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OP/ED: Oh the places you'll (supposedly) go-A cynic's lament

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SPORTS: The right to remain violent? Sports and the law

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p r e s id e n t o f S tu d e n ts ' S o c ie ty JAMES G O T O W IE C After discussing the issue for an hour and a half, Students' Society C o uncil voted 2 0 -2 Thursday night ag ain st holding a b yelectio n to fill the v a c a n t presidential seat, choos­ ing instead to finish out the school y e a r with a five-person executive.

W h ile m any members of the g a lle ry spoke in favour of a b yelectio n , most councillors rem ained unconvinced by their arguments.

The seat w a s left open after Alam Alii resigned on Septem ber 3 b e cau se the university refused to grant him sp ecia l undergraduate sta­ tus.

Senate representative G o n z a lo Riva opened the debate b y attempt­ ing to a d d re ss c o n c e rn s ab out dem ocracy.

"O u r dem ocratic tradition is not on the line," he sa id . Riva argued that this w a s not a precedent-setting vote, and that the SSM U Constitution's authors intended for

C o uncil to consider circum stances before decid ing if a by-election is necessary. " W h y w ould they bave written that [section] in if they didn't think it w a s possible, on rare o cca sio n s, for the Society to fu nction ... without an individual being the president?" he sa id .

Environm ental C o m m issio n er Kim D 'S o u za , stating he w a s not rep­ resenting his office with his com­ ments, spoke to council from the gallery, questioned R iv a s interpreta­ tion of the clau se . H e reminded coun­ cil that former President Jerem y Farrell spoke to them on the intent of the Constitution's authors w hen N aeem Datoo resigned from the presidency and C o u n cil w a s face d with a sim ilar decision. "[Farrell] said that the sole rea­ son. the phrase w a s inserted w a s in the event a president should resign near the end of the year, or some other circum stance w h e re logistical

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It's easy to overlook C a n a d a 's racist past a n d history o f systemic oppression, ea sie r still to describe it as a thing o f the past. Though w e consider ourselves a progressive, o p e n -m in d ed p e o p le, past injustice cannot b e erased , n o r can present discrim ination b e muted a n d ig n o red . D iffe re n c e — A contentious topic, w hich alm ost alw ays even p roblem atic to talk ab out.

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EMILY HARRIS After a unified Faculty of Arts con­ vocation cerem ony last spring limited e ach graduate to tw o guests, M c G ill has d ecid ed that the traditional twocerem ony model is more efficient.

N ext spring's convocation w ill take p la c e in two parts, with the vale­ dictorian addressing both cerem onies.

The morning cerem ony w ill include stu­ dents w h o se m ajor concentrations lie in the H u m an ities, w h ile S o c ia l S cie n ce students w ill convocate in the afternoon. Students with tw o m ajor concentrations w ill graduate a c c o rd ­ ing to w h at they list a s their prim ary program .

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"M a n y Arts students ad vised our office in the spring that given the c h o ice between a two-guest limit and a two-convocation model for Arts, they had a very strong preference for two cerem onies," said Pauline Fiixio n e, an adm inistrative officer o rgan izing the spring 2 0 0 5 co nvo catio n . "Before reaching this decision w e explored the possibility of exp and ing the tent to accom m odate more guests, w hich has proven im possible."

M a n y graduating students w ere ang ered by the limited number of invi­ tations. Som e argued that this proce­ dure discrim inated ag ainst blended fam ilies, with more than tw o parents that w an ted to take part in the celeb ra­

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"From the moment w e concluded that w e would need to limit tickets for graduating Arts students, w e d e cid ed not to turn anyo ne a w a y , and w e did­ n't," Frixione sa id .

O rg a n ize rs tried to acco m m o ­ date a s m any guests a s possible by setting up "overflow rooms" with direct video feed from the cerem onies. Held in Leaco ck 1 3 2 , the video feed w a s prone to "hiccu ps," w hich caused m any fam ilie s to miss the actu al moments of grad uatio n, w h ile the screen rem ained frozen.

The decision to split the ceremo-

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Enrolment in Faculty of Arts larger than exp ected JENNIFER JETT Higher than expected enrolment in the Faculty of Arts this year could intensify the competition for future applicants a s w ell as create more challenges for students alread y enroled.

A ssociate Dean of Arts Enrica Q uaroni said the higher numbers are the result of two factors— a higher accep tance rate, and more accepted students choosing to attend M c G ill.

The Faculty of Arts agreed to admit 1 ,6 0 0 first7 e a r students this year, but ended up with 1 ,7 4 2 .

W h ile the number of applications w a s dow n, the accep tan ce rate increased from 4 4 to 5 2 per cent. Thirtymine per cent of accepted applicants enroled (see box]. "[The] increased yield this y e a r is the result of increased popularity of Arts as a cho ice of study for students of all ed uca­ tional backgrounds across North A m erica," said Kim Bartlett, director of admissions.

"This is combined with an increase in pop­ ularity of M cG ill University a s the study destination of cho ice for many U S high school students."

Rather than increasing by one per cent this y e a r as expected, the number of stu­ dents registering in Arts increased by 1 1 per cent, s a ia Z a c h Finkelstein, Arts Undergraduate Society vice-president a c a ­ dem ic. This unanticipated jump affects both current and future students, he said .

"B asica lly for the next four years, cap s are going to be w orse in classes, students aren't going to have as much one-on-one time with professors [and] the classes are going to be bigger, in the Faculty of Arts at least," he said.

Arts Senator G o n z a lo Riva suggested a short-term solution to problems like over­ crow ded classroom s.

"O n e w a y w e can half-fix it in the inter­ im is [to] speed up sp ace audits that are currently taking place in Arts [and] take the results to heart," Riva sa id . "If w e have more classes spread out, w e won't have a huge bulge in the middle of the d ay."

O n a grander scale , Riva sa id , the uni­ versity must recognize that students in all faculties suffer from large classes, cap p ed classes and lack of acce ss to instructors.

"The university, needs to commit more resources to getting more professors, if not more sp a c e ," he said.

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The higher enrolment could also affect prospective Arts students w ho haven't even ap p lied , a s they will likely find it more dif­ ficult to be accepted.

"Obviously, one w a y to lower our num­ bers is to raise the admission standards," Q uaroni sa id . "However, M cG ill's adm is­ sion standards have a lw a ys been high, and I think that only a slight increase will have the needed results."

Sp ecifically, admissions officers may raise the minimum grad e requirement.

"O n ly in some constituencies like the U S would w e also consider, a s w e a lw a ys have, test scores," Bartlett said .

Q uaroni ad ded that no single group of students—for instance, out-of-province or international students—will be dispropor­ tionately affected.

The standards for admission to Arts have a lread y increased since 2 0 0 1 , when the faculty admitted more than 1 ,8 0 0 stu­ dents. The increased Arts enrolment this year reverses a recent dow nsizing trend.

"The faculty had been trying to lower the number of admitted students after 2 0 0 1 , and w a s succeeding until this year," Q uaroni sa id . "It must be noted that even with the increase, w e are still below the 2 0 0 1 level."

Q uaroni said she will be closely moni­ toring the number of accepted applicants in future admissions cycles. Finkelstein, howev­ er, is concerned about monitoring adm is­ sions five or 10 years dow n the road.

"Quaroni's doing a great jo b ," he sa id . "M y problem w a s , w hat happens when she leaves?"

Riva pointed out that this particular reg­ istration anom aly is part of a ’ chronic prob­ lem.

“This is not an event. This is one small manifestation of the larger process—that is, that the university is underfunded," he said .

He said that the university is "putting the cart before the horse" by accepting more stu­ dents to receive more funding from the gov­ ernment.

Riva said this could be countered by lobbying the federal and provincial govern­ ments in addition to soliciting private dona­ tions.

"I don't think the university is mali­ cious," he ad d ed . "But the administration needs to change their policy so they won't have to use students as cash c o w s." ■

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A nightmare b eco m es a reality D A V ID M . NATAF W arm coffee m ay not be on sale that early, but Physiology 2 0 1 students still attend three 7 :3 5 a m lectures a w e e k. A certain silence and fpcus distinguishes this class from the rowdiness typical of Leacock 1 3 2 . As a professor lectures on protein deficiency, students quickly write dow n notes with m ilitarylike discipline.

This early-morning lecture is a result of increased enrolment in health-related programs, com bined with a lack of high-capacity rooms.

Students' Society Vice-President University Affairs and acting President A n d rew Bryan addressed the issue at a university Senate meet­ ing W ed n esd ay. Bryan took issue with M cG ill's lack of preparedness, citing an increase from about 6 0 0 to more than 1 ,0 0 0 students regis­ tered in PH YS 2 0 1 and an equivalent course, PH YS 2 0 9 . Scheduling the class at 7 :3 5 a m , Bryan sa id , is esp ecially problematic for students with children in d a yc a re or students w ho live far aw ay.

Provost Luc Vinet responded b y saying the enrolment increase w a s not a s dram atic a s Bryan claim ed, and ad ded that the administration can ­ not m icrom anage course enrolment.

"Admission is in the faculty and not specific to the program ," he said .

Students from other program s such as Kinesiology account for much of the increase, with the greatest increase occurring in Nursing, w hich s a w its enrolment rise from 5 5 to 1 1 2 .

Total enrolment in the two courses is now 9 5 0 .

In addition to the lack of sp a c e , Vinet said, the university would benefit from new software for scheduling classes.

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"I did jokingly suggest w e could rent the ballroom at the Ritz," said Dr. Ann W echsler, one of the professors teaching PH YS 2 0 1 and 2 0 9 .

The department, she sa id , had planned for enrolment increases in health-related professions such as Physiotherapy, but w a s caught off guard by the increase from Faculty of S cien ce programs such a s M icrobiology and Immunology.

"In August, it becam e obvious to us enrol­ ment in both the courses w a s going up," she sa id . "[It] didn't take long till the maximum of 6 4 0 would be excee d ed ."

Students w ho could not register for 2 0 9 w ere encouraged to take 2 0 1 instead. W echsler said the department did w hat it could to accom ­ modate students unable to attend the early lec­ ture.

“A ny student w h o has given us an indication of real hardship to attend the class, w e have accom m odated in 2 0 9 ," she sa id , citing a stu­ dent on the rowing team and another w ho had to drop her child off at d a ycare.

Recorded lectures from the early-morning class are also ava ila b le online, so students can listen to them at their convenience.

O n e student from the class said, the situation is not so b ad.

"I just finished C E G E P last M a y and I used to travel an hour and a half to get to school. For an 8 o 'clo ck class, that means taking the bus at 6 :3 0 in the morning. Since M c G ill is about an hour a w a y from my home, and class begins at 7 :3 0 , I w a k e up at the sam e time. A n yw ay, I w a s a lw a ys an early bird."

The physiology department will be meeting in O ctober to address the issue. ■ — With files from Jennifer Jettt

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$21 -million pumped into Faculty of Medicine KEVIN AFSHARI Q uebec's M inistry of Education recently committed $ 2 1 -million to M cG ill's Faculty of M ed icin e in order to increase the number of doc­ tors in the province.

According to the August 2 0 0 2 C a n a d ia n M ed ical Association Journal, the C o lleg e des M édecins du Q u é b e c estimated that the province needs an additional 1 ,0 0 0 doctors. Former provincial Health Minister François Legault put the number at about 4 4 0 .

According to Dr. Abraham Fuks, dean of the faculty of m edicine, enrolment in the faculty w a s at 1 0 7 students five years a g o and has grown to 1 7 2 students today.

The university is spending the money on a series of infrastructure projects that w ill accom m o­ date increasing enrolment in the faculty a s w ell as make M c G ill a more ap pealing cho ice.

Anatom y dissecting rooms and the histology

laboratory have been renovated, w hile upgrades are planned for lecture amphitheatres in the M cIntyre building. In addition, a high-tech surgi­ cal and clinical skills centre that uses mannequin simulation will be constructed.

The money is a one-time grant as opposed to a recurring budget allocation. Although the grant cam e from the provincial government, it w a s given with no conditions a s to how M cG ill should spend it.

Even though the $ 2 1 -million w ill not be used to further subsidize and lower tuition costs for m edical students, M e d ic a l Students' Society President M ahshad Darvish said that the changes w ill be effective in attracting more m edical stu­ dents, health students and residents to M cG ill, w hich in the long term will help relieve Q uebec's shortage of doctors.

"Last year w e w ere pretty close to cap acity," Darvish said . "N o w they have a new anatomy room and a new histology ro o m ... It makes M cG ill's im age much better." ■

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"S S M U is a dem ocracy. Think o f it as a third w o rld country— S S M U to n ia, if you w ill. If a legislative council w e re to call elections in S S M U to n ia — o r for that m atter in m y country, K e n y a — presents from G e o rg e D ubya w ould fol­

Continued from cover ny m eans that tickets will not be issued this year, although Frixione under­ scored that students should be consid­ erate and thoughtful when deciding how many guests to bring.

Frixione said that administrators m ade an effort to exam ine other ven­ ues that would be ab le to house all participants in one large ceremony, but no suitable location w a s found.

The Arts Undergraduate Society w a s contacted regarding the matter, but w a s unable to fully participate in the decision-making process.

"I w a s e-m ailed in M a y to a rra n g e a meeting with [M c G ill Secretary-G eneral] Robin G e lla r but w a s u n a vailab le,” said Rob Salerno, A U S president.

"The e-mail did not seem urgent," he sa id . "W e w ere given the chance to be consulted, but it is very difficult to solicit student opinion in M ay."

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Salerno said that at fours hours long, the single cerem ony w a s sub­ stantially longer than split ceremonies had been in the past and that many students had com plained about hav­ ing to v ie w the p ro ceed in g s on

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G raduates a re no lo n g e r lim ite d to tw o guest invites each. tion had a difficult choice to make and that the university has a fair position, although "it may not be the right one."

"If there w a s rabid student oppo­ sition to splitting the ceremony [the administration] might reconsider, but at this point there are no grounds to do

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screens because they w e re seated so far from the stage.

G ra d u a te Arts students w e re exclud ed from the Arts cerem ony because of its size , convocating with Education students instead.

Frixione said that the organizers are studying and developing methods in w hich students w ill have the possi­ bility to choose the cerem ony they w ish to attend. ■ The fin al d e tails w ill be announced on www.m cgill.ca/convo-

Students' Society Council convened on Thursday, but had to nominate a tem­ porary speaker before any business could be conducted. Nathan Taylor w as cho­ sen by the Nominating Committee last spring to take on the role, but he handed in his resignation to Vice-President Communications & Events M ark Sw ard on September 14 citing the need to focus on his classes.

"The workload they require w a s substantially heavier than that which I had anticipated in the Spring [when I w as selected], he said.

Former Speaker Andrew Bryan, now vice-president university affairs and act­ ing president, is currently reviewing applications along with the Nominating Committee. He said a decision will be made before October 7 , the date of the next Council meeting.

Finding a long-term replacement, however, may prove more difficult than anticipated. Taylor is the third speaker to resign in the past year.

See www.mcgilltribune.com for the full story.

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C H R IS T IN E C U L L E N niversity students are encouraged to take an active role in politics and make their voices and opinions heard by those in high places.

W h e n they see that something is wrong in the world they are told to rise up in protest, and then whatever is wrong will be m ade right. But just how effec­ tive are political protests at influencing those in

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M c G ill students have a long history of partici­ pating in political demonstrations on a range of issues. Students have shown themselves ready to support m any causes, from the steps taken last year by the C oalition for Action on Food Services to pre­ vent the corporatization of university cafeterias to protests against the w a r in Iraq.

The C A F S cam p aign , which included petitions and organized boycotts of the privately-run cafete­ rias, initially ap p eared successful. In M arch the uni­ versity ag reed to freeze all cafeteria contracts until 2 0 0 5 . M em bers of C A F S , however, claim the uni­ versity broke that promise earlier this month when it handed control of the M c G ill Bookstore café to C hartw ells, a private food service provider.

So w a s the C A F S cam paign a failure, or is the reality that political demonstrations simply have no effect on decisions m ade by policy-makers?

Justin N o b le, U 3 International Development Studies and Political Scien ce, said that demonstra­ tions are an effective w a y to bring issues into the public light.

"There are journalists ready and willing to cover [the issues], but they need something to report on," he sa id . "Something has to happen, so w e give them events to cover."

Students' Society Vice-President Community and Governm ent Daniel Friedlaender also said that demonstrations can result in change.

"If done properly and not too often and with a specific goal in mind, demonstrations can be effec­ tive," he said .

Friedlaender organized the M c G ill branch of the current "C a ll your M N A " cam p aign , asking stu­ dents to phone local members of Q u eb e c's N ational Assem bly to.protest cuts to financial aid and the possible deregulation of international tuition.

"This is the first step for informing the student body and getting the m essage out to the M N A s as part of a province-wide cam p aig n , he said .

This step of making students a w a re of the issue before staging a demonstration m ay make it more effective, said Friedlaender. " W e need to make sure that when w e do [hold a demonstration], w e get many people out and get the m essage ac ro ss,” he said U 3 S o cial W o rk student Stan Kupferschmidt ag reed that demonstrations can ach ieve their goals w hen they are part of a larger process of political action.

"It is a process that works in conjunction with various other actions, and it is the interaction of these actions that leads to social ch an g e," he said.

Other types of action, he sa id , range from let­ ter-writing cam p aign s and petitions to calling mem­ bers of Parliament.

W h ile some people sa y political demonstra­ tions do influence decision-makers, Political Science Professor Stuart Soroka has a different view . He said that the m edia play a key role in political action, and it is up to the m edia to make a demon­

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stration effective or not.

"M ost demonstrations only have impact on a limited number of people, those physically there," he sa id . "Their c a p a c ity for facilitating change depends on the amount of m edia co verage and people w atching the m edia."

C ritics sa y that university students protest and demonstrate too often, which makes demonstrations less useful a s tools for inciting policy changes.

Soroka said that when protests and other demon­ strations are held too frequently, they becom e less

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newsworthy.

"There needs to be a limited number of demon­ strations for demonstrations to be more impressive in order to keep the media's attention, he said .

Friedlaender ag reed that students sometimes demonstrate too often.

"I think w e 'v e got to be careful not to overuse it, and to focus our energies w hen most needed, he said .

Others said that students at M cG ill do not in fact protest a s much a s they should.

"O veruse? At M c G ill, no. I might even sa y w e don't do it enough," said A n gela Giannotti, U3 Political Scien ce.

Her thoughts w e re echoed by Kupferschmidt.

"I don't think there could ever be too much political demonstration at a university," he sa id . I find it significantly saddening th at... M cG ill does not have an y kind of political fire. ■

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"This year we simply cannot afford to have a byelection. “ —Andrew Bryan, Acting President and Vice President University Affairs ell, they've done it. A ndrew Bryan and the other executives have bam boozled a neo­ phyte S S M U C ouncil into believing that the student union does not need a President to rep­ resent its interests in the coming year. This represents a coup for Bryan, w hose Cheney-like maneuvers have granted him the status of "acting president" for the foreseeable future. At the sam e time, B ryan s gambit also represents foolishness and political mis­ chief of the highest order.

Despite assurances that it is all for the best, Bryan's power-grab harms students in a number of w a y s. The most obvious of these is that, by operat­ ing without a nominate figurehead, SS M U immedi­ ately diminishes its clout vis-à-vis numerous external actors. Sending an "acting" anyone to meet with the government, media or provincial lobbies is an invitation not to be taken seriously. The very word "acting" has an inherently transitory quality to it, and suggests to external players that SS M U is oper­ ating on an ad-hoc and provisional basis. Students will suffer from this perceived lack of authority at the head of their union.

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Second, the ab sen ce of a President means that the buck n o w stops effectively no w h ere.

R esponsibilities trad itionally assig n ed to the President are now diffused to the various VPs on a catch-as-catch-can basis, thereby ensuring that it will

be difficult to locate accountability anyw here. This pow er vacuum also ensures that future collisions and infighting between the VP's are all but certain.

Finally (I could go on), there is the obvious objection: the rookie Council's decision leaves A n drew Bryan with an unhealthy amount of power.

Bryan's present position of VP University Affairs is a lread y an influential one, giving him extensive con­ trol over committee appointments and acce ss to the Administration, and over aca d e m ic and library pol­ icy. Take these pow ers, along with Bryan's proce­ dural mastery o f every rule and by-law on cam pus, and you have a person a lread y in a position of sig­ nificant influence; to ad d the Presidential portfolio to this sphere of control is simply dangerous.

I have no objection to A n drew Bryan - I voted for him. Students are fortunate to have someone of his dedication and intelligence devoted to SS M U despite the fact that he could easily m ake four times the sa la ry elsew here. Unfortunately, Bryan has com e to believe so entirely in his own infallibility that he has disregarded the needs of students in order to arrogate an unprecedented degree of pow er to himself.

There is seven months left in the school year and S S M U needs a president. It is time for Council and Mr. Bryan to repair their initial mistake and call an election. ■

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M u sic R epresentative A shley Becker rejected Bryan's reasoning.

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VLADIMIR EREMIN Hold those placards high: councillors almost unanimously voted to not hold a by-election after much discussion.

C o u n c il also discu ssed VicePresident University Affairs A ndrew Bryan's legitim acy if he continued as Acting President. ' "I'm concerned that som eone w ho w a s not directly mandated to be the ch ie f spokesperson of our S o c ie ty ... will be negotiating our letter of agreement [with the university]" said C lubs Representative A lex Kemeny.

Vice-President C om m unications and Events M ark S w ard disagreed with Kemeny.

"Sure, there's not a president w ho has been elected by all the stu­ dents, but w e're still elected by all the

the M c G ill adm inistration, and whether a new president would be an effective negotiator.

"The circum stances of this y e a r ... dictate that w e simply cannot afford to have a by-election," said Bryan, echo­ ing the opinion of m any councillors.

"There is no w a y that [a new ] presi­ dent would be ab le to learn every­ thing they need to know to conduct those negotiations properly."

Bryan also spoke ag ainst the pos­ sibility of removing the negotiations from a newly elected president's port­ folio.

"You would essentially be saying

'You don't have a president, so w e can't negotiate with yo u'? W e will be on higher ground should w e have a formally elected president, because that person will represent all students."

In contrast to last year, many councillors w alked into the debate m andated by their faculty associations to vote against a by-election. O nly Becker and Kem eny voted ag ainst the motion and tw o co uncillo rs a b sta in e d .»

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A N D R E W BAUER Speaking to a Religious Studies class on Thursday, a former Supreme Court justice argued that homosexuality and homosexual parenting are inap­ propriate subjects to be taught to small children in public schools.

Justice C h a rle s Gonthier, w h o retired in 2 0 0 3 , methodically defend­ ed his dissenting opinion in the Cham berlin v. Surrey School District c a se of 2 0 0 2 . H e reasoned that it w a s the Surrey School Board's right to ban three books that dealt with the subject

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of same-sex parented fam ilies, includ­ ing "O n e D ad, Two D ad s, Brown D a d s, Blue D ad s" from a K ind erg arten/G rad e 1 class.

"Primary responsibility of educa­ tion is with the parents," he said.

"Hom osexual parents are not in the general experience of four-tofiveyearolds and [it] is therefore left up to the parents to teach."

Gonthier, one of the more contro­ versial supreme court justices in the last d e ca d e for his conservative interpreta­ tions of the law , met with criticism from several students in the class. His idea of "cognitive dissonance"— that children

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would be confused by the morals taught at home and the morals taught at school^ vas attacked as an argu­ ment against small children learning about tolerance and homosexuality.

Ech oing C h ie f Justice Beverly M acLachlin's opinion that "tolerance is a lw a ys age-appropriate," one student said that teaching young children about homosexuality would remove an y social b a g g a g e that could lead to lack of age-appropriateness.

"There are some differences that are part of reality and w e have to deal with them," Gonthier responded. "The art of the la w is deciding w hat can be

can prevent the situation from escalat­ ing into uncontrollable violence. O n ce you have uncontrollable violence, the costs of intervention can become very high."

W hether to use the word geno­ cide in cases like the recent violence in Sudan's Darfur region boils down to common sense, he said.

ch an g e d and w h a t should be itive la w and within the scope of the chang ed. O n e thing that should not . Charter of Rights and the Schools Act, chang e is paternity." groups such a s the C atholic C ivil Rights The issue of tolerance towards League have claim ed that the ruling homosexuality clearly divided the class, denies a vo ice for parents with conserpitting moral and religious arguments vative moral values.

Primary responsibility of education is with the parents. against legal and secular ones.

The Supreme Court ruling has sparked debate, mainly between reli­ gious groups and gay-rights organiza­ tions. W h ile gay-rignts advocates main­ tained the ruling w a s a product of pos-

Gonthier underscored the limit on personal freedoms that he sees in the ruling.

"Tolerance is important," he said, "but it shouldn't be a negation of val­ ues." ■

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BENJI FELDMAN Political Science Professor Arash A b iza d e h introduced A khavan as someone w ho experienced discrimina­ tion at an early a g e , being from a minority population of followers of the Bah a'i faith, in a predominantly Shi'a Muslim Iran. These early experiences b e cam e the platform from w hich Akhavan developed an interest in bat­ tling human rights ab uses. M ost notably, he has contributed to the pros­ ecution strategies of former Serbian dic­ tator Slobodan M ilosevic and former Bosnian Serb lead er Radovan K arad zic.

Akhavan reflected upon the judi­ cial apparatus of the U N and the need for organic changes as opposed to change inflicted from the top down.

"The International Court of Justice and International Crim inal Court should have compulsory universal jurisdiction," pertaining to non-domestic disputes, he said. Additionally, he suggested that the veto powers of the Security Council either become irrelevant or be removed in order to eliminate the paralysis often faced by the U N .

W ith regard to outside involve­ ment in humanitarian crises, Akhavan em phasized prevention over interven­ tion.

"A lot of these conflicts can be pre­ vented through early intervention of a nonJethal nature," he said. "For exam ­ ple, preventative diplom acy [and] pre­ ventative deployment of peacekeepers

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"W e don't w ant to be sitting here having professorial debates about the definition of genocide when w e see something which an y sensible person could say requires immediate action," he said. "W e have enough faculties as human beings to make those kind of judgment calls. For exam ple, Darfur is a situation where it is feasible, given the geography and given the context."

S o w hat explains the inaction?

"Part of it is the moral bankruptcy of political leaders— it's just not impor­ tant [to them]," Akhavan'said. "Part of it is that people don't demand action from their governments.”

Akhavan also stressed the impor­ tance of middle powers in preventing human rights abuses. C a n a d a is in an invaluable position, he said , to advo­ cate for increased measures to protect individuals from torture, rape and geno­ cide.

Stephan Hachem i, son of the late M ontreal photojournalist Z ah ra Kazem i, w a s present for the lecture.

Kazem i w a s arrested in Iran for taking photographs of a student protest out­ side of a prision and died in custody under disputed circumstances . in July 2 0 0 3 . A k h ava n , w h o is actively involved in the case , expressed his dis­ m ay with the difficulties the family is fac­ ing in attempting to resolve the issue with the conservative Iranian regime, describing it a s "a human rights litmus test." ■

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Unlike the other residences, NRH is run by Ancillary Services. The addi­ tional increase in NRH fees more accu­ rately reflects costs, said Director of Ancillary Services Alan C h arad e .

"The initial fee structure did not cover the full purchase price, the reno­ vation, and operating costs incurred," C harad e said, "nor any of the work needed to address extraordinary dam­ ages experienced during th^ first year of occupancy."

M any students do not mind the higher fees.

"I think it's worth it because I'm from the States, where universities are more expensive anyw ays, so my par­ ents are willing to pay the extra money for my room," said Jackie Cohen, UO Science, a resident at N RH. Cohen's roommate, Elizabeth Cum m ergen, U1 Political Scien ce, agreed.

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Building m aintenance and the responsibility to pay back loans and mortgages were the main reasons for the higher fees in the other residences, said Florence Tracy, Director of Residences.

"The fees are increased almost every year due to inflation and the fact that w e are responsible for our own repairs,” Tracy said.

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"W hen NRH w a s opened, w e experienced an extraordinarily higher number of vacancies than w e had antic­ ipated," she said. "The sudden influx of 6 3 0 rooms [at N RH ] has meant that w e haven't ended up filling all our rooms, so w e've had a loss of budget." ■

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"If a building director has decid­ ed to put a cam era in an a re a , w e don't really have control over that," she said. "In the past, people have had their own cam eras, that they've put in lo b b ie s... They've hooked them up to VCR's and they've been controlled in the building."

This lack of central coordination has led to more cam eras on campus than can be accounted for by a single person.

Savard said that the cam eras monitored by Security Services are patched into one network, which feeds into a dispatch room at the security offices in the Ferrier building.

Leacock building services employ­ ee Rico Recene said that the coverage w as to protect equipment.

"Most of the classrooms now, they [have] got projectors in the centres,

and those projectors have alread y been stolen in the past, so the cam eras are there for protection," he said , adding that the feeds are located "at Security."

An ongoing attempt is being m ade to streamline most of the cam ­ eras on cam pus and link them up to the single feed at Security Services, provid­ ed they are new enough to be compat­ ible with the system, said Savard.

Images provided by the cam eras are recorded on a two-week loop on digital video recorders. Some of the cam eras record w hen they detect motion during quiet hours, w hile others record at intervals of a few seconds. In locations w here traffic is heavy, such as in the Redpath library, they record in real time.

"There is no area on campus that is constantly surveilled. A cam era is a deterrent," said S a vard , w ho also m ade it clear that none of the cam eras anyw here on campus are hidden from view . ■

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c it iz e n s ' g r o u p s s t a r t lis te n in g D A N Y H O R O V IT Z A "citizen's ag end a" to change the w a y municipalities are governed w a s discussed at the third Citizen's Summit on the Future of M ontreal, held from. September 11 to 19 . The event w a s organized by Alternatives and la Société d e développement communau­ taire de Montréal (SodecM ), two non­ governmental organizations identified a s "non-partisan" by Pascoal G om es, one of the organizers and a represen­ tative of So d ecM .

The id ea behind the citizen's ag end a is to influence the next munici­ pal election, likely to be held in Novem ber 2 0 0 5 . The summit w a s held now, said G o m es, because "it takes time for people to organize and solidify a citizens' a g en d a."

In the long run, G o m es said he wants to see a change in how the municipality party system works.

"W hen preparing for elections, federal parties have conventions and set the a g e n d a ... At the municipal level, parties don't have such internal events," he sa id . "It's a couple of friends w ho sit down and come up with a platform."

The summit is to "address the lack

of discussion in drafting priorities for cit­ izens" and create an internal debate in the city, he said.

G o in g into the summit, a first draft of the ag end a had alread y been writ­ ten, but G om es said that it has since been changed based on suggestions brought up in the workshops.

Betw een Frid ay and Sunday, 5 3 8 participants showed up for the event, including some elected officials.

M ayor Tremblay attended to answer questions in a town hall.

For students, a sp ecial workshop w a s created entitled "The Place of Youth in Local Dem ocracy." A panel of

youth, whom she said are being alien­ ated by the m edia.

G om es said the best thing for youth to do is ap ply the "think globally, act locally ap p ro ach ," explaining that by getting involved at the grass-roots municipal level, they can have an effect on the larger picture.

He admitted that the citizen's ag end a is a left-wing document.

"W e're not defending corporate interests or the large com panies that have no interest in dem ocracy in M ontreal," he said.

The strategy is to reach out to as many communities as possible, he

W h e n p rep arin g for elections, federal parties have conventions an d set the a g e n d a ... A t the m unicipal level, parties don't have such internal events, it's a couple of friends w h o sit dow n an d come up w ith a platform .

experts discussed the extent to which young people are involved in urban reform, and w hy youth seem to be so alienated from municipal political insti­ tutions.

'The youth must be better repre­ sented in a democratic society," said M élanie Benard, from the Centre d'ex­ ercice à la citoyenneté. She stressed the need for greater leadership among

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Look up in the corner.

Security cam eras on campus are part of a patchwork whose feeds vari­ ously lead to the Students' Society, M cG ill Security Services and individ­ ual building directors. In the Shatner University Centre, students are forewqrned by signs on the front door that read, "You are under security surveillance." These signs w ere posted following numerous acts of van­ dalism last semester.

SS M U Vice-President O perations Anthony Di C a rlo said that the signs are a deterrent.

"I think the sign works because it says th a t'w e are paying attention now," he said. "If som ethingTiappens, right a w a y w e'll go to the security cam ­ eras."

Gert's pub w a s robbed over Labor D ay w eekend. However, Since the cam eras did not cover a broad enough area to provide an y useful im ages, SSM U ad ded more of them. " W e built on w hat w e had in the past," said Di C a rlo . " W e can only make decisions on any new cam eras w e might install based on what's alread y been done."

All the cam eras in Shatner are connected to a feed at an undisclosed location in the SS M U offices.

The rest of the campus is hardly different.

C am eras can be found in the tun­ nel leading from the basement of Leacock to the Redpath Library. At the doors of the M cC onnell building, cam ­ eras fa c e rue University. Still others are

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So d ecM and Alternatives will be pushing this ag end a until the next elec­ tion by instituting a public educational program that involves "more work­ shops to provide more information." ■ For more information, call 2 8 1-

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Tw o fem ale M anag em ent stu­ dents have died a s a result of a car accid en t that occurred on Friday.

The students w e re travelling to Q u e b e c C ity with the M c G ill ch ap ­ ter of A IE S E C , an internatio nal organizatio n that facilitates intern­ ship e x c h a n g e s . M em b ers w e re driving tw o rented van s to a region­ al conference at Université Laval sch e d u le d to take p la c e from Septem ber 2 4 to 2 6 .

S ix M c G ill students and a sin­ g le C o n c o rd ia A IE S E C m em ber w e re in the van that w a s involved in the accid en t. Three of the M c G ill stu­ dents remain in hospital, w h ile the tw o students that w e re confirm ed to have been w ea rin g seat belts w e re released with minor injuries.

A m ass w a s held a t the N e w m an C entre Su nd ay for one of the students, w h o died instantly at the scen e. The other student, w ho w a s in a co m a, died early M o n d ay.

A IE S E C M c G ill w ill release a statement this w ee k.

—Jennifer Jett, Laura Sàba and Lisa Varano

The Strathcona M u sic building cafeteria has chang ed hands, result­ ing in increased prices and shorter hours. ,A new franchise o w n e r took over last spring, but the cafete ria is still operated b y Veg giram a.

Students have seen an a v e ra g e 15 to 2 0 per cent increase in prices for most of the fare, sa id M usic U n d e rg ra d u a te Students' A sso c ia tio n President D ave M atthew s. In ad ditio n, the cafeteria now closes at 3pm instead of 8pm , inconveniencing som e M u sic stu­ dents. Rehearsals, ensem bles and other evening requirements mean that they are in the building w ell into the evening.

M atth ew s said that students w e re m ade a w a re of the ch an g e two months after it had occurred, and that the process lacked trans­ parency.

"This is symptomatic of an over­ all resistance to student consultation on the part of the university," he sa id . "A n cillary S e rvices in particu­ lar needs to start a dialo g ue with stu­ dents in regards to this issue."

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e voted. It w a s unanimous. W e will not be featuring a byelection editori­ al this year. Although w e generally do see the merits of such an end eav­ our, w e don't feel they ap p ly in this particular instance. Yes, w e w ant to serve our student body by prioritizing its interests. Accordingly, w e are choosing w hat w e feel is best for them: careful, wellcalculated disregard for their concerns, itch for knowl­ ed ge and overall sense of cam pus pride. Instead, w e will be shouldering five major issues in this editorial, so as to prove to those w ho aren't paying attention that w e do indeed have that capacity. Too arrogant a plan, you sa y? W e call it ambitious.

Seriously though, do w e have to tackle this issue a g a in ? Do w e have to needlessly occupy your time as a logical, rational individual by em phasizing just how illogical and irrational it w a s for council to choose not to hold a by-election .for a new Students' Society president? "Yes, the presidential position is very important and w e must have one, just not under these particular circum stances"— it is all about the

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sound, consistent argumentation at this school. It is like someone from Florida saying, "Yes, during a hurri­ can e, shelters are essential to survival but w e don't need one this time around." Naturellement.

Here's another possible favourite: "If w e have an election, student apathy will make the results m eaning­ less, so w e should just not have a president and then next spring, students will have confidence in the vot­ ing procedure a g a in ." Let us make one thing even more painfully clear: apathetic students cannot be bothered with campus politics; they have no interest in w ho is councillor and w ho is president. A s far as they are concerned, they do not see w hat the Students' Society does for them and they do not care to. That said , there are thousands of us w ho, pathetic a s w e m ay seem, do care. W h y should the apathet­ ic bunch ruin the process for the rest of us? Is SS M U that puerile? Does it need a reminder that this is not like opting not to throw yourself a birthday party because you are afraid the cool kids will not com e?

Last Thursday's council w a s anything but a mildmannered p ro /co n discussion. Theories of dem ocra­ cy, the Am erican constitution, C alifornia recalls and the framers' intentions w ere all mentioned as the one­

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la s t T h u r s d a y ) sided argument raged on. The peanut g a lle ry —or chopped liver as w e are henceforth consid ered—had quite a bit to say. But the made-up minds of the coun­ cillors would not be sw a y e d . This is not last year, they argued; w e have confidence in our current execs, they m aintained; no new bie could pull this off, they alleged. Assumptions had the upper hand. Students do not w ant another election, no VP will run for the position. The claim s got as swollen as the heads they cam e from— it w a s not pretty, w e assure you.

The fact of the matter is, council overstepped its boundaries, and there is am ple proof. Im agine, if you w ill, that would-be councillors had cam paigned by hollering, "If elected I will remove your democratic right to vote for a president and make the decision for you." It is sad to think that only when dem ocracy is truly needed does it get the proverbial boot.

N o w no one is saying A ndrew Bryan won't make a good acting president. H e does not, howev­ er, have written permission from the university admin­ istration allow ing him to sign the letter of agreement.

SSM U only spoke to the Students' Society lawyer. But w e can all rest assured that the administration won't try to twist the student body around its little finger, so it is not like there is a precedent. C o u g h ... cats, e r— cough.

O n a related note of bewilderment, how can councillors argue that the by-election question and the viability of the presidential seat are two separate issues, when they are inextricably joined at the hip? If SS M U wants to eliminate the presidential position, fine. But they should at least go about it through the accepted channels, with the Constitutional By-law Review committee considering the issue carefully in time for the next election. W e should not be choosing, essentially on a whim , to abolish the position of pres­ ident mid-year.

There should be a by-election, even if solely to relieve the dullness that is fly-on-the-wall S S M U report­ ing. Slibel and the Red Herring could team up for a rollicking good bout of cam pus gossipry. W e could write an actual editorial rather than half-heartedly w e a v e our frustrations into a w e b of slapdash obser­ vations. Cam p us would be covered in fluorescent posters that severely clash with the autumn leaves and fallen referendum sheets. Sadly, SSM U doesn't see it that w a y . W e need a leader, not a consortium—there is no one to say, "the buck stops here." Yet will an y of the executives, now buried under one and a fifth port­ folios, be ab le to see the bigger picture? W ith a lick and a promise, they assure us. N o w that's demo­ cracy. ■

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hese m ay sound like sentences uttered by children playing a live­ ly gam e of Halo or Duke Nukem on their video gam e console.

But thanks to the latest décision by U S C ongress, these words can be spoken by anyone in the United States.

O k a y , m aybe that is a little far-fetched. But it is worth noting, because the recent non-renewal of a 10-year assault w eap o ns ban in the U S means that anyone with a license to carry a handheld w eap o n can now acce ss one of 1 9 previously outlawed firearms. In 1 9 9 3 , President Bill Clinton signed Senator Dianne Feinstein's (DC alifo rnia) bill into law . It banned the sale of 19 specific semi-auto­ matic w eap o ns and ammunition clips of 1 0 rounds or more. Even ultra right-wing former President Ronald Reagan urged C ongress to pass the ban into law .

Thus, w e are led to question, "w hy in the world would G e o rg e W . Bush's government not renew the ban?" C learly, there is no rea­ son w h y any Am erican actually needs an A K -47. Do w e w an t to encourage people to rob banks and murder their neighbours?

President Bush might write off this legislation by invoking the constitutional amendment that all Am ericans have the right to bear arm s. After all, Am erican citizens need to be ab le to overthrow a tyrannical government that becom es oppressive to the majority of people. O f course, this line of reasoning is ironic in this case , because there are more people than ever w ho w ant to overthrow the current administration, but this legislation is most definitely not direct­ ed at them. And besides, when the new ly independent states ratified the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, there w ere no assault w eap o n s. B ack then, it could take up to several minutes to load your ave rag e musket or Pirate Flintstone pistol.

But really, w hat is all this ta|k about constitutional rights and pro­ tecting your fam ily and whatnot—w e should all know w hat this issue is really about. I'll give you a clue: it starts with an "M ," and rhymes with funny.

Yes, it is an election year. And running for President sure costs an awful lot of money. It sure would help if thousands of gun manu­ facturers g a ve the Republican cam p aign several billion dollars.

Hmm, ho w could Bush get gun manufacturers to shell out that much cash ? I know: H o w about making sure they can get their killing m achines that w ere previously banned b a ck on the open market.

That'll work!

So , w h y do w e , as M cG ill students, really c a re about this issue? W e ll, for one thing, thousands of M cG illia n s' fam ilies live in the U S . Knowing that your parents and siblings could be held up with a semi-automatic rifle is not a very comforting thought. M ore than ever, this legislative inaction makes me proud to be C a n a d ia n .

N ot so much because of an y specific C a n a d ia n values, but because I am really afraid of gunsl And in light of the multitude of shootings that have been perpetrated downtown over the last few w eeks, I am thankful that vicious assault w eap o ns are not readily a v a ila b le in this country.

Im agine if the thugs that w ere involved in the shooting that occurred a few w eeks ag o along the M a in — our own backyard — had assault w eap o n s, the likes of w hich can now be found on Am erican streets thanks to good 'ol Mr. Bush and his cronies. C a n you im agine the carn ag e that could have resulted had people been firing five clips per second?

If Am ericans at M c G ill needed one more reason to get their absentee ballot in for the upcoming election, this is it. N ext time you hook up Halo on your Xbox or P S 2, remember that though w e all love video gam es, w e should not live inside of one ■

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D ear Diary, This will be my last entry. It turns out that it's not the events of my life that m ake me confused, depressed, anti-social and sleep deprived. Really, it's you. At least, that's w hat the latest hotshot psychologists have to say.

Maybe if I throw my diary away I'll have more friends.

That's right, darling diary, apparently, writing in you is the sure-fire w a y to screw myself over. Two British psychologists asked 1 10 diary-keeping students and 4 5 "normal" kids how they felt on a d a ily b asis, and it w a s the d ia ry toters w ho admit­ ted to feeling "generally crappy" about themselves and their lives.

This, most definitely, is scientific proof that if I stop trying to feel better by privately venting my feelings to an inanimate object, I will be a happier person. There is nothing to be said about the relief that comes from releasing all my ang er and frus­ tration, as I now know that I m ay happen upon those pages, read them, and be even more unhappy, sleepless and socially inept than I w a s already.

It matters not that I am a writer and need my diary. Ernest H em ing w ay carried a little M oleskin notebook everyw here he went and won a N obel Prize for Literature. So w hat if he did happen to marry four times and w a s a suicidal drunk?

Really now, a study of 1 5 5 w hole living, breathing stu­ dents must be conclusive. Esp ecially since the number of stu­ dents in each category w a s not even remotely proportional.

They can't possibly go wrong if they interview few er than 2 0 0 students w ho are likely homesick, stressed and lonely, and extrapolate from these comprehensive accounts?

Virginia W o o lf did keep a d ia ry obsessively. N ever mind, I don't w an t to continue for fear that my words m ay lead me to the closest river.

Don't get me w rong, diary, I am not blaming you for my^ social failures. There is a ch an ce that it is not you that makes me a "bleak" person. There is a chance that I w a s a "bleak" person to begin with, and that you are a mere symptom of my pathetic existence. M a y b e if I throw you a w a y I'll have more friends. W h o needs those memories of my year in Paris, or that trip to M o ro cco , an y w a y ? It's not like I would w an t to relive the best times of my life. I might get so nostalgic about the view from the C a p e Town hotel I once stayed in that I will throw myself off a balcony.

And so, I am left with no cho ice but to burn y o u — all 7 5 6 volumes of yo u — just to m ake sure that I don't join the ranks of the "generally crap p y." W o w , psychology, the wonders you have done for me lately. ■

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Deconstructing the facade

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b re tt.s c h re w e @ m a il.m c g ill.c a n time, countless w ays of life have risen, flourished, and fallen; some are remembered vividly as models of virtue or as cautionary tales, while others endure only as obscure synapses in the collective uncon­ scious. Common to all that persist in conscious memo­ ry is a canon of stories, myths of creation, and fables of morality and wisdom inexorably intertwined into the fabric of the sacred landscape within which they evolve.

O ver millennia, cultures with an inherent ethic of sustainability have never forgotten their mythological foundations, notably the Inuit and their offering of O Siem to the memory of ancestors and Raven. This is done for a deceptively simple reason— myths remind a nation from where it cam e and to where it goes. To know the place from which one comes offers huge ramifications for ecology; when everyday life occurs in space charged with meaning, a sacrosanct respect for honouring that land and preserving its life-sustaining qualities is engendered.

Deforestation becomes anathema if one taps into the wisdom of a tree, rather than only the maple sap within. As Native storyteller and family therapist Terence Tafoya put it, “If every morning you have to go to the river for water, you will never pollute it"; a fact of everyday life that drips with holiness if that water is, for example, the G an ges.

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Consider contemporary Western culture, a w a y of being that has spread like a flood across the world after the dam of the Berlin W a ll broke, with its idol of strict separation of religion and state; a construct that draw s its strength partially from a misinterpretation of Jesus's saying: "G ive to C ae sar what is C a e s a rs and to G o d what is God's."

Instead of recognizing that participation in either/or holds ramifications for both, this pointed decoupling of the immanent from the transcendent has marginalized spirituality, giving culture carte blanche to act in w ays resonating with connection to the whole only when it suits the summum bonum of that cultural system. W hereas for sustainable cultures, the surround­ ing environment is the inviolable, living temple, for a culture of unrestrained growth and consumerism the temple is just a building where an idea dwells. As long as the idea persists, the building can be sold.

However, ideas and values draw their meaning as much from the practice of everyday life as they simul­ taneously grant purpose to it.

Indeed, the acquiescence to pricing the environ­ ment has allowed the tentacles of commodification to pervade all aspects of the everyday, including inroads into basic needs. Price tags abound for prostitution, shelter, air, and even water, called by some the oil of the 21st century. A second w ave follows suit; after inF

tial pricing, the ethic of sustainability and intrinsic worth is stripped aw ay, much like a well-made car junked into easily transferable parts. O ne need only look at the water riots in Bolivia or the deforestation of the w orlds rainforests for a bitter taste of this. Life itself stands within reach of the novwubiquitous pricing gun—cloning of humans is beginning to lose its stigma as subtle inroads are made, further eroding ethical restraint by shifting cultural norms.

W ith the loss of intimate connection to the envi­ ronment, w e undercut the system that maintains our ability to make that conscious choice in the first place.

Western culture is not spiritually bankrupt, but its pieces have nonetheless been disconnected from each other, a phenomenon that separates us from sus­ tainable culture systems. W hereas those have main­ tained rich libraries of stories and myths integrating the land and the people, our stories have succumbed to the Dew ey Decimal System. W hile'initially it would be easier to locate a book on spirituality, a book on envi­ ronment, and a book on economics, it is much harder to pull them into a coherent whole from which to oper­ ate. Perhaps then, the fate of Earth depends not on what w e read, but how w e read it—for knowledge only, or for deeper meaning. ■

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ast year I attended a panel discussion on queer identity and equity issues where participants were asked, "W ho here identifies as an activist?" I w as struck by how few people put up their hands—and even those few did so slowly and hesitatingly. O ne indi­ vidual stood out in my mind when he said, "I don't real­ ly consider myself an activist... I see myself more as a shit disturber." W h at exactly underlies this sentiment? I don't claim to know. But it looks like M cGill's political culture wants to ensure the term "activist" is reserved just as bad a fate, as "politician."

John F. Kennedy put it far better than I when he said, "Mothers may still want their favourite sons to grow up to be President, but... they do not want them to become politicians in the process.” The implication is that most politicians are willing to do just about anything to get ahead in the world. Scheming, manoeuvring, duplicity and all-round shallowness are par for the course. • O f course, most of us will acknowledge that there's the occasional statesman of impeccable integri­ ty, whose drive to affect change has not suffered the corrosion of conventional politics. And when there's no such politician running, we'll settle for Paul Martin or John Kerry. Anyway, the point is that politics as a craft has undeniably taken a hit, and it seems that the

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activism is also being criticized, albeit in a different of sentiment has been around since Socrates, and it still hasn't gotten anywhere. way.

Still, there's reason for hope. I think many student W hereas politicians are disdained for being selfseeking, activists are in some quarters being derided for politicians at M cG ill are people who genuinely want to making noise while failing to affect change. Unlike the make life better for students in some w ay, even if they politician's case, no one is questioning the activist's zeal can't all agree how. And as for activists, the students on to fight evil and do good. But the activist's reputation for this campus who dedicate their time and energy to effectiveness has been seriously dented. And so, from causes that matter to them alw ays impress me. Student the ashes of the politician and the activist, rises the activists and politicians do make a difference, both in splendid phoenix of the shit disturber, the one who faces the world at large and in changing policy on campus. up to the moral outrages of the day in a w a y that is truly The environmental policy, the nearly completed harass­ ment arid anti-discrimination policy, and C A FS are effective.

Forgive me if I'm under-enthused about "shit dis­ great examples of their results.

Trying to change the world is a noble endeavour, turber," but I'm just not sure w e should be Consigning the words "activist" and "politician" to the ashes yet. Not and w e shouldn't let those who fall short sully our ideals. only because they're words I can use around my grand­ So, even if you don't see yourself as a prospective mother, but also because I grew up in a dictatorship, activist, politician, or even shit disturber, now is as good which perhaps accounts for my sense that politics and a time as any to get involved in some w ay. Pick a cause activism are important and can make a difference. And that motivates you—w e need people to promote classi­ any political cynicism that I ought to have developed in cal music and campus sports as much as w e need peo­ university w as stunted by my contact with former ple to organize campaigns to lobby the government.

Quebec Liberal Party leader Claude Ryan, a politician Above a ll—as a former news editor, I think I can safely of integrity if there ever w as one. Ryan strengthened my dare to speak for all former, present and future Tribune sense that politics is a noble calling, and politicians editors—w e need people to make sure that the Tribune need to strive to be as noble as their calling demands. never has to run another editorial on student apathy, O f course, one could argue pessimistically that this sort because writing editorials about apathy sucks. ■

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Cheers for minis Julie Peters' piece on the liberating qualities of the miniskirt (Fashion passion— 2 1 .0 9 .0 4 ) w a s simply groundbreaking.

This political clothing item has changed the w a y women think, act, and feel about them­ selves. Moreover, it has further guaranteed all wom en their fundamental right of free and open drinks. But it doesn't stop there; the miniskirt says the following: I am from Toronto, I love John M ayer, and I will see you at Cheers! this Thursday. Thank you, M s. Peters, for saying w hat w e w ere all thinking.

—Sam Feinson, U3 IDS

it was satire, silly W h en I read Sam Goffm an's column "Four more years* (Think Fa cto ry — 2 1 .0 9 .0 4 ), I thought at first it w a s a joke. I couldn't believe this new spaper would allo w such an article to be published. It is full of fallacious words about G e o rg e W .

Bush. If som ebody wrote an article praising Hitler or Stalin, would you publish it? I think

not; then w hy publish this? It is beside the point that Bush has been described by many high-ranking government people a s having no intelligence or curiosity. W hat's worse is that man and the people w ho really control the U S have lost their humanity. N ot only have they killed 3 ,0 0 0 innocent Afghanis by air raids, but they have also sent 1 ,0 0 0 of their own soldiers to die in Iraq. O p en up your eyes, Sam Goffm an.

—Ary PizarroChong, Master's, AAechanical Engineering Admin responds Your cover story (Chartwells claim s one m ore— 1 4 .0 9 .0 4 ) stating that the "University fails to live up to p ro m ises..." is not correct. For many years now, the univer­ sity community has been a w a re of the administration's intention to fia v e an integraF ed food service program on the downtown cam pus, which would better meet the needs of the community a s a w hole. The adminis­ tration has not broken an y of its promises.

In regards to the café in the M cG ill

Bookstore, this w a s established by Chapters during its management of the Bookstore.

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by Chapters, Chartwells has been asked to temporarily assist us with the management of the café until the work of the advisory com m itteejs complete.

—Alan Charade, Director of Ancillary Services PR concurs Public relations, in general, is a tough nut to crack, and brain-dead public relations representatives are tougher (Dark Humour— 21 0 9 0 4 ). W hat's worse, people, universi­ ty bureaucrats in particular, tend to conve­ niently forget that student journalists are exactly that: students—students with intellec­ tual means and resources eager to debunk obvious bunk (spewed-out "inane half-baked responses” included). As usual, your Dark Humour section w a s both informative and an absolute knee-slapper. O n e more reason this M cG ill grad keeps on reading.

—Justin Renard, B. Com '04

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elis h a .s ie g e l@ m a il. m cgill. ca had a teacher in high school w ho told his class "Don't bleed now, bleed in. universi­ ty." H e w a s mocking the culture of panic and obsession surrounding the process of uni­ versity adm issions, one he felt w a s stunting our emotional developm ent. H e observed our preternatural ability to put off a n y important decisions until w e reached the holy plateau of university. Five years later, I still can't get my teacher's w ords out of my head.

It hasn't been an e a sy w e e k for me. M y fantasy football team w a s destroyed on Sunday, one of my professors seems to think it's 1 9 5 4 and she's teaching g rad e six sci­ en ce , an old friend show ed me his true colours b y screw ing me badly, and on top of everything, I'm com ing dow n with the flu.

This can't be w h at university is all about.

These are supposed to be the best years of my life. I'm supposed to look b a ck on this phase with fuzzy nostalgia and get a warm sea-cucumber feeling in the pit of my stom­ a c h . I'm supposed to be a b le to recount those

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The Tn'ib? Juicy? W h y , I never!

Hark! Hark! It's finally here: 1 0 0 per cent, freshly-squeezed Trib juice, now with extra pulp. W e ll, that's w hat the critics are say­ ing and it's mighty confusing, w e must say. Us, juicy? But w e thought w e w ere boring and lacklustre, the handsome puppets of the infa­ mous SSAAU, delivering flatly on arcan e cam ­ pus news, never daring to disturb the equa­ nimity of this fine institution, even when it is screaming for a quality ruffle. Sensationalist?

Sneaky? W e ll, some of us do have a pen­ chant for Britney and w e do generally like to steal each other's pens, but something tells us that's not what's at issue. O h , the disorienting confusion that is a full-fledged identity crisis!

Us, a pulp publication? But that's outrageous!

Pulp fiction, w e might hasten to say! W e 're merely your humble officers, futilely protecting your rights from the arbitrary acts of ill-wishing magistrate types. W e m ay now proudly scream " W e think such and such!" without flinching, but baseless self-righteousness is a common student affliction. Don't be deluded, w e are not the juicers some have recently m ade us out to be! Juiceheads, perhaps, but that's a w hole other story. If you w an t real wit, find your educated insolence elsew here.

W e 're sticking to our roots. Pawns till the end!

Am en.

Listen u p , w alk ers Car-Free Day. So you take a w a y some beautiful technology for a few hours in order to "save the planet." W e ll, la-di-da. Too bad most of you cannot seem to do without a c a r since it is plainly obvious that your legs (and brain) go out of commission whenever you w a lk along M cG ill's fine pathw ays. Take some pointers from those w ho w alk off with all the prizes. Look w here you're g oin g—your eyes should usually be open when your body is iri motion. Try not to partake in deep con­ versations in the middle of the sid ew alk when the only alternatives for bypassers are the side doors of a Jetta or the fun, prickly bushes lin­ ing Lower Field. O o p s, duh, you forgot some­ thing and decid e to stop mid-stride to make a precision 1 80-degree turn and bump into the inconvenienced bloke behind you. Learn some/bourtesy or w e will clog your throats w im C F C s , compounded with the exhaust from a 1 9 7 9 Chevy. Ha!

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Jackass stunts and proclaim ing the virtues of bipedal mobility. I'm supposed to m ake thehonour roll. I'm supposed to develop a lowlevel alcohol addiction and w o rry my parents every time I have a beer with dinner. I'm sup­ posed to have lots of casu al sex with all the wrong w om en.

If things go accord ing to plan, I'm sup­ posed to graduate in June, g ro w a beard and travel the w orld. I'm supposed to w an d er aim ­ lessly through South A m erica , Europe and Southeast A sia w hile I discover my true self and establish my life path. I'm supposed to have an ep ip hany and realize I'd sure like to sa ve the w h a les.

After strolling dow n the Cham ps-Elysées in the springtime, smoking opium in the dens of India and building houses for the underpriv­ ileged in B o livia, I'm supposed to go to g rad ­ uate school. O f course by this time, my lowlevel alcohol addiction w ill have developed into full-blown alcoholism . M ix that with my

taste for opium, and the ingrained post-mod­ ernist tendencies implanted in me during uni­ versity and reinforced throughout my travels, and my brain will be nothing but a pile of grey mush.

O f course I can't forget the mountains of student loans and debts that will have built up over the years. I'll o w e M c G ill a couple thou­ sand, and my parents six grand for paying for my trip around the w o rld. I'll o w e my ex-girlfriend $ 8 0 0 for a full year of c a b le bills I promised to split with her during our ill-fated experiment with cohabitation.

I feel like M a rio Lemieux during the N H L lockout. I don't know whether or not to stand inside the stadium or outside on the picket lines. Am I an ow ner or just a player in this sport of ivory towers? Is it my own stubborn personality that keeps me in a situation I hate, or can I blam e a lopsided collective barg ain­ ing agreem ent with my parents? It's not that I'm com plaining, it's just that no matter' how deep I cut, there's never an y blood. ■

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CRISTINA M A R K H A M he first d a y of classes is generally marked with mumbles of discontent afid bloodshot eyes that contradict our caffeine-induced alertness. Those masochistic enough to enroll in 8 :3 0 classes experience all this excitement, but a lot more morning breath. This year, I w a s among those lucky few.. O ur sympathetic prof w rapp ed up her first lecture a few minutes early, leaving time for questions. W e w ere still lacking the cognitive pow er to tie our shoes, but one hand shot up in the back of the room.

"Professor, when you say w e'll be studying gen­ der, are you referring to the broad-based phe­ nomenon that affects all of us, or to gender in its most basic and binary sense, a s male and fem ale?" I w a s lurched out of my zombie-like state only long enough to glare at this girl and think, "Suck-up..." This is the person w ho monopolizes your conferences, posts conde­ scending answers to your W e b C T queries, and asks questions so convoluted that the professor can't even begin to answ er them. The young

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Show-Off. The Sh o w O ff's goal is to demonstrate a grasp of the material far stronger than anyone else in the class. This is achieved by asking painfully long, scrupulously worded questions—to which he alread y knows the answers in order to display the extent of his knowledge. The professor's answ er will take up unnecessary class time, precious brain sp ace, and this serves only to rack up participation grades.

Spotlight Hog. W h ile the motive is still a mystery, the Spotlight Hog can domineer a class with such force that even the professor is at her mercy. According to this Suck-Up, raising hands is for grade school and yes, her story about her roommate's totally psycho mom is rel­ evant to the professor's lecture on Pavlovian response mechanismsl W o e unto you if you

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N e w s ie subversion w ill h a v e to sim m er Student politicians and their adulating reporters just can't seem to stay in their own lanes. It's a phenomenon that w e here at the Trib juicestand know all too w ell, just look at our stats: four of the past six Tribune news junkies have crossed over from the Fourth Estate to the inner sanctum of SS M U . O n e of them, the dearly departed Kate Rhodes, ran the marathon prez cam paign tw ice, which did wonders for our credibility in covering the elections. (N ever say die, favouritism!) This year, however, Council m anaged to spoil all our fun. W e had alread y plotted our grand co u p — Katie and Jenn for co-presidents! — when w e witnessed the grievous turn of events. Just think about it: Two politically savvy ladies overthrow civilization as w e know it.

Holt Renfrew garb and plain M & M s for all!

You can't lose! It's guaranteed- at least one of the two will serve out the whole term. W h y ?

W e ll, it just so happens these lovely lasses actually— g a sp !— get off on going to council, unlike the poker-faced SS M U folk w ho take pleasureTnHoulingLjjp dem ocracy. But never fe a r ... spring is near. ■

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find yourself with one in your conference group.

Sleepwalker. The Sleepw alker is so called because the only explanation for his behaviour is that he sleepwalked into the lecture, w oke up .halfw ay through, and then desperately tried to understand w hat the hell w a s happening. He's an anom aly in the Suck-Up category, as his goal is not disruption, but he achieves it nonetheless. W ith such questions as, "W hen you say, 'This school of thought'... is that an actual school?" he is mildly entertaining at first.

But if after three months, he asks your Sh ake sp e aria n Trag edies prof w h at this "iam bic pentametre" thing is, you won't find him quite so endearing.

Avoiding the Suck-Ups is im possible... w e can only do our best to tune them out. Better yet, make bets with your classmates on how many times the snooty blond kid interrupts the prof in 1 0 minutes. His interruptions will seem much less annoying when they're paying for your lunch. ■

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16. Canadian spy guys 17. McGill beer of choice, often 18. Prejudice 19. Singapore Technologies Telemedia (abbr.)

2 0 . Beachlovers' Indonesian para­ dise 21. US missing kids centre: Polly Foundation 24. Roman numeral X 2 5 . Lake (French) 28 . Adeptly __________ the line 29.

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32 . Big Blue 33 . Friday night family event 3 4 . Hathaway or Frank 36. Buddy 37. Dyslexis wizardry, perhaps 39. Lucas masterpiece, "The Strikes Back" 4 3 . Saga 4 4 . Classic hockey movie with Paul Newman 4 6 . Sherman or Panzer 4 7 . Astronomy great Sagan 4 8 . G ra n d ___Opry 4 9 . Love in Latin 5 0 . W ight or Mann 5 1 . Cat, dog or canary

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12. Bowline, clove hitch and eight 15. You'll likely write one of these this year 18. Prohibit 20. Busy as a ___ 2 1 . Kit-___ bar 22 . Pounds (abbr.)

23 . Serpico and Scarface acting great 24 . Hanks or Thompson 26 . Plural of "is" 27 . "Dude, Where's M y ___?"

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Taking stock of the market Power suits abound at investment club JUDY M U R P H Y hey convene for the first time this year in a green Bronfman meeting room with organized rows of padded blue chairs in front of a Power Point screen. In front of these chairs filled with people from all w alks of life and faculties stands the Student Stock Exchange Concilium 's president, Laurent M arien , in a crisp white-collared shirt and dress pants. He too confirms the busi­ ness tone of the evening and his clothes perfectly suit his status a s a fourth-year finance major.

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I am most proud o f... seeing my students learn and develop, be it my graduate students learning to becom e independent researchers or my undergraduate students tackling and mastering difficult concepts in science.

But is it all stéréotypés and line graphs?

M arien begins his presentation with agility and efficiency.

It is w ell planned, a s one would expect an y business meeting to be. Though at first the group is reserved and quiet, the meeting's attendees do not comfortably fit the moulds of stereotypical investors and white-collar workers. They do, however, seem to becom e more anim ated with new s of the five scheduled meet­ ings per semester, packed with all the investing information one could possibly need— and for only five dollars! W h a t better opportunity to relieve the overpowering w orry of a financially unstable retirement?

O f course, if one is alread y so worried about retirement, they could relieve stress with the aid of a yo g i; or, if he proves too costly or hard to a cce ss, the concerned students could attend an informative session on the workings of the stock market to relieve herself with an in cre ase d investment ed ucatio n.

Indubitably, these sessions can expose an individual to a variety of ava ila b le investment options. Suddenly, the w orld econom y w ill open and they'll be ab le to recognize current trends that will help in choosing better investments.

"N o w the econom y is uncertain, and it's difficult to find a trend," said M arien . "The market moves in a d va n c e of the econ­ omy and the election will dictate w here the market goes."

Through the S S E C , students can invest a minimum of $ 1 0 0 , without having to p a y an y commission. The money is m anaged a s a group, so the members can appreciate the opportunity to combine and share their skills. This year, they're considering Cott Beverages a s a potential stock investment, but there are many other possibilities and the ultimate decision will be determined dem ocratically. As the members' understanding of the market increases, they will be able to m ake richer decisions in the

W h ile doing m y Postdoctoral fellow ship in Tokyo, the most d if­ ficult thing to adjust to w a s ... not knowing the lang uag e. I tried to enroll in extension courses in Jap an ese at U W O when I found out that I would be going to Tokyo, but I w a s too late for the September deadlines.

O f the cities I've lived in, the best place to be a student is ...

M ontreal by far, though H a lifax, N S , isn't too bad either.

M y favourite books a r e ... Cosmicomics by Italo C a lv in o , O ne Hundred Years o f Solitude by G a b rie l G a r c ia M arq uez, and Island Collected short stories by Alistair M acLeo d.

M y grandmother inspires me becau se... she anchored her fam ily in a coal-mining town (G la c e Bay, N S) and preached the importance of education for breaking out of the hardships of the coal-mining life. Education and learning w ere sacrosanct in her household.

The funniest excuse I have ever h eard from a student trying to hand something in late w a s ... w ell, I have not really had the clas­

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Though he had been up all night rehearsing, it didn't help that half had seen his h A N d IM A L S presentation before.

Som ething m y students w ould be surprised to know ab out me is th a t... I have been to C a fé Cam p us on a Tuesday night!

The coolest thing I have ever checked out under a microscope is ... a "rotifer" fe e d in g ... second coolest: leech neurons signaling.

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m ake the most money from tomorrow's investment.

Anything could happen when these nascent investors gath­ er, due to the strong em phasis on diversity and quantity of knowl­ ed ge interspersed throughout the multiplicity of participants in the

SSEC. "The main objective of the club is to bring people from all of M cG ill to increase their interest in the stock market," future.

- explained M arien . O n ce a base of knowledge is created, the individual can move out into the world of the markets, finally Mr. Moneybags gets friends and financial smarts understanding w hat is said in the w ild land of investment articles After the students' psychological worries of a not-so-impendand new spapers. ing retirement have been soothed, the real essence of this invest­ After all, as M arien confirms, "People need the knowledge ment club can be em braced. As the w eeks move on and the les­ sons of understanding ratios, stock-picking and mutual funds crescendo into fascinating components, the students can reach into their pool of new investing friends to test and expand their knowledge; possibly at an organized club event like an Expos gam e or an investment-influenced movie like W all Street. The English major and the political science m ajor can meet in a cro w ded group to bicker over the upcoming election and the predicted rise in the U S economy, or even argue over w ho will

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The burden o f difference When the truth isn't cozy, Canada hugs its cultural mosaic persona

YASEMIN EMORY This nightmarish scene, though staged, illustrates the potential repercussions of a continued refusal to confront racism and the danger of marginalized groups assuming the oppressors role..

..................................... LIZ ALLEM ANG C anad ians have an annoying habit of expressing their superior­ ity over other countries with a feigned sense of modesty. W e scoff at the fact that the US is so backward: no g a y marriage, few cases of legalized pot, a tendency to suspect most Middle-Easterners—and C a t Stevens—of terrorism, and adulation for a leader who prides him­ self on being a nose-candy lovin' Yale flunk-out armed with a Bible that makes his decisions for him. O n the flipside, w e claim that our beer is better, our cash more colourful and our politics modern and lib­ eral.

W e may feel sympathy towards the genocide in Rwanda that killed at least 9 3 7 ,0 0 0 in 1 9 9 4 , the never-ending Palestine-lsrael conflict or the oppressively conservative views of Fidel Castro that bar relations with the States. But C anad ians maintain the belief that our country will never be in such disarray that w e ll have to deal with sim­ ilar issues. Yes, w e Canucks ride vainly on our high horse, too often oblivious to our own tarnished history, one that is chock-full of para­ noia, racism and discrimination.

In Race and Ethnic Relations in Canada (Oxford University Press, 19 9 9 ), editor Peter S . Li insists that "Throughout the history of C a n a d a , physical and cultural characteristics, whether real or pre­ sumed, have been used to justify segregation and discrimination against ethnic groups." Think slavery spanning over 2 0 0 years, intern­

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ment camps oft-used as a first resort, eugenics experiments to create the perfect breed and the recent surge in intolerant messages.

"Racism is a moral issue which reflects on C anad ian society at large. The persistence of racism diminishes us all," asserts Norman Buchignani in Racism in Canada (Fifth House Publishers, 19 91 ). As much as w e want to pretend it doesn't exist, there are many examples of racial tension in our past and present. If Canad ians don't take dras­ tic steps to improve the situation, our future is likely to be bleak. Our national history extends beyond hockey, peacekeeping and the M aple Leaf; it's time w e put us self-servingly patriotism in its our place.

Intellectual terrorism Breeding perfection is a concept better left to the realm of horror flicks. Yet throughout the 19th century, C a n a d a w as one of the many western-minded countries popularizing the now scorned science of eugenics, which purported that improvements to the human race could be ensured through the study of human heredity and controlled selec­ tive breeding. In The Social Construction of the Feebleminded Threat:

drive o f‘a handful of British scientists morphed into an institutionalized movement spanning Germany, the US and C a n a d a , where high immigration rates were being perceived as "polluting" threats to the Anglo-Saxon hegemony. Eugenicists began viewing the population in terms of a racial hierarchy, with the very desirable Anglo-Saxon citi­ zens looking down on the allegedly feeble-minded Asian immigrants.

Alberta passed eugenics legislation enabling government officials to issue 2 ,8 3 2 sterilization orders from 1 9 2 9 to 1 9 6 4 , well after the concept had become obsolete in Germ any due to correlations with cultural genocide.

Ammendment 4 5 to the Sexual Sterilization Act of 1 9 3 7 gave authorities the power to sterilize those patients considered mentally undesirable even against their will: "If upon examination of a psychot­ ic person the Board is unanimously of the opinion that the exercise of the power of procreation would result in the transmission to such per­ son's progeny of any mental disease, it may [order] sexual sterilization of such psychotic person as may be specified in the written direction, and shall appoint some competent surgeon to perform the operation."

Implementation o f the Sexual Sterilization Act in Alberta, 1929-1972, Jana M arie Grekul confirms that eugenicists "manipulated ideas about race, class and gender to create a social crisis."

Though the idea of state-controlled human perfectibility dates back to Plato, it w as made most prominent by Sir Francis Galton, a cousin of Darwin's who marvelled at their family's brilliance and want­ ed to bring social Darwinism to staggering new heights of racism. The

"I have actually spoken to him on two counts. I support him on the fact that he w as discriminated against, but even in Christianity, you don't judge, that's not right. It's insensitive, but at the same time, no one is being sensitive to his issue. But if you believe in a religion you think your religion is the true religion."

—Cymanthia Thomas, co-external coordinator of the Black Students' Network

No bonfires or s'mores here C anad ian internment camps w ere used primarily to quell unfounded fears, predominantly amongst the white middle-class. As David J. Carter notes in his book Canadian Barbed W ire (Tumbleweed Press, 1 9 8 0 ), during the First W orld W ar, the W a r M easures Act of 1 9 1 4 w a s implemented by the C an ad ian

"I think it's important to have a discourse but you alw ays have to be careful about the language."

—Connor Friesen, Queery Editor "At the same time, discrimination is discrimina­ tion... this is a tricky situation. If a person has been harassed, you sympathize but if he's making hateful statements it's not okay. "

—Matthew Toth, administrator, Queer M cG ill

"Our mother organization, B 'N a i Brith, has been collecting information on this guy, taking pictures and such, and w e are going to discuss what position w e are going to take on this man at our board meeting this evening... M cG ill, in general, does seem to have a fairly tolerant atmosphere, and when incidents such as last year have occurred, the response w as fairly quick."

-Sara Kemeny, president, FTillel M cG ill

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Government to enable the internment of the nearly 9 ,0 0 0 immigrants viewed as "enemy aliens." The stan­ dard of living in the 2 4 C anad ian camps were practi­ cally non-existent.

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, white C anad ians began viewing Japanese C an ad ian s— three-quarters of whom had been born in C a n a d a —as a threat to homeland security. In 1 9 4 1 , Prime Minister W illiam Lyon M ackenzie King's first action w as to imprison all male Japanese between the ages of 14 and 4 5 in internment camps that were at least 1 6 0 kilometres inland, so as to protect the Pacific coast from potential spies. O ver a period of nine months, 2 2 ,0 0 0 people w ere taken from their homes, tossed behind barbed wire and forced to do manual labour.

In 1 9 5 2 , the Immigration Act, which hadn't been altered since 1 9 1 0 , w a s amended by the the federal government. The newly revised act established the quota necessary to gain citizenship. The most notable aspect w as section 6 1 , which enabled the Governor in Council to prohibit immigrant entry based on "pecu­ liar customs, educational, economic or industrial back­ ground, nationality"—prioritizing those of British, French and American descent—and, most importantly, potential for assimilation into C anad ian society. The Act ensured the Minister of Immigration and his officials had broad, interpretive authority.

Fast forward 2 0 years. The Front de libération du Q uébec, a radical separatist group comprised of young French C anad ians, frightened government offi­ cials with their extreme, anti-anglo agenda. In 1 9 7 0 , for the first and only time, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau announced that the government would impose the W a r M easures Act as a means for dealing with the FLQ cri­ sis. This provided police with the right to detain anyone even remotely "suspicious." O f the 4 9 7 French C anad ians who were subsequently arrested, only 6 2 were charged. The Q uebec Civil Liberties Union report­ ed that many of those detained were subjected to "questioning techniques that were absolutely unaccept­ able.."

Commissioning indifference After years of taking their land and economic resources, forcing them onto reserves, and turning a blind eye to social malaise, the C anad ian government, ecided to attempt an improvement on the quality of Aboriginal life. The Royal Commission, a federal gov­ ernment ordered study of Aboriginal concerns, w as conducted in 1 9 9 0 by former Chief Justice Brian Dickson in cooperation with Aboriginal groups, native leaders, politicians, and so-called "experts."

The mandate of the Commission w as "to study the evolution of the relationship between Aboriginal peo­ ples, the government of C a n a d a and C anad ian socie­ ty as a whole." W h ile this w a s perhaps the objective, many Native leaders felt the Commission w a s simply a ploy to temporarily pacify them by acknowledging obvious reserve problems like unemployment, lack of reserve-driven economy and substance abuse. Peter Christmas of the M icm ac Association of Cultural Studies vocalized what many w ere already thinking: "I think they prepared this just to appease us for a while."

After six years of research, a fivevolume report w as released concluding there w a s indeed a need to "completely restructure the relationship between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people in C a n a d a .”

Not that the 3 ,3 5 7 pages worth of "recommenda­ tions" weren't self-evident from the get-go.

The report w as essentially a list of suggestions rather than one of potential actions, and it failed to clar­ ify how the government would implement ideas like self-government, public education initiatives, and politi­ cal and economic development. M any serious prob­ lems, like high unemployment rates, scarce local job opportunities, and lack of public housing and educa­ tion systems, were mentioned but left unresolved.

The federal government promised a major increase in spending on Aboriginal programs—up to $30-billion over 15 years—but did not follow through.

Instead, a Statement of Reconciliation w a s released, expressing "a profound regret for errors of the past and a commitment to learn from those errors." Apologies

cam e with a side order of $350m illion dollars to be spent on "community-based healing programs."

W hat's more, the provincial governments were less than eager to endorse the report, not wanting to share the revenue from its natural resources and thus guaranteeing government dependence of reserve pop­ ulations. In all, the report proved practically useless as the information covered w as obvious and the supposed solutions w ere mere promises left largely unfulfilled.

In his essay, "Race and Ethnicity," Li asserts that racism can mostly be attributed to the idea that any­ thing beyond C anad a's two founding cultures is outside of the socalled norm.

"In C a n a d a , the British and the French enjoy the secured status of the two founding peoples, while oth­ ers are seen as 'cultural groups' that contribute to the making of a multicultural society," he explains. The only noted exception are "members of the First Nations who, despite their indigenous status, remain economi­ cally and socially marginal in C anad ian society." Li stressed the importance of determining what racism is in concrete terms so that w e can start to deal with the problem at hand. "This inherent ranking of racial and ethnic groups along a scale of superiority and inferiority is the essence of racism."

W h ile w e are working towards acknowledging our past mistakes, some seem to find it difficult to recognize that racism and discrim ina­ tion are visible in our everyday lives. Recently though, it has been almost impossible to ignore the severity of racial tensions as w e are continuously bom­ barded by the media with alarming headlines and news reports. In 2 0 0 3 , a N a zi swastika and "Death to Arabs" slogan w as spray-painted on the exterior of the Muslim School of M ontreal. Last spring, United Talmud Torahs, an elem entary school in Montreal, w a s firebombed.

In the past w eek, after one student used a racial slur against another, police were called upon to medi­ ate the tensions between Lester B. Pearson High School and École secondaire Henri-Bourassa.

Yet finger-pointing does not to lead to significant social change. "Clearly, the elimination of racial dis­ crimination should be an important government and public priority," Buchignani asserts. "Discrimination obviously continues to reduce the life chance of peo­ ple, and there is neither practical nor philosophical jus­ tification for allowing this to continue. A rational gov­ ernment drive towards racial equality must be obvious­ ly based on a good understanding of the present sta­ tus of predjudice and discrimination."

Is racism in C a n a d a nearing its death?

Set in this historical context, C a n a d a is hardly the ethnic Disneyland paradise that some people make it out to be. W e're now supposed to embrace our differ­ ences, reveling in a multicultural wonderland. But what does separating nationalities so stringently, putting them into their costumes and listening to their "native music," really do to our national consciousness? O nly time will tell what shape the C an ad ian racial landscape will take as it trudges on. But history can certainly not be ignored. ■

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The effort to remove symbols of hate anti-Semites at our gates shows an intolerance for such manifesta­ and bigotry from C anad a's historical narra­ tions, a lack of appreciation for the history tive has caused many to dismiss Groulx's that brought us to our current situation will impressive theological and academ ic back­ only ensure that these instances keep ground and overemphasize his notoriously racist statements. Yet understanding the repeating themelves.

Abbé Lionel Groulx (1 8 7 8 -1 9 6 7 ), a roots and development of anti-Semitism is Roman Catholic priest, M cG ill professor an important academ ic enterprise.

Historical perspective is of impor­ and honorary canon, is credited with the rallying of French-Canadian nationalism in tance, and worldwide antFSemitism pro­ the early 20th century. Claim s of anti- vides the platform from which Groulx Semitism, however, overshadow his taught. M cG ill professor Norman Cornett achievem ents in history and religion. of religious studies faculty explains that Groulx has attracted attention from B'N ai Groulx w as a "strategist and opportunist" Brith C a n a d a , thejewish organization who and used the political climate of the time to called, unsuccessfully, for the renaming of gain support for his own purpose. "In sim­ the Metro station originally christened in his ply extracting the racist content of Groulx's honour. The once revered "spiritual father works, you fabricate your own Groulx, of two generations of Quebeckers" has resulting in anti-Semitic caricature," he said.

Instead of removing all reminders of a now become the subject of a debate over political correctness: can w e history that w a s, in fact, filled with hate, w e honour his achievements without should consider w ays in which awareness acknowledging the whole picture, of these instances can keep history from repeating itself. The renaming of a Metro anti-Semitism and all?

M an y students are discour­ station does not do a w a y with the larger aged by the status that has been issue at hand; it rather reduces the problem given to him. "People like that, of race and religion to one that can be alle­ regardless of w hat they have viated with Band-Aid solutions. Is this some­ achieved in other aspects of their life, thing to strive for? ■ should never deserve physical recogni­

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Centraide's march is tomorrow.

Figuring out when to have the w alk is a workout itself. Spring's too rainy, summer's usually too hot; and planning these things can be a serious pain in the ass.

If it's scheduled too early in the day, people w ill sleep through it. Too late, and people squirm and w orry how it will fit into their busy schedules. Fdolding w alks during the w eek risks conflicting with other pre­ planned events, but w eekends mess with church, brunches and b a za a rs. FHaving to take into account the ind ivid uals level of self­ ishness is tragic and problematic enough. But then you have to deal with the city's schedule, check sponsors' availability, weather pat­ terns, and major holidays.

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"Hmmm, Lou G ehrig's is pretty su ck y ... but strokes are really b a d ... and A ID S is a pandem ic now, so ii's pretty b ig ..." — how is one supposed to choose? By death rates? By how w id espread or intense the crisis is? By researchers' proximity to a cure? Perhaps w e should do it according to the number of peo­ ple w e know affected by the issue?

Do w e really w ant to have fundraising becom e a popularity contest? The repercus­ sions are terrifying.

First, alread y difficult-to-rouse masses are forced to pick their favourite cause, and then, non-profit event planning is... w ell, poorly planned.

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o you know that overwhelm ing feeling you get when you first com e b ack to school after a long ab sen ce? A lain M acklovitch, a 22-year old biology student at M c G ill, knows how you feel. H e is overcom e by intense nostalgia a s he sits by the Redpath Library that over­ looks Lower Field. M acklovitch is back in M ontreal for four d a ys, after taking the semester off from his glycolysis and splicing to tour with Usher and Kanye W est.

Let's b ack up a second here. W h a t is a M c G ill biology student doing with the Louis Vuitton don and the singer with The Hottest A bs of All Tim e?

It just so happens that M acklovitch, ak a DJ A-Trak, has been a scratch DJ since he w a s 13 years old. A five-time world cham pion and the youngest DJ to ever w in all the m ajor DJ-ing titles, he inspired a w hole legion of young bedroom DJs to get out and compete.

W h e n he retired from the DJ battle scene at the a g e of 1 8 , he continued making music, run­ ning hip-hop label Audio Research with his brother D ave, and doing club shows all over the world. O n one of his trips to London in M ay, A-Trak w a s doing an in-store perform ance on the sam e d a y as John Legend, Kanye's indispensable right-hand m usician. Kanye W e st caught about four minutes of M acklovitch's perform ance.

"I didn't get to talk to Kan ye at the in-store, but by luck I got to meet him the next d a y at a press conference, and right a w a y he told me, 'I'm going on tour with Usher, I need a DJ. Do you w ant to com e?"'

M acklovitch, of course, accepted the offer. But he insists that his decision w a s not m ade in haste.

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A-Trak and John Legend are both given time in the 35-minute set to sh o w case their skills.

M acklovitch notes that, had this not been the c a se , he would not have accepted Kanye's offer.

W ith an y other m usician, it would have been a matter of putting a record on and pressing play.

"I w a s tired of doing the sam e sh ow s," he sa id . "I m ean, once in a w hile some feel a bit different, but it w a s the sam e scene everyw here that I would p lay for. I w anted to show this stuff to a more mainstream M TV aud ience because I knew it had some ap p eal that hadn't been

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W e st and M acklovitch each com e from very different hip hop backgrounds. W h ile Kanye W e st has worked with such well-known names as Jay-Z, M o s Def, C am 'ro n , and G L C , M acklovitch has w orked with the likes of Non-Phixion, Peanut Butter W o lf, M a d lib , and local hip hop outfit O bscure Disorder. Despite these differences, however, their tastes converge on classic mid '9 0 s rap.

M acklovitch's cam arad erie has extended to the w hole Kan ye W est entourage. "W h a t w a s nice about all of them w a s that they took me in right a w a y . Kanye is known for having more of an ironic outlook [com pared to other M C s ] a n y w a y, and I can really relate to people like John Legend. I m ean, w e both read the N e w Yorker and love Seinfeld. I don't think I would have that sort of relationship with, say, L il'Jo n ,” he jokes.

"However, I am the only person on the tour without a gold c h a in ,” he points out.

W hat's next for M acklovitch after the tour finishes up on O ctober 1 4 in N e w York?

A-Trak is in talks with W e st to stay on a s his DJ. H e also w ants to continue doing his own club show s; finish up his C D /D V D retrospective, Sunglasses is a Must for next spring; promote his record label; and of course, head b ack to school at M c G ill. There's no question that he'll be busier than he w a s before.

I ask him if he's eag er to com e back.

"H alf and half. I m ean, I love being on tour, but I'm really nostalgic right now. I miss the Bunsen burners, I miss my paninis with sa lad and w atching 106 & Park at C afé ra m a during lunch," he says.

H e glances around briefly and something catches his eye.

“And I miss the Von Dutch sightings," he says, chuckling a s a young man with said trucker hat w alks past.

"But seriously though, the more I'm a w a y and the more p laces I travel, the more I realize how much I love M ontreal."

H e is silent.

"And M c G ill of course." ■

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View ers can shed their old Jetsons/Flintstones im age of som ewhat healthy cartoon fam ilies going about their d aily business because w e have officially entered a new genera­ tion.

This trend w a s sp aw ned by M att G roening and his now world-famous brainchild, The Simpsons. Though it's aired on Fox, a network that is ow ned by super-capitalist Rupert M urdoch, The Simpsons, due to its imm ense popularity, has Viewers can shed their old Jetsons/Flintstones image o f somewhat a lw a y s gotten a w a y with veiled healthy cartoon families going about their daily business because we liberal m essages. A nd a s the have officially entered a new generation. show has grown older and more popular, the writers' freedom to Am erican M an-Boy Love Assocation" (or N A M B LA , for those disseminate overtly left-wing m essages has increased. Their fam iliar with it)? previously subtle sociopolitical 'references are now em ployed Foreign policy and free speech barely scratch the surface far less ambiguously. For exam p le, Simpsons' TV new s anchor­ of South Park creators' Matt Stone and Trey Parker's vision. O f man Kent Brockman recently reported that the U S terror alert course, they o ccasio nally throw in the odd fart joke, too. level had hit orange, w hich "as usual, means nothing."

The fact is, a s c ra z y and sadly ironic a s it sounds, car­ Family G uy is another exam ple of a cartoon with a social toons have becom e one of the most oft-used political forums. conscience, though its political references are less direct. For South Park, The Simpsons, King o f the Hill and Family Guy are instance, when Peter (the "guy" in Family Guy) is promoted to just some of the shows that, whether intentionally or not, chal­ President of his toy company-cum-tobacco giant, his w hole

fam ily gets caught up in the glamour of living the life of a big­ w ig e xe c. How ever, after a stripper gets killed and his toddler starts smoking, Peter learns that tob acco lobbyists are truly the evil, money-hungry bastards w e know them to be.

King o f the Hill is another classic anim ated sitcom that, due to its small-town Texas setting, easily m anages to take political shots at the right. H ank (the "king" in King o f the Hill1 often finds himself at a hom ophobic crossroads a s he discov­ ers more and more evidence that his son, Bobby, m ay be gay.

C reator M ike Judge has written countless episodes that feature Bo b by opting to grow houseplants, do laundry or w e a r a kitchen apron, rather than participate in sports or look at pornography.

W h ile mind-numbing reality TV and simplistic sitcoms have degenerated to the point that W ife Sw ap is now one of television's most popular show s, anim ated sitcoms seem to remain true to their sociopolitical ideals.

All too often, television is used to promote the dominant ideology or, at best, serve a s a distraction from bigger issues.

But w hen these issues are handled in w a y s the the ave rag e Joe-couch potato can ap preciate, dem ocracy runs its course far more effectively. Anim ated sitcoms m anage to do just that.

And when all else fails, they a lw a y s w arrant a snicker. ■

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L IS E T R E U T L E R t's good for what ails you!" That's Jon Spencer, frontman of Blues Explosion, on his band's forthcoming album, D am age. "I make records that I would like to listen to," he continued. "This one's very adventurous and the songs are very powerful."

Lounging in his chair at a boardroom table, Spencer seems a tad w eary. He's on a promotional tour for Dam age, and after a d a y of interviews he deserves a rest. But there's none on the ag end a for this m usician—to find his energy, all he needs to do is pick up a guitar and sing a song. "Burn it O ff," with its relentless instrumental force and smooth, lurid vocals should do the trick.

Rounded out by Judah Bauer on guitar and Russell Simins on drums, Blues Explosion is a deceptive band for the uninitiated. Though influenced by the blues and-artists like R.L. Burnside, Blues Explosion really is an innovative mix of rock, punk, industrial and other genres a s well as the blues. As Spencer puts .it, "All three of us love and listen to different kinds of music. So different influences come through, but what w e do is really rock and roll."

Dam age is the perfect exam ple of their multi-style. Not only do they continue their 1 3 7 e a r tradition of cutting-edge song writing, but they up their guest list with the presences of producer Alan M oulder (Nine Inch N ails, M y Bloody Valentine] and guest artists like C huck D. of Public Enemy and one of Spencer's personal favourites, Jam es C h an ce.

"W e wrote the song 'Fed Up and Low Down' with DJ Shadow , and from the first d a y it took shape as kind of rock­ abilly," said Spencer. "I thought if w e could get James C h an ce, the legendary saxophonist from the n o w a ve scene in N e w York City, on th ere... W e ll, w e did, and to have those two on a song with us, that's a pretty heavy combina­ tion!"

Spencer agrees that Blues Explosion are big collabora­ tors. "To work with some of your musical heroes... It's one of the greatest things about making a record," he said.

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n't play music, a pianist w ho knew nothing about drums ancf a drummer who wanted to try his hand at guitar got together with some other folks, and thus began Franz Ferdinand. Originating from G lasg o w , Scotland, the pop­ ular foursome has sold out their U S tour this month. N o w these fun-loving Euro-rockers will let loose in Montreal, unloading tunes from their debut release, Michael. If you can get your hands on tickets, get out to Metropolis this Saturday.

Smooth, yet screaming: Spencer explodes on stage.

M U S IC . Xavier R udd— O ctober 2 , Le C ab a ret Music H all. Hailing from the Land Down Under, this Aussie

Thirteen years together and still loving the music and playing together— how do they do it?

"There is definitely a musical connection that allow s us to do this," Spencer responded. “W h o 'd a thunk it? W e 're not exactly good at long-term planning. But w e've a lw a ys just done our own thing, in the sense that w e're a punk rock band, w e're fiercely independent and w e don't sit around waiting for opportunities to come knocking. W e create our own opportunities."

Spencer may be w e a ry today, but he's looking forward to Blues Explosion's upcoming tour. "You can't really under­ stand the band from just listening to the records," he said.

surfer/musician has been touring all around the world for the last few years. His musical style has been referred to as Dave Matthews-live-meets-Ben Harper. A very gifted and eclectic artist, Rudd plays several different instruments onstage (including the didgeridoo), and sings. Having recently released his new C D , Solace, this young talent's been selling out all over North Am erica. G e t tickets now.

"You have to see us live."

His unwavering confidence comes out with a firm hand­ shake and an intense stare. But really, w ho is Jon Spencer? " W e ll... I'm the motherfucker!" he exclaim ed.

See for yourselves. ■

Watch for the Blues Explosion tour hitting Montreal in November. Until then, check out Damage, in stores October

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FESTIVAL. POP M o n tre a l— Septem ber 2 9 to O ctober 3 , various venues. POP Montreal is a fiv e d a y independ­ ent music festival running from September 2 9 to October 3 . The festival features a w id e array of artists, emphasiz­ ing a mixture of both French and English bands, a s well as unknown artists, international superstars and up-andcoming indie gems. Trying to reflect the diverse nature of our city, the spectacle goes beyond just the music, hold­ ing conferences and discussion groups about the connec­ tion between music and politics. Held at dozens of ven­ ues around downtown, the festival features everything from Flogging M olly to Q ueens of the Stone A g e to the Bar M itzvah Brothers.

THEATRE. A nna in the Tropics— September 2 8 to O ctober 2 4 , C entaur Theatre, 4 5 3 rue St-François-Xavier.

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Moments later, the stage doors opened, and musicians filed in: eight violinists, three alto violinists, three cellists, and one contrabassist comprise l'Ensemble Instrumental Appassionato. Their conductor is Daniel M yssyk (who, inci­ dentally, has awesom e hair).

The concert included four separate works. Idyla, com­ posed in 1 8 7 8 by Leos Janacek, gave a subtle, nimble beginning to the performance. Immediately the audience becam e a w a re of the skilful and expressive play of the whole orchestra, most notably M arcelle M allette, the lead violinist.

Idyla w a s an excellent choice for an ensemble with 'pas­ sion' in its name. It w a s epic and necessarily tragic. All at once, it w a s loud and soft, calm and w ild. At the same time, the music a lw a ys felt like it w a s moving farther a w a y, as though it w ere an echo, which w as a recurring theme of the piece. Next, w e w ere enticed by Edvard G rieg's elegantly titled Elegiac M elodies: Heart's Wound and The Last Spring.

An alto let out a pleasant drone to set the tone. W h at followed w a s proof that the violin is the saddest of musical families. Melodies w a s not showy, but respectful and pained.

At one point, w e know someone that G rieg loves dearly has died. It is mourning and crying; there is no resolution, just the quieting of the orchestra. It w a s played extremely w ell.

The third work, Suite Champêtre, w a s composed in 1921 by Jean Sibelius. There is a hesitant beginning, but it is misleading, as the p ace is absolutely relentless thereafter.

Everything is played in sync,, at a steady, rising p a ce that is very harmonious. There are moments of sheer happiness, contrasted by some of the saddest expressions I've ever

FESTIVAL. Im a g e + N a tio n : International G ay /L es b ian /B ise xu a l Film Festival— September 2 3 to O ctober 3 , various venues. Celebrating its 17th year, Image+Nation presents a w id e variety of films, all of which touch on the theme of homosexuality. Last w eek, the festival showed Hellbent, the first g a y slasher film, which is described on its website a s taking the "horror genre to new homo heights!"

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FILM. M otorcycle D iaries— C inem a du Parc— 3 5 7 5 avenu e du P arc— p la yin g throughout O ctober.

CSVU.Nl Simple curves with unlimited possibilities.

The solo in Suite Champêtre, played by Mallette, em phasized the work's joie-de-vivre.

For the finale, four new chairs, four microphones and a foursome of guitarists, known a s the C an ad ian Guitar Quartet, joined the orchestra for the fourth piece. The last composition of the night w a s composed by Patrick Roux, a founding member of the Quartet.

The orchestra's tone explodes like fire - fast, loud, and sharp. |n tandem the guitars begin to play, quietly at first, as they are overshadowed by the orchestra. But soon the guitars have elevated and make themselves heard. In a smooth tran­ sition, the orchestra becomes gradually inaudible, a s tfie indi­ vidual guitars come in and out, picking up where the others left off, until finally it is just the guitars playing.

The performance exhibited flare, skill, and high intensity in the music and in the audience. W e all left with more pep in our step. ■

You have the posters (and the t-shirts and the occasional han d b ag |— now's the time to learn w hat Ernesto (Che) G u ev ara w a s really all about. This film depicts G uevara and his com rade, Alberto G ren ad o , on their trek north through South Am erica on an old motorbike. Nominated for Best Film at the C annes Film Festival, Motorcyle Diaries has been acclaim ed as a compassionate portrait of two men whose mission is often misunderstood.

ART. Ruhlm ann: G enius o f A rt D e c o — begins Septem ber 3 0 , M o ntreal Museum o f Fine Arts, Jean-N oel Desmarais Pavilion, 1 3 8 0 rue Sherbrooke O .

Jacques-Em ile Ruhlmann produced hundreds of pieces of Art Deco over the years of his life. He is large­ ly credited with spearheading the European and U S Art Deco c ra ze earlier this century. M an y of his works graced the homes of the rich and famous of years ag o . Beginning Thursday, the art-loving public of Montreal has the unique privilege of viewing a retrospective on M . Ruhlmann's work. The museum will exhibit more than 2 0 0 of Ruhlmann's original pieces, including furniture, drawings, watercolours, sketchbooks, archival photographs, textiles, rugs and light fixtures.

CREDrrS: USATODAY.COM; SVT.SE; BUZZPICS.COM; POPMONTREAL.COM; SCR.ORG; IMAGE-NATION.ORG; FILMWEB.NO; RUHLMANN.INFO

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SubUrbia is still a s poignant today as when it w a s first performed in 1 9 9 5 . M uch of the credit for its enduring ap p eal goes to the gripping and hilarious script, the themes of which still resonate in to d ays angst-ridden youth. Also, the skillful and convincing performances of the entire cast

o understand and ap preciate Eric Bogosian's play, SubU rbia, try to imagine replacing Shatner with a Kwiki-Mart-esque convenience store. N ext, mentally transport our pleasant gathering p lace at the foot of the Arts Building steps to a street corner in Burnsfield, middle-ofeveryw here, U SA . W ould the disillusioned youth inhabiting this strip of surburban cement w an t to sp eak out, or even have anything worth sayin g ? And w ho would listen?

Judging by the ch arac­ ters in SubU rbia, lack of inspi­ ration and opportunity doesn't Persephone Production's talented young cast successfully delivers stifle a person's need to chat­ the terse, biting and often satirical dialogue against a backdrop ter, stutter or scream for all to o f static disenchantment and escalating bitterness. hear. Instead, it gives them even more to talk about.

Under the direction of com pany founder and artistic bring to life each of the uniquely compelling characters, director G ab rie lle Soskin, Persephone Production's talented whether it's the rollerblading raggamuffin, the beer-swilling young cast successfully delivers the terse, biting and often racist, or the eternal cyn ic. Audience members can easily satirical dialogue against a backdrop of static disenchant­ re c o g n ize their o w n struggles reflected o nstag e in ment and escalating bitterness.

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It is filled with juicy tidbits that nosy neighbours would love to get their hands on: secrets that have had an enormous impact on the narrator and her family; addictive behaviors that do not lead to a happy ending (or beginning, in this case); and life experiences that lead the narra­ tor to question whether her moth­ er would have agreed to enter into her working class family from lower Q uebec city if she could do it over ag ain . Furthermore, the author ques­ tions whether she would have agreed to being born at all.

Bitter and honest, the story creates a picture of a life that w a s never devoid of pain and difficulty. O 'N e il describes the w a y in which the Q uebec government and the C atholic Church impacted her mother's life and the lives of others by interspersing historical facts with her own memories and anec­ dotes.

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M E L A N IE M A C D O N A L D The C o n co rd ia Stingers cam e into Friday nights gam e at M olson Stadium forsaking offence in favour of defence. The M c G ill Martlets m ade them pay.

M cG ill ran roughshod through C o n c o rd ia 's b a c k lines, and the defence-only tactic largely kept the Stingers a w a y from the M c G ill net as the Red V W h ite triumphed 3-0 in a battle of unbeatens. W ith the w in, the M artlets, ranked third in the country, retained first p lace in the Q u eb e c Student Sport Federation.

However, even with the w in, the squad has yet to play up to the high standards that H ead C o a c h M a rc M ounicot has set. The bench boss, w ho notched his 10 1st career victory, admitted that the team hasn't been ab le to transfer the high quality of play he1s seen in practices into its gam es.

"I like to see entertaining soccer, and two-on-two—w hat w a s happen­ ing during this g a m e — is not entertain­ ing," he sa id , w h ile also noting that the Stingers' style of play m ade his team's task harder. "It is very difficult to play a team like C o n co rd ia that is only willing to defend, but I'm still expect­ ing more quality play from [our] team.

I know they have that in them."

For most of the first half, C o n c o rd ia s frustrating tactics fazed the Martlets, but the M c G ill wom en finally broke out in the 36th minute.

Using her sp eed , striker Danielle D ay ran dow n the right w ing and quick-cut across the defender. She then sent a pass to forw ard Jennifer S can zan o inside the 1 8-yard b o x, and S ca n za n o finished the play by putting the ball in the right corner past the C o nco rd ia netminder.

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M ounicot believes that stronger play will em erge later in the season, when the Martlets face tougher com­ petition.

"W h en the big gam es com e I know they will be there. I know men­ tally they w ill be there," he sa id . "They love challenge and in the first few gam es that they have played , they haven't been challenged enough. I am 1 0 0 per cent sure they are ready for the challenge, they just need to face it."

Martlets maintain lead after the break W ith a 2-0 lead at halftime, M c G ill turned the tables and began to play a defensive style. W h ile they yielded a few chances to C o n co rd ia, keeper Victoria Villalba w a s a strong last line of defence, ensuring the Martlets of a third straight shutout.

M id fie ld e r K atie Young, w ho subbed in at the beginning of the half, explained the importance of Villalba's performance. " W e had a few lapses in the sec­ ond half w here [C o nco rd ia] cam e on strong, but Victoria really pulled through for us and m ade an absolute­ ly am azing save when it w a s still 2-0," the second^ ear player sa id . "W e all know how different a 2-0 gam e is com pared to a 2-1 gam e, so that save w a s crucial, and w a s definitely the turning point of the gam e. It allow ed us to get our third goal and pretty much seal the victory."

That final tally cam e in the 79th minute, when S ca n za n o held onto the ball at the 40-yard mark before per­ fectly placing it in front of Sarah Chm ielew ski, w ho w a s executing a well-timed run on the right w in g . The second^ ear midfielder then crossed it directly in front of the C o n co rd ia net, w here Toni Pascale headed it into the cage.

Chm ielew ski later observed that the Martlets performed solidly in spots, such a s the play during w hich she

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The win extended M cG ill's undefeated streak in C a n a d ia n Interuniversity Sport play to 2 8 gam es.

D a y scored tw ice for the M artlets, including a goal off a pass from S ca n za n o just 3 5 seconds into the match. She then ad ded the insur­ an ce marker in the 25th minute and earned gam e M VP honours. Villalba got the shutout, a s the Martlets have now outscored opponents 1 1-0 in four gam es. N ext up for M c G ill is a home matchup with a strong squad from the Université de M ontréal, w hich has a 2-1-1 record in Q S S F play. ■

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HI ou know you do it. You stay up late, and when every­ one else is in bed, you watch it on television. Sure, you do it at home sometimes, but you know you're not nearly as good a s the professionals, so you watch w h at they do and try to learn from them. And w o w , they seriously know some w ild tricks. They pull off moves you've never even thought to try. But then, that's w hy you're sitting on your couch at 3 a m , and they are competing at the W o rld Series of Poker.

Poker is all the rage these d a ys. It's on television non­ stop, people are playing it more than ever before, how-to books are flying out of bookstores, and rumour has it Britney Spears ran off and got married to 2 0 0 4 W S O P cham p G re g Raymer.

O kay, m aybe that is getting a bit carried a w a y , but it isn't the only exaggeration about poker going around these d a ys. Yeah, w e all marvel at how tough it is to w in , and it's am azing how good the top players in the w orld are, but som ewhere along the line, the most ridiculous notion w a s suggested. Some people are under the misapprehen­ sion that poker is a sport.

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Sure, it takes similar traits to be a poker cham pion as it does to be the heavyw eight cham pion, but that is more a requirement of success than it is of sport. You think it doesn't take focus, discipline, patience and skill to perform open-heart surgery, or to get a 4 . 0 G P A ? Forget sports— life requires focus, discipline, patience and skill.

Still, our poker fanatics insist on its merit a s a sport.

Poker tournaments last hours, d ays even. It requires endurance. You can't tell me bow ling is more physical than poker, they say. All right, so m aybe bow ling isn't the most impressive or ap pealing sport around, but knocking down pins is still a matter of physical execution. Poker, on the other hand, is a card gam e! Poker requires playing cards better than someone else is ab le to play cards. H o w phys­ ical is that? It requires you to pick up card s, then to play the cards you have in front of you. Even the terminology in poker is m isleading. C ontrary to popular belief, there is no actual holding, folding, or raising anything heavier than a chip.

But it's shown on E S P N , T S N , and Sportsnet. Surely, poker has to be a sport if it is covered on sports networks, right? W e ll, let's consider some other things that are shown on these channels: N ational Spelling Bee, Motoring 2 0 0 4 , W W E wrestling, N A S C A R ... The defence rests.

Sim ply being on a sports network doesn't mean a thing, and poker buffs that use this argument are pretty much hanging on for d ear life at that point.

S o poker isn't a sport. Big d e al. Does that make it less enjo yab le? N o . Less interesting? Don't think so. Is it less of an endeavour than bow ling? Hell no. People get in such a huff about these "sport/not a sport" debates that they for­ get w h y they w ere arguing in the first p lace. Sim ply calling something a sport is not some form of flattery. It simply ackn o w ledg es the fact that the activity in question is a com­ petition based on some kind of physical task. Similarly, to sa y that something is not a sport is in no w a y a form of derision.

Poker is not a sport. Poker is fun; poker is exciting; poker is challenging. But poker is not a sport. M ost impor­ tantly, poker is coming on TV right now. S e e y a . ■

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The Redmen controlled the game from start to finish, and notched an early marker in the 18th minute. A header from forward Juan Ignacio Z avag n o —off an impressive corner setup from m idfielder Jonathan W a rin —found the net to give M cG ill a 1-0 lead.

"It wasn't a great goal. N obody w a s covering m e," a modest (Zavagno insisted. "Let me say, though, it w a s a great ball by Jonathan."

However, the Redmen had their a d v a n ta g e , nullified in one swift sequence. In the 44th minute, Concordia w a s given a free kick right outside the goal box after the ball nicked the hand of a M cG ill defender in a battle for possession. Stingers defender Francois Bastien sent the ball soaring over a w a ll of Redmen

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"I rarely say this, but the officiat­ ing w a s horrendous," the Redmen bench boss said. "It w a s one of the worst displays I've ever seen. I don't k n o w ... maybe they graduated from C oncord ia."

M a r also questioned the intensity of his team at stages of the game, but Redmen players felt the effort w as there, just not the execution.

"W e didn't capitalize on our chances, and w e paid the price," said Zavagno.

N onetheless, the Redmen, ranked fourth in the country, have the luxury of viewing the regular season as nothing more than a long training session, as they have an automatic berth in the national championship as hosts. And with their next three games coming against the weakest teams in Q u e b e c —as well as the possible return of offensive threat Jam ie Scholefield, w ho w as injured in a car accid e n t earlier this month—the Redmen will have a chance to erase the disappointing memory of Friday's d raw and to prepare for what they hope will be a championship run to conclude the season. ■

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A determined group of Redmen dispatcfied Sherbrooke on Saturday and prepare for Concordia this weekend. gam e w a s a force to be reckoned with a s D an ny Tai and .N ic k Hoffmann finished 1-2 in the league in rushing.

M cG ill's defence should also be commended for a performance reminiscent of 2 0 0 2 , when the unit featured four all-conference players.

This y e ar's group , led b y AllC a n a d ia n G uillaum e Roy, recprded 1 0 tackles for a loss, sa ck e d Sherbrooke quarterback M arc-André Tougas tw ice w hile holding him to less than a 5 0 per cent completion rate, and recovered a fumble.

How ever, all this is tempered by the fact that the Redmen have only beaten up on the league's door­ mats and that the toughest gam es of the s e a so n — a g a in st C o n c o rd ia , Laval an d a rem atch with M o n tré a l— a re still to com e.

N onetheless, the team seems to have assured itself a playoff spot, and is proving H ead C o a c h C huck M cM an n w a s correct when he pre­ dicted that the, team woujd start off

would like to start with a short exe rcise—a word association of sorts— so humour me if you w ill. W h a t w ords com e to mind when describing French culture? If your mindset w a s anything like mine, those w ords would probably be couture, sophistication and eleg an ce. Hand-to-hand com bat would likely be one of the last ideas to surface. Yet somehow, the French found time amidst their highbrow culture to create a high-octane system of combat that rivals those of east A sia .

I learned that the hard w a y when I joined a Savate kickbox­ ing class at the M cG ill gym . I had next to no idea w hat I w a s getting myself into, a s Sa vate is one of the lesser-known martial arts, and in my 19 years I had never so much as seen the w ord.

Savate (also known a s boxe française ) started in Europe, and w a s systematized in 1 7th century France. It first gained pop­ ularity among the French bourgeoisie a s a defence mechanism to fend off thugs on the streets. M ichel C a sse u x developed the m echanics of the art, formalizing and categorizing elements he had observed on the street. It w a s later infused with elements acquired from English boxing and has m odernized with each e ra , eventually evolving into the sport that exists today.

M artial arts are generally seen as an Eastern phenomenon, but Savate is an incredibly explosive, dynam ic and effective fight­ ing style.- It takes elements of street defence and Eastern arts, infusing them with French panache and eleg ance. For exam ple, Savate uses a ranking system of glove levels differentiated by colour, sim ilar to the belts in Karate. Each glove level relates to a different theme; the first, G a n t Bleu, is focused around the sim­ plest theme: Je louche el je ne suis pas touché (I touch and I am not touched). Conversely, Savate differs from popularized Mui Tai kickboxing in that elbow s and knees are not permitted. The main w eap o ns are gloved hands and the insteps of the feet. Attacks are beautifully launched with pow er and precision in such a graceful manner one would only expect from the French.

I only got into the sport on a whim , actually. M y roommate mentioned she w a s taking a kickboxing class, so I tagged along for the ride. She left, I stayed, and two years later, I find myself a founding member of the M c G ill Savate Kickboxing C lu b . That should tell you how welcom ing an environment the club is for fighters of all levels. The instructors are incredibly knowledge­ a b le , spending summer after summer in France training to improve their level of expertise, and accordingly, our experience at M c G ill. They o rg an ize seminars, even m anaging to recruit cham pions of the sport from France to w ork with us.

Savate is fun, but it's not some glamorous Taebo-stylé fitness class. It requires a great deal of strength, discipline and heartfelt dedication. If you w ish to put asid e your ego and a llo w yourself the experience of learning something totally new, and possibly getting your butt kicked into shape along the w a y , consider Sa vate kickboxing. There is truly nothing else like it. ■

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JO S E P H G IL G O F F It's starting to look like 2 0 0 2 ag ain for the M c G ill Redm en—and that can only be a good thing for a football team that struggled badly throughout 2 0 0 3 .

After dropping their first gam e, the Redmen have rebounded with three straight w ins, the sam e thing they did in 2 0 0 2 on their w a y to a 7-1 regular season record and a trip to the national semi-finals. A n d, just as two years a g o , a determined and talented pivot is leading the charge, with M att Connell looking a lot like form er all-star q u arterb ack Josh Sommerfeldt.

The most recent of the increas­ ingly impressive series of exploits by the second 7 ear quarterback cam e Saturday at Sherbrooke, w here he threw five touchdown passes in a 42-1 1 Redmen romp. The native of St. Albert, Alberta, dismantled the Vert & O r defence, completing 1 3 of 1 7 passes for 2 7 1 yard s w hile tying the Q u e b e c U niversity Football League record for touchdown passes in a gam e, last accom plished by Laval's M athieu Bertrand in 2 0 0 3 .

Connell spread the ball among seven receivers, four of whom caught passes that resulted in six points. Slotback A n drew Dodd led the Redmen with 1 1 1 yards and scored a touchdown on each of his two receptions. C hris M c G u ire — w ho opened the scoring with a 50 yard TD catch — A lex M artin and G re g Heatherington also hooked up with Connell for majors.

O n the ground, the Redmen looked impressive a s w ell, with sec­ ond-year b a ck M ich ael Sam m an rumbling his w a y to 1 3 8 yards and a score on 21 carries. Samm an now lead s the Q U FL with 4 4 6 yards on the ground, and is also harkening back to the halcyon d ays of two autumns a g o , when M cG ill's running

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There w a s a feeling of disbelief in the stadium as the C oncordia play­ ers celebrated their goal. Valdez cursed in frustration and minutes later, after the halftime whistle sounded, w a s berated by an aggressive and confrontational M c G ill assistant coach, who charged onto the field to criticize Valdez for his error. Valdez, however, w a s quite a w a re he had made a mistake.

"I'm a little disappointed on my part; it wasn't the besi showing," he said. "It w a s a well-placed ball and you just have to react in time and I didn't."

The Stingers' improbable goal w iped out a gritty effort by the Redmen, w ho w ere without four starters due to injury, including mid­ fielder A lex Scott, the M VP of M cG ill's first two contests.

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slow ly but improve a s the season went on.

C onco rd ia H ead C o a c h G e rry M cG rath also foresaw the Redmen's turnaround from last year's, d isap ­ pointing season, during which the 35 team just snuck into the playoffs.

"They had a tough go of it last year, but I exp ect they'll be better," M cG rath noted during the pre-sea­ son. "M att Connell m ay be young but I expect good things from him, and a s the y e a r goes on, they'll be better." .M c G ra th —w hose own team is in transition and struggled early to a 1-2 record before upsetting the topranked St. M a ry 's H uskies on Saturday— needs to quickly develop a gam e plan to deal with the enh anced Redmen. C onnell and C o . head to the Stingers' nest on Saturday in the annual Shaughnessy C u p gam e, and a w in would be sw eet revenge for M c G ill after the Redmen w ere drubbed 46-1 in last year's g am e. Kickoff is at 1pm. ■

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Two minutes for roughing, a red card for a dangerous slide tackle, 15 yards for unnecessary roughness.

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Likew ise, the W ashingtonTomjanovich episode occurred when the N B A w a s a fledgling league, before M ichael Jordan cam e along and helped basketball becom e an inter­ national juggernaut. W ash ington, though heavily discip lin ed by the Association, w a s never prosecuted in the matter. If a similar incident w ere to occur today, there is little doubt that it would extend into the legal arena.

Ace Bailey, w ho suffered a fractured skull as a result o f a check from behind by Eddie Shore, even went so far as to say, "It's all part o f the gam e"; an indication o f the prevalent attitude o f the time. instances, w e wonder if the offender should be sent to the penalty box or the jail cell.

Vancouver C anucks forward Todd Bertuzzi recently brought this issue back into question, but his story is merely the latest in a long line of serious offences that have occurred on the playing sur­ face.

Hockey seems to get singled out on this issue, and not without good rea­ son. Bertuzzi's vicious attack on Colo rado A valanche forward Steve M oore w a s followed only six weeks later by Alexander Perezhogin of the Am erican Hockey Leagues Hamilton Bulldogs, w ho retaliated against anoth­ er players slash with a two-handed baseball swing to the face.

But hockey isn't the only sport with blood on its hands. In 1 9 7 7 , Portland Trail B lazers' fo rw ard Kermit Washington appalled N B A fans every­ where by punching Houston Rockets guard Rudy Tomjanovich in the face, nearly killing him. And for years, pitch­ ers in baseball have thrown at oppos­ ing batters, \often leading to bench­ clearing brawls.

Though rough play has escalated into violence throughout the last century, it only began to enter the legal domain as each sport gained popularity. W h ile

That was then, and this is now Today, lines are draw n to deter­ mine what is considered the voluntary assumption of risk each player takes when stepping onto the playing sur­ face, and what is an illegal act of vio­ lence. But is it even possible to d raw those lines?

It's easy to say that Bertuzzi w as wrong for w hat he did. But his sport, and his entire livelihood, requires him to play at a heightened level of aggres­ sion and emotion, and eng ag e in vio­ lence that would never be tolerated out­ side of the rink. Athletes are expected, even encouraged, to intentionally throw at the next batter after allowing a home run, or chase an opponent the length of the rink to pick a fight. This is accept­ ab le, but not when a person follows another out of a bar to instigate a simi­ lar altercation.

And though w e condemn these acts, w hat makes them wrong, exactly?

Is it the intént behind the act, or the result of it? Punches are thrown in near­ ly every hockey gam e and nobody bats an eye, because most of these flying fists don't end up with someone going to the hospital. But the intent of the punches thrown is no less malicious ihan the one Bertuzzi delivered on M oore.

W h a t set Bertuzzi's attack apart w a s that it superceded the normal level of ferocity of a "routine" punch. It w a s w id ely acknowledged by those around the league afterwards that things esca­ lated due to out of control emotions.

Even W a y n e Gretzky, a s docile and passive a player to have laced up a pair of skates a s you'll find, offered a rationalization for the incident, saying "it's a very emotional gam e, and you can quickly lose your temper and lose your focus."

Fittingly, the G reat O n e cut to the heart of the matter. The difference between the everyday punch or slash, and those of Bertuzzi and Perezhogin, respectively, is that these two players lost control of their emotions. This may not excuse their actions in the court of public opinion, but it presents an inter­ esting debate in a court of law . The defence teams for Bertuzzi or Perezhogin must demonstrate the differ­ ence between their clients' acts and assault cases that occur outside the ath­ letic arena.

The fact is, people live their daily lives at a much lower level of emotion than a t which athletes compete. O n e could potentially argue that a person w ho enters a bar relaxed and having a good time, and ends up breaking another patron's nose in a fight, would have to lose total and absolute control of their emotions, whereas an athlete is already at his emotional threshold. Their actions require an emotional eruption of a far smaller magnitude. Think about a scenario where a serious altercation almost occurs before cooler heads pre­ vail. Often, those cooler heads don't exist on the playing surface, which makes an altercation that much more likely.

Sports have alw a ys existed in a culture of physicality and aggression, w hich has m ade it susceptible to heinous acts of violence. W h a t is cer­ tain is that the nature of sport increases the possibility of someone losing control and acting in a vicious manner, more so than in other facets of life. Some may believe that this is no excuse for sucn acts to occur, but no one can deny that it is a reason. But as sport becomes a significant part of general society, it can no longer shelter itself from the rules by w hich w e a re all governed. The impending trials of Bertuzzi and Perezhogin will each set a precedent, and thus it is sport that is going on trial a s w ell. ■

The M cG ill women's rugby team ensured that it would not be a sweet homecoming for the Bishop's G aiters.

The Martlets ruggers cam e out fir­ ing on all cylinders at Bishops Friday night, shocking a much-improved G aiters' squad by a score of 6 8 -0 on the pitch in Lennoxville. The victory ran the Martlets' regular-season winning streak to 4 5 straight gam es.

W in g e rs Laura Belvedere and Tess Kelley paced the Martlets, with Belvedere notching five tries and Kelley putting the ball down in the end zone tw ice. These scores cam e a s a result of strong play by the forwards, w ho drew the unorganized G aiters' defence into the middle of the pitch, then moved the ball quickly through the inside backs, giving the wingers the chance to score on the flanks. Fo rw ard s C o a c h Cynthia McIntosh w a s very impressed with the play of the young group.

"Last year, it w a s great to have 'those A ll-C anadian players, but it's am azing to see that w e can still per­ form without them," she sa id . "W e're still doing w hat our pack did last year and w e're doing it well enough to be ab le to dominate the gam e."

Indeed, M c G ill dictated play from the start, with Belvedere scoring a try in the second minute of the gam e, off a tricky over-the-head pass from scrum-half Jocelyn Barrieau. By the time the half w a s over, M cG ill had record­ ed eight tries, Kelley had ad ded four converts, and the Martlets had a 4 8 -0 lead.

The second half w a s less impres­ sive, a s M cG ill put only 2 0 points on the board. Even though the Martlets had a large advantage coming out of the first 4 0 minutes, H ead C o ach Vince deG randp ré felt the team should have kept up their effort in the second half.

"The backs need to work on their consistency and finishing," he said.

"There w ere lots of knock-ons at the end for no apparent reason. W hen you get a big lead like that, you lose your focus. That's w hat happened in the second half."

Nonetheless, parts of the M cG ill side showed some improvement in the second half. The Martiets' scrums w ere better than at the beginning of the sea­ son, and the pack showed off its newly-polished mauling skills. " W e practiced mauling all w eek, because our mauls last gam e weren't w orking," said McIntosh. "But people are surprising us. W h en w e give them something new, a new play or a new

ANGELA GIANNOTTI skill, they all learn it and execute it w ell."

This development has come from the forw ards working together and playing a s a unit, according to rookie prop Valerie Evans.

"The forw ards have really been getting used to each other quickly," she said . "There's tons -of encouragement in the pack, especially because there are so many new players. W e clicked from the beginning [of the season]."

Defensively, though, the Martlets still-have w ork to do . M c G ills defen­ sive lineouts w ere disorganized, and the team w a s also slo w to react to w h a t few G aiters penetrating runs there w ere.

The Martlets also need to better arrange their open-field play, a s they will be facing their stiffest competition in the leag ue on Su nd ay at the University of O tta w a . W ith the pres­ sure on to continue a 45-gam e unbeat­ en streak in the Q u e b e c Student Sport Federation, the Martlets must be ab le to start the gam e on fire and keep it burning until the end. ■

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Score by Quarters R ED M EN FO O TBALL - M cG ill @ C o n co rd ia, Sat. O ct. 2 , 1 :0 0p m at C o n c o rd ia s Loyola campus The Redmen and Stingers renew their rivalry when C onco rd ia hosts the Shaughnessy C u p . M c G ill hopes to keep their three-game w in­ ning streak alive, and C o nco rd ia hopes to build on their upset win over top-ranked St. M ary's.

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M LB - M arlins @ Expos, W e d . Sept. 2 9 , 7 :0 5 p m at O lym pic Stadium This m ay very w ell be the last m ajor league gam e played in M ontreal, so expect thousands of fans w ho never supported the Expos in their 3 5 years of existence to make the trip to the Big O and plead for the team to stay.

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Eeuw es kick) 5 :0 0 M cGILL TD— G . Hetherington 10-yd pass from |R. Eeuw es kick) 7 :3 3 SH ERB T D - F. O livie r 2 8 y d pass from M .

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4 :0 5 p m on Fox The battles for the AL and N L W e st could com e down to the last d a y of the season, with both races featuring a clash between north­ ern a n d southern C alifo rnia teams. W ith names like Bonds, G re e n , G uerrero, and C h a v e z , these gam es promise not to disappoint.

NFL — Patriots @ Bills, Sun. O ct. 3 , 1pm on C B S Two teams headed in opposite directions do battle, and something is on the line for both. The 2-0 Patriots have w on 1 7 straight, and one more victory would tie the N FL record. The 0-2 Bills, mean­ w hile, entered the cam paign with postseason "hopes, and would do w ell to avoid dropping this contest; from 1 9 9 0 - 2 0 0 3 , only three teams that went winless in their first three gam es m ade the playoffs.

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Hoping to build on a third-place finish in the O ntario University Association Eastern division standings in 2 0 0 3 , the M c G ill wom en's lacrosse team opened its season on Saturday with a pair of gam es on Lower Field. But the Martlets w e re in tough in their first gam e, squaring off against Q ueen's, last year's division cham pions. M c G ill put itself at an early disadvantage from w hich it w a s unable to recover, losing 15-9.

The first half started relatively even, with M c G ill trailing only 3-2, but five unanswered Q ueen's goals before half­ time left the Martlets shell-shocked. During the intermission, H ead C o a c h Heather Roffey rallied the troops by dem and­ ing more intensity.

"She said 8-2 is not a huge deficit, and that w e w ere not playing [to] our full potential," said defender Sarah Sullivan about the halftime speech.

Those w ords w oke up the M c G ill squad, but at that point, it w a s too late. Though they w ere ab le to find the b ack of the Q ueen's net, the Martlets w ere unable to hold off the G o lden G a e l attack.

But the offensive outburst, led by M eg an G reenw ich's two goals and three assists, w a s encouraging for the Martlets. Roffey detailed her optimism after the gam e.

"For this year, w e have seven or eight people w ho can score when in the past, it w a s limited to one or two play­ ers," she sa id . "It won't be easy to beat us because w e have more speed this year and a much stronger d efence."

How ever, Roffey conceded that Q ueen's is still the team to beat, so M c G ill will have to find a w a y to keep their offence up w hile limiting the scoring output by their opponents.

M cG ill rebounded to tie the University of Toronto 9-9 in the afternoon match, but dropped a 1 D 8 decision to W ilfrid Laurier University on Sunday.

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Rugby Redmen pull out late win over Bishop's

Third Quarter SH ERB F G — A . Dorval 3 7 yds 5 :1 1 M cGILL TD— A . M artin 3 y d pass from M . C onnell (R. Euw es kick) 1 5 :0 0 fourth Q uarter (no scoring)

lain Evans of Abergavenny, South W a le s , converted a penalty kick with 1 3 minutes remaining, a s the Redmen escaped Lennoxville with a hard-fought 8-5 victory over Bishop's on Sunday. The G aiters jumped out to a 5-0 lead with an early try, which M cG ill matched just before halftime on a try by M ark Ihnatow ycz of Etobicoke, O nt. The teams remained deadlocked until Evans sealed the w in for M cG ill with his three-pointer. The Redmen followed that perform­ an ce up with a 5 D 0 thrashing of ETS two days later, improving the team's record to 5-0.

Former McGill student takes Canadian triathlon crown

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REDBIRDS BASEBALL - Q S S F Semi-final, M c G ill @ TBD, O ct. 1-2 The Redbirds begin their quest for a provincial title in this semi-final match, ag ainst either Laval or John Abbott C o lleg e.

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MOHIT ARORA Earl Zukerm an ♦ M c G ill Sports Inform ation O ffice r

Sam antha M cG lo n e , an O lym pian and former M cG ill cross-country runner, won the national triathlon cham pi­ onship on Saturday, held in M ontreal after it w a s moved from K elo w na, B C , due to inclement weather. M cG lo n e fin­ ished 2 :3 0 ahe ad of silver medalist Tara Ross of Longueuil.

Ross em erged from the swimming leg of the race with a 57second lead over the field of 2 5 w om en, but slow ly sa w her lead dw indle in the cycling portion. At the turn, she w a s one of four competitors within arms reach of the lead . It w a s during the final 10 km run that M cG lo n e , of St. Catharines, O n t., m ade her move and pulled a w a y from the p ack.

St-Pierre-signs with women's pro-league team Former M c G ill goaltender Kim St-Pierre has joined the Q u eb e c A valanche of the N ational W om en's H ockey League for the upcoming season. The N W H L , in its sixth season of play, is a seven-team circuit featuring teams from Toronto, Brampton, O n t., A ja x , O n t., O akville, O n t., O tta w a , M ontreal, and Q u eb e c City. The league features many of C a n a d a 's top hockey players, as w ell a s players from the Am erican, Finnish and Sw edish O lym pic pro­ grams.

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Results O u td o o r soccer— W om en's A division Tues, Sept. 2 1 , Eye of the Tiger 0 , Physical in Bed 0 W e d , Sept. 2 2 , G iv e r 3 , M an ag ers United 0

O u td o o r soccer— W om en's B division O N O R C L IN IC

M cGILL U N IV E R S IT Y Organized by SSMU

Tues, Sept. 2 1 , G irls with Balls 1, C h ickita B an an as 1 W e d , Sept. 2 2 , C a sh s G irls G o n e W ild 1, R V C 1

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Monday, October 4:

9:30 am to 5:00pm

Tuesday, October 5:

9:30 am to 5:00 pm

Wednesday, October 6:

9:30 am to 6:00 pm

Thursday, October 7:

9:30 am to 5:00 pm

WILLIAM SHATNER UNIVERSITY CENTER Ball Room 3rd Floor

Upcoming games Ice hockey— M en's D division Tues, Sept. 2 8 , 7 :3 0 p m , Team Sucko Farm vs. Squids Tues, Sept. 2 8 , 1 0 :3 0 p m , Sigm a C hi vs. B ad M am m a Jam mas

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JOSTENS STUDIO, 2 0 5 7 Stanley Street. For appointm ent call: 4 9 9 -9 9 9 9