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NFL tops while BCS flops Division ! college football could learn from the NFL's first playoff weekend Andrew Segal

that’s why they play the game, and it’s a perfect illustration of the magic of the playoffs. Postseason contests are replete with heroic stars and dis­ appointed goats— witness Carolina’s John Kasay going five-for-five on field goals, Peyton M anning throw­ ing five touchdow n passes as Indianapolis crushed the same Denver team that beat it two weeks ago, and Al Harris intercepting a M att Hasselbeck pass in overtime and taking it back for the winning score. The playoffs are full of drama and intrigue— we watch Brett Favre play ju st weeks after his father’s death, and second-guess seasoned veteran Bill Parcells as he takes on young coach John Fox. But most of all, they’re full of question marks.

The only surety is that one team will be going home at game’s end, and the other will keep plugging on towards the championship.

And yet, there is a still a major sport in the United States that holds out, run by a group of men and women who insist their game is bet­ ter off w ithout the fascination, enthusiasm and finality of playoffs— they would rather have computers

Just minutes before their teams were set to take the field for an N F L W ild Card playoff tilt on Saturday afternoon, the captains of the B altim ore Ravens and Tennessee Titans met at midfield for a coin flip.

But imagine if, rather than that toss deciding who would receive the foot­ ball first, the winner was awarded the right to advance to the second round of the postseason.

Better yet, what if a computer decided the outcome? It would have taken into accoun t the fact that Baltimore had defeated Tennessee in each of the teams’ previous five m eet­ ings, recorded that the Ravens were the home team , and noted that Baltimore had eight Pro Bowl players to the Titans’ four. The computer would have declared the game a vic­ tory for Baltimore, and the Ravens would be on their way to face New England.

O f course, the Titans won 2 0 -1 7 on a last-minute, 46-yard field goal by a 44-y ear old kicker, G ary Anderson, who, prior to that kick, hadn’t driven one through the uprights from m ore than 4 3 yards out all season. As the cliché goes,

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fficially prime minister on December 12, Paul Martin has been busy delivering on his promise to “change the way things work in Ottawa." W ith improving US relations at the top of his list of priorities, M artin seems to have begun his courtship with flattery through mimicry.

M artin has kept ‘ his "Word by pursuing democratic reform and increased accountability for new cabinet members. Many of these initia­ tives, however, seem to be an Americanization of Canada’s institutions; M artin’s changes to the federal government appear to be borrowed from the US congressional model. Unprecedented were the 26 parliamentary secretaries sworn in as members of the Privy Council, each responsible for specific objectives. O ne secretary is S cott Brison, a Progressive Conservative defector, who is charged with improving US relations through a cabinet comm ittee chaired by Martin. Aside from absolving himself of substantial retroactive accountability, Martin will effectively expose these MPs to regional and other political pressures from lobbyists.

O f the new 39-m em ber cabinet, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan, Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale, and Minister of National Defence David Pratt are of interest. First, neither McLellan nor Goodale are bilin­ gual. This could be seen as a distortion of the cultural makeup of Canadian politics.

Second, P ratt’s pro-Am ericanism is striking. H e opposed the Chrétien government’s stance on Iraq, and remains an advocate of military expansion and continental missile defence— a project cited by former Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy as the largest threat to Canadian sovereignty. Furthermore, Martin has reinstated the post of chief of staff that was scrapped by former prime minister Jean Chrétien in 1993. These changes should com fort a Canada-wary Washington.

Finally, a Council of Federation, composed of the 13 premiers of the provinces and territories, has been created. Designed to foster better fed­ eral-provincial co-operation, the council could establish the representation offered by a Triple-E Senate, more typical of the US senatorial dynamic, without Martin having to yield to the demands of the opposition.

M artin’s courtship of US ideals through mimicry has extended to bureaucratic expansion. McLellan has been charged with a new Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Portfolio. The portfolio includes the new Department of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness as well as six existing agencies: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Corrections Canada, the National Parole Board, Canadian Firearms Centre, and the Canadian Border Services Agency.

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University of M anitoba Students' Union President Shawn Alwis said that students already face too much of a financial burden.

“Students are already paying dearly for their education,” said Alwis. “W e have always been will­ ing to pay our fair share and students today are actually shouldering a greater proportion of the financial burden than students 10 or 2 0 years ago.

“Adm inistration and especially government must com e to the table with an equitable long-term funding strategy. ” In 1 9 9 8 , the M anitoba government introduced a 10 per cent reduction in tuition fees along with a prom ise to regulate those fees. A ccording to U M S U , while tuition caps and decreases have low­ ered the am ount of tuition students are responsible for, tax increases mean that students save on tuition only to pay it back in taxes.

The Quebec government, led by Premier Jean Charest, has yet to introduce legislation that would freeze or lower university tuition fees, despite Charest’s campaign promise to freeze tuition and regulate ancillary fees.

The issue of tuition has long been an im portant one to McGill students and the Students’ Society.

W hile M cGill students have never voted on changes to their own tuition fees, SSM U has organized events and rallies designed to demonstrate to the Q uebec governm ent the strength of students’ resolve.

Students’ Society President Kate Rhodes was pleased to hear of the M anitoban students’ success.

“If you d on t have a government that people are engaged in, you run the risk of having a government that forgets its purpose. Students are the reason for the university and students have the responsibility to make themselves heard.”

The last major event that SSM U took part in regarding tuition was a rally in early O ctober in

front of Charest’s downtown office. The rally drew students from McGill, l’Université du Québec a Montréal, l’Université de M ontréal and Concordia University.

“W e are expecting to raise awareness [of Charest’s promise] within the com m unity at large, S SM U V ice-President C o m m u n ity and Government Brianna Hersey said in October. “It’s not acceptable for politicians to promise things, and then let those promises disappear. ” Vivian Choy, SSM U Vice-President University Affairs, agrees with the M anitoba students’ society that the tuition referendum is an im portant victory for students all across Canada.

“I agree that U of M ’s success is certainly a step in the right direction of accessible education for all students.”

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The new portfolio mirrors the US Center for Disease Control more than the Department of Homeland Security because it encompasses pub­ lic health matters while eschewing immigration matters. This will likely have implications for immigration as the new agency does address border security. These changes will drastically alter Canada’s security forces due to the fact that Canada has substantially fewer law enforcement agencies than the US. M artin’s machine has also frozen all capital expenditures pending a three-month review by a cabinet committee. However, the deal to replace the military’s 40-year-old Sea King helicopters will be exempt, said Pratt, who cited the initiative as a “very high priority.” Furthermore, while the reclassification of government employees into higher-paying positions will be banned, those who run ministers’ offices will be in line for increases of more than $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 . Hoping to attract talent from the private sector into federal politics, M artin has overlooked (perhaps intentionally) the possi­ ble influx of private interests that would follow. Lobbying will become more persistent in Canadian institutions as it has in the US system.

It would seem that Martin’s best policy is flattery. Falling into Uncle Sam’s way of thinking not only strokes his ego, it will push the actions of the Canadian government into line as well. ■

W alkie talkie walks away D uring the last Students’ Society council meeting in Dei ember, a walkie-talkie rented to the Student Society Programming Network was losi (lining ihe International Four Floors event held in the Shatner building.

Kim berley Zell, V ice-President Com m unications and Events, said that SSPN lent the rented walkie-talkies to SSM U security because its walkie-talkies were broken.

“W e found out the day o f the event that secu­ rity didn’t have walkie-talkies so they asked to bor­ row them [from S S P N },” she said.

■ The cost of replacing the lost waikie talkie is approximately $ 1 ,5 0 0 before taxes.

“W e decided in executive m eeting that because different parties were responsible, some [of the cost} would com e out of the Four Floors party budget, the SSPN budget and the security budget," said Zell.

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Students fear losing protest to process SSMU demands explanation Amanda Greenman Concerned that the university is circumventing their rights to free speech and assembly, students are questioning the McGill administra­ tion’s procedure for approving politi­ cal events on campus.

O n December 4, the Students’ Society council unanimously approved a motion demanding from the university adm inistration an

said SSM U Vice-President University Affairs Vivian Choy, who introduced the motion to strike the Senate committee.

Vice-Principal Administration and Finance M orty Yalovsky will head the com m ittee, which will report to Senate no later than the end of the academic year.

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McGill security, police deem sexual assault e-mail a hoax Farah An e-m ail th at circulated among McGill students just before exams last semester about an oncampus rapist is believed to be a hoax, according to M cGill Security and Montreal Police.

T h e e-m ail recounts an attem pted sexual assault of an anonymous female student that supposedly occurred in the Stewart Biology Building.

According to the e-mail, a person claiming to be performing a psy­ chology experiment approached the student. After agreeing to be part of the study, the victim was allegedly led to a vacant room where the man attacked her with­ in minutes. She m anaged to escape, however, then supposedly contacted M cGill Security and the Station 19 Policé.

Nicole M acleod, U2 Honours Political Science, said, “I got the e-mail about three or four times. I originally got it from my room mate and then had it for­ warded to me from a few of my girlfriends. ” M acleod’s reaction to the email was mixed: “I thought it was a prank at first, because lots of for­ warded e-mails are just junk mail anyway. But soon enough, I was angered by it because if this were true, why hadn't the school or any of the papers reported on it, or got the message out to the students?”

Louise Savard, the manager of

McGill Security Services, received notice of the e-mail minutes after it started appearing in McGill stu­ dents’ inboxes. A ccording to Savard, M cG ill Security and M ontreal police know of no such incident that could have occurred in the past few months.

“T h e e-m ail is a h o a x ,” Savard said. “W hen I contacted Station 19, I was told that there had not been a case of sexual aggression at the Stewart Biology Building filed at the station.”

Station 19 is responsible for all reports within the area of Rue Peel and Jeanne-Mance.

The e-mail circulated among Concordia students as well. About a week after M cG ill Security investigated the matter, they were con tacted by the C o n co rd ia Security Services about the rumour.

“W e touched base, and they too confirmed that they had no recent cases of sexual aggression on their cam pus,” Savard said.

The sexual assault division of the M ontreal police confirm ed Savard’s comments. According to officials, 2 0 incidents of sexual aggression occurred in the Station 19 area last year. Only five were cases where the victim did not know the aggressor. Among those five cases, none of the incidents occured in the Stewart Biology Building or the surrounding area.

“N o t to say that people shouldn’t be safe, but there are no

incidents o f any unidentified rapists on the loose right now,” said Savard.

Macleod said that she would have liked to have seen more pub­ lic reassurance, “I didn’t hear any­ thing apart from the e-mails. I talked to my friends about it, but no one really seemed to know any­ thing. I didn’t bother doing any investigation on my own, I just informed everyone I could about the rum our.”

She went on to say, “I think it’s important that everyone be accurately informed so that no one is jum ping to conclusions. But students were definitely talking about the rumour and it definitely made me more cautious.

The Montreal police encour­ age people who have been subject­ ed to any form of sexual harass­ ment or assault on or off campus in the McGill area to visit McGill Security or Station 19.

“Every case is investigated thoroughly,” one officer said.

“Identical patterns of attack are noted down and serve as leads to future investigations, even if the victim doesn’t wish to file an offi­ cial report.” ■

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Perhaps they will start protesting the lack of protest space on campus explanation as to why the October 9 rally in favour of a legislated tuition freeze was not allowed to be held on campus. In addition, the university Senate, comprised of both students and faculty, recently decided to strike a committee to review policy and procedure regarding events on uni­ versity property.

One of the main concerns of student representatives is that there might not be any policy or formal criteria in place for the university to use when deciding whether to approve a political event on campus.

“Most probably [a policy] sim­ ply doesn’t exist, or if it does it has not been implemented," said Residence representative Gonzalo Riva, who introduced the motion. “[The administration] now just calls it a set of criteria about regulations for events in general— not just polit­ ical ones.”

Concern first arose when the university did not approve the October tuition freeze rally. The uni­ versity approved a similar strike against the inclusion of education in the Free Trade of the Americas Agreement (FTAA) last October.

“It seems that changes to the accepted and standard practice of approving events on campus out­ lined in years b efore... contrast starkly with decisions that were made for similar events this year.

pus to the benefit of our various con­ stituencies while preserving a safe environment and maintaining the integrity of university property, said Yalovsky.

The Senate committee is a way to establish dialogue and mutual understanding among students and the administration in regards to the university’s criteria for approval for political events and their impact on students' rights.

“I hope this university com m it­ tee clearly delineates what precisely is the procedure of seeking approval of events on campus, the criteria, and on what grounds and to whom may students appeal a rejection,” said Choy.

Choy also added that she expects the committee to evaluate the criteria taking into consideration students rights to freedom of speech and assembly.

“The first thing I think we need to get from the administration is a clear answer on what happened [on October 9], and subsequently an admission of error in the decision­ making process,” said Riva. “This m otion is m eant only to state SSMU's position, raise awareness, and start the process by which stu­ dents can reassert their right to assembly and expression without worrying about a backlash or an out­ right shutdown.” ■

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After almost 14 months of negotiations between the uni­ versity and the McGill University N on-Academ ic Certified Association ast month, members of Canada's two right-of-centre parties voted (M U NACA), a period that wit­ overwhelmingly in favour of a merger in hope of becoming a con­ nessed threats of strike and sev­ tender against the Liberal Party in this spring’s federal election. On eral protests by the association, a December 6, delegates of the Progressive Conservatives voted by a collective agreement has been margin of 2 2 3 4 to 2 47, or 9 0 .0 4 per cent in favour, to amalgamate reached. with the Canadian Alliance and form the Conservative Party of Canada. The At a December 18 General vote was held by tele-conference at 27 locations across Canada, including Assembly meeting, 78 per cent Montreal. of union members (consisting of This followed a vote by Canadian Alliance members a few days earlier in clerical and technical staff, which 95 per cent of delegates decided to accept the terms of the merger. library assistants, and nurses) W ith a general election expected to be called this coming spring, the C PC voted in favour of renewing will have to develop its policy, hold its nomination meetings and elect a leader their contract, which included a within a short time frame.

0 .8 per cent increase in compen­ The CA’s mission statement expressed the need to unite all conservatives sation for the loss of two in Canada. Thus the debate on whether to fuse the two parties was more heat­ “Summer Fridays,” paid holi­ ed among PC members than among those of the CA. days that members previously Each site of the tele-conference was allowed one speaker from each side. received.

Former Prime Minister Joe Clark spoke against the merger from Calgary. He The university had initially told the delegates that he was speaking from the “same building where on issued a proposal calling for election night we celebrated winning a seat in Western Canada.” Clark, who nursing and clerical staff to won his seat due in part to significant support among gays, women and stu­ work two extra weeks annually dents, reminded the audience of the CA’s image problem. He then warned and the elimination of four paid that if the C P C inherits these same perceptions of social conservatism, the holidays, all without compensa­ merger will “guarantee the election of Liberal governments in Canada for a tion. This was a major point of decade to come. ” contention in the negotiations.

Montreal’s “No advocate, political scientist and member of the LavalAn agreement in principle Centre PC Association Brian Doody, expressed frustration at the merger was reached D ecem ber 11 process. “Nearly half of Canadians who can vote don’t ,” said Doody, because between the university's negoti­ ating team and the M U NACA

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Provost Luc Vinet issued a press release dated December 12 informing the McGill com m u­ nity of the agreement-in-princi­ ple.

Subsequently, D ot Luk, M U N A C A president, drafted an open letter to Vinet alleging that his press release “contained erroneous and misleading infor­ m atio n ,” because Vinet s announcement stated that the agreement in principle had been reached with the M U N A C A executive, when this body was in the process of receiving a report from the negotiation com m it­ tee.

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Schellenberger, the lone Ontario PC member, will join Scott Reid and Cheryl Gallant, the only Ontario CA members. While the combined votes of the two parties have in the past beaten the tally of Liberal candidates in approximately 25 ridings each election, the impact of vote-splitting can be seen in the fact that the party only has three Ontario representatives.

PC McGill was present at the convention. President Anders Sorensen explained his support for the merger. “ I wouldn’t have a year ago, [but] I do now,” he said. “There are not enough conservatives in Canada for two conservative parties.” The quest for the party helm, he said, “will be the most important leadership race of the last 3 0 years.”

The race has only two entrants thus far: Calgary lawyer Jim Prentice and CA caucus leader Stephen Harper. Harper, the acknowledged frontrunner, has declared his intention to spend half his campaign in Quebec. This strate­ gic decision is an attempt to gain national legitimacy which requires signifi­ cant support in Quebec. Furthermore, the party leader will be selected under a points system, so every riding of the country will be equally relevant regard­ less of how many members it has. This will encourage candidates to' run national campaigns.

Harper is well regarded for his poise, his leadership on the merger and his past work developing Reform Party policy and strategy. However, he is seen, rightly or wrongly as carrying the CA’s political baggage.

Prentice finished second in last spring’s PC leadership race. During the race, his policy proposals tackled economic development and how to combat student debt and the increasing cost of higher education. He also stressed his history of supporting the environment.

“The relationship between economic development and environmental­ ism is a question of the search for an appropriate balance, ” one of his docu­ ments reads. “These two do not represent a zero-sum game.”

Prentice can walk the walk on that balance. While he does have a record of environmental activism as a lawyer, some of his largest campaign contrib­ utors were the corporate heads of the Alberta oil patch. ■

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2003-04 Thursday, April 8,2004, is the last day of class for lectures that follow the Tuesday-Thursday class schedule.

Tunnel construction leads nowhere Plan for expansion in place for the last 35 years Lisa Varano Neither McGill nor the city of Montreal presently plan to com ­ plete the proposed underground tunnel system that would link McGill buildings to each other and to metro stations.

“There’s no project on the table” to build more public tun­ nels, said André Aylwin, Director of O perations for Facilities M anagement and Development.

Aylwin added that there has been no such plan in the last 35

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T here are, however, other buildings that are linked, including the stretch from Burnside to M cConnell, but students cannot access these tunnels because they are still only used for steam pipes.

The map indicates that pro­ posed extensions would link Bronfman to Redpath and Arts to McConnell, allowing students to stay indoors between classes in dif­ ferent buildings. The Engineering building would also be connected

because they were dangerous.

Karasick said the university had the opportunity to build the proposed northern extension of the tunnel network when excavation was underway for the W ong Building. This leg would have linked Strathcona to James Administration via W ong, Genome and Rutherford.

Had the University Planning Office known that a cluster of buildings would be constructed around TechSquare, Karasick said,

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A map of the proposed net­ work, which hangs at the entrance to the Leacock tunnel and appears to date from that time, shows that many of the underground passages, useful as an escape from the winter cold, remain unfinished.

There are presently only three mini-tunnel networks accessible to students: the Arts building to Leacock, Burnside to O tto Maass, and Leacock to Redpath. Karasick said the tunnels were originally built for steam pipes but were later

to all the buildings north of it, end­ ing at Strathcona. In addition, the map suggests that a tunnel would be constructed from O tto Maass to the McGill metro station.

Michel Quintin, former head of the Trades Union of Physical Plant, said that there are many service tunnels between buildings on campus, which are primarily used to house steam pipes but are also used for electrical and Internet wires.

However, Aylwin explained that they are “not at all fit for stu­ dents to walk in and that workers sometimes have to crawl inside.

“They’re not designed with ventilation and space to walk, said Karasick, noting that a “good num­ ber” of service tunnels have been renovated in the past 10 years

“I think they would have insisted on [a public tunnel].” The cost of widening and deepening an exist­ ing steam tunnel was estimated at about $ 1 -million.

The university has an “entente” with the city of M ontreal, which Karasick described as a list o f projects important to both of them should they ever become feasible. One of the projects listed is the possibility o f a tunnel between a M cGill building and a metro station.

An opportunity to connect a campus building to McGill or Peel metro stations could present itself if the city decides to tear up rue Sherbrooke to repair its water pipes, he said. Until then, students will have to continue braving the cold. ■

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CATEGORY

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TO REGISTER BADMINTON

MEN WOMEN

$15.00 per player

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BALL HOCKEY

MEN A & B WOMEN A & B

$95.00 per team

Dec. 8, 09:00 to Jan. 13,17:00

14

Monday, Tuesday & Sunday

BASKETBALL

MEN A, B & C WOMEN A & B

$95.00 per team

Dec. 8, 09:00 to Jan. 13,17:00

14

Tuesday to Friday & Sunday

INDOOR SOCCER

MEN A & B WOMEN A & B CO-REC A & B

$95.00 per team

Dec. 8, 09:00 to Jan. 13,17:00

18

Monday to Thursday, Saturday & Sunday

Fieldhouse C& D

INNERTUBE WATERPOLO

CO-REC

$95.00 per team

Dec. 8, 09:00 to Jan. 13,17:00

18

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Currie Pool

SQUASH

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$15.00 per player

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$15.00 per player

Jan. 5, 09:00 to Feb. 4 ,1 7 :0 0

N/A

Saturday and Sunday Feb. 7 - 8

NA Courts 3,4 S 5

MENAS B WOMEN A S B CO-REC A S B

$95.00 per team

Dec. 8, 09:00 to Jan. 13,17:00

14

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Gymnasium 1S 2 Fieldhouse A S B

CO-REC

$30.00 per team

TBA

TABLE TENNIS

VOLLEYBALL

VOLLEYBALL (4 on 4 Tournament)

10

Saturday & Sunday Mar. 6 - 7

5 Men & 5 Women

7 Men & 5 Women

8 4 Men S 4 Women

2 Men S 2 Women

TAE BOX:

POWER YOGA: SPIN:

Tae Box/Step/Power Yoga $2.50 at the door or 1 Ticket* Spin $5.00 at the door or 2 Tickets*

McGill

Webster Courts

Gymnasium 1S 2

Cross country ski equipment and snowhoes are available fo r rent

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HOURS OF OPERATION Monday & Friday 1 6 :0 0 -1 9 :0 0 , Saturday & Sunday 1 0 :0 0 -1 6 :0 0

Poles Boots Skis

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STEP:

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PA Y-A S-YO U -G O FITN ESS SCHEDULE DAY TIME Mon. & Wed 17:0 0 - 17:55 hrs.

Saturday II.OO- 11:55 hrs.

Tues & Thurs 17:0 0 - 17:55 hrs.

Saturday 12:0 0 - 12:55 hrs.

Sunday 11:0 0 - 11:55 hrs.

Friday 16: 15 - 17:15 hrs.

Friday 18:00 - 18:45 hrs.

Gymnasium 3 &4

TBA

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KIDS' CORNER Olympic Way - White (3 -14 yrs) White Adv (3 -14 yrs) Green (3 -14 yrs) Blue (3 -14 yrs) Bronze (3 -1 4 vrs) Silver (3 -14 yrs) Gold (3 - 14 yrs) AQUATICS Adults Learn To Swim (Level 1 Beginner) Adults Learn To Swim (Level 2 & 3 Intermediate) Swim (Private) Swim (Semi-Private) Swim Fit (Cardio-Respiratory Endurance) Stroke Improvement Intro to Snorkeling, Skin & SCUBA Diving

Saturday

10:30-11:15

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Contemporary Dance (Students ONLY Audition Required) Flamenco Hip Hop Irish Dance Jazz Intro 1& II Jazz Inter II & III Latin Dance Social Dance Swing Dance - Lindy Hop 1 Swing Dance"- Lindy Hop ll

Tae Box Step & Pump Step & Sweat Aero-Salsa Spin Spin & Trim Spin - Race & Pace

Saturday

11:15-12:00

34.77/52.16

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Monday Saturday Wednesday Saturday by appointment by appointment Tues & Thurs

18:30-19:25 11:15-12:00 18:30-19:25 11:15-12:00

34.77/52.16

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34.77/52.16

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18:30-19:25

14.78/19.13 20.87/26.08 30.43/65.20

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18:30-19:25 12:00-15:00

21.73/39.12 56.51/65.20

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43.47/82.59 30.43/47.81 30.43/47.81 39.12/78.25 52.16/92.29 60.86/99.98 30.43/47.81

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30.43/52.16 56.51/91.29 39.12/78.25 14.78/29.56 30.43/52.16 58.24/97.37 39.12/78.25 39.12/78.25 58.25/97.37 39.12/78.25 39.12/78.25 30.42/52.16 60.86/108.67

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78.25/126.06 60.86/108.67

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17:00-17:55 11:00-11:66 17:00-17:55 12:00-12:55 11:00-11:55 18:00-18:45 16:15-17:15

$2.17/$1.34

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Monday & Wednesday Saturday Tues & Thurs Saturday Sunday Friday Friday

TAE BOX

SPIN YOGA

Fencing 1 Fencing II Golf

Golf (Private) Hockey 1 Hockey II Skating

Skating (Private) Skating (Semi-Private) Squash Intro

Squash Inter

Squash (Private) Tennis Intro

Tennis Inter $2.17/$1.74 Tennis Advanced $4.35 or 2 tickets $2.17/$1.74

FITNESS & WELLNESS Fitness Appraisal Fitness Instructor Training Personal Trainer Development CPR\ First Aid CPR Re-Cert Hatha Yoga 1

39.12/43.47 173.88/204.31 173.88/204.31 95.63/117.37

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09:00-17:00 ~ 08:00-08:55 12:00-12:55 18:15-19:25 19:30-20:40 08:00-08:55 16:00-17:10 17:15-18:25 17:00-18:10 18:30-19:40 13:00-14:15 13:00-14:15 14:30-15:45 13:00-13:55 17:00-17:55 16:00-17:00 20:00-21:25

56.51/69.55 28.68/63.46 28.68/63.46 46.05/84.33 36.51/71.28 28.68/63.46 36.51/71.28 36.51/71.28 36.51/71.28

1 8 8 10 8 8 8 8 8

45.21/79.98 45.21/79.98 45.21/79.98 36.51/71.29 36.51/71.29 36.51/71.29 29.56/46.95

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Tuesday & Friday Mon\Wed\Fri

18:00-20:55 18:00-19:55 16:30-17:55

75.64/114.76

10

67.81/106.93

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Tues & Thurs

Hatha Yoga II Pilâtes Pilâtes Pilâtes 1& II Power Yoga Power Yoga Advanced Tai Chi MARTIAL ARTS Aikido Capoeira

19:00-22:00 19:00-22:00 09:00-19:00

1 Monday & Wednesday Monday & Wednesday Tuesday & Saturday Tuesday, Thursday & Friday Tue\Wed\Fri Tuesday, Thursday & Friday Monday & Wednesday

17:30-19:25 19:30-21:25 20:00-21:55 09:00-10:55 21:30-22:25 20:30-21:25 15:30-16:25 20:00-21:25 19:00-20:25 19:30-20:25

60.86/99.98 60.86/99.98 60.86/99.98

10 10 10

46.08/85.20

10

46.08/85.20 67.81/106.93

10 10

30.43/69.55

10

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20:30-21:25

30.43/69.55

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Monday & Wednesday

20:30-21:55

46.07/85.20

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Tuesday & Thursday Monday & Wednesday Monday Wednesday Monday Monday Tuesday Thursday by appointment Friday Friday Wednesday Saturday Saturday by appointment by appointment Monday Monday Tuesday Tuesday Wednesday Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Friday Friday Friday Friday Saturday Sunday Monday Thursday Saturday Sunday by appointment Monday Wednesday Friday Tue & Thur Monday Thursday Tue & Thur Tuesday Wednesday Friday by appointment by appointment

08:00-08:55 19:0019:55 20:0020:55 16:0016:55 17:0017:55 17:15-18:10 17:15-18:10

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14.78/19.53 20.87/26.08 21.73/34.78

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21.73/34.78

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45 min 6

55.64/81.72 27.82/40.86 27.82/40.86 56.64/81.72 27.82/40.86 27.82/40.86 27.82/40.86 17.39/21.74 21.74/27.82

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Saturday Sunday Sunday Saturday. February 14 Tuesday Friday Sunday, January 25 Saturday, January 31 Sunday, February 1 Saturday, February 7

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Monday & Wednesday Monday & Wednesday Tuesday & Friday .

Tuesday & Thursday Tuesday & Thursday Monday & Wednesday Monday & Wednesday Tuesday & Thursday Tuesday & Thursday Monday & Wednesday Mon., Wed., Friday Monday & Wednesday Monday & Wednesday

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kay, so here we are again; another year over, and one just beginning. It’s always fun to look back at the past 12 months and make top 10 lists by categories— I wonder what the top 10 top 10 lists ’ are? W h at’s even more fun is to make predictions for the upcom ing 5 2 weeks. So, in no particular order, the 10 things most likely to happen in 2 0 0 4 : 1. W h at will happen to Ryan and Trista? They’ll get divorced. T h at’s right, you heard it here first. Afterwards, they’re going to be remembered forever on the list of reality television show greats, right next to that, um, guy from the, er, show ... you know the one I mean. Trista, Ryan, has it been a year already, or has it only been 15 minutes?

2. In order to boost Iraq’s tourism market, a new theme park will be built in Tikrit, featuring guided tours of the “Spider H ole,’’ and a hip, new water park called the “Ba’ath Par-tay.”

3. Saddam Hussein will make a public appearance at the grand opening of that theme park. Then he will be executed in front of a live audience, but not before officials pull back his mask and reveal that it was really Jacques Chirac (“And I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it wasn’t for you meddling kids”) .

4. Steve Bartm an will be run out of Chicago because it’s his fault the Cubs didn’t make it to the W orld Series. N ot the players, no, it’s not their fault. O h wait, yes it is. H e will find a new home in Florida, where he will be elected mayor of Miami.

5. Amazingly, G igli will be the No. 1 movie rental of the year— no one wanted to see it when it was in theatres, but curiosity will get the better of everyone, and the movie will enjoy a long and healthy shelf life.

6. Paris H ilton, guided by the entrepreneurial genius of her grand­ father, will create a new line of sex tapes featuring her and other celebrities-who-aren’t-really-celebrities doing the dirty. Kato Kaelin and Melissa Rivers will be the first to sign on.

7. Arnold Schwarzenegger will reveal that he is in fact a cybernetic robot from the future, and was sent back in time to rig the elections in “Cal-ee-for-nya”— this is only step one of his plan to change the consti­ tution and become president.

8. In order to boost their own public opinion ratings, the folks who sit on SSM U student council will let the C B C turn their weekly meet­ ings into a reality television show. W ithin the first three episodes, the show will be cancelled.

9. As for the SSM U execs themselves, Kimberley Zell will be asked

by McGill to head Queen’s University’s frosh week. Rodrigo DeCastro will star in the Canadian version of Q ueer Eye for the Straight Guy. Brianna Hersey will finish her wall of debt, only to realize moments before it comes crashing down that she forgot the cement.

There will be a struggle for power between Vivian Choy and Kate Rhodes, and it will take the diplomatic skills of Naeem D atoo to bring harmony back.

Mia Gewertz will reveal that she is a cybernetic robot sent back through time to become governor of California, but Arnold beat her to it, so she had to settle for SSM U. 10. Voter turnout for 2 0 0 4 student elections will be less than 2 0 per cent due to student apathy— and after the chalk dust settles, the name of the next SSM U president will be revealed, and that name is Saeed Fotuhi.

Think about it. ■

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E d ito r The interim SSM U Com m unity and Government team read your Executives report card (Dec. 2) with m uch interest.

We would like to suggest, however, that you strive for more accurate reporting in the coming semester. Making accusations such as none of the team had office hours demonstrates sloppy journalistic research on your part. Ashley Becker, the coordinator of the interim team, adhered reasonably to office hours she had posted. Gonzalo Riva was in the office for extended periods of time every day during the crunch time for his responsibility around the FTAA. Elise Legault, responsible for la F E U Q , continues to be in the office daily to prepare for the upcom ing parliamentary commission.

We do agree that explaining why the FTAA remains relevant to students is a chal­ lenge on a campus that is extremely reluctant to engage with the world beyond its own navel. In that regard, we are pleased to note that you are concerned about the progress the portfolio has made on the com m unity front, and would suggest you contact Daniel Friedlaender to discuss the many developments that have occurred this year. W e ____________________________ look forward to your ideas and your collaboration Teach English Overseas! on these matters in the future.

However, we are very bemused by your state­ ment that students fail to see the relevance of an w orkshop for Canadians ancillary fee freeze to their lives. W e are unsure how to explain it any more clearly than drawing a parallel to your own cover story on the 2004 Engineering cafeteria: same poutine, more dollars.

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PropsforSixtoo I was pleasantly suprised to see Heather Mak’s feature on M T L hip hop gracing the Tribunes front page (Dec. 2). However, I feel that there was one glaring omission: triple­ threat D J/M C /p rod u cer Sixtoo. True, he’s a transplant from Halifax, but the man’s influ­ ence is undeniable. As a former Anticon affiliate, a current Ninja Tune signee, and one-half of The Sebutones (along with Buck 6 5 ), he’s released five C D s and done produc­ tion and remix work for M C s like Sage Francis, Sole, and Slug. Aside from that over­ sight, props on a well-done article.

— M ike Ichioka U 0 Arts

I find Dr. Henry M orgentaler’s state­ m ent that he “changed society” (Nov. 2 5) an incredible claim to make. Be that as it may, I’d like to challenge his argument that an initially unwanted child is likely to be more violent than a planned child.

This seems to be a eugenics type argu­ ment that seeks to control the nature of future child populations in the name of the future superior society.

Morgentaler’s ideas seem to basically centre around the notion that a fetus only becomes hum an upon birth and that the fetus has no rights or true human status.

In my mind, this is a pure value judgement, since the human fetus is as m uch part of human biol­ ogy as is any other stage of human development.

Consider a prematurely born baby. N o one would define her or him as a nonhuman, yet if that baby were still a fetus, aborting it would be perfectly ethical, according to M orgentalers values as I understand them.

To be consistent, people who have no moral qualms with abortion should ask, as a personal experiment, whether there would have been anything wrong with their parents aborting them. O f course, that would have made it impossible for them to discuss the issue.

The idea that the fetus has no rights leads directly to the conclusion that we are justified in using recently alive fetuses for medical experiments. This is the same rationale through which mil­ lions of mammals are killed in medical and other experiments around the world. Tragically, both human fetuses and nonhuman animals are powerless in the face of the various human institutions that kill them. These are questions very relevant to university labs and teaching hospitals, but they are only touched on very sporadically in a public way in universities.

— Shloim e Perel M cG ill A lum nus 1 9 6 6

Ready for the New Year's rejuvenation Mark Kerr

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ith the passing of another year, many of us have formulated vows that can be grouped into two categories. There is the traditional resolution, whereby we pledge to do something or, conversely, not to do something. The vow of rejuvenation, a more general concept, sees us approaching our life with a new vigour. It is not a reinvention, rather an improvement in attitude.

Case in point is my brother, a person who has struggled mightily at university. After a difficult semester, he has vowed to turn it around in 2 0 0 4 . “A fresh start,” is the phrase heard from him and other students like him, myself included.

The Canadian political system seems to have adopted this outlook.

The Liberal Party, with its selection of Paul M artin as the new prime m in­ ister, and the conservatives merging demonstrate the desire for a fresh out­ look as a federal election looms. The New Dem ocratic Party, already reju­ venated with the ascension of Jack Layton to the helm last January, looked to the past for inspiration by bringing former leader Ed Broadbent back into the fold.

Critics of the political left in Canada might view this as another pathetic stab at relevancy for the NDP. However, after taking a course taught by Broadbent two years ago, he is well versed in social justice issues, a factor that will distinguish him and the N D P from the right-of-centre Liberal and Conservative parties. Furthermore, the move will lift the party above its reputation of representing only radical protesters and union boss­ es.

At the local level, the New Year offers the Students’ Society council a chance to leave behind a tumultuous first five months. W ith the Naeem D atoo affair, the year did not get off to the start those involved would have liked. However, new president Kate Rhodes has been in place several months and the council should look forward to improving student issues the last part of the school year focusing on, as opposed to petty infighting.

As with politics, newspapers from time to time attempt to freshen things up. There are three, what I like to call, “rejuvenation points.” The first is the beginning of the year when a new editorial board takes over and reshapes the paper according to its vision.

The second point is the Christmas break, a time editors step back and see what has worked over the past 14 issues, and what needs improvement.

The paper also gets a shot in the arm from the new volunteers that stop by on Activities Night.

The third rejuvenation point comes at reading week. It is a time when we all take a collective breath of fresh air, hopefully in some sunny clime, and gear up for the spring election period, playoff season, or increase in live entertainment after the winter doldrums.

W hile the choice is up to you this New Year, I am resolving to reju­ venate, leaving behind all those broken promises to myself that this is the year I finally get in shape. ■

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harlize Theron’s new movie. M onster, recounts the real-life tale of prostitute/serial killer Aileen W uornos. T h e Florida m urderer became notorious when she was falsely labeled by the press as the first female serial killer for taking the life of six men. Wuornos was executed by lethal injection at a Florida state prison on O ctober 9, 2 0 0 2 , after over a decade of waiting on death row.

W hile capital punishment has been removed from Canadas Criminal Code since 1976, our counterparts across the border continue to justify and implement its use. Many arguments are made in favour of capital punishment, rang­ ing from its ability to deter crime to the fact that it saves tax­ payers money. Both sides of the debate have their own spin on the facts. In M onster, however, society’s responsibility in creating killers is questioned and brought to light.

Society can be held accountable for a vast majority of murders. The mitigating circumstances are the fault of an imperfect civilization and killers should not be fully blamed for its mistakes.

Most homicides occur under the influence of alcohol or drugs, when judgm ent is impaired. Because society con ­ dones drinking as a pasttime and does not do its utm ost to eliminate illegal drugs, it must take some responsibility for the violent crimes that com e with their use. In addition, proper education and institutionalization of the mentally disabled are a society’s responsibility. Thus, by continuing to invoke the death penalty, governments conceal the underly­ ing causes of serious crimes.

Andy Rooney recently said on 6 0 M inutes. Revenge is an em otion we all reluctantly enjoy and capital punishment is society’s ultimate revenge. However, the use of the death penalty serves only to break down the wall that separates civ­ ilized humans from animalistic actions.

People’s delight in brutality and violence has been pres­ ent throughout the ages: from the Roman Era and its Coliseum to the graphic and realistic portrayals in movies and television today. Nevertheless, the suppression and con ­ trol of this urge distinguishes us from lesser beings. So when the government sanctions the death penalty, it authorizes

the further decline of the human spirit by appealing to the people’s destructive natures.

Many people desire and request to watch an execution.

According to Warden Lewis Lawes, if the job of executioner becomes vacant, people will offer competitive prices for the position. Sanctioning the victims’ families to be present also enforces this debasing point of view because if capital pun ishment were justice, it would be a private and non-celebrated affair. Instead, executions in the US are used to satiate the bloodlust of a segment of the population, and lead “hum an­ ity” astray.

Based on society’s responsibility for those condemned, moral merits and what qualifies as civilized behaviour, the premeditated extinguishment of life is not justifiable. As Nobel Laureate Albert Camus wrote, “For there to be equiv­ alence, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. ■

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, January 6

t the end of the semester, many of us were scrambling to excavate ourselves from ,the holes we’d dug into. Whether high-strung, or just high and strung out, it was time to hunker down. But breaking routine can mean breaking concentration, and finals is not the time to lose focus. During finals, I overheard a biology student in a café brag that over the last three days, with a few pills, she’d neither slept nor put down her books. Like many of us, she wasn’t going to stagger through exams without some help.

Dr. Pierre Tellier, director of health services at McGill, acknowledges that student drug use is rampant.

“There are a few who do get into trouble [using ecstasy]. There are a few [using] methamphetamines... and cocaine,” says Dr. Pierre Tellier. “Cannabis is the number one drug, other than alcohol. Students commonly use it to relax."

It’s difficult to study when tense. Resolving to stay in and bear the brunt of the books can, for many, mean getting jittery. So, call a pager, punch in an account number and, like magic, a fellow student arrives at the door. This person could be just another student on another bicycle, but their knapsack does not carry any books. These aren’t drug dealers. No, they’re simply potheads who’ve found an economically viable part-time job. In this circumstance, there are two choices for sale: economic outdoor or the bubonic-hydroponic-chronic.

Prices are above street value, but this is front-door service with a smile, and quality control is impeccable.

There are those, however, whose hobbies .go much deeper than that. Follow Syd, the joint-honours student, into* a pharmacy to the prescription counter, where he slaps a loonie down (all within a healthy student budget), and asks for a prevention kit. The pharmacist grows nervous, her face is flush, and she won’t reach for the dollar until the rest of us at the counter leave. This over-the-counter prevention kit includes five alcohol swabs, five lcc syringes, two condoms, and one education pamphlet explaining where needles can be procured, exchanged, and safely disposed of.

“You go from being a potentially excellent student to an academically mediocre one,” Syd explains. “I think, just like most addicts, I’m inherently better than m o st... That’s like the ultimate justifying rationality behind most addictions: that you can handle it, whereas most people can’t.” W ith a paper due the next day, he’s ‘handling’ it.

“At the same time, there is planning involved, like the fact that I made sure that my paper wasn’t going to be due for anoth­ er three, four, five days... The fact is I would still rather get a B+ in this class, than a C + o r a B -,” Syd continues, emptying 1/16 g of cocaine into a spoonful of water. ) “Now, if I was a junkie addict with no source of parameter of behaviour based in academic work, and I wasn’t at McGill and hadn’t worked to get to McGill, then these things wouldn’t matter because I wouldn’t be able to relate to them; I d have no point of reference. But I have a point of reference, that, thankfully, is academ ia... and higher education at a really respectable school.

Perhaps he is better than most after all, perhaps he understands his own unique weaknesses and knows how to cope with them, or perhaps he’s regurgitating the same elitist hyperbole of any Ivy-League wannabe.

“I can temper [my habit]... but I can’t maximize McGill at the cost of giving this up. Neither can I maximize this, which would include me losing my life,” Syd continues, warming the mixture with a Bic lighter. “There’s two kinds of addicts. Theres maintenance addicts, and then there’s the doomed. Maintenance addiction is something that is ... in the long term, really more devastating... They can accommodate the rest of the world and social criteria and standards, go to McGill, and still do okay— [though not] as well as they could. I don’t do as well as I could because I’m not willing to give up the sensuous element of indulgence.” Neither hunger goes entire­ ly neglected; the syringe delivers its payload. A belligerent aura grows about him.

"Defining McGill is not me, but [for] most McGill students, [the school] is the necessary interaction between the prepped and naturally inclined future elites, [as well as] an encounter with a sort of danger— taking risk in hand, not losing themselves to it, and affirming the fact that their social education to this point has functioned,” Syd begins to rationalize. Most other campus junkies, he explains, are “Ontarian rich kids... They have the privilege... They have the most freedom, because their parents are the most dis tracted, and they compensate by purchasing for their kids the love that they cant provide.

Drugs are on all university campuses, and many make little effort at hiding it, lining up at washrooms in frat house parties, and ducking behind carrels in the library. These types, too, have to handle it.

There are still some seasoned survivors at McGill.

“Especially at McGill, d r u g s are about com m unity... McGill is such a cliquey school,’’ says Erin Vollick, English T.A., PhD student, and author of the counter-culture novel, The Originals. “The people who fall off are the people that have... gone into the darker side of Montreal that lives here, as opposed to those just passing through in their designer jeans. Thats when they’re in trouble.”

A will-powered elitist psyche persists despite its own hypocrisy in the drug-using community. “If you havent rebelled fundamentally by [the age of] 18 or 19 when you get to McGill, you’re already into this social stratification system where you’re not going to rebel outside the bounds of accepted rebellion, claims Syd. His elitist tendencies are get­ ting the better of him, and suddenly he’s not much different from those Ontarian rich kids he denigrates. This is the same ultimate justifying rationale’ that he warned about while still sober.

“You’ll smoke some weed, might do some mushrooms, might drop a bit of E, but you 11 not meet [me] in a bar, come home to shoot up with [me], and end up having a four person orgy ... and then go back and be a sociology student at McGill— not unless you have some other prior reference, o r ... you’re really, really atypical.”

The effects of excessive drug use, according to Vollick are extremely noticeable among under­ grads, who are much more inclined to use than grad students who would not be able to get away with it as easily.

“I’ve basically dealt with all of th em ... It’s so easy to tell, it’s just apparent in their w ork... [which] suffers terribly.

“If [the smart ones] are not given the opportunity and if they don’t feel like expanding on their own work and setting themselves to their own tasks, then of coursejthey will] create obstacles. If they're not getting what they need to challenge them in the classroom, they’re going to look for it out­ side the classroom in one form or another, Vollick says. And they keep looking too— in the library, in the bars, and anywhere else on campus. ■

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Fighting the stress monster LAURA RUDY explores the healing power of massage

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Juggling papers, exams, extracurricu­ lar activities and a social life is a chal­ lenging task.

In order to cope with the stress, students are flocking to spas in order to receive INNERHARMONVWELLNESS.COM therapeutic massage.

“I receive mas­ sage for stress reduction because I feel so relaxed afterwards,” says Zhaleh Afshar, U 1 Political Science.

For thousands of years, massage has been used as a healing tool.

“The Chinese, Greeks, Romans and Indians have long practiced massage,” notes Emilia Repede, a Montreal area massage therapist.

A touching matter Touch is essential for humans; however, North Americans are often deprived of tactile •stimulation that brings about a sense o f well being and security, claims Repede.

“Our personal space is treasured, and we are especially protective when one encroach­ es our personal bubble,” she says. “Massage therapy helps break down the wall that one erects between himself and the world. ”

"I m a firm believer that massage stimulates the body’s own healing response, and I fre quently recommend massage therapy,” says Dr. Andrew Weil, an internationally recognizee expert on medicinal herbs, mind-body interactions, and holistic medicine.

“A growing body of research shows that massage offers health benefits throughout the life cycle. It promotes weight gain and m otor development in babies, [and] boosts respira tory function in children with asthma. It also increases blood circulation, reduces stress hormones, increases range of motion, reduces depression, and enhances immune func tion, " adds Weil.

Endorphins, the bodys natural painkiller, are released during massage. Scar tissue can be reduced after surgery, ” says Repede.

Furthermore, studies have proven that in breast cancer patients, massage increases the cells that fight cancer.

Treatment massages the w allet-big time W ith prices ranging from $ 5 0 to $ 7 0 for an hour of therapeutic massage, cashstrapped students may not be able to afford this expensive service. In fact, Julia Melaud, a U 1 history major, would never consider forking over the cash.

“I make minimum wage at my part-time job and I would never be able to pay such a hefty price no matter what the benefits are supposed to be. ” Despite the numerous proponents for massage therapy, skeptics are equally plentiful Christopher Maislin, U 3 Engineering, does not believe that massage therapy can combat cancer or help heal scar tissue.

“The marketing industry has packaged massage as a cure-all for a host of ailments.

Holistic therapy might be able to reduce stress, but I don’t believe that it can eradicate immune system deficiencies. That is carrying things too far. ’’ Regardless of those who resist the lure of massage, the therapy has translated into a bil­ lion dollar-industry. Both women and men are flocking to massage therapists in droves hoping to unwind. The lucrative business practice is constantly growing, incorporating an ever-expanding clientele base. ■

How Swede it is The list of massage options is extensive. Among the more popular forms of massage are Swedish, rolflng, shiatsu and reflexology.

The most com m on version is Swedish massage which uses long full strokes to knead the muscles and create light friction.

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Andrew Lack of Sony B M G . David Munns of EM I. Jason Silverstein of 34seventeen.

Give up? The first four are million­ aires who run record labels that, collective­ ly, comprise 7 5 per cent of the world music

dabbles in piano and guitar, as well as his curren t vocals stint with local band Carmichael. H e has been in “the biz” for two years doing A & R for Arista Records and prom otions for Vagrant. And yet, Silverstein remains restless. H e attributes the formation of 34seventeen to his own assiduous personality. So why did he launch the label?

“Because I’m bored. Because I find my classes boring. Because I don’t want to be an accountant— I’m taking accounting, but I don’t want to be an accou n tan t. I ’m taking [Information Systems], but I couldn’t care less about how to use Microsoft Excel, shrugs Silverstein, whose thinking may brand him nonlinear among his Bronfman comrades. The aspiring A & R powerhouse admits that a B .C om degree is simply his safety net, and his loyalty remains with music. “Music is what I enjoy. It gives me something to do and some­ thing to be proud of. ” As a third-year student, he is uncertain of how the 34seventeen legacy will pan out after his gradua­ tion. W hether he sticks with it after his university career or passes it along to another student is anyone’s guess.

For the time being, 34seventeen is simply looking to put out CD s and beginning to produce live shows. It is looking to expand and diversify its new roster. Silverstein sees hom e NICOLE LEAVER recording as the label’s most viable Jason Silverstein's label gives a home to McGill acts. option at present, and plans to distrib­ ute records for $3 or $ 4 a pop at the market. T h at fact, however, doesn’t faze the outset. Give it a m onth or two, however, last of the lot. Enter New Jersey native and he has eyes set on turning in a profit, Jason Silverstein, a U 2 Marketing and which will be distributed among staff and Entrepreneurship student, who launched charities.

Montreal-based label 34seventeen at the Though the venture is up and run­ end o f last year. Conceived to serve McGill ning, Silverstein says he would welcome students, it is run solely by McGill students more help in any aspect. McGill artists or and represents McGill artists exclusively. prospective volunteers seeking more infor­ Yet, Silverstein harbours no preten­ mation can contact Silverstein directly at sions about his motivations. You will hear jason34seventeen@yahoo.com . ■ no tired, hollow rhetoric about “giving back to the com m unity” spewing from his mouth.

“I don’t have a lot o f cash to donate personally, but if 34seventeen can earn profits, then we can help out some people with that money,” he states. Silverstein stresses the importance of giving back to the com m unity at large and vows that 25 per cent of all future profits will be donat­ ed to various charitable organizations.

The name 34seventeen draws from the house num ber of the rented student apartment he shares with five other McGill students but, sorry ladies, the Trib can’t divulge the actual street name (hint: it is in the McGill Ghetto).

At present, there are approximately 15 students involved with the project, each focusing on a different aspect of running the label. Yet, Silverstein notes, the divi­ sions are fuzzy. At the end of the day, everyone pitches in where they can.

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province, the idea of mixing cheese curds and gravy with french fries has been part of my preoccupation with Québécois culture.

Although it has been reported that poutine was a restaurant owner’s concoction back in 1957, its hearty goodness boggles the ' mind.

Poutine’s scene in the Quebec lifestyle seems all too fitting. The long, cold win­ ters lend themselves as a plague for which poutine is the cure. Its 40-year lifespan provided ample time for the simple side dish to come in various forms and sold at various locations.

Never having been afraid to eat pou­ tine, I took a crack team of taste testers to a few downtown restaurants to offer our readers the best and worst of poutine here in Montreal.

As a poutine eater for the past four years, I ve taken the opportunity to become adept in selecting more “tradition­ alist” poutine. La Belle Province (1 2 1 6 Peel) is an excellent place to go, rating a 4 out o f 5 on the curd-o-meter. For $ 4 .8 9 , you get small poutine with large cheese curds that melt quickly. The service is unusually fast, yet the poutine is not pre­ fabricated. The fries are not frozen, and are always extremely hot. This is a key factor to selecting good poutine.

Passing along rue Ste-Catherine, one critic comm ented about Nickel’s (7 1 0 SteCatherine W.) “We are not giving Céline Dion any more money. ’’ The poutine here is not horrific, but the critic raised a valid point.

O ur next stop was the McDonald s by rue University. Much has been said about the weakness of a M cD onald’s poutine but for $ 3 .1 0 , its generic taste rates a 2.5 on

the curd-o-meter. Outside of Montreal however, M cD o’s tends to be the habitual place to order poutine. The fries are simple M cD onald’s french fries with watery gravy.

One critic suggested that “the fries look like they’re lacking.”

W ith not enough cheese to spare and sogginess that made it hard to stick your fork into, we left M cDonald’s for higher ground.

Frite Alors (3 4 9 7 St-Laurent) was one of our best ventures into poutine territory.

Open until 5 am, Frite Alors (formerly M oozoo/Grano), has an excellent atmos­ phere, with Québécois classics playing in the background and paintings of Tintin on the wall. For $ 5 .2 5 you get a small pou tine, consisting of hot and crispy fries and more cheese than M cD onald’s poutine.

Frite Alors placed a 4 .5 on the curd-ometer.

The last place we visited before wear­ ing out our stomachs was Alto (3462 Parc). This was one critic’s favourite pou­ tine due to its gooey, freshly shredded mozzarella cheese. “The cheese is pretty cheesy,” said his sister, but even when the poutine was almost finished, the plate was still steaming. Alto is centrally located for those living in the ghetto, and it is open until 4 am, but that doesn’t award it any­ thing more than a 3 on the curd-o-meter.

Another place of note is the notorious M amm a’s poutine, which is a popular sta­ ple for first-year students. Their french fries seem like freezer fries and their cheese tastes like it comes from a pack o f Kraft shredded mozzarella. Curd-o-m eter rating:

2.

The 99-cent pizza places often offer See GRAVY, page 16

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A jack-of-all-trades himself, Silverstein On va-tu s'taper une poutine, tabarnak?-Ever the eye-sore but always delectable.

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Disc Review s Fatherfucker Peaches___________________ Beggars XL Records Aside from the horrible Photoshop artwork, this album definitely sucks way less than it should. Minimalist electronic beats, synthesizers, and a plethora of sexually driven lyrics make up the foundations of this album. The first song sounds like an Atari Teenage Riot tune, which makes it at least pretty amusing, and cer­ tainly m y favourite track on the album. Other highlights include “Tombstone, Baby” and the Kraftwerk-esque synth line in “Bag

Durst try to actually sing is more painful than listening to him attempt to rap. Apparently Bizkit has a new guitarist on this record, but unless you’re extremely well versed in the musical stylings of the band, you’d be hard-pressed to recognize the differ­ ence. These are the same old overproduced pseudo-metal guitar sounds and pseudo-metal riffs.

If you can believe it, the artwork of this album may be even worse than the music contained within it. The back of the record is emblazoned with the now-infamous photo of Durst crowd surf­ ing on a door during the debacle that was W oodstock ‘9 9. Weren’t several women raped during Limp Bizkit s set at that show? Did the band forget about this? Apparently destruction of property and sexual assault are all right when they’re in the context of a totally bitchin’ mosh pit. Screw you dudes. You suck.

— G reg Ellerm ann

bringing a totally raging party with it.

_ Q ^ E U ennam

Out of the Blue CD/DVD Mocking the Shadows Mocking Shadows O ut o f The Blue, from Calgary’s Mocking Shadows, is a C D /D V D concert release that attempts to capture the magic that occurs when these seven talented musicians com e together to perform. Unfortunately for the M ocking Shadows, the D V D comes up short. It is not that there is anything wrong with the funky upbeat music and catchy lyrics, nor with the production quality of the D V D . It is simply that if you’re not a diehard fan of the group nor related to one of its members, you’re going to find this show very dull after about five minutes.

However, this critic was definitely impressed by the Mocking Shadows’ musicianship and stage energy. The roster boasts an eclectic assortment of instruments including a H am m ond B -3, clavinet, piano and three-piece horn section that allows the band to weave in and out of music genres with ease. Their happy-golucky mix of ska, funk, R & B and wailing horns would make for a great night of dancing and partying at the bar, just not in the com ­ _ 5 C0« Sam eroff

fort of your living room .

Uncorrupted Steel 2 Various Artists_________ Metal Blade Records INC. This compilation explores the dark shelves o f the M etal Blade Records’ library, covering such themes as death, hatred and war that have been the fodder of metal for years. You can hear everything from Cattle Decapitation’s nightmarish vocals and As I Lay Dying’s creative use of rhythm to Vehemence’s incred­ ible riffing and Am on Amarth’s impressive musicianship. Cannibal Corpse, God Dethroned and Beyond the Em brace also make appearances for (very) good measure. If this is a showcase o f Metal Blade’s best and heaviest bands though, then how did D B X and Brainstorm make it on the disc? They are an insult to the good metal bands they are placed amongst. But two horrid acts out of 17 is not a bad ratio at all.

This is a good introduction if you are new to the world of death and heavy metal. A word of caution: any attempts at singing along may result in laryngitis.

— M adeline Cham berlain

Results May Vary Lim p

Bizkit____________ Interscope Records

Get this: there are three acoustic songs on Limp Bizkit’s fourth album, including a cover of The W h o’s “Behind Blue Eyes.” Unfortunately, listening to Fred “Bad Facial H air”

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Stolen Beauty

It.” However, this album does have its fair share of low points as well. Iggy Pop’s guest vocals on “Kick It” sound embarrassingly out of place as do the shitty, distorted guitars on “Rock and Roll.

Ignoring these bad attempts at ironic rock (and how about that stupid metal logo?), Fatherfucker is actually a decent listen. ProTools may be taking over the face o f modern music, but at least it’s

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Lori Carson Restless Records This “album” is a collection of songs written for T V and featured on such shows as D aw son’s Creek, B uffy the Vampire Slayer and Baywatch. Just think of the music that’s playing during the really sad parts of any of those shows and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what Lori Carson’s music sounds like.

Ohmygod, Joey and Dawson just had a huge fig h t...cu e track 8, entitled “Fell into the Loneliness.” If that doesn’t do it for you, then remember back to the last time you were at the coffee shop in In d igo... Lori Carson again. She’s everywhere really. Carson may indeed be the most widely heard musician on the planet and yet no one knows her name unless, of course, you were lucky enough to get a promotional copy of this C D .

_ G n g Ellerm ann

Caught by the Window Pilate M ap leM u sic R eco rd in g s Caught by the Window, the debut full-length album by London, Ontariobased Pilate, sounds like a collection of unreleased Radiohead songs from the O K Com puter era, spliced with Travis. Like T h om Yorke, vocalist Todd Clark is classically trained, but his voice is missing the anarchic complexity that made Yorke sound so original.

Lyrically, the band is introspective. Though definitely not an overtly optimistic album, elements of hope are woven into the emotional ballads throughout the album. Perhaps the band’s strongest feature is its ability to make music that complements the vocals. The band sounds complete, functioning as a whole, rather than as a group of musicians.

Ultimately, there is no new ground broken here. But anyone sick of fist-pumping rock, or girl-obsessed emo, may well find sub­ stance in Caught by the Window. Keeping in mind that this is only their debut, it should be interesting to see where Pilate takes their S t e f a n Szpajda

sound in the future.

Stories and Alibis Matchbook Romance________ Epitaph Records Stories a n d Alibis, the debut album from M atchb ook R om an ce, is really good, and any fan of the “new" punk that’s sprung up over the couple of years will definitely get a kick out o f it.

Epitaph Records plucked these lads from Poughkeepsie, New York, off the Internet. The record label did not make a mistake by signing this band, for its style is fresh and cool. After the first lis­ ten, it may sound like they’re just like every other punk band.

W h at sets them apart, m uch like Sum 4 1 , is that m ost of their songs are compelling and memorable.

W ith ou t a doubt, the best song on the album is “Tiger Lily;” it’s also their slowest and most pop sounding, which might put off some punk listeners. The next best track is “Your Stories, My Alibi. ” Again, it’s hard to really say what makes M atchbook Romance different than everything else out there. Very possibly, they d on t bring anything new to table the way that Sum 41 did. However, what they do, they do well, and any fan of the genre could do a lot worse than picking up a copy of Stories an d Alibis.

- D a n y H orovitz

n the new story, Lola by N ight, Lola Benveniste is a young romance writer in Barcelona. She’s successful and her books are well-loved, but she’s restless, and unwilling to succumb to her publisher’s pressure to write an e-book. So when she happens upon a history of correspon­ dence between her father and a businessman in Canada, she jumps at the chance to leave her old life behind and investigate her father’s mysterious­ ly sudden death.

Montreal-based award-winner N orm an Raw in has a skillful, flowing voice, often using the present tense to draw his readers into each moment individually. This is not a book to read in one sit­ ting. Each scene should be left to marinate in the reader’s mind before moving on to the next one, simply because the happenings are so well-crafted.

As the plot advances and the locations progress from Barcelona to Vancouver to New York, the detailed descriptions force the reader to wonder, “which city does the author actually know best?” W ith each action, Lola assumes to be a native of that region, resulting in a real character progression. She is from Barcelona, then becomes a Vancouverite, and when we leave her, a New Yorker. Again, this creates a brilliant sense of place from the author.

Raw in’s characters are equally intriguing and elusive, leaving readers to wonder if the shadiness they radiate is the truth, or if they’re just too quick to judge. The chapters bounce from life to life, but never for too long before returning to someone else.

However, there is no full circle in Lola by Night. The story ends, but it never concludes.

Readers are left asking themselves, even after turn­ ing the final page, “W here would Lola go next?”

But don't be discouraged, as the book’s atmosphere is enough to create a worthwhile read. ■

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Dany Horovitz fter the box-office catastrophe Gigli, it seems that Ben Affleck would do well to get himself a machine that could tell if a movie was going to be good or not. A machine that can predict the future is exactly what he gets in his new movie, Paycheck.

Affleck plays Michael Jennings, an engineer who is hired to copy technology for competing companies. W hen he is fin­ ished, his memory is wiped so that he has no idea what he’s done.

After taking the biggest job of his career, worth $ 1 0 0 million, he is forced to give up three full years of his life. But what’s most confusing for Jennings is that, once he’s finished and his memory is wiped, it seems as though he forfeited all his money for 19 personal items.

Once Jennings realizes that he has cre­ ated an authentic fortune-telling machine,

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he goes on a mission to destroy it with the aid of the 19 items, each one used at key moments. His fiancée, Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurm an), also helps. Interestingly enough, he doesn’t remember ever being engaged to her.

The movie is directed by John Woo, so you know that the action scenes are going to be good looking, and not very boring. The movie, nevertheless, has major shortcom­ ings.

But the real problem with this movie lies at its core. Based on a K. Philip Dick short story, Paycheck presents the audience with some really interesting concepts and ideas. In the end, though, it becomes more concerned with moving the story from one action scene to another. It’s like there’s all this filling, but the meat is missing.

K. Philip Dick’s short stories have been adapted to the big screen many times. The last occurrence, Steven Spielberg’s M inority Report was probably the best one, both in visuals, and also in the way it dealt with the real issues and problems with predicting the future.

Paycheck is not half the movie M inority Report was. It is a standard and uninspiring action movie with some good moments, but falling far short of the mark. If only they saw this one coming. ■

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The Strokes

The year was out before I decided that The Strokes had the best album of 2003. I was only minimally a fan of the 1 because it sounded very repetitr key signatures did not vary fri song. However, their follow-up bold, powerful, punchy, and clever guitar hooks.

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Hail to the Thief Radiohead

U nfortunately for Radiohead, the leaked copy of this album was not much different from its final version. However, Thiefw as an eclectic mix of piano crooning and synthesized guitar riffs that were in pure Radiohead fashion. The Oxford lads managed to make the most of their time off to create an album that was 5 0 per cent The Bends and 5 0 per cent K id A.

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Logic Will Break Your Heart s®# The Stills

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Continued from page 14 poutine priced at $ 3 for a small. The wait is often long since customers come for the pizza, rather than the poutine. For a cheap poutine fix though, it is often edible and on average, these stores would rate a 2.5 on the curd-o-meter.

My personal favourite with a 5 on the curdo-m eter is LaFleur (3 6 2 0 St-Denis). LaFleur is known province-wide for its excellent french fries. The dark-brown sauce adds to their oily goodness and easily melts the plethora of curds.

Curds are essential to a traditional poutine and with sufficient amounts of gravy that soak the fries but do not make them soggy, LaFleur offers easily one of the best poutines in the city. In addition, the service is quick and they offer four different sizes to choose from.

While some people think of poutine as an acquired taste, I prefer to think o f it as a mixture of ingredients that have always been eaten together albeit in different perm utations.

Though poutine can often come with various toppings such as smoked meat or bacon, or in different incarnations such as Italian poutine or vegetarian poutine, I still regard the traditional poutine as the best.

Hopefully this serves as a basis to indulge in the heart of Québécois culture, or just to find new places to sample this delectable food. ■ — with files from D ave and N aom i Brodkey an d Laura Saba

It should be no surprise th at if Interpol was big in 2 0 0 2 , then The Stills should have been bigger in 2 0 0 3 . Logic took to New Order the way Interpol inter­ preted Jo y Division. From “G ender Bom bs’ to “O f M ontreal” (where the group is from ), there are enough dark 80s drum beats to remind us why this music lives on.

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M oves mg Jacket

there was a band that couh g, drown it out in reverb, an< good, it would be My M om in: decided to go major label this l a solid live show, did not fail M J I rock is akin to lots of 70s guitar rock, particularly on tracks such as “One Big Holiday,” but are so reverb enriched, that they sound nothing like they should be. It gives an odd, spacey feeling, which is really best for falling asleep to.

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Speakerboxx/The Love Below OutKast

As any press review will say, who knev what the hill these two wen- tlnnkmj when they pt| ibis out? Jwn albums, two styles? But can you really blame Big Bui and André 3 0 0 0 ? its hi en pretty clear tf each has different musical ventures, b how do you reconcile that tyithout spiri­ ting up? Easy' Make solo albums, guest appear on each other's albums, and pack age it as the group’s. And when you shake it like the Polaroid picture they do, how can you go wrong?

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Transatlantic Death Cab for Cutie

I was pleasantly surprised when I found out that D C fC was not as much like Postal Service as I was inclined to believe.

In fact, Transatlantic starts off hard-hitting, yet on the indie side with the opening track. It continues through with odd guitar riffs and soulful singing. Sometimes a break is the best way to achieve some good work.

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Damien Rice

There is a reason why Rice won the Shortlist of Music award. The Irish singer was no repeat of Bright Eyes, but was singing with acoustic melodies and heart­ straining ballads that were enough to make you cry. String accompaniments would som etim es follow and highlight the moods. Try “Cannonball” or “Cold W ater” for some rousing times.

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Leaves

Leaves’ debut album was supposed to be to Sigur Ros what Coldplay was to Radiohead. I found this to be untrue.

Although the band produced highly tex­ tured songs and still incorporated acoustic guitar elements, Leaves sounds more akin to Starsailor and Travis. Their only resem­ blance to Sigur Ros is that they also hail from Iceland. Still, this is one powerful album.

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Mahal" to the Stones-ish “Highei Learning," Roberts* album was one tha infused the entire 60s rock sp« crura inm

Unfortunately, not too many people will have the chance to see Boy (Steven Noel & com pany), unless he’s able to hook up with some big names in the business.

Com ing from Whitehorse, Yukon means that selling albums is not the easiest career venture. However, on his debut album, the 22-year-old is easily akin to the Beatles, Badly Drawn Boy, and Pink Floyd in one.

The album is written and played almost entirely by Noel, which is of great credit to his abilities.

We Were Born in a Flame

Sam Roberts

M any Canadians are getting sick of Roberts, but that just means his 60s guitar pop rock will be shipped off soon to the States. From the H arrison-esque “Taj

Honourable Mentions: These are the Vistas— The Bad Plus, Up in Flam es— M anitoba, Youth & Young M anhood— Kings o f Leon, 1 2 M em ories— Travis, Rounds— Four Tet, Gone Gone Gone— The New Deal. ■

HOCKEY

M a r t le t s 3 , V a r s i t y B lu e s 2

Women's hockey clinches bronze in OT thriller Karen Kelly McGill beat the nation’s thirdranked team on Sunday to earn the bronze medal in the Theresa Humes Invitational Tournam ent at Concordia last weekend. Team cap­ tain Audrey Hadd scored the gamewinner 35 seconds into overtime to propel the M artlets over the favoured Toronto Varsity Blues 3-2.

Toronto came out hard in the first period. Goalie Delphine Roy had to make some quick saves early, but Blues alternate captain Bree Kruklis, left alone at the side of the net, got one past Roy at 13:30.

The Martlets fought through

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Basketball (W)

Fri. Jan. 2 Martlets

62

UCCB

60

Sat Jan. 3 UNB

58

Martlets

55

Sun. Jan. 4 Martlets

58

Ryerson

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Basketball (M)

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Redmen

67

Sat Jan. 3 UCCB

75

Redmen

67

Sun. Jan. 4 101 82

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Cornell

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Sat. Jan. 3 6

Alberta Martlets

3

Sun. Jan. 4 Martlets

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Toronto

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penalty trouble in the first period but they managed to keep the Blues at bay. The tables were turned in the second, however, with all penal­ ties going against Toronto.

M cGill tied things up with a goal from Véronique Lapierre in the middle frame. Lapierre centred the puck to Valerie Paquette in front of the crease. She then came around the net in time to poke Paquette's rebound past Blues goalie Stephanie Lockert.

Paquette put the Martlets in the lead midway through the sec­ ond, scoring on the power play.

Paquette, Julife Lepage and Brittany Privée put on a passing clinic as they rushed the net to set up the goal.

The Blues came out strong in the third to counteract an undisci­ plined second. Roy stopped several shots from Blues forward Jenny McRae, who appeared to be rally­ ing her team. M cRae got an assist on the tying goal when one of her p oint shots took an awkward bounce off team m ate Carla Pagniello’s stick, and went over Roy’s right shoulder into the net tying the score at 2-2.

Despite her team having to go on the penalty kill, Hadd ended the extra frame quickly, breaking in alone on the left side and cutting across the crease to shoot the puck over Lockert. H add’s unassisted marker was the first shorthanded overtime goal in M cGill history, and capped a five-point weekend for the veteran.

H ead C o ach Peter Smith admitted that his team may have felt there was added importance in beating the high-ranked Toronto team.

“W e beat Toronto twice dur­ ing the year, last year... then we lost to them in the national cham ­ pionship in the first gam e,” Smith explained. “So I think, for our girls who played that game, there was an added incentive to go out there and really get the job done, and they did."

The line of Hadd, Paquette and Lapierre lit the lamp all week­ end. The three forwards combined for 14 points over the course of the tournament.

“W e are the French Connection,” Paquette said joking­ ly, explaining how their line does

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Martlets captain Audrey Hadd faced off against her opponents this weekend and chipped in five points. so well. “W e can com m unicate in French better and we also know what the other is going to do.

Roy, who faced 3 0 shots dur­ ing the game, said she immediately felt comfortable between the pipes.

“It’s good to get shots right away because it gets you in the gam e,” Roy explained.

She added that her condition­ ing helped, especially after sitting on the bench for M cGill’s first two matches of the tourney.

“It was really hard com ing [in] like that, but we had a really good workout program during the holi­ days, so I W eis in great shape.

the victory. Cornell’s lone goal came from forward Andrea Skinner in the second.

Cornell had 17 shots on net in the third period, but goalie Kalie Townsend stood tall to keep the game out of reach for the Big Red. M cGill was outshot 3 2 -1 9 overall.

Saturday’s gam e against Alberta was the most difficult for McGill, though it did provide a good gauge for how m uch the

scoring, had four points on the afternoon. Scoring for the Martlets against Alberta were Laura Ruhnke, Paquette and Lapierre.

Smith felt that although they lost the game, the experience was valuable.

“Alberta is a great team, clear­ ly,” he said. “They have an excellent power play and they showed it.

Overall, I thought it was a good experience for our team.

We are the French Connection...

We know what the other is going to do.

Valerie Paquette

Road to the podium T h e M artlets played two games on their path to the bronze medal m atch against the Blues. O n Friday, they defeated the Cornell Big Red 4 -1 , but lost 6 -3 on Saturday to the N o. 1-ranked Alberta Pandas.

McGill got the lead and added to it early in the game against Cornell, scoring three goals in the first period. K ristin Leuszler, Lepage and Lapierre tallied for the Martlets with assists coming from Véronique Sanfaçon and Christine Hartnoll. Lapierre got her second of the night in the third period to seal

M artlets forw ard

Martlets will have to improve if they want to challenge for the national crown.

The Pandas were bigger and faster than the M artlets, always pressing hard with the forecheck and capitalizing on small errors by the Red n’ W hite. M cGill nearly escaped the first period unscathed, but Danielle Bourgeois seized a shorthanded opportunity and skat­ ed into the McGill end undefend­ ed, before beating Townsend.

Bourgeois, who leads the CIS in

The Martlets currently sit in third place in the Quebec Student Sport Federation, behind Concordia and Ottawa. They are hoping to use their performance in the Humes Tournament to elevate their game heading into the play­ offs.

“It’s going to be huge for our confidence, ” Hadd said of the effect this weekend will have on the team.

“W e got three really good games and that’s what we wanted, so it will be really helpful for the future. ■

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The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, January 6, 2004

McGill basketball teams get mixed results Martlets take two of three, while Redmen go winless Andrew Segal While the McGill basketball Martlets are gradually improving as the season progresses, it seems as if their Redmen counterparts are sliding further and further away from respectability.

The women showed resolve in overcoming a 16-point deficit to defeat the University College of Cape Breton 6 2 -6 0 on Friday, but the men took a step backward, get­ ting blown out in a 9 5 -6 7 loss to the University of New Brunswick.

The games were the first for each team in tournaments held concur­ rently in Fredericton this past weekend.

The Martlets were led by for­ ward Anne-Marie Scherrer, who scored 16 points as her team

Mitchell was also named a tourna­ ment All-Star.

The two wins against a single loss brought the Martlets overall record to 9-7, and they appear ready for round two of Quebec conference play. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the Redmen following their defeat at the hands of U N B. Doug Thom pson finished with 21 points, as the Varsity Reds got out to a 4 8 -3 0 halftime lead and coasted the rest of the way.

Denburk Reid was McGill’s player of the game and leading scorer, tal­ lying 17 points and four steals.

Derek Armstrong added 10 points in joining Reid as the team’s only double-digit scorers.

The lopsided final score likely had something to do with the

The Redmen need to shore up their rebounding and defence if they expect to compete with Concordia stormed back after U C C B took its biggest lead with just 14 minutes to go in the contest.

Guard Cheeka Mitchell earned M cG ill’s •player-of-thegame honour with a 12 point, five rebound performance that includ­ ed a McGill single-game record of nine steals. Senior forward Sarah Gagne also helped pace the Martlets, adding 11 points and a game-high seven rebounds.

In later games in the tourna­ ment, the Martlets fell to U N B 5 8 -5 5 , but bounced back to defeat Ryerson 5 8 -4 8 . Gagne was named McGill’s player of the game against U N B, while Mitchell again earned that honour against Ryerson.

Redmen’s inability to hit the glass, as they were outrebounded 48-27.

Greg Rembeyo led McGill with a paltry three rebounds in the losing cause.

The Redmen’s luck didn’t get any better as the tournament pro­ gressed. They dropped a game against U C C B by a 7 5 -6 7 count, and lost to Guelph 1 0 1 -8 2 .

Armstrong was McGill’s player of the game against the Gryphons, while Reid snagged a tournament All-Star spot.

The losses leave the Redmen with a 2-12 overall record, and are evidence of a team that needs to shore up its rebounding and defence if it expects to compete with Concordia when conference action picks up again Saturday. ■

Inevitable mess leaves BCS in the shadow of the NFL Continued from cover decide who has the right to play in which game. Those who run NCAA Division I football might as well have flipped a coin— it would probably have been fairer to the team left out of the Bowship Series title game.

So, while after Sunday’s Sugar Bowl there are just two major-confer­ ence teams with only one loss. The University of Southern California Trojans and Louisiana State University Tigers are the lucky ones with that dis­ tinction— U SC is not the “official” national champion. Rather, the coach­ es who voted for the season’s best over­ all team were bound to L S U .O n the other hand, members of the media, who vote in another poll, chose USC, who didn't even get the chance to play for the coaches’ title.

The BCS was specifically designed to avoid a split national championship. But because computer rankings and strength of schedule fac­ tors were placed ahead of comm on sense, LSU's title rings hollow. The Tigers never played the Trojans, and won’t for years to come. There is no chance that either team can ever be declared the overall winner. It’s like telling the champions of pro football’s two conferences that they’ve earned the right to share the Lombardi Trophy.

How would the players on those teams react? They’d be incensed.

Theyd want to win the title outright.

T h at’s why the N F L has playoffs— they’re final. So why won’t Division I football join in on the fun?

One of the major reasons is that those in charge of the BCS insist that forcing student-athletes to compete in a playoff is detrimental to their aca­ demics. This is nonsense. Every other N CA A sport (as well as football Divisions II and III) has a playoff.

Those student-athletes are able to compete in the games. The NCAA men’s and women’s basketball tourna­ ments take three weeks to complete, but concern over academics never fig­ ures into the mix.

Further, Canadian universities manage to hold successful playoffs in a

Redmen to head east

Chevrier stars off the field, too Form er Redm en football standout Randy Chevrier— now a long snapper and linebacker for the Edm onton Eskimos— is the focus of two parts of a new nine-part C B C -T V series, “Athletes in the First Person.”

To create the episodes, Chevrier— who in November became the eighth McGill athlete to play for a C F L cham pion— was given a camera one week before the end of the season, and told to film “everything along the way. ” The results of the St-Leonard native’s adventures were first aired on January 3, with the second segment to be broadcast Saturday at 1 2 :3 0 pm.

until at least 2006 The interlocking agreem ent between the Quebec Student Sport Federation and A tlantic University Sport was renewed for another three years on December 29, meaning that football teams from the two confer­ ences are set to play each other every year through 2 0 0 6 .

The Redmen, who hosted Acadia this past year in their only interlocking con test, will play only one gam e against A U S foes again in 2 0 0 4 , O cto b er 2 3 at M ou n t Allison.

Meanwhile, the rest of M cGill’s sched­ ule for 2 0 0 4 has also taken shape, and it looks promising. The Redmen have only one m atchup with each o f

limited amount of time without dis­ rupting academic schedules too much.

How do they do it? Like the N FL, each team plays the same number of games within a short period of time.

This is followed immediately by struc­ tured post-season, starting with con­ ference playoffs and leading to the Vanier Cup. Everything wraps up by the end of November, in time for play­ ers to begin studying for final exams.

It’s ironic that a playoff is viable in Canada, even though athletes’ aca­ demics seem far more important to schools here than they do to football factories in the United States.

Given that the contrast between the excitement and value of N FL play­ off games and the dullness and useless­ ness of the BCS has never been more apparent than this year, and in light of the seeming feasible nature of playoffs, what can explain this aversion to a post-season tournament? W ith major college football, it’s all about the almighty dollar. The top conferences and schools want to make as much money as possible, so they insist on playing 12 and 13 game regular-sea­ son schedules, followed by oftenmeaningless conference title games (see Oklahoma-Kansas State), all the way into December. Since the regular season runs so late, the conference commissioners conclude that a single bowl game is all these players can take after it is over, and leads to the debacle that is the BCS. As a result, Division I football ends up lacking the excitement of multiple games that actually mean something and go towards declaring a champion. As teams progress deeper into the playoffs, interest builds in the N FL , as the matchups and mind games get more complex, and the con­ tenders are separated from the pre­ tenders. O n the other hand, by keep­ ing the current system and putting money above competition, the college game is left with too many meaning­ less bowls, while the one clash that does matter is marred by controversy and anticlimactic indifference.

A solution? Standardized shorter schedules, and then a seeded playoff in which teams get the opportunity to

Concordia and Laval, and get two games against the second-year Sherbrooke Vert et Or, including their home opener on September 10.

New athletics Web site ready to go M cGill’s surfers are in for a treat.

Six months of work culminated today in the launch o f a new M cG ill Athletics Web site. The site, which can be found at www.athletics.mcgill.ca, offers current news, rosters, schedules, results and links to statistics for McGill's varsity teams. In addition, the site features information on campus recreation (including updated intra­ mural schedules and standings), the athletic departm ents facilities, and the McGill Sports Hall of Fame.

win and move on, or lose and go home. It would culminate in college football’s Super Bowl— a single game that would draw attention and deter­ mine a definitive champion. It would feature everything about the N FL playoffs (or any other sport’s playoffs, or the N CAA basketball tournament, for that matter) that makes them a must-watch event. M ost importantly, it would be fair to all teams involved, and give each an equal chance for the coveted title, while throwing things that have nothing to do with actual

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Fortunately, that’s all behind us now with the conclusion of college football's season on Sunday night.

Now, we can focus even more atten­ tion on the three weekends of N FL playoff action that are coming up.

Division I football can finally move aside, and watch as the professionals— in every sense of the word— show the BCS bosses how things should be done. ■

Robitaille, Reid this week's top athletes Volleyballer Anne Robitaille ot Kirkland and R edm en basketbal guard Denburk Reid o f Montreal wen named the McGill-Peel Pub Athlete; of the Week.

Robitaille, the M artlets powei hitter, helped her team win the bronzs at the Gee-Gees tournam ent in Ottawa last weekend by racking up 65 digs, 5 2 kills, five aces and four stufi blocks over five matches.

Reid combined for 5 7 points, 12 assists, 11 rebounds and four steal; throughout a three-game tournament at the University of New Brunswick ir: which McGill came away without a win.

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, January 6, 2004

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TRIBUNE EDITORS' SUPER BOWL PICKS

Andrew Segal: Tennessee over St. Louis

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Sarah Wright: St. Louis over Indianapolis

Sens are cheating themselves

Mark Kerr: New England over Green Bay lam es Scarfone: Philadelphia over New England

he N H L world is a mysterious one. So beloved in Canada and, well, anything but in the U S. In a country where profes­ sional bowling registers higher in the Nielsen rating, and where national sportscasts plant a thrilling RangersIslanders m atchup well into the recap show behind arena football and Betty X u ’s remarkable comeback at the spelling bee championships, it is to be expected that E SP N s radar won’t pick up on every hockey story.

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himself to play God, in perhaps a vague attempt at getting everyone from outside Kanata, let alone south of the border, to notice his team’s astounding— wait for it— four-game winning streak. This is a notable feat for a middle-of-the-road squad like the Minnesota W ild, but these guys were supposed to be among the league’s elite well before the calendar flipped to 2 0 0 4 .

Alfredsson all but guaranteed that Ottawa would win the Stanley Cup last week in what looks like a desperate stab at diverting attention away from the Leafs, who were com ­ ing off their own record-breaking stretch. If he thinks he is the next Joe N am ath or Mark Messier, kiss that cup goodbye, because it is precisely that kind of vocal confidence that can put a damper on a team’s strive for a championship.

T h e difference between the quarterback N am ath and the Rangers’ captain Messier was that their guarantees came on the eve of

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Alfredsson has been opening his mouth a bit too much lately. their respective hyped-up matches— in the playoffs! Alfredsson carelessly shared his prediction w ith six months to go before the cup is actu­ ally hoisted.

W h at’s even more awkward is that his statement didn’t even come at the dawn of the season, when such quotes aren’t taken as seriously as they are when the playoff push is in full force. The Sens’ drop in the standings at the outset would have blown Alfredsson’s assertion away like a dust in the wind. But now, he and his team m ates will undergo intense media and fan pressure to deliver on his promise.

It is a known fact that Canadian hockey fans start thinking about the post-season well before it is absolute­ ly necessary— usually ju st after Christmas. Forget that no team has finished half of their season at that point. Though it is pretty certain O ttaw a will make the playoffs, nobody can predict what happens after the regular (or pointless) sea­ son, so why even bother? Is it because Alfredsson Is trying to drive the m om entum of his team during this winning streak? Is it because he’s disappointed in the heartbreaking way New Jersey disposed of the Senators in last year’s Eastern Conference final? Could it be because he’s tired of watching the C B C earmark Toronto as Canadas God-given team?

Bitterness does flow easily on an O ttaw a Senators group th at has proved to be one of the league’s most consistent teams In the last five years, yet fall to get over that final hump. Alfredsson is perhaps trying to compensate for those annual fail­ ures by displaying his manhood and seeing if he can make due on his com m ents come June.

W hatever the case may be, Ron MacLean and Scott Oake will most definitely be asking the hard ques­ tions for the rest of the season, forc­ ing the team on the hot seat as they busy themselves trying to win games and reaching the top of the eastern podium once again. It was precisely the Senators’ quiet m anner that helped them excel throughout the 2 0 0 2 -0 3 season. Patrick Lalime was no Patrick Roy and Marian Hossa

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