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T homas Q uail In an attempt to reduce waiting times and increase patient care at McGill Health Services, steps have been taken in response to provincial legislation to expand the role of nurses in the clinic. The most significant pro­ tocol change in Health Services is allowing nurses, in certain cases, to fill out prescriptions for birth control pills.

"The concern, of course, is with waiting times, right across the nation. So what can we do about it in response to student needs?

One of the things that came up was how can we increase what nurses do," Executive Direc­ tor of Services for Students Jana Luker said.

“In a serendipitous turn of events, there was a new law that provincially legislated what we were after."

With these reallocations of labour and additional changes in scheduling, Health Ser­ vices may be able to end student grumblings over wait times.

"The upshot of it all is that nurses will now be able to initiate prescriptions for con­ traception and order STI testing, amongst other things that we can implement right away that will potentially help with the prob­ lem," Luker said.

Confusion in provincial medical law has needlessly extended wait times in the past.

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were not able to obtain birth control with their prescription from home, even if these prescriptions had been valid the entire time.

Montreal pharmacists had been turning stu­ dents away, telling them to obtain a valid prescription from Health Services at McGill, creating an annual backlog at the clinic early September.

"This means that we can go around to the four or five pharmacies in the surround­ ing neighborhoods and educate the phar­ macists, thereby dealing with the problem at the source,"McGill Health Services Director Dr. Pierre-Paul Tellier said.

The nation-wide doctor shortage con­ tributes directly to the current waiting time at the clinic as well. However, public health officials' hands are tied. According to Tellier, it was projected in 2 0 0 7 that roughly 5 0 0 to 6 0 0 doctors were required to fully address the care of Montrealers. However, permits for only seven new doctors last year were granted in all of the island's municipalities.

This restrictive permit-granting process, alongside mandatory Activités Médicales Particulières, which are requirements set by the government to reach needy areas, have left officials confused as to how to deal with the shortage. Long-term care and outreach programs fall under the umbrella of AMPs. Get your daily dose of campaign crack imported direct from south of the border. See Features page 11 for Super Tuesday coverage.

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T heo M eyer Deputy Provost Student Life & Learning Morton Mendelson addressed students'concerns about events on campus last Tues­ day at a Town Hall on Campus Life in the Shatner Building. The event was moderated by Students'Society Vice-President Univer­ sity Affairs Adrian Angus and attracted roughly 50 students.

With more events moving off-campus this year, students such as Engineering Undergraduate Society President Kristina Huss expressed aggravation at the security costs associated with holding events on campus. Huss specifically referred to the high security costs involved with this year's EUS Open Air Pub.

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"This year we had a $2 0 ,0 0 0 security bill," she said. "How does McGill reconcile promoting student life with charging these fees?"

"We have to ensure the safety of the participants," Men­ delson responded, turning the question over to Jason Brown, McGill's Operations Administrator for Campus Events. Brown admitted that security had been excessive at some events due to uncertainty about how many students would show up and promised to improve the situation.

"We're going to make a large effort to make sure [security is] more appropriate," Brown said.

Mendelson went on to say that the university could not af­

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"That's the issue— it's money, money, money, money," Men­ delson said.

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Mount Royal Member of Parliament Irwin Cotier and a delegation of Montreal religious leaders met with Cana­ dian and Indian government officials in Ottawa this past week to discuss the case of a Montreal man imprisoned in the Indian state of Bihar. Saul Itzhayek, 4 2 , was convicted of entering India on an expired visa and was handed a threeyear jail sentence last May, and has been incarcerated ever since.

Cotier, Itzhayek's MP, is a professor of law at McGill, a former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and a noted peace activist. Cotier became involved with the case at the request of Itzhayek's family.

"The delegation with Professor Cotier at its head had those meetings on Monday to press the case to both the Indians and Canadians that [Itzhayek] should and must be repatriated home on a humanitarian basis and be reunited with his family without further delay," said Howard Liebman, chief of staff to Cotier and a McGill Law and Com­ merce graduate.

Itzhayek was in Nepal on business in May 2 0 0 7 when he sent his driver with a rental car and his travel documents across the border to collect money that was being wired to him. However, Indian border officials allegedly believed the car was stolen, and when the car stopped at the NepalIndia border, officials seized Itzhayek's documents. Itzhayek has filed sworn statements saying Indian police offered him safe passage to India in order to collect his passport and other travel documents, but when he crossed the border he was arrested for entering the country illegally. Itzhayek insists he is the victim of entrapment and extortion; he was reportedly asked to pay a bribe to secure his freedom, but did not have enough cash to resolve the situation.

Cotier's delegation met with Indian High Commis­ sioner to Ottawa Rajamani Lakshmi Narayan and Canadian Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Helena Guergis, who is

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in charge of consular matters. Representatives for Guergis and for Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier said that both ministers have raised the issue with Indian officials.

“Minister Guergis has personally raised this case with India’s Prime Minister, India's Foreign Minister and the head of India's foreign service" said Jeffrey Kroeker, director of communications to Minister Guergis. "The Indian govern­ ment has taken the position that their courts have made a decision; of course we are attempting to use whatever diplomatic means we can to bring Mr. Itzhayek home."

Liebman notes that some of the options available to the Indian government are a pardon, deportation, prisoner exchange or a suspended sentence.

"There are at least four discretionary remedies that... respect the Indian rule of law and the sovereignty of India and could bring about a quick resolution to the matter and the repatriation of [Itzhayek] home, which is what we're hoping for," he said. "But we have not had a response as yet from the Indian government formally."

Supporters of Itzhayek, a father of two, are asking for his release on humanitarian grounds. He has been held at the Motihari prison, a filthy and remote jail in northeastern India for eight months.

"Prison is not a picnic in any country. In this small, regional, third-world jail, [Itzayhek] has suffered from poi­ soned water, rat jnfested conditions and all other'charming'elements of prison life, like prison riots. At one point, he had lost 6 5 pounds," said Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz of Con­ gregation Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem in Côte St. Luc, one of the Montreal spiritual leaders campaigning for Itzhayek's release.

Steimetz added that the campaign has become more than just a political issue.

"When an interfaith group comes together to sup­ port a cause, you know that something more than politics is at hand; we are talking about a moral issue, about justice for an innocent man," he said. ■

With the Students'Society preparing for the third General Assembly of the year, debates surrounding post-secondary funding, food services and SSMU policies have re-emerged on campus.

This will be the first GAto function under the new by-laws passed in the Fall ref­ erendum period requiring a qualified quorum of two per cent of the student body, or about 395 students. If attendance falls below qualified quorum but remains above 100 students, any motions passed must go to a plebiscite vote moderated by Elec­ tions McGill within 4 8 hours of the GA. "The SSMU Speaker, Yahel Carmon, would inform me in writing that certain motions haven't reached qualified quorum," said Corey Shefman, Elections A Gill chief electoral officer. "[Students] then have 4 8 hours to vote. During that time there is no campaigning allowed."

Four motions have been presented to Carmon, which call for student support of a province-wide day of action on Feb. 21 in Quebec City, another demanding SSMU to "defend autonomous student control of services," one for SSMU to make clubs and services support its primary obligation and a joke motion calling for all GA attendees to sing "Happy Birthday"to Engineering Councillor Laura Meimari.

SSMU Vice-President External Max Silverman, one of the movers for the Univer­ sity Funding motion calling for a Feb. 21 day of action, plans to use the GA to assess general sentiments and student support for another day of action.

"Essentially, the march itself has the same demands as last time around; it is within our mandates to support it,"Silverman said. "It would be totally legitimate for SSMU to organize for the Day of Action without going to the GA, but the idea was to try to check with students to see how they feel about it."

The call for SSMU's primary obligation to support clubs and services was sub­ mitted by the McGill Debating Union. DU Secretary Josh Stark, who drafted the mo­ tion, hopes to use the open forum to address the massive cuts to clubs'and services' budgets this year, which have reduced the club's budget by over 70 per cent. The motion was intentionally left indistinct in order to address the various problems in SSMU that might account for the financial difficulties encountered by clubs and ser­ vices this year.

"We want to bring this into a public discussion. We've been talking to a lot of clubs and we know that a lot of people are upset about what happened," Stark said.

"It's sort of a vague motion but it's also a vague problem; we see that SSMU is focus­ sing on other things. Some people might say that [SSMU] is too political and clubs are suffering for that; some people say that [SSMU] isn't funding them enough and clubs are suffering for that."

"Constitutionally, SSMU's primary obligation is to clubs and services," Stark added.'This is a reaffirmation of this goal and we want to get it out there that a lot of people are unhappy about how SSMU is treating this problem." ■

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"How could we have possibly regulated DDT when we didn't even know the existence of biomagnification?

We only found out about this phenomenon when eagles began to disappear and biologists tracked it down," he said.

"Nobody knows what the effects [of any new technology] will be, but you can be damn sure that there will be unex­ pected, negative effects."

Despite being the keynote speaker for a sustainability conference, Suzuki was not afraid to criticize the idea of sus­ tainable development as well.

"We don't know what it is to be sustainable," he said.

"There may be a few principles we can aim at, but right now the obvious thing is we have too heavy a footprint on this Earth and we've got to reduce that very, very quickly."

Emilie Flanagan, U3 strategy and international busi~ ness, enjoyed the talk, but had a few criticisms of her own.

"I would disagree with when he said we still have a lot to do in the future. Most of us here already know what dam­ ages we’re doing here; a lot of us are at fault and we know it and we're not doing anything," she said. "He could have given more solutions on how we can shape our economy around [the environment], and not just saying that the economy should be incorporated into it. Yet again, he's here to raise awareness and it's up to us to find solutions, but I wish there were simple solutions."

Katy Wang, co-chair of the MBCS committee, was also impressed by Suzuki's speech.

"I think it was good; l liked how he was very aggressive in that he wasn't afraid to say the things that he said," she said."He said some [critical] things about management kids and businesses, and we are a business conference. I think that's a good thing. It's good to make us think about our role in society as businesspeople. I like what he said, wheth­ er it was an insult or not." ■

Kicking off the fourth annual McGill Business Confer­ ence on Sustainability, environmentalist Dr. David Suzuki urged a full house in Leacock 132 to exploit those qualities that have made the human race so successful in evolution: intelligence, memory and creativity, to change the world for the better in light of the conference's theme: Looking Back­ ward to Move Forward. "[The human brain] invented an idea called 'the future.'

The future doesn't exist; the only thing that exists is now and what we can remember from the past," Suzuki said. "We are the only animal that realized that we can affect the fu­ ture with what we do today. If we look ahead, we can see where the dangers lie; we can see where the opportunities are. We can deliberately act today to avoid the dangers and exploit the opportunities."

Suzuki reframed the environmentalist movement by reminding the audience that they are not separate from the environment that they are trying to change.

“We are the environment; there is no distinction. What we do to the Earth, we do directly to ourselves," he said. "This, then, is the issue that we confront: that we remain biologi­ cal creatures, as dependent as any other organism on these fundamental elements— earth, air, fire and water. Why can't we see that? It's so obvious; why can't we see that and act on our foresight?"

Over the course of his speech, Suzuki was not shy in making criticisms, singling out Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach for prioritizing the economy over the environment. He also said that increased regulation was not the answer to environmental protection, as scientists generally do not know the dangers of their new developments. Suzuki gave the example of the discovery of the dangers of DDT decades after it had already been in

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J ames G ilman "There is a lot of fascination with war, with violence, because people do not really understand what it does to the human spirit,"said author and former child soldier Ishmael Beah, addressing an audience this past Sunday at an event organized by Hillel McGill, the Student Coalition Against Hateand Students Helping Others Understand Toler­ ance.

Beah recounted the experiences that led him to write his bestsell­ ing book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs o f a Boy Soldier, an autobiographi­ cal account of violence in Sierra Leone's civil war in the early-to-mid 1 9 9 0 s. He was forced to serve as a child soldier after his family was killed in the West African nation's vicious conflict.

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"Having had the extraordinary luck to not only survive the war but to come to live in the United States, to have a family there, to have an education, I decided it was a responsibility to be able to share my experience as a way of exposing people to this reality," he said.

Beah focussed on the theme of hope while describing his reasons behind writing A Long Way Gone. He wrote the book to tell a story of the resilience of the human spirit. The difficulties that come along with the memories of war are a small price to pay, according to Beah, for exposing what continues to happen to children around the world.

He spoke of the importance of awareness and education in pre­ venting conflict, and discussed the difficulties child soldiers face in reintegrating into society. However, he stressed that children caught up in conflict are not lost causes, that they can have meaningful and productive futures as members of mainstream society and that the stigmatization these individuals face is unjust and unwarranted. ■

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We all realize the consequences of smoking and how terrible it is for our health. For Quebec to necessarily ban something like that, I think it's a mini­ mal approach to a bigger problem.

— Cristy Latham, U4 physical education I know a lot of my friends did smoke them back in the day; they thought it was cool. But Ithink [teens] would just go to normal cigarettes, I find that they don't smoke so much for the flavour; they smoke more for the image.

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This significantly affects recruitment, as many young doctors cannot work full-time.

"If a doctor decides to not com­ plete their AMPs, they would take a cut in their salary,"Tellier said.

The McGill Health Services dropin clinic has also recently changed day-to-day scheduling in a way that is beneficial for students.

“The most obvious change that students will see is that we no longer have the drop-in clinic functioning as

News Brief SSMU solicits student submissions to fill Shatner space The Students' Society is looking for a new ten­ ant to replace Caférama, located on the main floor of the Shatner University Centre. This will be the second space vacated in the building since University Bytes left Room 1 0 8 last April. A call for student initiatives was met with two prospective candidates, who joined five established cafés in bidding for the space.

The opportunity to express interest in the space was given to student groups'after a motion was passed at last semester's General Assembly that mandated that priority be given to students when considering available space in the Shatner building.

Responses to the call for tenders— a document explaining the general guidelines for the space, SSMU requirements and the list of all prospective tenants— from interested parties will be due to the Operations Committee by Feb. 2 9 .

"The Operations Committee will compile a re­ port and make a recommendation [for a new tenant]

by March," said Vice-President Finance and Operations

Imad Barake. "[The tenant] could be completely inde­ pendent and charged standard rent, SSMU could be the franchisee of the brand.. .or we could start our own operation from scratch."

Concerns have been raised against the possibil­ ity of a corporate tenant taking over the space, given the recent dollar increase in SSMU fees. The space im­ provement fee, passed last November during the Fall referendum period, is intended to provide the neces­ sary funds to allow student occupation of vacant spac­ es in Shatner.

"If we do not seriously consider student groups for the Caférama space, regardless of how much money we could make with one corporation or another," VP Clubs and Services Kosman said, "I think students will have a right to demand where their extra $1 per se­ mester is going if it is not being used to promote stu­ dent activity in the little space available to them left on campus."

The selected tenant will have the opportunity to establish their venture by Aug. 3 1 , 2 0 0 8 , when Caférama's doors will officially close.

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Desautels's MBA program slips; remains in top 1

C O R R EC TIO N In last week's Campus Buzz, Gavin Friedman was quoted saying, “It's important for students to feel like such a separate part of Montreal...'' when he in fact stated, "It's not important for stu­ dents to feel like such a separate part of Montreal.”The Tribune apologizes for this error.

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T rip Yang In a trend concurrent with many other Canadian schools, McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management lost ground in the Financial Times's global rankings of MBA programs this year, dropping from 9 0 th to 9 6 th. Just two years ago, McGill's ranking was 4 4 th.

Other Canadian business schools that have regressed in the Financial Times's rankings include the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, University of Western Ontario's Ivey School of Business and University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business.

Desautels Communications Officer Geoffrey King at­ tributed McGill's slide to the way the rankings are struc­ tured.

"About 4 0 per cent of the rankings are derived from the income salary of our graduates. Because many of our students work in Canada upon graduation, their income is affected by Canada's relatively lower salary levels. McGill's ranking is of course influenced by the salaries Canadian companies are paying," King said.

He added that the income salary portion of McGill's 2 0 0 8 ranking is actually based on the earning potential of those who graduated in 2 0 0 3 . Further complicating mat­ ters, salaries are converted to U.S. dollars at a previous con­ version rate that is less complimentary to the Canadian dollar than the current one.The listed average salary stood at $9 1 ,5 5 1 , while the weighted salary converted to U.S. dol­ lars was $8 5 ,1 6 8 .

"The ranking does not reflect the present CanadianAmerican conversion. If it did account for the present rise in the Canadian dollar, most Canadian schools would see their ranking increase," King said.

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Rob Moreno, Master's in Manufacturing Manage­ ment, believes McGill's slide does not affect his percep­ tion of the school.

"Every ranking uses different criteria. Newsweek's ranking is not identical to Financial Times's. McGill's brand name carries its own weight and I am satisfied studying here.”

Despite McGill's decline, King remained positive that Desautels continues to be an exemplary business school with consistent high performance.

"We've been in the Top 1 0 0 for at least the past four years," he said. "Desautels ranks very highly for student satisfaction, as well as international mobility and inter­ national experience. Many of our students participate in international internships. Three-fourths of our students come from outside Canada, and one-third speaks three languages. We offer a much diversified experience."

While dropping in the rankings for two years in a row may be viewed with apprehension, King remains unwor­ ried.

"We'd like to go higher, but we're still satisfied," he said. "It's a very distinguished list of business schools and once again we're in the Top 1 0 0 ."

John Mathew, Master's in Business Administration believes Desautels is respected regardless of its ranking this year.

"McGill is a very recognized name. While I don't be­ lieve McGill is the best in some specialized fields, McGill's general management is good. Low tuition fees are a big reason why I came here, so I'm getting good value."*

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and insufficient notification of cost changes by McGill's Ancillary Services.

"This is a nightmare every year,"Campbell said. "I think we've been doing our part."

Other students flawed McGill's attitude toward cam­ pus life in general. SSMU Arts Councillor Devin Alfaro re­ ferred to a conversation several months ago with friends at the University of Toronto after he told them of the dif­ ficulties he had experienced with scheduling events at McGill.

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"They've never had these types of problems," Alfaro said after theTown Hall."Student life on campus [at McGill] is seen as something that has to be managed, a liability" SSMU President Jake Itzkowitz voiced complaints of his own about the affordability for smaller groups to throw events on campus. He used the example of the Architecture Students'Association's attempt to organize a barbeque during Frosh, where required costs would have brought the event far beyond the ASA's operating bud­ get.

"They would have had to have insurance and a liquor permit and that would have cost them $5 0 0 ,"he said.*

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Agenda 1.0 Call to Order 2.0 Adoption of the Agenda 3.0 Announcements 4.0 Report of the Executive Committee 5.0 Old Business 6.0 New Business 6.1 Financial statements of the SSMU 6.2 Nomination of the auditors for the fiscal year 2007-2008.

6 .3 Motion re: Day of Action

6.4 Motion re: SSMU Priorities 6.5 Motion re: Food Services 6 .6 Motion re: Happy Birthday 7.0 Adjournment

O r d r e d u jo u r 1.0 Commencement 2.0 Adoption de l’ordre 3.0 Annonces 4.0 Rapport de la Committee Exécutive 5.0 Anciens affaires 6.0 Nouveaux affaires 6.1 Etats de compte de l’AÉUM 6.2 Nomination des auditons pour l’année fiscal 2007-2008.

6.3 Motion re: La Journée d’Action 6 .4 Motion re: Les Obligations de l’AÉUM 6.5 Motion re: Les Services Auxiliaires 6 .6 Motion re: Joyeux Anniversaire

7.0 Ajournement Motion re: Day of Action Be it resolved that the SSMU endorse and encourage its members to participate in the February 21 province-wide Day of Action in Quebec City;

Motion re: La Journée d’Action Il est par conséquent résolu que l’AEUM endosse et encourage ses membres à participer à la journée d’action provinciale du 21 février à Québec;

Be it further resolved that the SSMU coordinate transportation to and from Quebec City to facilitate the participation of McGill students in this Il est en outre résolu que l’AÉUM coordonne le transport vers et au retour action; de Québec afin de faciliter la participation des étudiants de McGill à cette journée d’action.

Motion re: SSMU Priorities Be it resolved that SSMU's primary obligation be to support Clubs and Services.

Motion re: Les obligations de l’AÉUM Il est par conséquent résolu que l’obligation principale de l’AÉUM soit de supporter les clubs et les services.

Motion re: Food Services Be it resolved that in the event that Ancillary Services attempts to gain Motion re: Les Services auxiliaires oversight or control of student-run services that SSMU intervene to defend Il est résolu que dans l’éventualité ou les services auxiliaires tenteraient autonomous student control of these services, d’obtenir le contrôle de services gérés par des étudiant, l’AÉUM intervienne afin de défendre le contrôle autonome de ces services par les Be it further resolved that SSMU take an active role in fostering the étudiants; growth of new on-campus student-run initiatives and services in locations across the campus, outside of the Shatner Student Center.

Il est en outre résolu que l’AÉUM joue un rôle actif dans la promotion de Motion re: Happy Birthday Be it resolved that everyone at the General Assembly sing Happy Birthday to her.

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T imothy M ak T imothy. mak@ mail. mcgill.ca urn on CPAC one of these days and watch the scandals, slander and acerbic partisan politics on the floor of the House of Com­ mons. Where did the Canadian political sys­ tem go wrong? How did politics lose its class?

There was once a-time when leaders respected each other, where Ministers took responsibil­ ity for their actions and where backbenchers were more than.just glorified Passport Canada agents. Back in the 1950s, Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent would regularly drop by Stornoway to have breakfast with George Drew, the Offi­ cial Leader of the Opposition. When Drew fell ill and had to retire from politics, St-Laurent appointed him as the High Commissioner to London. Can you imagine such events taking place between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Stéphane Dion? I can see it now— Sté­ phane Dion, Ambassador to the United States in 2010.

Some might argue that it was polling that did us in— the constant horse races brought on

by Ipsos-Reid, Gallup and Leger increased dayto-day competition to the point where it was no longer tenable to enjoy friendly relations with your opponents. While this may be true, it was more than just mere opposition research that led to the demise of class in politics. Rather, it was a shift in the entire paradigm of political thinking. Hostility replaced gentlemanly de­ bate and animosity developed between party leaders. Leaders began to realize that they didn't have to take responsibility for their ac­ tions and that their ministers or critics didn't need to be held accountable if someone else could be blamed. This abdication of responsi­ bility seemed to be the best way of justifying the government or the opposition's actions during a time of crisis. "Well," the typical answer would go, "wed love to solve the problem, but Party X was in power for Y amount of years, and they didn't do anything on the file."Or,“Well, it's true that Critic X was caught breaking electoral

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grew up in a fairly conservative house­ hold. My mother was an immigrant who had worked hard to establish herself in this country and wanted to live out the Ca­ nadian dream. We had a mid-sized house, a mid-sized car and a mid-sized family.

Until I reached the age of twelve, my sis­ ter and I were dressed identically, despite our four-year age difference. Homemade dresses with puffy sleeves, frilly white socks and black Mary Janes. Our underwear was white— only white— and came in 3-packs from the department store. Jordache, Hanes, Fruit of the Loom— neat and prop­ er underwear for neat and proper girls.

Once, when I was in high school, I went to the mall with my friend Tiffany and she took me to La Senza to go underwear shopping. Underwear shopping in a store that didn't also sell refrigerators and power tools? Unheard of. I was overwhelmed by the colors and styles hanging on the walls and piled into bins. I began to blush.

Did real women wear these? Under­ neath each pair of unassuming blue jeans, did there lie something red or purple with sequins and tassels? That day, for the first time in my life, I bought myself a pair of un­ derwear. One pair, paid in cash, wrapped up in tissue paper and tucked into a square white bag.

When I got home my mother asked what I had bought, as usual. Never would I have imagined that a pair of blue, bikini-cut panties with a pattern of tiny yellow ducks could incite such rage in my tiny Asian mother. She seized my newly-acquired undies, along with the bag I had brought them home in and stormed away.

I didn't understand— I had plenty of colorful socks and my mother didn't have any problem with those. If my feet were al­ lowed to wear stripes and polka dots and tiny yellow ducks, why couldn't my vagina?

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finance rules, but Party Y has been doing that for ages! Look at how often Party Y breaks the rules!"

The abandonment of responsibility works in tandem with what is nowadays a dominant campaign strategy— the neglect of substance in favour of style. Television media have created a huge incentive for party operatives and tac­ ticians to focus on image making rather than what is actually said. Senior policy advisors are consistently being given a back seat to style consultants, phraseologists, wardrobe special­ ists and PR consultants. Too much emphasis is put on words that test well in focus groups, the lighting on the podium and the colour of the speaker's tie, and not enough is put on the sub­ stance of what a politician is actually saying.

I never lived through the classier days of politics, and it seems I might just as well sit back and resign myself to the fact that the nostalgia I feel for a time I never experienced is an unmistakeably futile fantasy. Indeed, the likeliness of a return to substantive, passionate, and civilized debate in the House of Commons is as likely as a Belinda Stronach majority government.

Nonetheless, there is something seductive and alluring about these lost days of politics. A part of me wants to enter a smoke-filled room in the 1950s, the tap-tap-tap of typewriters ha­ rassing my eardrums, and sit down at an oak desk to begin to write.The drab colours and the smell of cigar smoke would be a common link to thousands of Canadians across the country, and I would write a speech with an authentic desire to connect with those the pen speaks to.

But alas, those days have truly passed, and this daydream will stay as such. No exercise proves this fact better than to, for a moment, imagine Stephen Harper and Stéphane Dion reclining on opposing couches in 24 Sussex, scotch in hand, biting lit cigars, talking about how they would change Ottawa, the country, and, if they could muster it, the world, for the better. ■

ized. It was an article of clothing designed just for my vagina. Underwear wasn't made to hide my vagina from the world like it was something bad that needed to be kept be­ hind a cotton/poly-blend iron curtain. Un­ derwear was made to make my vagina feel special, comfortable or dressed-up.

From that day forward, I was finished with the oppressive department store 3pack. I had unearthed this exciting new sense of pride that came from wearing outrageous underwear. No one knew it was there but me and that made me feel powerful.

I began to worry about my moth­ er, my sister, my cousins and any other woman who had not discovered the un­ derwear revolution. If I could have mailed every woman in the world a pair of pink striped boy-shorts, I would have. But, due to the price of postage and no personal in­ come to speak of, I had to settle for some­ thing on a smaller scale. I took my sister to the mall and brought her to La Senza. f told her to pick a pair—any pair— and I would buy them for her, as a gift. She was overwhelmed, just as I was the first time I had set foot in the store. She soon became engaged, however, and began to explore.

Twenty minutes later she returned, trium­ phant, proudly waving a pair of underwear in front of her— pink, bikini cut, with little yellow ducks.

In the spirit of The Vagina Monologues: If your vagina got dressed, w hat would it wear?

A fabulous scarf and Manolo Blahniks.

If it could speak, what would it say?

Try me.

W hat does your vagina remind you of?

Something bread.

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What's special about your vagina?

It's not afraid. ■

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Abortion fallacies B en Lemieux BENLEMIEUX@GMAIL.COM alking through the Roddick gates last week, I noticed notthe usual anti-Semitic protestor (where has hegone, by the way?) but another lone desperado combating the cold, vying to bring a noteworthy issue to student attention.

The young woman's sign read (and please note I'm paraphrasing to the best of my abilities here): Since January 28, 1988, Canada has been one of the only countries in the world with no abor­ tion laws. A woman in Canada can getan abortion for no reasonwhatsoever. (In a different colour) Have we gone too far?

Enthralled by the excitement of SnoAP and Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I'd forgotten that last month would also mark the 20th anniversary of abortion doctor Henry Morgentaler's victory in the Supreme Court of Canada, whereupon it was decided that anti-abortion laws, then en vigueur, were a violation of Section 7 of the Canadian Charter, and thus struck outright.

I had always tacitly assumed that women's rights were a good thing, but this sign-toting girl brought up an interesting point. Perhaps Canada has gone too far. Perhaps we've accepted this morally moribund status quo for far too long.

For starters, did we hold a plebiscite to decide whether or not banning abortion laws was in the best interest of our coun­ try? Hells no. A minuscule body of nine Supreme Court Justices, the Ch ief of which was a Zeta Psi fratboy in the mid-i930s, made

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the decision unilaterally. So much for fucking democracy. How can we place our nation's trust in people who just have legal degrees and wear those silly felt robes?

More importantly, if abortions had been permitted any ear­ lier in our nation's history, none of us would be here. Check this out: Back in the colonial days, families would be rewarded with francs, free land and access to education if they had exception­ ally large families. Fertility is a virtue! All that we own and see around us we owe to the fine, bareback-riding Christians who didn't think twice about pumping out babies like we do gaso­ line. To behave any differently than them would be to spit in the face of our ancestry.

Has anyone else noticed Quebec's steadily declining birth-, rate? Not to jump to any radical conclusions, but has anyone also noticed that it forms a perfect negative correlation with female college enrollment?- Higher education, if nothing else, has given women delusions of grandeur and embedded within them the notion that they can be productive members of soci­ ety without giving birth. ROFLII! If that ain't going too far, I don't know what is.

One could argue that such a mentality expressly prevents us from evolving as a society, but that's just unsubstantiated liberal propaganda. Let's face facts: humanity has done just fine

by sticking to the patriarchal model. From Ancient Greece and Rome, to The Renaissance, to the dawn of the Industrial Age, all of humanity's finest hours have come about when men were out working, philosophizing and developing new technologies, while women were at home pumping out babies. Given what we know about male productivity being utterly self-sufficient, giving women a. cogent, constitutionally ingrained opt-out of their child-rearing duties is to descend a very slippery slope, my friends. The next thing you know, women will be stating it's their "constitutional right" not to fix their man a sandwich after copulation.

In his grand interview with the Veteran Feminists of Ameri­ ca, intrepid Kazakh reporter Borat Sagdiyev poses the question: "But it is not a problem that a woman have a smaller brain than a man?"The truth is, it's not a problem, so long as we stick to the social construct that works best. It's more or less the same as what the average Canadian is accustomed to, except instead of being educated, sexually liberated and possessing fair and equal corporeal rights, a woman will be domesticated, subservient and in charge of making babies. At the very least, she should be able to choose when and where she uses the restroom.

That's about as far as we, a liberal democratic society, should be willing to go. ■

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ith the recent release ofthe Manley report concerning Canada's military presence in Afghanistan, controversy has been piling up over whether or not Canada should continue to be involved ina conflict that is increasingly dan­ gerous. According to former Liberal deputy prime minister John Manley and his colleagues, Canada should continue its mission in Afghanistan past the scheduled February 2009 withdrawal date on-

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iban continued to go downhill, but reconstruction efforts have also not proceeded as planned, nor has the country's progress in areas such as edu­ cation and human rights been satisfactory. In a recent storm of controversy, allegations of torture against Afghan officials were unearthed, a situa­ tion which led Canada to cease the transfer of Tal­ iban prisoners to Afghan authorities as of Nov. 6.

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ly if other NATO countries contribute at least 1,000 more troops to support our own beleaguered forces in Kandahar.

Recently, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has given his support to Manley's recommendations, while Liberal leader Stephan Dion has proposed that Canada's forces remain but refrain from par­ ticipating in combat operations. According to chief of defence staff Rick Hillier, however, it is im­ possible to stay in the violent southern province of Kandahar without engaging in combat and there is little need for additional forces elsewhere.

Meanwhile, NDP leader Jack Layton continues to call for a complete withdrawal, calling the Afghan­ istan mission an un-winnable war with no end in sight. And with its usual rhetoric, the radical left agrees, calling NATO's actions an occupation and an illegal war.

There is no doubt that Afghanistan is a dif­ ficult military ground as well as a swamp of moral ambiguities. Not only has the fight against the Tal-

the withdrawal of NATO troops will not lead to a paradise of democracy and human rights, but will only make matters worse.

The present Afghan government may not be ideal, but its inadequacies pale in comparison to those of the Taliban. While the progress of Afghani troops in conducting their own anti-insurgency efforts are promising, a hasty withdrawal of NATO troops would only plunge the country into greater conflict, if not allow the Taliban to regain power altogether. Most importantly, according to recent polls taken on behalf of the BBC, The Globe and Mail, CBC and La Presse, a majority of Afghans fa­ vour a NATO presence in the country. While crit­ ics of Canada's Afghanistan mission point to "our collaboration with American interests, it- is clear that our continued presence is not inspired by diabolical collusion with the Bush administration but by an unwillingness to leave a struggling Af­ ghanistan in the lurch. Idealistic western activists may believe that the actions of their country are

illegitimate and imperialistic but the people they pretend to speaking for don't agree.

Though 'NATO's presence in Afghanistan is justified, it is not Canada's sole burden to bear.

Along with the United States, Britain and the Neth­ erlands, Canada has born the brunt ofthe Afghan conflict and as a result of its role in Kandahar, the most dangerous area ofthe country, has suffered a disproportionate number of casualties. Accord­ ing to a National Defence Department analysis published by the National Post, the death rate of Canadian Forces in Afghanistan is 2.6 times as high as that of American and British forces, to say nothing of other NATO allies. While Canada should fulfill the commitments it has already made, we should not become the patsies of our European allies. If NATO's involvement in Afghanistan has any hope of success and if the conflict is not going to become a futile and interminable struggle then it demands the participation of NATO as a whole and not just its more pliable members. As heavily as Afghanistan may weigh on the Cana­ dian conscience, if countries such as Germany and France are not willing to contribute, then NATO's failure towards the people of Afghanistan is not ours, but theirs. ■

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B yron T au emember the old Laura Numeroff story?

If you give a mouse a cookie, he'll want a glass of milk. And giving him a glass of milk will only create a chain reaction and bring upon an insatiable series of increasingly burdensome demands. The tale is a timeless pearl of wisdom; further, it's an idea that comprises the backbone of modern economics— that human desires are infinite, while resources are finite. Therefore, effective government is about managing the ever-increasing complexity of allocation. Mod­ ern Canadian voters, however, have become the mice in Numeroff’s parable. When their govern­ ment steps in to solve one problem it only brings upon itself more demands from a perpetually dissatisfied electorate.

I first noticed this trend while spending time ig New Hampshire in the run-up to the state's presidential primaries. In Canada, political dis­ course— especially over emotionally charged issues like education or health care— is often framed in terms of what people believe they de­ serve from the state. For example, SSMU's TuitionTruth website is full of bluster about how educa­ tion is not a privilege but a fundamental "right."

As a result, many Canadian students feel that they fundamentally deserve not only an afford­ able education, but also a free one as a matter of principle. Moreover, debate over introducing any free-market mechanisms into Canada's health care system inevitably returns to people's funda­ mental right to equal treatment.

In the United States, however, the debate is

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framed differently because of different political expectations ofthe state. On a recent NPR broad­ cast, doctors and economists alike debating the merits of universal health care never appealed to .nebulous concepts like rights. Rather, they grounded their arguments in the pragmatic. One expert noted that the lack of universal health care made American products less competitive abroad: every time you buy a Ford, you're also paying for some employee's health insurance. Others noted that the patchwork of state-by-state insurers di­ minished the ability of free-market mechanisms to work properly and that insurance overhead spent on marketing added a great deal of waste to the system.Their conversation was fundamen­ tally less dogmatic and based more on achieving good outcomes— all because Americans have never come to rely on government as a crutch to the extent that Canadians have.

One reason for this vast difference in politi­ cal climates in both countries goes back to a fun­ damental divergence that occurred around 1968.

After decades of progressive legislation under Roosevelt, Kennedy and Johnson, the studentdriven New Left was profoundly unhappy with American liberal presidential administrations and demanded even more radical change, sometimes with violent consequences. As a result, there was a backlash and American voters elected a string of free-market Republican presidents who vowed a leaner state, less regulation and more personal responsibility.

In Canada, however, 1968 saw the election

of Pierre-Elliott Trudeau as Prime Minister and the continuation and expansion of a liberal tradi­ tion that began with Tommy Douglas's Medicare system. Thus, ever since the mid 20th century, Canadian domestic politics have centred on the idea that people deserve certain services from the state. These demands have only grown in inten­ sity overtime— culminating in the current tuition debate across Quebec.

Whatever Canada's successes in creating a vibrant, robust and relatively equal society, its fundamental political climate is mired in a par­ ticular brand of dogma concerning what the population believes it deserves from the state.

As a result, programs that experiment with new models— such as limited free market-mecha­ nisms within the health care system, or higher overall tuition coupled with more bursaries and loans for low-income students— are doomed to failure. Further, Canadians place the onus of solv­ ing emerging problem in the hands ofthe state.

Protectionists, for example, want higher tariffs to shield Canadian workers from the pressures of globalization.

The optimum role for the state is certainly not complete detachment. That's the funda­ mental mistake of libertarianism. In an Ameri­ can context, universal health insurance certainly makes sense given the waste ofthe current sys­ tem. However, at the same time, Canadian voters should be more open to innovative, creative and new solutions— and should be far less demand­ ing about their next glass of milk. ■

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Fear of a globalized planet A ndrew B urt ADBURT@GMAIL.COM lobalization makes the poor poorer,,and the rich richer,'opined friend of mine. "Not only is it bad for us personally, it's bad for our country, and our world.”Despite the fact that such sentiments seem confined to student circles, it would be foolish to dismiss similar contempt for globalization as an isolated phenomenon.

Growing fears of globalization have become institutionalized in some of Europe's educational systems. Take this excerpt from a French public high school textbook: "Economic growth imposes a hec­ tic form of life, producing overwork, stress, nervous depression, cardiovascular disease and, according to some, even the development of cancer." A German workbook on globalization inspires a similar distrust: "The worldwide call for... more deregulation in reality means a grab for the material lifeblood of the mod­ ern nation-state." It comes as no surprise, then, that only 36 per cent of French citizens said they support the free-enterprise system in one 2005 poll. Neither should it be a surprise that in 2007,47 per cent of Ger­ man citizens said they support socialist ideals.

Such disdain for free markets, however, is not confined to the Germans, or the French, or to select student circles here jn Montreal and abroad. The glo­ balization of the last few decades, declares Tony Judt, in the December 6th issue of the New York Review of Books, "generated new opportunities for some and vast pools of wealth for a few; meanwhile... [it] de­ stroyed jobs, bankrupted firms and impoverished communities." Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor dur­ ing the Clinton administration, echoes Judt in char­

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acterizing the harms globalization has wreaked. In his book Supercapitalism, Reich argues that corporate and consumer interests have surrogated public val­ ues. Democracy, he states, has become a forum in which "matters ofmundane competitive advantage in pursuit of corporate profit" trump the pressing needs of the public.

At least in the Western world, Reich and Judt are not alone. In a recent Pew Global Attitudes survey, only 59 per cent of Americans said that they sup­ port global trade, down nearly 20 per cent from 2002.

Compare that to the 80 per cent of Bolivians, 81 per cent of Lebanese or 93 per cent of Nigerians who said they support— and benefit from— global trade. Of the 47 countries polled, majorities in 41 countries said they support the impact foreign companies have had on their economies. Of the five countries with minor­ ity support for foreign companies, all are in the West.

An earlier 2007 Pew Global Attitudes survey found that people rate themselves as happier in de­ veloping countries where globalization has had an impact and that as a result, happiness is on the rise in much of the developing world. “The relationship between rising incomes and increasing happiness," a report on the survey states, "is most evident in China, India, Latin America and Eastern Europe." Ironically, many of the supposed "victims" of globalization do not share the developed world's growing pessimism about the global economy.

Feelings about globalization aside, what passes for debate on the direction of the world's economy evades the real questions worth our consideration.

Globalization has its benefits and its drawbacks, but neither merits emphasizing one in lieu of the other.

What's more, the rapid integration of international economies cannot be“stopped"or"undone."The freemarket system upon which the global economy is based is a fact that even communist countries such as Cuba and the pseudo-socialist Venezuela have had to accept. Even the USSR outsourced the building of much of its infrastructure to Western companies. Fiat, one of the largest infrastructure construction compa­ nies in the world, had its own "Iron Curtain" division during the Soviet era. To be "against" globalization is to be against the best available mechanism for mate­ rial progress and innovation— the corporation.

In October of 2004, Jon Stewart infamously ap­ peared on CNN's Crossfire, and asked the hosts to "stop hurting America." The lack of nuance in the show's political debates, Stewart asserted, undermined the intelligence of its viewers, just as black-and-white debate over globalization reduces pressing issues to mere agitprop. A similar approach is needed in the debate over globalization— an awareness of the subtleties of its potential for good, and the complexi­ ties of its harmful repercussions. There are a myriad of questions on these issues that deserve our careful consideration. "Are you for or against globalization?" is surely not one of them. ■

Andrew Burt is a U3 linguistics and philosophy student and Tribune contributor, who spends too many hours reading Adam Smith and The World is Flat.

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Too much fairness and balance?

M att S egal MATTHEW.SEGAL@MAIL.MCGILL.CA ever trust any accusation of bias in the media. Conserva­ tives think there is a liberal bias, liberals lament the bias to­ wards a right-wing agenda and feminists decry the main­ stream media's misogyny. The Ku Klux Klan claims all information is controlled by the vast Jewish media conspiracy. Me? I roll my eyes. Listen to ideologues whine for long enough and you could easily conclude that no candidate has ever been treated fairly.

The solution, it seems, is fairness. But giving equal time doesn't always reflect reality— if a candidate is ahead by a lot, the media does not need to make it a horserace. The same idea ap­ plies for the upcoming United States presidential election— by today, SuperTuesday, giving equal weight to the Democratic and Republican nomination contests has left the race as distorted as any ideological bent ever could. My disgust with the primary cov­ erage thus far isn't the lack evenhandedness, but an excess of it.

The media js has us believe that when the victors emerge from their party convention, all things will be equal. The Repub­ lican and Democratic parties' fates will be determined by the presidential campaign later this year. Yet the American people do not believe all things are equal. There is immense disdain in the United States for the present batch of Republicans and vot­ ers are eager to sweep them out. A Democratic whitewash on the way to the White House seems likely. The Democratic Party is more trusted by voters on their top three issues: Iraq, health

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care and the economy. A recent Gallup poll shows that 52 per cent of Americans identify as Democrats (or independents who lean Democratic), while only 39 per cent are willing to admit they are (or lean) Republican. The cable networks, however, are more eager to tell you what a wide-open contest it is, or about the possible head-to-head matchups— polls show that a face-off be­ tween John McCain and Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton would be a very tig ht race.

The hypothetical, however, fail to account for the biggest factor: Americans are energized about the Democratic presiden­ tial candidate choices, whilè the Republican contenders are about as riveting as the Dewey Decimal System. The presidential race is not just about who you would vote for when some pollster calls you during dinner ("Why yes, I am a likely voter!"), it's about pick­ ing yourself up off the couch and going to your local church or school to vote on Nov. 4, 2008.

Polls, you say, are not always reliable. Fine. Have a look at the real results: the turnout for Democrats in primaries and caucus­ es has easily outpaced the Republican turnout in all states that were in play for the Democrats. Or consider the turnout in Florida, where nearly as many Democrats voted as Republicans, despite the fact that Florida has been stripped of its Democratic delegates and voting was utterly meaningless. These are the legions of peo­ ple who are vigorously seeking change.

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Still, you would never know it by the coverage, which makes thingsseem roughly 50-50. Even the New York Times, the oft-cited bastion of liberal bias, has been featuring a flow of articles on the Republican primaries at a rate that is similarly steady to their Obama-Clinton coverage. Maybe the media outlets love conflict wherever they find it (they do), or maybe it's liberal sadism to see which of the uninspiring Republican contenders wraps up the right to be thé next Bob Dole. It may be a case of media over­ simplification, where.the Democrats fit neatly in one column and the Republicans in the other. Most likely, I suspect the skewed coverage is not a commitment to fairness but a commitment to maximizing the amount of election news in a given cycle. Election news, it seems, is very good for ratings.

Once the party conventions are over and the real presidential campaigning can begin, perhaps the news coverage will pick up on the real narrative— that Americans (and not just Democrats) overwhelmingly want a "new direction" and prefer Democrats to find that new direction. Based on the media's lust for conflict and a suspenseful election, I have my doubts.B

M att Segal is AUS VP Internal and a long-time Tribune contribu­ tor and columnist. He wants everyone to know that democracies are better than republics and the same thing probably holds for Demo­ crats and Republicans.

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Scandalous past: In the fall of 1982, seven citizens of the greater Chicago region died after consuming Extra Strength Tylenol containing cyanide poison.

A word of caution: When taken with alcohol, Tylenol has been widely known to cause hepatoxicity (liver damage).

Marketing strategy: "Tylenol, take comfort in our strength."

The active ingredient: Ibuprofen, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), first marketed as an OTC drug in 1984.

Variations: Approximately 15 products, including fast-acting Liqui-Gels. me Winner: Tylenol Although Advil has been clinically prov­ en to be slightly more effective than Tylenol in reducing pain caused by fractures, arthritis and surgery, acetaminophen is still an effec­ tive painkiller under most circumstances. With fewer side-effects and a lower price-tag, Tyle­ nol is a clear winner. ■

Scandalous past: Until recently, Advil was sold without warning of the poten­ tial to cause Stevens Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrosis, rare but life-threatening skin diseases landing patients in ICU and Burn Units.

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The Campaign for Change The Democratic race has focussed on a cam­ paign for change by both Clinton with her slogan of "Working for Change, Working for You" and Obama, whose campaign is focussed on "Change we can believe in." But much of the media surrounding this'election has focussed on a different kind of change— the emergence of an African-American, a Mormon and a female candidate in what was once a white, Protestant, male arena. Election stories with headlines like "Race, age religion, gender and the presidency" in Cleveland and "Area Dem voters torn between race, gender" in Atlantic City draw readers' attention to issues of identity rather than policy.

"There is nothing more inherently conflictual than issues of race, religion and gender, so journal­ ists are bound to focus heavily on any stories that intersect with those themes," says Brian Schaffner, re­ search professor of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies and co-editor of Congress & the Presidency. "For their part, the candidates have cer­ tainly provided the fodder that the journalists need for running with such stories as well."

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"I think race is a bigger barrier than gender in the American imagination," he says, adding that because Clinton has more support proportionally among white women than white men, "her gender may help her get some of the votes of white women and not deprive her too much of the white male vote."

Identity politics may have negatively affected the less publicized campaigns of Democratic can­ didates Bill Richardson, the first Latino candidate and John Edwards, the only white man to run for the Democratic nomination, who recently dropped out.

"Edwards himself has lamented that it is not easy being the Southern white candidate running this year," Schaffner says. "Certainly the novelty of having a strong African-American and female candi­ date served to overshadow his candidacy. Ironically, Richardson's candidacy would have been notable in any other year, but with Obama and Clinton in the race, he had a very difficult time attracting any at­ tention."

However, some believe that it was issues of policy, rather than identity, that forced candidates like Giuliani and Edwards out of the race.

"They got plenty of coverage without having race, religion or gender as part of their story," says Harold Waller, McGill professor of political science, of the non-minority candidates. "What hurt them was their inability to get votes and if you can't get votes, you can't get money. If you can't get money you can't run."

Focus has not only centred around the race, religion and gender of the candidates, but voters as well. Record numbers of polls have been published during this primary and articles abound on the vot­ ing habits of different American demographics.

However, oversimplification, of these numbers can lead to an oversimplification of the voters.

"To say that he's a black man and I'm a black man so I'm going to support him— it's much more complex than that," says Sarah Brewer, associate di­ rector of the Women and Politics Institute in Wash­ ington D.C. of the returns in South Carolina showing that Obama received significant support from the black community. "I think the intersectionality dy­ namic that faces [black] women in this race are ex­ traordinarily important to discuss and tease out and not that one voter votes a certain way because of a gender or a race... and I think reducing it down to some sort of simplification really doesn't do justice to what representation is about."

GRAPHICBYNIKI HYDE Who's First Lady now, Bill? earlier and then the opposition to that from Ohio and New Hampshire make this really almost a paro­ dy of what an election campaign should be."

Many, including former deputy chief of staff to the Bush administration Karl Rove, have called for a shorter campaign period in order to stem voter fatigue and to move away from the current media circus atmosphere.

"By next spring (at the latest), journalists will have tired of the candidates and their messages and demand they say or do something new, differ­ ent and controversial, or they will be made to suf­ fer," Rove wrote in The Wall Street Journal on Dec. 20.

"The result of all this is that we're putting pressure on candidates to act in ways that have nothing to do with how well they will govern. The purpose of a campaign ought to be the opposite."

This dirt digging may be more detrimental to the campaigns of previously lesser-known candi­ dates, like Obama or Romney, than to better known figures.

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A longer campaign than ever before With this election's campaign period breaking the record as the longest in U.S. history, candidates are facing new problems and many are calling for a reform in the primary system.

"It has gotten ludicrous this year— the cam­ paign season is far too long,"Waller says. "The insane compétition between the states to get earlier and

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GRAPHICBYNIKI HYDE McCain's back on top as the Republican front-runner.

Obama screams for change.

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Delegates: 95 (1191 needed) Experience: Naval officer (and prisoner of war at.the "Hanoi Hilton" during the Vietnam war), Navy liaison to the United States Senate, Congressman, Senator from Arizona since 1986 and former Presi­ dential candidate.

Campaign bills: $28.6-million spent, $3.4-million cash on hand Major voter demographic: Registered independents and centre-right Republicans. Conservatives loathe McCain, with stalwarts like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter denouncing him as too liberal.

Major issue stands: On Iraq, during his campaign McCain stood firm in support of the war. On taxes, McCain now argues that the Bush-era tax cuts should be made permanent, despite voting against them in the Senate. On health care, McCain opposes any universal health care system, preferring to extend a tax credit of up to 5,000 dollars that would allow low-income families to purchase insur­ ance. ‘ — - - ----Biggest victory: In mid-summer 2007 McCain's campaign looked dead in the water, but big wins in New Hampshire, South Carolina and Florida catapulted him back into the lead.

M itt R o m n e y (R e p u b lic a n — M a s s a c h u s e tts ) Romney is taking care of business.

Clinton that people don't already know and it perhaps would create more of a challenge for new people like Senator Obama or Senator Romney on the national stage," Brewer says. "If the media needs to find a new hook and dirt sells... that could be something that those campaigns could worry about."

The solution, according to Waller and many proponents of a shortened campaign, would be a federal law establishing regional primaries in March or April spread over three or four weeks.

However, some, like Brewer, believe that a longer process is beneficial to the democratic process and the candidates themselves, who will be better prepared for the general election at the end of the primaries.

"I think that the lengthy primary process and the fact that no one is emerg­ ing as a clear winner early on in the contest is good for democracy, good for the country and good for both parties and good for the candidates that will represent their parties in the general election,"she says.

The future for minority candidates Now that the race and gender barriers of the presidential election have been broken, the doors may be open for future minority candidacies.

•"I think that, if anything, the news media has helped Obama, Clinton and Romney by covering these issues in a way that seems to err on the side of expressing outrage at any attempt made to diminish a candidate's standing based on their race, gender or religion," Schaffner says. "I think that this experi­ ence will only serve to open more doors for minority and women candidates in the future."

The outcome of the election may influence future candidacies as well.

"It may be easier for later candidates from these groups because the elec­ torate will have already crossed the gender boundary and the racial boundary," Subramanian says, adding that how much easier it will be may be contingent on the success of Obama or Clinton's Campaigns.

"If they lose it's possible that gender or race is one reason why they would lose and that's an inference that political pundits are likely to draw and that may make it no easier if not more difficult for later candidates who are women or who are partly African-American," he says. ■

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Delegates: 67 (1191 needed) Experience: Consultant, unabashed capitalist, CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympics and governor of Mas­ sachusetts.

Campaign bills: $53.6-million spent, $9.2-million cash on hand Major voter demographic: Mormon voters (who have contributed heavily to his campaign), social conservatives and Wall-street Republicans.

Major issue stands: On Iraq, Romney opposes any withdrawal attempts and strongly supported the troop surge. On immigration, Romney opposes the Bush guest-worker program. On taxes, Romney supports making the Bush tax cuts permanent.

Biggest victory: Victories in the Wyoming caucus and the Michigan primary have kept Romney afloat.

M ik e H u c k a b e e (R e p u b lic a n — A rkansas) Delegates: 26 (1191 needed) Experience: Governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007.

Campaign bills: $i.6-million spent, $651,301 cash on hand Major voter demographic: Social conservatives and evangelical Christians.

Major issue stands: On taxes, Huckabee offers a unique value-added-tax proposal called the Fair Tax, which would eliminate the income tax as it exists now. On Iraq, Huckabee has been generally supportive of the Bush policy and opposes proposals to cut funding for the war. On health care, Huckabee calls the current system "broken," but opposes any federally mandated universal coverage and supports market-based approaches.

Biggest Victory: In a stunning upset, Huckabee won the Iowa caucuses with a combination of folksy charm, clever television ads and policy speeches. However, since Iowa, he has not had another win.

Ron Paul (R e p u b lic a n — Texas) Delegates: 6 (1191 needed) Experience: Member of the US House of Representatives representing Texas from 1979-1985, and from 1997 onward. Was the Libertarian party candidate for President in 1988.

Campaign bills: $2.8-million spent, $5.4-million cash on hand Major voter demographic: Libertarians, anti-war Republicans and college students.

Major issue stands: On Iraq, Paul strongly opposed the US invasion of Iraq and also opposes foreign interventions in Darfur and elsewhere. On health care, Paul supports market-based mechanisms. He is strongly free trade, but anti-liberal institutions, saying that the United States should withdraw from the UN, the IMF, NAFTA and other multilateral organizations.

Biggest victory: In fiercely libertarian New Hampshire, Paul beat out Fred Thompson. He has raised an extraordinary amount of money on the Internet— raising more money in a single day than any candidate in American history. Also, during the 4th quarter of 2007, Paul beat out all his Republican rivals in fundraising.

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H illa ry C lin to n (D e m o c ra t — N e w York) Delegates: 48 (2025 needed) Experience: Lawyer and advocate on children's issues, First Lady of the United States from 1993-2000 , led the failed Presidential task force to reform health care in 1993 and served as the junior Senator from New York State since 2000.

Campaign bills: $40.4 million spent, $50.4 million cash on hand.

Major voter demographic: Rank-and-file party activists, centrist Democrats and women.

Major issue stands: Though Clinton had voted for the resolution authorizing force against Iraq in 2003, she has also come out against immediate, unilateral withdrawal. On health care, Clinton has vowed to create a universal health care system that subsidizes insurance premiums for those unable to pay, combined with a legal mandate that all individuals get insurance.

Celebrity endorsements: Chevy Chase, Michael Douglass, Reese Witherspoon, Candice Bergen and others.

Biggest victory: Come-from behind upset in the New Hampshire primary, where pre-elec­ tion polls showed her trailing Obama by a double-digit margin.

B arack O b a m a (D e m o c ra t— Illinois) Delegates: 63 (2025 needed) Experience: First black president of the Harvard Law Review, community activist, lecturer at the Univer­ sity of Chicago Law School, eight years in the Illinois State Senate, gave the keynote address at the 2004 Democratic Convention in Boston and served as junior Senator from Illinois since 2004Campaign bills: $44.1 million spent, $36.0 million cash on hand.

Major voter demographic: Anti-war activists, liberals, college students and African-Americans.

Major issue stands: On health care, Obama has promised subsidized care without an individual man­ date— a major break from his opponents'positions. On Iraq, Obama has sponsored legislation that would de-escalate the conflict and follow the withdrawal recommendations of the Iraq Study Group. On taxes, Obama has proposed a tax plan that would cut taxes on the poor and middle-class.

Celebrity endorsements: Oprah Winfrey, Caroline Kennedy, Edward Kennedy, Ben Affleck, Halle Berry, George Clooney and others.

Biggest victory: First place showings in South Carolina and Iowa.

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The basic model— no air-condi­ tioning, radio or airbag (features which all are available in the deluxe model)— will be sold for $2,500 U.S., making it the cheapest car on the market. The "Peo­ ple's Car,"as the Nano has been dubbed

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It took five years of research and design, 34 patents and 50 0 engineers to develop details such as hollowing out the steering wheel, having only one windshield wiper and eliminating the passenger side window, which all helped cut costs. Overall, the smaller size meant less sheet metal was need­ ed per car, also minimizing costs.

Tata Motors insists, however, that though they were able to cut costs, they did not cut corners.The car passed the Indian crash test and was designed to be able to pass the European test as well, making it a safer option than the scooters that most people of the tar­ geted demographic use to transport whole families. With the allure of safety

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The measurements in the recipe are very approximate. Don't let the long list of spices scare you— if you don't have one, just omit it, although the cinnamon, coriander and vanilla are musts.

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In India, where scooters easily outnumber cars on the road, the intro­ duction of the Nano has some worried about its impact on the environment.

Tata responded to this by pointing out that the Nano's emissions are less harm­ ful than those from scooters and that the emissions are in accordance with India's emission laws and even Europe's stringent Euro 4 standards.

The final measure of the car's suc­ cess will be in its sales. Tata Motors is hoping‘to sell one million cars a year and to begin exporting them to Africa, South Asia and Latin America within the next few years. The Nano's appearance in other countries will provide competi­ tion for another little car that has come to be known for being environmentally friendly. The Smart Car, with its com­ pact build has been gaining ground in countries around the world, including our own. In terms of price, however, the Smart Car cannot begin to compare to the Nano, its starting price being more than four times that of the Indian car.

Furthermore it loses its environmental edge when the fact is considered that though it runs a mileage of about 30 km/liter of diesel, it only two people.

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it is a little to o safe a n d d o e s not s h o w R ud d at his q u in te sse n c e . It loses m o m e n tu m w ith d o c ­

A u stra lia n -b re d , re g g a e -ro ck , p u n c h -s a n s ju d y artist X a v ie r R ud d v a u lte d h im s e lf into th e

ile sin g e r-so n g w rite r-fo lk -ro c k tracks, th o u g h th e d id g e rid o o n u m b e rs s lig h tly m a k e u p for it b y g iv in g th e a lb u m so m e m u c h n e e d e d life a n d d ire ctio n .

lim e lig h t o f th e roots a n d b lu e s s c e n e w ith th e J u n e 20 0 7 release o f his fo urth stu d io a lb u m , W hite M oth. A m a in -s ta y o n th e folk m u s ic fes­ tival circu it, th is o n e -m a n -b a n d a n d n e p h e w o f re ce n tly e le cte d A u stralian P rim e M in iste r K evin Rudd p lays tw o sh o w s in M o n treal th is w e e k as p art o f his cu rre n t w o rld tour.

"I'm a live artist, it's e v e ry th in g to m e. W h e n I record, I p la y th e sa m e w a y as I d o live. It's ve ry im p o rta n t to m e to d o it th is way," R ud d said.

D u rin g his p e rfo rm a n ce s, R udd's p la y in g area c o n sists o f an e le va te d platform clu tte re d w ith a

W ith th e cre a tivity o f H e m in g w a y o n a cid

v a rie ty o f in stru m e n ts— W e isse n b o rn slid e g u i­

a n d a G o u ld -e s q u e (G le n n , th a t is) rh yth m , this m u lti-in s tru m e n ta lis t fu se s m u sica l id e a s crisp ly a n d c o n v in c in g ly , w h ile m a in ta in in g a level of e a rth y s p o n ta n e ity .T h is b a la n c e c a m e to g e th e r m aste rfu lly on White M oth, R udd's se lf-d e sc rib e d

tars, six a n d tw e lve string a c o u s tic -e le c tric g u i­ tars, th re e Burton Y ird a kis (d id je rid o o s), a sto m p box, h a rm o n ica s, an A z te c d ru m , slit d ru m , stru m p e t, D je m b e , shakers, slid e b an jo , an kle

"proud est w o rk to date."

"P ro d u ctio n -w ise , w e sp e n t a little m o re tim e p u ttin g th e record tog eth er. W e also b ro u g h t in a d ru m m e r w h ic h w as a first," Rudd said.

N o t o n e to fo llo w n o rm s or stan dards, R ud d d e c id e d th a t W hite M oth w o u ld b e re­ co rd e d live in th e m id d le o f a forest.

bells, bass g u ita r a n d m ore. R udd's a b ility to m o v e se a m le ssly b e tw e e n in stru m e n ts is a te s­ ta m e n t to his u n m a tc h e d m u sica l versatility. An e n g a g in g perform er, live sets c o m b in e Rudd's soulful, b e s p a n g le d b a lla d s w ith th e e n e rg y o f his a b o rig in a l, "soil"-full so n g s, h ig h lig h te d by his v irtu o sic d id g e rid o o a b ility.

Rudd's u p c o m in g M ontreal d ate s are part o f a c o n n e c tio n w ith C a n a d a th a t d ate s b a c k to

"W e ju s t set u p in th e b u sh a n d p laye d live.

th e b e g in n in g o f h is m u sica l career. R udd's w ife

W e im ita te d w h a t w e d id live a n d re co rde d it th at way,” he said.

A lth o u g h R ud d h as b e e n c h u rn in g o u t so lid records sin ce 20 00, it is his u n iq u e live sh o w a n d o n -s ta g e h o n e sty th at h as m a d e h im th e artist he is today. W h ile W hite M oth is a p o l­ ish ed a lb u m w ith flo w in g m e lo d ie s a n d co lo urs,

is C a n a d ia n , a n d his m a n a g e m e n t c o m p a n y is b a se d in V a n co u ve r.

"It's a sp e cial p la c e for m e. It's a b ig part o f m y m u sica l jo u rn e y," R udd said."l d e fin ite ly have a c o n n e c tio n w ith C a n a d a . P la yin g in C a n a d a c e rta in ly h e lp e d w h a t I do." A lo n g w ith his A u s­ tralian a b o rig in a l in flu e n ce s, R üd d e x p a n d e d his in d ig e n o u s sc o p e o n

W hite M oth to in c lu d e

sin g e rs from th e C a n a d ia n C re e N ation.

W ith a ce rtain n a ïve c o n fid e n c e in his p la y in g (a w e lc o m e d e p a rtu re from th e selfc o n scio u s, o m n ip re s e n t in d ie -g a r b a g e in M o n ­ treal presently), Rudd's m u sica l c h o p s sp e a k for th e m se lve s. D o w n p la y in g in sp ira tio n a n d sp iri­ tu a lity in his m usic, R udd c la im s to w rite an d p la y m u s ic th at s im p ly s o u n d s g o o d . For o n ce , it is u n a d u lte ra te d m u sica l ta le n t th at has d raw n p e o p le in. W ith o u t e xce ss or in d u lg e n c e , Rudd's raw ness has ca p tu re d th e in terest o f listeners.

"My m usic's m y o w n p e rso n a l th in g . It's m y reflection in m y o w n sp a ce . M y in sp ira ­

JAMES LOOKER The rhythmic wizard of Oz.

JAMES LOOKER

tio n c o m e s from m y p e rso n a l jo u rn e y , c o n ­ n e c tin g w ith a m a z in g p e o p le a ro u n d the w orld, a m a z in g a b o rig in a l elders," h e said.

H is a p p ro a c h to m u sica l cre a tio n is sim ila r to

"W ith m y m u sic, I'm not really try in g to d o a n y th in g e s p e c ia lly m u sica l, I d on 't th in k a b o u t

p o sitive o u t o f it, th e n that's am azing." ■

th at o f a tw e lv e -y e a r-o ld

p ro d ig io u s v io lin ­

it th a t w ay, it's ju s t w h a t c o m e s th ro u g h me,"

ist— th e re is an in fo rm e d effortle ssn e ss in his m u sica l c o m m u n ic a tio n .

R ud d said. "W hat it is is w h a t it is, it's m y reflec­

Xavier Rudd sets up his didgeridoos a t Me­ tropolis (59 Ste-Catherine E.) on Feb. 8 a nd 9 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $22.15 from the box office.

Look at that expansive stage set-up! Must be hard taking all of Xavier's crud on tour.

tio n o n m y jo u rn e y , if p e o p le take so m e th in g

POP RHETORIC

R e a lity c h e c k s o u t L a u r a T in d a l h a te to a sso c ia te th e w o rd "genius" w ith a n y th in g to d o w ith M iss A m e ric a , b u t th e g u y w h o s u g g e s te d tu rn in g

b o u n d to fig h t, c ry a n d m a k e fo ols o f th e m s e lv e s . A n y b o d y w ho's se e n th e Y o u T u b e v id e o o f M iss Te e n S o u th C a ro lin a

• ta lk in g to. W here's th e d ra m a ? W here's th e te n s io n ?

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it in to a reality s h o w d id h a v e a d a sh o f s o m e th in g in ­

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m o st n o n s e n s ic a l e x cu s e for a re sp o n se a b o u t g e o g ra p h y ) kn o w s th a t there's g o o d T V p o te n tia l h id d e n b e h in d th e e v e n in g g o w n s.

S o Miss Am erica: Reality Check w a s b o rn , a T L C real­

surfers a n d p a g e a n t m o m s th a t w a tc h e d it.

But s o m e b o d y fin a lly c a u g h t o n th a t p e o p le w ill w a tc h a n y th in g if it m arke ts itse lf as reality. S h o w s like A r­

ity sh o w d e d ic a te d to tu rn in g th is year's M iss A m e ric a c o n te sta n ts in to m o re m o d e rn , m o re re la ta b le g irls th a n th o se se e n in ye ars past. U n fo rtu n a te ly th e sh o w la cke d

last year: 3.6 m illio n c o m p a re d to 2.4 in 2007. Yet American Idol sco re d 29.3 m illio n v ie w e rs th a t w e e k, a n d th e y d on 't e v e n c la im th a t th e ir c o n te sta n ts h a ve ta le n t (n o t th is e a rly in th e se aso n , a n y h o w ). W h a t v ie w e rs w a n t to see is p e o p le h u m ilia tin g th e m s e lv e s .T e a rs a n d v o m it s h o u ld b e in d u c e d b y c o m p e titio n s , n o t b e tte r h a ir a n d m o re p la stic sm iles.

W e've cre a te d a c u ltu re in w h ic h re a lity n e e d s to b e d ra ­

rested Developm ent g e t c a n c e lle d w h ile re a lity sh o w s a b o u t fat p e o p le lo sin g w e ig h t, s k in n y p e o p le b e c o m in g m o d e ls a n d b ise x u al P la ym a te s fin d in g lo v e rack u p th e ra tin gs. So w h y n o t tu rn th e o rig in a l Next Top M odel into th e g e n re it s p a w n e d ? It s e e m e d to h a ve th e p o te n tia l for e v e ry th in g w e d e m a n d in o u r m o d e rn d a y v e rs io n o f C h ris tia n s v e r­

th e b lo o d lu s t re q u ire d to ke e p it e n te rta in in g . T h e g irls d id n o t w a n t to e a t b u g s o r g e t in to c a tfig h ts; in ste ad th e y d id te a m c o m p e titio n s w h e re th e o n ly p u n is h m e n t w a s ju m p ­ in g in to a s w im m in g p o o l. You can 't k e e p y o u r d ig n ity a n d y o u r ra tin g s if "reality” is in th e title. A n d u n lik e o th e r re a lityb a se d sh o w s, th e re w a s n o real m o tiv a tio n to w a tc h e a ch

m a tic a n d stressful, a n d if its not, th e ra tin g s w o n 't c o m e .

T h e w in n e r o f th e M iss A m e ric a p a g e a n t th is y e a r w as M ich ig a n 's Kirsten H a g lu n d , b y far th e g irl w h o b e st e m ­ b o d ie d th e c la s sic b lo n d e , b ig -h a ire d p a g e a n t g irl o f ye ars past. It se e m s th a t th e M iss A m e ric a p a g e a n t trie d to flirt w ith m o d e rn reality, b u t re ally th e y'd p refer to stic k to th e ir

su s lions: d itzy, catty, h ig h -h e e le d c o m p e tito rs w h o are

w e e k b e c a u s e n o b o d y w as e lim in a te d , ju s t g iv e n a firm

a rtificia l B arb ie d o lls th a n fa c e th e real w o rld . ■

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T h e re m a y h a ve b e e n a tim e , b efore Fash io n T e le v i­ sion or $10 ,0 0 0 w ristw atch es, w h e re c lo th in g served dull, p ractica l e n d s .T h e m o d e rn n o tio n th a t c lo th in g c a n satisfy n o t ju s t th e b an al e n d s o f pro te ctin g a g a in st th e e le m e n ts b u t also fu n c tio n as s ig n if ie s o f taste, status or su b cu ltu ra l fe llo w sh ip , is w o n d e rfu lly a rticu late d in S n e a k e rp im p s, a

ture b u t don't' really kn o w it. You d raw th e m in w ith th e m u s ic a n d at th e sa m e tim e , yo u can e d u c a te th e m a b o u t sn e a ke r culture."

S u c h e d u c a tio n is u n n e c e ss a ry for a lot o f p e o p le w h o c o lle c t A ir Jo rd an s, N ike D u n k s a n d A d id a s S h e llto e sneakers like so m e p e o p le c o lle c t h o c k e y cards. But

has p u t o n d isp la y w orks from

tra ve llin g e x h ib it o f ru n n in g shoes, graffiti art a n d all th in g s yo u th cu ltu re, s to p p in g in M ontreal th is Saturday.

O n e o f th e w orld 's largest lifestyle e x h ib itio n s, S n e a k e rp im p s sh o w ca se s 1,0 00 p airs o f rare, lim ite d e d i­ tio n sneakers, a lo n g w ith art a n d p h o to g ra p h y rooted in sn e a ke r a n d u rb an street cu ltu re. A lso fe atu rin g live in stal­

for m an y, ru n n in g , sh o e s se e m little m o re th a n a w a y to

th e M o M A a n d p rivate c o l­ lectors, b u t m o st im p o rtan tly, th o se o f th e M u se o N a cio n a l d e Bellas A rtes a n d th e Fototeca d e C u b a . W ith fo u r h u n d re d p ie ce s, in c lu d in g p a in tin g s,

latio n art b y artists Stash a n d Futura a n d a p e rfo rm a n ce by Q u e e n s-b a s e d rap d u o B lack S h e e p , S n e a k e rp im p s is far m o re th a n so m e m ere te n n is sh o e ex h ib it.

"There's d ifferent w a ys to lo o k at th e exhibit," said S te rlin g D o w n e y, fo u n d e r o f M o n tre a l-b a se d Under Pres­ sure m a g a zin e , w h o is w o rk in g to o rg a n iz e th e M ontreal in c a rn a tio n o f S n e a k e rp im p s. "There's g o in g to b e p e o p le w h o c o m e o u t at n ig h t to see th e sh o w asp e ct, th e live

COURTESYSTERLING DOWNEY Custom Joy Division Nike Blazers by Dylan Adair.

ke e p y o u r feet fro m g e ttin g d irty o r an a p p ro p ria te th in g to w e a r to th e g y m . Sure, th e likes o f M ich a e l Jo rd an an d C h u c k Ta ylo r h a ve p laye d an in stru m e n ta l role in m arket­ in g a th le tic shoes, b u t lo o k in g at th e p re se n t state o f c a su ­ al footw ear, it's cle a r th a t h ip h o p M C s a n d b re ak d a n ce rs h a ve b e e n m o re in flu e n tia l th a n b asketb all sup erstars in d e fin in g th e sn e a ke r culture's c lim a te o f cool.

In 1986, Q u e e n s-b a s e d rap c re w R u n -D .M .C . stitch e d t o g e th e ra rh ym e a b o u t sneakers,"M y A d id a s,"w h ich la n d ­ e d th e g ro u p an e n d o rs e m e n t d e al w ith th e track's titu la r sn e a ke r co m p a n y.

"At a tim e w h e n sh o e c o m p a n ie s w ere fo cu ssin g

and History from 1868 to Today w as o p e n e d to th e p u b lic . T h e M o n treal M u se u m o f Fin e Arts

p h o to g ra p h s, film s a n d in stalla ­ tio n s, th e jCuba! e x h ib it offers a p le th o ra o f art for all tastes an d interests.

D iv id e d ch ro n o lo g ica lly, th e e x h ib it offers a lm o st o n e h u n d re d a n d fifty ye ars o f

so le ly o n th e ir m ass m arkets in sports, n o o n e w o u ld have e v e r th o u g h t th a t a g ro u p like R un -D .M .C . w ritin g that so n g a n d w e a rin g th e ir sh o e s w ith o u t laces, w h ic h w as u n h e a rd o f b e c a u s e it w as n o t at all fu n ctio n a l, w o u ld h a ve h ad th e im p a c t th a t it had," D o w n e y said. "Th ey w ere n o t e n d o rse d b y A d id a s at first. T h e y ju s t d id th e so n g b e ­

C u b a n h isto ry th ro u g h art an d

c a u s e it w a s p art o f th e ir culture."

W h ile m a n y o fth e m o re stylish sn e ake rs still fulfill th e ir b a sic fu n c tio n as footw ear, o th e rs have b e e n e le va te d to th e level o f p u re form , re n d e rin g th e m art o b je cts, if o n ly

m ural, w h ic h is o n d is p la y in th e b a s e m e n t d u e to its im m e n se size. T h e w o rk is a s ig h t to b e h o ld — m u ltip le C u b a n artists co lla b o ra te d in its cre a tio n a n d it takes u p n e a rly 60 sq u are m etres o f w all sp ace. T h e m u ral is a m u s t-se e in th e e x h ib it, a n d it's u n fo rtu n ate th a t its b a s e m e n t lo catio n is not m o re o b v io u s to

b y v irtu e o f th e ir p la c e m e n t w ith in a e sth e tic contexts.

"It g o e s far b e yo n d so m e kid in his living room tak in g a m arker or a can o f pa in t a n d ju s t co lo u rin g a shoe," D o w n e y said. "[Sneaker culture] h a s reached th e p o in t o f p e o p le a ctu a lly b u ild in g s h o e s ... so m e p e o p le have a ctu a lly g o ld plated a shoe, cast it in m e ta la n d p u t it o n a c h a in ... it's o b ­

m u s e u m goers.

A lth o u g h th e w orks w ill b e in to w n un til Ju n e , art fan s s h o u ld n o t risk m issin g th is o p p o rtu n ity . As M M FA P u b lic P ro g ram s O ffice r D o m in ic H a rd y ex­ p la in e d , "this is th e first tim e a re tro sp e ctive th is im p o rta n t has e v e r b e e n d o n e o n C u b a n art." H e w e n t o n to say th at th is w o u ld b e th e o n ly c ity h o ld in g this e x h ib itio n a n d th at th e w orks w o u ld b e re tu rn in g to th e ir re sp e ctiv e h o m e s in

v io u sly not fun ction al, or w e arab le or usable, b u t it's fu n n y to see h o w far p e o p le w ill take th e ir love o f shoes."

A n ideal b le n d o f h ip h o p cu ltu re , m u sic a n d D u c h a m p ia n ae sth e tic m isc h ie v o u sn e ss, S n e a k e rp im p s se e m s

th e su m m e r.

N a th alie B o n d il, d ire cto r o f th e M M FA, is th e g e n e ra l cu rato r o f th e e x h ib i­ tio n a n d e d ito r o f a 4 24 p a g e c ata lo g u e , p rin te d b y th e M ontreal M u se u m o f Fin e Arts' p u b lis h in g d e p a rtm e n t. W h ile C u b a n art offers a m ix tu re o f creative

b o th th e su p e rla tive fo rum for e d u c a tin g y o u rs e lf in th e stu ff o f sn e a ke r c u ltu re a n d th e p e rfe ct p lace to ro ck y o u r

cu ltu re s a n d d raw s o n A frican , E u ro p e an a n d N o rth A m e ric a n in flu e n c e s w e ry little h as b e e n p u b lis h e d o n its visu a l arts, e s p e c ia lly in relation to its literary

fav o u rite pair o f kicks. ■

a n d m u sica l p ro d u c tio n . T h e M M FAs c a ta lo g u e c o n ta in e s 450 im a g e s, a lo n g w ith e x te n sive text b y C u b a n a n d in te rn a tio n a l essayists a n d is th e first m ajo r p u b lic a tio n c o v e rin g th e w h o le history o f C u b a n art. ■

Sneakerpimps takes over The Just For Laughs Studio (2109 St-Laurent) on Feb. gth. Black Sheep take the stage a t 9 p.m. Tickets are $12 a t the door. Check w w w .sn e a k e tp im p s. n e t for m ore info.

in clu d e s-a rtists su ch as W ilfred o Lam , M ario C a rre n o a n d Jo rg e A rch e . T h e e x ce p tio n to th e exh ib it's c h ro n o lo g ic a l o rg a n i­ za tio n is th e S alo n d e M ai 19 67 "Su9ar Cane Cutters" by Mario Carreno.

/Cuba! runs a t the MMFA (1380 Sherbrooke W.) u n til June 8. Admission is $7.50 fo r students.

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O p é ra d e M o n tr é a l s u b je c ts R o s s in i's E z r a G l in t e r O n e o f t h e m o st p o p u la r o p e ra s o f all tim e , The Barber o f Se­ ville is c o u n te d as th e fifth m ost p e rfo rm ed b y O p e ra A m e rica, has b e e n p aro d ie d b y e v e ry th in g from Looney Tunes to The Simpsons, an d is n o w b e in g p e rfo rm e d b y th e O p é ra d e M ontréal. W ritten b y G io a c h in o Rossini, th e le a d in g Italian co m p o se r o fth e first h alf o f th e 19 th cen tury, The Barber o f Seville is a la n d m a rk in th e d e ­ v e lo p m e n t o f O p e ra Buffa: a c o m ic g e n re th at b e g a n as a reactio n to m o re se riou s varieties by tu rn in g a w ay from m y th o lo g ic a l an d historical to p ics to in c lu d e th e lives o f o rd in a ry p e o p le sin g in g in c o m m o n d ialects. T h o u g h th e o pera w as w ritten near th e b e g in n in g o f Rossini's career, it has re m a in e d his m ost fam o u s an d e n d u rin g w ork.

T h e libretto— b ase d o n a p lay by French w riter and re vo lu tio n a ry Pierre B e au m arch a is— tells th e fam iliar C o m m e d ia d ell'arte story o f yo u th fu l ro m an tic lo n g in g frustrated by so m e g e e ze rly kill jo y, b u t e v e n tu a lly ful­ filled . T h e protagon ist, C o u n t A lm aviva (Frédéric A ntoun), is d isg u ise d as th e p o o r stu d e n t L in d o ro in o rder to g ain th e h o n e st affection o f th e d o e -e y e d m a id e n Rosina (Julie B oulianne), to w h ic h e n d he e nlists th e c u n n in g as­ sista n ce o f t h e p u ck ish Figaro, (Aaron St. C la ir N ich o lson ) th e local b arb e r an d ja c k o f all trades. U nfortunately, Ro­ sina is u n d e r th e prote ctio n o f her o p u le n t an d b lustery g u a rd ia n D o cto r Bartolo (D o n ato Di Stefano), w h o has his o w n n efario u s plan to m arry her for h e r m o n ey. All kin d s of s h e n a n ig a n s e n su e as Figaro h e lp s A lm a v iv a /L in d o ro and R osina carry o n th e ir lo ve -stricke n co rre sp o n d e n c e b e h in d

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th e a m p le b a c k o f Bartolo.

W h ile e n e m ie s o f Rossini are rep orted to h a ve s a b o ta g e d th e 1816 d e b u t o f The Barber o f Seville in R om e, T h e O péra d e M o n tre ­ al's o p e n in g n ig h t p e rfo rm a n ce sh o w e d n o sig n s o f su ch c h ic a ­ nery. S u p p o rte d b y th e e v e r-c ô m p e te n t O rch e stre S y m p h o n iq u e

w ell as m u sica l spectacle.

D e sp ite th e im p re ssive p ro d u ctio n , how ever, it still seem s o d d that an o p e ra ne arly tw o h u n d re d years old sh o u ld b e ab le to fill th e h o u se for an o p e n in g n ig h t p erfo rm an ce. There's really no d e n y in g th e fact th a t c o n te m p o ra ry o pera is not m u c h m o re than

d e M ontréal, th e sin g e rs d e live re d an im p re ssive ly spirited perfor­ m an ce . T h e O p é ra d e M ontréal, as usual, p u lle d o u t all th e stops for c o stu m e a n d set d e sig n , re n d e rin g a w e ll-p ro d u ce d visua l as

th e re -e n a c tm e n t o f t h e po lite e n te rta in m e n t o f a p re vio u s age.

N o m atter h o w w ell execu ted , it re m a in s an artificially bloated a n a ch ro n ism , su stain e d b y so -c a lle d p atro ns o f t h e arts w ho , like th e ir p red ecesso rs th ro u g h th e ages, u n d e rsta n d a lot a b o u t p a tro n a g e a n d little a b o u t art. W h ile it w o u ld b e w h o lly a p ­ p rop riate for th e o p e ra to a p p e a l to a sm all a n d d e vo te d su b cu ltu re w h o co u ld in d u lg e th e ir p assion w ith th e sm irk­ in g e n jo y m e n t o f true initiates, th e excess o f b e p e arle d old lad ies an d th e ir co m fo rta b ly c o rp u le n t h u sb a n d s sp e a k v o l­ u m e s a b o u t th e g e n e ra l irre le v a n ce o fth e art form .

N evertheless, o n e has to c o m m e n d th e O p é ra d e M ontréal for m ak in g th e best o f su ch fo rm id a b le obstacles.

T h e re is no d o u b t th at th e c o m e d y o f The Barber o f Seville is corny, b u t this p ro d u ctio n e m b ra ce s th e work's slap stick se n sib ility th ro u g h broad p h ysical h u m o u r a n d e x ten sive u se o f props. If you're e x p e ctin g The Barber o f Seville to m ak e yo u roll in th e aisles you'd p ro b a b ly have better lu ck w ith th e latest Ju d d A p ato w p ro d u ctio n b u t e ve n from th e c o n fin e s o f its artificial respirator th e o pera can still pu ll a few p u n ch e s. ■ T h e Barber o f S e ville runs until Feb. 16 a t Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier (175 Ste-Catherine W.). Call (514) 842-2112 for tickets and showtimes.

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M u s ic . C a n c e r Bats w ith T h is Is Hell. Feb. 6 at 8:oo p.m .; Fo u fo u n e s E le c ­ triq u e (87 S te -C a th a rin e E.). T o ro n to -h e a d q u a rte re d o u tfit C a n c e r Bats b rin g s th e ir rau co u s, straig h t e d g e h a rd co re to M ontreal W e d n e s d a y n ig h t.T h e sh o w sees C a n c e r Bats sh a rin g th e stag e w ith Lo n g Isla n d -b a se d T h is Is H ell (w ho th e y sh are d a 7 -in c h w ith last year). M ark u p y o u r h a n d s w ith Xs, fill u p o n falafel

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fin d s h im se lf o v e rw h e lm e d by Hedda's beauty. (And yo u can hard ly b la m e h im : S u m m e rse tt is stunning.) H e picked u p th e rose w h o d e cid e d to u p g ra d e h e r th o rn s to pistols.

He's a p u p p e t w h o c a n n o t satisfy D ad dy's girl Hedda's cra v­ in g for a n o th e r pony, u n aw are sh e m arried h im o u t o f a n e e d to co n form to society's exp ectation s. A n y a p e co u ld s u cce e d in p layin g th e rather o n e -d im e n s io n a l Tessm an ,

tells th e tale o f a y o u n g couple's return from a h o n e y­ m o o n to fin d a d yin g aunt, a prom ised jo b va n ish e d and an o ld rival to one, lover to the o ther returned.

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a n d th u s Patrick G o d d a rd d o e s a fin e jo b .

As this c o u p le d a n ce s a ro u n d e a ch o ther th ro u g h o u t th e perfo rm ance, th e a u d ie n c e is a m u se d b y th e love tri­ a n g le tu rn ed square. T h e o ther co rners are provid ed b y a ju d g e w h o resem b les a w e ll-h yd ra ted 007 an d Lovborg,

that she is a v ictim of the post­

th e town's o n c e -sin n e r-tu rn e d -p h ilo s o p h e rc o o l guy. O ve r­

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F ilm . Kaleidoscopic Z appin' Party: The Final Cut. Feb. 7 at 9 3 0 p.m .; C in e m a d u Parc (3575 Parc). M ontreal's o w n DJ X L5 p re se n ts th is g ra b b a g o f irrever­ e n t a n d o d d b a ll shorts. A c o lle c tio n o f c o m m e rc ia l p aro die s, z o m b ie film s a n d g e n e ra lly bizarre fare from across th e g lo b e , Zappin'P arty: The Final Cut is sure to satisfy e ve n th e m o re a sk e w cin e p h ile 's h u n g e r for th e e c le c tic a n d ab surd .

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ties M ainline's p ro d u ct i o n t h e m a t ic a lly t o t h e s im ila r ly

tw e e n th ree (not so) g e n tle m e n , w h o se efforts in th e pull are co n sid e ra b ly h in d e re d by th e c o n s u m p tio n o f alcohol.

H o w e v e r a d e p t th e M a in lin e prod uction's ch a rac­ terization w as, th e stage lacked effective use. T h e actors s im p ly d id not utilize th e ir sp a ce p ro d u ctiv e ly an d in c o n ­ se q u e n c e th e overall p ro d u ctio n lacked a sen se o f a u th e n ­

also d u st o ff a few tracks fro m 1995's c o n s id e ra b ly n o isie r Psychic Hearts. T h e re co rd in g is cle a n , w ith sp a rse cro w d n o ise m a k in g it s o u n d m o re like it w as laid d o w n live in stu d io . W h ile th e set is h e a v ily a co u stic, a b o rd e rlin e -b la s ­ p h e m y for th e m o re d ie h a rd S Y d iscip le s, M o o re still in d u lg e s th e crow d's aural lu st for so m e (a co u stic-)e le ctric g u ita r fe e d b a ck . W h e n he d oes, how ever, it

repres­ sive lateV icto rian context o f Ibsen's original.

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ticity. From th e a u d ie n ce , it w as a p p a re n t th at th e p lay w as b e in g acted , not lived. W h a t is th e p o in t o f trekking to the theatre if yo u feel you're at th e m o v ie s? But w h a t M ainline's Hedda Gabier lacked in m o tio n , it m ore th a n m a d e u p for in so u n d . S o u n d effects w ere excellent, w ith th e p rod u ctio n

se e m s m o re c e re m o n ia l th a n sin cere, like he's g o in g th ro u g h th e m o tio n s o f

as a w o m a n torn b etw een fierce

a d d in g b e lie va b ility w h ile at tim e s terrifying th e a u d ie n ce .

all th e th ird -b rid g e scre e ch e s a n d Rhys C h a th a m -s ty le c a c o p h o n ie s he's used to b rin g in g to S o n ic Y ou th a n d his m o re n o is e -o rie n te d so lo o u tin g s. It's not th at h e so u n d s b o re d o r e x h au ste d o r w a rm e d o ve r or a n y th in g like that. W h a t w e h a ve here is a d o c u m e n t o f s o m e o n e w ho, w h ile p e rh a p s s h o w in g th e te m p e ra n c e o f a g e (th o u g h n e v e r in h is e te rn a lly w e ird -k id -n e x t-d o o r looks), is n e v e r c o n te n t to so u n d blasé. T h u rsto n sh o w s us th a t h e can p la y g u ita r like

p assion a n d th e need to e scap e reality. H ad th e play b e e n set today, H e dd a w o u ld p ro b ab ly have b een m u c h better received.

Sure she's a pregn ant, m a n ip u la ­ tive w e n ch w h o drinks m ore in a d ay th an y o u r averag e freshm an

T h e m o st iro n ic part o f th e e v e n in g co u ld b e fo und in th e production's c h o ic e o f transgressing e ve ry classical theatrical c o n v e n tio n in u n rave llin g H e d d a — a w o m a n m o re afraid o f a scan d a l th a n M ich ae l Jackson. In deed , in this p lay characters eat, drink, sm oke, swear, d ie a n d even e n g a g e in foreplay right in front o f th e aud ien ce's eyes. All

last w eek, a p p ro p ria te ly, as a n iTu n e s e xclusive, Live From S0H0 se e s th e S o n ic You th singer, g u itarist an d , ye ah let's face it, fro n tm a n fa ith fu lly w o rkin g th ro u g h tu n e s c u lle d larg e ly fro m his latest so lo p ro j­ ect, last year's Trees Outside the Academy. A p a rt from Trees's c h o ic e s t cu ts ("Fri/End,"the te n d e r d u e t "H on ­ est Ja m e s” a n d th e title track) M o o re a n d his b a n d

C la p to n (cho rds a n d all), b u t h e ju s t d oe sn 't w a n t to.

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Hedda: dressed to kill, he c lim b s th e social la d d e r he

crew e ffectively s o u n d -m a tc h in g th e co n sta n t gun sh ots,

th in g s co n sid e re d , M ainline's p ro d u ctio n c o m e s h ig h ly re co m m e n d e d . As a sp ectato r yo u w ill feel led b y th e p er­ fo rm a n ce w ith o u t feelin g p u sh e d : ce rtain ly w o rth sacrific­ in g y o u r p re -d rin k party this w e e ke n d . ■ H e d d a G a b ie r runs u n til Feb. 16 a t M ainline Theatre (3997 St-Laurent). Call (514) 849-3378 for tickets.

w h o g o e s b y th e n a m e o f S kid m o re , A Shrinking Violent is a sp o k e n w o rd re co rd in g th at in teg rates d ia lo g u e , m u s ic a n d s o u n d -e ffe c ts to cre ate a c o m ­ W<L?Is&ILfcwijme* !>i) e d y n arrative la ck in g in w h a t s h o u ld th e o re tica lly b e its tw o m a in c o m p o n e n ts : h u m o u r a n d plot. "That g e rb il h ad b etter had

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a m anicure," a n d o th e r c o m m e n ts th e co n te x t o f w h ic h are b etter left u n ­ stated, are u ttered n o n c h a la n tly b e tw e e n irre le van t a n d lo n g -w in d e d sim ile s th at d e sc rib e th e lew d an tics o f th e m a in ch a ra cte r Evelyn , w h ic h e x clu sive ly se e m to b e h a v in g sex a n d th ro w in g up. C lic h é d jo k e s, in c lu d in g a ch a ra cte r calle d Ben D over, are e x cru c ia tin g ly fo cu sse d o n a n d e x p la in e d to th e p o in t o f c o n d e s c e n s io n , b u t th e g reatest in su lt to th e liste n e r is th e intro du ctio n 's c la im th a t A Shrinking Violent is “literary," as if p u ttin g rh y m in g w o rds s u c h a s 'lip lock" a n d "cock" in th e sam e se n te n c e d e m o n stra te s th e careful d e lib e ra tio n o f an artist a n d n o t ju s t an in effectual a tte m p t to d is g u is e ve rb al e x cre m e n t

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as poetry. .

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Predictab ly, Kurt Cobain: A b o u ta Son fails to sh e d a n y n e w lig h t o n th e sh o rt life o f its su b je ct. At th e e n d o f th e day, th e film still leaves us w o n d e rin g w h a t Co b ain 's e x act in te n ­ tio n s w ere w h e n h e p u t a sh o tg u n in his m o u th . How ever, th is is not at all w h a t d ire cto r AJ S ch n ack's d o c u m e n ta ry is tryin g to a ch ie ve . For th e first tim e , w e are g iv e n a different

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c o n siste n tly d iscu sse d a n d a b u se d b y th e m e d ia o ve r th e years th at it is a relief to fin a lly h e ar th e w o rds c o m e o u t o f his o w n m o uth .

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S o m e a u d ie n c e s m a y not a p p re cia te th e m in im a list m e th o d S c h n a c k uses to in p re se n tin g C o b ain 's tra g ic tale.

T h e re is n o fo otag e o f o ld N irva n a p e rfo rm a n ce s, n o inter­ vie w s w ith fa m ily o r frie n d s an d w e don 't e ve n see C o b a in

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in p e rso n un til th e v e ry e n d . Instead, S c h n a c k uses th e h o urs o f in te rvie w s th a t b io g ra p h e r M ich ae l A zerrad g a th ­ ered w ith C o b a in for his a cc la im e d 19 9 4 b a n d bio, Corneas You Are: The Story o f Nirvana. W ith th e e x ce p tio n o f a few lines said b y th e in te rvie w e r a n d e ve n C o u rtn e y Love her­ self, C o b ain 's a p a th e tic a n d a n g s t-rid d e n v o ice is th e o n ly o n e heard th ro u g h o u t th e film .

A c c o m p a n y in g th e “S p o k e sm a n o f a Generation"'s life story are m o d e rn d a y im a g e s o f th e s to m p in g g ro u n d s o f Kurt's yo u th a n d e v e n tu a lly Seattle, w h e re he re ach e d stard o m and, so it is said, started (or at least red efined ) th e g ru n g e m o ve m e n t. T h e film 's so u n d tra ck h e a vily favou rs th e m u sic o f Co b ain 's in flu e n ce s (from C re e d e n c e C le a r­ w ater Revival to D a vid Bowie). N ot a s in g le N irva n a track is p laye d th ro u g h o u t th e film , w h ich , g iv e n his reservatio ns to w ard s his band's e ve n tu a l saturated su p e rsta rd o m , is p ro b a b ly w h a t C o b a in w o u ld h a ve w an ted.

But S ch n ack's film is h a rd ly flaw less. O n e o f th e m ost o b v io u s c o m p la in ts is th a t th e re ju s t isn't a lot o f m aterial th at s p e c ific a lly co ve rs Kurt's tim e w ith N irvan a. Eventu ally,

NATFILM.DK Son of a gun: Cobain on stage with Nirvana. th e lack o f real fo o ta g e o f a n y kind a n d th e s e e m in g ly ran­ d o m im a g e s re vo lvin g a ro u n d C o b ain 's w o rd s ca n g e t a little tireso m e. At tim es, A bout a Son can feel m o re like an illustrated a u d io ta p e th a n a n a ctu al m o vie . But th e d ire c­ tor's w illin g n e s s to p ro d u c e su ch a n u n o rth o d o x film in a sea o f d o c u m e n ta rie s a lre a d y c o v e rin g e v e ry little detail a b o u t th e g ru n g e rocker is a tru e h o m a g e to th e g e n iu s o f C o b a in him self. Kurt Cobain: A bout a Son is a gift for fans that tru ly u n d e rsto o d th e e arn e st in te n tio n s b e h in d C o ­ bain's m u sic. ■ A b o u t a Son plays a t Cinema du Parc (3575 Parc) until Feb. 7. Visit w w w .cin e m a d u p a rc.c o m for tickets and showtimes.

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S t e v e B e ir n e s s O n e d a y a fte r t h e ir 13 1st b irth d a y ,-th e M c G ill R e d m e n c e l­ e b ra te d in style w ith a 3 -2 c o m e -f r o m -b e h in d w in o v e r th e

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w ith ju s t o v e r tw o m in u te s to g o in th e p e rio d , w h e n d e ­ fe n c e m a n T y le r S p ic e s c o re d h is first g o a l o f th e s e a s o n o n a p o in t s h o t th a t fo u n d its w a y p a st a s c re e n e d J e a n -M ic h e l F ilia tra u lt.

"I w a s fa irly h a p p y w ith

R o yal M ilita ry C o lle g e P a la d in s a t M c C o n n e ll A re n a o n F rid a y n ig h t. T h e v ic t o r y g a v e t h e t e n t h -ra n k e d R e d m e n a m e a s u re o f r e d e m p t io n a fte r a d is a p p o in t in g 2 -1 lo ss to th e u n ra n k e d P a la d in s th e p r e v io u s w e e k .

“Last w e e k th e y tra p p e d us h a rd in th e n e u tra l zone," M c G ill H e a d C o a c h M a rtin R a y m o n d sa id . " T o n ig h t w e trie d to m a k e su re w e u s e d a little m o re o f o u r s p e e d a n d trie d to sk a te th ro u g h th a t tra p w ith th e puck."

T h e re v ise d s tra te g y p a id e a rly d iv id e n d s for th e R e d ­

m y p e r fo r m a n c e — t h e tw o g o a ls th e y s c o re d w e re pretty," said F ilia tra u lt, w h o m a d e 27 sa v e s to p ic k u p h is th ird v ic ­ to ry o f th e year.

m e n , w h o o p e n e d th e s c o r in g m id w a y th ro u g h th e first p e ­ rio d w h e n c e n tre M a th ie u L e c le rc t ip p e d a L o u is -S im o n A lla ire

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p o in t s h o t th ro u g h th e le g s o f R M C g o a lt e n d e r A d a m B ig g s.

A fte r a sc o re le s s s e c o n d p e rio d , th e P a la d in s to o k th e lead in th e th ird fra m e w h e n fo rw a rd P aul B ra d le y s tre a k e d d o w n th e left w in g a n d m a n ­ a g e d to s tu ff th e p u c k u n d e r F ilia tra u lt to g iv e h is te a m a 2 -1 le a d w ith 14 m in u te s left.

ADAM SCOTTI T h e R edm en b o u n ce d back q u ic k ly , h o w e v e r, ty in g th e F Guillaume Doucet celebrates one of McGill's three goals as the puck kicks around behind RMC's g a m e o n th e p o w e rp la y afte r G Adam Biggs. a n ifty p a s s in g p la y c u lm in a t ­ ed in c e n tre S im o n C o u rc e lle s C o n c o r d ia , h e lp e d to te m p o r a r ily se t th e R e d m e n b a c k on t a p p in g a c r o s s -ic e fe e d p a st a s p ra w lin g B igg s. tra c k a fte r a m in i-s lu m p w h ic h sa w t h e m lo se th re e o f fo u r In w h a t lo o k e d a lm o s t like a re p la y o f his first p e rio d g a m e s a fte r ra ttlin g o ff 13 w in s in 14 g a m e s. g o a l, L e c le rc th e n fin is h e d o ff th e R e d m e n c o m e b a c k w ith his "It w a s g o o d to se e th e g u y s b o u n c e b a c k afte r s o m e b a d s e c o n d g o a l o f th e g a m e , t ip p in g b lu e lin e r D a v id U rq u h a rt's p lay, e s p e c ia lly a fte r last w e e k's loss. It sh o w e d a lo t o f c o m p o ­ p o in t s h o t u n d e r th e le g s o f B ig g s. sure," U rq u h a rt said . "That's a te a m th at's p la y in g for a p la y o ff "I trie d to u se m y size in fro n t o f th e n e t, sc re e n th e g o a lie , s p o t a n d it's e s p e c ia lly g o o d to g e t a w in a g a in s t a te a m th at's a n d I w a s ju s t lu c k y to g e t m y stic k o n tw o p u c k s in fro n t a n d h a v e t h e m g o in," sa id a m o d e s t Le cle rc.

A lt h o u g h Le cle rc's m a rk e r e n d e d u p b e in g th e g a m e w in n e r, th e v ic t o r y w a s o n ly s e c u re d a fte r F ilia tra u lt m a d e th e b e s t o f h is 27 s a v e s o n th e n ig h t. W ith o n ly a m in u t e re m a in in g in th e m a tc h , M c G ill su ffe re d a d e fe n s iv e la p s e le a d in g to an R M C b re a k a w a y th a t th e R e d m e n k e e p e r tu rn e d a w ay.

A sp ecial v ic to ry

ADAMSCOTTI Jean-Michel Filiatrault displays textbook butterfly technique on one of his 27 saves.

d esp erate."

T h a t m o m e n tu m w o u ld n 't last lo n g , h o w e v e r, a s th e O t­ ta w a G e e -G e e s p u lle d o ff a 2 -1 u p s e t v ic t o r y o v e r th e R e d m e n o n S a tu rd a y n ig h t .T h e u n ra n k e d G e e -G e e s w e re o u ts h o t 3 6 -13 b u t re c e iv e d ste lla r p la y fro m g o a lt e n d e r R yan W h itlo c k , w h o m a d e a n u m b e r o f g re a t s a v e s to e a rn th e w in . S h a w n S h e w c h u k n o tc h e d th e o n ly g o a l for th e Red 'n 'W h ite , w h ile M a ­ th ie u P o itra s to o k th e lo ss in net, m a k in g o n ly e le v e n saves.

T h e c o s tly lo ss to O tta w a a ll-b u t e lim in a t e s th e R e d m e n

A s h a s b e e n t h e c a s e fo r m u c h o f th is year, s p e c ia l te a m s

(17 -8 -1) fro m th e ra ce for first p la c e in th e O U A Far East, a s th e

w e re th e d e c id in g fa c to r for M c G ill. A ll th re e R e d m e n g o a ls c a m e w ith t h e m a n -a d v a n t a g e a n d M c G ill's p e n a lty k illin g u n it a ls o s u c c e s s fu lly b la n k e d R M C o n all te n o f t h e ir p o w e rp la y o p p o rt u n itie s . O f M c G ill's 96 g o a ls so far th is ye ar, a n a s­ t o n is h in g 46.9 p e r c e n t o f t h e m h a v e c o m e o n s p e c ia l te a m s.

U Q TR P a trio te s (19 -5 -1) sit fo u r p o in ts a h e a d o f M c G ill w ith a g a m e in h a n d . T h e R ed 'n 'W h it e w o u ld n e e d to d e fe a t C a r le to n o n Feb . 8 a n d w o u ld n e e d U Q TR to g o p o in tle s s in a h o m e -a n d -h o m e se rie s a g a in s t C o n c o r d ia to s e t -u p a w in n e r -

Frid ay's v ic to ry , a lo n g w ith W e d n e s d a y 's 4 -1 w in o v e r

ta k e s -fir s t -p la c e s h o w d o w n b e tw e e n th e P a trio te s a n d R e d ­ m e n o n S u n d a y a t M c C o n n e ll A re n a . ■

THIRD MAN IN

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o d e r n t e c h n o lo g y a n d p o p u la r c u ltu re 's in s a ­ t ia b le lu s t fo r g o s s ip h a s m a d e t h e b a rrie r b e ­ t w e e n p u b lic a n d p r iv a t e life v ir t u a lly in d is t in ­

t h e s to r y s e e m e d to b e d y in g d o w n , G olfw eek m a g a ­ z in e p r in t e d a n is s u e w ith a n o o s e o n t h e c o v e r th a t, in W o o d s 'w o r d s , " cre a te d m o re o f a fire sto rm ."

g u is h a b le . T h e g ro w th o f t h e in t e r n e t a n d 2 4 -h o u r a ll­

T h e w a ll b e t w e e n t h e "real w o rld " a n d s p o r t s h a d

s p o rts c h a n n e ls h a s d r a s t ic a lly in c r e a s e d t h e a m o u n t o f in f o r m a t io n a v a ila b le a b o u t t h e p r iv a t e a s p e c t s o f a t h ­ le te s' liv e s a n d a s a re s u lt, w e fe e l a s t h o u g h w e k n o w t h e a th le t e s w e w a tc h a n d re a d a b o u t . W e d e v e lo p e x ­

b e e n b r e a c h e d y e t a g a in . A p o lit ic a l is s u e — A m e ric a 's

p e c t a t io n s o f t h e m . It's a n a tu ra l a n d u n d e r s t a n d a b le d e v e lo p m e n t w h e n o n e in v e s ts so m u c h e m o t io n a lly in s o m e o n e o n a n d o ff t h e fie ld o f p la y .

O n J a n . 4, G o lf C h a n n e l a n n o u n c e r N ic k F a ld o

s t r u g g le w ith r a c is m — h a d in filt ra t e d t h e w o rld o f s p o rts , a n d it d o m in a t e d t h e m é d ia 's g o lf c o v e r a g e for s e v e ra l w e e k s . T h e is s u e w a s d is c u s s e d o n n e w s n e tw o rk s s u c h a s C N N a s w e ll a s o n s p o rts c h a n n e ls lik e E S P N . T h e m e d ia fu lfille d its d u t y to e x p la in a n d d e b a t e t h e is su e , b u t its c o v e r a g e o fte n w e n t to o far.

M o s t n o t a b ly , N F L H a ll o f F a m e f u llb a c k a n d n o t e d c iv il

jo k e d a b o u t t h e d if f ic u lt ie s y o u n g g o lfe rs h a d k e e p ­ in g u p w ith T ig e r W o o d s , s a y in g , " M a y b e t h e y s h o u ld ju s t g a n g u p [on W o o d s ] fo r a w h ile ." C o -c o m m e n t a t o r K e lly T ilg h m a n — w h o is f r ie n d s w ith W o o d s — a d d e d o n to Fa ld o 's jo k e , s a y in g , " L y n c h h im in a b a c k alley."

rig h t s a c t iv is t J im B ro w n s a id o f W o o d s ' r e s p o n s e , "H e w a it e d u n til it w a s p o lit ic a lly c o r r e c t to c o m e o u t w h e n h e s h o u ld h a v e c o m e o u t r ig h t aw ay." B ro w n fu r t h e r c h a s t is e d W o o d s fo r n o t f u lf illin g h is r e s p o n s ib ilit y to d e fe n d A f r ic a n -A m e r ic a n s b y s p e a k in g o u t a g a in s t t h e

T ilg h m a n s u b s e q u e n t ly r e c e iv e d t h e b r u n t o f a w id e ­ s p re a d m e d ia o u t c r y a n d w a s s u s p e n d e d fo r a w e e k .

S h e a p o lo g iz e d to t h e p u b lic a n d to t h e h a lf A f r ic a n A m e r ic a n W o o d s , w h o a c c e p t e d h e r a p o lo g y a n d d id n o t s a y m u c h e ls e o n t h e m a t t e r .T h e m e d ia p r e d ic t a b ly d w e lle d o n t h e s itu a t io n fo r fa r to o lo n g , a n d ju s t w h e n

u s e o f t h e w o rd "lynch".

A s t h e r ic h e s t a th le t e a n d g r e a t e s t g o lf e r in t h e w o rld , t h e p u b lic s p o t lig h t s h in e s b r ig h t ly o n T ig e r W o o d s . M illio n s o f p e o p le id o liz e h im . B u t k n o w in g h is W ik ip e d ia b io g r a p h y b y h e a rt a n d k n o w in g h im in t im a t e ly a re d iffe re n t fo rm s o f "kn o w in g ". T ig e r's fa n s

Ja c o b K a n ter

d o n 't k n o w h o w h e re a c te d in p r iv a t e to T ilg h m a n 's s t a t e m e n t , t h e y d o n 't k n o w if he's a v e n g e f u l p e r s o n a n d t h e y c e r t a in ly c o u ld n 't p r e s u m e to b e a c q u a in t e d w ith h is v ie w s o n ra c ia l is su e s . B u t t h e y s till d e v e lo p e x ­ p e c t a t io n s o f h im . T ig e r u n d e r s t a n d s t h a t if h e c h o o s e s to b e a s p o k e s p e r s o n , h e w o u ld h a v e t h e c o lle c t iv e e a r o f t h e n a t io n . B u t t h e o p e r a t iv e w o rd h e re is chooses. A n a th le t e is n o t in h e r e n t ly a s p o k e s p e r s o n fo r h is ra ce .

J im B ro w n , lik e T ig e r's fa n s , is a v ic t im o f t h a t a fo re ­ m e n t io n e d n a tu ra l a n d u n d e r s t a n d a b le d e v e lo p m e n t t h a t s te m s fro m m e d ia in u n d a t io n . B ro w n b e lie v e s th a t a n a th le t e is r e s p o n s ib le fo r d e f e n d in g A fric a n A m e r i­ c a n s , a n d h e d e v e lo p e d t h e e x p e c t a t io n t h a t T ig e r w o u ld s h a re t h a t b e lie f. B ro w n c a n la m e n t t h e fa c t th a t a th le t e s d o n 't s p e a k o u t m o re o fte n , h e c a n c a ll fo r a c lo s e r r e la t io n s h ip b e t w e e n s p o rts a n d p o lit ic s a n d h e c a n c o n t in u e to d ra w a tt e n t io n to "real w o rld " is s u e s w ith t h e fa m e t h a t h e e a r n e d fro m h is d a y s in t h e N F L . B u t h e c a n 't fo rc e T ig e r to ta k e a s t a n c e o n d iv is iv e is s u e s a n d h e c e r t a in ly c a n 't c r it ic iz e T ig e r for n o t s p e a k in g o u t a g a in s t T ilg h m a n . T ig e r c h o s e to b e a n a th le te , n o t a s p o k e s p e r s o n a n d h is d e c is io n s h o u ld b e re s p e c t e d . ■

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M a rtle ts kill Laval's season; ad v a n c e to playoffs K elsey Irw in p a ce d M cG ill w ith 14 p o in ts as th e s ix th -ra n k e d M artlets d is ­

G a it e r s w a lk a ll o v e r

p o se d o f la st-p la ce Laval 3-1 to c lo se o u t th e re g u lar se aso n in w o m e n 's u n iv e r­ sity v o lle yb a ll at Love C o m p e titio n Hall o n S u n d a y .T h e set scores w ere 25 -22,172 5 ,2 5 -2 1 a n d 25-16 .

T h e v icto ry g a v e th e M artlets th re e w in s in fo ur re g u lar se aso n m e e tin g s ve rsu s Laval a n d m arke d th e first tim e th at M c G ill had e v e r w o n th e ir season series a g a in st th e R o u g e et Or, w h o faile d to q u a lify for p o st-se a so n p la y for th e first tim e in s c h o o l history.

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S u p e r S u n d a y

M c G ill n o t c lo s e in w ir e - t o - w ir e lo ss

Irw in, a 5 -fo o t-n m id d le blocker, h ad a te a m -le a d in g 11 kills, w ith th re e stu ff b lo cks a n d fiv e d igs.

M cG ill fin ish e d th ird in th e fo u r-te a m Q u e b e c co n fe re n c e w ith a 15 -6 re­ co rd , tw o p o in ts b e h in d S h e rb ro o k e V e rt et O r (16-5). T h e M ontreal C a ra b in s (18-3) fin ish e d first a n d e a rn e d a first-ro u n d p layo ff bye.

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w a s th e ir o b v io u s la ck o f a tte n tio n to d e ta il a n d a se e m ­ in g ly c o m p le te a b s e n c e o f fo cu s from th e o u tse t o f th e m a tch . T h e Red 'n 'W h ite n e v e r led in th e g a m e larg e ly d u e to th e team 's h a v in g d u g itse lf a n in s u rm o u n ta b le h o le in th e first quarter, at o n e p o in t tra ilin g 13-4. M cG ill

M ontreal w ill a w ait th e w in n e r o f th e co n fe re n ce se m ifin a l series, a b e st-

O n a d a y w h e n th e vast m a jo rity o f th e c a m p u s' sp o rtin g e ye s w e re in te n se ly tra in e d o n a g rid iro n in A rizon a, th e M cG ill M artlets tried to b rin g s o m e fo cu s

o f-th re e affair b e tw e e n M cG ill a n d th e V e rt et Or. P e n d in g co n firm a tio n , th e

b a c k to th e h a rd w o o d a n d set th e stag e for th e S u p e r

fram e, se ve n o f w h ic h w e re c o m m itte d in th e M artlets'

series is slated to o p e n in S h e rb ro o k e o n Friday, m o v e to M c G ill o n S atu rd a y

Bowl's m o n u m e n ta l up se t w ith an u n d e rd o g v ic to ry o f th e ir o w n a g a in s t th e Bishop's G aiters. By th e e n d o f th e day, how ever, w ith a pitiful 6 9 -4 7 loss b e h in d th e m , th e o n ly u p se t g e n e ra te d b y th e w o m e n ca g e rs w a s th a t in th e s to m a c h o f p a y in g custo m e rs.

first n in e p o sse ssio n s. A lso s ig n a lin g th e team 's a b se n t m in d s e t w e re tw o sh o t c lo c k v io la tio n s in th e first five m in u te s o f th e g a m e .

D e sp ite p la y in g poorly, th e M artlets m a n a g e d to

a n d if n e ce ssary, b e d e c id e d in S h e rb ro o k e o n Sun d ay.

T h e M artlets w o n th re e o f fo u r m e e tin g s w ith th e V e rt e t O r th is seaso n, s w e e p in g b o th h o m e affairs (3-2,3-0 ), a n d sp littin g tw o m a tch e s at S h e rb ro o ke (3-0 loss, 3 -2 victory).

O n th e stre n g th o f a d e a d ly d is p la y o f o u tsid e

L ab o n té notches s h u to u t as M a rtle ts b la n k G ee-G ees

s h o o tin g — th e G a ite rs san k an im p re ssiv e te n o f th e ir

V a n e ssa D a v id so n sco re d tw ic e a n d C h a rlin e L a b o n té p o ste d h e r C IS le a d in g n in th s h u to u t as th e first-ra n ke d M cG ill M artlets skated to a 3 -0 d e c i­ sio n o ve r O ttaw a in w o m e n 's h o c k e y o n S un d ay.

It w as M cG ill's 11th stra ig h t w in a g a in s t th e G e e -G e e s a n d im p ro v e d th e

27 th re e -p o in t a tte m p ts— th e visito rs fro m L e n n o x v ille e a sily d is p a tc h e d th e M artlets in a w ire -to -w ire v icto ry in w h ic h M cG ill n e v e r really c o n te n d e d . T h e in s id e -o u t­ sid e c o m b in a tio n o f ce n tre C o u rtn e y C o o k a n d g u a rd

Red 'n'W hite's record to 2 5 -2 -1 in th e ir last 28 m e e tin g s ve rsus O ttaw a.

P la yin g for th e first tim e in 13 days, th e M artlets h e ld a 28 -23 m a rg in in

M e la n ie O u e lle t-G o d c h a rle s c a u se d fits for th e Red 'n' W h ite, as b o th p layers p o ste d d o u b le d ig it p o in t totals

shots. D a vid so n , w h o leads th e Q u e b e c co n fe re n c e sco rin g race w ith 12 g o als

a n d p re ve n te d th e d e fe n ce from fo cu ssin g o n o n e area o f th e court.

"The g a m e p lan w a s to take a w a y th e insiple pres­ e n c e b e c a u se th e y are b ig g e r th a n us, e s p e c ia lly [Cook

a n d 24 p o in ts in 14 g a m e s, tallie d a p o w e rp la y m arke r at 7:33 o f th e m id d le p e rio d a n d m a d e it 3 -0 m id w a y th ro u g h th e fin al stanza. A lyssa C e c e re netted th e o th e r M cG ill g o a l e a rly in th e fin al period.

La b o n té m a d e 23 saves a n d im p ro v e d h e r record to 13 -0 -0 w ith th e M art­ lets. S h e c o n tin u e s to lead th e n a tio n in g o a ls -a g a in s t a v e ra g e (0.46) a n d save p e rce n ta g e (.971).

W ith th e w in , M cG ill im p ro v e d to 14 -0 -0 a n d in cre ase d th e ir lead o ve r th e s e c o n d -p la c e G e e -G e e s (6-7-2) to 14 p o ints. T h e M artlets w ill h o st C a rle to n o n Feb. 8 , w h ile th e G e e -G e e s w ill p la y C o n c o rd ia o n Feb. 10.

Z a n a ty shines as R ed m en d o w n G aiters G u a rd M oustafa El Z a n a ty sco re d 2 2 p o in ts as M cG ill rallied to b e a t B ish ­ op's 78 -70 in m en's b a ske tb a ll at Love C o m p e titio n Hall o n S un d ay.

El Z a n a ty c o n n e c te d o n 8 o f 2 0 sh o ts from th e floor, in c lu d in g 3 o f 10 from 3 -p o in t range. H e w e n t 3 for 3 fro m th e foul line, g ra b b e d fo ur re b o u n d s, w as cre d ite d w ith fo u r assists a n d h ad o n e steal.

T h re e o th e r R e d m e n re a ch e d d o u b le fig u re s in sco rin g , in c lu d in g Paw el Herra (16 pts), S e an A n th o n y (12 pts a n d 8 re b o u n d s) a n d N ick o las Pro n o vo st (11 pts).

T h e w in for th e R e d m e n c a m e less th a n 24 h o urs after a n o th e r loss at th e

a n d fo rw ard A m a n d a Piribauer] w h o w e k n e w w ere startin g a n d w h o w o u ld log a lot o f m inutes," M artlets H e ad C o a c h Ryan T h o rn e said. "They're a v e ry hot a n d co ld te am , b u t th e y k n o c k e d d o w n th o se b ig sh o ts from th e o u tsid e today."

Lack o f focus In a g a m e th at w as re sc h e d u le d from Frid ay e v e ­ n in g d u e to in c le m e n t w e a th e r a n d d riv in g co n d itio n s, th e M artlets lo o ke d like th e y h ad fo rg o tte n th e ir fo cu s a n d m in d s e t a few d ays e a rlie r as M cG ill la g g e d b e h in d Bishop's in e v e ry m a jo r statistical cate g o ry. T h e G aiters, w ith th e ir cle a r size a d v a n ta g e , o u t-re b o u n d e d th e M artlets 43 - 33, in c lu d in g 15-11 o n th e o ffen sive g lass, a n d h it 26 fie ld g o als o n 67 a tte m p ts (38 p e r cent) a g a in st

tu rn e d o ve r th e ball an a sto n ish in g n in e tim e s in th e first

e s c a p e th e h a lf o n ly d o w n 3 1-17 w ith fo rw ard E m ilie Ruel a n d g u a rd N athifa W eekes, w h o led all scorers w ith 13 a n d 12 p o in ts resp e ctive ly, k e e p in g th e ir sid e in th e m atch . T h e th ird quarter, how ever, w o u ld p ro ve to b e th e d iffe re n ce as Bishop's e x p lo d e d for 2 2 p o in ts a n d ex­ p a n d e d th e ir lead to 53-27, in c lu d in g a stretch in w h ic h th e G a ite rs c o n n e c te d o n th re e c o n s e c u tiv e treys.

"Th e y ju s t o p e n e d it u p in th e th ird q uarter,"Thorne said. "W e h ad th e m in tro u b le : W e w ere in b o n u s from th e fiv e m in u te m ark o f th e th ird a n d th e n th e p la n w as to g e t it in sid e . But w e g o t a w ay fro m th at a n d started ta k in g a lot o f o u tsid e shots. It's to u g h w h e n w e're tryin g to fo llo w o n e d ire c tio n a n d th e n w e d on 't fo llo w th at g a m e plan.”

N eed to rebuild A lth o u g h c le a rly d e m o ra liz e d from th e d is a p ­ p o in tin g th ird p e rio d a n d fa c in g th e Bishop's scru b s for m u c h o f th e last stanza, th e M artlets c o n tin u e d to play th e G a ite rs a g g re ssiv e ly a n d w ere re w a rd e d b y w in n in g th e fo u rth q u a rte r 2 0 -16 , a q u a lity effort w h ic h th e te am p la n s to b u ild o n in th e ir next m atch .

N o w 2 -11 a n d firm ly in last p la c e after b o th th e loss to Bishop's a n d a n 8 9 -6 9 d e fe at e arlie r in th e w e e k e n d at th e h a n d s o f c ro ss-to w n rival C o n c o rd ia , M cG ill w ill travel to L e n n o x v ille to a g a in face th e G a ite rs o n Feb. 10 to try a n d s a lv a g e s o m e th in g p o sitive fro m th e ir d isa s­ tro u s seaso n. ■

M cG ill's 15 baskets o n 53 tries (28 p er cent).

T h e M artlets'fata I fla w o n th e a fte rn oo n , how ever,

h a n d s o f th e C o n c o rd ia S tin g e rs, w h o d e fe a te d M cG ill 9 9 -8 4 o n Saturday. T h e Stin g ers, w h o sit in s e c o n d p la c e in th e le a g u e , h a ve w o n tw o o f th e th ree m e e tin g s b e tw e e n th e te a m s th is seaso n. El Z a n a ty tallie d 23 p o in ts in a lo sin g c a u s e for th e R e d m e n .

W ith th re e g a m e s re m a in in g before playoffs, M cG ill im p ro v e d to 6 -7 in th e Q u e b e c le a g u e . T h e la st-p la ce Gaiters, all b u t e lim in a te d from p o st-se a so n play, fell to 2 -9 a n d sit fo u r p o in ts b e h in d fo u rth -p la c e U Q A M (4-6).

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UPON FURTHER REVIEW

W h o 's t h e

ON D EC K Women's Hockey— Carleton Ravens at McGill Martlets; Friday, 7 p.m. at McConnell Arena

M a n -n in g ?

W e really d on 't h a ve a n y th in g m o re to say a b o u t th e M artlets h o c k e y

Before th e se n o w -c o n c lu d e d playoffs, th is d e b a te w o u ld h a ve b e e n c o n sid e re d lu d icro u s: P eyto n M a n n in g , th e sure -fire H all o f Fam e q u a rte rb a c k o f th e In d ia n a p o lis C o lts w h o o w n s a S u p e r Bow l ring, M VP tro p h y a n d several N FL records, w a s cle a r­ ly th e s e co n d b est Q B in th e b u sin e ss, b e h in d th e P a trio ts'g o ld e n boy, To m Brady. Eli, th e y o u n g e r sib lin g , h ad a lw ays b e e n th e b la c k s h e e p o f th e b ro th e r act. Both S E C g u n slin g e rs in co lle g e , P eyto n g u id e d th e illu strio u s T e n n e sse e V o lu n te e rs p ro g ra m to

te am , b u t there's n o t m u c h else h a p p e n in g o n c a m p u s th is w e e ke n d .

By this p o int, it's all pretty stan d ard fare w ith th is team : G o a lie C h a r­ lin e La b o n té w ill p ro b a b ly g e t a sh u to u t, a p laye r like fo rw ard s V a n ­ essa D a v id so n , A n n S o p h ie -B e tte z or S h a u n a D e n is o r d e fe n ce m a n C a th e rin e W ard w ill p ro b a b ly n o tch a h a t trick o r fo u r p o in t effort an d

th e te am w ill sq u a sh th e Ravens. M cG ill, still th e o v e rw h e lm in g to p a co n fe re n ce c h a m p io n s h ip w h ile Eli led th e m u c h less re sp e cte d O le M iss (U n ive rsity o f M ississip p i) R ebels th ro u g h relative ran ked sq u a d in th e co u n try, h a ve a b s o lu te ly d o m in a te d C a rle to n a n o n ym ity. Even th e y o u n g e r M an n in g 's first-o ve ra ll se le ctio n d id n o t e c lip s e Peyton's a ch ie v e m e n ts, as th e C o lts m a d e th e 1 th is seaso n, o u ts c o rin g th e O ttaw a u n ive rsity a n a sto n ish in g 2 7 -0 in e ld e r b ro th e r th e to p c h o ic e o f th e 19 98 N FL draft. T h e G ia n ts p ivo t stru g g le d to su rv iv e u n d e r th e g la re o f th e N e w York m e d ia 1 fo u r co n tests. E n o u g h said really— ju s t e x p e c t a w in. a n d fan base, le a d in g to his c o n s ta n t b o o in g at th e M e a d o w la n d s for fa ilin g to live u p to th e e x p e cta tio n s th at c o m e w ith th e | fa m ily n a m e a n d th e first-o ve ra ll slot.

B ut after le a d in g th e G ia n ts to te n c o n s e c u tiv e road victo rie s, Eli lo o ke d like h e a n d th e N FL h a d fin a lly clicke d . H is S u p e r Bow l p e rfo rm a n ce , w h ic h rig h tfu lly e a rn e d h im th e M VP h o n o u rs a n d n u m e ro u s a cco la d e s, h as va u lte d h im in to th e p a n th e o n o f e lite q u a rte rb a ck s a n d h as le a p fro g g e d h im o ve r his o ld e r b ro th e r in Indy. Sure, Peyton h as his o w n c h a m p io n s h ip a n d fin als M VP as w ell as m u c h stro n g e r a n d m o re d o m in a n t re g u lar se aso n statistics, b u t h is A c h ille s heel h as a lw ays b e e n th e p layo ffs— a p la c e w h e re th e true g reats a lw ays m a n a g e to s h in e .T o b e q u ite h o n e st, Peyton's XLI M VP tro p h y w a s a s h a m —-th e C o lts c ru sh e d th e cle a rly inferior Bears 2 9 -17 a n d M a n n in g th re w for a ve ry p e d e stria n 247 yard s o n 25 o f 38 passes, w ith a to u c h d o w n a n d a n in te rce p tio n . Eve ryo n e k n e w th e N FL w a n te d to g ive o n e o f th e ir m o st m a rk e ta b le a n d su cce ssfu l stars th e tro p h y eve n before th e g a m e w as p layed . It also to o k P eyto n se ve n ye ars to reach a th e title g a m e d e sp ite his team 's o ffen sive ju g g e rn a u t, fe atu rin g th e likes o f RBs M arshall Faulk, E d g e rrin Ja m e s a n d Jo se p h A d d a i a n d W R s M a rvin H arrison, R e g g ie W a yn e a n d B ran d o n Stokley.

Eli h as g u id e d a m u c h less o ffe n sive ly tale n te d G ia n ts sq u a d to th e b ig g e s t u p se t in N FL h isto ry b y d o w n in g th e Pats in S u p e r Bow l XLII, a n d h as e q u a le d his brother's rin g a n d M VP to tals in o n ly his th ird full seaso n q u a rte rb a c k in g th e clu b . In th e process, u n lik e Peyton, h e a c tu a lly e a rn e d th e p o stse aso n p raise b e sto w e d u p o n h im in T a m p a , D allas, a n d G re e n Bay b y d is ­ p la y in g th e grit a n d d e te rm in a tio n h is C o lt c o u n te rp a rt h as so often lacked. In th e m o st im p o rta n t g a m e o f h is care er a n d on th e co u n try's b ig g e s t stage, Eli re sp o n d e d to a R a n d y M oss to u c h d o w n th at p u t th e Patriots u p fo ur in th e last th re e m in u te s o f p la y w ith an E iw a y -e s q u e d riv e into th e e n d z o n e w ith 30 s e c o n d s left th at featured, a rg u a b ly, th e g reatest p la y in S u p e r Bowl h isto ry (his m ira c u lo u s sc ra m b le a n d 32 yard p ass to D a vid Tyre e to ke e p th e g a m e alive). T h e y o u n g e r M a n n in g fin ish e d w ith 255 yards, tw o to u c h d o w n s — b o th c o m in g in th e fo urth q u arte r— a n d a p ick (w h ich w asn 't his fault). Peyton h as n e v e r loo ked as p o ise d a n d c o n fid e n t in a p ressu re situ atio n as Eli d id m a rc h in g th e G ia n ts d o w n -fie ld . G re a t Q B s are m a d e in th e gam e's b ig g e st m o m e n ts, a n d w ith his p e rfo rm a n c e o n th e road in th e playoffs a n d in A rizon a, e n g in e e rin g o n e o f th e largest up sets in sp o rts history, Eli m a y h a ve passed Peyton o n th e NFL's d e p th chart.

— Aaron Sigal

fiv e g a m e s o f stellar fo o tb all are n o t e n o u g h to e stab lish greatn ess, a n d let's face facts, five g a m e s are all th a t Eli M a n n in g h as o n h is re su m e . S in c e N e w York's m e m o ra b le re g ular se aso n fin a le a g a in st th e Patriots, Eli h as b e e n e x ce p tio n a l, b u t to b e c o m p a re d to an a ll-tim e great, o n e m u st c o n siste n tly p la y at a h ig h level o v e r a lo n g p e rio d o f tim e a n d th e y o u n g e r M a n ­ n in g hasn't d o n e that. H is care er re g u la r-se a so n n u m b e rs are m e d io c re — 77 to u c h d o w n s, 64 in te rc e p tio n s a n d a 734 passer ra tin g — a n d h e p lays better w h e n ask e d ju s t to m a n a g e th e g a m e . V e ry rarely d o e s Eli s in g le -h a n d e d ly w in g a m e s for N e w York— th e ru n n in g g a m e a n d d e fe n siv e u n it u su a lly d e se rv e th e b u lk o f th e credit.

Peyton, o n th e o th e r h a n d , is as p ro lific a n d tale n te d as a n y m a n to e ve r ste p u n d e r centre. In b e tw e e n film in g c o m m e r­ cials, Peyton h a s fo u n d tim e to set se ve n N FL re co rds a n d is o n p a c e to shatter e v e ry m a jo r statistical m ark for a q u a rte rb a ck .

T h e e ld e r M a n n in g c a n a lso b o ast th e s e c o n d b e st care er passer ratin g o f a ll-tim e (94.;) a n d a d e fin in g v icto ry o ve r N e w E n g la n d — in last year's c o n fe re n c e c h a m p io n s h ip s — that is e v e ry b it as im p re ssiv e as h is y o u n g e r brother's triu m p h th is year.

Men’s Hockey— UQTR Patriotes at McGill Redmen; Sunday, 7 p.m. at McConnell Arena T h e R e d m e n -P a trio te s h o c k e y rivalry h a s b e c o m e o n e o f th e p re m ie r h atre d s in th e C IS w ith th e re ce n t reb irth o f M cG ill in th e past several seasons. UQTR h as a lw ays h ad o n e o f th e m o st d o m in a n t p ro g ra m s in b o th Q u e b e c a n d th e c o u n try a n d th e te a m h as p ro ve n to b e th e R edm en's m o st b itter n e m e sis in th e ir q u e s t for d iv isio n titles an d n a tio n a l c h a m p io n s h ip s. It se e m s th at to reach th e to p in th e QSSF, b o th sq u a d s h a ve to g o th ro u g h th e o th e r— a truth th a t h a d led to a h eated d islike. In th e last g a m e b e tw e e n th e tw o sides, M c G ill skated a w ay w ith a h a rd -fo u g h t 2-1 victo ry, th e ir first in Tro is-R ivié rè s in 11 g a m e s d a tin g b a c k to 20 02. UQTR w ill a im for re ve n g e a g a in st th e ir a rch rivals w h ile R e d m e n w a n t to cre a te so m e stab ility in a seaso n th a t h as take n o n a ro lle r-co a ste r q u ality, so e x p e ct th is g a m e to b e a n a b so lu te d oo zy.

NHL Hockey—Toronto Maple Leafs at Montreal Canadiens; Thursday, 7 p.m. on CBC or RDS In a rare treat, C B C a n d Hockey N igh t in Canada (it’s less rare for RDS) p ic k u p a T h u rs d a y n ig h t m a tc h -u p , b u t th e n a tio n a l n e tw o rk is al­ w a ys a su ck e r for a H ab s-L e afs co n te st. A lth o u g h th e "Forever Rivals" w ill a lw ays ca rry a sp e cia l hatred for e a ch o th e r a n d th e g a m e s in ­ e v ita b ly d raw th e a tte n tio n o f b o th fan bases, th is really s h o u ld b e a M ontreal rout. T h e C a n a d ie n s, w ith th e e x ce p tio n o f th e ir c o m p le te co lla p se S u n d a y a g a in st th e R angers, h a ve lo o ke d d o m in a n t lately a n d have b e g u n to cre e p u p o n th e O ttaw a S en ato rs for to p sp o t in th e Eastern C o n fe re n ce . In th e process, Les G lo rie u x h a ve also b e ­ c o m e th e tre n d y p ic k to reach th e S ta n le y C u p finals. M e a n w h ile , th e Leafs c o n tin u e to suffer in th e p u rg a to ry o f n o t b e in g v e ry g o o d a n d n o t b e in g b ad e n o u g h a n d are b a sic a lly w a itin g for s o m e axes to fall o n so m e h e a d s at th is point.

NHL Hockey— Hockey Day in Canada; Saturday-Sunday, 12 p.m.— 1 a.m. on CBC

W h ile P eyto n h as a d m itte d ly stru g g le d at tim e s in th e p o st-se a so n , h is te am s, u n lik e Eli's, p la y in th e to u g h e r c o n fe re n c e a n d

Live from W inkler, M a n ito b a , C B C w ill g iv e us their a n n u a l ce le b ratio n o f Can ad a's love affair w ith h o c k e y as w ell as a trip le -h e a d e r o f N H L

te n d to rely a lot m o re o n th e q u a rte rb a c k to le ad th e m to victory.

T h e ke y d ifferen ce, ho w ever, b e tw e e n Eli's e a rly su cce ss a n d Peyton's p o st-se a so n stru g g le s b o ils d o w n to d e fe n ce . Eli's

g a m e s, h e a v y w ith C a n a d ia n co n te n t. W h ile th e grassroo ts features a b o u t su b je c ts ra n g in g from o u td o o r p o n d h o c k e y to h o c k e y p ro ­

m e te o ric rise w as a id e d b y a great G ia n ts'd e fe n siv e un it th a t h e ld th e m ig h ty Patr iots to o n ly 14 p o in ts, w h e re a s P e yto n h a d a b u n c h o f stiffs p la y in g o n th e o th e r sid e o f th e ball e a rly in h is career. T h e real M VP o f S u p e r Bow l XLII w as N e w York's d e fe n sive front-four, w h ic h m a n h a n d le d th e Pats O -lin e a n d m a d e T o m B rady lo o k e x tre m e ly o rd in ary. T h e y o u n g e r.M a n n in g w as th e e a sie r storylin e, how ever, a n d w o n th e M VP aw ard d e sp ite an in c o n siste n t p e rfo rm a n c e in th e first th ree quarters.

S o let's take a ste p b a c k a n d a c k n o w le d g e th at w h ile Eli c a n n o lo n g e r b e taken lig h tly, h e d oesn 't b e lo n g in th e e lite p a n th e o n o f p assers like Peyton. O n e th in g is for su re th o u g h : T h e Patriots be tte r h o p e A rc h ie a n d O liv ia M a n n in g d o n t have a n y m o re kids.

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