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Norman Hoffman said that shifting demographics may explain this trend. "[There has been an] increase in An increase in demand at the the number of female students, who McGill Student Mental Health and tend to seek help more... [and] in the Counselling Services has waiting peri­ number of out-of-province students, ods lengthening and staff overworked. who tend to need all the services At Mental Health, where demand more," he said. "Universities all across doubled between 1999 and 2003, North America are seeing higher rates competition for the limited space avail­ of demand.” able has become so fierce that the Counselling Service saw a 10 department is now sending many stu­ per cent increase in requests over the dents to the non-profit Argyle Institute. summer alone, and expect to fill all fall Director of Mental Health Dr. term appointments by the end of this NIALL MACKAY ROBERTS

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Dr. Ted Baker, director of the Counselling Service, attributed most of the fluctuation in demand to seasonal changes, including winter depression and the pressure of exams, but said he was unable to explain the 10 per cent increase.

"Looking at the statistics, it's not outrageous, but it indicates a trend," he said. "You always see the scale going up."

At the end of next May, Muslim students will no longer have a prayer space on campus, and as the dead­ line to find new space approaches, students and administrators are dis­ agreeing over who should provide a new one.

For the past two years, Muslim students and faculty have been pray­ ing in a room in the basement of Peterson Hall. In May, Vice-Principal (Administration and Finance] Morty Yalovsky notified the Students' Society that the lease on the space in Peterson Hall expired on May 31, and that thereafter it would be need­ ed for academic purposes.

In response, SSMU and the PostGraduate Students' Society have both unanimously passed motions calling on the administration to provide a new prayer space.

"A long-term arrangement needs to be made," said SSMU VicePresident Clubs and Services Sameen

Shahid. "[A prayer site] is crucial for Muslim students," said Sarah Elgazzar, former Muslim Students' Association treasurer. Muslirhs pray five times daily, often during regular school hours. Without an on-campus prayer site, Muslim students may have to pray at home or in public spaces such as stairwells and libraries—two undesirable options, according to the MSA. Former MSA president Isam Faik said that more than $40,000 has been invested in making the Peterson Hall space suitable for prayer. In the May letter regarding the lease, the administration offered no suggestion as to where to relocate the prayer space.

MSA President Hani Ezzadeen said McGill should live up to its repu­ tation as a multicultural university and accommodate all students.

Concordia University, he said, has two large prayer spaces set aside for See F O R M E R , page 3.

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F ri., O ct. 22 S o c c e r v s Lava! (W ) 6pm & (M ) 8pm (Molson) Sat., Oct. 23 Redmen Lacrosse vs U of T 2pm (Fortes) Sat., Oct. 23 Swimming Duels Waterloo 2:30pm (Memorial Poof) Sat., Oct.23 Martlet Volleyball vs UQTR 2pm <mcgsii sports centre) Sun., Oct. 24 Redmen Lacrosse vs Queen’s 2pm (Forbes) Sun., Oct. 24 Redmen Rugby vs Sherbrooke 1pm (Moison) Mon., O ct. 25 R edm en H ockey v s U Q T R 7:30pm (Mcconneii)

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LISA VARANO The Daily Publications Society submitted a petition to the Judicial Board Friday that asks for three cam­ paign by-laws to be suspended in the upcoming referenda pertaining to the Daily.

This petition was filed on behalf of Coordinating Editor Daniel Cohen and fellow DPS Board of Directors member Marie-Eve Clavet.

According to the petition, DPS wants electoral bylaws 15.3, 15.4, and 15.15 suspended or reinterpret­ ed to allow Daily editors, contributors, and all Board members to campaign on yes or no committees.

Elections McGill Chief Returning Officer Andrew Carvajal informed DPS that he could not override these campaign rules, and DPS consequent­ ly brought the case toJ-Board.

By-law 15.3 prohibits members of media organizations from using their role to influence a campaign, while by-law 15.4 disallows editors and contributors from joining yes or no committees.

Cohen said that there is no rea­ son why a referendum question should be asked about a campus publication or media organization, which then are not allowed to participate in the campaigns.

"We're going to have to decide, for everybody in our organization: Is it better to have them campaigning or to have themcontributing to us," he said.

"And that really jeopardizes our abili­ ty to put out a good paper, if all of our writers are campaigning for us."

By-law 15.15 restricts cam­ paigning to members of the Students' Society, who are undergraduates on the downtown campus, the DPS peti­ tion states that this is a problem because a member of its Board of Directors is a post-graduate student.

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Daily editors may not be able to participate in referenda concerning them.

Carvajal, the Elections McGill CRO, is listed as the respondent on the petition.

"I'll do the job that I am told to do, and if I am told [by J-Board] to override the rules, I will," he said.

"Rest assured I will not resign if I lose this case."

One of the questions being asked was proposed last week by three present DPS members at large, who last year held positions at the SSMU. They initiated the referendum on whether DPS members should be allowed to opt out of the mandatory Daily fee. Polling will take place from November 1 to 3.

If the fee referendum passes, SSMU will have a mandate to lobby McGill's Board of Governors, which collects the Daily levy, to make it optional.

Former SSMU executives Rodrigo DeCastro, Vivian Choy and Mia Gewertz collected the 500 required signatures- to submit a refer­

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They argued that while the Daily has its own mechanism for reviewing fee structures, its constitution does not have provisions for lowering the fee or making it opt-outable.

However, Cohen said that if any members of the DPS had a problem with the fee, they could approach the Board of Directors.

"If people wanted to make changes in good faith, they should approach our Board of Directors," he said.

An alternate referendum question was submitted to Elections McGill by the DPS Board of Directors. The sec­ ond question asks if SSMU should respect the financial autonomy of the DPS. Cohen said that he hopes JBoard will settle the case by the end of this week, before campaigning begins.

—With files from Katherine Fugler and Heather Haq Lawrence

ANNOUNCEMENT OF REFEREN D UM QUESTION

E le c tio n s M cG ill w ill su b m it th e fo llo w in g stu d en t-in itia ted referen d u m q u estion to stu d en t v o te d u rin g th e 2 0 0 4 F a ll E le c to r a l P e r io d : W H E R E A S all members o f the Students' Society o f McGill (SSM U), the accredited representative body of all undergraduate students, are members o f the Daily Publication Society (DPS); W H E R E A S Article 16.12 (e) o f the DPS Constitution does not allow its members to question the reduction or elimination o f membership or fees; W H E R E A S McGill University collects the "McGill Daily" fee (currently $5.00 per semester) on behalf o f the DPS from all undergraduate students; Do you agree th at the choice to opt-out from the ’’McGill Daily" fee for a full refund be available to ail m em bers o f the SSM U and that this fee be eligible fo r review in four (4) years through an undergraduate students' referendum ?

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ices, agreed that the current situation presents a problem. On September 30, she attended the inaugural meet­ ing of the Coordinating Committee for Student Services, which brings together student, administration and services executives to decide how funding should be allocated.

CCSS discussed the status of heath services and the options avail­ able for restructuring.

"We have two options," Shahid said. "We can follow the full-service model... or the half-service model."

The full-service model, she explained, includes no limitations to service, while the latter may involve disincentives to frequent use of the sys­ tem. The committee will reconvene this week to assess its options.

The directors of Mental Health and Counselling services both point­ ed to understaffing as the primary rea­ son for the strain on the system. Baker said that in the past he has unsuccess­ fully argued for new hiring, and he currently advocates negotiating a hike in student fees through CCSS to fund the effort.

Hoffman also said that funding must increase, but he is concerned about office space. Medicare pays for medical personnel, lowering the cost of hiring additional staff However, the staff of 15 already bor­ rows two offices from Career and Placement Services and sees little room for further growth.*

The trend, he said, is not new.

"Normally... by the end of October, we don't have any room to see anybody," he said. "We even gave up on having a waiting list and had people calling for cancellations."

Instead, the office has instituted an intake counsellor to screen student requests and prioritize demand.

"It's a sort of triage system," Dr. Baker said. "The intake counselor is slowing things down a bit, but we're really trying to emphasize that the people who need us the most are the ones getting the attention."

Health staff also suggest hospi­ tals and clinics outside the university as alternative resources for students waiting for services on campus, but warn that waiting times may be con­ siderable—up to six months—for hos­ pital-based psychiatric services, while numerous private clinics make it diffi­ cult for university students to afford such care.

Hoffman anticipates indirect con­ sequences to the growth of demand.

"For a lot of students, it takes a fair bit of courage just to come see us," he said. "They feel like they've made the effort, and now it's not being responded to."

He noted that Mental Health makes it a policy to respond to stu­ dent requests within two weeks.

"But we've barely been able to do that," he said, "and not at all to our satisfaction."

Mental Health can be reached at Sameen Shahid, Students' 398.6019 and Counselling Services Society vice-president clubs and serv­ can be reached at 398.3601.

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Students have resurrected the vin­ tage video game known as Frogger— but it could end up costing more than a few quarters.

At the corner of rue Metcalfe and rue Sherbrooke, where construction has torn up the intersection and cross­ walk, they assemble on both sides of the street, waiting for the right moment to jump in.

When there is a break or halt in traffic, the stop-and-go dance begins: Sprint across the path of the 24 bus.

Pause underneath the towering bright, yellow backhoe. There may be just enough time to cross the final lanewait, no, go back. In a perfectly timed show of daredevilry, leap to the other side as a Mack truck roars closer.

This month, however, jaywalkers face more than just enraged cab driv­ ers. Rather than issuing the usual warn­ ing, police are handing out $37 tick­ ets to people who disregard crossing signals.

Police are specifically targeting senior citizens and pedestrians between the ages of 10 and 19 because of their frequent involvement in accidents. Last year, pedestrians were involved in about 1,800 acci­ dents, resulting in 20 deaths.

The annual campaign, which also targets motorists who drive through pedestrian crosswalks, began last Tuesday and continues until the

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Police are not concentrating on any particular area, said spokesper­ son Robert Mansueto.

"Obviously, you see a lot of the jaywalking in the downtown area," he said, "but as far as accidents are con­ cerned, it's across the island."

Montreal is not the most pedestri­ an-friendly city, said U1 Microbiology student Stefania Simeone, so she avoids dodging in between cars unnecessarily.

"I'll cross if I don't see a car," she said, "[but] I usually tend to wait for the light, unless it's really deserted."

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"Crossing [rue] University at the corner of Sherbrooke is very problem­ atic," he added. "It's not only quiet streets that people are jaywalking on."

Simeone doubts the crackdown will have much effect.

"I think people just do it without even knowing," she said. "They'll cross a street and realize [the light was] red only after they've crossed it."

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Muslims who pray five times a day need an accessible prayer space. pus would be costly, MSA members said, and does not seem to be a real­ Muslim students, both in prime loca­ istic option. Still,. Yalovsky remains "optimistic that the SSMU and the tions.

Yalovsky said the University does [MSA] will be able to resolve this not provide space for any specific issue, either within the [Shatner] religious group, but it does have a University Centre or else at a location non-denominational prayer space in off campus."

Shahid said that this is not sim­ the Birks building that Muslims can use. Peterson Hall was meant to be a ply a matter of satisfying the MSA, temporary location until the MSA but that the Muslim students at McGill could find a permanent off-campus should have the right to practice their location—one similar to the Hillel religion.

"This is not a student issue," she house on rue Stanley.

Purchasing a location near cam­ said. "It's a people issue." ■ Continued from cover

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A. psychologist andj lhuman sexuality expert at Brock University has found that one in 100 people have no interest in sex at all. I In a recent speech, McGill ^ Principal Heather Munroe-Blum said that the university's goal ilM V of being one of the top 10 research universities in the world -T is within reach. • On November 2, Americans will go to the t. % |îîî ** polls, vote for their choice for president, and provide some jobs untm fe while they're at it—about 5,500 people will be monitoring and 1 reporting voting results for the Associated Press. • As the Tribune is I % ^ committed to helping voters make an informed choice on that day, the * editors have compiled (okay, ripped off from the New Yorker) a few bits of information they hope will help voters gauge each party's level of m p coolness: Democratic vice-presidential candidate John Edwards has issued a press release announcing his endorsement by music group Hootie and the Blowfish, US General Wesley Clark, a former Democratic m candidate for President, said in a video that aired on MTV: "I don't care what the other candidates say, I don't think OutKast is really breakin up.

Andre 3000 and Big Boi just cut solo records, that's all."; President George if W. Bush's daughter Jenna recently got stuck in an elevator at a nightclub, managed to pry the door open with a chopstick, and then had a tequila. • Alternatively, the US candidates could try what the Ukrainians are doing.

Campaigners for current Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich set up a free striptease show at a bar to garner support for their candidate. • As part of CBC’s Montreal Matters Campaign, Maisonneuve magazine is throwing a giant poutine party at La Belle Province, 3608 boulevard St-Laurent, on October 27, at 11:30am. • According to a survey conducted by condom company Durex, the global average for having sex is 103 times a year. The highest number was 137, reported by [who else but) the French, and the ; Japanese have theleast sex at 46 times a year. It should be noted, howev­ er, that Italians reported the most frequent orgasms: 61 per cent of the time.

• A woman in Wyoming received a tempting proposal from some area teenagers. They asked her if she would like to buy an insurance policy pro­ || tecting ho' house from being egged on Halloween. She called the police, and should not be surprised if she does in fact find her house has been 8L* egged on October 31. • A man who wanted to name his son '& has been denied by authorities in Henan province, China. Under Chinese law, all names must be translatable into Mandarin. • For all those polit........I ically obsessed people cut there, Indigo bookstore now carries paper dolls of the Bush family. Not to be partial or anything, they also carry paper dolls of former President Bill Clinton and his clan. Though JL |I the Tribune must admit the Bush twins are still way hotter than the . young Chelsea doll, frizzy hair and all. • And finally, a woman t u n g re v in Sydney, Australia, has been diagnosed with "sleep sex." It ■ *t»i | ii*# i is similar to sleepwalking or sleep-eating, but involves a perk J» '** * *411* son jn a Jeep stage of sleep unconsciously soliciting sex? fy jC k fg y jjt I» ua^activîtY The woman has been undergoing psy. . chotherapy treatments. ■

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DAVID M. NATAF McGill's scientific community received a double dose of Nobel insight last week. Claude CohenTannoudji, cowinner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics and professor of atomic and molecular physics at the Collège de France in Paris, delivered a pair of lectures to packed audiences on the properties of interactions between light and matter.

Cohen-Tannoudji began his first lecture with a simple analogy.

"This force was first observed tens of thousands of years ago by people looking at the tails of comets," he said, describing radiation pres­ sure—the phenomenon by which light can exert a force on matter.

Among the applications he dis­ cussed were magnetic resonance imaging and the super cooling of atoms.

Cohen-Tannoudji used medical photos to demonstrate how two forms of magnetic resonance, proton and helium MRIs, serve beneficial purpos­ es. The proton MRI displays informa­ tion on areas such as the stomach and the heart—mostly the solid and liquid parts of the body. The helium MRI pro­ vides information on the lungs, and is used extensively for research of pul­ monary diseases.

The physicist said this was a "very basic example of how research can open up [more] research no one knew in the beginning."

He also spoke of more recent developments in physics, namely atomic super cooling.

By propagating laser beams from

different directions on a cloud of atoms, physicists can "freeze" matter to below -270°C. At such low temper­ atures, atoms can be made to form Bose-Einstein Condensates, the fifth state of matter.

"At low enough temperatures and high enough densities, the De Broglie wavelengths of atoms become longer than the mean distance between them," he said.

In other words, a cloud of parti­ cles begins to behave as one particle.

This super cooling allows scien­ tists to observe phenomena of the quantum mechanical world of sub­ atomic particles on a macroscopic scale. Cohen-Tannoudji showed images displaying properties such as wave-particle duality and the funda­ mental conservation laws in action.

Some of the future applications Cohen-Tannoudji outlined for BECs included the development of superflu­ ids and atom lasers. In the next few years, the international space station may have an atomic clock aboard cal­ ibrated by atomic lasers, which could act as a reference for all the clocks in the world.

The atomic clocks precision is such that "a few hundred million years later we'll be off by a second," he added.

The precision could allow scien­ tists to experimentally verify if some of the fundamental constants of nature vary over time.

Dean of Science Alan Shaver posed a rhetorical question to the audience following the lecture.

"Who could have guessed you could have so much fun with atoms?" he said. ■

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"The kiss-in as a great way to raise visibility of queer people to on campus," said Queer McGill Query Editor Connor Friesen.

"Plus, kissing people is just a lot of fun."

—JenniferJett & Lisa Varano

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Ville-Marie borough spokesperson Michel Champoux said.

He later qualified that by saying some borough employees have spo­ ken to McGill administrators about the issue.

Although Vice-Principal Administration and Finance Morty Yalovsky said that McGill submitted a proposal to the Montreal planning office inJune, final decisions on "local matters" are made at the borough level. While the planning office is aware of the proposal, negotiations between McGill and borough admin­ istrators have not yet been organized.

"There's a possibility it could hap­ pen," Champoux said.

Yalovsky publicly announced the proposal for the first time on September 28 at the National Assembly Education Commission hear­ ing as part of McGill's multiyear strategic plan.

The idea of transforming the street has existed for several years among McGill administrators.

In 1999, Frances Groen, then

The city has expressed concerns in the past over closure of access to avenue Docteur-Penfield to rush hour traffic. Approximately 100 cars per hour presently use McTavish during rush hour, and this number will most likely double when construction ends on rue Sherbrooke.

Jack Hannan, general manager of the McGill University Bookstore, is troubled over what he considers to be the real issue—parking.

"I find it a really attractive idea, but parking is at a premium," Hannan said.

Moreover, an unofficial estimate showed that the city would lose almost $130,000 in parking meter revenues per year if McTavish were to become a pedestrian mall.

Still, Yalovsky defended the pro­ posal as a "great idea," one that is inevitable.

"We own the entire McTavish street,” he said. "All buildings on both sides—the bookstore, the library, Peterson Hall... It makes sense to bring the street into McGill." ■

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Discussing human rights and religion Students explored the relationship between human rights and religion at a discussion group hosted by the Association for Baha'i Studies Thursday night.

"The question is, can individual human rights be a universal ideal?" said Lisa Kirsh, U3 International Development Studies, who is writing her honours thesis on the universality of human rights and how they pertain to several religions. "The Universal Declaration of Human Rights tries to standardize human rights, but it is a set of ideals, not a law."

Created in the aftermath of World War II, the UDHR was signed by the member countries of the United Nations in 1948. The discussion group focused on the arguments of controversial human rights scholar Makau Mutua.

"The UDHR was based on political liberalism, which comes from western style democracy," said Kirsh. "Mutua argues that the document is both ethnocentric and euro­ centric, and that it cannot accurately define human rights for every cultural or religious group.

"I don't necessarily agree with Matua's ideas, but they are worth looking at," she said.

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-Jane Goodall, Globe and M ail (Oct. 13) he traditional economic Weltanschauung takes growth to be a panacea—a silver bullet for all that ails the world. Want to eliminate poverty? Growth increases income.

Problems with unemployment? Growth cre­ ates jobs. Looking to increase literacy, make people healthier, solve world hunger?

Growth is the answer. Just supersize it.

We are obsessed with the next step.

We always desire to move forward, increase, progress. We crave that marginal increment, that extra unit of production or that percentage increase in GDP. [Bet you can't eat just onel) We assume that a next step is possible, we think it will make us bet­ ter off, and we don't realize that a margin­ al increase might lead us off a precipice.

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the World Bank from 1988 to 1994, has made a career out of criticizing the ortho­ doxies of the economics field from the inside. He sees the economy as an open subsystem surviving upon and within a greater system—the environment—that is non-growing, finite and materially closed.

Daly's message, in essence, is indistin­ guishable from Dion's: "Our economy has grown so large relative to the system that its demands threaten to overwhelm the ecosys­ tem's natural capacities to regenerate resources and to absorb wastes."

The economy, in macroeconomic terms, is analogous to a digestive tract.

Highly organized, low entropy matter/ener­ gy enters, passes through the system, and is expulsed back from where it came as unor­ ganized, high entropy matter. The economy ingests natural resources; processes, trans­ forms and packages them; and then mar­ kets the results to customers, who in turn pur-

Ferguson cracks a Canadian rib Canadian humourist Will Ferguson entertained alumni Friday at the 26th annual Stephen Leacock luncheon.

He is the author of several books, including Why I Hate Canadians and How to Be a Canadian.

Ferguson's brief speech strung together a series of anecdotes about Canadian culture and being Canadian in a foreign country.

One of the stories he told was drawn from his experience travelling in Japan with an American and a Briton. The American lent the Briton $100, he said, and although the Briton repaid, the money was lost in the process. The pair bickered about the debt.

Ferguson said he offered a solution from the Great White North: that the Briton repay the American $50.

"Everybody loses, we all win," he said. "It's the Canadian way."

Nearly 1,000 alumni returned to McGill for Homecoming this year.

"The more [the crowds] drink, the funnier we are," he said. "[That's] the secret to a successful luncheon," he added after the event, which he has now hosted four times.

—Lauren Consky Democracy and Islam can mix Democracy and human rights are universal needs which are essential for peace around the globe, Shirin Ebadi said to an audience of McGill alumni, professors, and students on Saturday.

Ebadi, an Iranian lawyer and human rights activist who has been imprisoned more than once for her activism, became the first Muslim woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize last year.

"Under democratic governments, people learn about appropriate political discourse so there is no need for arms and terror," she said. "Therefore terrorism, ultranationalism and fundamentalism will be reduced by democracy."

Many governments claim that democracy is inherently contradictory to their nations' cultures and religions, despite its role in promoting and ensur­ ing peace, she said.

Although the preservation of cultures and languages is important in an era of global­ ization, Ebadi argued that all cultures and societies benefit from democracy and the pro­ tection of human rights. Ebadi disagreed with governments in the Middle East that claim Islam is not compatible with democracy.

"Democracy has the same definition in the East and the West," she said. "There is no Islamic or Christian democracy."

Today, a united front of Muslim intellectuals is "proving that every action in the name of Islam is not an action according to Islam," she said. "They are screaming that Islam is compatible with democracy. We can be Muslims and respect democracy. [This sentiment is] located in the heart of every Muslim, who cannot tolerate tyranny, who cannot accept nonsense in the name of religion."

For more on Ebadi's lecture, log on to www.mcgilltribune.com.

W e assume that a next step is possible, we think it will make us bet­ ter off, and w e don't realize that a marginal increase might lead us off a precipice.

limits of the environment. Dion also stated that a name change of his Ministry might be in the works—the Department of Sustainable Economy.

However, the concept of "sustainabili­ ty" has grown so expansively that today it is virtually empty of meaning. The convention­ al definition is an intertemporal version of Pareto optimality: consume as much as we can today without sacrificing consumption tomorrow. While that sounds good, it ignores the problem of optimal scale: how big should the economy be relative to the ecosystem? Sustainability is a necessary but insufficient condition for optimality.

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But herein lies the rub: Nothing ever gets thrown out; it gets thrown in—right back in whence it came. The ultimate prod­ uct of human economic activity is garbage.

We are just as incapable of avoiding garbage as we are of avoiding consump­ tion. We are just as incapable of avoiding the trip to the washroom as were are of avoiding the trip to the dining room table.

Solving the tension between economy and environment might mean adopting what any nutritionist would recommend: Quality over quantity, and sensible meals.

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ROBERT CHURCH tudent fees should show results. Especially when the main premis of the fee is that it will be timely and benefit the students who are paying it. Proposed renovations to the Sports Complex, slated to have been completed last month, have still not begun, and university admin­ istrators admit they have no idea when they will start.

The renovations, which include an expand­ ed fitness centre, additional cardiovascular machines, a rock-climbing wall, and new activi­ ties rooms for yoga and martial arts, are financed in part by an undergraduate student fee of $ 10 per semester, which was approved last spring.

Students are providing $ 1.8-million over five years, which, combined with matching funds from the McGill Fund Council, puts the total budget at $3.6-million.

Delays have been ongoing, said Director of Athletics Robert Dubeau, who is not sure when construction will begin.

"We spent months in the spring and summer with the architectural and professional consult­ ants, to put together the plans," Dubeau said. "[The plans] then went to the estimators and the cost came back as $5-million. We did not have enough money, so we made some adjustments.

We presented a revised project to the university that would allow us to move forward, but we have not received a definitive answer from the university as to whether this has been approved."

Dubeau attributed the unexpected increase in price to the cost of certain necessary work.

"The major increase in the costs is the extremely high cost of the mechanical work of the building: ventilation, [air conditioning,] and heat­ ing," he said. "Those costs have increased signif­ icantly. We're trying to find ways to shunt those costs. All the work will hopefully be done by sum­ mer 2005."

However, Dubeau added that renovations to the fitness centre, locker rooms, and activities rooms are going to be even larger than planned.

"At this point we're probably going to increase the size of the fitness centre by 75 per cent," said Dubeau, whose original plan last

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year called for a 50 per cent increase. "Two multi-purpose rooms and one combative room will be built, [in addition to] renovations to the service area and men's and ladies' locker rooms.

Former Students' Society Athletics Representative Matthew Howatt, who was a driv­ ing force behind last year's Athletics fee referen­ dum, said many people are concerned that things are not progressing.

"It's unfortunate, because last year when we pitched the project we were told certain things by the Director of Athletics," said Howatt.

"Unfortunately I think a lot of these things were beyond his control, because it [became] a lot more expensive than expected. I think that we can still move forward. We didn't campaign for just sitting and waiting for it."

With regard to concerns that the studentfunded renovations will not be completed before the majority of students that are funding the proj­ ect graduate, Howatt said that the project was developed with a more long-term goal in mind.

"This was something that we undertook last year to benefit students in the long run," he said.

"As long as this gets done reasonably soon, I don't have a major problem with [the delays]. It's important that we do it right and not compromise by cutting costs."

Current. SSMU Athletics Representative Carla Rosenfeld said that the renovations could begin as early a month and a half from now.

"There was a meeting a week ago with the whole planning team," she said. "I haven't talked to the Director since then, but before that he was saying as early as six weeks from now, and as late as January or February."

Rosenfeld also said she doesn't believe that these delays are tied in any way to the delays surrounding the Shatner University Centre renova­ tions, or any other delays to which McGill stu­ dents have become accustomed.

"The SSMU renovations and the Athletics renovations are separate topics, but these things are needed," she said. "In an ideal world, it would be done. It doesn't stop the fact that things need to be done, and we need the money to do

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"A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you. " —Ramsey Clark, human rights activist here is never a shortage of debate among the stu­ dents, staff and administrators at McGill. We are educated people taking full advantage of the oppor­ tunities available for expanding knowledge—that is, as long as it doesn't shrink our wallets. Somehow dissatis­ fied with worrying any student that doesn't stack piles of crisp bills for fun, McGill has become involved in a shocking new debate that centres around fundamental human rights. In May, the Students' Society and the Muslim Students' Association were notified by the univer­ sity administration that as of June 2005, there will no longer be a 2 4 /7 prayer space for the Muslim commu­ nity in the basement of Peterson Hall.

Despite unanimous motions from both the Students' Society and the Post Graduate Students' Society demanding that the university take responsibility for its decision and find the MSA a new space, the adminis­ tration is reluctant to do anything. Its best—and onlyrecommendation is that the Muslim community find a space like the Hillel House on rue Stanley.

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Frankly, if a university plans on having students attend, it had better have some good student life qualities, or people will simply go elsewhere. for the group's activities. It is not the MSA's fault that they don't have a similar building—had such kindness been shown to them, they would. A show of support from the Muslim community would go a long way to attest to the importance of this request. An even better gesture would be a promise to help fund this new prayer room: putting your money where your mouth is will definetly garner the attention of our cash-strapped administrators.

If the MSA continue to take only a vocal route, they should first turn to the SSMU for help. However, this places the SSMU in a very difficult position. Yes, they are in charge of student clubs and associations and have the Shatner building to use for all student-run activ­ ities. But that's all they have. How can the SSMU possi­ bly be expected to find a 2 4 /7 space in an already overcrowded building? Unless by some miracle they can find sponsors to rent a new space close to, or on, cam­ pus, their resources are exhausted. Compare SSMU's

rights to one building with the university's entire campus.

There's space available, and it is McGill's responsibility to find it.

Some will argue that the university should not be responsible for the problems of student-run clubs, that it's out of their jurisdiction. But the MSA is not merely a "club" for fun activities with the occasional need for bake sale space—the AASA is a religious community.

The group enables domestic and international Muslim students—as well as faculty and staff—to come together and practice their faith together. It is more of a "home away from home," much like Hillel McGill or the Christian Fellowship.

■ The MSA is not asking for a building. They are clearly adaptable, having been praying in a basement room for two years. Especially with all the recent and planned construction on campus, the university should be able to simply donate a room, of which there are plenty—and they should do so gladly. Obviously it was done before, as the Peterson Hall room's "lease" is com­ pletely unpaid.

Freedom of religion is a fundamental human right.

In Canada, we condemn any barring of these rights.

McGill University—and this includes the administration that advertises its diversity—has always prided itself on the number of international students it attracts as well as its multicultural atmosphere. But by denying McGill's Muslim community a place to practice its faith, the administration is effectively sending the message that it is gung-ho for multiculturalism, but only if they don't have to go out of their way to provide it.

Some might ask, to what extent is the university responsible for the quality of student life? A university is an academic institution, founded to educate. Funny that "student life" is a category in every university guide pub­ lished. Frankly, if a university plans on having students attend, it had better have some good student life quali­ ties, or people will simply go elsewhere. And as SSMU Vice-President Clubs and Services Sameen Shahid said, "This is not a student issue. It's a people issue."

McGill cannot ignore the Muslim community's beliefs and practices. This is not a "you made your bed—now lie in it" type of situation. We are talking about a religion. We'are talking about a culture. And we shouldn't just be talking; we should be pressuring the university to solve the problem it created. Let the mem­ bers of the MSA.have the kind of fundamental human rights for which they should not have to ask. ■

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I would like to address the substantial points raised in the letter sent to me on September 24, 2004 by the "Coalition."

Following a commitment made earlier this year to consult with students, faculty, and staff, I have estab­ lished a Dining-at-McGill Advisory Committee which will examine broad issues related to food on the down­ town campus and will make recommendations by January 31, 2005. I have begun appointing members, and [Students' Society Vice President Community and Government] Daniel Friedlaender, whose name appears on the "Coalition" letter as a signatory, has agreed to sit as one of the student representatives. The committee's work will begin this month.

As the issues relating to food service are opera­ tional, and not governance in nature, the committee will be advisory, with representation of students, academic, and non-academic staff, and will make recommenda­ tions to me. The university will then make its decisions on how best to provide food services and to deliver a com­ prehensive and integrated food plan.

The Committee will consider how best to provide high-quality services, different choices, convenient hours, high standards, uniform pricing, appropriate environ­ mental practices, and pleasant surroundings. It will con­ sider the optimal number of food service companies that is in the best interest of the entire McGill community. It

hen the first-years are coming, it's hard to say which feeling is stronger: the students' jitters or the administration's sense of relief that the job is over and done with for one more year. For any per­ son with a sense of fairness, the task of choosing who comes in and who stays out must be one wracked with difficult choices. What gets priority: a good essay, high marks, a well-known high school? With many North American universities admitting between only 10 and 30 per cent of their undergraduate applicants (McGill has one of the higher rates at 52 per cent in the Arts faculty this year), some good students are inevitably left behind.

In the end, many decisions must be made subjectively, since solid objective reasons for admission just keep piling up and eventually overflow past the quota.

Because of these difficulties, admissions officers embrace any reason­ able means available to lower the number of possibilities. In 1947, at the instigation of the president of Harvard and the director of the nascent Educational Testing Service, the Scholastic Aptitude Test was born. The SAT, though a cynosure of much hatred and frustration, is a boon for admissions officers—regardless of other qualifications, a large chunk of applicants may be chopped off with a single liberating whack.

More recently, many schools have taken to offering an early decision option, in which students may be accepted early on the condition that they attend that particular university. Admissions officers claim that such programs show which students are more dedicated, and early decision does tend to give students an edge. In 2002, for example, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore admitted 59 per cent of its early decision applicants, compared with the 33 per cent admission rate of normal applicants. Similar statistics exist for other schools.

Are such mass criteria fair? By focusing on standardized testing or assumptions about a student's dedication, schools reject timeconsuming but possibly more revealing forms of empirical evaluation such as essays, rec­ ommendations, and extracurricular activities. The SAT, after all, is not so much an intelligence test as a test on how to take the SAT, and any student with a modicum of ambition will buy a book that teaches methods of thwart­ ing ETS's predictably constructed questions.

Early decision programs have their pitfalls too. Students may feel pres­ sure to make a decision too early, without proper research into all the options, or they may feel trapped later on. The need for applicants to show a proper level of dedication—visiting the college one or more times, inter­ viewing, networking and such —is easier for families with money and for stu­ dents with a prep school background, which may give an inaccurate view of how the student will actually perform in university. And other, less obvious factors can come into play as well. Due to the increase in suicides on North American campuses in recent years, some admissions officers confess that they reject applicants with a noticeable history of mental health problems.

In the end, there may be little we can do to diminish these broad assumptions of scholastic worthiness based on standardized testing or on vacuous attempts at proving dedication. The academic world has changed drastically in the last half century—64 per cent of American high school graduates went on to post-secondary education in 2003, compared with 35 per cent in 1970—and going to university has, for most North Americans, simply become the next step. The attainment of an undergradu­ ate diploma is no longer an elite undertaking. With that very worthy socie­ tal achievement to consider, perhaps some cold number crunching on the part of admissions officers is something university applicants will just have to live with.*

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will also examine such issues as the companies' environ­ mental, business and philanthropic practices and their willingness to give preference to the hiring of McGill stu­ dents as employees.

All members of the university community will be invited to provide their views to the Committee. If we were to accept at this time the "Coalition"'s list of demands, it would pre-empt the work of the Committee.

These will be taken into consideration, along with other views received during the consultation process with stu­ dents, faculty and staff. As promised, the university has extended contracts with existing food providers. The four independent food providers (Tiki Ming, Pino & Matteo, Residence Food Services and Chartwells) currently oper­ ating on campus will also be consulted.

Student-run food services continue in the Shatner Centre, where they are operated by the SSMU under an exclusive contract with a single food provider, and Thomson House, where they are operated by the PGSS. Moreover, several student groups, as well as the SSMU, operate dépanneurs on campus. Whether employed by a food provider or by the student groups within their operations, students may learn about management, cus­ tomer service, and industrial relations.

I would also like to clarify the issue of student fund­ raising activities. Student groups selling food as a way to earn money for their extracurricular activities are, have been,, and will continue to be allowed to do so.

However, these activities must not be permanent or quasi-permanent in nature or location, nor offer products in direct competition with food facilities in the building.

The Committee will provide recommendations on how best to address the issue of competing interests.

—Morty Yalovsky, Vice-Principal IAdministration and Finance) To the m e m be rs of the Students' Society of M cG ill U niversity

As the student body may already be aware, Elections McGill recently received two student-initiated referendum petitions regarding the Daily Publications Society. Having consulted the documents pertinent to this issue, we have deemed that both of these questions are acceptable under the letter and the spirit of the Students' Society constitution and its electoral by-laws. Both peti­ tions have been signed by 500 members of the SSMU, and were submitted prior to the deadline for student-ini­ tiated referenda. As part of the mandate of Elections McGill is to remain diligent at all times, these two ques­ tions will be submitted to student vote during our fall elec­ toral period. Though these two questions deal with simi­ lar issues, we feel that, in the true spirit of democracy and impartiality, it would be too arbitrary to choose one question over the other, especially since both petitions Continued on next page.

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or those of us raised in the fold of the NDP, the last decade has often felt like an extended ride through the political twilight zone. During this time, the party committed so many tactical blun­ ders that even the Raelians came to look savvy by comparison. More promising times have come, though, as the left has emerged from the dungeon of identity politics and shaken off a series of hap­ less leaders. Sadly, this newfound credibility is at risk due to yet another colossal political miscalcula­ tion.

The fateful error that risks sinking the left all over again is allowing its long-time aspirations to get mired in the politics of the Middle East. Both on campuses and within the federal NDP, left-wing groups have succumbed to Israel-bashlng under the mistaken belief that progressive causes and the future of the West Bank are somehow intertwined.

Both these recent actions and the assumptions that underlie them are hideously misguided.

Recently, 22 members of the NDP caucus issued a public letter to Jack Layton, accusing the party of becoming a stooge for Israel. They subse­ quently arranged for the letter to be posted on the site of a radical propaganda group based in the US. Meanwhile, at Concordia, activist groups have cowed the administration into forbidding Ehud Barak to speak. The problem here is not so much the position of pro-Palestinian activists; free speech is still a paramount value in this country

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(Concordia notwithstanding). Instead, it is the views of long-time Canadian leftists that are so trou­ bling.

These people have mysteriously come to believe that a struggle against Israel is a natural extension of their traditional causes. With this posi­ tion, the anti-Israel crowd can snuggle easily in a coalition of unions, gender activists, and environ­ mentalists. Such an alliance is hardly intuitive, but it is not altogether surprising; the left has long sought to draw strength from its diversity.

Unfortunately, what the Canadian left has failed to recognize is that diversity does not require it to subsume its own long-held beliefs in favour of the narrow concerns of its new coalition partner.

Put more plainly, the agenda and infrastructure of progressives in this country have been arrogated by groups whose sole concern is to demonize Israel.

Despite their mastery of rights discourse, there is scant indication that Palestinian activists genuine­ ly care a fig about labour, gender equality or clearcuts. Within left-wing institutions, these activists do not regard their coalition partners as fellow ideal­ ists with whom to shape a better society. Rather, they treat their left-wing sympathizers as a cadre of political zombies who are easily marshalled to spew rage and spite at Israel.

This cynicism and opportunism of the proPalestinian lobby vis-àvis the left has been evinced

in several ways. The most obvious of these lies is the fact that their accusations of human rights viola­ tions have been aimed squarely and exclusively at Israel. The content and accuracy of such charges is herein immaterial. But what is relevant, though almost never noted, is that these groups never direct accusations concerning human rights at Israel's unscrupulous neighbours. We have yet to see the streets around Concordia erupt in rallies calling for Syria or/Lran to treat their people less deplorably. Instead, at meetings and at protests, Israel is the only country that activists find time to condemn.

Why has the left become so infatuated with the conflict in the Middle East? No douhL it is because of an attraction to charismatic leaders that portray a complex problem as an unambiguous choice between right and wrong. This simplistic characterization is aided by a deluded romanti­ cism in which Lenin's red is seen shining anew through a checkered keffiyeh. But, be this as it may, it is time for the Canadian left to disabuse itself of the idea that its future viability is somehow bound up in an issue that is entirely unrelated to its core beliefs of pluralism, workers' rights, and the envi­ ronment. In short, it is time for the NDP and leftwing campus groups to cease to allow their institu­ tions to be used as shells by groups who clearly view them as dupes and who have no general affinity for their causes. ■

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is the year 2024 and Ralph Lauren minions aren't just handing out pink Frisbees anymore; no, they're "capturing the cool." Yes, things got a lit­ tle crazy back in 2018, when Nike took "cool hunt­ ing" a little too literally and... well who can ever for­ get the sight of 20 corporate executives on a Brooklyn Safari for a pair of weathered '88 Cons Sport. The catch-phrase that year was "Just do it... and never mind the blood stains."

It was only a matter of time before GAP was luring fashionistas into bear traps with bottles of Perrier, and Prada was concealing knockout gas in energy drinks to "find" the true hip youth. But then Ralph Lauren took it one step further in capturing coolness.

Infiltrating hip urban campuses, Ralph agents masquerading as young buxom blondes, actually Tetrahydronium Idiomic Tensulator (TIT) cyborgs, dis­ tributed pink Frisbees that released canvas nets to capture the sexy... for questioning and much anal probing. The sexy were then released with radio collars and allowed to breed in the wild. It was hoped that this plan would reveal the true nature of coolness and was certified by VH 1 as completely and thoroughly evil (as opposed to the skim evil or half-and-half evil of most other fashion firms).

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Here is the recording of one such T.l.T. trans­ action at New-McGill campus. (The original school was vaporized by Mongolians in 2010.)

T.l.T. cyborg #003102: "Hello boyyys. Want a Frisbeeeee. It make you happeninggggg." Boy: "Sure." [Grabs Frisbee.) "Hey guys, look I'm wear­ ing it on my head—I'm Devo!" T.l.T. cyborg #003102: "Warning, warning, lame-o alert, lameo alert. Initiate anti-geek acid spray."

Boy: "Aaaaahhh it burns... This wasn't sup­ posed to be part of 'Whip It.'" As the burned out remains of former socially maladroit students littered our nation's campuses, it was a painful reminder of what it meant to maintain a proper, socially acceptable definition of trendi­ ness. Even club flyer reps took their advertising cam­ paigns up a notch. "VIP passes to 737. Free drink specials... the card you are holding contains a nanovirus... failure to attend will mean slow painful acne-filled death... enjoy." There is a rumour that, long ago, clubbing at 737 did not entail painful scratching, collapsed CEGEP kids in convulsions and the mandatory syringe in the posterior at the end of the night, but these are just stories.

However, university leaders have been at pains to realize the scope of the problem. Sammy

"Moonchild" Rozensmeld, now family man and for­ mer leader of the campus maroon-shirts, had this to say: "I'm 45 years old, my prostate is acting up, my wife is sleeping with her personal trainer, I have three daughters who only see me as an open bank account... and it's all Ehud Barak's fault." Andrew Bryan, president for life, commented, "Optically, which do you think is worse: Fashionistas vaporiz­ ing people on campus, or my BoG rep shopping at L.L. Bean and talking about rows of ducks?"

Thereafter, the BoG rep was replaced by a more urban, less "outdoorsy" type.

Still, some campus groups have taken the cor­ porate encroachment seriously and have begun to organize on campus. The Hip-IES, their cause gal­ vanized around the issue of the implementation of holographic spokesmen in campus washrooms, have been very vocal with words like "outspoken­ ness," "loud," and "vocal." Their leader Beanie Newton had this to say: "How would you like to have a holographic Aflac™ duck appear in your urinal asking you to buy insurance? I do love drown­ ing the little bastard after a hard night at metaGertz... but we can't let corporations take over our campus." In many less noticeable ways, they already have. ■

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Anti-genderist activ... screw it... quasi feminist revival Elisha Siegel's column (Sex and sen­ sitivity— 13.10.04) leaves me absolutely speechless. No, scratch that—there is a strange gasping and warbling sound that springs unbidden from my throat as I sift through a number of various visceral responses. Here they are for your pleas­ ure: 1) This article is insulting to everyone, regardless of sex or gender.

2) This article is completely inane and thus the Tribune is insulting its readership by printing it. I am appalled.

3) This is why feminism (or anti-genderist activism) is alive and kicking.

I would love to launch into every­ thing that is wrong with Mr. Siegel's piece, but to do so would be to give him more attention than he deserves. Let's all just remind women that when someone visually or verbally harasses them that they snould be grateful for the obvious appreciation of their magnificence. So when my same-sex partner and I walk down the street and we're cat-called and surrounded by a large group of people, my previous response would be wrong.

We should instead stand there and bask in the adulation. What a pathetic attempt at neutralizing any kind of resist­ ance to unwanted sexual attention. You can put me down as undecided.

—Liz Airton, U4 Gender Studies A witch! Er, a xénophobe!

Kent Walker's opinion (letter — 13.10.04) that the university should "heap more tuition on international stu­ dents... Canadian monies and subsidies should be for Canadian students only!," is palpably moronic. If this guy is consis­ tent in his beliefs, he presumably oppos­ es foreign disaster relief and humanitari­ an assistance: Heap more pestilence on Haiti, not less. Canadian food should be for hungry Canadians only. Montreal, according to its mayor, makes a net prof­ it from the international students' contribu­ tion to the economy. Fortunately, it seems as if most of his fellow Canadians (I am assuming by the nationalistic tone of his rant that he is indeed Canadian) value the ideals of reciprocity, and cultural and Continued on next page.

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omething strange happened to me this week. I feel violated. My privacy has been infringed upon. I am a victim of the information age. I got googled.

Two days ago, I find eight new messages in my inbox. After refusing seven offers to enlarge my beaver cleaver, I notice an e-mail from an unknown sender. I click on it. The mes­ sage is from a guy who claims we met the night before at the bar. He said he had looked me up, read some of my writing and thought that I "had some interesting ideas."

He asked whether I would like to get together to "continue where we left off." I racked my brain trying to remember who I had met the previous night. I had been with a big group of friends. I hadn't talked to anyone new.

Social? Hal I was in a "me, my pitcher, my crew" mood.

But wait—there was that guy sitting at the next table. We had chatted for maybe three minutes, if that, before I reverted back to my MMPMC mode. Excuse me? Looked me up?

Continue this interesting idea, bucko: you are creepy.

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read an interesting letter in your publication by Kent Walker ("Screw the International Students"— October 13104).

The letter, written by a Ph.D. student, lavish­ es praise on those who would increase the tuition levels of international students. This article described these students as the rich children of international millionaires who are here taking advantage of the Canadas cheap tuition relative to their home universi­ ties. It is obvious that this person has not met many international students and doesn't real­ ly know the situation of these students or he would not have written this article.

As the president of McGill International Student Network I meet on a daily basis the international population at McGill These stu­ dents come from various backgrounds and from 140 different countries. There are the millionaires that Kent mentions but the major­ ity of the people who come by MISN on a daily basis are simply middle class people who come from their home countries seeking a decent education. One of the students I know had to miss a semester because she couldn't pay for her classes, and another almost had to as well but for the efforts of the International Student Services. A recent study has shown that a large number of the students could not afford a proposed increase of 8.4% per annum that McGill sug­ gested in the past; the deregulation has the potential to raise it much more than that.

Now what about the benefits of having the large international population that McGill has? According to a study done in 2001 by the department of economics, interna­ tional students bring in a minimum of 54 mil­ lion dollars a year to the Montreal economy through living expenses. McGill has recently won the top place for interethnic relations due to its diversity. Finally and most impor­ tantly, a growing number of international stu­ dents, after getting their expensive education paid for elsewhere (between $12,GOO15,000 per year), remain in Quebec and become Canadian citizens, hardly taking advantage of our system. I challenge Kent to meet these students first hand; we have great events throughout the year. Drop by our lounge across from Student Society of McGill University in the Shatner building to sign up! if International student tuition is deregu­ lated the message will be to the legislators and the schools that students at McGill and other Quebec schools are not willing to defend their rights, and guess whose tuition will be next...

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What happened to romance and mys­ tery? I remember religiously reading the I Saw You section of the local entertainment weekly when I was 12. I had always hoped that the cute guy I constantly snuck glances at on the 402 bus or the one always in the Teen Fiction section at the library would write in for me.

"You: Black hair, pink Le Château dress, blue braces elastics. Me: Brown hair, green eyes, No Fear T-shirt. Our eyes met in the R.L. Stein section at the Richmond Public Library. I think you're swell. If you want to get together on Saturday to wander around the mall and watch Titanic for the eighth time, please reply.

We can even go after 6pm because I just got my allowance." Sigh. I still get butterflies in my stomach when I think about it.

Today, however, the I Saw You section and pathetic attempts at establishing contact with the object of your affection are passé.

Today's little girls don't have to walk their dogs 17 times a day just to pass by Bradley Kerkhoff's house—oh, the allure of a seventh grader—in the hopes that he will come out

and ask them to marry him or, better yet, ask them to play kick the can. Today's little girls would simply google him, learn every obscure fact they could, then invite him out for coffee.

They think that the conversation would flow and their victim would fall in love with them.

Today's Wretched Youth That Google: So, yeah, I like running.

Object of Their Affection: Really? I'm on the school cross-country team.

TWYTG: Get outl That is soooo cool. Golly gee. Umm, I've always wanted to go to a Jewish summer camp.

OOTA: Really? I go every summer.

TWYTG: No way! That is amazing.

OOTA: Uh, but are you Jewish?

TWYTG: Huh? Errr... well, so yeah, I've always been so interested in space and, like, NASA and stuff.

OOTA: Well, uh... funny you mention that, there's an astronaut at NASA with my name, first and last.

TWYTG: Oh wow!

Damn you, TWYTG! Let us go back to a simpler time, a time without Google. Let us revive the I Saw Yous. Heck, it has been eight years, but I'm still waiting for the day No Fear boy will write me. ■

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ads, have you noticed that as you've been getting older it seems as though it has actu­ ally been getting harder to get the women to consent? I expect that the majority of you have spent at least some time puzzling over why those well-rehearsed compliments and nice moves on the basketball court don't "score" as highly as they did in high school. I'm certain that you've asked yourself why, if all those hours in the gym were good enough for Arnie and Vin Diesel, they haven't seen your fortunes bulge (like your big, firm, sexy biceps) in the dating game. Well trouble not, for my friend the Bowerbird has suffered like you and me, and has the complete solution.

See, the Bowerbird is, according to the ever reliable CBC Radio One 88.5 FM in Montreal, the only other creature for whom a range of attractive features is the key to his sexcess in the bedroom. As with the male, pure machismo becomes less appealing to Miss Bowerbird as she progresses past puberty. But unlike most males, Bowerbird learns early on in

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—Barney Ross, Law III International students aren't wallets

As an international student I was shocked and angered to read Kent Walker's letter. Not only does it have traces of xenophobia but his description of interna­ tional student's plight is far from the truth. Despite what many people might think, I'm not a wealthy foreigner who is just here to abuse the Canadian education sys­ tem. I can be considered upper middle class in my coun­ try but being well off in Peru is not the same as being well off in Canada. As an international student I'm not allowed to work off campus and the jobs that I have had to get-every year since I've been here on campus cover my phone bill and two weeks worth of food, at most. I can't apply for any type of financial aid because my own government would laugh in my face if such a system were proposed. Aware that I'm not a Canadian citizen, I don't believe that this great country should give me anything. However, it's for that very same reason that I fail to understand what Mr. Walker means when

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Cue the music to any nature special you ever saw on TV: I'm prepared to divulge his secrets and I hope that when you meet the woman of your dreams, you'll find an Ornithologist to thank.

Lesson one: Bowerbird is an all-in-one builder-renovator-decorator-homemaker. His bower (i.e. bachelor pad) has to stand out as a high-quality establishment, where you won't find a single empty beer bottle or pizza box lying around, nor any punch-holes in the walls or puke stains on the carpet.

Lesson two: Bowerbird is always presenta­ ble. "Smell good with healthy skin and you're almost always in" is the oft-chirped motto of this Cassanova. If he were a male, he would defi­ nitely shower daily and would probably also remember to wash his underpants clean of the semen stains.

Lesson three: The Bowerbird knows that the ladies love someone who can sing and dance

he claims that he is "tired of subsidizing the educations of wealthy and middle-class foreigners." As far as I know, the prospect of tuition increases is not being caused by an overwhelming stampede of foreign stu­ dents who are milking Canada for what it's worth. It is a problem caused by the Quebec government, which continuously underfunds McGill. And since I am not a Canadian citizen, there is no reason why I, or any other foreign student, should pay for its shortcomings.

—Ines Beilina, U3 Hispanic Studies N o supersizing here

In your editorial ("Bringing McGill into McWorld"—05.10.04), you bring up a good point: students shopping around for the best university for their buck are, essentially, education consumers. While I admire your attempt to find an answer to the McGill funding problem, I am sure that corporate names and logos on McGill buildings are not it. I have a sneaking suspicion that it would not only be the "fair-trade-coffee­ drinking, Nestle-boycotting" potential students that would take one look at the McLennan-Chapters book­ store on their cute little Ford-sponsored "roll through cam­ pus" tour and decide to consume their education else­ where. I'm sure I'm not alone in the high value I place

a bit. To convince a female of his charm, he choreographs his own routine and isn't afraid to perform it sober, or when he's the only male on the branch (read: dance floor @ Tokyo).

Lesson four: at the end of the day he must learn to laugh at himself after he's finished his routine. Even before he knows whether he was up to scratch, the female Bowerbird prefers a man who isn't too proud and who doesn't take himself too seriously.

Lesson five: most importantly, Bowerbird is definitely not just in it for the sex. After all, the average copulatory period of a Bowerbird is only five seconds!

You see boys, if you've already learnt any of these lessons on your own, you're probably in a much better position than most of us.

Always pay attention to what the femme you're chasing is after in a man, and if you can remem­ ber lessons one through five, your chances of getting lucky will be about as high as 70,000 people at a Phish show... or it's your money back. ■

on my university environment as one of the last-standing oases of relatively ad-free space. I, for one, would be willing to take out a bigger student loan to pay higher tuition before I'd chuck McGill's integrity further into the coporate machine.

—Kalli Anderson, U3 Cultural Studies/IDS Q ueerLine back in business

For several years-now, QueerLine has provided a non-judgmental listening, support and referral service for McGill students and for the greater Montreal communi­ ty. We feel it is important that people who identify as queer or who wish to discuss queer issues have a phone line specifically addressed to their concerns, and we've been proud to provide this resource. As some of you may know, QueerLine has not yet been in service this semester. This service outage has been due to a prob­ lem with our phone connection, through no fault of our own but rather due to a miscommunication error within the SSMU, which has apologized for the error. On October 18, QueerLine will be back in service. We wish to take this opportunity to thank all of our callers— we're very sorry we haven't been able to take your calls, and we hope to hear from you again. Thank you.

—The QueerLine Executive

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MT: I've always believed that true grat­ ification can come only with giving. The pleasure gained from material goods is empty and meaningless. By helping others, you enhance yourself.

Trib: Right, so we know where you stand. Lucifer, you bok a little skeptical. Do you agree with Mother Teresa?

L: I will drag you down into the chasm of fire by your hair, vermin. You know not the meaning of pain.

Trib: Maybe well come back to you later. Mr. Charest, it has recently come to light that Quebec is turning a blind eye to McGill's illegal overcharging of its interna­ tional students. What are your thoughts?

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Trib: Hmm. Now, Mr. Munro, your company Chartwells has faced some accu­ sations of greed for forcing out fundraising groups such as Engineers without Borders, whose earnings go mostly to charity. Your thoughts?

RM: Well, it's a complicated issue.

Where do you draw the line? On the one hand we have our economic system telling us to act in our own best interests. But then when we try to do that, people start nitpick­ ing. Perhaps those students can fundraise some other way—like making bracelets! — and leave the real work to the professionals.

I mean, charity? Come on.

Trib: AAcGill Daily editors, do you agree? Disagree? Neutral?

MDE: Since 1911 we've been provid­ ing fair, unbalanced, objective coverage of these capitalist pigs and their political run­ ning dogs. If students want to forfeit this valu­ able independent voice in return for a few measly extra dollars, they are simply suc­ cumbing to urges of greed, and the system will have won.

Trib: Interesting. Mrs. Munroe-Blum, you're a woman of the world. What's your take on greed?

HM-B: We need money. Money.

Money.

Trib: Well, this has certainly been very enlightening. I'd like to thank you all for com­ ing, and I'm sure our audience has learned some very valuable lessons about the impor­ tant issue of greed. Thanks for joining us.

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Recent lobbying for gay marriage has squeezed a lot of ugliness into the public arena, like yellowy, hard­ ened pus from an unwilling pimple.

Homophobia's potency has drastically surged in gay marriage opponents' fanatical rhetoric. The move­ ment toward equalizing queer rights with the majority's has fanned the flames of hatred that blaze in the speech of spiritual leaders. TV evangelist Jimmy Swaggart emphatically decried "this utter absolute, asinine, idiotic stupidity of men marrying men" and insisted if a gay man showed any interest in him, he'd kill him. It has jus­ tified the homophobic message in the lyrics of reggae artists Beenie Man, Bounty Killer, Capleton, and Sizzla.

Those with the mental power of vanilla pudding might believe the Web sites of the American Family Association or www.straightpride.com, the latter particu­ larly dangerous as it swathes a hateful message in an alluring cloak of flash technology and attractive models.

Male celebrities such as Matt LeBlanc now feel compelled to issue a "dude-l'm-not-gay" statement, or hold a press conference Mike Piazza-style, using press junkets to underscore their hard-to-reign-in love for vagi­ na and squelching any whisperings about alleged gayness. Is the possibility of being considered queer so appalling?

The backlash burns like a whip thrashed across the gay community's face. Today, in a society where women have been driven back to tradition, increasing­ ly sexualized, domesticated, eager for marriage and thirsty for man's penis, gays have gained coolness and funky^party-guest status—essentially we're harmless until any mention of anal sex and gay marriage.

Pride's important—crucial in patriotism, at sporting events and for cultural preservation—and particularly when there's an actual threat to one's own sense of self.

But where's the actual threat to heterosexuality?

Our battle's only about securing rights for those that lack and deserve them. No one is getting hurt here: not your kids, not your wife or husband, not those hokey SEARS family portraits nor your personal Jesus.

Extremists, on the other hand, are hurting us. President of the American Psychological Association Diane Halpern says that denying queer people marriage "puts a particular stress on them just because of their sexual orientation."

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Just because we set trends in the fashion world doesn't mean we're going to set sexuality trends and lib­ erate millions of men and women from the shackles of heterosexuality, solely by being granted equal rights.

A threatened hetero-identity sparks a straight nationalism that burns so fierce and blindingly, so con­ suming it could numb the sensibilities of millions, allowing them to champion a rights-restricting amendment into their nation's founding papers.

This includes Bush's madcap plan to devote $300million into incentive programs in order to encourage opposite-sex welfare recipients to marry and build "healthy" families. Consider this in conjunction with the growing number of anti-queer measures approved in state governments as further examples of legislative abuse. Could this be what the APA means when it iden­ tifies a "discriminatory" and "unfair" situation?

As punishment for our apparently greedy demands, we're now forced to watch a live lynching of gay aspi­ rations; a segregation and designation of heterosexual and homosexual institutions.

Why, in crisis mode, does society consistently defend antiquated customs and principles? Tradition equals ignorance, naïveté, a pre-Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, pre-US Emancipation Proclamation, pre-Scientific Revolution world.

If genuinely adhering to traditional doctrine, all straight women should consider themselves property of their husbands. And to all men of colour, traditional mar­ riage dictates that your interracial unions qualify as blas­ phemy.

Will concerned conservatives eventually feel the need to hypersocialize children into heterosexuality; exorcising all pink from the boy's wardrobe, ensuring nothing butch or remotely dyke-y hangs in little Debbie's boudoir?

Today, heterosexuality suckles all the more fero­ ciously at the teat of marriage, trying to shove off the newborn babe homosexuality as it struggles to get a taste of the nuptial knockers. Before, it had lackadaisi­ cally swilled the connubial milk without tenacity or pas­ sion. But now, with the looming threat of homosexuality eager to share the teats of matrimony, heterosexuality has had its latent zeal for marriage jarringly awakened, shaken-baby syndrome style. Sure, the gay babe can settle for the nonfunctional third-nipple of civil unions... for now. But queer desire to enjoy the institution of mar­ riage will not be staved off or placated. A hetero-exclu­ sivity contract with the milky marital jugs will not stand, despite persistence to prohibit queer access to the mam­ maries of matrimony. We can handle our milk. Now move your proud ass over and pass us a tit, damn it.

—Brody "it's tough being fabulous" Brown

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Already have a significant other but still hankering to have sex with a sultry stranger? Or maybe you and your boyfriend want to indulge in a little threeway game of tease with a hot mastodon of a man? Swinging, or more crudely put, partner swapping, may be for you. We have come a long way from the key parties of old, with fully sup­ portive clubs and networks set up to help you and the little wifey get more loving.

Club L'Orage is Montreal's main swinging club, the cost of entry is about $40 per couple, $50 for a single male and $ 15 for a single female. But despair not my eco­ nomical étudiants, there is a special f 8 to 30 year-old rate that cuts the cost by half on Fridays and Sundays. Though don't think you can show up with your bulging money clip and be granted entry, membership is required. (Go on, fill out the form: www.orageclub.com/swinger_club.htm.)

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A "sexy" clothing policy is wholeheartedly endorsed for the ladies. Negligees are another recommended option, so long as they feel comfortable. It's best to get dropped off at the door so as to avoid having to walk from the parking lot in garters and heels. Men are asked to dress up: black dress pants, dark shirt, sultry pout. Without the right attitude, however, your expensive threads are use­ less-courtesy and respect remain the best accessories to attract a playmate or two.

Seriously though, is it really desirable to have sex with random strangers with mysterious—read: sketchy—sexual histories? Apparently. Over the last four years, 15,000 members have confirmed so. A word of caution to all those willing to share themselves: make sure your man's friend is wearing the appropriate “swim wear" before he takes a dip in your "lagoon." The last thing you want to bring back from a night of intimate fun and hi-jinks is the gift that keeps on giving.

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blinding flash of red, a sudden disconnection from rational stream of thinking, a wildly pumping heart. Wrath, striking quicker than lightning, can cause even the most balanced-looking young people to morph into raging beasts. Is anger a defining characteristic of youth? And do boys tend to be more violent than girls? Have formerly angry young people grown out of their teenage fury?

Technically, anger occurs when an individual reacts to a threatening stimulus. Animals display anger by reacting quickly and furiously, choosing fight rather than flight. But as a more developed species, humans can actually control their outbursts, or at least deal with them differently. Some tend to bottle it up, only to have the cap burst off at the smallest nudge, while others react with varying degrees of inten­ sity. Researchers have found that denied anger is most harmful, both psychologically and socially.

While we may like to believe that we are idealistically revolutionary and peaceful in our actions and ideologies, frequenting numerous rallies and protests, as youth, we have traditionally been stereo­ typed as aggressive menaces to society. According to the National Family Violence Publication, the most stereotypical perpetrators of aggression are young males. One in every 10 young people has an annu­ al encounter with the police. In 1995, it was recorded that almost 19 per cent of these encounters were violent. And in the Canadian Journal of Sociology, it was found that on Canadian university and college campuses, between 16 and 35 per cent of the women surveyed had encountered at least one physi­ cal or sexual assault by a boyfriend. This fierce manifestation of anger could illustrate a bck of control and the allure of acting on sheer impulses. But is this stereotype at all rooted in reality?

Why is it that men show their anger more candidly than women? Are boys taught to repress emo­ tions but not anger? Is it because this behaviour is seen as "more masculine" and justified with trite say ings like "boys will be boys?" In a 2000 study at Southwest Missouri State University, some researchers argued that historically, men are taught that it is better to show their anger in order to promote their inter­ ests and protect their rights. Women, on the other hand, have often been found to either deny or sup­ press their fighting instincts, viewing these as "counterproductive." But just because people do not open­ ly exhibit their anger does not mean they do not feel it or act on it in in some way.

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Perhaps the reason why there are fewer angry thirtysomethings is that with age, displays of unbri­ dled wrath decline because we learn to deal with it in healthier, more socially acceptable ways, no longer acting on impulses alone. The ability to feel angry is inherent, but it is the way in which wrath is expressed that determines whether it is socially and psychologically detrimental.

—Zeynep "don't look at the vein that bulges in her forehead when she's pissed" Colpan

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Deuel also blames the problem on his early career in the restaunt business. "You'd think you could cook things that would be diet ivantageous," he said. "But it's a lot more difficult than you think to ill something like that off."

Not to say that this is hard to believe—hanging around deep'ers and oodles of defrosting chicken breasts makes chowing down ird to resist. However, if you manage to get so hefty that you are i disability, can't shower or walk and require the League of Human gnity to arrange for you to be weighed on a scale normally used weigh trucks loaded with grain, don't you think it may be a matter exercising self-control?

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It's easy to criticize Deuel, who refuses to admit his own account­ ability, but there are many of us who also fall prey to the oh-so-beguiling gluttony, albeit not to the same extent. When Procter and Gamble introduced fat replacement Olestra in the mid-90s, millions flocked to their local grocery stores to buy the Prito Lay's W O W brand potato chips that contained the oil. Alas, Lay's motto, "Betcha can't eat just one," proved painful for many fat-conscious snackers. When con­ sumed daily or in large quantities, Olestra is known to soften stool, cause abdominal cramping and even lead to anal leakage. While

over 20,000 have officially lodged complaints, the brand still sells like hotcakes.

Further proving that an "l-can't-help-myself" lifestyle has its conse­ quences is the Atkins Diet, a food craze that has penetrated and ruined all aspects of our society. (WTF? Low-carb ice-cream, ewwl) For those who find the Atkins logic reasonable—and how could eat­ ing vast quantities of bacon, steak, butter, eggs and cheese to shed unwanted pounds not be?—be wary of the detrimental effects such perverse ideology could have on your health. Jody Gorran, a busi­ nessman from Florida who was looking to slim down, learned the hard way: after dropping a couple of pant sizes on Atkins, he wit­ nessed his cholesterol spike and was quickly diagnosed with heart disease. He has claimed that he was deceived by the diet empire.

"It's pretty seductive when you're told you can eat cheesecake and all of the steak and all of the bacon," he said. He has since filed a lawsuit, claiming personal injury and negligence, against the estate of Dr. Atkins.

—Liz "I was an obscenely obese baby" Allemang

"As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate.

Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time." -E B White

True Love Waits, a Christian organization that promotes abstinence, reports that in the past decade an estimated 2.5 to 3 million young people have signed a virgini­ ty pledge, valid until they get married.

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some hotter chick you saw on the street. Go on, acknowledge your envy, it's therapeutic. On that note, Paris Hilton, if you're reading this and feel you're missing out on the student life, please contact us.

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But if McGill, Queen's and U of T put on their gloves and leapt into the ring, who'd kick ass and who'd end up bitch-slapped?

Here are the statistics you won't find in the propaganda gobbled up by parents keen on getting their babies into the right schools.

—Round one: None of the three even placed on the Macleans magazine's 2003 rankings for the "primarily undergrad­ uate" category, nor did they make it onto the top 10 comprehen­ sive universities. Survey says: contrary to our claims, none of us are really hotter than piss. (Though is anyone really claiming that?

Should anyone... ever?)

—Round two: All three were reviewed in this year's Fiske Guide to Colleges, and, along with the University of British Columbia, were the only four Canadian universities reviewed out of more than 300 North American colleges and universities.

Unfortunately for the competition, McGill was the only one in the top five for the ""tightest asses" category. (Okay, that's a lie. But so

far, things are looking a little too even for our comfort.)

—Round three: blows exchanged. In the Maclean's "medical doctoral" category that same year, McGill came second, after the University of Toronto. Queen's was third on the list, but tied with the University of Western Ontario. Too bad the "medical doctoral" cat­ egory excludes, oh, about 99 per cent of the rest of the student body.

—Round four: Queen's gets sucker punched and teary-eyed.

Hoorayl All three made it onto this year's Princeton Review's list of the best 357 colleges in North America, but only McGill and the University of Toronto placed on the 'Best in the Northeast' list, which ranks 151 universities. Take your tacky-ass, sloppily BeDazzled, sorusty^ou-get-tetanus-just-looking-at-it crown off that over-sized head of yours, Queen's!

—Round five: U of T loses tooth and consciousness. A survey of student opinions conducted for the Princeton Review's annual col­ lege guide ranked McGill first in the "best race/class relations on campus" category. The University of Toronto also broke into the top 20, but in the "least happy students" category. Judging from the amount of happy Torontonians at our school, it must have something

to do with the fact that the University of Toronto is, in fact, located in Toronto.

—Round six: Queen's begins weeping and calls the fight "totally unfair in the first place." Two years ago, Newsweek includ­ ed McGill on its list of 12 "hot colleges" and referred to us as the "Harvard of Canada." Queen's University was having none of that, although Newsweek was only borrowing a phrase that was already being frequently tossed around. The president of Queen's Alma Mater Society told the National Post that their own school likes to refer to itself as the "Harvard of Canada" and that being told oth­ erwise would disappoint its students. Sounds like somebody's got too big a helping of bitter pie! Oh, it's harsh going down, isn't it!?

Part-time keeper of the peace and one-time McGill Principal Bernard Shapiro told the Post that the school never chose to refer to itself as such.

"It's something that no one should ever say about themselves," he said at the time. "It's something someone else says."

Nice game, guys.

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The service, which offers tips on everything from taking out a mort­ gage to dealing with the in-laws, is quick, confidential and free.

Centraide of Greater Montreal, which is the city's largest charity, helping 500,000 people anuaily, has set a fundraising target this year of $45.3 million dollars. That's about $2.3 million more than what was collected last year.

—Brody "Laura's jealous of my style" Brown & Laura "Brody's jealous of my money" Saba

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Bizarre or not, The Faints horny emo-tronica makes audiences dance holes in the floor, as they proved last Monday at the Plateau's Cabaret La Tulipe |4530 rue Papineau], Label-mates Beep Beep took the stage first, proceeding to play a frantically eardrum-bursting set. At first, they sounded much like any other mildly manic guitar band—and then the vocals kick in. Eric Bemberger and Chris Hughes, who share shrieking duty, appeared to be having a competition to see who can sound more like he has his

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He should be at least somewhat familiar with the style of his rapping predecessors; after all, he's been hitting fhe underground hip-hop scene since the age of seven.

Last Wednesday, the Minnesota native played before hundreds of armwaving, roof-raising fans packed into Foufounes Electriques. The occasion marked the fifth time the 26-year- old rapper has performed in Montreal.

Accompanied by his deejay, BK1, Ali joined the party after opening acts from Montreal and Ottawa, respectively. He came out on stage wearing a plain grey hoodie and black T-shirt. His attitude proved to be similar­ ly simple: dig the music or get out.

Using a deceptively deep voice that just screams inner city, Ali delivered an energetic, confident and fast-paced set that incorporated the crowd as people cried out his memorable lyrics along with him and nodded their heads to the beat.

Ali, who loves life and loves mak­ ing music, will not apologize for any of his views, about which he is notably vocal onstage. As he exclaims about underground rappers in many of his songs, "Whatever comes up comes out. We don't put our hands over our mouths."

When he sang fan favourite "Forest Whitaker" from his 2003 album Shadows in the Sun, Ali urged the audi­ ence to scream along —"You ain't gotta love me!"

Part of what makes Brother Ali's shows unique is that he goes beyond just the music. He employs his raw, uninhibited skills in spoken word, beat­

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DAVE BRODKEY Rapping in poetry: Brother Ali is deliciously old school. boxing and general creativity to create an atmosphere reminiscent of the early 1990s, and one as raucous as any hockey game.

Though all the tracks on Shadows of the Sun are worth the cost of a ticket to his show, part of the mystique of Brother Ali is his nearly unmatched pro­ ficiency in freestyle battles, for which he is often praised on Internet chat boards.

Despite catching the flu from his young son as well as unwelcome tech­ nical difficulties, Ali enthralled the mass­ es, rapping with or without music, thus proving his freestyle prowess.

Near the end, Ali unleashed his usual diatribe on the mainstream rap

scene. He encouraged fans to rage against the evil of corporate rap, rap­ pers who don't write their own songs and rappers who don't care what they're saying. Ali preached in favour of music that's made from the heart. He backed up this speech by asking the crowd to listen to his music any way they can, whether they buy his CD or download it—bold words for a man supporting a family back home.

What defines Brother Ali as a hip hop artist is his ability to deliver any message as eloquently in poetic verse as anyone could in simple prose. If that's not old school, I don't know what is. ■

naughty bits caught in a vise. Their styles made for some damn inter esting sounds. However, the guys should work on their melody, as a half hour of feeling like someone is stabbing your cochlea with an ice pick does get old.

Brooklyn's TV on the Radio, however, were unequivocally awe­ some. They played guitar-driven indie rock but rode a deep groove like nobody's business. Plus, frontman Tunde Adebimpe can sing. Not only can he pull off the standard rock growl, but he also has a clas­ sic, rich, straight-from-the-soul voice that would make your grandmoth­ er stop complaining that no one sings like they used to nowadays Add in some falsetto from afro'd guitarist Kyp Malone and occasion­ al but impressive human-beatboxing by a dude in black-framed glass­ es, and you have a great set featuring both rough rock and smooth, slow melodies.

Last but not least came the Faint, who crashed onto the stage with a shower of mechanical clanking and electronic blips as eyelinered singer Todd Baechle danced like a whirling dervish, grinned maniacally and sang like a lovesick android. Thankfully, he stopped spray-painting his testicles black a while ago, opting instead to chan­ nel his energy into creating frenzied shows that pull the audience in and don't let go. Seriously, just try to go to a Faint show and not dance. Songs like the violin-decorated "Southern Belles in London Sing," from their latest album Wet From Birth, burst with fidgety beats that get under your skin and twitch.

If you can tear your eyes away from the band for a few seconds they display two huge video screens that play everything from mildly deranged animations and interestingly artsy film clips to tripped-out patterns for anyone who's ever spent an inordinate length of time watching Windows Media Player. All that, and they covered the Talking Heads' "Psycho Killer" like homicidal bilingual robots.

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H e r e 's t o a r t t h a t is u p t o y o u t o in t e r p r e t he great thing about visual art is that if doesn't require you to read it in a certain way. Rather, it invites you to come away with ideas of how it speaks to you personal­ ly. Hence my objection to most contemporary art—it poses no such invitation to me at all.

There is nothing I love more on a Wednesday night than to go to the Musée d'Art Contemporain at Place des Arts, get in for free, and look at whatever exhibition they have going on. Two years ago, I came away from such an evening with an appreciation for photographer Nan Goldin that made me want to look artists up and study their lives, find more of their work and try to figure out what drives them.

I love photography exhibitions. I love 1960s modern art whose main aim, in my opinion, is to blind or at least daze the spectator. I love crazy filmmakers who "were going for atmosphere" when they made their films.

On the other hand, I do not like dots. I do not like stripes and I do not like spirals, either. I do not like them in a hall. I do not like them on the wall. I do not like them here or there.

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My philosophy is that if it's green and purple and spot­ ted, it represents green and purple spots, not the Quiei Revolution. There, I said it.

Here's a fun exercise to try if you're ever bored on a Wednesday evening. Call up a friend and invite him to spend the night with you at the AAACM. Stop in front of every piece of art that says absolutely nothing to you, launch into a sermon about how the zig-zagging lines are meant to symbol­ ize the oppression of minority groups in contemporary Quebec and see how far they are willing to indulge you.

You'll be surprised how many people will just go along with it because they don't want you to think of them as uncultured boors. This exercise is twice as fun when you go with some­ one who is trying to get you to sleep with him.

Maybe I am an uncultured boor myself.

Maybe, as some of my art history major friends insist, I am just not getting it.

But here's my question; If I can see, in a single abstract

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The answer is because blue triangles mean nothing but blue triangles.

I know that the artists put a lot of work into their clothes­ pin collages. I know that clothespins mean a lot to the artists, and they want to share that with the general public and make a point. But if you have to explain why you glued clothespins together or else leave people just scratching their heads when they look at your work, how are you making your point? If you want to leave your artwork open to interpretation, give us something to go on instead of just a canvas to stare at.

Maybe I’m just in the wrong field. As a lit freak, I real­ ize that sometimes a poem about a table is just a poem about a table. So why read the fear of God into it? Well, perhaps because literature at least opens up the opportunity to do so.

Sadly, black and white wavy lines afford me no such opportunity.*

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Infinitheatre is currently staging this earlier work of Martel, best known for his Booker PrizeMrinning The Life o f Pi. A one-man show starring Jo e Cobden as narrator, the play features fantastical stories, which bitterly contrast the world of the human and that of the damned.

As the narrator watches Paul sink deeper into illness, he suggests that the two play a game. O ne that would "make something out of nothing, sense out of nonsense... [a world where] only the imaginary would count." Every day, the two are to invent an episode in the life of the Roccamatios, a make-believe family, based on events from 1 9 0 0 to present day. O ne historical event from each year was to spur an occurrence in the life of the Finnish family of Italian extraction.

The adventures of the family are never revealed—the audience merely learns the facts that inspire them. While the narrator struggles on the side of wavering optimism and discovery, his ailing friend is consumed by the destruction and conflicts of the 20th century. As Paul gets increasingly weak, his capacity for hope gets increasingly small and even the door of the hospital room becomes an unreach­ able horizon. Concurrently, as the fiction of a cure slips away, the agonies of history are brought to sharper relief and continue to escalate in their dolour before reaching an uneasy, devastating peak.

While the accounts are interesting and Cobden is deeply affecting, before long tedium sets in and members of the audience are squirming in.their seats waiting for the years to end. Not to say that Martel's tale isn't worth­ while—quite the contrary—but the novel doesn't carry over onto the stage and the play falls short of its potential. The message beneath the surface has promise, but it is never

FILM. Incident at Loch N ess—Cinema du Parc—3 5 7 5 avenue du Parc—October 25-28. Brace yourself as you sit

MARCTESSIER Sinking slowly into history and death. realized as the play stumbles over its calculated, unflinching obscurity. In print form, readers would have ample time to chew over Martel's abstractions to reach an understanding, but the stage robs the audience of this necessity and, ulti­ mately, digs its own grave.

The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamaios runs from O cto b er 7 -2 4 at Le Bain St-Michel [3 5 0 0 rue SteDominiqueJ. For details or reservations, call 9 8 7 - 17 7 4 , ext.

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MUSIC. Camper Van Beethoven—Cabaret—2111 boul. St-Laurent—Tuesday, October 19. After emerging with the likes of R.E.M. and Sonic Youth during the post-hippie, pre-grunge, 8 0 s "college rock" scene, Camper Van Beethoven has returned 15 years later. An exercise in post­ modernism before post-modernism officially existed, Camper fused Eastern European ethnic music, West Indian calypso and good-ole American folk-rock with a bunch of horns to create a sound with a certain "je ne sais quoi." In keeping with their original style to some extent, CVB recent­ ly released N ew Roman Times, a thematicallybased war protest album. They can be seen this Tuesday along with guests at Cabaret.

COMEDY. Just for Laughs Comedy T o u rMetropolis—5 9 rue Ste-Catherine E., Thursday, October 21. Headlined by the eccentric Jeremy Hotz, Just for Laughs festival veterans tour Canada's comedy frontier, and they're coming to Metropolis this week. Aside from Hotz, who's like a timid Jerry Seinfeld, the show features, among others, Russell Peters, whose risqué blend of ethnic jokes could have you on the floor or at his throat; New Jersey's Joe Starr, who fumed in a hilarious performance this summer at JFL's Relationships Show; and acclaimed British comedy phenom Adam Bloom, who won the Time Out Award as the UK's best stand-up comedian. If you're not laughing, you're not breathing! Visit hahaha.com for ticket information on the sixth annual Just for Laughs Comedy Tour.

MUSIC. Rasputina—Cabaret—2111 boul. StLaurent—Monday, October 25. Call it classical music fare, call it heavy metal, call it what you will—Rasputina's threeperson cello-rock ensemble offers an original performance.

Judging by their corseted beauty, they seem to be living in the late 19th century, yet still Rasputina manages to keep up with the times, collaborating with all sorts, from Marilyn Manson to Joan Osborne to the G oo G oo Dolls. If you are a strings player in need of inspiration or just a music lover who wants to see a good quality show, check out their con­ cert at Cabaret this Monday.

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PERFORMING ARTS. Beggars' Week—Maison Saint Gabriel—2 1 4 6 Dublin Place—October 17-24. So, this is a little out of the ordinary, but definitely worth mentioning.

Sponsored in part by L'Itinéraire magazine, a panhandlers' publication often sold along the Main, this week-long annu­ al event involves storytellers recounting various beggars' tales from years past and gone by. Each storyteller will be presented by an heir of the actual beggar. One of the week's highlights will take place on Tuesday, October 19th, at Magnan's restaurant at 2 6 1 2 St-Patrick, which is being dubbed "An evening of extraordinary tales." Reservations are required, though, so call (514] 93 5 -8 1 3 6 to book your spot.

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USETREUTLER T he first few times I went on stage solo, I kept thinking, W ho the hell do I think I am? There are tons of people standing for hours watching me!' But then I realized it's not about that. I'm a catalyst, and I want people to emote. If they're emoting, they're healthier people."

Ivana Santilli has lofty, admirable goals. On the phone she talks a mile a minute, but every word counts.

Currently on tour in support of her lat­ est release, Corduroy B oogie, Santilli has plenty to say about music, culture, and humanity.

"I want to show my appreciation for my Canadian fans before I go off elsewhere," she begins, referring to her current tour. "Mostly, I want people to have a good time. A concert can make or break a week, you know?"

Santilli, who grew up in Toronto and has a French-Canadian and Italian background, has been involved in music since childhood, when she entertained wedding guests in her father's band. Since then, she's acquired skills on a plethora of instru­ ments and made her big debut with the acclaimed early 9 0 s funk band Bass is Base. W hen she quit to go solo, her debut album Brown was released completely independent of any record company in 1 9 9 9 . Even though it came out of nowhere, with

no media behind it, Santilli toured Brown successfully for four straight years. It's no wonder she's created such a philosophy of music.

"Music is about people being able to feel. It can make you happy or sad, but all emotions are necessary.

Music is a way to relate—it's a lan­ guage that we all need. W e need to be able to listen to music and hear that someone else understands what we're going through."

Santilli laughs often and jokes that she's nothing but corny. But if you compare her music, a jazzy bossainfluenced groove, with her words, it's clear that she's no typical songwriter, nor is she in any way a flake. And even though Corduroy B oo g ie is an album you can shake your hips to, she's no pop star either.

"On stage, I'm just me, but if any­ thing I'm a heightened version of me, because music itself is a heightened form of being. It's not of this world. But thank God we have access to it at all times, especially since music is so important for kids. It helps them evolve as human beings."

Musing on her background, Santilli credits her positive outlook to her multicultural background. She speaks —and sings in —English, French and Italian.

"There's so much beauty in cultur­ al diversity, and the older I get, the more I realize it."

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Storming Montreal with a POW! After realizing that she's been on the phone for double the length of time she was allowed in the midst of her busy schedule, Santilli sums up herself as an artist: "When I do a show, women can draw strength from it sim­ ply because there's a woman at the helm. But I think men have something to get, too, because they're seeing a woman on stage who doesn't feel like it's necessary to be naked. In some ways I'm a feminist—but I'm really more of a humanist."* Catch Ivana Santilli at C a b a ret La Tulipe 14 5 3 0 rue PapineauE when her tour hits M ontreal on O ctob er 2 7 .

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something at such speed that her thought becomes a bundle of rambling and incomprehensible gibberish. The tableaux indicates that in our modern society, time runs at such speed that we remain stumbling behind breathlessly.

The beauty of AEternam lays not only in its impressive choreography and in its hasty movements, but also in its mystical, urban, and strident music.

Jouthe employs a video screen replete with various images as well, including a metropolitan landscape on fire, and uses an abundance of plastic sheets as props. All these gathered mediums underscore the modernity of the show and the frenetic era in which Emmanuel Jouthe believes we currently live.

Moreover, AEternam is a highly improvised show. Both the music and the video are played slightly differently each evening according to the mood of the technicians; the core structure remains untouched but the details will vary. This element adds up to the reali­ ty of the relationship with time: we do have calculated goals, aims and proj­ ects that may or may not come into being with the help of time, but we also experience a number of unexpect­ ed incidents.

AEternam is a philosophical tale.

It is a reminder that the eternal time in our current epoch is overwhelming and that, ultimately, we are simply ephemer­ al beings. ■

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response to the question, "what characterises our epoch?", Emmanuel Jouthe, AEternam's chore­ ographer, replied "frenzy." Expanding on this assertion, Jouthe, AEternam's creative mastermind, explained that he filled the performance with eternally long pauses so that both spectators and interprets may ease from the tumul­ tuous speed of life.

Through this unique artwork, AEternam mirrors our frustrating yet friendly relationship towards time. On the one hand, we appreciate taking our time; so, in such periods, the dancers' motions are slow, decom­ posed and smoothing. They seize on this given time to relax and breathe in.

On the other hand, time is also detestable when there is not enough of it.

In spite of Jouthe's attempt to intro­ duce eternally long pauses, AEternam mostly reflects the latter approach to time. In a number of tableaux, the speed is such that the spectator feels tensed-up. For example, interpret Chanfi W adge, in one such instance, rolls and somersaults underneath a swinging microphone, hopelessly try­ ing to keep pace with it. In despair, she claims "If I had a chance"... I would do that. "If I had a chance"... I would be this. In another rapid scene of tur­ moil, an interpret nervously explains

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touring so fucking hard! I've been to Europe four times this year and I still have two more internation­ al trips," says Jolie Holland.

Despite her hectic schedule, in support of her second album, Escondido, Holland is cheerfully opti­ mistic, says "super" a lot, and proves to be one of the sweetest people you could ever meet. Though it may be one of her favourite expressions, she's not one to be ridden hard and put aw ay wet. On the phone, she's an instant best friend, chatting freely about her past and her music.

"I didn't really understand it until I left, but now when I go back home I realize how special the music is there," she says.

"Home" is Texas, where Holland grew up heavily involved in music.

After deciding against university, she traveled across the US and C anada.

Her adventures—including a particu­ larly "super powerful" moment—led her to realize she was destined for a career in music.

"I was 19 and staying with this new boyfriend at his parents' place," Holland reminisces. "I knew one of his favourite songs was Bob Dylan's 'To Ramona,' so I played it for him in the dark kitchen with a different spin, more of a jazz inflection. It totally hit him! He was crying, and that was the first time anybody ever had that kind of reaction. It was like a fish hook in my mouth. I knew then that it was my destiny. I wanted to make people cry!"

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Arthur Black's Black & W hite And R ead All Over lives up to its claim—it will make you "raucously snicker and I snort out loud until your roommate's boyfriend gives you a H sideways glance that seems to say 'you belong in solitary confinement' and you are forced to slowly and ashamed­ ly put the book down." Yes, it's that funny!

Black's work is a brutally candid compilation of his witty—and very Canadian—thoughts on everything from our friend the beaver to intriguing tomb­ stone epitaphs. Reading the book is almost like attending Just for Laughs, as each of its comedic stints ends with a forceful punch line. The former CBC radio host's bold, sarcastic rants take barefaced jabs at life's absurdities and, above all, ruthlessly assail his aging, technologically-challenged self. Littered with sweet nostalgia and the outrageous anecdotes accumulated throughout his travels, it can be characterized genre-wise only as wildly random.

The book's characters are all real people, yet Black makes them beyond fantastic, including a weatherman who makes forecasts with pig spleens and a paralyzed author that writes an entire novel by blinking to specify letters of the alphabet.

For an easy, honest read, take a rifle though Black's outpour of biting humour, complete with insights sure to touch on your own quirks. Chapters con­ tain such valuable lessons as "How to Outheckle Hecklers" and "Forget Osama, Watch Out for Your Pants!" Just remember, if your own laugh is more of a pierc­ ing guffaw than a quiet snicker, keep your bedroom door shut tight.

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In the late 19 9 0 s , Holland made her way to Vancouver, where she formed the Be Good Tanyas with Trish Klein, Frazey Ford and Samantha Parton. After spending some time tour­ ing and recording, Holland left for San Francisco to find her own avenue.

"It was like, there are too many people in this b and !," Holland iaughs. "I needed a different platform to put my work into."

However, Holland is not one to break friendly ties—she still writes and records with the Tanyas on a regular basis.

In concert, Holland and her band—Dave Mihaly on drums and Brian Miller on electric guitar—hypno­ tize the audience with multi-layered instrumentals and, of course, Holland's gorgeous, smooth jazz vocals. In between songs, as Holland switches from the violin to the acoustic guitar and back, she alternates between sharing the stories behind her music and quipping with the audi­ ence about a lost pick or what to play next.

The crowd clearly appreciated Holland's first-ever ap pearan ce in Montreal, whether sprawled across the wooden floor, leaning over tables to be closer to the sound or dancing in the corner.

As we chatted after the concert, Holland admitted that she'd barely seen any of Montreal, but was eager to dig through the vintage shops and verify the rumours she's heard.

"Montreal is the place where all my Vancouver friends realized how

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JOLIEHOLLAND.COM dowdy they dressedl By the time they left, they were all fashionable," she says with a giggle.

If you missed Holland's perform­ ance Thursday night, be sure to catch her the next time she visits. Her play­ ing is honest yet flawless, and you'd have to be a robot to remain unaffect­ ed the whole way through.

"I never practice; I just play," she says. "My manager was trying to get me to practice before I started to record, and I was like, 'W hat do you know, you whippersnapper? I don't practice!"'

As evident in the perfect night at the Main Hall, her philosophy is defi­ nitely working. ■

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Now that the metal troopers from Brooklyn are back in the saddle and strong as ever, their new and diverse sound encompasses metal hardcore influ­ ences, touches of hip-hop, and even a little jazz. The band is definitely moving forward musically in varying directions—all on the same record.

The songs on W hat Doesn't Kill You... suggest that Candiria are more than a little pissed off about their near-death experience and perhaps even humbled by it. Their interesting background, however, is not the only thing they've got going for them.

W hile the album is a solid piece of work overall, major highlights include "Down" and "Remove Yourself," both technically intense and melodically driven.

The rest of the album remains more generic. W hat Doesn't Kill You... is a hard­ core metal album with other musical elements mixed in to smooth things over, but Candiria stay close to the standard—raunchy metal at all times—using it as a kind of security blanket.

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ften the most upsetting part of oth­ erwise excellent electronic music is the lack of a live jam feel in most productions. W e buy albums not only for the music, but also to connect with the artists' thoughts, their moods, and the creativity they employ when assembling their talents into a record. The sophomore release by local Plateau musician Tim Rideout holds true to its name, Ambient Pastiche, by letting listeners do all of the above.

Hailing from the Maritimes, Rideout has been actively involved in the Montreal music scene since the early 90s, working with the likes of Brasse Camarade and Chiwawa. Though originally trained as a jazz drummer, Rideout is proficient on the piano and saxophone, and holds an equally capable voice. He lets it all hang out on this nine-track audio collage that includes elements of funk, drum and bass, rock, and dub reggae.

Ambient Pastiche opens with spoken word and then ascends into long atmos­ pheric tracks that welcome the listener right into the recording studio. Musical bits from the bass and guitars are looped to create solid electronic grooves driven by Rideout's own creative drumming. The

wide variety of sound filters and tempos used throughout provide the continuous atmosphere that ties one track to the next, making this album a journey in sound.

The CD release party for Ambient Pastiche, held within the'artsy confines of O Patro Vys on October 8, truly began when Rideout took stage on the drums against a screened backdrop playing video montages. The images ranged from 1 9 5 0 s infomercials to haphazard, abstract camcorder recordings. After the very creative opening of eclectic percus­ sion, the band jumped right into their lead single, "Goddess," which drew immedi­ ate applause from the crowd. And when bassist Robert Roy locked into the funky grooves of "Mr. Atari" and "Rub-a-Dub Lady," the set morphed into the live improv eiectronica fans so often miss out on, assaulting the crowd with a smorgasbord of unique guitar and. vocal sounds.

Rideout created a very intimate per­ formance, taking every opportunity to interact with the crowd and share his approach to music making. As he explained during a pre-show chat, he now has all his "essentials" in the right place to perform more regularly in Montreal. For all those who appreciate live eiectronica and view musical perform­ ance as a means of holistic expression, this is an absolute blessing. ■

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Coming off an overtime loss to Concordia two weeks ag o , the Redmen looked to this matchup as a chance to rebound and assert them­ selves as an elite team in the Quebec conference. Instead, they took several steps backwards, losing 5 0 -7 to the fifth-ranked Rouge et Or before a disap­ pointed homecoming crowd of 3 ,1 2 3 .

"W e didn't do anything well today," said Redmen Head Coach Chuck McMann. "It was ugly. I didn't expect that at all."

Conversely, the Redmen were most impressed by the play of Laval's third-year running back Jeronimo Huerta-Flores against a strong Redmen defence, which had given up only 7 2 points coming into the game. McGill's front seven seemed helpless against the 5 ' 11 " Mexican native, who carried the ball 2 9 times for 2 3 7 yards and three touchdowns. On top of averaging more than eight yards per rush, the third7 ear back's output bettered that of the entire McGill team by 6 3 yards.

"He's a very good natural running back," said McGill defensive lineman James Poston, who recovered a HuertaFlores fumble, the back's only real miscue of the day. "His cutbacks are sharp and he really hits the lanes."

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Quarterback Matt Connell, who came into the game leading the confer­ ence in most passing categories, was almost entirely ineffective against the Rouge et Or, going just 8 for 2 8 for a lowly 9 3 yards. At halftime, Connell had completed the same number of passes (two) to Laval defenders as his own receivers.

Despite that, the Redmen hung around early, as first-year linebacker Slyven Guenette returned an intercep­ tion 5 2 yards for a touchdown to give McGill a 7-2 first quarter lead.

Following a single point, Laval coun­ tered with a 45-yard completion from Will Leclerc toJ.F. Romeo for a major.

Then, in the waning moments of the second quarter, Leclerc—who threw for 2 1 6 yards on the day—connected with Duane John on a 27-yard strike that made the score 17-7.

Redmen break down after the break The beginning of the third quarter was where the Redmen lost the game.

The team came out flat on offence and couldn't keep the defence off the field.

Huerta-Flores powered his way to two short touchdowns in the quarter, but that was only a preview, as he ripped off a 66yard score in the final period. A safety, field goal and lOyard touch­ down run by Cedric Ross-Bergeron accounted for the rest of Laval's points.

As the game slipped out of reach, the Redmen seemed incapable of mak­ ing the proper adjustments. Connell

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"I tried to make big plays and maybe sometimes I shouldn't have," Connell said. "That's how you react when you're down."

McMann was also critical of Connell's effort.

"Matt Connell struggled," he said bluntly. "He's got to step up and make

throws, and he didn't. But he's young.

He's a good player and he'll bounce back."

McMann added that such difficul­ ties are to be expected of a player who, before this season, had seen action in only one quarter in a Redmen uniform.

After the final whistle put the Redmen out of their misery, the team gathered for a brief team meeting before shaking hands with their oppo­ nents. As the huddle broke up, a lone voice shouted to the rest, "Remember this, guys!"

Indeed, the Redmen need to use

their embarrassing performance on Saturday as inspiration for the remain­ der of the season. The squad has two games left before the post-season, including a home game in two weeks against the top-ranked team in the nation, the Université de Montréal Carabins, which could be significant for playoff seeding. Before that tilt, the Red 'n' White head to the east coast to face the winless Mount Allison Mounties on Saturday, and the seem­ ingly likely victory would ensure that, at the very least, this season's Redmen fin­ ish better than last year's 3-5 team. ■

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has the ball, trailing by four points as the fourth quarter comes to a close. It uses a no-huddle offence as it marches down the field and com­ pletes a pass to the sideline for a big gain. The squad's momentum is surging, and seemingly unstoppable. The quar­ terback hurries the team to the line of scrimmage, forcing the visiting team's defence back on its heels. Then, just before the snap, the referee blows his whistle and announces that the last play is under review by the replay booth official.

The decision from upstairs requires the referee to stop the game and take a number of minutes to explain things to the coaches, inform the crowd, and then head over to the video screen to confirm if the initial call was correct. Usually, though, it seems obvious to everyone that the original decision was accurate. And while this interruption might seem innocuous, it gives the defence time to rest and get new personnel on the field—essentially punishing the offence. So although no one wants to lose because of a blown call, too often, the momen­ tum and dynamics of a great game are destroyed by a booth review or a coach's challenge on which there is no chance that the play in question will be overturned.

The current system must be altered. A new procedure, similar to the NHL's, has to be installed in which the referees

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and coaches play no part. Instead, the booth official would be the sole person in charge of replay. He would watch every play on a TV screen and—during the time between downs— determine if a call should be reversed, only informing the offi­ cials when a change needs to be made. This method would eliminate futile challenges from the sidelines, and most impor­ tantly, speed up the game and maintain a maximum level of excitement.

Under today's system, coaches seem to challenge plays with their hearts instead of their heads. Many, for example, ask for reviews to prove that they side with a player that claims he didn't fumble, even though he clearly did. The new system would weed out unnecessary challenges as coaches would have no say, helping move the game along at a faster pace.

Currently, coaches need to show discretion with their challenges, since they are given only two per game. A coach then has to balance his desire to question a play with the fact that a more egregious error may take place later on, when he is out of challenges. By having all reviews come from the booth, this would not be an issue, and the replay system would be more evenhanded.

Finally, this proposal would make it unnecessary for the

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referee to provide lengthy explanations of challenges to coaches—many of whom do not know the rules of re p la y players and fans, all before heading over to the sidelines to iook at a play. That takes a significant amount of time, a prob­ lem when the average length of NFL games is now currently over the previously standard three-hour mark. The new system would allow the ref to let everyone know what is happening while the play is simultaneously being reviewed upstairs. Also, fewer plays would be subject to a wholesale review— most would just get a cursory glance from the booth official.

The single-judge-in-the-booth system is somewhat similar to the one the NFL used in the 19 8 0 s before it scrapped instant replay. At that time, because of a lack of technology, replay was a tedious process that delayed the game for sev­ eral minutes. However, with today's multitude of camera angles, this won't be a problem, so long as the booth official is judicious and doesn't review the spot of the ball on every play. And while occasionally on a close call the official will need to stop play to allow for additional viewings, the system would keep breaks to a minimum and maintain the flow of the game. This way, the quarterback could get the ball snapped and hit his receiver in the end zone for the game-winning score, without the thrust of energy ever subsiding. ■

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s p la s h a t M e m o r ia l p o o l ZENAH SURANI McGill's swim teams put on a good show for homecoming week­ end in front of a packed gallery of fans at Memorial Pool on Saturday.

In the second meet of the four-event Q uebec Cup series, the women fin­ ished first out of six universities, with their 1 3 8 points edging out Laval's 1 2 9 , while the men accumulated 7 3 points, finishing second to runaway winner Université de Montréal's 1 57.

Leading the way for the women's squad were Carolyn M cC abe and Heather Bell, who each picked up two individual gold medals for their efforts. M cC abe, last year's top student-athlete in Quebec, captured the 50m freestyle in 2 7 .1 2 seconds and the 100m butterfly in 1 :0 5 .9 4 , while Bell, last season's team MVP and current team captain, doubled up with wins in the 100m breaststroke (1 :1 2 .8 1 ) and 50m

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breaststroke (33.52s). M cC abe also joined Brianne Brannagan, Heather Chance, and Katherine Trajan in win­ ning the 4 x 1 00m freestyle relay in a time of 4 :0 2 .1 4 , while she, Bell, Allison M cC abe, and Callan Gaulp teamed up to capture the 4 x 1 00m medley relay in 4 :2 7 .9 8 .

Tne McGill men saw their future become their present, with rookie François Castonguay having a big day in the pool. Castonguay, who won two silver medals and a bronze earlier this month in Trois-Rivières, took another step up the podium with two golds and a silver.

Castonguay earned gold in the 400m individual medley (4 :3 8 .2 7 ) and the 20 0 m backstroke (2 :0 8 .7 4 ), and joined forces with Benoit Dalpé, Mathieu Roy, and Hugh Cook in taking second in the 4 x 1 00m medley relay.

"When you're out there on the blocks, you just need to focus and not think too hard about what you're

about to do," explained a delighted Castonguay after winning the individ­ ual medley. "The swim team at McGill is a lot of fun. Everyone here is really energetic and it's great to be swimming at home. I'm FrenchCanadian and I feel a great sense of acceptance here at McGill. I'm look­ ing forward to a great first season."

Castonguay's enthusiasm under­ scores the fact that both the men's and women's teams this season have a good mix of seasoned veterans and new talent. There is plenty of rea­ son to believe that the Red 'n' White can remain fast and fleet in the water this year. McGill is in action at Memorial Pool again this weekend, hosting the University of Waterloo.

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ANGELA GIANNOTTI Julia Leonard is not what you might think a rugby star ought to be.

Standing only 5 '3 ", this 1 ly e a r vet­ eran of the sport has tallied just two tries this season. But in rugby, tries and size are far from a player's only contribution to her team.

A hooker, Leonard brings a level of experience unmatched by the rest of the squad, and that is an asset to a young Martlets squad this year.

"Julia brings a seriousness and focus to the forwards, which is impor­ tant in a pack composed of rookies," says Head C oach Vince deGrandpré. "She's a great leader on the pitch."

From rookie prop Val Evans's point of view, Julia is a player from whom a great deal can be learned.

"I find it easier to learn by watching someone like her do things like rucking and mauling," she com­ ments.

Indeed, Julia has a great deal of high-level rugby experience behind her. She has played for four straight years on the Q uebec Senior Women's squad, as well as with the Canadian under-23 team, the Canadian Barbarians, and Canada "A," all of which are feeder pro­ grams to the Canadian Senior Women's team. When asked what it was like to don a Team Canada jer­ sey for the first time, Leonard replies, "It's really a feeling of honour... when you put on that jersey and run out onto that field. It's quite amazing actu­ ally."

Though her academic pursuits include a Master's degree in Biomechanics, Julia has aspirations to play for the Canadian Senior team. With her strengths lying in set plays, accurate throws in line-outs, and the ability to steal the opposi­ tion's ball in the scrum, Julia's chances look promising.

Karl Cernovitch, the Quebec Senior Women's head coach, agrees.

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MARTLETS RUGBY ethic," he says. "She has the athletic and technical ability to go as far as she wants," including competing internationally But regardless of where she ends up, Julia won't forget where it all began, at Beaconsfield High School in grade seven.

"I don't know why I went out to that first practice... something about the sport intrigued me," she says.

Since then, Julia hasn't looked back. After her time at Beaconsfield, she played rugby at John Abbott College, where she earned rookie of the year honours, and was named MVP in the following year.

Her decision to come to McGill was "the logical choice," since she wanted to go into medicine, but the quality of the Martlets rugby program was also a major factor. Julia under­ stood that playing for McGill would give her the chance to play with highlevel athletes, and develop her skills.

It is a choice she has not regret­ ted, as she has been recognized as Martlet rookie of the year in 2 0 0 1 , Q uebec Student Sport Federation AllStar the next two seasons, and Canadian Interuniversity Sport all-star at last year's national tournament in Edmonton.

But the individual accolades are not something that Julia considers her highest priority, and she is shy when it comes time to talk about her person­ al achievements. For this athlete, the fact that rugby is a team sport is why she enjoys it so much. The nature of the sport is such that without a strong group of players that support each other, a team will never reach its potential.

"A lot of trust and unity goes into a team to make it successful,” Julia notes. "Every player really counts... and that builds a very strong commu­ nity."

When Julia is asked about her favourite moment in her rugby career, she responds, "that first sip of beer out of the cup in 2 0 0 0 ," after win­ ning her first Fédération de rugby Q uébec championship with her club, Ste-Annede-Bellevue RFC, "because that cup means so much."

But for the next few weeks, don't expect this Martlet rugger to be nos­ talgic about the past or thinking about her future career. The McGill rugby team has a goal to win the QSSF and CIS gold this season, and Julia, the most experienced player on the pitch, will be focused on leading the Martlets along the way. ■

That's right, I'm a girl and I play football for the Montreal Blitz of the Independent Women's Football League. Imagine that.

Unfortunately, most people can't wrap their head around this fact. I have had many conversations about football, and they usu­ ally go a little something like this: Joe Schmo: So, what sport do you play?

M e: Football, jo e : Oh, like soccer?

M e: Nope, tackle football.

Joe: No way, full-contact football?!

M e: Yep. NFL rules.

O f course, this isn't enough for them—rather, it's just the start of the inevitable 1 5 0 follow-up inquiries.

The main question tends to be, so how big are the girls? Just as in men's football, it differs for each position. For example, I am a free safety, so I do not have to be very big; I'm only 5 '7 " and 1 3 0 pounds. On the other hand—and you may not believe me about this, but just ask anyone who attended our game against the Bay State Warriors about this "little" fact—a woman who plays nose tackle for the Warriors was 6 '4 " and 3 6 5 pounds. When she walked onto the field for warm-ups, the spectators' mouths dropped, our team was in shock, and children ran in fear.

A football odyssey Football is in my blood. My father and his two brothers played pro ball. I remember being an eight-year-old girl, looking down onto the field and wishing that they would let me play, but realizing that men are quicker, stronger, bigger and better, and that a female's physique cannot compete with a man's.

Now we don't have to because we have our own place to play. And this is not some lame house league either—the IWFL is a semi-pro league with teams in 1 7 American cities from San Diego to New York, with the Blitz being the sole Canadian entry.

So not only are we representing women in football, we are repre­ senting all of C an ad a—a role in which we take great pride.

W e play our games between April and July, so we're done for the year, but we'll start practicing again later this month. During the season we just finished, my d ad —a man who knows the game inside out—cam e down to watch one of our games. He was amazed at the level of play. And before the skeptics among you say, "Well, he's your dad, he has to say that," you should know this: I have played every sport under the sun, and he has never had a problem telling me how slow and boring girls are to watch.

My whole life, I have looked for a sport that satisfies my desire for a mental challenge, while also including elements of pure aggression, contact, and fun. Football is that game, and now I get to play it at the highest level. So next time a girl says, "Hey, I play football, too," unless she happens to be from Europe, she's probably not referring to soccer. ■

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REDMEN RUGBY—McGill @ Concordia, W ed. Oct. 2 0 , 8:30pm ; Sherbrooke @ McGill, Sun. Oct. 2 4 , 1:00pm, Molson Stadium The Redmen head down the street to play Concordia, the only other colt in this two-horse race for first place in the QSSF regular season standings. If McGill can get by the Stingers, they have a chance to close out an undefeated regular season against lowly Sherbrooke at the Stadium on Friday night.

NFL—NY Jets @ New England, Sun. Oct. 2 4 , 4:05p m on CBS The impressive Jets take on the defending Super Bowl champs in this contest for first place in the AFC East. Expect Jets Q B Chad Pennington to rely on the ageless Curtis Martin to attack a surprisingly vulnerable Pats run defence. Expect Pats Q B Tom Brady to be Tom Brady and find a way to win.

MLB—NY Yankees @ Arizona, 2 0 0 1 World Series, Gam e 7, Sat. Oct. 2 3 , 5:00pm on ESPN Classic Canada The finale of this epic series is filled with passion, intensity, lead changes galore, extra innings and a dramatic finish to a series that dis­ played ail that was good about baseball. With Jeter, Rivera, Schilling, Johnson, and Gonzalez, there's plenty of star power to go around as well.

Université Laval vs. McGill University Oct 16, 2004 at Percival Molson Stadium Scoring Summary: First quarter 0 3 :2 8 LAVAL ■TEAM safety 0 5 :4 7 McGILL - S. Guenette 5 2 yd interception return (R. Eeuwes kick) 0 8 :5 3 LAVAL - S. Larosiliere rouge 1 4 :5 3 LAVAL -J.F. Romeo 4 5 yd pass from W . Leclerc (S. Larosiliere kick) Second quarter 1 4 :4 8 LAVAL - D. John 2 7 yd pass from W . Leclerc (S. Larosiliere kick) Third quarter 0 3 :4 5 LAVAL -J. H-Flores 3 yd run (S. Larosiliere kick) 0 7 :3 5 LAVAL-J H-Flores 1 yd run |S. Larosiliere kick) Fourth quarter 0 2 :1 0 LAVAL - TEAM safety 1 0 :0 6 LAVAL - S. Larosiliere 19 yd field goal 1 1 :4 8 LAVAL - J. H-Flores 6 6 yd run (S. Larosiliere kick) 1 4 :0 2 LAVAL - C. R-Bergeron 10 yd run (S. Larosiliere kick) Score by Quarters

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Dennis Barrett ♦ Head coach ♦ Martlets and Redmen cross-country Q : How are the men's and women's cross-country teams doing so far this year?

A: Certainly better than last season. W e'v e seen some improvement on both the men's and women's sides. At the Laval meet, the women won, and we had some men that were sick and injured, so hope­ fully they can rebound in Kingston.

Q: it's always tough balancing a running program's short- and long-term goals. At what stage would you say is McGill's pro­ gram?

A: I feel that our veterans will be better next year, to the point where we can compete at the national level. I'm not saying we can win nationals just yet,

but I consider a top five finish a successful year at the CIS level.

Q : You coach the cross-country teams in the fall, the track and field teams in the winter, you coordinate strength and condi­ tioning for McGill's entire ath­ letic program, you manage the fitness centre, and you teach classes. Where do you find the time and energy?

A: (Laughs.) I don't know, I guess I like facing different challenges and dealing with different people. Training ath­ letes, hiring people—all of these activities are diverse and so are the people involved. It's just a matter of wanting to help people, and it helps to come across some great people every day. ■

McGill cagers struggle as tourney hosts The men's and women's basketball teams played host to the McGill Redbird Classic tournament on the weekend, but were unable to defend their home court with much success.

The women hung tough in every game, but finished with an 0-3 record in the tournament. The men fared only slightly bet­ ter, finishing third in the four-team tournament with a 1-2 record.

The Redmen started off the tourney on the right foot, with a 7 7 -7 0 win over the Manitoba Bisons. Denburk Reid led the way with 2 0 points, and Greg Rembeyo added 14 along with 1 0 rebounds.

Reid had another strong game against the Guelph Gryphons, but his 21 points weren't enough in a 7 7 -6 2 loss to the eventual tournament champions. Reid added another 2 0 in an 8 0 -7 5 loss to the University of Toronto, who earned second place with the win.

The Martlets opened their tournament with a 6 2 -5 3 defeat at the hands of Dalhousie. In that contest, Kelly Rae Kenyon led McGill with 1 3 points, with Alisen Salusbury adding 1 1 to the Martlet cause. They followed that up with a 6 0 -5 0 loss to the Calgary Dinos. Isabelle Provencher led the Martlets with 14 points in that contest, with centre Julianne Noseworthy chipping in with 10. Calgary went on to win the tournament with a 3-0 record.

The Martlets got 2 0 points each from Provencher and Salusbury in their final game of the tournament, but it wasn't enough to overcome the balanced attack from the Toronto Varsity Blues, who came out ahead 7 0 -6 3 .

Though their teams came up short, Provencher and Reid were named tournament All-Stars for their efforts.

Lady volleyballers gamer mixed results Love Competition Hall was the setting for the McGill Invitational volleyball tournament, and saw the Martlets through an up-and-down weekend on their way to a fourthplace finish.

The ladies in red started off the tournament against St. Mary's on Friday, defeating them 3-1, and followed that up with a win over McMaster by the same count.

Saturday was tougher for the Martlets, as they dropped a 3-1 decision to Sherbrooke, and a grueling five-set match to Trinity Western (26-28, 2 5 -1 4 , 2 4 -2 6 , 2 5 -1 7 , 15-13).

Sunday saw the Martlets battle for third place, but they didn't have anything left after the Trinity Western game, falling 3-1 to the Université de Montréal. Sherbrooke went on to defeat Trinity Western for the tournament win.

McGill's Christine Borisev was game MVP for McGill in the match against Montréal, and was named to the tourna­ ment All-Star team.

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4 . Kenyon Martin suffers a broken leg in the Conference USA j tournament, costing Cincinnati a shot at the title; an investiga- j tion is launched into claims that Indiana coach Bobby Knight j choked a player.

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