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Costumes: goodbye dignity Natalie Fletcher It’s sad, but true: by the time we hit university, most o f us have passed our Halloween prime. N o more trick-or-treating, no more sorting out candy, no more free sugar in monumental proportions.

Yet, rather than indulge in child­ hood nostalgia, w e seem to embrace the day for new reasons: its quirkiness, its parties, its mysti­ cism, and o f course, the chance to dress up. N o w for the sixty-fourthousand dollar question: what to wear?

As far as what’s trendy, cos­ tume popularity usually follows prevalent m ovie trends, which explains the wannabe Scream killers that have been lurking about the last few years. Accordingly, this year, one would expect the advent o f a herd o f Apes intent on taking over the planet. Strangely enough, the only movie which has sparked costume creativity is M ou lin Rouge, for classy babes wanting to simulate Satines elegance, and for those who want to outslut themselves to the point o f dragqueendom à la Christina and L il’ Kim. Yet, period dress is also appeal­ ing for intellectual reasons: Political Science major W illy Blomme is em bodying historical sophistication as Christine de Pisan, a French fem inist. T h e m otivating drive behind her costume choice? Quite simply, the joy o f "dress[ing] up as a strong female figure and [wear­ ing] a medieval robe."

Also intellectually-inspired are the many kids-at-heart struck by the Harry Potter craze. T h e down­ side is the $70 they will have to dispense for the ‘official kits’, which include, w e ll...a pair o f round spectacles. This is why some afi­ cionados may choose to make their own cost-effective costume, with spiked hair, wand and cape.

Year after year, though, certain costumes seem to transcend fads,

Doing the time warp at the yearly Rocky Horror Picture Show...so forgive me, for I'm just a sweet transvestite luring in the downtown communi­ ty with a magnetic force. Generally speaking, guys reach for anything knightly, especially Musketeer apparel, which reveals an interest­ ing preoccupation with honour.

This could also be related to the unflagging fixation with Batman and Superman costumes, the very epitome o f the male desire to be a superhero by sporting capes and tights. A n d then, there’s Elvis, whose legacy continues to be hand­ ed down from generation to gener­ ation in the form o f overly-orna­ mented sequin suits, which, some­ how, always sellout.

Gals, on the other hand, usual­ ly prefer the path to seduction when selecting a costume. Those who want to show a little skin opt for the notorious French M aid out­ fit normal version or the disturbing dominatrix variety become a genie in a bottle, or bare their tummies as belly dancers.

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T h en there is the ever-invogue cheerleader getup which always seems to connote more than just ‘go team’ ; and the lascivious Marilyn Monroe-esque gear. Top it all o f f with a pair o f wings, the favourite female accessory, to com­ plete the whole tantalizing para­ doxical image.

Fatal seduction is certainly the goal o f first—year Science vixens Claire Smith, A lex W ilson and Cydney Peck, who’ll be parading as Fembots, donning homemade duct tape dresses, "crazy huge hair, bitch boots, and a funny walk." Easilytempted guys, beware!

I f originality and bizarreness is more your style, a great head-turn­ ing costume is one o f the hugely popular, absolutely hilarious largerthan-life caricature masks.

The ultimate choice is the Coffee Lady, who all-too closely resembles the stereotypical greasy-spoon cashier with the colossal purple beehive,

pointy glasses and frumpy flowered dress.

Uniqueness can give birth to even odder ideas, like the desire to masquerade as a mirror: Ph. D stu­ dent Hasan Karrar doesn’t quite yet know how he’ll create his show­ piece. " [I must] figure out the logis­ tics so as to not bump into people and kill them," he said.

Naturally, with costume cre­ ation comes the very fine art o f accessorizing. Halloween cosmetic corners usually offer both cheesy face-paint and real special effect makeup, the kind which can pro­ duce revolting wounds and bruises well enough to convince even the worst skeptics that you’ve actually been attacked by a pack o f enraged sealions. Also a key accessorizing component: wigs. Try pink long curls and hot green highlighted pig­ tails, or look like your most loathed teacher with a mullet wig.

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"H e disappears whenever you need to ask him a question!" he exclaimed.

Longing to make a statement?

Being ridiculously creative with accessories is always comical: com­ bine a Jean Chrétien mask with glow-in-the-dark hair-spray, a hula skirt and boa scarf, a pirate eyepatch and a Star Wars weapon.

Presto: a Hawaiian punk-whore myopic bureaucratic space trooper!

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Concordia union elects new CEO Lindsay Peters and Alia Somani Concordia

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(C S U ) representatives met last Wednesday to discuss the appoint­ ment o f a new chief electoral officer (C E O ). Th ey also discussed voter participation for the upcom ing elections, scheduled for November 27 - 29.

The meeting came in the wake o f a lengthy scandal in which the outspoken leftwing union was cen­ sured for its student handbook, Uprising, and for allegedly not rep­ resenting the interests o f the stu­ dent body. The scandal prompted then-CSU president Sabrina Stea to resign on October 15.

Because student indifference towards C S U elections has proven to be a problem in previous years, tactics to encourage voters were dis­ cussed at great length during the meeting. Council members consid­ ered ways to enhance Concordia’s democratic political system in times o f election.

"In a democratic society, vot­ ing is a right, and frankly an obliga­ tion," pointed out Council member Chris Adams.

Council members were con­ cerned with the strategic placement o f polling booths, which would be accessible to the entire student body. W hen discussing the issue o f the number o f polling booths, council members agreed upon a number that would ensure a maxi­ mum amount o f voters while simul­ taneously preventing instances o f voter fraud.

Each additional voting booth would cost 160 dollars, which was deemed a necessary expense by the council. In a further effort to reach out to students o f all backgrounds, council member, Samer Elatrash proposed a multilingual banner advertising the voting booth.

"A multiligual banner will tar­ get students o f all races to become part o f school politics. Although it is good, it is merely a cosmetic change. The real reason for lack o f voting is due to disempowerment, that is, social conditioning so that

we don’t look outside the current status quo. Students need to stop believing that they can’t really affect politics," said Elatrash.

Neutral in fashion In an effort to counterbalance radical views o f the former execu­ tive council, the prospective candi­ dates emphasized their neutral approach to student politics.

Candidate Negar Nadim i, a fourthyear political science student said, "I haven’t been involved in student politics [at Concordia] previously, but I believe that this is to my advantage because it highlights m y neutrality and fairness."

Th ree candidates (insert names) were in consideration for the position o f C E O and assistant, whose duties involve supervising the electoral process. O f the three candidates, (two) were present at the meeting.

T h e C E O position was awarded to A li Abbas, based on his previous experience.

Prospective candidates for Vice President o f Finance, Luis Diaz and

Jonathan LaBerge expressed what they wished to accomplish if elect­ ed. Diaz stressed there should be no extreme political agenda. He wished to create a senate-like slate that would ensure equal representa­ tion o f all departments and facul­ ties.

"It is m y personal belief that our primary goals should be what we can do for the students as a whole," said Diaz.

Diaz’s prospective opponent, LaBerge expressed the there is a need to encourage student involve­ ment in after school programs. H e believes that such involvement may be encouraged by means o f bur­ saries or credits awarding student participation. H e emphasized rep­ resentation o f all students o f Concordia, including those o f Loyola campus who have been rel­ atively ignored in the past.

"I am concerned about student representation on campus, and in the event that I were to run, that would be my prime concern," says LaBerge.

LaBerge was one o f seven peo­

ple who spearheaded the petition to impeach C S U president Sabrina Stea.

Fellow advocate, M ike Nim chuk expressed his opinion that "people were sick and tired o f all the things the government was doing. T h e petition was just one way to give students a voice."

It is not only the council that has taken measures to increase voter participation, but also professors.

According to the president o f Commerce, Cristelle Basmaji, pro­ fessors will allow students to leave class fifteen minutes early in order for them to cast their ballots.

Students appear to be disen­ chanted by the current state o f stu­ dent politics at Concordia. Fourthyear commerce student, Hussein Somani says, "I am outraged by what has been going on. People are now going to look at Concordia dif­ ferently. W e are digressing. I ’ve given up and I don’t want to have anything to do with the politics at school. I ’m not even sure i f I want to vote."

SACOMSS rallies for funding Jeremy Morris The Sexual Assault Center o f the M cG ill Student Society (SACOM SS) has been fighting to uphold the dignity and rights o f sur­ vivors o f sexual assault through coun­ selling services, help lines and out­ reach programs since 1991.

Now, SACOMSS itself is fight­ ing to stay alive.

SACOM SS’s funding agreement with the Students' Society o f McGill

University (SSM U) has expired on its mandated three-year contract, and without re-ratification in this week’s student referendum, the center may be forced to close its doors.

"W e may not reach quorum. I f 10 percent o f students don’t come out, the results are not valid," said SSM U V P o f Clubs and Services Martin Doe. A disqualified referen­ dum would not restore funding to SACOMSS and the center would be forced to consider alternative means o f finance.

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"They need $2300, and that is a $2300 that SSMU cannot afford.

They would have to look for alterna­ tive sponsorship from SSM U or the city o f Montreal," said Doe. This would be a major setback for the Center that has always been studentrun with the purpose o f helping stu­ dents.

The reason behind a referendum in the first place is that SSMU is not mandated to make funding commit­ ments. There can be no modification to student fees without consultation

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from the student body. SACOM SS is not directly funded through the SSM U constitution; therefore it must take 75 cents o ff every student’s fee statement. The funding is essen­ tial for maintaining day-to-day oper­ ations o f the center, such as its Helpline.

"Sexual assault is a major prob­ lem at McGill, just as it is a major problem at any university."

SACOMSS Co-External Co-ordinator Judith Rae explained.

She discussed how the demand for services means that there is a high cost to maintaining the center’s facil­ ities and training its recruits, despite the fact that the center is run entirely by a dedicated cadre o f volunteers.

"This is a service that students

can be proud of. It is a vital service for the community and students should do their part and vote," said Rae. These volunteers take a 1000 calls in 6 months, run nine different support groups, conduct outreach groups and provide an accompani­ ment program.

As o f yet, there has not been an opposition committee formed to oppose the SACOM SS referendum.

Despite the lack o f opposition on the issue, the main problem with this ref­ erendum, as with all McGill referen­ dums, is the risk o f low voter turnout. Nonetheless, Doe remains hopeful.

"W e are trying to raise aware­ ness. I am optimistic but I do think it will take a lot o f effort."

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 30, 2001

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Pesticides and your lawn Joanna Czupryn The Coalition o f Canadians Against Pesticides sponsored a sym­ posium at the McIntyre Medical building last Thursdsay, with a mis­ sion to educate the public about the growing concern surrounding pesti­ cides during the three-hour long event.

M ichele Brill-Edwards, who chaired the symposium in place o f Chopra, demonstrated a consistent trend toward de-regulation and de­ structuring within Health Canada since the 1960’s. She warned the audience o f the department’s erod­ ing capabilities towards protecting citizens, citing its lackluster track record in regulating pesticide man­ agement.

"T h e pest control management agency is not functioning adequate­ ly, and this is based on a report by a commissioner that was meant to look closely at the workings o f this department. T h e agency functions in absolute secrecy and fires or forces out people who try to give us the facts. Therefore, we need pro­ tection for scientists to speak the truth as they know it."

Other speakers included Dr. Elizabeth Guillette, a visiting schol­ ar and researcher from the Centre o f Bioenvironmental Research at Tulane and Xavier Universities.

T h e symposium, aptly tided ‘Silent Killers’, was chiefly spon­ sored and funded by the Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, a non­ profit organization whose goal is to raise province-wide public aware­ ness about pesticides. Their mission is to ban the cosmetic use o f pesti­ cides for lawn care in residential and public areas o f Montreal and to severely lim it its usage against minor infestations.

By offering practical alternative solutions from strong scientific authorities rather than lim itin g itself to public debate, the sympo­ sium managed to leave a less bitter political after-taste for those who attended.

Edith Smeesters offered up practical alternatives to lawn care.

She is a botanist and author whose credits include several hundred pre­ sentations on alternatives to pesti­ cides, a recently published book and membership into the ‘Circle o f Phoenix’, a group that works with the environment.

She joked about the public’s obsession, which she termed ‘a syn­ drome o f having the perfect lawn.’

H er solutions to this obsession included cutting grass high in order for the lawn to resist becoming dry, avoiding sweeping away grass cut­ tings and leaves which naturally enrich the soil, and using organic fertilizers and plants that naturally add nitrogen to the soil instead o f resorting to their chemical counter­ parts.

She recommended that people examine the rules for property man­ agement within their own munici­ palities, and that i f these rules were not adequate to their needs, to get them changed.

Paul Maloney, meanwhile, dis­ cussed solutions for pest manage­ ment that not only provided more

healthy alternatives but also pre­ served the role o f lawn care compa­ nies.

M alon ey offers consulting services to Beaconsfield and has previously been involved in creating pesticide-free park maintenance at Ville St. Laurent, thus showing that there is less theory and more practi­ cality to his environm entally healthy solutions.

"W e need to move away from systems that exploit children’s health to systems that cultivate it."

M aloney cited a few o f his recent ‘ integrated pest manage­ ment’ projects including using a spray mixture o f nematodes and water in order to destroy the white grub population that frequently damages the lawn. By finding a nat­ ural predator and using it as a means o f quality control, Maloney found that you not only reduce the amount o f chemical pesticides used on lawns but keep the industry going as well.

W id ely known as the ‘Eco-bug doctor’ , M aloney offered a host o f interesting stats demonstrating the ineffectiveness o f less eco-friendly techniques.

"C rop loss due to insects has actually risen," he aptly stated to the attentive audience, "therefore by applying 12 times the same pes­ ticide technology the industry has effectively doubled its losses!"

Yet is there actual evidence that pesticides are harmful enough that alternative solutions such as these must be actively sought out?

According Dr. Guillette, a researcher whose study o f pesticides on Mexican children was docu­ mented by C B C in a feature titled ‘Toxic Legacies’, there is mounting evidenceto support this claim.

Dr. Guillette spent the majori­ ty o f her presentation talking about the results o f her research with the children o f Yaqui Valley in Sonora, M exico who were affected by the country’s Green Revolution which started in the 1950’s. Using the neighbouring indigenous people o f the foothills area as a control group and comparing the children’s activi­ ty levels, mental abilities and rates o f illness to name a few, she evi­ denced the clear distinction between natural and pesticide laden practices. For instance she offered examples o f drawings made by the foothills and valley children, demonstrating that the latter were consistently behind in their ability to create pictures concurrent with their age group. Another startling result was in the vast difference between activity levels among these two groups. W h ile the foothills children were able to jump in place for up to five minutes, the valley children could perform this same activity for only 45 seconds.

Overall, Guillette’s results o f the M exico study along with other cross-cultural research pointed to clear scientific evidence against the exposure o f pesticides to both chil­ dren and adults. These studies linked the steady rise in the rate o f infertility as well as many mental and physical deficits with the preva­ lence o f these types o f chemicals and toxins in the environment.

"In light o f this evidence I would certainly not want myself or m y children exposed to any pesti­ cides," concluded Guillette.

"W e have enough evidence today to ban pesticide use on lawns across the country," voiced BrilleEdwards.

In order to examine this issue in the light o f political policies, both Bourque and Tremblay were invited to the symposium in order

u W e have enough evidence today to ban pesticide use on lawns across the coun try.

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Thou gh these words of encouragement are certainly prom­ ising, Brill-Edwards warned that changes, unless consistently lobbied by an aware public, will take much longer than necessary to become im plemented into the fabric o f Canadian policy.

Question period witnessed the voiding o f many concerns, includ­ ing the issue o f "T h e right to be warned," one o f Canada’s legisla­

to protect the ministers rather than the public, and that even though such a policy exists, the government does not have to impose it.

"There is a strong correlation between people getting sick and current environmental practices," she stated. "Therefore, our mission is to inform and educate the public along with taking action in order to reduce the overall use o f pesticides and chemicals."

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tions, brought forth by an individ­ ual who had to take this law to the Supreme Court in order to receive adequate compensation for the death o f many o f his coworkers due to environmental health hazards. In response, Brill-Edwards pointed out that this type o f legislation is made

aside, in the end the message to those who attended was clear. The use o f pesticides for cosmetic pur­ poses is a dangerous and often needless practice and i f this realiza­ tion does not get the attention it deserves, the appropriate changes in public policy will not occur.

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to present their platforms on cos­ metic use o f pesticides in Quebec.

Unfortunately, only a representative o f the Tremblay party made an appearance, stating Tremblay’s pro­ posed by-law that would severely lim it the use o f pesticides in response to infestation. Though the argument was decidedly one-sided, the issues brought forth by Tremblay’s representative were posi­ tive in terms o f limiting pesticide usage in public spaces.

Another recent positive devel­ opment, brought to attention dur­ ing the symposium, was the same day’s announcement made the Canadian Health M inister Alan Rock, proposing the creation o f a Task Force in order to examine the effects o f pesticides throughout the

Leaco ck 2 3 2 David Brown, Director of the McGill School of Urban Planning, will discuss the "one island one city" municipal merger.

These candidates for councillor in the district of Peter-McG,ill will be debating student issues.

G len m o re B ro w n e - Independent Candidate C a ro lin a G allo la Flech e - Vision Montréal V a n P e tte w a y - Independent Candidate Representative from the Montréal Island Citizens Union.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Organic fanatic Jean Mathews W h ile sprouts, shoots and seeds might not be everyone’s idea o f delicious food, you could find connoisseurs at O rganic Food C o -o p m eeting held in the Architecture Café on Wednesdays.

In front o f about twenty-five M cG ill students, Graham Ronne, deliveryman for Pousse M enu dis­ cussed the possibility o f creating a direct-buy source o f organic food at better-than-retail prices at M cGill.

Pousse Menu, an indoor organic farm that was started 13 years ago, delivers a whole range o f organic food products all over Quebec, and to such retailers in Montreal, such as the Optim um store on the corner o f Sherbrooke and Aylmer.

Ronne started o ff his presenta­ tion by listing the wonders o f organic food, and why he wanted to bring this service to M cGill.

"Raw organic food is full o f antioxidants. T h e y fight brain,

lung, and kidney cancer. I want to prom ote preventative medicine, and that’s what organic food is. A t M cG ill, I want to see a club where I could take orders once a week and deliver food here for less than retail prices. You’d get a discount o f about 15-20 percent, depending on the product."

Pousee Menu began delivering to M cG ill a year ago, when the Architecture Café was trying to bring in more fresh juices and foods. O ne o f the cafeteria’s man­ agers, Heather Green, first got in touch with Ronne.

"W e started by elim inating Coke. W e were looking for alterna­ tive juices that were really fresh.

T h at’s when I met Graham by ordering Happy Planet juices from him. Its much more fresh and fruitier than the other brands. After that we moved to organic salad. W e saw a lot o f demand in the architec­ ture café for raw organic food," said Green.

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that started Ronne thinking about the idea o f a C o-op .

"I was a student before and I couldn’t afford the prices at retail health food stores, W e offer over 55 products that we make ourselves in the farm, and about 20 more that we buy and distribute."

Ronne brought with him a box o f organic goodies, as samples o f products that could be ordered. In the box were such products as green pea shoots, organic lacto-fermented black radish, sprouted legumes, buck wheat, and wheat-free exqui­ site meusli mix, which is made o f organic oatflakes, raisins, and sun­ flower seeds. W h ile not emphasiz­ ing the freshness, taste, and nutri­ tional value o f these food products, he took the time to bring in many miracle stories on the magic o f organic food.

"W hen I was 22, I had severe liver damage, and conventional medicine couldn’t do anything for me. Then I went to a wheat-grass diet, and I ’m glad to see that my

liver is now back up to capacity. I f you think you’re invincible at 22, something could slap you in the face. T h e key is raw organic food. It eats up the toxins in you. A n d it’s great for your digestive system."

Ronne also addressed some o f the myths concerning veganism and vegetarianism and stated that the idea that such a diet is low in pro­ teins is actually misleading.

"W e are not a protein deficient society. I f you are worried about not getting enough protein from our products, think about it this way. I f you eat a 12-ounce steak, sure there’s a lot o f protein in there, but you only metabolize about 10 per­ cent o f it. O n the other hand, if you were eating this organic stuff, you will use 100 percent."

A t the meeting, Green also brought up a lot o f the logistical problems that would have to be ironed out.

"People could make their orders and pick up the deliveries at the [Architecture] Café, since it is

kind o f a central location. W e have a lot o f people who want food alter­ natives who come here. But we’ll need some system to collect all the money and sort out all the deliver­ ies and store them too. As far as effi­ ciency concerns, I think prepaid ordering is the best way to go, and all the payments and orders should be made at some specified time" Ronne added some other time and financial restrictions from the side o f the delivery people.

"There w ill have to be a mini­ mum delivery o f $50. Otherwise it just won’t be worth the money and time and energy it takes to do all this."

W hile the response from the audience was for the most part enthusiastic, there were some who were more skeptical. Brian Rose, a student who attended the meeting, said that he had tried this before and it had failed.

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McGill cancer centre has new superheroes Jean Mathews

hour m ovie marathon to raise m on ey fo r the M c G ill Cancer Centre.

"Th is m ovie marathon is a tradition that has six years o f his­ tory. It’s for a good cause, and for us, it’s a great bonding experience.

are doing a university theme. W e are playing movies like Road Trip, P C U , and A n im a l House."

Tepperman and the other par­ ticipants from the fraternity had started their fund-raising from noon on Thursday and were plan­ ning on raising m oney until Friday at noon.

"It’s great when people are walking by during the day, but the true significance is a night when w e’re all alone, and w e’re left with nothing to do but talk and keep each other’s sanity," he said.

Tepperman also said that the fund-raising was going very well, and that students at M c G ill have always been very friendly and gen­ erous.

"W e go in w ith lo w expecta­ tions, but you w ould be surprised by the generosity o f students.

M ore than 80 percent o f the stu­ dents w ho passed by, reached into

Every year, we have a different theme to the movies. This year, we

their pockets and gave us every­ thing they could. T h e y ’re very

T h e scene was a very cold Thursday night that w ould have found most people in their beds under their warm blankets, sleep­ ing soundly. Yet, i f anyone had happened to pass by the pathway between the Leacock and Shatner buildings at midnight, they w ould have been greeted with the sight o f about 20 guys sitting on couches, watching movies and shivering.

Carey Tepperman is the head o f the philanthropy com m ittee o f the Alpha—Epsilon—Pi fraternity, a Montreal-based fraternity. H e was responsible for organizing the 24-

encouraging. T h e y said that we’re doing a great job. It’s a great feel­ ing" T h e fund-raising campaign was organized in shifts during the day so that students could attend

44 It’s a great feelin g w h e n that c o in drops because you k n o w you are m ak ­ ing a difference.

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C arey Tepperman

55 their classes. But at night, every­ one came back with blankets and food. T h e y raised m oney through a barbecue, and very active solicit­ ing.

"W e have no shame. W e do

whatever it takes to get the money. look the person straight in the eye, W e appeal to their sense o f guilt. and I ask them i f they can think o f any better ways to spend the But people help us a lot. T h e ice cream guy gives us free ice cream change in their pockets. I tell them and G ert’s gives us free drinks. that we are going to be standing Usually w e raise around $2500here for the next 24 hours for that change. But usually students are $3000, and w e give it directly to the cancer centre. W e have a letter I really good about just recognizing o f authenticity from them, so that a good cause, and giving what they can. It’s a great feeling when that people trust us w ith their money. coin drops because you know you A n d then cancer is a disease that everyone has had contact with. are making a difference."

C o rey Greenspan, the M ost students here probably have at least one relative w ho has can­ President o f the fraternity, spoke o f cer." the importance o f philanthropy in For the fraternity, it’s more the Jewish fraternity, and how it than just a charity. It’s also a pledge brought the members together. event, where the brothers would "Such activities are important meet and m ingle with the new for our new pledges to get a sense pledges. T o pass the time, the o f where they belong in the frater­ pledges put on skits, play football nity. M an y Jews, when they first and watch movies. com e to M ontreal, they need someone o f their ow n type. W e do Tepperman said that he had Shabbat dinner, and w e organize developed his sales pitch over the years, and that he usually prefers a high holiday stuff, and that’s vital psychological approach. " I have m y pitch down. I

to the members."

Women for wom en

Volunteer group opens branch in Montreal Roberta Yeo

T h e W om en for W om en o f Afghanistan (W 4 W A ), a Canadian volunteer solidarity organization, has expanded its efforts to raise aware­ ness amongst Canadians about the human rights violations that occur daily in Afghanistan.

Lauryn Oates, the founder o f W 4 W A ’s Vancouver branch and now a U 1 International Developments Studies student at McGill, is opti­ mistic that the group will benefit from the activities o f her fledgling Montreal branch. “ People have been looking for a way to do something, so when they hear about us, they just jump in,” Oates explained. “When I started the group in Vancouver, it was just myself, and then there were only three o f us, but by the time I left there were over 500, almost 600 members. And I believe that now, there’s a lot more potential. The response here in Montreal has been just amazing.”

Founded in Toronto as a direct response to the Taliban takeover o f Afghanistan in 1996, the group’s pri­ mary goals are to educate Canadians about human rights violations in Afghanistan, particularly against women, and to support women’s empowerment efforts in Afghanistan and the refugee camps o f Pakistan. “ Women suffer most from the

devastation in Afghanistan. It’s for­ bidden for them to work, to show themselves in public and to be edu­ cated,” Oates explained.

“W e came to recognize early on, post-September 11, that the events in no way altered our group's overall goals and objectives. In fact it has, at

“They are completely excluded from the civil society there, and they make up the vast majority o f refugees. Therefore, it’s essential that someone looks out for their interests, and as women we demonstrate our

a terrible cost, strengthened our work.” said Janice Eisenhauer, who is the head o f the W 4 W A ’s Calgary branch.

Educating the public and encouraging women’s empowerment

solidarity with them. W e don’t just send aid ‘over there’, and that’s important.”

For now however, the aftermath o f September 11 has brought new concerns to the forefront o f W 4 W A ’s activities. “ Recent events have made things difficult in so many ways,” Oates explains. “ One o f the first things we decided we would tackle is discrimination against Afghans. We want to educate people, and let them know that the Taliban and Afghan people are completely separate enti­ ties. W e were forced to do that because we got requests from Afghan individuals, basically saying ‘Help me, there’s hate mail at my door,’ so we had to respond to that.”

As a consequence, W 4 W A recently released a detailed bulletin explaining the plight o f Afghans, and highlighting that most Afghans do not comply with the Taliban or the harboring o f terrorists.

The long-term aim o f the group, though, remains unchanged.

become increasingly important, as widespread support for Afghani women may influence any possible post-Taliban government to guaran­ tee that women’s rights are respected.

“W e need to ensure that the

continued from PAGE 4 way to go. W ith our project, in the end we couldn’t even organize any­ thing, and we weren’t saving any money. W hat I suggest is taking this thing online. That’s the only way to keep it from getting too complicated.

Although there were a lot o f organizational matters that had still

not been sorted out, most o f the attending students chose too see past this minor obstacle and start thinking up their shopping lists.

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“W e need to never let this get clouded over, and women have to be involved, they have to be involved in the reconciliation, in the peace process, in forming a new govern­ ment. The word ‘woman’ has to be mentioned in the constitution.”

To learn more about W4WA, see their website at www.w4wafghan.ca.

To get involved with the Montreal branch or to fin d out meeting times and places, e-mail Lauryn Oates at lauren. oates@mail. mcgill. ca

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, October 30, 2001

Opinion

Editorial

EDITORIAL “Character is much easier k,ept than recovered. ’’ — Thomas Paine

The significance of the m ayoral election Mark Kerr__________________________________________________________ O n Novem ber 4, Montrealers will vote in the first ever mega-city elec­ tion. The competition for the position o f mayor o f the newly amalgamat­ ed city has been the most compelling. Pierre Bourque, who supported the "U ne ile, une ville" policy, is slightly favoured to win; Gerald Tremblay, a moderate pro-merger candidate, has emerged as Bourques strongest com­ petition.

Despite the historic political event, the mayoral election is not the foremost story in the city. T h e distraction o f war in Afghanistan has left many Montrealers apathetic towards the election. The danger is that the majority o f eligible voters will miss the significance o f the mayoral election.

A vote, while communicating a choice for the new leader o f Montreal, also serves to express a choice on the political future o f the mega-city and the preference for a set o f platform issues that are presented during the campaign.

The new mayor o f Montreal will influence and develop the political structure o f the mega-city. T h e final decision o f the provincial government in regards to the structure o f the municipal government was the creation o f a city council with representatives from all over the island as well as 27 boroughs that act as local administrative bodies. The city council enjoys a majority o f power, while the boroughs in present form tend to adminis­ trative concerns.

Voters in the upcoming municipal elections must decide whether they agree with the political distribution o f power or wish for some other option. Tremblay has stated that, i f elected, he would provide the bor­ oughs with more control over local affairs. W ith the boroughs having more influence, Tremblay is closer to the previous system o f 28 separate munic­ ipalities than Bourque appears to be.

There appears to be two viable choices: the first being a strong central government where the mayor has a lot o f influence and the second being some control being designated to the boroughs. After the uproar over municipal mergers it might be appear to be a given that most would favour more power at the local level. However, i f the N e w York C ity tragedy has taught us anything it is that during a time o f crisis a strong mayor is desired as was the case with Rudolph Guilani. H e was able to take complete control and guide the city in a time o f distress.

As well as giving an opportunity to potentially influence how policy is created at the municipal level, the mayoral elections this Sunday allow for the citizen to endorse the potential substance o f these policies. T h e plat­ form that each candidate is running on deals with a wide range o f issues that directly and/or indirectly effect the people o f Montreal constantly.

T h e danger o f being apathetic during the election is that a poor turnout could provide the victorious candidate with a false mandate. In other words, the mayor can advance certain objectives in the city council with­ out the majority support o f the population.

Through the merger o f the 28 municipalities on the island o f Montreal, the days o f a mayor being a minor political figure are over. The mayor o f the new city o f Montreal will have the power to appoint at least seven and up to eleven city councilors to sit on the executive committee that prepares such things as the annual budget and draft by-laws. It is another way the new mayor o f Montreal will exert greater influence. It is the duty o f the people to keep a check on that power, and to ensure that local government remains responsive to the needs and wants o f a "com ­ munity" that is close to two million in population.

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L e tte rs Material Girl T o the Editor,

subtitled ‘Perky breasts and lotsa confidence’.

I am a musician/singer (yes, there is a dif­ ference) in m y own right as well, and would like to set a few things straight to the readers: 1) N o t all musicians are this cocky.

2) “ Perky breasts” , natural

yet to see any o f her intelligent thoughts and ideas published in this newspaper.

-Zach Finkelstein U0 Poli Sci Modest member o f M cG ill Chamber Singers and Effusion a capella.

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M c G ill students concerned about their personal information being available on the Internet should remember that their student

I recently wasted five minutes o f my life perusing through Ms. Roderique’s article ‘So...You wanna be a Popstar, eh?’, appropriately

I use W eb C T here at Ryerson and I ’m not at all concerned about its tracking feature. It allows stu­ dents to view their marks on-line, for which such a feature is neces­ sary. By tracking use, the p ro f can also figure out which parts o f the course website students find most useful, since these will be the parts they will visit most often.

It is very disappointing to notice that The Tribune (O ct. 10) "censors" allowed a letter to be published from a young law stu­ dent. H e dared to question the decision, m ade by respected M c G ill professors, to rule out an irresponsible request from the audience o f an O ct. 4th confer­ ence to: "look at possible reasons why September 11th happened" as " o f f topic".

Students must trust their pro­ fessors' w isdom and their rich experience o f collaborating with the corporate m edia to u n ify economies, as well as their expert­ ise in coordinating this effort by customizing politics and legisla­ tion procedures. In the real world, these have secured the legality o f multidimensional globalization so perfectly that any protest sooner or later becomes unlawful, and often the organizers must spend some tim e in prison pondering the com ­ plexity o f the modern world. T h e w orld needs such visionary changes guided by top educated

Sports Editor James Empringham Assistant Sports Editors Mark Kerr Sarah W right

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records are already on-line at S A T­ U R N . There does not seem to be any opposition to that. Some con­ sistency please!

-Jonathan Colford B.A. ‘00 1st year grad program in Journalism, Ryerson University

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greatness” attitude w ill get you a weekly ‘gig’ at Supersexe.

After claiming to seek “ instant recognition a la Madonna” for her talents, the author states she “ has intelligent thoughts and ideas to communicate in her music” . I have

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voice talent, and a “destined for pop

intellects like those at M c G ill (working also in many important institutions) w ho organized this conference.

Notwithstanding these politi­ cal efforts, some uncontrolled ter­ rorists remain w ho fail to appreci­ ate the sophisticated logic o f our dynam ically d evelopin g system.

W e must be united in our interna­ tionally approved efforts to reach them (by using all the available means) and to re-educate them, to secure peace and happiness around the world. Unfortunately, the lat­ est academic initiative to help understand the September 11th events w ou ld have easily been taken " o ff the right track" i f the above quoted request from the audience had not been so brilliant­ ly ignored from the beginning.

Professors had to think fast to pre­ d ict a later a question w ou ld emerge: "W h y are Americans so deeply hated by many millions o f souls around the world?” which invites a further query: "W h o am ong them are really responsible and why?" This would open a Pandora’s Box w ith unpleasant questions creeping out, which instead o f creating social unity can only induce diversionary discus-

As a player on the M cG ill Redbirds, I could not believe my eyes when I read what David Anber had to say about the article “ Redbirds Bounced from the play­ offs” . H e has no right in the world to insult m y coach like that in such a cowardly medium as he did. I just wanted to clarify to the rest o f the world that Ernie D ’Alessandro is a man who volunteers his time to coach this M cG ill team. H e has an excellent baseball mind, and he has earned the respect o f all o f his ball players, which is not something too many coaches coaching any sport at any level can say.

It is too bad that Mr. Anber has no baseball knowledge himself to appriciate a good coach when he sees one. This ain’t the big show, and playing baseball in Montreal at a high level for as long as I can remember, one thing I have learned is that umpires D O blow calls, yet it is the better umpires who can admit when they are wrong.

Maybe during your off-season, you should think about that!

-Jason Starr, U 1 Management M cG ill Redbird

sions.

A well ruled society does not accept intellectual divisions at times o f global m obilization against blind terrorism, which dares to make a cowardly attack on our civilized symbols o f prosperity: am ong them trade and military freedom /m ight on ly for the strongest am ong us (which is nat­ ural in a com petitive w orld), as well as globalized corporate media, the main promoters o f T h e New O rder that are presently attacked biologically. N o w it has become desirable for the accelerated glob­ alization processes to maintain, what Hitler/Germ ans called, "O rdnu ng” , and we should stand firm behind our leaders w ho are working hard, but silently to pre­ pare countries fo r a final unifica­ tion and thanks to them the ordi­ nary people are not bothered with difficult legal or political issues.

O u r elite "profs" are also very much a part o f the em erging "global solution" for the human race w ho prom ote this by not chal­ lenging this intellectual concept

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Editorial

The unreported deaths don protests “turned deadly” ( The Gazette), and into “the bloodiest event so far” ( The Globe and MaiX).

T h e media scrambled to make

“I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe; nor am I one o f your Hollywood movie ecto­ plasms. I am a man o f substance, flesh and bone, fib e r and liquidsand I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me”.

-Ralph Ellison, Invisible M an O n July 20, 2001, the w orld witnessed what the New York Times called “the first death during an anti-globalization dem onstration since the movem ent tempestuous­ ly surfaced...in Seattle” . W h en Carlo Giuliani was shot in the head by a police officer outside the G 8 summit in Genoa, w e were shown in nauseating detail just how the escalating anti-globaliza-

sense o f what this inaugural death meant for the m ajority o f non-vio­ lent protestors, the tactics or riot cops, and the fate o f future sum­ mits. O n ly one detail was awry: G iuiliani’s death wasn’t the first.

Call it minor.

A m onth prior, according to many independent media sources and Am nesty International, four university students, Steven K il, Peter N ok i, Thom as M oru w o and M atth ew Paven were shot and killed by police officers outside the Prim e M in ister’s residence in Papua N e w Guinea. T h e shoot­ ings follow ed what had been a peaceful five-day protest against privatization that had lured several thousand opponents to the IM F and W orld Bank. A n d last year, massive protests in Cochabamba Bolivia against a water privatiza­ tion scheme courtesy o f N A F T A , Bechtel Corp. and pressures from

the W o rld Bank, ended in fatality as well.

Five to eight people (depending on the source), includ­ ing a 17 year-old and one army officer were killed in violent clash­ es between protesters and the m il­ itary.

T h e conflict in Bolivia, dur­ ing which time the government declared a state o f emergency, did manage to elicit three short articles (all about or under 500 words) in the New York Times. (For compar­ ison’s sake, a quick search o f the Times database for all articles con­ taining “ Carlo Giuliani” from July 21 through 29 reveals a collective w ord count o f 4,982.) As for the tragedy in Papua N e w Guinea, any sane person m ay assume that, given the escalating tensions sur­ rounding globalization in the past year, reporting the student deaths in P N G last June w ould have been a very pertinent matter.

T h e New York Times did not cover this tragedy. A t all.

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D evelopm en t M ovem en t claims that there have been at least 50 separate episodes o f civil unrest in 13 poor countries since the Seattle protests. O f these demonstrations, all were directed at the IM F, and h alf ended in violent clashes with the police or military. T h e erasure o f many such events or any death tolls ensued nurtures the interests o f the corporate owned media establishment considerably.

It is easy to categorize middle class young people w h o revolt against the direction o f hom e lead­ ership as dangerous anarchists or ‘kids w ithout a cause’, while con­ siderably more difficult to dem o­ nize poorer citizens protesting for­ eign domination. Especially since the past three years have seen Papua N e w Guinea’s government sell o f f o f its electricity and water supplies in hopes o f alleviating the econom ic crisis, while the coun­ try’s econom y continued to deteri­ orate. In this light, im plying that that the students in P N G oppose

globalization because it is trendy,’ is a far more difficult case to pres­ ent. Likewise in Bolivia, where families earning less than $100 m onthly faced an ultimatum o f handing over $20 to a California based subsidiary, or having the tap shut off.

It is safer for the papers to ignore these deadly protests alto­ gether because, after determining W h o W h at W h en and W here on the scenes, they eventually have to ask W hy.

Such is a dangerous question for a corporate-owned institution, as it sheds too much light on the real issues at hand.

These unrecognized lives lost serve as an indication that, in this ‘eco­ n om ic global village’ so many speak o f with such enthusiasm, something is awry. In a real vil­ lage, a neighbor’s suffering would never be rendered invisible.

W hy I w an t to m ake love to M ontreal b u ses

I love the public transporta­ tion system o f M ontreal and I am not afraid to admit it.

A couple o f weeks ago a friend and I were stranded in the West Island suburb o f D ollard des Ormeaux. W e had just spent hours working, serving drinks and clean­ ing up after hundreds o f thirsty, alcohol-influenced party-goers. W e wanted to get home with a desper­ ation that I cannot describe.

W h en our expected ride failed to materialize and none o f our car­ owning friends were home to race to our rescue, w e were forced to face the facts — public transporta­ tion was our only means o f ever getting home. A fter tearfully ask­ ing random strangers and gas sta­ tion attendants, we discovered that the best route downtown was as indirect and roundabout as we had feared. Finally, armed with a plan and an intense determ ination dredged up from the depths o f our souls, we found ourselves waiting for a bus that speeds by only once every h alf hour. This bus took us to Fairview M all (which is in the opposite direction o f downtown), where we had to switch to another bus, which took us to yet another bus, which took us to L ion el Groulx, from which we were able to take the metro home. In total the trip required walking, three buses, a metro and about three hours.

A t the time, I can assure you that I did not find this an amusing situation. I w ould have sold m y

soul to get home quickly, safely, and affordably. I thought we were destined to forever wander the streets o f D D O , pathetically searching for a way home. N ow , I have reached the point where I can laugh about it. I know that we were over-dramatizing our circum­ stances and I realize how lucky we 'were that the option o f public transportation was available at all.

In my hom etow n of Beamsville public transportation is non-existent. H ad I been stranded in the boonies o f Beamsville with no ride home, I would have had no choice but to start walking, and keep walking and walking and walking until I arrived at m y desti­ nation. There are no pay phones gracing the rural, farm-lined streets o f Beamsville’s outskirts. There are no cabs to hail, no buses to catch and certainly no metro to ride.

I recognize that a Beamsville subway system w ould be an eco­ nomic nightmare. First o f all there is nowhere to go. T h e stops could include such hot spots as the post office, the drug store, T im H o rto n ’s (w e have tw o ), and maybe the liquor store. Secondly, the population is too small ever to finance the endeavor or make a reasonable return.

A bus route is also unwarrant­ ed. Everyone who lives in the town center is within walking distance o f most commercial outlets.

Plus, everyone in the outskirts, toiling peacefully on farms, live too far away from each other to devise any sort o f tangible bus stop plan.

T h ere is one bus, a Greyhound coach, which rumbles along K ing Street twice daily to transport people to the closest cities, those being Ham ilton and Niagara Falls.

T h e Greyhound makes a single stop in Beamsville,

in front o f the Avondale. H opping on it gives the small town teenager a sense o f exhilaration as it speeds along the w indy roads towards the big city. This bus symbolizes the full extent o f Beamsville’s exposure to public transport.

As you can imagine getting a driver’s license is like paradise on wheels for a person from a small town. T h e newfound freedom is unbelievable. I can tell you from experience that a failed driver’s test is especially devastating for a coun­ try dweller. T h e tears flowed freely on that fated day when the exam­ iner failed for goin g too slow.

Luckily, m y second test proved successful and finally, those friends who lived so far out in the country were accessible, as were m ovie the­ atres, bookstores and restaurants.

N o matter how long or far I walked in any direction from Beamsville, these luxuries were too far away on the horizort.

In light o f this, you must understand m y love for public transportation in com parative terms. It’s like a dream come true.

This entire magical city is available to me at m y convenience.

A ll desired destinations are available as long as I am ready and willing, which I surely am.

Since m y arrival into the great concrete confines o f the city I have become a seasoned public trans­ portation rider. W h en I was still a rookie, I was the one staring wideeyed at the metro map, trying to decipher which platform to stand on. I learned the importance o f transfers the hard way, forgetting to take one on dozens o f occasions.

I ’ve learned the etiquette o f waiting nonchalantly, looking disinterested instead o f nervous and uneasy. I learned to always have the appear­ ance o f knowing what I ’m doing

and where I ’m going, even when I don’t. I am no longer a target for anyone looking to prey on m y inexperience.

I ’ve also learned that reading material, a walkman or a friend are necessary public transportation accessories, not only for entertain­ ment purposes but also to avoid any undesirable, potentially dan­ gerous conversations from sparking up.

Although the cab craze is one bandwagon I have yet to jum p on , I am working on it. I have never called a cab, or hailed one from the street on m y own. Fear isn’t the determining factor.

Uncertainty and apprehension are. I suppose that the idea that nowhere is too far to walk is so deeply ingrained in m y psyche that taking a cab seems like too big o f a break from m y small town norms.

I pledge to

conquer m y taxi-anxiety by the end o f m y university years and become a savvy patron o f all forms o f transportation open to me.

For tried and true city dwellers, public transportation is not a shiny new toy to play with, like it is for me. I can understand how mundane, even laborious, it could become after years o f expo­ sure. W ill continued use o f public transport make me bitter, angry and frustrated like so many o f m y fello w passengers?

W ill I too becom e hard and cold-hearted?

Does being an urbanite entail a dis­ taste for the maze o f metro lines and bus routes?

O n ly time w ill tell.

In the meantime, I ’m in love with public transportation and not afraid to admit it.

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Op i n i o n

Editorial

McGill professor continued from PAGE 6 and also heroically protecting the w h ole ideological structure at times o f its brutal challenge. T h ey see the need fo r this new order clearly, and young students are supposed to trust them; from law, especially.

Since the "recent events" m y w ife is watching T V more careful­ ly, and has heard only once a sim­ ilar reflection/question about rea­ sons for this hate. It was aired acci­ dentally live by a young female reporter in N Y C freshly after the attack and, as m y w ife predicted at the time, we have not seen her reporting any more. Yes, we can notice similar questions being raised in the press, but experienced/trusted journalists or authoritative heads o f social organizations only do it. Thanks to them — and maybe also to G od

---- these problems are explained so clearly in the process that we do not see (in the reliable media) let­ ters from normal readers, and even from those w ho m ight be acciden­ tally influenced by e.g. Mr. bin Laden, w ho come for a short time

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Features Half the man he used to be Exploring M cG ill's m orgue and body m useum dissected and examined. T h e gur­

Rebecca Foster ou ever hear the urban legend about how your house is built over an Native American burial ground? O r what about the one where the mur­

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dered come back as zombies to avenge their deaths? Th ey may not be true, but there is one campus legend that is authentic.

Although from the outside the Strathcona Dentistry and Anatom y building looks like many other around the University, once you have experienced it you m ight change your mind.

Walking down the halls o f the building, it conjures up images o f those horror movies set in old hos­ pitals. T h e building is home to many a long corridor, often empty, where you can hear even the hum­ ming o f the fluorescent lights. It is eerily quiet. But that is not the only reason that Strathcona can be ranked amongst one o f the weirdest and spookiest buildings at M cGill.

It is also home to the Anatom y Museum and adjacent laboratory.

As a Physiology student, I have had the pleasure o f experiencing both locales first hand. And let me tell you, it takes a period o f adjust­ ment before being completely com-

Dem bones, dem bones... fortable in an atmosphere where the dead outnumber the living.

Walking into the Anatom y lab, you are greeted by an unusually bright room. T h e walls, ceilings and floors are institutionally white, and huge windows line two sides o f the room. Under normal circumstances this would be a pleasant learning environment. But in this very sterile atmosphere, there are also approxi­ mately 30 cadavers waiting to be

neys are set up side by side in the middle o f the room. Conveniently, as you enter the lab you face two long lines o f corpses.

O n a chilly autumn day, when you look out the windows and see rain coming down and a dark, gray sky, you feel like you are in a dif­ ferent place. T h e experience is not easily forgettable. Just the knowl­ edge that you are in the presence o f so many dead bodies w ill give even the most iron stomach a run for its money.

Yet the anatomy lab is not the eeriest place in Strathcona. That prize definitely goes to the Anatom y Museum, located just a few steps away. It is definitely not a place for the weak o f heart. The museum is home to those speci­ mens your teachers left out in tenth grade biology class. T h e amoeba never looked so cute.

Sure, there are the expected hearts, livers and kidneys, as well as the quintessential, horizontal slice o f the abdomen. Even being on a ‘tour’ with a group o f people, one can only imagine what it must be like to be there alone, late at night.

Probably the strangest dissec­ tion in the museum would be that o f the human head with half the

face intact and the other half peeled away in layers down to the bone.

W ith the blank gazes o f the dis­ sected heads star­

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ing back at you, someone is always watching you. It’s like that painting where the d og’s eyes always follow you, only this time it is a partial human head.

Arguably the best specimen is the invisible human. A ll you see are vessels coming out o f the organ w ithout anything there to support them.

T h e actual body is invisible.

It is strange to think Beware the one eyed Humpty Dumpty that those blood vessels, or nerves Strathcona, the more you are able actually once supported a human to appreciate its charm. It may have body. an eerie character to it, but it is one Although the first encounter is o f the only buildings at M cG ill that very disturbing, the more time you has a distinct personality, however spend within the walls of haunting.

Exclusive interview with the vam pires An unusual dinner with Count Dracula and Count von Count Jeremy Morris his was to be m y big break. As a young ambi­ tious writer for the Tribune, I received a rather choice and, m ight I say, peculiar first assignment. In our ongoing series profiling eccentric royalty, I was charged with interviewing Dracula

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and Count von Count o f Sesame Street.

Tracking down royalty, espe­ cially this kind, is no easy task in itself. The fact that the interviewees live in dark crypts, only come out at night and feast on the blood o f the living further complicates matters.

A n y resemblance to the band M otley Criie is purely coincidental.

So, after much telephone tag, I armed myself with a ton o f garlic, various religious icons, pen and paper, and o ff I went to the meet­ ing.

W e met in an upscale French restaurant with a plush velvety can­ dle-lit décor. Dracula ordered the Steak Tartar; von Count had a Tbone steak cooked rare and as I ’m cutting down on cholesterol, I had a salad. We, o f course, drank red wine.

Tribune: Dracula, what was your line o f work before this "latenight" thing?

Dracula: W ell Jeremy, my true name is not Dracula.

It is in fact Vlad Tepes!

(Lightning strikes.) Tepes mean­ ing "Th e Impaler" in Romanian. M y father was o f the order o f the Dracul, or as you would say in English, the order o f the drag­ on, a very prestigious order o f Christian knights. As I am the son o f the dragon, my name thus becomes Dracula.

T R I B : Interesting, interest­ ing and this blood­ sucking thing — how did it come about?

Dracula: I was a neglected child. M y mother would not hug me.

T R IB : Hm m , I see.

W ell, moving on, Count, what is your real name and just how many seasons were you on Sesame Street?

Von Count: M y real name is

Count, Count von Count. I was on 30, 31, 32 seasons o f Sesame Street.

T R IB : Count is it true that you hold a degree from M I T in applied

chips, copious amounts o f cocaine and abuse o f small animals?

Dracula:You see, being immor­ tal requires a constant physical and mental strain. You have to create this mental picture o f yourself as the archfiend o f small town doctors, vir­ gins and common peasants every­ where. Then you must strive every­ day to live up to this image o f pure terror. There are times that I think yes, I should spare the poor mortal,’ but then common sense takes hold o f me and I rip out his spleen as a souvenir. As for my physique, it requires sleeping about 16-18 hours a day, drinking about a gallon or so o f rat’s blood and feasting on a vir­ gin or two. It is rather rigorous i f I do say so myself.

T R IB : Thank you for that tasteless answer. N o w Count, is it true that you are related to Prince Charles?

mathematics?

Von Count: Yes. T R IB : Dracula how do you keep your complexion so lean and pasty? D o you follow the M otley Criie staple diet o f groupies, potato

Von Count: Yes, can’t you see the resemblance in the ears. See how beautifully mine wiggle.

But he only wishes he had my sense o f style.

T R IB : Yes, your goatee and monocle are classy additions to any ensemble. N ow Dracula, can you recommend any dentists to me?

Dracula: I would recommend

Dr. Thornhill, except I killed him last week for over-billing me. I may be dead but I am definitely not an idiot!

T R IB : Hm m m , and Count, what would be your special talent?

Von Count: I would say my special talent is my ability to call forth lightning. Hahaha. A n d a grrreat singing voice. T , 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 are all beautiful little num­ bers.’

T R IB : Th at was touching.

Dracula do you have any special tal­ ents?

Dracula: Just one: the ability to strike fear in the hearts o f the living.

T R IB : I can see that as a prac­ tical job skill. Have you ever consid­ ered a career in investment banking?

Dracula: That’s actually how I got into the blood-sucking business in the first place.

T R IB : Count, I am running short on time so I ’ll ask you one more question. I think everybody wants to know who will win the W orld Series. A n y insight?

Von Count: It will definitely be the Diamondbacks in 1,2,3,4,5,6,7.

T R IB : Thank you Counts for your advice on wine, prêt-à-porter and whimsy.

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"Site"-ing the paranormal Tyrenny Anderson

creepiest part o f the story. Ever since then the cat acted weird, along with every other cat in the neigh­ bourhood. A ll the cats will gang up on a dog and attack," writes one anonymous author.

T h e tales lacked suspense and more importantly they weren’t in any way frighten­

omorrow is Halloween.

And while you may be too busy to do your own Blair W itch, you might have time to check out some hair-raising

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1863 on haunted ground and for 76 years its inhabitants were terror­ ized by ghosts.

"Some people believe Borley Rectory was fated to be a haunted house from the start. W hen it was built by the Reverend Henry Bull in 1863, legends had already begun swirling about the valley," writes O 'N e il’s history, which is

ing.

Take note that anyone should question the sanity of one author whose entire family claimed to own a ghost cat that chased ghost mice. "...am on g the other ghosts in my house, was a cat. It would run by every now and then, m ostly chasing ghost mice (very odd). T h e mice could go through the walls, but the

Reason #13 to take the elevator sites that have a few spooky stories o f their own. I f you get a chance, take a break from the books and get caught in the web o f the spirit world. In the meantime, here are a few "web chillers" I came across in search o f m y own adrenaline fix.

T h e Page That Goes Bump in the N igh t, at www.camalott.com/-brianbet/tales, html sounds interesting at first; this

cat couldn't, so it w ould smack its head a lot. I wasn't the only one who saw this, the rest o f m y fam ily w ould often comment on it." ________________ The sheer amount o f people writing about pets coming back to haunt them is probably the scariest thing about

quoted on the site.

In 1939, a mysterious fire left the rectory in ashes. M any have been affected by the mysterious stories surrounding the building; therefore the site has a large collec­ tion o f horrific personal accounts by workers, locals and tourists.

"I was standing on the road at Borley facing the Church and the Rectory would have been to the back right o f me when I suddenly jumped backwards because a stone had just hit the ground in front o f Their tiny ship was tossed” me. I knew it had come from The site even includes the wellbehind me because I heard it go known photo from the m ovie past me. This happened in late " Three M en and a Baby" in which N ovem ber 1999," said Danny some claim a ghost can be seen in a Talbot, a fan o f the site. window. According to myth and Also, there are many links pro­ rumour the boy-resembling ghost viding endless information on the was a boy who died in the house subject o f the rectory. O ne such where the move was filmed. link to the Borley Ghost Society This myth is undone as the lists bizarre coincidences about the explanation reveals that the sorectory and its inhabitants. called ghost is really a cardboard I f you are still not convinced cut-out o f Ted Danson — freaked ghosts are out there, try Ghosts on yet?

Film at www.parascope.com/artiO ne image I did find rather cles/0397/ghostin.htm. creepy is titled the S.S. Watertown.

Testing you sceptics out there, In December 1924, an accident at Ghosts on Film provides 13 images sea took the lives o f two crewmen o f depicting scenes o f the possibly the S.S. W atertown.

James paranormal. Each snapshot is Courtney and M ichael Meehan accompanied by an explanation o f succumbed to toxic gas fumes in how it came to be.

the whole site.

Authors o f some o f these sto­ ries have watched the Pet Cemetery movies a few too many times.

Although, good for a laugh this site did not spook me so much.

But for those o f you who are a little sceptical about the exis­ tence o f the spirit world, site was no fright fest. www.borleyrectory.com m ight Obviously a personal creation make you rethink your views. o f an amateur, it does not strike the continued from PAGE This page provides a great viewer with any sort o f visual gore. deal o f interesting information It is rather a compilation o f random unsuspecting UO about what it alleges to be "the ghost stories with many such prom­ victim Josh most haunted house in ising titles as "Headless" and "Tar Scheinert, has no England."

Baby." idea his U 3 frat A well set-up site, it appeals I clicked the links in anticipa­ brother David to the reader by emphasizing that tion o f finding stories with floating Silber m ight be each person is responsible for heads and strange spirits, and each transform ing him determining what they believe to time became more disappointed by into Britney Spears be true. what I read. for the night, shaved T h e Borley Rectory site was "W hen I reached my house I legs and all. created by Vincent O ’Neil, the saw m y cat on his bed, sleeping. I Ultimately son o f a woman who once lived woke him up and he was still alive. though, i f you’re not in the house. According to the I ran outside and the van and dead the kind to dress up, legend, the rectory was built in cat were gone...This is not the and your friends aren’t letting you get welcome to new and returning students away w ith being W hy pa y The Invisible Man, at least invest in a voice-changer, which can instanta­ neously turn you f o r a fla ir c u t? into scary stalker

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In this photo the two men can be seen in the wake behind the boat. Unsettled souls floating in the water or just an illusion, you decide.

Believable or not, this site is a must see.

So with that, be brave and try your chances on the Internet this H ollow s Eve. You may be one o f the lucky ones, and the glow from your computer screen may keep you clear o f boogie men, or you could still be sliced and diced.

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What freaks out the freaks?

T a Ok s There’s only one thing I fear as an arbiter o f all things artsy and entertaining: The Rapture. Scoff all you want, but think abqut what The Rapture and other apocalyptic events will do for Montreal’s already shaky music scene.

Exactly.

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So be afraid, be very afraid.

Because lord knows, I am.

PS: Depending on the moon’s phase, I’m also deathly afraid o f no-limbed midgets, carnies, red hair, violets, pistachios, Assistant Editor-in-Chief Mike Bargav, Citroens, anything ecru, nutmeg, vig­ ilantes (excluding Prank Castle), pine cones, small bodies o f water, Visigoths, Rheas, Spain, the pancreas, Perez Prado, Easter egg, and you.

I am afraid o f the human ego. I am afraid o f it because o f what it does to people w ho let their egos take control o f their lives. T h ey become Egotists.

T h e ego is responsible this type o f individ­ ual who makes existence less bearable for every­ one. Egotists have an overly developed sense o f pride, self-containment and a constant drive to undermine others.

I f all else fails, Egotists can also be distin­ guished by their loud utterance o f the phrase " I ’m better than you !"... which I believe happens to be their mating call.

T h e Egotists’ obsession with promoting their alleged infalli­ bility while isolating and magnifying the mistakes, flaws or short­ comings o f their peers is disgustingly horrifying. I can admit my mistakes (sorry Pierre), but I am afraid for those characters that act like they’re beyond correction, because I believe that past the sur face, there is something darker, deeper, and more disturbing going

T o most the pitter-patter o f little feet are a welcome noise o f children pleasantly Splaying nearbv. Shoe laces •scratching the floor and gig•gles fill the air to announce their eminence. To most.

W ith every time I hear, or think I hear, those sneakers clunking around and Osh-Gosh corded-overalls grinding, chills run down my spine. I can hear the words chanting over and over in my mind, like a splinter haunting me.

"M y buddy...m y buddy..."

This is where I begin to sweat and every movement nearby could be him.

"M y buddy...m y buddy...wherever I go, he goes..."

Wherever I turn, yes, he could be there. I f it is not clear to you by now, I am tortured by the M y Buddy doll I had as a child.

Just about the same time I received m y own buddy, I had the unfortunate pleasure o f seeing the horror flick C hild’s Play. I could never play or look at M y Buddy again.

H e looked back.

Believe me when I tell you, I tried, I really did try to play and race around on m y Big Wheels, but something had changed, something was different, and I know it was him who sabotaged m y tricycle causing me to scrape my knee. But to this day no one believes me.

I will never escape this nightmare kept within me i And next time you hear those chilling words, think twice about looking under the bed or in the closet; watch those anklesf'M y B u d d y...M y Buddy....wherever I go, he goes.. .M y buddy and me!"

The Jim Rose Sideshow Circus. Nothing in the world can conceivably make me retch more than visceral flashbacks to my horrifying encounter with them.

It was a dark December eve way back in ’94, while I was nothing but a delusional gothling who just wanted to see Nine Inch Nails. Unfortunately, that included taking in these guys as the opening act, and their performance art’—which included, among other things, drinking each other’s bile right from the source, eating glass, 500-pound nude female mud wrestling matches, and, of course, the Amazing Mr. Lifto, who likes to lift large chunks o f metal with his, er, ‘manhood’ as opposed to his arms. Jim Rose provided commentary the entire time, saying sophisticated stuff like "Mr. Lifto's sch long is SO O O O big, it has its own zip code.” Ron Jeremy eat your heart out...

And then, o f course, there was Mr. Rose’s wife, who likes to shoot firecrackers out o f her crotch. And they say the clap is painful...

M y number one fear still is sharks in the swimming pool. I was one o f those kids who took swim­ ming lessons but failed Blue Level three times because I didn’t have any strength in my skinny 11-yearold arms to do the required laps.

Every time I was forced into a pool for a bi-weekly lesson, I was filled with a sense o f dread — today was the day they would get me. I knew where they lived, kept there by some demented life guard.

T h e deep end o f C .G . Brown Memorial Pool has a circular grate with holes in it, so they can watch you swim m ing up above, and drool over the possibility o f fresh meat. W hen I happened to be alone in the deep end, I would frantically paddle in circles, sure that they were swimming behind me in my blind spot, jaws open

I remember this one time, camp, I saw this movie withi this crazy hairy man in drag... Mrs. Doubtfire I believe, and holy crap, I wet my bed for days. But this is now and that was two weeks ago.

Ebola...that always sucks royally.

Erectile disfunction...relegated to a life of watching Britney on the TV and enjoy­ ing wholesome innuendo-free Pepsi... god that doesn’t seem like a barrel of monkeys (the funny sort, not those crazy face-eating hellions o f course).

Oh yeah, that time when the Green Goblin was supposed to be dead and then he wasn't really dead and drugged up Spiderman — man that was some freaky shit. Oh yeah, what I fear the most is the thought o f hungry children retiring to resdess slumber on ramshackle beds each night.... well, not really.

I mean, after the Norman Osborn goblin not many worthy following acts surface.

Possible candidates though: the Hobgoblin, the Harry Osborn Green Goblin, the Demogoblin, the possibility o f a Ron Jeremy 'guess what's in the stocking' Christmas special and possibly even the Bart Hamilton Green Goblin.

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A long time ago, a not-so-wise man stood atop a hill beneath an old fig tree. He spoke of religion, love and pol­ itics. He spoke for days on end, relying on the kindness of strangers to supply him with food, water and blankets.

Soon, his offspring were spreading their values all over the planet. They had their easels, Bibles and fancy micro­ phones. They were the poor man’s Billy Graham: street-cor­ oner evangelicals.

Soon they made their way to Montreal. They haunted : me at Sister Fitzpatrick’s CEGEP-on-the-hill. They made [me run with fright from the corner o f McGill College and Ste Catherine. They rang my doorbell when clearly I did not order a new reli gion.

Why am I scared? you may ask. Well, simply put, people were watching them! They are amassing a group o f followers who could otherwise be produc­ tive citizens. Assume that out o f ten observers, three are standing there for jokes, two think it’s a play and one person is trying to ask for directions. That still leaves four people who are genuinely interested in what he has to say.

Buddy, this is not Hyde Park. Though I commend these people for sacri­ ficing their rime to the miseducation o f the unknowing public, street corners are not a place of worship. If these people made any sense, they would keep their show in a Church, not a briefcase.

and bloody from their last meal, and in anticipation o f their next.

Exhausted, I would make it over to the edge, where I would survey the scene, frightened to turn around and pull myself out in case a shark would grab me just before I was out o f the water onto solid ground.

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You're at the bar, it’s some­ one's birthday, or maybe you're celebrating an exam, or perhaps it's just happens to be Wednesday night, and every­ one goes out on Wednesday night, no?

Anyway, you're enjoying a social drink, or maybe a pitcher with old friends, or perhaps you're just pounding pitcher after shot after pitcher after. O.k. you've got the pic ture. Anyway, a quick glance toward your glass later and it's your turn to grab a round.

“A pitcher please,” you proudly pronounce to your waitress.

“We're out,” comes the reply.

"Out? Out? Out!!?!!

Imagine if the bar ran out of beer. Your night would be over, the fun would cease, and you might even end up getting your life back together.

^ ^ When I was nine years old, I was invited to my friend Maggie’s birthday party. All the cool kids o f primary school were in attendance, and I was feeling very good about myself, that is, until it came rime to have birthday cake.

Being a typical nine-year-old, I couldn’t wait to mow down my cut o f the cake. Unbeknownst to me, however, this particular cake was spe­ cial. Special because it was one o f those ‘money cakes’ where quarters and loonies were lurking inside for every child to relish over.

I guess I wasn’t listening when the birthday girl’s mom told us that this cake had these hidden treasures, as 1 proceeded to eat my cake with such haste and enthusiasm, hardly stopping to take in any air. Suddenly, there wasn’t any air going through my throat. One o f the precious loonies jwas lodged in my throat, rendering me into a state of panic, and utter embarrassment. Ever since that day, I am petrified of cakes at other peoples houses o f which I am unaware o f its contents.

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I know w h at you're going to w atch th is H allow een The Tribune's guide to the best horror movies of all time ctober 31, you could go out and waste your valuable dollars on an overpriced costume and go to some lame-ass party. But w ho really wants to do that?

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W ith a creepy score and moments o f unbearable suspense, this one puts all those crappy 90s slasher flicks like I Know What You D id Last Summer and Urban Legend to shame.

Fear Factor: 8 Gore Factor: 5 Exorcist

Save your cash, get a bunch o f friends together, head on over to your local video store and pick up a few o f these horror classics for a guaranteed night o f Halloween murders, mayhem and yes, even some big time laughs.

(1973) Some 28 years after its initial release, this flick still carries the tide o f one o f the scariest movies ever made. Why? W hen you factor in the twisted combination o f spin­ ning heads, projectile vom itting and the fact that the Devil himself takes centre stage, you’ve got all the makings o f a whacked-out good time.

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girl who decides to enter a fancy dance academy, only to find out that it is being run by a bunch o f bloodthirsty sadistic witches. W ith a com bination o f ultra-realistic murder scenes, a spooky score and hallucinatory dream sequences, you’re in for one messed up cine-

start to finish. W ith a story that offers the hilarious premise o f putting the tortured soul o f a maniacal serial killer into a small boys doll, it just doesn’t get much better than this.

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Fear Factor: 9 Gore FacregoS

en sailor, Çhucky was the Cabbage Patch doll from hell.

Sure, the movie ■ : loses some o f its "believability” when you realize he’s just a midget running around in a goofy

A Nightmare on E lm Street

(1984) Sure, most o f the sequels suck the big one, b u f.im r% ig in a l still marriages to get the job done. For the few who don’t kn®w the story, it revolves around a m iStered child

I f that doesn’t do it for you,

Fear Factor: 9 Gore Factor: 7

( 1993)

( 1974)

that late night Halloween horror marathon. H o w can you go wrong with a witty homicidal leprechaun whose preferred methods o f trans­ portation include an assortment o f rollerblades and skateboards?

It also has a ‘death by pogo stick’ scene that w ill leave you laughing hysterically at its sheer stu­ pidity. As an added bonus, you also get to watch Jennifer Aniston make an ass out o f herself before she became famous. D o the math: Alcohol + Leprechaun = A helluva good time.

Five teens out on a road trip decide to pull over for a pit stop, only to run into a crazy redneck family who happen to have a thing for grinding up out-of-towners with high-powered chainsaws.

Warning: this one ain’t for the squeamish. T h e flick feels like a pseudo-documentary, which makes it that much more terrifying, easily scaring the crap out o f most view­ ers.

After sitting through this one and getting to know one o f its main nutcases, Leatherface, you w ill probably never look at Texts the same way again.

Fear Factor: 8 Gore Factor: 8

1 3 th

W hen an unseen mental case goes on a killing rampage with an assortment o f sharp objects, you can only sit back and cringe as the body count quickly piles up. Watch it for the hilarity o f seeing a young Kevin Bacon act like a moron, only

Leprechaun

Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Friday the

W hat happens when you send a bunch o f hotny teenagers o f f to a quiet apd peaceful sleep-away camp fo r the jummi|? T h e stuff great horror movies are made of, that’s 1 what? '

watch possessed chick Linda Blair play with a priest’s crucifix and put it in places you just have to see to believe.

(H int: it rhymes with "Regina.")

File this one in the ‘it’s so bad, it’s good’ category. This is a great flick for mixing things up during

costume, but the cheesm ess only makes it that much m ore o f a kitschy cult classic.

-v k Fear Factor: 4 Gore Factor: 5

C h ild ’s Play

( 1988) A genuine guilty pleasure from

table kill scene.

W hile the flick might be tame by todays gore standards, it still guarantees fun times.

Fear Factor: 6 Gore Factor: 5 The Blair W itch Project

( 1999) Operating on a non-existent budget, this flick managed to scare the crap out o f most movie-goers while offering virtually no gore or blood. H ow ’d they do it? By mess­ ing with our head; they successfully screw with our imaginations and blur the lines between fiction and reality.

T h e m ovie’s shaky camera work may induce motion sickness for some viewers. Nonetheless, get ready to be seriously creeped out by three very convincing performances from its lead actors.

It offers a mind-blowing end­ ing and loads o f suspense that will have you gnawing o f f your finger­ nails. A n d it’s easily one o f the most original horror movies to come out in recent years.

Fear Factor: 7 Gore Factor: 3

to get whacked in one very memo-

McGill Hockey Redmen

Fear Factor: 3 Gore Factor: 4

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Halloween

( 1978)

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After ruthlessly mipderilfg his older sister, six-year^old Michael Myers spends the next 15 years o f his life locked up in thedoony bin.

Still very much i nsane,»ffe busts out o f the halfway house ahd heads back to his hometown to go out on yet another killing spree on, as the tide suggests, Halloween night. A Sporting an eerie white mask and waving around one big-ass butcher knife, all hell breaks loose as Myers goes after a group o f help­ less teens.

I p p lA fter a group o f youths head o ff into the woods, they stumble upon arsmall cabin which just so happens to be hauhted by homici­ dal demonic qiirits.

Sratfing B movie iiber-actor Bru3|||IfymJ|>ell, this 80s classic is one nasty movie from start to finish.| I f ff^ s ig h t o f blood leaves you :qu(l||y, aiUkl this one altogether.

O ne scene in particular, where a woman gets sexually assaulted by a bunch o f trees, really puts this flick over the top. Organs, limbs and guts fly all over the place in this brutal assault on the senses that will probably leave most people reach______________ ine for their barf Fear Factor: 7 Gore Factor: 10

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D irected by Italian horror leg­ end Dario Argento, this is one bizarre flick that’s probably one o f the trippiest and scariest movies you’ll ever see.

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S T U D E N T C E N T E R O F M c G IL L U N IV E R S IT Y

Bilan au 31 mai 2001

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Tél. : (514) 393-7115 Téléc. (514) 390-4111 www.deloitte.ca

Fonds de fonction­ nement $

Partie Fonds de réserve afférent rénovation aux dépenses du Fonds en immo­ d’ étudiants de M cGill bilisations S $

Fonds de réserve afférent aux bourses d’ excellence $

Total 2001 $

2000 $

A c tif À court terme Encaisse Placements à court terme Débiteurs Université M cGill Autres Stocks Frais payés d ’ avance * Somme à recevoir du fonds de réserve afférent aux dépenses en immobilisations * Somme à recevoir du fonds de fonctionnement

Rapport des vérificateurs Aux administrateurs du Centre étudiant de l’ Université McGill/ Student Center o f M cGill University Nous avons vérifié le bilan du Centre étudiant de l’ Université McGill/Student Center o f McGill University au 31 mai 2001 ainsi que les états des résultats et de l ’ évolution des soldes de fonds et des flux de trésorerie de l’ exercice terminé à cette date. La responsabilité de ces états financiers incombe au conseil de l ’ Association étudiante. Notre responsabilité consiste à exprimer une opinion sur ces états financiers en nous fondant sur notre vérification.

Immobilisations (note 5)

191 294 201 250 30 255 41 78

À notre avis, ces états financiers donnent, à tous les égards importants, une image fidèle de la situation financière du Centre au 31 mai 2001 ainsi que des résultats de ses activités et de ses flux de trésorerie pour l ’ exercice terminé à cette date selon les principes comptables généralement reconnus du Canada.

(Signé) Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche

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517 437

198 073 325 022

22 093 244 472

137 402 1 390 773

173 881 691 318

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25 496

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198 073 248 758

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454 410

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750 000 1 958 210

. _ _

737 779 1 698 921

624 241 575 977

154 109 43 043 68 727

1 665 726

2 702 579

2 342 276 4 008 002

1 094 046 3 796 625

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364 653

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454 410

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Notre vérification a été effectuée conformément aux normes de vérification généralement reconnues du Canada. Ces normes exigent que la vérification soit planifiée et exécutée de manière à fournir l ’ assurance raisonnable que les états financiers sont exempts d’ inexactitudes importantes. La vérification comprend le contrôle par sondages des éléments probants à l’ appui des montants et des autres éléments d’ information fournis dans les états financiers. Elle comprend également l ’ évaluation des principes comptables suivis et des estimations importantes faites par le conseil de l ’ Association étudiante, ainsi qu’ une appréciation de la présentation d’ ensemble des états financiers.

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126 949 517 437

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248 758

182 863

254 258 167 736

362 405 231 886

300 000 2 378 817

318 687 1 966 426

750 000 3 128 817

1 050 000 3 016 426

173 235 470 879 4 008

208 225 346 780 3 796

881 000 304 185 002

547 000 652 199 625

Les soldes interfonds ont été élim inés de la colonne du total afin de ne pas surestimer le total de l ’ a c tif et le total du passif.

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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

administrateur

administrateur

C E N T R E É T U D I A N T D E L ’U N IV E R S IT É M c G IL L / S T U D E N T C E N T E R O F M c G IL L U N IV E R S IT Y

Questions?

État des résultats et de l’ évolution des soldes de fonds de l’ exercice terminé le 31 mai 2001 Partie rénovation

Produits Cotisations versées par les étudiants Tabagie Sadie Brasserie Gert Vente d ’ aliments et de boissons Centre des étudiants Revenus généraux et d’ administration Programmation d’ événements sociaux Publications Services Dividendes Intérêts créditeurs

Charges Tabagie Sadie Brasserie Gert Vente d ’ aliments et de boissons Centre des étudiants Frais généraux et d’ administration Services du conseil étudiant Programmation d’ événements sociaux Publications Services Clubs Amortissement d’ immobilisations Intérêts débiteurs Bourses décernées

Excédent (insuffisance) des produits par rapport aux charges Soldes de fonds au début de l’ exercice Virement interfonds Soldes de fonds à la fin de l’ exercice

Bourses d ’ excellence 2000 $

du Fonds d ’ étudiants de M c G ill 2001 2000 $ $

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398-6802 operations@ssmu.mcgill.ca • Exemplaires des états financiers disponibles à la réception de l’AEUM.

Student Centre of McGill University

Financial Statements May 2001 S T U D E N T C E N T E R O F M c G IL L U N IV E R S IT Y /

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Samson Bélair Deloitte &Touche

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as at M a y 31, 2001________________________________________________________________ _______

Operating Fund

Capital Expenditures Reserve Fund

191,294 201,250

517,437

Renovation portion of McGill Student ___ Fund___

Awards o f Distinction Reserve Fund

A ssets Current assets Cash Short-term investments Accounts receivable McGill University Other Inventory Prepaid expenses * Due from Capital Expenditures Reserve Fund * Due from Operating Fund______

A uditors’ report T o the Directors o f the Student Center o f M cG ill University / Centre étudiant de l’ Université M cG ill W e have audited the balance sheet o f the Student Center o f M cG ill University' / C e " » éhidiant de

audit.

318,243 941,066

737,7‘ 1,698,9:

30,624 255,241 41,575 78,977

154,1( 43,0* 68,7!

454,410 198,073

137,402 1390,773

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222,379

30,624 255,241 41,575 78,977

1,253,371

l'Université M cG ill as at May 31, 2001 and the statements o f operattons and changesm J ™ 1 and cash flows for the year then ended. These financial statements are the responsibility o f the Students S oci^ C ounol Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our

126,949

691318

1,665,726

2,702,5

2342,276 4,008,002

3,796,6:

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364,6 269,6 236,2

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244,472

517,437

2,356,015

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Current liabilities Accounts payable McGill University Student health insurance plan Other Due to Awards o f Distinction Reserve Fund Due to Operating Funds Due to renovation portion of McGill Student Fund Due to Daycare Funds held for: Library improvement Bursaries Current portion o f long-term debt (Note 6)

supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statement». A n audit also includes accounting principles used and significant estimates made by the Students Society Council, as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.

In our opinion these financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position o f the Center as at May 31, 2001 and the results o f its operations and its cash flow s for the year then ended in accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles.

(Signed) Samson Béiair/Deloitte & Touche

854,650 53,560

25,496 248,878 225,481 22,093 -

454,410

198,073 248,758

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248,758

254,258 167,736

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254,258 167,736

362,4

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1390,773

454,410

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318,6 1,966,4

454,410

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1,050,0 3,016,4

397,805 397,805 2356,015

235,000 9,472 244,472 244,472

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Invested in capital assets Externally restricted (Note 3) Internally restricted (Note 4) 1390,773 *

63,027 236,908 691318

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A p p r o v e d on e h a lf o f the S tu den t C e n te r in b be!

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Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

Administrator

, Administrator

S T U D E N T C E N T E R O F M c G IL L U N IV E R S IT Y / C E N T R E É T U D I A N T D E L ’U N IV E R S IT É M c G I L L

Statement of operations and changes in fund balances y e a r en d ed M a y 31, 2001

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Operating Fund

Revenue Students’ fees Sadie’s tabagie Gert’ s Pub Food and beverage operations University center building operations General, office and administrative Programming activities Publications Services Dividends Contributions Interest revenue

Expenses Sadie’s tabagie Gert’s Pub Food and beverage operations University center building operations General, office and administrative Council services Programming activities Publications Services Clubs Amortization of capital assets Interest expense Awards granted

930,462 278,938 232,185

869,625 152,001 280,252

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198,951

221,198

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127,692

110,096

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247,936

206,279

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20,816

7,130

362,187

259345 260,094

142,927 285,277

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102,264

106,492

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408,163

346,362

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541,188 289,384

527,113 300,410

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198,802 341,051 155,298 53,000

162,930 326,571 156,828 115,193

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62,547 8,260

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103,102

233,909

98,948

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Alchem ists fail to turn Yeats play into gold Grace Carter

them i f they don't leave. The play­ ers depart, but Décim a locks

Masks, animals, and mystical beasts grace the stage o f the Calixa Lavallée Theatre this week in a pro­ duction o f Yeats' The Player Queen.

T h e play was put together by the Alchem y Theatre group, founded by director Declan O 'D riscoll in 1998. Since then the players have toured, presenting several large cast productions across Canada.

This evening, on stage, they are a motley crew: grizzly old men, swaggering country folk, a beggar who resembles a donkey, a group o f players dressed as animals.

T h e play begins as a group o f revolutionary civilians and country­ men are planning an uprising against their Queen, who has never

Septimus and N ona into the castle.

Seconds later, they steal the key from her and take off.

Meanwhile, elsewhere in the castle, the Queen is preparing herself for death by the hand o f the people. She wants to be a nun, and is in the process o f trying to con­ vince herself that her demise will in fact be a martyr­ dom . She bumps into Décima, they trade their respec­ tive tales o f sorrow, and decide to switch places. The

shown her face during her sevenyear reign. Septimus, a drunken poet and playwright, stumbles around town looking for the diffi­ cult Décima, his wife— they are supposed to be performing a play for the Prime Minister and the Queen. In the castle, a servant, Nona, runs to find Décima, who vainly refuses to play the part o f an old woman in the play. N on a reveals that while Décima has been avoiding Septimus, she has been having an affair with him. Just then, Septimus enters and informs Nona, Décima and the players that the mob is approaching and will kill

Queen leaves to join a nunnery. In the meantime, the Prime Minister has determined to pla­ cate the people by marrying the myste­ rious Queen. H e arrives with a bishop to do so, and finds Décima in her place. However, through the power she exudes in the role o f Queen, and because nobody has seen the real Queen's face, he immediately warms to the idea and Décim a addresses the crowd as monarch and bride-to-be. T h e crowd loves her. Then she banishes

Septimus, Nona and the rest o f the players from the land so she can rule without fear o f betrayal. The end.

I f this sounds slapdash, it's because it is. T h e plot o f the story

crashes along as coherently as the drunken Septimus spouts his phi­ losophy in the streets— that is, not very. That's not to say that a plot need be coherent to be successful.

In fact, this play is rich with sym­ bolism, made stronger by the chaot­ ic storyline.

A scene where the players, led by the Greek Comedy/Tragedy, dis­

cuss the virtues o f their art, and then become instantly cowardly in the face o f the mob suggests the vanity o f the artistic community.

Periodically, characters discuss the mysterious mythical unicorn that some say they have spotted near the castle. T h e citizens associate the beast with the Queen and vow to kill it. The creature becomes a metaphor for the hereditary royalty the subjects wish to replace with the Prime Minister. A n old beggar, dressed as a donkey, roams the stage in search o f hay— at one point he confides that he was the beast that car­ ried Christ, and that when he brays, there is a "changing o f the crown." Aptly enough, he reappears at the end o f the

choice o f play was potentially a good one, a rapid and tumultuous story like The Player Queen requires truly stellar acting to convey quick and convincing sincerity in all the characters. W ithout authenticity in the roles, the play is too anarchic, too farcical to be engaging for two hours. Despite animated delivery, much o f the dialogue in the Alch em y Theatre's production seemed forced. Artificial pauses and dramatic gestures did not help (except possibly in the case o f Décima, as her particular character

play and brays just as Décima is crowned.

Set against the backdrop o f the clumsy chase o f the story, the symbols resonate: government should be deter­ mined arbitrarily or by elec­ tion, not necessarily inherited. Yeats is poking fun at the monarchy.

The mandate o f the Alchemy group is to "take the heavy weight o f the word on a page and create an emotional response not only within the audience, but within the actors as well."

To this end, the company is only partly successful. W h ile their

trumped-up acting.

T h e group did elicit an emo­ tional response after the play, how­ ever, when they had the audience participate in a brief question-andanswer period, led by O'Driscoll's mother. From their earnestness, and their kind comments to one anoth­ er, the love and the time the players had put into their effort was imme­ diately apparent and endearing.

A n d though they didn't quite pull o ff the part, so to speak, they did, after all, try a Yeats play— no easy thing, to be sure. For that, they are to be commended.

was hinged upon a melodramatic disposition).

T h e result? T h e audience's two-fold removal from the themes o f the play: once, appropriately, because o f Yeats' intentionally ludic storyline, and once because o f

A w eek in concerts Musings on Dr. Yellow Fever (mediocre), Basement Jaxx (pathetic), and Crazy Penis (potent) Dan Zacks O ne o f the pleasures o f attend­ ing M cG ill is the overwhelming diversity o f our nightlife. Unlike studying in, say, Kingston, Halifax, London, and just about everywhere else in Canada aside from Vancouver and Toronto, we have choices beyond the standard univer­ sity fair of m ediocre funk/fusion/jam bands playing to drunk crowds in generic bars.

Nevertheless, should you feel the need to live out this particular cliche, Le Swim m ing steadfastly offers it up in heaping amounts.

Every night is funk night at Le Swimming, and Saturday, October 13 was no exception with Dr. Yellow Fever on the stage.

Dr. Yellow Fever is a gaggle o f Haligonians fronted by Kamran Abdi, who by their own description play “pop-funk” and • have just released a full-length self-titled C D (Fever Inc 020401). Though their press material and a quick look on the ‘N et suggests that these fellows have won themselves quite a follow ­ ing in the Dalhousie/Halifax party scene, I was dreading this night.

Why? Though I am generally hesi­ tant to slag on Canadian independ­

was their absolutely gorgeous flautist, Allie Morrison. During her

formance.

ents, their C D is really quite bad.

For whatever reason, in production o f this C D Mr. Abdi felt it neces­ sary to build his tracks on techy sequenced loops— loops that are unbearably bad. Mr. Abdi and his musicians are technically compe­ tent and each song would be decent i f not for the amateurish and garish sequences. W e get a lot o f yuckiness in the Trib offices, but this C D was a particularly headache-induc­

solos (tight and passionate), she managed to keep her eyes open just enough for optimum sultriness.

Was Dr. Yellow Fever worth the five dollar tax? T h e real ques­ tion is whether anybody ever goes to Le Swimming for the music.

Probably not. Nevertheless, i f you like watered-down funk and univer­ sity town banalities, you know where to go.

Skip ahead to Thursday,

ing shame.

Fortunately, Dr. Yellow Fever left their computers in Halifax (maybe they like that stuff out East?) and played as a traditional band. T h e result was antiseptic pop with a slight funk influence that was far overshadowed by an early 80s disco aesthetic. Funk, i f noth­ ing else, requires songs sufficiently long to accommodate a bridge to a break (à la James Brown yelling “ Take it to the bridge!”). This was

October 18 and the Bassment Jaxx concert at Le Spectrum. Frankly, I would go and see Dr. Yellow Fever over these two clowns any day, and that is saying a lot. Let me encap­ sulate what you received for your 27 dollar ticket: two arrogant Brits knob-tw iddling on stage, two female dancer/singers, one percus­ sionist, and a light show.

Bassment Jaxx mixed once, choosing instead to do a sort o f quasi-on-the-fly production with the result being akin to simply lis­ tening to their CDs. True, one did some heavily Vocoded singing and the other strummed a couple o f muffled chords on a guitar, but that was the extent o f their “live” per­

both traditional African and Brazilian Carnival samba, but so what? I don’t need to pay 27 dollars to see two dancers. In terms o f vocals, they borrowed a time-hon­ oured technique employed by boybands everywhere: lip-synching. As for the percussionist, he was inaudi­ ble, and the lightshow was merely decent. Musically, what critics have dubbed “punk garage” is just insipid hard disco house as divorced from the roots o f true garage as

completely lacking.

Instead, we

were treated to m ediocre disco basslines and short solos from Mr. A b d i’s guitar that were all twochord strumming and arpeggios.

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Here’s the problem: Bassment Jaxx are boringly accessible and so they get major label treatment.

M ajor label treatment involves major label prom otion; music videos and radio play included.

This means that suburban meatmarket frequenters show up in droves (and they did: it was like being in a Crescent Street club) and happily pay the exorbitant ticket price. As a result, music that in five years will be relegated to the 99 cent bin at Cheap Thrills becomes w ild­ ly successful at the expense o f truly important sounds. This is why true

innovators like Afronaught can’t come to Montreal, Alex Attias plays a only small dancefloor like Quartier Latin, and Osunlade will be lucky with a packed house at Jello Bar. This makes me angry.

M ovin g to Friday, October 19, and the Crazy Penis live, short set at Jingxi. This Manchester trio from Paper Recordings plays funky, disco inspired house very well.

The crowd was receptive, the sound was excellent, and the dance floor shook. Particularly impressive were the suave vocals and the sick basslines. That so many people were into such a disco-heavy sound makes me wonder why Montreal doesn’t yet have a classic disco night. Disco, and by disco I mean the deep, percussive sound from the mid to late 70s as it was played in the predom inantly gay, black underground, is absolutely funda­ mental to contem porary dance music and has deep ties to Montreal. Some o f the best tribal disco, like the Erotic Drum Band’s ‘Jerky Rhythm,’ was co-produced

by Montrealer George Cucuzzella.

Lets hope somebody fills this gap with a good, regular party.

Zubot and Dawson: mature audiences only M.J. Frassica T h e audience gathered at M aison de la culture de la Frontenac on Saturday, October 20 was quiet, polite, and well behaved.

T h ey clapped only when they were supposed to. T h ey didn’t dance or shout or throw panties. That is to say, those who came out to see Zubot and Dawson perform in the civic auditorium adjacent to M etro Frontenac were o f a distinctly gray­ haired variety. “ W e used to get younger audi­ ences, but then we played a lot o f folk festivals and that brought out a definitely more mature crow d,” Jessie Zubot explains. Nevertheless, with the ascent o f the “jam band” to its pre-eminence in the musical pantheon o f university students, one would expect to hear Zubot and Dawson’s innovative and improvisadonal acoustic roots music blasting out o f every W in A m p in residence. Part o f the discrepancy comes from choice o f venues; this music is best experi­ enced live, and because Z & D played Chateau Frontenac and not, say, Café Campus or Casa Del Popolo. Also, the M irro rs inexpli­ cable failure to include this show in their weekly listings couldn’t have helped. “ Definitely there’s a good crowd o f people in university that are into it, it’s just trying to figure out how to get it to them,” says

Zubot and indeed, there were four or five long side-burned, denimwearing youths in attendance, sit­ ting in the rear, surrounded by friendly but foppish after-dinner folk enthusiasts.

Though it’s difficult to see what particularly socially redeemable value remains in either style o f music, the irony o f folk becom ing m ellow background music for middle-class baby boomers could just be what has driven Bob Dylan to renounce the genre and espouse country. Is the music o f Zubot and Dawson work­ ing to subvert social and political hierarchies more or less entrenched by the assimilation o f “countercul­ ture” into the mainstream?

According to Zubot, yes and no. “ There’s no words in our music, so we can’t get very political with what we do. I guess just the feeling o f roots music might help people forget about all the crazy things that are going on.”

This benign escapism may not be heralding the uprising o f alienat­ ed labour, but roots music is, nonetheless, aware o f and reacting to the issues o f the day. “ It seems like right now is a pretty unstable time in this world, with everything going on. So I ’m sure in the next few years there’s going to be either some well-made roots music, in regards to our surroundings, or some pretty crappy stuff,” prophe­ sies Zubot.

That aside, Zubot and Dawson put on a technically superior per­ formance.

Steve Dawson under­ took feats o f acoustic contortionism on an impressive set o f guitars: a Hawaiian lap guitar (which pro­ duced an airy slide sound), a large steel cutaway, and a gleam ing m etal-bodied N ational Tricone.

Dawson’s blazing fingerpicking style aptly reflected his work on his most recent album, Bug Parade. H e impressed with intricate and techni­ cally brilliant guitar work in both the prepared and improvised ele­ ments o f the music.

W h ile Dawson’s solos and backup work were uniformly excel­ lent, Jessie Zubot’s searing fiddle took the crowd by surprise. A ny expectation that the group would lay down garden-variety roots music ended when he stepped up for his first solo. Zubot takes full advantage o f the sound-producing abilities o f his instrument: from bouncing the bow on the fretboard for percussive effect to plucking and scratching the strings dissonantly.

Certainly influenced by bluegrass fiddle and mandolin, Zubot man­ ages to infuse the folk fiddle with genuine post-modern bite.

The group as a whole, which included bass and percussion, seemed to communicate very well onstage. Improvisers had the sup­ port o f responsive comping. The ensemble executed every arrange­ ment with a tightness one expects

only from the most finely tuned jazz outfits.

Indeed, their music borrows much from jazz; the tunes spiral through one after another deliciously intricate sections, over which soloists improvise, before the restatement establishes order once again. “ There are melodies which would be comparable to, say, a verse in a song with lyrics. Then there’s kind o f a chorus section o f the song which recurs throughout it, and then a bridge, and then an openended solo section,” clarifies Zubot.

Zubot and Dawson’s acoustic roots music is particularly well suit­ ed to the discriminating taste o f a university audience weaned on improvisational folk-rock.

Their live exposure in Montreal has been limited; an appearance at one o f the outdoor pavilions at the Festival International D e Jazz this summer was rained out. “W e were all set up, all very excited,” Dawson testifies, “and then it started to rain. So we packed up our stuff.” It is altogeth­ er a shame, too, because that per­ formance stood to increase the band’s profile in this town. As it turned out, on ly a specialized demographic heard about this per­ formance. But it’s only misfortunate for those who didn’t make it: Maison de la Frontenac was at capacity, and the band hawked its albums for twenty clams after the show. They’re probably not too upset that their crowd is a more economically established one.

A hardcore groupie enthuses about Sloan flnnely Zonena Really, what’s w ron g with enjoying some good o f rock n’ roll?

So the hairdo gets a little messy, the fans are a little scruffy and the bands are not as glossy, but when that band is a band like Sloan, it makes it all worthwhile.

Taking a break after releasing three albums in very quick seces­ sion, the Halifax four-piece is back with a vengeance.

T h eir new album, Pretty Together comes 18 months after their most recent 1999 full-length, Between the Bridges.

Pretty Together marks the tenyear anniversary o f the band. In that time, Sloan has gone from a big

label commercial success to the patriarchs o f the Canadian indiemusic scene, starting their own label and musical family known as Murderecords.

Pretty Together is Sloan’s sixth L P on Murderecords, and boy is it good. T h e band loves classic rock and pays homage to it in typically ironic Sloan fashion.

There are, as band-member Chris M urphy puts it, “the screamers” : ‘Pick it up and Dial it,’ and the album’s first single, ‘I f it Feels G ood, do it,’ and the ballads, perhaps the best way to appreciate the trademark puns and altogether artful lyrics as well as the addictively upbeat melodies that could make any­ one’s toe tap in rhythm.

Tw o Sundays ago, Sloan played to a packed Club Soda.

As is expected at a live Sloan show, there were jokes, special effects (in the form o f a rather uncoordinated video montage), and fans expressing their absolute adoration through the constant refrain o f the Sloan chant.

For those o f you not familiar with the band, that would be, “ S L O -O A N ” howled in voices similar to the infamous "H ey You Guys" line from The Goonies.

Perhaps one o f the most exciting things about the band is that all four members, Jay Ferguson, Chris Murphy, Patrick Pentland and Andrew Scott are never on the same place on stage for very long. Throughout the show, the four members o f Sloan play each other’s instruments, sing each other’s songs and take turns ham­ mering out tunes on the keyboard.

Since their first single, ‘Underwhelmed,’ hit the airwaves

in 1992, Sloan has been a staple o f the Canadian music industry. In that same year, they were declared by the American press to be the next Nirvana and were added to the roster at David Geffen Company (the same company that gave rise to Sonic Youth and Beck). However, those who know Sloan, know that this is a band that cannot be described with the same adjectives as could be used to classify other music in the alternative rock music scene. W hy? Because Sloan is not alternative in the least. This is a band that, while writing a catalogue o f its own wonderful songs, fully acknowledge that there are virtually no riffs yet unwritten. Critics and fans alike make comparisons between Sloan and bands from all eras o f rock, from the Beatles to Black Sabbath. Still, derivative as

they may be, the four members o f Sloan maintain their own distinc­ tive styles within the context o f the band, making any o f their records a musical Smorgasbord.

Granted, Sloan is not the most well-known band on the rock scene today, but i f you’ve been in this country for any number o f years you would probably recognise a few o f their singles, the most notable being ‘M o n e y C ity Maniacs’ the frat-house party anthem that made an appearance on the very popular compilation album, Frosh. I f you already know Sloan, you’ll notice that Pretty Together follows their ten-year pro­ gression very nicely. I f you don’t already know the band, you’ll notice that Pretty Together stands alone as a great rock n’ roll album.

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Je Cherche The only way to survive/summarize mid­ terms: Evaporators/Goblins-/ RashfWe are the Goblins 12 "

Michael J. Sheehy III Gotten Gains Begger’s Banquet A t some point in time, we must all bow to the power o f superficiality. In this instance, I have decided that superficiality is an important analyt­ ical tool that can be used successive­ ly on music texts. To start, I looked at Mr. Sheehy's disc cover: a com­ puter-generated blur o f a man (pre­ sumably Sheehy) in that classical standing-and-holding-the-guitarw h i l e - l o o k i n g pensive/thoughtful/rebellious/pissed -o ff pose, framed on either side by red Christmas lights on a black background. Conclusion? I need to get thicker glasses. I opened up the C D package and took out the insert.

Every lyric/photo page was expertly typefaced and graphically laid out.

O n the back o f the insert was a photo o f Sheehy: a mid-shot o f a shaved-head late twentyish-early thirtyish Moby-look-alike looking at the camera with a drugged/sleepy expression and a cigarette dangling haphazardly out o f mouth, wearing a tailored creamy-white leather jack­ et, set against a smooth blank-white background. Effect? I f ever I met said person in a dark deserted alleyway, would beat up said person for white leather jacket while he lay gasping on the ground; next would begin to walk away, but then step back and also snatch the cigarette from said person's mouth. So what does the music sound like? Just wait; still smoking cigarette. Next, a look at the lyrics. SAM PLE O F A BAD LYRIC: "Sweet Michael junior the time has come/ for father to confess to son/ the truth about me and your mum/ and all the things we did when we were young/ I'll tell you something you won’t believe/ that's the toilet where you were con­ ceived. .. " SAM PLE O F A G O O D LYR IC : "Some people just like to get hurt." Finally, a superficial spin over the music. First impression?

Seemed to be a combination o f blues and loops with Mr. Sheehy's albeit interesting voice. BEST SO NG S:

‘Mystery Train,’ a cool drum-beat loop ) adaptation o f the famous Junior Parker/Elvis song; ‘Some People Love to Get Hurt,’ a slow folk-blues with contemporary touches and v/g lyrics; ‘N o One Recognised H im ,’ a rather effective story-teller about a down n out for­ mer boxer who threw a fight; and ‘Tired O ld Love Song,’ a slow ballad that flips the middle finger at the ballad, and has the effect o f throw­ ing a bucket o f cold, cold water into the face o f love.

Overall superficial impression: unlike Tindersticks, who are label mates o f MJS via Beggar's Banquet, the synthesis o f standard folk/blues numbers with drum loops and cool digital sound effects to evoke that sense o f a "new soul" is uneven.

Though each song attempts to be a story-teller, it seems as i f the strength and imagination o f the music rests on the quality o f the lyrics, which are not always interesting or success­ ful. But I really like Sheehy's white leather jacket.

-E ric Waru/aruk

A T T O M IK s/t Last Tango Productions Once known as Drop Kick M e Jesus, Toronto-based Attom ik is a breath o f fresh air. Their self-titled release covers different types o f rock, seesawing from harder power-riff tracks like ‘Superhero’ to punky, fun songs like ‘I ’m In Love W ith a Psycho’ and ‘ H ello Computer.’

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W hile frontman N ick Lombardi’s voice is gritty and unique, Attom ik is driven by the tasty guitar lines o f J.P. Bourassa. Though nothing elab­ orate, the melodies o f each track pull you in and Bourassa throws in the occasional mini-solo for good meas­ ure. Despite the fact that most o f the disc is raw and promising, the true gem lies in one o f the last tracks, ‘So Alive.’ Lombardi’s ability as a lyricist shines while the rest o f the band clicks. I f this and the rest o f the C D is any indication o f their potential, then you can bank that their next release will be a break­ through, for Attom ik and for rock.

- Andre Legespi

Various Naked M usic N Y C : Reconstructed Soul O m Records (O M -086) Although barely three years old, N ew York’s Naked Music label is developing quite the following in deep house circles. To expose their sound to a larger, less underground listnership, this compilation pres­ ents a collection o f remixes o f the first Naked releases and some o f their newer sounds. It is to be avoided.

The producers are o f repute and skill and the production values are excellent, but the aesthet­ ic is all moneyed people working very hard at being fashionable and failing. G ood deep house is not cheesy "Love is everything" lyrics, insipid basslines, and tired beats. I f interested in this genre, pass on this C D and look for truly soulful N ew York house labels like Wave, and music by artists like Ron Trent, Francois K. and Joe Clausell at all the regular Montreal independents.

- Dan Zacks

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In entering the mainstream, it would seem that The N ew Deal have lost touch with their roots. They are a band whose sole strength is their ability to feed o ff the energy o f a live audience and improvise dance floorfriendly quasi-hard house. Taking their sound out o f the club and put­ ting it on a C D merely serves to illustrate their dependence on the intimacy o f a concert. This long player is extremely well produced, as one would expect from the label home to wonders o f production like Britney Spears, but is unpleasantly monotonous and utterly divorced from their live sound.

The best tracks are downtempo, sampleheavy excursions well suited to the home hi-fi and a joint (as one sam­ ple professes). But who listens to T h e N ew Deal for downtempo?

Buy this C D in the 99 cent bin at Cheap Thrills were it will surely end up.

- Dan Zacks Various M ondo India FeatuingA.R. Rahman M ondo Melodia (186-850-033-2) ‘W orld’ music compilations are fre­ quently uncomfortable embarrass­ ments. Pleasantly, M ondo India is a thoroughly worthy listen. It is a col­ lection o f the work o f master com­ posers A .R . Rahman and R.D .

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Get your glowsticks out and your pacifiers ready, ‘cause here comes another crappy trance mix from some DJ nobody’s ever heard of!

According to tbe liner notes, Cor made a "fresh impact" on the In Trance W e Trust series with volume 005, his mix-compilation debut.

Apparently, it was so successful that the good people at Black H ole invit­ ed him back so that he could define "his specific sound more and more.

Exciting!

N o w that he holds a residency in the Netherlands, where he "entertains an exclusive crowd every Saturday night," this "force to be reckoned with" returns to lay down some o f the worst epic and plodding progres­ sive trance imaginable. Included as a special bonus is one track that com­ bines repetitive screaming diva vocals with wafting synths and more snare rolls than you can shake a stick at. W hat a nightmare.

The best part though, is that people w ill actually buy this C D just because it appears on DJ Tiesto’s label and includes a tune by the king o f pop-trance himself. I f you’re one o f those people, do yourself a favour and pick this up in about a year’s time when it’ll be floating around in the $1.99 bin at your local used record shop. Otherwise, you’re an idiot.

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Getting high on Seven Stories Michal Zilberman A man stands on the 7th floor ledge o f a building, staring at the abyss below, contemplating suicide.

Thus starts Seven Stories, a play by the internationally acclaimed Canadian Playwright M orris Panych, which explores the interac­ tions between this Man and twelve other absurd characters living on the 7th floor. D irector Greta Papageorgiu, a big actress and now director in the M cG ill theatre scene, has brought this production to the T N C stage, playing October 24-27 and 31-November 3rd.

Seven Stories is an existential comedy. Underlying all the laugh­ able character interactions, com­ ments, and motives, there is a phi­ losophy that life, daily routines and relationships are all somewhat meaningless. Each character copes with his/her silly, senseless reality in a different way. The one common trait that binds them all is that they are all actors in their own personal­ ized game o f life.

The strength o f the play lies in Panych’s well-defined, nutty charac­ ters, and their odd perspectives on life. Some o f m y favorites include Charlotte and Rodney who keep their sex life and otherwise empty relationship alive by perpetually pretending to attempt each other’s murder. There’s Leonard, a para­ noid psychiatrist who hasn’t slept in three years because he works long nights at the looney bin. Marshall, ex-actor, is acting the part o f his life in hopes to gain $150 million dol­

woman who hasn’t left her house in fifty years. David Baker was just as phenomenal in his impeccable por­ trayal o f Leonard, Al, the partythrower who hates parties, and Michael, the super-sensitive gay interior decorator.

T h e production was indis­ putably one o f the best student pro­ ductions I ’ve seen in a while.

However, a note to the antsy audi­ ence member looking for lots o f action— Seven Stories is a fairly stat­ ic play. Though the script’s witty com m entary should keep most audience members entertained, some scenes are, inevitably, visually boring.

As a special note, Spike Lyne and Keith Roche deserve praise for their vision and construction o f the set. T h e set’s realism was a product o f their expert handiwork. Sitting in the audience, it felt like we were sitting on the ro o f o f a building, watching the action happen on the big brick-building ledge across the alleyway.

Once in a while, a student pro­ duction comes to the M cG ill stage that makes us forget that the cast and crew are busy, full-time stu­ dents like the rest o f us, that the production budget is minimal, and that its success should be limited by the time and resources available. I f you want to support student the­ atre, or Canadian playwrights, or simply see a professional production with polished performances, make your way over to the Tuesday Night Café Theatre and experience Seven Stories.

lars. To this end, he has "complete­ ly relinquished his personality... even relinquished [his] hair color."

And Rachel, a devout Christian, keeps fifth and sixth floor residents’ faith in G od alive by lowering on a rope in front o f their window"blessings from G o d ," such as money for rent, or toaster ovens.

W ith twelve eccentric roles, and only four actors to act them, Seven Stories is an ‘actor’s play,’ and a demanding one at that. The set adds a further constraint on the physicality o f the actors, since most o f the action takes place behind four windows. "M an" gets to walk back and forth across the ledge (which is also rather limiting), but the rest o f the acting is ‘waist-up,’ meaning the actor’s upper body expression is the character’s only physical movement.

The play is a success i f and only i f the actors are versatile enough to play each character with their dis­ tinctly eccentric nuances, and if they can do this effectively within the confined space available. W ith Papageorgiu’s first-rate direction, and the great performances o f Jason Yergeau, A m y Pagnotta, Aaron Baril, Alex M otut and David Baker, this production was an inspiring success.

Tw o actors deserve special acclaim for their fit-for-Broadway performances. A m y Pagnotta’s pres­ ence took over the stage in her por­ trayal o f Charlotte, the kooky artist, Joan, the interior decoratingobsessed yuppie, and her phenome­ nal performance o f Lillian, an endearing, pigeon-loving old

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Cinemania Film Festival begins at the M ontreal Museum o f Fine Arts: The F C M M barely ends and already another cinema festival launches.

Cinemania is a festival o f French films with English subtitles screened in the extremely comfortable and high-tech Maxwell-Cummings Auditorium o f the fine arts museum conveniently located just to the West o f M cG ill on Sherbrooke (but you should know that already!). Because these films do not all have the pre tension o f cerebral high art, we find that in terms o f pure entertainment value this festival surpasses the F C M M . Once again, do your best to surmount obnoxious Hollywood crap and see what real cinema is about.

Wednesday, October 31 The Cult and Aerosmith at the Molson Centre: Want more can be said about these two monsters o f American Rock? I f you’re into mainstays o f insidious American pop-culture then there probably isn’t a better way to spend your Halloween.

Of course, there’s always getting high in the Mont-Royal cemetery...

The Rocky H orror Picture Show Halloween B all at Im perial Cinema: W e’ve never understood the cult-like following this silly film enjoys. But so what? The largest Halloween screening o f the movie in North America, this is the thing to be doing tonight. Those silly people at the Aerosmith concert, what do they know? $13 to see men in corsets and women in lace do licentious, libidinous things is our idea o f one kick ‘ass time. Be there.

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, O ctober

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Incredible drive catapults Redmen to upset Sommerfeldt, Hoffmann heroes as team rides wave of momentum to playoffs Jeremy Kuzmarov The football rested firmly on M cG ill’s own two yard-line, and the Laval Rouge et O r end-zone seemed to be light years away. The clock flashed 2 minutes and 43 seconds.

The score: Visitors 23, M cG ill 22.

That’s when the drive began.

M cG ill quarterback Josh Sommerfeldt — showing shades o f John Elway in the 1987 American Football Conference championship game against the Cleveland Browns — calmly hit receivers Paul Chenier and Robert Reading with a couple o f first down strikes to move the ball out o f Laval’s red zone.

O n two successive second and nines, the dynamic pivot evaded the seemingly impervious Rouge et O r rush, and used his fleetness to scam­ per for the first down.

And on the biggest play o f the day, on third down and long with his team’s fate in the balance, Sommerfeldt hit cornerback/receiver Andrew Cook down the sidelines for a huge 32 yard gain. Sommerfeldt scrambled for another 17 yards on the subsequent play.

Fittingly, running-back N ick Floffmann, who rushed for 154 yards on the day, capped o ff the 108 yard drive, by scoring on a one yard touchdown run on a broken play with one second left on the clock.

Bedlam ensued as the Redmen celebrated their improbable and implausible 29-23 victory over the fourth ranked Rouge et Or, which boosted the team’s final regular-sea­ son record to 4-4.

said M cG ill Head Coach Chuck McMann, with a huge smile on his face. “ The win boiled down to play­ ers making plays. Josh ran great, the

M cGill enters next Saturday’s playoff semi-final against Concordia on a colossal high. “ I don’t like to be negative, but

through the Laval line like a fire­ cracker, and jaunted untouched into the end-zone.

The Rouge et Or, however,

even I had my doubts that we could get it done,” said Hoffmann, beam­ ing with pride after the game. “ It was such a great feeling to score that touchdown. That drive was fantastic.

It’s a moral boost to our club, and we’re going into the playoffs with confidence. W e’re going in on a high, and looking to ride the wave.”

Sommerfeldt, who passed for 348 yards on the day, and rushed for 48 more, including 37 on the drive, was quick to credit Hoffmann, and his teammates for the heroics o f the final two and a half minutes. “ Hoffmann was ridiculous out there today. H e’s my M VP,” he said. “ W e knew, even starting on the two yard line that we had a chance. We just stayed focused on getting first down and on making plays.

Everybody, from the offensive line­ man, to the receivers, did what they had to do, and we moved the ball, and made the drive, work. Wow, what a game.”

backed by a pack o f rabid supporters who made the trek from Quebec City, displayed why they are a firstplace club in the subse­ quent minutes.

Laval battled back to quell M cG ill’s momentum, and got touchdowns from wide-out J.F Turgeon, and pony-tailed quar­ terback Mathieu Bertrand before the end o f the half to take a three point lead into the locker-room.

A t the beginning o f the contest, it didn’t seem like such a wild finish would be necessary.

Perhaps inspired by the pre­ game words o f their coach, or by the intense week o f practice which fol­ lowed their 31-28 loss at the hands o f Concordia last week, the Redmen came out playing with tremendous emotion in the first quarter.

They were able to parlay their surplus zeal into an early 8-0 lead, bolstered by an electrifying 43 yard T D run by Hoffmann, who burst

Mathieu Brassard, who rushed for 88 yards, and amassed 61 more in the air despite Molson Stadium’s slippery t ur f .

An 11 yard major from Bertrand to Pat Ianniciello mid-way through the fourth quarter looked, until the waning moments, like it would hold as the winner.

Sommerfeldt, Hoffm ann and company, had other plans, however, and the rest, as they say, is history. “ Before thinking about next

receivers caught the ball, Hofmann was great, and I know he’d be first to credit the offensive line. The D hung in there, and created turnovers. We showed heart and character, and we’ve got to feel good about beating Laval, the number four ranked team, two out o f three times this year.”

An impressive aspect of M cG ill’s win was the fact that three o f its four starting defensive lineman, including Steve Young and John

week we’re going to enjoy this one,”

Macdonald, were out o f the lineup

with injuries.

Substitutes like Kerwin Clarke, who pounced on a fumble in his first career start, stepped up in their absence.

1 Dom inant middle-linebacker M ike Mahoney, a probable allCanadian, capped o ff one o f the finest seasons ever for a Redmen defensive player with 17 tackles on the day.

Mahoney — who finished the regular season with 97 tackles to break Olivier Lefebvre’s single-season school record — was all over the field.

H e was critical in keeping Laval’s potent attack in check, which

Bertrand, who was 15-22 for 234 yards on the day, continued to display his talents in the second half. H e hooked up on numer­ ous occasions with fea­ tured Laval weapon

had scored 50 points in each o f its last three games, to give M cGill a chance to win at the end.

Mahoney and his cohorts on D helped pave the way for the drive, undoubtedly one o f the most excit­ ing and memorable finishes in the long and storied history o f the Redmen football franchise.

“The end was a little too excit­ ing for my liking, but it was exhila­ rating nonetheless,” said Mahoney.

“W e came out and worked hard today, W e’ve got momentum on our side now, and we’ll be hard to beat.”

Coach M cM ann eats his words McMann was fuming mad after M cG ill’s loss to Concordia last week. He was heard in the Intercollegiate office saying, “W e need smoke and mirros to beat Laval.” O r a miracle 108—yard drive in the last two minutes.

Keeper substitution backfires for Redmen soccer Ed Gliicksman T h e M cG ill Redmen varsity soccer team lost their most impor­ tant regular season game by a score o f 2-1 at home to their cross-town rivals from Concordia. T h e game also represented bragging rights in the Fourth Annual Gow-Breganski Cup, an annual affair between the tw o English-speaking M ontreal universities.

Although they spent most o f the night on defense, the Stingers benefited from a pair o f Redmen defensive lapses that allowed them to walk away from the encounter with the three points.

A foolhardy M cG ill goalkeeper substitution at h alf time was partly responsible fo r conceding both Stinger goals, first on a long-range lob and then on an unexpectedly evasive free kick. “ In all honesty, I think that the keeper change certainly made a dif­ ference in the outcom e o f this game,” commented Redmen coach

Adam M ar after the encounter.

After a scoreless first half, Mar replaced starting keeper Jarret Christie with thi rd - ye a r, Connecticutnative Dustin Diedricksen. O n ly nine minutes o ff the bench, Diedricksen was caught flat-footed on a floater pro­ duced by Stinger m idfielder Tyler

his decision in an honourable manner.

efforts pushed the pace o f the game above and beyond the reg­ ular season average. Whenever the home team, led by midfield­ er Guy Anaba Anaba, tried to approach the opponent’s goal, they were countered by an even stronger defense. “ I really didn’t expect them to score those goals. T h ey sur­ prised us and in search o f coun­

HiggsJust over fif­ teen minutes later, C o n c o r d i a ’ s Anaba Anaba prepares for takeoff Swedish recruit Stefan Takac slammed home a curl­ ing free kick from close to the left corner flag to double his team’s advantage. T h e shot, once again, was dispairingly beyond Diedricksens reach.

T h e first-year coach justified

After being beaten twice on defense, responsibility fell upon the struggling M c G ill offense to administer a comeback. Their

“ T h e purpose behind the keep­ er change was to give Dustin some playing time so that he is ready if need be later on in the season. To further increase his experience, I chose to bring him into a big game.”

termeasures, we again fell victim to offensive troubles,” said Anaba Anaba in the lockerroom after the game. “ W e controlled the better o f the play but unfortunately we let in two soft goals,” explained Mar. “ I ’m beginning to think that our finishing troubles are more related to this artificial turf than to anything else.”

Though not enough to win the game, M c G ill’s offense showed

some signs o f improvement.

Forwards Kyle Graham, Mathieu Harding and Turkish rookie Can Kadirgan drilled a handful o f shots towards the Stinger net and forced the opposition defense to work hard for the win.

Ironically, the sole Redmen goal came on a free kick delivered by centre-back R u d o lf Glueck, whose swerving strike breezed by the Concordia wall and left a stunned keeper with a look o f dis­ may and surprise on his face. “ Their goalie expected Guy to take the kick and when I saw the enormous hole on the right side o f their wall I simply ran up and executed before they could get organized,” admitted the Austrian w ho was subsequently named Player o f the Game for his defensive presence.

It must be said that the Stingers are a well-oiled and talent­ ed team, certainly the best squad to

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Martlets dominate regular season Around the horn Andrew Hennigar “ I don’t know why they came,” said striker Eva Melamed after last Friday night’s women’s soccer match between the Martlets and the Concordia Stingers.

Melamed’s response addressed the fact that the Stingers refused to play any sort o f offense as M cG ill rolled over them 4-0, moving a step

closer to clinching first place in the Quebec Student Sport Federation regular season.

Fourth-year midfielder Sophie Labrom opened the scoring in only the second minute o f action, driving the ball past the Concordia keeper from twenty yards out.

The Martlets were later denied on a great scoring chance mid way through the first half when the referee chose to ignore a tackle form behind on for­ ward Amber Allen that would have resulted in a penalty kick.

Nonetheless, the mighty Martlets regrouped and Josée Busilacchi scored on a penalty kick o f her own in injury time.

A t halftime, M cG ill coach Marc Mounicot made some lineup adjustments, inserting Jessica Hawker into the midfield.

The move paid dividends immediately as Hawker connected with Allen for the Martlets third goal thirty sec­ onds into the half. Hawker nearly found her way onto the score sheet again two minutes later when her shot narrowly missed the corner o f the net.

The final nail in the Concordia coffin was pounded in by the same hammer that opened the scoring as Labrom tallied her second o f the night on a pass from Allen.

It was apparent from the open­ ing kick o ff that Concordia had no intention of challenging M c G ill in this contest.

W ith Concordia’s choice to play with one offen­ sive player on the field, there was rarely an occasion in which the Stingers had more than one woman outside their own thirty yard line. “ They’ve been doing the same thing for three years now. It’s too bad because it makes the game bor­ ing for everybody; it’s no fun,” Mounicot diplomatically rea­ soned after the game.

O n the opponents’ bench, Concordia coach Anmar Awad seemed pleased with his strategy. “ Was he [Mounicot] angry?” he

asked with a grin. “ I am missing all my forwards tonight, we knew we wouldn’t win the game tonight so this was strategy. W e have to beat Sherbrooke [on Sunday] to get into the playoffs so I was resting some players. W e will be back to beat M cG ill next Friday,” said Awad, in a response more resembling a taunt.

They were strong words from a team who has yet to score on the Martlets this season.

Although Mounicot was not surprised by Concordia’s refusal to play offense, some players were. “ I wasn’t expecting this,” commented Am ber Allen. “ Last time we played them they gave us a real game. The score was the same this time so I don’t see what advantage it was for them to play like

A tournament win in Fredricton for Redmen Basketball

Split decision for Martlet Volleyball

Dual-M eet sweep for Swim team

Opening with a 100-98 upset over St. Mary’s in double overtime, the Basketball team sailed on to vitory beating the host U N B 70-66 on Saturday and Acadia 81-57 on Sunday in the Eric Gatland M em orial Tournament.

Both Denburk Reid and Kirk Ried were named members o f the tourna­ ment’s all star team, with Denburk Reid voted tournament Most Valuable Player.

Saturday, the Redmen will host W in n ipeg in hopes o f continuing their winning ways.

O n Sunday the monumental upset ranked Laval. In an back, M cG ill won

Martlets had a over third exciting come­ in five close

Brock University went home very discouraged on the weekend after being swept by both the men’s and wom en’s team, respectively 154-37 and 156-53.

Carolyn M cCabe qualified for nationals in the 50m butterfly witha time o f 30.56.

Kerry Cregan also got a ticket to the nationals in the 200m butterfly with a time o f 2:42. David Allard o f the men’s team had top finishes in the 200m freestyle and

the team with a fantastic passing ratio o f 2.60 out o f 3. W ith a loss to Montreal on Friday the Martlets are now 1-1 in league play and will host Laval this Saturday and travel to Sherbrooke on Sunday.

the 100m individual medally, along with Nicholas Martin in the 50m and 100m butterfly.

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games 21-25, 25-18, 26-28, 25-17, 15-13. Rookie Anne Robitaille led

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that.”

In regards to the Stingers’ strategy Allen said, “ They were able to take our forwards out o f the game somewhat but that’s not a problem for us; we can still put it in the back o f the » net.

Fans were entertained by the sheer ridiculousness o f the whole situation. At one point in the game, the lone Stinger attacker had possession o f the ball inside the M cG ill penalty area only to look up and realize that she had no teammates on the same side o f half.

I f it was Concordia’s plan to frustrate the Martlets it didn’t work.

“A t half time Marc [Mounicot] just told us to continue to have fun on the field. W e adjusted our strat­ egy to push the ball wide and cross it into the middle but we didn’t let their play get to us,” assured forward Alanna Maloney.

W ith playoffs just a week away, the M cG ill women are fine-tuning an already efficient machine.

“W e’re pushing to peak now.

Every game we come out we look to play our own style and get the win.

Tonight we wanted to send a mes­ sage to Concordia and I think we did that,” co-captain Melamed stat­ ed.

The Martlets traveled to Ottawa last week and came up with a 2—0 win against third—ranked GeeGees. “ It was a good game” Mounicot recounted. “W e were a much better team in that game, even though we were missing a few players” .

In the final week o f practice before playoffs the coach has a few areas he will have the team focus on. “ W e want to shore up our defense to prevent any mistakes that will lead to scoring chances and also continue to work on making all our passes sharp.”

Hopefully next time they visit, Concordia will be willing to com­ pete with the Martlets. When asked about Stinger coach Anmar Awad’s prediction that his team will win next Friday, Am ber Allen coolly replied “bring it on!” .

A 9-0 win against U Q A M with hat-tricks from both Allen and Melamed gave the Martlets and impressive 12-1-1 record.

The Martlets start their playoff run this Friday night at 6:30pm at Molson Stadium.

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The triumph of the middle linebacker Mike Mahoney breaks McGill tackles record with 17 in final regular season game James Scarfone Upon walking to the Redmen football game against Concordia two weeks ago, I mentioned to a friend how M cG ill and Canada in general rarely produces top o f the line prospects for the C F L or N F L. H o w ignorant we can be some­ times.

In the last three years alone, three recent M cG ill graduates have ventured into professional football in some capacity. A m ong them, Randy Chevrier, J.P. Darche, and Olivier Lefebvre have accomplished those goals, and another one is well on his way to following his prede­ cessors. In fact, M ahoney broke Lefebvre’s single-season tackle record o f 92 this Saturday finishing with 97 takedowns.

M ike Mahoney is a star in the making according to insiders.

Com bining leadership ability with athletic skill and an understanding o f the game provides the perfect formula for linebacking greatness. “ H e’s a smart player with very

G row ing up in Regina, Mahoney learned that the pride o f Saskatchewan was foot­ ball. The middle line­ backer always had a pas­

good instincts, but more impor­

sion for the game and first put on the pads in grade six. H e continued playing defense through high school until he was recruited by legendary M c G ill coach Charlie Baillie. In his rookie sea­ son, Mahoney, like most rookies, was given limit­ ed playing time but benefitted from the oppor­ tunity o f playing with more experienced play­ ers like Darche and cur­ rent teammate John Macdonald.

A few games into the season, however, an injury to Macdonald gave him a chance to show why Baillie brought in the right player.

Asked about comparisons to Lefebvre and Darche as the next upand-coming prospect, the laid-back 20-year-old downplayed them.

tantly he understands the game,” says first-year coach Chuck M cM ann. “ I think he’s got a lot o f potential.”

“ Those are definitely big shoes to fill,” he remarked. “A ll I ’m try­ ing to be is M ike Mahoney and work as hard as can to try and get to

years, the 6’3” Junior now checks in at a beastly 225 pounds.

Mahoney co m ma n ds respect from teammates directly as a result o f his ded­ ication.

He knows that they have high expec­ tations o f him but enjoys the role w hole­ heartedly. “ H e’s like a field general out h e r e , ” M cM ann says o f his captain. “ H e gets on the guys for dumb plays they make and they listen care-

trate on his first love. H e is even thinking about staying in Montreal this summer to workout full-time.

“You have to set your goals high or else what’s the point in play­

the field. I like to think I work hard in both areas,” he added, referring to the instinctive aspect o f his nature.

H e expects to get results with his tough w ork ethic which

His athletic prowess goes beyond football. H e played base­ ball for Team Saskatchewan at the recent Canada Summer Games in London, Ontario, posting morethan-respectable numbers at the

includes off-seasons o f pumping weights and cross-training. W hen first arriving at M cG ill, he weighed 200 pounds and in just over two

plate as a designated hitter. However, due to conflicting schedules between the two sports, he had to forfeit baseball to concen­

“W e could easily have come out on top o f those losses,” he says confidently. “ I love these guys and our team has a lot o f character which is exactly what is needed in the playoffs.”

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the next level. O livier watched more film to try and improve while

JP sort o f flowed and made plays on

ing,” he says o f the mountainous expectations. “ I just want to work hard to get to the Vanier Cup and then the next level.”

Though getting to the next level is a priority for Mahoney, he’s not going to make a big deal if he is not drafted to play professionally.

T h e Management student wants to seek a career in sports management, preferably as an agent. Connections should not be hard to come by either as his father is head o f ama­ teur

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Mahoney feels that this years Redmen squad was the victim o f a few bad breaks, but underachieve­ ment is a word he would rather not use to describe their performance.

tackles on your team, doesn’t hurt either.

No St-Pierre? No sweat off our back T h is tim e last year, the Martlets had eleven new girls on the ice to throw into the mixture.

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M artlet hockey team have a different look.

T h e most obvious alter­ ation could be seen in the net with the absence o f K im St-Pierre, but when you look closer, you see a better, faster, more mature team w ho is ready to take on the season.

The M artlets opened their season this weekend at home, with a 4-2 v ic to ry against Concordia. A fter snap­ ping a 49-game, 16-year losing streak against the Stingers last spring, the team broke through with

team. She is an excel­ lent student, a great kid and a hard work-

a win right o f f the bat.

Sophie Acheson looking for a hat trick last Friday In his third season as the wom en’s hockey head coach, It is difficult for any team to have Peter Smith had no doubts o f his such a dramatic face lift in one sea­ team’s ability to come out on top son and maintain team continuity. against a team that had plagued

“ It was really tough last year

M cG ill since 1985. “ W e came out w ith an expec­ tation and a desire to win, and we did it.”

In pre-season play, the Martlets finished w ith a 6-1-0 record, one o f their best pre-season

w ith so many new players,” Coach Smith admitted, “ but we have a year o f more experience. W e have eleven players w ith a full year under their belts, and that makes a huge difference.”

T h e veterans o f the team are joined this year only by four rook­

records in recent history. N o t only was the team winning, but w in ­ ning handily. It is not often scores like 15-1 or 13-2 are seen in a hockey arena, but the team is on a roll, w ith the recent w in over Concordia, it looks as though we can expect the same from regular season play.

the team in goals scored and is tied for first in total points with assis­ tant captain, Sarah Lomas tallying 12. Coach Smith saw Safka play three times before she join ed M c G ill and was very impressed, to say the least. “ She’s going to be a great asset to the

ies, w ho according to Smith are all top notch, quality players w ho w ill add great depth to M artlet hockey program.

O n e o f these rookies has been turning many heads in the pre-season. Katherine Safka, o f Stoney Creek, O ntario is currently leading

Although she did not score in the home opener, Safka has buried the puck in every match-up previ­ ous to Friday night, including a hat-trick versus B rébeuf on September 30.

Another player o f -------------- note, although noted for her absence rather than her presence is goaltender, K im StPierre, now a member o f team Canada and training fo r the Olym pics in Salt Lake City. StPierre was a pillar for the wom en’s hockey program at M c G ill as one o f the most talented goalies in the country, let alone the league. “ K im was a big part o f our team and she is obviously a big loss.

But we don’t really think about the fact that she’s not there.

She’s not there and w e m ove for­ ward.”

Coach Smith said, and added, “W e ’ve been blessed with the fact that w e have individuals w ho have stepped up and started to play a huge role.”

A m ey D oyle now has the call

to start games and she responded with authority. It is always d iffi­ cult to step into the spot o f what many M artlet hockey fans would call a legend in K im St-Pierre, but D oyle hasn’t faltered. She received her first shutout o f the season against Toron to, the defending national champions stopping all 30 shots she faced.

O f f to one o f their best starts ever, coach Smith w ould accredit the team’s success to experience and confidence that has been lack­ ing in past few years. “ From the net down, w e’ve got a great team. W e have been playing at the level w e played at the end o f last season and i f the

team can come out and play sixty minutes to the level they are capa­ ble of, then w e’ll be garunteed a winning season.”

T h e Martlets w ill look to the leadership and verteran skills o f players like Sarah Lomas, Anna C ooper and Sophie Acheson to guide the team into what hopes to be a national championship win for M cG ill.

C om in g in second and third in the past tw o years, the Martlets have their eyes set on gold. “ W e need to w ork on top level passing, shooting, skating and team cohesiveness. But there’s no question where w e’re headed. W e want to come first and we w ill.”

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23-year old who has semi- profes­

have visited M cG ill this season.

Coached by 13-year veteran Vladim ir Pavlicik, Concordia now have an unsurmountable lead at the top o f the division and will have home-field advantage for the semi­

sional experience in the Swedish First Division before returning to school two years ago. “ It is so difficult to play on this (artificial) turf. It feels good to have won,” he then commented when

finals that begin next week.

“This wasn’t pretty but I ’m pleased with my fellow s,” exclaimed Pavlicik. “ M c G ill is always fighting, and they played their classic midfield game tonight.

W e got some lucky breaks and we were able to win this one.”

His team is based around a highly organized midfield, engi­ neered by third-year commerce student Takac who is at Concordia for just this year before going back to Gothenburg, Sweden. “ It was war out there,” said the

asked about the game.

W ith a 3-2 loss to U Q A M on Sunday, the Redmen finished the season w ith a 5-3-4 record.

Conference semi-finals w ill be played against U Q T R to move on.

In the crowd last Friday were several M c G ill alumni players, notably Dr. Dickens St. V il who played for the Redmen from 1981 to 1983 and was inducted into the M cG ill Sports H all o f Fame last week. The three-time all-star striker performed the ceremonial opening kick o ff and stayed to provide sup­ port for his old team.

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Contraction the easy way out

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Out of Left Field

Andrew Raven

W ith attendance falling throughout the league, television ratings slipping into M ajor League Soccer territory and spiraling rev­ enues, various M a jo r League Baseball owners have been coyly floating the idea o f contraction.

T h e basic idea is that by eliminat­ ing a few teams and dispersing the players am ong the clubs that remain, many o f baseball’s prob­ lems w ill be solved.

It comes as no surprise that the idea has the most support am ong the leagues richest ow n­ ers— including Colorado Rockies’ Jerry M cM orris and N e w York Yankees’ G eorge Steinbrenner—

w ho wouldn’t m ind seeing their transfer payments to clubs like the Expos, Twins, Royals and A ’s dis­ continued. A fte r all, the Boss could use the m oney he saves on the transfer payments— reportedly

sport the club’s revenue stream has become a trickle.

History has shown, though, that some vegetative franchises have come o f f life support. Perhaps the best example o f the rebirth o f a

By m ost accounts the Diam ondbacks are a successful franchise. T h ey made the playoffs in tw o o f their first four seasons o f existence. T h ey play in the brand new Bank O n e Ballpark and are

80 games the last four years amid cries that the tw elve year-old Skydome is outdated. So despite on-field success, new stadiums and wealthy owners, many o f baseball’s

around $7 m illion per year— on a much needed fourth outfielder or fifth starter. But the reality o f the situation is that M ajor League Baseball has a number o f serious issues, many o f which w on’t be

team is the Cleveland Indians. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s the Indians were perennially the worst team in baseball and played in front o f crowds that were even smaller than the Expos’ . But a pro­ ductive farm system and new sta­ dium later, the Indians are a model franchise. T h ey have played in six straight post-seasons and have sold out every game since Jacobs Field opened in 1995.

ow ned by billionaire Jerry Colangelo. In short, it seems as i f they are the m odel franchise.

T h e reality, however, is that the Diamondbacks are in serious trouble. Tw ice during the season

in peril, and cutting out the Expos w on’t do anything to solve that problem.

But the most telling sign that baseball’s problems extend beyond the curative powers o f contraction came last M onday night. Facing the choice between game five o f the Yankees-A’s A L D S and a M onday N ig h t Football Gam e fea­ turing the Dallas Cowboys and the W ashington Redskins, viewers

solved by creating a scapegoat o f its smaller teams.

T h e first problem with the whole sordid mess is the dilemma o f which clubs to eliminate. A t the top o f every list are the Expos, a team w ho struggled to outdraw the M on treal Rockets o f the Q u ebec M a jo r Junior H ock ey League in the closing weeks o f the season. Crowds routinely dipped below 4,000 in September and October, and with one o f the worst television deals in professional

Even i f contraction got o f f the ground, it w ould cost each owner roughly $4 m illion in compensa­ tion for each team eliminated. It wouldn’t come close to solving the problems plaguing baseball’s m id­ dle class. Case in point, the Arizona Diamondbacks.

the club was forced to take out loans in order to meet expenses and the franchise is heavily in debt. Even worse, after only four years o f existence, an aura o f fan apathy surrounds the team.

Regular season crowds were down for the second year in a row, and only 37,000 fans— 12,000 short o f capacity— showed up fo r game one o f the N L C S . A n d it wasn’t A lb ie L o p ez versus K evin M illw ood . Gam e one featured one o f the best matchups in post sea­ son history as Greg M addux went up against Randy Johnson.

There are similar situations throughout baseball. In Pitts­ burgh, beautiful P N C Park hasn’t been able to offset the Pirates’ bru­ tal play as crowds hovered around 10,000 in September. T h e same is true fo r D etroit, where the Tigers— who haven’t had a w in ­ ning season in six years— couldn’t draw a bear to Com erica Park with a jar o f honey. A n d just down the 401, the Blue Jays are playing in front o f crowds around 20,000 even though they have w on at least

m iddle o f the road franchises are

overw h elm in gly chose football.

O n e m illion more viewers tuned into the worst football match-up of the year.

Dallas and W ashington had a com bined record o f 0-8 and were outscored 245-92. Com pare that to one o f baseball’s best starters R oger Clemens and M ark Mulder, who were a com bined 43-10 going into their pitching duel. Even worse, fans continued to watch the foot­ ball game despite the fact that the only score in the first h alf came on a 29-yard T im Seder field goal.

I f baseball wants to try to cure cancer by cutting o f f the pinkie toe, let them . But w hen fans decide to watch the Gutter Bowl instead o f the most im portant game o f the baseball season to date, your problems go beyond the small crowds at the Big O .

Track and Rubgy continued from PAGE 21

X -C ountry delivers T h e highly touted wom en’s cross-country team w on the Quebec Student Sport Federation championships for the third year in a row with strong runs from all the athletes that com peted.

Meanwhile the Redmen, in their best showing o f the year, finished second at the Provincial champi­ onships in a race that saw many personal bests and four o f the men run the 10km distance in under 33 minutes.

Little surprise on the women’s side with Sarah Ali-Khan winning the 5km race in a time o f 16:38.

She was followed by rookie Nadia M orin, w ho finished in third place.

N icole Portley turned in a strong race finishing fourth overall while Zein O deh was M cG ills fourth runner across the line finishing sixth. Rookie Leslie Marcott fin­

1,000'sof discountsnow.

ished tenth overall and secured the M cG ill victory.

T h e men were led by Benoit Lebeau who led the team for the second race in a row by finishing sixth overall in a time o f 31:57.

D anny Lennox recorded a person­ al best time o f 32:27 and finished 11th. A fter a week away in Boston being w ooed by technology com ­ panies, Yohsuke Hayashi still man-

aged to focus on running and fin­ ished 12th overall. Brant Carson, like Lennox, ran a personal best to finish 14th overall while Carl-Eric Bouchard rounded out the top five in 16th place as he posted a per sonal best time o f 33:35.

G reg Cam bell finished in 20th, with Ryan Beaton following him closely in 22nd. Rookies Kevin D oyle and Dan Kovacek had seasonal best performances finishing 24th and 25th respective­ ly while second year runner Adam O ’Brien managed his best run in a M cG ill uniform.

T h e Redmen and Martlets now have two weeks to prepare for the CIS champi­ onships that are being held on Nov. 10th in Sherbrooke.

Women’s Rugby: rulers o f Quebec Concordia couldn’t put up a fight against the ever-powerful Martlet rugby team as they fell defenseless 60-0 on Sunday.

Stephanie Lynam racked up twenty points for her team with six conver­ sions, a penalty kick and a try. This Thursday will mark the departure date for coach D e Grandpré’s rugby team to take on the National Championships. They will start in a pool against Ottaw a and Waterloo. In order to move on to the medal round, they must finish in first against these two Ontario

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