The McGill Tribune Vol. 25 Issue 10

Curiosity delivers. Vol. 25 Issue 10

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A&E: Dan Snaith-AII the attitude, half the antlers.

T r ib u n e P U B L I S H E D BY THE S T U D E N T S '

S O C I E T Y OF M C G I L L

SPORTS: Honey, I shrunk the lockers!

UNIVERSITY

Tuesday, Novemeber I, 2005

Montreal votes Municipal election race nears finish line m illio n s to im p ro ve roads and fix p o t­ h o le s th ro u g h o u t M ontreal, im p ro ve

ROBERT CHURCH T he M o n tre a l m u n ic ip a l e lectio n cam paign is d ra w in g to a close, and a lth ou gh m a n y M cG ill s tud ents w o u ld be hard-pressed to n a m e th e can di­ dates, th e ir p la tfo rm s o r th e date o f th e e lectio n itself, victory by any party w ill n o t m ea n substantial changes in s tu d e n t life at McGill.

O n Sunday, residents o f th e City o f M on tre al an d th e s u rro u n d in g b o r­ oughs w ill head to th e polls to choose th e next city m ayor, as w e ll as city councillors, b o ro u g h m ayors an d b o r­ ou gh councillors.

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R ichard B e rg e ro n a n d P ro je t M ontreal, w h ich co u ld be described as th e G reen Party w ith a special fo cu s on tra n sp o rta tio n issues, have paid m o re atte n tio n to s tu d e n t in te r­ ests. A t a can didate d e b a te at M cG ill last w e e k , B e rg e ro n p ro m is e d a re d u ctio n in s tu d e n t tra n sit prices to $ 2 0 fo r a m o n th ly pass. Bergeron has also pro p o se d a $ 10-billion, cityw ide

See CANDIDATES page 4.

incertainty. T he w o rd has m o re con/n o ta tio n s tha n M cG ill has students.

O u r unde rgrad ua te years, coinci­

dentally, are th e m o st un certain o f all: W hat courses sho uld w e take? H o w do w e d e fin e ourselves? M o st o f all, w h a t do w e as in dividu als belie ve in? W h eth er raised in d e v o u tly religious en viro n m e n ts o r not, s tud ents are a m a jo r g ro up o f fa ith explorers. Take a lo ok a t Features to dis­ cover ju s t h o w im p o rta n t spiritual search­ ing is to o u r subculture, as w e ll as so m e alternatives to th e "m a in stre a m " faiths.

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This cam p aign sign fo r in c u m b e n t M ayo r o f M o n tre a l G erald Trem blay displays s o m e o f th e frustation fe lt b y a city po p u la ce th a t has d e scrib ed th e m u n ic ip a l ele ctio n cam paign as bo rin g an d fo cu se d o n nega­ tivity. T rem blay an d his rival Pierre B o u rq u e have b e e n accused o f fillin g th e ir d e ba te s w ith insults instead o f in fo rm a tio n .

This Week in McGill Athletics Fri., Nov. 4 Martlet Soccer host QSSF semi final 6:30pm* Fri., Nov. 4 Volleyball vs Sherbrooke (W) 6pm & (M) 8pm Sat., Nov. 5 vs Martlet Hockey vs Concordia 2:30pm Sun., Nov. 6 Redmen Rugby host QSSF final 1pm P Q t e n t ig jP la y r g f f A g fe g n

* check www.athletics.mcgill.ca for official start time Fri., Nov. 4. QSSF Semi-finals for Redmen Soccer / Sun., Nov. 6 : QSSF Finals Martlet Soccer

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Dion sells skeptical students on Kyoto Second cabinet minister to speak at McGill this year enough. LaFrance o b je cte d to a general g o v e rn m e n t po licy th a t

JACQUI W ILSON

h e said allow s th e in du stries creating th e m a jo rity o f gre en hou se gases in Canada to avoid th e ap p ro p ria te b u rd e n o f em ission s

S téphane D ion, fe d eral m in iste r o f th e e n viro n m e n t, cam e

reduction.

Rachel Abs, U1 H istory an d IDS, agreed w ith LaFrance's

to M cG ill T hursday to explain h o w a co m p e titiv e e co n o m y and a health y e n v iro n m e n t can exist sim ultaneously, an d to lay o u t th e

a sse s s m e n t "W hich is m o re im p o rta n t," she asked, "to fo cu s on th e in d i­

fe d eral g o ve rn m e n t's plan to achieve th e goals o u tlin e d in th e Kyoto Protocol.

D ion p ro m o te d th e "C lim a te Change Plan fo r Canada," released last April, as th e g o ve rn m e n t's approach to h o n o u rin g its Kyoto c o m m itm e n ts . An in te restin g aspect o f th e plan fo cu s­

vid ua l o r big industries?'

A n o th e r a u dience m e m b e r asked a b o u t tax rebates fo r hyb rid cars. D ion answ ered th a t it is a divisive issue w ith in th e go ve rn m e n t, and d e fe n d e d th e cu rre n t tax regulations.

es on large industrial em itters. A p p ro xim a te ly 7 0 0 co m p a n ie s

"If yo u can a ffo rd to b u y a Prius, you can a fford to pay y o u r

p ro d u ce a b o u t h a lf o f Canada's em issions, in clu d in g co m p a n ie s

taxes," he said.

D io n to ld th e au d ie n ce th a t it is m o re suitable to pro vid e tax re lie f fo r e n viro n m e n ta l change in areas th a t w o u ld he lp p o o re r

in th e oil an d gas, m in in g an d m anufacturing , and th e rm a l elec­ tricity sectors. The plan provides fle xib le alternatives fo r the se co m p a n ie s to m e e t th e ir targets, in clu d in g th e controversial "e m issio ns tra d in g market." U n d e r th e plan, sm all co m p a n ie s

Canadians.

D ion also discussed his goals fo r th e u p c o m in g UN C lim ate

u n ab le to m e e t th e ir re d u ctio n targets w ill b e able to b u y cred­

Change C onference, w h ic h is b e in g held in M o n tre a l fro m Nov.

its fro m large industrial e m itte rs w h o have exceeded th e ir target reductions, and can sell th e ir surplus credits. T he g o ve rn m e n t ho p e s th a t th is p ro fit m o tiv e w ill drive large e m itte rs to take actio n to w a rd red ucing th e ir co n trib u tio n s to clim ate change.

D u ring th e q u e stio n p e rio d fo llo w in g th e lecture, o n e a u d i­ en ce m e m b e r likene d th e system to a classroom in w h ic h a stu­

OLIVER NGUYEN

d e n t scoring p e rfe ctly o n a te s t cou ld give extra m arks th e y ea rned to stu d e n ts w h o are failing. D io n answ e red th a t he did n o t be lie ve th a t th is w as a valua ble com p ariso n. H e stressed th a t certain industries w ill have an easier tim e c o m p lyin g w ith n e w

th a t he w as personally n o t con vin ced th a t th e g o v e rn m e n t is d o in g enough, b u t th a t it se e m e d like o th e rs a t th e le ctu re w e re persuaded. H e a ckn ow led ge d th e past fe d eral b u d g e t w as th e

Pow er and th e M cG ill C lim ate Change C o alition said afterw ard

"g reen est b u d g e t in history," b u t said th a t it still did n o t go far

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In th e run u p to th e con feren ce, cam p us groups are organ­

Dion thumped his plan on the table to support his point.

em ission s restrictions th a n others.

P h ilo m e LaFrance o f th e G rassroots Association fo r S tu d e n t

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2 8 to Dec. 9. H e said he w a nts to fo cu s p rim arily on th e im p le ­ m e n ta tio n o f th e agree m ent, a lon g w ith fin e -tu n in g s o m e o f Kyoto's m e ch a n ism s th a t fo cu s on d e v e lo p in g countries. He em p h a size d th e difficu ltly o f getting 15 6 co u n trie s to agree on policy, b u t said he is h o p in g to g e t a declaration by all th e signa­ torie s to investigate a b e tte r in te rna tiona l e n viro n m e n ta l regim e. izing protests and events to raise awareness. G reen in g M cG ill is p la n n in g to set up tables in various bu ild in g s and h o st a film nig h t o r debate. Students P roviding an A ltern ative Resource fo r K n o w ledg e w ill pro vid e ed uca tion al w orkshops. T he g ro up s also h o p e to stage a d e m o n s tra tio n on D e c 3. ■

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US A rm y deserter lets loose on Iraq Veteran of controversial war would rather face jail than return to fight TRACI JOHNSON

th e days o f Saddam.'"

A nd erso n crossed th e b o rd e r in January, disregarding orders to

O n e day a fte r th e A m erican death to ll in Iraq reached 2 ,0 0 0 , Darrell Anderson, a de cora te d co m b a t veteran o f th e US m ilitary, spoke at M cG ill a b o u t his decisio n to fle e to Canada

re p o rt back to his unit, th e 2 3 rd Field A rtille ry D ivisio n. H e has

rather th a n face a seco nd d e p lo y m e n t overseas.

Canada on th e basis th a t th e w a r is

The 2 3 -ye a r-o ld fro m Lexington, Kentucky jo in e d th e US m ilita ry in 2 0 0 3 to earn m o n e y to pay fo r his education. Two m o n th s later th e w a r in Iraq broke out, and A nd erso n served fo r seven m o n th s in d o w n to w n Baghdad. He was aw arded th e Purple H e art after b e in g w o u n d e d by a roadside b o m b .

"One of the most critical things we can do is to open the Canadian border and let disgruntled soldiers come in. Let George W. Bush send his two daughters to fight instead."

-C h ris Brown, of the W ar Resisters Support Campaign

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illegal and aw aits th e decisio n o f th e Im m ig ra tio n a n d R efu ge e Board. If his claim is rejected, he cou ld be d e p o rte d back to th e US. T he W ar Resisters S u p p o rt C am paign is a grassroots m o v e ­ m e n t th a t is lo b b yin g th e govern­ m e n t to

su p p o rt A nd erso n and

o th e r soldiers like h im w h o have de cid e d to go AWOL. Chris Brown, a m e m b e r o f th e cam paign, esti­ m ates th a t a b o u t 15 soldiers are o fficia lly in Canada and says m an y m o re m a y be living u n de rgrou nd .

H e hope s th e M artin g o ve rn m e n t w ill pass le g is la tio n a lo n g th e sam e lines as w h a t fo rm e r p rim e m in iste r Pierre Trudeau d id du rin g

In his speech at T h o m so n House, A n d erso n explained his d ile m m a .

"I ca n 't go back to Iraq, b u t I ca n 't sit in prison fo r five years,"

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Anderson spoke on Iraq to a small but sympathetic audience.

th e V ie tn am War, co n d e m n in g th e co n flict and allo w in g US m ilitary deserters to b e co m e im m i­

Jere m y H inzm an , and rejected his applicatio n fo r asylum in late

grants.

"O n e o f th e m o s t critical th in g s w e can d o is to o p e n th e Canadian b o rd e r an d le t d isgru ntled soldiers c o m e in," Brow n

2 0 0 4 . H in zm a n is curre ntly a p pe aling th e ru ling in fe d eral court.

he said.

A nd erso n described th e co n d itio n s he w itn esse d u p o n arrival in Iraq and th e in te ractio ns he had w ith civilians.

"The p e o p le y o u 're su p p o se d to be fre e in g are th e p e o p le y o u 're figh ting ," he said. "I talke d to Iraqis and th e y to ld m e, "This w as a b e a u tifu l place b e fo re yo u cam e. Now, h o w I re m e m b e r

said. "Let [US President] G eorge Bush sen d his tw o daughters to

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fig h t instead."

In a b lo w to th e W ar Resisters, an IRB panel refused to co n ­ sid er th e legality o f th e w a r in th e claim o f a n o th e r deserter,

"I c ou ld go u n d e rg ro u n d , b u t th e n I w o u ld n 't be d o in g an y­ th in g to stop th e war," he said. "I k n o w h o w m a n y in n o c e n t p e o ­

M e a nw hile, A nderson is residing in T oronto and try in g to raise aw areness a b o u t th e w a r in Iraq an d his a p plicatio n to th e

p le I saw d ie in th e seven m o n th s I was there." ■

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Going bald fo r boobs Guys and gals Shave to Save and go for the cueball look JAMES G O TO W IE C A cro w d o f M cG ill stu d e n ts gathered in th e lo b b y o f th e S hatner bu ild in g Thursday to w a tch five o f th e ir fe llo w class­ m ates have th e ir heads shaved in an e ffo rt to raise m o n e y fo r breast cancer research.

Shave to Save is an an nual e ve n t run by M o n tre a l radio sta­ tio n M IX 9 6 in s u p p o rt o f th e Q u e b e c Breast Cancer Foundation.

Station deejay Kaptain K em p w as on ha nd to th a n k th e vo lu n ­ te e r "shavees" and encou rage th o s e w a tch in g to d o n a te m oney.

H e said th a t th e statio n's past cam paigns have raised ove r $ 1 .2 5 -m illio n fo r th e fo u n d a tio n .

Kiel H o w d e n , U 1 M usic, w as th e first to go, th o u g h it w as n o t th e first tim e he had pa rticip ated in th e event.

"It's m y th ird year now ," he said afterw ard. "I g e t o n e hair­ c u t a year, in O ctober, and th a t's it."

H o w d e n said th a t he participates in th e e ve n t every year because m e m b e rs o f his fa m ily have b e e n affected by cancer.

H e said th a t he always receives lots o f suppo rt.

"P eople are really great a b o u t th is because th e y kn o w it's fo r a g o o d cause, an d th e y kn o w I'm g o in g to be really cold," he said. "It's extrem e ly breezy in [Shatner], a lo t m o re th a n yo u think."

N icole Taylor, UO M usic Education an d o n e o f th e tw o VICTORIA LAM

w o m e n at th e event, de cid e d to v o lu n te e r to shave h e r head a fte r cancer cla im e d th e life o f a frie n d . She w as surprised a t th e a m o u n t o f s u p p o rt she received.

"E veryone's be en so su p po rtive," she said. "I th o u g h t so m e p e o p le w o u ld say 'Eww, w h y are yo u d o in g th a t7 b u t everyone's

Students' Society President Adam Conter serves up his curiy locks to raise money for breast cancer research.

given m oney. It's m o re tha n I co u ld have asked for."

Taylor said th a t in th e w e e k since m aking th e decisio n to participate she had m an ag ed to raise over $ 3 ,4 0 0 .

Foundation representative M ina G eram i was th rille d w ith Thursday's tu rn o u t.

"It's am a zin g to m e to see stu d e n ts so resp on sible a b o u t

care.

an d m a d e it a p riority to g e t SSMU in volve d in s u p p o rtin g th e

U nde rgrad ua te Society d o n a te d all p ro cee ds fro m its w e e kly

D irector of Ugandan sanctuary talks tactics KATHERINE SPIRGEN

v ie w th e ir in v o lv e m e n t w ith th e natural w o rld an d change it fro m an exploitative re latio nship to o n e o f gu ardian­

W hat's th e best appro ach to species conservation?

D e b b y Cox, d ire c to r o f th e Jane G oodall Institute's

ship," A nd erso n said.

Cox also ho p e s to inspire p e o p le to have respect fo r

U gandan w ild life sanctuary, w ill be speaking at th e Law

o th e r living form s.

Faculty's M o o t C o u rt to d a y at 5 :3 0 p.m . to try to answ er precisely that, by h ig h lig htin g h e r in stitu tio n 's holistic approach to species conservation.

In th is lecture, organized by th e S tu d e n t Legal A nim al D e fe nse Fund an d JGI, Cox w ill pre sen t th e ir plan to stop

appro ach and a lth ou gh results take tim e to see, m e m b e rs are ho p e fu l. Cox w a n ts p e o p le to unde rsta nd th a t th e re really are solu tio n s to th e fo rm id a b le p ro b le m o f saving African great apes.

tio n ," said Cox o f th e h o listic approach.

This n e w approach c o m b in e s e n viro n m e n ta l, p o liti­

O ver th e last 10 years JGI has be en a p p lyin g this

"C onservation is co m p lica te d ," Cox said. 'T h e re ’s no easy answer, b u t th e re are answers."

O n e co m p lica tio n to th e situa tion is th a t th e re are d iffe re n t threa ts in d iffe re n t areas. There is n o o n e solu­ tio n to all o f th e threats to apes th ro u g h o u t Africa. The largest threa ts are bu sh m e a t hu ntin g, de fo re sta tio n and fra g m e n ta tio n o f ap e groups, according to Cox. "This is a b o u t o p e n in g eyes an d ears to a w h o le d if­ fe re n t w a y to see th e w o rld ," D e vine said. “ It's a b o u t see­

cal, sociological an d e c o n o m ic aspects to a llo w c o m m u ­

in g th e bigger picture. Lo oking at th e w a y JGI sees th e

nities in places like Uganda an d th e C ongo to take direct resp on sibility fo r conservation.

"W e're try in g to pro vid e alternatives to bush m e a t h u n tin g and de fo re sta tio n —an d if p e o p le n e e d to go in to

w o rld , I th in k m a yb e w e sh o u ld d o th e same."

JGI an d SLADF w a n t to s h o w n o t o n ly th a t conserva­ tio n o f pa rticular species is im p o rta n t, b u t th a t by integrat­ in g all parts o f society in to th e e ffort, conservation m ay

th e forest, w e 're fin d in g n o n -th re a te n in g ways fo r th e m to

actually be possible.

d o so," Cox said. 'T h e s e th in g s have b e e n tra d itio n fo r

W hat can M cG ill stu d e n ts d o to he lp th e situation?

"Educate y o u rse lf an d k n o w th a t yo u can m ake a change," said D evine.

Cox advised stud ents to b e resp on sible co n sum e rs

th o u sa n d s o f years in s o m e cases. You ca n 't ju s t te ll pe o­ p le th e y c a n 't go in to th e fo re st anym ore."

B ut th is lecture is n o t ju s t o f in te re st to a n im a l rights activists. Event organizers and SLADF m e m b e rs Ryan A nderson, second-year Law, and Alanna D evine, fo u rth -

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Blues Pub to th e cause. The P lum bers P h ilh a rm o n ic O rchestra,

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"W e're fo c u s in g o n th e h u m a n e le m e n t o f conserva­

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an EUS c o m m itte e d e vo te d to philanthropy, co n trib u te d as w ell, raising o ve r $ 1 ,7 0 0 by h a n d in g o u t fre e co ffe e in fro n t o f th e R oddick Gates. ■

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'T h e fu n d ra isin g has b e e n a b solutely w o n d e rfu l," he said.

D u ring a fire drill in th e Redpath Library, C o n te r sto o d up in fro n t o f Redpath M u s e u m to persuade th e cro w d o f stu d e n ts to

th e fiv e vo lu n te e rs have all to g e th e r m a n ag ed to raise m o re th a n $ 1 0 ,0 0 0 . The m o n e y raised w ill su p p o rt research an d palliative

to b e a pa rt o f th is [effo rt], and th a t's amazing."

to o ls and p o w e r to e d uca te th e m se lve s an d take conser­ va tio n in to th e ir o w n hands.

Cox is speaking as pa rt o f a to u r o f N o rth Am erica,

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cause.

"I m a d e a b o u t $ 1 0 0 in a m in u te and a half," he said, ad ding

trib u te w h a te v e r th e y have, th e ir tim e , th e ir energy, th e ir m on ey,

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s o m e th in g th a t is a p ro b le m in th e country," she said. "They co n ­

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S tudents' Society P resident A da m C o nter was th e last to get sheared. H e had p a rticip ated in th e e ve n t h im s e lf in past years,

an d tourists, an d also suggests v o lu n te e rin g fo r th e organ­ ization. Failing that, do n a tio n s w ill be accepted a t th e lec­

year Law, see th is as a w h o le n e w approach to th e w a y

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h u m a n s v ie w th e w o rld.

"W e w a n t to w o rk w ith p e o p le to change h o w th e y

Moot Court is located at 3644 Peel, above Dr. Penfield.

October was Breast Cancer Awareness Month. For more infor­ mation or to get involved with the Quebec Breast Cancer Foundation, visit w w w .ruba nro se.org

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If h a ng ing o u t in an RV all s u m m e r and ba th in g on ce a w e e k sou nd s like yo u r idea o f paradise, Roadtrip Nation co u ld be rig h t u p y o u r alley. M ike M arriner, co -fo u n d e r o f th e group, w ill be speaking to d a y a b o u t his experiences travelin g across Canada an d th e US in te rvie w in g p e o p le fro m s n o w b o a rd in g O ly m p ic g o ld m e d a lis t Ross Rebagliati to Bill Schultz, executive d ire cto r o f A m n e sty International, to fin d o u t h o w th e ir careers un fo ld e d .

M a rriner is speaking as pa rt o f M cG ill Career and P la cem e nt Services' th ird an nual stu d e n t conference, coincid in g w ith Canada Careers W eek an d ru n n in g fro m Nov. 1 th ro u g h Nov. 3. H e w ill be jo in e d by tw o M cG ill grads and a C oncordia stud ent, w h o w e re pa rticip ants in his B ehind th e W heels s u m m e r program , w h ic h takes stu­ d e nts on sim ilar road trip s to record in te rvie w s th a t w ill air later as a m in iseries on PBS. M a rriner started th e g ro u p in C alifornia w ith tw o o th e r unive rsity graduates, all o f w h o m w e re unsatisfied w ith w h e re th e y w e re an d w h e re th e y saw th e m se lve s he ad ed a fte r graduation. T he th re e frie n d s s p e n t th e s u m ­ m e r o f 20 01 driving across th e US, in te rvie w in g success• fu l figures a lon g th e way.

"I fe lt really u n d e rexpo sed to th e career possibilities o u t there, an d I w a s n 't fe e lin g passionate a b o u t m y prem e d path," M arriner said.

M a rin e r's lack o f passion fo r th e obvious, pre­ p la n n e d career path p ro m p te d h im an d his tw o frie n d s to

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plan th e ir road trip across th e US. T hey th e n cold-called a fe w p e o p le th e y w e re in te rested in talking to a lon g th e way, in clu d in g th e d ire cto r o f Saturday Night Live, th e first fe m a le US S u p re m e C o u rt ju stice an d a lo b ste rm a n fro m M aine, and set up in te rvie w s th ro u g h o u t th e su m m e r.

Surprisingly, e ve ryon e th e y m e t w as ha p p y to share th e ir advice on navigating th e future .

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Roadtrip Nation led to a PBS d o c u m e n ­

tary, b o o k deal and sp o nso rship a rra n g e m e n t w ith State Farm Insurance th a t fu n d s stud ents w h o w a n te d to take th e ir o w n s u m m e r trips. This b e ca m e th e B eh in d th e W heels program , in w h ic h tw o M cG ill stu d e n ts an d o n e ' C oncordia stu d e n t p a rticip ated as a te a m last sum m e r.

"W e w e re ecstatic w h e n w e fo u n d ou t," said M ike V

W agm an, a rece nt gra du ate o f th e Faculty o f Arts an d o n e o f th e M cG ill s tud ents involved.

A fte r b e in g selected, th e

M cG ill-C on cord ia te a m

s p e n t a m o n th and a h a lf calling p e o p le to se t up in te r­ views.

"As o n e o f th e te a m s chosen to be pa rt o f th e d o c u ­ m e n ta ry [m iniseries], w e had a certain resp on sibility to in te rv ie w a really diverse set o f p e o p le ," said Laura Morris, BA '0 5 , th e o th e r M cG ill representatives in B eh in d th e W heels.

M orris w as enthusiastic a b o u t th e o p p o rtu n itie s she said B eh in d th e W heels pro vid e d her.

"It really h e lp e d o p e n m y eyes to d iffe re n t type s o f success and m a d e m e realize th a t takin g a career step in o n e d irectio n is n o t bin d in g ," she said.

U n de rsta nding th a t o n e 's goals and choices can evolve th ro u g h o u t life was a large pa rt o f th e trip fo r th e M cG ill-C on cord ia te a m . Participants said th e ir experience w as an o p p o rtu n ity to o p e n th e ir eyes to d iffe re n t paths in life, and b o th th e y an d M arriner h o p e th a t th e trip w ill h e lp oth ers d o th e sam e.

"I fe lt a lo t o f pressure to m ake th a t o n e im p o rta n t choice th a t w o u ld a ffect th e rest o f m y life," M arriner said.

"B u t th e road trip h e lp e d m e realize th a t I d o n 't have to m ake a single choice. M y goals are allo w e d to evolve."

T he B ehind th e W heels pro gra m is also b e in g sup­ p le m e n te d

by a lim ite d

n u m b e r o f Roadtrip

N ation

Grants, w h ic h M arriner ho p e s w ill inspire even m o re stu­ d e nts to id e n tify w h e re th e ir passions lie. These grants o f b e tw e e n $ 2 0 0 and $ 7 0 0 w ill be allo tte d to in d e p e n d e n t s tu d e n t te a m s w h o w ish to plan th e ir o w n road trip s and d o c u m e n t th e ir experiences. T hose in te rested can apply fo r th e grants o n lin e at www.roadtripnation.com/grants, and CAPS w ill be advertising later in th e year to in fo rm s tud ents a b o u t th e o p po rtu nity.

"W e're really excited a b o u t th e Roadtrip Grants," said M arriner. "It helps expand th e w h o le m o v e m e n t o f stu­ d e nts w h o are b e in g inspired and passionate a b o u t th e ir futures." ■

Mike Marriner and the McCill/Concordia team will be speaking at 4:30 pm in the Faculty Club Ballroom, 3450 McTavish St. For more information about Career Week, visit ww w.caps.m cgill.ca

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n e tw o rk o f tra m s an d a 3 0 -4 0 k m /h m a x im u m speed lim it, b o th w ith th e stated goal o f red ucing co n ge stion in

m a jo r candidates Trem blay an d B o u rqu e was he ld on

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th e city's d o w n to w n core.

B orough co u n cillo r ca n didate an d Equipe Trem blay

to be he ld in English. M edia rep orts have c o m m e n te d on

m e m b e r Karim B oulous, w h o is ru n n in g fo r a cou n c illo r

th e su p p o se d a n im o s ity b e tw e e n th e tw o

p o sitio n in M cG ill's d istrict o f Peter-M cG ill, has a special

debates b e tw e e n th e tw o have be en n o ta b le n o t fo r th e ir

co n n e ctio n to th e scho ol as a graduate.

"I a m a M cG ill undergrad, and I'm still ob v io u s ly very close to M cG ill. M an y o f m y frie n d s are grads,” said Boulos. "From m y perspective, M cG ill is a very im p o rta n t

focu s o n policy, b u t fo r th e p re d o m in a n c e o f insults and verbal sparring. A ccording to The Montreal Gazette, 'T h e le ad ing m ayoral candidate s bickered, in te rru p te d and

player in M ontreal. I w o rk a t C oncordia, b u t M cG ill attracts

cam paign debate."

Sara D im m itt, UO Arts, a d m itte d she w as un fa m ilia r

* N o te : A tte n d 5 w o rksh o p s du rin g th e ye a r and re ce ive c e rtific a tio n o f co m p le tio n . R e g istra tio n , in pe rson , is o n a firs t co m e , firs t se rve ba sis, o n e w e e k b e fo re th e w o rksh o p d a te at th e F irst-Y ear O ffic e - S u ite 2100, B row n S tu d e n t S e rvice s Building.

so m u ch a tte n tio n to M on tre al. T here's a lo t o f 'gray m a t­ te r' th a t sw a rm s a ro u n d M cG ill University. M cG ill has a tre m e n d o u s role to fulfill, and th e city has to facilitate th o se kinds o f activities to en sure y o u r stu d e n t p o p u la tio n need s are met."

B oulos a ckn ow led ge d th a t th e m u n icip a l go vern­ m e n t d o e s n 't have ju risd ictio n o ve r th in g s like tu itio n , b u t

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Sunday night, an d it w as th e o n ly d e b a te o f th e cam paign m en , and

snipe d th e ir w a y th ro u g h th e ir seco nd and last tele vise d

w ith th e election.

"I k n o w m in im a l a b o u t it," she said. "I sh o u ld p ro b a ­ b ly k n o w m ore. Either it's n o t im p o rta n t to [students], or th e y d o n 't have e n o u g h tim e to keep u p w ith it."

In late 2 0 0 3 , Trem blay b e ca m e no to rio u s o n c a m ­ pus w h e n he an d his bodyg ua rd broke up an a tte m p te d

said th e city can assist th e un ive rsity w ith day-to-day

m u g g in g

issues. H e sp e cifica lly c ite d th e pu rch a se o f N e w R esidence Hall as an e xa m ple o f activities th a t th e city

T rem blay later said o f th e incident, "It w as instinct. W e d id ­ n 't sto p to refle ct o r ask ourselves q u e s tio n s ... W e ju s t saw s o m e o n e b e in g b e aten u p by tw o o th e rs and w e had

sh o u ld support.

A d e b a te held at M cG ill last W ednesday, w h ic h was

of

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s tu d e n t o n

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origin ally m e a n t to fe a tu re all th re e m ayoral candidates,

to he lp him ."

All C anadian citizens ove r th e age o f 18 w h o have

e n d e d up w ith Trem blay as a n o -sh o w an d B o u rqu e o ffe r­ ing o n ly an o p e n in g s ta te m e n t b e fo re leaving. Bergeron was th e n le ft to d e b a te w ith tw o o th e r city candidates, Alan DeSousa re p rese nting Trem blay and M ich e lle Serano

be en residents o f M on tre al since a t least M arch 1 are eli­ gib le to vo te on Sunday. However, fo r te m p o ra ry residents such as students, o n ly th o se w h o visited an e lectio n sta­ tio n b e tw e e n Oct. 2 -6 to add th e ir n a m es to th e list o f

rep rese nting Bourque.

electors w ill be registered an d able to cast a ballot.. ■

NEWS

ANALYSIS

Après tout, on est au Quebec NIALL MACKAY ROBERTS

Zhang, w h o has also served as SSMU's franco ph on e co m ­ missioner, is fam iliar w ith m any o f th e com plaints o f Frenchspeaking students. G row ing up in a French-speaking sector o f

ing in French.

"T he y

have

th e ir

ow n

social

n e tw o rks,"

he

said.

"Francophone students m ig ht also th in k that th e Students' Society works o n ly fo r anglophone students, and this isn't the case."

O n March 2 8 ,1 9 6 9 , several thousand activists descended upon th e gates to McGill, shouting Marxist slogans, jo ustin g w ith police and calling fo r th e francisation o f a university th e n sym ­ bolic o f th e cultural and e co no m ic d o m in ation o f anglophones in M ontreal. Union leaders, CEGEP students and a small group o f sym pathizers fro m McGill itself d e m an ded tha t th e universi­ ty m ove to unilingual French instruction in three years' tim e.

W innipeg, she also knows w h a t it's like to live in th e minority.

According to her, po o r translations and a lack o f com m u nica tion fro m SSMU and th e adm inistration are a m o ng th e m o st co m ­ m o n stud ent concerns. Som e ne w arrivals, she said, also feel uneasy in a university e n viro nm en t so diffe re nt fro m th e city surrounding it.

As fo r relations betw een linguistic groups on campus, Zhang acknow ledged th a t som e w h at o f a barrier still remains.

N othing m ade this clearer, she said, than last year's student

Nonetheless, Zhang em phasized th a t a large po rtion o f

strikes, w h ich affected in-province students far m ore im m e d i­

L'opération McGill français tapered o ff in th e years th a t fo l­

the francophone population has fe w gripes w ith McGill as it is.

lowed. The Université du Q uébec system was inaugurated soon afterwards, tem pe rin g th e de m and fo r French-language post-secondary education, and th e political clim ate cooled som e w h at as th e Q uie t Revolution settled in to provincial histo­

ately than th e ir out-of-province and international counterparts.

"It was a big com plaint," said Zhang. "The representation o f francophone students on th e part o f SSMU and th e ad m in­ istration was terrible."

Still, Zhang sees reasons fo r o p tim ism in th e future. Like a n u m b e r o f francophone students, M arie Gagné, w h o is serving

M eanw hile, th e official role o f French has changed little at

"I th in k there are tw o diffe re nt kinds o f franco ph on e stu­ dents," she said. ‘T h e re are those th a t are very p ro u d ... and expect always to have service in both languages, and th e n there are those w h o are m ore indiffere nt and accept th a t they've com e to an English university and th a t this [experience] is part o f that."

as francophone com m issioner this year w ith Alexandre Faguy,

th e university. Francophones have grown fro m eight per cent o f th e stu d e n t population in th e early 1970s to ju st over 2 0 per cent today, and th e laws guaranteeing th e place o f French in Q uebec have strengthened M ontreal's francophone character, b u t McG ill rem ains essentially an English-only institution.

Adm inistrative services are o n ly sporadically available in th e

W endy Brett, first-year assistant fo r franco ph on e students, is charged w ith bringing n e w French-speaking students into th e university com m unity. She agreed th a t w o rk rem ains to be do ne to better address francophone stud ent needs, b u t she argued th a t significant progress had been m ade in th e five years since her position was created.

was m otivated in to action as a result o f th e representation con­ cerns raised during last year's strikes. The Réseau has also fo u n d its fo o tin g again, as a ne w tea m o f executives has been elected to a service M w otia once called "one o f m y weakest."

As fo r bridging som e o f th e social gaps still present at the university, Zhang said she is looking forw ard to January's

ry

McGill bilingue?

province's official language, and until this year th e Students'

"There have been com m e nts th a t it's difficu lt fo r francoph­

Francofête, a celebration o f francophone cultures fro m across

Society had no French-language W eb site. M ore notably, a cer­ tain po rtion o f th e stu d e n t b o d y seem s con tent learning little or no French and locking itself in to th e closed w orld o f th e McGill Ghetto. For m any francophones o n campus, McGill français rem ains as elusive tod ay as it did over three decades ago.

ones to get involved socially at th e university, and that's a de fi­ nite issue. It's som e th in g w e 're trying to address," she said.

"N o w the re is an em phasis m ore strongly placed in term s o f saying, 'You are welcom e.'"

Zhang, however, has struggled fo r years to bring francoph­

th e w orld, to introduce students to th e cultures accessible in M ontreal. And she still holds o u t ho pe fo r th e university's anglo­ ph on e majority.

"I d o n 't th in k there's any hostility at all betw een groups,"

ones in to th e Réseau th a t she helped fou nd, and she cautioned against expecting to o m uch fro m local students.

"A lo t o f th e reason fo r going to events is if you w a n t to m ake friends, b u t a lo t o f francophones are fro m here," she said. "Plus, it's n o t really interesting to participate in a club th a t represents francophone culture if you're all around it (in Montreal)."

be interested in learning m ore (a b o u t franco ph on e cultures)."

Zhang suggested th a t th e adm inistration w o rk w ith govern­ m e n t to provide free courses in French to interested students, to help bring students in to th e francophone m ilieu. She reject­ ed, however, th e idea o f com pulsory French th a t once distin­ guished th e radicalism o f l'opération McGill français, as well as any suggestion o f official university bilingualism .

Leon M wotia, SSMU vice-president clubs and services, agreed th a t francophone M ontrealers have been d ifficu lt to incorporate in to th e McGill com m unity. M wotia, w h o operates SSMU services like th e Réseau des francos, insisted on speak­

"It's an English university," said Zhang, “so that's w h a t peo­ ple expect. [Bilingualism] w o u ld go against th e purpose o f a lot o f francophones, w h ich is to learn English. That's n o t a neces­ sary direction." ■

Le défi français "[We] w o u ld like to see m ore o f an effort fro m th e anglo­ ph on e students to understand th e francophone elem ent," said Sophie Zhang, president o f th e Réseau des francos.

Two years ago, th e Réseau des francophiles—a SSMUfu n d e d service—was fo u n d e d as a fo ru m fo r McGill's francoph­ on e students, and as a sponsor o f cultural activities reflecting th e diversity o f M cGill's French-speaking population. This year, faced w ith lagging interest a m o ng native French speakers on campus, th e service changed its nam e to Réseau des francos.

she said. "I'd say m ore than 5 0 per cent o f anglophones w o uld

This year, the SSMU will work hard to inform you of the latest developments in McGill’s undergraduate community. Expect a SSMU half-page every second week in the

SSMU CAMPAIGN FOR $4 BILLION BEGINS! § \

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Frustrated by a lack of academic support?

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Do you have a bone to pick with SSMU? Or would you like to make a suggestion to the executives? If so come down to Gerts Pub on November 4th from 5pm to 7pm to join us for some FREE pizza and a chance to address any issue you wish with each individual executive or SSMU as a whole. This only happens once a semester so jump at the opportunity!

Tribune, on page 5.

BOY, HAVE I GOT PROJECTS FOR YOU! Welcome Book...

ADAM CONTER, PRESIDENT

Ever looked at the Welcome Book or Course Calendar and asked yourself, "Who writes these things?" W e’ll you are invited to participate in a work group to revamp the Welcome Book and Course Calendar. Simply Email Adam Conter at president@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

15 students from all faculties will be invited to give their 2 cents. Free food! November 10th we discuss the welcome book,- November 14th we discuss the course calendar.

Student Life...

On another note, what do you think of the question: “If the SSMU were to have sever­ al hundreds of thousands of dollars avail­ able for student projects, how would you use it to benefit the student community?”

Please send responses to Adam Conter at

For more information contact Roz Freeman at ce@ssmu.mcgill.ca.

president @ssmu.mcgill.ca with the subject STUDENT LIFE.

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W eb cast demands sustainability at universities NATALIE EARL O n W ednesday, th e M cG ill E nviron m ental H ealth and Safety O ffice pa rticip ated in C a m pu s Sustainability Day III, a w e b cast co n feren ce co n n e ctin g universities across N orth Am erica.

It w as th e first tim e th a t M cG ill pa rticipated in th e event, w h ic h th is year fo cu se d on th e role o f hig h e r e d u ­ c a tio n -in p ro m o tin g sustainability. Five presenters each b ro u g h t th e ir o w n perspectives on con feren ces th a t have take n place in th e past year and Joe Palca, N ational Public Radio's science co rre spo nde nt, m o d e ra te d th e q u estio n C o rte se ,

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Sustainability Day and P resident o f Second N ature, a n o n ­ p ro fit firm th a t con sults w ith universities on h o w to m ake th e ir o p era tions m o re sustainable, w as first to speak. He stressed th a t susta ina bility issues sho uld be ta u g h t across all disciplin es an d th a t hig h e r e d uca tion m u s t change its w ays in o rd e r to im p ro ve th e fu tu re e n viro n m e n ta l o u t­ look.

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He w e n t on to discuss ideas and practices fo r organ­ izing conferences, re c o m m e n d in g tra n sit passes fo r any participants and th a t an y catering co m p a n ie s use local an d organic foods.

Follow ing th e discussion, p a rticip ating schools w e re p o lle d on h o w w e ll each ca m p u s integrates stu d e n t learn­ ing w ith ca m p u s operations. M cG ill resp o n d e d "so m e ­ w h a t integra te d," b u t n o school id e n tifie d itse lf as very w e ll integrated.

Andrea P utm an, co -o w n e r o f P2 C onsulting, spoke

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in stitu tio n s th a t are changing th e ir energy policies. As an

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"They received a $1 -m illio n e n d o w m e n t after c o m ­ m ittin g to purchase 10 0 p e r cen t w in d fo r th e next 2 0 years," P utm an said.

Fourth speaker R obert Koester, Chair o f th e Ball State U niversity C ouncil on th e E nviron m ent, used his tim e to discuss th e G reen in g o f th e C a m pu s con feren ce, w h e re

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a m o n g th e M cG ill attendants. E nviron m ental H ealth and Safety M anager W ayne W o o d talke d a b o u t M cG ill's o w n susta ina bility efforts. "M cG ill a d o p te d a po licy first and th e n began to im p le m e n t changes," he said. 'T h e w o rd is g e tting o u t the re , even th o u g h w e are n o w h e re near w h e re w e w a n t to be."

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O ffice r Kathleen Ng re c o m m e n d s visiting th e Rethink W eb site ( www.mcgiH.ca/rethink). The W eb site lists stu­ d e n t gro up s as w e ll as u p c o m in g events.

Ng also encou rage d stu d e n ts to a tte n d th e Rethink co n fe re n ce th is spring. ■

tio n fo r war. Days later, jo urn alists n a m e d his w ife as a CIA W. Bush's n o m in e e to fill Sandra Day O 'C onn or's seat on th e S up rem e Court, w ith d re w h e r n a m e fro m consid eratio n after w e eks o f criticsm o f h e r capabilities a n d ideology, fro m b o th conservatives and liberals. Bush said h e w o u ld release

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dean never liked th e pro gra m because w e always got A fte r m o n th s o f uncertainty, o rd e r has be en restored to th e Food Science p ro gra m at M a cd on ald Food Science s tud ents are relieved to university has fin a lly lifted th e susp en sion gram , after a tw o -ye a r hiatus th a t saw n e w

cam pus. hear th a t th e o f th e ir p ro ­ applicants to

th e pro gra m b e in g d e ferred to o th e r faculties, an d in s o m e cases, o th e r universities.

No one seems to know the exact reason why the department was suspended. Low enrolment and money were cited as issues, but limited information has been made publicly available.

Existing stu d e n ts w e re a llo w e d to co n tin u e in th e program , b u t th e d e p a rtm e n t lo st fu n d in g an d rep utatio n d u e to th e te m p o ra ry closure.

N o o n e see m s to k n o w th e exact reason w h y th e d e p a rtm e n t w as su sp e n d e d by th e ad m in istra tio n u n d e r fo rm e r dean D e bo rah Buszard in 2 0 0 3 . Low e n ro lm e n t— rou gh ly 2 4 s tud ents stud y in th e pro gra m a t p re s e n t-a n d m o n e y w e re cited as issues, b u t th e m ee tin g s le ad ing to th e pro gra m 's suspension w e re closed to stud ents and lim ite d in fo rm a tio n has be en m a d e pu b licly available.

"There w e re a lo t o f rum o urs," said Barbara Sawicki,

m o re m o n e y th a n Plant Science, w h e re she w as fro m ... a lo t o f p e o p le w e re saying th a t th e dean w as very vin d ic­ tive and th a t's w h y she w a n te d to close th e p ro gra m so badly. There are o th e r program s, like Botanical Science, w h ic h o n ly has o n e stu d e n t gradu ating th is year, b u t th e re w a s no noise m a d e a b o u t that."

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U n d e r n e w D ean Chandra M a d ra m o o to o , th e Food Science d e p a rtm e n t began preparations to re o pe n its d o ors several m o n th s ago by p ro po sing a n e w program th a t in clu d e d u p d a te d courses. Still, FSA Vice-President C hristine Ferland said th a t th e p ro b le m is n o t w ith th e program , b u t w ith th e lack o f p ro m o tio n .

"Even b e fo re th e pro gra m w as closed, it w as n o t really w e ll kn o w n o u tsid e o f th e island o f M on tre al," Ferland said. "P eople k n o w a lo t a b o u t [th e p ro gra m at] U niversité Laval, and th e y always ask w h a t is d iffe re n t a b o u t o u r pro gra m an d w e basically have to sell it. That s h o u ld n 't be o u r job."

T he d e p a rtm e n t has be en step pin g up p ro m o tio n by recru iting in high schools an d CÉGEPs, as w e ll as p rintin g n e w p a m p h le ts an d p ro vid in g u p d a te d in fo rm a tio n on

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D espite th e d e p a rtm e n t's efforts, how ever, Ferland said it w ill be years b e fo re th e p ro gra m fu lly recovers.

PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.”

T he th re a t o f closure is n o t u n iq u e to th e Food Science program . T he A gricultural E conom ics d e p a rtm e n t has also b e e n fig h tin g to keep fro m b e in g m e rg e d w ith th e larger Natural Resource Sciences d e p a rtm e n t. ■

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Handle science with care JONATHAN KLEIN

G uest S oap

e o p le like to rom a nticize th e past, and espe­

Frosh should be under fire KEVIN MARKL

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cially its heroes, w h o are p o in te d to as th e

w h o sh o u ld o th e rw ise be ignored. This allow s "new -a ge " healers, conspiracy the orists like Kevin

Natural Cures "They” Don't Want You To Know About fa m e ), and p ro p o n e n ts o f all

e p ito m e o f h u m a n ity . Tales o f G e o rg e W ashing to n's n o b ility an d G andhi's tireless efforts are retold, so as to inspire us to w o rk to alleviate

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th e injustices o f o u r day. If w e belie ve th a t o n e

th e ir nonsense, in a m u c h w id e r fo ru m th a n is

m a n n e r o f scie ntific "p arad ig m shifts" to exp o u n d

person can in d e e d bring d o w n "th e system ," w e

a fford ed to any le g itim a te scientist p u b lis h in g in

w ill re d o u b le o u r o w n e ffo rts to im p ro v e o u r

jo u rn a ls like Science o r Nature.

w o rld .

M o st jo urn alists te n d to b u y in to th is "o n e against th e w o rld " p h e n o m e n o n , largely because th e y are tra in e d in th e liberal arts, w h e re th is

This is da ng erou s b o th fo r science and fo r th e p u b lic a t large. scie ntific ideas an d scientists fo rm u la te irre s p o n s ib le an d

If th e p u b lic m isu nd erstand s th e m e th o d s th ro u g h w h ich th e m , th e y w ill press to have d o w n rig h t w ro n g de cisio n s

ith th e discussion on w h e th e r Frosh sh o u ld be in clu d e d as pa rt

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events are catered to th o se w h o w a n t to go clubbing, drinking, o r bo th. However,

o f th e university's e xa m in ation o f

Frosh is n o t advertised as such. Rather, it's

n o tio n

in itiatio n rituals, I insist th a t it sho uld, fro m

said to be an e ve n t to g e t to kn o w fe llo w

d e n ts -la c k in g scie ntific tra in in g o r b a c k g ro u n d -

m a d e on scie ntific issues. The o n g o in g debates

w h a t I experienced at Frosh th is year.

A frie n d o f m in e had n o t taken pa rt in o n e o f th e n u m e ro u s p u b craw ls th e

stud ents and to m ake n e w friends. Well, it's kind o f hard to m ake n e w frien ds w h e n y o u 've b e e n d rinkin g all n ig h t long

a tte m p t to re p o rt an d w rite o n science, th e y bring

o ve r in te llig e n t design

th is c o n ce p t to bear w h e re it is o u t o f place.

N e w th e o rie s and w o rld vie w s are ro u tin e in th e h u m a n itie s and social sciences. M achiavelli,

m ig h t h ing e o n m o re th a n ju s t m orality-based buzzw ords if p e o p le actually un d e rs to o d th e sci­ e n tific rationale and process th a t un d e rlie s th e m .

nig h t b e fo re Arts Frosh w e n t w h ite w a te r rafting. T he next day, he arrived p ro m p tly

Frosh needs to be scrapped

is glorified. So w h e n the se corre spo n-

M isco nce ption s a b o u t m ed ica l science can have e xtrem e con seq ue nces: T he A ugust death o f a British b o y w h o u n d e rw e n t new -age "ch ela tion th e ra p y "—in jectin g che m ica l c o m p o u n d s in to th e

in th e m o rn in g w h e n his g ro u p w as sup­ po sed to go, b u t th e g ro u p w as n o t there.

and rebuilt from the bottom

So, he w a ite d in line fo r over tw o hours

up, with a wider range of activi­

eco no m ics. B ut w h ile th e ir postulates can be

w ith a place reserved w h e n his gro up

ties and a more responsible

fin a lly sh o w e d up, h a lf o f th e m h u n g over fro m th e nig h t before.

A t th is tim e , his Frosh g ro up leader d e m a n d e d th a t he give up his spot, so

a cce p te d —w ith o u t em p irica l e v id e n c e —on th e p re m ise th a t th e y so u n d reasonable, it d o e s n 't

and mature selection of group

p u b crawl w ith th e rest o f th e "g ro u p " c o u ld go in his place. H e refused, b u t th e g ro u p le ad er cam e back w ith tw o o f his goons, an d clearly, th e y w a n te d to in tim i­ date and th re a te n h im in to giving up his place.

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exchanged back an d fo rth , m y frie n d to ld th e m w h e re th e y c ou ld stick his sp o t and sto rm e d o ff to jo in a n o th e r g ro u p th a t w o u ld n 't discrim in a te ju s t because he w a s n 't a drinker. W e've h it a n e w lo w w h e n p u b crawls are a pre re q u isite to tak­ ing pa rt in o th e r Frosh activities.

Furtherm ore, th e m a jo rity o f Frosh

stem -cell research

Locke, M arx an d oth ers bu cked th e co n ven tion al w is d o m o f th e ir tim e s and changed th e w a y p e o ­ ple un d e rsto o d eve ryth in g fro m g o v e rn m e n t to

th a t s o m e o n e w h o had taken pa rt in th e

and

b o d y to re m o ve heavy m etals th a t s up po sed ly

w o rk th a t w a y in science.

Instead, scie ntific th e o rie s ne ed e xp erim e ntal data. T hou gh a th e o ry m a y see m in cre d ib ly bril­

cause co n d itio n s such as a u tis m —testifie s to this.

O bviously, jo urn alists a re n 't resp on sible fo r this tragedy. B ut giving a fo ru m to non-scientists w ith ­ o u t scrutinizing th e ir fin d in g s leads th e general

an d ca n 't re m e m b e r an yon e's n a m e th e

liant and m a y be able to m ake an in fin ite n u m b e r

p u b lic to

alternatives to m ed ica l science.

O f course, jo urn alists m u s t re p o rt on science, as p e o p le ne ed to be k e p t up to date on increas­

leaders.

next m orn ing . A nd if you d o n 't drink, th e n

o f predictions, it m u s t be discarded if it d o e s n 't

yo u 're pre tty m u ch paying so th a t others can d rin k th e ir hearts o u t instead o f actu­ ally b e in g o ffere d s o m e th in g w o rth th e

jib e w ith th e results o f experim ents. T hey also req uire repea ta ble results u n d e r co n tro lle d c o n d i­ tio n s; if you c a n 't get an o u tc o m e m o re th a n

$ 6 0 cost.

D o I like to d rin k and go dancing?

Sure, b u t m ayb e I d o n 't w a n t to d o it all

once, it's useless. Even if che m ists Stanley Pons

th e tim e . Frosh need s to be scrapped and re b u ilt fro m th e b o tto m up, w ith a w id e r range o f activities an d a m o re resp on sible an d m a tu re selection o f g ro u p leaders. ■

Kevin MarkI is a U1 Economics and Political Science student, and he demands satisfaction.

regard th e se th e ra p ie s as le g itim a te

ingly im p o rta n t scie ntific issues. T hat said, th o u g h ,jo urn alists m u s t u n de rsta nd th a t th e process o f

in g cold fu s io n in 1989, th e fa ct th a t no o n e has b e e n able to m a tc h th e ir success invalidates th e ir

science is o n e o f hypothesis, e x p e rim e n t and pe er review, n o t o f strange n e w "e ne rg ie s" o r exotic m ira cle herbs. T hey m u s t also recognize th a t

an d M artin F leischm ann had succe ed ed in creat­

m e th o d . W hat go od is cold fu s io n if yo u ca n 't

w h e n cove rin g science, it is in a p p ro p ria te to sim ­

e xp lo it it to create power?

So w h e n arts-trained jo urn alists see k o u t sci­ e n ce stories th a t go against co n ve n tio n a l w is d o m , it b e co m e s a m a jo r p ro b le m ; disregarding th e

th is m a y be a p p ro p ria te in arenas like political rep ortin g. As ro m a n tic as it m ig h t s e e m fo r o n e pe rson to o v e rth ro w an e n tre n c h e d orthodoxy,

n e e d fo r co n tro lle d e xp e rim e n ta tio n an d s im p ly

science has pro ven fa r to o ro b u st to s u c c u m b to

taking p e o p le a t th e ir w o rd gives voice to quacks

an in sta nt revo lu tion. ■

ply see k o u t contrarian vie w po in ts, even th o u g h

In th e rig h t

The big Red machines LEIGH ASLATEEI ju s t a b o u t dead last on Beijing's list o f priorities.

Besides, bro w b e a te n Tibetans and peaceful Falun G ong

h a t Canada registers to d a y as little m o re tha n an after­

T

see, has also carried on qu ite th e love affair w ith th e be ne vo­

th o u g h t in w o rld affairs sho uld co m e as n o shocking reve­ lation. H e ed ing th e Trudeaupian vision, th e m o ra lly rela­

le n t People's Republic. The PM a n n o un ced a fo rm a l "strategic pa rtnership" w ith th e c o m m u n is t nation w h e n th e Chinese

practitioners-m ade-crim inals never had a frie n d in M artin in th e

tivistic leaders o f th e Liberal party have, o n e after another,

p re sid e n t w as in O ttaw a in S ep tem be r and pled ged to d o u b le

first place. Canada S team ship Lines, M artin's fa m ily firm , is

betrayed o u r place as a co u n try in th e vanguard o f W estern tra­

trade b e tw e e n China and C a n a d a -a figure th a t currently stands

heavily invested in China, and sh o w in g courtesy to Beijing's sta­

dition.

Canada's effo rt d u rin g th e Second W orld W ar far exceed­ ed th e requisite d e m a n d s o f o u r alliance w ith G reat Britain. W e b u ilt th e w o rld 's fourth -larg est navy in six years, and m o re than o n e m illio n Canadians volun ta rily fo u g h t on th e fierce st battle-

at a b o u t $ 3 0 -b illio n p e r a n n u m —in five years. A nd on to p o f that, China is th e to p recipie nt o f Canadian foreign aid: W e've forked over $1-billion in aid d u rin g th e last decade and a $5 0 -

tus q u o ju s t m akes fo r a b e tte r b o tto m line.

In 2 0 0 4 , w h e n th e C hinese g o ve rn m e n t o b je cte d to th e Prim e M inister's p ro po sed visit w ith th e Dalai Lama, M artin d ith e re d fo r weeks, as pe trified o f slighting his c o m m u n is t over­

fronts. Today, o u r dilap id ated Sea King helicopters and sparse­

e co n o m y in th e w orld, as w e ll as th e largest standing army. Its

ly-e qu ipp ed tro o p s are a national sham e.

This, o f course, can all be traced back to Trudeau. Historian Jack Granatstein, a u th o r o f Who Killed the Canadian Military? w rites th a t Trudeau "view e d soldiers as u n in te llige nt thugs."

space program ju s t sen t tw o m e n in to orbit, and its stateo w n e d oil co m p a n y ou tb id th e largest firm s in Russia and India to acquire a Canadian energy b e h e m o th . Plus, it has over $7 5 0 -b illio n in foreign currency reserves—China clearly d o e sn 't

Further, G ranatstein notes th a t Trudeau's "p ercep tion o f th e

need o u r cash.

Trudeaupian flo w e r children like Aileen Carroll, o u r m in is­

aid dollars to an e m e rgin g su p e rp o w e r w ith an abysm al h u m an

m a jo r pow ers w as distorted: he saw th e USSR and US as m oral equivalents." I f s n o t surprising, the n, th a t Trudeau also heaped

te r o f international cooperation, m aintain th a t Canada's aid

praise on M ao Tse-tung’s Russian-inspired revolution in China, rather unde te rred by th e w e ll-e vid e n ce d fa ct th a t M ao's gulag had already snu ffe d o u t m o re tha n 6 0 -m illio n lives.

All o f w h ic h brings us to a m an in th e Trudeau line o f suc­ cession, th e c urre nt Prim e M inister, Paul M artin. M artin, you

m o n e y is "h e lp in g China g ro w and in flue nce it in th e right way."

B ut w ith m o re th a n 7 0 0 ballistic m issiles aim e d at dem ocra tic Taiwan, a nuclear arm s program and, according to CSIS, 1 ,0 00 C hinese spies o p era ting in Canada, m ethinks th a t fo llo w in g Canadian International D e ve lo p m e n t Agency directives ranks

Beijing, w e give th e state m o re control to oppress its citizens and tip th e balance o f w o rld p o w e r in its favour. B ut th e US and China aren't m oral equivalents. A nd as lo n g as w e live th e W estern w a y o f life w h ile p ro m o tin g so m e th in g d iffe re n t in fo r­ eign circles, w e 'll perpe tu ate o u r post-W orld W ar II im p o te n ce

m illio n transfer is slated fo r this year.

But fu n d in g China is absurd. It has th e second-largest

seers as a C hinese citizen w h o 's be en flagged fo r G oogling th e w o rd "democracy." W hile M artin agreed to m e e t w ith th e exiled m on k, th e PM acknow ledged h im o n ly as a spiritual leader and n o t as an advocate fo r Tibetan a u to n o m y w ith in China, w h ic h invaded T ib e t in 1959.

There's n o th in g progressive a b o u t shoveling scarce foreign rights record. W hen Canada boosts th e c o m m u n is t reg im e in

on th e w o rld stage. ■

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pears. A nd fre e light bulbs. A nd all th e se thin gs—

inevitable, b u t it m u s t n o t pre ven t us fro m rallying

ve rg e d o n th e N a tio n a l A s s e m b ly in Q u e b e c City to assert th e ir d e m a n d s fo r fre e university ed uca tion . The protest, w h ich de sce n d e d p re d icta b ly in to co n cre te -th ro w in g an d te a r gas, w a s in te n d e d as s o m e w h a t o f a

clothing, fo o d , hydro—are vastly m o re im p o rta n t

b e h in d reasonable goals fo r th e future .

th a n a ba che lor's degree. Sadly, th e y aren’t free either, because o u r so ciety is lim ite d by its fina ncial capacity, Free tuition and Q u e b e c's fina ncial capacity

return to th e he a d y days o f last spring, w h e n

is clearly pu she d to its lim its.

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It's a drag b e in g th e buz-

reversed g o v e rn m e n t cuts to loans an d bursaries.

This re m in iscin g is u n d e rsta n d a b le : The im pressive s h o w o f stu d e n t solida rity last spring

zkill, b u t clearly so m e stud ents have be en to o bu sy m aking p a p ie r-m â c h é e ffig ie s o f th e

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s tu d e n t

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fo r

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e d u ca tio n

m in is te r to

certainly sounds like a lovely idea whose

time has com e-pourquoi pas?—and not a single stu­

s u cce ssfu lly

n e a r-u n ive rsa l

N eedless to say, greater fina ncial s u p p o rt

a tte n d

dent anywhere would reject it. But free shoes sound lovely, too. And free pears. And free light bulbs. And all these things—clothing, food, hydro—are vastly more important than a bachelor's degree.

Charest and u ltim a te ly fo rce d his p o licy reversal.

th e ir m a cro e co n o m ics classes.

F e a t u r e s E d it o r s

U n fortunately, th is nostalgia is n o w b e in g exp lo it­

The fa ct is th a t no a m o u n t o f fed eral transfer

fro m

Genevieve Jenkins

ed fo r un ju stifia b le an d co u n te rp ro d u ctive ends.

T he s tu d e n t p ro te st in Q u e b e c C ity sh o u ld be

fu n d in g w ill cover fre e tu itio n w ith o u t a significant

sho uld be a priority. G ua ra ntee in g e q ua l access,

hike in taxes. T he result, in any case, w o u ld u n ju stly subsidize th e e d u ca tio n o f th o s e already capable o f paying, sh iftin g e d uca tion costs to a

tho ugh , is ju s t as im p o rta n t as o b ta in in g fun din g.

N o o n e sh o u ld be excluded fro m high er learning because she lacks th e cash, an d no o n e sho uld be assured e n try because she d o esn 't. A s tu d e n t

Lise Treutler

th e fe d eral an d

provincial go ve rn m e n ts

A & E E d it o r s

d e n o u n ce d , fo r b o th its m o tive s an d its m etho ds.

Let's start w ith th e m e th o d s, w h ic h in clu d e d vio le n ce and in d iscrim in a te vandalism , because

Ben Lemieux

th e se

th e ir face. T he

regressive tax regim e.

O n a m o re basic level, th o u g h , th e se stu­

Melissa Price

Q u e b e c g o v e rn m e n t is n o t oppressive, and (First

d e n ts' d e m a n d s m u s t b e rejected o n principle:

w o u ld m o v e first and fastest on this, pressing

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N ations m e m b e rs perhaps e xce p te d ) Q uebecers are n o t oppressed. T hat b e in g th e case, vio le n ce is categorically unacceptable. If w e have a p o in t to m ake as students, w e can express ourselves

Post-secondary e d uca tion is n o t a right, m u c h as w e m ig h t like to th in k o f it as such. Sadly b u t unsurprisingly, th is g e ne ration has pro ved ju s t as selfish as its predecessors in e m b ra cin g a do gm a

g o ve rn m e n ts and universities to guarantee fu n d ­ ing to th o s e u n ab le to pay b u t qu a lifie d to study, and d e m a n d in g th a t th o s e in dividu als capable o f sharing th e fina ncial b u rd e n acce pt th e ir resp on­

fo rc e fu lly b u t pe ace fu lly and save o u r cause th e

o f social e n title m e n t u n d e r th e guise o f radical

sibility to d o so.

sh a m e o f a p p e a rin g w a n to n ly destructive. It w o rke d fo r G andhi, an d th e British E m pire w as a lo t to u g h e r th a n CharesTs Liberals.

As fo r th e protestors' m o tive s in Q u e b e c

egalitarianism . S econdary ed uca tion , on th e o th e r hand, is a right, and o n e th a t m u s t be fierce ly d e fe n d e d . B ut it is grossly bourg eois and p ro ­ fo u n d ly offe n sive to suggest th a t society is s o m e ­

City, th in g s are a b it cloudier. Free tu itio n certain­

h o w b e tte r served—an d h u m a n happiness m o re

O f course, th a t's n o t w h a t th & p ro te st in Q u e b e c City w as ab ou t. If its participants had really w a n te d to be taken seriously, th e y w o u ld have p u t d o w n th e sid ew a lk th e y w e re th ro w in g and taken o ff th e ir masks. A nd if th e y had really

ly so u nd s like a lo vely idea w h o s e tim e has c o m e—pourquoi pasl—and n o t a single s tu d e n t

easily achieved—by th e CEO h o ld in g a B.Com. th a n th e p lu m b e r w ith a GED.

w a n te d a system o f equal access, th e y w o u ld have acce pted th a t n o t e ve ryon e—s o m e o f th e m

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Since its victory last spring, th e

a n yw h e re w o u ld reject i t C o p y E d it o r

B ut fre e shoes so u n d lovely, to o . A nd fre e

m o v e m e n t tru e to its radical ju s tic e pretensions

and s o m e o f us a t M cG ill in c lu d e d —be lo ngs in

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m o v e m e n t has lost so m e o f its direction. This is

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Genvieve Friesen Spenser Sproul

GENEVIEVE JENKINS

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alking in O u tre m o n t tw o w e eks ago, I saw Pierre P ettigrew —Canada's m in iste r o f fo r­

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ideas necessitated by pa rty politics, ge nerated in th e political m achine, n o t in th e m in d o f a single

T he garbage m a n in q u estio n d id n 't in ven t th e black plastic bag; th e librarian d id n 't th in k up

eign affairs—b e in g harassed b y a cross-

m an. S ho uld po litician s really be held acco u n t­

th e D e w e y d e cim a l system ; Pierre P ettigrew has

dressed m an o n a bicycle. A t first, I w as outraged.

A fte r all, w h a t right do es th is biker have to infiltrate P ettigrew 's private life? W hen P ettig rew do d g e d in to th e nearest a p a rtm e n t b u ild in g w ith a lo o k o f

able, as peop le, fo r th e ir s u p p o rt o f a bill? O r sh o u ld w e a cce pt th is as th e ir political s a w in e ss at w o rk and b e lie ve th a t th e y are m in g lin g th e ir p e r­

to fo rm u la te c o m p le te ly n e w g o v e rn m e n t co n ­ ven tion s; T im M a h o n e y did n o t e n te r jo u rn a lism

P u b l is h e r

disgust and an ger on his face, I id e n tifie d w ith

colleagues in th e n a m e o f c o m ­

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h im . Had it be en m e in his place, I w o u ld have b e e n furious.

As I reflected o n w h a t I had seen, th e qu es­

p ro m ise an d political unity?

A n o th e r instance o f in te lle c­ tu a l

tio n occurred to m e : S ho uld Pettigrew, a m an

so lid ifie d

w h o s e occu p a tio n links h im u n avo ida bly w ith cer­ tain ideas, be h e ld acco u n ta b le fo r th o se ideas, especially w h e n he is n o t w orking? A fte r all, is a garbage m an ever harassed—d u rin g w o rk or after­

m atter. T im M ahoney, a pa rt-tim e restraints of co p y e d ito r a t th e S t Paul Pioneer Press, w as susp e n d e d fro m his jo b fo r th re e days w ith o u t pay a fte r his superiors

w a rd —fo r his pre fe re n ce fo r large black plastic

discovered th a t he a tte n d e d a peace rally in

lication. In be lie vin g a person to be indivisible

bags ove r sm all w h ite ones? Is a librarian ever chased d o w n th e street by an irate passer-by because she prefers th e D e w e y d e cim a l system

W ashington, DC. H e is n o w ba n n e d fro m ed itin g stories a b o u t th e w a r in Iraq. A representative fro m th e N e w sp a p e r G uild said, "H e w as exercis­

fro m his o r her occu pa tion , w e are ru in in g p e rson­

to th e Library o f Congress m eth o d ?

W hile so m e m ig h t argue th a t o n ce a person

ing his beliefs—religious, as w e ll as social and m ora l—an d th e p a pe r is saying he ca n 't d o that.

fo r every b e lie f w e ever voiced? For every political

Raponi, Katherine Spirgen, Vincci Tsui, Ariela Weinbach, Jacqui W ilson

puts h im se lf in a p o sitio n o f po litica l in flu e n ce —a

A nd he's a p a rt-tim e co p y editor, fo r Christ's sake.

I w as speechless w h e n I heard this."

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While some might argue that once a person puts him­ self in a position of political influence he has to be held accountable for his ideas, I disagree. Intellectual liberty—the ability to think for oneself outside of the occupation—ought to belong to everyone. s im p ly to in sert his an ti-w a r s e n tim e n t in to a p u b ­

al inte lle ctual fre e d o m . B ut do w e sto p and th in k h o w w e w o u ld cop e if w e w e re he ld accountable o u tc o m e w e have ever encouraged?

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to be he ld acco un ta ble fo r th e m , I disagree. To th e

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bastard on th e bike, I w o u ld say th a t intellectual liberty—th e ability to th in k fo r o n e s e lf o u tsid e o f

co p y e d ito r to a tte n d a rally? A t w h a t p o in t d id his

th e m ess o f publicly-e ncou rag ed stances. Each

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th e restraints o f o ccu p a tio n —o u g h t to b e lo n g to everyone.

T he politician is n o t necessarily m akin g p u b ­

superiors (o r society) d e cid e th a t M a h on ey's per­ sonal be lie fs w o u ld in flu e n ce his job? H ere is th e P ettigrew situa tion in reverse: a m a n b e in g held

pe rson has a d iffe re n t take on every issue; assum ­ in g th a t p e o p le b o il d o w n all o f th e ir th o u g h ts to a political p la tfo rm o r peace rally is a ludicrous

acco u n ta b le in his professional life fo r a personal

in su lt to th e po te n tia l o f th e h u m a n m in d . ■

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opinion | 1. 11.05 I the mcgili tribune

Letters: enough already, you hate us, we get it CIS' head honcho answers back

Protocols o f the Elders o f Zion. Further, any trivialization o f the

I am writing in response to David Blye's article "A crisis of

Holocaust is both heinous and deeply offensive. Whatever political

leadership at CIS" (25.1 0.05 ). In his article, Blye incorrectly states,

antagonisms exist, they cannot serve to underm ine the fact that Jews and Israelis have an inalienable right to live free o f violence.

Scholarship such as that o f Mr. Finkelstein underscores the need fo r the existence o f a society dedicated specifically and exclusively to com batting bias against Israel and Judaism in m od­

"It was only after McGill announced its self-imposed forfeiture that the CIS even m entioned the incident on its Website, issuing a bland statem ent that decried hazing and praised McGill fo r the actions that it took." As the author o f the statement, I w onder what could have possibly given Blye th e impression that CIS praised McGill for the actions it took? There are no words o f praise w hat­

em academia. Emet intends to serve this aim.

Adam J.

Drori U2 History & Aaron Spiro U2 Middle East Studies Emet

soever in the CIS statement.

Blye also compares the CIS response to the McGill hazing to the Ontario Hockey League response to th e W indsor Spitfire haz­

RRP hosted war resister

ing. The jurisdiction and authority that the OHL holds over its m em bers differs significantly from that o f the jurisdiction and authority that CIS has w ith its members, as it relates to harassment, discrimination and code of conduct.

This premise in CIS policy is that code o f conduct disputes are to be cascaded down to the level o f the actual incident for res­ olution. The conduct o f McGill athletes on campus at McGill is a m atter for McGill to address and resolve—so long as it proceeds to do so in a tim ely fashion and in good faith. CIS would have juris­ diction to take action against inappropriate behaviour that occurs at a CIS event. In no way w ould the incident at McGill on rookie night be described as taking place at a CIS event. School initiation/hazing rituals are neither sanctioned nor condoned by CIS.

The CIS board will be looking at the im pact on CIS o f McGill's decision to w ithdraw from the remaining games o f the season, not on the inappropriate behaviour o f McGill athletes in this situation.

After reading your article about CRU ("Faith-based recruiting at McGill," 25.10.05), I feel com pelled to explain w hy I voted against CRU at SSMU council and w hy I continue to be against their holding club status.

At the m ost basic level, McGill CRU—also known as "Campus Crusade fo r Christ"—was denied club status last year because o f the inflam m atory nature o f its name. When I saw that the club had changed its nam e this year, I took that as a good sign; I thought that CRU was perhaps an acronym for som ething else, but rather, the club sim ply shortened Crusade to CRU. The use o f the word crusade, especially in this context, is sim ply unacceptable. And to merely remove four letters is not much of an im p rovem e nt Furthermore, the stated goal of Campus Crusade fo r Christ is "helping take the gospel of Jesus Christ to all nations." And yet they claim that they aren't proselytizing. Excuse m e fo r stating the obvi­ ous, but "taking the gospel... to all nations" sure as hell sounds evangelical to me. It is m y firm belief that the SSMU has absolute­ ly no place endorsing clubs that prom ote proselytizing and evan­ gelism. One o f the fundam ental philosophies o f the SSMU is acceptance and equity; the mission o f McGill CRU sim ply does not fall into those categories.

Finally, I feel the need to address claims m ade by Max Silverman regarding "proselytizing by Jewish groups." The fact is, proselytizing is strictly forbidden in Judaism, and to do so is one of the worst sins one can com m it. I find it very hard to believe that a m em ber of th e McGill Jewish com m unity w ould be so callous as to do what Silverman claims happened.

Evangelism is inappropriate regardless o f w h o is doing it, and SSMU has absolutely no place endorsing the practice, or endors­ ing CRU.

Corey Shefman Arts Representative to the SSMU Oh no, don't start this again...

As the first official act o f our society, w e w ould like to take the opportunity to denounce the intended conference by Norman Finkelstein on the abuse o f the term anti-Semitism, sponsored notably by SPHR. The announcem ent o f this conference is timely. On Oct.26, the president o f Iran called fo r the destruction o f the State o f Israel and praised acts of terrorism by Hamas and Hezbollah as working to this end. In that light, Mr. Finklestein's assertions threaten to underm ine justice by rationalizing violations o f Jews' hum an rights.

While not every act or judgm ent against Israel or its adherents constitutes anti-Semitism, to suggest the existence o f a "Holocaust Industry" accuses a level o f conspiracy in line with the infamous

("I'm starting to reconsider ugly wom en," 12.10.05). I w ould like to point out fo r the benefit o f Chudleigh and your editorial staff that w o m e n —whether ugly, "total bitches," "Frenchies," "cheese­ cakes" or otherwise—do not exist to be objectified.

Moreover, w hat you have done very effectively with these tha t o f giving blowjobs between classes. In fact, the w om en who

notwithstanding, it was the RRP which organized the Oct. 25 m eeting on campus w ith Darrell Anderson, the US army Iraq war resister. QPIRG did agree to co-sponsor the event and reserved a room in Thompson House, but it was the RRP's event. The

attend McGill do so based on their academic m erit and their w ill­ ingness to assert themselves as intelligent, independent people, and to im ply otherwise makes light o f their contributions. As the Tribune is a newspaper in part funded by McGill students, you should be responsible fo r explaining a n d /o r apologizing to your

Refugee Research Project will continue organizing forum s on

readership for what you publish. As it stands now, 1 feel that m y

refugee issues on campus.

student fees should not be spent on helping to fund your news­

Sheila Cohen Shloime Perel McGill Refugee Research Project See, QPIRG does engage students

paper.

Nisha Eswaran U l English Literature This sounds familiar for some reason

Just a response to Genevieve Atkins' letter regarding QPIRG-

In response to your decision to publish Brandon Chudleigh's

McGill (Letter, "We know how som eone's going to vo te ...,”

opinion piece, "I’m starting to reconsider ugly w o m en " (12.10.05).

25.10.05). QPIRG is run by McGill students. That means that all students have the right to apply to jo in the board o f directors (elec­ tions are held at the AGM each year) and make decisions as to which groups to fund and support. If you do n't like the groups that QPIRG funds, com e and get involved! O ther QPIRG working

w o m en just isn't funny. And when a student-funded newspaper sanctions it, it is inexcusable. I pay for the McGill Tribune through m y student fees, and I w ant m y m oney back. 1 support free speech; I believe that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion.

groups that you m ight w a nt to continue funding include Greening

The publication o f hate speech in a campus paper is a different

McGill, the McGill Global AIDS Coalition and Students Taking

issue altogether. Does the author have every right to feel the way

Action in Chiapas.

he does and to express his opinion in writing? Absolutely. Where the problem lies is w hen such hate speech is given voice by an official university paper, paid for by students.

The Tribune claims that, "any material judged by the Tribune

Natalie Kouri-Towe Member of the Board of Directors at QPIRG-McGill

Marg McGregor Chief Executive Officer Canadian Interuniversity Sport Corey's CRUsade

al desire, and that their opinions and actions should reflect this

detail of the Tribune's recent QPIRG article ("Student interest group lacking student interest," 18.10.05). QPIRG's good work

national and international level.

resolved using that institution's policies and rules.

Along with this is the description o f certain w om en as "uppi­ ty bitches," "full o f shit," and "fucking dumb." ("W hy smoking is awesome," 18.10.05) This only serves to reinforce Brandon Chudleigh's notion that w om en exist purely to service male sexu­

articles and pictures is trivialize the role o f w om en in academia to

ination that occurs during CIS business, activities and events at the The inappropriate conduct o f McGill athletes on campus

assume to your other discriminating readers, obviously degrading.

The McGill Refugee Research Group would like to correct a

The principle is that CIS is responsible fo r harassment and discrim­

clearly does not fit inside CIS' proper jurisdiction or its sphere of responsibility. Incidents at a Regional Association level are to be resolved at that level. Harassment and discrimination arising w ith­ in the business, activities and events o f a university shall be

shoes, and not exposed. I am not sure how and w h y this picture was considered w orthy o f being published; it is to me, and I

Unitarian Church ad misleading It's m ost ironic that Robert Church's "Faith-based recruiting on campus?" (2 5 .1 0 .2 0 0 5 ), about CRU "proselytizing" raising the ire o f students and the SSMU, was counter-pointed by the Unitarian Church o f Montreal's ad on the opposite page tha t is evidently intended to "recruit" (i.e. proseltyze) McGill students to the Unitarian Church.

Much Unitarian advertising is highly misleading, if not out­

I have a sense o f humour, but the de-humanization o f

Publication Society to be libellous, sexist, racist, hom ophobic, or solely prom otional in nature will not be published." I w ould like to hear from the Tribune Publication Society on exactly how it thinks Chudleigh's piece is not sexist Since our m oney funds the publi­ cation, I encourage others to jo in m e in a dem and for accountabil­ ity fro m the Tribune Publication Society.

Theresa Howard U2 History

right false. McGill students should note that even the word "truth" is enclosed in euphem istic quotation marks in the m isleading ad

At least the first sentence is positive...

The Unitarian Church is certainly "dogged" by misleading and evidently false claims, and by m y ongoing public protest

I am a proud writer fo r the Tribune. Unfortunately, the "proud" seems to have been replaced w ith "apologetic" over these past tw o weeks. My article, "G erfs sucks," (25 .1 0.05 ) appeared in

against Unitarian injustices, abuses and hypocrisy. Just Google

th e A&E section. Reading m y w ork in print I was surprised to find

"Robin Edgar" and "Unitarian Church o f Montreal" to see how

alm ost no edits to m y writing. Apart from one or tw o verb tense

Unitarians w ilfully flaunt and flagrantly violate their own claimed principles and ideals, including their now evidently fraudulent claim to be "opposed to censorship, by church, state, or any other

changes, m y editors had left m y piece com pletely alone. That is, o f course, save one sentence. I had written, in my, shall w e say, "constructive criticism" o f our campus pub, to "burn the m other

institution."

As a defender o f freedom o f expression I have no objec­ tion to the McGill Tribune running advertising from th e Unitarian

down." This was altered in the final print to read "bum the m oth­

itself.

erfucker down."

While this act alone is not fit to rile me, com bine it w ith the

Church o f Montreal. However, I suggest that any future ads from

vulgar sex references and swearing in the last issue and it begins

the Unitarian Church o f Montreal should run under the disclaimer

to paint a larger picture. Week after week in our meetings th e edi­

caveat emptor.

tors beg the writers to make our articles m ore "provocative", hop­

Robin Edgar Excommunicated Unitarian We aimed to please (and failed, apparently) I was disappointed w ith your choice o f article and photo in the A&E section ("We aim to please," 12.10.05). The article was fun at first, but it w e n t too far. Do you really think tha t it's good journalism to write about where to have sex in campus bath­ rooms? And the same week that you write about the Redmen hav­ ing their football season cancelled fo r everything that has hap­ pened there?

Didn't you publish an editorial taking a strong stance about this just a fe w weeks ago? You can defend the article, saying the tw o aren't related. But at the very least, it1s poor taste and really bad tim ing, and that's an em barrassment to the Tribune, a news­ paper that has always sought to be a little better.

Paul Conner Former T ribune editor Only three complaints? You let us off easy I am writing to express m y disgust and frustration w ith the overt misogyny that has characterized the recent editions o f your publication. The front page o f your OcL 18 issue features the pic­ ture of a w om an on her knees, shoeless and exposing her under­ wear, giving head to a man who, incidentally, is seated, wearing

ing to scandal ourselves up a larger reading audience.

While I'm never against a good controversy, if the best the Trib can do is blowjob pictures and a three-per-page "fuck" quota, I think som eone's mixed up being provocative with crude shock value. If the Trib readers really w ant som ething w hored-up and dum bed-down, I hear the Dom e's got som e chill parties com ing up. Com e on Trib editors, quality over crass. I agree with Caitlin Buckley, leave cheap sex and toilet hum our to the

Daily. Let's try

fo r som e class next tim e.

Elizabeth Campbell A&E contributing writer Finally, we did something right!

As som eone w ho rides th e bus every day, I com pletely agree with Ben Lemieux's article on how som e people behave on buses ( “How to ride the bus, Gus," 25 .10.05 ), and I'd like to add tw o m ore bus-behaviour pointers to his list: Nobody else wants to hear the m usic fro m your headphones.

If you bring a portable m usic player on the bus, please keep it at a reasonable dynam ic level.

The bus is not a garbage can. Please save your gum, apple cores, newspapers, pop cans and other garbage until you can find a garbage can instead o f leaving it on th e bus.

Emily Gray U3 Music

campus

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o th e rs s u p p o rtin g th e m in sp irit fro m across th e country, ga ther a t a reso rt an d create a n o n -p ro fit organization?

M a tth e w G od w in , a re ce n t gra du ate o f D a lho usie U niversity in Halifax an d th e na tion al ch a irm an o f

w a rd 4 0 C anadian university stud ents w ith a sub­ sidized trip to Europe—Poland, specifically—and th e m in d naturally c on ju res im ages o f p u b nights,

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SHOUT, a d m its to th e d ifficu ltie s su rro u n d in g th e m a in ­

e xp ed ition s to m a jo r s h o p p in g centres an d p le n ty o f

te n a n ce o f an as-yet u n kn o w n s tu d e n t initiative, b u t

hu ng -over m ornings. A natural assu m ptio n, yes, b u t this

re m a ins h o p e fu l th a t participants w ill rem a in loyal to th e

scenario does n o t describe th e tru th b e h in d SHOUT's

cause an d e ve ntua lly spread th e m essage to a m uch larger group.

(S tud ents' H e lp in g O thers U nderstand Tolerance) ge ne­ sis.

Sound, O ntario, to discuss th e ir lingering e m o tio n s near­

"W e have b e e n in th e p re lim in a ry stages o f set-up," he says. "W e ju s t d e ve lo p e d o u r logo and m ission state­ m e n t, and have be gu n w o rk on o u r W eb site."

In de scrib ing th e organization's sanguine aspira­

ly fo u r m o n th s after particip ating in th e largest-ever

tions, G o d w in notes, "W e h o p e to use [th e W e b site] as

SHO UT cam e to be in A ugust 2 0 0 5 after a sm all g ro u p o f th e a fo re m e n tio n e d stud ents reu nite d in Parry

a resource fo r all m e m b e rs to he lp spread th e ir m essages o f to le ra n ce and to ed uca te a b o u t th e Holocaust, Rwanda and o th e r g e n o ­ cides."

For a stu d e n t-ru n organization still in its infancy, SHO UT has experienced m u c h pre­ lim in a ry success. As a n u m b e r o f key players a tte n d o u r n e ig h b o u rin g university, C oncordia, 8 p.m . to n ig h t brings an o p p o rtu n ity fo r all in te rested to see SHO UT in actio n a t its eve n in g coference, "A W itness to History."

G u e st spe a ke rs in c lu d e L is e lo tte Ivry, a H o loca ust survivor, an d Jean-Paul G ahunde, a Rwandan ge n o cid e survivor.

It's rare to see stud ents so passionate a b o u t th e ir case. Here, w e see th e M cG illba se d U n io n fo r G e n d e r E m p o w e rm e n t receive fla ck fro m th e S tudents' Society fo r th e ir lack o f m e m b e rs h ip a fte r a p p ro xim ately a

kittens is leaving us (on good terms, we swear!), you now have the opportunity to get involved in the wild, wonderful world of cam­ pus, student living and features. You can write stories and get them printed! You can control content and manipulate writers! You can make a whole new set of friends who are 100 per cent guaranteed to be more awesome than your current pals! You can be SSMU’s bitch!

Applications should include: -Cover letter -C V -Three relevant samples of w ork Applications are due Monday, Nov. 7, 2005 by 4:30 p.m. and should be addressed to Liz Allemang, Editor-in-Chief. They can be dropped at the Tribune office (Shatner, room I 10) or e-mailed to editor@mcgilltribune.com.

year an d a h a lf o f existence, w h ile SHOUT, less th a n th re e m o n th s o ld and w ith a core executive o f fe w e r th a n 10 m e m b e rs spread COURTESY OF SHOUT

Forty students. Forty backgrounds. One common goal.

*Provided you survive our “rigorous” hiring process involving

fro m British C o lum b ia to th e M aritim es, has

an appointment with Dr. Broom and a night spent in the

already m an ag ed to p a rtn er w ith C oncordia's STAND (S tud ents Taking A ction N o w : D a rfu r) th e A frica n S tu d e n ts ' A sso cia tio n of

Tribune haunted manor.

M arch o f th e Living (w h ic h a n nu ally co m m e m o ra te s th e

Concordia, H illel an d th e M o n tre a l ch a p te r o f FIC, th e

e n d o f th e Second W orld W ar and th e liberation o f con­

Forum fo r International C ooperation.

cen tra tion and death c a m p s) o n M ay 5. A fte r sp e n d in g th re e days to g e th e r sharing th e ir post-P oland experi­ ences—w h e th e r speaking to e le m e n ta ry schools, as on e M aine -b orn un ive rsity graduate had be en doing, o r sim ­

cess to C o ncordia's fa m e d activist p o p u la tio n ; m e m b e rs based in Halifax, like G od w in , are co n cu rre n tly organiz­

B ut d o n 't be to o q u ick to chalk up SHOUT's suc­

ply try in g to a m a lg am ate th e ir flurries o f reactions—th e

ing "H o lo ca u st Education W eek" in c o n ju n ctio n w ith th e ir local Jewish S tud ents' Association.

con clu sion was clear: For dialogues to happen, th e flo o r m u s t first be op en ed .

Canada, takin g th e initiative to publicize th e ir cause.

Rafi M ustafa, a jo u rn a lism s tu d e n t a t Ryerson U niversity in Toronto, de scribed th e necessity o f th e organization best w h e n in te rvie w e d by th e Canadian Broadcasting C o rporation: 'T h e H o loca ust is n o t ju s t a

Forty stud ents w h o cried and m arch ed th ro u g h a gro u n d -ze ro reality check on th e atrocities o f w h ich h u m a n k in d is capable. Forty stud ents fro m all faiths and backgrounds, u n itin g fo r a c o m m o n goal—h e lp in g others

Jewish p ro b le m , b u t a h u m a n one. It's vital to transcend

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Find comfort in a casserole dish

Top 10 space classics "Space O d d ity"........................................................D a vid B o w ie

'll a d m it, th o u g h I to u t m yse lf to be q u ite th e c h e f-b o a s t­

'V é n u s "..................................................................... Steve D u m a s

in g to all w h o w ill listen a b o u t m y adventures w ith tru ffle shaving an d ste w in g in d u ck fa t—I occasionally cheat.

There are tim e s w h e n even th e m o s t in ven tive co o k needs a little direction. I first m ad e th is gratin tw o years ago after

"W h e n D id You G e t Back F rom Mars?"......I M o th e r Earth

seeing it on 'Tyler's Ultim ate", a Food TV p ro gra m h o sted by

"S u b te rra n e a n H o m e s ic k A lien ".............................R adio he ad

th e charism atically hu nky Tyler Florence. T he ingre die nts

T a k e M e S o m e w h e re N ice"........................................M o g w a i "S pace C o w b o y "........................................................ J a m iro q u a i

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can be costly (esp ecially if you toss in th e req uisite b o ttle o f w in e ), b u t it is a tasty dish th a t is sure to im p ress c o m ­ pany. I like it b e st served w ith a sim p le side salad as th e

"R apture".............................................................................. B lo n d ie

Songs to trip out to

gratin itself is q u ite rich.

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"H a lle lu h w a h "..........................................................................Can

head savoy cabbage, cored, cleaned, and sh re d d e d

"S our Tim es"..................................................................Portishead "Junkies, M on ke ys & Donkeys"...........................Jericho Jones "M é lo d ie "........................................................... Serge G ain sbo urg

1 (2 -in c h ) piece slab bacon, th in ly sliced 2 tab le sp o o n s unsalted butter, plus m o re fo r greasing th e gratin dish 4 garlic cloves, fin e ly ch o p p e d t / 2 bu n ch fresh chives, fin e ly ch o p p e d to 1/ 4 cup

"C areful W ith T hat Axe, Eugene".............................P ink Floyd "Esperanza"..........................................................M in d o f a S quid "Sure Thing".....................................................................................St.G erm ain

Sea salt and freshly g ro un d black p e p p e r G en erou sly b u tte r th e b o tto m and sides o f an o ve n ­

2 p o u n d s baking potatoes, u n p e e le d and th in ly sliced

p ro o f casserole dish.

In a large bow l, c o m b in e th e potatoes, 1 1/ 2 cups o f cream , 1 cu p o f Parm esan, an d th e re m a in in g garlic, Season w ith salt an d freshly g ro u n d black pepper. Using

(a b o u t 1/8 -in c h ), see Cook's n o te * 2 1/ 2 cups heavy cream 2 cups grated Parmesan

"Life in M o n o "..........................................................................M o n o "Ju Ju".................................................................... H e rb ie H a ncock "D issolved Girl".....................................................................M assive Attack

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y o u r hands, place a layer o f p o tatoes in th e casserole dish.

S prinkle w ith Parm esan an d rep ea t w ith 2 m o re layers.

Preheat th e ove n to 19 0 degrees C

S poon th e cabbage m ixtu re on to p and spread it o u t eve n­ Finely shred th e cabbage. C ut th e bacon in to 1/2 -in c h

ly ove r th e potatoes. Top it o ff w ith 2 m o re layers o f po ta ­

chunks. Place a sm all skillet o ve r m e d iu m -lo w he a t and fry th e bacon, u n til crisp. R em ove fro m pan w ith a slotted

to and Parm esan. Pour th e re m a in in g 1 cu p cream over th e dish. Sprinkle w ith th e re m a in in g Parmesan.

sp o o n and drain on pa pe r tow e ls. Set aside.

C over dish w ith a lu m in u m A dd 1 ta b le s p o o n b u tte r to bacon fa t in frying pan.

foil. Bake fo r

1 hour.

R em ove fo il and bake fo r 3 0 m in u te s u n til g o ld en bro w n .

W hen it has m e lte d add 1 /2 th e garlic and give it a q u ick

Leave fo r 10 m in u te s b e fo re serving. G arnish w ith fresh

stir w ith a w o o d e n sp o o n to soften. A dd th e cabbage and coa t it w ith th e butter. S low ly le t it w ilt. A dd th e bacon.

Season w ith salt an d freshly g ro u n d black pepper. Rem ove

chives.

fro m he a t an d add m o s t o f th e chives, reserving a little fo r

using so th e y d o n 't tu rn bro w n .

♦Cook's N ote: Slice th e po ta to e s im m e d ia te ly be fore — compiled by

th e garnish.

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T h e A B C ’s o f alcoholic beverage creation the entertainers f yo u 're lo okin g fo r a tasty alcoh olic con­

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coction, d o w n o n e (o r all, yo u lu sh ) o f

these. You can alter th e a m o u n t o f d if­ fe re n t types o f alcoh ol according to yo u r preference. C hanging flavors o f soda o r ju ic e can also m ake fo r a w h o le n e w drink, so y o u 'll have hu n d re d s o f bevvies at yo u r

1 1/ 4 oz. Bailey's 1 1/ 4 oz. G oldschlager Float Sam buca C in n a m o n and n u tm e g C o m b in e schnapps, Bailey*s, G oldschlager in a cocktail glass, to p w ith Sam buca and s p rin kle w ith c in n a m o n a n d n u tm e g .

disposal, surely en o u g h to keep yo u c o m ­

B efore yo u drink, lig h t th e Sam buca on

fo rta b ly sed ated th ro u g h o u t m id te rm sea­

fire—it sh o u ld lo o k like a c o m e t w ith a

son.

sparkling ta il o f c in n a m o n fire.

Adios M o th e rfu cke r

C anadian Rum Punch (M ake th is in big ba tches fo r a n ig h t o f

1 / 2 oz. Vodka 1/ 2 oz. Rum 1/ 2 oz. Tequila 1/ 2 oz. Gin 1/ 2 oz. B lue Curacao 2 oz. S our m ix 2 oz. 7-U p, G inger ale Pour eve ryth in g in to a cold glass, ad d th e 7 -U p o r G inger ale on to p . Stir gently.

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1 pa rt le m o n ju ice 2 parts sugar 3 parts rum 4 parts le m o n a d e o r w a te r Boil w a te r o r le m o n a d e ; a d d sugar a n d stir u n til it dissolves. Take o ff he a t an d add le m o n ju ice an d ru m . Stir an d serve w ith ice.

Bailey's C o m e t 1 1 /4 oz. B utterscotch schnapps

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t is th e nature o f th e beast th a t is N o ve m b e r: If yo u 're

settle a co u p le o f m in u te s an d th e n be

n o t engaging in a s tud ying m a ra th o n —te a ring o u t yo u r

sure to w ip e aw ay an y navy crust th a t has

hair o ve r y o u r physics te xtb o o k—th e n yo u 're qu ite likely

settled in th e in n e r corners o f y o u r eyes.

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w h o o p in g it up in th e last w e e ks o f pre-exam fre e d o m . 'Tis th e season, a fte r all, fo r m id te rm s, papers and (as ever) pa rtying like it's g o in g o u t o f style. T hough an un dergrad's

Not just for athletes, it's good for drunks too!

a b ility to b o u n c e back fro m a soirée sans sleep is both im pressive and unparalleled, s o m e tim e s even th e b e st o f us ne ed a little he lp to fake th a t bright-eyed and bushy-

S o m e m a ra th on partiers sw e ar by b lu e G atorade as th e ir ha ng ove r re m e d y (a lo n g w ith a ha n d fu l o f Advil o n th e guilty n ig h t in q u e stio n ). T hey claim th a t it

ta iled look.

quashes nausea an d prevents th e oh-so-

A little dab will do ya It is c o m p le te ly bizarre, an d you have to w o n d e r h o w it was discovered effective in th is capacity. But, if you can

dreadful p o st-b oo zing "shits." G atorade is brillia n t fo r rehydrating y o u r b o d y a fte r a late n ig h t o f d o w n in g M ai Tais o r knocking back (d iu re tic ) espressos. D u ring recovery,

bring y o u rse lf to actually b u y th e stuff, Preparation H—yes, th e go o in te n d e d fo r h e m o rrh o id s—w o rks w o n d e rs on a

nixing alcohol, caffeine and soda in fa vo u r

fa tig ued face. There is no n e e d to go overboard, a little

course, w a te r is fre e an d also w o rks w ell.

o f a sports d rin k w ill p lu m p y o u r skin. O f

goes a lo n g way. Pat a little cream u n d e r yo u r eyes to help

Smells like stale beer

w ith bags. If yo u a re n 't afraid o f w h a t y o u r ro o m m a te s w ill say, keep a tu b e in th e frid g e fo r a refreshing kick. The cream is also ha ile d fo r its zit shrinking properties.

Black, white and bloodshot all over S p e nd ing a n ig h t in a sm oky bar o r no se d e e p in th e collected w o rks o f C haucer can leave y o u r eyes in rough

A o n th e r fu n side e ffe ct o f d e hyd ra­ tio n is fo u l breath. T hough s o m e tim e s it's a m u sin g to bre athe stin k on en em ies, th e fe e lin g o f a fuzzy to n g u e is almost e n o u g h to cease fu tu re instances o f a lc o h o lis m /c a f­ fe in e addiction. Buy y o u rse lf a to n g u e scraper, d rin k th a t

in a h e alth y glow. M o s t an y scrub on th e m a rke t w ill pro­

G atorade (o r w a te r) an d brush th e m pearly w hites.

vid e such p o lish e d results b u t a (c h e a p ) D.I.Y. s o lu tio n is to

shape ( m m m ... fe e ls like b u rn in g ). H aving sp e n t h a lf m y life in ch lorin ated w a te r an d th e o th e r p u llin g all nighters, I can attest to th e saving grace o f go od eyes drops. Toss th e Visine, it's hardly heavy d u ty en o u g h fo r th e big leagues, and try Laiter B lue C o llyrium sterile eye drops (available at

uct, b u t it is a fa b w a y to g e t y o u r skin lo okin g health y again. A scrub gives a lacklustre co m p le xio n n e w life by slo u g h in g o ff de ad skin an d increasing circulation, resulting

m ix a paste o f fo u r parts sugar to o n e pa rt w a te r an d o n e p a rt honey. Slap it o n y o u r dry b o d y —th o u g h if y o u 'v e got

Getting that glow without being with child Both sle ep y sexes can b e n e fit fro m a go od scrub do w n . Exfoliating m a y se e m like an unnecessary m arke ting g im m ic k in tro d u ce d by cosm e tic co m p a n ie s to push p ro d ­

Getting back in the game

sensitive skin, it's b e tte r to g e t w e t first—ru b it in a circular m o tio n , h o p in th e s h o w e r an d rinse.

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Post-w orkout recovery strategies t's th a t tim e o f year w h e n every

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jo in t and m uscle starts to hurt, it be co m e s harder to g e t o u t o f

be d every m o rn ing , and th e level o f m e n ta l acu ity yo u display du rin g th e day can d e clin e w ith th e co n ­ d itio n o f y o u r body. W h e th e r it's th e cold w e a th e r o r th e a ccu m ula­ tio n o f aches and pains fro m w o rk­

en o u g h fo r w h o le -b o d y soreness, get ice packs fo r specific areas.

A p p ly ice to sore m uscles fo r a b o u t 2 0 m in u te s an d th e n re m o ve it fo r at least 2 0 m in utes; you can reapply fo r a n o th e r 2 0 m in u te s if necessary.

Massage w o rks w e ll fo r post­ w o rk o u t re lie f o f aching m uscles.

o u ts th a t has yo u in ne ar-p erm a­

B efore exercise, an intensive rub-

n e n t pain, th e re are ways to he lp y o u r te n d e r b o d y recover.

D o n 't begin a w o rk o u t w ith ­

d o w n can relax m uscles to o m uch and be de trim e n ta l to th e quality o f yo u r w o rkou t. P re-w orkou t m as­ sage sh o u ld focu s on "stretching

o u t a p ro p e r w a rm -u p . D yn a m ic m o b ility —in volving skipping, ju m p ­ ing, active lunges and a n u m b e r o f o th e r quick-p aced m o v e m e n ts —

and w a rm in g up th e te n d o n s and ligam ents o f th e legs an d th e arm s," according to Jam ie Hale o f

helps prepare y o u r b o d y fo r th e

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activity to co m e . Jogging fo r 10-15 m in u te s b e fo re a w o rk o u t w ill also get y o u r m uscles w a rm . Stretch o n ly o n c e y o u ha ve p ro p e rly

H a le also re c o m m e n d s saunas fo r p o st-w o rko u t recovery, w riting, "The use o f saunas can he lp speed up recovery by assist­

w a rm e d up; otherw ise, y o u 'll fin d

ing th e kidneys w ith rid d in g th e

yo u rs e lf less fle xib le and m o re s u s c e p tib le to in jury. D o n o t stretch to th e p o in t o f pain—th e idea is to ease y o u r m uscles in to

b o d y o f nitrogen. Research has also sh o w n th a t saunas can have b e ne fits fo r th e cardiovascular sys­ tem ." If you d e cid e to use a sauna,

looseness. If you have particularly

be careful h o w m u ch tim e you

tig h t m uscles, c on sid er using a h e atin g pad to really w a rm th e m

spend in it and hydrate properly.

up.

A fte r a w o rko u t, yo u sho uld ice a n yth in g th a t fee ls sore. For athletes, th is m a y in volve a soak in an ice bath. T he w a te r sh o u ld be 10 -15 degrees Celsius, and you sh o u ld stay in th e tu b fo r 7 -1 0 m in u te s fo r m a x im u m e ffective­ ness. If yo u d o n o t w o rk o u t

m ake sure to

C o m b in e all o f th e se strate­ gies, o r ju s t a few, to m e e t yo u r b o dy's dem ands. If all else fails, take tw o w eeks o ff fro m th e gym and in te n sive w o rk o u ts —go fo r walks o r sw im , b u t relieve yo u r lim bs if th e y're hurting.

Life d o e s n 't have to be so painful. ■

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there?

Finding o u r Faith The quandary of religion for university students GENEVIEVE JENKINS

Faculty o f Religious Studies. 'T h e y stress even m o re th e im p o rta n ce o f trying to un derstand

e c o m e to university w ith high expectations o f a chal­ le ng ing aca de m ic e n v iro n m e n t and an in trigu ing social

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atm osp he re. These fe w years o f o u r lives are crucial in fo rm in g th e p e o p le w e w ill b e com e . C entral a m o n g th e qu es­ tio n s w e ask and ha lf-an sw er in th is p e rio d o f tim e are th o se o f faith.

Faith, fo r m a n y people, do es n o t m ea n fa ith in on e o f th e w o rld 's m a jo r religions; it do es n o t necessarily m ean accepting

w h a t o n e has received fro m tradition."

Trying to

un derstand

th e

tra d itio n s

w ith

w h ic h yo u have be en raised do es n o t necessari­ ly m ea n giving up yo u r beliefs—it m ea ns th a t an inte lle ctual fo u n d a tio n fo r q u e stio ns con cern ing fa ith m a y pro vid e m o re co m p le te answers tha n un w a verin g acceptance o f all y o u have been taught. Says Hayam i, "B e ing o n yo u r ow n, the re 's

th e political o p in io n s th a t have b e co m e a lm o st inextricably

m o re o f a desire to break aw ay fro m th e things

linked w ith religions in so m e countries. Faith com e s in m an y

y o u r parents represent. M y parents are n o t reli­

fo rm s and is o n e o f th e m o s t fre q u e n tly argued, avoided, loved and lo athe d to p ics o f con versa tion and th o u g h t. T hough over

gious in any way, so fo r m e it w a s n 't a big deal.

For o th e r p e o p le w h o se parents are religious, g o in g to a place like M cG ill th a t offers a fo ru m to

tw o billio n p e o p le c on sid er th e m se lve s Christians, and Islam has 1.3 b illion follow e rs, faith has a d iffe re n t m e a n in g fo r every in d i­ vidual. Regardless o f h o w m a n y w o rld leaders use religion to s u p p o rt th e ir causes o r h o w m a n y wars are fo u g h t in th e n a m e o f religion, fa ith is n o t s o m e th in g th a t can be e n com p assed in a

discuss m ay a llo w th e m to fin d a gro u p th a t is n o t th e o n e th e y w e re b ro u g h t u p with." In university, w e are pressed to extend o u r horizons o f u n de rsta nd ing in all things, and religion is n o t exem pt.

Professor Lara Braitstein o f th e Faculty o f Religious Studies, how ever, believes th is im age is pe rp e tu a te d b y th e m edia.

single h u m a n b e in g o r a single war. It is a p ivo t on w h ich

President and fo u n d e r o f th e M cG ill Pentecostal Fellowship,

"B u d d h ism te n d s to be a religion w ith a re p u ta tio n so g o o d in

h u m a n k in d has lo n g balanced th e q u e stio ns o f existence and life after death.

T he idea o f fa ith is con stantly changing, b o th on a largescale—w ith n e w e r religions like S cientology and Bahé'l attracting g ro w in g n u m b e rs o f believers—an d on th e in dividu al level, as

C arlton Davis, Ph.D. c o m p u te r science, believes th e university years are a te stin g period. "S o m e p e o p le u n fo rtu n a te ly lose faith in university because o f pe e r pressure," he notes. M any o f th e m ed ia -d rive n ideas o f religion also m ake p e o p le w a ry o f a d o p t­ ing a faith. Davis co m m e n ts, "In to d ay's w o rld ... m a n y p e o p le

p o p u la r cultu re th a t p e o p le assum e it w ill fix th e p ro b le m s th e y have in th e ir o w n tra d itio n ," she says. "At a p o p u la r level, [the n o tio n o f a peaceful religion] is a big pa rt o f th e appeal, b u t B u d d h ism is n o t a n o n v io le n t religion. If yo u dig in to th e political history, it has ju s t as m u c h ugliness as an y o th e r tra d itio n ; th e

every person in corporates th e lessons learned in da ily life in to an established fa ith system . We, as university stud ents in a d yn a m ­

b e co m e d isillusio ne d an d d o n 't w a n t to be a p a rt o f religion w h e n th e y see th e d iffe re n ce in th e w a y [religious p e o p le ] tre a t

fa ct th a t [th e ugliness] is n o t actually visible in p o p u la r discourse m akes p e o p le be lie ve it's a n o n v io le n t religion."

ic an d pluralistic e n viro n m e n t, are co n fro n te d w ith con stant chal­ lenges to th e beliefs w ith w h ich w e w e re raised. For m o st stu­

others."

D is illu sio n m e n t and th e in ab ility to id e n tify w ith a religion

Every fa ith —n e w and o ld —is a w a y o f a n sw e ring o u r qu es­ tions, o f balancing d o u b t and in con te sta ble belief. The m o s t

dents, the se challenges are n o t negative; rather, th e y can provide

are big p ro blem s. O ver o n e b illion p e o p le in th e w o rld claim to

basic query, O egem a believes, "m a y still be w h a t o n e 's fa te is

b e lo n g to th e category "s e cu la r/n o n re lig io u s/a g n o stic/a th e is t,"

o p p o rtu n itie s fo r personal g ro w th and insight.

D o ug Hayam i, a fo u rth year m edical stud ent, has w re stled

w h ich m a y p o in t to th e g ro w in g tre n d o f irreligiousness. O n th e

a fte r death, a q u e stio n everyone w ill face a t s o m e point." It's im p o rta n t to re m e m b e r th a t w e all start w ith th e sam e qu estio ns

w ith th e issues o f fa ith and religion since his undergrad ua te days

o th e r hand, as O egem a suggests, it m a y ju s t be a p ro b le m o f

th a t d o n 't necessarily have beginning s or en ds in an y particular

at M cG ill. "I th o u g h t I was agnostic, b u t I th in k I th in k I'm m o re o f an atheist now ," says Hayam i, w h o cam e to th is conclu sion in his second year o f undergrad. "[B e co m in g an atheist] was p ro b ­

d e fin itio n . "O n e has to diffe re n tia te b e tw e e n tradition al, m o re in stitu tion alized faith and newer, loose r fo rm s o f religion. There is a rising in te rest in religion," he says. 'T h e q u estio ns d o n 't go

ably in flu e n ce d by th e p e o p le a ro un d m e an d w h a t w as going

away, th o u g h th e answers fro m tra d itio n a l religion m ay n o t be

on in th e w o rld at th e tim e , ju s t th e cu lm in a tio n o f all th e things

acce pted in th e sam e way."

religion. The struggle w e e n d u re to fin d answ ers is a personal o n e ; it is s o m e th in g b e yo n d in dividu al understanding, a fu n d a ­ m e n ta l and b e a u tifu l pa rt o f h u m a n nature th a t w e d im inish every tim e w e m o c k others' beliefs. U niversity m a y be th e place w e first discover th e d ifficu lty o f an sw e ring th e basic qu estio ns

I'd learned in high school. I b e ca m e m o re self-aw are after I start­

M o re rece nt religious m o ve m e n ts a tte m p t to deal w ith th e

a b o u t h u m a n existence, b u t it is likely n o t th e place w e w ill u lti­

ed university."

Leaving h o m e fo r th e first tim e is o fte n o n e o f th e m o st im p o rta n t factors in altering o n e ’s idea o f faith. "[The university

co n flict o f o u r m u lti-fa ith w o rld . Bahé'l, fo r exam ple, a tte m p ts to pro vid e "a n e w u n d e rsta n d in g o f h u m a n nature an d h u m a n

m a te ly fin d th o s e answers. R obert Frost m a y have been right w h e n he said, 'T h e re are o n ly m iddles." W e have be en fo re ve r qu e s tio n in g an d w ill rem a in fo re v e r w ith o u r questions, each o f

society th a t all can share," according to its inte rna tiona l W eb site.

years] are a pe rio d in o n e's life w h e n o n e th in ks a b o u t thin gs

B ud dh ism , to o , has attracted m u ch a tte n tio n since th e 19 th cen­

us ab le to pro vid e o n ly in a d e q u a te answers an d c o m in g closer

seriously anyway," says Professor G erbern

tu ry fo r its re p utatio n as a peaceful religion.

to solu tio n s o n ly w h e n w e ask m o re questions. ■

O egem a

o f th e

God is a little grey man Raelian philosophy prom­ ises afterlife through

n a w o rld fu ll o f th e horrors o f disease, w a r an d G eorge W ,

created life on earth as w e k n o w it using DNA, n o t d u s t or

th o u sa n d s o f p e o p le fin d solace in th e p h ilo sop hical teachings o f th e Raelians. O ver 4 0 ,0 0 0 p e o p le across th e g lo b e have jo in e d th is religious m o ve m e n t, fo u n d e d in 1973 by Raël—fo r­

A d a m 's rib. A ccording to Raelian doctrine, a fu n d a m e n ta l m is­ take was m a d e in translating th e Bible: th e H e b re w w o rd Elohim,

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m e rly C laude V orilhon—a French sports jo u rn a list and race car driver.

Raël claim s th a t w h ile a d m irin g a volcano in C le rm o n t Ferrand, France, an u n id e n tifie d flyin g o b je ct appeared b e fo re him . A n alien, a b o u t fo u r fe e t tall w ith greenish skin, huge

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Raelians d o n o t be lie ve in an a u to n o m o u s God, n o r do th e y be lie ve in th e th e o ry o f e vo lu tio n to explain o u r existence.

Instead th e y fo cu s on scientific crea tion ism : th a t in te lle ctuallysu p e rio r hu m a n s fro m a n o th e r p la n e t created life o n earth as a

a lm o n d -sh a p e d eyes an d long black hair, em e rg e d fro m th e

kind o f experim e nt. T he E lohim —o u r creators—have co n tin u e d

spacecraft and c o m m a n d e d Claude to record his p h ilo so p h y based on certain parts o f th e Bible. T he result: a b o o k e n title d

to m a intain con tact w ith h u m a n s on earth th ro u g h pro ph ets

Intelligent Design: A Message from the Designers an d th e ensu­

cloning and condoms

origin ally translated as "G od," really m ea ns "tho se w h o cam e fro m th e sky."

such as M oses, B uddha, Jesus an d now, Raël.

B ut have th e Raelians, w h o are m o s t o fte n id e n tifie d w ith

ing p h ilo so p h y o f th e Raelians.

a rece nt clo n in g scandal, m a d e advances in c lo nin g technology?

A nd so th e story goes: 2 5 ,0 0 0 years ago, hu m a n s fro m a n o th e r p la n e t d e ve lo p e d clo n in g technology. They, n o t God,

C lonaid, a c o m p a n y affiliated w ith th e Raelian m o v e m e n t, estab­ lished itself in th e Baham as in 1997. The c o m p a n y offers a w a y

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Presents from the Plain people Is the Amish way of life a healthier alternative to the common student schedule?

LISE TREUTLER org et th e O s c ar-w inning 1 9 8 5 film

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Witness. Forget an y pictures o f "a u th e n tic A m ish life"

ed a 2 0 0 3 stud y o f an O ld O rd e r A m ish c o m m u n ity in O n ta rio to e xa m in e th e health o f th e co m m u n ity. A lo ng w ith e xtre m e ly lo w stress levels, Bassett fo u n d o n ly th re e per c e n t o f A m ish ad ults q u a lifie d as obese, co m p a re d to th e 2 3 p e r c e n t fig u re given by Statistics

you m a y have seen. Forget, fo r a m o m e n t, th e high value o u r society places o n in dividu -

Canada fo r th e C anadian p o p u la tio n and 3 3 p e r ce n t figu re fo r Am ericans. G iven th a t th e

liasm, and reco n sid e r th e Am ish, a peaceful society w h o live as close to th e land as pos­

A m ish stu d ie d w a lked an average o f 11.3 km p e r day—calculated fro m pa rticip ants’ p e d o m e ­

sible and fo llo w rules d e fin e d in th e

Ordnung—in clu d in g avo id ance o f electricity.

ters—an d th e n o rm in o u r society is less th a n h a lf that, Bassett's fin d in g s are n o t surprising.

'T h e Am ish, in th e w a ke o f th e 's im p lify y o u r life ' m o ve m e n t, have had to o m a n y o f us

" I f s a little ridiculous," he lam ents. "W e drive to w ork, y e t jo in gym s to w a lk on a tread­

Englischers s h o w up, p u t on an apron an d a n n o u n ce w e 're going back to sim p le th in g s ....

m ill. W e go to great leng th s to re m o v e activity fro m o u r daily lives, and th e n w e go to great lengths to p u t it back in. T he A m ish have d o n e a b e tte r jo b th a n a n yb o d y o f consciously

and o f course, th a t's n o t tru ly b e in g A m ish ," says Jodi Picoult, an a w a rd -w in n in g a u th o r w h o s p e n t tim e w ith an A m ish fam ily, gaining th e ir tru st an d p lu n g in g fu lly in to A m ish life be fore b e g in n in g her seventh novel, Plain Truth (P ocket Books, 2 0 0 0 ). That d o e s n 't m ean, h o w e v­

th in k in g w h a t im p a ct te c h n o lo g y w ill have on th e ir lives."

W hile w e city-dw ellers ca n 't be expected to start up farm s an y tim e soon, B asse tfs con­

er, th e y d o n 't have m u c h to teach.

W e Englischers c o u ld b e n e fit fro m th e m a n y lessons ta u g h t by th e A m ish w a y o f life.

clusions are in co n ju n ctio n w ith th e rapid g ro w th o f th e "s lo w life " m o v e m e n t. A serene,

T hough m o s t o f us are u n like ly to give u p electricity, c o m m it to th re e -h o u r religious servic­

est virtue . For th e Am ish, sin- o r m istake -con fe ssion results in th e six-w eek

es o r learn th e c o m m u n ity 's G erm an dialect, Deitsch, Brad Igou, e d ito r o f Amish Country News ( amishnews.com) a d a m a n tly praises n o t o n ly th e virtu e s o f exp eriencing an d learning

"sh u n n in g "), d u rin g w h ic h th e y are restricted fro m certain social contacts w ith th e ir c o m m u ­ nity, b u t are in n o w a y le ft b e hind. As so o n as th e bann is lifted, th e y are w e lc o m e d back

fro m o th e r cultures, b u t also th e intrinsic w o rth o f Plain values.

"S o m e tim e s yo u d o n 't n e e d th e th in g s you 'need'," Igou writes, speaking specifically o f

w ith o p e n arm s. G rudge-holders, take note.

B ut h o w can w e , endlessly run ragged w ith school, w o rk an d social o b lig atio ns—nay,

th e m u lti-m e d ia luxuries w e su p p o se d ly d e p e n d u p on . 'T e a m w o rk an d h u m ility have th e ir

choices—take the se lessons to heart?

C o nsid er th e con clu sion s o f Dr. John Hostetler, a u th o r o f

place," he con tinu es, "a n d certainly th e m o s t ob vio u s is to e n jo y th e sim p le things: q u ie t tim e , fa m ily and frien ds. Recently I saw a co m m e rcia l o n TV th a t had an idea fo r p ro m o tin g fa m ily u n ity—plan to e a t to g e th e r once a week. I guess fo r so m e [N o rth A m erican ] fam ilies, on ce a w e e k is an a cco m plishm e nt."

Students, d e a d -se t on late nights, late m o rn in g s an d afte rn o o n classes, o w e it to th e m ­ selves to re th in k th e ir sle ep habits. A m ish fa rm in g fa m ilie s sleep and rise w ith th e sun; o u r Circadian r h y th m - o r s o -d u b b e d "B iological Sleep C lock"—ideally runs o n th e sam e sched­ ule. The p ro b le m lies in o u r con sisten t de nial o f th e facts.

Dr. David Bassett, profe ssor o f exercise science a t th e U niversity o f Tennessee, co n d u ct­

pacifist co m m u n ity, Plain p e o p le keep fa ith in each o th e r and h o ld forgiveness as th e high­

of

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Amish Society and co-a utho r Children in Amish Society. "Young p e o p le learn h o w w o rk fu n c tio n s b o th w ith in th e ir fa m ­

ily and w ith in th e w id e r co m m u n ity . They learn to e n jo y th e ir w o rk and see it as creative, b o th in th e im m e d ia te results an d in its c o n trib u tio n to th e c o m fo rt an d happiness o f o th ­ ers. The A m ish ob ta in greater e m o tio n a l satisfaction fro m daily life th a n d o m o s t university graduates."

Education is n o t lim ite d to th e lecture hall. N o tice th e d ro o p y-e ye d faces in y o u r class­ es, th e reside nt napp ers in S hatner and un de rsta nd th a t life satisfaction, health an d h a pp i­ ness c a n 't be rated o n a 4 .0 scale. ■

Pricey Enlightenment Scientology and controversy sitting in a tree, K-l-S-S-l-N-G...

JULIA RAPONI ro m allegations o f fra u d to certain c o u c h -ju m p in g personalities, S cientology

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has received its share o f bad publicity, and th e e xtrem e secrecy s urro un din g

th e organization hasn't helped.

As fa r as th e basic te n e ts o f th e church go, th e y 're no m o re "o u t o f th is w o rld "

th a n th o se o f any o th e r religion. Scientologists b e lie ve th a t w e consist o f th re e parts: th e body, th e m in d and th e thetan, w h ic h is th e in dividu al self in spiritual fo rm . O n e o f th e m a in aspects o f S cie ntology is th e fo cu s on un d e rsta n d in g and he a lin g th e m in d th ro u g h th e process o f dianetics, w h ich , acco rding to th e church's W eb site ( scientology.org), is capable o f "alleviating such ailm e n ts as u n w a n te d sen­ sations and e m o tio n s, irrational fears and psych o so m a tic illnesses."

A lo n g w ith in te n sive stu d y in g o f F oun de r L. Ron H u b b a rd 's writings, S cie ntology disciples are encou rage d to “au d it" th e ir m e n ta l and spiritual health th ro u g h m ee tin g s w ith m in iste rs an d th e use o f an electropsychometer, o r "emeter." The e -m e te r passes a sm all electric c u rre n t th ro u g h a pe rson's b o d y via tw o m etal cans. A ny flu ctu a tio n s in th e c u rre n t are in te rp re te d as an area o f m en ta l or spiritual traum a . T he goal in all o f this? To reach th e status o f "dear," o r fre e o f o n e's base im p ulse s, a fte r w h ic h o n e can e n te r in to th e ranks o f O pe ra ting Thetan, s o m e ­ o n e w h o is "a ble to con tro l m atter, energy, space an d tim e " rathe r th a n be d o m i­ nated b y th e m like e ve ryon e else. All o f th is e n lig h te n m e n t co m e s at a high price, how ever, w ith s o m e sources q u o tin g figures as high as $ 5 0 0 ,0 0 0 fo r th e OT lev­ els.

W h ile th is seem s in n o c u o u s en ou gh , it's n o t e n o u g h to d e fle c t th e ever-pres­ e n t criticism over th e ch u rch's practices and s o m e o f its m o re o u tsp o ke n m em b ers.

To begin w ith , th e organization has be en pillo rie d o ve r its p o sitio n on psychology an d psychiatric m ed ica tion. In lin e w ith Tom Cruise's explosive rant against Brooke This geniocracy m a y see m extrem e, b u t in light o f re ce n t w o rld events, it starts to sound, w ell,

Shields' use o f antidepressants fo r p o st-p a rtu m depression, S cientology believes th a t psychiatry aim s to keep p e o p le d o c ile an d tu rn th e m in to drug-sw illing

ically n a m e d Eve—and b o ast a w a itin g list o f 2 5 0

genius.

Followers o f th e se lf-p ro cla im e d cu lt believe

a u to m a to n s in th e n a m e o f tre a tm e n t.

The church has be en in and o u t o f th e cou rts since its fo u n d in g in th e early

pe o p le . T hough C lonaid o ffe rs th e ir services m a in ly to in fe rtile cou ples and hom osexuals, an yon e w h o

th a t o n e day w e w ill create h u m a n s in o u r lik e n e s s in w ays o th e r tha n b e d ro o m dancing—and establish

tio n s o f fraud, S cientology has faced legal challenges a ro u n d th e w o rld . A fte r a 4 0 -

has en o u g h dispo sable in c o m e is w e lc o m e to in v e s t T hough m o s t o f th e Raelians' claim s w o u ld

life on

a n o th e r planet. T he created w ill a t last

year battle, th e church w as fin a lly recognized as such by th e 1RS, b u t th e o th e r

b e c o m e th e creators. U ntil th e n , how ever, th e Raelians co n trib u te to society in other, m o re m u n ­

charges have pro ven to be q u ite a p ro b le m fo r th e organization. T hese charges in clu d e H u b b a rd 's w ife 's in v o lv e m e n t in a m assive espionage o p e ra tio n an d L. Ron h im s e lf b e in g con victed o f fra u d in absentia in a French court. M oreover, th e C hurch o f S cientology in T oron to w as con victed o f bre ach ing th e pu b lic's tru s t in 19 92 , m akin g it th e o n ly religious organization in Canada to face such a conviction.

to "live fo re ve r"—th ro u g h y o u r o w n clone. T hough th e re is, as yet, little substantial su p p o rtin g evidence, th e y claim to have m a d e th e firs t h u m a n clo ne—iro n ­

see m ludicrous to th e average h u m a n , parts o f th e ir p h ilo s o p h y are w o rth long, seco nd looks. T he ideal Raelian fo rm o f g o v e rn m e n t is a geniocracy: in short, a w o rld w id e g o v e rn m e n t led t>y geniuses. This

dane, ways.

In response to a C ath olic school board 's deci­ sion to n o t install c o n d o m m a ch in es in bathroo m s,

w o u ld entail o n ly h u m a n s w ith 10 p e r ce n t above-

Raelian volu n te e rs h a n d e d o u t 1 0 ,0 0 0 rubbers to

average in te llige nce th e right to vote, w h ile h o ld in g a

high school students. T he project, aptly n a m ed O p e ra tion C o n d o m , sen t a clear m essage to th e w o rld : th e Raelians will fu c k w ith everyone. ■

go vern ing o ffice w o u ld re q u ire in te lle ct ab ove average.

50 p e r ce n t

1950s. In cases ranging fro m a fig h t w ith th e 1RS fo r ta x-e xe m p t status to allega­

Scientology's detractors span th e g lob e an d are particularly strong in G erm any, w h e re it has be en d e n o u n c e d as a "m u rd e ro u s t u lt " an d faces calls fo r its banning.

A pa rt fro m a refusal to a p ologize fo r Battlefield Earth, how ever, th e re is little hard evid e n ce to co n firm th e m o re in sidiou s allegations. For its part, th e church has dis­ m issed all criticism against it, saying th a t th o s e w h o d e n o u n c e it are s im p ly je alo us o f its success. ■

a&e TRAVEL

Surfing th e globe, one couch at a tim e Montreal hosts largest couch -surfing convention ever EZRA GUNTER M o s t p e o p le refrain fro m travelin g if th e y have no place to stay. But w h e n Casey Fenton fo u n d h im s e lf w ith a cheap ticke t to Iceland and was u n w illin g to sp e n d th e trip b y h im s e lf in a hotel, he h a tched a n o th e r plan. H e e-m a ile d 1 ,5 0 0 stud ents in Reykjavik, asking if an yo n e w a n te d to p u t h im up. To his pleas­ a n t surprise, he received m o re th a n 5 0 p o sitive responses.

"I had a ball," Fenton says. "G reat stories, great fu n and am azing frie n d s w e re discovered th a t w e e ke n d in May. I th o u g h t to m yself, 'That's h o w I w a n t to travel... every tim e.'"

A nd th u s th e C o uch S urfing Project w as conceived. Fenton and a fe w o f his frie n d s s p e n t m u c h o f 2 0 0 3 w o rkin g o n th e project, laun chin g it pu b licly in January 2 0 0 4 .

C ouchS urfing.com is w h a t is kno w n as a ho spita lity netw ork, an d th e c o n c e p t is sim p le : You le t travelers c o m e an d stay at y o u r ho use fo r free, and in return, you g e t to d o th e sam e.

T hough m a n y have expressed concern a b o u t th e safety o f such a venture, a n u m b e r o f m e ch a n ism s have be en p u t in place to m ake th e p ro je ct as secure as possible. As w ith W eb-based auc­ tio n sites like eBay, users can leave fe e d b a ck and references c o n cern ing o th e r users. Also, m e m b e rs w h o have already been vo u c h e d fo r can th e n vo u ch fo r others, a sn o w b a ll e ffe ct th a t goes back to th e original fo u n d e rs. O f course, users are never ob lig ed to le t o th e r p e o p le stay w ith th e m .

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T hough th e ba ckbo ne o f th e p ro je ct is th e o n e -to -o n e h o st

w h e re have be en bu sy sche du lin g events, arranging p e rm its and

on th e cheap. "It's n o t ju s t a b o u t saving m on ey," says Fenton.

an d guest a rra n g e m e n t w h ic h it facilitates, it has g ro w n to

reservations and, in kee ping w ith th e C o uchS urfing ethos, m a k­

"It's a b o u t m a k in g lasting con ne ction s. To m e, it s a b o u t g e tting

in clu d e increasingly fre q u e n t c o m m u n a l events w o rld w id e . "This

ing sure th a t th e dozen s o f guests w h o w ill be arriving all have

o u t th e re an d see in g th e w o rld w ith p e o p le w h o are o n th e

has really c o m e o u t o f th e users," says Fenton. "They've ju s t started p u ttin g th e se m ee ting s to g e th e r on th e ir o w n . So, seeing th e need, w e 'v e created so m e m o re infra stru cture on th e site to s u p p o rt th a t" U p c o m in g events, such as N e w Year's Eve parties

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W e ’re all junkies TESSA BLANCHFIELD Fight Club, once wrote, "No

Unfortunately, I have to a d m it th a t I am on e o f those

on e wants to a d m it w e 're addicted to music. That's just

space cadets picking o u t a song w h ile I cross th e street. With

Never again w ill you need to raise yo u r head to acknowledge

n o t possible. No one's addicted to m usic and television and radio. We ju st need m ore o f it, m ore channels, a larger screen, m ore volum e. We can't bear to be w ith o u t it, b u t no, nobody's addicted to music."

m y m p 3 player plugged in, I'm in m y ow n little world. I pick

th e existence o f a fe llo w hum an. You can learn everything

and choose w h a t I w a n t to hear, instead o f settling fo r the drones o f reality.

For som e people, though, audio stim ulation is not

about th e hum an condition sim ply by dow nloading an episode o f Desperate Flousewives.

D o n 't be m istaken, I love m y m p 3 player. I'm som ew hat

An average w alk across cam pus norm ally entails slam ­

enough. In order to annihilate th e entire w orld around them ,

o f a "quiet-ophobic" as well. But after a fe w hours o f listening,

m in g in to about five pe ople in a blissfully oblivious m usical fog.

Everyone is tun ed in to th e ir little w h ite headphones. They're

both audio and visual im plem ents are needed. Never fear, fo r th e evil yet loveable geniuses at A pple are com ing to th e res­

th e insides o f m y ears be com e sore and I start to hear a strange buzzing noise. W hen I finally dislodge the speakers that

adjusting th e volum e, m aking a playlist or choosing a CD. No

cue by releasing th e newest m e m b e r o f th e iPod line: the

have been glued to m y ears all day, a fu n n y thin g happens:

one is paying attention to anything. Pop m usic can m ake you

vid eo iPod. Soon, you can spend up to 2 0 hours at a tim e listening to music, enjoying a p h oto slideshow or watching television on a 2.5-inch colour screen. Now, I've heard o f portable televi­ sions before, b u t never has on e been invented that seem s so convenient and accessible. For U S$300 to $ 4 0 0 th e average

Gazing about m e and taking in th e calm, I realize all the aspects o f life to w hich I have be com e oblivious. The songs o f birds, th e beat o f th e rain and th e hunched-over w o m a n walk­ ing her dog do n o t ju st belong to th e w orld, the y belong to m y world. So I guess m y message is sim ple: Pay attention. I w o uld

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w alk into a wall.

No one makes eye contact anym ore. Instead o f sm iling or waving hello, pe ople ju st bo b th e ir heads to th e beat o f the ir music, like one o f those ugly souvenir dolls w ith springs fo r necks.

"sound-oholic" can be as happy as a drunk at Oktoberfest.

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PREVIEW S Film.

Dan Snaith delivers multi-faceted grooves

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A t a tim e w h e n e le ctro n ic m usicians o fte n get car­ aw ay w ith th e m s e lv e s , The Milk o f Human

Kindness—the latest release fro m Caribou, fo rm e rly kn o w n as M a n ito b a —stands o u t as an e xtre m e ly c o m ­ plex, y e t still accessible, w ork. W ith its s u b lim e layering an d un b ro ke n groove, The Milk of Human Kindness d e m a n d s b o th th o ro u g h liste nin g and appreciation. At tim e s heady, if n o t h e a d -b o p p in g ly m elod ic, th e alb u m takes th e listener on an a u d ito ry an d e m o tio n a l ride th ro u g h songs w ith quirky, sup erb title s like "H ello H a m m e rh e a d ," "Lord Leopard," an d “ Pelican Narrows."

Dan Snaith (aka C a ribo u), an O ntario native, recent­ ly d o d g e d a go od deal o f con tro versy by cha ng ing his stage n a m e fro m M an itob a to Caribou as a result o f an e p is o d e w h ich he called "a very q u ick lesson in h o w stu­ pid tra d e m a rk laws are in th e U n ited States an d h o w expensive going to c o u rt is." Snaith w as accused o f in frin g e m e n t o f co p yrig h t laws by A m erican p u n k band

tio n . "Although w e d o play th e songs on th e record, and so m e o f th e m w e play q u ite fa ith fu lly to th e w a y th e record is, tha t's n o t th e p o in t o f w h a t w e 're doin g," he says. "Even th is year, as w e 'v e b e e n touring, th e sho w 's kind o f be en d e ve lo p in g every night. W e've be en chang­ in g it an d it's b e c o m e its o w n thing."

As he tours, Snaith has n o te d th a t th e ty p e o f p e o ­ p le w h o are in to his kind o f m usic—regardless o f h o w th e y cho ose to classify it—are sim ilar all over th e w o rld in te rm s o f th e ir a ttitud es an d tastes. Still, th e response he gets a t sho w s varies. "S o m etim es, w ith in th e sam e c o u n ­ try, th e sho w s w ill b e ve ry d iffe re n t fro m nig h t to night," he says. "O n e w ill be very q u ie t an d p e o p le w ill be ju st listening, and at th e next o n e p e o p le w ill b e ha ng ing o ff th e roof. It te n d s to d iffe r m o re fro m city to city th a n fro m co u n try to country."

This w e e k Snaith returns to Canada to to u r w ith th e Super Furry Anim als. T heir first stop is to n ig h t at Club Soda (1 2 2 5 S t-Laurent) and is d e fin ite ly n o t a sh o w to m iss.

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A rgentinian film a b o u t a y o u n g p o e t de a lin g w ith his HIV th ro u g h extrem ely kinky bo nd ag e; Fingersmith, a S apphic rom a n ce set in Victorian England; Le dernier jour, a m o o d y p iece a b o u t te e n a g e lo ve triangles; an d s h o rt film s th a t range fro m kooky film n o ir to exp e rim e n ta l art flicks to fla t-o u t satire. All fo r­ eign-language film s have English sub titles; see

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In response to th e u n w illin gn ess o f m a n y pu blishe rs to p rint poetry, th e M cG ill-Q u e e n 's U niversity Press has in tro d u ce d th e H ugh M acLennan Poetry series in o rd e r to h e lp m o d e rn p o ets gain exposure. A bley1s The Silver Palace Restaurant, a book

o f c a re fu lly

c ra fte d

poem s

a b o u t tra v e lin g ,

and

S tein m etz's Hurt Thyself, a to u c h in g an d de lica te m e d ita tio n o n love and self-d ep recatio n, are th e 16th an d 17th b o o b in th is series, respectively. The b o o k launch w ill fe a tu re b o th poets reading th e ir w ork.

D ictator's fro n tm a n , H a n d s o m e D ick M anitoba. Snaith d e c id e d to change n a m es to avoid th e escalation o f th e

Music. C a lla -M a in H a ll- 5 3 9 0 S t.-L a u re n t-N o v. 3 T hey're n a m e d after th e thick, waxy lilies o fte n used fo r funerals. It's a fittin g n a m e fo r a ba nd th a t has to u re d

issue and chose his n e w n a m e w h ile o n to u r in Canada.

Snaith's m usic is d iffic u lt to classify o r categorize since it falls in to a s le w o f o ve rla p p in g genres, locating a co m fo rta b le and e n th ra llin g m id d le g ro u n d b e tw ee n

w ith th e likes o f G od spee d You! Black E m pe ror b u t still

alternative, electronic, in d ie an d e xp erim e ntal pop. The

fla u n ts rockabilly roots—d e lica te an d pretty, b u t strong

songs on The Milk of Human Kindness are an equa l-pa rt c o m b in a tio n o f s a m p lin g an d a variety o f d e ft in stru m e n ­ tal and vocal tu rn s b y Snaith. H e records alone, b u t per­ fo rm s w ith th re e o th e r m usician s to generate live show s

and ju s t a b it m o rb id . T heir songs are all m o o d y m e d i­ tations, dre n ch e d in raw e m o tio n , sh u fflin g th ro u g h layered m e lo d ie s and b lan keted w ith vocals as th ic k and s lo w as s le ep ing pills. D o n 't worry, th o u g h : The overall vib e is m o re b ro o d y th a n fun erea l. Doors o p e n a t 9 p.m .

th a t se t the m se lve s ap art fro m his stu d io pro du ctions.

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"The w h o le p o in t o f live sh o w s is to be as fa r as possib le fro m ju s t recreating a la p to p kind o f sh o w th a t a lo t o f electron ic m usicians go for," asserts Snaith. "I ju st fin d th o s e really b o rin g to w a tch , generally speaking, or to listen to."

Snaith m a intains th a t his live set is all a b o u t e vo lu­

Illusion—Nikolai Kupriakov—A rto th è q u e —5 7 2 0 S t-A n d ré —

N ov 4. to 2 6 .

Kupriakov, a Russian-born surrealist p a in te r w h o stu d ie d at th e NOWTORONTO.COM

The pensive, contemplating artist in his natural habitat.

U niversité d e M ontréal, is a veteran o f th e art scene here. The next in a lo n g lin e o f his show s o f dre am like, d e e p ly sym b o lic w o r b , Illusion tackles th e ve ry d e fin itio n o f reality. These paint­ ings a p pe ar to have taken a n igh tm a rish turn, playing w ith th e con cep ts o f yo u th , beauty, m o rta lity an d artifice th ro u g h o u t th e tw is tin g an d sm o ky can­ vases. Call 2 7 8 -8 1 8 1 fo r in fo rm a tio n .

Music. Felix Da H ousecat—S pace32—3 2 Ste.-C atherine O — Nov. 4 Since th e release o f his 2 0 0 1 a lb u m , Kittenz and Thee Glitz, Felix Da H ouse cat has be en lavished w ith critical acclaim .

D espite th e fa c t th a t th e e le ctro d a sh re vo lu tio n sup po sed to be sp a w n e d b y such releases ne ver really g o t o ff th e ground, th e C hicago-born DJ still kno w s w h a t to spin to get p e o p le m oving. H e blen ds to g e th e r post-punk, fu n k-in sp ire d bass lines, an d a w h o le sle w o f robot-sex guest vocals in to a tasty mix, garnished w ith live keyboards an d en o u g h energy to keep yo u d a ncing all night. D o ors o p e n a t 10 p.m.

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Cynthia O zic k comes to to w n Prize-winning w rite r set to lecture at Jewish Public Library th e M itw isser h o u se ho ld, a Jewish refugee fa m ily fro m G erm any, at th e

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A good night at a good movie

Tim Fite. Gone Ain't Gone. Tim Fite's d e b u t a lb u m is a rep osito ry o f trie d -a n d -tru e stylistic influences, all p u t in to

Clooney film a prescient revisiting of history G eorge C looney's Good Night, and Good Luck op e n s sim ply, re co u n tin g th e w o rd s o f CBS ne w sm a n Edward R. M u rro w at a speech in 19 58 . In his address, M urrow , speaking w h ile te le visio n w a s still in its infancy, w arns o f view ers b e c o m in g c o m p la ce n t w ith th e ne w m e d iu m and acce ptin g a n y th in g it broadcasts as gospel.

M u rro w die d in 1 9 65 , b u t had he lived, he w o u ld have seen ju s t h o w p ro p h e tic his w o rd s w ere.

T hat seem s to be th e reason Clooney, w h o in h e rit­ ed a life lo n g fascination w ith M u rro w fro m his TV-anchor father, de cid e d to bring th e film to th e screen in tod ay's era o f Fox N ew s and g o v e rn m e n t w itch -hu nts. A nd Good Night is so crisp an d w e ll m a d e th a t if a n yth in g can stir up e m o tio n s in a n o w -d o c ile audience, it can.

T he m ovie, set largely in 1 9 5 3 and '5 4 and sho t e n tire ly in black an d w h ite, fo llo w s M u rro w and his CBS new sm agazine See

practice w ith in th e scope o f an overarching a lt-co un try aes­

It Now as it battles b ^ck against US

Senator Joseph M cC arthy's crusade against alleged c o m ­

m e sm e rizin g p e rfo rm a n ce as M urrow , cap turin g th e n e w sm a n 's m a n n e rism s d o w n to th e w a y he ho ld s his eve r-pre sent cigarette, w h ile th e always-solid C loon ey plays Fred Friendly, M o rro w 's p ro d u ce r and ideological backer. As M cC a rth y's.cam p aign heats up, so do es th e CBS N ew s te a m 's stand against it—in th e face o f pres­ sure fro m bo th th e g o v e rn m e n t and th e n e tw o rk—c u lm i­ na ting in a decisive sh o w d o w n th a t sends th e careers of, M u rro w and M cC arthy spiraling in d iffe re n t b u t ironically

fa ct th a t M cC arthy appears o n ly in archive fo o ta g e -a fact lo st on test-scree nin g audiences, w h o th o u g h t th e m an playin g th e se n a to r w as over-acting. Even if audiences take n o th in g else fro m th is en th ra llin g film , th e fa c t th a t such an overbe arin g do g m a tist was taken seriously sh o u ld in itself be en o u g h to galvanize vie w ers in to th in k in g a b o u t th e ir m e d ia a little m o re critically. ■

Theatres: AMC Forum 22 and Cinéma du Parc.

Caravan w ith "I H o p e You're There" and early Cure-ish neo-

p u n k in "N o G ood H ere," b e fo re w e get a ro u n d to th e fifth track. T he range o f influences, sam ples an d sou nd s on Gone Ain't Gone is staggering and w e ll executed to say th e least, b u t Fite's largely u n e m o tio n a l vocals and his geek-rock appeal ta p e r o ff m id w a y th ro u g h th e album .

•B ouncing be tw e e n styles at breakneck spe ed and using heavy Paul Robeson sa m p lin g is all w e ll and go od fo r a s h o rt listen, b u t Fite's 17 increasingly-indulg e n t tracks overstay th e ir w e lc o m e . A w o rth w h ile lis te n ... in s h o rt bursts.

Mind of a Squid. Wish. D ra w in g in flu e n c e fro m th e likes o f Pink Floyd, Portishead and M orcheeba, it's rare to co m e

sim ilar directions.

T he film is n o te w o rth y fo r its use o f th e actual tran­ scripts o f M urrow /s conversations, and especially fo r th e

the tic. Fite ech oe s th e synthy, bass-driven 7 0 's prog-rock o f

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space rock and fu ll-b o d ie d , nostalgic acid-jazz grooves. Singer M arina A dam 's voice is in to p fo rm , p e rm e a te d w ith a s u b d u e d m e la n c h o ly and as beautiful an d e n ticin g as th e siren she m u s t have stole n it fro m . The co m p o sitio n s th e m se lve s hig h lig h t A d a m 's range in a d d itio n to y ie ld in g a pletho ra o f layered in stru m e n ta l passages boastin g Erik C ulp's w a h e d -o u t, textural guitar w o rk and bassist Scott Bucsis' fu n k -in flu e n c e d spontaneity. For a 14-track to u ch o f sophistication, genial m u s ic w ritin g and sm o o th , h a u n tin g vocal and in stru­

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m e n ta l perfo rm an ces, lo o k n o further.

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to th e ir artistic tra d e are o f n o te w o rth y cultural significance.

T hat said, w h y w o u ld you cho o se to b u ild th e fo u n d a tio n o f yo u r career an d re p utatio n on s o m e o n e w h o s e o n ly visible a ttrib u te —w ith regard to artis­ tic integrity—is ... nothing? It's be en said a th o u s a n d tim e s : If yo u strip d o w n th e m a ke u p and tangential glam shots, th e S im pson sisters have n o th in g left to fla u n t N o t expressive abilities, n o r bre athtaking vocal range, n o r even catchy songw riting. Just boobies. So, in kee ping w ith w h a t G effe n records evi­ d e n tly fee ls c o m fo rta b le m arke ting as an a lb u m , I'm going to review Ashlee S im p son 's m a m m a ry glands.

For starters, th e cover sh o t is fab ulo us. T he starkness o f black and w h ite photog rap hy, accented by sp le n d id use o f lightin g to d ra w focu s up on S im p so n 's m a g n a n im o u s titties, p ro m ises to m ake m a n y a m a n rem arkably ha p p y in his pants. T he d e v e lo p m e n t and fan ta stic m ise en valeur o f S im p so n 's cleavage since h e r last release, "A utobiography," is n o d o u b t m ak­ ing th e fa m ily pro ud . C o up led w ith S im p son 's decisio n to revert to h e r n a tu­ ral, slu t-b lo n d e hair colour, th e cover sho t o f I A m M e a lon e is p o te n t enough to m ake you w a n t to sp u n k on h e r face.

The back cover o f th e a lb u m is a b it o f a le td o w n . T he sleeveless bo ostto p th a t Sim pson w ears w o rks w o n d e rs fo r h e r p re m iu m bazongas, b u t th e angle o f th e s h o t is axed along th e side o f her face, n o t a lon g h e r rocking ster­ n u m line. T he darkened, d istin ctly g o th ic m o tif w h ic h pe rm ea te s I A m M e's design w o rk is b o u n d to alienate fans o f S im p son 's staple b u b b le -p o p stylings, b u t u ltim a te ly cho ice tits are choice tits. I'll take th e m .

The Bled. Found in the Flood. Sigh. In th e days o f yore, it w as so easy to review album s. Back th e n , ba nd s w e re n 't so a d a m a n t a b o u t avo id ing categorization, an d review ing was practically a m a tte r o f cop yin g and pasting. Bands to d a y ju st have to m ake th in g s difficu lt. The Bled's latest a lb u m starts o u t -sounding like a nice, easy c h u n k o f hardcore. It's all the re : thick, g ro w lin g riffs; stu rd y d ru m s; lyrics a b o u t im p e n d in g d o o m (th e afore­ m e n tio n e d flo o d ). But th e n it all goes to hell as th e y th ro w in an incredibly pretty, straightforw ard rock song, "D aylight B om bings," and I start run n in g o u t o f p a t clichés. By th e tim e th e last track stretches fro m a c h u rn in g ha rd-p unk m o n s te r in to a trippy, stoner-rock crescendo, m y diso rie n ta tio n is com p le te .

D am n, th is a lb u m rocks so m u ch , I th in k I'm o u t o f a jo b.

—Melissa Price

WELCOME TO THE SUCK

The Fullblast. Short Controlled Bursts. "U npa ralleled rhyth­ m ic e x p e rim e n ta tio n " are th e w o rd s th a t th e M a p le M usic W eb site uses to describe The Fullblast. The pu nk-ro ck ne w co m ers

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Short Controlled Bursts. This 10-track a lb u m has a refreshing, innova­

in studio, as pro ven by th e ir second an d latest release,

tive so u n d and an e n erg etic p u n k cadence th a t blasts at high velocity. A m azing riffs tease y o u r ears fro m th e very firs t son g on this albu m , "Spoons, Gats and Prison Tats," and th e a lb u m 's od d b a ll fu sin g o f rock and hip h o p keep it c o n ­ sistently interesting. T he lyrics rem a in very catchy th ro u g h o u t b u t have ju st e n o u g h e m o w h in in g to p inch yo u r nerves a fte r a fe w tracks. All thin gs con­ sidered, th is is a p ro m isin g c o m b in a tio n o f fu ll-s o u n d in g in s tru m e n ta tio n and in spiring rock-baritone vocals, all en com p assed by reb ellio us p u n k overtones.

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IN THEATRES FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4TH!

SUBJECT TO CLASSIFICATION

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core punkers o u t there.

—Stephanie Bauduhin

HOCKEY — REDMEN

SEASON

PREVIEW

Seeing th e red light Young squad looks to duplicate last season’s success d a n ie l

M cQ u il l a n

to p six b lu e lin ers fro m last season; however, a g o o d g ro u p o f

e d ; th e y fin is h e d last season ahead o f UQTR in th e standings b u t

recruits co u ld m ake th e m e m o rie s o f last year's rearguards fade

b e h in d th e m in th e rankings.

Expect this y o u n g s q u a d - 14 o f th e 2 0 players dressed fo r

The n e w N H L m ay have rules th a t p ro m o te scoring and offence, b u t th e O n ta rio U niversity A thle tics hockey league

m o re qu ickly th a n expected.

"M a ybe th e y are in exp erie nce d in te rm s o f un ive rsity hock­

appears to have th e sam e old rules, w h e re d e fe n ce w in s gam es.

A nd de spite s o m e q u e stio n s a b o u t th e te a m 's blueliners, th e R edm en have d o n e a fin e jo b o f playin g th a t style o f ga m e so far.

ey, b u t th e ir overall e xp erience b e fo re M cG ill is strong," R aym ond said. "They have w o rke d hard in tra in in g cam p to ad ju st to w h a t w e w a n t to d o as a d e fensive corps."

This yo u n g g ro u p w ill be led by David U rquhart, w h o

th e season o p e n e r are in th e ir first o r seco nd year—to again c o m p e te fo r th e co n feren ce title. W ith hard w ork, go od ch e m istry an d so m e h e lp van q u ish in g o ld ghosts in th e ir inevita ble p layo ff s h o w d o w n w ith th e Patriotes, c o m e M arch, th e R edm en could fin d th e m se lve s playing in E dm o nton .

The d e fe n d in g O U A Far East ch a m p s have be gu n th e ir

dressed in o n ly 14 gam es last season d u e to th e te a m 's depth.

"It's n o t a secret th a t th e te a m is d is a p p o in te d in th e w a y

q u e st fo r a national title w ith tw o straight s h u to u t wins. M athieu

However, he w as still go od e n o u g h to be n a m e d to th e O UA all­

th e season e n d e d last year," R aym ond no ted. "(The players]

Poitras sh o n e b e tw e e n th e pipe s in bo th , tu rn in g aw ay 2 6 shots in a 2 -0 w in ove r Université du Q u é b e c à Trois-Rivières in th e R edm en's h o m e o p e n e r Friday nig h t a t M cC o n n e ll Arena.

M e a nw hile, a n o th e r valua ble m e m b e r o f last year's squad,

roo kie tea m . T he eighth d e fe n ce m a n o f a year ago, Steven

w a n t to prove th e y can w in in th e playoffs an d w in a national

Pearce, w ill also be asked to ste p up an d play a m a jo r role in th e rear.

Lu ckily fo r th e

ch a m p io sh ip . I d o n 't th in k th is te a m w ill be satisfied by a n ythin g

fo rw a rd D o u g Orr, ta llie d b o th M cG ill m arkers. Last season's

defence , th e te a m w ill have th e ir all-star back­

leading scorer p u t tw o in on th e p o w e r play w h ile causing pro b ­ le m s fo r th e Patriotes all night. T he play o f O rr and Poitras is a

stop back in goal. In his

go od o m e n fo r th e R edm en, as th e ir stars are p ro d u cin g early in th e season.

"D o u g has capitalized on scoring chances and w o rke d hard

firs t sea so n w ith th e te a m , Poitras started 2 2 re g u la r-se a so n g a m e s an d p o sted a 1.99 goals

to pro vid e o ffe n ce ," said H ead Coach M a rtin Raym ond. "M a th ie u has played solid an d has be en im p ro vin g every w e e k in te rm s o f

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overal play."

Expectations are high fo r a ta le n te d te a m th a t overachieved last season. T he R edm en fin ish e d ato p th e standings a year ago d u e to an exce lle nt seco nd ha lf th a t saw th e m go 9 -2 to finish

w ith a .9 3 3 save per­

th e season 17-6-1. They p ro ce e d e d to sw e ep O ttaw a in th e first

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ce n tage . T h e se n u m ­ bers w e re go od en o u g h to earn h im so m e hard­ w a re , in c lu d in g CIS

rou nd o f th e playoffs, b e fo re fa llin g o n e g a m e sh o rt o f th e CIS

rookie o f th e year and

N ationals an d losing 2-1 to th e Patriotes in a b e st-o f-th re e series.

O UA MVP. Poitras w ill

Last season, M cG ill's success h ing ed on sm a rt plays and

be backed up by fo rm e r Rim ouski O ceanic Jean-

te a m effort, w h ic h th e y h o p e to c o n tin u e th is year. Four o f th e to p five scorers on last year's te a m are back, in clu d in g Orr, w h o ne tte d 12 goals and ad d e d 19 assists in 2 4 regular season games. Six-foot-four-inch ju n io r M a th ie u Leclerc sh o u ld m ake so m e noise after a b re ako ut year in his seco nd cam paign w ith

else." ■

M ich e l Filiatrault, w h o split tim e w ith Cedrick D e sja rd in s as sta rtin g g o a lte n d e r fo r th e

th e tea m , w h ile a n o th e r th ird -ye a r playe r w h o w ill be dangerous

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in th e o ffen sive zon e is Shawn Shew chuck. S he w ch uck had an im pressive seco nd ha lf o f th e season a fte r he m isse d th e first 13 gam es w ith a ha nd injury, re co rd in g 17 p o in ts in ju s t 11 games.

Additionally, Eric L'Italien and roo kie M arko Kovacevic, w h o

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th e pipes, M cG ill sho uld be in go od hands.

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scored a sp le n d id breakaw ay goal in his de bu t, w ill pro vid e

ed th e season unranked

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T hough th e u n it has played w e ll th u s far, th e de fensivem in d e d na ture o f O UA hockey m ea ns th a t if th e R edm en falte r

o ff sixth-ranked UQTR. However, th is te a m is used to b e in g u n de rrat­

th is season, it w ill be because o f th e ir defence . The te a m lo st its

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DAVE BRODKEY

The Redmen's offence should be strong this season, but the team's defence is a question mark.

A tale of two owners

ANDREW SEGAL best fo r th e com p e titive e n v iro n m e n t in w h ic h th e y com pete,

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th e season.

Mara was th e e p ito m e o f an ow ner. He th o u g h t a b o u t his

o f W ashington, a n o th e r NFL head ho nch o re m in d e d th e

ed his squad as w ell. It was w ith this in m in d th a t The D u k e -

sports w o rld why, n o w m o re tha n ever, w e need m o re m en

run ning th e biggest te a m in th e biggest m arket in pro fo o t­

located in th e ir current markets.

But w h ile relocating w o u ld u p set th a t precarious balance,

like W elling to n Mara.

Mara, w h o had been involved w ith th e G iants since 1925, passed away last w e e k at th e age o f 8 9 , having spent

b a ll-a g re e d to share revenue on a league-w ide basis, de ny­ ing his te a m a larger share o f profits and pre ven ting th e G iants fro m negotiating th e ir ow n TV contract. M ore recently, he was o n e o f C o m m issio n e r Paul Tagliabue's rig ht-hand m en.

th e health o f th e NFL isn 't im p o rta n t to Benson,- n o r is th e via­ bility o f N e w O rleans as a city. He ju s t w a nts to pad his o w n pocketbook.

Ultim ately, tho ugh , th e re are bigger pro b le m s w ith

n a Sunday w h e n th e N e w York G iants—w ith flags at half-m ast and c o m m e m o ra tive patches on th e ir je r­ seys—h o n o u re d th e ir late o w n e r w ith a 3 6 -0 thrashing

his life w o rkin g to im p ro ve n o t o n ly his tea m , b u t his league.

team , yes, b u t he kne w th a t w h a t helped th e league b e n e fit­

w h ic h ends up enhancing th e o u tc o m e fo r everyone. And fo r th e NFL, tha t's th e present divisional system , w ith 3 2 team s

W ith o u t W ellington Mara, th e NFL w o u ld n 't be at th e pinnacle

Benson tha n m ere ly his selfishness and greed. Benson has

residents o f a hurricane-ravaged city—ju s t served to

o f pro sports today.

Benson, on th e o th e r hand, thin ks o n ly a b o u t his o w n b o tto m line. H e has no regard fo r th e p e o p le o f N e w O rleans w h o have su p po rte d his te a m th ro u g h nearly 4 0 years o f fu til­

seem ingly allied h im se lf w ith th e breed o f ow ners th a t includes th e M ark Cubans, D anny Snyders and Bill W irtzes o f th e w o rld, th e ones w h o m ake the m se lve s larger than th e tea m s the y ow n. Their egos need stroking, so th e y w a n t every­

em barrass him self.

You w o u ld think, on this day o f all days, Benson w o u ld

ity (although, to be fair, Benson has o n ly be en in charge fo r 2 0 o f th e m ). And he apparently plans to void his lease agree­

M eanw hile, Tom Benson, o w n e r o f th e N e w O rleans Saints, seem s to be d o in g everything in his p o w e r to m ake things worse. As a c o n su m m a te professional's life was celebrated at G iants Stadium , Benson—a m a n d o in g his best to screw over th e

o n e to k n o w th e y're in charge. They accom plish this throu gh

have sho w n a to u ch o f class. But instead, th e re he was in

m e n t w ith N e w O rleans by declaring th e S up e rd o m e unus­

th e ir tirades at officials, control over player personnel deci­ sions, o r actions th a t serve o n ly to aggrieve fans. By p u tting

Baton Rouge, w a tch in g his pathetic Saints fall 2 1 -6 to M iam i,

able, essentially using a devastating hurricane as an excuse to sneak a te a m o u t o f a city th a t he d o e sn 't w a n t to be in any­

h im se lf fro n t and centre in th e Saints' dispu te—and by child­ ishly lashing o u t at th e m ed ia and supporters o f his te a m —

way.

o n ly defend ers o f a league are its collective o f ow ners and its

Benson has sho w n h im se lf to be little m o re th a n a self-cen­ tred hothead.

W ellington Mara w e n t a b o u t his w o rk w ith q u ie t dignity, always standing by his team , b u t rarely, if ever, standing for it.

com m issioner. So te a m ow ners need to lo ok o u t fo r w hat's

It's a lesson th a t Tom Benson cou ld certainly stand to learn. ■

sw atting a N e w O rleans' tele visio n station's cam era and get­ tin g in to a s h o utin g m atch w ith a fan. A nd it's n o t like Benson had a to n o f g o od w ill stored u p be fore this gaffe; after all, it was obvious th a t th e p e o p le o f Louisiana w e re in his tho ugh ts on Oct. 16 w h e n he suggested m o vin g th e te a m to San A n to n io —a city th a t ju s t happens to be his h o m e —fo llo w in g

W hile tea m s have general m anagers and all sorts o f sup­ p o rt staff to lo ok o u t fo r th e m , w h e n it com e s d o w n to it, th e

the mcgill tribune | 1.11.05 | sports 21 FITNESS Gim m e some M o

N e w gym lockers turning

The new

students into basket cases

fantasy hockey

Users complain of added time, inconvenience

MOHIT ARORA

ADAM MYERS 've always loved H allow een, b u t o n ce I ca m e to McGill, th e

The

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occasion to o k on a w h o le n e w m e a n in g fo r m e. It w as on Oct.

C e n tre

3 1 , 20 01 th a t m y hockey tea m , th e Bad M a m m a Jam m as,

u n d e rw e n t a m assive o ve rh a u l th is

ea rne d its firs t w in in franch ise history in th e va u n te d M cG ill intra­ m ural m e n 's ho ckey D division, also called—a lm o s t exclusively by

p a st s u m m e r, b u t n o t all o f th e im p ro v e m e n ts are sittin g w e ll w ith stu d e n ts. W h ile th e re h a v e n 't b e e n an y c o m p la in ts a b o u t th e increased

m e —th e DHL. W hen first assem bled, th e Bad M a m m a Jam m as w e re a rag­

n u m b e r o f exercise m a c h in e s in

tag bunch, m o s t o f w h o m had n e ver played hockey an d so m e o f

th e fitn e s s cen tre , s o m e g y m users

w h o m had never b e fo re seen ice. B ut w ith a large g ro u p o f o u r

a re n 't h a p p y w ith th e n e w lo cker

frie n d s in a tte n d a n ce an d in c o s tu m e -p la y in g th e bongos, drink­

service system .

T h e n e w lo cke r service system d iffe rs fro m th e o ld in th a t th e user

ing and dancing—w e w e re m e t w ith th e o n ly a d u lt hockey te a m ever asse m bled th a t was, to p u t it m ildly, less ta le n te d th a n us.

W ith yours tru ly po sting an im pressive tw o-save shu tout, th e Bad

d o e s n o t actu a lly have his o r h e r

M a m m a Jam m as skated to a 5 -0 w in.

ow n

Since th e n th e D H L has b e c o m e a m u c h b e tte r league, and th e Bad M a m m a Jam m as have b e c o m e a m u c h b e tte r team .

lo cker.

In s te a d ,

u se rs

pay

$ 4 .5 0 a m o n th p lus a $ 1 0 se t-u p

Players w h o o n ce d re a m e d o f s im p ly staying on th e ir skates n o w se t th e ir sights a little higher. I learned ju s t h o w m u c h o f a d re a m ­

fe e an d $ 2 0 re fu n d a b le d e p o s it to g e t th e ir o w n basket, w h ic h is ke p t

er I am th e o th e r day w h e n m y frie n d s and I w e re having o n e o f

in a c o m m u n a l ro o m a t th e fa r e n d o f a h a llw a y o n th e firs t flo o r o f th e gym , o p p o s ite th e w o m e n 's lo cker ro o m . A n y th in g a gym user w a n ts DAVID BLYE

to kee p in th e g y m o v e rn ig h t is le ft lo cked in th e basket.

U p o n arriving a t th e

together, th e m o re I realized th a t this is h o w a hockey gam e Sports

C entre, th e u s e r picks u p th e bas­ ke t a n d bring s it to th e c h a n g in g user w o rks out.

sho uld be: W e're live at th e Bell Centre, w ith all o f m y frie n d s sp o rtin g brand new, to p -o f-th e -lin e e q u ip m e n t and stylish u n ifo rm s repre­

The new basket system has become a nuisance for gym users. c le a n e r a n d m o re presentable."

g ym outing."

ro o m , w h e re it can b e lo cke d in a lo cke r w h ile th e

Political

U ltim a te ly, m o s t stu d e n ts fin d

S cience s tu d e n t w h o w o rks as a

th e lo cke r system to b e acceptable,

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lo c k e r

th e b a sket to th e c o m m u n a l ro o m

u n d e rsta n d s w h y s tu d e n ts

an d leaves th e da y lo c k e r fo r o th e rs

he

e ve n if it's n o t ideal. T h e y realize

m ig h t

th a t th e re are n o t e n o u g h lockers

be a n n o ye d , b u t also n o te d th a t th e re are s o m e ad vantages to th e

fo r e ve ry u se r to have his o r h e r o w n , an d th a t th e cu rre n t system

n e w system .

"H one stly, it se e m s like it is a

a llo w s

m e n 's lo cke r ro o m , lo ca te d upstairs fro m

little

fe e l th a t,

to use. T he necessity o f carrying th e b a sket fro m th e b a sket ro o m to th e th e

com m unal

th o se "W hat w o u ld you d o if yo u had an u n lim ite d stack o f m o n e y fo r an e n tire day?" discussions, and w h e n m y tu rn cam e I c o u ld n 't seem to g e t past th e hockey ga m e 1 im a g in e d m yse lf th ro w in g together. T he m o re th is little fantasy o f m in e cam e

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sen ting e ith e r th e Bad M a m m a Jam m as o r th e Boreale Blondes, w h ich I n a m e m y fan ta sy sports team s. N o t o n ly have I b ro u g h t in th e C anadiens' gam e-d ay cre w to o p e ra te th e scoreboard and p u b lic address system , b u t I also d e c id e d to hire a b o u t 2 0 ,0 0 0 extras to fill th e stands so w e can play in fro n t o f a big league crow d. O n th e o ff chance th a t $ 1 0 0 an h o u r isn 't e n o u g h to en te rta in th e fans in attendance, th e y 'll be ha pp y to see th a t th e y are w e lc o m e to an u n lim ite d su p p ly o f b e e r and fo o d . To m ake it easier fo r th e m to e n jo y th e se am e nities, I've taken o u t select g ro up s o f seats fro m th e stands and replaced th e m w ith fu lly

d ra w n s o m e co m p la in ts , pa rticu la r­

"M o re so fo r th e m e n b e ca u se th e y

in co n ve n ie n ce , th e y 're still g e ttin g

ly fro m m a le g y m users.

"It's ve ry fru s tra tin g h a vin g to

have to c o m e all th e w a y d o w n th e

w h a t th e y n e e d o u t o f th e Sports

hall an d go u p th e stairs [to th e

Centre.

Ryan

cha ng e ro o m ], b u t it is kin d o f c o n ­ v e n ie n t. It's n ice to ha ve a little bas­

Elias said. "B u t fo r th e price a n d th e

K lim ore, U1 H u m a n is tic Studies. "It

ke t ro o m —eve ryo n e has a p e rm a ­

service th e y g ive you , it's a g o o d

ad ds an extra 10 m in u te s to every

a n u m b e r o f carnival-style gam es th a t le t th e m m ea sure th e spe ed o f th e ir slap shot, te s t th e ir accuracy o r stop pucks c o m in g

n e n t [basket], it's safe, a little b it

deal." ■

fro m a v id e o screen sim u la tio n o f Salma Hayek in Bauers and a

gra b y o u r basket an d th e n go ba ck to

th e

lo cke r

ro o m ,"

said

"It's a lo n g trek," gym use r Ben

stocked concession stands, so th a t re fre sh m e n ts are w ith in easy reach.

This is n 't to say th a t th e con cou rse w ill be ren d e re d o b so ­ lete. Fans w h o ste p o u t to th e restroo m w ill pass a lon g th e w ay

bikini.

Things g e t even b e tte r in th e luxury boxes. M any have been o u tfitte d w ith a w a ll-sized plasm a screen ho o ke d u p to an X-Box and a PS2. O n th e o th e r side o f th e build in g, aw ay fro m w h e re th e kids w ill surely congregate, I've set up a M ecca o f a d u lt vice an d self-destruction. There are e n o u g h poker, blackjack, ro u le tte and craps ta b le s to fina ncially ruin everyone in attendance. We have also b ro u g h t in th e Saturday nig h t line up fro m C lub SuperSexe to pro vid e s o m e a d u lt e n te rta in m e n t in o u r n u m e ro u s C ham p agn e room s. O f course, resp on sibility is always a to p pri­ ority, and each box—luxury box, I m e a n —has a b o u n c e r keeping an eye on things, m akin g sure th a t th o s e p ro vid in g e ith e r th e lap o r th e da nce kee p th in g s clean w h ile playing dirty.

Speaking o f clean, a dra w w ill be he ld fo r fans to w in th e chance to drive th e za m b o n i be tw e e n periods, b u t th a t's n o t th e o n ly w a y th a t in te rm issio n s w ill be jazzed up. H o w d o live per­ fo rm a n ce s by U2, A C /D C , Kanye W est and S noop D ogg sound?

But th e n e t result o f all this s h o u ld n 't distract fro m th e fact th a t th e re 's a ho ckey ga m e b e in g played, an d o n e significant rule change w ill be m ade. Last w eek, th e Bad M a m m a Jam m as played in a po o rly o fficia te d gam e th a t saw th e good guys being assessed a w h o p p in g 15 pe na lty m in utes. T hose 15 m in u te s e q u a lle d th e te a m 's PIM to ta l fo r th e p re vio us fo u r years c o m ­ bine d. So in a d d itio n to kee ping th o s e referees aw ay fro m th e g a m e by placing th e m u n d e r ho u se arrest in Madagascar, w e ’re

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play in sports.

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My name is Adam, and I have been possessed by Gamblor ADAM MYERS

w ith a hu ge Big Ten m atchu p, W isconsin at Illinois. W sco n sin ,

This is th e w o rst tim e o f year to be a student. The N H L is back and in fu ll swing, th e NFL an d NCAA fo o tb a ll seasons are

tie d fo r th e co n fe re n ce lead, was a 2 2 p o in t fa vo u rite against th e Fighting lllini, w h o w e re w inle ss in co n fe re n ce play. I to o k th e favourites, h o p in g fo r a blo w o u t. But, it d id n 't com e , as W sc o n s in

bo th heating up and th e NBA gets u n d e rw a y ton igh t. This c o m ­

fin ish e d w ith ju s t a 17 -p o in t victory.

e n o u g h to cover th e 17.5 p o in ts I had to slack.

A fte r a rou gh Saturday o f losses, I d e c id e d th a t I was d u e to have a g o o d day Sunday. So w h e n 1 w o k e up ready fo r NFL pre­ gam e, I w as pe rplexed to fin d it n o t o n —o n ly th e n did I realize th a t th e clocks had be en set back an hour. W ith m y extra tim e , I figu red I w o u ld m ake m y bets fo r th e day. H o u sto n w as d u e to

b ina tion o f sports has m e g lue d to m y television, w h e re I sub­

A t th is point, I n e e d e d a ga m e to g e t back in th e black, and

scribe to ESPN C a m e Plan, NFL Sunday Ticket and N H L Centre

I th o u g h t B ob by B ow de n w as ju s t th e coach to he lp m e get

g e t its firs t w in , an d O akland w a s g o in g up against a bang ed -u p

Ice. Suffice it to say, I have every ga m e at m y disposal.

M any p e o p le w o u ld argue th a t n o o n e co u ld be interested in so m a n y gam es. Few o u tco m e s w ill a ffe ct "m y te a m s " and

there. Florida State was c o m in g o ff a 3 1 -p o in t w in an d ho sting M aryland, w h o w as co m in g o ff a 1 9 -p o in t loss. T he 17.5 p o in ts I had to give up se e m e d reasonable; I expected a b lo w o u t in Tallahassee. The ga m e certainly started o ff th a t way, w ith th e

Tennessee secondary. So I b e t th e b a n k on th o s e tw o ; alth ou gh th e re w e re a fe w scares, th e y b o th cam e th ro u g h , fin a lly giving m e s o m e th in g to be ha pp y about.

A t th is p o in t, w ith s o m e n e w fo u n d cash, I w e n t fo r broke on

S em ino les takin g a 1 4 -p o in t lead in th e first quarter. I w as so

Tam pa Bay. Ail th e best te a m in th e NFC had to d o w as go in to

m o s t gam es in volve m e d io cre squads.

U nfortunately, I have fo u n d a w a y to m ake every gam e in te re s tin g ... gam bling. The o n ly tim e s I le ft m y couch th is w e e k­ e n d w e re to go to m y c o m p u te r and m ake a n o th e r b e t w ith B ow m an's. It is takin g ove r m y life, an d m y w allet. Forthw ith, th e diary o f a ju n kie : I de cid e d to g e t in to th e action early o n Saturday, starting

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m o n e y I th o u g h t I had ju s t m ade.

T hou gh I w o n th e b e t I placed—over six goals fo r th e Rangers-Canadiens ga m e—as so o n as I g o t back to m y tele vi­ sion, M aryland had taken a 2 1 -1 4 h a lftim e lead. W hile Florida State w e n t on

obvious. O f course, th e Bucs lost 15-10.

So in th e end, th is w e e ke n d , I learned th a t n o th in g is ob vi­ ous. In fact, I've d e c id e d fro m n o w on, I'll do a lo t b e tte r if I b e t against w h a t I th in k w o u ld be correct. Because w ith an o th e r

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last call

compiled by DAVID BLYE and ADAM MYERS

A R O U N D T HE H O R N

S T A N DI N G S

McGill X-Country continue dominance, take QSSF title

W

FOOTBALL

L

T

SOCCER(W)

PTS

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Lauren W hyte and Adrian W alton each cap tured gold m e d als as M cG ill sw e p t b o th th e m e n 's and w o m e n 's titles

8

LAVAL MONTREAL CONCORDIA SHERBROOKE

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2

6

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7

7

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16

12

McGILL

11

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MONTREAL

9

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CONCORDIA

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SHERBROOKE

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UQAM

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a t Parc M a is o n n e u v e in M o n tre a l o n Saturday.

It was th e 18 th straight title fo r th e M artle ts—all u n d e r th e

LAVAL

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3

4

18

SHERBROOKE

5

1

6

16

McGILL

5

1

6

16

UQTR

3

1

8

10

CONCORDIA

3

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8

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in

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m in utes,

14

seconds. T e am m a te

Elspeth

M cG regor captured silver in 1 8 :2 6 and Laval's V eronque Fortin w as th ird in 18 :42. R ounding o u t th e scoring fo r th e M artlets w e re G enevieve Jenkins (fo u rth , 1 8 :5 7 ), Jane Cullis (fifth , 1 8 :5 8 ) and Jessalyn O 'D o n n e ll (sixth, 1 9 :14).

Joining th o se five w o m e n at CIS nationals on Nov. 12 in Halifax w ill be D eborah Lightm an and D e en ie Q uinn.

O n th e m e n 's side, W alton c o m p le te d th e 10 km run

BOX SCORE

DECK

gu idance o f H ead Coach D e nn is Barrett—an d th e seventh in 13 years fo r th e R edm en, w h o had n o t w o n since 2 0 0 2 .

W h yte w as first o f 4 0 runners, fin is h in g th e five km

in 3 3 m in utes, 18 seconds, to fin ish ahead o f 3 5 o th e r runners. T eam m ate S tephen D ouglas w o n silver in 3 3 :2 3

Friday Oct. 28, 2005 McGill Redmen 2 vs. UQTR Patriotes 0 McConnell Arena

Martlets Soccer—Concordia @ McGill; Friday, 7 p.m. at Molson Stadium The M artlets begin th e ir pu sh fo r national glory on Friday night.

A w in is a m u s t in th is sin g le -e lim in a tio n Q USL sem i-final, as h o p e to "G o West."

Redmen Lacrosse-St. F-X @ McGill; Saturday, 2 p.m. at Forbes Field Pride w ill b e on th e line in th is n o n -co n fe re n ce clash. W h ile th e m u c h im p ro v e d R edm en m isse d th e post-season, a w in over

Scoring S um m a ry

Patrick M cA uliffe fin is h in g fifth , James Young sixth and

FIRST PERIOD: 1. M cG ill - D o ug O rr (un assiste d), 4 :3 6 (PP) 2. M cG ill - D o u g O rr (S. Shewchuk, C. G au th ier), 1 9 :27

M arty Fox eighth. The five finishe rs and M cCabe w ill be jo in e d at nationals b y A n th o n y O rth.

(PP)

Martlets blank Ottawa, win seventh straight QSSF title

Penalties: UQTR - T. P oudrier (R ough), 0 :3 7

th e X -M en w o u ld b e a serious co n fid e n ce b o o ste r fo r next year

UQTR - F. C loutie r (In te rfe re ), 4 :2 6

in th e season finale.

UQTR UQTR UQTR M cG ill

Martlets Hockey—Concordia @ McGill; Saturday, 2:30 p.m. at McConnell Arena m ake

its first trip to

M cC o nn ell Arena th is year. Tw o w eeks ago, th e M artlets stung

-

S. G ib b o n s (Cross), 9 :5 7 C. Laroche (R o ug h), 18:41 E. B eaudin (R o ug h), 1 9 :59 S. Pearce (D b le Rough), 1 9 :59

SECOND PERIOD:

th e Stingers in th e ir bu ild in g ; on Saturday, th e Red 'n ' W hite w ill

(n o scoring)

be lo okin g to d e fe n d th e house.

Penalties:

Redmen Rugby-Concordia @ McGill; Sunday, 1:30 p.m. at Molson Stadium

UQTR - L. M a n d e ville (R o u g h ) , 6 :0 8 M cG ill UQTR UQTR UQTR M cG ill M cG ill M cG ill M cG ill

W ith no national c h a m p io n sh ip in m e n 's rugby, th is Q URL title g a m e w ill be th e last fo r th e R edm en th is season. Look fo r a te a m th a t has b e e n p e rfo rm in g w e ll all season to take th e co n ­ fe re n c e cro w n fo r th e seco nd straight year.

NHL-Vancouver Canucks @ Calgary Flames; Saturday 10 p.m. on CBC T he Flam es h o st th e Canucks in a clash o f N o rth w e st D ivision rivals. A fte r a w e e ke n d o f bo os and je ers in Denver, Todd

- Y.Turcotte (R o ug h) , 6 :0 8 - T. P oudrier (R o u g h ) , 7:01 - J. B ou tin (H o ld , m isco n d u ct), 9 :0 0 - T. Lafontaine (H o o k ), 1 0 :24 - D. U rq u h a rt (Trip), 1 1 :03 - LS. A llaire (Cross), 18:01 - D. U rq u h a rt (H o o k ), 18:18 - Y. Turcotte (Slash), 18:53

THIRD PERIOD:

Bertuzzi an d th e Canucks w ill be happ y to b e playing back in

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Canada.

M cG ill - Y. Turcotte (R o ug h), 15:13 UQTR - A. Tessier (R ough), 16:52

Peyton M a n n in g has ne ver beaten th e Pats in F oxbo ro... and

M cG ill - K. M o rin (In te rfe re ), 16:52 UQTR - N. Pelletier (In te rfe re ), 19:07

w e 're g o in g to hear a b o u t it everyday fo r th e rest o f th e w e e k on SportsCentre.

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THIS WEEK IN McGILL SPORTS HISTORY Friday, Nov. 2, 2001

UQTR

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M cG ill

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W inger M ark Ihnatow ycz scored th re e tries an d John Reid ad d e d 13 p o in ts as M cG ill cruised to a lo psid ed 4 8 0 victory ove r Ecole de Technologie in a Q u e b e c m e n 's rugby s em ifina l on Sunday. T hat w in, c o m b in e d w ith C o ncordia's 2 0 -7 u p set at B ishop's in th e o th e r sem i, m ea ns th a t M cG ill w ill h o st Concordia in th e league c h a m p io n s h ip gam e at M olson S tadium next Sunday.

Reid con n e cte d on five conversions an d ad de d a pe na lty goal. Four o th e r R edm en scored tries, in clu d in g fla n ke r Jordan Ross, scru m -h a lf M arshall Eidinger, centre Frank H e w itt and fo rw a rd A drian Myers.

Soccer Martlets take regular season honours

e lim in a tin g it fro m th e QUSL playoffs. The tw o sides played

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I 2 0 m in u te s o f scoreless soccer, b u t M cG ill co u ld n o t con vert

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o n ce th e ga m e w e n t to penalties, losing 3 -0 . T he loss m arked th e fina l g a m e fo r such R edm en stalw arts as d e fe n d e r Rudy G lueck and C a m eroo nian m id fie ld e r Anaba Anaba.

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Saturday, Nov. 2, 1996

h e a rt o n M onday. W e've heard o f frustratin g fo o tb a ll 1 team s, b u t to p u t tw o coaches in th e hospital is q u ite a J

R edm en fo o tb a ll te a m ad vanced to th e O -Q IFC finals after

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fe a t... The NFL said it w ill n o t fin e Saints' o w n e r Tom I Benson fo r his exchange w ith a cam e ra m a n fo llo w in g j

d e fe a tin g Q u e e n 's 19-9. R unning back Shawn Linden led th e charge, rushing fo r 9 6 yards and b o th to u ch d o w n s. The

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th e ir loss to th e M ia m i D olphins. W hy was K enny Rogers

defence, led by J.P. Darche, he ld th e Gaels to 2 0 2 yards o f totals offen ce, in clu d in g ju s t 5 0 yards th ro u g h th e air.

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la m ba ste d by M LB an d th e m ed ia alike fo r his p e rfo rm - ; ance th is sum m e r, w h ile Benson goes u n scathe d? ... T he 1 NFL screw ed u p b y n o t sche du lin g a gam e in O akland | th is year o n H a llo w e e n w e eke nd. Raiders fans are rid icu- |

Sunday, Nov. 8, 1998

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lous en o u g h o n regular Sundays; it w o u ld have be en |

In fro n t o f a cro w d o f a lm o s t 2 ,6 0 0 a t M olso n Stadium , th e

The M artlets rugby squ ad fe ll 12 -8 in th e Q URL c h a m p i­ on sh ip ga m e to Concordia. T he Stingers, w h o trailed 8 -7 late,

30 seconds

le ft The loss w as th e last co n fe re n ce d e fe a t fo r th e M artlets, w h o have since go ne 61-0-1 and w o n seven Q u e b e c ch a m ­ pionships.

notch," said M cG ill Head Coach Vince deG randpré. "W e b e a t O ttaw a o n ly 12-5 in o u r last m e e tin g an d th a t was a little to o close fo r c o m fo r t O u r targe t n o w is to finish high on th e p o d iu m at th e N ationals in Victoria."

The M artlets, w h o led 2 6 -0 a t h a lf-tim e , g o t an e ig h t-p o in t p e rfo rm a n c e o n fo u r con versions fro m Sandra S im pson w h ile scrum -h alf Jocelyn Barrieau ta llie d th e g a m e -w in n e r early in th e first half.

R oun din g o u t th e scoring w e re flankers M arie-Josée Blais an d Karina Rollin, as w e ll as w in g e r Theresa Casey, each w ith o n e try apiece,.

M cG ill, 9-1 overall, is slated to practice at its sub ur­ ban ca m p u s on M o n d a y an d Tuesday b e fo re h e ad ing to CIS cha m pionsh ip s, a six-team to u rn a m e n t in Victoria, on W edn esd ay m orn ing . T he M artlets w ill be b id d in g to b e c o m e th e first Q u e b e c te a m to w in a na tion al rugby title.

A tte nd an ce: 6 5 0 *I

T he R edm en soccer te a m fe ll to UQ ÀM o n pe na lty kicks,

scored th e c h a m p io n s h ip -w in n in g try w ith ju s t

Fullback Julianne Zussm an scored a pair o f tries as M cG ill blanked th e O ttaw a G ee-G ees 3 8 -0 , Sunday at M cEw en Field, to capture th e ir seventh consecutive C hristine Regim bai tro p h y as Q u e b e c university w o m e n 's rugby cha m pions. Zussm an scored on ce in each ha lf as M cG ill e xte nde d th e ir u n d e fe a te d streak in Q u e b e c league an d p la yo ff action to 6 2 gam e, da ting back to a 1 9 9 8 u p set loss to C oncordia in th e co n fe re n ce final.

"I'm really pleased th a t w e w e re able to tu rn it up a

Redmen on to rugby finals after dominant win

Penalties:

NFL-Indianapolis Colts @ New England Patriots; Sunday 8:30 p.m. on TSN

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McGill, w h ic h had to m ake d o w ith o u t th e services o f th e in jure d Jeff McCabe, w as still w e ll represented, w ith

M cG ill w ill ne ed to w in th e co n fe re n ce c h a m p io n sh ip if th e y

Tensions w ill be high as C oncordia

and S herbrooke's S im on-Pierre Landry to o k th e b ro nze in

| scary to see w h a t co stu m e s th e y w o u ld have w o rn fo r All 1 I H allow s' E ve ... Poor Philip Rivers, th e fo u rth overall selec- j | tio n in th e 2 0 0 4 draft. H e 's fa llen b e h in d LaDainian | | T om linson on th e Chargers' QB d e p th c h a rt

O n Friday, M cG ill b a ttled th e M o n tre a l Carabins to a scoreless d ra w in w o m e n 's soccer a t M olson Stadium .

The result p u t third -ran ked M cG ill in th e driver's seat fo r th e regular-season crow n, m a in ta in in g th e M artlets slim lead ato p th e QUSL standings, o n e p o in t ahead o f N o.4 U niversité de M on tre al w ith o n e gam e re m a in in g be fore playoffs.

T he o p p o s in g goalkeepers w e re selected as th e ir respective G am e MVPs. Victoria Villalba, earned th e tie fo r M cG ill, p o sting h e r first o f tw o s hu touts on th e w e e k e n d and h e r seventh overall.

O n Sunday, th e M artle ts clinche d first w ith a w in 1-0 o ve r UQ AM . M id fie ld e r Vanessa Salasky scored in th e 4 3 rd m in u te and th e M artlets stellar d e fe n c e he ld on to th e lead. T he w in p u t th e M artlets ato p th e QUSL stand­ ings fo r th e seco nd straight year. They w ill h o st fo u rth place C oncordia in a s u d d e n -d e a th sem ifina l on Friday.

In Brief F orm er R edm en basketball stars D e rek A rm strong and D e n b u rk Reid have jo in e d th e M on tre al M atrix o f th e ABA... T he R edm en soccer te a m w as e lim in a te d fro m p la y o ff c o n te n tio n w ith tw o losses th is w e eke nd, 5 -0 to M on tré al on Friday an d 1-0 to UQ ÀM on Sunday.

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