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Issue 10
Martlet rugby bronzed in Ottawa Mark Kerr You don’t need to tell the McGill Martlet rugby team that the playoffs are a whole newseason. After going 10-0 in regular season action, the womens rugby team had to settle for the bronze medal at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport champi onship that was held last weekend in Ottawa. The team secured third place with a 39-0 clubbing of the University of Guelph on Sunday morning. “Naturally it is disappointing not to get at least into the gold medal round,” said coach Vince de Grandpré. “However, we had a really successful season.” In the gold medal match, the University of Alberta manhandled the University of Waterloo by a score of 22-7 for its third rugby championship in as many years. St. Francis Xavier University and the University of Ottawa finished fifth and sixth respectively. The bronze medal showing marks somewhat of a setback for the team that won the silver in the championship last year. In many ways, though, this year’s tourna ment is similar to last year. The Martlets breezed through the Quebec Student Sport Conference competition only to run into high er caliber teams at the Nationals. “Our competition is not very good in the Quebec conference,” said de Grandpré. “Once we get to Nationals, the defensive pressure is greater. They’re big teams and they are right up on us.” McGill kicked off the tourna ment Friday with a devastating loss to the University of Waterloo by a score of 12-8. The wet conditions, according to de Grandpré, ham pered the driving style of the Please see RUGBY, page 19
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Budget oversight puts pressure on AUS Jeremy Morris Unexpected problems have left the Arts Undergraduate Society (AUS) several thousand dollars short of its original budget estimate. This means that departmental journals, special programs and STEPS Magazine are left scram bling for funding elsewhere. This year’s financial concerns began when certain accounts receiv able, including a large bill from Busco Company of Chateauguay, were not paid last year. Busco Company was a large bus transportation with which AUS had prior dealings. In the interim, Busco has gone bankrupt and the invoice was lost in the process. Despite this, when Busco’s creditors demanded the bill be paid, a problem developed immediately at AUS. T h e c lo s e s t
AUS VP Finance Seth Offenbach said: “The departments understand that they are getting the wrong end of the stick. But we have to pay Busco Company $2000 before they sue us.” The problem has been further compounded by the fact that AUS believed that it possessed a surplus at the end of last year that actually belonged to the Arts Student Employment Fund. The Arts Student Employment Fund is a program run byAUS with Work-Studies McGill. It operates with the intention of creating subsi dized university jobs for Arts stu dents with first year professors. At the end of the semester, money is handed over to Work Studies for the payment of salaries. “People thought that they had $40,000 but about $35,000 of it belonged to the Arts Student Employment Fund (ASEF),” stated
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Offenbach. The problem emerged last year when the AUS believed that the ASEF money was theirs , when in fact it was not. This meant that AUS had far less money than origi nally budgeted. “We had to pay back the $35,000 to ASEF plus $10,000 in back taxes to revenue Québec plus several other miscellaneous bills.” Ian Matthews, the AUS VP Internal Affairs said, “It’s a burden on this year and that’s because we are pay ing for the mistakes of previous years.” One of the groups most affect ed by the slash in funding is STEPS Magazine, the official magazine of the AUS. The magazine’s Editor-inChief, Nicole Helsburg, voiced her concern: “For the 2000-2001 year, the magazine received just under $10,000 from the AUS; for 20012002 we're looking at $1,000. I
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