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Students enjoyed Lord of the Rings in the park last Friday night Despite the rain all week, the weather cleared up Friday. The event was co-produced by SSMU and SUS.

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After giving the five remaining executives two weeks to prove that they could handle the presidential responsibilities, Students’ Society councillors voted to hold a by-election as soon as a new fall election period could be organ­ ized.

Some councillors, such as Arts represen­ tative John Bowden, expressed that their respective faculties had mandated them to support a by-election. Other representatives, including athletics representative Matt Howatt, said that they had already made up their minds to vote for a by-election.

“We need to maintain stability and who­ ever runs in this election would know that.

They would have a limited mandate. This would not be a legacy president. They need to be a facilitator for the goals that have already been enumerated,” Howatt said, who adding that this vote was not one of non-confidence in the current executives.

Clubs representative Sarah Elgazzar said a by-election would be in the best interest for

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the current executives. “[An unfilled presidency] is going to overburden you, reduce your fun, overtire you... you should cpnsider this for your­ selves... you will be burned out. That’s not the kind of executive we want,” she said, address­ ing the current executive.

The division of power between the exec­ utives was a concern many of the councillors shared.

“We had a president to do a specific job, that job is not for five people to do,” said Nursing representative Jeanesse Bourgeois.

The executive response to these reserva­ tions was mixed.

“We have to think of what is in the best interest of the Society... A new president wouldn’t take office until early November,” said Vivian Choy, acting president and vicepresident university affairs, before the vote.

Choy added that a new president would not be familiar with the portfolio until January. “[The new president’s role would be] to facilitate the direction we are already in,” she

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Rodrigo DeCastro, vice-president opera­ tions, used his allotted time to discuss the fall­ out from electing a new president.

“The issue is about the best interest of the members of our society,” he said. “The whole notion of a limited [mandate for the new president] is troublesome. I am con­ cerned that the train will be derailed by new goals, new ideas.”

When asked after the meeting adjourned whether he would run for president, DeCastro said “not at the moment.”

“The best addition to the team would be someone passionate about the Student Society,” DeCastro went on to say. The rest of the executive has individually confirmed that none of them will run.

Chief Returning Officer Ian Sidey, in his report to council, said that nominations for the fall election period will be accepted October 1 to 15, campaign period begins Oct. 16 and polling will run from Oct 27 to 29. ■

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AmnestyInternational protestbecomestributeto acquittedwoman Dany Horovitz

In northern Nigeria on Thursday morning, a woman named Amina Lawal was given the best news of her life. After several appeals, Lawal was acquitted of having a child while divorced, a violation of Sharia, or Islamic law, that is enforced in some Nigerian states.

Lawal had originally been sen­ tenced to be stoned to death.

Her acquittal was due to the “huge international outcry that pressed the judges to dismiss the charges,” said Sarah Harrigan, the coordinator of Amnesty International McGill.

The announcement of Lawal’s acquittal was followed by news of a man being sentenced to death for sodomy with three boys by another Islamic court in Nigeria.

Nonetheless, Amnesty International held a tribute outside the Shatner building in honour of Lawal’s acquittal.

“This is a huge triumph for AI,” Harrigan said. “It shows that actions taken by the organization

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case after the original verdict. Once the guilty verdict was overturned, Lawal’s lawyer, Hauwa Ibrahim, declared the ruling a victory for jus­ tice, and added that now Lawal is free to go wherever she wants.

That is a decision that Lawal must make soon.

“It is very likely that she will be shunned by the community if she stays where she is,” said Harrigan.

The tribute, set up by Amnesty International McGill, also served to discuss human rights issues with issues, especially the death penalty.

“The death penalty is a viola­ tion of the single most important human right—the right to live,” Harrigan said. “It is also not effec­ tive. Studies have shown that when the death penalty is in effect, crime rates do not go down, and when it is taken away, crime rates do not go up.”

Originally, the tribute was sup­ posed to take place at the Roddick gates, but Amnesty International was asked to relocate due to a new McGill policy banning political demonstrations at the gates.

“We don’t think it’s a political

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Amnesty International displayed posters celebrating Lawal's acquittal.

do have an impact on human rights statement,” said Geddie. “Amnesty International has no political affili­ cases around the world.”

“We wanted to show people a ations. While we are giving info successful outcome of a human about the death penalty, were not rights crisis, and not just the crisis here to convert anybody.”

“A lot of people stopped by, itself, ’ said Pippa Geddie, vicepresident finance for Amnesty and there have been a lot of positive Internationa] McGill. “But if she responses” despite the relocation, wasn’t acquitted, we would be here said Amnesty International mem­ just the same to urge more action ber Cathy Humes, U2 Arts. on her behalf.”

Humes also feels that Lawal’s Though Lawal did not have a case is a step in the right direction.

“Every little thing counts,” she lawyer when she was first tried, BAOBAB, a women’s human rights said. “The ultimate goal is to abol­ group based in Lagos, took up the ish the death penalty worldwide.”■

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I n t h i s s e r i e s o f n e w s a n a l y s e s , C H R IS T O P H E R M O O R E t a k e s a n i n - d e p t h l o o k a t t h e f e d e r a l L i b e r a l s rom September 19 to 21, the Liberal Party of Canada elected delegates to the November con­ vention that will choose between Paul Martin and Sheila Copps for the party’s leadership.

September 19 was reserved for the election of delegates from school clubs and womens clubs. The school clubs are campus-specific entities composed of Young Liberals—party members 25 years and younger—who are pursuing post-secondary education.

By the close of the weekend, Martin had 3,857 del­ egates, leaving Copps with 438.

“This is the first election for youth clubs in a long time,” said Isabella Tirelli, president of Young Liberals of Canada (Quebec). “Hopefully, people will under­ stand that the youth vote concerns more people.”

It appeared that the restrictive two-tiered repre­ sentative system is failing to stop apathy from sinking its grip into the hearts of Canadas youth. The polls opened at 6:00 pm; by 8:30 pm only 17 Young Liberals from 15 clubs had shown up to elect dele­ gates. Some clubs saw no point in everyone going out of their way to facilitate the inevitable, a source said.

In the final hour of the election, the Young Liberals organized runners to go pick up more voters.

In the end, however, only 40 Quebec Young Liberals voted for school club delegates, Martin win­ ning 96 per cent of the Quebec youth vote.

McGills own club was excluded from the process

altogether, since Liberal McGill failed to submit a complete list of members and their contact infor­ mation before the June 20 deadline.

Despite the seeming inevitability of Martins victory, Tirelli said, the November convention remains important for the debate between the two candidates.

“It’s important... that they both have differ­ ent ideas and bring them to the table and discuss them,” she said.

What all this may add up to, though, is Canadians being duped out of their right to choose come the next election.

Martins critics such as Jack Layton, leader of the New Democratic Party, said that Martins September 18 speech to the Chambre de com­ merce du Montreal métropolitain was the most conservative he had ever heard from a Liberal politician.

Moreover, Copps is being pressured to drop out of the race altogether, and the Progressive Conservative Party and the Canadian Alliance are presently negotiating a possible merger, an effort to “unite the right.”

The particulars of Martin’s platform are still hazy, but it remains to be seen just how effective a right-wing opposition can be. ■

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nine-month history of negotiations, they are still at the relative begin­ ning of the process, partly due to the absence of meetings during the summer. He said that the University will table a formal pro­ posal in the next two weeks and that negotiations must continue.

“The best way to come to a collective agreement is through the bargaining process,” he said.

Negotiations have stalled between the University and the McGill University Non-Academic Certified Association, a union rep­ resenting most non-academic staff.

At a September 9 meeting, the University proposed measures that MUNACA members say question their productivity and seek to increase working hours and days without providing monetary com­ pensation. A MUNACA press 4 4 T h e b e s t w a y to release stated that the University did not specify any details on the c o m e t o a c o lle c t iv e proposal, and did not bring it up at any time during the previous nine a g r e e m e n t is months of negotiations. th ro u g h th e b a r­ “We had no hint or inkling,” MUNACA President Dot Luk said. g a i n i n g p ro c e s s .

Additionally, said Luk, the University was not clear about the specifics of their pending proposal.

— Robert Savoie “We really cannot negotiate in Executive Director of the dark,” she said. “Right now, we Eluman Resources cannot respond to thin air.”

--- — — -----------------Robert Savoie, executive direc­ tor of human resources, agreed that But Luk is apprehensive about the University could have been the University’s intentions. She said more clear at the September 9 that it would be unacceptable for meeting. members to increase working time “We weren’t precise on what without a pay increase. form [our proposal] would take,” “No compensation: that’s the he said. “[MUNACA] reacted thing that upsets the members the understandably to it.” most,” she said.

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According to Luk, staff at McGill is already overworked. She said that since 1994, the union membership has been reduced by about 400 people to 1,400, while student enrolment has gone up.

“The members are not com­ plaining, though some are under a lot of stress,” said Luk. “The service we provide has not diminished.”

Savoie said that MUNACA was reduced when the University went through budget and personnel cuts in the 1990s, but that trend has changed as of late.

“We’ve seen an increase in the number of MUNACA in the last year or so,” Savoie said.

Luk claims that the University does not recognize the hard work that MUNACA members do.

“It doesn’t take a rocket scien­ tist to figure out we’re working up to here,” she said. “It’s almost an insult.”

Luk said that, despite its oppo­ sition to the September 9 proposal, MUNACA does not want to stall negotiations.

“At this point we have not decided what to do,” she said. “It depends on what our members want to do.”

MUNACA will discuss possi­ ble courses of action at the next General Assembly meeting, sched­ uled for October 17. ■

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MISNholdselectionsafterfiveof six executives resigninfrustration Jennifer Jett

Elections were held yesterday for all executive positions of the McGill International Student Network, one week after five of the six MISN executives resigned.

Vice-President Events Peter Abou-Jaoudé was the only executive who did not resign. He said he dis­ approved of the unexpected manner in which the other executives departed.

“I just believe that this was very unprofessional,” he said. “You don’t just quit when you’re facing a prob­ lem.”

In their letter of resignation, the five executives said they were “neither appreciated nor recognized” by the Students’ Society vice-presi­ dent clubs and services and acting president/vice-president university affairs.

“We felt that they didn’t think we were competent,” said former vice-president services Ceyda Turan, U2 International Development Studies and Political Science, who added that this was only “the final factor” in the executives’ decision to resign.

“We needed SSMU executives to lead us when we couldn’t find a way to solve our problem,” Turan said, she declined to discuss the nature of the problem.

Abou-Jaoudé disagreed, saying SSMU was not the problem at all.

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MISN, a volunteer-driven organization with an $85,000 budg­ et, has over 3,000 members on its listserv.

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“MISN has grown a lot in the past years,” said Abou-Jaoudé, a sec­ ond-year medical student. “We have the most international students in Canada.”

Abou-Jaoudé attributed the mass resignation to an excessive workload.

“They just burnt out in three weeks, basically,” he said.

The workload also created tern sion between the executives, he said.

Turan, however, said the work­ load was not excessive.

“Our [constitutional] responsi­ bilities weren’t too much to handle,” she said.

SSMU Vice-President Clubs and Services Mia Gewertz said she had recommended that one of the executives resign and the MISN constitution be amended to desig­ nate additional executive positions.

The remaining executives, who were all acclaimed last spring, would then resign and new elections would be held in late October. The executives’ accusations against her and acting president and Vice-President University Affairs Vivian Choy are unfounded, Gewertz said.

“I spent more hours with them than I have with any other service.”

Abou-Jaoudé agreed that increasing the number of executives would make the workload easier to bear.

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MixingPopandpolitics Christina Heyding “It’s not all about the music’ was the sentiment at Pop Montreal’s “Mixing Pop and Politics” conference, held Friday and Saturday at Sala Rossa.

With films, lectures, and question periods, the conference addressed issues such as how musi­ cians today are getting their mes­ sages heard, the importance of music in struggles of human rights, and the mainstream media’s aver­ sion to politically-charged music.

Marie Boti’s documentary, “Musiques rebelles Québec,” which documents the politics of four Quebec music groups, sparked discussion among the audience.

Members of Loco Locass, one of the featured groups, said they make rap because “nobody today listens to poetry.” Their main interest is the promotion of French language and Quebec solidarity. To them, “language is a political com­ munity,” and through their rap they unite this community.

To Boti, the purpose of the documentary is to demonstrate how powerful messages become when they are combined with music.

“It’s not the artist or the song that changes the world,” said Boti, who will be releasing a documen­ tary on political music in Latin America later this year. “It’s the

people that are out in the streets organizing. The whole purpose of this collection of films was to show the fusion between music and protest. When the two do merge, that is what makes a very powerful potion.”

Others, such as Leanna Eaton, director of youth programs for War Child Canada, discussed how mainstream music can help achieve humanitarian goals. One ofWar Child Canada’s projects was the “Peace Songs” CD, featuring artists from Our Lady Peace to Céline Dion.

“With the mainstream media and music, we hoped to raise awareness of [the protest against the Iraq war] in a non-political way,” Eaton said.

Eaton also said that using popular music figures in awareness campaigns gives young adults incentive to learn about current issues.

With Donald Clarke, author of The Rise and Fall of Popular Music, the conference probed the history of musical politics. To him, the longevity of any politicallycharged song is an extraordinary event.

“It’s difficult to write songs about politics that people will remember and want to sing to each other,” he said, adding that people crave music that helps them forget their problems and soothe pain. ■

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Thé Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre at the Montreal Neurological Institute filled up quickly on September 24 for a lecture by 2000 Nobel Prize for Medicine laureate Dr. Eric Kandel. The capacity crowd was eager to hear what the man with the big red bow tie had to say.

Kandel has published over 400 articles and nine books, his main interest being the neurobiology of learning and memory. A professor at Columbia University, Kandel studies Aplysia californica, a sea slug with large neurons. The size of its neurons makes it easy to record electrical impulses from the individual cells.

In particular, he has studied Aplysids mechanisms of learning and memory for the gill withdrawal reflex (a simple reflex in which the gill withdraws when it is poked with a probe). This reflex can be modi­ fied by short-term memory and converted to long-term memory depending on the frequency of the stimulus.

He also studies mice as a model of mammalian memory. A cur­ rent focus of his lab is on the persistence of long-term memory. In order to be available to the organism at a later time, long-term mem­ ory must have a mechanism that will maintain a synapses structure, which is the basis of a memory. Kandel described his labs proposed mechanism for the maintenance of long-term memory.

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KATIE FUCLER

A break in the rainy weather seemed like the perfect day for the University to launch a series of fire drills.

Hundreds of students evacuated the Arts Building at 10:40 am yesterday. While most professors dismissed their classes, English professor Miranda Hickman taught her 400-level literature class under a tree.

LAST WEEK S QUESTION: What do you think about the recent vandalism of McGill Library books? a) I am scared the person will act on the writings— 16 per cent b) So what, everyone writes in library books—9 per cent c) l hope they catch that pervert soon—75 per cent THIS WEEK'S QUESTION: What cultural event are you most looking forward to this coming week?

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Corrections In “High faculty turnover nearing” (September 23), the president of the Computer Science Undergraduate Society was wrongly paraphrased with the emotion of worry, due to an editing error.

Only five of the MISN executives resigned, not all six as reported in the “MISN executives resign” (September 23).

The Tribune regrets the errors.

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David M. Nataf “W e w ill have a q u estion peri­ o d , n o t an answer p eriod , just like in th e H o u se o f C o m m o n s ,” o p e n e d D e p u ty P rim e M in iste r Joh n M an ley before an au d ien ce o f 1 5 0 p e o p le in L eacock 2 1 9 Friday.

M an ley’s c o m m e n t alluded to his visit a year ago, w h e n a large m ed ia presence c o u p led w ith a stu ­ d e n t’s q u estio n o n the m onarchy led to a controversial remark in favou r o f a b o lish in g C a n a d a ’s m onarchy.

“M y v ie w h asn ’t c h a n g e d ,” M a n ley to ld th e aud ien ce.

B ey o n d w a n tin g to abolish the m onarch as C anada’s head o f state, M a n ley stated his su p p ort for sam esex marriage an d d ecrim in alization o f cannabis, stating th ey are, “g o o d sm all L’ liberal issu es.” H ow ever, the form er Liberal leadership ca n d i­ date sp ok e m ain ly ab ou t e co n o m ic issues from an intern ation al per­ spective.

“T h e success o f the C anadian e c o n o m y w as p o in te d ou t, [w ith] a

tries’ fin an ce m in isters,” M a n ley said in reference to a recent m eetin g o f w orld fin an ce m inisters. “C anada [is the only] G 7 n a tio n still in [budgetary] su rp lu s.”

C anada’s e c o n o m ic strength is p a rticu la rly im p ressiv e, h e said, con sid erin g th e hurdles th e e c o n o ­ m y faced this year, su ch as SA R S, m ad c o w d isease, in te r n a tio n a l u n certain ty and th e rapid change in the value o f th e C an adian dollar.

F our ch aracteristics sh ap e M an ley’s v isio n for Canada: in telli­

glob alization , it’s in terd ep en d en ce.”

Iraq and the US M a n ley addressed th e issue o f th e U S -le d w ar in Iraq, b y saying that C anada abstain ed from the Iraq c o n flic t for reasons “I believe w ere th e right o n es, and co n sisten t w ith C an adian beliefs for decades.

C an adians have m assively su p p ort­ ed that p o s itio n .”

H e sp oke o f th e h u g e invest­ m en t required for b o th Iraq and A fgh anistan . “T h is is w h ere w e can play a role [because C an adians are] in d ep en d e n t-m in d e d b u t capable o f

g e n t, in n o v a tiv e , in c lu siv e an d intern ation al. W h ile C anada’s e c o n ­ o m y m ay have b een originally bu ilt o n lum ber and m inerals, th e m ost im p ortan t c o m m o d ity in th e fixture w ill b e th e “natu ral resource b etw een p e o p le ’s ears,” “D iv ersity [is] o n e o f ou r great­

brid gin g barriers.”

Q u e stio n s from th e aud ien ce focu sed o n the g overn m en t’s future plans and n ext year’s federal elec­ tio n , as w ell as U S P resident G eorge W . B ush’s recen t sp ee c h at th e U n ite d N a tio n s im p lo r in g o th er n a tio n s to c o n tr ib u te to th e

th e U S sh o u ld be prim arily respon­ sible for reconstruction costs.

T h e p ossib ility o f a m erger o f C a n a d a ’s r ig h t-w in g p arties w as

M an ley was m ore con cern ed ab ou t N e w D e m o cr a tic Party leader Jack L ayton, lab elin g h im “a great co m m u n ica to r” w h o w ill m ake a

est stren gth s,” M an ley said. “ [Our] friends to th e sou th d o n ’t appreciate that and o ften th in k th e w orld sh o u ld con form to th e m .”

M an ley closed o n intern ation al trade, saying that “th e issue is n o t

reb u ild in g efforts in Iraq.

M a n ley fo u n d Bush’s sp eech a p ositive d ev elo p m en t.

“C anada’s p o sitio n [is] always

b r o u g h t up, to w h ic h M a n le y resp on d ed that he d oesn ’t believe th e Liberals “are threatened by a party that un ites the righ t,” th ou gh

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I asked w h y and was to ld that it s just th e w a y th ey d id things. “So w h y d on ’t you just m ake it o u t o f nine?” I asked.

“For the sam e reason y o u c a n t get a m ark higher than an 8 5 in P hilosoph y.”

m y feet, I’d give y o u a 9 0 .”

So, i f W illiam Shakespeare were resur­ rected from the dead and w rote an entirely n ew son n et, the best he cou ld get w o u ld be a 9 0 . In fact, Z o m b ie Shakespeare w ou ld probably o n ly receive a C , w ith the c o m ­ m e n t “sou nd s too m u ch like Shakespeare; be m ore original next tim e” attached.

W h a t is w ron g w ith givin g a perfect score to a paper or assignm ent i f it is deserv­ in g o f the mark? In m athem atics, i f y o u ’ve g o t it right, th en you ’ve g o t it right. Yet in Arts, for som e m ysterious reason, students are prevented from reaching the pin nacle o f marks.

“W ell,” I asked, “w h y can’t y o u get higher than 8 5 in Philosophy?” T h e ques­ tio n was dism issed w ith o u t a proper answer, and th ey co n tin u ed w ith the session.

T h is d ilem m a is in n o w ay exclusive to the P h ilosop h y departm ent. Last w eek in an

O f course, m y E nglish T A is n o t at fault; after all, I did n’t dare give any o f the debaters a 4 3 because i f I did that, I w ou ld have had to present a co n v in c in g case that

E nglish class, m y T A explained that even on an assign m en t w orth as litd e as 5 per cent, she w o u ld n o t give a perfect score. “I f y o u w rote so m eth in g that really k n ock ed m e o f f

the speaker was the n ext JFK or M artin Luther K ing Jr.— and that’s for 86 per cent, people! I can o n ly im agin e the difficulties TAs w o u ld endure from professors i f they

han ded o u t perfect marks.

I’m n o t saying that everyone deserves high grades. But I can fin d fault w ith any­ th in g i f I try hard en ou gh , as can m ost p e o ­ ple. I f this is the case, th en a flawless paper m ay becom e im perfect because o f unseen

m ore reason to give perfect marks to papers that d o n ’t revolutionize the w orld— because it can’t be d o n e any m ore.

T h e Faculty o f Arts, by refusing to give o u t perfect marks, tells its stu dents that they

It w o u ld sou n d like a conspiracy except that I was told it’s im possib le to achieve per­ fection. A n d yes, i f everything you w rite

w ill never be appreciated in their o w n tim e, bu t after they die, maybe.

M ordecai R ichler w as a very bitter m an m o st o f his life because w h en he w rote The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in his 20s, the critics gave it bad reviews. O n ly w h en he

kn ock s the socks o f f your TA , y o u can still get a 4 .0 G PA , because 85 per cen t does m ean an A , b u t that’s n o t th e p oin t.

T h e problem is that th e Faculty o f Arts— especially E nglish and P hilosoph y— is afraid o f g ivin g praise. W hy? Because every­ th in g looks better in retrospect, and n o on e

was m iddle-aged did th ey call it a jew el.

It’s ob viou s m arking p olicy w ill never change because the university is all abou t tradition. B ut I w ill say this to m y brothers and sisters in the Faculty o f Arts: i f y o u ever get a m ark y o u d o n ’t th in k is fair, g o to your T A and your professor and figh t for every

is w illin g to believe that anyth in g w ritten today can be as g o o d as that produced in the past. Okay, it’s true that basically every­ th in g’s been d on e, and it’s very hard to find so m eth in g n ew to say. H ow ever, that’s all the

last drop o f red in k y o u can squeeze from them . Because n o n e o f us is g ettin g the cred­ it w e deserve.

T h in k about it. ■

faults that were, qu ite possibly, m ade up by the grader.

Don't try to throw together last-minute bibliographies Y

o u sh o w up to class o n e day and you ’re ch attin g w ith your friends.

N o w that y o u ’ve han ded in your big paper, you ’re kin d o f blase abou t th e class.

Suddenly, y o u n o tice th e p r o f w alk in

to deceive. To the exten t that y o u failed to properly attribute w ork d o n e by som eon e else, you have represented their w ork as your ow n . So you ’re part o f the w ay to plagiarism.

T h e q u estion , then, is w h eth er y o u intended to deceive. In the th ou gh t process above, you probably w o u ld n o t be gu ilty o f plagiarism .

T h e story doesn’t end there. You still have to prove you ’re in n ocen t. T h is, for the un initiated, is where you say to yourself: “Prove I’m innocent? Aren’t I in n o cen t until proven guilty?”

versity’s academ ic m ission. It erodes the basic

T h e answer, o n ce again, is “sort o f.”

G enerally, under article 2 2 o f the Charter o f

trust w h ich exists betw een stu dents and profs and, w orse, it puts in to d o u b t the value o f th e degrees M c G ill grants every year.

Furtherm ore, disciplinary officers are even less able to prove your th o u g h t processes than you are. I f th ey had to prove a stu d en t’s in ten tio n to deceive for every case o f plagia­ rism, very few cases o f plagiarism w o u ld ever be caught.

T h e result? You’ve got to be in a p osi­ tio n to prove y o u ’re in n o ce n t or, better yet, stay o u t o f trouble in the first place.

H ere’s w hat you can do:

Students’ R ights, you are presum ed in n o cen t o f a disciplinary offen ce un til proven guilty.

W here plagiarism is concerned, however, that isn’t entirely true. O n c e it is sh ow n that

Learn th e rules o f c ita tio n , in clu d in g th e use o f q u o ta tio n marks. T h e easiest solu ­ tion is to cite things properly, som eth in g that students d on ’t all k n o w h o w to do. Perhaps m o st im portantly, learn w h en q u o ta tio n marks are appropriate and w h en th ey are n ot. D o n o t assum e y o u k n o w this. C h eck M cG ill’s stu d en t guid e to avoiding plagia­

A t the en d o f the rant, y o u are surprised to hear your paper was problem atic and the p r o f w ants to talk to y o u ab ou t it. You spend the class w on dering, “Is this for real?”

y o u represented so m eo n e else’s w ork as your ow n — y o u cited so m eth in g incorrectly or n o t at all— you are p resum ed to have in ten d ­ ed to deceive. In the situation above, you w o u ld probably be fo u n d gu ilty o f plagia­ rism even th o u g h d e c e p tio n h ad never crossed y o u r m in d sim p ly becau se y o u cou ld n ’t prove your in n o cen t intentions.

T h e answer is a definitive “sort o f.”

Plagiarism , for purposes o f stu d en t disciplin e at M cG ill, is defined, in part, as representing the w ork o f another as o n e ’s o w n w ith in ten t

Before y o u get m ad ab ou t this, take a m in u te to understand the university’s p osi­ tio n . P lagiarism is a seriou s a cad em ic offen ce. It strikes at the very core o f the u n i­

lo o k in g d ecid ed ly unhappy. She launches in to a rant abou t academ ic integrity and pla­ giarism . You’re n o t w orried . You d id n ’t d ow n load your paper from the Internet. You sp en t hours painstakingly researching and w ritin g your paper.

O b v io u s ly agita ted , sh e c o n tin u e s, explain in g that citation rules have a purpose and failure to fo llo w th em is considered pla­ giarism , w h ich is unacceptable at M cG ill.

N o w you ’re a litd e worried. D id y o u really fo llo w all o f those rules? B u t again, y o u dis­ m iss it. You m ade a d ecen t effort to cite th in gs the w ay y o u w ere taugh t in high sch ool, so things sh ou ld be fine.

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EDITORIAL W ith the expected turnover ill faculty readily apparent, n ow is the tim e for students to seize an opportunity. Rather than expressing passive con fid en ce in the faculty ad m in ­ istration, undergraduate societies c o u ld take an active role in h elp in g to ch oose and solic­ it n ew professors. A ctive involvem ent w ou ld sh o w trem endous m aturity and increase stu ­ den t influence. As alum ni, it w o u ld n o d ou b t be the kind o f achievem ent that those involved w ou ld be proud o f fofyèîtrs to com e as they tracked the success o f their choices.

—Andrew Work, B.Sc. 94 Executive, McGill Society of Hong Kong

Where is the common man's place?

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anada, the U n ite d States and M cG ill are in the m id d le o f election fever. O n e year from now, Paul M artin w ill be affirm ed Prime M in ister o f Canada. In tw elve m on th s, G eorge W . B ush w ill be on his favourite stu m p at E lgin Air Force Base. A n d, by this tim e in 2 0 0 4 the Students’ Society w ill be o n its fourth president since

M arch 2 0 0 3 .

It is clear that new leadership is u p on us. W h a t is unclear, how ever, is w hat type o f leader is the soup du jour. Voters are fickle. P olitics is all abou t m o m en ­ tum , and the needs and w an ts o f the average person can change dram atically from I appreciate the objectivity o f K im D ’Souza’s article con cern in g Reverend Peers’ appearance (A nglican archbishop joins class to discuss sam e-sex un ions, Septem ber 23) but it makes m e question w hether it was the inflam m atory subject m atter o f the discussion that d enied the writer a personal o p in io n , or if indeed he sim ply left a tape recorder in the classroom to transcribe the goin gs-on at a later date.

W h at seem s eerily absent from the article is any expression o f the tension that existed betw een the academ ic and ethical stan dp oin ts presented and those o f A rchbishop Peers’ church.

As the primary guest, the archbishop was afforded the op p ortu n ity to present his o p in io n , appar­ ently based on a deeply-held belief, yet the floor was dom in ated for the m ost part by statem ents o f intellectuals on a factual basis.

M y respect goes out to these individuals, m any o f them high ly regarded in the public sphere; however, their d ep end en ce upon studies and experience, rather than personal beliefs, underscores th e difficu lty surrounding the issue at hand. B eyond affirm ing equal rights for all, m o st individuals d en y them selves the right to express their o w n beliefs.

T h a t is truly w h at our class hop es to achieve over the course o f this semester. D esp ite a class p op u lation varying in culture, religion and study, w e aim , w ith th e guid ance o f Dr. C ornett, to create an understanding, o p en c o m m u n ity o f beliefs— m aybe D ’Souza w o u ld like to attend.

— Dave Barber U3 Cultural Studies and IDS

I w ou ld like to thank the

Tribune for

the last Tuesday’s article on A rchbishop M ichael Peers’

visit to Dr. C orn ett’s R eligious Studies class. D u rin g the debate, I heard m any argum ents against sam e-sex marriage that dealt w ith th e issue o f family. T h ese sorts o f argum ents seem ed to be say­ ing that h om osexu ality is n ot a problem in society, as lo n g as gay or lesbian p eople d o n ot try to start fam ilies. I can understand th e biological basis for this argum ent; however, I did n o t hear any scien tific p r o o f that led m e to think that there has been substantial evid en ce co n clu d in g any such matter. Furtherm ore, even if there were substantial evid en ce proving that w o m e n were un fit to raise m ale children, h ow cou ld it possibly be a problem for tw o w o m e n to raise a fem ale child?

It seem s to m e that the argum ent nearly boils d o w n to saying that it is fine and g o o d for there to be h om osexu ality am on g adults, b u t it is under no circum stances so m eth in g to w h ich w e sh ould expose our children. It is m y h u m b le o p in io n , however, that children have the right to grow up k n ow in g th e real w orld, and sh ould n o t have to learn abou t such im portant parts o f life outsid e o f the im m ed iate family. H om osexu ality is a prevalent th in g, and I see n o reason w h y our children sh ould n o t be allow ed to k n o w this.

— Bethany F. Fisher U3 Philosophy

o n e election to the next.

T h is, in theory, w o u ld allow just about anyon e w ith e n ou gh cash and the right tim in g to w altz in to a political cam paign and w in .

O n tario, for exam ple, is a province that likes to elect Tories in order to m ain­ tain a tigh t fiscal hou se. Yet they are about to be supplanted by a personally b en ign b u t creatively bankrupt liberal in the u p co m in g provincial election . T here seem s to be change for the sake o f change— anyone n ew gets the nod.

So h o w does just anyon e w in a campaign? T h e y d on ’t; others lose them .

T h e A m erican forefathers w rote the c o n stitu tio n under the banner “w e the p eop le” w o u ld form a m ore perfect u n ion . D id th ey really m ean “w e, th e select few w h o have en ou gh m o n ey and can solicit the m ajority o f the votes from the 4 0 per cen t o f those w h o are eligible to vote and actually cast ballots”?

John A dam s, w h o w o u ld go o n to be the U n ite d States’ second president m ust have represented “the p eop le” w h en he asked G eorge W ashington to be C om m an d er in C h ie f o f C ongress. W ash in gton was asked to lead, n ot voted to.

H e was a m em b er o f th e boys club, and w ell liked, so he w on .

Sim ilar events are occurring here o n cam pus.

T h e Students’ Society five-m em ber executive does n o t w an t an outsider to stir up their perfect balance. S om eon e n ew m ight, G o d forbid, offer ideas that are different from the carefully scripted p olicy view s o f the current V Ps. W ith this m entality, h o w are w e to believe that it is possible for non -in siders to be accepted into the political mix?

Take C alifornia for exam ple. T h e can d id ates list for G overnor o f m ovie star central is at a m anageable 139. A n y T om , D ick , or H arry can get a nam e on the ballot i f they are able to raise $ U S 3 ,5 0 0 . Perhaps w e have finally fou n d the last vehicle for th e c o m m o n m an’s chance to lead?

B ut there is absolu tely n o th in g c o m m o n abou t A rnold Schwarzenegger.

Im portantly, there is n o th in g “co m m o n ” abou t th e m en and w o m en w h o run for office. I f th ey did n o t believe they were extraordinary, th ey w o u ld n o t have the con fid en ce to p u t them selves in the public eye.

It’s n ice to see that every so often , a politician w ill try to appeal to the c o m ­ m o n -m a n ideal like dem ocratic n o m in ee, Richard G ephardt. H e has recorded his nam e as Richard “D ic k ” G ephardt on his official cam paign W eb site. T here is som eth in g so very com fortable and neighb ourly abou t b ein g able to call your president D ick . A fter all, it w orked for N ix o n — for a w hile.

A s w e ponder our future Students’ S ociety president, let us n o t be seduced by the “change for the sake o f change” gam bit, neither be so naive as to pretend that w e are n ot being m anipulated by the ch u m m y security o f the status qu o. Let’s educate ourselves abou t the issues and m ake a decision based o n “co m m o n ” sense, after all w e are the “c o m m o n m an”— the fou n d ation o f any dem ocracy. ■

Did Big Media kill the radio star?

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ince the daw n o f m an thousands o f years ago, c o m ­ m u n ication has been a necessity. From the cave paintings in Lascaux, France, to M arconi’s first

transatlantic radio signal in 1 9 0 1 , m an has searched for w ays to express th ou gh ts and ideas to as m any peop le as possible. A s nation-states started assum ing respon­ sib ility for this n ew industry, the n o tio n o f censorship appeared, b oth as a m eans o f lim itin g as w ell as protecting freedom o f speech.

T h e idea o f m edia approaching the masses has grow n, particularly in the last century, w h en rapid tech nological advancem ent has im proved its facilitation. R adio, television and the Internet are m ore prevalent in W estern society than ever before.

T h e result o f the m ultip lication o f m edia outlets has b een the co n solid ation o f m ass m edia markets. T h e scop e o f these markets ranges from print m edia to radio stations. O n e un derlying problem this causes is a con glom eration o f ideas.

In an age o f in n ovation , this con glom eration seem s detri­ m ental to the original co n cep t o f m edia.

O n e can lo o k to the Am erican entertainm ent m ega-cor­

poration, C learC hannel E ntertainm ent, as an exam ple o f mass m edia attem p tin g to “give the p eop le w h at they w a n t.”

corporate headquarters. T h e exten t o f C an W est’s influence covers nearly every major new spaper across Canada, as w ell

C learC hannel, created in 1 9 7 5 , has rapidly grow n to inclu de ow nership o f w ell over 1 ,4 0 0 radio stations w orldw ide, as w ell as the acquisition o f SFX E ntertainm ent Inc., o n e o f the w orld ’s largest prom oters and producers o f live entertainm ent events. T h is com p an y has indirectly m anaged to n o t on ly m ake ticket prices unaffordable for the average consum er, but has d iluted m ost radio playlists to genre-specific Top 4 0

as through G lob al T elevision.

M edia conglom eration s have m anaged to create a means

formats.

L est C an ad ian s, tru stin g th e b e n e v o len ce o f th e C an ad ian R a d io -te le v isio n an d T e le c o m m u n ic a tio n s C om m issio n , believe they are invulnerable to such an attack, C H U M Ltd. has sw elled to the size o f 2 9 radio stations and eigh t television channels.

T h e argum ent against the grow th o f m ed ia enterprises in Canada is advanced further by the am ou n t o f control C anW est G lob al C o m m u n ica tio n s C orp. exerts over editori­ als in its newspapers. In late 2 0 0 1 and early 2 0 0 2 , C anW est Executive C hairm an Izzy A sper fo u n d h im se lf d efen d in g the corporate p olicy o f pu blishin g o n ly editorials w ritten from

o f indirect censorship w h ich neither governm ental regulato­ ry b o d ies su ch as th e C R T C n or th e U S Federal C o m m u n ica tio n s C o m m issio n have m anaged to prevent.

Instead, th ey have d ecid ed to let the oligarchic m edia influ­ ence the co n te n t and presentation o f ideas.

From th is, it can be assu m ed th at th e forces o f C learC hannel and C H U M are lin ked to the N apster/K azaa p h en o m en o n . G overnm ent regulatory com m ission s are no longer able to do their jobs, resulting in the legal system b ein g tied up w ith intellectual property lawsuits.

For mass m edia “to give p eop le w h at they w an t” is one thing, b u t w h en w hat they w an t is driven by profit m otives rather than ideological inn ovation , real freedom o f speech and freedom o f expression is stifled.

I f corporate m ed ia con tin u es to fu n ction as it currently does, there w ill be m ore at stake than the loss o f sm all enter­ prises— the loss o f a cherished inalienable hum an right. ■

8 Op/Ed

The McGill Tribune, Tuesday, September 30, 2003

Recruiting the reluctant for the lame-duck presidency Grohsgal t to o k less than tw o w eeks for the political discourse o f the Students’ Society to shift from “sh ou ld w e have a by-election to fill th e presidency?” to “w h at sh ou ld the new president do?”

A t last T hursday’s C o u n c il m eeting, b oth executives and councillors warned that they w o u ld n ’t tolerate a pow er-hungry president w h o w ants to alter the status quo.

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“A n y o n e w h o does run as a c a n d id a te... m ust accept their co m in g in w ith a lim ited m and ate,” said athletics rep M att H ow att, w h o, incidentally, I’ve never seen w earing any­ th in g b u t a su it and a red silk tie.

E ch oin g H o w a tt’s m essage, V ivian C hoy, the

Triad (w h ich also in clu d es V ice-P resid en t C o m m u n ity and G overn m en t Brianna H ersey an d V ic e-P re sid e n t O p e ra tio n s R od rigo D e C a str o ), C h o y seem s w illin g to ced e authority to anyone, as lon g as her successor agrees w ith her.

pow er struggle w ith the Frosh and S S P N coor­ dinators. A lth o u g h G ew ertz and Z ell are n o w han dling their p ortfolios w ell, they still prefer the safety o f a five-m em ber ‘team ’ to the in d i­ vid u al a c co u n ta b ility th at C o u n c il w ill dem and o n ce a president is elected.

c o m m u n ity and govern m en t portfolio, has d ecid ed against throw ing his new sboy’s cap in to the ring.

O n ly clubs rep Ram i H ourani rem inded the executive that the voters’ w ishes m igh t n ot corresp on d w ith th e T riad’s.

“You have to bear the consequ en ces o f your d ecision [to force N aeem D a to o ’s resigna­

“T h e exec has always ruled b y c o m m it­ tee— regardless [o f w h eth er there’s a by-elec­ tion ] it’s still ruled b y c o m m itte e ,” said G ew ertz.

N e ith e r w ill m o st o f last year’s contenders be running. C ensured party organizer Saeed F o tu h i a n n o u n c e d his n o n -c a n d id a c y o n Thursday, and H illel M ontreal President A lex

T h e fu n n y th in g abou t G ew ertz’ c o m ­

K em eny probably w o n ’t start cam paigning on

tio n ],” said H ourani. “You have to adm it it

m en t is that th e n e w executive c o m m ittee m em ber m igh t n o t have a vote.

O ctob er 16, w h ich is his birthday. A ccess M cG ill president John D o y le , o n the other hand, is still considerin g a run.

In ad d ition to the also-rans, second-term Scien ce U ndergraduate S ociety President Josh V orstenbosch and P olitical Scien ce Students A ssociation insider A lan H am son have b oth

that y o u m igh t get the sh in iest president.”

Shittiness aside, th e lo o m in g pow er shift doesn’t bod e w ell for the tw o non-Triad exec­ utives, V ice-P resident C o m m u n ica tio n s and Events K im berley Z ell and V ice-P resident C lu b s an d Services M ia G ew ertz. A fter D a to o ’s departure, th e executives diffused responsibility, w h ich helped G ew ertz deflect blam e for the lagging Shatner renovations and allow ed Z ell to regroup after her

acting president and vice-president university affairs said, “I need som eon e to co m p lem en t m y g o a ls... I h op e that i f w e do have a by-elec­ tio n that that is the firm m essage in place.”

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A n outsider c ou ld w in the presidency, but i f D eC astro runs he’ll probably w in . T h e n a n e w V P o p s, p o ssib ly cu rren t Treasurer A n th o n y D iC arlo, w h o is a n o n -v o tin g m e m ­ ber o f b oth C o u n c il and the executive c o m ­ m ittee, w o u ld be elected from am o n g the councillors. I f D iC arlo, w h o is reluctant to take o n the operations p ortfolio, is chosen, a n e w treasurer w o u ld be ap p oin ted to take his place.

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cation s o f the p otential candidates and says that th ey m u st understand th e big issues— the letter o f agreem ent, the fractured state o f M cG ill’s undergraduate societies, a long-term goal o f self-sufficiency— but he hasn’t decid ed i f h e sh ou ld abandon his current portfolio. It sh ou ld com fort h im that the h e w ill have c o m ­ pleted the S S M U b u dget before the e n d o f O ctober, so the n e w V P ops w o n ’t have m an y opp ortu nities to screw up.

T h e n e w p re sid e n t w ill have m a n y chances to derail the Society. C ontrary to m ost c o u n c illo r s’ c o n v ic tio n s , S S M U n eed s a

I w as present at th e S ep tem ber 18 d iscu ssion o f sam e-sex marriage w ith A rch b ish op M ich ael Peers. T h e d iscu ssion focu sed overw h elm in g­ ly o n the q u estio n o f h o w so c iety o u g h t to be structured and w h eth er d e fin in g sam e-sex u n io n s as marriage w o u ld be socially beneficial. I was surprised that very little m e n tio n w as m ad e o f w h eth er it is th e federal g overn m en t’s role to d ecid e w h at so c iety o u g h t to lo o k like. I was espe­ cially surprised th at th e focus w as o n C an adian g overn m en t p o licy because w e w ere in the presence o f a leader in th e religious com m u n ity.

In m y o p in io n , it is th e appropriate role o f the religions to p u t forth and encourage a v isio n o f h o w so c iety o u g h t to be structured w ith regards to m orality. T h e govern m en t, o n th e other h an d , is in a p o sitio n o f allow in g these diverse visio n s to take form . For the g overn m en t to

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legislate that o n e vision o f marriage is encouraged , w h ile anoth er is n ot, strikes m e n o t o n ly as so m e w h a t inappropriate, b u t also futile.

—Jennifer Channin U3 International Development Studies

MATH TUT Ouch. Rote learning, no appreciation of logic and inability to do arithmetic sans calculator describes the normal result of five years and 700+ hours of high school mathematics. Here is an alternative, namely maths with rhyme & reason, thought-based preps that say no to rote learning.

strongm an, n o t a figurehead, and the current field o f candidates doesn’t suffice.

D a ily editor Ira D ubinsky, w h o sat o n tht

expressed interest, as has PSSA President M ik e H a sh iz u m e .

W ith th e e x c e p tio n of V orstenbosch, I don’t k n o w w h y th ey think they’re qualified to lead S S M U , and I d on ’t think that any on e o f them stands a chance against D eC astro’s greased and m uscular p o lit­ ical m achine.

I f D eC astro doesn’t run, and i f students reject th e recycled candidates, I m ig h t be forced to run o n a novel platform , w h ich c o n ­ cedes th e next president’s purposelessness: beh old the A drienne Clarkson Presidency. As titular sovereign o f th e Society, I w o u ld c o n ­ sen t to th e current d ivision o f pow ers and sm ile g low in gly at H eath er M un roe-B lu m d u rin g u n iv ersity r ecep tio n s, p rovid ed D eC astro lets m e charge m y reading w eek travel expenses to a S S M U credit card. ■

A fter reading K im D ’Souza’s article o n the archbishop’s atten dan ce o f Professor C o rn ett’s class last Thursday, I felt as th ou gh a large part o f the discu ssion w as m isrepresented. I am a m em ber o f the class an d w h at I to o k aw ay from th e discu ssion was n o t necessarily th e facts, b u t rather the sen ­ tim en t. I had read so m e o f the background in form ation o n the archbishop and fo u n d that up on hearing h im speak to th e class, I learned n o th in g m ore than w h a t I already knew . In fact, I was in clin ed to disregard so m e o f the o p in io n s h e had stated in his w ritings. H is perform ance left m e feelin g d isc o n te n t w ith o n e o f C anada’s m o st influential religious leaders. I f he refused to take a stand for or against o n e o f th e cou n try’s m o st heated issues, th en w h o in the religious c o m m u n ity will?

In regard to the sen tim en t created by the other g u est speakers, I was sh ock ed by the archaic ref­ erences to logic. It w as b rough t up several tim es that w h at has been d o n e in the past sh ou ld remain to be d o n e in th e future. D ’Souza q u o ted M argaret Som erville as saying “i f w e had 4 ,0 0 0 years o f trials that said o n e th in g, w e’d be very w ary o f overn igh t saying anoth er,” w h ile avoid in g portraying it as o n e w ay or the other.

T h e discussion tau gh t m e that p eo p le are hesitant to m ake a stand and, therefore, a very im p or­ tant issue is b ein g skirted around and possibly treated w ith o u t the proper consideration . For your w riter to have left th e discussion and w ritten an article abou t th e issue w h ile m ak in g n o real o p in ­ ions h im se lf has struck m e as an in d ication that he has m issed the p oin t.

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1. T h e q u estion n aires are q u estion ab le.

A t the M cG ill dental c lin ic , stu d e n ts have to answer a health q u estio n ­ naire that asks “D o you have or are y o u at risk for H IV /A ID S ? ” T h is is pu z­ z lin g because “are you at risk” is q u ite different from “d o you have” and w h ile I m ay be considered to be in a risk group because o f m y sexuality, w hat is the dental c lin ic ’s d e fin itio n o f “at

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s a gay m an, it’s been interesting to w atch and read about m ainstream society’s gradual acceptance o f hom osexu als.

From the days o f O scar W ild e to the present debates over sam e-sex marriages, the advancem ents m ade by the queer _ m o v e m e n t have b een co n sid era b le, a lb eit con scrib ed .

C oincidentally, the am ou n t o f press gay m en have b een receiving recently is equally notew orth y— from Queer Eye for the Straight Guy to Boy Meets Boy— g ay m en have becom e the darlings o f the straight w orld. Like B ich on Frise lapdogs for the aristocratic classes, every progressive, o p en -m in d ed (read: trendy) b o y or girl, it seem s, sh ou ld have at least o n e gay m an to call a close friend. W h ile this m ay aid in the pu sh for legalizing sam e-sex marriage, w h at has b ecom e o f the other p olitical causes that used to be lin ked to the queer agenda? M ore specifically, w h y have p eople seem in gly stop p ed talking and reading abou t the d om estic A ID S crisis w h en it’s still as far away as ever from b ein g resolved?

So far, C anada has contrib uted $ 1 0 0 -m illio n to the U n ite d N ation s G lobal F und to Fight A ID S , Tuberculosis and M alaria. Last w eek, Prim e M in ister Jean C h rétien rem ind­ ed a special U N session that “treatm ent helps those liv in g w ith H IV to lead productive lives w ith dignity, as full m em bers o f our co m m u n ities” and vow ed that Canada w ou ld c o n tin ­ ue to fund the fight against the pandem ic.

Unfortunately, the global H IV fund is running lo w because o f a lack o f concern on the part o f rich countries. For instance, the U n ited States, w h ich initiated the fund, has c o n ­ tributed o n ly $ 2 -b illio n o f the $ 15-billion it had prom ised. Sadly, it com es as little surprise that the U S , n otoriou s for failing to pay its U N dues in full, has been a hindrance in the

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global battle against the spread o f HIV. A lth ou gh approxim ately 1 2 ,0 0 0 walkers sh ow ed up o n Septem ber 21 to participate in Ç a M arche, M ontreal’s 7-k m A ID S walk, H arvey C o h en , president o f the Farha F ound ation, reports that attendance was dow n by 7 ,0 0 0 or 8 ,0 0 0 . A n d, although m any large d on ation s are received by Farha after the walk, the a m o u n t o f funds raised thus far is still alarm ingly low. C o h en p oin ts o u t that this trend occurred across Canada; Farha and the A ID S C o m m ittee o f T oronto (A C T ), organizers o f T oronto’s A ID S walk, are both

risk”? .

It is co m m o n k n ow l­ edge that H IV is no longer just the queer co m m u n ity ’s

Multiple reasons to feel uncomfortable and uneasy at McGill Dental Services.

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problem , so it can’t be asking abou t m y sexual identity. Is it asking i f I engage in unprotected sex or i f I share needles?

A ccordin g to the A ID S C o m m u n ity Care M ontreal W eb site, “A person liv­ in g w ith H I V or A ID S cannot b e excluded from a job or service unless it can be proven that they d o n ot m eet a bonafidc occu pational requirem ent or there is a bona fide justification for exclud in g th em .” In add ition , “‘Potential transm ission risk’ is n o t considered a bon afid e justification. In fact, there are surgeons, nurses, and dentists living wich H IV . A s lo n g as universal precautions are observed, there is n ot a risk o f transm ission.”

2. It’s cheaper to g o som ew h ere else.

U nder the Students’ Society dental plan, adm inistered by the Q u eb ec S tu dent H ealth A lliance, at the M cG ill dental clin ic the costs o f cleaning and X-

$ 100,000 low er in funds raised than they have been in past years.

C o h en believes attendance is d ow n because “A ID S is n o longer a h o t disease in the

rays are 7 0 per cen t covered. If a stu dent goes o n to the A S E Q w ebsite and finds a den tist w h o is a “m em ber” o f the A S E Q netw ork, those sam e basic services are 8 0 per cen t covered.

A ccording to Lev Bukhm an o f A S E Q , last year those services w ou ld have

pu blic eye [and] n o longer headline n ew s.” H e m en tion s that until five years ago, an H IV diagnosis was equivalent to a death sentence, and that p eople had on ly a few years to say good b ye and prepare for their inevitable death. “Since the advent o f triple-drug therapy

actually been covered 100 per cen t, b u t because dental claim s increased by 17% and the service becam e m ore popular, the coverage has dropped to 8 0 per cen t.

Dr. Jeffrey M yers, w h o is in charge o f the D en tal C lin ic, poin ts o u t that the

m ore people are living w ith H IV .”

C oh en is supported by a recent H ealth Canada survey, “H IV /A ID S — an A ttitudinal Survey.” T h e survey estim ates that “in 1 9 9 9 , 4 9 ,8 0 0 C anadians were living w ith H IV infec­ tion (in clu d in g those living w ith A ID S ), representing an increase o f 2 4 per cen t since 1 9 9 6 .” A p proxim ately 11 C anadians are infected w ith H I V daily, and C o h en added that five or she thou san d peop le in Q u eb ec have becom e H I V positive in the last five years. T h is breaks d ow n in to approxim ately 1 ,5 0 0 n ew H IV infections a year in Q u eb ec, although reported num bers are often low er than they are in reality because it is estim ated that on e third o f all peop le w ith H IV are unaware o f their positive status. C o h en says that H IV /A ID S is no longer an urgent issue for those infected because it’s n o longer an im m e­ diately fatal diagnosis, and because o f this, n ew ly-infected p eople aren’t tellin g their fam i­ lies and friends.

The Farha F o u n d a tio n ’s presid en t also p o in ts o u t that m any heterosexual w alk­ ers this year asked him “w h y sh ou ld w e be w alk­ ing for them i f they’re not w a lk in g for their o w n c o m m u n ity ? ” C oh en describes the abundance o f straight walkers w ith ch ild ren who w ent through the G ay V illage o n ly to see gay m en a m b lin g a b o u t, sim p ly w a tch in g the procession pass by. W h a t is the cause o f all o f this apathy?

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Queer McGill: fervent crusaders against the AIDS crisis.

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clin ic “caters exclusively to the needs o f M cG ill stu dents [and] gives a 10 per cent d iscou n t as w ell as processes all the paperwork involved. W e d o realize that by not jo in in g the netw ork, there is a slight increase in the cost o f som e procedures.

H ow ever, w e h op e that th e co n ven ien ce o f location , processing o f paperwork, and flexibility o f ap p oin tm en ts com pensates for this.”

3. Poor service.

A fter th e X-rays were taken, I had to ask i f I had any cavities. T h e hygienist p o in ted o u t a few in certain teeth. W h e n the dentist cam e in, I again had to ask abou t cavities, but this tim e he told m e abou t other on es and d id n ’t m en tion the on es the hygienist had to ld m e about. All this left m e h igh ly perplexed abou t the state o f m y oral health.

SSM IJ V ice-P resident O p eration s R odrigo D eC astro said, “T here is a lot m ore that can be d o n e to m ake students m ore com fortable at health services, given it is a setup designed to attract stu d en ts.”

—Evan Voroney

That bug bite could be worse than you think B ut it’s n o t just apathy that A ID S activists are up against. A lth o u g h A ID S first surfaced m ore than 20 years ago, a m assive segm en t o f the pop ulation is still disadvantaged by igno­ rance. T h e C anadian Youth, Sexual H ealth and H IV /A ID S Study taken in 2 0 0 2 fou n d that h a lf o f grade nin e students d o n o t k n ow that there is n o t a cure for A ID S and that “alm ost h a lf o f students across all grades had received either n o n e or o n ly o n e or tw o hours o f instruc­ tio n abou t H IV /A ID S over the last tw o years.”

W ith those that were confirm ed to be sexually active, the results were even m ore dis-

See AIDS, page 11

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d o in g m y best to recover. R olling ou t o f bed at around 2:00 p m , sm ellin g like spilled schnapps and the sweat o f a thou san d w rith in g freshm an, I cam e up on the fine collection o f mail accu­ m ulated in m y living room . O ld newspapers, a cou p le o f m agazin es, and a flyer from our local p o lic e d ivision .“W elcom e to the n eigh b ou rh ood ,” it said. H o w sw eet, I thou ght, con tem p latin g the endless possibilities o f a m an in uniform . But as I read the fine print, it seem ed that the law enforcers w ere m ore threatening, and less thoughtful.

“W h e n you are caught drink in g in pu blic, you w ill be fined $ 1 3 8 .” . Suddenly, m y p o st-b oozin g headache got w orsened. As M ontreal is Canada’s answer to the A m erican “Sin C ity” (Las Vegas), M cG ill is a mecca for cheap thrills and cheaper drinks. M olson runs m ore freely than tap w ater and our stu ­ dents single-handedly support the rum and tequila industries just by h itting up sh o t n igh t at Peel pub.

Ft’s that w onderful tim e o f year, w hen trashed Fratters are seen attem p tin g to score w ith lam pposts , and space FBclad girls from upper Rez stu m ble through the streets, e m it­ tin g o n e con tin ou s, incom prehensible squeal. It’s the tim e w h en vom it decorates the streets and urine scents the air.

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Dr. A bdur Rabb, a local landlord, has lived in the gh et­

crimes. She w an ted to prove h o w arbitrary the w h ole process was, so, usin g a bottle o f O rangina in a brow n paper bag, she w en t cop-baiting. In 2 0 m inutes, she was stop ped tw ice and rigorously interrogated.

“T h e first cop asked to see w h at w as in the bag, I asked w h y and he grabbed it. W h e n he figured o u t that it was just juice he looked confused and disap pointed, then gave som e spiel abou t n o t drinking in public. W h e n I p o in ted o u t that

to for the last 2 3 years and says that this fall has been the m ost boisterous.

“It is noisy. Som e nights, I w ill see processions o f 4 0 or 5 0 kids, all yellin g.” Dr. Rabb notes that the extra police presence has been a positive thing, as his street has already gotten quieter.

he took the bottle right o u t o f m y hands, he becam e defen ­ sive and said that he was just d o in g his jo b .”

A n other stu dent, w h o w ishes to rem ain anon ym ous, had a bad experience w ith the police w h en she was busted at the begin n in g o f D ivision 19 s alcoh ol cam paign. W h ile

T h is fall, it has also been the occasion for p olice o n the prowl, where an open C o lt 4 0 gets replaced w ith a big w h o p ­ p in g ticket. M any students have been com p lain in g that an o p en bottle is n o t a crim e. T h e y are m istaken.

It is true that the G h etto is loud , and that m any over-inebri­ ated individuals frequent the streets or pass o u t o n the side­ walks in the w ee hours. But do w e need to have uniform ed constables nip p in g at our heels to enforce g o o d behaviour?

An officer at the local precinct (w ho also rudely dem and ed “W h y d on ’t you learn h o w to speak French?”) said that the M cG ill gh etto has always been a troublesom e area.

T h e cam paign, in his op in io n , has thus far been successful.

In a location that is like a secon d h om e to m any stu­ dents, it is un nervin g w h en crim e o f any sort is com m itted, so perhaps havin g m ore p olice around isn’t such a bad thing.

I f they w ere in n o ce n d y patrolling and h an d in g o u t tickets to local rum m ys w h ile keeping an eye o u t for everyone else, m aybe w e w o u ld all be better off. H ow ever, w h en profes­ sionalism falters and gradually disappears, students start to gripe.

T h o u g h it has always been an illegal practice, public drinking is som eth in g that m ost M ontrealers have enjoyed in the past w ith few repercussions.

T h e M cG ill G hetto has been d eem ed the target o f divi­

K atherine H ow itt, U 3 Arts, feels that the G hetto police division is w astin g resources that cou ld be used to solve other

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w alking d ow n the street, drinking a beer w ith som e friends, she was “rushed, like o n the sh ow Cops.”

“T h e y had to take m e h om e, abou t a block away, in a cruiser to get ID . It took us 2 0 m in u tes because they kept p u llin g over and ticketing students. T h e y told m e that i f they w an ted to, th ey cou ld strip search m e, and that I sh ould thank th em for taking it easy o n m e .”

A ttorney A llan Z ilbert says that there is a bit o f a grey area w h en it com es to w h at’s legal and illegal w h en the police are enforcing by-laws. I f you feel that your rights have been violated thou gh, get the badge num ber o f the officer you have been dealin g w ith and m ake a formal com p lain t to the p olice com m ission . You can also hire a lawyer to file a co m ­ plaint o n your behalf. A n d i f all else fails, you can sue.

L ook in g past the successes and failures, it is still hard to state w h eth er th e measures that have been taken to reduce pu blic drinking are entirely g o o d or bad. B ut fortunately, this being M ontreal, y o u can go pretty m u ch anyw here other than the pavem ent o f the G h etto and get trashed w ith o u t being harassed. ■

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w ill probably arrive h om e to interrupt the tranquility. It is the unw ritten clause in the lease I co-signed: m y other tw o room m ates are allow ed to co m e and go as they please. A n d it seem s that it’s always the days w h en you’re aching for silen ce and privacy that y o u w on der w h y you d id ­ n’t just live alone. In rez, I saw th e best o f b oth w orlds. I had the com p an y o f abou t 18 room m ates, yet had the privacy o f m y ow n place and cou ld poten tially go days w ith o u t c o m ­ in g in to con tact w ith anyone. Yet now, m ovin g in to m y ow n place, I find m y self w ith a sm all fam ily— p eople w h o could get m ad i f I d id n o t clean up, played m y m usic lou d in the m id d le o f the n igh t, or hogged the p h on e line. Wasn’t part o f the appeal o f m ovin g o u t o f h o m e that I w o u ld n ’t have to deal w ith fam ily antics? H ad I b een crazy to m ove in w ith roommates?

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A s w ith m ost p eop le w h o have room m ates, I m oved in w ith p eople I kn ew — m y friends. B ut can living w ith friends destroy friendships?

A shley O ’Brien, U 1 E nglish, says, “T w o o f m y room ­ m ates are dating, so sp o o n in g o n the cou ch beside m e b o th ­ ers the h eck o u t o f m e!”

A n n o y in g habits have the potential to ruin m an y form erly-solid friendships. A U 1 Arts stu dent w h o w ishes to rem ain an on ym ou s com m en ts o n the consequ en ces o f ch o o sin g th e w rong room m ate.

“I w ill last the year w ith [m y room m ate] b u t I w o n ’t be livin g w ith her next year.”

Stacey O ’N e il gets an n oyed w h en her room m ate “piles all her dishes in the sin k so you can’t w ash your ow n , and [then] skips o u t o n all the chores.” C atriona M cEw an, U 1 Arts, says her room m ate’s m o st ann oying habit is “leaving bits o f her toenails all over the living room floor.”

W h y weren’t any o f these bad livin g habits detected before the m ove-in?

A s C arolyn W ayne, U 1 Science, says, “Since I already lived w ith m y room ies all year in rez, I kn ew w h at I was get­ tin g m y self in to .” B u t it appears that m any habits are spe­ cific to living o u t o f rez, and are related direcdy to the secu­

As a stu dent w h o w o u ld like to rem ain an on ym ou s recalls, “it was after w e m oved in that I discovered she d oes­ n’t kn ow h o w to clean and that she is incapable o f anyth in g that needs to be d on e, like setting up a p h o n e line, paying rent checks, bu ying toilet p a p e r ...”

It w o u ld appear that n on e o f these surprises or an n oy­ ances cou ld happen i f w e all chose to live alone.

D ean n a Sheward, U 1 E nglish Literature, w h o lives alone, says “the best th in g abou t living alone is that y o u can be naked at all tim es o f th e day. You can c o o k naked, or even d o all your h om ew ork naked. T h e experience is liberating, to say th e least.” So w h y d o so m an y o f us live w ith the bur­ d en o f roommates?

The bonds of family G ila W ilensky, U 1 Political Science, recalls a recent nigh t w h en o n e o f her room m ates m ade an an n ou n cem en t, “I like living w ith y o u guys better than m y fam ily.”

D esp ite m any an n oyin g habits o n e ’s room m ates m ay have, their positive traits usually ou tw eigh the negative.

T h o u g h there m ay be nights where on e longs for seclu sion, there are m any m ore lo n e ly nigh ts w h en it s n ice to have som eon e w ith w h o m y o u can w atch T V , eat dinner, or even just ven t to.

“M y room m ate asks h o w m y day is, fixes stuff, w atch ­ es trashy T V w ith m e, and bakes m e yu m m y cookies and m u ffin s,” says O ’N eil.

“T h e y m ake m e din ner after a lon g day o f classes or w ork,” adds O ’Brien, “because co o k in g is the last th in g I w an t to d o .”

T here are som e n ot-so-fu n things w h en y o u m ove o u t o f Rez that y o u have to deal w ith, but it’s m u ch m ore fun having room m ates to go through those awful m om en ts w ith you . For exam ple: it was m u ch better having m y room m ates around w h en I started a m in i fire w ith a piece o f green p ep ­ per w h ile trying to figure o u t the m echanics o f the gas stove.

It’s m ore fun to com plain abou t a terrible landlord w h en y o u have others w ith y o u to feel your pain; its m u ch m ore fun to have drunken post-bar late-n igh t conversations in person in your ow n h om e, than over the p h on e or o n M S N w ith an intoxicated slew o f em oticon s. A n d it is far better to com e h om e to friends than to an em p ty and qu iet apart-

rity w e had in rez last year.

AIDS is still here Continued from page 9 turbing. G ay or bisexual grade 11 boys ten d ed to use con d om s less than heterosexuals and h a lf o f girls in grades 9 and 11 w h o had becom e pregnant had had sex w ith four or m ore different partners.

A n d even am o n g th ose w h o are usin g protec­ tio n , just a little m ore than h a lf aren’t aware that Vaseline can n ot be used as a lubricant. T h ese kids are having sex w h eth er their parents or teachers acknow ledge it or n ot, so w h y aren’t w e educating th em about sexual issues?

A lth o u g h th e m ajority o f C anadians seem aware o f the predom inant w ay it is transm itted, a quarter o f C anadians th in k H I V can be cured and “o n e in five believe that it can be cured i f treated early,” according to H ealth Canada’s A ttitud in al Survey.

W h o ’s to blam e for this ignorance? N o t even 4 0 per cen t o f C anadians k n ow o f the overall federal g o v e rn m en t H I V /A I D S in itia tiv e , C an ad ian Strategy o n H IV /A ID S , and close to h a lf do n ot k n ow w here the federal govern m en t is focusing its atten tion o n pu blic education and research in to treatm ent.”

U nfortunately, w ith ignorance com es intoler­ ance, and w h en p eople aren’t properly educated, they ten d to fear w h at they d on ’t know.

From over 2 ,0 0 0 p h o n e interview s con d u cted for the H ealth C anada survey in M arch 2 0 0 3 , 25 per cent o f respondents cited kissing and m osq uito bites as w ays to spread H IV , 11 per cen t th ou gh t sn eezin g and cou gh in g w ere w ays to transm it the

virus, and another eigh t per cen t cited “sim ple c o n ­ tact w ith objects.”

A lth ou gh som e w ere afraid to venture o u t into public du rin g the su m m er m on th s because o f SARS, is it possible that a quarter o f C anadians have been indoors because th ey feared the bite o f A ID S-carrying m osquitoes?

T w o fundam ental problem s con tin u e to face the A ID S com m u nity: those w h o were form erly conscious about the A ID S crisis are “gettin g over it” and still, a huge segm en t o f the p op ulation is p ain fu lly m isinform ed. In tw o w eeks, w h en m y results com e back to the M cG ill H ealth Services lab, m y u n k n ow n H I V status w ill be confirm ed as either positive or negative. A lth ou gh the chances are over­ w h elm in gly against the possibility that I cou ld have been infected w ith H IV , naturally, I still w onder w h at w o u ld happen i f I d id test positive. W h o w o u ld I tell? H o w lo n g co u ld I go w ith o u t having to tell som eone? W h a t w o u ld I tell the estim ated 2 0 per cen t o f people w h o w ill th in k i f on ly he had been treated earlier, the b oy cou ld have been cured!”

A n d w h en m y im m u n e system does inevitably fail, w h o w ill be there at the A ID S w alk, in m em ory o f me? W ill m ost o f m y gay friends com e up w ith a con ven ien t excuse or cite a m ore-urgent cause? W h o w il be there to tear all o f those hip straight p eop le I k n ew away from their T iv o -ed Will dr Grace w eek­ en d marathons? I f I w ere lo o k in g for inform ed sym ­ pathizers, n o w w o u ld n o t be the ‘optim al tim e to get positive results back. H opefully, it w o n t take personal contact w ith H IV /A ID S to get everyone to start caring about others in such a tim e o f crisis. ■

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Unfortunately, booty shorts do not a happy house make.

Home sweet home W h e n g o in g through a to u g h tim e, I sleep peacefully k n ow in g that in the m orning, as I crankily stu m ble around in m y boxers, there w ill be tw o equally cranky girls there to keep m e co m p a n y over breakfast. T h ese are the on es w h o w o u ld m ake m e sou p i f I were sick, yell at m e i f there were pee o n the toilet seat, and wake m e up i f I w ere late for class.

S o m eh o w in the m ove from rez to our apartm ent, these tw o had transform ed from friends in to sisters— m y family. Even w h en I am lyin g peacefully o n the cou ch and o n e o f m y room ates busts through the d oor and m arches in to her room to blast her stereo, I’m still com forted b y a w arm sense o f secu­ rity, k n ow in g that there’s always so m eo n e close at hand w h en needed. I’ve decid ed that it’s g o o d b ein g h o m e w ith room m ates, especially w h en it’s a full hou se. ■

S om eh ow still im bued w ith eagerness and activism , Q ueer M cG ill m anaged to m ore than triple the $ 5 5 0 raised for the A ID S walk last year to $ 1 ,7 6 5 -2 0 .

A lex D ow , co-adm inistrator o f Q ueer M cG ill, confirm s that participation in the w alk was reduced in com parison to last year but added that Q u eer M cG ill is proud to have raised m ore m on ey and increased the num ber o f walkers to approxim ately 4 0 people. H e guesses that o n e o f the reasons ntrnout was low for the A ID S walk is because it was held at 10:00 am o n a Sunday, add ing “it’s unfor­ tunate that people think 10:00 am is to o early to participate in a political event that affects our c o m m u n ity w ith such great im p act.”

From O c to b e r 8 to 14, th e Bad B o y C lu b M ontreal F oundation is th row in g the 13th Black & Blue Festival, an annual w eek o f parties and culture that attracts 8 5 ,0 0 0 peop le from all over the w orld. T h e B B C M is an organization that gives all o f the p ro f­ its generated by its events to organizations that assist peop le w ith H IV /A ID S and other gay and lesbian c o m m u n ity groups. To date, the B B C M has given o u t $ 1 ,1 0 0 ,0 0 0 in don ation s. T h e Black 8c Blue festival’s m ain even t takes place o n Sunday, O ctob er 12, in the O ly m p ic Stadium , b egin n in g at 9 :0 0 pm and e n d in g at n oon on M onday. T h e m ain even t’s th em e “N U ” em phasizes that funda­ mentally, “every ‘naked’ hu m an b ein g is equal. W h a ts so am azing abou t this particular festival is that, desp ite the fu n and glam our of th e entire w eek , the B B C M co n tin u ally em phasizes its m ain goal as an organization and also offers co n d o m s and n on -jud gm en tal liter­ ature on partying safely. The latter is especially im portant because w h ile the B B C M does n o t c o n d o n e or con d em n drug use, it recog­ nizes that it does occu r at these events. W ith this acknow ledgem ent, the B B C M urges people to protect them selves w h ile partying and avoid m aking d ie m istake o f having u n protected sex.

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W h ile calorie cou n ts m ay be g o in g dow n, stress diagnoses are go in g up. D o e s this reflect a d isco n n ect betw een m in d and body? O r is it the case that our d efin ition o f “healthy” needs to be revisited?

A m ore radical approach to “healthy” was recently laun ch ed at a M ontreal confer­ ence entitled “R aw Power Pure Energy.”

T h e conference, w h ic h took place last week, featured raw food guru D avid W olfe. W olfe exhorted his audience to eschew all cooked foods in favour o f a diet o f purely raw, organic food.

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h olistic life by m aintaining awareness o f fo o d ’s contents. Speaking o n the im por­ tance o f raw, organic food , W olfe repeated the o ld m antra that “y o u are w hat you eat.”

W olfe gives over 100 lectures a year and hosts retreats for m an y celebrities, inclu ding M argaret C h o , A licia S ilverston e and P layboy m odel/actress Rebecca Scott.

W olfe, w h o claim s to have eaten on ly raw foods since 1 9 9 4 , ascribed m any bene­ fits to this ch oice o f diet. Such benefits, he says, inclu de a m arked increase in energy, spectacular w eig h t loss and the ability to fight o f f all disease. H e stressed the im por­ tance o f m ineral-rich foods in achieving these goals: organic, leafy-green vegetables, kelp, and wheatgrass are all part o f W olfes equation.

A ccording to W olfe, all o f our food, raw and cook ed , has been deficien t in n ec­ essary m inerals since 195 0 . A b sorbing all 92

m inerals hum ans need w o u ld m ake a person “im m u n e to all disease.”

A ll raw foodists claim that there is a correlation betw een their diet and a n ew m ental and physical clarity. Today, W olfe sleeps on ly four hours a n igh t o n norm al days, th ou gh he has been k n ow n to go for tw o w eeks w ith o n ly o n e to tw o hours o f sleep. F ollow ing yoga-guru Bikram’s mantra o f “I d on ’t eat, I d on ’t sleep ,” W olfe tries to m ake every day “the best day ever.”

A ch ievin g W olfe’s h o ly grail o f g o in g ‘com p letely raw’ requires an elem en t o f faith, and the project is n o t always an easy one, according to four-year raw food ist Jim m y Gilker. For Gilker, the break from cook ed foods began w ith skyrocketing ener­ g y that was qu ick ly follow ed by a fivem o n th period o f w eakness and lethargy. H e described this period as a process o f d etoxi­ fication. But G ilker perservered: “M y faith in raw fo o d was so strong

M ontreal is lucky en o u g h to h ou se a few green spaces d o w n to w n that allow its residents to becom e m ore in touch w ith nature, les A m is de la m on tagn e, responsible for the “R aw Power Pure Energy” co n ­ ference, is an in d ep en d en t n on -p rofit organization that has ded icated itse lf to beautifying an d preserving M o u n t Royal and its surroundings, and kn ow s the im portance o f w orking nature in to everyday life. Les A m is w ants everyone to be m ore involved w ith the en joym en t and preservation o f the “green heart o f M on treal.”

6 Sin ce its in cep tion in 1 9 8 6 , les A m is has urged all M ontrealers to advocate conservation and en h an ce­ m en t o f M o u n t Royal. They are currently w orking w ith the provincial govern m en t to give the park pro­ tected status as a historic and natural d istr ic t’ that w ou ld require m ore pu blic con su ltation for all proj­ ects for the m ou n tain . In ad d ition , they have c o m p letely renovated the Sm ith H o u se in to a W elcom e C enter n o w w ith a perm anent exhibit and a gift sh op , and are w o rk in g o n renovating the Beaver Lodge in to a year-round skating rink. I hey h ost events th rou gh ou t the year, in c lu d in g pedal boat rentals on Beaver Lake and sk etching at the Sm ith H ouse.

W ays to get involved in les A m is de la m ontagne: * V olunteer tim e to help assist du rin g fundraising even ts su ch as the T uques bleues celebration (February 19); th e tree plan tin g program (O ctob er 17 and 18); th e sp ring clean in g and tree plan tin g (M ay 2, tentative).

H ave a clu b or d epartm en t sp on sor a M cG ill sp orts team for the T uques bleues sn ow sh oe c o m p e ti­ tion. * P rom ote research o n certain protection or conservation issues. * Create a M cG ill fundraising even t, such as a 5K race. * H elp w ith d o o r-to -d o o r canvassing d u rin g cam paigns. * Assist in the C on servation Patrol team program by m o n ito rin g paths o n th e m oun tain . * P rom ote exercise sessions on the m ou n tain . ■

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For G ilker, ea tin g o n ly raw fo o d m eans he m u st b rin g h is fo o d everywhere, in clu d in g to restaurants w ith friends.

“Fve never had a prob­ le m ,” he exp lain ed .

H ow ever, his b iggest obstacle livin g in Canada has been fin d in g fresh fruits and vegetables in the winter.

For those w ish in g to follow a path sim ilar to G ilk er’s, W o lfe advised that raw food sh ould be incorporated in to a per­ son ’s diet slowly. Even for those unable to g o “c o m ­ p letely raw,” the im por­ tance o f fresh fruits and vegetables sh ou ld remain param ount.

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better livin g has attracted a m edley o f avid devotees. A m o n g these is Jim M aier, a British C olu m b ia clean -tech n ology C E O w h o m oon ligh ts as an organic farmer. M aier approved o f the conference’s goals o f purity so m u ch that he was am on g those w h o reached in to their ow n pockets to sponsor it.

S om e attendees o f the “R aw Power Pure Energy” conference w ere also visibly convinced . S om e eager participants flocked to snap up a $ 2 5 0 super-charged corn u­ copia o f natural supplem ents and m inerals.

Prized goodies in this package inclu ded cocoa butter and goji berries from T ibet.

U nfortunately, the benefits o f organic farm ing and raw food rem ain unconfirm ed.

Dr. Ariel Fenster, M cG ill professor o f ch em ­ istry and respected lecturer o n such topics, explains, “W e’re living better and longer than w e ever have before. T here is n o evi­ dence that our food is any less nutritious than it was, or that organically grow n is m ore nutritious than regular fo o d .”

Fenster believes in eatin g a balanced diet, in clu d in g fruits and vegetables, w h ich w o u ld provide the vitam ins and m inerals on e needs.

As for carcinogens in cook ed food, Fenster described this claim as a “scare m o n ­ ger” tactic.

“F ood naturally contains carcinogens.

For instance, apples contain carcinogens.

But, they also contain m an y anti-carcino­ gens. Toxins aren’t autom atically syn th etic.”

Currently, there is n o concrete evidence that proves the ability o f m inerals to cure diseases. Dr. Fenster suggests taking vita­ m in and m ineral supplem ents as “insur­ ance” i f your diet is n o t balanced.

U ltim ately, the jury is still o u t o n the benefits o f raw food and it rem ains to be seen w h eth er the possibility o f lim itless health and energy is w orth a lifetim e o f raw carrots and wheatgrass. B ut w ith Canadian obesity rates set to m atch A m erican levels w ith in 10 to 20 years, som e significant m odifications m ust be m ade to the N orth A m erican diet soon . ■

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“W h e n people co m e up to m e at show s and hand m e burned C D s to sign, that’s just stu p id ,” N o e l says. “I m ean, I m ake sh it o f f it for m oney, and it’s n o t like the C D costs that m u ch in stores.”

O ffered at H M V for a mere $ 1 0 , B oy’s self-titled deb u t was picked up by B um stead Records, an in d ep en d en t label th at distrib u tes th rou gh C a p ito l/E M I Records. W ith a o n e-alb u m deal under his belt, B oy was able to m ove to T oronto, sh o o t a m u sic vid eo for the first single, “French D ip lom acy,” and p u t together a live band.

N o e l says that the “B oy” m oniker allow s h im the freedom to expand from b ein g a singer/songw riter, even thou gh Last T h u rsd ay n ig h t m arked the return o f W hitehorse, Yukon native B oy to the m usical scene o f M ontreal. A s part o f P O P M on treal, B oy— th e stage m oniker o f Stephen N o e l and friends— played a short acoustic set in front o f an in tim a te crow d at Le S w im m in g .

Brandishing tw o a cou stic guitars, a bass, a viola and a v iolin , B oy gave a rousing and heartfelt perform ance.

S itting d o w n w ith N o e l, the m an b ehin d Boy, is just as interesting.

N o e l, w h o is o n ly 21 years old , lived in W hitehorse until just nin e m on th s ago, w h en he m oved to T oronto to expand his reach in the m usic scene.

“Part o f m y reason to m ove [to T oronto] was to m eet p eop le,” N o e l says.

“H o w d oes a band from the Yukon, w h ich is a gazillion m iles away from anyw here, get stu ff ou t there?”

B o y s m eth od o f attaining an aud i­ ence across C anada has been through w ord o f m o u th an d th e In ternet.

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B oy’s setlist at Le S w im m in g in clu d ­ ed th e alb u m ’s lead track, “Sea o f A lc o h o l,” w h ich sou nd s very Floyd-ian, and the “Eleanor R igby”-esque “RoseM arie’s C afé.” T h ese influences are not surprising, con sid erin g N o el heavily cred­ its his m usical background to classic rock.

“A lo t o f w here I’m co m in g from influentially is T h e Beatles, Pink Floyd, T h e R ollin g Stones, lots o f D avid Bowie.

I th in k those are the four kinda b ig o n e s,” N o e l says. “T h a t’s w h at I had. I listened to m y dad’s o ld records. G row in g up, it was kinda hard to get exposed to a lo t o f new m u s ic ... since I m oved to T oronto, I never realized just h o w m u ch fucking g o o d m usic there is o u t there.”

N o el expects a new album to be released so m etim e in early 2 0 0 4 . By draw­ ing o n the new m usic he is n o w listen in g to, particularly R od Stewart, he hopes to create an album that translates in to a bet­ ter live sh ow than his self-titled effort did.

N o e l recently w orked o n bu ild in g a stu dio o n Vancouver Island and is collaborating w ith Sam Roberts’ producer to co-p ro­ duce the u p com in g album .

W ith any lu ck , B o y ’s grassroots efforts to prom ote his debu t w ill con tin u e to pay o f f and create bigger crowds.

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Sloan e x p erien ce”: a relatively sm all venue, stripped-d ow n stage setup, g en ­ uine interaction w ith the crow d and 90 m inutes o f n on -stop rock.

O p e n in g w ith the first track from the group’s new album Action Pact, “G im m e T h a t,” S lo a n cam e o u t sw in g in g .

T h ro u g h o u t the nigh t, the band played a lo t o f new m aterial, but n o o n e seem ed to m in d . T h e crow d reacted to the explosive son gs as th ou gh they w ere hearing kn ow n classics. H ow ever, n ot w a n tin g to disap­ p o in t th e hu ngry fans, the boys also banged o u t several sin g-alon g anthem s in c lu d in g “E veryth in g You’ve D o n e W rong” and “T h e G o o d in E veryone,”

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Sloan, w h o has sp en t years establish­ in g them selves as the iiber-C anadian rock band, pay hom age to their h om elan d in “T h e Rest o f M y Life” w ith the lines, “O n e th in g I k n ow abou t the rest o f m y

am on g other favourites.

H alfw ay in to the set, the band asked security to rem ove tw o row dy fans w h o had violen tly pu shed their w ay to the front, h u rting o n e w om an in the process.

T h e crow d cheered to sh o w support for Sloan’s decision .

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W h e n asked about the invincib le tri­ um virate— sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll— guitar player and occasional singer Jay Ferguson laughed, “W e’ve never really b een that deb au ch erou s. W e’re pretty square.”

T h e band’s new single, “T h e Rest o f M y L ife,” proves their th ou gh ts are drift­ in g tow ards se ttlin g d o w n . F erguson reflected o n the son g’s ability to touch lis­ teners: “A n d rew [S cott] and Patrick [Pentland] have fam ilies now. Patrick is

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A n d sin g along th ey did. T h e crowd show, and scream ed for m ore w h en the band left the stage. Sloan delivered the encore w ith as m u ch energy as they dis­ played th rou gh ou t the show, and the crow d responded w ith equal force.

A n yon e familiar w ith m usic know s that currently there is said to be a “rock revival” in the m ainstream . M ed ia has b een focu sin g o n raw acts su ch as the W h ite Stripes and Sam Roberts. T h is d evelop m en t is w elcom e new s to fans o f the genre; however, they seem to forget that the rock scene never died. A lright, m aybe it w an ed a little, bu t through it all, C anadians cou ld always c o u n t o n four guys to co n tin u o u sly play m usic the w ay it was m eant to be played.

C hris, Pat, Jay, Andrew: take a bow.

Sloan is back w ith a n e w album and a tour to back it up. A n d that, dear people, is so m eth in g to sm ile about. ■

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C h rom eo is a M ontreal tech n o-fu n k o u tfit m ade up o f D ave O n e and P -T h u gg o f local h ip -h o p label A u dio Research fam e. A drastic departure from their usually hard-edged brand o f hip -h op , the w ork o f C h rom eo is m ore Peter Fram pton than N ecro, m ore Kraftwerk than M ob b D eep .

Saturday saw D a v e O n e ’s usual b ea tsm ith in g for A u d io Research replaced b y lead vocals and guitar, w h ile P’s usual duties o f accou n tin g and album artwork were substituted for a synthesizer and an eccentric instrum ent called the talkbox.

In add ition to killer p op hook s, the talkbox form s the centre o f atten tion for C h rom eo. It is a sim ple but versatile instrum ent that allow s the user to m ake sou nd s ranging from a sci-fi robot to a w ahw ah pedal, used in the past by groups like B on Jovi, Pink Floyd and Steely D an . P laying the actual instrum ent involves inserting a tube in to your m o u th and usin g your throat and larynx to form w ords or sounds. P -T h u gg is a talkbox veteran, having played the instrum ent for 10 years.

T h e h o llo w sou n d in SA T did n ot d o justice to C h rom eo’s cheeky set. Songs like “N e ed y G irl” were interspersed w ith cell p h o n e skits and shouts o f “JE A H !” and “fo shizzle m y nizzle!” A t tim es, the crow d seem ed a bit con fu sed by the inside joke m ishm ash o f vocoder-lik e voices, synthesizers and guitar riffs. H ow ever, others caught all the ironic references to Van H alen and old funk songs, and w ere hell-b en t o n m astering the talkbox to w in over the ladies.

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T h e M oon d ata “Live A m b ien ce and Beats” nigh t o n Friday that was su pp osed to be “throw s o f tradition­ al folk instrum entation in to the arms o f avant-groove, scratch turntablism and d u b b ed -ou t, jazzed-up beats” felt m ore like being in o n e o f the perform ers’ basem ent

w a tc h in g n in e p e o p le try to get so m e sort o f groove/rh ythm going. For on e th in g, this critic did n’t even k n ow the sh ow had started because the m usicians just filtered in to the backdrop m usic that had been playing all evening. A n d then, w h en the trum peter w o u ld play, on e co u ld never be sure w hether it was the DJ scratching or the trum peter pretending to m ake noise. As for the rest o f them , o n e o f the guitarists turned in to the con d u ctor o f the band at o n e p oin t, and the saxop hon ist was high ly over-exaggerated in his playing. Luckily, as the set con tin u ed , the group fell in to a Rastafarian m o o d and the atm osphere got a lit­ tle better. T h e crow d seem ed to enjoy the beats and by the end, there was even a little dan cin g go in g on.

A ll in all, the n igh t turned o u t okay. T here were to o m any m usicians and n o t en o u g h m elod y and flow betw een them . It was hard t o m ake o u t w h o was play­ ing w h en and the q u estion o f “w here is that sou n d co m in g from?” arose often . T h e idea is a g o o d o n e but w h oever said “y o u can’t have to o m u ch o f a g o o d th in g ” never w e n t to a sh ow w ith nin e m usicians and o n e c o n ­ fused audience. ■

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H is best friend in the w orld hates his n ew album .

H e often works 14 to 16-h ou r days o n barely any sleep.

H a n g in g up his hat for the w h ite picket fence is bu t an elusive chim era just b eyon d his grasp.

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W ith a n ew LP, Talkin’ Honky Blues, and a Juno n om in a tio n under his belt, N o v a Scotia native B uck 6 5 is reaping the fruits o f over a decade o f hard w ork. H e w rites, produces, M C s and D Js o n

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Like a robust w in e o f the h ip -h o p varietal, his lyrics brim w ith d ep th and a subtle com plexity. T h e palate is rich. T h e n ose is per­ fu m ed w ith folk and cou n try arom as. A curious aftertaste lingers *3 O lo n g after this 1 9 7 2 vintage is go n e. B ut im bibers beware: his fab­ ricated tales and p oetic p o tio n s w ill intoxicate. T h e hangover o f 3 w ords that hau nt lo n g after the albu m is over is w ell w orth it. o It’s been seven m o n th s since M ontreal last saw the likes o f 3 A h im , and this tim e around, he seem s m ore com fortable in his o w n £L •3 skin. T h o u g h he m ay have a few m ore speckles o f grey hair, the o •o always elo q u en t Buck— born Richard Terfry— exudes child lik e 3 enthu siasm as h e talks ab ou t his recent g lob e-trottin g adventures. o H e has, in th e past, charged tou rin g w ith b ein g a necessary evil, but s nA n o w adm its he has c o m e to adore it. “I’ve learned to really en joy it.

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Local act Bald Vulture, g o in g by the m o tto “punk core from h ell,” op en ed w ith a set that turned o u t to be qu ite forgettable, i f n o t for a distorted cover o f O p.Ivy’s “U n ity.” N e x t w ere the Sw edes from 21st Im pact w h o had quite an im pact on a crowd eager to hear heavy guitars and ind ulge in endless circle pits. A solid set by a group that seem ed glad to be perform ing.

After a qu ick sou n d check it was finally Raised Fist’s tim e to sh in e. P laying their brand o f raw, stripped-d ow n , politically-charged hardcore, the Fist was certainly living up to its nam e that night. A busing the stage w ith furious leaps w h ile its replacem ent drum m er kept things togeth er b ehin d the skins, the enraged q u in tet was p o u n d in g son gs w h ich rarely

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face plastered around everywhere, o n TV , m akes m e u n co m fo rt­ able. So I h o n estly try to shelter m y se lf from that as m u ch as I ca n ,” he says. “I d o n ’t like to see that, to hear a b ou t h o w m an y records I’m selling. I d o n ’t like to read review s.” Buck likens his craft to m eth o d acting. “I kind o f have to keep this w orld alive in m y m in d and reality w o u ld burst that b u b b le,” he reflects.

T hursday’s so ld -o u t sh ow at C afé C am p u s proved his m eth o d was w orking. Backed by a four-piece band, B uck perform ed m ate­ rial b oth old and new. H is d ep ortm en t d em an d ed the aud ien ce’s u n d ivid ed atten tion . Love h im or hate h im , it w as just a m an onstage, courageou sly p u ttin g his inn erm ost th ou gh ts o n display.

B etw een son gs, B uck charm ed the pants o f f the packed room w ith his disgraceful French p ron u n ciation , a com m en tary o n kids

these days and their cell p h on es, and a con fession that h e w as just a lon ely d u d e seeking som e Q u eb ec “p o o n tin e ”.

3 H illb illy -in flu e n c e d k n ee-slap p ers r o m p e d th r o u g h the ** g ft w arped landscape o f B uck’s w orld. A n d that is th e m agic o f Buck: 2 he has a w ay o f draw ing y o u in, and m aking y o u feel his em o tio n s. *3 O W ith co m p lete creative con trol, B uck tried his hand at w rit­ *3 in g m u sic o n the new albu m . H e realizes there m ay be fans w h o 3 o disapprove o f his n ew fo u n d direction — in fact, his best friend 3 frow ns o n his latest w ork— b u t Buck takes the criticism in stride. ft 2 “T h is is just m e expressing m y se lf as h on estly as I can. I can’t expect *3 0 everyone in the w orld to like m e and for m y se lf to be able to relate *3 to everyon e,” he says. “I’m realistic ab ou t th at.”

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g o in g crazy. I’m fully h o o k ed ,” he asserts.

From his h u m b le b egin n in gs in a rural to w n to his record deal w ith W arner M usic, B uck is the poster b o y for ind ie acts that have m ade it.’ Yet, he rem ains perplexed by his n ew fo u n d celebrity.

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T h e H o lly w o o d blockbuster U n der the Tuscan Sun, based o n Francis M ayes’ novel T h e Tuscan Sun, transcends th e traditional c h ic k -flic k genre th at, at first glan ce, it w o u ld seem to fall under.

cant other to jo in y o u for a n ig h t at the opera, and he says he’ll o n ly c o m e for o n e that is “pretty c o o l,” th en W olfgang A m ad eu s M ozart’s Le nozze di Figaro is the o n e to go to. T h is d eligh tfu l opera has n u m erous recognizable arias and is also o n e o f the few operas w here n o n e o f th e characters dies.

the gen iu s o f M ozart and D a P onte, reveal real d ep th in th e char­ acters and at l’O péra de M ontréal, m o st o f the cast d id an excellent job.

T h e libretto b y L orenzo D a P onte is based o n Beaum archais’ alm ost Shakespearean c o m ed y la folle journée ou Le mariage de Figaro. W h e n it pre­ m iered in 1 7 8 6 , this opera played a som ew h at su b­ versive role by havin g the low er classes ru n n in g cir­ cles around the aristocracy.

H ow ever, sop ran o K aren D r isc o ll as Susanna, desp ite her fine voice, left so m e th in g to be desired. A lth o u g h D riscoll was trem endou s scenes, her Susanna failed to m ake the aud ien ce love her.

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W en d y N ielsen as cou n tess A lm aviva, o n the other h an d , d id a m u c h better job o f gettin g her charac­ ter across. H er ren d ition o f the heart-w renching aria “ Dove sono i bei momenti,” w h ic h reveals the faithful co u n tess’s feelin gs ab ou t her ch eatin g h u s­ band, was excellent.

T h e m ezzos, how ever, stole the show. M arion Pratnicki as M arcellina and M cG ill graduates M ich èle Losier and Julie B ou lian n e as C h eru b in o and Barbarino, respectively, were fabulous. Pratnicki is a great charac­ ter actress and Losier was charm in g as C h eru b in o, the c o u n t’s page w h o falls in love w ith just ab ou t every w om an . i Losier perform ed an am azing ren dition o f the challenging “Voi, che sapete” a n d w as a lto g eth er nightclub deligh tful. A lth o u g h the orchestra i 3480 M cTavish S ha tn e r Building w as g o o d , albeit a to u ch too soft,

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F ran cisco w r ite r /b o o k review er Francis M ayes (D ia n e Lane) w h o en d u res a rou gh divorce.

A ltogeth er stu n n ed by the event, Francis is con soled by her best friend Patti (Sandra O h ). D u e to her un exp ected pregnancy, Patti and her partner m ust cancel their trip to Tuscany, Italy, and thus offer their com b in ed tickets to Francis as a con solation . Francis accepts and takes their seats on the “G ay and A w ay” tour. O n ce there, she sp on tan eou sly purchas­ es a 300-year-old villa.

She hires a Polish contracting crew, w ith w h o m she can barely c o m m u n ic a te , to ren ovate th e villa. So here is Francis, w h o bare­ ly speaks a w orld o f Italian, learn­ in g Polish in Italy.

The eccen tric K atherine (Lindsay D u n can ) teaches Francis the ropes o f Italy. M arcello (Raoul Bova), a stereotypical Italian, gives Francis a reason to dance like there is n o b o d y w atching. Real estate agen t S ign or M artin i (V in cen t R iotta) b ecom es Francis’ m entor, h elp in g her w ith vital choices she makes in rebuilding her life, Italian style.

Parallel to the rebuilding o f the villa is the reconstruction o f Francis’ life. Under the Tuscan Sun is a revitalizing journey through

the crossroads o f life and, as Patti pu ts it: “Life is strange.” A pro­ fo u n d w isd o m surfaces in this m ajor prod u ction . T h e once-dry tap in th e villa, w h ic h flow s un stop pably by the film ’s end, is a d ifficu lt-to-ignore sym bol.

Under the Tuscan Sun possess­ es o n e major liability. U p o n get­ tin g divorced, Francis em phasizes that b ook review ing hardly pro­ vides her w ith the m eans to sup­ p ort h erself financially. H owever, on ce in Italy, she seem s to be a bottom less m o n e y pit, overseeing endless renovations to her villa.

T h is aspect lacks plausibility and is, at its best, very H ollyw ood .

T h e m ain th em e is on e o f sadness. W h ile the focus is on Francis’ broken heart, there are m an y stories that u n fold w ith in the film ’s nu m erous subplots. It is a sto ry o f stru ggle and the strength o n e finds to overcom e hurdles in the least expected o f places. After having an epiphany, Francis elaborates o n her experi­ ence: “T h e strangest th in g about divorce is that it doesn’t kill y ou. It sh ould kill you , bu t it doesn’t.”

By n o m eans a traditional love story, Under the Tuscan Sun address friendships, freedom and, above all, faith. ■

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Exotic Ethiopian experiences Laura E theredge & Mark Sward h ou ld y o u fin d y ou rself aw akened in the m iddle o f the n igh t w ith stom ach pains, d on ’t blam e Abiata. Abiata (3435 Rue StDenis), w ith its deligh tful am biance, fastidi­ ous service and frigh ten in gly overcooked m eat, is certainly n ot the culprit. T h e m iniature cou sin o f the popular E thiop ian h otsp ot N il Bleu,

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also o n S t-D en is, shares little m ore than leopard print and an identical m en u w ith its relative.

T h e decor is a charm ing, i f n o t perplexing, fusion o f old-style M ontreal walkup— high ceilings, exposed brick w all, flies spasm ing to death o n the

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w in d ow sill, a no-m an ’s-land terrace— and unusual bits o f traditional A frica in the carved e b o n y artifacts, palm fronds, charm ing th em ed art o n the walls and waterfall b ehin d the bar. O u r water glasses were kept full, and w e were offered w arm pre-m eal napkins w ith a bow. T h e service w as m eticu lou s and tim ely in every aspect except the delivery o f the bill, requiring a series o f leaps in to the air and m odern dance m ovem ents, w h ich seem ed entirely unnecessary since there were no m ore than four groups o f diners in the restaurant.

D o n ’t be fooled by w hat appear to be sm all por­ tions; these guys m anage to serve a very filling meal that entails little actual food . For E thiop ian fo o d vir­ gins: those w h o have enjoyed Indian fo o d in the past w ill understand that the appearance o f the fo o d is a hurdle you ’ll w an t to leap over early. D esp ite its b efud dling appearance, it usually proves qu ite tasty.

W e op ted for the carnivores’ com b in ation platter for tw o ($ 2 9 ), w h ich served four dishes in clu d in g tw o lam b , o n e chick en and on e beef. T h e lam b and b e e f

were ridiculously tough , but th e d elicious sauces nearly m ade up for the m eat’s sub-par texture. T h e chick en , o n the other hand, was n o th in g short o f per­ fect: tender, m oist and perfectly seasoned. T h e m en u has a sizeable vegetarian section , so those w h o prefer to spare the livestock sh ou ld n o t use that as an excuse to avoid a new kin d o f cuisine.

A lso, be sure to wash your hands before y o u eat.

A rm ed w ith n o th in g but your w its and a plate o f unusually m oist, sp on gy bread, y o u ’ll fen d for your­ se lf by sn atch in g up bits o f the m ixture w ith the pan­ cake-like bread and rushing th em to your m ou th before th ey fall o n to your pants. Just d on ’t ask for a fork— your exotic-food -tastin g d ig n ity w ill be lost forever.

I f y o u feel an A frican w in e m igh t be in order, try a Fleur du Cap 2 0 0 1 M erlot ($ 3 2 ), a Sou th African vintage w ith an exceptionally full b o d y and vivacious tannins that com pares to m u ch m ore expensive w ines from France and Italy. A lth ou gh it lacks a little o n the nose d u e to its you th , this w in e beautifully com p le­ m ents the exotic food w ith a spicy, textured flavour.

For a tasty n o n -alcoh olic treat, try the Soleil Africain, a tropical fruity am usem ent that sh ould have a neat little grenadine th in g h ap pening o n top. (D o like us and cry i f it’s n o t there).

A ll in all, Abiata is lovely for its service and its style. I f you d o n ’t m in d eating rubbery m eat or stick­ ing w ith pou ltry and veggies, it’s the place for you.

O therw ise, it’s w orth the walk a few m etres up StD e n is to the busier N il Bleu, w here the superior food justifies the strained service. Blam e the post-A biata stom ach agon y o n w h om ever y o u w ant— at least after N il B leu you ’ll sleep through the nigh t. ■

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c o n d itio n s , th e M c G ill R ed m en r u g b y te a m ste p p e d o n to th e R utherford Park p itch for its first h o m e gam e o f the season against th e Sh erbrooke Vert et O r. In a ga m e th a t h a d m o re rain th an sh in e, th e ruggers sp lashed their w a y to a c o n v in c in g 3 7 -0 sh u to u t o f the visitin g team .

It w as ob viou s from th e o p e n ­ in g k ic k o ff w h ic h team w as g o in g to g e t in to th e w in c o lu m n .

E ffectively u sin g their trem en d ou s sp ee d , th e R e d m e n d o m in a te d every aspect o f th e gam e. From set pieces to lo o se play, Sherbrooke was overw h elm ed b y th e tidal w ave o f red, w h ic h seem ed to c o m e from every d irection .

Strong and tim ely runs enabled th e R ed m en to reach th e en d zon e early and frequently. R o o k ie A aron C h ase g o t th e R ed ‘n W h ite rolling w ith a score c o m in g from just o u t­ side the Sherbrooke tryline. C h ase’s team m ates q u ick ly fo llo w ed suit.

By th e en d o f th e half, R ob in M acL achlan and M att D e G raff ad d ed th eir nam es to th e score sh eet, h e lp in g th e R ed m en to a 170 lead after 4 0 m in u tes o f play. A

q u estion ab le call o n a d rop p ed ball in th e en d z o n e co st M cG ill a score, b u t th e y w eren’t g o in g to let that sto p the on slau gh t.

T h e R ed m en cam e o u t w ith all gun s firing as th e y to o k to th e field for the se c o n d half, o p e n in g the d o o r for a series o f h o m e -tea m scores.

M c G ill’s a b ility to k eep its adversaries aw ay from o p en field play allow ed M ik e Lewis to fin d the e n d z o n e to m ak e it 22- 0.

Sherbrooke’s in ab ility to keep up w ith M c G ill’s q u ick play led to three m ore tries by Pat W eld o n , O liv e r L y tte lto n , and B ren t Patterson.

D e sp ite th e so lid effort in this gam e, there is still p len ty o f rugby to be played and the season is far from over.

“W e have a to u g h sch ed u le ahead o f u s,” H ea d C o a ch Sean M cC affrey explain ed . “It is g o in g to be a clu b effort to get th e job d o n e.

W e ’re u sin g these gam es as step p in g ston es for th e playoffs. T h is year is n o differen t.”

W h e n asked ab ou t his team ’s chances for success in the u p co m in g season, M cC affrey said that he has th e right m ix o f players to be c o m ­ petitive. H is players seem to be fo l­

lo w in g his p ositive exam ple.

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ed. “W e have a solid core o f [return­ ing] players and a lo t o f d ep th . W e n o w have m ore w eap on s available [on th e te a m ].”

“W e are here to w in an d th at is

the rugby R ed m en lo o k p o ised to retu rn to th e Q u e b e c S tu d e n t Sports F ederation finals an d a p ossi­ ble three-peat o f th e ch am p ion sh ip crow n.

H a v in g a c o u p le o f y o u n g players still u n av a ila b le d u e to injury, it w ill be in terestin g to see w h a t th e team w ill be able to d o w ith its d eep p o o l o f talent. ■

w h a t ou r goal has b een sin ce the b e g in n in g o f p re-season,” explain ed T eam President A aron A kehurst.

A fter b e in g asked a b ou t his team m ates’ abilities to get th e job d o n e o n th e field he sim p ly said th a t “th e y are th e class o f the

Soccer teams sweep Stingers T h e M artlets soccer team to o k to th e field o n a ch illy n ig h t at M o lso n Stad iu m lo o k in g to rem ain u n d efeated in the regular season.

N ic o le Shepherd led the d o m in a n t sq uad w ith tw o goals as M cG ill d u m p e d the C on co rd ia Stingers 2 0 o n Friday.

M cG ill started attack ing the C on co rd ia goal at every o p p o rtu n i­ ty early o n , b u t Stingers goalkeeper D ia n e O u im e t h eld strong by d en y ­ in g D a n ie lle D a y ’s sem i-break 11 m in u te s in to th e m atch .

Persistence paid o f f in th e 16th m in u te for th e M a rtlets as Shep herd cashed in o n a cross from D ay, m ak in g it 1-0. D a y had m ade her w ay to tb e bylin e before firing a q u ick lo w cross in front o f th e goal.

M cG ill co n tro lled the tem p o o f th e gam e up to that p o in t but o n ly had th e o n e tally to sh o w for it. M id field er B o n n ie W alsh p u t an earlier strike o f f th e crossbar and D a y ’s so lid h a lf v o lley in th e b ox w as b lo ck ed b y th e keeper’s finger­ tips.

C o n co r d ia had an e x ce lle n t sc o r in g c h a n c e b efore h a lftim e w h e n fu llb a c k M e la n ie P oirier Toni P ascale (9) attem p ts to avoid th e paten ted Stinger stea l.

cla n g ed a 30 -y a rd blast o f f the crossbar. H er bad luck c o n tin u e d in to th e se c o n d h a lf as sh e k icked anoth er strike o f f th e bar from 35 yards o u t.

T h is e x e m p lifie d C o n c o r d ia ’s in a b ility to co n v e rt scorin g chances in the gam e.

S h ep h e rd e x ter m in a ted th e S tin g ers for g o o d in th e 8 9 th m in u te w ith a great cu rlin g th u m p that ricoch eted o f f th e p ost and in to the n et, g ivin g th e all-star her se c o n d goal o f the m atch.

T h o u g h it appeared th e M art­ lets h an d led their cross-tow n rivals pretty w ell, the lack o f fin ish in g o n their part sh o u ld be cause for c o n ­ cern. “ [T h e finish in g] has to be b et­ t e r ... w e s h o u ld have b u ried [C on cordia] earlier,” Shep herd said.

M c G ill w as c e r ta in ly th e stronger o f the tw o team s, in clu d ­ in g goalk eep er K ristina P erusco, w b o co llected her fou rth sh u to u t o f the season. T h e M artlets p layed an aggressive gam e overall, w h ic h c o ­ captain Shep herd th o u g h t w as a g o o d experience.

“It w as g o o d for us. W e need the physical ch allen ge,” sh e said.

T h is style o f play w ork ed w ell for th e M artlets as th ey w ere co n sis­

te n tly th e first o n e s to th e ball and w o n m o st o f th e challenges. M cG ill rem ains u n b eaten and sits atop the Q u e b e c conference.

R edm en su rvive la te su rge T h e R ed m en h elped m ake it a clean sw eep for M cG ill as they defeated th e Stingers 2 -1 in th e sec­ o n d h a lf o f th e soccer dou bleheader Friday nigh t.

Spurred b y the lacklustre per­ fo r m a n ce of its w om en, C on cord ia’s m en’s team cam e o u t o f th e g ate w ith fire. B u t it w as M cG ill’s K ristian W eller w h o drew first b lo o d . W eller d e p o site d Carl D e N itto ’s reb ou n d o f f th e post in to th e b ack o f th e Stingers’ n et to p u t th e R ed m en up 1-0.

T h e gam e really began to o p en u p afterw ards a n d th ere w as a stead y back an d forth flow betw een b o th goals. I f n o t for th e slop p y play in th e m id field , b o th team s c o u ld have had m a n y m ore op p or­ tu n ities o n net.

“O u r fin ish in g w as alright but w e n eed to create m ore [chances],” D e N itto remarked.

R ig h t b efore th e in terval, C on cord ia’s Johan D e G ee r volleyed S e e REDMEN, p a g e 19

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Redbirds flying to playoffs esp ite losin g tw o o f its three gam es last w eek , the M cG ill baseball team w ill be head in g to the p ost-season . T h e Redbirds are to play John A b bott C o lleg e in a b est-of-th ree Q u e b e c Stu d en t Sports Federation sem i-fin al this w eek en d . T h e first gam e will be h o sted by JA C o n Friday n igh t at 7 :3 0 , fo llo w ed by a

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h o m e field in D orval. M cG ill fin ish ed seco n d in the Q u e b e c league w ith a 9 -7 record.

O n Saturday, M c G ill sp lit th e d o u b le h e a d e r m atch u p against C on co rd ia at LaSalle Park in L achine.

T h e Stingers took the first gam e 2 - 1 , b u t the R edbirds w o n the season finale 5 -2 o n the strength o f Joh n C o m ea u ’s tw o RBI. Starter A llen Bailey p itch ed five in n in gs for the victory.

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R o w ers to p s a t O ttaw a regatta M c G ill’s lig h tw eig h t four boat w as th e first across the lin e at the H ead o f the R ideau Regatta in O ttaw a o n Sunday. C o n sistin g o f rowers Kate M a lco lm , Lauren R ob in son , B ri-A nne R osenberg, and Lina Schw erch , the crew finished in first place in the var­ sity category an d se c o n d in the op en c ategory at th e 5 .5 K cou rse. T h e w o m e n ’s heavyw eight eig h t also c o m ­ peted , fin ish in g in secon d place o u t o f fiv e crew s. M c G ill w ill travel to P eterborough, O n tario this Saturday for th e H ead o f th e Trent Regatta.

W o m en 's rugby te a m m e rc ile ss T h e M artlet ruggers kept their a m a z in g u n b e a ten streak ( 3 6 - 0 - 1 )

alive w h en th ey visited B ish op’s S u nd ay and p ou n d ed the G aiters 0. T rade A llan led th e w ay w ith p oin ts on four tries, in c lu d in g

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o n Sunday. T h e third-year law student scored th e gam e-w in n er and helped th e M artlets e x te n d th eir six-yeai u n beaten streak in league play.

gam e-w in ner. L eigh A n n e B arlow fol­ low ed her w ith three tries o f her ow n .

T h e w o m e n are 3-0 in th e Q u e b e c co n feren ce this season.

D e N itto , a 5 ’8 ” m id field e r , scored the w in n in g goal in M cG ill’s 2 1 victory over C on co rd ia o n Frida\ H a ilin g from Brossard, the 23-year o ld senior in m an agem en t inform a tio n system s w as also nam ed the R ed m en ’s gam e M V P by the o p p o sin g coach .

R ugby star an d so ccer strik er h o n o u red M a rtlets ru gb y p layer Tracie A llan and R edm en soccer’s Carl D e N itto were nam ed Peel P u b -M cG ill A th letes o f the W eek for the period e n d in g S ep tem ber 2 8 . A llan, a 2 6 y ear-old w in g e r from L indsay, O n ta rio , scored 2 0 p o in ts o n four tries in her team ’s defeat o f B ish o p s

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Fans o f the program k n ow that form er all-star quarterback Josh Som m erfeldt was the leader o f that im pressive con feren ce-w in n in g group. T herefore, it w as g oin g to be tou gh tim es, n o m atter w hat, for his successors P hilipp e C an tin and D ave C am p bell. T h e n ew p ivots have sh ow n that they cannot lead this troubled offen ce o n their ow n.

After another d isap p oin tin g loss o n th e w eek en d, fans are left absolutely baffled. O n e p oin t. O n e lo u sy single w as the o u tp u t from M cG ill against C oncordia’s 4 6 . A sim ilar score differential cam e from the season opener versus Laval.

T h at gam e was sim ply a sign that M cG ill w as just n o t g o in g to overcom e Q u eb ec’s perennial pow erhou se this year, w h ich is under­ standable. N o program in the province can com p ete w ith a team that receives boatloads o f cash each year.

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N ic k n a m e : T ish B irthday: D e ce m b e r 2 2 , 1 9 7 8 H o m e to w n : P in e-H ill, Q u e b e c Year an d P rogram : U 5 M echan ical E n gin eerin g M ajor a cco m p lish m en ts: M artlet R u gby H ard Ass, Q SS F all-star, C IS A ll-C an ad ian , Q u e b e c P rovincial Team 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 , Eastern C anada Barbarians 2 0 0 2 , C an ad a-U S D e v e lo p m e n t M atch 2 0 0 3 .

C areer asp irations: To play o n th e n ation al team; to fin d a h igh payin g job th at I love and that lets m e play rugby.

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F avourite team : T h e un derd ogs F avourite food : Junk fo o d F avourite saying: “L osertow n”

T h o u g h m an y anticipated that the ensu in g m atch up w ith secondyear team M ontreal w o u ld be a closer gam e than last year’s contests— w h en M cG ill p u m m eled the Carabins tw ice— to com e o u t the w ay the R edm en did o n the offensive side o f the ball was just putrid.

Prospect Q B s M att C o n n ell and M att A d d on a deserve a chance to play, and perhaps even start a gam e or tw o in w h at has qu ick ly becom e a rebuilding year for M cG ill. T h e team has n o th in g to lose in this sce­ nario. W h o kn ow s, the change cou ld be rem iniscent o f the 1 9 9 8 cam ­ paign w h en a rookie by the nam e o f Som m erfeldt em erged to grab the N o . 1 quarterback position .

In dire tim es like these, every team needs to start fresh, and that usually com es in the form o f risk. A t 1-3 and w ith very little chance o f advancing past th e first round o f a post-season that consists o f every team b u t tw o, M cG ill’s football team m u st learn to p u t its anger aside and focus o n gain in g back its pride. ■

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W e saw flashes o f brilliance akin to 2 0 0 2 in the A cadia gam e but that was ob viou sly n o t sustainable.

M cG ill has lost all three o f its gam es to conference rivals. N o t good , to say the least. T h e victory against the A xem en last w eek cam e at the right tim e b u t by no m eans is it a giant step forward. Every team in the Q IF C has im proved but the R ed n’ W h ite. Even expansion Sherbrooke has light at th e en d o f the tun nel as the Vert et O r scored their first p oin ts o f the season o n Saturday.

A change is in order for M cG ill’s substandard football team and that change sh ould com e from the backfield.

M an y coaches can overcom e a sh od d y offensive lin e by u sin g their quarterbacks in u n ique fashion. W e’ve seen ou tstan d in g scramblers in D o u g F lutie and D o n o v a n M cN ab b , and the infam ous W est C oast offence, w h ich forces quarterbacks to get rid o f th e ball right away.

I’m in n o w ay com parin g the R edm en to N F L team s, but M cM an n , a form er C FL assistant w ith the Calgary Stam peders, sh ould try and do so m eth in g besides alternating his top tw o quarterbacks every other quarter. H e ’s already benched his ineffective tailback D a n n y Tai in favour o f freshm an M ichael Sam m an, w h o has turned o u t to be a nice surprise.

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o m eth in g has to be d on e. T h e football R edm en are staring at a dow n righ t dism al record and it isn’t even O ctob er yet. In fact, the so-called gridiron gods have to w in at least a co u p le m ore gam es to get to dism al. T h is statem en t is g o in g o n the pre-season assum p tion that M cG ill had high expectations for this team to advance further than it d id last season.

C h u ck M cM an n to o k h is sm ash -m ou th squad to the M itch ell B ow l against Saskatchewan that frosty fall o f 2002 and, by th e looks o f it, the R edm en are certainly n o t capable o f achieving that feat this season.

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Football team out of answers after loss to Concordia R e d m e n w in le s s a g a in s t c o n f e r e n c e r iv a ls t h is s e a s o n iameel Madhany A t so m e p o in t, every football team w ill turn in a d isa p p o in tin g sh ow in g. B u t there are bad gam es, and th en there w as Saturday after­ n o o n ’s gam e at C on cord ia’s L oyola cam pus.

A n in ep t M cG ill offen ce and a superb C on co rd ia d efen ce c o m b in e d to hurt the R ed m en from start to finish . T h e final result w as a 4 6 -1 d e m o litio n by the Stingers in the 3 5 th annual Sh augh nessy C up. T h e 4 ,0 2 0 fans in atten dan ce w itn essed the m o st lop sid ed C u p gam e since M cG ill p u m m elled C on cord ia 5 3 -0 in 1 9 7 8 .

W h e n asked ab ou t his team ’s overall p erform an ce o n Saturday, R edm en H ead C oach C huck M cM a n n replied b y sim p ly saying, “p oor.”

Yet p oor d oesn ’t even b egin to describe the R ed m en effort. T h e Stingers gained an astronom ical 5 0 9 total yards, w ith fifth-year ru n n in g back Jean -M ich el Paquette acco u n t­ in g for an incredible 2 0 6 c o m b in e d yards. T h e Stingers also recorded 2 7 first d o w n s against the overm atched

R ed m en defence.

Easy as it w o u ld be to blam e M c G ill’s defensive un it for th e n u m ­ ber o f to u c h d o w n s scored against, th e offen ce w as just as bad. S econ d year quarterback D a v e C am p b ell, w h o regained th e starting job this w eek , c o m p lete d o n ly o n e o f n in e passes for a m ere six yards, w h ile th row in g three intercep tion s. T h e first p ick cam e m id w ay th rou gh the first quarter w h en C am p b ell threw the ball in to th e hands o f Stingers defensive back A n to n y Jean, w h o returned it 8 7 yards for th e major.

O n th e en su in g M cG ill p osses­ s io n , Jean in te rc ep ted a n o th er C am p b ell pass and returned it to M c G ill’s tw o-yard lin e. T h e Stingers con verted o n the n ext play w h en lin eb a ck er P atrick D onovan, brou gh t in to the Stingers’ offen sive sch em e in short-yardage situations, ran in for his fourth to u c h d o w n o f the season, m ak in g the score 14-0.

S h o rtly thereafter, C a m p b e ll w as yank ed from th e gam e in favour o f P hilipp e C an tin . In C a m p b ell’s defen ce, it seem ed as th o u g h the w in d s o f up to 55 k m /h affected his passing, b u t M cM a n n d id n ’t believe th ey w ere a factor.

“T h e [w in d ] d o e sn ’t m atter.

T h e quarterbacks are th row in g offbalance; y o u [have to] use you r tech ­ niq u e and th row w ith a transfer o f w eigh t, and [C am pbell] d id n ’t do th a t,” M cM a n n said.

C IS Football To d As of September 23 C o n co rd ia D B A n to n y Jean T h e d efen ce set th e to n e early for th e Stingers, led by th eir sta n d o u t d efen siv e back. Jean picked o f f tw o passes in the first quarter, returning o n e 8 7 yards for th e g a m e -w in n in g to u c h ­ d o w n . T h e fifth-year player from M ontreal also added four so lo tackles in the v icto ­ ry-

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Saint Mary's (1) Saskatchewan (2) McMaster (3) Laval (5) Queen's (4) Calgary (6) Laurier (7) Concordia (10) Alberta (-) Montréal (-)

N IC O LE LEAVER

M ichael Sam m an (27) m akes a bold attem pt at g ettin g McGill's offen ce going in another forgettable gam e.

“A gam e is a gam e, an d w e have to focu s o n n ext w eek , an d play at our lev el,” said N o lin .

H ow ever, i f their first four c o n ­ tests are an y in d ication , retu rn in g to

w eek ’s gam e.

“I’m g o in g to have to m ake a d ecisio n for n ext w eek . I have tw o o th e r q u arterbacks, [M a tth e w A d d on a and M att C o n n e ll], so I’ll probably have a little b it o f a c o m p e ­ titio n ,” said M cM a n n . “I’m g o in g to dress tw o [o f th e quarterbacks], but I’m n o t g o in g to say w h ich on es y e t.”

H a lfw a y th ro u g h th e regular

O verall, the entire M cG ill offen ce c o u ld o n ly m uster 7 8 total yards and five first d ow n s. T h e lo n e M cG ill bright sp ot was freshm an tailback M ich ael Sam m an w h o rushed for 3 0 yards o n seven carries.

W ith the score 2 4 -1 at the half, C on cord ia p u t away any h o p e o f a M cG ill co m èb a ck b y sco rin g 19 p o in ts in the third quarter. A field goal by the Stingers in th e fourth quarter rou n d ed o u t the scoring.

W ith th e w in , th e Stin gers avenged last year’s 10-6 loss to the

respectability w ill be a tou gh task for the R ed m en . T h e o ffen ce has aver­ aged o n ly six p o in ts per gam e against Q IF C foes.

W ith th e d isa p p o in tin g per­ fo r m a n ce o f th eir in e x p e r ie n c e d quarterbacks, the R ed m en are cer­ tain ly feelin g the v o id left b y the departure o f last year’s starting p ivot, Josh S om m erfeld t, w h o graduated last D e c e m b e r after g u id in g the R e d m e n to tw o Q IF C c h a m p i­ o n sh ip s. T h in g s are so bad that M c M a n n is even unsure o f w h ic h

sea so n th e R e d m e n o ffe n c e has regressed to the p o in t w here training cam p is o n c e again in full sw in g.

T h a t situ a tio n , c o u p le d w ith a defen ce that w e n t from g iv in g up 9 5 p o in ts all o f last season to g ivin g up 111 p oin ts through the first h a lf o f this season, m eans visio n s o f a third con secu tive D u n sm o r e C u p are fad­ in g fast. T h e 1-3 R ed m en w ill lo o k to turn their cam paign around on Saturday w h e n th ey h o st the expan­ sio n Sherbrooke Vert et O r (0 -3 ) at M o lso n Stad iu m at 1:30 p m . ■

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quarterbacks he w ill dress for next

C a n tin fared slightly better, c o m p letin g eigh t o f 14 passes w ith n o intercep tion s, b u t he o n ly threw for 17 yards. D u e to the passing g a m e ’s in a b ility to g e t g o in g , M c M a n n w as forced to tu rn to p o u n d in g the ball o n the ground.

T h is stra teg y cam e up sh o rt as M c G ill’s backs c o u ld o n ly p u t togeth er 6 3 yards o n 2 5 carries.

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O ffen sive lin em an L ouis N o lin was eager to p u t this disaster b eh in d him .

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Redmen sting the visitors

WEEK B ask etb all (W)

vs. C arleton

Friday, O cto b er 3 , 6 :3 0

L ow er Field

vs. C o llèg e Ste-F oy C o n tin u e d fro m p a g e 17 a clean ball to break the tw in e in the 3 8 th m in u te to tie th e gam e.

M cG ill’s d efen ce m u st have felt like a p in b a ll m a c h in e as th e ball b o u n ced o f f tw o players in the air before falling in front o f D eG eer.

T h e seco n d h a lf began o n a scrappy n o te after a qu estion able n o n -c a ll in th e C o n c o r d ia b ox.

W eller w as p u sh ed o u t o f b o u n d s at the b yline b u t the referee d ecid ed to let play c o n tin u e. T h is th e m e c o n ­ tin u ed th r o u g h o u t th e h a lf as three players w ere given y e llo w cards.

M id w a y th rou gh the half, D e

N itto scored th e gam e-w in n er o n a 30-yard v o lley that froze C on cord ia’s netm inder. ..

H ow ever, th at d id n o t signal the e n d for the Stingers.

E ven th o u g h th e R edm en cam e c lo se to a third g o a l, C o n c o r d ia w o u ld n ’t q u it. T h e R ed m en w ere forced to play o u t th e anxious final m in u te s o n d e fe n c e as the Stingers h o u n d e d the M c G ill backlin e lo o k in g for an y possib le o p e n ­ ing.

Extra tim e seem ed to exten d for ages as the barrage o f sh ots at the M c G ill goal cam e heavily.

Finally, the three chirps were so u n d ed as the R edm en Vk

crow ded the field in jubilation over a hard-fought

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Soccer (W) Friday, O cto b er 3 , 7 :0 0

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Rugby (M) W ednesday, O cto b er 1, 8 :30

After the m atch , D e ranked his gam e­

w in n in g strike as o n e o f his better goals.

“It w as probably in m y top three,” he said.

M cG ill fans w e n t h o m e hap py after w itn e ss in g a sw eep of C on cord ia’s soccer squads. ■

H ockey (W)

vs. U Q T R

Friday, O cto b er 3, 7 :0 0

M o lso n Stadium

vs. Q u é b e c A valanche M cC o n n e ll Arena

Soccer (M) Friday, O cto b er 3 , 9 :0 0

L acrosse (M)

vs. U Q T R

Saturday, O cto b er 4 , 2 :0 0

M o lso n Stadium

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