T h e le g a l lim it

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But le g a l o b je c tio n s n o tw ith s ta n d in g , G a lit e x p l a i n e d th a t t h e r e n t h ik e w a s a c t u a lly r e a s o n a b le and fa ir . A ft e r a ll, sh e a n d M itc h w e r e g o in g to r e a lly s p ic e up

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th e r o o m s fro m top to b o tto m an d in s t a lle d n ew w a ll- to - w a ll c a r p e tin g . A n d a s id e fro m all th o s e im p r o v e m e n ts , th e y r e a lly w e r e v e r y n ic e an d e a s y to g e t a lo n g w ith , and a n y te n ­ a n t w o u l d b e l u c k y to h a v e th e m as la n d lo r d s.

I h a v e n o is s u e w it h th a t la s t p o in t - th e y r e a lly are n ic e p e o p le , an d I h o p e t h e y r e m e m b e r th a t i f th e y e v e r rea d th is . A s f o r th e r e s t, th e m a th j u s t d o e s n ’ t a d d u p .

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A c c o r d i n g to t h e l e g a l r e n t in c r e a s e lim it s , that w o r k s o u t to a $ 1 2 . 0 8 i n c r e a s e p e r m o n th to th e $ 6 0 0 th e o ld te n ­ an t w a s p a y in g . F a c to r in th e p e r c e n t a g e in c r e a s e b a s e d o n th e ir h e a tin g and y o u q u ic k ly r e a liz e th at a $ 2 0 0 h ik e is s t ill w a y o u t o f th e le g a l b a llp a rk .

A la s , m y p r o te s ta tio n s w e r e in v a i n , a s G a l i t a n d M it c h e x p l a i n e d th a t d e s p it e m y b le e d in g h e a r t i n s i s t e n c e o n o b e y in g th e la w , th e y w e r e g o i n g to g o a h e a d b e c a u s e th e y c o u ld . N o o n e w o u ld e a tc h th e m . T h e ir te n a n t w a s fro m o u t o f to w n an d w a s n e v e r g o in g to f in d o u t w h a t th e la s t te n a n t p a id a n y w a y .

T h e sa d th in g is th a t th e y p r o b a b ly w i l l g e t a w a y w ith it. T e n a n ts in g e n e r a l, and stu ­ d en t te n a n ts w h o liv e d o w n ­ t o w n in p a r t i c u l a r , t e n d to e it h e r b e u n in fo r m e d a b o u t th e ir r ig h ts or sc a r e d to p u rsu e le g it im a t e c la im s a g a in s t la n d ­ lo r d s that th e y fe a r w ill m a k e t h in g s h a rd o n th e m a s p a y ­ b a c k . 1 am b y n o m e a n s s u g ­ g e s t in g th at e v e r y la n d lo r d in to w n is c r o o k e d , but 1 am s a y ­ in g th a t y o u w ill n e v e r k n o w i f y o u r r ig h ts are b e in g d is r e ­ s p e c te d if y o u d o n ’ t fir s t k n o w w h a t t h e y a r e . S o in

h o n o u r o f th e c o u n t le s s c a s e s o f t e n a n t s ’ r ig h ts v io la t io n s that I h a v e w o r k e d on or h eard h orror s to r ie s a b o u t, I h a v e c o m p ile d a lis t (n o s p e c if ic o rd er) o f th e T o p F iv e T h in g s Y o u r L a n d lo rd is N o t A llo w e d T o D o: • N o p o st-d a te d ch eq u es • N o se c u r ity d ep o sit • N o e n te r in g th e a p a r tm e n t at w ill, w ith o u t th e te n a n t’s p e r m issio n , ex c e p t in em e r g en cies • N o re n t h ik e s b ey o n d th e c o n d itio n s se t o u t a b o v e.

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T h e road a h e a d fo r m u sician s preneurial sense.

For e x a m p le , certain b and s, like M etallica, have roared bloody foul over N apster’s free M P3 dis­ tr ib u tio n . T h eir c la im : N a p ste r

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C o n sid e r the m illio n s that g a z e longingly at their television screens as th e h u lla b a llo o th a t is th e Billboard M usic Awards is broad­ casted into their hom es. Oh, to be on stage, in the spotlight, with m il­ lions hanging on your every word!

Oh, to be a rock star!

Over at M cG ill’s m usic facul­ ty, m ost stud en ts s p e c ia liz in g in performance also long to be in the spotlight. And yet, that alone is not enough to keep them in stuffy prac­ tice room s for hours on end, year after year. They do it for the love o f music.

D anielle Dudycha, a U 2 voice perform ance m ajor d escrib es her ultimate career goal: “I want to be an opera singer,” she professes.

T he career path o f a p r o fe s­ sional m usician is quite different from that o f the typical B ach elor D e g r e e g ra d u a te. It is a p o c k ­ marked road, filled with plenty o f o b sta c le s. Frustrated b y p o v erty and p erp etu al a n o n y m ity , so m e m usic graduates becom e com plete­ ly discouraged and give up profes­ sion al p erform ancing altogeth er.

O ften, their failu re is not due to lack o f talent or commitment; it is due to insufficient self-prom otion.

In order to be successful in the m u sic in d u stry th e s e d a y s, y o u need to be have b usin ess acum en and e n tr e p r e n e u r ia l sen se.

P rofessor G ordon F oote, chair o f th e p e r fo r m a n c e d e p a r tm e n t, explains: “Our graduates are prepared to w o rk , but n ot to d e a l w ith th e financial, legal, prom otional, and contractual realities o f being a free­ lance m usician,” says Foote.

Professor A be K estenberg, o f the perform ance departm ent,con ­ curs, illustrating the need for entre­

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“But If you aren’t signed by a major label and are not fully estab­ lish e d , w h y not u se N apster as a p r o m o tio n a l t o o l? ” says Kestenberg, w ho teaches Life as a P ro fessio n a l M u sicia n . “D ig itiz e your m usic, put it on Napster and hope that people pirate your music to increase your popularity.”

K estenberg has attem pted to d e v e lo p a p a r tn e r sh ip b e tw e e n m usic and m anagement in order to create a program that teaches the b usiness side o f m usic. Last year, the course nearly materialized, but the professor that w as supposed to teach left M cGill.

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A lo n g w ith tec h n o lo g y , liv e performers must also contend with a g r o w in g DJ c u ltu r e .

N ow ad ays,w h en you ch eck out a club, you are more likely to find a pair o f turntables and a stack o f records than a brass section. Truly, DJs are ubiquitous, displanting the tradtitional niche o f liv e perform­ ers.

Foote, how ever, remains con­ fident about the need for live per­ formers, “People love live sound,” he says, adding that they crave the authenticity.

The evidence seem s to support Foote. One need only wade through the throngs at the M ontreal Jazz Festival, or check out the Montreal Sym phony Orchestra to understand that there w ill alw ays be room for liv e perform ers. That said, it has never been an easy life, and it prob­ ably never w ill be. Yet, there w ill alw ays be pianists and drummers and conductors practising for interm itable hours in their basem ents; rom ancing the m usic, dreaming o f sta r d o m , and d is r e g a r d in g th e treacherous pitfalls o f their chosen profession.

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hires out the performance students, exposing them to the rigors o f per­ fo rm a n c e b e fo r e th e y g rad u ate.

Som e performers don’t even make it to graduation, but get hired for a sym ph ony jo b instead — an early launch into the work force.

“M any o f our stu d en ts h ave ended up in orchestras across the cou n try, and so m e ev e n in tern a­ tio n a lly ,” says F oote. “O n ce you are at a certain lev el, if you get a job , you take it. In this case your educational q u alification s are not taken into account.”

A sad reality, how ever, about the m usic industry is that ev en if you are extrem ely talented, there is

no g u a ra n tee that y o u w ill fin d work. “ T h e r e are m a n y a v e r a g e m u sicia n s in the p u b lic e y e , yet there are fabulous m usicians that have no e x p o s u r e ,” says Foote.

Serge M ed aw ar, a fir s t yea r M asters stu­ d en t in C h o r a l C o n d u c tin g a g r e e s .

“T a le n t h as 60% to do w ith b e in g s u c c e s s f u l.”

T h e re st s e lf-p r o m o ­ tio n and business acum en. It’s n o su rp rise th e n , that m a n y File photo m e d i o c r e m usical per­ formers are extrem ely successful, ste a lin g the sp o tlig h t from their more m usically talented contem po­ raries.

A s i f the business o f perform­ ing and recording w asn’t enough o f a headache for m usicians - greedy club owners elevated transportation costs, hustling to prom ote yor tal­ ent - performers also have to cope w ith m u sic tec h n o lo g y , w hich is p erp etu ally ch an gin g the fa ce o f the industry.

T h ir ty o d d y e a r s a g o , l iv e m usicians w ere required for m ost entertainm ent events. Variety and television show s had an ensem ble to open the episode, and m usicals

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A s C E O and C h a irm a n , Jarislow sk y heads an in vestm en t counseling firm, managing pension fun ds, p o o led funds, en d ow m en t fun ds and corporate and p rivate p o r t f o lio s fo r m a jo r c l ie n t s in N o rth A m e r ic a and E u ro p e. In addition, he manages 80 em ployees w h o do all th is w ork. B a s ic a lly , he’s just a very busy guy.

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Jarislow sky began m uch like the rest o f his generation after co l­ lege and much like that o f college students today. He graduated from C orn ell U n iv ersity in N e w York with a degree in m echanical en gi­ neering, w hich he decided he did not want to pursue.

"I had no idea what I wanted to do; n o b o d y k n o w s. I stu d ied J a p a n e se at th e U n iv e r s ity o f C hicago b ecau se I didn’t want to do engineering," he explains.

And, like many other captains o f in d u stry, he w en t and g o t an M B A at Harvard B usiness School thereafter.

To Jarislowsky, it w asn’t nec­ essarily his education, w hich led him down the right path. Instead he c la im s it w a s h is in it ia t iv e to branch out and start som ething on his own. With his degrees in en gi­ n e e r in g and m a n a g e m e n t, J a r is lo w s k y m a d e th e o b v io u s c h o ic e and b e g a n w o r k in g fo r Alcan Aluminum only to find that corporate life w asn’t his thing.

"I th o u g h t m a y b e th e b e s t th in g fo r m e to do w a s to start working at an international com pa­ n y ...b ecau se they were all over the world," he explains. "But, I didn’t want to stay with a large corpora­ tion."

He left. And on June 6, 1955 he and an a sso c ia te Jack B row n started an alu m inu m fab rication com pany, a laundry com pany and a m u tu a l fu n d s and in v e s t m e n t research firm . T he tw o partners sprouted to three, until Jarislowsky bought out Brown. From there on the investm ent research firm grew

slow ly but surely for several years.

"It took us about six to seven years to get a toe-hold in the indus­ try," described Jarislowsky.

Once the roots were in place, Jarislow sky Fraser Lim ited & Co. was in full bloom.

"It’s been 35 years o f making an average 37 percent growth, but mind you, w e started from nothing.

It is very hard to start som ething like this from scratch."

You're so money N ear the end o f h is 4 4 -y ea r career, Jarislow sky explains three keys for success that have worked for him these busy years.

"Y ou h a v e to d o so m eth in g y o u r e a lly lik e — it c o m e s m uch easier than to have to push yourself to d o s o m e t h in g . Y o u h a v e to branch out on your ow n and be an en tre p r en eu r...g e t to g eth e r w ith so m e g u y s and start so m e th in g together."

Mark Trottier, Ja rislo w sk y ’s p a rtn er, m a in ta in s th at Jarislow sky’s decisions led to suc­ cess s im p ly b ecau se th e y w ere.. .Jarislowsky.

"He is an in dividu al. T hings are never gray," explains Trottier.

"He makes a decision and although he is som etim es wrong, he is never in doubt."

H e also adds that Jarislowsky is in c r e d ib ly d e te r m in e d and extrem ely organized and focu sed in his w ork. In addition, Trottier sa y s, "Steve very m uch w as and probably is the soul o f the com pa­ ny."

P rop ped up in h is h ig h -rise dow n tow n M ontreal o ffic e, over­ looking the city, Jarislow sky also talks o f the other prizes beyond his m illions - as if there could be oth­ ers.

But Jarislowsky is also fond o f his collection s o f art in his plantf ille d o f f ic e and at h o m e . A nd lea n in g back in h is chair, in the m idst o f photographs o f his four ch ild ren and on e g ran d ch ild , he also finds h im self taking calls in a variety o f the languages he speaks fluently as a result o f the scope o f his management.

Jarislow sk y p roves that it is p ossib le to be both rich and co n ­ ten t. H e stu ck to h is g u n s and broadened his horizons. But in the end, it is his appreciation for the sim p le b ea u tie s o f lif e - art and fa m ily w h ic h p e r p e tu a te Jarislow sky’s content.

"I have enjoyed being in (this) business. Success is not som ething y o u a s p ir e to at th e en d ," Jarislowsky concluded. "Success is s o m e th in g y o u w o rk to a ll th e time."

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The Internet and the World Wide Web What, exactly, are they?

total o f 562 hosts, w hich were still connecting at a lethargic 56.6K.

L a st w e e k , D ig it a l C u ltu re investigated the guts o f a computer.

T h u s , w e a s s u m e by n o w , th at w o r d s lik e " in terfa c e" and "megabyte" get you hotter than a s c r e e n in g at C in em a L ’A m o u r.

T h is w e e k , D ig ita l C ultu re p ro ­ v id es a h istorical background on the Internet and the W orld W id e Web. W hen you click your m ouse on a hyperlink, where is the inform a ci on com ing from? W here is it g o in g ; H ow is it g ettin g there?

A nd h o w did th is In te r n e t-stu ff begin?

Genesis The Internet’s roots, like much technology, are m ilitary in origin.

In 1 9 5 7 , th e fo rm er U S S R lau n ch ed its first artific ia l earth satellite, Sputnik. The U S depart­ ment o f defence (D oD ) was galva­ n iz e d in to c o m m is s io n in g th e A d v a n c e d R e se a r c h P r o je c ts A g en cy (A R P A ). A R P A ’s m an­ date w as to research and d evelop science and technology for military applications. In 1962, nuclear war w ith th e fo r m e r U S S R se e m e d viable. The D oD needed to address two important issues. The first — creating a way to decentralise con­ trol o f U S n u clea r m is s ile s and b o m b ers, en su rin g that a s in g le Soviet strike w ouldn’t knock out a centralized U S command. And the second — devising a fast and effi­

Amalgamating systems

cien t m eans o f sharing resou rces b etw een U S m ilitary contractors.

The way to accom plish both goals, proposed Paul Baran, a researcher for the R A N D corporation, would be to create a packet-switched net­ work: "Packet sw itching is the break­ ing down o f data into datagrams or packets that are labelled to indicate the origin and the destination o f the information and the forwarding o f these packets from one computer to another computer until the informa­ tion arrives at its final destination computer. This was crucial to the realization o f a computer network.

If p a c k e ts are lo s t at any g iv e n point, the m essage can be resent by the originator." (Baran P., Rand m em o ra n d u m 3 1 0 3 - P R , C h. 2 ) E ffectuating Baran’s principle, in 1969 the original Internet (ca lled

A R PA N E T ) w as physically creat­ ed . Four n o d e s (h o sts), U C L A , S R I (in S ta n fo r d ), U C S a n ta Barbara, and U n iv ersity o f Utah were wired together, connecting at 56.6 K ilobits per second (sam e as your average modem).

Refining the Internet D u r in g th e n e x t te n y e a r s , Internet protocols and data delivery te c h n o lo g y und erw ent m etam or­ p h o s is .

A sta n d a rd T r a n sfe r C onn ection P rotocol and Internet Protocol (TC P/IP) cam e to d om i­ nate previous protocol and, in 1983 b ecam e the required standard for all A R PA N E T m achines (TCP/IP is still cu rren tly u sed ). T C P /IP allow ed for computers on different n e tw o r k s to c o m m u n ic a te w ith each other. In 1983, there were a

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In 1984, AR PA N ET split into MILNET, serving military purpos­ es, and A R PA N ET serving to fur­ ther research and d ev elo p itself.

C o n cu rren t in te r n e ts sp ran g up a lo n g s id e M IL N E T and ARPANET. T h e A m e r ic a n National Science. Foundation creat­ ed the C S N E T , w h ich , in 1985, im p le m e n te d t e c h n o lo g ic a lly a d v a n c e d T1 lin e s a llo w in g for b a c k b o n e c o n n e c tio n sp e e d s o f 1.544M b ps (25 tim es faster than ARPA N ET backbone connections).

T h e T1 lin e s w ere c o m p leted in 1 9 8 8 , and th e C S N E T ( c a lle d N SFN E T ) becam e inundated with tra ffic (abou t 28 174 h o sts n ow existed). N SFN ET upgraded to T3 lines (com pleted in 1991), capable o f transmitting at 45M bs, replacing the T1 lin e s . A t th is p o in t, the D o D r e tir e d th e p r e h is to r ic A R P A N E T ( s t i ll c o n n e c tin g at 5 6 .6k ), and adopted the N SF N E T backbone.

Creation of the World Wide Web U p u n til 1 9 9 0 , th e W o rld W ide W eb didn’t exist (as opposed to th e In te r n e t, w h ic h d id ).

L ocating files and inform ation on d iff e r e n t h o s ts w a s a te d io u s p r o c e s s in v o lv in g lo n g lis t s o f m en us and d iso rg a n ised servers.

T h e in sa n ity w a s term in ated by T im B e r n e r s -L e e , d e e m e d th e fath er o f the W orld W id e W eb .

B u r n e r s-L e e w a s a p h y s ic is t at C E R N , the E uropean Laboratory for Particle Physics, and created a h y p e r te x t m a rk -u p la n g u a g e (HTM L). It was originally intend­ ed as a way to manage documents and make them accessible to other physicists. It becam e, however, the language used by all w ebsites, and a llo w s a b row ser to d isp la y and format text, fonts, hyperlinks and o th e r e le m e n ts o n a w e b s ite .

D espite HTML, however, web sites were still text-heavy and un-graphical. M onum ental it w as, in 1993, w h e n th e N a tio n a l C e n te r fo r S u p e r c o m p u tin g A p p lic a tio n s (N C SA ) released the first graphical W eb browser, M osaic, developed by M arc A n d reessen .

Concurrently, CERN declared that the W orld W ide W eb (based on the N SFN ET backbone as w ell as new additions) would be free and avail­ able to the general public.

Exponential Growth In 1994, there w ere 3 m illion h osts, and by this point, Y ahoo!, N etsca p e N a v ig a to r , and W ebCrawler were born. By 1995, there w ere ov er 6 m illio n h osts,

and th e first e d itio n o f In tern et Explorer was released. From 1995 to p resen t day, there h a v e b een small changes in World W ide W eb protocols, all o f them dictated by th e w e b ’s g o v e r n in g b o d y , the W o rld W id e W eb C o n so r tiu m (W 3C ). It is now the year 2000, and there are over 15 m illion web sites allow ing a user to accom plish just about anything on-line. Order a taco, em b ezzle funds, plagiarize an essay, create a support group or a hate group, steal m usic, talk to som eone in Rangoon at local phone rates - there really isn ’t too much you can’t do.

Difference between the web and the Internet T he Internet is an u m b rella h e a d in g fo r th e n e tw o r k .

It in c lu d e s the W o rld W id e W eb , T eln et, and various p rotocols, as w ell as all the physical cable, wires and computers that enable the net­ work to function. The World W ide W eb is sim ply the ten sile surface sk in that flo a ts atop th e e n tire Internet infrastructure. It a llo w s you to access the Internet.

Surfing the web W h en y o u p u n ch in a U R L address (universal resource lo c a ­ tor), your command gets translated into sm all packets o f information.

Each packet is a piece o f the puz­ z le , c o m p o s e d o f th ree c o m p o ­ nents: the actual data, the address instructing how the packet should be routed, and a code that w ill cor­ rect errors as they occur during the data transmission. Thus, when you hit that m ouse button, the packets tr a v e l a lo n g y o u r t e le p h o n e or ca b le lin e s (or s a te llite ) to your Internet S e r v ic e P rovid er (IS P ).

The ISP w ill then route the packets to a D om ain N am e Server (D N S).

The D N S then locates the server in which your desired page resides. A small server can be an Intel based (like your Pentium s) computer, or very pow erful and be based on a c o m p ila tio n o f U n ix co m p u ters (T hey can also be som ew h ere in b e tw e e n ). O n ce th e se rv e r has been contacted, the info is transmit­ ted (in packets) back to your ISP, which sends it back to your termi­ nal. And voila, a w ebsite appears on your screen.

So, t h e r e ’s fo r ty y e a r s o f Internet chronology in a nutshell.

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If you were on this side o f the w orld this sum m er, m ost o f your co n v ersa tio n s probably re v o lv e d around C olleen, Rich, K elly, Rudy, Jenna, G ervase and all the other p ro ta g o n ists o f C B S ’s hit sh o w Survivor. In fact, the ratings for Survivor’s season finale hit m ete­ oric le v e ls . T o date, it has b een te le v is io n ’s seco n d h igh est rated single show o f the season, trailing only the Super B ow l.

S u rvivor is m erely the m ost popular o f these so-called "Reality TV" sh ow s; but there are others.

Programs such as Big Brother, The Real World and M aking the Band all appear on the boob tube present­ ly. T his te le v is io n p h en om en on has both p u z z le d and in tr ig u e d many in North America.

M c G ill p ro fesso r of S o c io lo g y , and te le v is io n exp ert Rod N elson b elieves that this type o f en ter ta in m en t a ro se o u t o f a desire to see som ething other than canned television. " A m erica n a u d ie n c e s h a v e becom e bored with the convention­ al sitcom," says N elson w ho teach­ e s a cou rse ca lled ‘T e le v isio n in S ociety’ "Most prevalent in the last five years has been the peer group sitcom , and I believe that this for­ mula has becom e especially redun­ dant."

Chris M ichael, media critic for the National Post, has his ow n the­ ories as to w h y S urvivor b ecam e su ch a hit w ith N orth A m erican audiences.

"Survivor replicates an e n v i­ ronment like everyday life," opines M ichael. "You have to interact and deal with people that you may not lik e in life . S u rvivo r w o rk s th is w ay. It is exactly like offic e crap.

T he thing that m akes it better is that you can kick people out o f this 'office'. In your jo b , if you hate Bob from accounting you can't do anything about it. On Survivor you can just kick him right out."

Y et, the su c c e ss o f Survivor has inundated the airw a v es w ith

la c k lu s t e r c o p y c a t s . A p rim e exam ple o f this trend is C B S ’s Big Brother, a show that has been a rat­ in gs flop w hich C B S ’s execu tives are already regretting.

N e ls o n b e l i e v e s th a t Big B r o th e r ’s fo r m a t o f h a v in g 10 h ou sem ates interact w ith no real action taking place has made it less successful than Survivor.

"It is the setting itself [that has made Survivor more popular]. The characters were pitted against each other on a tropical island. They set it up with hokey tribalism that actu­ a lly w orked," n o tes N elso n . "In addition, people in Big Brother are attentive to the television cameras w hile in Survivor they were not."

O ne o f the k eys for a sm ash hit reality show is for the partici­ pants on the show to not acknowl­ edge that they are actually on tele­ vision . T his w as m uch easier on S u rvivo r, w h ere th e co n testa n ts w ere con stantly g iv en ch allen ges and did not have tim e to react to the te le v isio n cam eras that w ere obviously there.

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H ere in C anada, w e are not im mune to the latest trend in televi­ sion . Several n ew reality sh o w s w ill be m aking their debuts here in the near future. O ne o f the m ore p u b lic iz e d o f th e s e s h o w s is G lobal’s Popstars.

Popstars, w hich w ill debut in January, w ill be broadcast w eekly on G lob al t e le v is io n . It w ill be incorporating tw o trends in popular culture: teeny-bop bands and reali­ ty television . T he prem ise o f the s h o w w ill b e to c r e a te an a l l ­ fe m a le , all-C an ad ian p o p -su p er­ group à la T he S p ice G irls. The w eek ly broadcast w ill feature the m any candidates w ho w ill jo ck ey to becom e one o f the coveted five in the new all-fem ale group.

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D o n ’t think I know anything about Survivor.

I’v e w a tc h e d it for half an hour, and that was the finale. It looked lik e a stu p id show . M aking the bitter reality o f the Lord o f the Flies into a m illion dollar gam e show sm acks o f capi­ talism in overdrive.

W hat fa scin a ted m e w a s the fact that a gay guy named Richard won the contest. Think about it: at the turn o f the 21st century, a gam e

sh ow co m e s out ca lled Survivor; one hundred years ago, at the turn o f th e 2 0 th c e n tu r y , s o c ia l D a r w in is m — s u r v iv a l o f th e fittest— was the nouveau idea rag­ in g th ro u g h th e w e ste r n w o rld .

A nyon e w ho knew anything knew it was true.

From the social Darwinist per­ spective, societies and races evolve the sam e way species do. Therefore any in tellig en t civ iliz a tio n w ould ta k e e v e r y m ea su re p o s s ib le to ensure that it d evelop ed in a "fit" manner. So what d oes that mean?

W ell, you w o u ld n ’t really want a bunch o f lo o n ie s running around m akin g your n ation in to o n e b ig

cuckoo clock; nor w ould you want s o m e b la c k d u d e d ilu tin g th e sn o w y co m p lex io n o f your great w hite legacy, even if only with the milk girl who had dull blond hair.

Oh yeah , on e m ore thing: it w as also w idely agreed upon that m as­ turbation cau sed sperm d ep letion and in s a n ity , so y o u d e f in ite ly w o u ld n ’t w an t an y f iv e - o n - o n e players in your society either.

A nother type o f hum an faux pas w a s the h o m o se x u a l. H e/sh e w as se x u a lly in v er te d , m en ta lly deranged, and in the habit o f w alk­ ing down to the basem ent at 6:66 every evening for a cup o f tea with satan. B elie v e me, this guy didn’t

quite fit into your society either. If you, as another guy, looked at him, it was possible that you m ight get turned on, and p articipate in the c o n ta g io u s d eca p ita tio n o f your nation’s w ell being.

What I’m taking a pretty long time to say, is that at the turn o f the 20th century, Richard was no sur­ v iv o r : R ic h a r d g o t ly n c h e d .

R ic h a r d w a s th e a n ti-s u r v iv o r .

C o rp o ra te train er? B e lie v e m e, Rich couldn’t even handle his own b iz, fo rg et about tryin g to teach other people theirs.

Seem s pretty interesting then, that at the turn o f the 21st century Richard is the survivor. H e ’s the

fittest m ofo on the island. W ith his fa m o u s m a ste r m in d a llia n c e schem e, he alm ost sounds like the type o f character that could lead a country through a world war.

A pparently so cia l D arw inism w as as dumb as Survivor. W ow — history is a slow process: now that our so c iety is fin ally recogn izing that sexual preference is within the s c o p e o f an in d iv id u a l’ s c i v i l rights, w e’re m ass marketing can­ nibalism. C om e on man, it’s obvi­ ous - the fittest person in tod ay’s society is a m illionaire, no matter how the hell he gets it.

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T h is is Sp in al Tap: in d u b itab ly B y Je n n a R in a s

Jum ping on the D V D 'special edition' bandw agon, M G M H om e E n te r ta in m e n t h as r e c e n tly rer e le a se d the c u lt c la s s ic This is Spinal Tap (1 9 8 4 ). C redited w ith h a v in g crea ted th e 'm o ck u m en ta ry ' s u b - g e n r e , R o b R e in e r 's

c a n c e lle d sh o w s and sm a ll-tim e g ig s, on e as secon d -b ill to a pup­ p e t s h o w , th e b an d w a tc h e s as th eir stardom d e c lin e s and their

in s te a d on th e im p r o v is a tio n a l techn iques o f the film ’s stars, all eith er form er stand-up or sketch com edians, after m apping out the

sin g er w h o tries to c o n v in c e the b an d to p la n th e ir to u r arou n d their zod iac chart.

S h o t in d o c u m e n ta r y s ty le ,

{Stand by Me, A Few G ood Men) d ir e c t o r ia l d e b u t o s c i l l a t e s b e t w e e n th e h ila r io u s an d th e ridiculous.

S tarrin g C h r isto p h e r G u est {The P r in c e s s B r id e ), M ic h a e l M cK ean, {M ystery, A laska), and H arry S h ea rer {The S im p so n s), the film cen ters around the f ic ­ tional British band Spinal Tap, a c o lle c tio n o f s te r e o ty p ic a l, and l e s s th a n in t e lli g e n t , r o c k and rollers about to em bark on their final tour. R einer includ es a g en ­ erous sprinkling o f cam eo appear­ ances, the h ighlight o f w h ich are the perform ances o f B illy Crystal an d D a n a C a r v e y as w a it e r m im es.

Marty D iB ergi, clev erly por­ trayed by R ein er h im se lf, is the band's docum entarian and d ev o t­ ed fan w ho fo llo w s the o n ce great group on tour as they attem pt to prom ote their latest album entitled Smell the Glove. T he band b egins th eir tour in h igh sp irits w ith a blow out concert in N ew York.

U n fo r tu n a te ly , th e ir in itia l su ccess is short-lived. Laden w ith

c le o f th e ir m is a d v e n tu r e s and o n e - lin e r s , in c lu d in g o n e band m em ber's am using m isfortune o f b e in g s t u c k in a s t a g e p ro p throughout the entirety o f a song.

U pon its original release the film quickly d evelop ed a cult fo l­ low in g and still has quite a dutiful fan base on the internet. The film is funny and its u se o f the d ocu ­ m e n ta r y s ty le b r illia n t .

N on eth eless, there are quite a few periods in the film w here the la g ­ gin g story and sim p listic dialogue could have been given a b oost by the script th ey d id w ith ou t. T he re-release o f This is Spinal Tap is, h o w e v e r , b o u n d to p r o v id e an e v e n in g o f en tertain m en t, e s p e ­ cially i f that N ew R elease section at M ovielan d is look in g just a lit­ tle too tired.

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Don't have a cow O r a moose. O r a lizard. O r any other ju n k y public art littering the streets of your city.

B y C hr is Essert

I don’t have any business writ­ ing about Art (that’s Art, not art, right?). I know as much about Art as your ten-year old brother. But this su m m er, s o m e th in g h a p p e n e d which I feel gives me license to rant all I want about the sorry state o f Art in our society.

K eep in mind that in our cur­ rent eco-political situation, it isn ’t esp ecially d ifficult to criticize the sorry state o f just about anything, but problems created by short-sight­ ed provincial and federal politicians seem m ore than a little rem oved from problem s o f Art, don’t they?

Thankfully, yes. T hese tw o worlds rarely co llid e, principally because P eople W ho Are Interested in Art and P eople W ho Think P olitics is In terestin g are so far from ea ch other in their outlooks and concerns that they’re rarely even speaking the same language.

That being said, isn’t it an indi­ ca tion about the a fo rem e n tio n ed sorry state o f Art that, all over North A m erica, governm ents are getting their hands into Art in an unprece­ dented (and awful) way? The prob­ lem to which I am referring is the

p roliferation o f w hat the g o v ern ­ m ents o f various c itie s (T oronto, N ew York, Chicago) seem to think deserves to be called art: the herds o f fibreglass bovines and Alsatians standing around street-com ers and parks, trying to be art.

Right there I’ve already stum­

bled into something too far over my head for m e to contem plate, or at least for me to contemplate publicly.

B y saying that the m oose and cow s are ‘trying to be art,’ I’ve im plied that they’re failing in that attempt, and that implies that I have an idea about what it means to actually be art, which o f course I don’t. So, let’s withdraw that question and instead

pose this one to ourselves: what is p u b lic art? W hat d o es p u b lic art purport to do and to be?

C liffo r d G e e r tz , a C u ltu ra l S tu d ies A n th r o p o lo g ist-ty p e , has s u g g e s t e d that w e p e o p le are ‘incom plete or unfinished animals w h o co m p lete or fin ish ou rselves th ro u g h c u lt u r e ’ .

W hat’s important, he says, is that w e create our culture, w e co n ­ trib u te to it and enrich it, rather than merely absorb it.

It’s hard to feel like you ’re contribut­ in g a n y th in g at a ll when it com es to art.

G o in g to an A rt G allery and look in g at paintings is one o f the least participatory th in g s o n e ca n d o, aside from watching television. But w here te le v isio n certain ly has its own hands-on equivalent (I’m think about the internet, here), it seem s quite a bit more d ifficult to figure out how one could contribute any­ thing to the universe o f Art (not art).

Painting at home would seem to be the obvious ch oice, but your little finger paintings can’t interact with

culture that way unless you happen to be a very talented painter.

P u b lic art m ay be a w ay for average people to interact with Art and Culture in a much more natural and real way than Art that lives in a Gallery. W hy? Because this art is in our lives so much more than Gallery Art is. W alking around downtow n M ontreal, you se e sculptures and other installations - they talk to you and they ask you to talk back. Not to them, stupid; they’re just sculptures.

But to your friends, maybe. What do you say to your friends when you’re walking down M cGill C ollege past the bronze o f the girl and boy sitting on the bench, or when you stumble into the installation in Old Montreal across the street from G ib b y’s in that little square with the monument to the settlers o f 1642? I’m sure you say som ething. That’s what public art does. It forces the contemplation o f Art onto you in your everyday life , and m akes you think about what it means.

M y p oint is that th ese dam n m o o se and c o w s are stu p id and th e y ’re a w a ste o f sp a ce . T h ey m ake you think o f nothing except for the corporate patrons w h o so generously donated funds to have a m o o se painted w ith their lo g o , or

standing outside their doors, beck­ oning you in. W hat’s worse, these creatures were all created under the understanding that nothing contro­ v e r sia l w o u ld b e d ep icted u sin g them. Sure, they’re being paid for by the sponsors and the cities and don’t bite the hand that feeds you and whatever. But if the cities are trying to enrich themselves with art, w hy w ould they im m ediately rule out any kind o f real artists partici­ p a tin g b y im m e d ia te ly lim itin g what’s allowed.

David Lynch’s cow , which was bann ed from N Y C ’s C ow P arade 2000, may not be pretty, but it’s his artistic creation, his contribution to the culture (rem em ber?), and it’s hardly pornographic or offensive or racist. H ow can any type o f public art project that bans things that it finds nothing w orse than tasteless have any kind o f credibility at all?

Fine, they attract tourists (do they really, though? W ho the hell goes to N ew York City to see fibreglass cow s? Please.), but think about how many more tourists w ould be attracted by the w onderful things that could be created if the funding provided for this farce was given to a legitimate public arts project.

There's so m eth in g ab o u t Ben C o n tin u e d from p a g e 1 his w ay through som e son gs sitarlike.

The Innocent Crim inals w ere also in fin e form w ith relaxed and at-ease bassist Juan N elso n , ener­ g e tic and b u ffed drum m er D ean B utterw orth and p la y fu l p e r c u s­ sion ist D avid Leach.

T he em otion and tone ran the gam ut from an em otive and se n si­ tiv e T h e W om an in Y o u o f f h is n ew s e lf-p e n n e d album Burn to S hine to the socio-p olitica l. W hile tuning up, Harper proclaim ed, " W e’re A m e r ic a n , w e c a n ’t sp ea k tw o la n g u a g e s, w e ’re to o busy go in g to M cD onald ’s. W e ’re to o busy w atch in g Survivor. But i t ’s e a s ie r to b la m e it o n th e sc h o o l sy stem ; it’s m y teach er's fault I never learned anything."

For the final son g before the e n c o r e s , M o ls o n w a s s h a k in g from floorboards to rafters during an e x p l o s i v e S te a l M y K is s e s w hich w as accom pan ied by N ick R ich's (the head roadie) freestyle b eat and D a v id L each 's w o o d e n b o x . In a later m e e tin g , L e a ch exp lain ed that the h o llo w w ood en box w as a gift he bought for him ­ s e lf at a m usic con ven tion w hich h e th e n in c o r p o r a te d in t o th e song.

Harper's first encore featured a m oving, soulful and hauntingly spare rendition o f W aitin g on an A n g e l w h ich sile n c e d the en tire s ta d iu m . Y e t , H a rp er an d th e In n o c en t C r im in a ls fin is h e d up strong w ith the ev er-sex y co v er o f M a rv in G a y e ’s S e x u a l H e a lin g and by in corp oratin g L ed Z e p ’s W h ole Lotta L o v e into an electri­ fied Faded.

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The meeting after P o s t - s h o w , B u t te r w o r t h , L ea ch and N e ls o n ad m itted that t h e y f e l t g o o d a b o u t h o w th e sh ow w en t and w ere look in g for­ ward to a quick three-w eek break b ack in L .A . b e fo r e h ittin g the road again.

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y o u are and h o w lo n g it's b een sin ce you've seen your friends and fa m ily w h en you 're p la y in g and ju st d ig g in g the m usic. A s lo n g as I g et to p la y , w h eth er it's in the stadium or w ith us six here in this room," said Leach.

Harper m ade a later entrance into the m eet-and-greet aftershow c o m p le t e w ith o v e r s iz e d h e a d ­ p h on es em ittin g G o m ez. H e w as

m et by a round o f applause initiat­ ed by h is bassist Juan N elson .

"I l o v e th a t g u y , m an."

N elso n said in admiration.

T h e e n d le s s ly g r a c io u s Harper, w ho earlier that day had r e ce iv e d a C anadian g o ld record for B u m to Shine, w arm ly greeted a n d th a n k e d e v e r y o n e in th e room . H is m agnetic presence illu ­ m inated the sm all backstage area.

Indeed, B en Harper had arrived.

H is w arm ly intense gaze co u ­ pled w ith his sincere gratitude and interest in his fans w as a refresh­ ing change from the stereotype o f a rock star. W h ile d iscu ssin g his h e a r t b r e a k in g tr ib u te to J e f f B u ck le y , Harper c lo se d h is e y e s in q u ie t co n te m p la tio n . Y e t, h e w en t on to an im a ted ly relate an encounter w ith a fan w h ile w alk­ ing dow n the street.

"W h en I w a s h e r e la s t [a t M etropolis], I ran into this really a g g r e ssiv e gu y w h o ’s lik e 'H ey, m an, w h y aren't there any m ore tic k e ts , m an? P ut m e on y o u r g u e s t l i s t . Y o u s u c k , m an ." ' Harper exclaim ed w h ile thum ping on the arm o f a bystander in re­ e n a c tm e n t, " N o w , I c o m e b a ck and I sw ear I se e the sam e g u y , an d h e ’ s s a y in g , 'H e y , m a n , why're you playin g in the M olson Centre, it's so b ig, you suck man.'

A t this point, I'm like fuck off. If you're d iggin g the m usic, that's all that counts."

D e s p it e H a r p e r 's g r o w in g fa m e , h e is s t i l l a r e g u la r g u y d ev o id o f the prim adonna. H e is the anti-superstar w ith the heart o f gold and the soul o f a poet.

H is w o r d s e c h o e d a s h e w o r k e d th e d im ly lit r o o m : " T h an k y o u f o r c o m in g o u t tonight. Thank you for saying that about m y m usic. I lo v e m usic that takes m e hom e, too."

N o, B en, thank you.

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R eality T V still luring in view ers Grossi said that she w ouldn’t mind i f lofters took one class but more than that w o u ld p ro b a b ly m ake being on U 8T V im possible.

"You can do w hat yo u want after the sh ow s are produced, but nothing that w ill interfere with the s h o w ’s sch ed u le," n o te s G ro ssi.

"W e h a v e d a y s h if ts and n ig h t shifts and it w ould be hard to go to school full time. School is a major commitment."

U 8T V differs from other reali­ ty sh ow s; it w ill have no ed itin g and very little cen so rsh ip on the internet. " W e ’re n o t th e sa m e as Survivor or Big Brother. There is

being broadcast on the net, viewers are treated to realtime broadcast o f the lofters’ lives.

F io r e lla G r o ssi, co -F o u n d e r and President o f Programming for U 8 T V /T V F O R R E A L .c o m c o m ­ m en ts on in te r e ste d a p p lic a n ts: "We want strong individuals w ho fe e l g ood about th em selv es. W e don’t care if they carry them selves as a bitch. W e also w ant p eop le w ho are w ild and fun. If you are outside the box, that’s even better.

L ife is boring enough that w e don’t need to watch more boring people living their lives."

Interested students should note that being a lofter is a full time job.

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r e a lit y s h o w s c o m in g o u t o f Canada will not be seen on televi­ sion at all. This show, called U8TV w ill broadcast live on the Internet.

Fi >r an entire year, eight individuals sc lected from both live and mailedin applications w ill liv e in a lo ft together in Toronto's Entertainment District. The applicants receive an annual salary o f $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 in addi­ tion to living rent free in the loft.

T h e L o fter s are req u ired to produce three hours o f live original e n te r ta in m e n t d a ily in c lu d in g show s such as Dare U and Shower Hour. W hen these show s are not

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TV for every 72 hours o f actual liv­ in g that w a s d on e on the island .

S ince U 8T V w ill not be edited at all, it remains to be seen whether or not an audience w ill stay interested.

W h eth er or not U 8 T V b e c o m e s popular, on e thing is for certain: there w ill be more and more reality television show s until som e newer and better trend hits the airwaves.

To a p p ly f o r U 8T V m a il in an application form and a photograph or videotape to: U8TV Lofters 20 Bloor Street East P.O. Box 75070 Toronto , ON M 4W 3T3.

Applications are due on October 2 at 5 PM. O r show up to The New Club Soda (1225 St. Laurent, cor­ ner St-C atherine) this Thursday, S ep tem b er 28 b etw een 8am and 9pm.

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Takeshi Kitano is a cult hero in Japanese cinema, with this being h is eighth p rod uction , (p rev io u s p roductions bein g Fireworks and K id s R eturn), all o f w h ich w ere h a ile d w ith c r it ic a l a c c la im .

Kikujiro is a tim ely departure from K ita n o 's u s u a l g a n g s te r m o v ie genre .

Nom inated for a Golden Palm at the 1999 C annes International F ilm F e s t iv a l, K ik u jiro is a delightful piece o f urban and rural p h o to g r a p h y c o u p le d w ith an endearing human interest story.

Centering around the journey o f a young boy, M asao (played by the talented Yusuke Sekiguchi), to find the mother he has never met, the film sw eeps into a spontaneous tale o f self-discovery and Chaplinesque humour. Though not a com e­ dy, M asao's chaperone, the film 's name sake, does get involved in a number o f absurd situations. A 'no g o o d ' n e ig h b o u r h o o d g a m b le r , Kikujiro is rude, bad-tempered and an unabashed vandal. With such a volatile character in tow, M asao is d estin ed to endure an in teresting trip. A s the two return to a state o f child -like innocence, they enjoy a summer o f carefree tomfoolery.

The quality o f characterisation is superb especially with the bikers

F a tso and B a ld y . S u p p lied w ith scenes o f farcical content, the pair bring a surreal twist to the tale, as their lim ited d ialogu e is made up for in subtle, yet at tim es starkly visual, hilarity. The m inimalist cast projects the visual presence o f the film as the dominating factor, over the dialogue.

Cartoon animation, a particu­ lar passion o f Takeshi Kitano’s, is a lso incorporated throughout the film . T h e co m ic b ook elem en ts, expressed through artwork and ran­ d om dream se q u e n c e s , crea te a sense-o f surreal anticipation which s e e m ir r e le v a n t at t im e s . For e x a m p le , in s o m e m o m e n ts o f q u iet r e fle c tio n , a p h a n to m -lik e crea tu re ap p ears from n o w h er e dancing in the shadows. It must be rem em bered that this is Japanese film , where fantasy is often a com ­ m on d en o m in a to r. N o n e th e le s s , Kikujiro is a story o f reality, a real life 'com ing-of-age' saga for both M asao and his old er com patriot.

T h e fa n ta stica l elem en ts m erely seek to enhance the character's psy­ che and the visual display.

T h o se w h o can appreciate a s u p e r b ly p r o d u c e d , w e ll a cte d piece o f photographic cinematogra­ phy should take two hours to share in the delights o f Kikujiro. Though the film is a little long and there is no H o lly w o o d s ty le e n d in g , its subtle, irrevocably charming story and th e e x p e r ie n c e o f K ita n o 's directorial skills are worth drawing yourself away from the Paramount.

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identity, and m any others that are not bound within hom osexual cul­ tu re. T h eir r e fin e d e m o tio n s , exposed to us so nakedly, engage us in our own psychology and tempt us to also bare our souls w hile watch­ ing the films.

The opening film, Urbania, is a good index into what the film fest attempts to do. First tim e director John Shear brings us a mesmerizing tale o f a man’s journey on a night where everything goes wrong. Set in a fast-paced city with everyone con­ stantly on the m ove, Urbania haunts us with uncanny dialogues and the delicate perplexity o f human em o­ tions. Shear perfects the film with just the right rhythm and mood.

Other titles listed are no less intriguing than this one. Red D irt, showing at 7:30pm on Sept 27, is a drama o f a man who is imprisoned in h is sm a ll to w n in rural M ississippi. Three is a documentary narrating the relationships between three men who live together. Psycho Beach Party is worth going to see if only because o f the title. Consider checking out the complete schedule o f the screen in gs at w w w .im a g enation.org because there are many shorts with equally fascinating titles, like The Ambiguously Gay Duo and Looking fo r Britney. (Do they mean Spears?)

This event is not to be missed.

You can expect to see me lining up outside Impérial and Le Parisien. If the rest o f the festival is as good as what I've already seen, my assign­ m en ts w ill rem a in ed u n fin ish e d even longer.

B y Ste p hanie K w o o

Who says Montreal is not kind to film addicts like m e? True, w e m ight not g et the b ig stars (th ey seem to like Toronto better than us), but M ontreal is still a great city w h ich p ro v id es a vast variety o f films that suit diverse appetites, such as the International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

In its 13th y ea r, T h e International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival boasts a wide collection of dramatic features, shorts, and docu­ mentaries for the viewing-interest o f Montreal m ovie-goers. O rganized by im a g e & n a tio n , th e film fe s t offers over 70 titles within a short 10-day period. It gives one a great opportunity to catch up on recent cinem atic trends, w atch all th ese m o v ie s that d o n ’t g e t a n od at nation-wide release, and pretend that to be one o f those indie-artist types who knows it all. But o f course, you can always just go to enjoy the good cinema that is so clearly lacking in popular film culture.

As film s devoted to homosexu­ al them es em erge into the m ain ­ stream cinema (such as Boys D on’t Cry), it is p ossible that the use o f "gay and lesbian" as a la b el for another film g en re is ou t-d a ted .

Maybe w e should view these film s just as w e view any other ordinary film s that w e encounter in the evil Paramount theater.

Yet, they are not that ordinary.

They are bold, blunt, and honest.

The draw to gay and lesbian film s is that they do not hold any­ thing back in expressing the conven­ tionally unexpressed. T hey boldly confront the stereotypes and cultural clichés thrust upon them, sometimes even using them to get their m es­ sage delivered. In the m ean tim e, they depict the m ost basic human nature and sensitivity. The charac­ ters and stories o f these film s tackle iss u e s su ch as v io le n c e , fa m ily ,

The f e s ti v a l w ill la st u n til October 1, with about 7 screenings everyday starting at 4pm on week­ d a y s an d 1:30pm on w eeken ds.

Tickets are $8 each., but less with student I.D. They can be purchased at Le Parisien from 5pm onwards M on day to F rida y, an d lp m onwards during weekends.

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M e : H i, I ’m w ith [th e M c G ill Tribune]. Can I have a few m in­ utes to ask you som e questions?

C o rin T u c k e r o f Sleater-K inney: Sorry, w e d on ’t g iv e interview s.

M e: Oh yeah? W ell y o u ’re a big stupid jerk! (in m y head).

D e s p it e th e fa c t th at I g o t shafted out o f an in terview after th e ir s h o w o n W e d n e s d a y at Cabaret, I still have to hand it to Sleater-K inn ey, the all grrrl poppunk th r e e p ie c e fro m W ashington state: they rock.

T his w as a w orthw h ile show to be at for a num ber o f reasons, the first o f w hich bein g the op en ­ in g b a n d s. I a rr iv e d in tim e to c a tc h th e ta il e n d o f C O C O , a g u y -o n -d ru m s p lu s g ir l-o n -b a ssan d-vocals outfit that got m uch o f the a m p le -siz e d cro w d g ro o v in g w ith sharp b ea ts and g o o d b ass guitar ru m b les. T h e n ex t op en er w as a girl-on-drum s plus guy-on guitar-and-vocals brother and sis­ ter outfit called the W hite Stripes.

T o ad d to th e W h ite S t r i p e s ’ fla ilin ’ guitar and w a ilin ’ v o c a ls w a s the fact that that they w ere c o lo u r c o o r d in a te d : red p a n ts, w h ite shirt, red and w h ite guitar on th e g u y ; red s k ir t, r e d an d w h ite striped shirt on the gal.

It is only thanks to the irony o f p o s tm o d e r n r o c k th a t t h is d yn am ic duo can m ake a liv in g .

T h ese days, even i f a band totally su ck s, they m ight be d oin g it on p u r p o se so th e a u d ie n c e g iv e s them credit and just sits there lis­ ten in g to shit but c a llin g it p ou ­ tine. W ell folk s, poutine and poo m a y lo o k a lik e , b u t th e y su re d o n ’t t a s te th e s a m e , an d th e W hite Stripes d id n ’t get o ff to an a u sp ic io u s start. F ortu n ately for ev ery o n e in v o lv ed , a m essy first few son gs turned into a solid gui­ tar rock set, w ith plenty o f guitar crunching and earnest v o ca ls, so that in the en d I ’m n ot sh ittin g you that the poutine w as poutine.

O f c o u r s e , th e m a in e v e n t w a s th e g r e a te st: th e fa n s had c o m e to h ea r S le a t e r - K in n e y .

Picture Lim p B izkit. N o w picture a band that is the opposite. That’s S le a t e r -K in n e y . D e s p it e b e in g im m e n s e ly p opu lar on the in d ie rock scen e and b ein g hounded by record com panies, S -K d on ’t sell out or self-prom ote the hell out o f th e m se lv e s. T h ey s till s e ll their o w n C D s on sta g e after sh o w s , and o ffe r up so m e o f th e m o st c r e a tiv e g u ita r d riv en ro ck ou t th ere to d a y , w ith h ig h p o litic a l a w a r e n e s s and f e m in is t id e a ls .

U n lik e Fred Durst and 99% o f the rest o f the bands ou t there w h o w o u ld g iv e their le ft nut for the opportunity to sell their so u ls to m ajor la b el record and clo th in g c o m p a n ie s, S -K g o e s th eir ow n w a y . (E d note: perhaps b eca u se the all-grrl band has no nuts?) For exam p le, b efore they began their set, Corin Tucker asked the crow d

to "ne pas fumer." If trying to get M ontrealers not to sm oke for an hour isn ’t a streak o f independent and u north odox thought, I d o n ’t know w hat is.

A s the sh o w p roceed ed , the w o m e n e n e r g e t ic a lly d e liv e r e d an d m a in t a in e d a f r ie n d ly dem eanor w ith the crow d, getting b ig ch ee rs w h en they su g g ested that M ontreal w as "the row dy city o f Canada." Sleater-K inney’s sp e­ cial brand o f catchy punk w as in f u ll effec t to o : C a r r ie B r o w n s t e i n ’ s s o f t v o i c e and rhythm guitar contrasted w onder­ fully w ith Corin Tucker’s soaring u r g e n t v o c a l s and le a d g u ita r .

M ost o f their son gs w ere charac­ terized by trademark snappy riffs backed up by good drumm ing (by Janet W eiss) and som e go o d old punky guitar. The final verdict is the a c o u stic s and n o ise le v e l o f th e C a b a ret M u s ic H a ll d id n ’t really a llo w the listen er to catch all the textures o f the S-K sound, but the fans g o t everyth in g they w ere look in g for. A nd for anyone w h o d o e s n ’t k n o w S le a t e r K inney, buy one o f their album s and free you rself from Slipknot or N ’Sync or w hatever the h ell it is they play on the radio these days.

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D eserted Island C o llectio n — V o lum e I E d G lu c k sm a n U 1 P sy c h o lo g y

B y S han S o e -L in M a y b e i t ’ s S u rv iv o r f e v e r catching on, albeit a little late (I d id n ’t h a v e a T V th is su m m er, o k a y ? ), but th is w e e k ’ s A u ra l Pleasure is a collection o f D esert Island F iv e s. I ask ed M cG iller s w h ic h f i v e C D ’ s t h e y w o u ld bring w ith them if stranded on a desert island w ith noth ing but a discm an and a lifetim e supply o f batteries.

M ost gave m e a funny lo o k or the finger, and the o n es w h o did an sw er w ou ld o n ly g iv e m e their porn n am es. N ev e r th e le ss, h ere’s w hat’s m aking an im pres­ sion on our fello w students:

G u n s & R o ses - Use Your Illusion 1 & 2 A ppetite f o r D estruction N ir v a n a - Neverm ind N O F X - Punk in D rublic

S u z ie S w e e t C h e ek s U 1 C h e m ic a l E n g in e e r in g V a r io u s - The Rom eo & Juliet

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L o n g D o n g S tu d U 2 M a n a g em e n t S u b lim e - 40 Ounce to Freedom B o b M a rley - G reatest Hits B e n H a r p e r - Burn to Shine 113 - S elf-T itled S u b lim e - Stand By Your Man

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J e f f B u c k le y is on e o f those anom alies o f an artist m ore popu­ lar ov ersea s than at h om e in the U S. H is liquid and soulful v o ic e c o m b in e d w ith h is s t a r t lin g ly accurate and h on est ly rics m ake h is so n g s u n fo r g e tta b le . I h a v e y et to m eet so m eo n e w h o h asn’t been touched in so m e w a y after lis te n in g t o , G ra ce, h is o n e and only album com p leted before his accidental drow ning at the age o f 27. The sw eet lon gin g o f ‘L over you sh ou ld ’v e com e o v er ,’ or the h a u n tin g so u n d o f ‘H a lle lu ja h ’ (a n a d a p ta tio n o f a L e o n a r d C ohen so n g ), are a testam ent to the rem arkable talent w h ich w as uniquely B u ck ley.

M o st p e o p le la u g h w h e n I b rin g up W id e M o u th M a s o n .

A n d a d m itte d ly , I w a s a ll to o r e a d y to d is m is s th e m a s p o p m onk eys until I saw them liv e. It w as truly a rem arkable th in g to w atch three gu ys play as if they h ad n o c o n tr o l o v e r th e s w e e t sound flo w in g out o f them. Their album s d o n ’t do ju stic e to their liv e act, but are w e ll worth listen ­ ing to nonetheless. A t first, their b lu e s /fu n k /r o c k /p o p /r e g g a e fusion is hard to digest, but after a f e w r o t a t io n s th e ir g e n iu s sh in es through. In true anti-pop sty le, each and every one o f the 37 so n g s on their 3 album s is d if­ ferent. T h ere’s a son g for every m ood, from the ache and frustra­ tion o f ‘Burn’, to the playful ‘Fa N a N a ’ (you try com in g up w ith a w o r d th a t r h y m e s w ith ‘S a s k a t c h e w a n ! ’). T h eir la te s t a lb u m , S te w , h a s j u s t b e e n released, and i f you like an in fe c­ t io u s H e n d r ix - m e e t s - P r i n c e sound, the album is w ell worth a listen.

This one is for the benefit o f th e A m e r ic a n r e a d e r s . T h e T r a g ic a lly H ip is to C anadians in te r m s o f m u s ic a l in flu e n c e w h at th e R o llin g S to n e s are to e v e r y o n e e ls e , m in u s the drugs and sexu al escapades. S o w h at’s left? D am n go o d m usic. H ailing from K ingston, Ontario, the band h a v e b e e n at th e ir c r a ft lo n g e n o u g h to b e c o m e a C a n a d ia n in s t it u t io n s y n o n y m o u s w ith g o o d b e e r and th e m a p le le a f.

E veryon e in the w orld seem s to prefer Fully Com pletely, released in ’9 2 , but I think that D a y f o r N ight is their ultim ate, fo llo w ed

by Trouble a t the Henhouse. Our neighbours to the south m ay be a li t t l e lo s t w ith su c h u n iq u e ly C a n a d ia n r e f e r e n c e s a s th e im p o r ta n c e o f th e g o a l o f ’7 2 (" F irew ork s" ), and th eir od e to B o b c a y g e o n , a s m a ll O n ta r io to w n w h e r e th e c o n s t e lla tio n s really do "reveal th em selves one sta r at a tim e ." A ft e r r o c k in g W ood stock last year, the band is finally b eginning to see the su c­ ce ss they deserve dow n south. B e s u r e to c h e c k th e m o u t th is D e c e m b e r 7 th at th e M o ls o n Centre w here they w ill be p la y ­ in g m a te r ia l fr o m th e ir n e w album , M usic @ Work.

T he in clu sio n o f R adiohead in this list needs very little exp la­ n a tio n . T w o w o r d s is a ll y o u need: The Bends. If you h aven ’t listen ed to this on e, run out and buy it. It’ll b low your mind.

S o there y o u h a v e it. W ith m id te r m s an d w in te r q u ic k ly approaching, being stranded on a desert island w ith fiv e favourite C D 's d o e s n ’t s e e m lik e su ch a bad p rosp ect after all. T he next tim e y o u 're w o n d e r in g i f you r brain w ill ev er thaw out after a lo n g , c o ld trudge through ca m ­ p u s, or i f y o u 're f e e lin g o v e r ­ w helm ed by finals, pop in one o f th e d is c s m e n tio n e d h ere . L et y o u r s e lf b e ca r ried to a w arm p la c e , w h ere, w ith an u m b rella drink in hand, you can forget all your troubles.

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M cGill Foo tball off to b est sta rt sin ce 1981 Redmen overcome first half woes to earn third straight comeback victory

By Mark Kerr Vocal veteran Randy Chevrier c o u ld b e heard screa m in g to h is teammates on the sidelines: "it’s not how you start the gam e, it’s how you finish it." The old adage held true for the M cGill football team on Saturday, when the team posted its third straight com e from behind vic­ tory o f the season.

M c G ill scored tw e lv e u nan ­ swered points against the Concordia Stingers in the second half to take the Shrine B ow l at a rain-drenched L oyola field by a score o f 12-11.

Ben Wearing brought home the win for the R edm en, scoring the w in ­ ning touchdown on a 94-yard punt return early in the fourth quarter.

The touchdown cam e after ear­ lier fu tility in the punt-returning d ep a rtm e n t.

W e a r in g ’ s q u ic k ch a n g e o f plan a llo w e d him the space that had eluded him and fel­ lo w return m an S te v e C e o lin all afternoon.

"Concordia w as w atching the wall w e put up," said Wearing, who had 174 all-purpose yards on the day. "I was supposed to cut to the right but I saw a little opening and cut to the left."

Wearing had to break a tackle before he was, as they say, o ff to the races. T he strong co n tin g e n t o f M cGill fans rose to their feet, cheer­ in g the ex h a u ste d punt returnee across the goal line.

"I w as really ch u gging at the end," joked M cG ill’s most valuable player o f the game.

A s has been the case all year, M cG ill struggled through the first half. Concordia jum ped out to an early lea d on J e ff S in g e r ’s first quarter fie ld g o a l. It se e m e d as though M cGill would only trail by fo u r p o in ts at h a lf a fter S in g e r added a 30-yard single in the second quarter. It w asn’t to be though.

With only 15 seconds remain­ ing in the half, Coach Bailie played the odds, deciding to go for it on 3rd down and ten. The decision not to punt came back to haunt the coach as Loan D u on g in tercep ted Josh Somerfeldt’s pass and ran it back 83 y ard s fo r a to u c h d o w n .— T h e R edm en w ent to the lock er room trailing by eleven instead o f four.

"We were on our heels for a bit

at the start," said halfback Strachan Hartley. "Concordia cam e out and played hard."

T h e team r e g r o u p e d , sa id Hartley, by getting back to basics.

M cG ill finally began to key in on

cross-town rivals this season, boosts M cGill's record to a perfect 3-0 on the sea so n . T he R edm en n ow sit tied for first place, a position they didn't en vision them selves being a couple o f w eeks ago.

ly, M cGill let their performance do the talking.

"We hate C oncordia. P eople don’t realize how big the rivalry is," said a confident Somm erfeldt after the gam e. "We are a better team and w e had to show them."

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Crunch Tim e H a lfb a c k S trach an H a rtley arguably had the biggest hit o f the gam e. The transfer student from University o f British Columbia flew up from th e se c o n d a r y to d rive C o n c o r d ia q u a rterb a ck Jon Kronemeyer into the ground. The crippling blow forced a key fourth quarter fumble that Stephen Colwell recovered for M cGill. Although he had to be h e lp e d o f f th e f ie ld , Kronemeyer bravely returned on the next possession.

Where was the Queen?

Redmen give Stingers the boot in Saturday's Shrine Bowl Concordia’s main offen sive threat, tailback Jean -M ichel Paquette. A couple o f changes were made to the o ffe n siv e lin e to help address the team's scoring w oes.

T h e m inor ad ju stm en ts paid dividends early in the second half.

W h ile erratic early on, R edm en quarterback Josh Sommerfeldt was able to spark a resu rgen ce at the o n s e t o f the th ird q u arter. T h e mobile pivot led two impressive dri­ ves which helped to set up Anand P illai field g o a ls from 29 and 37 yards out which put M cG ill within f iv e p o in ts o f th e le a d b e fo r e W earing’s touchdown.

"Josh played good , not great, but so lid ," sa id B a ilie of S om m erfeld t w h o to sse d for 195 yards including three interceptions.

The Red'n White defense, rock solid all afternoon, held the Stingers in check down the stretch.

Leading the w ay as usual were d e fe n s iv e lin e m e n C h ev rier and John Macdonald. The duo cam e up b ig la te in th e g a m e s tu ffin g Paquette on the run on third and short in the waning moments.

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"Being 3 and 0 is a nice gift for the coach," said C hevrier. "It is hard to convin ce (the players) that w e could go 3 and 0. It is young team and a lot o f them haven’t been in this situation."

Although it is way too early to mention playoffs or championships, those hoping for a storybook send o ff for Coach Bailie have reason to be optimistic.

"N o, I d id n ’t e x p e c t that," B a ilie r e sp o n n d e d w h e n a sk e d about the Redmen’s best start since 1981. "Even when w e went to the Vanier Cup, w e started the season 1-3. I can ’t even remember when w e were 3-0 last."

-G a m e N o te sRivalry intensifies P layin g tw o c lo se gam es this y e a r h as r e n e w e d th e in te n s ity b etw e en th ese cr o ss-to w n rivals.

Several times during the game scuf­ fles ensued. The referees effective­ ly kept raging em o tio n s in ch eck m ost o f the game. More important­

T h is 14th S h rin e B o w l a lso represented Concordia’s hom ecom ­ ing game. The Stinger’s defensive end W ayne Dunn benefited by col­ lecting three individual awards. On top o f being awarded C oncordia’s M VP o f the game, he also w on the H o m e c o m in g C up and th e T ed E lsby Trophy, awarded to the top lineman o f the game. The announc­ er gave the home team fans comfort b y r e m in d in g e v e r y o n e that Concordia had at least w on in the trophy department. "That’s Wayne Dunn three, Ben Wearing one!"

The big play made the dif­ ference on ce again for M cG ill.

E xplosive wideout Ben Wearing p rovid ed the spark th e R ed ’n W hite needed as he scored the gam e-w inning touchdow n on a spectacular 94 yard punt return.

Wearing racked up 174 all-pur­ pose yards in total on the after­ noon.

"The d iffe r e n c e w a s the punt-return today, other than that the teams were equal,” said Coach Baillie.

Pillai Settling In A fte r s u ffe r in g from m ild symptoms o f a sophomore jinx early in the season, kicker A nand Pilai has shrugged them o ff and seem s to be "out o f the woods." The second year player had two field goals and several excellent punts, the longest being 63 yards.

"At the beginning o f the year, I thought I had to prove something," said Pilai. "After m issing a couple f ie ld g o a ls in th e fir s t g a m e , I th o u g h t that th e team w o u ld be dow n on me. H ow ever, the team has been really supportive. There definitely is more gel with the team this year."

C o n ference ro u n d u p A clutch touchdow n catch allow ed the Laval R ouge et Or to stake a stronger claim to the top spot in the OQIFC as they defeated the Ottawa G ee-G ees 14-9 in a rain-soaked con test at Ottawa last Saturday. They are currently tied for first with the surprising M cG ill R edm en (3-0). Ottawa receiver M ike di Battista’s 15-yard T D catch in the op en ing m inute o f the final quarter put the G ee-G ees ahead 9 -7. O ttawa hung on to its slight margin until the last couple o f m inutes o f the gam e, w hen Laval receiver Jean-Frédéric Trem blay m ade a 28-yard catch after the R ouge et Or were facing a second dow n with 22 yards-to-go. Laval quarterback François C hapdelaine, w h o com p leted 10 o f 28 p asses for 199 yards, then made up for throwing four interceptions on the day by hitting receiver Stéphane L efebvre w ith a 20-yard T D pass with 2:02 left on the clock. G ee-G ees quarterback Phil C oté led the O ttawa o ffen se, w hich am assed 268 yards, by com p letin g 9 o f 19 p asses for 132 yards and rushing for 99 m ore on 17 carries. For the R ouge et Or, Sylvain Lefebvre rushed 12 tim es for 7 7 yards and on e T D and caught 3 passes for 75 yards. On defen se, Laval line­ backer and OQIFC d efen siv e player o f the w eek Etienne Vanslette led the R ouge et Or with 13,5 tackles.

In K ingston, B ish op ’s hamm ered the Q u een ’s G olden G aels 3 2 -9 in front o f 8 ,0 0 0 p eople. Gaiters running back Ben O uim et rushed for 200 yards on 15 carries, including a 64-yard touchdow n run. O uim et, w h o earned OQIFC o ffe n siv e player o f the w eek honours, also caught a 63-yard touchdow n pass. Q u een ’s quarterback Craig Spear com p leted 17 o f 34 passes for 2 1 7 yards and on e interception, but w as unable to lead his charges into the end zone after the seven -m in ute mark o f the first quarter. H is favorite target was receiver R oby Ryan, w ho caught 7 passes for 87 yards. B ish o p ’s p ivot Sylvain D esrochers rushed for tw o touchdow ns on seven carries and com p leted 10 o f 22 p a sses for 203 yards.

T his Saturday, Septem ber 30, B ish o p ’s (1 -2 ) w ill host M cG ill (3 -0 ), w hile Laval (3 -0 ) w ill travel to K ingston to play the G olden G aels (0-3).

C oncordia (0 -3 ) w ill be in O ttawa to play the G ee-G ees (2-1).

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4:50 Second Quarter CU- Single Singer 34 yds.........................

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14:45 (Singer convert) Third Quarter McG- FGPillai 37 yds...............................

5:38 McG- FGPillai 29 yds..............................

12:48 Fourth Quarter McG- Wearing TD94 yd punt return..........

2:12 Individual Stats Rushing: McG- Hoffmann 17-86, Sommerfeldt 10-41, Freer 2-0: CU- Paquette 14-105, Kronemeyer 7-32, Lynch 2-6, Martin 1-5.

Recieving: McG- Lanctot 7-92, Derman 4-49, Kohaykewych 2-26, Hoffmann 2-17, Freer 1-6, Wearing 1-5: CU- O’Brien 4-50, Cvetkovic 2-22, Martin 2-15, D’Aragon 1-10, Charpentier 1-9, Paquette 1-2.

Passing: McG- Sommerfeldt 17-33, 195 yds, 0 td, 3 int : CU- J. Kronemeyer 11-28, 108 yds, 0 td, 1 int.

Defensive Stats(tackles, sacks): McG- Chevrier (6,0), Mahoney(6,0), Cooke(4,0), Guay(4,0), Hartley(4,0), Colwell(4,0), Martin(4,0,1 int), Grad(4,0), Lucchetta(3,0), S.Young(3,l), Dawodu(2,0), Mcdonald(2,l), Hoffmann(l.O), Manzano(l,0), Freer(l,0), Tai(l,0), Stockl(l,0), Lanctot(l.O), Chenier(l.O), Pillai(l,0), Rashed(l.O): Cu- Weathers(8,0, 1 int), Dunn(7,2), Jean(7,0, 1 int), Aiken(6,0), Burns(6,0), Cunningham(5,l), Daley(5,0), Duong(5,0, 1 int), Bromfield(5,0), Stamino(4,0), Giguere(4,0), Perez(4,0), Legault(3,0), Brown(3,0), Stevenson(3,0), Lynch(l.O), Remus(l,0), Hoas(l,0), Abel(l,0), Clahane(l,0), Leblanc-Tremblay(l,0).

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G o a lle ss w eeken d fo r top-ranked R edm en So ccer Team notches tw o straight 0-0 ties to Laval and UQ AM B y Sa r a h W

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H eading into the w eekend as the num ber o n e ranked team in th e n a tio n , th e R ed m e n s o c c e r team w as look in g for a four point s w e e p a g a in s t l ’ U n i v e r s it é de Q uebec a M ontreal and Laval.

Instead M cG ill left the w eek ­ end w ith tw o 0 -0 ties, and q u es­ tion marks surrounding its ability to finish on offence.

The R edm en look ed strong in th e ir h o m e o p en er la st w e e k , a r e s o u n d in g 2 - 0 v ic t o r y o v e r l ’U n iv ersité de Q u eb ec a T ro isR ivières. L ooking to c o llec t their e ig h th c o n s e c u tiv e w in a g a in st d iv isio n rival U Q A M on Friday, M cG ill, how ever, fell short.

W hile its d efen siv e b ackfield reg istered an im p r e ss iv e p erfor­ m ance, the R edm en w ere greatly ham pered by their lack o f p olish around the net.

D esp ite co n tro llin g the flo w o f the gam e, and penetrating the U Q A M z o n e th r o u g h o u t th e m atch, M cG ill w as able to m uster scant few quality scoring chances.

“I think w e scored too m any go a ls in practice this week," said R edm en defender G ino L alli sar­ c a s t ic a lly , " W e p la y e d a g o o d

score early on w ith help o f som e fa n c y fo o tw o rk and d eterm in a ­ tion by both Justin Student, and K yle Graham. A few co stly o ff­ s id e s p e n a ltie s ru in ed s e v e r a l other potential M cG ill chances.

In order to spark so m e fire from his team, M cG ill coach Pat R a im o n d o s u b s titu te d le a d in g scorer G uy A naba-A naba at the b e g in n in g o f th e s e c o n d h a lf.

That m ove d idn ’t pay o ff, h o w ­ e v e r , as M c G ill w a s u n a b le to generate much excitem ent late in the gam e as it frantically pressed for the win.

"Things w eren ’t w orking the w ay they usually do on the o ffen ­ s iv e end," said R aim on d o after the gam e. "The team can usually g e t th e b a ll to G u y b u t th at w a s n ’t th e c a s e t o n ig h t . W e needed to shake things up a bit."

The R edm en continued their o f f e n s i v e in e p titu d e b e f o r e a The Redmen offence needs some fine tuning before the playoffs Crystal Wreden large and hostile crow d at Laval su rges and h elp ed to con trol the gam e overall but w e just cou ld n ’t on Sunday. get the set plays dow n. W e didn ’t flo w o f the play.

T h e g a m e m ark ed th e fir st M c G ill’s fe w v ia b le sco rin g ex ecu te on o ffen ce. U Q A M cam e e v e r fo r th e R o u g e et Or team chances w ere largely the creation h ere fo r th e tie and g o t w h at it w ho, like in football, show ed that o f its d e fe n c e w h ich sh o w e d its wanted." th ey w ill be h ig h ly c o m p e titiv e m asterful b all-handling and p ass­ U s in g a 4 - 4 - 2 f o r m a tio n , despite a lack o f experience. ing sk ills throughout the contest.

L alli w as one o f the cornerstones A nother h old-over from foot­ K ev in M c C o n n ell m isse d a ball w as the overly-aggressive and o f the Redm en d efen ce w hich sti­ p articu larly great op p ortu n ity to f le d th e fe w U Q A M o f f e n s i v e chippy play o f Laval w ho b enefit­

ed from som e b enevolent referee­ in g . S e v e r a l M c G ill s c o r in g o p p o r tu n it ie s w e r e e lim in a t e d because o f slide tackles and other q u estion ab le R ouge et Or d efen ­ siv e tactics w hich probably w ould have been penalized by a different set o f o fficials.

O n c e a g a in th e d e f e n s i v e backfield rose to the occasion and helped to control the gam e’s flow .

T he R edm en strikers, despite so m e n oble efforts, w ere unable, how ever, on ce again to capitalize.

Student put together another solid perform ance at the m id-field p osition, earning gam e m ost valu­ able player honors. Eddy Zuppel, th o u g h n ot tested s e v e r e ly o n ce again, w as a stalwart in nets earn­ ing his secon d straight shut-out.

"I’m n ot d isa p p o in te d w ith our team . Our back fou r p layed great. Its a great grou p o f g u y s and th e y ’re w ork in g really hard.

W e ’re a ta le n te d te a m an d th e o ffe n siv e production w ill com e," s a id C o a c h R a im o n d o , w h o s e te a m s ’ r e su lts on th e w e e k -e n d m a y d rop th e m fro m #1 in th e n a tio n . "I’m n ot w orried w h ere w e ’re ranked right now . I want to b e ranked n um ber o n e co m e N ovem ber 13th."

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After watching his team ’s per­ fo r m a n c e a g a in s t th e U Q A M Citadins, Martlets head coach Marc M ounicot wasn't pleased w ith his team ’s play, to say the least.

"It was the m ost boring gam e I have ever coach ed for M c G ill in three years. N o intensity, no com ­ p o s u r e n o e n t h u s ia s m ,” sa id M ounicot. “Very poor in shooting, very poor in getting the ball in the net. That’s a gam e w e should have w on 10 or 12 to nothing."

"I w ill have a hard talk w ith the girls and tell them to w ake up very q u ick ly or they w ill h ave a surprise on Sunday’s gam e (against undefeated L aval) that’s for sure.

T h e r e w ill b e a h o s t i le c r o w d , prob ably 2 0 0 0 p e o p le and i f w e d o n ’t score and u se our ch a n ces w e’ll pay for it."

N ow , just im agine if they had lost. M ou n icot w as d escrib in g a dominant 5-1 victory for his squad.

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and C laire Labrom fired on e just w ide from clo se in. A lana M aloney o p e n e d th e s c o r in g in th e 7 th m inute on a turnover in the box.

Amber Allen then added her first o f three two minutes later, heading in a com er kick from Sophie Labrom.

That was indicative o f the first half.

M cG ill had no problem stifling the U Q A M attack at m idfield and cre­ ating scoring chances.

T h e C ita d in s ,o n ly h ad tw o p o sse ssio n s the entire h a lf in the M cG ill end and m anaged to score on one o f them. W ith M cG ill press­ in g th e a tta c k U Q A M fo rw a rd Valerie Crete was sprung on a par­ tia l b rea k a w a y . S h e la u n c h e d a ra in b o w from 3 5 y ard s ou t that eluded M cG ill keeper Sacha Liben w h o appeared to lo se sight o f the b a ll. T h e fa c t th at th e sta d iu m ligh ts w eren ’t on probably d id n ’t help.

"I’m v e r y , v e r y p is s e d o f f to n ig h t," sa id c o a c h M o u n ic o t.

"We started the gam e at 6 :30 and the first 2 0 minutes were played in the dark. The goal w e allow ed was long shot where m y keeper w as in the dark, no lights and the ball went

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o v e r h er. I t’s n ot acceptable for a depart­ m en t at a s c h o o l lik e M cG ill not to be able to put lig h ts on in time".

M o u n ico t w a s eq u a lly displeased with the o ffi­ cial timer w ho failed to start the clock until the th ird m in u te o f th e gam e and did so only at the behest o f the referee and the coach h im self.

"T he p e o p le th e r e , I d on ’t know w hat they’re d o in g " ..

T h e s e c o n d h a lf started m uch the sam e a s th e fir s t. A m b er A lle n sc o r e d on la se r from just inside the box in the 50th m inute and added the hat trick goal in the 57th o ff a UQAM turnover.

"A s fa r as m o v e ­ m ent o f f the b all g o e s w e w e r e g iv in g e a c h o th e r q u ite a fe w options and looking for Martlets headed in right direction Patrick Fok passes" A llen said. "We UQAM . w e r e p u sh in g u p, p la y in g v er y In the second half the U Q A M offen sive and getting good p osses­ fo r w a r d s b e g a n to p u sh m ore sion o f the ball at midfield". upfield but were incapable o f main­ T h a t w a s th e sto r y o f th e tain in g p o sse ss io n in the M cG ill game. U Q A M was totally unable to en d and g e n e r a tin g s c o r in g work the ball through m idfield and chances.

M c G ill’s keepers Liben and later UQAM coach L au rence Krista B ullock faced a grand total L abonte w as m uch m ore p leased o f three shots, none o f w hich could w ith his lo ss than M ou n icot w as b e d e s c r ib e d as d if f ic u lt . T h e with the win. D espite being dom i­ Martlets dominated tim e o f p osses­ nated Labonte was happy with the sion and toyed with the undersized w a y h is tea m p erfo rm ed on the and underskilled U Q A M d efen se. road a gain st the top team in the T he M artlets had by rough count conference.

2 0 g ood scoring ch an ces to 1 for "W e d id n ’t sto p w o r k in g

d e sp ite stron g o p p o sitio n ," said L abonte. "We h ave a n ew group w ith on ly one returning player so w e tried working on cohesion and team play. D e fe n siv e ly w e cou ld have been m ore in volved . I think w e w e r e a lit t le t o o tim id and polite. W e have a lot o f work to do on b a ll p o s s e s s io n . W e w e r e n ’t able to put three passes together or generate scoring chances."

T h e w in m o v es M c G ill in to first place in their conference with a p e r fe c t 3 - 0 reco rd . H o w e v e r , their n ext tw o gam es are against u nd efeated L aval and C oncordia.

M ounicot warned that the Martlets w ill have to play better to em erge from those gam es in first place. , "If you lo o k at the statistics, w e got nearly 4 0 shots on net and o n ly f iv e g o a ls. W h en y o u p lay tougher teams you usually get three chances and you have to score on them. I’v e been telling them (for) three years that you need consisten­ cy. A very strong team w ill adjust to any situ ation . I f y o u ’re am bi­ tious and you want to get to nation­ als, you have to be consistent."

Martlets defeat Laval Surely to the delight o f coach Marc M ounicot, the Martlets trav­ elled to Laval and knocked o ff the previously undefeated Laval Rouge et D ’Or, 2-1 to m ove to the front o f their con feren ce. M cG ill scorers w e r e A m b er A lle n an d A la n a M alo n ey . W ith the victory over Laval the M cG ill w om en improved their record to 4 -0 . and are now ranked #3 in the nation.

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Rooting fo r th e b est sid e: th e w e st sid e A s a pedestrian sports specta­ tor, there are certain a sp e c ts o f sports culture that continue to elude me.

For e x a m p le , w h y is it that fo o tb a ll p layers fe e l the n eed to slap each other on the rump in a sh ow o f solidarity or congratu la­

However, I think that would be an oversim plification o f the issue and w o u ld se r v e to r e a ffir m g e n d er s t e r e o t y p e s . S o m e c h ic k s d ig sports. I’m just not one o f them.

T h ough I do en joy w atching the o c c a s io n a l b a ll g a m e, I ju st don’t understand the nearly fanati­

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tions? Is the black goop that ath­ letes smear under their eyes a con­ temporary warpaint sym bol? Why are baseball players so overweight?

A n d w h a t e x p la in s th e str a n g e affinity that basketball players have for tattoos?

I could, o f course, attribute my ig n o ra n ce o f the fin er p o in ts o f sports-mania to my being a woman.

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cal com m itment to sports that som e people (usually men) exhibit. The w orld p a u ses fo r the S u p erb o w l and I still fail to see how a bunch o f grown men piling on top o f each other for a ball sustains attention for a w hole day.

Som e theories have suggested that m en v ie w sports team s as an e x te n s io n o f t h e m s e lv e s . W hat

s o c ie t y str ip s o f th e ir b e s t ia l aggression they regain vicariously on the field, court, diamond or ice.

Balls, I say.

A fter careful consideration, I think sports a llo w s for a rou sin g enthusiasm and nationalistic fervor w hich is otherw ise frow ned upon.

In a w o rld o f stu d ie d c y n ic is m , is n ’t it n ice to be able to catcall, yell and generally em ote?

H avin g grow n up in the San F ran cisco B ay A rea, I rem em ber w e ll the glory days o f the FortyN in ers under B ill W alsh and Joe Montana. Back then, Steve Young w as n oth in g m ore than a m ea sly b en ch w arm er. T h o u g h I d o n ’t rem em ber w h o they played, what year they w on the Super b ow l or w hat a quarterback is e v e n su p ­ posed to do, I remember the parade through dow ntow n San Francisco.

Isn’t it great, I remember thinking, that all these different p eo p le are h ere to g e th e r and c h e e r in g ju st because their team won?

M ore than that, I rem em ber with pride 1989, the year that the

San Francisco Giants and Oakland A ’s b o th m a d e it to th e W o rld S e r ie s. N eig h b o r p itted a gain st neighbor in the Battle o f the Bay. And, o f course, those w ho favored the underdog rooted for the Giants b e c a u se th e y w er e p retty a w fu l b ack then, rem em ber? Stu dents c o u ld f a ll in T ia n a m en S q u are, earthquakes could collapse bridges, but the World Series still w aged on in the Bay. T h is sum m er, w h ile h om e in the City, it all made sense. A s I sat on a cold bench in the brand-spank­ in g n ew P a cB ell Park, staring at Barry B on d s’ butt as he defended the outfield, clutching a hot dog in on e hand and a beer in the other, watching the fog roll in and croon­ in g ‘T a k e M e O ut T o th e B allgam e’ for all I was worth, I got it.

Sports isn ’t necessarily about the m oney, the glamour, the play­ ers or ev en the ath leticism . T he draw o f sports far exceeds the tan­ g ib le s . F o llo w in g a sports team m eans being a part o f som ething.

It’s us against them and m ay the best team win. It’s belonging to a collective effort w hich starts on the field and extends to the bleachers.

It’s know ing that you have a place o f c o n v er g en ce w ith p e o p le that y o u ’v e never m et sim ply because you happen to root for the sam e group o f strangers to w in a game.

It’s an identity. It’s a hobby. It’s a passion. And though I don’t know much about sports, this I do know: The Giants are going to the Series and kicking ass. Go, team.

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need more skills than you do here,” said Anaba Anaba. “Here it is a lot more running, more open space and a system that I am starting to enjoy, especially the w ay Pat (Raimondo) encourages it."

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T h e M c G ill s o c c e r se a s o n kicked o f f n icely for the Redm en last w ee k as they w on their first tw o gam es. A m on g the returning players from last year’s successful squad is Guy Anaba Anaba, a C am eroon ian m id fie ld e r who amazed many last year w ith h is lig h tn in g q u ic k dribbling and natural ability.

Anaba Anaba transfered to M cG ill at the b egin ning o f th e 1 9 9 9 s e a s o n a fte r playing for the Université de M ontreal sin c e 19 9 4 . H e's gained a sense o f belonging on a team that seem s better spirited than its predecessor.

"The b o y s lo v e h im , and e v e r y o n e lik e s h im ", com m en ted R edm en coach Pat R a im o n d o in a re ce n t interview about his African sensation.

B e fo r e m o v in g to Canada, A naba A naba had surprisingly little experience p la y in g o r g a n iz e d so c c e r .

W hen asked about his early introduction to the sport he replied, "Of course I played Anaba2 is the spark of the Redmen offence as a child, it is the national sp o rt o f C a m e r o o n , but I sized to Anaba Anaba, the impor­ never played with a team. M y best sport was actually volleyball and I tance o f b ein g a tw o-w ay player, and being able to play both defense played first d ivision back hom e. I and offence. later ended up playing second divi­ "Guy has now learned how to sio n so c c e r . I c o u ld n ’t co n tin u e bring in other aspects o f the gam e v o lle y b a l l d u e to a s h o u ld e r to his repertoire b esid es his ob vi­ injury." o u s ly g if te d b a ll s k i l l s , ” sa id A s a y o u n g p la y e r , A n a b a Raimondo, “He has learned to fight Anaba id o lized Cam eroonian le g ­ for his team and m ost importantly end Abaga Théophile, know n also to defend properly." as Dr. Abaga.

O f co u rse, there are certain "He is w hy I wear the number skills that Anaba Anaba must work 14 now," said Anaba Anaba, a 27 on. A bove all, his inconsistency is year old grad student in Computer what som etim es works againt him S oftw are T e ch n o lo g y . "He w as a but coach R aim ondo is confident big influence on m y early gam e and that it w ill disappear over time with I finally got to m eet him in 1984." hard work.

Anaba Anaba had to adjust his "One m ust rem em ber that a lif e s ty le and h is s o c c e r p la y in g p layer as sk illfu l as G uy m eans when he m oved to Canada. having to deal with double or even "In ord er to su r v iv e on the triple-team s from d efen ses league fie ld at h o m e (C a m e r o o n ), y o u

w id e ,” said R aim on d o. “It takes tim e to get used to that aspect o f the game."

Anaba A naba is en joying his stay here in M ontreal. B e in g far away from fam ily and friends back hom e can som etim es be a difficult thing to deal with, but for Guy it is a way to get the e d u c a tio n h e d e e m s so important.

"Education is the key to g e ttin g a g o o d s o lid base in life , m uch m ore im p o r ta n t than s p o r t ,” sa id A n a b a A n a b a . “I want to be able to gradu­ ate and later ow n m y own b u s in e s s , m a y b e w ork w ith c o m p a n ie s b a ck home."

D e s p it e liv i n g in Montreal for a long time, Anaba Anaba is still con­ sciou s o f the issues con ­ cerning his home country o f Cameroon and m ost o f the continent o f Africa in general.

"The levels o f educa­ tio n and p o v e r ty b ack hom e are too high at the m om ent and people need Patrick Fok to realize that they really can im prove the situation,” said Anaba Anaba. “It is a very dif­ ficu lt situation because in A frica, people do not have the same way o f th in k in g as th e y do here. It is a w h o le d iffe r e n t m e n ta lity o v e r there."

G uy A naba A naba am azes R edm en fans and team m ates with his technical skills and abilities, but remains a quiet and positive char­ a cte r w h o is d e s c r ib e d by P at R a im o n d o as a "true w in n e r ...a m agician w ho has com p lete m as­ tery o f the ball. The ball obeys him and he therefore often does what he wants on the field."

A fter a season o f adjustment, th is c o u ld be th e year that G uy Anaba Anaba takes on a larger role on a team that has cham pionship potential.

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The M cG ill Redbirds strutted their offen sive tailfeathers as they dom inated the C oncordia Stingers in a F riday n ig h t d o u b le h ead er played at Centennial Park.

G etting their leads early, the Redbirds strung together som e very timely hitting to win the first game by a whopping score o f 18-4, and th e s e c o n d g a m e 9 - 2 . S ta r tin g p itch ers G e o ff P ertsch and Paul Bonner contributed with great per­ formances respectively.

"This w as d e fin ite ly a great win for us. It shows that all the hard work our guys have put in over the past couple o f weeks paid off," said Manager Ernie D ’Alessandro.

C o m in g in to th e g a m e s on Friday, the Redbirds expected that their p itc h in g w o u ld b e so lid as alw ays. What they did not expect was for their lineup to hit the way that they did.

From the first pitch, the M cG ill bats w ere all ov er the C oncord ia pitching, getting runners on base and v ery o fte n p u ttin g th em in motion, bothering the already trou­ b led C o n c o rd ia sta rters. R a rely behind in any counts, the Redbrids got som e good pitches to hit, and they certainly took advantage. From

there, the p itch in g did what was e x p e c te d , not a llo w in g any runs after the first two innings o f play, assuring the team o f the win.

"Paul and G e o ff both d id a great jo b sh utting the C oncord ia bats down. They got stronger as the game went on," said D ’Alessandro.

The early gam e featured a few q u ick sc o r e s by the S tin g e r s on som e bad defensive m iscues by the Redbirds. The defense made up for those m istakes on o ffen se though, as the top o f the M cGill lineup put them right back into the game.

L e a d o ff hitter Pat G o n sa lv es set the tone for the offense in both games, getting on base quickly and making things happen early. Starter G e o ff Pertsch com p letely shut the door from there, as the o ffen se in later in n in gs cam e on ly from the M cGill side.

"I made som e good pitches. I pitched well enough for our offense to take the gam e over," remarked Pertsch, w ho did not a llo w a run after the second inning o f his game.

In the second game o f the dou­ b le h e a d e r the R ed b ird s put th e S tin g e r s a w a y w ith a th ree run fourth inning, marked by a hard hit double by first baseman Drew Reid through a hole in the left side o f the C o n c o rd ia in fie ld , sc o r in g M att McCutheon and setting the tone for

the inning. The Redbirds would go on to score two more in the inning on a s in g le by rig h tfield er R yan A v e y and a d o u b le by D H Cam Davies "I had a couple o f smart at-bats in the se c o n d gam e," e x p la in e d Reid. "I got som e hitters counts and I hit a couple o f balls hard."

M anager Ernie D ’A lessandro also realized that the fourth was the pivotal inning for his side.

"The fourth inning w as d e fi­ nitely the turning point in the sec­ ond game. Our guys never looked back from there."

Starter Paul Bonner also was e x tr e m e ly stro n g in the se c o n d game, going the distance, only g iv ­ ing up two runs, in the first inning o f the game, and barley allowing a hit past the fourth inning.

"I had one bad inning, but then I started to hit my spots and made so m e g o o d p itc h e s. T h e o ffe n s e came up big for me," he said.

Bonner pitched a perfect sev­ enth inning for the win.

The definite pleasant surprise o f th e n ig h t w a s th e w a y the Redbirds swung the bat. It is hard to b e lie v e that this is a team w hich regards offense as its weak link.

M an ager E rnie D ’A lesa n d ro could not have been happier though.

"W e had a lo t o f c o n c e r n s

about our offense when w e started the day. Then we com e in and put up 27 runs in two games, and it kind o f takes away all your concerns," he laughed.

The players them selves didn’t seem nearly as surprised as their c o a c h , h o w e v e r , e s p e c ia lly th e day’s starting pitchers who benefit­ ed a great deal from this inapparent oddity.

"There’s a lot o f talk about our pitching, but our lineup is probably also the best in the league. I don’t think w e ’ll score less than ten runs a g a m e," sa id e a r ly g a m e starter G eoff Pertsch.

A very confident baseball team w a lk e d ou t on C e n te n n ia l park Friday night, sw eeping the double header and scoring 27 runs in the process. N o one was more pleased than the manager himself.

"All and all, I thought w e had a pretty good day o f baseball, and I hope we continue to do so," he said.

Rest of weekend not so successful Unfortunately for the Redbirds, their w eekend did not end as su c­ c e ssfu lly as it began. In another doubleheader staged on Sunday in

L aval, M cG ill w as sw ept 3-2 and 11-1 versus the Rouge-et-Or. M cG ill’s offense which was so potent on Friday could not get going on S u n day. In g a m e o n e, D rew Reid tossed a great gam e but it was to no avail. Reid only let up three hits in the loss, but all o f the Rougeet-Or’s hits came in the clutch.

The Redbirds could not amass any c lu tc h h ittin g , and d is s a pointigly lost the contest 3-2 to last year’s division champs. Ryan A vey w ent 2-3 w ith a run scored in the loss. Galen D avies was also 2-3.

Understandably, M cG ill’s tires seem ed to be deflated for the second gam e o f Sunday’s tw in-bill. The only offense that they could muster up was a solo homerun from leadoff hitter Pat G onsalves. B esides that shot, the Redbirds only had two hits fo r th e re st o f th e c o n te s t.

Southpaw Kabeer Burman took the loss in the game.

The Redbirds 2-2 record over the w eek en d le a v e s them in 2nd p la ce in the d iv is io n w ith a 2 -3 record overall. They will try to con­ tinue their su c c e ss again again st Concordia in a gam e at TMR field this Friday.

S p o rts Briefs Ali-Khan top McGill finisher once again for Martlets CrossCountry ___________________ ___________

Darche sent down to AHL Former Redmen all-Canadian left-winger Mathieu Darche’s quest to earn a spot with the expansion Columbus Blue Jackets o f the National H ockey League was put on delay yester­ day with the announcement that he was being sent down to the minors. After spending a few days in M ontreal, he w ill report to the Syracuse Crunch, C olu m b u s’ Am erican H ockey League affiliate. The Blue Jackets’ brass was apparently extrem ely impressed with Darche's performance at training camp, and with his developm ent. In all probability he will get a call up to "The Show" som etim e during the year.

Martlets Rugby continues dominance W hen the M cG ill rugby team wins, it usually w ins big. Such was the case on Sunday, as the Martlets crushed the Sherbrooke Vert et Or 6 3 -0 at M cEwen Field on the M cD onald Campus. Transfer Tracey Allan led the way with four trys. Stephanie Lynam had 13 points w ith one try and four con verts. Trish Jaw orski, Kim Grubb, Jen G u shu e, Jess Y oun g, Meghan Stewart, and rookie Liz Sutton also had trys. The Martlets are now 4 -0 on the sea­ son, and face arch-rival B ishop’s next Sunday. M cG ill has now defeated its opponents by a collective score o f 248-10.

needs y o u r H E L P !

W e are operating a soup kitchen on the move along the St. Catherine's corridor during the winter month's.

As a volunteer, you will be serving food to the home­ less and hun gry and also applying basic first-aid to those in need. A working level of French is a neces­ sary prerequisite as well as a dedication to help out M ontreal's most desperate citizens. Volunteer's will be placed into teams of tw o and will be asked to come out once every tw o weeks. W e look forward to hear­ ing from you.

If you are interested, please contact Brian Ker a t 398-3001 ext. 09249 or by email at bker@po-box.m cgill.ca

The Martlets cross-country team was led once again by its star, Sarah Ali-K han who fin ­ ished fifth with a time o f 18:19 in the five kilometre race at the 26th Western Invitational T ou rn am en t in L o n d o n . M c G iller s C arly M o h er (1 5 th ), Z ein O d eh (3 9 th ), G e n e v ie v e S hu rtleff(40th) and Laura W akely(45th) w ere the other finishers in the field . W illiam s’ C ollege Star Beth W ightman was the race winner, and W est Virginia won the meet.

On the m en’s side, the Redmen placed eighth out o f 11 teams in a field also won by W est V irginia. D aniel L ennox w as the top M cG ill finisher w ith a 19th p lace standing.

Y osuke H ayashi(30th), Ryan Beaton(38th), Matthew B oyd(46th), and Brad Carson (53rd) also com peted in the ten kilometre race w on by W est V irginia’s Steve Bohan in a time o f 32:03.

Tennis Team earns big wins on road The Martlets tennis team improved to 3-0 in Ontario U niversity A thletics league play with w ins over York and W estern over the w eek-end. Second seeded Ariana Zohrabian won her singles m atch(6-4,4-6,6-3) over York and team ed with A lison Organek for a 8-6 doubles win. The duo w as also victorious against Western w inning 8-7. Zohrabian was also a singles winner. The Martlets host McM aster and the U niversity o f Toronto at hom e next week-end.

On the M en’s side, the Redmen earned a split on the w eek-end beating U o f T and lo sin g to M cM aster. T op seed ed D om inique Laflam m e w on tw o sin g le s m atches. L eor Pomerance was a sin gles winner against McMaster, as were Dan Miller, Jeff Rosenblatt and A1 G ersch against T oronto. The R edm en are now 3-1 in league play and travel to face W estern and W aterloo in a rare Thursday-Friday series. The O U A sw itched the gam es from the w eek-end to accom odate half o f M cG ill’s roster w hich is Jewish and w ill be celebrating Rosh Hashana.

Lacrosse splits games T he M artlets L acrosse team defeated York 13-7 on Saturday b efore lo sin g 18-6 to Q ueen’s. Rita H iggins was dominant notching nine goals over the w eek-end, including five and the gam e-winner against York. In that gam e, A lison Astridge notched a hat-trick. Katie Barron scored tw o goals in that gam e. The Martlets are now 1-1 in O U A league play, and host Toronto and Q ueen’s in Rutherford park on Sunday in their lone hom e gam es.

Field Hockey continues slide The Martlets lost to two nationally ranked top five teams on the w eek-end. They fell 7 -0 to top ranked Toronto and to Waterloo. The team is now 0-3-1 in O U A league play, and w ill host a league tournament Saturday at M olson stadium.

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T h e R u g b y R u le s at M cGill U n iversity Downed 12-7 by Concordia but there is still lots to be decided B y Ja m e s Em p r in g h a m

Members o f the M cG ill M en’s R u g b y tea m a r e n ’t a s k in g fo r m uch. T h e y ’re not ask in g for a la v ish e x p e n se accou n t, h elp on term papers, or ev en the right to skip the line at Gert’s on Thursday nights. What they’re asking for is fairly sim ple, and more importantly fairly reasonable. M embers o f the M cGill M en’s Rugby team are ask­ ing for the chance to play rugby.

"Ideally, I’d like to see these g u y s p racticin g as m uch as they can, but there’s no funding or sup­ port for them. It’s unrealistic for them to be e x p e c te d to g iv e all their time to the team," com m ented Coach Sean McCaffrey.

M cC affrey, w ho is h im se lf a volunteer, is referring to the fact that the M cG ill M en’s Rugby team g ets a b so lu tely no fu n d in g from M c G ill U n iv e r s ity . A s a team they’re responsible for everything, from painting the lines on the field before the gam e, to finding trans­ portation for each game, to provid­ ing their ow n post-gam e beverages.

T h ey ’re even responsible for pur­ chasing their own jerseys.

W h ere M c G ill g iv e s sp o rts like football, and hock ey tier-one fun din g, rugby re c e iv e s the co ld shoulder. T his is not necessarily sta n d a rd p r a c tic e in C a n a d ia n U n iv e r s ity e ith e r .

B o th o f M c G ill’s m ain rivals, C on cord ia and Bishops receive funding, albeit minimal, from their schools.

"It’s d e f in i t e ly an is s u e ," ech oed the team ’s starting center Chase Robinson. "We get the shaft on th e m o n e y s and so d o o th er clubs like rowing and ice skating."

The task at hand W hile funding is an issue for the M cG ill M en’s Rugby team, it’s the last thing on their m ind com e gam e tim e. This past Sunday the op ponent w as C oncord ia and the venue was Rutherford Park, known as “The Reservoir” to m ost M cG ill students. Perhaps revenge was on the minds o f the M cG ill players, as C oncord ia, the even tu al ch a m p i­ ons, were the team responsible for knocking M cG ill out o f the p lay­ offs at the end o f last year.

Unfortunately for M cG ill, in a g a m e that had an equ al ebb and flow o f play for the most part, the tide was lowered on them 13-7 by C o n c o r d ia . T h e s c o r in g w a s opened for M cG ill, when Robinson scored a try, and Pat W eldon added the subsequent conversion early on, sta k in g M c G ill to a 7 - 0 le a d .

Concordia added a try and conver­ sion o f their ow n just before half to equal the con test. In the secon d half, Concordia scored three points on a dropped goal, and three points on a penalty kick to w in the game, and even their record at 1-1.

W ith the loss, M cG ill went to 1-1 t h e m s e lv e s a fte r b e a tin g Sherbrooke 25-8 last week.

It was their failure to execute the finer parts o f the gam e in the second half, like clean catches and organized runs, which proved to be their undoing.

"We w ere better prepared for this gam e than w e were last year," said co a ch M cC affrey. "But our goal at the beginning o f the season was to go undefeated and w in the c h a m p io n sh ip . N o w w e ’v e put

ourselves in a position were w e ’ll have to w in every gam e from here on in."

C o n c o r d ia coach G erry C layton is eq u ally as fo cu sed on the long-term goal o f w inning the championship.

"Last w eek w e lo st to a very strong B ish op ’s side, so this week w e ju st w an ted to elim in a te our mistakes and let the score take care o f itself."

N e x t on tap for M c G ill is a g a m e a g a in st th e "very strong" B is h o p s s id e on th e ro a d th is F r id a y .

F r id a y ’ s g a m e w ill u n d o u b te d ly g o a lo n g w a y in deciding the standings at the end o f the year. " E v ery year, M c G ill, C o n c o r d ia and B is h o p ’s are all ca p a b le o f w in n in g the c h a m p i­ o n sh ip ," c o m m e n te d C o n c o r d ia coach Clayton on the level o f com ­ p e t itio n in Q u e b e c U n iv e r s ity rugby. "It’s a very com petitive sit­ uation right n o w .”

Tomorrow is a day away T h is y ea r’s M c G ill squad is not as big as it has been in years past, but Coach M cCaffrey d oesn’t feel that is necessarily a weakness.

"Your play w ill be dictated by the players you have. W e don’t really h a v e a lo t o f b ig p la y er s, so w e w o n ’t be playing that smash em ’ up style o f rugby. W e do have a lot o f quick players, and they’re still dev­ astating tacklers." M cGill has four regular season gam es left, and the team believes it is com ing together nicely. "We have a few gam es left, and I think that w e ’ll be unstop-

A peaceful afternoon in Rutherford park p a b le by th e en d o f th e year," ad ded R o b in so n . T a lk in g to the players on the field after the gam e on Sunday, it’s easy to see they’re playing rugby because they love it.

Lack o f funding concerns them, but it ’s n ever threatened the spirit o f com p etition am ongst the players.

S p o rts Briefs l

Rebecca Catching Concordia coach Layton spoke for everyone at Rutherford Park when staring o f into the horizon he con­ cluded, "We’re playing rugby on a Sunday afternoon, overlooking the se co n d largest c ity in C anada. I mean, this is what it’s all about."

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M artlet volleyball starts season

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R e d b ir d s B a s e b a ll: F r id a y T B A M cG ill placed sixth out o f eight teams at the U o f M tournament over the week-end.The Martlets lost to rival U o f M 3-0 to bow out o f medal contention. In the consolation round they swept the Celtic Seniors 3-0.

McGill-Adidas Athletes of the Week

M a r t l e t s F ie ld H o c k e y v s . C a r l e t o n , Q u e e n 's : S a tu r d a y 1 0 : 0 0 ,

1 : 1 5 , M o ls o n

S ta d iu m Ben W earing and Rita H iggins both parlayed outstanding athletic performances over the w eekend into M cG ill-A didas Athlete o f the W eek honours for the period ending September 24th.

Wearing, a daring special teams player and siotback for the M cGill football team was named M VP o f the Shrine Bow l held at Concordia on Saturday afternoon. He was the key player for M cGill, as his punt return for a touchdown turned the gam e in M cG ill’s favour and led them to an eventual 12-11 win.

H iggins, w ho plays for the M cG ill w o m en ’s lacrosse sid e, was dom inant in gam es against York and Queens this weekend. She scored 5 goals including the overtime winner against York in the Martlets 13-7 vic­ tory. She then added another 4 markers against Queens in a Martlets 18-6 defeat.

McGill Rowing enjoys success at Head of Rideau Regatta

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R e d m e n Ice H o c k e y v s. U Q T R , U M a ss: F r id a y , S a t u r d a y , 7 : 3 0 , 7 : 0 0 , M c C o n n e ll A rena

M a r t le t s L a c r o s s e v s . Q u e e n ' s , T o r o n to : S u n d a y , 1 0 : 0 0 , 1 : 1 5 , M o ls o n S ta d iu m

M a r t l e t s T e n n is v s . T o r o n t o a n d M c M a s t e r : S u n d a y 1 : 0 0 , T o m lin s o n F i e l d h o u s e

Redmen rower Joel Warkinson finished first in the heavyw eight m en’s eight single sculls. In the double sculls m en’s eights D oug Dandor and John Wright placed second. In the w om en’s open eights, M cGill placed first in the “open” category and second in the varsity. The heavyw eight w om en ’s eights finished second, and the men finished first. In this boat were Daimen Jinks, Gerald Sheehan, Philip Hedrei, and Andreas Kuntz. The Lightw eight m en’s eights finished second with a tim e o f 18:06 N ext w eek M cG ill travels to petem orough, Ontario for the H ead'of Trent regatta.

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