The McGill Tribune Vol. 25 Issue 13

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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

S c h o o ls fo r sale Management faculty goes to highest bidder KAYVON AFSHARI Last Thursday the Faculty of M anagement announced that it had received a $22-million donation from the president and C E O of the C anadian Credit M anagem ent Foundation, Dr. Marcel Desautels, and that the faculty will be renam ed in his honour.

According to th e U niversity Relations Office, Management will use the donation to fund 'three end ow ed C hairs in B u sin ess Lead ership, six annual Scholars' Awards, a Visiting Scholars Program, an annual sym posium on integrative m anagem ent, innovative teaching and research programs, scholarships and fellowships, improved student services, and en h a n cem e n ts to teaching and research facilities.'

Desautels presented the gift— which represents the largest single donation ever m ade to a Canadian business or managem ent faculty—on

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behalf of the CCMF, which has also donated to the University of Toronto, th e Collège universitaire de StBoniface and the University of Manitoba.

"The purpose of the foundation is to selectively support institutions of higher learning and, more specifical­ ly, faculties of m anagem ent with chairs, scholarships and research with a view to produce better man­ agers," Desautels said.

The renaming of the Faculty of M anagem ent m irrors the recent change in the Faculty of Music. Just last month, McGill renamed the fac­ ulty the Schulich School of Music after netting a $20-million donation from wealthy philanthropist Seymour Schulich. W hile th ese sym bolic changes challenge the notion of dis­ creet donations, Associate VicePrincipal Com m unications Jennifer Robinson pointed out that it is a com m on practice.

See BRONFMANpage 7.

It's not often that McGill is asso­ ciated with perfection, but in the case of hockey, these two term s can be linked. Sports explores the unbe­ lievable starts to both the Redmen and Martlets seasons, following the m en to Waterloo and S t Catherines w hile watching the w om en take care of business at home.

Drugs: Can't live with ’em, can't live without ’em? In this week’s features section, explore drug use through his­ tory —the pros and cons of magiunana legalization and where the curious can go to find detailed information about any drug. Check out students' thoughts on drugs in our eye-opening survery and then decide for your­ self: Are drugs a gateway to the psychadelic, or simply to the psych ward?

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HEATHER

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Shooting the breeze with HMB P rin c ip a l s h a r e s h e r v ie w s o n s e p a r a t is m , t u it io n a n d n a m in g t h e n e x t fa c u lty Principal Heather Munroe-Blum sat down with the Tribune to sum up what has undoubtedly been a turbulent fall semester.

Heather Munroe-Blum on... ...faculty and building naming rights: I've stated to both the Board of Governors and Senate that there is an absolute process for determining naming, and cer­ tainly while I'm principal, no building and no program—no major program like a faculty—will be named for a corporation. These are individual nam es, not corporate nam es. Second, and I'll just tell you som e of the other criteria, the individuals] w hose gifts w e take have been well regarded as people of integrity and have a good record. There is no restriction on the academ ic freedom on the program that is funded, and the donors have no extra rights with respect to the direction of w hat happens within those faculties or other programs.

...the possibility of Quebec separation, and McGill's role in an independent, francophone Quebec: We would stay the course, with our mission and with our com m itm ent to quality teaching and research. My feeling is that, notwithstanding [Parti Québécois leader Andre] BoisdaiTs posi­ tion, Q uebec has a new modus operandi in that young Q uebecers—whether they're francophone, allophone or anglo­ phone—have a deep interest in the success of Quebec. . . . It's a fact that 5 0 per cent of our students are Quebecers, and that w e have a very significant francophone population at McGill. I think that there's a strong Q uebec pride within McGill. That's one piece of the answer. The other piece of the answer is that w e've lived in this environm ent for 3 0 years. . .. At the sam e tim e it's very important for us, in the Quebec context, to com m unicate the benefits of McGill.

...the potential deregulation of tuition in Quebec: Well, let m e start in principle. We are a grotesquely under­ funded university, and if w e weren't underfunded, w e wouldn't be talking about tuition. I'm not for deregulation, I'm for re-regu­ lation, and it's actually an important policy distinction. Every stu­ dent should com e in knowing, and this should be approved by the Board of G o vern o rs... that [tuition increases] wouldn't g o and I'm making up a figure—wouldn't go above five per cent per year while you're a student, or three per cent per year. But I don't

believe in a tuition policy; I believe in a tuition/student aid poli­ cy. In Quebec, tuition has been judged to be about 10 per cent of the cost of living for a student. It's hard to be a student if you can't pay your rent, can't buy food, those kinds of things. If you cap increase the revenues [for student aid] . . . w e would be able to make a promise w e cannot afford today—and no university in Q uebec can afford the promise today—that if you're qualified to be at McGill, you can com e independent of your financial needs.

That's m y goal as principal.

...meeting faculty enrollment targets: McGill is no longer a large Canadian university, so w e have contained enrolment dramatically. We've grown at a much sm all­ er rate [than Toronto or Montréal] and w e actually think the size of the student population is great at w hat it is, but with the ques­ tion of targets, there are som e areas w here w e've decreased enrolm ent and som e areas w here w e've grown it. It's very inter­ esting—and we're discussing it—but from [our] perspective as a research-intensive, student-oriented university, w e should be growing slightly the graduate population and shrinking slightly overall the undergraduate population. Those will be som e of the things that will be happening as we're going forward.

.. .the use of the name "McGill" in the Students' Society and in club names: Well, I'm not directly involved in those negotiations with the student association, and w e have several that are ongoing right now. The question of whether McGill's nam e might be in the nam e of the Students' Society is something I think w e need to look very carefully a t . .. I think w e really need to look at this in a com prehensive w ay and decide whether or not this is where w e want to be, and I can think of m any reasons w h y w e would want the nam e McGill in the students' society. We would be wor­ ried in particular circumstances. I am interested in the question of student naming, and McGill's presence in that. We'll have a discussion.

...SSMU's representation on the Board of Governors, which SSMU advocates should be the president: This was the Board's decision—this wasn't my personal decision—and the Board's decision w as that those who sit at the Board of Governors have a very special privilege to make repre-

JAMESGOTOWIEC Principal Munroe-Blum didn't say what the mini James McGill was whispering in her ear. Sweet nothings, maybe? sentation, and that the comm unity of McGill prefers—and the Board of Governors wants—som eone who's really a student.

That's our reason, to have our governing process run by people w ho are part of the university.

...tuition increases for Quebec students versus Canadian students and international students: There are three different levels of tuition fram ew ork... but the general fram ework is of having som e re-regulation—not deregulation—and of taking 3 0 cents on every dollar and putting it into student aid. That's what I want for students in general, w hether they're international or Canadian students [from] out­ side of Quebec. ' In programs w here the students, upon graduation, are mak­ ing a lot more money quickly, [more so] than in som e of the general programs, you might think about w hether or not it m akes sen se to look at having different fees—and I'm talking about international now.

—C o m p ile d b y R o b e rt Church

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Showcasing the hidden Schindlers of W W II E x h ib it u n ra v e ls th e u n to ld s t o r ie s o f S e c o n d W o r ld W a r d ip lo m a ts MARGAUX CARSON Sixty years after the end of the Second World War, som e unsung heroes are finally being recognized. Visas fo r Life, an exhibit in the McLennan-Redpath library organized by the Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University, explores how diplomats saved the lives of thousands of Jew s during the Second World War. These government officials risked their lives by disobeying orders from their superiors, which stipulated that they w ere to refuse to allow Jew s to enter their respective hom e countries.

Instead, the diplomats issued exit visas, transit visas, protective papers and citizenship papers that allowed refugees to cross bor­ ders safely.

One of the stories included in the exhibit surrounds Portuguese Consul Aristides de Sousa Mendes. M endes w as sta­ tioned in Bordeaux, France and learned of the plight confronting the Jewish people through a local rabbi. It w as 1940-^German troops had invaded France and w ere closing in on Bordeaux.

Under Germ an rule Jewish people had to give up a num ber of their rights, including citizenship, effectively preventing them from escaping Nazi oppressors, and M endes had direct orders not to issue any Portuguese papers to stateless Jews. After much deliberation, Mendes, with the help of his staff, issued a visa to anyone w ho cam e knocking at his door. In three days, they issued 3 0 ,0 0 0 visas.

Word got back to Portuguese authorities, who eventually

VLADIMIREREMIN Go see this exhibit in the Redpath Library removed M endes from his post.

"He w as so concerned about these people that'even while he w as being escorted home, he would stop and sign whatever papers people waved at him, telling them his signature would be recognized at the borders," said Paula Weitzman of the Canadian

Friends of Tel-Aviv University.

M endes's actions cost him dearly. He w as removed from the foreign ministry and lost all his assets. Most of his children left the country—som e immigrating to Canada—because there w as little future left for them in Portugal. Nine years after the war, M endes died in poverty.

Although M endes w as persecuted by his government, today he is rem em bered in Portugal as a hero. The Israeli government first recognized his actions in 1967, honouring him as one of the "Righteous Among the Nations"—one of the highest Israeli awards for humanity. In 1987, the Portuguese Republic granted him a posthum ous Order of Liberty m edal, and finally, in 1994 a bust of M endes was erected in Bordeaux.

This is one of m any stories told through the exhibit. What all these diplomats shared w as the belief that each human life is precious.

"We hope this exhibit will inspire people to speak up and act against violence and racism, no matter how small the act,” Weitzman said. ■ C anadian Frien ds o f Tel A viv University is a lso h ostin g a lec­ ture a n d recep tio n in h o n o u r o f the diplo m atic rescu e, in co n ju n c­ tion with th e faculties o f A rts a n d Law. It will b e h e ld D ec. 1 in Lea co c k 2 3 2 . Prof. M orton W einfeld a n d Prof. R e n e P rovost will b e sp e a k in g a lo n g with sp e c ia l g u e s t Louis-Philippe M en d es, g ra n d ­ so n o f A ristid es d e S o u sa M e n d e s. It is o p en to th e public.

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O n the frontier of videoconferencing M c G ill t e a m w o w s c r o w d a t S u p e r c o m p u t in g c o n v e n t io n VINCCITSUI Last w eek, students and professors in McGill's own UltraVideoconferencing G roup participated in the Bandwidth Challenge hosted by Supercomputing 2 0 0 5 . The convention, held Nov. 12-18 in Seattle, featured m ore than 2 5 0 exhibitors from industry and academ ia, and engaged Bill Gates as a keynote speaker.

The McGill team , consisting of John Roston, director of Instructional M ultim edia Services, and Professor Jere m y Cooperstock of the Departm ent of Electrical and Computer Engineering, presented a videoconferencing project called 'Shared Spaces."

'Shared Spaces” differs from conventional video-conferenc­ ing programs mainly due to the team 's efforts to reduce non­ network latency, also referred to as "Internet friction” or "lag."

While m ost programs wait until an entire fram e is inputted before beginning transmission, Roston and Cooperstock's sys­ tem transmits blocks of partial fram es. With the help of three 65inch high-definition plasma screens and an audio system of comparable quality, "Shared Spaces" does exactly what its nam e implies—it creates the illusion that users are interacting in the sam e room.

Though the team 's technology w as able to transmit up to five gigabits per second—regular high-speed Internet typically receives about three megabits per second—they w ere beaten out by a team that managed to send 3 0 0 gigabits per. second

over the network. Still, Roston and Cooperstock managed to snag the award for the Most Innovative Project of the nine team s in the competition.

To demonstrate their project, Roston and Cooperstock enlisted the help of Gordon Foote, an associate professor in the Schulich School of Music, and five of his students: Stephanie Richards, David Robitaille, Russ M acKlem, Sebastien Pellerin and

With the help of three 65-inch high-definition plasma screens and an audio system of comparable quality, "Shared Spaces" does exactly what its name implies—it creates the illusion that videoconfercing users are interacting in the same room.

Alex Pinto. Foote w as responsible for teaching and conducting his students in Montreal from the convention in Seattle.

"It w as a very neat experience," Foote said. "We w ere sort of the 'guinea pigs' for this project, and w e rehearsed and per­ form ed at the convention. [Roston and Cooperstock] did a real­ ly good job of eliminating the latency and echo effect, so w e had eye contact and sound contact like w e w ere in the sam e room."

The students also enjoyed working with the technology, but it did take tim e to get used to not being in the sam e room as Foote and adjust to the latency that still remained.

M em bers of the team foresee m any applications for this system in the future.

"There are lots of uses—most of them w e haven't thought of at this point," Foote said. "Som e exam ples I can think of would be if a musician received a grant to study with som eone at another institution, they wouldn't have to worry about travel, hotel and other expenses as long as that person has the sam e technology wherever they are. It could also be used to bring m usicians from different cities in recording. That's just in music.

John Roston w as saying at the convention that it could be used by the US military or NASA.” The team 's achievem ents did not com e without som e obstacles.

"In the earlier tests, there would be a five-second delay between w hen I said something and w hen m y students heard it, and you can't play m usic that way," Foote said.

Team m em bers w ere alm ost unable to present their project at the convention as their camera stopped functioning the morn­ ing of the judging.

"John Roston w as calling [the camera company], trying to figure out what w as wrong with it," Foote said. "Fortunately, we found another camera to rent from another exhibitor. There was tons of equipm ent involved, like cam eras, microphones, lights, screens; fortunately, it all cam e together in the end." ■ M o re inform ation on th e "S h a red S p a c e s " p ro je c t a n d oth er p ro je cts b e in g w o rk e d o n b y the M cG ill Ultra-Video C onferencing G ro up a t ultravideo.mcgill.edu

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Campus gears up for Kyoto S t u d e n t s a n d p r o fs p r e p f o r c lim a t e m e e tin g INES BEATRIX McGill students and professors rallied around the issue of dim ate change in advance of the UN Conference on Clim ate Change in Montreal this w eek, organizing lec­ tures and a protest to coincide with the conference. This is the first tim e the parties to the Kyoto, protocol have met since the treaty cam e into effect in February.

The Faculty of Law is hosting a sym posium in paral­ lel with the UN gathering to exam ine the implications of the Kyoto Protocol for international law. Student groups including Greening McGill, Sustainable McGill, Grassroots Action for Student Power and Students Providing an Alternative Resource for Knowledge, have banded togeth­ er under the banner of the McGill Climate Change Coalition to pool resources and increase turnout "They're expecting d o se to 1 0 ,0 0 0 people," said Rachel Abs, U1 History and IDS. "The aim s of the march itself are: Kyoto is not enough, and w e need to think beyond 2012." The treaty expires in 2 0 1 2.

In addition, tonight marks the beginning of the History in Controversy lecture series. The lecture, spon­ sored by the History Students' Association as well as Greening McGill, will feature Professor Peter Brown of the Departm ent of Geography and Geoffrey Garver, a director o f the Com m ission for Environmental Cooperation of North America. The C EC is an international organization created by Canada, the US and Mexico to address region­ al environmental issues, try to prevent potential trade con­ flicts and help enforce environmental law.

According to Brown, Kyoto will not do enough to solve the planet's climate problems. He deem s it nothing but a "symbolic resolve" and “small footstep" on a long path to a sustainable ecological system . The protocol will help to decrease the effects of greenhouse gases, but the carbon cyd e will remain out of equilibrium.

Garver agreed. "The Kyoto Protocol is a relatively sm all first step that will not by itself significantly slow down climate change,” he said.

Both Garver and Brown argued that the Kyoto Protocol is far too lenient on developing countries, allow­ ing them significant leew ay to continue emitting green­ house gases w hile requiring developed countries to cut em issions. This limits the role of the Kyoto Protocol, they said, and fails to acknowledge a worrying trend—while

em issions are higher in developed countries, the rate of em issions growth is m uch higher in the developing world.

But as Brown pointed out, the im perfect nature of the protocol isn't reason enough to re jed it.

"It is by no m eans a valid excuse for developed countries not to ratify the convention," he said.

Garver said that a cap-and-trade system would help lower em issions, but this would be not enough. Cap and trade refers to a system w here com panies' em issions would be capped by law. Any com panies lowering their em issions below the cap could sell their excess "em is­ sions credits" to another company. Economists say the system would lead to the greatest efficiency, as com pa­ nies that can easily lower their em issions will do so and m ake a profit selling their excess credits.

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"We need a vision of and com m itm ent to sustain­ able developm ent that recognizes limits to growth and attempts to work'toward true sustainability," he said.

In addition to the lecture series, on Thursday Students' Society Council passed a motion committing $ 5 0 0 to the Montreal March for Climate and endorsing the dem ands of the demonstration, which will call on the federal government to present a stronger plan for m eet­ ing its Kyoto obligations, as well as remind politicians that the treaty is only the first step towards a sustainable future. SSM U also mandated the Sustainable McGill Project, a student-led initiative working for an environ­ mentally sustainable com m unity on cam pus, to assess its greenhouse gas em issions. ■ T he inaugura l H istory in C ontroversy lecture will take p la c e tonight a t 6 p .m ., in Lea co ck 2 6

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Inside the old boys’ club W o m e n in H o u s e p a irs s t u d e n t s a n d M P s LISA VARANO

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—M essag e in o n e of th e stalls in th e first-floor w o m e n 's w a sh ­ roo m in th e S h a tn e r University C entre. The Z oom M edia a d th a t usually o cc u p ie s th e s p a c e h a d b e e n rem o v ed .

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"If you actively discriminate against men who want to participate in the program, then I think it's sexist," he said, clarifying that he w as speaking hypothetically and not lev­ elling an accusation against W omen in House.

H e suggested that if Men in House existed, it would not be accepted.

"People would not accept it if a group of guys got together and said, 'Let's go to Parliament and see how we run the country,"' he said.

Critics of W omen in House are missing the point, Dougan said.

"What I don't understand about the criticisms of the program is that it's actually a win-win situation. It's creat­ ing opportunities. It's not taking any opportunities away," she said. "If wom en didn't get to go on the program, then no one would get to go. It's not like men would get to go instead."

She explained that the program would not be as suc­ cessful if it w ere coeducational.

"I don't think it would work because a lot of these

There w as a handful more w om en on Parliament Hill last w eek as Two dozen McGill students participated in W omen in House, an Ottawa trip to job-shadow fem ale M em bers of Parliament.

O rganized by the Political S cien ce Students' Association, the goal of the program is to encourage young wom en to becom e involved in politics. Women in House began in 2001 and has grown markedly since its first year, w hen four students participated. The fifth annu­ al trip, held last Monday and Tuesday, matched partici­ pants with 2 2 MPs and one Senator.

The first day of the trip provided an introduction to Parliament Hill. Students toured Parliament, watched Question Period from the public gallery, met Minister of International Cooperation Aileen Carroll and had a discus­ sion with New Democrat Libby Davies and Lynne Yelich of the Conservatives.

Participants also m et with Minister of Public Health Carolyn Bennett the fol­ lowing evening, but the group splintered during the day, which w as devot­ ed to observing parlia­ m entarians at w ork by individually shadow ing th em . Students tagged along as MPs attended briefings, com m ittee meetings, meetings with lobbyists and parliamen­ tary debate.

Laura Dougan, a W omen in House coordi­ nator and previous partici­ pant, said that the pro­ gram gives young wom en a valuable opportunity to gain an inside look at pol­ itics and shows them that DYANNASACOUTIS it can be a career option.

"I didn't ever think Women in House participant Cynthia Pema (left) shadowed MP Eleni Bakopanos. Paul about actually going into Martin even stopped by to court her vote. politics, ever, before this MPs take this tim e specifically to devote to this particular program," she said. "But w hen I w as there, it just dem ys­ cause," she said. tified the process."

Overall, participants had positive feedback.

Women in a man's world "I enjoyed both spending tim e with other wom en Twenty-one per cent of MPs are fem ale, while the from McGill w ho are passionate about politics, w hile also average in Senate is 3 3 per cent. W omen in House high­ having the chance to see the M embers of Parliament with lights the need to increase the num ber of w om en in gov­ w hom w e w ere paired put that kind of passion into ernm ent, but the issue is contentious even am ong fem ale action," said Zhaleh Afshar, U3 Political Science and MPs. Middle Eastern Studies.

"It's very important to have fem inist, progressive U3 Political Science student Gloria Roheim said that w om en in Parliament to change the political agenda," said she w as disappointed by the representative she shad­ NDP House Leader Davies. owed, who did not seem interested in answering ques­ She said that w om en have equality in a theoretical tions and forgot her n am e throughout the day. sense, but not in the way government funds are spent, Nevertheless, she said the experience w as worthwhile pointing to the lack of universal child care as an example. because it gave her a realistic view of politics.

Minister Carroll agreed that w om en should enter "As far as I'm concerned, it reiterated, to me, the very public life because they are changing it. opportunism involved in politics—so for that alone it was “I don't think I becam e a fem inist until I cam e to beneficial," she said.

Cabinet," she said, explaining that her portfolio stirred her The trip w as subsidized, allowing studepts to attend to realize that the faces of AIDS and poverty are largely regardless of m eans. fem ale.

But Yelich, the Status of W omen critic for the Why can't men go too?

Conservatives, said that she is neither an activist nor a A program designed to get m ore wom en into politics fem inist, but a believer in an equal playing-field that is m ay seem benign, but it has sparked som e debate on blind to gender. She said that w om en have made gains in campus. politics and are no longer a special interest group.

"It's amazing how m uch opposition w e encountered "I just want to see good people in Parliament," she this year—not necessarily from people w ho were willing to said. "There's so m uch more than representing your gen­ fund the program, but more on a peer level," Dougan der." ■ said.

Lisa Varano travelled to Ottawa a s a participant in Jason Chung, U3 Political Science, said he can W omen in H ouse. understand the opposition.

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D a y s b u ild s a w a r e n e s s a n d s h o w s a n o t h e r s id e o f Q u e e r NIALL MACKAY ROBERTS

Q ueer com m unities have long faced accusations of male domination. In Montreal's gay village, for instance, dykes and the transgendered are often overshadowed by the more vocal and visible elem ents of gay male culture. In fact, even in a city which prides itself on the strength and diversity of its queer population, the num ber of bars or clubs catering specifically to the dyke comm unity can be counted on one hand. The trans population, on the other hand, routinely faces ostracism—if not worse—on Montreal streets.

Q ueer McGill itself has been criticized in the past as a sort of boys' club, too focused on the interests of its gay m ale mem bership. Partly in an attempt to address these concerns, the constitution of the Students' Society-funded service used to mandate the election of two political and two social coordinators of opposite genders.

"Ostensibly, the reason w as that w e wanted to guard against the exec being all gay men or all lesbians," said for­ m er Q ueer McGill administrator Matthew Toth.

Last year, Toth w as one of the executives responsible for changing the Q ueer McGill's constitution to remove ref­ erences to gender, which m any had criticized as a perpetu­ ation of discriminatory gender-binary paradigms. "[The references to gender] weren't really doing any good, and w e thought it would be more inclusive to strike the clauses," said Toth. "We wanted to show that in our offi­ cial work, w e were trying to be more progressive with regards to gender. We've always wanted to make sure w e w ere representing the diversity w e see on campus."

As a part of its effort to represent this diversity, each year Q ueer McGill puts on "Dyke Days"—a w eek of screen­ ings, workshops and discussions exploring topics of partic­ ular relevance to the occasionally overlooked dyke elem ent of McGill's queer community. The w eek culminates in a candlelight vigil on the steps of the Arts building, marking the international Trans Day of Rem em brance for victims of transphobic and gender-based violence.

transformation for Q ueer McGill, which has seen m ore par­ ticipation from dykes on cam pus-particularly within the executive—than in years past.

"We've really seen a lot in the past year or two of w om en getting involved much more than men," said Toth.

This year, the service also created the position of Trans/Gender Issues Resource Coordinator, responding to longstanding dem ands that Q ueer McGill better incorporate trans issues into its mandate.

Alix Dragomir, UO Arts, attended last Frida/s screening and discussion on "dyke-for-dyke" pom. Although only in her first year at McGill, she said she felt a strong queer pres­ ence on cam pus and appreciated Q ueer McGill's efforts to reach out to incoming students.

"I've enjoyed Q ueer McGill events because the envi­ ronment's so friendly, and this was no exception," she said.

"It wasn't watching pom for porn's sake; it w as about dis­ cussing it."

Dragomir also attended last Satu rda/s Homo Hop, an event that has traditionally been predominantly male in attendance. While she acknowledged that this w as still the case, Dragomir said the environm ent remained welcom ing and fun.

"I wouldn't say there w as a good gender balance, but I didn't mind at all," she said. “[The Hom o Hop] is male dominated in the percentage of people there, but it's not centred towards gay m en. The m usic and the drinking w ere there for everyone."

Dragomir also praised Queer McGill's recent efforts to broaden its mandate and reach out to other genders.

"From what I've seen, I feel like [Queer McGill] is improving and the focus is shifting from completely queermale-centred to being m ore inclusive," she said. "I think th e /re trying very hard."

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Solem ner ceremonies rem em ber trans violence Last w eek's activities ended on a m ore som bre note on Sunday, as a group of roughly 2 0 gathered to mark the international Trans Day of Rem em brance. The event is held to recognize the violence still perpetrated against transgen­ dered individuals—those identifying with a gender different from that assigned at birth—and the intersexed those born with a biologically ambiguous sex.

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Joëlle-C ircé Laram ée, vice-president of the International Intersex O rganization, spoke briefly at S u n d a /s candlelight vigil. She credited- Q ueer McGill, among other groups on cam pus, with helping to inform stu­ dents about the challenges faced by the trans community.

"Even the queer comm unity is a victim of the genderbinary system and so often thinks of functions as m ale/fem ale," Laram ée said. "By having these vigils and being public about the horrible violence against trans peo­ ple, w e work towards sensitizing society. Q ueer McGill, the Trans/Gender Alliance and also V-Day McGill have been great in getting trans rights and lives better understood and included on the McGill campus."

Laram ée also cautioned against dividing the queer com m unity into interest groups, arguing in favour of the larger queer solidarity that Q ueer McGill has recently been trying to achieve.

"Those of us who don't conform to the heteronormative binary of m ale/fem ale have at least this in com m on," Laram ée said. "One day, w e may com e to understand that w e are m ore alike than not" On this, Dragomir agreed. She attended the Trans Day of Rem em brance cerem onies and denounced the universi­ ty as inattentive to trans issues. In particular, m any disap­ prove of the university's use in official records of nam es and genders assigned at birth. Both SSM U and the university are also criticized for failing to provide adequate gender-neutral washroom space.

"You should play to the different wants of sub-com m u­ nities within Q ueer McGill," Dragomir said, "but overall sol­ idarity is more important" ■

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After fading from view last year, the White Ribbon Campaign is re-establishing itself on campus.

Last year m em bers of the Sexual Assault Centre of the McGill Students' Society, who had traditionally organized the campaign to end violence against w om en, decided to leave it in the hands of the men the campaign targets. Although student Jacob Itzkowitz organized a few days of ribbon distribution, the m ovem ent remained largely grassroots.

Three m en started the White Ribbon Campaign in 1991 partly in response to the Montreal Massacre of 1989, in which a 25-year-old armed man targeting wom en killed 14 fem ale stu­ dents at the Ecole Polytechnique.

"They w ere a bit sad that it would take something as dras­ tic as the Montreal Massacre to get media attention on the sub­ ject of violence," said Clay Jones, office manager at the White Ribbon Campaign, "so they started the White Ribbon Campaign for the purpose of educating people, specifically m en, about m en's violence against women."

This year U2 Econom ics student David Munroe has taken on the task of organizing the McGill campaign.

"Violence against w om en is fairly predominant in our socie­ ty," he said. "It happens often and usually at the hands of men, and it can often be overlooked. Last year w hen I heard that the campaign wasn't happening, I couldn't get m y act together fast

enough, but at the end of the year I was thinking about it like, 'This should really be going on.'"

This year the McGill campaign will start small, Munroe said.

On Thursday and Friday—which is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against W om en—about 10 male student volunteers will hand out ribbons on cam pus in exchange for nominal donations, in addition to distributing literature. Aside from the cost of the ribbons, all proceeds benefit SACOMSS "My goal for second term is to try to establish a club or group at McGill, likely through SSM U," Munroe said. 'That w ay there will always be a group designated to do it so there won't be confu­ sion like there was last year."

Next year Munroe hopes to invite guest speakers and dis­ tribute ribbons over a longer period of time. The idea is for stu­ dents to w ear the ribbon for two w eeks until Dec. 6, Canada's National Day of Rem em brance and Action on Violence Against W omen and the anniversary of the Montreal Massacre.

Progress in combating violence against wom en is difficult to m easure, Jones said, although he has seen positive signs.

'W e are trying to educate people, so it's hard to know if you succeeded or not," Jones said, "but I do know that more and more people are contacting us, so at least more and m ore peo­ ple are aware that it's a problem."

According to a 2 0 0 5 Statistics Canada report, spousal vio­ lence against w om en declined slightly from 1999 to 2 0 0 4 , from eight per cent to seven per cent, or 6 5 3 ,0 0 0 w om en.

"The num ber of people who are leaving abusive relation­ ships has gone up, which is a good thing," Jones said, "and the num ber of secondary relationships also involving dom estic abuse has gone down, so w om en are finding better relation­ ships."

Beyond the campaign, Munroe said, m en should be aware of how their everyday com m ents or actions m ay perpetuate stereotypes, and speak out against them.

"If [you hear] something you don't feel good about, make a sta n d ... and say that's not acceptable," he said.

While the campaign is geared toward m en, Jones said, the White Ribbon Campaign fully supports w om en wearing the rib­ bons. Munroe encouraged w om en to also raise discussions with men and other wom en.

"In m y eyes it's all about opening up a dialogue between men and men, m en and w om en, wom en and w om en—just cre­ ating aw areness about one's role in society as far as reinforcing stereotypes or ideologies goes, and then also one's role in rela­ tionships, be with them friends, a partner of sorts, or even with people you interact with on a daily basis," Munroe said. "The more people are thinking about it, the less likely it is to happen."

White Ribbon Cam paign volunteers w ill b e distributing rib­ bon s on Thursday at the M ilton C ates and on Friday in M cConnell Engineering, both days from 8 :3 0 a.m . to 4 :3 0 p.m . For m ore infor­ m ation, visit www.whiteribbon.ca

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Dr. Louis Chauvin, a M anagement faculty lecturer, said that the donation was a positive developm ent for "Recognizing donors in this w ay is something that is done throughout North America," Robinson said. "In fact, the school.

"Financial things being the w ay they are for the there are large numbers of faculties in other universities Faculty and for education institutions in general in that have had proud nam es of the benefactors for many years—so it's one w ay of recognizing the visionary and the Quebec, this m oney is certainly going to have positive repercussions," he said. "We'll be able to increase the generous gift of donors who w e believe warrant being num ber of professors, improve the physical facilities, etc recognized in this way. That's w hy w e do it and that's the and that can only be good for the students and the qual­ only reason, w e do it." ity of the education they get here."

Reaction in the Bronfman building w as mixed. While Chauvin em phasized he didn't know how the money som e M anagement students have frowned upon the would be spent. He said that in a perfect world, public renaming of their faculty, they consider it a compromise. goods like education would be funded purely by govern­ "I think charity should be discreet, but at the sam e ments, but he had no problem with private donations as tim e I feel like at this point they really need funding and long as clear boundaries were respected.

"I have no issue with pri­ vate individuals donating money for the benefit of our education system," he said, "as long as all safeguards are insti­ tuted to en su re it doesn't directly and unduly influence the content of curriculum or the integrity of the principle of freedom of research."

Others are less concerned with the renaming of the facul­ ty than with how the money will be spent.

"My biggest concern is that it's going to be for getting people like [John Cleghorn VLADIMIR EREMIN Professor] H enry Mintzberg, who are just there for the For $22-million, you too can have a banner... and a school... with your name on it. show and don't teach any classe s," said Matt W oodland, U 2 Finance and the sacrifice they have to make to get it is up to them," Entrepreneurship. "He doesn't really teach—he just lends said Laurent Varlet, U 1 Management. "I feel that the nam e his nam e to the school. He doesn't really give anything being there doesn't do that m uch—people will still look at back to the students. So the m oney used for him doesn't the reputation of the faculty and not really consider the really improve our education." ■ name."

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M O H A M M A D M IR A L Y n the wake of the recent riots in France, the sam e refrain that followed July's London bombings is heard: Why are local-born citizens perpetrating vio­ lence against their own country? Why do these "home-growns" feel so disconnected from their country of citizenship?

In France's case, the rioters have been mostly young men, unemployed, Muslim and of North- or West-African ethnicity. The civic strife of recent w eeks has been attributed to the Islamic element, but this is a factor that plays a som ew hat oblique role in the equation. The palpable sense of exclusion felt by residents of the poorer French suburbs has been burgeoning for decades. This w as recognized over 10 years ago w hen President Chirac rightly pin­ pointed pervasive discrimination as the spur of what he called a "social rift" in the country. Unfortunately, the situation has not been ameliorated, as is clear from the country's openly discriminatory policing and em ploym ent policies, which target youths resid­ ing in areas known for their ethnicity and poverty.

France's integrationist model, which promotes individual action, is buttressed on its trenchant poli­ cy of secularism. By making the official recognition of minorities illegal, the model tries to integrate im mi­ grants. The model fails, however, because it does not account for poverty and the segregation that results. This consequence of the integrationist model is felt most heavily by the ghettoized and poor second-generation ethnic minorities, whose attempts to climb the proverbial ladder of meritocra­ cy have been crippled.

This is the reality of the myth of French solidar­ ity, which romanticizes the notion of a monolithic society. Because it is a vehem ently secular country w here even filling in one's religion on a form is ille­ gal, it is assum ed that people are viewed equally.

What is closer to the truth, though, is that the coun­ try is com posed of separate societies cleaved along econom ic lines. Though "official" Islam in France decried the riots and individual im am s did their part

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t is im possible to avoid being bom­ clothe pets in this world, the better. barded with reminders of w h y the • Men, wom en and children who fall world is going to hell in a handbas­ asleep on you on public transit. Ditto ket. Fleadlines warn of bird flu and for those w ho clip their toenails on the melting polar icecaps. News programs train or floss their teeth on the bus. ITs detail how all our politicians are nice that they're putting forth the unethical scumbags. It seem s as if natural disaster strikes or w ar H o w h a rd is it fo r th e in c o m p e te n t escalates on a daily basis. e m p lo y e e s a t M e t ro a n d P ro v ig o to But there are several deepseated issues that thus far have p u t th e e g g s in a s e p a ra te b a g fro m escaped our moral radar, and yet th e e c o n o s iz e la u n d ry d e te rg e n t? are equally responsible for soci­ ety's downfall. We shouldn't beat around the bush anym ore: It's tim e effort to groom given that m any in that w e point fingers at those who are Montreal don't, but they could refrain truly culpable for the impending apoc­ from doing it in public—you know, if alypse. it's not asking too much.

• The em ployees w ho work the • All fast food restaurants and their checkout at Metro and Provigo, all of patrons. (Pause for the privilegedw hom are overwhelmingly incom pe­ undergrad-cum -radical-anti-capitalist tent. I understand that their job is hor­ to m ake a snarky com m ent about ribly monotonous and they have prob­ how M cD onald's should be held ably lost the will to live after serving accountable for every social ill... sorry the likes of spoiled Ghetto-dwellers, to disappoint, but I'm obviously not so I no longer care that they don't going that route.) But I do loathe smile. But how hard is it to put the these places because, w hen I have eggs in a separate bag from the the urge for fries, it's damn near econosize laundry detergent? im possible to eat them in peace.

• Chihuahuas. They are not dogs; Between the squealy suburban teens dogs are cute, friendly and loyal. out past their bedtime w ho insist on Chihuahuas are horribly unsightly, necking in public, drug dealers who overly demanding and piss every­ give you a reason—beyond the where. They also have a tendency to squalor—not to use the bathrooms, get under your feet, forcing you to and urine-scented drunks w ho have step on them , at which point they an incoherent dialogue w ith the howl and you look like an asshole. generic fake plants, it's almost enough • People who dress up said rats—in to m ake m e go to Nickels... Almost.

Burberry, no le ss—and tote them • Professors who encourage students to answer questions with their own around in purses. This is nothing but embarrassing, for both them and the personal anecdotes. My parents aren't dogs. My one hope is that these ani­ paying for m e to listen to a rambling mals are brighter than I give them story about your prom experience in credit for, and that they are secretly Blind River or Moose Factory, Ont. It's plotting th eir ow ners' d em ises. a w aste of tim e; please just shut up.

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to chastise the participants, certain factions found the situation ripe for propagandizing violence. This w as Islam's oblique participation in the riots. Though the stigmatization of Islam in France is undeniable, the more serious undercurrent of the riots is the dis­ crimination poorer citizens feel due to their econom ­ ic circumstances.

This is the salient issue: that there exists among m any local-born French citizens a deep-rooted sense of marginalization. It is small a wonder, then, that they have w eak affiliations with society at large and therefore, little difficulty tearing at its already weakened seam s. France has tried to trump identifi­ cation with ethnicity, religion, culture or ideology in favour of com m on citizenship. Flowever, the difficul­ ty, and the danger, is to assum e that managing diver­ sity through the law will result in respect for diversi­ ty by the people.

What can be done, then? Typically, w hat brings people together and allays the fears that different people have of each other is an engaged civic cul­ ture in which various groups interact. Strong civic cul­ ture builds bonds of trust between people that, w hen coupled with effective administrative policies, lends toward a m ore understanding and accepting society. In France, however, the exercise of promot­ ing com m on citizenship has taken a radical form: Instead of strengthening the bonds between diverse groups and creating pluralist interaction, the coun­ try's policy of ardent secularism elides diversity and leads to strife.

If, indeed, the bread and butter of the French government's social policy is the proclamation of "liberté, fraternité, égalité," then the pluralist project holds much promise. For the tim e being, however, the more apropos slogan seem s to be "let them eat croissants." ■ M oham m ad M iraly is a M asters stu den t in Islam ic Studies

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C R IS T IN A M A R K H A M henever I overhear people debating the merits of Canada versus the US, each side generally pulls out a few standards from their arsenal of insults. Team Canada will riff about gun control, President Bush, obesity and throw in a few Southerner jokes for good m easure. Team USA tends to lean on Q uebec separatism, a few painfully unin­ formed igloo/sled dog jokes and accusations that Canadians are not truly patriotic because their only sense of identity is that they are non-American. While I generally disagree, the Canadian government isn't doing m uch to help us dispel that stereotype.

The highest honour awarded to a Canadian civilian is the Order of Canada, a prestigious award bestowed upon those who uphold the Order's Latin motto, "Desiderantes meliorem patriam," meaning "Desiring a better country." The Order's list of inductees includes past Prime Ministers, authors, neurosur­ geons and war heroes. Now, thanks to the most recent round of inductions, you can add Shania Twain to that list. O ne of these things is not like the other.

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exam ples of Shania's undying love for America Junior? Sharing a recipe for poutine with Martha Stewart and always rem em ­ bering to profess her adoration for her stomping grounds of Tim m ins, Ont. Problem is, this sounds m ore like a beer ad that reduces Canada to its bare com ponents—hockey, booze and snow— than true patriotism. As if there weren't enough fodder for anti-Canadian jokes, our government now considers enjoying gravy-soaked fries to be a sign of love and fealty to the nation.

If this is all that w e require from our most honoured citizens, I suspect that Joe of "I am Canadian” fam e m ay be running in the next election.

I don't m ean to suggest that celebrity status should auto­ matically take you out of the running for an award of this kind.

Robert M unsch, one of Canada's most beloved children's authors, becam e a m em ber of the Order several years ago, but he and Shania differ in several ways. Munsch's contribu­ tions to Canadian culture include som e of the nation's most recognizable children's books, like The Paper B ag Princess and I'll Love You Forever. Shania has inundated us with disgusting­ ly saccharine country pop and catchy lyrics that em bed them ­ selves in the mind like a virulent, brain-eating disease.

Further, M unsch's books, like Am anda's Ponytail or A ngela's A irplane, encourage children to go beyond stereoT h e e x a m p le s o f S h a n ia 's u n d y in g lo v e fo r A m e r ic a J u n io r ? S h a rin g a re c ip e fo r p o u tin e w it h M a rth a S t e w a rt a n d a lw a y s r e m e m b e r in g to p ro fe s s h e r a d o ra tio n fo r h e r s to m p in g g ro u n d s o f T im m in s . types and preconceived notions, and to be the kind of people they truly wish to be. Twain professes to her listeners that, truly, the b est thing about being a wom an is the prerogative to have a little fun. If that's all there is, I guess I'll sell m y text­ books and blow the m oney on shoes and Smirnoff Ice. It's true that I've never been a fan of Shania's work, and country m usic generally m akes my ears bleed, but this anger is not fuelled by a blind hatred of twang and line dancing. I'm just upset that w e choose our Canadian idols with the sam e criteria w e use for our Canadian Idols. While there's nothing wrong with a little celeb idolatry, there needs to be a clearer distinction between what merits a country's highest honour and what earns you a 30-second spot on e-Talk D aily. ■

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midst the whirlwind of recent large private donations to McGill, it astounds that s o m e like the Arts Undergraduate Society execu­ tive—are still looking to the university's administra­ tion with hopes of receiving funding for a new Arts building. After all, w hile the university com­ mitted $ 4 5 0 ,0 0 0 to the Arts project in 2 0 0 3 , that hardly m easures up with the $20-million donated

by Seym our Schulich to the School of Music and the $22-million Marcel Desaoltels forked over for his now-eponymous Faculty of Management.

So what's the holdup? Why hasn't Arts start­ ed soliciting help from elsewhere, and why haven't the sponsors been tearing each other apart for the opportunity to put their nam es on this university's largest and most-beloved faculty?

Oh, right. There's that problem of marketabil­ ity. You see, corporations require business schools to train competent future em ployees, just like they need highly trained but underpaid musicians w hose performances those em ployees can talk over. But Arts students... w ho needs them ?

Though your 50-page honours History thesis may be brilliant, nobody is going to pay you to present it at their next corporate schmooze-fest, especial­ ly w hen they could secure a talented jazz combo on the cheap. Heck, if the fact that Arts brings in m ore m oney for McGill than any other faculty isn't enough to convince our own administration that its students are worth the cost of a new building, it's surely not going to win over a wanna-be Warren Buffet But fear not, future McDonald's em ployees: The Trib believes in the marketability of McGill's wonderful Faculty of Arts, and w e've got a few modest proposals that will help it get the fat spon­ sorship deal it deserves faster than you can say "Would you like fries with that?'

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media em pire worth noting, and it's got the added bonus of having already taken an interest in McGill this year. We m ay have only placed 10th on Playboy's Top 10 Party Schools list, but surely that's enough to warrant a reasonable sponsor­ ship; H e fs certainly got m oney to burn on "The Hugh Marston Hefner Faulty of Arts."

You can just picture the revamped cam pus: As students walk through the Roddick Gates, they're greeted by w om en sitting naked in the trees that line the walkways. At the top of the hill, our tired old Arts building is replaced by a bunnyflag-flying replica of the Playboy Mansion. And professors are encouraged to dress down and lec­ ture a little more... sexfully. Now there's an idea worth selling your soul for. ■

L IS E T R E U T L E R t any given m om ent, I am procrastinating.

Though I may be accomplishing something constructive—like furiously editing a paper at 3 a .m —or achieving à feat less "great" but nonetheless remarkable—like keeping an inebriat­ ed friend inside a rapidly-moving cab—I will always be simultaneously avoiding something else.

Back in high school, a friend who graduated a year ahead of m e passed on words of wisdom I still hold dear: "Whenever you have a problem, the easiest solution is to com pensate by avoiding something else." And oh, how I have perfected this art!

At present, m y freshly-washed linens are in a pile on m y bed. Will m y pillowcases mate with my pillows before I crawl under the covers tonight?

Honestly, only tim e will tell. In my kitchen is a sink full of dishes. Yes, they deserve a nice wash instead of a lazy soak, but after doing two sinks' worth of dishes earlier today, scrubbing the stovetop and doing a mean Mr. Clean job just about

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How can I say I procrastinate w hen I clean so much? Sim ple: cleaning is the new psychothera­ py. I swear it will be in one of those trashy maga­ zines next month. Problems with boys? Problems with girls? Problems with roommates? Go ahead, darlings—clean away! The effort, plus the high pro­ ductivity rating, will have you belting out Gloria Gaynor in no tim e. A tip: this one works especial­ ly w ell in roommate situations, as you can casual­ ly clean (read: trash) any of his or her annoying accoutrements.

Have I mentioned the classifieds yet? Yes, all listing services, especially those involving person­ al ads that you can mock and/or answer, offer the best solution for any brain too ill to function.

Simply justify your actions by comm enting to skeptics that a new microwave is in order, and you never know how cheaply you'll find o n e ...

O f course, there's always my bathroom. It's shiny and clean, but for the past three months, that room has gone fa r beyond the low-level décor of any local dive. My plan involves re-decorating: a n ew paint job, a n ew show er curtain with matching hand towels and bathmats, and maybe even cutesy touches like a rubber duck on the windowsill. Sure, I sta rted ripping the wallpaper off, and I did buy one of those nifty bathroom books to keep above the toilet, but that doesn't m ean my walls don't resem ble a forensic excava­ tion site at the m oment—or that their state hasn't changed by even one rip in the past month.

I keep a shopping list going that gets longer— but also shorter, as I purchase random items from it w hen the mood strikes—and I know that right now, I could take just 10 minutes of my day and run to the drugstore to acquire Swiffer cloths, duct tape and masking tape. But do you see m e going anywhere?

I don't either. ■

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L e tte rs t o th e e d ito r Clim ate change is happening, dam m it Leigh Aslateei's column, "Climate Change: a Liberal con­ spiracy," ( 15.11.05) presents flawed arguments to suggest that climate change is not a serious global issue. Aslateei reports that 19,700 scientists have signed on to a petition denying any evidence for anthropogenic climate change. I would like to point out that the petition allows the signer to check off his or her level of education (B.Sc, M.Sc, Ph.D.) and to indicate a field of study, but there is no indication of any verification process to ensure that the scientists have the degree that they claim to have. Furthermore, a quick scan of names in the "E" section suggested that at least a few people have signed on more than once. This shakes the validity of this "scientific consensus."

Com pare this to the detailed report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which reports increases in sea level, ocean heat content and average global temperature (by 0 .6 degrees Celsius over the 20th century) and decreases in snow and glacier cover. This report was put together by hundreds of experts selected on the basis of their expertise.

Aslateei concludes by offering a speculative explanation for why climate change is a political, rather than a scientific, issue. While it is always important to question our politicians' motives, there is also a possibility that our leaders are respond­ ing to a genuine threat. I propose that w e keep in mind a few facts: 1. There is strong evidence that the average global temperature is increasing.

2. There is strong evidence, from the records of ice core sam­ ples, that temperature and carbon dioxide are strongly correlat­ ed.

3. It is agreed by all that carbon dioxide has a warming effect on the earth.

4. There is definitely more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere now than there has been for a very, very long time.

5. Human activities have put that carbon dioxide there.

Mine is not a perfect argument, but it is enough for m e to be concerned about climate change. I hope that students will do their own research, and if you are concerned as I am, show our leaders on D e c 3 that w e care and want action.

M ichelle Fori A nne Lee U 3 Econom ics/Environm ent Peut (Le)mieux faire When Ben Lemieux accuses the media of "ignoring the underlying causes" of the French riots and focusing on "sensationalistic" pictures ("Mort pour rien," 15.11.05), I wonder what media he is referring to. Unlike the English media—so over­ whelmed by the pleasure of showing the tragic failure of France's integrationist approach that it can't display a proper map of France and its main cities (as CNN did)—the French media h a s been trying to explain the reasons for this turmoil, albeit unsuccessfully.

Lemieux rightfully/sadly points out the handicap of having an Arabic name, but also questionably invokes increasing "police brutality." The true reason why France is perhaps the only country where the second generation of immigrants is more alienated than the first is because the state doesn't encourage business and home proprietorship. Why mingle with the rest of the society if you can stay in your quartiers with youngsters like you, and live off welfare in addition to occasion­ al undeclared side jobs? Similarly, why take care of the place you live in if it reminds you every day that the state has built these bleak high-rise estates to keep you away from the wealthier and more beautiful postcard France?

As for the sensationalism, I believe associating Nicolas Sarkozy with the Gestapo is as sensationalists as it gets. I don't see what's wrong with calling people who burn their neigh­ bours' car, their little brother's school and attack firemen who protect their buildings "voyous." Ifs not wrong, ifs just that "stu­ pid" might be more appropriate.

Yannick H ascoet U 3 M echanical Engineering Conservatives "cool," "down" with youth of today In your interview with MP Navdeep Bains ("Under 3 0 and living large, parliament style," 1 5 .11.05) you write "At age 28, Bains is currently the youngest member of the House of Commons." I am disappointed that the Tribune fact checkers got this simple piece of information wrong.

There is not just one, but in fact three MPs younger than Bains. Pierre Poilievre, Jerem y Harrison and Andrew Scheer are 26, 2 7 and 2 6 , respectively. All three are Conservative party MPs. Traditionally, the Conservative party (and before it, the Canadian Alliance) has always had the largest number of MPs under age 30.

I'm really not sure w h a fs worse: the fact that the Tribune got this wrong, or the fact that Bains, a Parliamentary Secretary, obliviously answered the question "W hafs it like being the youngest MP?" when he ought to know that he is not. But then

again, being out of touch is not something that has ever sur­ prised me from any m ember of the Liberal caucus, young or old.

D avid A nber BA '03 Founder o f C onservative M cC ill Hey, no one made you read it In response to the letter written by David Poon ('You took the words right out of our mouths," Letter, 1 5 .1 1 .0 5 ): David, sadly, it is not the D aily that has missed the point of the Brandon Chudleigh opinion pieces, it is you. His column is offensive, and I'm not reading it w rong— You are.

I am sickened, but not completely surprised, at your insensitivity to the fact that his "Looks Do Mattef' and "I'm Starting to Reconsider Ugly Women" pieces are hateful to women. That is the whole point. The D aily often prints mate­ rial and photos that deal with sex and display nudity, but it is not the sex and nudity that is offensive. W hafs offensive is the sexualized degradation of women. The pictures taken in the bathroom stalls are offensive because they feature a woman in a humiliating position, barefoot and on her knees in a filthy bathroom stall at the service of a man. If you think that this is what oral sex should be, then I feel sorry for all the women who have unfortunately crossed your path.

Ifs nice that the Tribune has made an effort to make the paper "spicier," but these attempts so far have been pathetic. I mean, if you're going to write a highly controversial and offen­ sive column, at the very least it should be cleverly written, and Brandon Chudleigh can't even do that. Trying to gain contro­ versy cred by objectifying women and reducing them to either two categories—smart, ugly and undatable; or hot, bitches and only fit for sex—is insensitive, harmful, ignorant and infantile.

But hey, like I figured in pre-school, negative attention is better than no attention.

Sarah Schultz U2 M usic Why can't we all just get along?

It is interesting that both Marina Gerbin and Ruthie Arbit, in their respective Guest Soaps on Norman Finkelstein's lecture ("Hey Finkelstein, stop wasting our time" and "A reaction to Norman Finkelstein," 1 5.11.05), were unable to address any of his main arguments. This leads m e to assume that they are either unable to provide an adequate rebuttal, or they simply didn't understand what he was talking about I suspect it is a bit of both.

For instance, Gerbin notes that Finkelstein spent much of his time "bashing Alan Dershowitz," but beyond that, she fails to elaborate. If this is what he spent most of his time talking about, shouldn't she at least present som e of his arguments?

Allow me.

A couple of years ago, Dershowitz wrote a book entitled The C ase fo r Israel, the main pupose of which was to defend Israel's human rights record. However, as Finkelstein points out, Dershowitz failed to cite any respected human rights organiza­ tions such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, or B'tselem (an Israeli human rights organization) in making this defence. As it turns out, all of these organizations are near unanimous in their findings: Israel has committed grave crimes in its treatment of Palestinians. Finkelstein's conclusion is that Dershowitz omits citations from these organizations, because if he did, his case for Israel would go down the drain.

Gerbin and Arbit would do themselves good by reading som e of the human rights reports published by these organi­ zations. They may come to realize why many, including Bishop Desmond Tutu, are now comparing Israel's treatment of Palestinians with the former apartheid regime in South Africa.

M arc Tetrault BA '04 So is this long-winded pro-Finkelstein propaganda?

I could not help but remember something I noticed while at Finkelstein's lecture last week. Many people at the lecture were taking notes, which made me suspect that they were either strangely infatuated with the academic process, or are planning on writing up a well-formed response to Finkelstein's views. On first glance, noticing the two Guest Soaps on Finkelstein's lecture, I thought the latter true. But as I read the pieces, I was surprised; instead of finding well-formed opinions based on the actual content of Finkelstein's lecture, they rarely even referred to any of his views.

Subsequently, what absolutely shocked me was how both of the authors simply missed the point of what he said. This was so much so that they unwittingly provided further evi­ dence towards Finkelstein's point, which w as that the Palestine/lsrael issue is not factually complex but made so by contrived controversy. Both pieces clearly, and no doubt unwittingly, prove this point. Arbifs piece is more a summary and analysis of her personal experiences in Palestine/lsrael

than an opinion about Finkelstein's lecture. It is complete with touching diversions about her experiences in East Jerusalem and existential rhetoric about “defining herself in the liberal world."

On the other hand, Gerbin's piece is downright hostile and consists of a string of oversimplifications and misrepresen­ tations of Finkelstein's arguments. Humorously, she concludes that Finkelstein is disrespectful and arrogant after the majority of her piece resorts to blatant ad hominem attacks. Neither of these pieces even attempt to present an educated opinion, and at most serve as long-winded anti-Finkelstein propaganda.

N asser M ohieddin A bukhdeir Ph.D. 1 C hem ical Engineering Printing your random political musings since 2005 The weather in Montreal on Tuesday night seem ed fairly representative of the future of the Parti Québécois: grey and foggy, with the promise of som e sort of storm. How appropri­ ate for the night in which the PQ elected their new leader, André Boisdair. in the view of the sovereigntists, Boisdair will bring a new energy to the party. He is youthful, handsome and homosex­ ual. Furthermore, his brush with cocaine seem ed hardly to register on voters' radars—in fact it only seemed to solidify his lead in the polls. Mr. Boisdair is a sensation, pure and simple.

This, however, works in favour of the federalists as well.

Sensational individuals have rarely maintained support in the long run (anyone remember Stockwell Day?). After the initial swell of support for Boisdair subsides, the reality of the situa­ tion will settle in and "pequistes" will begin to wonder exactly what they were thinking. If the inexperienced Boisdair is forced to enter into a new series of constitutional rounds with the gov­ ernment of Canada, it is quite obvious who will receive the proverbial short end of the stick. What would have been a dis­ aster for the federalist camp would have been the election of Pauline Marois—a woman with long ties to the PQ and an extensive and successful political career.

At the very least, chers pequistes, keep in mind that when the world judges the hypothetical newly formed nation of Quebec, Boisdair won't radiate much legitimacy, whereas Marois would have. Bonne chance avec le prochain referen­ dum et le futur du Québec—you'll need it!

Ja m es Patava U2 Canadian Politics Checking in late on the hazing scandal McGill University, through its Interim Provost Anthony Masi, demonstrated courage and leadership for having can­ celled the Redmen's remaining games and punishing the play­ ers more appropriately following a complaint regarding a Redmen initiation ritual that turned ugly.

McGill sent a dear message that it will no longer tolerate any form of hazing and that it welcom es any disdosure of such practices. This is in complete opposition to football Coach Chuck McMann's decision to brush off the hazing inddents.

The young student and his father who reported the Redmen's sexual and degrading initiation ritual have shown much courage, and their decision to tell will help any student who would like to talk in the future.

McGill sent a message of hope to all its students, as the university showed the desire and the capadty to change things.

After all, McGill is a worldwide leader that must set an example for its students, as it is forming the future dtizens of this coun­ try.

In view of McGill's exemplary actions in the Redmen haz­ ing scandal, I am proud to see that m y three daughters, all with a doctorate degree from McGill, have chosen the university for their studies.

D en ise Villeneuve M orinville Piedm ont, Que. Former copy editor shocked and appalled (and, it says here, correct) Upon perusing a recent issue of the Tribune I was shocked and appalled to see that you had made the ludicrous change to your house style from the Oxford comma (som e­ times known as the Harvard comma or the serial com m a) to an utterly absurd and ambiguous comma convention that is used by silly newspapers that want to "save space" and other­ wise be silly. If you write "I study history, international relations and business," does "international" refer to "business” as well as "relations"? Or what? And what if, in a book dedication, you write 'To my parents, Martha and God," what the hell is that all about? And in "My favorite meals are pizza, peanut butter and tofu saucé and spaghetti and meatballs," that's just no good.

Dispel the ambiguity. Bring back the Oxford comma.

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"V-Day McGill is part of a larger worldwide college campaign started by Eve Ensler, who wrote The Vagina M onologues but in addition to that started this m assive organization, the purposes of which are to put an end to violence against wom en and girls," says organizer May Wilkerson.

V-Day McGill revamped the mandate to include all form s of gender-based violence, with a special focus on being trans-inclusive. "[Gender-based violence] can encom pass anything from physical violence to any kind of ignorance which manifests itself in verbal com m ents and general behav­ iour," explains Wilkerson, U3 Cultural Studies. "I would include homophobia and transphobia, which I think is rampant on college cam puses everywhere, and I also think that sexual assault is a huge problem at McGill."

A core group of about 2 0 students organizes events throughout the year, supported by a large base of volunteers.

"We haye speakers com e in, w e do workshops," Wilkerson says. "Most tend to revolve around the them es of The Vagina M onologues, and w e are [also] very involved in activism with regard to fighting genderbased violence. So w e tend to have speakers com e in and talk about aw areness and education as well as more fun, w him si­ cal activities."

Past events have also included m ovie screenings and art shows. The group is currently in the middle of a poster campaign intended to undercut myths about sexual assault M em bers of V-Day McGill are busiest, however, before and during their annu­ al production of The Vagina M on o lo g u es, w hich alw ays takes place around Valentine's Day. T h e casting process wrapped up last week.

"Leading up to The Vagina M onologues we'll have a two-week period called 'VW eeks,' w h en w e put on events every day or two days," says organizer Laura Johnson.

Although certain mono­ logues are staples, the show still manages to stay fresh.

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and which monologues are included.

'There is som e choice with regard to the mono­ logues—you do have the option of adding som e and not having som e included," says Johnson, U2 History and Art History. 'W e try to get as diverse a cast as w e can and directors who just have a different take on it."

Indeed, this is the first year McGill's production will have a m ale director at the helm .

'W e think that that's going to be exciting and give it a dif­ ferent perspective," Johnson says.

Aside from raising serious questions and drawing laughs, the show is designed to raise money for relevant charities.

"Most of our proceeds go to local Montreal chari­ ties, and w e tend to scope out charities that are really in need of som e help," Wilkerson says.

Each year, however, Ensler spotlights a specific issue which receives about 10 per cent of worldwide Vagina M onologues proceeds. Last year the focus was w om en in Iraq, while this year proceeds will benefit the East Asian "comfort wom en" abused by the Japanese military during World War II. 'T h ey chose that not only because no attention has been brought to it and m any people aren't aware of it," Johnson said, "but because there are m any wars going on all over the world. They're trying to say this is not an acceptable thing to do in war and no matter w here in the world you are, this is something that should not be tolerated." ■ The Vagina Monologues runs Feb. 3, 5 and 6. Tickets go on sa le in late January. For m ore inform ation, visit www.vday.mcgill.ca or www.vday.org

Growing up, I always wanted to be... a high-school math and lan­ guage teacher. My strengths w ere in these areas, and I didn't realize that there w as a form al connection between them until I discovered lin­ guistics.

My favourite word is... "sphere."

Although it w a s borrowed into English som e tim e ago, its pronun­ ciation hasn't been adapted to conform to the constraints of the borrowing language. Com pare "psychology," which has been adapted: It's not pro­ nounced with an initial [ps] in English since this consonant cluster is ill formed in the language. For som e reason, the [sf] cluster at the beginning of "sphere" has survived, even though this cluster is not treated by the language as well formed. Som e evidence for the latter: An English speaker would never coin a new word that starts with [sf].

The best way to learn a language is ... as a child im m ersed in a comm unity of speakers. Adult learners very rarely acquire a second language to native lev­ els of proficiency, and classroom instruction, unfortunately, doesn't yield native-like results.

The language I'd most like to learn is ... Chilcotin, an Athapaskan language spoken near William's Lake, BC. I did som e fieldwork on this language som e years ago and have always been intrigued by the challenge of trying to learn to speak it, aside from studying the grammatical constraints of the language.

One of the most entertaining books I've read is... David Lodge's Thinks. I like his attempt to w eave cognitive science and literature together.

The most common misconception about linguistics is... that linguists speak m any languages. Som e do, but m any don't. Som e even enter the field to try and figure out why they are poor language learners!

( In my free tim e ... I play with my three-year-old. He really helps put everything in perspective!

My research focus is... the acquisition of phonology. I exam ine the con­ straints that are responsible for the types of system s that child and secondlanguage adult learners build in the sound and syllable com ponents of the grammar.

I couldn't live without... the CBC! The greatest thing about living in Montreal is... that it's such a cosmopoli­ tan city, where you hear several languages spoken in a single day.

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fe a tu re s D ru g s c o n v e y th e tr u th L IS E T R E U T L E R rugs live in an unstable universe all their own. No, not pre­ scription drugs, which w e may take to cure disease, allevi­ ate pain or help us function in som e other w ay; this uni­ verse is limited to those psychoactives classified illegal by those in power—depending on w here you live—and m ost often consid­ ered "taboo" by the bulk of society. Each individual drug, of course, is precariously viewed in its own way. Smoking pot, for example, often brings friends together for nights of laughter and Ben & Jerry's Phish Food ice cream, w hile admitting to heroin use might result in a kicking-and-screaming drag to rehab. It doesn't take masochistically repeated viewings of Requiem for a Dream to understand the difference.

Love them or hate them , use them or shun them , drugs are om nipresent and have been so for centuries. While now w e, as students, might call up our favourite delivery line for speed as an all-nighter fuel to break up our pothead habits, drugs such as magic m ushroom s—or "sh ro o m s"-h ave been known and used since as early as 5 ,0 0 0 BC (as historians have interpreted cave paintings from that tim e). Reflect, for a m om ent: Psychoactives are as old as history. Why, then, are references limited to quirky footnotes or cult-hit books? Have drugs not earned their rightful place in world history?

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In the beginning, there was honey The Aztecs, a people that dominated central Mexico from the 14th to 16th century, are known am ong the drug-educated for their use of m ushroom s (am ong other plant psychoactives).

The ethnically-diverse em pire w as based on a system of tribute, not of ruling, easily seen in the rich mythology left behind. While infamous for human sacrifices, as discovered by Spanish explor­ ers Heman Cortés and Bernal Diaz del Castillo, am ong others, the Aztec people w ere also rich in culture—during tim es of peace, warriors traded in their armor to write poetry. Here, writes Mexican anthropologist Miguel Leon-Portilla, "we can find the real thought of the Aztecs."

According to 16th-century Spanish priest Bernardino de Sahagun, hallucinogenic m ushroom s were as much a part of Aztec life as w ere worship, sacrifice and war: "Eaten w ere small black m ushroom s that brought on drunkenness, hallucinations and even lechery. When the drunkenness of the mushrooms had passed, they spoke with one another of the visions they had seen." No doubt that anyone who has éxperimented with m ush­ rooms them selves can verify the truth behind the "visions"—and recom m end the Aztec practice of dipping the dried fungi in honey before consumption, not to be lavish, but to disguise the bitter taste.

For the Aztecs, the use of hallucinogens w as a spiritual prac­ tice. Outside of proper custom, for example, public drunkenness w as forbidden and punishable by severe beating or death.

In Canada, there was opium Rem em ber the classic scene from The W izard o f Oz where the Wicked Witch of the West puts Dorothy and her sidekick trio to sleep in a field of poppies? Well, w here do you think opium com es from?

The 19th-century opium smuggling from China to India was called "the m ost long continued and systematic international crim e of modem tim es" by the late Harvard University historian John K. Fairbank. Until 1914, the United States had no laws against importation or use of opium, but in Canada, the drug was declared illegal in 1908. Even in the early 19 0 0 s, drug laws were broken regularly: Opium dens thrived, most com m only in Vancouver and Victoria. Though often associated with the C hinese and Chinatown—due to the drug's origin—opium, con­ sidered a delicacy, w as widespread among the upper and artis­ tic classes until it becam e illegal. As fam ed British writer and intellectual Thom as de Quincey wrote in his 1812 publication, C onfessions o f an English O pium -Eater, " 0 just, subtle, and allconquering opium!"

D e Quincey w as not alone in his enjoyment of the drug; opiurn's historical tim eline is filled with writers w ho used and loved the drug, either through smoking or ingestion. Canadian writer Barbara Hodgson, in her 1999 book O pium : A Portrait o f

the H eavenly D em on, dubs it “the writer's muse."

Before their deaths, there was music i More recently, and m ore evocative for our generation, are the drug habits and/or drug-related deaths of m any beloved m usicians: Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin and Kurt Cobain, am ong others. Whether these icons died of overdose, heart failure or by their own hands, their m usic is often overshadowed by their very public addictions.

Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors, allegedly began his musical career by joining the Venice Beach subculture in the m id-1960s and partaking in the LSD craze. He lived by a philos­ ophy borrowed from poet William Blake: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."

Kurt Cobain, a controversial musical hero w ho remains alive in m any of our minds, did not die from his heroin habit, but by his own hand. Regardless of the specifics of his death, Cobain's career w as—and still is—often overshadowed by his love of hero­ in, which began as a self-prescribed rem edy for his chronic stom­ ach ailments. Despite multiple overdoses followed by attempts at rehab, Cobain never succeeded at the sober life, and the drug's hold on him rapidly took over his entire life.

Though Nirvana's success can hardly be attributed to its frontman's heroin addiction, m any musicians do cite drugs as an inspiration, especially those who began their careers in the six­ ties and seventies. Present-day bands still allude to the trend: "We're so creative, so m uch m ore / We're high above but on the floor," sings K's Choice vocalist Sarah Bettens in the band's 1995 single, "Not an Addict" Whether w è view drugs in positive light or not, it's im possi­ ble to deny their contribution to the world's history. Cultures, at tim es, have been defined by their drug of choice. Today, so are subcultures: When you think o f raves or after-hours clubs, do you not think of Ecstasy next?

Experiment with psychoactives or don't—the choice is yours.

But w hen w e look to history, there is no choice; w e m ust give drugs their place, their chapters in the books and their worth. ■

E -R e so u rc e s: N o t ju s t fo r ra v e rs any m o re M E L IS S A P R IC E hether to drug or not to drug is your decision, but if you decide to experi­ m ent, please m ake sure you're informed. Research and compare sources— don't rely on others' experiences. If you do, you may end up dead, annoying, or like m y friend's old neighbours, who evidently misunderstood som e slang and spent an afternoon puking after trying to sm oke their front lawn. Here are three Web sites dedicated to all things drug-related that give you the facts—without the bullshit

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Erowid: www.erowid.org The most extensive drug resource on the internet, Erowid is devoted to "documenting the

complex relationship between hum ans and psychoactives." The cache of information here is astounding. There's an info stash for every drug with any measurable psychoactive effect on hum ans, from nutmeg to m etham phetam ine to 1.4-butanediol, providing pictures, effects and dosage inform ation, as w ell as personal accounts of use. Besides th at there's an equal­ ly m assive archive of information about drug laws, the achievem ent of non-chemical altered states, the scientific m echanism s of drug action, the history of psychoactive chemical us and so m uch more. Its aw esom e.

The Good Drugs Guide: www.thegooddrugsguide.com

I'm not sure whethër the "good" here is in reference to the drugs or the guide; I'll refrain from com m ent on the former, but the latter is certainly accurate. This UK-based site is less frighteningly com prehensive than Erowid, but it delivers, straight-up, on the chem icals that the average person is most likely to be interested in. They've got a complete "mixing guide" for every drug they list, a move that will hopefully stop so m any people dying from doing speedballs—coke 'n' heroin cocktails, for the less debauched.

On a happier note, the G D G also has a neat article section w here you can find out about fam ous people who w ere drug users (King George V, I'm looking at you) and how

LSD w as isolated.

Lycaeum: www.lycaeum.org This site is to Erowid as Vanilla-Filled Chocolate Sandwich Cookies are to Oreos. If s solid, but sort of annoying to navigate and no w here near as informative. If I w ere you, I'd go to The Drug Slang Translator ( w w w .brunching.com /drugslanger.htm f) instead.

Using the White House's drug policy site as its slang dictionary, the Translator will reveal the hidden pro-drug m essages in Web sites all over the internet! I like to translate pages from CNN.com, to laugh at the fact that the US pres­ ident's nam e is, it seem s, slang for "Heroin W. Marijuana". Hah! ■

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ith the recent drive to decriminalize marijuana possession, the drug and its devotees have com e under fire for what most see as a harm less pastime on par with having the occasional beer. O ne thing is certain: Those of us who enjoy the odd joint simply can­ not ignore the critics and stare at our hands—or can we?

Despite the rather lax attitude towards the drug within the confines of the student ghetto, there's no denying that marijuana offences have skyrocketed in the past decade. According to Statistics Canada, marijuana-related incidents increased 81 per cent from 199 2-2 0 0 2 , a jum p largely driven by sim ple possession offences. In addition, three out of every four drug charges laid in 2 0 0 2 stem m ed from marijuana, with possession once again being the top offence.

While this m ay conjure up images of the happy pothead who abuses take-out m enus, there’s no denying that it is a mind-altering substance, much like alcohol. The issue here is that alcohol and other com m only consum ed—and taxable—substances, including highly addictive

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an d a lw a y s sh o u ld B Y G E N E V IE V E J E N K IN S here are the traditional anti-legalization claim s: pot is a gateway drug; pot makes you less intelligent; legalizing the drug would lead to increased crime rates; more people would have easy access to it; like tobacco, cannabis causes lung cancer and has other negative effects on health. All of these are easily remedied with the age-old argu­ ment that alcohol and cigarettes do the sam e things and have been legal for a long time.

You can argue that marijuana isn't any worse than alcohol or cigarettes until you're blue in the face. The fact of the matter is, all three of the things are horrible for you and should probably all be m ade illegal; the argument cer­ tainly doesn't provide a reason to legalize pot.

For starters, there are government regula­ tions in place on both alcohol and cigarettes that have been in place for centuries and have caused countless problems. Since the early 17th century, w hen England's King Jam es I proclaimed that tobacco w as "loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs," govern­ ments have been wary of legal tobacco use. It is only recently that the greater population understands the drug's provably nasty effects.

Imagine a society without tobacco. Would any­ one stand for the legalization of the stinking stuff if it could just as easily be banned? Not a chance. Simply because tobacco and alcohol have been around for so long and are a part of our culture, w e continue to tolerate them as products with potentially negative effects not easily removed from society. Right now, it looks like tobacco is on its w ay out, and alco­ hol has certainly had challenges to its preva­ lence in social settings, such as the US prohi­

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drugs like nicotine and caffeine, are entirely acceptable within the constraints of the law. To include marijuana on this list would hardly be m uch of a stretch.

Detractors counter this with claim s that marijuana is a gateway drug, meaning that people who experim ent with it and suffer no ill effects will becom e complacent and m ove on to hard­ er drugs. O nce again, Statistics Canada com es to the rescue: It appears that not only has the num ber of cocaine and heroin offences not risen with marijuana, but that they have actually d ecrea sed (1 2 per cent and 3 5 per cent, respectively) over the last decade.

By decriminalizing marijuana, w e can cut down on the number of possession charges and focus anti-drug resources on more damaging substances. Outright legalization, however, would have the added bonus of providing the federal government with what it loves most—tax rev­ enue. ■

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b e — illeg a l bition period.

If you're among those still under the naïve impression that marijuana doesn't nega­ tively affect your health, you should do som e reading and think again. Though it has not yet been conclusively proven, daily marijuana use seem s to cause pulmonary infections, respira­ tory cancer and chronic bronchitis. And you can't forget about the lung cancer we've always associated with cigarettes because marijuana has four tim es more tar than ciga­ rettes. Finally, marijuana is also closely linked to mental disorders such as toxic psychosis, panic attacks, uncontrollable aggressiveness, delusions and paranoia, to nam e only a few.

Right now, North American governments make solid profits on tobacco and alcohol taxes, but there should really be a limit to how much cash a legitimate government rakes in from people's overindulgence. Aside from that, the government would then be more responsible for maintaining only legal produc­ tion and sales of the drug, a task that would be costly and time-consuming. Canada suppos­ edly spends $ 4 0 0 million a year to enforce marijuana laws, but if pot were regulated by the federal government, the onus would be on the government to maintain control and the money would be pouring out of the feder­ al coffers at an even faster rate. As it is now, the government isn't held accountable for health risks associated with pot; once the gov­ ernm ent becom es involved, it would be responsible for covering the health care costs for marijuana-related health problems. Given how much Canadians already spend on health care programs, it seem s ludicrous to introduce another harmful addictive substance as a legal option. ■

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B ir th sto n e s h a v e a d e e p e r h isto r y th an y o u he origin of birthstones cam e, most historians believe, from the Sacred Breast Plate of Aaron the High Priest, during the tim e of Moses. He wore twelve stones that corresponded to the twelve Jewish tribes in Israel at the time. Each of the stones set in the Sacred Breast Plate sig­ nified a specific tribe, and each stonê w as said to have its own mystical power. Each stone was com m only thought to bring good luck or health to the w earer; supernatural powers have also been attributed to each stone. Topaz, the stone for November, w as used to provide peacefulness and happiness as well as symbolizing beauty and intellect for the wearer. Each of the 12 stones corre­ sponded to the 12 months of the year and then in turn to each of the zodiac stars represented by that month. People first started wearing the stones according the virtue they felt they needed or wanted. For example, a husband could give his wife the topaz stone in order to ensure fidelity.

Later, people started wearing the stone corresponding to the month that it was, and now people w ear the stone represented by their own birth month all year round. The fashion of wearing pre­ cious stones first becam e popular in 15th century Poland.

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So why the multiple stones? There is a g en era l consensus: the "modern" stone chart.

However, over tim e and history each culture and religion has provided its own influence on the stone chart. According to what you believe to be correct—Hindu, Traditional or Zodiac etc.—you can realistically choose which you like the best. O f course, you'll have to choose the one that fits your personality and characteristics the most!

The M odern blrthstone list corresponds to the list published b y the Am erican National Association o f Jew ellers, the Traditional list corresponds to overall agreem ent o f birthstone assignm ent in som e cultures during the 15th -16th century and the M ystical list corresponds to the Zodiac sta rs and Tibetan origin. For m ore inform ation or ju st an interesting read, se e The Curious Lore o f Precious Stones by G eorge Frederick Kunz.

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Garnet Amethyst Bloodstone Diamond Emerald Alexandrite Carnelian Sardonyx Sapphire Tourmaline Citrine Turquoise

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J u st s a y n o , k id d o s .

Songs about being severely intoxicated NOFX - "Drugs Are Good" ( They m ake you do things that you know you not sh o u ld / A nd w hen you do'em p eo p le think that you 're cool) The Moldy Peaches - "Who's Got the Crack?" (/ like it w hen you slip m e a roo fie) Buckcherry - "Lit Up" (/ love the cocaine, I love the cocain e) Tripping Daisy - 'Trip Along" (M y m in dless w a veless thoughts they carry o n ) The Beatles - 'Tomorrow Never Knows" ( Turn o ff yo u r m ind, relax a n d float dow nstream ) Bob Dylan - "Rainy Day Woman" (Everybody m u st g e t sto n ed ) Ben Harper - "Burn One Down" (If you don 't like m y fire, then d o n 't com e around / 'C ause I'm gonna bum one dow n) Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life" (Th e sky w as gold, it w as ro se / 1 w as taking sip s o f it through m y n o se ) Marcy Playground - "Opium" (I'm in heaven / Yeah, heaven / O h h h ... ) Placebo - "Special K" (Ju st like I've sw allow ed h a lf m y sta sh / A n d never, ever gonna crash ) Strawberry Alarm Clock - "Incense and Peppermints" (Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around) Queens of the Stone Age - "Feel Good Hit of the Summed' (N icotine, Valium, Vicodin, m arijuana, ecsta sy a n d alcohol / C « - c - c < o c a in e ) The Birthday Party - "Mutiny in Heaven" (W ell I tied on a n d p e rch e d on m y b e d / w as, a-stickin' a n eed le in m y arm / 1 tied off, fucking w ings bu rst out m y back! Like I w as cuttin’ teeth! I took o ff! Aha ha h a !)

T o w h a t , I w o n ’t s p e c ify Songs about how severe intoxication ruins everyone's life Elliott Smith - "Needle in the Hay” (I'm taking the cure so I can b e q u iet w henever I w ant) The Verve - 'The Drugs Don't Work" (N ow the drugs don 't work, they ju s t m ake you w o rse) Neil Young - T h e Needle and the Damage Done" (Every ju n kie's like a setting su n ) Alice In Chains - "lunkhead" (W hat's m y drug o f c h o ic e ? / W ell w hat have you g o t7) Tool - "Sober” (W hy can 't w e not b e so b e r? /1 ju s t w ant to sta rt this o ver) Afroman - "Because I Got High" (/ m e ssed up m y entire life b eca u se I g o t high / 1 lo st m y kids a n d w ife b eca u se I g o t h igh) Nirvana - "Aneurysm" (Lo ve you so m uch it m akes m e sick /C o m e on o ver a n d sh o o t the sh it) Modest Mouse - 'The Good Times Are Killing Me" (H ave one, have tw enty m ore onem ores / Oh, a n d it d o es n o t relen t) Pulp - "Sorted for E's and Wizz" (/ seem to have left an im portant p a rt o f m y brain / Som ew here, som ehow , in a field in H am pshire) The Dandy Warhols - "Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" (You n ever thought you 'd g e t add icted / Ju st b e coo ler in an obvious w ay) Wire - "Champs" (A nother dead, d o n ’t cry / You've still g o t sp e e d ) Aimee Mann - "Wise Up" (You're su re th ere's a cu re / A n d you have finally found it) The Velvet Underground - "Heroin" (W hen that heroin is in m y b lo o d / A n d the b lo o d is in m y h ea d / Then I thank g o d that I'm g o o d a s d ea d ) —C om piled b y M elissa Price a n d B en Lem ieux, with files from N iall M ackay R oberts a n d D ave Blye

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D r u g u s e a t M c G ill ( s o r r y , n o c a f f e i n e p ills) This su rvey w as conducted online, with 100 anonym ous respondents. Though m ost o f the p ercen tages a d d up, som e do n o t os a ll questions w ere com pletely optional and som e allow ed for m ore than on e answ er choice. If you w eren't on e o f the lucky participants, ask yo u rself th ese questions—you m ay b e su rprised to find o u t w hether you fit in with the m ajority in each category or not!

Do you smoke (cigarettes, cigars, and/or cloves)?

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Do you know anyone w ho has been harmed, either mentally or physically, because of their drug use?

5 6 % Yes, others 2 0 % No 1 0 % Yes, m yself

Do you smoke pot?

5 6 % Yes, som etim es/socially 1 6% Yes, regularly 1 6 % No, never have 1 2 % No, but I've tried it

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3 3 % From friends with prescriptions

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1 8 % I would never be friends with som eone I considered to have a "drug problem."

1 5 % Drug use is on the rise!

1 7 % Drug use is waning.

2 % What are you talking about? I /a m / the drug culture!

Have you ever been tempted to participate in one of the drug studies at McGill (and not just for the m oney)?

7 4 % No 2 6 % Yes 2 4 % No 2 0 % Not sure

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H ave you e ver used prescription drugs recreationally?

I f you like people an d you a r e i n t e r e s t e d in a ch allenging and re w a rd in g s tu d e n t le a d e rs h ip p o sitio n , why n o t ap ply t o b e a F loor Fellow , Don or M ORE Fellow a t McGill R e s id e n c e s ? W a tc h f o r o ur a d s in t h i s n ew sp ap er in J a n u a r y inviting a p p lic a tio n s f o r t h e 2 0 0 6 - 2 0 0 7 acad em ic y e a r.

Do you think that m rijuana should be legalized?

D o you consid er m rijuana a drug?

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W a t c h o u t f o r C ity an d C o l o u r A le x is o n fir e sin g er /g u ita r ist g e t s b a c k t o

ly just m e stripped down," says the young Ontario native of his recent solo effort "And I've always written songs on the acoustic guitar. Even Alexis stuff starts [this way]."

Stripped is definitely the appropriate term to describe the poignant, confessional and highly emotional overtones that Som etim es rests upon. The 10 tracks provide a detailed overview of longing, love lost, solitude, even hom esickness and alienation in a land far aw ay from everything familiar.

"There's songs that I wrote about relationships I w as in a w hile ago, there are som e I wrote about being on the road with Alexis, others about different things I w ent through w hile discov­ ering who I w as as a person," says Green of the collection of songs, which he wrote over five or six years of his life.

The lyrics them selves are often restrained, gentle and unde­ manding, thus placing due focus on what is unquestionably the primordial driving force behind City and Colour: G reen's effort­ lessly powerful voice, always infused with the type of raw, provocative emotionality that could bring a whole posse of rough-and-tumble football players to jaw-dropping, tearful aw e with each soaring chorus.

Though the work on Som etim es marks a trem endous stylis­ tic turnabout for Green, he insists that he is not "trying to dis­ tance m yself from heavy music," but simply acknowledging and indulging the desire of m any fans—as well as his own—to redis­ cover the soundscapes he explored during his formative years as a musician.

"Now that I'm in a band and have had som e sort of suc­ cess, people found out that I do this on the side," notes Green.

He w ent on to explain that following Alexisonfire's rapid ascent on Canadian m usic charts and Juno award-winning sophomore release, "[people] w ere asking w hen I w as going to put out a record, and I finally decided to do just that."

Despite m ass critical acclaim and com m endable com m er­ cial performances of Som etim es in Canada—m ost notably in Ontario—Green insists that after touring material from Watch O ut! "the priority is to go hom e and write the best Alexis record that w e can." With any luck, fans will continue to see the best of both Dallas Green worlds. In waiting, they will no doubt be chanting the now familiar, "I fall, I fall, I falter/But I'll find you before I drift aw ay/The things w e do just to keep ourselves a liv e ..." hoping Green may be struck by lightning yet again. ■

B E N L E M IE U X It's rare for som eone to win the lottery or be struck by light­ ning more than once in a lifetime. The sam e could be said with respect to the art world. Success is a fickle thing, whether it com es to Russell Crowe or Jared Leto trying their respective hands at a musical trade clearly out of their grasp or the inabili­ ty of Ringo Starr, Beth Gibbons or Roger Waters to duplicate the triumphs of glory days past.

Singer, writer and guitarist Dallas Green, by most standards, is an anom aly in what m any would consider to be the restricting norm of the m usic industry. Still glowing in the limelight of break­ aw ay Canadian hardcore-punk success Alexisonfire, Green released Som etim es a little over two w eeks ago—under the moniker "City and Colour"—an album that breaks any num ber of archetypes.

Contrary to what m any m ay have expected of Green's high­ ly anticipated release, Som etim es is an extraordinarily languid, pared-down, acoustic and soulful marvel to defy notions that he is a heavy-handed, one-trick metalhead.

"There are a lot of people who see that I'm in a rock band and I have tattoos and now I'm playing acoustic guitar, and everyone likes to com pare it to Dashboard Confessional or something like that," explains Green from a Pittsburgh stop on Alexisonfire's Watch O ut! tour. "But I didn't com e from the punkrock [world]. When I started writing songs, I wasn't in a punk-rock band. I started writing songs on my acoustic guitar w hen I was 15-years-old. My first experience playing live w as just m e and my guitar."

Indeed, Som etim es seem s nothing short of second nature to an artist w ho, until this month, had been dog-eared by most as neo-prince of distorted punk melodies and the wailing, screaming vocals for which Alexisonfire is renowned. The songs of City and Colour focus on graceful and breezy interplay between acoustic and electric guitars, achieving melodies more sublim e and sophisticated than one would expect of an album featuring such sparse instrumentation. Green suggests that his penchant for writing interesting and challenging harm onies has been a core strength of his craft, both with his solo work and Alexisonfire.

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hopping, that great and nearly universal preoccupation of femininity, used to be a mystery to me. Buying things is always fun, but how shopping for its own sake could ever be an enjoyable activity was, to m e, always one of life's great inexplicables. But now, thanks to booze, I understand.

I can browse through the rows of colourful bottles at the SAQ alm ost endlessly, particularly the exotic selection of liquors on the specialty shelf. While som e might spend their tim e contemplating how their life would be changed if they w ere to start sporting a Prada purse, I dream about what it would be like to get drunk on a $ 2 2 0 bottle of "Grand Marnier Cuvée Cent Cinquantenaire liqueur agrumes."

Unfortunately, w hile our dear old SAQ has an impres­ sive selection of les vins, their variety of hard liquor leaves much to be desired, and I, for one, have never been seized by the quasi-religious passion of w ine connoisseurship. No, for me, it's all about the bourbon, and in this province that is a great misfortune. Generally, the collection ranges from Jack Daniels to Jack Daniels (w hich, by the way, is technical­ ly 'Tennessee Whiskey" and not bourbon, though truthfully, I couldn't give a flying fuck), although one might occasional­

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Conspicuously absent are such brands as Makers Mark, Evan Williams or any of the "olds"—Old Crow, Old Forrester, Old Grand-Dad—and their w elcom e reminder of Steinbeck's alm ost mythical "Old Tennis Shoes." Regrettably, and quite unforgivably, if you should w ant (and indeed, you should w ant) to culture your bourbon palate, you would be required to make a special trip south of the border, w here a great col­ lection can be found in just about any convenient liquor store.

Now, I understand that m ost people will be quite unmoved by my plight, prejudiced as they are against my beverage of choice. Som e people protest against its taste, as well as that of most other hard liquors. W ell, m y weak-kneed friends, I have som e bad new s for you. Booze tastes bad to just about everybody, but unless you m ake an effort, you'll spend the rest of your days trying—with unnecessary cost, effort and little effectiveness—to disguise that taste in a cor­ nucopia of juices, sodas and other liquid paraphernalia.

Better, I feel, and far more respectable, to make friends with the beast early on, and reap the rewards for the rest of your life.

To som e minds, bourbon carries a stigma wholly unre­ lated to its epicurean merits, which, I suspect, is the real rea­ son behind its lack of availability. Above all, it is a quintessen­ tial^ American and particularly Southern drink, most brands being produced in Kentucky, and may thus arouse som e less-than-pleasant historical connotations. Also, w e Canadians are typically devoted to our own national prod­ ucts such as hockey, Tim Hortons and, most importantly, rye.

But I believe that the love of liquor rises above all bound­ aries of race, class and nationality. After all, if humanity can unite over anything, w hy shouldn't it be booze? Who, aside from that breed known as teetotallers, does not appreciate what Aldous Huxley eloquently describes as "that state of uninhibition and belligerent euphoria which follows the ingestion of the third cocktail"? So, if you're ever sitting around looking for a worthy cause to occupy your tim e and natural zeal, why not get drunk and tell the SAQ in no uncer­ tain term s to respect our inalienable right to bourbon. ■

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Theatre students at Dawson College work hard in their vocation, and it shows. The latest production of the Montreal C E G E P 's professional theatre program, Shakespeare's M easure fo r M easure, is a testam ent to their efforts, as well as those of director Victor Knight.

The choice of material is appropriate, as the play has undergone som ew hat of a revival in recent decades thanks to its them es of sexual and political hypocrisy, a frank treatment of prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases and its questioning attitude toward the role of government in the private lives of citizens. This latest production gives these weighty them es their due, but keeps the atmosphere light through cleverly conceived, skillfully executed and quite original staging. Though the physical infrastructure of the production, performed at Dawson's own Globe Theatre (3 9 9 0 Notre D am e O .), is understandably spare, the actors more than com pen­ sate with their genuinely funny rendition of this rather dark comedy.

Though Shakespeare originally set the play in Vienna, this version takes place in Montreal following the War of 1812. As such, it is able to spin the characters in new and unusual directions, such as that taken by buffoonish pimp Pompey, who is expertly portrayed as an endearingly annoying Scot by Andrew Mackay-Bee. Mackay-Bee is in his third and final year of the pro­

gram; as are all of the other 2 0 actors in the play. He describes the group as being "dose-knit* and says that "a lot of team work goes into [the production]."

Evidently, a lot of work generally goes on in the lives of these aspiring thespians. In addition to specialty theatre courses and core curriculum requirements, the students perform in num erous productions, both large and small. Third-year students in particular put on no few er than three major shows, M easure for M easure being the first this season. Coming attractions include the Pulitzer Prize-winning You Can't Take it With You by M oss Hart and George S. Kaufm an and George Farquar's The Beaux Stratagem . All this ensures a fairly heavy workload, but Mackay-Bee, for one, is without regrets. "It's a very good experience," he says. "If there wasn't this program I probably wouldn't be in school at all."

What happens for these students after they finish their education is a more complicated matter, but Mackay-Bee's hopes are high. Still, he acknowledges that the road ahead might not always be easy.

"Hopefully," he says, "I'll be able to make a living at it." Life is not always fair, but if it were, the skill and pro­ fessionalism of this latest production would ensure the future of all its stars. ■ N ov 24-26. D om e Theatre (3 9 9 0 Notre-Dam e W.) 9 3 7-8731, ext 7399. Tickets so ld at the door.

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of the evening w ere definitely "Boys on the Docks," "The Gangs All Here," "Bar Room Hero," and "Finnegan's Wake." During "Finnegan's Wake," I took refuge by a staircase after a few hits to my head, w hen som eone cam e up to m e dancing an Irish jig and screaming out, "I told ye lots of fun at Finnegan's Wake!" After the song, he admitted to m e he w as reasonably trashed and had seen Dropkick four tim es on the tour.

The band played with ferocious energy. Perhaps the most respectable part about seeing DKM live is the fact that even the most casual observer can clearly see that the band is having as m uch if not more fun than the audience. Vocalist Al Barr had a sm ile on his face throughout and w as more than receptive to the fans that fought their w ay onto the stage to dance and sing with him. For an hour and a half, the band played on without losing the slightest bit of energy, and did not fail to entertain. ■

Down go the lights and out com e the bagpipes.

The Dropkick Murphys, Boston's quintessential Irishpunk band, takes the stage in front of a packed crowd at Metropolis Saturday night. As traditional Celtic music warm s the crowd before the Dropkicks begin playing, audience m em bers start pushing and dancing. Before the first song even starts, most of the crowd on the floor is covered in beer.

It's difficult to understand the fanaticism following DKM without seeing their live performance. The crowd, rowdy before the lights even dim m ed, w as already (and I quote Atom and His Package here) "moshing to a CD." Maybe moshing isn't the right word. Fighting is more precise.

While waiting for Dropkick, two kids behind m e told m e they had com e from New Hampshire, a good fivehour haul, to see the show. Next to them w as a group of large no-neck punks—wearing kilts. Not only w ere there people with Mohawks and bondage pants, but also a surprising num ber of middle- and high school-aged kids.

When DKM finally did take the stage, the audience exploded with a trem endous am ount of energy, and I ended up in a beer puddle on the floor as the entire dance floor erupted into a gigantic pushing-pit.

Two songs into the set, the band broke into "Boys on the Docks," which resulted in a m as­ sive pub-style singalong. The only thing missing w as G uinness or Pabst Blue Ribbon, which would have given a genuine Boston-bar aura to the song if only Metropolis served th em . People w rapped their arm s around each other and threw their fists in the air, singing and chanting with almost every song the band played. Highlights Irish heat—kickin ' it all the way.

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A rt. W orking Taste—Michel Daigneault—Galerie Trois Points—3 7 2 Ste-Catherine O., # 5 2 0 —W ednesdays to Saturdays through Dec. 2 3 It doesn’t show up so w ell in grayscale, but Michel Daigneaulfs canvasses are absolutely crazy with colour.

That's the first thing that hits you, but as soon as your sen ses have a m inute to acclimatize, the complexity of the im ages com es through. His paintings are as confusing as they are compelling, com pletely abstract but hospitable to layers of interpretation.

Worth a look based solely on how long they'll m ake you stare. Call 8 6 6 8 0 0 8 for m ore information.

M usic. Polémil Bazar—Parizo Café Theatre—7 4 Turgeon—Nov. 2 6 Well, yeah, all of their songs are in French.

That's a sham e, because it m eans that you'll m iss a lot of cleverly phrased social com m entary if your lan­ guage skills aren't the greatest Don't worry, though: The band's quirky blend of sounds, featuring instrum ents like the accor­ dion, saxophones and a violin, as well as frontman Hugo F le u r/s charismatically rubber-faced delivery, m ake their sh ow enjoyable even if it's all G reek to you. Doors open at 9 p.m.

P e rfo rm a n c e . "I heart M ontreal” CA SCO Benefit Show —M edley—1170 St-Denis—Nov. 2 4 Benefit show s are great, because it's so easy to justify going to them —good show, nice w arm fuzzy feeling, everyone's happy. CASCO, which stands for the C o m m erce and Administration Student Charity Organization, w as set up for the purpose of applying the skills of M anagem ent students to charitable work.

The McGill chapter has been active since 2 0 0 2 , holding an annual live show with m usic and dance. Last year, they raised m ore than $ 3 0 ,0 0 0 .

The funds raised this year benefit an art therapy program at the Montreal Children's Hospital, so go enjoy the show and help sick kids. Doors open at 7 :3 0 p.m.

Film . R EN T—opens Nov. 23 This m ovie has a lot to live up to. The stage version of R EN T, Jonathan Larson's harshly m odern, gritty N ew York rock opera about love, loss and life in the age of HIV and isolation, has garnered both critical acclaim and the sort of tight-knit cult fan base more typically found stalking rock stars. Fortunately, the big-screen version features alm ost every m em ber o f R E N T s original Broadway cast—people who fit their characters like gloves, including Wilson Jerm aine Heredia as Angel in one of the m ost spectacular portray­ als ever of a gay drag queen by a straight m an. The only m ajor change is the addition of the lovely Rosario Dawson as HIV-positive, heroin-addict­ ed stripper Mimi. W hether the film will hit its m ark as cleanly as the m usi­ cal did is yet to be seen, but the trailers prom ise som e kind of moving and beautiful m ess.

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M E L IS S A P R IC E You'd never guess it from his unassuming, bookish exterior, but rock journalist Chuck Klosterman is a really fucking morbid guy.

In Sex, D rugs, a n d C ocoa P u ffs, his 2 0 0 3 collection of chaotically brilliant pop-cultural musings, a short piece entitled "waiting to die interlude" is proof positive of this.

H e details his macabre imaginings of the exact sensa­ tions of various causes of death, as well as his favourite w ay to evade insomnia: pretending he's in his coffin at his funeral.

“In all likelihood," he writes, "you don't think about dying enough."

This statement may or m ay not have something to do with w hy he wrote Killing Y ou rself to Live, a meander­ ing exploration of the concept of death in the context of popular music.

Basically, Klosterman gets into a silver rental car he dubs "the Tauntan" after the Hothian transportation crea­ tures from S ta r W ars, bringing along 6 0 0 of his favourite CD s and a healthy supply of marijuana. He then pro­ ceeds to drive, alone, across sparsely inhabited parts of America for 18 days. This, of course, is in order to visit as m any rock star death sites as his sanity will allow.

He m akes a stop at the site of the memorial for The Day the Music Died—the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper. He visits the graves of the victims of a fire that erupted during a con­ cert by marginally fam ous blues-metallers Great White.

He reaches the crossroads w here Duane Allman crashed his m otorcycle, the apartm ent building in w hich Replacem ents guitarist Bob Stinson finally succeeded in drinking him self to death, and the hotel in which Sid Vicious allegedly—but probably—murdered his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen. He ventures as close as the poisonous snakes will allow to the site w here Lynyrd Skynyrd's plane crashed into the Mississippi wilderness.

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Killing Y ou rself to Live is a hard book to categorize.

The narrative veers and lurches from intense musical analyses to disarmingly private glimpses of KloSterman's personal life, and back again to obsessive scrutiny of hum an nature in the age of Beyoncé. The book is format­ ted like a travelogue, but, really, Klosterman invites read­ ers for a short stay around his consciousness. Maybe that's w h y the cover disclaims the book as "8 5 % of a true story," leaving the man som e myth.

And Klosterman's consciousness is a bloody strange place. The man has so m any pop-cultural tidbits packed into every corner of his head that it's surprising he can hold a conversation about anything else. What's more, as you read his deliberation on how people would react if he died w hile jogging in a remote area of North Carolina, m ove on to a musing on rock criticism and the definition of the word "important," and end up perusing a com ­ pletely serious comparison of significant wom en in his life to various m em bers of Kiss, suspicion begins to em erge that this is how Chuck Klosterman thinks in real life, a ll the tim e.

That's either aw esom e or terrifying. Probably both.

Klosterman doesn't really com e to anything that could be described as a conclusion, but that's not really the point. The book ends with him walking, under­ whelm ed, around the bridges in Aberdeen, Washington, under which Kurt Cobain fraudulently claimed to have lived. After that, he engages in an overwhelmingly meta conversation about the possibility of this book existing.

"And it suddenly feels like I've been inside a car for 1 ,0 0 0 years, worrying about w om en and thinking about death and playing KISS and Radiohead and all this other shit, and—for som e reason—I keep writing all this stuff down, and I don't exactly know why," he tells the wom an on the other end of the phone.

Who the hell d o e s know why? But som ehow, it seem s like one of the best choices ever made by any­ one. ■

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P o tte r passes p u b e rty S a m e h o c u s p o c u s , half t h e c r a c k in g T R A C I JO H N S O N H arry Potter a n d the G o blet o f Fire, the fourth install­ ment in J.K. Rowling's wildly popular series, opened Friday to the delight of muggle fans everywhere. The film continues to follow Harry's struggles to cope with unwant­ ed fam e and defeat the evil Lord Voldemort. While hard­ core Potter fans might complain that too many events w ere omitted, the movie effectively condenses the 7 3 4 pages of J.K. Rowling's book into 150 magical minutes of spellbinding entertainment.

Transporting the audience to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, The G o blet o f Fire sees Harry contend against enchantress Fleur Delacour (Clem ence Poesy), quidditch star Vicktor Krum (Stanlislav Zaneski) and Hufflepuff golden boy Cedric Diggory (Robert Pattinson, who no doubt incites riots of pining preteen girls in the UK) in the TriWizard Tournament. Harry defeats a fire-breathing dragon aboard his Firebird and com es face to face with Lord Voldemort for the first time, neither of which are as terrifying as asking Cho Chang (Katie Leung) to the ball in stuttering grade-nine style.

Stars Daniel Radcliffe (Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron) and Em m a Watson (H erm ione) return, more mature and less prone to voice cracking than in the previous film.

Radcliffe brings to life the bewildered but brave teenager Rowling characterizes in her books, and Grint displays appropriate adolescent angst in the face of his best friend's attention-grabbing entry in the TriWizard Tournament. Of the three, Watson has developed the most as an actress, but thankfully, all three have grown w ith-and not out of-their roles.

The series has churned through three directors in four films, and Mike Newell (D onnie B ra sco , Four W eddings a n d a Fu nera l) does a remarkable job balanc­ ing the whimsical and the ominous in this one. The result is a story that unfolds with less sugary wholesom eness and more intrigue and depth—albeit less creativity—than the first three films. A talented, largely British adult cast delivers colourful performances: Ralph Fiennes' macabre portrayal of Voldemort will give m any a tenderhearted kiddie nightmares for w eeks; Miranda Richardson as obtrusive journalist Rita Skeeter is as sharp as the slander­ ous words that pour forth from her quick-quotes quill; and Dumbledore (Michael G am bon) manages to be a grandfather figure and fear-inspiring wizard at the sam e time.

The only problem with The G oblet o f Fire is that nonreaders unfamiliar with the plot may be a tad bit con­ fused by its breakneck pace. That said, the film offers fan­ ciful indulgence for children, adults and those, like J.K. Rowling's characters, som ew here in between. If you're too embarrassed to sit in a theatre full of 10-year-olds, pretend to be escorting one, or read the books, which are bound to be more entertaining than that 1,000-page plastic-wrapped textbook lying under your dirty laundry. ■ N ow playing a t 17 th eatres in a n d aroun d M ontreal, including C ote-D es-N eiges, M éga-Plex M arché C entral 18 a n d Param ount M ontréal.

W izardry and flock-of-seagulls: back in style.

Lady Sovereign. Vertically C hallenged. Popular for years across the pond, Lady Sovereign has released Vertically C hallenged hoping to find the sam e success in the Americas.

The album hits you like a ton of bricks the mom ent it begins with "Random," drawing influence from mainstream hip hop successes like Chingy and Ludacris, all backed by solid indus­ trial beats. "Ch-Ching" defines the Lady's style, with the lyrics "Miss Sovereign don't have 5 0 rings/but I have 5 0 things to say in a cheeky kinda way."

Standout track "A Little Bit of Shhh" is a party for the eardrums —reggae styles and tinkling piano guaranteed to get your body moving. O f particular note is the final track, a remix of "Fiddle" by Montreal DJ Ghislain Poirier. Essentially the headbanger's version of the original, it trades in the sinister beat for a heavier club-rocking bass. It is physically impossible to listen to this CD without moving spasmodically to the fast raps and sweet bass grooves. After the success of MIA and Dizzy Rascal, perhaps w e can handle w hat the pint-size grimer has to offer.

Ghislain Poirier. Breakupdow n. Frequently, albums with such an em pha­ sis on synthesizers and electronic elements become monoto­ nous and detached. However, Montreal DJ Ghislain Poirier avoids this predicament, engaging the listener with eclectic tracks focusing on a wide variety of sounds—including congo drums, hand claps and strings. The album opener "Don't Smile, If s Post-Modern" is an instrumental industrial track that kicks off the record in style. The songs continue to display Poirier's syn­ thesized flair, pausing briefly with the interlude "Te Wack," a 53-second franglais ode to what I can only assum e is wackness. This interlude bridges the gap to another one of Poirier's stylistic penchants, more humorous and less experi­ mental. "Mic Diplomat," featuring DJ Collage, showcases reggae vocals and a beat reminiscent of the Mario Brothers theme. Breakupdow n turns hip-hop conventions on their heads, choosing an ethereal, rhythmic style over the habit­ ual limitations of drum and bass.

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D A N M C Q U IL L A N On Thursday evening, the Redm en left for their third and final weekend-long road trip to Ontario this season. By the tim e they pulled back into Montreal on Sunday, the message to the rest of the OUA was clear: watch out.

The undefeated Red 'n' White posted their sixth and sev­ enth shutouts of this young season, blanking Wilfrid Laurier 5-0 on Friday and trouncing Brock by that sam e margin on Saturday.

The two goose eggs tie the CIS record for shutouts by a team in a year-ju st nine gam es in -and add to the Redm en's impressive record in Ontario: over the last three w eeks, McGill w ent 6-0 on the road, outscoring opponents by the gaudy margin of 31-3.

According to Head Coach Martin Raymond, the Redmen have tasted so much success to date due to balanced scoring, team defence and a stellar goaltender rotation.

"I think everyone contributed this week," Raymond said.

"That's the great thing about this team ; We have four lines that contribute. Everyone is doing their job and working hard in prac­ tice. When w e com pete hard, w e have shown that w e can beat anyone."

Redm en Golden against Hawks On Friday evening, the Redm en took on the Laurier Golden Hawks and got to work early, with forward Louis-Simon Allaire scoring his first of the season—the eventual game-winner—only 5 7 seconds into the opening fram e. After Allaire's early marker, the Redm en looked content to sit back and play a relaxed game, but still managed to pot four more in w hat ended up as a 5-0 whitewash. Lucas Madill, who bagged his first multi-goal game as a m em ber of the squad, attributed the perceived lack of effort to the simplicity of Allaire's goal.

"When you score an easy, early goal, you think it's going to go that w ay all night," he said.

Nonetheless, McGill w as still able to get the job done, lim­ iting Lauder's scoring chances by playing good positional defence. Rookie goaltender Jean-Michel Filiatrault made the saves w hen called upon in posting his third shutout of the sea­ son, becoming the first goaltender in CIS history to start his career with three straight clean sheets. Even on his record-break­ ing night, Filiatrault could not believe w hat he had accomplished.

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"I'm the guy who is the most surprised," he said. "In my entire Q[M JHL] career I only had, I think, three shutouts."

Rounding out the scoring for the Redm en w ere forwards Mathieu Leclerc and Chris Churchill-Smith, both of whom notched their first goals of the season. Leclerc's marker w as par­ ticularly nice, as he put a little backhander by the Laurier goaltender on the power play.

A case of Saturday night shutout fever Despite playing their second road game in as m any nights, the Redm en show ed no ill effects on Saturday w hen they took on the Brock Badgers. The Red 'n' White again cam e out flying, opening the scoring on the power play m idway through the first period w hen leading scorer Doug Orr roofed what w as to be the game-winner from close range. From there, the Redm en contin­ ued to work hard, capitalizing on their chances and limiting Brock to few opportunities in the 5-0 shellacking.

This game saw fifth-year senior Ken Davis' coming out party.

The big forward w as sim ply unstoppable, creating scoring chances with ease and flying past the Brock defenders en route to a two-goal, one-assist performance.

"I just got my breaks early," Davis said. "You just feel good sometimes."

Davis' linemate Leclerc also had an im pressive evening, with a goal and three assists. Along the blue line, McGill was tough once again, while goalie Mathieu Poitras stopped all 2 4 shots he faced, earning the CIS all-star his fourth shutout of the campaign.

Despite the fact that Filiatrault could probably start for almost any other CIS team , both goaltenders were sure to point out that there is no goaltending controversy. Poitras em phasized that it is terrific that both he arid Filiatrault are winning games and shutting out the opposition.

"I don't think it's a competition between us," Poitras said.

"We need to alternate our chances and do what w e can to help the team win."

The only cause for concern for the duo seem s to be run­ ning into the goaltenders, a trend that developed over the w eek­ end. Both Laurier and Brock w ent after the netminders, and with them both playing so well, the Redm en are going to have to hope that the referees protect the goalies.

McGill has three games left before the winter break, at

COURTES! MCGILLATHLETICS Doug O rr (top) and Shawn Shew chuk both ended the w eekend in the top five of the O U A scoring leaders. which point the season really starts to heat up. But with the way they have played so far, the rest of the OUA must be on notice.

This Redm en squad is for real, as both Brock and Laurier can attest. ■

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ou don't see people winning the lottery and then complaining that they won Pick 5 and not 6-49. And yet, on NBA draft day 1999, w hen the Vancouver Grizzlies called out Steve Francis' nam e with the second overall pick, the camera panned over the crowd and stopped on a dejected-looking Francis with his head in his hands. After a few seconds, he pulled him self to gethermaking sure everyone knew that he w as anything but pleased—and shuffled to the podium like a scolded pre­ schooler.

What w as Francis thinking? Apparently not about the fact that he had just been given the biggest promotion of his life and a multi-million dollar contract from an NBA franchise desperate for his services and star-power. Francis, having petulantly decided he didn't want to play in Vancouver, was shipped out of town before he even put on a Grizzlies' uniform. And although Francis' refusal effec­ tively sounded the death knell for the franchise, the sad thing is, his behaviour has becom e fairly com m on.

Quarterback Eli Manning is another prime example.

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San Diego w as not one of them . The Chargers proceeded to select him anyway and minutes later, shipped him out.

Eli ended up going to the Giants, one of the team s he orig­ inally said he would lend his services to. It w as impressive in a way: A kid who thumbed his nose at the system and got away with it. No one seem ed to notice that he had never played in an NFL game, looked like he w as 12-yearsold and w as treating the NFL as his personal playground.

And of course you cannot bring up this topic without mentioning career-whiner Eric Lindros. He's done it twice, refusing to play for Sault Ste. Marie in the Ontario Hockey League and then the Q uebec Nordiques of the NHL. The combination of millions of dollars, fam e and playing a game for a living would—for most people—be more than sufficient. But instead, som e athletes, like Lindros, couldn't care about what team s hold their rights. Rather than doing their jobs with a sense of responsibility, they treat the world as though fans take great pleasure in lining the pockets of men w ho shoot a frozen piece of rubber into a net.

I wonder if anyone has ever told Francis, Manning or Lindros about the logic behind a draft. It isn't complicated.

To keep the bad team s competitive, they are able to—wait for it-im pro ve their rosters by picking the best new play­ ers. Imagine that. I guess Francis would prefer a system w here every off-season the league held a free-for-all, with big-market team s signing every decent prospect.

But does Stevie Franchise realize what would happen under such a system? If only the richest team s could get the good players, there would be 2 0 to 2 5 team s with no hope of being competitive and, as a result, no fan interest.

And what would that do to TV ratings and attendance?

Well, Mr. Francis, they would go down—along with your bank balance.

I will do athletes a service by reminding them , though they should already know it, that no one player is bigger than the team . Scratch th at-n o one is bigger than the league, the fans, the city or even the country. Athletes are lucky to be living in an age w here people are willing to cough up huge am ounts of cash for tickets and TV pack­ ages, and they have no right to shun paying customers. It speaks poorly of their character and ridicules the fans. Take your money, but don't run. Stay and do your job. ■

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M o n t r e a l a p e r f e c t fit A D A M M YER S It's an impressive accomplishm ent to be the starting goalie for the Martlets hockey team , playing in front of nearly 1,000 people at McConnell Arena. The feat is even more amazing when the number of fans at an average Martlets game is about double the num ber of people in the town you grew up in.

“My first day of class I walked into Leacock [132]," explains 22-year-old Kalie Townsend, a native of Sangudo, Alberta. "I said T can fit all my neighbours and all my friends and all of Sangudo, and I can get my pet dogs, my farm animals and pretty much everyone else in here with me.'"

For the soft-spoken Townsend, who lived up to her farm-girl cred by working as a beekeeper during the sum ­ mer, Montreal might as well have been Melbourne given the culture shock she experienced. One minute, she was playing in the middle of nowhere and the next, she w as in the world's most historically fam ous hockey city. This required her to m ake a num ber of adjustments, both on and off the ice. "[One change was] there w ere cars on the road, which was kind of scary," she jokes, before explaining the different style of hockey McGill required. "Back home, I played with guys, and it w as an adjustment from the guys' to the girls' game. The guys will com e and run you over from tim e to time. The girls are a little more finesse. With these girls I'm huge, so they don't com e running m e over anymore."

w as all but reserved for Olympic gold-medal winner Kim St. Pierre. However, her work ethic earned her a place, along with high praise from Head Coach Peter Smith.

"She's just a very hard worker," he says. "She prac­ tices hard and plays hard, and she plays with a lot of con­ fidence. She has a very good physical presence out on the ice."

But although Townsend beat out one other competi­ tor and stuck with the Martlets, all of a sudden being a small fish in a big pond meant she needed to change her mindset.

"Back hom e I was the only goalie in my age level," the U3 Biochemistry major says. "So I was like the g o a lie.

Coming here there was Kim St. Pierre, and she was the g o a lie. I had to really work and adjust to get it for myself."

High hopes, high expectations McGill, located in what is arguably Canada's biggest party city, seem s like an odd choice for som eone who grew up on a farm. But Townsend knew that hockey would give her the opportunity to attend a good academ ­ ic school, a chance she wasn't going to relinquish.

"It was kind of roundabout," she explains when dis­ cussing her reasons for coming to McGill. "I had been looking at Yale for a while, but I didn't get in. I played sum ­ m er hockey with this team and the coach had told my mom that the goalie situation at McGill might be opening up. It turned out it was a good school so I applied and got in and came."

And it certainly is a good thing for the Martlets. After apprenticing to St. Pierre for one season and splitting the starting job for each of the past two years, Townsend came Small fish, big pond into her own during the 2 0 0 5 playoffs. She started the The shift that Townsend experienced went beyond Martlets final five postseason contests, going 2-3 against the gender of her team m ates and oppo­ som e of the toughest opposition in the sition. Sangudo—a little over 100 kilo­ country while posting a stellar 1.63 meters northwest of Edmonton—has goals against average. It's that kind of only about 5 0 0 residents, and isn't large result that wins Townsend high praise enough to consistently field a hockey from Head Coach Peter Smith. team . Indeed, Townsend often had to "She is a really hard worker and travel around the province to find does a great job,” says Smith. "She games. inspires a lot of confidence in her team ­ "We had our own little rink, mates when she is back in the net." although I often didn't play in my hom e­ This year, she's continued the town because w e didn't always have remarkable pace, going 2-0 with a 0 .4 0 enough bodies to make a team," she GAA in parts of three conference says. "I would play at hom e or at [other] games as the Martlets have jum ped out comm unities hatf-an-hour or forty-five to a 6-0 start. The Martlets are current­ minutes away, w herever there w as a ly ranked third in the country and are team." legitimate contenders to win the CIS So w hen Tow nsend arrived at cham pionship. In her final year at McGill in the fall of 2 0 0 2 , it w as as McGill, the small-town goalie has bigthough she had entered a different tim e hopes for herself and her team. hockey world—for the first tim e in her "I like that little gold medal I see career, there w ere m ore goalies trying getting handed out at the end of every out than there w ere spots on the team. year," she says. "I would kind of like Townsend was hardly a lock to make Townsend hopes to backstock the one of those, and I would like to be the the squad, considering one of the spots Martlets to nationals. one in net when w e get it." ■ F A S T

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ast year, I w as fortunate enough to be an editor of this fine sec­ tion, and half the fun w as arguing with m y co-editor about all things sports. One of the things w e used to fight about w as his distaste for Canadian football w hen compared to the juggernaut south of the border. Now that the Montreal Alouettes have reached the Grey Cup for the third tim e in four years and the aforem en­ tioned co-editor is now my boss, I think it's tim e to bring our dis­ pute into the public eye and tackle the issue once and for all.

What exactly is the charm of this enigma w e call the Canadian Football League? Andrew Segal, pay attention. You're about to find out.

It's easy to see w hy som e people would prefer the American brand of football. The NFL is hom e to the best players in the world, and the league does a great job of creating a staggering am ount of hype for every weekend's slate of games. It's im possible not to get caught up in all the hyperbole of the NFL, and people get tricked into believing it's the only worthwhile football league around.

But people forget that, even as late as the 19 6 0 s, the C FL was the more popular league. Canadian team s lured top American play­ ers by dangling fat contracts in front of them , and it took the merg­ er of two fledgling American leagues, the NFL and AFL, to give American football the upper hand. Only after the merger w ere lucra­ tive television contracts signed, the Super Bowl created and a dynasty born. The poor little C FL couldn't com pete on those term s and spent the rest of the century trying to figure out its place in the football world.

But Canadians are a fickle bunch and, with the onset of the now-powerful NFL, had a lot of trouble appreciating just what m akes the Canadian game so great "What the hell is a rouge?" they'd ask. Or "Why are a quarter of the league's team s called the Roughriders?" Few seem ed to care that the C FL w as producing a golden age of Canadian football in the early nineties. The quality of play was at an all-time high. Stars like Doug Flutie, Matt Dunigan, Dam on Allen and Danny McManus w ere leading the way, but nobody was watching.

Strangely enough, interest in the Canadian game picked up by the end of the century, when the quality of play started to tail off and the league's leading stars were aging veterans w ho just would­ n't retire—like Damon Allen and Danny McManus.

Part of the problem was that the C FL itself had a bit of an iden­ tity crisis. The league brass tried so hard to appeal to the Canadian in each of us with marketing campaigns like "Radically Canadian" and "Our Balls are Bigger," but those ideas fell flat. For one thing, it wasn't our passports that made the decision to watch football games. Even worse, identifying the "inferior" league as Canadian compounded the problem, though those Rick Mercer-style televi­ sion comm ercials w here they educated Americans about the Canadian game w ere really entertaining.

Today, the C FL is the healthiest it has ever been, with fans tak­ ing interest in a crop of sensational football players w ho never cease to am aze—like Damon Allen and Danny McManus. And the reason for this success is simple. Even with the advent of NFL Europe, the Arena Football League and its sequel, the C FL is still the second-best football league in the world. It's an exciting, wide-open brand of football that's flat-out entertaining, and also really, really weird.

Do you rem em ber how am azed NFL fans were w hen Nathan Vasher of the Chicago Bears returned a m issed field goal 108 yards for a touchdown? That happens every game in the CFL! Does own­ ing one of the two Denver Broncos running backs in your fantasy pool constantly frustrate you? Imagine cheering for the BC Lions or Edmonton Eskim os, w here they can't decide on which quarterback to lead them!

Did you know that last season's Most Outstanding Player in the CFL was, and still is, a backup quarterback? Or that one of this year's finalists for the sam e award is a special team s player? Only in the CFL. Only in the C FL is taking a safety a brilliant coaching strategy.

Only in the CFL is 3 ,0 0 0 yards passing a poor season for a quarter­ back. Only in the C FL will you see a team win by deliberately m iss­ ing a field goal and kicking it through the end zone to earn a single, or rouge, on the last play of the game.

You see, it doesn't com e down to deciding whether the C FL is better or worse than the NFL. They're apples and oranges, or maybe apples and slightly larger apples with white stripes. The point is that the CFL offers a unique but extremely enjoyable version of football.

Being Canadian shouldn't give us any extra incentive to follow the CFL. Instead, it m akes us lucky that w e have the chance to revel in our game. ■

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H is to ry d o d g e d , m a d e o n B o w l w e e k e n d H a w k s and H u sk ie s o n t o D A V ID B L Y E On Saturday, the CIS football national semi-finals— the Uteck and Mitchell Bowls—w ere contested to deter­ m ine the sides that would m eet for the Vanier Cup in Hamilton. When the dust settled, history had been made, and the country assured that no Vanier three-peat would occur this year.

Uteck Bowl Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks vs. Acadia Axemen Going into the game, the talk w as about avoiding his­ tory. It had been 10 years since an Ontario University Athletics team had won a bowl game, and Laurier was detemined to change that. Standing in the Hawks' way, though, were the Atlantic winners from Acadia, who had "home" field advantage.

On its opening drive, Acadia took the lead with a field goal. But after that quick score, the Golden Hawks exploded. On Laurier's first play, QB Ryan Pyear connect­ ed with FB Bryon Hickey on a 70-yard TD. They would connect later in the half for another score, followed by late field goal that put Laurier up 17-3 at the break. The Hawks continued the onslaught in the second half, w in­ ning by a 31-10 margin.

Aside from Pyear (1 5 -2 0 , 3 2 9 yards, 4 T D s) and Hickey, who caught three touchdown passes, the big story w as the Laurier defence, which forced seven takeaways and intercepted four Chris Judd passes.

Mitchell Bowl Laval Rouge et Or @ Saskatchewan Huskies For Laval, it w as about making history. Win, and they had the chance to claim an unprecedented third-straight Vanier Cup. For Saskatchewan, it w as about revenge for a dismal loss to the Rouge et Or in last year's Vanier.

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The first quarter saw a Laval field goal, followed by a H uskies' single, safety and field goal, putting Saskatchewan up 6-3. In the second period, the Huskies opened up a 15-3 lead, earning another safety and a touchdown from RB David Stevens. But before the break, RB Pierre-Luc Yao scored the Rouge et Ohs first major, cutting the lead to five.

The third quarter saw Q B Steve Bilan lead the Huskies to two m ore scores, putting them up by 19. Cue the Laval comeback. First, the Huskies conceded a safety.

This would lead to a TD by QB Benoit Groulx and anoth­ er safety to m ake the score 29-21. Finally, with 3 0 sec­ onds left, the Rouge et Or managed another score to cut the lead to two. But Laval's two-point conversion attempt failed, ending their season.

Showdown in Steeltown The Huskies and the Golden Hawks will have two w eeks off before their Dec. 3 clash in Hamilton, and both will bring something different to the table. The Huskies bring experience to the championship, having participat­ ed in two of the previous th ree finals. Expect Saskatchewan to show case the individual talents of Bilan and Stevens—both of whom w ere named Canada West all-stars—and som e sm ash mouth football behind their talented offensive line.

On the other hand, Laurier com es into the Vanier as the more complete team . Led by the Bradyesque Pyear, Coach Gary Jefferies has assem bled a group of men that just win. In the past three years, the Hawks possess an outstanding 29-4 record while they have looked good in every gam e this season. The Huskies m ust be considered the favourite, although a very pro-Laurier Ivor Wynne Stadium will be a huge plus for the Hawks. This one should be a classic.

Prediction: Saskatchewan 24 , Laurier 21 . ■

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The Ottawa G ee-G ees m ay not have been wearing orange jerseys, but they certainly looked like practice pylons during Friday night's gam e at M cConnell Arena. The Martlets used their speed and skill to leave the G ee G ee s in the dust en route to a 4-1 victory.

"I thought w e had a pretty good game," com m ented Head Coach Peter Sm ith. "We worked hard and got som e tim ely goals. Overall, it w as a positive effort."

The Martlets cam e out flying from the opening faceoff, as rookie Vanessa Davidson set the tone with a wicked shot on net that ricocheted off the goalpost. Though turned aw ay by the iron, the Martlets kept up the pressure, scoring the first goal of the gam e on a power play late in the first period. Fourth-year winger Kristin Leuszler, w ho w as fourth on the Martlets with seven goals last year, capitalized on a rebound off defencem an Patrice M ason's shot, batting in the puck for her second mark­ er of the season.

"Any tim e you have good control on the power play and you get scoring chances on the power play, it really bolsters the confidence of the team ," said Smith. "We had success early on, and it set the tone for the rest of the game."

The second period started out a bit slow er for the Martlets, but w as soon revived by the dynam ic play of third-year stand­ out Shauna Denis. Denis, the highest-scoring Martlet remaining from last year's team , found herself with tw o breakaway chances on the sam e shift. She w as robbed by Ottawa goalie Megan Takeda on the first one, but w as able to put hom e her second chance—with an assist going to Christine Hartnoll—to up the Martlets' lead. "[Denis] played well," said Sm ith. "She is one of our m ost consistent players. She is always involved in the play, and she plays w ell in all three zones. She kills penalties, plays on the pow er play. She is one of our m ost consistent performers."

ing the Ottawa attack, while holding the G ee-G ees to just Martlets reassert dominance after small hitch With four m inutes left in the second period, a mental lapse

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on the penalty-kill led to a goal by G ee-G ees forward Melissa Dipetta, closing the gap as the team s headed into the dressing room. But the Martlets didn't let Ottawa's goal discourage them , putting on a clinic in the third period.

Davidson converted a beautiful pass from Hartnoll to put the Martlets up 3-1, as the veteran centre racked up her sec­ ond assist of the gam e and fifth of the season. Later in the fram e, on the power play, Christina Sm ith and Valerie Paquette assisted Rebecca Martindale as sh e sniped the final goal of the game.

The Martlets finished third in the conference during the regular season last year, but defeated Ottawa in the playoffs before falling to Concordia in the Q u eb ec final. As national cham pionship hosts, the Martlets got an autom atic bid, but lost in the bronze-m edal gam e. This year, though, the Martlets have busted out of the gate, ranked third in the nation and sitting at 6-0 in conference play. The im provem ent is som ething the players attributed to the fact that—aside from key losses Katherine Safka and Véronique Lapierre—m ost of the veterans from last year's squad are back, and the w o m en have bonded "The w hole team is very positive," said Brittany Privée, the fourth-year alternate captain w ho brings m uch toughness to the team . "We are all a very close unit. Everyone realizes the role that they have to play, and they do it There's a really good vibe in the dressing room and w e are all very close.”

The team capped off the w eekend in style, beating Carleton 6-0 aw ay from hom e on Sunday night The promising rookie Vanessa Davidson continued her strong play by finding the back of the net four tim es, including a natural hat trick in the third period. Catherine Herron stopped 2 2 shots to earn the shutout, the team 's third of the season. McGill exploded for five goals in the final period, after being held in check for the major­ ity of the game.

"We w ere a little bit up and down in the gam e [against Carleton],” said Sm ith. "The first two periods w e didn't play as well as w e should have. Carleton is a hard working team , they com e at you. In the third period w e played our own gam e, w e m oved the puck well and play like a team." ■ O U A Sco ring Lead ers

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M artlets Basketball—Bishop's @ M c G ill; Friday, 6 p.m . at M cG ill Sports C en tre McGill, fresh off its upset against Concordia, will take on Bishop's, a squad consistently among the league's best. McGill beat the Stingers last w eek for only the seventh tim e in the last 3 7 meetings, and this game will truly demonstrate whether or not the Martlets have taken that next step.

R ed m en H o ckey—Y o rk @ M c G ill; Friday, 7 p .m . at M cC o n n ell arena The undefeated Redmen have recorded seven shutouts in their first nine games, tying a CIS record. The Lions lead the OUA Midwest division despite just a .5 0 0 record and shouldn't pose too m uch of a challenge for the well-rounded Redm en.

R ed m en Basketball—Bishop's @ M c G ill; Friday, 8 p .m . at M cG ill Sports C en tre The Redm en cagers will attempt to get their first win of the sea­ son against the Gaiters. Bishop's is 1-1 this year and is coming off a huge upset win over top-ranked Laval, but finished last season just 3-13, only one game better than the Redm en. Any outcome is possible in this affair.

R ed m en H o ckey—G u elp h @ M c G ill; Satu rday, 7 p .m . at M cC o n n ell arena In the second of back-to-back games, the Redm en will host a Guelph squad that is currently last in the OUA M idwest division.

McGill will look for a record-setting eighth whitewash—if they don't get it first on Friday—against this w eak team.

C F L —M ontreal A lo uettes v s. Edm onton E skim o s; Su nd ay, 6 p .m . on C B C The 93rd Grey Cup, to be contested in Vancouver, will feature two team s coming off upset w ins in the division cham pi­ onships. The team s are evenly matched, having split their games this year with each team winning at home, and are also familiar with each other from having m et in the finals in 2 0 0 2 and 2 0 0 3 , with each team claiming one Cup. Expect a tight and entertaining affair.

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S u nd ay, Nov. 2 3 , 2 0 0 3 The hockey Martlets w ent into Ottawa on Sunday night, knocking off the G ee-G ees 3-2, in a vital road victory. The GeeG ee got out to a quick start just five minutes in, with forward Jessica Cosgrove beating goalie Delphine Roy. But the Martets rebounded in the second frame, through a Katherine Safka equalizer. The third period saw McGill outshoot Ottawa 16-8 and earn two quick goals. Though the G ee-G ees earned a late strike, it would not be enough, w hen the match ending 3-2.

Satu rday, Nov. 2 4 , 2001 Denburk Reid led the w ay as the Redmen balers knocked off Concordia 8 2-59. Reid led all scorers with 2 0 for McGill, in only the Red 'n' White's third victory over the Stingers in the past seven years. The win improved McGill to 2-0 on the cam­ paign. That doesn't sound like much, but it w as the last tim e the team opened with a pair of victories.

Satu rday, Nov. 2 8 , 1998 The Redmen closed of the first half of its hockey season in style, knocking of their arch-rivals Q ueen's 6-4. The second period saw a barrage of goals, as the Redm en stormed to a 50 lead, only for the Gaels to respond with three goals of their own. Fortunately, McGill kept its composure in the final frame, with future captain David Burgess notching his second goal of the night to seal the W for the men in Red and White.

BOX SCO RE Satu rday, Nov. 19, 2 0 0 5 M cG ill 5, B ro ck 0 Thorold C o m m u n ity C e n tre FIRST PERIOD 1. McGill - Doug Orr (S . Shewchuk, S. Pearce) - 12:29 (P P ) SECO ND 2. McGill 3. McGill (P P ) 4. McGill

PERIOD - Ken Davis (M . Leclerc, B. Martin), 10:43 - Mathieu Leclerc (K . Davis, S. Pearce), 14:25 - Ken Davis (M . Leclerc), 17:45

TH IR D PERIOD 5. McGill - Shawn Shewchuk (L. Madill, M. Leclerc), 13:19 (P P ) SHOTS BY PERIOD Period 12 3 T McGill 5 12 12 (2 9 ) Brock 8 10 6 (2 4 ) PENALTIES: McGill: 17/50 Brock: 16/56 POWER PLAY: McGill: 3 /6 Brock: 0 /9

M artlet bailers stun Stingers, R ed m en lose again Foward Sarah Gagné scored 14 points as McGill stunned- Concordia 73-55 in w om en's basketball at the Currie Gym on Saturday. It w as only the Martlets seventh w in in their last 3 7 m eetings with the Stingers.

McGill's rookies paced the squad, as Catherine Parent and Nathifa W eekes added 11 and eight points, respectively.

McGill evened its record at 1-1, while the Stingers fell to 0-

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V-Ball M artlets sw eep, R ed m en get first w in fo r n ew coach The McGill Martlets showed w hy they're ranked fifth in the nation this past weekend, as they cruised to four straight w ins in w om en's volleyball, improving their recordto 8-1 in regular season play.

They dominated their opponents in sweeping four Atlantic conference team s in a Quebec-Atlantic conference interlocking tournament that counted in the standings for both leagues.

In m en's action, the Redm en picked up their first vic­ tory of the season for new coach Simon Berleur, but went 1-3 in another interlocking tourney played at Université de Montréal.

The Martlets managed to drop only one set the entire weekend, while holding their opponents to an average of just over 15 points per set. McGill swept Cape Breton and UPEI in straight sets on Friday and Saturday, respectively.

They then defeated UNB 3-0 in a late match on Saturday, followed by a 3-0 victory over Moncton Sunday morning.

The McGill wom en have been led all season by rookie Jennifer Thom son. Over the weekend, she am assed a team-high 4 6 kills, while adding 13 service aces, 6 0 assists, 3 4 digs, three stuff blocks and 52 total points over 13 sets.

Also coming off a great w eekend is junior Christine Borisov, the Martlets right-side hitter, who compiled 3 9 kills and four aces.

After making a 12-hour bus ride back from Moncton, the Martlets will spend the remainder of the w eek prepar­ ing for a key match-up against No. 1-ranked Laval on Saturday. McGill will be looking to avenge their first league meeting with Laval, a 3-0 setback on Nov. 5. G am e tim e is set for 1 p.m. at the Currie Gym. Meanwhile, the Redm en started off their interlocking tourney with 3-1 and 3-0 losses to Memorial and Dalhousie on Friday night and Saturday morning, respectively. But they bounced back on Saturday afternoon to sweep Moncton 30 on the strength of power hitters Paul Grinvalds and Tym Frank. Grinvalds combined 15 kills with three aces and seven digs, while Frank had 14 kills.

McGill couldn't build on that m om entum , though, and suffered a 3-0 loss to UNB, as their record fell to 1-7 in the Q uebec conference. They will play a rare mid-week match at Sherbrooke on Thursday before hosting Laval on Saturday.

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The Martlets, who led 31-27 at halftime, had a 23-17 edge in rebounding, with Gagné and Marie-Eve BeaulieuDem ers sharing the team lead in rebounding with four apiece. The Martlets shot 4 6 per cent from the field, while Concordia shot a paltry 33 per cent.

In m en's action, Concordia cruised to an 8 0-63 win over the Redm en, dropping the Redm en to 0-2 as the Stingers improved to 2-0. Damian Buckley had a game-high 17 points for the Stingers, while Patrick Perrotte chipped in with 16. For McGill, Nick Pronovost and Yannick Chouinard had 11 points each, and the squad's 6'9" transfer from the University of Massachusetts, Olivier Lamoureux, added 10.

Concordia, which led 3 6 -3 0 at the half, got double fig­ ures from four players, including Dwayne Buckley and Chris Blackwood with 15 and 12, respectively.

The Stingers had a hot hand, shooting 51 per cent from the field and connecting on 5 of 12 attempts from beyond the three-point arc. They also w ent 23-for-31 from the foul line. The Redm en, w ho held a 28-27 edge in rebounding, shot just 3 9 per cent from the floor and 52 per cent from the line (11 of 2 1 ).

McGill hosts Bishop's in a doubleheader next Friday and will play at Concordia on Saturday.

S w im team s place second Rookie Lauren Crawford captured three gold m edals and one bronze as the McGill Martlets finished second of five team s at a two-day AUS Invitational m eet in Halifax over the weekend.

Crawford took the 2 00- and 800-m etre butterfly, swam the third leg on the winning 4 x1 0 0 freestyle and was third in the 2 0 0 m freestyle. She w as one of 11 McGill sw im m ers at the m eet to reach qualifying standards for the CIS cham pionships in March.

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