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WebCT is tracking you!

Players Theatre President drinks like a fish

Clare McIntyre

Michael Zilberman You can’t go wrong with David Ives. It might be the worst day of your life (you pulled an all-nighter and still failed the exam, then broke up with your girlfriend while your best friend moved away) but if you are reading or listening to David Ives, you are nevertheless convulsed with laughter. So if you are having a bad day you are in luck because Maya Goldenberg has put together five David Ives’ One Acts in a pro­ duction called All in the Timing, playing at Players Theatre, October 17-20 & 24-27.

There are no prevalent plot lines in David Ives’ One Acts. They are all short dialogue scenes driven by quirky ideas that sometimes make witty, sarcastic commentaries about relationships, human interac­ tion, a historical event, or just about anything. In the Opening Act, “Sure Thing”, starring a fit­ tingly stoic Bianca Yates as Betty, and a fittingly over-the-top Aaron George as Bill, Ives pokes fun at modern day mating rituals. Bill tries to pick up Betty, but each time a bell rings, he must start over. The interaction is funny, funny cause it’s so true. The timing and rhythm of the piece is demanding, and the actors pull it off brilliantly. They never seem to anticipate the bell ringing. It is always unexpected and hilarious when they suddenly start the dialogue all over again.

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The idea for the second play, Variations on the Death of Trotsky, was inspired by an article Ives read in the Times about Trotsky which mentions that after being hit in the head with a mountain climbers axe, Trotsky lived on for thirty-six hours before his death. The play explores what a man does for thirty-six hours with a mountain climber’s axe in his head. The script is amus­ ing and intellectual, but Sean Michaels, playing Trotsky, was so concentrated on his annoying, high-pitched intonations that many of his words were not understood.

Notably funny was Mitch Dermer’s cameo as Ramon Mercador, the man responsible for killing Trotsky, who enters out of the blue with a sombrero, serape, huaraches and a guitar.

“The Philadelphia” was the showstopper and the highlight of the production. Sean Michaels, Aaron George and Cortney Lohnes had perfect chemistry on stage.

Lohnes’ subtle facial expressions and saucy reactions as a sour, diner waitress were killer. Michael and Please see ALL, page 16

A little-known tracking compo­ nent of McGill’s WebCT software that monitors student activity on the Internet is raising privacy concerns on campus.

The WebCT program, which is used in over 800 classes at McGill, allows students to access course notes, participate in discussion groups, and stay in contact with their professor and other students.

The program’s tracking feature allows professors to view numerical data for the number of times a stu­ dent has viewed specific parts of the course, the number of discussion postings read and sent in, and the user’s initial and latest login dates.

Few students are aware of the exis­ tence of such a utility as it is hidden by default from their WebCT homepage.

Nicole Baerg, an Economics and International Development Studies student in the Faculty of Arts, feels she should have been told about the tracker and its function.

“At the very least, students should be notified in advance that there is an electronic surveillance component to the WebCT software,” she said.

Gerry Leclerc, manager of the Learning Technologies Resource Section of the Instructional Communications Center (ICC) at McGill, asserted that many students are unaware of the tracking mecha­ nism simply because their professors are equally uninformed.

“Many professors are unaware of it [the tracking system], and the major point of contact we have to students is through the professors,” he said.

Issues of electronic privacy are not clearly addressed in McGill’s computing policies. McGill Network and Communications Services’

(NCS) code of conduct provides a brief and vague explanation of users’ rights to privacy.

“Users have a right to privacy.

The level of privacy does not exceed, however, that of reasonable expecta­ tions,” it reads.

A companion document attempts to quantify this level of pri­ vacy by pointing to incidents such as repairs or system failures where other users may gain access to a students’ information: “During the diagnosis of problems, repair of hardware, soft­ ware or data, user data may become visible or need to be accessed by authorized system administrators; system failures may occasionally make otherwise private data accessi­ ble to other users.”

Economics Professor Myron Frankman, a staunch opposent of the tracking feature, commented on the infringement on students’ rights.

“One reading of the code of conduct could be interpreted as say­ ing that this is a violation of [stu­ dents’] right to privacy,” he stated.

Leclerc defended the tracking utility, saying it is intended as a ped­ agogical tool which allows professors to see which pages are being used most often and most effectively by students.

“It’s used by people who may want to improve their teaching.

That’s the purpose which WebCT implemented it for,” he said.

History Professor Faith Wallis said that she has never actually con­ sidered using the tracking feature because it would simply be too timeconsuming to interpret all the infor­ mation.

“I can’t imagine actually having enough time to actually use it. I would certainly support a statement in the course guide that says what you’re expected to do in WebCT, and how your use of WebCT may or may not be tracked or evaluated.”

Please see WebCT, page 4

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

SSMU server hacked Omar Sachedina Work came to a grinding halt at the Students’ Society of McGill University office after it was dis­ covered that the society’s server had been hacked, inconveniencing many administrators last Tuesday.

“We got a memo... from University Bytes [campus comput­ er store] that they had to take down our server because some­ body was trying to get behind this firewall, and was trying to hack into our computers and trying to download information from our computers”, said Jennifer Bilec, VP University Affairs.

“For us, it’s relatively danger­ ous because sometimes these docu­ ments are actually confidential, or we put documents that we want to back up...but they’re personal documents in relation to our work.”

Kevin Ammerman, Technical Manager of University Bytes, was responsible for getting SSM U’s computers up and running after

the incident. The reason he acted with such immediacy, and shut the server down, he said, was to pro­ tect the stored information.

“The first thing we do as soon as we see someone in the server is shut the thing down so that they don’t have time to delete things.

The big thing would be the dis­ ruption of the data,” Ammerman said.

“Reconstructing the pass­ words is a pain, but it’s not the end of the world. It’s a good thing to do to change the passwords occa­ sionally anyways. So our priorities were to make sure that all the information was safe and that we could bring things back online — and quickly.”

While Ammerman claimed not to know any specifics of the incident, an individual was traced through a public cable internet provider to another university in the United States,” he said.

“This guy seemed to know what he was doing; he seemed to be an experienced guy, very fast

moving. The [SSMU] server is not a commercial server. There isn’t any particular monetary value on the server or anything like that.

He was just using it as a jumping off point, so it looks like the guy was just messing around.”

In the meantime, Ammerman and University Bytes have passed on the information to the McGill Network and Communications System (NCS), which will be responsible for tracking down the perpetrator more specifically.

As a result of this computer hacking, many, like Bilec, were unable to use their computer and check their e-mail.

Much of SSMU’s correspondence is done online, which forced staffers to show up to meetings unprepared.

“When I walked in, I found out that I had no e-mail, I was basically left without any contact because a lot of the contact that’s done throughout the day is through e-mail, or you get docu­ ments. I couldn’t get documents for the two meetings I had to go

to. So it just makes me unprepared to go to my meeting which is not a good way to be a representative and understand what’s going on in the meeting,” Bilec said.

Martin Doe, VP Clubs and Services, expressed that while the incident did not cause a major dis­ ruption to his day, he was inconve­ nienced.

“It definitely just means that there are people that I wasn’t able to get back to on time. I did go into some meetings where people were asking me, ‘Didn’t you get my e-mail’? And of course, I hadn’t gotten any e-mails. I frankly had no idea our e-mail was down until I talked to Kevin, who’s our tech support guy here.”

While the incident clearly caused some disruption, both Bilec

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and Ammerman admitted that, in recent months, SSMU’s server has experienced similar disruptions, but that the quirks causing these disruptions have now been ironed out.

“The reason why they man­ aged to do things to the SSMU server was just the age of the oper­ ating system on the computer was getting up there, so it was due for a refresh, as well. And we’ve actu­ ally changed the operating system and added a lot more security fea­ tures to it. So it’s good timing for a problem to happen because it’s given us a chance to update things, and make them smoother,” Ammerman said.

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Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences S tud y in B a rb a d o s

Fourteen days in Barbados and earn three credits!

McGill could face $20 million deficit Nathan Lebioda McGill University will be fac­ ing a structural deficit of roughly $20 million in years to come, Principal Bernard Shapiro told the McGill Senate recently.

The amount is diminutive compared to the total spending in last year’s budget of $600 million, but it is more than enough to cause concern.

Dr. Shapiro expressed concerns over “future expenses for which no money has been made available,” including facility upgrades and maintenance.

The administration voiced various proposals for alleviating the deficit, including the reduc­ tion of costs by increasing the teaching load and decreasing the number of new faculty members.

Dr. Shapiro, though, strongly discouraged these ideas.

“It’s important that we remain financially solvent and academical­ ly solvent at the same time,” he said.

One issue raised was the pos­ sibility of tuition hikes if govern­ ment funding is not increased.

“By matching our tuition rates with those of Queen’s University, we would benefit by $50 million per year,” said Shapiro.

At the same time, though, he said that this action has not yet been seriously considered and is only a possibility at this point.

Shapiro believes that the gov­

ernment has the resources needed to resolve the budgetary problems faced by McGill. Provincial gov­ ernment funding seems to be the main cause of financial concern for most educational institutions as they continue to cope with the 25 per cent cut to transfer funds imposed several years ago.

“It is difficult to determine what action will be necessary with­ out knowing fully the intentions of the government in the future,” he said.

The issue of government funding does not end at the provincial level; federal funding in the form of research grants also enter into the equation.

Currently, research money funnelled into McGill from the federal government is only used to compensate for the direct costs of research. McGill must foot the bill for indirect costs such as build­ ing maintenance, heating and elec­ tricity — which make up a large part of the structural deficit.

Shapiro said he believes that in order to minimize the deficit, the government should add approximately 40 cents to every dollar spent on research to account for indirect costs, which he says “is always done in the United States but rarely done in Canada.”

To further budgetary restraints, McGill is faced with an operating deficit in addition to its accumulated debt. McGill is still operating at $5 million per year in

the red, but recent legislation by the Quebec government requires that educational institutions must run a balanced budget by next year.

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rates with those Q ueen’s Univeristy, we would benefit by $ 5 0 million per year — Principal Shapiro

McGill's Bellairs Research Institute is the place to be from April 20 to May 4, 2002, for the Barbados Eco-System Studies Field Course (330-305B). The course will cover food production systems, interna­ tional development issues and environmental concerns under these six themes: • Farming Systems: soil and water issues, field management, crops, processing, transportation and policies • Island Economy: small island economy and the role of food crops, international trade in food and agricultural commodities

This means the McGill administration will have to find methods of increasing revenue or decreasing expenses within the next few months to account for the new ruling.

Dr. Shapiro has a track record of conscientious financial manage­ ment; since he assumed the principalship at McGill, the university has seen its accumulated debt fall from $80 million to just over $24 million.

“The problem is not an easy one to manage, but it is definitely manageable,” said Dr. Shapiro.

• Agricultural Technology: improvement - research strategy and institutions, mechanization, resource use • Environment: problems, challenges, agro-forestry, organic farming, opportunities and policies • Social Issues: culture, customs, food and the environment, effect of decisions on resource use • Sustainable Development: food security issues for small island nations Starting in January, students will attend weekly preparatory meetings.

Each small group will define a case report theme and commence background work prior to going to Barbados. Site visits, conferences, seminars and discussions with local experts included. Estimated cost: $1,800. Information session to be held October 30, 2001, Faculty Lounge, Macdonald-Stewart Building, 16h30.

To apply, please submit one unofficial transcript, a CV and a letter of intent to Dr Bonnell, Department of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Macdonald-Stewart Building (Macdonald Campus) or to Mr Bob Oxley, Department of Agricultural Economics, Raymond Building (Macdonald Campus) by November 9, 2001. Applications accepted beyond this date dependent upon space.

Contacts: Dr Bob Bonnell, 514-398-7786 Mr Bob Oxley, 514-398-7825.

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

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McGill graduates disappointed with the Canadian Federation of Students P o s t - G r a d u a t e S t u d e n t S o c ie t y to v o te o n w it h d r a w in g C F S m e m b e r s h ip John Sciascia The Post-Graduate Student Society (PGSS) is strongly consid­ ering the withdrawal of its mem­ bership from the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS).

There has been mounting concern over the federal lobby group’s inability to adequately represent the needs and demands of McGill graduates in Ottawa.

A motion was passed this year at a PGSS council meeting to put the group’s CFS membership on probationary status, and it is possi­ ble that students may decide to defederate from the CFS during the student referendum period held next March.

“The problem is essentially that [the CFS] is a federal lobby group representing provincial con­ cerns,” commented Joe Marin, Financial Coordinator for the PGSS. According to Marin, there was a general impression among last year’s PGSS executives of an antiQuebec sentiment on the part of the CFS. FFe believes that this was a contributing factor to McGill graduates unfair representation in Ottawa.

“Our past executives had

problems with CFS representa­ tives, as well,” said Marin.

Fie commented that the lobby group never seriously considered key demands put forward by the PGSS, and proposed initiatives were never given a fair opportuni­ ty for debate.

Since the PGSS first voiced its concerns over poor representation,

CFS representatives have made two visits to the PGSS council.

“They visited us back in May, and were very defensive. They accused us of being selfish,” recalled Marin.

In his view, the problems between the two bodies extended beyond ideological grounds.

“There were both personal

and bureaucratic problems between us,” said Marin, who noted how the conflicts have carried on throughout the mandates of the two previous PGSS and CFS executive boards.

A report issued last May by the 2001 PGSS Executive Chairperson Aaron Matheson criticized the accountability and professionalism of the CFS. In his report, Matheson cited antagonism by the National Office and At-Large members toward PGSS, along with a failure to effectively communicate with all of its members and follow its poli­ cies and organizing principles.

“Repeatedly, the National Executive has failed to return our [PGSS] phone calls and emails in spite o f repeated attempts on the Quebec com­ ponent’s behalf to establish contact and to request increased transparency,” Matheson reported.

At the PGSS meeting of September 5, CFS President Ian Boyco made a more favourable appeal on behalf of the lobby group.

“FFe addressed our concerns, and suggested that we introduce

the motions that had previously been defeated,” Marin said.

The defeated requests includ­ ed the introduction of supervisor evaluations on behalf of Masters and doctoral students, and the cre­ ation o f a provincial issues researcher to pursue such matters as differential tuition.

“Each graduate pays $10, which is split equally between the CFS and its provincial compo­ nent,” explained Marin. He point­ ed out that international students pay this fee, and that they have a right to have their issues represent­ ed, specifically referring to the case of differential tuition.

Should the PGSS choose to disassociated itself from the federal lobby group, other options for lob­ bying representation have been considered.

“In the event that we would de-federate from the CFS, we would be looking to start up a provincial association of graduate faculties,” Marin said.

He revealed that there will be discussions with other Quebec university graduate faculties to dis­ cuss this possibility in the upcom­ ing weeks.

In search of perfect food W ill g e n e t ic m o d ific a tio n b rin g in a n e w " ra ce " o f e d ib le p r o d u c t s ? consumers.

Sounds like a scene from a sci­ ence-fiction movie? Don’t be so sure. We may be closer to this kind of situation than most people would like to think. But today, the main reasons for the genetic engi­ neering of food correspond to increased crop yields and a decrease in the use of toxic pesti­

Diana Dragomir “Mom, can you put blue tomatoes in the salad, pleeeaaase?”

Mom smiles and opens the fridge.

She picks out some genetically modified protein-enriched toma­ toes, blue due to the added blue­ berry genes to attract the younger

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cides and herbicides, by enhancing the plants’ own abilities to fight pests and weeds.

But what exactly does the process of genetic modification involve? According to a recent sur­ vey carried out by Leger Marketing, the vast majority of Canadians do not know what the acronym GM O stands for. Hence, before further analysis of this issue, a proper explanation o f the process is needed. Genetically Modified Organisms are crops in which for­ eign genes have been inserted.

These genes then replicate in those crops and become part of their genetic code.

Today, 70 percent o f foods in North America are genetically modified. If this fact comes as a surprise, it is most likely due to the lack of labeling, specifying the nature of such products. A repre­ sentative from Montreal’s Greenpeace office declared that “until we know for certain whether or not GMOs are safe, they should not be on the market, or they should at least be labeled.”

In an article found on the McGill Office for Chemistry and Society website, Dr Joe Schwarcz

genetically modified product is shares a different opinion.

“I’m certainly not going to say released on the market only if it that scientists can absolutely guar­ presents no known health threat. antee that genetic modification of In one case, the genetic modifica­ foods will have no pitfalls. Nobody tion of a soybean to augment its can make such a guarantee. We nutritional value in cattle feed led don’t say that we will not fly in an to the transfer of an allergen of a airplane unless we are assured that Brazil nut. If the soybeans would it will not crash because we realize have been consumed by an indi­ that this would be an absurd vidual who is allergic to the Brazil request. We fly because in our nut, that person might have mani­ mind we know that the benefits fested an allergic reaction to the outweigh the risks. This is also beans. However, the problem was how we have to look at genetically detected during the testing of the soybeans, and the product was modified foods.”

Whatever the side taken in never put on the market.

There are still some concerns this ongoing debate, as of yet, there are no laws in effect requir­ that remain. One of them is the ing agricultural corporations such effect of Bt corn (a variety of corn as Monsanto to label their geneti­ genetically modified to produce a natural toxin in order to repel cally modified products. on populations o f The principal reasons causing insects) butterflies.

John doubt in the minds of so many Monarch range from the transfer of allergens Obrycki, an Iowa State University to the development of toxin resist­ entomologist, who conducted a ant weeds and pests. What the study on the effect of Bt pollen on general public is unaware of is that these butterflies, came to some most of these concerns represent alarming conclusions.

“We put potted milkweeds risks too remote to be seriously [the Monarch butterfly’s main considered.

Some, however, are indeed source of food] in the field to allow worth inspecting, and these are pollen to be naturally deposited, currently under rigorous study. A Please see FRANKENFOOD, page 4

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

McGill in the European Union Jeremy Morris W ith the signing of the Maastricht Treaty in 1991, 12 countries o f Europe (including Germany, Great Britain and France) vowed to increase eco­ nomic, social and political integra­ tion under the auspices of the European Union.

For several McGill students, these changes were experienced firsthand by participating in a European Union parliamentary simulation.

The simulation was one of only a handful in the world that accurately replicates the workings of the EU parliament. This year, the simulation occurred in Barcelona in late September.

As well, it is one of the few political simulations conducted entirely in French. McGill has a great reputation in the program as being one o f the first schools involved, said Professor Barbara Haskel, McGill’s project coordina­ tor.

The simulation has represen­ tatives from a range of universities in such countries as Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Canada.

At the beginning o f the process, each university is assigned the duties of a particular member state of the EU. This year, McGill students represented Great Britain and had the honour of being briefed in person at the High Commission in Ottawa.

Next the students are assigned a party affiliation as the EU is bro­ ken up into different political fam­ ilies. The Christian Democrats and the Labor parties are the biggest political groups. Members o f the real EU parliament sit according to party affiliation and operate along a partisan system.

The individual students are then entrusted with a draft bill and assigned to a plenary committee where they debate the issue. This entire process is very similar to actual EU protocol and the plena­ ry committees focused on current hot-button topics such as immi­ gration, EU common defense pol­ icy and internal economic issues.

The team from McGill was composed of students from the faculties of Law and Political Science. The law students were Jeremy Waiser, Vesna Guzina and Zorica Guzina. The political sci­ ence students were Clara Peron,

Marco Guarda, and Natasha Sawh.

Sawh served as a reporter for the simulation’s newspaper.

Traditionally, the much-coveted positions were reserved for gradu­ ate students but this year the pro­ gram had been opened to under­ graduate students.

Clara Peron, former SSMU Vice-President of University Affairs, and one of the participants in the conference, found the expe­ rience productive.

“It was fascinating debating issues that are important to Europeans, that we don’t deal with every day as Canadians,” she said.

“You have to put ideological interests above national interests.

The Europeans have a whole polit­ ical spectrum from extreme right to extreme left, while in Canada we are more centrist,” she said.

With the trips being in exotic locations such as Barcelona, raising money is a major problem accord­ ing to Professor Haskel. In the past, the program has raised some money from the Deans of Arts and Law, the Political Science depart­ ment and the Principal but it is still no easy task.

“Fortunately, the next confer­ ence will be in Ottawa,” said

Frankenfood—yum continued from PAGE 3 then we brought them into the lab and counted pollen grains, to expose the larvae to known densi­ ties. In that test, we found after two days, 20 percent of the larvae exposed to Bt pollen died. We also placed leaves next to non-Bt corn plants, and there was no mortali­

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reduced by planting rows of nonBt corn around crops of Bt corn, thus reducing the amount of pollen that drifts out of the field and onto nearby milkweed.

Despite such measures, there is still a considerable risk for Monarch butterflies and their lar­ vae.

On the other hand, GMOs provide a multitude of possibili-

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ties, other than the ones already being used, such as foods designed to have a higher nutritional value, to be preserved longer, to contain vaccines or to grow in difficult conditions. Dr Schwarcz uses an example to justify the presence of GMOs. “Populations that subsist on rice suffer from vitamin A defi­ ciency.

This problem was addressed by introducing into rice, four genes with code for proteins that enhance beta-carotene synthe­ sis. The rice is yellow, clearly demonstrating that it is now forti­ fied with beta-carotene.”

There is still one question that remains. Do the benefits outweigh the risks? When it comes to expressing their opinions on the GMO issue, most people will not hesitate to claim a side of the argu­ ment. Unfortunately, most of the general public is often poorly informed about the implications of this recent technology.

The fact is, genetically modi­ fied crops are harvested by a rapid­ ly increasing number of farmers and corporations, and it does not look like this industry will suc­ cumb any time soon.

Haskel.

Professor Haskel also announced that the program is looking to recruit early for next year.

The future of the European Union is one of constant transi­ tion. The Union will be imple­ menting a common paper curren­ cy in the next few years and nego­ tiating towards further tariff reduction. This has enormous eco­ nomic implications for Europe and the world.

As well, the Union faces tremendous pressure from popula­ tion changes and the planned incorporation of the former Warsaw pact countries. The McGill students received first hand experience to view these transformations.

Peron said, “It is a totally new form of government and it is most important to share different per­ spectives and different ideas.”

Hidden trackers continued from PAGE 1 Leclerc explained that regardless of whether or not a professor evalu­ ates the data, it is not revealed to any­ one else. Collected data is viewable only by the professor and in some cases by the student.

“Aside from the professors, nobody else can look at it. We can’t look at it, other professors can’t look at it, and certainly the administration has no access to it. Nor have they shown any interest in the informa­ tion,” he said.

Still, Baerg feels that students should be able to ‘opt out’ of the tracking system if they did not feel comfortable with it.

“Perhaps [this is a justification for collecting this kind of informa­ tion], but on the basis that students have the ability to disengage the tracking device if they don’t feel com­ fortable,” she said.

Professor Frankman further pointed out that these kinds of statis­ tical surveys do not require that usage statistics be linked to students’ names.

“We don’t need nominative information. The statistics could be there without knowing who had done what. Most statistics have priva­ cy behind them. Personal names are not available to a researcher looking at a census, [for example.]”

Because WebCT is produced outside the university, McGill has lit­ tle input as to the design of the soft­ ware. Wallis felt that if the informa­ tion were to be used in any course, students should be made aware of its availability and its usage beforehand.

“This is a new technology, and we’re catching up in terms of what it means to inform our student about requirements. [But] if it’s going to be used for grading purposes, then it absolutely must be advertised. I think that’s a requirement, even a legal requirement.”

Frankman suggested that at the very least, there should be a dis­ claimer on the front page notifying students that their use of the system would be monitored. However, he did not feel that this was really suffi­ cient.

“What we can do on the front page is to put a disclaimer. But I don’t

think a disclaimer really gets around it. It just lets students know that hey, big sibling is watching you.”

Baerg was understanding of the fact that not informing students about the feature may have been an oversight, but felt that more trans­ parency was necessary in the future.

“If failure to disclose was an oversight, then I trust that WebCT will disclose such information in the future. If, after the oversight has been acknowledged, they still fail to dis­ close such information, I would have serious questions as to why McGill would invest in resources that com­ promise the privacy of its students,” she said.

While WebCT has been avail­ able to professors since 1997, use of the online utility has spread rapidly at McGill in the last two years. Leclerc explained that professors and stu­ dents alike find the software extreme­ ly useful and easy to use.

Leclerc says that while professors have been encouraged to try the pro­ gram, its spread has been in large part due to word-of-mouth promotion of the software from one professor to another.

“Professors have been encour­ aged, but none of them have been obliged to use WebCT. “We’re not really promoting it heavily We find that word of mouth seems to do the job, because people like it and often the students urge their professors to try it out as well,” he said.

Leclerc felt that overall, students need not be concerned about the software’s tracking component as an invasion of their privacy. He felt that the most important thing to consider was how and by whom the informa­ tion was being used.

“Like many things in WebCT, it’s one of those bits that has very lit­ tle interest to professors, and there­ fore people just don’t use it,” he stat­ ed.

Frankman pointed out that if the information is truly not being used. There is even less of a need for it to be available.

“If it’s benign because no one uses it and no one has time to use it, then it just shouldn’t be there,” he said.

5 Op/Ed

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Opinion E d ito ria l “To d a re is to lose o n e’s fo o tin g m om en tarily.

To n ot d a re is to lo se o n eself.”

— S oren K ierk eg a a rd

If in my backyard, then soon in yours Jean Mathews______________________________ ___________________ A government can legally bypass intellectual property patent laws under two conditions: firstly, if the patent holder is not able to meet the demand for the product, or secondly, if the government declares a state of national emergency.

Last week, health minister Allan Rock rewrote the book, when his office decided to order almost a million doses of anti-anthrax drugs from Apotex Inc., Canadas largest pharmaceutical company.

Controversy surrounds this issue because it is the German company Bayer that holds the patent for ciprofloxacon, the antibiotic that is used as the main line of defense against anthrax. Bayer claims that it is fully capa­ ble of meeting Canada’s demand for the drug, and alleges that without declaring a state of national emergency, what the government is doing is clearly illegal, and a violation of the constitutional protection of intellec­ tual property rights.

While Allan Rock is enduring severe criticism for this policy, both internally and internationally, he needs to be applauded. This brave piece of legislation, regardless of what it was originally intended to accomplish, will set a precedent for governments all over the world to bypass patent laws on life-saving drugs that are too expensive to be bought in sufficient quantity to meet the needs of the dying people.

Specifically the people of South Africa are in urgent need (and have been so for many decades) of the only effective AIDS treatment, which is a combination of drugs called highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). An average annual course of this drug for an HIV patient in South Africa used to cost $10,000.

This was changed in 1996, when South Africa threatened to bypass the patents on the treatment and buy it for much more affordable prices from homegrown sources or other foreign exporters like India. In response, 39 pharmaceutical companies sued the government and forced a deal where these companies would cut the prices of the treatment and sell them for $500 for an annual course for one person.

Unfortunately this price is still much too expensive, and the South African government is fighting for the right to save the hundreds of thou­ sands that die every year, by buying this treatment from other sources that offer the drugs at a fraction of the reduced costs now offered by the phar­ maceutical companies that hold the patent (and will hold the patent until 20 years after it was filed).

The West was all too keen on bringing diseases (such as TB and measles) into the poor world through colonization, but it seems that the pharmaceutical companies from the West are now unwilling to provide cures for these illnesses. However this new development can change all that. Surely the same pharmaceuticals companies that so mercilessly sued South Africa, wouldn’t be as willing to take on the Canadian government as well. They will at best whimper and whine.

Today Kenya is considering bypassing patent laws on HIV treatment after seeing the success in South Africa. Canada has, knowingly or unknowingly, taken the movement to the next level, and in doing so, set an example for the world, in holding the human right to proper health care and quality of life, over the intellectual property rights of a few rich com­ panies.

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As an amateur sports enthusi­ ast and a regular reader of the Tribune I was thoroughly disap­ pointed with a breach of journalis­ tic professionalism.

Neil Schnurbach, in his article “Redbirds Bounced from the play­ offs”, interviews the head coach Ernie D ’Alessandro. He cites D ’Alessandro writing “the umpire blew a call in game one ... cost us two games.” As a baseball umpire who has had to deal with D ’Alessandro’s ill-tempered and ill-informed rants before, I per­ sonally resented the article.

There is a long-standing jour­ nalistic tradition when reporting baseball. This tradition expects that if any controversial decision merits a published criticism of the umpire, then the journalist has an

Montreal more vibrant than TO To the editor, I read Sarah Wright’s piece on the Maple Leafs/Habs rivalry (Wednesday October 10). It is remarkable how many Toronto fans make the trip to watch these games in Montreal. I have also noted greater fan interest from the opposing city when Boston comes to town. I believe, however, that Ms Wright has overlooked one likely explanantion as to why so many fans of these teams travel to Montreal, while Habs fans tend to stay home when Montreal plays in Boston and Toronto. Montreal, with all its vibrancy and internationaly renowned party atmos­ phere is a great weekend destina­ tion and as such is more attractive to Toronto and Boston fans than vice versa.

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ethical obligation to interview the umpire or umpire crew-chief and not just the coach.

I will, therefore, correct this omission. The umpire that ejected D ’Alessandro, like all other umpires at this level of competi­ tion, has an exceptional level of competence and over a decade of experience. In light o f this, D ’Alessandro has been ejected numerous times by different umpires; each time he claims that the umpire “blew the call”. Now that his team is once again out of contention, maybe D ’Alessandro should spend the off-season re­ evaluating who is really blowing what.

David Anber, U2 Poli Sci Fédération Baseball Québec Umpire

SSMU council mix-up Hello Tribune: In your article on the last SSMU Council meeting, the fol­ lowing passage appeared: “SSMU Clubs’ Representative Suzanne Loney called for a more proactive approach. ‘The situation is imme­ diate. There are students who are experiencing incidents on a daily basis,’ said Loney. She also asked that there be more advertising of the Equity Commissioner’s role.”

Although Suzanne and I were sitting together, we aren’t quite the same person - I made those com­ ments.

It’s not too important, really, but just FYI. Thanks, Michelle Dean Arts Senator Senate/Board Rep to SSMU Council

In light o f the recent terrorist attacks in the US and the subse­ quent events around the world, the question raised most often is “why do people hate the States so much?” I will attempt to explain why some Pakistanis have come to ‘hate’ the States, especially as a result of US foreign policy.

Following the end of British colonization in 1947, two nations, India and Pakistan, emerged on the Indian subcontinent. Pakistan was created as a homeland for the Muslims o f the sub-continent.

Relations between Pakistan and India, with its Hindu majority, have unfortunately been strained at the best of times and the two nations have been at war thrice already in their 54 years of co-existence.

During the 50s and early 60s Pakistan was clearly allied with America against the Communist threat and the decidedly proSoviet India. Pakistan entered into an agreement with the US in 1959 according to which the States would take effective action in assisting Pakistan in case of any threat to Pakistan’s security.

However relations were severely strained when despite this agree­ ment, the US refused to help Pakistan in the 1965 war against India. Relations took another tumble when America imposed economic and military sanctions on Pakistan in 1979, when intelli­ gence data suggested that Pakistan was pursuing the nuclear option.

India had already conducted a nuclear test in 1974 but had not been targeted by the US. In 1981, American foreign policy underwent a drastic reversal when in light of the Soviet inva­ sion of Afghanistan, the US sought to reconcile its stance on nuclear non-proliferation with urgent threats to US security.

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Biased US foreign policy continued from PAGE 5 granted a $3.2 billion package, of which a substantial amount went to arming and training the Afghan Mujahideen.

Once the objectives in Afghanistan had been achieved and the Soviet Union destabilized, sanctions were re-imposed in 1990 by the Bush administration under the Pressler amendment, its aim to prevent Pakistan from acquiring nuclear capability. India was not targeted yet again and was allowed to pursue the nuclear option with­ out any significant restrictions.

As a result of these sanctions, Pakistan did not receive 28 F-l6s that it had already paid more than $600 million for. In addition to this, delivery of a further $368 million (USD) worth of arms was also suspended. Not only did Pakistan not have their planes and their money, the U.S added stor­ age and maintenance fees for planes that were grounded in Arizona.

Although the Clinton admin­ istration cleared the way for deliv­ ering the $368 million worth of arms to Pakistan, the planes were to be sold to a third party, and Pakistan to be reimbursed from the proceeds. Finding buyers for the now defunct F-16s has been difficult and neither the planes nor the money have made it into Pakistani hands.

A second layer of sanctions was imposed in 1998 as a result of the nuclear tests carried out by Pakistan in response to Indian tests the same year. And finally a third layer of sanctions was imposed when General Pervez Musharraf

took control in 1999 after a blood­ less coup. All these sanctions have contributed to the economic decline o f Pakistan and many Pakistanis see the comparatively minor effects on India a result of biased US foreign policy.

The Kashmir problem is an issue that most Pakistanis feel very strongly about. Jammu and Kashmir is an overwhelmingly Muslim province that has been controlled by Indian forces since 1947. Pakistan seeks third party mediation on the matter; specifi­ cally US lead UN intervention to grant the Kashmiri people their rights, in keeping with the UN res­ olutions on the matter. The US failure to do so is perceived by some Pakistanis as conduct unbe­ coming of an ally.

It would appear that the US has tried to appease the people of Pakistan by lifting most economic sanctions, although what this means in practical terms is not yet known as sanctions have also been lifted from India. President Bush has also gifted’ Pakistan $50 mil­ lion; this is roughly the cost of bombing Afghanistan for three days. In light of these factors, the average Pakistani cannot be expected to think too highly of a state that imposes sanctions (con­ sidered a ‘neat’ alternative to war by the US) one minute, and then bullies the Pakistani government into submission the next (through the “with us or against us” policy).

In the end, many Pakistanis are left wondering what they are getting in exchange for their help; other than increased civil unrest and repeated

blows to their national pride.

Although many Pakistanis aren’t jumping at the chance to assist the US in attacking Afghanistan, they do not however, condone the terror attacks in New York nor are they about to take up arms against the US any time soon. Drawing any parallels between the typical Pakistani and

bin Laden’s followers is as absurd as drawing parallels between the average American and Timothy McVeigh.

It is imperative to realize the complexity of the issue. An intel­ ligent opinion can only be formu­ lated once all sides of an issue have been carefully examined. Until then an opinion lacks true insight;

as do utterances like, “we will rid the world of evil-doers” It looks like Dubya’s finally been read­ ing__ his nephew’s DC collection.

Khizr Rathore U3 Biochemistry

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Op/Ed 7

McGill education —worthwhile or a waste of time?

The great equalizer is always money. Since we, the students, are paying McGill for our education, how responsible is McGill for that education?

How responsible is McGill for maximizing the student’s learning potential so that after so many years at so many dollars, a gradu­ ate can say that they were educated at their money’s worth?

Unfortunately for my o colleague Erica, I believe she is feeling that McGill is failing on all counts of respon­ im sibility and she proba­ < bly wants a refund.

But is money real­ ly the issue? Should more money equal a better education? I am sympathetic to Erica’s plight. I truly believe that for my money’s worth I have actually been totally satisfied with maybe five classes in my whole McGill tenure.

However, to constantly call upon money as

a witness to McGill’s irrespon­ sibility is to fail to recognize the role we the students play in our own education.

University is a celebration of the individual. One is able to choose their faculty, pro­ gram, class, and professor, even methods of evaluation.

That is, if you don’t like mul­ tiple guess, don’t take classes where the only method of evaluation is by such narrow means.

Furthermore, you go to school when you want, go to conferences when you want and although there are conse­ quences to these actions, at least you can weigh those options and decide for your­ self.

There is no visit to the principal’s office for skipping class'; the professors are not responsible for you.

Each individual is responsible for him or herself. Now, such a system requires self discipline and hard work, and although it may be a pain in your time schedule to not want to put in the effort to shop around for the ideal class evaluation sys­ tem, nonetheless the option remains open and there for you — dp to two weeks might

I add.

Furthermore, if you must take a class that requires a mode of evaluation that is not your strong suite, then learn the system. The longer you spend in a faculty that requires essay writing, and the more you write, the assumption is that after a point either you as an essay writer will improve, or at the very least you will learn some short cuts and rules of the system that will give you an advantage.

A wise man once told me that 80 per cent of all learning at university takes place out­ side of the classroom and I agree. The social, political, and survival techniques acquired through a university experience, as well as the per­ sonal growth which takes place is unprecedented. And notice that I say experience’, for university is an experience first, and within that experi­ ence an education flourishes.

Perhaps that is the best meas­ urement of our money. In that, for better or for worse, we are all paying for an experi­ ence, a very unique and spe­ cial experience out of which, whatever ‘education’ we so desire, we will derive.

"The wheels are turn­ ing but you’re upsidedown. .. "-U2 Sometimes I wonder how appropriate it is that I find myself studying at McGill, where multiple choice is the preferred method of testing. It seems classes are filled to maxi­ mum capacity but person­ al growth is at an all-time minimum. I feel I am no longer an individual, but one of many sheep catego­ rized into the format of A, B, C, or D. Really, why attend a university that does not accentuate the potential within an indi­ vidual?

I challenge McGill’s efficacy as an edu­ cational institution.

First, the size of class­ es is ridiculous. Learning needs to be facilitated in an environment where the individual can relate to the professor and feel support­ ed and attended to. To accentuate feeling like cat­ tle in the classroom is the lack o f T.As. How can McGill, devoted to the logical system of learning,

justify supplying about four T.A.S for a class of eight hundred?

Let’s move on to mul­ tiple choice. Many McGill courses test through multi­ ple choice because profes­ sors, with notable excep­ tions, haven’t the time in large classes to read essays.

Somehow, university pro­ fessors are too busy for that and the McGill adminis­ tration appears happy.

They’d rather turn each student into a machine, filling circles on tests that do not reflect actual knowledge, only the ability to discern the M O ST CORRECT answer. Why study for an exam, under­ stand the material, and receive a 70 simply because a professor can’t or won’t analyze written responses?

We should be tested on multiple choice AND short answers if not essays in core courses, allowing us to take advantage of whichever method best reflects our knowledge.

University is supposed to cultivate intellectual stimulation and character

growth. We must be passionate about what we’re studying and inspired by our professors.

Inspiration is lack­ ing at McGill. I refuse to be codi­ fied into a piece of information that can be corrected by a SCANTRON machine. I refuse to believe I’m less intelligent because I actually enjoy thinking about my answers and using real language to elaborate my ideas.

Forget it. It’s time for this.system to realize that "multi­ ple intelligences" do exist.

The power of flirting Flirting is a powerful tool that can be used for both good and evil.

Good obviously implies the flirting involved when single people who are attracted to each other interact.

Evil flirting is basically everything else. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that evil flirting is bad (but I guess in a way I am, since I chose the word evil’, but anyway...), it’s just that there are some rules that must be obeyed. For example: 1) Don’t seriously flirt with anyone with whom you have no intentions toward. You may get a stalker. It may be me (trust me, I’m persist­ ent). It also sucks when you realize that the hottie who just flirted with you is also flirting with every two­ penny whore in sight, thereby devaluing your flirting success.

2) Don’t flirt when extremely drunk. Beer goggalia (the process of having beer goggles) may lead

you to flirt with the wrong type of man. I once spent an hour flirting with a police officer in Spain trying to convince him to handcuff me.

He actually agreed to meet me when he was off duty. However by then I had passed out in a ditch somewhere.

3) If you flirt with someone who does not return your sentiments, it is completely acceptable to NOT acknowledge the person the next time you see them, even if they are smiling and waving. For they have horribly insulted you and must pay.

4) Don’t flirt with people who have girlfriends/boyfriends.

It’s just wrong, and if the girlfriend/boyfriend finds out, get ready for a new enemy and her/his army of enemy friends.

5) Stay away from flirting-maniacs.

I’m sure you know at least one of these people. They flirt with any­ thing and everything; man, woman and child. (Okay not child, that’s really gross).

6) Flirting can be like money, it can

be exchanged for goods and servic­ es. Flirting dollars can go a long way, however, be warned: too large an amount may border on whor­ ing. Low-level (acceptable) flirting crimes can buy you entrance to a club, drinks, and bargains. Now, an experienced flirter can get whole meals, free transportation and small items of clothing/jewelery. Be fore­ warned: it is a dangerous game to play.

Sometimes flirting dollars may prove insufficient and men may expect more. For example, last semester I received free cake, waf­ fles, fries and drinks from a local store manager. I managed to con­ vince myself that he was very lone­ ly and that my flirting was the only love that he received. Therefore it was okay to get free food. (Another equally weak justification was that the food was over-priced and I was teaching the company a lesson).

Sadly, my charade came to a bitter end when the manager in question took me aside and said something very dirty to me. Now I can never go back. And I have a cake addiction.

If you are like me, it’s much

easier to flirt with someone with whom you have no intentions toward, because it doesn’t matter if nothing comes of it. However, when in contact with a guy I actu­ ally like, I insanely ramble about the fact that I buy food at Dollarama and that I dated a gigo­ lo this summer. One time I sneezed and coughed at the same time, choked and then fell in front of a

guy I liked. Trust me ladies, this tactic doesn’t work, surprisingly enough.

It sounds typical, but if you are not predisposed to witty dirty talk or playful touching, then just be yourself. Flirting can be a lot of fun so take a break from studying and GET IT ON.

Lang uag e and Nation in Quebec Guest Speaker: Pascale Bérubé President, Parti Québécois National Youth Committee Wednesday, Oct. 24 5:30 p.m.

Shatner Basement Room: B09 Presented by Alliance Quebec Youth Club & Liberal McGill & Independent Political Students’ Association

Features

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

The complete lowdown from A to Zinc D is p u t in g t h e u s e o f t h o s e g r a in y o v a l c h e w a b le s Daniel Ehrenfeld

of vitamin supplements as a way to meet requirements while not hav­ ing to bother with changing our regular, if flawed, eating habits.

These tablets or capsules might be easily accessible from any pharmacy, but are supplements the cure for our nutritionally-chal­

This is definitely university life. The stresses, the vices, the rou­ tines. Everyone has found their own groove by now and as midterms come and go, habits tend to be exaggerated and exacerbated.

Taking care of our bodies, for some, is an after­ thought at best.

If you think back |M Takwc* some hard, you might remem­ c/^ (cm d ê > vitamins ber the days when Mom was urging you to finish your vegetables, when an apple a day would keep the doctor away, and Hty w m t y* when you would poke DO|rJ <j\ your finger in the bottle of Flintstone vitamins hoping to pull out a pur­ ple Bam-Bam. Nutrition may have taken a back seat as we lenged lifestyle? Many critics in the race through our daily practices field are wary of the possible rami­ these days, and some of us may be fications of regular supplement wondering how to get back on usage. Some even dread the track, or maybe even how to take a prospect of overdosing on particu­ shortcut to good health. lar vitamins. Like everything in life, Vitamins are important for too much of any vitamin is not a healthy living. They are essential good thing. Large doses of vitamin for the standard metabolic work­ B-6 can cause nerve problems, ings of the body, in order to prevent while too much Vitamin A has several vitamin-deficiency diseases. effects ranging from headaches to Vitamin C, for example prevents liver damage. At the same time, scurvy, while vitamin D prevents vitamin supplements such as rickets. In our never-ending search Centrum A-to-Zinc and One-afor easy alternatives, many may Day tablets provide between five begin to consider the consumption and six times the recommended

These unidentified com­ pounds generate healthy conse­ quences. Supplements, hence, should not be used to replace a bal­ anced diet, or to substitute the reg­ ular consumption of fruits and veg­ etables.

Concern, though, exists over whether vege­ tarians and vegans receive e n o u g h 0 *.

TH A T* l HEAR THfy OOVT Vitamin B-12, KINO OF R.EAL \ , y w o r k Lltit WHIN I which is only take AJ/«W found in ani­ I Rtt Kl ÛU.T mal products, Of THÉ PILL I Qwr to meet rec­ »'M A ViuetARtA>J ^ ts f— ' om m end ed SO > To fA K t daily intake, a vitamin neces­ sary for red blood cell and DNA produc­ multi-vitamin tablets a day are nec­ ous reasons to abstain from using tion as well as nervous system func­ essary to approach any level of tox­ pills to fulfill your nutrition needs. tions. There is little evidence to icity. At the same time, as Dr. As McGill Professor and consultant infer that a B-12 capsule is needed, Pierre-Paul Tellier, director of for Reader’s Digest’s “The Healing as the vitamin can be absorbed even McGill’s Student Health Services, Power of Vitamins, Minerals and from earth residue present on explains, excess vitamin intake will Herbs” Dr. Joe Schwarcz main­ imperfectly washed vegetables that contains tiny organism remains. not make you any healthier, as the tains: “Vitamins generate false confi­ What’s more, the vitamin is able to system will excrete any surplus that dence. It takes very little of a vita­ stay in the system for very long it can.

In the case of vitamin use dur­ min to prevent disease. Vitamin C periods of time, so that related dis­ ing cold season, when he is usually prevents scurvy, but who in North eases are averted, even if the RDA may not be reached. asked questions like can I take America gets scurvy these days?”

Vegetarians may, however, “The idea is not only to pre­ these to prevent my getting sick?’

“O f course none of that really vent disease,” he adds. “There are experience a lack of iron. Iron, a works,” says Tellier. “It ends up many things in fruits and vegeta­ mineral as opposed to a vitamin, is bles that are not even identified.” being more of a waste of money.”

Please see SCURVY, page 9 daily amounts of Vitamin A, and similar overdoses in other vitamins and minerals.

With that in mind, it must be noted that to arrive at toxic levels of a given vitamin, an abnormal, if not unfeasible, quantity of it must be ingested. In most cases, several

Studies conducted by the University of Southern California confirm these findings, though notes that tablets containing large quantities of one vitamin, on the other hand, are somewhat more likely to produce harmful effects.

There are, however, more seri­

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Fichtenbaum's fervour: que le mayor gagne!

E x p lo r in g a M c G ill u n d e r g r a d u a te 's lo v e a ffa ir w ith m u n ic ip a l p o w e r Natalie Fletcher It is just another ordinary day on campus with students scurrying around, stricken by midterm fren­ zy. Yet, while the average McGill students rush about their daily business sporting sneakers, combat boot and platforms, one particular student is constructing another kind of platform, in an attempt to sport the exalted title of newest Montreal mayor.

Ian Fichtenbaum, a 20 yearold U2 electrical engineering stu­ dent, is not content as the mere Engineering Rep on the Students’ Society o f McGill University council, nor does he seem interest­ ed in solely pursuing school poli­ tics. Oh, no. Fichtenbaum is run­

ning in the upcoming municipal elections.

In a written statement issued to the Tribune, Fichtenbaum explained his reasons for want­ ing to be mayor, stating he was initially “inspired by infrastructure shenanigans” and ended up running “partially, just for the hell of it.”

A multi-faceted indi­ vidual and avid reader, Fichtenbaum qualifies his interests as ranging “from here to the moon, including the moon.” He focuses espe­ cially on physics, economics, pol­ itics, history and space; most of which he learns about through Internet articles. Fichtenbaum

Preparing for a career in politics

actively participates in extracurric­ ular, from council appointments to McGill Radio positions, while also volunteering for Migdalohr, a charitable organization aiding impoverished Israeli children.

He openly admits to being the type whom you quickly learn to recognize as that guy • constantly making unsolicited comments in class.

When asked to describe himself, he hesitates a moment before declaring, “I’m an engi­ neering student with inflated political plans.”

Now, what, pray tell, does one obtain when combining under­ graduate electrical engineering with city politics? An electrical, mathematical revolution? A Lord

o f the Flies-type scenario starring a power-hungry kid wanting to dominate the island of Montreal?

Or a devoted young citizen nobly attempting to make a difference?

As American radical activist Saul Alinsky once said: “Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.”

Fichtenbaum definitely projects the image of a person with confi­ dence to burn, verve to share, and ideas to promulgate. “[I] advocate quite a lot of policies that no other candidate does,” he says.

Some o f these lofty aims include making snow-removal more stringent, maintaining bilin­ gual services and deregulating serv­ ices such as garbage collection.

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Preventing scurvy, one pill at at a time continued from PAGE 8 unlikely to make its way into most vegetarians’ diets in potent amounts. As Tellier points out, although iron is found in some veg­ etables “green vegetables have a compound in them which is called phytate; combined with the iron, [it prevents iron] from being absorbed,” and thus an iron supple­ ment may be beneficial.

Yet, Schwarcz concludes that for the most part there is little evi­ dence to support the use of vitamin supplements.

“The industry convinces peo­ ple that they need these things, but the scientific evidence is scanty,” he contends.

At the same time, to be on the safe side, “a multi-vitamin can be an insurance, since it’s not harmful and may do some good.” The most beneficial way of ensuring proper nutrition, nevertheless, is to eat a well balanced diet, complete with fruits and vegetables.

If you do decide to comple­ ment your nourishment with a multi-vitamin, experts suggest

keeping the recommended daily allowance for your demographic in mind for the various vitamins and

minerals you require. Anything more than those guidelines simply isn’t necessary, so try to find a well-

balanced supplement with a proper amount of all the essential nutri­ ents.

As far as comparing the quali­ ty of vitamins, according to Schwarcz, be aware that there are actually very few manufacturers of vitamins which distributors buy, and on which they put different labels. Vitamins are not hard to make and so there is no great dif­ ference in calibre from one brand to another. The cheapest are just as effective as the most expensive.

Although you might think to yourself that you simply don’t have the time or the will to eat properly, know that most problems associat­ ed with vitamin deficiency come with time. You may only see the lamentable results years from now.

In 35 years down the road, your body may be thanking you. And if you choose to poke your finger in a bottle of Flintstone vitamins, to be sure to give Wilma a hello.

Can't have cake and eat it too: Dr. Atkin W ith so m a n y d ie t s o u t t h e r e , a r e n o - c a r b d ie ts ju st a fa st fix o r t h e re a l d e a l?

Rebecca Foster Growing up in our society, most girls flip through the pages of Cosmopolitan or Elle wishing to be like the Victoria Secret cover model, and are willing to do almost anything to drop those extra pounds to get there. Most of us have tried lots of different ways to reach that goal — ab machines, cabbage-soup diets and smelly pens supposedly formulated to suppress your appetite. So now there is another favourite weight loss mechanism: the no-carbohydrate diet.

If you cut back drastically on the amount of carbohydrates you take in on a daily basis, you will supposedly be looking slimmer in no time. Are these no/reducedcarb diets all they are cracked up to be, or are they just the next new weight-loss fad?

The idea behind diets such as Dr. Atkins New D iet Revolution, Sugar Busters! and Protein Power seems simple at first; you can con­ sume as many calories as you want and still lose weight as long as you cut back drastically on carbohy­ drates. On some of these diets you are allowed as little as 15 to 20 grams of carbohydrates a day. That may seem like a reasonable amount but it is only approxi­ mately the equivalent of three cups of lettuce or one beer.

No-carb diets are hailed as a dieting saviour but they are really just a sly little trick. You cut carbs out of your diet and start eating mainly proteins and fat with a

green salad every once in a while.

But I defy you to find a carb-free donut or bag of chips.

The main junk foods in our society are carb-based. So in reali­ ty, all you are doing is cutting out junk food and alcohol, unfortu­ nately, as well as much needed energy-boosting good carbs, like pasta and bread.

By cutting back on carbs, you are forcing your body to find other means to fuel your system; the idea being it will use excess fat. For Kristen Bussandri, a U2 psycholo­ gy student, after cutting down on carbohydrates for a couple of weeks, it drastically reduced her appetite.

“I found myself eating less and feeling less hungry after small­ er meals,” she said.

By eating fewer carbohy­ drates, after a couple of weeks your appetite becomes suppressed and therefore aids in the weight loss process.

However, in breaking down fat for consumption, you also pro­ duce certain substances that can actually harm your body. Side effects can include bad breath, nausea, headaches and fatigue. For people with kidney and liver prob­ lems, going on such a diet may exacerbate these problems.

Amanda Ullman, a U2 Microbiology and Immunology student has learned about the side effects and has decided to steer clear of them due to these possibil­ ities.

“I wouldn’t even think of looking into them, they’re just not

healthy,” she stated.

Joan Dickison, a community nurse for the CLSC NDG-Mtl. West, and expert o f overall health and well-being, reinforced what most o f us have been taught since the beginning. The main principle behind weight loss is a simple one, the calories we expend must be greater than the calories we con­ sume in order to lose weight.

“Calories in equals calories out,” she said. “It has nothing to do with where those calories come from.”

In essence, it does not matter how we reduce calories, whether it be by cutting out junk-food, fats,or carbohydrates.

One thing Dickison wishes everyone would understand is that a no-carb regime is not a quick fix, as many people would like to think, but rather a lifestyle change.

Once you have committed your­ self to this type of diet, there will be no more Altos’ poutine, or Madona Pizza (a blessing in dis­ guise?). If you return to your nor­ mal carb eating ways after reaching your goal weight, the chances are you will gain most of the weight back. Katrina Paivio, a U2 Psychology student agrees with Dickison. She stays away from these diets.

“I see them as only a fast fix with bad long-term effects.”

These types of diets are out of the question for athletes, as carbo­ hydrates are required for optimal performance. Also, many individ­ uals who are on these diets are deficient in many essential vita­

mins and minerals. Dr. Atkin himself acknowledges this and suggests that anyone on his diet take a vitamin supplement.

A final point that should be made is that no matter how well these diets say they burn calories, one still needs to have an active lifestyle in order to obtain the full benefits of any weight loss pro­ gram. Dickison maintains that these diets do not increase fat burning efficiency.

“Even if you cut carbohy­ drates completely out of your diet,

it will not help unless you are exer­ cising as well.”

So the answer to my question is essentially that, yes, they are a fad that will eventually die out. A decade ago, fats were the enemy, then proteins and now carbohy­ drates. At this rate, no food will be without a tarnished record. With this in mind, heed the words so many mothers have passed on to their children: there is no good weight loss replacement for a healthy well-balanced diet and regular exercise.

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First he takes Montreal, then the world! continued from PAGE 8 In order to propagate his gov­ ernmental plans, Fichtenbaum has gathered a small but enthusiastic circle of friends to act as his cam­ paigning group, in charge of put­ ting up posters in the downtown area. He has also aroused the curiosity of the media, having been featured in a short CBC broadcast and in a few city news­ papers.

Ideologically speaking, Fichtenbaum believes government must play a more humble role in society, insinuating that municipal politics should be chiefly con­ cerned with the “mundane things that affect our daily lives.” Because the formation of a megacity chal­ lenges this municipal role, Fichtenbaum’s main objective is to ensure Montreal’s smooth transi­

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Even though I stayed here for the holiday weekend in early October, I still managed to cele­ brate Thanksgiving...in a non-traditional way. With a cornucopia of illegal substances, mingling with natives and newcomers, taking a bite or two from someone else’s plate, and discouraging men from “stuffing my turkey,” I discovered a little bit of a new world.

The weekend was long and crazy, but the cherry that topped it off was Sunday night’s Black and Blue party, thrown by the Bad Boy Club of Montreal (BBCM). The BBCM is a non-profit gay organi­ zation that gives money to groups providing direct care to people liv­ ing with HIV/AIDS, and to gay and lesbian community groups and, according to club literature, also puts on one of the largest gay dance parties in the world.

From October 3-9, Montreal became ground zero for fun (check out bbcm.org for pics) as an esti­ mated 80,000 participants took part in the fun filled week. This eleventh year of celebration, the theme was 01 - ORIGINE - “the meeting with Mother Earth, the Celtic druids and especially the Greek god Dionysus, the god of dance, pleasure, music, liberation, ecstasy and euphoria.”

The dress code was black and blue, but you should have seen some of the obscenely flammable interpretations of the prehistoric and “eternal” aspect of the night reflected in the apparel (or lack

tion towards its new persona, and

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Still, unlike most politicians, Fichtenbaum chooses not to make empty promises, which is why he has kept his platform rather mod­

erate. His sole stance is a pledge to “do it better, or at least, satisfacto­ rily.”

What Fichtenbaum does truly hope for, however, is to realize his most cherished goal of unifying Cavendish Boulevard by con­ structing an extension from his home area of Côte St-Luc to St.Laurent. This oft-postponed project is actually the very reason why he was mayorily-inclined to begin with. Though initially inter­ ested in representing only his dis­ trict, following the Montreal merger, Fichtenbaum decided to attempt to rule the island in its entirety.

So, how good are his chances of ruling the island? Fichtenbaum is running against nine other can­ didates, the two most notable being Pierre Bourque and Gerald

Tremblay.

The fact that Fichtenbaum isn’t graying, balding or wrinkling does give his mayoral legitimacy a little run for its money: He is also at the disadvan­ tage of not having his blown up face exposed on every last street pole. So how will he succeed in taking over?

Well, there is always the don­ key-vote tactic, which relies on a voter’s tendency to order his or her preferences following the order in which candidates are listed. Then, there is the very sophisticated eenie-meenie-miney-moe strategy.

Plus, some repulsed citizens always vote for the more obscure candi­ dates, in an act of defiance against the popular leaders they deem as winning scum.

Seriously though, Fichtenbaum realizes his con­

stituency is modest, but this won’t make him regard his candidacy as a joke. His slogan, “A Better Idea,’ implies he believes he will win the votes of certain assenting demo­ graphics, such as the student pop­ ulation and Côte St-Luc residents, who support the Cavendish exten­ sion.

Whatever happens, Fichtenbaum will continue to thrive on versatility, just as he will continue to maintain that politi­ cians and diapers should be changed regularly. By taking such giant steps in every direction of interest, he is simply keeping his options open, as most students tend to do. And whether it be a step towards the mayor’s office or towards the moon, Fichtenbaum is fully prepared to go “wherever the wind takes [him].”

5 pm, by 8 pm the club was emptier than the are­ nas Diana Ross sang to last summer when her ‘big com eback’

been here. If you are in Montreal next year and love raves, trance music, dancing or just having fun, go! The music, spun by interna­ tionally recognized DJs, (including the hunky music master of my

oils or cramming some more sub­ stances into their systems. Hell, we probably were even on drugs by the time we got back home, being exposed to everything from the 8 am coke-heads to the band of boys in the bathroom taking acid to the girl who offered me E, it was like one giant drug den.

Luckily for me, I didn’t par­ take in any of that activity as tak­ ing two hits of E would have set me back an extra $50 in addition to the $130 already spent that night, not including the $150 out­ fit, and $195 shoes. It’s a good thing Black and Blue is only once a year! In retrospect, though the weekend left my body black and blue, it was the best weekend I have had since I’ve been here and maybe one of the best clubbing/partying experiences ever.

Although for the next few days I was pretty much a posterboy for over-partying and the vices of a too-intense gay social scene, I would do it again in a heartbeat.

But the only thing I’d do different­ ly is start off by snagging one of those rich American sugar daddies to foot the damn bill!

Black and blue body thereof) of these partygoers. But the main event didn’t happen until Sunday — and there were three full nights to fill up before then.

On Thursday, two friends and I got liquored up and visited Sky Bar, knowing that the crowd would be a bunch of anxious cir­ cuit boys who weren’t interested in the Jock Ball (a scandalous Black and Blue party). Friday night was the Leather Ball and the weekend Boy Launch at Sky, but assuming the crowd would be younger and cuter at the latter, and because my leather harness and chaps were still at the cleaners, a friend and I skipped back down to Sky Bar, where we planned to use our com­ bined cute-twink power to score some free drinks.

The scene was dominated by older men and I was slowly reminded of why I missed Los Angeles. Here they were, good of American gay circuit ‘boys,’ shirt­ less, buff, and trashier than ever.

Instead of free booze I ended up getting some creepy 37 year-old raver wannabe lick my neck like it was hard candy. We split a few minutes before three, our exit hav­ ing something to do with the entrance of a third member of a certain L.A. summer threesome.

Saturday was the military ball, and since this Private was low on cash, and I didn’t want to fork over the ten bucks for Black and Blue Fetish Night at Club Cream (gag!), I returned to Sky for the Saturday Tea Dance. Although it started at

œncert tanked.

At midnight, havoc erupted.

Drinks were purchased, numbers were exchanged and asses were grabbed; and all by different strangers! I tried (in vain) to save myself for the following night; the final act of my weekend, October 7.

After having gone to bed at 5 am the past three nights, I con­ served my energy on Sunday and skipped the Official Tea Dance at Sky and instead went (sloppy drunk) to Black and Blue. The event started at 10 pm.

If we had been smart and planned in advance, we could have purchased some of the limited stu­ dent tickets they sold at one store; somehow the alcohol and excite­ ment made it all seem okay...

Hemorrhaging cash, we lost six more dollars to coat check and ten minutes waiting in line at the bathroom, (where, to my delight, some beefy daddy sucked my candy necklace. I‘m telling you, there is a definite element of SLEAZE!) Eventually we made our way out to the huge dance floor, which was enclosed by prim­ itive tapestries, several stages, and suspended metal framework.

Highlights: cramped dance floor, smoothie ending up on rather than in me, finding Chupa Chups and lube on the floor, and grinding with strangers in exchange for mints and massages.

All this, and I end up in bed alone.

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At least 60 percent of the peo­ ple there had to be on drugs, (despite the warnings issued by the BBCM) and the little hopped up partiers were giving each other massages, rubbing themselves with

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Spam: bane of our existence Panthea Lee Moving away from home for the first time triggered something inside my mind.

As a Freshman, sense of loss washed over me, and this sorrow manifested itself into a bizarre syn­ drome, an inexpli­ cable dependency, a mind-boggling complex, A small fish in an increasingly bigger pond, I yearn for commu­ nication with those I left behind.

Technology, in the form of e-mail, Send this to ten presents the per­ fect solution for my need of main­ taining those invaluable connec­ tions.

I’ll be the first to admit it. I need my e-mail. Yeah, that’s right.

My name is Panthea Lee and I am addicted to my e-mail.

When a long hard day at school had gotten to me, I decide to seek solace in my faithful HP Pavilion 7940.

On instinct, I opened Internet Explorer and went straight to the Hotmail website.

This daily ritual has become sec­ ond nature to me, a habit as neces­ sary as my mid-day nap. I logged in, and as I waited for the page to load, 1 felt the anticipation and excitement building up inside of me.

The familiar mix of Hotmail blues and whites greeted me and my eyes immediately shot to the left side of the page, holding my breath. The T new’ beside my Inbox sent a wave of ecstasy through my body. Somebody loves me!

Impatiently, I scrolled to the bottom of the page. “Hi, I miss you!” was the subject of the latest addition to my mail. I was beside myself! I clicked on it to read the message, expecting to be greeted with warm sentiments of wellwishing and inquiries about my new life. Instead, what met my eyes were bold neon letters: “FREE HARDCORE PORN ” and “COM E AND GET IT.” I was crushed. Duped again!

It felt like someone had ripped my heart out, chewed on it, ground it up into pieces, and then spit on it.

Disappointment was the order of the day.

These spammers are cold and ruthless. They prey on the pathet­

ic nature of people like myself, and manipulate our feelings in a form or ruthless guerilla marketing.

And I have had enough.

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Eternal damnation - Captain Sensible flies high Leah K. Nchama In the mid-1970s, a U.K. group called the Damned helped spawn a genre called punk. One-quarter of a century and a purgatory-full of ex­ band members later, the legendary collective is ripping through North America to promote their shining new LP, Grave Disorder (Nitro Records), hitting Club Soda last Wednesday. Always-practical found­ ing member Captain Sensible spoke with the Tribune about musical vacu­ ity, the marvels of the Internet, and “...that bloody sod John Lennon.”

TRIB: The Damned have been with punk since its inception. In 1976, you had the first punk single. In 1977 you were the first U.K. band over here. What do you think of the evolution of punk, especially the turn it’s taken lately?

Captain Sensible: Well, I don’t really follow current trends that much, but I must say that anything with a loud guitar is preferable to the likes of the Backstreet Boys and ‘NSync which is still so prevalent. For me, coming over to North America, where you’re still into guitars is great because Britain is gripped with dance fever at the moment and it’s soul-destroying.

I think some of the new crop of punk groups over here, it’s kind of more the look and the style rather than the angry kind of statements that punk made in Britain in the late ‘70s. But

a loud guitar is a loud guitar and that’s got to be a good thing. I wish I could say that I’d paid more atten­ tion to current trends and bands, but I don’t actually. I don’t have a TV, so I don’t see much new music. I don’t have a TV because I think it’s an insult to my intelligence (laughs)... our intelligences, really.

TRIB: You were talking about how electronic music is what’s popular in London right now. So what reaction did you get when you played the shows over there?

CS: Oh, they were great actually. They were really good in London, although we might play in front of a thousand and a half people.

The discos are full of ten thousand people playing machine music, so it does make me a little angry. It’s still the same John Travolta nonsense they used to have that we were fighting against in ’77, only it’s got a new trendy image with sun­ glasses and cool hats.

(Laughs) Same old shit.

That’s what I think anyway.

But then again I’ve got to say that I’m a guitar player.

TRIB: I agree. It’s quite depressing.

CS: We were playing a new set and that was fantastic for us because it’s so exciting to play new material after we had been playing for the last 5

years kind of a greatest hits set. So for us, it’s like everything’s changed and on this tour, it’s been great to invig­ orate the set with new ideas which have got the essence of punk rock: the excitement. But we steal a little bit from all sorts of forms of music and I think we’ve never repeated our­ selves. Without being bigheaded, I think we’re kind of breaking new ground for the band and it’s good.

TRIB: You cover a lot of modern issues. For example “W” is about the

President of the United States. And another is “Song.com”. Since you have been around since the begin­ ning of punk, you’ve seen music influenced by the Internet. Do you think it’s advantageous to have around? MP3s and on-line commu­ nities and sites...

CS: We were just talking about that today, actually. We hate Metallica for destroying Napster because Napster’s was one of the greatest ways of small­ er bands to promote their material.

The big bands like Metallica, they don’t need any promotion. They’ve got the biggest record labels in the world and MTV fighting on their behalf. But bands like the Damned, Napster was great for us. I absolutely curse Metallica. If I ever see them I’m going to punch them right in the nose. I hate the bastards.

TRIB: I went to the official Damned website and it’s very advanced com­ pared to a lot of band websites. You can go to each band member’s sec­ tion, you can listen to music from the album... It covers everything so well and I was kind of surprised

because it’s mosdy the smaller, younger groups that are into that kind of thing.

CS: I love the Internet. It’s changed everything for people in all sorts of areas, but for people in a band it’s great. I’m writing a diary every day on the tour. People can read my diary and see what I’m writing about the road crew. I mean, in the past you wouldn’t know who the road crew were, but they’re as much a part of the tour as the band are. So we got it about them: who was sick on the bus, who was caught with their trousers down (laughs), fun things like that. And what we thought of the gig and who we met. It’s great for that. And then there’s an “Ask Captain” bit where people write in questions to me and I welcome ques­ tions from any subject at all from space exploration to what I think of beer in Canada.

TRIB: Speaking of chaos, the album itself is so eclectic. Every song sounds like it’s coming from a completely different band. There’s a small maga­ zine in the States called Alternative Press and they recendy named Grave Disorder one of the ten essential goth albums. You’re right up there with Nico, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, who sound dark, but Grave Disorder does not sound like a goth album. How would you describe the album musi­ cally?

CS: It’s a music journey through Please see DAMNED, page 16

So...You wanna be a Popstar, eh?

Hadiya Roderique As I stood in line with 300 oth­ ers, rain falling on my face, I won­ dered, “Do I really want to be a popstar?”

For those of you who don’t know, Popstars is a reality show in which thousands of unknown young adults audition to be one of five members of a manufactured pop group. The entire process is followed and broadcast, right up to the first concert. In Canada, the first Popstars TV show spawned the pop group Sugar Jones and its annoyingly catchy ‘Days like That’ single. In America, the show yielded the group Eden’s Crush, who it seems no one in Canada has really heard of. There are auditions in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, and Halifax.

Ottawa gets skipped over, so a lot of them showed up at the Montreal audition. People go up to the stage in groups of five, and sing about 10 to 15 seconds of a song. The two judges deliberate, and then pick people out of the group for the next round. In the next round, one has to choreo­

graph some dance moves to one of the songs, and also gets interviewed.

From all the auditions across the country, 30 peo­ ple get selected for boot camp, where they sing and dance for a week. Several people are eliminated each day, until there are ten.

Then, the final five are cho­ sen, and they get ready for Fame and Fortune and a 5digit paycheck.

My day began by wak­ ing up at 6:30 to get ready and hit the line up early. I shot out of bed, had a quick shower, put on my infa­ mous Diesel pants, and a lit­ tle tube top. According to my friend Chloe, I have a pair of the perkiest breasts on this planet, so I thought I’d put them out there for an edge on my competition.

Some eyeshadow and lipgloss, water and a Geni soy, and I was ready to go.

My friend Grace (of past Tribune A&E fame) had so kindly offered to support me in my Popstars dream, and she was at my door ready to go at

7 o’clock. She was looking pretty hot there since 5 o’clock in the morning. herself in a crazy backless luscious Suckas. For some weird reason, once we were all packed into the auditorium, they started with the people who had come last. Go figure.

As we stood in line, representatives from Salon Sélectives, the sponsor of the show, came around dressed in Britney Spearsish shirts and skirts offering us a chance to enter a draw, and listened to what we were going to sing. I was still trying to decide between some of the worst songs I could pos­ sibly think of for an audi­ shirt/skirt number. This was good, tion: ‘I’m like a Bird’ by Nelly because my plan was to get her to try Furtado, ‘You’re a Superstar’ by Love out too.

Inc, ‘Stutter’ by Joe, ‘California’ by We hardcore popstar wannabes Wave, “The Call” by the Backstreet metroed it to the Starcite by the Boys, and “Sometimes” by Britney Olympic Stadium, home of the audi­ Spears. After some discussion tions. We arrived at around 7:45, and amongst the people in the line, we there was already a line-up of about decided they had picked bad songs so 150 people. Some people had been that the people with good voices

would stand out. There was method to their madness. I was trying to decide between Nelly Furtado and Love Inc. Grace and I stood in the rain, made friends with the girl in front of us and the group from Ottawa behind us, ogled cute boys, and waited patiently until they start­ ed letting us in at 9:15. We got inside, stopped at the Salon Sélectives Freshening Booth, went to the bath­ room, and stood in line for the movies.. .1 mean audition. We piled into the theater, listened to some drivel about the greatness of the show’s producer and the band’s pro­ ducer (who were the judges), listened to the instructions, and then the games begun. The worst singer I heard was in the first group. I don’t know if it was supposed to be a joke or not, but she sang an opera version of ‘I’m like a bird,’ complete with interpretive dance. No joke.

There is one thing I really don’t understand about Popstars: people who stink beyond belief and still think they have a chance. Now, I don’t mean this to be fresh, but I Please see PERKY, page 17

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punk to make room for acts like BIS. Polysics fits right into to this skewed brand of new wave electro­ rock. After numerous small releas­ es on various Asian labels and two full lengths on Sony Japan, the band co-releases this disc between (Mp Asian Man and Ponycanyon Korea.

Hailing from Tokyo, review, Polysics sticks to a strict diet of they chose for me. post-apocalyptic jumpsuit uni­ Thanks to all those forms, ample amounts of Vocoder who hand out flyers and sufficient Devo references. at the corner of Milton and University, you make me feel like a jomebody.

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Polysics Hey! Bob! My Friend!

(Asian Man) CD Even SoCal punk/ska main­ stays have to follow trends of some sort.

Ever since Man Or AstromanF’s transition into Servotron, all things sequenced have been acceptable amongst fun loving punk rockers. Lookout! has since pushed aside standard skate

Ember Swift The Wage is the Stage Few’ll Ignite Sound ES-0012-4747 The Wage is the Stage is Toronto-based folk/punk musician Ember Swift’s live album release.

Cited influences Joni Mitchell and Ani DiFranco show up in her music through intelligent anti­ establishment lyrics and the crisp digital quality of the live sound.

The band is remarkably tight and impressive; Swift’s acoustic playing alternates between deca­ dent slaps and sibilant strummings, with the steady, funky sup­ port of fiddle-player and bassist Lyndell Montgomery, and the apt percussive work of Cheryl Reid.

Ms. Swift’s style is best reflected in her defiantly individual stance, as shown by songs titled ‘Corporate Daddy’ (which Ms. Swift intro­ duces with the vocal tag-line, “This song is for any of you who had a job-that SUCKED!”), and ‘$5,’ which tells of Ember’s disdain for music executive fat-cats who would not come to her show with­ out being on the guest-list. The range of individualism exhibited by the glowing Ember also goes inward to personal relationships, as songs about “too much sex” like ‘Show Up Outside’ or a fiercely introspective song like ‘Whatchado’ exemplify. One can almost imagine Ms. Swift curled up into the proverbial ball-in-thecorner as she casts her withering, critical and individualistic stare at those around her whom she assumes to be corporate cows or basically anyone who’d dare to tell

Although a large part of this record is sequenced material, ripping gui­ tar and live drums fill out almost every piece adding more of a chaot­ her who she is.

Yet (and keep in mind I say this with my fingers in a cross, backing away slowly), although support material for her CD states her music as “fired by a furnace of punk energy and social activism,” and she has good lyrics supported by a solid and groovy, if not partic­ ularly imaginative rhythm struc­ ture, overall there is nothing really offensive about Ember Swift— she puts out some heat, but perhaps more from a small electric heater useful to keep the tootsies warm rather than a furnace. Perhaps Ember may believe her music would cause a WASP to cover his/her ears by the “furnace blast” of Ember’s “punk energy and social activism,” but I can see partying post-yuppies and well-paid Gen Y’s working in the new informa­ tion economy padding and net­ working around their wood-cov­ ered floors and tastefully-adorned art-laden walls sipping glasses of wine, exchanging tips on how to best incorporate worn used jeans with sewn-in lace/tartan decora­ tions as a shade for the new $500 dollar lamp, and enjoying this CD quite well as non-offensive back­ ground music—much as Ani DiFranco and Joni Mitchell’s music functions, I suppose.

My advice to Ms. Swift’s upraised middle finger? SELL OUT!—and then grow a musical spine that can actually stand up as a realistic alternative to the Man. Imagine the music that could be made then from this otherwise obviously talented musician and supporting band. But, as Dennis Miller states, that is just my opin­ ion, I could be wrong. Overall impression: a good, solid example of a live-oriented band with excel­ lent vocal and instrumental stylings that caters to those who

slow jams. The borderline ridicu­ lous production value includes faked 78 vocals, snippets of cry baby guitar, abusive Rhodes and the funkiest slap bass on earth.

Somehow all of these smooth rhythm and blues (sorry, urban rhythm and blues) idealizations combined make for a rather pleas­ ing album. The pop tracks are filled with lyricism laid onto mini­ malist instrumental tracks, the highlight being great naturalized computer drums of strictly hihat/bass drum/cross stick complete with inhuman fills. His Name is Alive puts their music into all the right spots with perfect studio feel.

The bulk of the album is the perfect mix of fussed-over hip-hop beats and completely untouched fragile and misty recordings of vague occa­ sional strumming and pawing at instruments. Each song is centred around the mostly over-emotive vocals of Lovetta Pippen who croons the pain of her press—released runaway past. The

ic feel to the calculated madness.

Typical to so-cal punk rock, up­ beat elements of surf and ska are included in the form, helping Polysics avoid any dark or heavy aspects heard in other electro-rock acts like Add n to x. Meanwhile, this oversimplified form allows the band to achieve a more complicated instantaneous sound by varying instrumentation and melodic mate­ rial. The result is repetitive songs with a consistently high number of overlapping lines. Occasionally, this disc goes beyond its limits and enters regions of novelty. Even their reasonably reliable kitsch value treads on thin ice at times (see awful album title). Typical of any punk rock excursion genre, Polysics risks irritation in pursuit of good, rocking times.

His Name is Alive someday my blues will cover the earth (4AD) CD Dig into this rich source of

band completely crumbles whenev­ er they attempt any direction such as their “blues number” ‘Karins Blues,’ complete with uncalled-for use of slide guitar. They also fail miserably on their attempt to cover Ellington’s ‘Solitude.’ Simply put, urban rhythm and blues should not be mixed, even to something as close as jazz. The success of His Name is Alive is to play no more than necessary, to sit and let each note fulfill its potential. This, inte­ grated with the combination of overactive vocals and beats, makes for a smooth ride of wistful yet funky R+B. Records now available that do not need to be reviewed: Le Tigre Feminist Sweepstakes (Mr. Lady) CD/LP All Girl Summer Fun Band s/t (K) CD/LP FUGAZI Furniture (Dischord) CD EP

have no qualms about buying jeans from the Gap. -Eric Warwaruk w w w .c k u t .c a DJ Donald Claude M ixed Live Moonshine Music Moonshine Music, the com­ pany behind DJs like Anabolic Frolic and Tall Paul, spins out another pumpin’ release: M ixed Live by DJ Donald Glaude.

Recorded live at Nation in Washington D.C., Glaude mixes tech house in a way that keeps the energy high and the bass rockin’.

Glaude is truly the people’s DJ as he works the partyers into a frenzy of hypersexual energy with songs like ‘Horny Hustle’ by Twisted Pair, ‘Get On My Camel’ by Paul Johnson and ‘Get up’ by Antoine Clamaran. A 14-year veteran of hip-hop, Glaude has been THE DJ on the rave circuit for the past few years. Moonshine does a stellar job of capturing the live feel of the CD: you hear Glaude’s voice get­ ting the crowd riled up and the partyers in the background beg­ ging for more. Glaude’s style is interactive, and he has been known to bust a move with the audience between sets. This is the kind of CD that must be played loud, but leaves you feeling like you had to be there.

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It doesn't get any worse than this C orky Rom ano or: h o w I lost b ra in ce lls in 9 0 m in s David Schanzle It’s an eerie feeling to sit in a packed movie theater, watching movie characters attempt comedy but not hearing a single laugh. The audience looks around to see if there is something they’re not get­ ting, they look at their watches, they try to read the ingredients on their candy bar wrapper, and some start talking to themselves like mad prisoners in solitary confinement.

We all sit there in stunned silence like frontal lobotomy patients when we watch a movie like Corky Romano.

Corky Romano is a very bad movie, but not in any way that could make it even mildly enter­ taining. It’s bad in the same way that a skit made by grad students for your departmental party is bad— it’s incompetent. A comedy’ this desperate for laughs hasn’t been made since the Police Academy series was discontinued years ago. This movie is roughly as entertaining as watching a blank movie screen for

the same length of time. How do films like this get a cast, or produc­ tion money?

Chris Kattan, establishing himself as the king of lame, unfun­ ny movies, stars as the title charac­ ter, an absen tm inded wannahe veteri­

narian, the black sheep in a family of mob­ sters. Dad, the crime boss, is under investigation from the FBI, and he sends Corky undercover into the

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FBI and destroy the evidence. His two brothers watch over him dur­ ing the operation and bully him because of their insecurities involv­ ing illiteracy and repressed homo­ sexuality.

The most depressig aspect of Corky omano is that the is here for a much better movie.

A tense thriller could be made about an undercover spy in the FBI. There are opportu­ nities here , for comedy, all of which are skillfully avoided like the black plague.

Computer animation is used in the movie to show comical special affects, but they are neither comical nor special. An explosion with an animated cow flying through the screen is about as funny as an explo­ sion without one. How about a more random animal, like an esquilax, mongoose, or a lemur, or even bigfoot?

Corky is given a hot partner, played by Vanessa Shaw, who is supposed to find him both inter­ esting and annoying. Shaw is given lines that no actor could sell, not Hopkins, not Streep, not even Kevin Bacon. In addition, the film­ makers don’t even have the wit to give her interesting sexy outfits to wear or even a shower scene, as this is what her role in the movie essen­ tially reduces itself to. There is a total of one reason to enjoy her role in the film (well, two, actually).

At a certain level a movie like this is fascinating by the sheer fact that it exists. What where the actors thinking? Did the director chuckle to himself while filming this? Did everyone involved know that they were making a movie with fewer laughs than a bad SNL sketch? Was anybody on the set laughing at any of the jokes that were being made?

The entire cast sleepwalks through their roles like Vietnamese POW’s giving a press conference at gunpoint. O f particular embarrass­ ment is Richard Roundtree, of Shaft fame, who is given the thank­ less job of appearing competent while remaining oblivious to Corky’s incompetence. In every scene he’s in, he uses the power of his imigination to make-believe that he is in another movie.

Corky Romano is even worse than Saturday Night Live failures like Night at the Roxbury or Ladies Man. The filmstock should be cut up for Lorena Bobbit’s Christmas decorations.

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Shake your money maker Carly Grossman Once in a while a film comes along that simply blows away the critics. A real gem that captures the imagination of its audience and wins a thumb up or two from a few jaded journalists. The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside by first time writer/director Dalibor Matanic (recently released in the Montreal New Film and Media Festival) is not one of those films.

In case the title doesn’t com­ pletely give it away, this movie is about a cashier named Barica (Dora Polie) who wants to take her ailing daughter to the coast. Set in Croatia, the shy and passive clerk must ask her tyrant of a boss (Ivan Brkic) for some much earned vaca­ tion time. When Barica does finally muster up the nerve, she discovers that the boss does indeed have a heart. That is until a sexy and manipulative employee becomes his mistress and thwarts poor Barica’s plans. Tired of being pushed

around, our heroine decides to take matters into her own hands and locks the bully and Cruella in the grocery freezer.

This is dark humour, but we are talking Eastern Europe, not a region known for light-heartedness.

Be that as it may, The Cashier Wants to go to the Seaside is filled with enough cheesy humour and silly slapstick to put the Three Stooges to shame. Making matters worse is the film’s comic attempt to relay a moral message about human nature and society’s many ills. The writer’s voice comes through loud and clear when one of the characters, a police inspector, preaches about the world’s lack of truly good and hon­ est people. In a wistful moment the inspector laments that if there was “a Barica on every street, the city would be a better place.” The view­ er knows this is an attempt at satire, but the point gets lost somewhere deep in the comedy. The problem is, this comedy is not all that funny.

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The Damned: there are no rules continued from PAGE 13 moods and subject matter. IVe always wanted to make records like that where at the end of the fifty-five minutes, or however long it lasts, you’ve really been taken on a little trip somewhere and you look around you afterwards and you think, “Wow, that’s really interesting. I real­ ly enjoyed that,” rather than a bunch of songs with one style. We’ve always tried to stretch ourselves. It’s not the greatest album in the world because other people have done that over the last fourteen years, but my God I’m trying to match them! I’m trying to do a Sgt. Pepper. I’m trying to do a Led Zeppelin II and make the greatest album in our own funny quirky ‘Damned’ way. We will do it one day. We nearly did it with Grave Disorder. I love the album. I think it’s fantastic.

TRIB: So you kind of missed the mark with Grave Disorder. “Would You Be So Hot” is about John Lennon and burning out versus fad­ ing away, neither of which seems to be an option for the Damned. What

do you see in the future? Are you going to try to perfect your Sgt. Pepper?

CS: Personally, for me that would be top of my list of priorities: to try and make one of the greatest albums of all time, but when we’ll ever do it, I don’t know.

But going back to that bloody sod Lennon...

TRIB: Oh no.

CS: Well, really everything you ever read about that scumbag is like sort of like the sun shone out of his arse. Well it didn’t. He was a flawed human being with more flaws than most people, to be quite honest. He was violent, he was arrogant, and he behaved like a total prima donna rockstar. People seem to forget that now when they say he was Mr. Peace-andLove. Well, he wasn’t. He was a fraud.

TRIB: That’s the problem when someone doesn’t stick around long enough to back up what they’ve done or to continue on with it. They get

Player's Theatre delivers continued from PAGE 1 George’s timing was sublime.

The scene was so fresh it seemed improvised. It had a Seinfeld qual­ ity, like George meets Frasier in an insane David Ive’s world. The basis of the play was ‘the Philadelphia’, a state of being where although you may not live in Philadelphia, your world is guided by Philadelphia’s crooked and frustrating norms.

Apparently in Philadelphia, no matter what you order, whether sausage at a deli or aspirin at a phar­ macy, they don’t have it. In fact, to get what you want you must ask for the exact opposite. “You want the Daily News, ask for the Times. You want pastrami, ask for tongue.” I won’t spoil the rest of the act by dis­ cussing it in detail. I’ll just sum it up by saying that after experiencing “The Philadelphia”, you’ll want to remember every moment and every phrase, because it’s sensationally silly and amusingly absurd, and Michaels, George and Lohnes per­ form the fantastic script with the finesse of professional comedians.

The remaining two acts are good, with more notable perform­ ances by the sexy Maureen Harkins playing Jill, handsome Adrian Buittenhuis playing Jack, and Daniel Werb’s soulful voice, all in English Made Simple, the produc­ tion Finale.

In an interview with the direc­ tor, Goldenberg admits her lack of interest in set and lighting design.

Her main goal, she explained, was to concentrate on the acting. The set was simple, fitting for a produc­ tion with five different settings.

The lighting scheme, consisting of a general wash or darkness for the whole production, was oversimpli­ fied. In a play where the set is so

unimportant and the acting and blocking are so important, effective lighting can only enhance the pro­ duction, highlighting actor’s facial expressions and physicality. The lack of a lighting scheme was disap­ pointing and made the more static scenes visually boring.

For those of you not blessed with experiencing a Players’ pro­ duction yet, you may not know that the black box theatre has two audiences.

The challenge of Player’s directors is to block the production in a way that doesn’t cater to one audience over the other. A word of advice when attending this production is to sit in the left audience, because Goldenberg’s blocking was definite­ ly biased towards that side.

Finally, though some moments were sidesplitting, action-packed fun, the production lacked consis­ tency in the acting, energy and blocking.

It seemed like Goldenberg had carefully planned out her favorite acts and then got lazy in directing the other acts. In short, some scenes were really great, and some were Despite the criticism, All in the Timing is a production worth seeing. As Goldenberg puts it, “it’s a lot of fun... it’s original... it’s like a choose your own adventure.” But if her thoughts aren’t enough, you can ask the playwright, who conve­ niently answers our questions in his ‘All in the Timing Playwright’s Notes’ in the program. In his own words, “Mrs. Peacock in the library with a lead pipe... Did you mean bunion or onion?... Does it ever strike you that life is a list of answers, in which you have to glean or even make up the questions yourself? Just asking.”

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CS: Yoko’s trying to re-write the his­ tory. He wasn’t the greatest bloke in the world and if he was around now,

he’d say that. He’d say, “Don’t treat me as though I’m Jesus. I’m just a bloke with flaws.” But you see these pictures of him now, all airbrushed as though he was a saint. But he wasn’t.

It does make me laugh the lyrics of that particular song. It starts off with a piece that I stole from “Yesterday”, which starts, “Yesterday, all my trou­ bles seemed so far away”. Our song goes, “Suddenly, you are twice the man you used to be”. We laughed so much, I tell you, when we did that in the studio.

TRIB: Shame. That’s about it for me.

CS: Oh, that’s a shame. I was enjoy­ ing talking to you. You’re fun.

(Laughs.) (To someone on the other end) Drinks? Set me up. (To me) I’ve given up smoking and I’m on a cru­ sade against smoking. I hate cigarette companies. They drive me crazy. You

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know people are demonstrating against globalization and companies like McDonalds and Coca-Cola. I mean, they’re evil enough, but the really evil ones are the cigarette com­ panies because that’s just shit, isn’t it? Living shit around the planet... (starts rambling) ...awful suited swines who are plotting about how we can get chil­ dren hooked on cigarettes.

Just sort of makes my blood boil. There you go: that’s my soapbox of the day. We didn’t even get onto Sting and Bruce Springsteen, did we? (Laughs.) I just love slagging off rockstars. It’s fun. The whole thing about punk was the whole rockstar thing, we thought it was pathetic in the mid-70s: the feet up on the monitors, behaving like total arseholes and in a terrible sexist fashion. Loads of cocaine and limou­ sines and it was so decadent and debauched. The whole punk thing was trying to get rid of that shit. So when I see people today behaving like rockstars, it just makes me angry because it’s really what punk is trying to get rid of.

genre they could never touch, but it’s happening right now.

CS: That’s really perceptive of you.

That’s kind of what I thought, but I didn’t know how to articulate it. Well done. It was supposed to say some­ thing, punk. This new stuff isn’t say­ ing too much at all, aside from skate­ boards, tattoos, and spiky haircuts.

TRIB: I think people have taken dif­ ferent genres and they kind of make it into pop music and I find that’s happening with punk now. I see a lot of kids and they have tattoos and dyed hair and they’re trying to do punk rock stances, but the music that’s coming out and the way they live their lives is very much that rockstar, homogenized, ‘safe’ sort of music. It’s very discouraging because I always thought that punk was one

TRIB: That’s what it’s all about, but people are starting to lose sight of it, whether it be for the money or the fame or both. But it’s sad.

CS: But if we’d been a really big rich band, maybe we would have become arseholes as well. So maybe it’s good that we’re sort of where we are: about two rungs up the ladder of show business.

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CS: Don’t ask me. I’m just a stupid guitarist! (Laughs.) I’m just trying to get through my own life with some semblance of sanity amidst the chaos and I don’t know what’s around the next week for me, let alone the band.

Some people have got corporate plans... some bands, probably most bands. But the Damned just thrives on chaos.

TRIB: That’s going back to the whole punk philosophy. If more bands had that attitude, the world would be a better place.

CS: The Damned always had a motto. We said the first rule is “There are no rules”.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Finally the Rock has come back to Montreal, it’s true it’s true, hell looooo lllaaadies, gimme a hell yeah, Slaughter’s wife likes my soldier that stands at attention, I am the game ‘cause I’m that damn good, two words: SUCK IT, Austin 3:16 says I just whipped your ass, know your role and shut your damn mouth, if ya smell what the Rock is cooking. Yes indeed, the WWF was back in town last week, and we at the Tribune waded through the filth and came out clean on the other side to bring you this exclusive report.

Kids, put your parents to bed! They can’t handle this! The following content is of an extremely immature nature and is probably not suitable for those over the age of fourteen.

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Confessions of a WWF virgin

“We want puppies!” (held up during the National Anthem)

Men in spandex shorts isn’t usually my idea of a good time. In fact, any­ body in spandex is usually a recipe for disaster.

I went to the WWF Smackdown show with the basic knowledge. I had the main plot - huge men ‘fight’ in a ring while questionable women cheer them on in their mandatory sheer skimpy outfits. This is interspersed with bicker­ ing, pyrotechnics, and ample mockery of Vince McMahon’s daughter Stephanie (by whom one fan behind me begged to be pleasured in a way I can­ not say, lest I relinquish my journalistic integrity).

The idea behind the show is pure fantasy. The ultimate cult-like status of this organization is present in every mask-wearing, postering-toting fan that packed Molson Centre to the brim on Tuesday night.

And the signs. Oh, the signs.

Some people should have entered them in an art exhibition. Hours worth of physical labour and perma-marker sniffing went into these industrial-qual­ ity babies. It is obvious that these people have too much time on their hands; “If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a 260-ponnd fatass Canadian.

- WWF Champion Stone Cold Steve Austin

“Can you smeeeelllll it”

“If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s a stupid buckwheat Canadian in earrings” - Stone Cold Steve Austin...the ‘Texas Rattlesnake’ “Does someone have a fuck­ ing trumpet here?”

“I love ‘va-chyna’”

“I love Stephanie’s implants”

Perky breasts and lotsa confidence continued from PAGE 13 knew I had a chance. I sing. Yes, many people sing, but I sing well. I belong to Tonal Ecstasy, one of Mcgill’s a cappella groups, which are pretty hard to get into. I’m in a band or two, and when random strangers pause their cell phone conversation and stop you on the street to tell you that you have an amazing voice, you tend to believe it, no? Now, some of these people who auditioned had ter­ rible ranges, no sense of rhythm, no volume, etc. You could definitely tell that they were not getting a call-back, but they still came. I would not want my 15 seconds of fame to involve a voiceover saying how bad I was, but who am I to judge?

Anyway, back to the audition.

They wouldn’t let any of us go to the bathroom while we were in the audi­ tion room, so of course I had to go.

Grace and I (whom had now been convinced to audition) were sitting in the middle, so we got to see a good chunk of people audition. There were some folks that were pretty good. The cute boy with the yellow touque (who I later found out made it to boot camp) was very good. We became pretty good at predicting who would get call backs, and who

wouldn’t. Soon, it was my turn. I was the last person in my group to go, and I was still deciding what to sing as the fourth person was singing. The chatty girls who had been sitting beside us dissing every single per­ former sucked. Hah!. As I said my name to the camera, I decided to sing “I’m like a bird.” I knew the words, and I wouldn’t mess it up. I started a little lower than I meant to, but it was alright. I received quite a bit of applause, and a “ You go girl” from a girl sitting in the front row. I even heard the judge say “excellent”. Yeah.

I was in. As they were deliberating, I still got extremely nervous. What if he hadn’t said excellent? What if they didn’t like my jeans? Then they announced that I got a call-back, and everything was alright. The jeans had gotten me through. I was led into a hallway, got my Polaroid taken, and was given the details of the call-back.

Call backs were the next day, again at 9 o’clock in the morning.

Awesome... waking up early again.

The next day at Ultimate Practice, everyone was very excited about my outcome. They were all convinced that I was destined for pop greatness. However, that night, I made a decision that changed every-

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11 thing. I decided not to go to my call­ back. Why? Everyone asked. Well, here we go. Firsdy, do any of you actually know the names of the girls from Sugar Jones? I want instant recognition a la Madonna. .What can I say? I’m a Leo. Secondly, I write my own music. I just didn’t feel comfort­ able with the idea of being a manu­ factured pop singer. I have intelligent thoughts and ideas that I want to communicate through my music.

Despite the great wardrobe that comes with being a popstar, I want my music to mean more. I knew I probably could have made it all the way. I can sing and dance, and I have great jeans. I’m sure the final five will have a great time, and even become quasi famous, at least in Canada.

Popstars may be some people’s dream, but it’s not mine. I want the real deal.

Do you own the Sugar Jones album?

I don’t.

that or they are aspiring WWF advertising execs. And I’m not just talking 14 year-old guys who still think that they can look like the Tazz if they eat enough whey powder. I’m talking about the full-grown-wife-and-kids-steady-9-to-5jobbers who were there to cheer on the Rock and witness a confrontation between himself and Y2J. If you know what I’m talking about, I’m sorry.

You can really see how fake it is when you’re up close and personal with the steroid machines. When the heads are swaying before the fist hits the face, something is not right. This leads me to wonder how the choreography is car­ ried out. To anyone who has ever taken a ballet lesson or a tap class, or even seen the movie Fame, you know what I’m talking about.

Just imagine the choreographer going: “Okay Rock, you’re going to twirl around, bounce back, do a double sache, and roll on the ground three times.

Then, Triple H, I want you to come around stage left and jump on his face.”

So the next time WWF Smackdwn comes to town, I will definitely not be in the line-up at the ‘billeterie’—I’m saving my money for Raw. .

- Raquel ‘Playa Queen’ Kirsch

The paragon of manliness I am a wrestling neophyte. I have never watched wrestling on tel­ evision. I have never discussed wrestling with friends. My concep­ tion of wrestling is limited to large muscled men and large breasted women battling in choreographed fights cheered on by large-bellied males.

After spending two hours spec­ tating at the WWF Smackdown I can tell you that— surprise, surprise— my conception was correct. Well, almost correct: wrestling is indeed muscles, boobs, and fat, but there is far more to the phenomenon then I had thought possible.

There is a terrifically impressive amount of skill involved in wrestling. Yes, the fights are quite blatantly contrived. The security gaurds protectng the ring clearly know the results of the fights before they end since they allow the crowed to surge forward and boo the van­ quished prior to anybody actually being vanquished. Nevertheless, what goes on in the ring is nothing short of remarkable. The massive wrestlers launch themselves into impossible acrobatics and duck and dive and squirm make the move­ ments look easy.

Though physically impressive, wrestling is still an açt and I cannot fathom why people are willing to pay so much money to suspend dis­ belief to such a ridiculous degree.

Do they think those wrestlers woodenly badmouthing each other aren’t reciting memorised scripts? That through pure serendipity wrestlers always find microphones when they need to talk? That those backstage videos of wrestlers partying and plotting and swaggering are candid?

Or are they not thinking at all, merely happy to be passive partici­ pants in a live version of their favourite television show?

Perhaps wrestling is so popular because it is the one vice of North America’s repressed homosexuals.

Short of going to a male strip club

you will not find more taught, muscled flesh and skimpy outfits. Wrestlers as paragons of manliness? Hardly.

Apparently, the sensitive men at the WWF don’t like to discriminate either, since most gay stereotypes were represented. From chaps wear­ ing leathermen to pretty boys in sil­ ver lame short shorts, the WWF has it all. Most striking was the resem­ blance borne by some of the ring antics to stylised sex acts. Still, I think there were a few straight males in the audience and the WWF likes to indulge them as well. These efforts were appreciated by the gen­ tleman sitting behind me who yelled to a particularly large breasted women, in a thick Québécois accent, “I want to teeeet fuck you, Stephanie.” As I understand it, Stephanie is the daughter of Vince McMahon, WWF magnate. As ascertained from a dialogue between wrestlers ‘The Rock’ and ‘Y2J,’ Stephanie is a woman of easy virtue and recently augmented breasts.

Indeed, to the wild appreciation of the audience, these two wrestlers insulted Stephanie’s sexual promis cuity and insulted her physical appearance until she ran away, ostensibly in tears (acting is not a WWF strength).

This blatant exploitation of women as objects of lust was the most disturbing aspect of the evening. To witness a stadium of men yelling “slut” and “Stephanie swallows” is to know that true gen­ der equality has yet to be realised.

I feel confident in pronouncing muscled men, big-breasted women, and fat spectators to be the heart and soul of wrestling. But as a cultural phenomenon it is far more involved than I ever could have imagined.

For all the fascinating questions attending Smackdown raised, would I go again? Only if the tickets were free, I was stoned out of my gourd, and had absolutely nothing better to do. Which is to say, not bloody like­ ly-

— Dan ‘Horseman’ Zacks

The McGill Tribune, Monday, October 23, 2001

Redmen downed in Shaughnessy Cup classic C o a c h

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Jeremy Kuzmarov_____________ For the past five years, John MacDonald, ‘The First PrimeMinister of Defense’, has been the one constant for McGill Redmen football fans. After suiting up in 33 straight games, MacDonald’s ironman string came to a halt on Saturday in the Shaughnessy Cup game against cross-town-rival Concordia.

Second in the nation in sacks, MacDonald was forced to the side­ lines on crutches after incurring a leg injury during practice this week.

Without their on-field leader, the Redmen came out with a lame-duck performance in a disappointing 3128 loss before over 2,000 fans at Molson Stadium.

McGill, who will finish in third pla e in the Quebec football confer­ ence, fell to 3-4 on the season while Concordia improved to 5-2 to main­ tain a first place tie with Laval. The Redmen will be forced to travel either across the city to the Stingers' home park, or to Quebec City in their playoff opener.

"It was tough to watch from the stands. I felt useless being unable to contribute, but that’s part of foot­ ball," said MacDonald, a potential Canadian Football League draftee after he graduates. "We played well in hanging in the game, but funda­ mentally we broke down. We’ve got a lot of work to do to prepare for the post-season."

An ominous sign for the Rr ten came on the opening kickot.. offer electing to receive, McGill re i a man Stefan Kohaykewich had trouble reading Concordia’s moonshot boot, which the Stingers were able to recover deep in Redmen territr y.

After a two—yard Pat Donovan touchdown, the Stingers padded their lead on a 30 yard TD strike from Jon Kronemeyer — who passed for 339 yards on the day — to receiver Matt Macdonald.

The Redmen, to their credit, did not fold their cards after the har­ rowing start. Nick Hoffmann scored on a seven yard run, and speedy cor­ ner Greg Shink, a member of the McGill track team, scooped up a Stingers fumble and went off to the races for a 24-yard major to tie up the game at 14.

Special teams for McGill was not all bad.

Versatile cornerback and return-man Andrew Cooke, dis­ played his break-away speed on a nifty 65-yard punt return to tie up the score once again at 21 in the third quarter. Cooke read the blocks well on the return, and waited intel­

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ligently before sprinting up the mid­ dle to daylight.

"I was pleased with that play.

Cooke showed patience, and found the hole well," said Redmen coach Chuck McMann after the game.

"It’s too bad, plays like that weren’t enough. We weren’t mentally pre­

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128 yards on 18 carries including two majors, provided some spark on offense, the passing game for McGill was brutal — especially late in the game when the team took to the air in hopes of a comeback.

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The offense has got to do its job, and so does the defense."

The Redmen will have to improve next Saturday as they host Laval at Molson Stadium in their regular season finale. McGill will hope to restore the magic of their early-season victory over the Rouge et Or, who have won four straight since.

The one note of optimism from Saturday’s game is that despite all of the mistakes and aloofness, the Redmen only lost by three points.

If potential game-breakers, like Shink and Cooke keep stepping it Game Notes ‘The Man’ Mahoney contin­ ues to rip it up.

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up with the big plays, some finetuning on offense and the return of MacDonald on defense could mean a potential upset in the first-round.

Redmen coach McMann stress­ es, however, the need for his team to return to the basics in practice this week.

"We’ve got to go back to the fundamentals, like making catches, kicking-off successfully and making blocks," said McMann. "Every game’s important now; we’ve got to work hard and be ready next time We can do better." asses kicked." - Redmen line backer Ryan Grad, who had seven tackles on the game.

In the Words o f Robb Watt:

The best Redmen middlelinebacker since Olivier Lefebvre and J.P Darche, Mike Mahoney continued his string of dominance with 11 tackles on Saturday, including a quarterback sack of Kronemeyer.

The junior from Saskatchewan now has 80 tackles on the season, and is a viable allCanadian candidate along with "The First Prime Minister of Defense” Hartley model Citizen Redmen receivers like Rob LeBlanc could not handle the ball Saturday

pared out there today, and it showed on the first play of the game. We just watched the ball and let them recov­ er. That, unfortunately set the tone for the rest of the day."

McGill’s lack of mental prepa­ ration reared its ugly head in the fourth quarter where MacDonald's presence was missed the most.

The Redmen defense, which was able to generate several turnovers throughout the course of the game, fell asleep as poised Stingers pivot Kronemeyer marched his troops upfield and connected with fleet receiver Burke Dales for the winning major. McGill had taken a lead on another Hoffmann TD jaunt.

"We needed to step up out there and play more as a team. On D, we just didn’t get the job done," said distraught corner Shink, who threw his body all over the field, and had 10 tackles to go along with his fumble recovery TD. "There’s going to be days when the offense struggles, and we’ve got to pull it together. Guys were injured, but that’s no excuse," Shink went on to say.

While Hoffmann, who netted

breaking his leg against Laval two weeks ago was glaringly evident.

Redmen Quarterback Josh Sommerfeldt’s numbers looked like Ryan Leaf’s. He was 8-of-24 for 78 yards. The gosh-awful stats weren’t completely his fault. In many cases, the senior pivot resembled former Ottawa Gee-Gees Hec Creighton Trophy Winner Phil Coté in his ability to scramble and get the ball off under intense pressure.

His butter-fingered receivers however, let him down on numerous occasions, as they dropped ball after ball — many of them slipping right through their hands.

As a result, McGill Kicker Anand Pillai — who marvellously saved two touchdowns on special teams as the last man back — got more action in the game than a Club Supersexe worker on a Saturday night. He punted 10 times for 396 yards total.

"Just unacceptable," comment­ ed McMann. "Josh did some nice things out there, and threw the ball on the money several times but to no avail. The drops killed our drives.

We missed way too many blocks too.

Guys have to make plays out there.

After being profiled in the Gazette, Redmen Defensive Back Strachan Hartley was honoured in Toronto on Friday at the Royal Bank All-Canadian Gala for being named as the Quebec conference nominee best combining academ­ ics and athletics.

Hardey —- who captained the 1997 Vanier Cup champion University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, is a Masters stu­ dent in Experimental Medicine, and currently does research on cancer, diabetes and AIDS. The exemplary student-athlete had four tackles against Concordia.

Trib Game Ball Cornerback Greg Shink. The senior speed demon from Montreal-West was all over the field, and played with heart in McGill’s loss. He had 10 tackles, and a 24-yard fumble recovery touchdown.

They Said It: "Plain and simple, we got our

"Let’s Hear it For the McGili Cheerleaders" - and let’s here it for their new male editions.

One comment: when there 20 seconds left on the clock, an< Concordia’s kneeling on each pla with the game sealed, there’s no need to start a "Let’s go Big Red cheer.

What’s The Shaughnessy Cup Anyway?

The Cup was first contested in 1969. It was named after th legendary Frank "Shag Shaughnessy Sr, who coached bod at McGill and Loyala (now Concordia). Shag also played major league baseball with the now defunct Washington Senator and Philadelphia As in the earn 1900 s after playing football anil baseball for Notre Dame.

Shag introduced the option play to American football while coaching at Yale and Cornell.

Shag also introduced the forward pass to Canadian University foot­ ball. "Snapback" Bob Anderso i and Don Baillie, father of all-tin u McGill winningest coach Char Baillie, threw the pass in a November game at Mols< n Stadium versus Syracuse University.

Frank Shaughnessy also coached M cGill’s hockey tea n during the inter-war period, and was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1963, prior to his death six years later. He's also a member of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame, and was in inaugural inductee of the McGill Sports Hall of Fame.

Please see KUZMAROV, page 22

The McGill Tribune, Monday, October 23, 2001

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Martlets win another laugher Andrew Hennigar Friday night’s matchup between the McGill Martlets and the Université de Montréal Carabins unfolded the way most Martlet games have this season.

The opponent provided little chal­ lenge for the number four ranked McGill team as they pumped out a 5-0 win. With only two regular season games remaining, McGill sits atop the Quebec University Soccer league standings with a record of 9-1-1.

The scoring attack started early in the first half. Amber Allen was on the receiving end of a beautiful Josée Busilacci cross and effortless­ ly tucked the ball in the back of the net to get the punishment started.

The first half was littered with opportunities for the Martlets as the majority of play unfolded in the Carabins’ defensive end. Rookie defender Sabrina Dufour netted her third goal in as many games off a corner kick rebound in front of the U de M keeper. Only seven min­ utes later on another corner kick scramble, midfielder Meghan O ’Reilly, known more for her silky-

smooth footwork, Mounicot. The Martlets' notched her first goal play began to deteriorate of the season. near the end of the first "It feels good to half and although put one away," she Mounicot addressed his said with a smile after concerns at half time, the the game.

Martlets continued to play With the score 3down to the level of their 0, the Carabins opponents. defenders stepped up "There’s no excuse to their physical play. play down a level," said co­ Busilacci was hauled captain Sophie Labrom down inside the penal­ after the game, "but it’s ty area and calmly hard to stay motivated fired the ensuing every game when you’re up penalty kick into the by five goals." top left corner of the Motivation is some­ net. In injury time, thing that the team contin­ midfielder Nicole ues to address as the play­ Shepherd was fouled offs draw nearer. on the edge of the U "We talk about it de M penalty area and before every game," was originally awarded Labrom acknowledged. a free kick. The refer­ "We know that we have to ee quickly changed his make ourselves go hard for call to award McGill every game, every prac­ tice." another penalty kick. Defender Victoria Lowerson fights for possesion in a 5-0 shortcut It was awarded to To prepare for playoff highlights in the second forty-five, Busilacci who put her second goal level games, the Marlets have a aside from the odd shot on goal of the night past the hapless scrimmage lined up against the from a Martlet attacker.

Carabins keeper. number three ranked Ottawa Gee"We just didn’t play well in the The second half opened with a Gees. second half," commented lack of zest. There were very few "We’re trying to schedule some

games against teams from outside our division to play tougher oppo­ nents," explained co-captain Eva Melamed, who sat out Friday’s game with a leg injury. "It’s not easy though because our schedule is so busy with league matches. We have to use these games to work on dif­ ferent things, look for the positives that come out of them — like cor­ ner kicks which were great tonight."

The spark plug on Friday night was first year midfielder Josée Busilacci. Busilacci, who played for Mounicot this summer with the Québec Canada Games team, is a great addition to the Martlets.

"Josée balances the team very well with her left foot. She’s quick, a good defender and a strong attack­ er," Mounicot said of his new recruit.

Goalkeepers Sacha Liben and Jessica White, neither of who saw much in the way of shots against, shared the McGill shutout.

Next Friday, October 26 will be the last regular season home game for the Martlets as they take on Concordia at 6:30 at the Molson Stadium.

Scoring woes continue for the Redmen P la y o ff b e rth in je o p a r d y w ith 0 - 0 tie Edward Gliicksman "This was a hard fought game because they were battling to stay in contention. We lost another two points today which certainly should have been ours," explained McGill Varsity soccer coach Adam Mar after last Friday night’s game. His McGill Redmen Soccer team walked away from their second 0-0 tie against cross-town competitors Université de Montréal this season, leaving doubt regarding their quali­ fication for the upcoming Québec Student Sport Federation playoffs.

Mar’s counterpart on that night was none other than exMcGill mentor Pat Raimondo who, after enjoying tremendous success in his seven seasons with the Redmen, found himself mathemat­ ically removed from the playoffs.

"We needed the win tonight and we are now eliminated as a con­ sequence of our failure. There’s no excuse for such a performance but I’m proud of the way my boys

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played," concluded Raimondo who was chosen to head the U de M expansion team this season.

Little positive nature can be drawn from McGill’s on-field per­ formance Friday night. The first half provided arguably the season’s least entertaining soccer with both squads stubbornly endorsing inflex­ ible and frustrating, unproductive, kick-and-run tactics. The second half displayed a similarly unpracti­ cal character although the Redmen finally managed to scrape together a

handful of scoring opportunities, all of them failing to break the dead­ lock.

Redmen for­ ward Kyle Graham perhaps lost the most post­ game sleep after having missed two second-half break­ away opportuni­ ties. His first effort trickled wide of the target and his second, unfortu­ nately, was shot straight at the Carabins keeper.

As last year’s QSSF Rookie of the Year, Graham recognized the importance of his misses, "The keeper did well on my breakaways, we just generally missed out on our oppor­ tunities. This is a pity because we needed the win tonight, we want nothing but first place in the divi­ sion."

The home team almost stole the three points in injury time when computer software Junior Guy Anaba Anaba hit the right goalpost with a low shot through a crowded goal-mouth area.

"The race for the playoffs

might be tighter than expected as a consequence of this result. We played too much of their game and not enough of our own," comment­ ed The Magician whose last minute effort could have resulted in his third game-winning tally of the sea­ son.

Although the Redmen offense seemed to have finally come alive two weeks ago with five goals in two games, the forwards and mid­ fielders are still not creating as many opportunities as they should.

"I felt we were defensively solid today and am still confident that the offense will finally come around," analyzed winger Philippe Lazure who played in only his third game of the season Friday after returning from the injury list.

McGill Captain Mathieu Harding seemed equally confident about the future of his team, "I am convinced that we are more confi­ dent out there [compared to earlier in the season], but I cannot explain why we just cannot seem to put that ball away. It is now time to perfect the skills that we’ve acquired thus far," justified the newly dreadlocked striker.

The Red n White defensive line was again left with little to do.

Centre back Rudolf Glueck shared many of his teammates’ feelings.

"Whereas our defense was solid, especially in terms of our defensive midfield, our offense didn’t seem to

come to the ball. Against a physical opponent like the U de M we need to be more willing to move and cre­ ate openings up front."

Perhaps the most entertaining moment of the night was Pat Raimondo’s desperate kamikaze tac­ tic, moving his keeper into the Redmen penalty area on two late occasions. The farcical return dash by the Carabins’ net-minder and McGill’s attempts at moving the ball into a gaping net were almost enough to convince fans that they hadn’t wasted two precious week­ end hours on watching their young team evolve’. A reminiscing Lazure was not surprised at his old coach’s antics, "That was a classic Raimondo move, he used to do that over here as well.”

With two games remaining, time is running out for Adam Mar and his troops in proving that their offense really is capable of systemat­ ically creating chances and winning games. The Redmen may still make the playoffs here in Québec, howev­ er, such lackluster offense that was shown last Friday can only mean an eventual downfall in the later stages of the season. A crucial step towards the post season comes this Friday when the Redmen play at home to rivals Concordia who sit on top of the league, having scored five more goals than McGill.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 23, 2001

Third place finish for McGill Ultimate B a rrie

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Ian Speigel Halftime and we’re getting whooped eight to one. Fifteen of us huddle just off the sideline, standing uneasily as were pelted by a nasty rain. A dirt-caked Nalgene bottle is passed around and the orange liquid that spills over is a flavourless disappoint­ ment. A month ago the McGill Ultimate Team rolled through the regional championship in Toronto — undefeated and virtually unchallenged — winning for the first time ever.

But this morning, with our boots muddy and UBC giddy about their impending victory, our “let’s bring home Nationals” swag­ ger has all but disappeared.

O f course, M U T has never been known for its quick starts — or even having enough players to start a game on time. I can remember a couple o f times pulling up to the fields cocooned in the back seat of a van, lulled by swells of syrup in my belly as some keener team (usually Queen’s) was hustling out drills and cursing McGill and Montreal punctuality in the same breath.

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But this morning was an exception. Despite the inhos­ pitable Barrie Ontario weather, everyone on the team had man­ aged to crawl out of our Travelodge hotel’s nooks and cran­ nies and make it to the fields a good half hour before game time.

Most of us looked pretty good for a Sunday morning. There were rumours (confirmed) of late-night MUFF in the hot tub (McGill Ultimate for Females is the women’s team — they competed in the women’s bracket of this national collegiate tournament), and no less triumphantly, most of us got a good eight hours of sleep.

Aside from the usual assort­ ment of scrapes and bruises that sneak up on you after playing five round-robin games and a quarter­ final in two days, there were only a couple of groin and quad pulls to speak of.

More impressive, there was no pre-game vomiting and no reports of people waking up with a mouthful of porcelain. In fact, there wasn’t a single hangover a couple of ibuprofen couldn’t take care of. Though we certainly didn’t plan on taking it easy last night, a

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too-familiar grimace.

Last year, during big games, our captain, John ‘peonies and ice cream’ Bromley, wouldn’t blather during huddles. He would just look around at people and say

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the spanking they deserved.

At least, that was the message that J.P., one of our team captains is trying to get across as he stares at us inside the huddle.

“I was gonna scream at you guys, but I changed my mind,” he says. His mouth threatens a smile, but it is soon banished by an all-

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something like: “Whatever you have to do to elevate your own per­ sonal game, whatever inspiration or determination you need, fuckin get it. Because now’s the time.”

John wasn’t a great speaker or even a smart guy, but he was a pretty good captain and he knew what he was talking about — big games means everybody plays harder because that’s what you need to succeed as a team.

JP is thinking the same thing and I’m relieved when I hear the frustration dripping from his voice.

“What is it going to take to make you guys play with the intensity we’ve been talking about?

I mean what do I have to say?” he asks, shifting his feet.

His stare echoes through the huddle. It’s a good question. Why aren’t we playing balls-out like we

ought to? There’s no good reason.

Sometimes your pride has to take a hit to get you going and JP is pointing a finger at everyone.

The truth is every sorry face in this huddle knows exactly what ballsout means because we’ve all done it before.

We’ve all run past the vomit mark, and played through muscle pulls and launched ourselves head first going top-speed in the hopes of grabbing a piece o f flying disc And we all know balls-out is when it gets fun.

So when JP starts yelling about not giving a single point away without a fight and beating your man to the disc and playing huge defense and laying out for discs and putting on a hard mark, we’re starting to get fired up. And pretty soon we’re yelling out an offensive lineup and after that we’re just plain yelling.

The second half starts and we get a quick couple of scores to pull within five. We play like a team with something to lose and fight for every possession with a bitter determination.

Despite this, our first-half performance proves too much to overcome and we lose the game to UBC 15-8. They eventually go on to win the tournament, and we’re left with a limited satisfaction in half of a game well-played. A third place finish in a national collegiate tournament is nothing to scoff at, but this is third year in a row M U T has lost in the semis and I’m getting tired o f it. I just hope McGill Athletics doesn’t cut our funding.

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Young ploughs through opponents and into the record books Sarah Wright A genuine love for sports and the life of an athlete is something every coach hopes for in his or her players. In the case of Coach Vince De Grandpré of the Martlet rugby team, he wouldn't have to look any further to find such a player than Jessica Young.

For Young, a sophomore Political Science major from Bathurst New Brunswick, rugby has been a part of her life for a while now. The winger has been living rugby ever since she was forced to a practice early in her high school career.

"I was a soccer player, and one of my friends convinced me to try rugby just for a day. I went to the first practice and I caught the rugby bug. I got hooked right away and I've been playing every year since."

This season, Young broke her teammate Julie Brisebois' record of total tries scored in the Canadian Interuniversity Sport regular season with an incredible 27. With an average of three and a half tries per game, it would seem that nothing could stop this 5-foot-10 power­ house.

"She is an incredibly hard run­ ner who is very difficult to tackle," said Coach De Grandpré of Young's talent, adding that for the most part, "[she's] a real team player."

Young is very quick to praise

Sports Briefs Redmen Hockey 1-1 in weekend action The McGill Redmen hockey team was in action over the week­ end and the team split both games it played.

The regular season gets under way this weekend for the Redmen as they travel to Trois-Rivieres on Friday and to Concordia on Sunday.

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wanted to try. Usually, she would be in the starting line-up as an inside centre, doing what she does best: ploughing down the opposi­ tion.

"What I really love doing is break­ ing tackles and crashing down on the other team. And I like setting up other people for tries," said Young.

"I don't really have the winger instinct yet. I have to think about what I'm doing all the time, opposed to when I'm playing inside center, where it just happens."

De s p i t e playing a new _________________ position for the latter half of the season, her statis­ tics were monitored nationwide to see if and when the try-scoring record would be smashed. Prior to the team's final regular season game against Bishop's where they silenced any doubt that they could break their own total point record, Young only needed one try to break a

record of her own. She was nervous she would not be able to live up to such standards.

"I never used to think about stats at all, but then the coach start­ ed to compare my stats against other conferences in the country, so now the pressure is on," Young said timidly prior to last Sunday's game.

Coincidentally, the record Young has been on the road to breaking had been held by a team­ mate, and admired friend Brisebois, who has had a lot to do with Young's success as a center.

"I love playing with Julie,” Young said. "She's an internationalcalibre athlete and I've learned so much from her. A lot of that is reflected in how I play now."

After getting not only the one try necessary for breaking the record, Young touched the ball down an impressive four more times. Any nerves she might have had in accomplishing this feat were not evident on the field. Again, though, Young would contest that her five tries against Bishop's had little to do with her skills as a rugby player.

"It was more a function of everyone else being on because unless the ball can get out to me, I can't do anything by myself. The forwards were rucking hard, the centers were passing perfectly and once the ball got to me, all I had to do was strait arm a couple of girls,

and that's it," laughed Young.

Young has very soft-spoken and bashful mannerisms, yet her style of play on the field completely contradicts her character ---- and she would be the first person to admit it.

"A perfect game for me would be one where I get to nail every­ one," she exclaimed.

Young explained that the Quebec conference hasn’t allowed her to feel fulfilled in that respect this season due to a lack of equal competition.

Even though Young has not put her talent to full use this season, her tackling prowess has been com­ pared to such rugby stars as the New Zealand All Blacks’ Johna Lomu due to her ability to stomp on any opposition without missing a beat.

The Martlets coaches couldn’t be more excited about the team’s future. With several players like Jessica Young having three more years of eligibility, the four-year winning streak the team is on shows no sign of ending.

And future plans for Jessica Young?

"It is definitely a life-long goal for me to keep playing rugby,” Young said with a smile. "I will play this sport until my body makes me stop."

University of Toronto and Guelph last weekend. Suzy Fujiki and Audrey Hadd scored the two goals to create the 2-0 victory, the second ever win against the University of Toronto Blues giving starting goalie Amey Doyle a shutout.

In a high-scoring 7-3 victory against Guelph, Katherine Safka had a pair of goals with players, Anna Cooper, Sarah Lomas, Suzy Fujiki, Robin Spratt and rookie Justine Keyserlingk each scoring once. The Martlet regular season starts this coming Friday against Concordia.

tory scoring 24 and 20 points respectively in a 104-0 blow-out against Ottawa. There was no ques­ tion who the dominant team was in this match-up as Meghan Stewart touched down a hat-trick and Jessica Young, Trish Jaworski and Jessie Matiaszuk each had two tries.

This Sunday, the Martlets will host Concordia to determine the Quebec Champion and who will go to the Nationals next weekend.

After breezing through two preliminary matches, the Martlets ran into some tough competition in the playoff round, losing three straight sets to University of Winnipeg.

In Sunday's bronze medal game, McGill won the first set but then proceeded to lose the next three.

Shauna Forster was stand-out for the Martlets. She earned a birth to the all-Tournament team with 32 kills and 50 digs over four games.

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The McGill Martlets volleyball team finished fourth at the 11 th Annual Invitational tournament held over the past weekend.

in tournament action over the weekend. On Saturday the team dropped two of three games. The win came against McMaster by a score of 14-12. Higgins led the team with 7 points. Katie Barron and Melissa Laird each had three goals apiece.

The team travelled to Guelph the next day and lost three games.

Higgins finished the tournament with a total of 14 goals and Allison Astridge was close behind with 10 tallies.

The men's team lost last Sunday against Queen's by a score of 16-6. Blair Birkette scored three times while Ben Davies found the net two times.

other players, and in fact, seems much more comfortable talking about her teammates’ accomplish­ ments rather than her own.

Young scored 27 tries this season

"Winger is definitely a glory position because all the hard work that the forwards and all the other players put in ends up looking all fancy once the ball gets out to me, but I really have little to do with it."

Young only began playing on the wing late this season from a scoring technique her coaches

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Expect Moore from the Martlets Dave McCormick For a team whose last two sea­ sons have produced mediocre results, the 2001-2002 McGill Martlets were in high spirits as they kicked off their season at McGills annual Redbird Invitational Tournament last weekend.

McGill hosted the round robin event against Queens University, Memorial University and University of New Brunswick. The Martlets unveiled a youthful team with talent and potential but also a corresponding level of inexperience that will make it difficult for them to be a competitive force in the league.

The Martlets are once again under the leadership of Lisen Moore, who is in her eighth season as head coach of the womens bas­ ketball team. With the group of players the youngest she has ever coached, Moore has the opportuni­ ty to mould the women into a championship team over the next few years.

"These girls are outstandingly enthusiastic and it is pleasure to lead them," said Moore. "Last year

we had a lot of problems with com­ mitment and dedication but that shouldn’t be an issue with this group. I am confident that their good attitude and work ethic will allow them to realize their full potential this year."

Along with the newcomers, McGill retained many of its valu­ able veteran players including guards Cheeka Mitchell and Maude Vallières. Coach Moore expects this duo to lead the team in scoring and keep the Martlets competitive against the top teams.

"Cheeka and Maude have great performance leadership in that they can execute big plays when it counts and really step up to help us win the game," commented Moore.

While Cheeka Mitchell has the ability to score, coach Moore is also counting on the enthusiasm and desire of players like Gisela Schulz and Alisen Salusbury to keep the team’s spirits high in the upcoming season.

Promising'" new talent on the team includes rookies Lindsay Wilmot and Fanie Ruel. Wilmot showed ability at the point guard position and will be a capable sub­

stitute for Mitchell. She could also prove valuable as a shooting guard.

Ruel’s height and quickness make her a good choice for a power for­ ward. Ruel will work alongside vet­ eran forward Sarah Gagné in the low post.

Despite' their youthful opti­ mism and court skills, the Martlets’ inexperience may be evident at times against more veteran teams.

The shaky McGill defense needs improvement so as not to be caught flatfooted on simple pick and rolls and ball movement. The on-court cohesion between the new players should improve as the season pro­ gresses.

"We’ve been trying to focus on improving our defense, rebounding and free throw consistency," stated Coach Moore after the game against UNB. "There are some good things happening out there but we still need to improve in these three areas.”

Another concern for Coach Moore is the Martlets’ physical fit­ ness. It was apparent that stamina was an issue in the game against Queen’s with a drop in field goal percentage in the second half of the

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contest. Coach Moore attributes the struggle to her team’s lack of conditioning for play at the univer­ sity level.

"These girls need to under­ stand that being an elite university athlete is a lifestyle; you must be in shape all through the year if you expect to compete at this level.

This is a big step up from the high school teams our rookies have played on in the past and I think it will take them some time to adapt to this heightened level of intensi­ ty-" The next test for the Martlets comes this Friday and Saturday, when they play consecutive exhibi­ tion games against the University of Ottawa.

Although the Marlets basket­ ball team has strong challenges this season, it appears they have the work ethic and good attitude need­ ed to achieve their goals. The Redbird Invitational Tournament provided the women with an opportunity to iron out some wrin­ kles in their game and although there is much work to be done this season, it promises to be an improvement upon last year.

Kuzmarov continued from PAGE 18 Info courtesy of renowned sports historian, and McGill com­ munications officer Earl "The Pearl" Zukerman.

Global in the house The game was broadcast live with Paul Graif, and forme McGill defensive coordinator Mike Maurovich handling th< play-by-play. Ron Francis (not related to the NHL star) per­ formed some sideline interview and chatted at one point with for­ mer Redmen coach Charlie Baillie.

Kuzmarov Prognostication The boys in Red ’n White will rebound and pummel the Rouge et Or at Molson Stadium next week. Chuck McMann will work his squad hard this wee and they’ll be ready. Hopeful!v Dennis Kotsoros and his market­ ing department can get somemore fans out to see the display.

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Runnin' Redmen sprint to Nationals C a g e r s lo o k to b u ild o n last y e a r 's s u c c e s s a n d fin a lly w in th e Q u e b e c c o n f e r e n c e Neil Schnurbach______________ It was a long bus ride home from Ste-Foy Quebec last year for the McGill Remen basketball team.

After having their most suc­ cessful seasons in years, tying a team record with 13 conference wins, the cagers dropped two straight games to the Laval Rouge-et-Or in the Quebec University Basketball League finals. Laval had finished in second place to McGill in the regu­ lar season and were the underdogs in the playoffs.

It was the second year in a row that the Redmen were on the brink of making it to the Final Eight National tournament in Halifax but were denied in a heartbreaking fash­ ion.

This year, the young team will try to get the proverbial monkey off their backs. The good news for the Redmen is that most of last year’s team is intact.

Among the returning members to the Redmen this year is the QUBL’s second leading scorer from last year, Domenico Marcario.

Marcario, who was a first team all­ conference performer last year, is an explosive player who can both slash to the hoop and shoot the jumper.

He has some defensive shortcom­ ings, but it is clear that this is some­ thing that he worked on in the off­ season. * "The fact that Domenico drew a charge in the first few minutes of the game [an 80-67 preseason win over the University of New Brunswick] shows me something," said McGill Head Coach Nevio Marzinotto. "This was clearly a good sign and we expect more of the same for the upcoming season."

Marcario’s partner in the backcourt will be point-guard Denburk Reid who was another QUBL first team all-star last season. Reid, who is entering his second year on the team is perhaps the most exciting player on this squad. Standing at only 5 7 " tall, Reid may be quite small for a basketball player. But what he lacks in size, he makes up for in quickness and intensity. He is a passer first, but can also put the ball in the net, as is proven by the 13.4 points per game he averaged last season.

While Marcario and Denburk Reid may be the high profile mem­ bers of this team, if the Redmen are to make it to Nationals, the contri­ bution of the other three starters will have to be immense.

Rounding out the starting five are Frederic Bernard, Kirk Reid and Brent Prowse. Bernard is a 6’4" guard/forward who is the most ver­ satile player on the team. He can play point guard and center and every position in-between. A sec­ ond team all-star last year, Bernard averaged 10.5 points and 5.9

rebounds. His most important con­ tribution is probably on the defen­ sive end where he is extremely adept at drawing charges and is also McGill’s most skilled shot blocker.

Health, however, was a problem for Bernard last year as he missed sever­ al games due to both a mysterious inner-ear virus and a severely sprained left ankle.

"I’m looking to have a good year," said Bernard. "I feel great and I’m ready to play. With this team

around me it’ll be easy to have suc­ cess. I think the team will do really well this year."

Forward Kirk Reid is a former first team all—Quebec player who faltered a little bit last year. He averaged just below 12 points a game, which is respectable, but not enough for a player of Reid’s caliber.

If the Redmen are to win the con­ ference this year, "Captain" Kirk will have to play a huge role.

Among the starting five, Reid is the team’s greatest three-point shooting threat and can also dribble-penetrate with the conference’s best.

The last member of the start­ ing five is Brent "Bam-Bam" Prowse. As his nickname indicates, Prowse is a bruising inside player.

Last year, he was hampered by slowfootedness, which is something that he has been trying to improve.

Prowse also has a propensity to turn the ball over due to traveling viola­ tions. Despite these shortcomings, Bam-Bam is one of the few McGill players who can play the inside

game. While his 6’6" height is not extremely large for a hoopster, it is his 230 pound body that gives his opposition fits. He is a ferocious rebounder and a very good defend­ er as well.

"This year, I’m looking to be a better open court player," noted Prowse. "I have been working hard with [track coach] Dennis [Barrett] to improve my speed. I’ve been able to get up and down the court much faster now."

McGill’s bench is made up of several other important members of the team. Joel Sherbino is a transfer student who will try to assume the role of departed co-captain Brady Murphy. Sherbino is an excellent three-point shooter off the bench and can help erase large deficits.

Other key contributors will be Pat Kieran a 6’6" forward who has an excellent mid-range jumper and Hidesh Bhardwaj a 6’2" guard who is a scoring threat as well.

Returning for his second straight year as McGill’s head coach will be Nevio Marzinotto.

Marzinotto, the QUBL coach of the year last year, will adopt the same philosophy that his team had a season ago. Since most of his players are guards, McGill will be an up-tempo team once again.

Transition offense and transition defense are two of the main compo­ nents of Marzinotto coached teams.

"We’ll be an exciting team this year," stated Marzinotto. "We have many good players and many good

scorers. I think that we’ll be able to gel and take our games to the next level."

While this team looks like one of the most talented that McGill has ever had, there are some areas which McGill will have to improve on. Firstly, with their run and gun style there are many costly turnovers which can turn into opposition points. In addition, the fact that the Redmen have so many scorers leads to some selfish play and bad shot selection at times. A last concern is that there is once again no real center on this team. If McGill is to get to Nationals, the road will be through Laval once again and the Rouge-et-Or are not lacking in size. Their three top play­ ers, QUBL most valuable player Charles Fortier, and QUBL all-stars Samuel Audet-Sow and Marc Antoine Horth all have height advantages over McGill’s smaller players.

"Shot selection and turnovers are definitely something that we have to work on," said Marzinotto.

"If we can look for good shots and hold onto the ball, we will be able to win a lot of games. In terms of Laval, I see no problem in taking that team out. I don’t worry about their size. We will be playing them seven times this year, five in the reg­ ular season and two in the playoffs so we will know each other really well. It won’t be about Xs and Os, it will be about execution. And our team will execute well. If that hap­ pens, we can ride our success all the way to Nationals."

Redm en start season well The Redmen started the season at home with a pre-season tourna­ ment this weekend. The team managed to finish with a 2-1 record, losing the first game but winning the next two.

The Red n White were very sloppy against the Waterloo Warriors to start the season. Bad shot selection led to an 85-69 defeat. Fred Bernard was the star in a losing cause with 14 points and 10 rebounds. Denburk and Kirk Reid added 13 and eleven points apiece.

Game two saw Kirk Reid break out a huge game in the Redmen’s 80-67 victory over the UNB Varsity Reds. Reid had 31 points and was the player of the game. Domenico Marcario added 12 points for the winners. The Redmen built up a big early lead, lost it early in the sec­ ond half and finished strong.

Game three saw McGill anni­ hilate archrival Queen’s. Brent Prowse led the way for the home side with 13 points and five rebounds. Other key contributors were Kirk Reid who tallied 16 points and Domenico Marcario

who scored 15.

Players to watch: Brent Prowse In order for the Redmen to succeed, Bam-Bam will have to be at his best. This punishing forward will be counted on to take care of the glass for McGill. Without his inside presence, other teams will be able to key in on McGill’s guards which will lead to diminished scor­ ing and increased turnovers for the Red n White.

K irk Reid Captain Kirk will have to return to the form exhibited in 1999-2000 when he was a QUBL first-team all-star. A smooth as silk player on the floor, Reid can kill the opposition in many ways including outside shooting and penetrating.

If the captain can increase his scor­ ing, then defenses will not be as keyed in on Domenico Marcario or Denburk Reid.

Joel Sherbino While the Redmen have main­ ly the same team as last year, one key missing component is the three-point shooting of Brady Murphy. Late in the game, it is often important to stick a dagger in the opposition’s heart with a longbomb. Sherbino has the long range capability and will need to make himself a worry for his opponents.

N otes: Bier injured again Fourth year forward Andrew Bier is a player with both size and leadership for the Redmen cagers.

Unfortunately he has been oftinjured for the last few seasons.

Bier is once again on the shnide this year, nursing several leg ailments.

N ew look Redm en? Part I I think that someone in the Redmen’s brass was trying to con­ fuse me. Ari Hunter look-alike Kevin Boyle is wearing Hunter’s old number 24 and Laszlo Molnar look-alike Jamie Robinson is wear­ ing Molnar’s old number 14. It took me a few minutes to realize that Hunter and Molnar are no longer on the squad.

N ew look Redm en? Part II Apparently QUBL all-stars Denburk Reid, Domenico Marcario and Frederic Bernard did­ n’t think that it was their hairstyles that led them to success last year.

All three are sporting new dos for this season. Bernard and Reid have opted for the Allen Iverson/Latrell Sprewell corn-rows, while Marcario is now fashioning the cue-ball look à la Stone Cold Steve Austin.

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