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Centre for Continuing EducationD epartm ent of Languages and Translation: Classification Tests for the Summer English and French Lan­ guage Programs. English Classifica­ tion Test: April 2nd and 12th, 7 p.m..

French Classification Test: April 4th and 10th, 7 p.m.. Info.: 398-6160.

McGill Nightline - is open through exams from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m. nightly!

So take a study break and call us. 3986246. Friendly, sensitive, and oh so cool!

WalkSafe Network: McLennan Library at 10:45 p.m., Monday to Thursday. Interesteid volunteers con­ tact the Womens’ Union.

Visions: a creative journal is pres­ ently seeking submissions for an up­ coming issue. Poetry, short stories, photography, illustrations, and other creative work. Drop submissions at SSMU desk or mail them to 7950 Verone, St. Leonard, Quebec, H IP 3E2. Enclose a S.A.S.E. if you want work returned. Info.: 325-6941; 3986818.

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All Welcome.

McGill Christian Community: The Sacrement of Reconciliation, NewmanCentre, 3484 Peel, 7:30p.m..

This m eans th a t McGill students can s a v e $$$(toig b u ck s) w h en purchasin g IBM equipm ent on cam pus.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11TH

Liberal McGill: Nominations for President, V.P. Communication, V.P. External, V.P. Finance close today.

Annual General Meeting: Election of Executives. Union 107/8, 5 p.m., Thursday, April 12th.. Info.:284-6816; 499-8571.

McGill Southern Africa Commit­ tee presents AM ANDLA, a weekly

p.m.. Tickets: $15 ($10 for students and seniors) at Pollack Hall (555 Sher­ brooke St. W„ 11:00 a.m.- 5 p.m.) and at the door. Info.: 398-4547.

THURSDAY, APRIL 12TH

D epartm ent of AnthropologyDepartmental Seminar Series: Prof.

GillesBibeau, Université de Montréal, on “Cosmology, Physiology, and Semantics: Outline of a Theory of Symptoms among the Angbandi, Zaire”. Bronfman, Rm. 326; and Ms. Wendy Anderson, McGill University, “Badarian Burials as Evidence of Social Inequality in Predynastic Egypt”, Leacock 720. Both at 4:30 p.m.-6:00 p.m.

McGill Christian Community: Holy Thursday Service, Newman Centre, 3484 Peel, 8 p.m..

Concordia University Students Association: presents “German Uni­ fication: Discussing the Disadvan­ tages”, with Mathias PI atzeck, Ex-East German Minister without Portfolio, Environment; and T atiana Boehm, In­ dependent Women’s Activist, Ex-East German Minister without Portfolio, Women’s Affairs. Concordia Univer­ sity, 1455 de Maisonneuve W., H767, 8 p.m.. Info.: 848-7474.

McGill Players’ Theatresports: Improvisational Comedy. The Alley, 10:00 p.m.. FREE. FRIDAY. APRIL 13TH McGill Christian Community: Good Friday Service, Newman Centre, 3484 Peel, 3 p.m..

Yellow Door-Friday Night-Cof­ fee House: presents Bill Morone.

“Open Stage” follows. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8 p.m..

Admission: $2.00. Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $.50. Info.: 398-6244.

McGill Players’ Theatresports: More Improvisational Comedy. After the Show in Players’ Theatre or 10:00 p.m.. Admission: $1.00.

news and current affairs program on Southern Africa. CRUT FM 90.3, Radio M cGill, Wednesdays, 7-7:30

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Faculty of Music presents The McGill Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a Benefit Concert for the

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McGill Christian Community: Easter Service Atop Mt. Royal. Rain or shine! Meet at St. Martha’s, 3521 University, in thebasement, 10:30 a.m.

Informal, ecumenical community. All welcome. Info. 398-4104.

Easter Mass, Newman Centre, 3484 Peel, 11

ADVANCE NOTICES:

“ W orking with Light and Col­ our” , with British Colour Therapist, Aromatherapist and Massage Thera­ pist Pamela Blake-Wilson. Queen Mary United Church, 13FinchleyRoad (side door entrance) 7:30 p.m.. FREE. Tuesday, April 17th. Weekend Work­ shop, April 21st and 22nd, same loca­ tion. Info.: 483-4763.

Canadian Crossroads In tern a­ tional: International development and education-Canada and Overseas. In­ formation Session and Applications.

Burnside Hall, Rm. 305,7 p.m.. Info.: 286-1483;486-6247. April 19th.

Ugandan Women Speak Out!: “Women’s Views on Uganda’s Reha­ bilitation” and ‘T he Role of Action for Development and Other Non-Gov em­ mental Organizations in Uganda”, with Joy Kwesiga and Lois Ochieng, Ac­ tion for Development (ACFODE), Kampala, Uganda. Centre for Devel­ oping Area Studies, 3715 Peel, Rm. 100, 2 p.m., April 20th. Please con­ firm attendance before April 18 th; call 398-3508.

Yellow Door-Friday Night-Cof­ fee House: presents Andrew Conde (opening act); Roderick Ramos (main act); “Open Stage”. April 20th. Pres­ ents Beverly Druzzin (opening act); Michael Adomowicz (main act); “Open Stage”. April 27th. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8 p.m..

Admission: $2.00. Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $.50. Info.: 398-6244.

Yellow D oor-Saturday NightCoffee House: presents Christine

McGill Players’ Theatresports:

Wieder and “Open Stage”. April 21st.

Jed Clifford and “Open Stage”. April 28th. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8 p.m.. Admission: $2.00.

Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $.50. Info.: 398-6244.

“Parenting in the ‘90’s” : Second Annual M cGill Conference on Parent­ ing: 24 workshops; 5 of which are entirely in French. Leacock Building, 9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.. Pre-registration: contact Faculty of Education, M cGill University, 3700 McTavish, ph.: 3984251. Pre-registration fee $30; same day registration $35. Saturday, April 28th.

Weekly Improvisational Workshop.

Free. Union Bldg., 2-4 p.m..

Yellow D oor-Saturday NightCoffee House: presents Bare Bones.

“Open Stage" follows. 3625 Aylmer (north of Prince Arthur), 8 p.m..

Admission: $2.00. Coffee, tea, herbal teas, etc.: $.50. Info.: 398-6244.

McGill Christian Community: Easter Vigil, Newman Centre, 3484 Peel, 11 p.m..

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SSMU supports plan for low-cost housing

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BY SHANNON ALDINGER The Students’ Society of McGill Univer­ sity (SSMU) has pledged its support for the Société Habitation et Développement de Mon­ tréal’s (SHDM) most recent cooperative nonprofit housing projects in hope that some of the low-cost housing will be made avail­ able to McGill students.

“It’s not a financial commitment as much as support for the project; to show the groups involved that ‘yes, students are interested’.

We’re very excited about the project,” said John Fox, SSMU Vice President (External).

The projects will provide 2500 housing units at 25-30% below market value over the next year and 50 000 units over the next ten years to low income households. The first 2500 units will be available in two areas near St. Laurent Blvd. below Sherbrooke St, to be named Faubourg St. Laurent and Faubourg Québec.

Bob Cohen, Director of SHDM, explained that although students will not be given prior­ ity, the SHDM has recognized that “housing is needed to accommodate the students of the three downtown universities.”

Elmer Fecteau, resident of the Milton Park CONTINUED ON PAGE 11

New system will enable grade checks by phone

BY HEIDI BERCOVITCH McGill students will be able to reach out and touch their grades this spring, once the Registrar’s Office installs an automated reg­ istration system to be known as MARS.

After a three year wait, construction began several weeks ago on the Moyse Hall theater. A Drama Department worker said the main theater will undergo renovation, and a wing will be added for costume and scene construction workshops and a dressing room.

Students’ Society to punch Manna’s clock?

Students’ Society Council will vole tomorrow on a proposal to impeach SSMU Presi­ dent Santo Manna.

The motion was made, said President-elect Kate Morisset, because Manna missed two important meetings to go to sports and drinking events.

Manna said the impeachment motion is “just a joke,” and said he sent regrets for one meeting and stayed for most of the second. He said he is more concerned about finish­ ing school work during his last month in office.

Survey shows students unhappy with course material fee Students do not believe they are getting anything for their $ 100 course materials fee, according to a recent survey by SSMU Vice President (University Affairs) Kate Morisset.

Of the more than 400 students who replied to the survey placed in the McGill Tribune in February, 73% were aware of the fee for photocopies and other course materials. Of the students who were aware of the fee, only 28% said they were gelling their money’s worth. About 58% said they were against the fee. Four percent of the students said they would support the fee if the money were allocated differently.

“Students don’t seem to be seeing any of the photocopies, so I guess the question is, where is the money going?” said Morisset. She said teachers who were interviewed last summer saidincrcascd printing costs justified the fee. Morisset said the SSMU will seek a response from the administration before taking any action about the fee.

Student federation ‘Very strong” after weekend meeting "Hie university group Fédération des Etudiants et Etudiantes du Québec (FEEQ), which represents seven students’ societies including McGill’s, is “continuing very strongly” after its conseil général d’orientation meeting this weekend, SSMU President Santo Manna said.

At the Friday to Sunday meeting, students at the meeting opened nominations for an executive committee to be elected in Québec City on May 9. Two McGill students announced they would run for positions: first year law student Helene Gagnon for Vice President (Political Affairs), and Law senator Robert Fabcs for Vice President (Aca­ demic).

Manna said the group might start a confederation of CEGEPs in the group. FEEQ members also expressed a cautious willingness to work with the student group ANEEQ y m student protests against the tuition increase.________

The system should be operational as of May 14. The model enables students to use a touch tone phone, along with their student identification number and a Personal Identi­ fication Number (PIN), to access their stu­ dent records.

Anna Walsh, Manager of Records andRegistration at the Registrar’s Office, said the system is “experimental” this term and may be used only for checking winter term grades within certain faculties. Students in the Fac­ ulties of Arts, Science, and Agricultural and Environmental Studies (MacDonald College) will be able to perform course changes using this system, she said, but will not be able to register by telephone.

The PIN will be “used like a bank card as extra security,” Walsh said.

To access the system the student must have both a student number and the corresponding PIN number. According to Associate Regis­ trar Allison Verkade, “the system talks to CONTINUED ON PAGE 10

"Don't skip out!" Legal Aid clinic warns student tenants

BY ROBERT STEINER McGill Legal aid counsellors are warning students not to “skip out” on their summer rent obligations now that the academic year is drawing to a close.

“Lots of out-of-town students come here for eight months but their leases are 12 months,” Legal aid clinic Director Ronald Lauenstein explains.

“When the year is over, they are faced with a dilemma because it is very difficult to sublet now but they can’t afford to pay rent over the summer,’’Lauenstein said.

Students who skip out on rent obligations can be fined lost rent and be placed on a landlords’ association roster - a blacklist of unreliable tenants - if their landlord com­ plains to the provincial Régie de Logement.

Charges stemming from skipped rent also stick for 30 years, Lauenstein said.

Legal aid counsellor JenniferZerczy added that many of the students who have come for advice on their rental obligations “don’t realize that a lease is a binding contract between two parties.”

That binding contract also affects how students can sublet their apartments, Lauen­ stein said.

“People have to check out who takes their rents for the summer and have to get them approved by the landlord,” he explained.

“Tenants should write leases with their sub-lessees thatareexactcopiesof the leases they have with their landlord, except for any changes in the rent itself. They can get forms from the government or make up their own.

It’s the same thing with a transfer of rent, even though the sub-lessee then has the option to renew. In all cases, it’s a question of buyer beware.”

Zerczy and Lauenstein’s warnings come after one of the clinic’s busiest weeks for tenant-landlord cases. The clinic closed last Friday until its summer hours begin on May 14. Meanwhile, counsellors suggest that any grievences students have with their landlords be settled through private negotia­ tions.

Should negotiations fail, tenants can ap­ peal to the province’s Régie de Logement.

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Cowards and elitists deprive us of leadership This past week marks a turning point in thé response of McGill students to the tuition fee increase.

Following unconvincing victories for anti-hike plebiscites in both the SSMU and ASUS elections, next year’s SSMU V.P. Internal Alex Usher has announced that the society will not pursue mass mobilization in 1990-1991. Atthe same time, student radicals have turned to graffitti in an attempt to force students to listen to their message.

Before us is a demonstration of the conflict between pragmatic politics and idealistic radicalism which has left society in the 90’s without that most prized of pub­ lic figures, a leader.

As all sucessful politicians, our elected representatives in the SSMU have avoided taking a stand that might offend the gen­ eral electorate. Aware that a vast majority of students are too apa­ thetic about the fee increase to approve of, much less participate in, a strike (or fee boycott, or whatever); the executive has de­ cided to ignore those who would have the society act as a catalyst for action.

On the other hand, our execu­ tives would not want to upset those who are most willing to take action (i.e. those most likely to vote), so they proclaim them­

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In order for the Tribune to func­ tion the editors must rely on the generosity of their writers. Every week theyspend their time re­ searching, and then writing the stories with the hopes of informing the McGill community, or at least getting a free coffee.

Thus, in no particular order are all of the people who have taken their time to write for us. These people deserve a lot of the credit for this year’s Tribune.

Jennifer Haberman, Aaron Mar­ golis, Jessica McBride, Nancy Feguson, Mike Ellison, Claire McManus, Shannon Aldinger, Sa­ rahjohnson, Aubrey Kassirer, Evan Kurt, James Stewart, Amy Wilson, Nick Vasil, Marcello Ausenda, Chris Gosnell, Andrew Green, Jill Handelman, Melanie Little, John Miller, Colin Scott, Andrzej Szymanski, Helga Tawil, Karl Uhrich, Sara Venait, Amy Wilson, Don Wright, Alissa Black, Unha Park, Jason Arbuckle, Shawn Bordoff, Josh Fellman, Lara Friedlander, Matt Price, Ben Rovet, Matthew Starnes,Micheal Harrold, Tim Houston, Allison Palmer, Andrew Young, Sherry Antonishen, Colin Bower, Madeline Cole, Lisa Gal­ 4

selves to be pragmatists and say they will act behind the scenes, “where it will do the most good.”

I do not doubt them, but they must know that they are fighting a loosing battle, in which stu­ dents have only guilt as a weapon.

So if our elected “leaders” are simply pandering to the public, what have our self proclaimed “leaders” at CAPE been up to?

Painting slogans on university buildings is not only unsightly, it betrays a contempt for the public all too common in radical move­ ments . Our student radicals claim to act on the behalf of students, yet they are contemptuous of the student population’s reluctance to join their cause. This is just another sort of elitism.

If McGill students are apathetic, it is because they have never been involved in, or informed of the issues Leaders declare their po­ sition clearly, and cleverly; lead­ ers practice what they preach; leaders approach others and try to convince, they do not lecture.

Those who would shape student opinion must also be willing to listen to opposing views and to accept defeat. Radicals must understand that media manipula­ tion is no substitute for grass­ roots support.

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loway, Deirdre O’Connell, Ian Sirota, Rob Stacey, MarlinaFitzsimons, Massimo Savino, Pierre Tellis, John Watson, Magdalena Fahmi, Shaun Fry, Lisa Harrison, Jane Johnston, Deborah Rosen­ berg, Joel Schwartz, John Gunnip, Trudy Goldberg, Sam Hayes, Dan Margorian, Tricia Siliphant, Mike Crawley, Elin Gardener, Faraaz Siddiqi, Charles Heenan, Moira MacDonald, Josee Paquette, Susan Rogers, Lina Saigol, AnnaChristina Carleson, Susie Osier, Loretta Tremain, Eric Wahn, Jon­ athan Bernstein, Nancy Coulter, Art Leim, Laura McNeilly, Ana Serrano, Marc Benoit, Tim Daly, Samantha Hayes, Alexis “Mook” Thomson, Craig Bernes, Eric Block, Jane Desbarats, Amy Satov, Stefanos Daminakis, Marc Drouin, Caroline Hendly, Scan Gordon, Walter Kemp, Rosalind Ward-Smith, Caroline Clark, Ken Saltman, Trine Schioldan, Karim Tiro, Jenny Lin, Andrew McKendy, Lindsay Pollard, Tim Pryor, Tara L. Lawson, Michelle Mani, Karin Tiro, Elisa Hollenberg, Steve Kokker, Heidi Bercovitch, Char­ les Robinson, Duff McLeod, and all of those we have forgotten.

The Disneyland Tapes

WITH PAUL HORWITZ “...the reason for the column that is, aside from the picture above my name and the notoriety and the chicks and the hefty pay bonus - is, most simply, this: I’mhere to prove that information can be fun."

- first Disneyland Tapes, Janu­ ary 24,1989 Notoriety? Yes, thanks to the fact that young Erin Berry, a lonely and socially ill-adjusted freshman at Douglas Hall, had a typewriter and too much time on his hands.

A hefty pay bonus? At McGill ?

Right. All I ever got was a few dayold shrimps at Students’ Society banquets, and even then they kicked me out when they found me hiding under the table.

The chicks? Well, no, and I’m starting to think the picture above my name was to blame here.

But information in the Tapes was always fun. Whoever said tele­ vision programs, movie theaters, Jewish holidays, SSMU election candidates (I wonder what kind of fascist won this year), magazines, hippies, yuppies, and cold victims weren’t important? Maybe these subjects aren’t as contemporary and pressing as, say, Jacobean dramaor linear algebra; but fuck it, it’s not like you’re paying for the damn paper.

The column has been a lot of well, sort of - actually, almost fun to write. It’s a wonderful forum to say whatever’s in your head, with the caveat that a regular deadline effectively guarantees that you’ll have absolutely nothing to say.

From this comfortable position I have seen things the world never thought possible: the Wall came down, divine justice presented Lee Atwater (the Republican who crafted racist campaign ads for pseudo-nice-guy George Bush) with a brain tumour, Mandela was set free, and Alf was cancelled.

But the age of the columnists is over. Aaron Margolis, that wise guy from Winnipeg who enrages the Athletics Complex every week with his Sports Pit column, has finally admitted that he graduated over four months ago. He is off to do a close-up investigation of unemployment in Canada.

And sadly, I will be leaving too, leaving the columnists’ bullpen empty, aside from the risk of Erin Berry applying under a false name.

From now on, the only regular

humour you’ll be able to find will be the consistent editing screwups of the Daily. Best to be safe and stop reading the papers altogether.

It’s just my luck that I have to leave at the beginning of the 90s.

I’11miss Bob Dylan’s 50th birth­ day, no doubt to be commemo­ rated by the critics with another spate of reviews promising that “Dylan is back” after he releases another weak album.

I’ll miss ten years of students saying they have the support for a general unlimited strike (as a CAPE spokesperson inexplicably does in this week’s Tribune) after five or six people show up to yell half­ heartedly at the Administration Building. Tuition fees will go up, but that’s alright, because Claude Ryan wouldn’t lie to us, would he?

I’ll miss a decade of Students’ Society efforts to stand up for stu­ dent issues, despite the fact that most students aren’t exactly sure what the Students’ Society does though SSMU isn’t sure what they do either. Perhaps we’ll even be lucky enough to see an open hostil­ ity to the SSMU and other cocktail parties disguised as acronyms: independent funding for the Trib­ une, more non-voting, maybe even a lynch mob.

I’ll miss McGill post-Meech Lake, when we’ll have to declare ourselves a school-state to avoid the vengeance and poor roadwork of the Republic of Québec.

Imagine: President Johnston! He’d need an exit visa every time he wanted to go do his television program. While Johnston was gone, Bell Canada ChairmanMcGill Chancellor Baron de Granpré would probably stage a bloody palace coup anyways (“First off, let’s get rid of all those pesky arts students.”).

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(the winner? “Stairway to Heaven,” of course).

Looking back now, I can see myself as a young boy, fresh out of Toronto, sitting in the Alley. How young I was then; I was wearing bright colours, and I didn’t even know the meaning of the words café au lait. Ah, innocence!

Three years later, my McGill education has barely qualified me for advanced custodial work, but my wardrobe has four different shades of black, I have three ex­ presses before I even get out of bed, and I know at least five people with great connections in the tree­ planting business.

What more could a columnist ask for?

Well, the chicks wouldn’t have been bad...

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Thanks for the memories “We must open the doors of op­ portunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.”

Lyndon B. Johnson What does the above quote have to do with the Students’ Society, one mightask. Probably more than most of us think. Throughout this past year, I’ve had the opportunity to understand more about this Uni­ versity and what we gain from it.

That’s where the quote comes in.

The “University experience” does not consist of spending all your time in classes and the li­ brary, nor does it consist entirely of munching pizza in Gert’s dur­ ing classes. It means developing yourself academically and socially, so that you’re able to take full advantage of the opportunities that will become open to you during the rest of your life. Of course, there is also the memories of friends, good times, bad times, and continuing the traditions, etc.

The Students’ Society is a great way to embellish the University experience, indeed for some to create it. Over the past year, there have been many great events at the Students” Society, and the most satisfying thing about it has been seeing students participate, organ­ ize, learn, and enjoy. Old favorites like the Film Society, Player’s Theatre, Blood Drive, and Wel­ come Week have continued succesfully. New successes have also arisen, like the critically-acclaimed James McGill Productions, and the Red Herring (although their Ex­ ecutive caricatures do not resemble

us one bit?! [ed. note: except for from CVC, the SSMU Executive, Ray]).

Councillors, Senators, and all the The Debating Union is still one Committee members. Your hard of the best in the world, the Choral work and devotion has made my Society continues in harmony, and job easier, and yet, fuller. All the Gert’s is once again the favorite organizers and officers of our ac­ McGill student hangout. One high­ tivities, clubs and groups. You have light of this year had to be watch­ created the opportunities for thou­ ing students dive into a giant raft sands of students to enjoy their full of Gillette foamy during Wel­ stay at McGill. And finally, to all come Week to try to win, ahem, students of McGill University who Peel Pub draft vouchers. The maketheSSMU whatitis. Apeople lowlight of the year. Streetdance??? organization. Oh yeah, congrats to 1989-90 will definitely be a year Charlie and the Tribune staff for to remember: the Berlin Wall, the their consistently conscientous Chinese student revolution, and the reporting, and for putting up with Ecole Polytechnique. A year of our wierd schedules. emotion, mostly of highs.

Now there remain a few ques­ It seems that this emotion af­ tions about next year. Will Gert’s fected McGill students, and the bouncers (sorry, doorpeople) wear SSMU as well - more involve­ different colour shirts? (McKen­ ment, more interest. It certainly zie wants purple) Will there be helped my job become more inter­ still more people working at Sad­ esting and exciting. But the SSMU ies’ at any one time? Will the Ball­ would not be what it is were it not room floor withstand the constant for its people, the SSMU staff: drenching at Engineering Barbara and Linda, Karen, Leslie, PubNites? Until next year, stay Albert, Don, Jon, Lyn, Elodie, tuned.

Helene, Terri, Angela-squared, Oliver, Dawn, Luis, Luis, Joe, Joe. Santo Manna Your dedication and genuine in­ The Big Enchilada terest in the students of McGill University has been greatly appre­ P.S. To my friends in engineer­ ciated. ing, yes I will be back in the build­ Special mention also to the staff ing on a regular basis next year.

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This week, the Watch takes a look at how much work we all have left to do. What, you think you have a lot left? Well check this out.

In the next two weeks I have three thirty page papers due; I have to finish my compiler, two technical projects, a couple of drawings, four math assignments, and a// eight of my final exams. Not only that, but I have to take my dog to the vet, and pick up my great­ grandmother at the airport I could probably live with all of this, except yesterday the reserves I need for one of my papers were out of the library - again.

So remember me when you think that you have too much work.

Of course, if you think that you have it worse than me, go have a beer - because there is no way you’re going to make it.

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A time to say thanks for the help The Tribune is your newspaper, you pay for it, and we hope that you read it. It is also the result o f the blood, sweat, and quite often massive consumption o f beer by a group o f people who seemingly enjoy working in an overheated room, with no windows and poor ventilation.

As is customary at the Tribune we take some precious column space to introduce you to this group, and to thank them. (Or at least humiliate them publicly). Thus in no particular order are the people who you should be thanking for this year’ s Tribune ...

- Charlie Quinn

P a u l M ic h e ll A s s is t a n t E d it o r Paul has a difficult choice to make before next September. He has to decide whether we wants to go and study at Oxford, Harvard, or Bishop’s. Knowing Paul the de­ cision will probably not take much longer than an hour of deep thought, and a couple of twenty sixers of gin.

Well Paul, we know that the de­ cision will be hard, but we are all sure that you will enjoy doing your graduate studies at Bishop’s. After all they have an excellent ... air

hockey team.

Paul’s departure from the Trib­ une will be missed, especially on Saturday afternoons, where his ed­ iting touch was most appreciated. I can not think of anyone who I would have rathcred butchered, slashed, and completely rewrote all of those stories with.

However there is one thing that Paul can look forward to at Bishop’s. He probably will not see much writing that is worthy of our sick [sic] quotations file.

S te p h a n ie S m a ll F e a tu re s E d it o r

This year’s editorial board, 1 to r (top row): Stephaine Small, Nick Leonardos, Kelly Gallagher Mackay, Paul Horwitz, David Gruber, (bottom row) Charlie Quinn, Kim Farley, Paul Michell, Neal Herbert, Linda Miller. Missing: Rob Steiner (he slept in).

K e lly G a lla g h e r M a c k a y F e a t u r e s E d i t o r & n e x t y e a r ’s B i g C h e e s e It is normal for the outgoing editor to worry about the changes the paper will undergo in the fol­ lowing year, and if she was really the ditz throwing back shooters that she pretended to be last Sep­ tember I would be. I am happy to say that this is not the case.

Over the past year she has dem­ onstrated that she has what it takes to be editor - foolishness and the ability to take abuse while at the same time doing some quality work.

The most important thing that Kelly has going for her next year is her ability to figure out what is going on around her, and reduce it to the lowest common denomina­ tor so that everyone will under­ stand. For example, just a short while ago, after spending five hours in a sports bar she offered the fol­ lowing description of basketball and hockey. “You just put the little ball in the little basket, it’s basicallv the same. Right?”_________ page 6

Stephanie is a really nice per­ son. However, unbeknownst to most of the world she does have a dark side. A side where she hacks and slashes her way through hours of other people’s work. This side usually rears its head late Friday night, after far too much time in the office, and a beer.

B ut do not be fooled, despite the outward appearance of knowing exactly what she is doing, she is not always sure. Once given fifty dollars, and an hour to spend it, all

she was able to come up with was a pair of pantyhose, and a smile.

As next year’s news editor Stephanie still has a lot to learn. A fact she demonstrated recently on her application for thejob. So Steph as a favour before I go let me clear up a few apparent misconceptions.

• It didn’t matter if your hair looked nice - though it helped • You would have gotten the job even if you were not planning on shacking up with one of the current news editors

N e al H e rb e rt P h o to E d it o r

Kelly showing the same passion and concentration playing air hockey that she puts into ...

Something happened last sum­ mer to Neal, and I am still not sure that I have figured out what it was.

When I left Montréal last May it was only after many hard fought battles to get Neal near a computer so that I could type in the photo captions. I usually lost, and ended up talking to him faraway from the computers, typing the captions in myself.

When I got back to office last fall Neal was still learning, but at least he wasn’t standing ten feet away hoping they would do what he wanted. Now, it is Neal trying to drag other people to the computer so that they can type in their cap­

tions.

What does this have to do with photography you might ask? Not much, but Neal was also the man primarily responsible for the crea­ tion (ie. typesetting) of most of our ads.

As far as photos go, there is not much I can say except good job, thanks for taking those Tuesday night calls on Friday afternoon, and speak up we can’t hear you.

W r it e r s

To all the writers, thanks for putting in the effort. A listofthis year's contributors can be found on page 4.

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R o b S t e in e r N e w s E d it o r While I was looking over the back issues preparing this review, there was one word that kept coming to mind that describes Rob’s biggest contribution to the paper, volume.

Rob has an uncanny knack for not only finding the story, but also for finding the loudest and most inventive way possible to tell us about it But volume is not the only important part of the story for Rob, he is also concerned with the integrity of it. None of us will ever forget some of his “investigative pieces” including the elephant artist, the condom stress tests, and the never ending search for his telephone/address book, his shoes, a date,....

However there is one question I would still like an answer to, what was the real reason you couldn’t give blood at the medical blood drive?

K im F a r le y E n t e r t a in m e n t E d it o r Reading entertainment this year was never boring, particularly during editing sessions on Saturday afternoons. Many readers have told us that they are intrigued by Kim’s rather literary style, to which our reply is, “You should see the unedited versions.” Here are a few examples: • “Kazou Ohno is wise, in the way the ocean is wise” • “During their early exchanges, Cameron and Durblick establish an odd sort of chemistry, like a stale potato chip dipped in mayonnaise. They don ’t exactly taste good together, but they modify each other and when they’re all chewed up they break down into the same thing.”

• Euclidavia Moonfoot See what we have to deal with? Still, Kim was an important part of the Tribune her snoes shoes will be very difficult to fill next year. She !_______________________ __________________ p i nvune this mis year, and ana ner au contemplates death threats and ideas has managed to expand and improve--------------------------------‘ a section that we--------allf thought close Rob working really Hhard on one of his T V i m u was g i r • i for the Disnpvlanrl Tanpc 1° perfection last year, and in the nrocess. was able to scam a free trin m ll-____ „• .. .. .

Disneyland Tapes New York00 ^ process’ was able to scam a free ^ 10 “investigative” pieces

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P a u l H o r w it z N e w s E d it o r You’ve seen his picture, and you’ve seen him write. In fact you’ve seen him write more sto­ ries on more subjects in the last year and a half than anyone else has ever written for the Tribune.

While I realize that to some of you this was overkill, and you probably still think he hasn’t suf­ fered enough to deserve his own column. But, trust me on this one, he has suffered. Anyone who has

had to cut twenty inches out of a story half an hour before going to the printer, only to have the story called “The big zit” has suffered.

And I for one am thankful for his effort, and at times for his cyni­ cism. He has managed to teach me that you do not have to be over sixty in order to start reading the obituaries. Death to false metal, Paul, and good luck next year at Columbia.

Fnr thp of fum \ n,,Ahas For the no past two imnm years rDave lived in what is arguably the ugli­ est building in the ghetto, which has undoubtedly caused this archi­ tecture student many sleepless nights. It probably also acted as the catalyst for a very entertaining trip through the architecture and paper work of the Québec and Canadian immigration procedures.

As next year’s assistant big cheese he should have his hands full, balancing his political views

N ic k L e o n a rd o s S p o rts E d it o r

Nick looking embarassed after being caught drinking out of a smaller than normal glass

At first glance this is a person who looks more at home tapping a keg than in front of a computer typing in a story. Looks can be deceiving. It is true that Nick is very comfortable tapping a keg, and also very adept at emptying them. He is also invaluable at filling gaping holes in the sports section Monday afternoon when his writers have slept in.

Another unique talent that Nick has is the various ways he has to party; which he defines as “any­ thing that is not work.” Thus de­ fined, you can generally find Nick partying in front of the television watching 70’s reruns, or golf. Fail­ ing that you can probably find him covering badminton or chess in a desperate effort to meet his dead­ line.

The future for Nick looks bright.

Returning to his beloved Boston his life will be filled with golf, the track, the Celtics, the Bruins, and will in general be a “party,” with the possible exception of some screaming kid claiming that his dog ate his homework.

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(which are a little to the right of Nixon) with those of the big cheese (a little to the left of Lenin). A challenge that will no doubt entail many dumb dares (“I dare you to be presentable for a week”), and more than a few scotch and sodas.

All in all Dave is more than prepared for the move from the

production side of the paper to the editorial side. A change that will undoubtedly open his eyes to the problems involved in getting sto­ ries in on time, and written to size.

Sorry Dave, but you are going to learn that when everything goes right, you will be happy if you are only twenty minutes late.

T h e P r o d u c t io n A s s is t a n t s Normally the production assis­ tants are a group of people that come in on Saturday evening and Monday afternoon to put the paper together. They are usually a small group of people who are left alone to do what they want, so long as they do it by themselves, and in the comer.

This year all of that changed, they decided that it would be al­ right for them to show their faces in the office during the week, al­ beit in the bewly renovated smoker’s lounge (a 2' x 2' space at the enterance to the Alley). Thus, they became fixtures in the office; burning no smoking signs, and eating Gert’s [sic] pizza.

The production assistants are a group of five unusual and unique

women.

Kirsten “tattoo” Myers not only has the marks for the nickname, but has also managed to keep Paul Horwitz from verifying its exis­ tance. Elaine Palmer is just plain thankful that she didn’t die in those shoes. Zoe Rolland takes a little getting used to, she has six guns in her room, and it’s not that she doesn’t like you, it’s that she doesn ’t want to talk to you. Andréa Hitschfeld is the single most per­ manent resident of the Tribune s couch (an entity that is best left undescribed). Melissa Meyers was a late and somewhat contrasting addition to the group, a welcome addition even if she thinks that green peppers are spicy and Gert’s [sic] pizza is edible.

T h e r e s t o f th e w o r ld As is always the case there is not enough room to thank all of the people who have dedicated their lives and sacrifices their GPAs for the Tribune.

Two people who deserve a great deal of thanks for this year’s paper are Helene Mayer, and Colin Scott.

Helene is our publications man­ ager and is responsible for finding the ads that pay for the paper. Thus, without Helene there would not have been a paper.

Colin was not only one of our more persistent, and frequent en­

tertainment writers, he was also partially responsible for the type­ setting of ads. Needless to say he was an important part of the paper.

Another person who filled in when needed was Linda Miller.

Almost always willing to help out with a car ride for Nick, all sorts of photography stuff, and agood laugh or two with her rugby stories in the office.

Last but not least are our writers.

They are a diverse group, covering the entire campus, and generally making our lives a lot easier.

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SSMU to move behind the scenes in the fight against the tuition fee hike

BY LARA FRIEDLANDER After a year of strike threats and demonstrations, Students’ Society is changing its strategy and work­ ing behind the scenes to fight the tuition fee hike.

“I don’t think there’s a role for mass mobilization next year,” said next year’s SSMU Vice President (External), Alex Usher.

“There won’t be something concrete to mobilize around.”

Instead, Usher is predicting a less visible role for SSMU. “I will be lobbying individuals who are well-placed,” he said, citing Conférence des Recteurs et des Principaux des Universités du Québec, and the McGill Admini­ stration as likely targets.

Vice President (External) John Fox agrees that supporting student strikes is not really an option for next year’s Council.

“If you use a sword too often it’s going to be dulled,” Fox said. He added that “bad memories of last year’s [proposed] strike caused a lot of problems... students didn’t feel it was the way to go.”

A member of the Coalition Against the Privatization of Edu­ cation (CAPE), Brian Snarch, dis­ agrees.

“I would like to see a general

unlimitedstrikenextyear. Because of the history of action, it will be easier to get people involved,” said Snarch.

“I’m expecting a really large strike movement. There’s a lot of determination out there.”

Snarch is unsure of the commit­ ment of next year’s Students’ Society Executive to fighting the tuition fee hike.

“I don’t have much confidence that Kate Morisset will be an effec­ tive leader... in terms of the tuition fee issue,” he said.

Fox is more enthusiastic about the possibility of a post-education tax which students would pay after graduation.

“It’s picking up steam. People are accepting this as a very reason­ able alternative,” he said.

“It’s a worthwhile avenue to pursue,” said Usher, who noted ironically that “it was sort of an afterthought of the student move­ ment.”

“Even the Administration thinks it’s a good idea,” he added.

Usher said ensuring a study of the post-education tax will be one of his top priorities next year.

“The question is actually getting it [a study] done; that’ll be the real issue,” Usher said.

Both Usher and Fox were en­

couraged by the results of a Sorécom poll, conducted in early February, which reported that approximately 65% of Québec voters would support a post-edu­ cation tax. They also pointed out that McGill Senate unanimously passed a motion asking the McGill Administration to lobby the gov­ ernment on the subject of alterna­ tive methods of university fund­ ing.

Snarch said he was “heartened” by the Senate motion but stressed that it was important to “make sure it actually gets done,” suggesting that the motion may not be pursued in the future.

“There is no way this can be left to the Administration,” he said.

McGill’s new strategy is paral­ leled by the changing focus of the Québec student movement.

Usher and Fox also suggested

that the long-standing student organization ANEEQ (Association Nationale des Etudiants et Etudi­ antes du Québec) may be losing ground to the one-year-old Fédéra­ tion des Etudiants et Etudiantes du Québec (FEEQ) of which McGill is a key member.

“It’s conceivable that ANEEQ will not survive the next four or five years,” said Usher.

Fox said he didn’t think the shift away from ANEEQ was due to bad tactics. “It’s a response to a better, more reasonable program... it looks workable. People like that,” he said.

“FEEQ does not really have a machine. Mobilization was never an option,” said Usher.

Snarch was more cautious about the future of the student move­ ment.

“I hope that ANEEQ and FEEQ will be able to work on common ground,” he said.

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P.S. Dave. What an amazing issue. We all think so.

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McGill offers summer activities for ultrakeeners

BY DEBORAH ROSENBERG

financial upheaval,’’Pentescosaid, adding that she hoped to get dona­ tions for the scholarship fund from beer companies. Unbeknownst to many students, there is a course evaluation booklet available to them. Pentesco proposes to make more people aware of the evalu­ ation booklet, and to make more copies available to them. By put­ ting the evaluations from all facul­ ties into one booklet, Pentesco said she hopes to make the evaluations as complete and more informative than McGill’s official course cal­ endar.

SSMU is also working this summer to compile job informa­ tion more efficiently for its stu­ dents.

“It should be SSMU’s responsi­ bility to provide complete infor­

mation on obtaining jobs,” Pen­ tesco said.

Students’ Society executives also said recycling will play an increasing part in the McGill sys­ tem this summer and next year, and said funding might be in­ creased.

Students who will be fortunate or unfortunate - enough to be stay­ ing in Montréal this summer will find that there will be no beer bashes, no Pub Nites, and no Film Society movies. Union Building cafeterias will cut their hours as of Easter Break. Even the standard Of course, the summer will be social meeting places, Gert’s and filled with music, since CKUT the Alley, will be closed for the remains on the air all year. summer after Thursday.

Students will be able to volun­ Summer students pay no Stu­ teer for activities or committees dents’ Society fees, and get no this summer or in the fall. For activities. But those who are still those who are interested in being a keen on McGill activities will find group leader, there will be a meet­ no shortage of opportunities to get ing on April 26th at 5:30 with involved this summer.

Roxanne Carr at the SSMU of­ Most of the space in the Union fices. Group leader forms are being Building will be rented out this printed in the Tribune and other summer to private groups, but campus newspapers this week. student leaders say university ac­ tivities will still require many vol­ unteers. Guides are needed to show new students around McGill and Montréal.

Volunteers are needed for SSMU Council subcommittees such as those representing women’s or F A L L 1990 disabled people’s issues. Students G R O U P LEADER PRO GRAM can also work on the handbook and yearbook, both of which are being distributed at the beginning of the fall term. Next year’s SSMU Vice Volunteer to help out with next year's activities.

President (Internal), Joanna Wedge, said the handbook would be particularly exciting.

The handbook will be “a very N am e useful book, rather like an agenda, (M r/M s) (G iven) (Fam ily) even including the correct dates and days of the week,” said Wedge.

Present Address ________ A datebook - with dates ? Good (N o.) (S tree t) stuff, Joanna.

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Meanwhile, Students’ Society executives said they will have __ Postal C ode several projects of their own.

Deborah Pentesco, incoming T elep h on e N o (s ). (1) Vice President (University Af­ fairs), said she hopes to improve Summer Address ____ relations between students and the (N o .) (S treet) administration, particularly con­ (A pt.) cerning McGill libraries.

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In reaction to the tuition increases to go into effect next year, Pen­ tesco is also working to provide Students’ Society scholarships.

“It should be the responsibility of Student Society to look out for its own [students] in this time of

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M cGill to adopt automated registration system CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 students, greets them and gives instructions” on how to use MARS. Once the student number and PIN have been entered on the touch tone phone, the student will be able to access records as well as (even­ tually) change courses. Chosen courses will be immediately re­ peated back to the caller.

“This saves time, and allows the student to know exactly what is on record, without having to worry about clerical errors,” said Verkade.

The system will tell the student if a code has been entered in error on the phone, making it impossible to access someone else’s records and make changes by mistake.

The university, which began considering this type of touch-tone phone system in 1987, is installing 32 phone lines at a cost of approxi­ mately $120 000.

Verkade said the new lines being installed “should be sufficient for a University of our size,” but added that there is room for expansion.

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1500 participating students, and says that most responses have been enthusiastic. Neale said there have been no problems with security in the three years that the system has been in use.

She added that the lack of hu­ man contact does not seem to bother students, who “like not having to travel to campus, not having to stand in long lines, and get an immediate response on course closings.” She stressed, however, that an automated registration sys­ tem is no substitute for advising.

Verkadc said the student body would benefit the most from the system, since students will be able to avoid lining up to register or change courses. For students who live outside Montréal, the system is also accessible by long distance, with the student paying for the extra charges.

Other Montréal-area schools have begun pilot projects with similar systems. Anita Neale, leader of the Touch Tone Registra­ tion Project at John Abbott Col­ lege, sent questionnaires to the

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BY BEN ROVET An ambitious plan for the development of the downtown core has been released by the city of Montréal.

“This plan was made after years of thorough investiga­ tion,” explained John Gardiner, the member of the MUC’s executive comm ittee in charge of urban planning.

Gardner said that, among other things, the plan would assure the economic vitality of the downtown area and in­ crease the number of down­ town residents in order to pre­ serve its human character.

Currently there are 50,000 residents living in 30,000 lodg­ ings. The plan calls for con­ struction of 10,000 new lodg­ ings within ten years while also preserving existing residential sectors, such as the MiltonParc area. According to Gardiner, the plan will also try to ensure a diversity of resi­ dents by maintaining and build­ ing new accommodations that favour people or families with modest incomes, such as stu­ dents.

The developmentplan also will attempt to raise the qual­ ity of the urban environment by preserving downtown views of Mount Royal and the St. Lawrence River by instituting height restrictions on new building north of Sh­ erbrooke St. Eleven downtown Mon­ tréal parks will also be rede­ veloped and eight new parks will be developed within the next ten years. Rutherford park (the city reservoir) will be one the parks redeveloped.

The urban development plan also calls to increase the downtown business area to the south and east.

“This is an action plan for investment,” stated Gardiner.

To facilitate traffic theplan calls to modify certain pub­ lic roads and extend bicycle paths. For instance, a bicycle path will be extended on Peel Street so that it will go from south of Notre Dame to Pine.

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Will McTavish become a pedestrian mall?

Z u ,° PeS t0 COnhnue M o n tré a l’s tradition o f being a beau tiful city with a g re a t d eal o f low rise residential livin g in the dow ntow n core.W ith th e new city pla n , they talk o f p ro vid in g everyth in g an yon e co u ld ever want. E lection in N ovem ber, m aybe?

...Low cost housing ...Legal aid clinic continued plan continued CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 Community, a past SHDM proj­ ect, urged McGill students to get involved.

“The plans are underway right now. If students don’tgetinvolved, they’ll miss the boat,” he said.

According to Fecteau, the proj­ ects will include two sets of ac­ commodations.

“The first type is if the housing has to be built, as is the case with Faubourg Québec. These accomo­ dations will include three bed­ rooms, a small living and dining room, a kitchette, a bathroom and some type of study area and will probably cost students $150 per month each,” he explained.

“The second type is if the build­ ings are already standing and sim­ ply need to be renovated, as is the case with Faubourg St. Laurent.”

Although Fecteau was uncertain as to the monthly cost of the St. Laurent units, he estimated that it would be similar to prices being currently paid for the Milton Park Community units.

According to Fecteau, the Faubourg buildings will double as both student housing for eight

months of the year and bed-and breakfast type tourist accomoda­ tions during the summer months.

This will provide students with the option to sign eight month leases as well as providing summer employment opportunities.

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of rental cases in late June and early July, when many students complain about increases in rents they are about to assume. Tenants have the right to challenge any rent increases they believe to be unfair.

Régie judges will generally strike down increases that appear to arbi­ trary, he said.

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“There is a 4.3 percent vacancy rate in this city,” she explained.

“People won’t have much of a problem finding places if they look outside the ghetto.”

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country’ s southeastern Natal province exploded in a full scale civil war between supporters 0f the non-racial United Democratic Front and the Zulu-nationalist Inkhata movement. In our final installment o f this year’ s news exchange with the South African Student s Press Union (SASPU), the Tribune presents two views o f Natal’ s problems, written by SASPU editors in Johannesburg and in Natal’ s largest city, Durban.

No celebrations in Natal: W h y warlords are waging South Africa's bloodiest civil war UNIVERSITY OF THE WITSWATERSRAND, JOHANNESBURG -_________ Natal is at war.

This war has claimed twice as many victims as Beirut. Yet many South Africans, depending on the government-owned South African Broadcasting Corporation for their news, arc more aware of the roots and complexities of Lebanese conflict, than they are of Natal’s.

Simple explanations like “black on black” violence do not provide an anwer at all. And while ideo­ logical differences between alleged United Democratic Front (UDF) and Zulu-nationalist Inkhata sup­ porters provides some backdrop for the conflict, the situation has become farmore complex than that Mandela, speaking at a recent peace rally in Natal’s largest city, Durban, said that the true enemy in the province’s civil war is “inade­ quate housing, forced removals, lack of resources as basic as water and rising unemployment”.

“In Natal, apartheid is a deadly cancer, setting house against house and breaking down the precious bonds which hold us together,” he explained.

“It has reached the stage where neither side can say who is wrong and who is right.”

Attacks by Inkhata impis - or fighters - have been common in Natal for more than two years. But UDF supporters, with allies in the anti-apartheid movement across South Africa and who for so long were able to claim the moral high ground of defending homes and families, have themselves alleg­ edly gone on the offensive.

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Many of their Natal supporters are now only nominal members of the organisation - highly politi­ cized and disenchanted youth who are not subject to any organisa­ tional discipline. Many are forci­ bly recruited into the so-called UDF ‘defence-committees’, just as has become the norm for Inkhata.

But UDF organizer Willis Mchunu believes that one of the major obstacles to peace in the province is the existance of Inkhata warlords. Warlords normally work out of Inkhata-linked power bases, but Mchunu points out that one of they are self-motivated, rather than politically motivated. They are also usually brutal in their opposi­ tion to an increasingly popular UDF ideology of non-racialism and grassroots democracy, now weak­ ening Zulu nationalism. “[Warlords are] well-armed people who are in control of a group of people. There is also evi­ dence that they have control through being local councillors or members of the KwaZulu [Home­ land] Government,” Mchunu said.

Much of the conflict around the provincial capital of Pieter­ maritzburg stems from Inkhata forced-recruitment drives. In Dur­ ban, meanwhile, battles rage over warlords’ control of scarce re­ sources, says opposition monitor Steve Collins.

Nelson Mandela is more subtle in his condemnation of warlords.

“The past is a rich resource,” Mandela said.

“We must select from it what is good and leave behind what is bad.

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taken to be a reference to the war­ lords’ hunger for power which leads them to use the Inkhata movement as a basis for gaining control over people and resources.

Vigilantes are another, more recent factor, according to Mchunu.

He says there are “new groupings who seem to have no political alle­ giance” - groupings composed mainly of ex-cons like the Sinyora’s who operate in Durban ’s townships and the A-team in Chesterville.

Law yer Fran k H ay som has docu­ m ented the state’ s ro le in “ m anu­ facturing vio le n ce ” country-w id e through the use o f disaffected ele­ ments banded together in v ig ila n te groups.

Radley Keys of the anti-apart­ heid Democratic Party asserts that “Law and order have broken down.”

“I have seen for myself the way the police stand by and do noth­ ing,” he explained.

“Almost two thousand people have been killed in the Natal mid­ lands and there has been a maxi­ mum of 10 convictions for mur der.”

Human rights lawyers Cheadle, Thompson and Haysom add the South African Police (SAP) actu­ ally fan the flames around them.

In a memorandum prepared from hundreds of sworn affidavits, the lawyers conclude that “an over­ whelming feature of the SAP has been its failure to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of the vio­ lence and, in particular, the war­ lords.”

Lawyers privately agree that “one or two vigorous prosecutions of warlords” in the early days of Natal’s civil war would have pre­ vented such an endemic spread of violence throughout the province.

Such suggestions lead one to ask what the state has to gain from the UDF-Inkhata violence.

Continued strife is going to make it very difficult for the ANC to organise support among the people of Natal. The euphoria now sweep­ ing South Africa is almost absent there.

T o d a y ’s warlords are potentially tommorrow ’s Contras. 'The spectre of a force similar to the Renamo guerilla army which has blighted Mozambique for 15 years now hangs over Natal.

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Education Facts South Africa • $1.65 billion is spent on education o f white children annually; $1.4 billion is spent on black chil­ dren’ s education annually. Black children make up 76% o f South African children.

• There is a shortage o f 200 000 places for students in black schools; there is a surplus o f 150 000 in white schools.

• Only 4% o f the teachers in white schools are underqualified; 80% o f the teachers in black schools do not have appropriate certification.

• Whites make up 92% o f all holders o f diplomas and bachelor’ s degrees, 92.2% o f all holders o f master’ s degrees, and 90.2% o f all doctorate holders.

• 40 times more white students pass higher level mathematics studies than do black students.

• 590 white teachers are unemployed, while there is a shortage o f 12 000 black teachers.

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One campus struggles: the University of Natal adopts affirmative action

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With the prospects of ending apartheid and building a new South Africa becoming very real in the 1990s, the University of Natal in Durban (UND) finds itself caugght in a major crisis. A separate and unequal education system has meant that 92 percent of all stu­ dents graduating in South Africa are white.

South Africa has a very young population, and without this re­ source being educated the country will struggle to develop an econ­ omy that providesfor all the people.

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This year10 000 high school students applied for the University of Natal.

With space for 1 200 students in Durban and 1 000 at the Pieter­ maritzburg the university is hardpressed to meet the needs of the new decade.

But six times as many white students passed their matriculation exams (required for graduation from high school) as blacks. In Natal the situation is particularly bad and the pass rate far below the national average.

Although the University of Na­ tal has declared itself an “affirma­ tive-action, anti-apartheid univer­

sity,” progressive education or­ ganizations believe that the uni­ versity is not addressing the crisis in an immediate and concrete fash­ ion. In fact, say members of the op­ position National Union of South African Students, the University of Natal is examining mostly long­ term solutions to an education cri­ sis which deepens every year.

One possible solution is the en­ trance policy at the ‘coloured’ University of the Western Cape, near Cape Town. That school ac­ cepts the top 10 students from every school in the region.

But even progressive admissions criteria will not solve the root of the problem, which is unequal education at the primary and high-

school levels - a crisis to which progressive education groups be­ lieve universities should devote attention.

Currently the University of Natal runs a Teach Test Teach pro­ gramme which gives students who have not been admitted to univer­ sity an opportunity to show their academic prowess. Broader vari­ ations of that program, such as coimmunity colleges which open university resources to younger students are also being considered.

S’phelo Samuels, president of the UND Campus Black Student Society, believes that “if the uni­ versity is to serve the community the content of what is taught and how it is taught is important.”

“The university is going to have to look longer and harder at what is taught. For example, they must question if architects are being taught to design low cost housing and doctors are being trained in preventative health care, or if we are training professionals to serve the white community.”

The old white traditions of uni­ versity are being challenged and the entire university community will have to decide what kind of university it wants in the 1990s.

What is clear is that the Univer­ sity will have to address the educa­ tion needs of all South Africans if an economically successful South Africa is to be built.

Québec may be a very different place when we return to school in September. With nationalism on the rise and Meech Lake drying up, people are wondering what will happen! to McGill if Québec becomes sovereign. The T r i b u n e asked a McGill professor, two McGill students and a student leader from the Université de Montréal to discuss it.

How will a Nationalist Québec change McGill?

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John Fox, one of the anglophone a more bilingual faculty. students in the room and Vice “If there are not a number of A tide of nationalism has re­ President (External) of the SSMU, excellent professors in Canada who vived calls for McGill to drop its also recalled someone telling him are bilingual, then that is a national commitments to Canada and be­ that McGill’s francophone gradu­ problem,” he explained. come a “Québec institution”. ates are among the staunchest na­ “McGill will be forced to hire Twenty-one years ago, that tionalists in the province. more professors who are bilingual meant becoming French. Thou­ The problem, both point out, is as more francophone students come sands of protestors came to McGill not that McGill is ignoring franco­ to the university. McGill will just to make that point in 1969. phones. Rather, more French- have to find ways.”

But the questions are less drastic Canadian students and staff are Added Fox: “McGill is a Cana­ now that they are coming from coming to the university than ever dian institution, but it is also in the inside the Roddick Gates. Franco­ before. This campus is just not middle of Québec and it will have phones are more than a quarter of well-prepared to receive them. to respond to changes that affect the university’s studentpopulation “It is difficult for us at the stu­ the province. One of those changes and, along with the anglophones dent society, for instance, to get is an increase in the francophone who work and learn with them, enough French-Canadians work­ population that is going to univer­ they are wondering about this uni­ ing on our committees,” Fox ex­ sity.... That doesn’t mean we have versity’s future. plained. to limit the hiring of academic staff.

Is our campus ready to survive “On my external affairs com­ But the university should develop in a nationalist Québec? mittee, we could only get two fran­ strategies in which the francophone Clyde Wells was draining the cophones. And we had to go look­ staff can teach in English if they’re last drops out of Meech Lake when ing for them. One was a student at the top of their field.” me I r ib ■ iskcd a McGill procouncillor and one was from essor, „ Mudcnt from the Univer­ McGill Québec. We al so get lots of A certain bilingualism sité de Montréal and two McGill information that would be of inter­ students - one francophone and est to French Canadians, but it’s Still, McGill is not the anglo one anglophone - to discuss that. difficult to pass the information island it was 30 years ago, when on.” theOldMcGill yearbook published Ironic question anti-francophone jokes. A series Best staff of language reforms - including a W ithin m inutes Benoit policy permitting students to write Beauchemin, a second year under­ Harold Waller, chairperson of essays and exams in either English graduate and president of McGill McGill’s political science depart­ or French that pre-dates the 1969 Québec, hit on the irony of the ment, described other kinds of calls for a “McGill Français” - have question itself. problems at the faculty level. “openned the university up” to a “I came to McGill to get more “It is unduly restrictive to de­ certain degree of bilingualism. acquainted with international stu­ mand that all our professors speak Waller recalls a time when signs dents and to get a broader view of French,” he said. were only in English. Now most Canada,” he explained.“But now “It’s our job to get the best pos­ campus signs are in English and each time I cross the Rodd ick gates, sible staff to fulfill our mission to French. it’s like I leave Montréal behind. I be an excellent university on a “Attitudes on campus have have come to feel very isolated in world-class basis.” changed,” he explained.

Québec. The francophone students Waller added that about two out “There is now an effort to recog­ who come here are generally not of three political science profes­ nize the reality of French Canada. nationalists when they enroll. But sors could speak French.

Bilingual staff do fill many posi­ many do become nationalist as they But Beauchemin suggested that tions. There are French services go along their programs.”

McGill could not last long without available on campus. Anglophone

and francophone students in my U.S. politics classes talk openly with one another. They don’t pull punches.”

Laurent Martin, an exective in the Université de Montréal stu­ dent’s, society and a self-proclaimed nationalist, agrees that McGill is losing its image as a bastion of English.

“I see a certain openness here between francophones and anglo­ phones. That has reflected itself in McGill’s actions within the stu­ dent movement.”

A place for McGill Martin explained he and other students at French-language uni­ versities and colleges were “shocked” when McGill voted to go on strike against fee hikes in February - “although we knew there were certain conditions attached to the vote and we did not expect that McGill would actually close down”.

“People are still very surprised when McGill representatives show up at national students’ meetings,”

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“But we recognize that there is a place for McGill in the student movement. We need McGill stu­ dents’ support in order to promote our ideas about fees reform, for instance.”

Waller similarly considered McGill professors to be a “critical part of the province’s faculty”.

“On issues of funding we work alongside the faculties of French and English-language universities in Québec. We’re all in favour of having more money spent on edu­ cation.”

But openness does not necessar­ ily mean bilingualism. For one thing, Benoit Beauchemin says his group is only large enough to push for an “enhanced use of French on campus”.

Added Waller:”I thinkbilingualism in a university is a bad idea.

Our primary concern should be research and teaching.”

Martin agreed.

“English and French-language universities complement each other well as it is. That is a good thing.”

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Summertime Summer is best rep­ resented by a heat wave. Picture a wave washing out from the first strains of the jazz festival to take in the North Pole and the Equa­ tor, and maybe even a wave of local ac­ tion splashing out to have a global effect.

Enjoy the break.

Montréal in the summer: city of countless festivals

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Cartier Bridge to watch the shows.

A different country presents a fire­ work show every Wednesday and Saturday from May 26 until June 20.

If you bring a radio, you can hear a stereo simulcast of the musical accompaniment, ti med to the bursts of colour. Better still, $19.00 will buy you seats at La Ronde to hear the orchestra live, as the fireworks explode above you. The ticket price includes unlimited rides. La Ronde offers a similar deal for their out­ door concert series, later in the summer.

If you can only find one week to spend in Montréal this summer, make sure it is the first week of July. The. F e s tiv a l In tern a tion a l d e Jazz d e M on tréa l, the largest jazz festival in North America, brings big names to the concert halls and a more personal brand of music to the streets.

If you are afraid of crowds, sit

this one out. Last summer, 100,000 people filled McGill College to hear Pat Metheny’s guitar in a fantastic performance, with large screens placed so that everyone could enjoy the show. The previ­ ous summer, Johnny Clegg and Savuka stole the hearts of 75,000 Montréalers a few months before making it big on the radio.

If you are not a jazz fan, don’t worry. Last year there were a number of tropical rock bands, as well as artists like Melissa Eth­ eridge.

The atmosphere of the festival will have you snapping along as you move from stage to stage, or enter a smoky jazz bar where the musicians on stage invite their peers from the audience to rattle out a tune. The action takes place in clubs around Montréal, but is most con­ centrated under the large tents near Place des Arts and along St. Denis.

Most of the shows are free and

there’s something happening from noon to midnight every day, from June 29 to July 8.

You will have less than a week to rest before the other “big” out­ door festival. J u s te P o u r R ire!Ju st f o r L au gh s comedy festival, from July 12 to 22, is “the world’s larg­ est humour extravaganza.” Top name comedians from across the continent perform in a series of galas at Theatre St. Denis. While the street performances are not as frequent (or as satisfying) as the Jazz Festival’s, there is still a con­ tinuous crowd of people on St. Denis. Most of the acts take place in clubs and theatres downtown.

The festival atmosphere contin­ ues through the summer at various street sales. During the evenings, people gather on trendy Bishop, Crescent and Prince Arthur streets.

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BY AUBREY KASSIRER Montréal is a madhouse by auto­ mobile, and not every student has unlimited access to a car. However the city opens out from under­

ground, and the métro provides a route to hours of summer enter­ tainment. Most of it is even inex­ pensive.

1. Angrignon

Angrignon Park and its Zoo (872-2815) A children’s zoo with 300 ani­ mals, including seals. $3.

2. Peel

Musée de Beaux Arts de Mon­ tréal (285-1600) Built in 1912, but founded in 1860, this is the oldest art museum in Canada. In addition to the per­ manent collection (fre e after April 27), many touring exhibits will be at the museum over the summer.

The upcoming Salvador Dali ex­ hibit is $5 for students.

3. Place des Arts

Jeanne-Mance Park The Drums — feel the beat of a major jam session every Sunday afternoon. Hang out on the hill­ side. Also tennis, soccer, a foun­ tain, and regular cultural programming .f r e e .

4. Pie-IX Olympic Park (252-8687) Home of the 1976 Olympic Games, the park includes the sta­ dium, botanical gardens, and numerous public swimming pools.

Tours and cable car rides $5, $8.50

for both.

Montréal Botanical Garden (872-1400) Advertized as the third most important in the world, there are 30 gardens encompassing 73 hectares of land .f r e e .

Montréal Insectarium (872MOO) Just opened in February, watch live insects in cages. $4.

5. Viau

Olympic Stadium (252-8687) Construction was finally com­ pleted in 1989, thirteen years later.

You can ride up the tower for a clear day 80 km view of Montreal.

Only $5.

Or, catch the Expos in the cheap seats for a dollar.

Saint-Leonard Cave Explora­ tion (328-8580) Discovered in 1811, these 500 million year old rocks can be seen, with a reservation, for just $2.

6. Bonaventure

Dow Planetarium of the City of Montréal (872-4530) The 20 metre dome screen uses 100 projectors. $3.

7. Place d ’Armes

Notre-Dame Basilica (8491070) Built in 1829, the city’s oldest parish has a big organ and one of the largest bells in North America. free.

8. Ile-Sainte-Hélène

Old Fort and David Stewart Museum (861-6701) The museum gives the history of Canada, while the fort, built in 1822 on the orders of the Duke of Wellington, displays military manoeuvres three times each day. free.

Montreal Aquarium (8724656) Only thirty years old, the aquar­ ium houses over 300 species of fish, as well as invertebrates, rep­ tiles, and birds. They even have penguins. $3.

La Ronde (872-6222) An amusement park with water slides, musical revues, a circus, children’s village, an international fireworks competition (pay extra), and the highest dual track roller­ coaster in the world! About $17.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18 in September should find an op­ portunity to visit it during the heat of July, when shorts and a t-shirt seem like too much of a burden, even after midnight. The proper way to appreciate it is to try and find a seat on one of the many terraces that have spilled out from the street’s restaurants.

Relax while sipping sangria as the crowd jostles by and the street musicians entertain you. There are also a number of artists and craft vendors willing to sell their goods until early morning.

If you can’t make it to Montréal in the summer, return a bit before school starts so you can catch Ih c W o rld F ilm F e s tiv a l. See the films that wowed them at Cannes, as well as world premières and assorted other films.

During this time, don’t forget McGill’s own festival - Welcome Week. Expect great shows like The Pursuit of Happiness and Emo Phillips who appeared last year.

There are a lot of events during the

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day, including the infamous Open Air Pub. A partial list of smaller festivals during the summer: May 1-8, International Festival of Young Cinema, 252-3024 May 25 - June 1, Montréal Inter­ national Chinese Film Festival, 527-3981 May 26 - June 20, International Benson & Hedges Fireworks Competition, 872-6222 May 27 - June 10, International Festival of Films on Architecture and Urban Planning, 842-4545 May 31 - June 3, Sun Carnival on Crescent Street, 845-9017 June 6-16, International Festi­ val of Women’s Films and Videos, 845-0243 June 29 - July 8, Festival Inter­ national de Jazz de Montréal, 2899472 July 12-22, Juste pour Rire/Just for Laughs, 485-3155 Aug 23 - Sept 3, Montréal World Film Festival, 848-3883 Aug 27 - Sept 8, McGill Wel­ come Week, 398-6779

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Picnics and Dim Sum

BY JOSH FELLMAN With the rise of summer comes something we have all been a little short of lately: free time. Time is the factor that can change eating from a quick break into a pleasure.

Two of the most enjoyable ways to pass the time are picnics and dim sum.

The O x fo r d C o n c is e D ic tio n a r y defines a picnic as a “pleasure outing including meal out of doors.” As those who have ever eaten a l f r e s c o can tell you, the de­ scription is a bit of an oversimpli­ fication.

There are many varieties of pic­ nics. Those which involve large numbers of people and/or insects ‘ain ’t no picnic. ’ One can go on the sort of picnic involving eating on a blanket spread out in the back yard, or unwrapping some sandwiches atop a mountain, or even making sandwiches in a train compartment.

The best kind is a picnic out in a wilderness park somewhere far from civilization. A close second are those which take place on a blanket at the beach (second only because of problems with sand in the food). Both of these locations usually allow for cooking and other

on-site preparation.

For those trapped in the city, the best bet is a bench along a quiet footpath in a city park. Picnic areas are fine for those who really like small children and family pets.

They are also noisy and usually not particularly restful. Only some offer cooking facilities.

Another good bet, if somewhat warped, is your local cemetery.

Those atop Mount Royal are large and have remote comers. They are green, quiet, peaceful, and trouble free. The only problem can be odd looks from other visitors. Pre­ preparation is in order, as bringing a hibachi along would probably be in bad taste.

On a picnic, the question is not so much what you eat as where you eat it. Self-prepared food is limited only by ingenuity in packing and the usually primitive nature of facilities at the picnic site.

There seem to be nowhere in Montréal that prepares fancy pic­ nics packed to go. Calls to catering firms brought giggles and high prices. Most restaurants, however, will pack food to go.

Dim Sum, meaning ‘pieces of my heart,’ is Chinese brunch. It is

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an interesting and enjoyable expe­ rience. Diners - at least two, but the more the merrier- go down to Chinatown between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 or 3 p.m. and take a number. After standing in line for a table one is seated in a very noisy room full of people from infancy to old age. The first thing that happens is the arrival of steaming pots of tea.

Women push carts around and yell out - in Cantonese - what the steamer baskets resting on them contain. They’ll show you the contents, if you ask, and then you have only to make a choice.

The food ranges from the safe such as spring rolls and shrimp balls to the exotic such as tripe (this dish, made from the beef or pork intestines can be toochewy, if not done right) and chicken feet (just the idea of it is sickening). A knowledge of chopsticks is help­ ful, but not necessary, as a fork will be brought on request. You are charged by the dish.

Decent, if expensive, Dim Sum can be found in Montréal at Tong Wa (1059 St. Laurent at de la Gauchetiere) or Miliwa (1017 St. Laurent at de la Gauchetiere). Kam Fung (1006 Clark) and the place, name forgotten, with a bad mural out front advertising Dim Sum on de la Gauchetiere are both rather mediocre.

There are many others. Be ad­ venturous! Try them all. Amidst the loud talk and traumatic argu­ ments no one will pay any attention to you, and the hours will speed past. The food’s good too.

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BY GALLAGHER MACKAY As the sun comes up over Jeanne Mance park on April 22, drums and flutes will sound to herald the arrival of Earth Day 1990 in Mon­ tréal.

Twenty years ago, twenty million Americans assembled under the umbrella of Earth Day 1970 to celebrate the planet. Their voices were heard: after those rallies, two of the most significant environ­ mental initiatives ever were passed by the U.S. government: the Clean Air Act and the Environmental Protection Agency was estab­ lished.

This year, however, mobilization is not going to be limited to the U.S. T im e magazine reports that 125 countries and 500 million people will celebrate the environment for at least one day. Efforts include a clean-up on top of M t Everest and plumbing the depths of the St. Lawrence.

Christina Desser, executive director of Earth Day 1990 has a goal for the event. She says, “I want to see millions of people metaphori­ cally standing in the same direction and yelling the same thing at policy makers.

In Canada, Earth Day 1990 is focussing its efforts on the business community. Andréas Novella, assistant marketing coordinating of Earth Day Québec feels that they have a good product “Ecology is the hottest marketing device of the nineties,” he claims. As far as he is concerned, “appealing to government is a to­ tally useless affair.” The business community may be listening.

Delta Hotels in Montréal not only donated office space to the effort but they are sponsoring a seedling give away on Earth Day, to encourage people to plant trees.

Further, organizers are meeting with corporations such as McDonald’s to push them on initiatives like“getting rid of all sty­ rofoam, and installing recycling bins ” says Novella. The company appears willir to cash in on marketing the cnvironment.For a short while, placemats saying ‘who sm's you can t change the world?” will appear under your Big Mac. Corporations are being asked to sponsor the event through an en­ dorsement of ten “Valdez Principles,” which stress protection of the biosphere, sustainable development, and environmental accounta­ bility.

Efforts have focused on inciting individuals to take a personal stand for the environment. People are being encouraged to stop using styrofoam, buy recycled paper, support environmentally friendly businesses, and decrease energy use not just on Earth Day itself but throughout the year.

Adventuring in hot and humid far away lands

BY MADELEINE COLE AND WADE M ITCHELL This summer, ‘Project Guyana’ venturers will be travelling to Guyana to do volunteer work as a part of a new, non-profit organiza­ tion called Youth Challenge Inter­ national (YCI).

The concept of YCl stems from the past successes of ‘Operation Drake’ and ‘Operation Raleigh’, two around-the-world expeditions innovated by Prince Charles who recognized an apathetic trend in the youth of Britain and Europe.

Operation Drake was a four year expedition for youths (under twenty-five) from around the world. With this success, a second more extensive global circumnavi­ gation operated through 1984 to 1988. Since then, past venturers have set up a new organization to continue providing youths with the opportunity of working with their peers in developing countries.

After a written application proc­

ess, prospective venturers must participate in a selection weekend.

Over forty-eight hours, sixty five people were given the run of army Camp Borden, in Ontario, to try and survive despite food and sleep deprivation and a series of obstacles designed to test applicants’ mettle.

After selection the venturer must raise $3000 through corporate sponsors, individual donations, swim-a-thons, or any other means.

“This is quite a challenge,” com­ mented a participant. “They cer­ tainly don’t spoon feed you.”

Having gotten that far, a select group will set off for foreign ports.

On August first, thirty-five Cana­ dians will join twenty-five others from Costa Rica, Guyana and Australia to embark on a three month expedition with a distinct purpose set out in advance.

Projects include assisting opthamologists perform cataract sur­ gery, and providing health and nutrition education in Guyana’s interior. Also, extensive land sur­

veys by foot will occur in the Rupununi Savannah to establish the feasibility of a wildlife pre­ serve (Guyana’s first).

“Our goal is to help the Guya­ nese help themselves from the grass roots level up,” commented one participant.

Finally, 100 hours of commu­ nity service work for YCI or any other public service group is re­ quired on returning to Canada. The community work for YCI ranges from doing slideshows at commu­ nity centres, to helping on selec­ tion weekends and the training of new venturers.

YCI has another project under way, Arctic Quest, an expedition involving ten Canadians and ten Soviets. This group will be doing work in the subarctic regions of both countries.

Applications for YCI projects in 1991 can be obtained by writing to : Youth Challenge International,

11 Soho Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T1Z6

fe a tu re s Shedding layers of Northern darkness

Our names are Nghia Nguyen and Jai Marshall, and we are next year's NIGHTTIME EVENTS COORDINATORS? Although we could probably program all the events we want to see, w e want to hear from you, the STUDENTS about what activities to have next year!

B Y J E S S I C A M C B R ID E

When I was a child, summer in Whitehorse meant two things: no school and warmth. Summer was symbolized by the blooming of pussy willows after months of grey twigs. Crystallized branches leaked fairy teardrops on newly muddied paths.

In the North, summer starts with the first purple crocuses on the clay cliffs, and then one day it’s as if winter never happened. The Yukon river swells and rushes; kayaking replaces dogsled racing.

Imagine going to school in absolute darkness and coming home in the same. Summer in Whitehorse is the opposite: almost perpetual daylight After what seems like years of black, the change is a welcome release.

Oblivious to mosquitos and black flies, children run around stark naked while parents grasp what little Vitamin D they can by sunbathing. I remember my mother as a permanent slug on the lawnchair as she tried to emulate bronzed “southerners” in Central Canada.

As a child I would go on long walks, wearing rubber boots without the felt lining, picking croci and revelling in the fact long coats were no longer needed. Previous sledding sites turned into muddy, then dry, play areas. I remember our rented cabin: sleeping in a tent and swimming maybe two weeks at best all summer.

Summer represented a new youth, a shedding of not only millions of layers of clothes but of claustrophobia and depression as well. Summer in Montréal also indicates a release from “cabin fever”, but in the North summer means a chance to make up for lost time.

Please indicate preferences or other activities you would like to see next year.

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For Canadians, summer means being outside. As soon as the tem­ perature rises, the ice thaws and the ground defrosts, outdoor types break out their hiking boots, ca­ noes and tents to take advantage of outdoor opportunities offered throughout Québec and New Eng­ land.

According to Kate Walker, presi­ dent of the McGill Outing Club, those wishing to get away from it all should head to the Presidential mountain range in the Appalachi­ ans.

Those mountains contain some of the most beautiful hiking spots in New England. Walker de­ scribes the area as not only being beautiful, but remote as well. “From a certain vantage point of Mount Washington, civilization cannot be seen.”

Other areas in New England that are much more appropriate for less experienced hikers can be found in Vermont. In such spots as Camel ’s Hump, and Mount Mans­ field (the highest peak in Vermont); vast expanses of alpine meadow can be found.

For those wishing to stay inside Québec, Walker recommends parks such as Parc Mont Trem­ blant, Parc de la Mauracie, and Parc de la Gatineau (which is just outside of Ottawa).

The most appropriate season for

hiking and camping is at the end of the summer when the bugs are at a minimum. As odd as it may seem, some campers prefer to go out at the beginning of the summer when there is more mud and rain.

Walker offers some basic advice to the less experienced hikers. In order to discourage bugs it is ap­ propriate “to wear darker colors, and to avoid wearing any creams which may be perfumed.” Other hints include using iodine tablets to purify drinking water, as in many places the water is not potable.

And, as the Adirondaks are in bear country, it is a good idea to hang your food above the ground and away from the tents.

For those interested in canoe day trips Québec has a lot to offer within a few hours of Montréal. Parks such as Park Papineau and LaBelle are good places for people who are just starting out.

According to Dominique Roy, another member of the McGill Outing Club, those seeking a greater challenge can try canoeing the Jacques Cartier river, though she warns it is very popular. “Rivi­ ere Jacques Cartier is the most spectacular canoeing spot in Québec, but it is also overcrowded during the peak canoeing seasons.”

However for those who want some solitude Roy recomends Park La Verendry in particular where there are generally fewer people.

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W h a t to r e a d a n d w h e r e to r e a d i t Exams are looming and it’s hard to imagine they’ll ever be over, that you’ll be free to do whatever you please, read whatever...or bet­ ter yet, deliberately choose to not read anything at all.

All of a sudden it’s the end of May and you’re bored out of your mind with free time that never ex­ isted before. Libraries and book­ stores tug at you. But there’s no syllabus...how can you choose?

Perhaps the best way to select a book is to first decide where to read, and then make a choice.

Classics, in particular, seem to lend themselves to specific reading lo­ cations.

T h e G r e a t G a ts b y , for

instance, is perfect beach reading and The S c a r le t P im p e r n e l is perfect for the poolside. W in h erin g H e ig h ts and J a n e E y r e , on the other hand, seem more appropriate at a picnic of the checkered-tablecloth-andpicnic-basket-on-the-grass-undera-tree variety.

G o n e W ith th e W in d is the best choice for a morning read, swing­ ing on the veranda in a hammock, drinking tart lemonade. No veranda or hammock? Try wiring an um­ brella to a rocking chair.

C a tc h e r in th e R y e is also great outdoor reading. Salinger’s clas­ sic lends itself best to drinking beer in the backyard in the late afternoon. H u c k le b e r r y F in n and T o m S a w y e r arc other appropriate backyard reads.

Day trips are a great way to get out of the hot city, but getting to and from can be boring. Isak Dinesan’s O u t o f A fr ic a or E.M. Forrcster’s/?oom w ith a V ie w make for ideal travel reading.

Other books you may want to think about reading are the horror classics such as F ra n k e n ste in , D r a c u la or D r . J e k y ll a n d M r.

H y d e . These novels are most ap­ propriate during a thunderstorm.

If work is occasionally a little dull, a copy of any Dicken’s novel can be stashed in the bottom desk drawer and hauled out whenever necessary. Chances are it’ll take the entire summer to read it at this rate.

hardcover copy or couldn’t find it at the library, John Le Carré’s R u s s ia H o u s e and Amy Tan’s J o y L u c k C lu b will both be released in paperback in June. For the more ambitious, Stephen Hawking’s A B r ie f H is to r y o f T im e is finally being issued in softcover in July.

On the science fiction/fantasy front, Ursula LeGuin’s fourth and final installment of the Earthsea Quartet, T eh a n u , was published in March. The ever prolific Isaac Asimov has produced R o b o t V isio n s , a collection of thirty-six robot stories.

Sum m er Releases For readers who’ve either al­ ready read all the classics or who won’t touch anything written ear­ lier than 1965, new summer re­ leases may offer salvation from tedium.

If you couldn’t afford the

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1 . b e a b le to b o o k s p a c e in the U niversity C e n tre ; 2 . b e a b le to b o o k s p a c e in o th er c a m p u s b u ild in g s at M cG ill rates; 3 . re ce iv e the s u m m e r e ditio n o f the M cQ ill Stu d e n t L e a d e r B u lle tin ; 4 . be k e p t in fo rm e d a b o u t the le a d e rsh ip s e m in a r in S e p te m b e r; 5 . re ce iv e u p d ate s to the User's G u id e .

Campus groups not registered by April 16th will be considered inactive and will lose all campus privileges until such time as they are reinstated.

S t u d e n t le a d e r s m u s t c o m p le t e th e fo rm b e lo w o r o b t a in a “S u m m e r R e g is t r a t io n ” fo r m fro m th e S t u d e n t s ’ S o c ie t y G e n e r a l O f fic e U n iv e r s it y C e n t re , R o o m 1 0 5 3 4 8 0 M c T a v is h S tre e t c o m p le t e it a n d h a n d it in b y A P R I L 1 6 T H to L e s lie C o p e la n d , O p e r a t io n s S e c r e t a r y . page 22

For readers preferring non-fic­ tion, summer releases such as C h ild re n o f th e D r a g o n : th e S to r y o f T ia n a m e n S q u a re might be of

interest. The less seriously minded reader and anyone desiring to commune with the King this sum­ mer may want to glance through “E ” is f o r E lv is : a n A - Z I llu s tr a te d G u id e to th e K in g o f R o c k a n d R o ll. Definitely not to be missed.

Not sure what to buy? The New York Times Bestseller List is an nearly infallible guide to what everyone else is reading. But re­ member this listing presently ranks Janet Dailey and La Vyrle Spenser, two ex-Harlequin authors, ahead of Margaret Atwood.

p h o to b y C h r is F o rb e s

BY LISA HARRISON

R e a d in g is a n e x c e lle n t w a y to p a s s s u m m e r le i s u r e tim e

SUMMER REGISTRATION FORM 1. O r g a n iz a tio n C am pus A d d re ss (Building)

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Michelle Shocked's C a p t a i n KIM FARLEY Thëî&syas no campfire involved in the recording of Michelle Shocked’s latest àufeum. C a p ta in S w in g . No crickets either. Not a one. __ For her latest album, which has sent Shocked off on a new tour (Sans Bragg, but she still has a few Green Party leaflets sticking out of her pockets), Shocked checked the homegrown sound effects at the recording studio door. Still, the singer is insistent that her new soldout effect on concerts does not make her a sell-out.

“The anxieties of my first en­ counter with a studio made me hold very tight on the creative reins,” says Shocked about the recording process.

The latest album is a result of a studio-arranged blind date with producer/guitarist Pete Anderson, whom Shocked grew to respect “in spite of his car phone and sattelite dish.”

After some initial reluctance, natural from a performer who has condemned the music business as “profit over people”, Shocked granted Anderson asylum from her predj udice and gave him the breath­ ing space to create.

The result is a free-flowing mesh of styles which is thoroughly Green, reflecting the good ol’ “unity through diversity” slogan.

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Certainly the album reflects one qüâMty absent in the songs fm m T h e T e x a s C a m p fir e T a p e s : trust.

Though "htr days as a runaway and squatter in Tex2S, San Francisco, New York, and Amsterdam gave Shocked material for songs, they left her wary of the Reag3h men­ tality. Her first two albums are not very friendly. Neither is her think She still abhors the sycophant ?ect of the record industry, but is at­ tracted by the opportunity to reach a larger audience.

Most recently Shocked has been stalking over the airwaves with “Don’t You Mess Around with my Little Sister”, a follow up single to “On the Greener Side”, which had been smoothed out a little (a couple of rough crickets rubbed off) from its original appearance on T he T e x a s C a m p fire T a p e s. Arranged

by Anderson, “My Little Sister” has a “fuller” sound-only natural since it is supported by a seven piece band with homs and back­ ground singers.

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I Love You To D eath: full of deadly humour

BY JONATHAN BERNSTEIN_______ Lawrence Kasdan has been involved in some high quality productions in his time.

He co-wrote and directed T he B ig C h ill, T he A c c id e n ta l T o u ris t (based on the novel), and the underrated S ilv e r a d o . He also wrote the screenplay for C o n tin e n ta l D iv id e , R a id e r s O f T h e L o s t A rk and co-wrote T h e E m p ire S tr ik e s B a c k and R e tu rn O f T h e J e d i. He has now added to that sparkling list with the release of I L o v e Y ou To D e a th .

If you thought Kevin Kline was good in T h e B ig C h ill, S ilv e r a d o , C r y F r e e d o m , S o p h ie ’s C h o ic e and A F ish C a lle d W a n d a

(which earned him the 1988 Academy Award forbestsupporting actor), that was all child’s play in comparison to I L o v e Y ou T o D e a th .

All exaggerating aside, he is quite spectacu­ lar in this new movie. In short, we are dealing with an extremely talented individ­ ual here.

In Kline’s Broadway debut, he won a Tony Award and a Drama Desk Award. T he P ir a te s O f P e n z a n c e brought him his second Tony and he has since played the title roles i n R i c h a r d l l l , H e n r y V m d U a m l e t. In 1989, Kline was given the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theater.

The man is not mortal. He is one of the most famous actors on both screen and stage and that still underestimates his talents. Kline is simply an incredible force which brings magic to every production he works on (who

said T h e J a n u a r y M a n ? I didn’t hear anyone say T h e J a n u a r y M a n ).

The star-studded cast of I L o v e Y ou To D e a th includes Kline, Tracy Ullman, Joan Plowright (the well-known British actress), River Phoenix, William Hurt, and Keanu Reeves.

Kline portrays Joey Boca, a pizza parlor owner with a devoted wife (Ullman), two cute children and an enjoyment for life that usually exceeds the bounds of marriage vows.

His wife rationalizes: He’s Italian, so he flirts a little. A little? If she only knew that he has trouble recalling how many women he has made love to in just the past week when he goes for confession. Well, she finds out, and the idea of her husband with other women revolts her. So she plans his murder. She enlists help from her mother (Plowright), a friend (Phoenix), and some rookie hit men (Hurt and Reeves).

Plowright is hilarious playing a woman who governs her life according to what she reads in various supermarket tabloids.

Equipped with a happy-face shirt and a pair of tweezers, she has her own ideas about how to dispose of her daughter’s philander­ ing husband.

Hurt and Reeves are also side-splittingly funny as Harlon and Marlon James, two bumbling drug addict cousins who are hired to murder Joey. The fact that they take a tax i to the home of their victim is an early tip-off that they aren’t an ideal choice for the job.

Also, Harlon whispering everything but the word “murder” in a crowded bar can’t possibly help matters.

Kasdan has succeeded in directing every scene with a keen eye for Italian-American parody and gives each character intelligence and depth. The screenwriter, John Kostmayer, the true hero of this film, has written

\ a script as fn?sh and brillianty clever as that of M o o n s tr u c k - m d the thematic similarities are noticeable. , This film is a m ust for all M o o n s tru c k fans, Lawrence Kasdav fans, Kevin Kline fans and those who don’t like Kevin KYiin? a' all. ^

Malle's M i l o u , e n M a i : the subtle and elegant death of Mother France

BY GEORGE VALETTAS Mother heaves her final sigh and col­ lapses on a sofa in her grand but slowly deteriorating house in the French country­ side. The news filtering in on the radio is alarming: rumours of disorder, of social un­ rest, portents of revolution.

Mother’s heart cannot bear the strain. It gives way.

What is remarkable about the death of this matriarch in Louis Malle’s (A u R e v o ir le s E n fa n ts) M ilo u , en M ed is the family reac­ tion to it. Milou, her sexagenarian son, does not let even death infringe on his libido.

After informing other family members of maman’s demise, Milou turns his attention to the maid, who rebuffs him with a curt “it is inappropriate on a night like this.” Later, alone in his empty bed, he grieves for his mother.

This is the token scene of mourning in the film.

W \\h M ilo u ,e n M a i Malle has constructed a metaphorical film, a rueful commentary on lost opportunity and the extremes that can be taken to preserve a sterile way of life. The film is set in May, 1968 during France’s confrontation with itself which showed up CONTINUED ON PAGE 26 page 23

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Pine and Burton provide the latest in Jazz listening B Y DUFF M C LE O D

C o u rtn e y P in e

The Vision’s Tale (A n tilles/Islan d )

All in all, it has been a fair year for jazz in Montreal.

In the big leagues, Hank Jones and Oliver Jones did a few nights at the Theatre Outremont, Archie Shepp played the Rising Sun, both Sun-Ra and Wynton Marsalis hit Con­ cordia, and, of course, Miles Davis was at the Spectrum. At the movies, “Let’s Get Lost” finally opened, proving that even dead Chet Baker is more popular than ever.

Closer to home, McGill’s own jazz stu­ dents have made The A lle y more than just coffee and smoke. McGill teacher and musician Ron di Lauro has been impressed by this sort of openness to jazz.

“There have been some new jazz policies at some places and the scene has been maturing. ..local musicians are playing well,” he said.

So if you have any time before or during exams it is certainly worth it to give local jazz a listen. If your time is scarce though, you might try a trip to the record store instead.

British saxophonist Courtney Pine is billed as the next big thing in jazz and deservedly so. He has been well regarded in the U.K. for some time now, but has just started to make waves in North America. His recent tour, including a Wednesday night at Club Soda, really knocked some socks off.

T he V is io n ’s T a le is a great straight ahead album reminiscent of recordings from the 50’s and early 60’s. This is no accident. With his quartet Pine is trying to capture what he sees as the classic roots of modem jazz. He feels that many American musicians have ignored this tradition.

So given this traditional bent, it is no surprise that Pine’s style is influenced by Coleman Hawkins and Coltrane. But what Pine does is by no means a simple tribute. He borrows from his many other projects and his background in more popular music which lends a unique edge to die album. There is a polished energy to his solos that makes it all sound very easy.

Most of the tunes on the record are stan­ dards. Ellington’s “In a Mellow Tone” and

the Billie Holiday stand by “God Bless the Child” are the best known.

Even Pine’s own compositions could be mistaken for standards. He freely admits that “In a Ragamuffin’s Stance” is based on Charlie Parker’s “Confirmation”.

Ellis Marsalis on piano, Delbert Felix on bass, and Jeff Watts on drums do a good job of rounding out Pine’s project. No com­ plaints can be made about the back up.

Though it may be possible to criticize Thç.

V is io n ’s T a le as having been done hefore, the album does deserve a listen. Traditional does not necessarily mean dead, as Pine well proves.

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Vibraphonist Gary Burton is a musician who has consistently proven his ability to play other people’s music well. R e u n io n is the latest of his rriany collabrative projects.

This time, Burton plays with guitarist Pat Metheney and is backed up by Mitch For­ man, Will Lee, and Peter Erskine.

The record is a product of the 1988 Mon­ treal Jazz Festival where Burton was en­

couraged to play with Metheney again.Jf^0 years later, the studio results speajkfnr them­ selves.

For both Burton jyyf Metheney R e u n io n marks a return <{fa common ECM sound of a few years^ack. The solos are fluid and trade bar* and forth nicely. The rest of the band fh'is in where they should.

Tnough he produced the album, none of ffe compositions are Burton’s. The majority of the tunes were written by Metheney, or sound as if they could have been. The Paul Meyer’s track, “Panama”, should get some air play- though probably not locally.

If you are at all familiar with the work of either artist over the past few years, then R e u n io n should hold no surprises. It is ex­ actly what you would expect; a well pro­ duced affair which is both pleasant and accessible. Hopefully, the album will turn into another live performance for the duo in Montréal this summer.

For the most part, Gary Burton may be an acquired taste, so if your end of the term budget is smaller than expected go for the Courtney Pine first. And do spend the differ­ ence on something live.

Actress shines in the Mother of All the Behans B Y A D A M ST E R N B E R G H

It takes an extremely talented performer to keep a theatre silent of restless coughs and shuffling rumps for two hours, and one-per­ son plays in particular can be the most back-achingly boring to sit through. Luckily, the Abbey The­ atre Company, on a brief visit from Ireland, happens to bring along an actress riveting enough to enthrall any audience.

The M o th e r o f A ll th e B e h a n s stars Rosaleen Linehan as Kath-,. leen Behan, the real-life matriarch of an irish clan which produced a gaggle of IRA activists, as w£ll as playw right Brendan R ehan.

Adapted from the biography writ­ ten by her son, Brian, the ty.vo-hour m onologue traces B ehan’s stnug'g'res to raise a family in Ire­ land at the turn of the century, amidst poverty and the Irish War of Independence.

Though the show is ably directed

by Peter Sheridan, its true star - if that’s not redundant when speak­ ing of a one-woman show - is the dazzling Linehan.

From the beginning, Linehan’s playful and easy charm holds the audience spellbound, like school

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kids around a campfire. Linehan is more than convincing. Her ability to bring this remarkable woman to vibrant life is hypnotic. Set starkly/" against the elegant cream curtgàhs of a bare hospital room, thq^ctress runs the gamut of enviions with unwavering strength and convic­ tion, delivering a performance that’s as complete as any you’re likely \d come across.

Unfortunately, neither the mate­ rial nor the direction can maintain a similar level of excellence. The background to Behan’s story is so complicated that a historical syn­ opsis of the Irish revolution a n d a family tree a n d a chronology of Behan’s life have been conven­ iently included in the program.

However, since itty-bitty-book lights are not provided, these guides are essentially useless to those without either a photographic memory or a Master’s in Irish his­ tory. Eventually, the convoluted plot deteriorates into a series of amusing but seemingly unrelated familial anecdotes.

Also, Linehan is called upon to sing snippets of Irish folk songs when recalling particularly poign­ ant events in her past. Despite her acting prowess, these musical in-

terludesjbeetrtne increasingly tire­ some, as Linehan’s voice is more reminiscent of a barmaid’s after one ale too many, than someone who should be crooning in front of people who have actually paid money to be in attendance.

Director Sheridan compounds this musical mistake by repeatedly attempting to enhance Linehan’s solos with a single simplistic light­ ing effect. Linehan is more than strong enough to carry these moments without the use of cheap and artificial gimmicks. Heavy handed directing of this type would make even Oliver Stone grimace.

Despite these failings, and its rather unfortunate title, T h e M o th e r o f A ll th e B e h a n s is a satisfying evening of theatre. Happily, not even the flaws in the script and direction can dim the brilliance of Rosaleen Linehan’s uplifting por­ trayal. History buffs can go for the informative charts in the program; for everyone else, it’s worth the price of admission simply to wit­ ness a performance the likes of which may not be seen again for quite some time.

The Mother of All the Behans is at The Centaur until May 20.

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Confronting sexism and racism through painting B Y K IM F A R L E Y

On the walls of Thompson House, the club for grad students, in the first bright room overlook­ ing the field, hangs the work of Shashi Roedor.

A grad student in philosophy,

Roedor explains her work as an attempt to confront and understand racism and sexism. Her work has taken more traditional forms (an academic paper on pornography), and now takes the form of the ab­ stract She turns racism and sexism on its head, flipping gender roles

and race roles around, endorsing no role in particular.

One work shows a male “in the role of go-go dancer with the girl coyly watching the scene in the disco.’ Another painting shows'a girl who has rejected sexual rela­ tions,’ not because, the artist ex­ plains, “she doesn’t dig sex but because she has reached disinter­ estedness due to her passion for the two irresistable arts of philosophy and art.”

One of the more interesting paint­ ings has the intriguing title O p p o ­ s itio n is r e m o v e d a n d th e O th e r is y o u . It is Roeder’s input to the

philosophical debate over the T h e r e ’s

human fixation with the “other.”

“Every culture has the need to identify its ‘other’, as something to compare itself to. The East calls the West ‘other’. The male calls the female ‘other’. It has always bothered me because I have a sense of oneness,” says the artist The painting, a fusion of dispa­ rate colours into a soft, docile pink, is Roeder’s experiment at resolv­ ing the conflict: turning it into a dialogue.

“In the painting the two ‘oppos­ ing’ forces come together and try each other’s shoes on. The two abstract shapes retain their indi­ viduality but still attain harmony.

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A painting, a view, the inside of a church all make the observer content and at ease. The Canadian Centre for Architecture is such a place.

Within a block of the complex, one is struck by the precision and meticulousness with which it was designed. Every aesthetic detail was taken into account in its con­ ception. This attention to the vis­ ual captivates visitors and entrances them from the moment they enter the complex.

Located at 1920 Bade street, the complex was conceived as a study centre and museum devoted to the art of architecture and its history.

Although recently opened and pres­ ently without a major exhibit, the museum’s building is itself worth a visit. The centre is a combination

of a new building designed by Peter Rose, Phyllis Lambert and Erol Argun along with the brilliantly restored Shaughnessy House,built in 1874. The older structure was designed by W.T. Thomas and is truly a sight to behold.

The building’s highlights include

It is indeed a relief from modern architechture’s ice cube-shaped eyesores. beautiful Corinthian pillars, Ba­ roque ceilings and an approach to design that seeps with the vision of another era. The Tea Room offers a quiet repository for a moment’s reflection in which contemporary furniture is combined with Victo­ rian wooden walls. The effect is something like a sy nthesis between the Bauhaus school of design and

H.G. Wells.

The Devencore Conservatory is attached to the Tea Room and is another “must see” in a place that only becomes more interesting as one progresses through the myriad corridors of its confines.

The fact that no major exhibit is now in progress provides the op­ portunity to appreciate the particu­ larities of the building. The Centre’s designers left nothing out.

Lighting, air circulation, wall tex­ ture and layout, are all reminders of what seems to be lacking in contemporary architecture. It is indeed a relief from modem architechture’s ice cube-shaped eyesores.

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... more M alle CONTINUED FROM PAGE 23 ism and optimism about the new, in newspapers as a series of urban more humane France, the France which he and his fellow students riots, and general strikes. Malle are struggling to create. uses the historical events with All the while, Milou sitslike the expert black humour. For example, Mother cannot be buried since the centre of the wheel in the film.

Around him, lives intersect and gravediggers are on strike.

France’s future hangs in the diverge. Although the film can be balance and so, by extension, does construed metaphorically, the story Milou’s life of bucolic tranquil­ is also worthwhile. It follows the lives of a group of people in a lity.

In the same vein, the other char­ peculiar set of circumstances. It is acters are used as symbols for the about the power of the mind to different attitudes in France at the interpret events according to its time. Representatives come to the preconceptions, and to respond in house the day after the death to pay a manner that is objectively irra­ tional yet perfectly logical in its perfunctory respects to the corpse, then proceed to the more impor­ context.

However his film is interpreted, tant task of divvying up the estate.

Camille, Milou’s pragmatic daugh­ Louis Malle has crafted a delight­ ter; George, his journalist brother ful film that makes a strong argu­ ment for the use of understatement with his flighty, flirtatious English wife, and Claire, the lesbian grand­ M ilo u , e n M a i is not quite as poign­ daughter, with her companion all ant as Malle’s previous film, A u R e v o ir le s E n fa n ts, but it is rich arrive.

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This sports season has come to its final resting place, on the pages of this paper. Some are tributes, others eulogies. They are written by the writers who brought you stories on these teams all year long.

They w ill remain anonymous for obvious protective reasons.

Martlet Basketball The McGill Martlets surprised no one by finishing a strong sec­ ond in the QUBL, then surprised everyone by losing 60-59 to Laval in the first round of the playoffs.

The team was full of talent, though.

The omnipresent Tina Fasone was named to the QUBL first All-Star team, while Debby Morseand Jane Ross were second team All-Stars.

The Martlet rookies put on an impressive performance all year long. Tracey Hayman and AllCanadian Rookie Morse will lead the way next season, and coach Chris Hunter looks to have a strong squad with the return of veterans Fasone and ballhandler Beth Armstrong.

Redmen Basketball McGill Redmen basketball had a rough season. The team had a 73 record at home and an 11-7 rec­ ord in league play, but were 0-3 against teams whose names started with ‘B .’ The Redmen ended a 10game jinx against Concordia by beating them on the road, then lost to Bishop’s in the first round of the playoffs after some great individ-

Tina Fasone feeds Debby Morse down low.

Martin Raymond knocks Toronto out o f the playoffs.

ual efforts.

Paul Brousseau and David S teiner were named as OUA A East first team All-Stars. Both averaged over 20 points a game, and Brousseau was second in Canada in rebounding. Graduating are Steiner, point guard Michael Soussan, and Ariel Franco, so coach Ken Schildroth will have some big shoes to fill for next season.

other veterans.

Field Hockey The field hockey team finished second in their conference with a 4-3-1 record. Team MVP and OWIAA East All-Star M ichelle Banham and Cathy Fusk led the group to a trip to the OWIAA Championships, where they fin­ ished eighth. This season proved to be an improvement, and coach Elouise Samuels can look forward to more success in the next season.

Football The Redmen football season went as expected, with the excep­ tion of a few dramatics. In some­ what of a rebuilding year, the team went with unproven quarterback Yanick Préfontaine and his dis­ play of potential may have been one of the best results of the sea­ son. The Redmen got themselves into a hole when they had to beat Bishop’s back to back in order to make the play-offs. A last minute field-goal at home gave them a 1411 victory and they made a heroic comeback to win in Lennoxville to qualify for post-season play. In the play-offs they very nearly upset long-time rival, Queen’s. The Redmen did have four players chosen in the CFL draft. Paul Kerr (3rd Round) to the Toronto Argos, Gerry Ifill (6th Round) to the Argos, Hagen Mehnert (7th Round) to the Ottawa Rough Riders and Chuck Petipas (supplemental draft) also by the Rough Riders

earned the defensive MVP award, and of course the rock solid netminder, Lucie Boumival.

Redmen Hockey Inconsistency would probably be the best word to describe the Redmen hockey season. McGill seemed to specialize in first win­ ning three games in a row, but then would lose three of four. As the season drew to a close, the Redmen seemed to finally gel as a team.

Wins against highly-ranked Lau­ rier and Waterloo-part of a five game OUAA winning streak-put McGill in the driver’s seat for first place in the OUAA East division.

The inconsistency returned and the team sputtered to a fourth place finish. After a victory over Toronto in a first-round sudden death play­ off game by a 5-4 score. McGill now had to face old nemesis UQTR in the second round of the playoffs.

They lost in two straight, marking the passing of an era, as McGill hockey fans said goodbye to Tim Iannone, Jam ie Reeve, and several

Rowing In spite of the usual palette of adversity, the McGill Rowing Team established itself as a force to be reckoned with in the 1989 season. Although the season was marked by many highlights, the team ’ s most dramatic breakthrough came at the Head of the Trent Regatta. There the mens Varsity Heavy Eight won a major Cana­ dian race for the first time. More importantly, McGill won the over­ all points title, also a first.

At the OU/OWIAA Champion­ ships in St. Catherine’s, McGill captured first-place honours in both the mens and womens Light Coxed Fours. These victories combined with the team’s slew of crew victo­ ries at Brock and Ottawa made the 1989 contingent the winningest in recent team history.

Womens Rugby When asked to describe the sea­ son, one member of the women’s rugby team smiled complacently

Mens Rugby The mens ruggers experienced a renaissance of sorts, rebounding quite nicely from probation the previous season. The first fifteen, coached by Syd Sandford, racked up a 6-1 record in league play and won the provincial championship, shutting out Bishop’s 11-0, giving McGill a sweep in rugby this year.

The overall club mark was 12-4, including matches played south of the border.

The rowdies were led by MVP Joe Liberatore, Hart Caplan, Scott Calverand Matt Tennant. And next year, if they stay fresh, should prove more of the same.

Skiing The womens ski team finished second in Québec and the men third, M cGill’s best finish in four years. The men were led by that w ild and crazy g u y, P avel Pochobradsky, who dominated in the giant slalom, taking his third provincial individual title in four years. T eam m ate M axim e a Dansereau performed admirably £ also, finishing fifth.

Julia Hogan, named the womens £ team MVP, finished in the fifth spot overall. Sheila Smith was seventh, and Jackie Klavana thir-

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Dave S tein er’s fam iliar dribble.

The Martlet hockey team got a big monkey off their backs. This year’s team finished fourth in Québec, earning a trip to the play­ offs for the first time in six years.

They lost in the first round to Concordia, but all season they epitomized fair play, and an un­ quenchable desire to win.

The squad was led by MVP Kathy Morrison, who earned QFFS Athlete of the Week honours in November; Diane Playle, who

and explained, simply, “W e killed everyone that we met.”

The season’s total score rein­ forces the point. These provincial champions scored a total of 210 points and only allowed six to be scored against them. In terms of games, that translates to only a single loss throughout the season.

A definite high point were the p ro vin cial cham pionships at Bishop’s University, at which, (finally) the title was snatched from the clutches of those downright nasty women from John Abbott.

The CEGEP team had held a monopoly on the championship for the past eight years.

They finished off the season with an unofficial road trip to New York City to play in Central Park where, late at night, and covered with mud and snow, they won again. Al­ though they got lost, these women, continuously redefining feminin­ ity, could say at the end of the season, that, “We had a grand old time tramping all over every body.”

The Redmen shake hands after losing to Western.

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Martlet Soccer The young Martlet soccer team, McGill’s team of the year, won their second Québec champion­ ship, taking Concordia in a 2-1 overtime shootout. At their first

trip to the CIAUs, they defeated top-ranked Acadia in the semi, but then fell to Alberta, 3-1, in the final.

Rookie Natalie Ioanidis and Barbara Bruckert led the team in scoring, while the defense was anchored by fullbacks Jocelyn

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Dutil and Uldis Auders award winner, Gayle Noble. For coach Tony Iachetta, this season was the stuff of dreams. Next year, the team will suffer the loss of Bruckert, a mainstay on the forward rank, but the rest of the team will be return­ ing for another run at number one.

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The Redmen soccer team fin­ ished first in Québec, posting six shutouts (five by Salim Brahimi) en route to a 6-0-2 regular season record. After handling Sherbrooke to win their ninth provincial title in ten years, they went on to the CIAUs. In the sudden death quar­ terfinals, they lost to UBC on a late goal, 1-0.

Sweeper Julian Barrow and midfielder J.P. Vialard were named to the All-Canadian team, and striker John Hayward was named to the second team. Head Coach Claudio Sandrin was named QUSL coach of the year. Throughout the past decade, this team has shown excellence both on and off the field, and in the next decade they will doubtless continue this tradition.

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The Martlets and Redmen swim teams each finished the 1989-90 season ranked eighth in Canada.

While a disappointment, this does not overshadow the individual efforts of a few key members on each squad. Any list must begin with Andrea Nugent, who has competed in her last season for McGill. Nugent won two golds at the CIAUs. She also took a gold in the 50m freestyle at the Common­ wealth Games. Teammate Robin Rugiero led the Martlets with six gold medals at the Potsdam meet.

Although the CIAUs proved dis­ appointing, eight women and four men qualified, which shows the depth of talent on the team. The _ Martlets will be in for a tough time next year, with Nugent’s departure t to Calgary to train for the Olym- 5 pics, and with Ruggiero and Alexa § Bagnell lost to graduation. ^ For the men, only Rick Cosgrove managed to take a medal at x the CIAUs. He won a bronze in the H 200m breaststroke. The highlight of the season came at Potsdam, where Terry Dimock nearly matched Ruggiero’s prowess, tak­ ing five golds and m a le s w im m e r o f th e m e e t honors.

T rack and Field The track and field squad had a strong 89-90 campaign, finishing second in Québec, despite some injuries to top athletes. For the men, MVP Dereck Covington made school history, winning McGill’s first ever gold medal at the CIAUs, in the sixty meter hurdles.

On the womens side, Kristen Fry and Caroline Ladanowski also travelled to the CIAUs in Win­ nipeg. Fry, her team’s MVP, fin­ ished sixth in the shot put, while Ladanowski finished fourth in the 3000m and fifth in the 1500m events.

Jane Ross settles the ball in the Québec championships.

Jono Drysdale sets up a scoring chance.

Sports Notebook NUG ENT LEAV ING FO R CALGARY McGill will be losing its most acclaimed athlete, Olympic-mcdal swimmer Andrea Nugent. Nugent, who arrived at McGill in January, 1988, has decided to train for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barce­ lona, and will do so at the Univer­ sity of Calgary.

Nugent plans to take a few courses at Calgary, training full­ time with their swim team, which is perennially ranked among the best in the country. After the Olym­ pics, Nugent plans to return to McGill to pursue her degree in modem languages.

PETIPAS DRAFTED BY OTTAWA I nc Canadian Football League held its first supplemental draft in fifteen years, last Saturday in Toronto. The Ottawa Rough Rid­ ers used their first pick to select five-year McGill veteran kickerand punter Chuck Petipas.

The draft consisted of only four picks, all of whom should have been eligible for the regular draft, but failed to submit their names by February 1 deadline.

Petipas, a 6-1,2161b, Education major, is best remembered for his CONTINUED ON PAGE 29

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THE SPORTS PIT, ONE LAST TIME

BY AARON MARGOLIS As the graveyard crew shovels the last bits of earth and sets down a wreath of flowers, the two-year old ‘Sports Pit’ is put to rest for the final time.

The inscription on the headstone, “I will not soon forget” I will not soon forget the grace and dignity of McGill hockey goaltender Jamie Reeve. Reeve, the OUA A and his team’s most valuable player has taken a lot of heat in this column. To his credit, he has endured it like a true gendeman and professional.

I will not soon forget the hilari­ ous and intense antics of Redmen basketball player Ariel Franco. The memory of watching Franco launch a successful trifecta and then race

to embrace courtside spectators was both riotous and compelling.

I will not soon forget football’s Mike Zinga bulldozing over from the one yard line on the last play of the first half of the Queens playoff game.

The Redmen had played the Golden Gaels tough and went into the locker room leading by nine.

Although they were to lose the game, at the time of Zinga’s score, die euphoria of the McGill faithful was overwhelming.

I will not soon forget sitting around and chewing the hockey fat with Redmen defenceman Bryan Larkin. Many of Larkin’s contem­ poraries now play in the NHL. His yams about guys like Wendel Clark, Ken Baumgartner, and Theoren Fleury are legendary.

I will not soon forget watching Martlet basketball player Jane Ross fight for a rebound. Ross has a split personality. Off the court you might mistake her for Shirley Temple.

When she’e scrapping in the paint, it’s all Harvey Wallbanger.

I will not soon forget all the great people at Friends of McGill Foot­ ball. As alumni, they have come forth in a big way (o lend both financial and moral support to the McGill football program. With

people like Vaughn McVey, Wil­ lie Lambert, Eric Mann, and the Kerr family, it’s not hard to feel the spirit and tradition that is McGill football.

I will not soon forget the buzzer beating overtime shot David Steinermade to kill Carleton. Play­ ing his first game after coming off the flu Steiner had a rough first half. In the second and in overtime Steiner controlled the game. Hit­ ting shots from angles Euclid would be proud of, he single handedly won the game.

I will not soon forget the gritti­ ness of hockey captain Tim Iannone. Iannone suffered a vicious shoulder separation this Christmas and could never get completely back on track upon returning to the lineup. However, this was an aber­ ration in a long and and productive career for the Regina native. He departs holding 45 McGill scoring records.

I will not soon forget the cour­ age of fellow sportscaster Ian Si­ rota. Sirota put me on the airwaves at CKUT, broadcasting hockey and football. As a valued friend and true Winnipeg Jets fan (gotcha), Sirota has given a tremendous amount to McGill athletics in his years here.

I will not soon forget the humour and intensity of Tina Fasone.

Fasone’s fresh attitude and pen­ chant for nailing Franco-ish type three pointers make her both a pleasure to know and watch.

I will not soon forget how Redmen hockey coach A1 Grazys, Athletic Director Bob Dubeau, and yours truly became like the Three Musketeers. Just kidding. I’m sure today is a day of great celebration in the Grazys and Dubeau house­ holds.

I will not soon forget the para­ noia I felt upon hearing the McGill offensive linemen wanted to play “make a wish” with a few of my favourite body parts. The line had had a rough day and I only served to make their week a little more unbearable.

I will not soon forget the Paul Brousseau gallop. Brousseau is this year’s male athlete of the year. A wondrous basketball player he earns no style points for the way he runs. He makes Rodney Dangerfield look graceful.

I will not soon forget the relent­ less hard work and counselling of McGill Sports Information Direc­ tor Earl Zukerman. He is my big­ gest constructive critic and most vocal supporter.

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I will not soon forget the nutti­ ness of a game of Hearts involving members of the Redmen basket­ ball team. On the general anarchy scale it rates a 10.

I will not soon forget the Irish­ man and the Greek, Rauri Nicholson and Nick Leonardos who have been my respective sports editors the past two years. It was loads of fun to work with you. As well, the rest of the crew have helped to show me the way.

I will not soon forget the first cab ride I ever took into Montréal, September 3, 1987. A scared 18 year old from Winnipeg whose idea of a great vacation was driv­ ing to Grand Forks, North Dakota for a weekend of shopping and fri­ volity at the local Holiday Inn. At the time Montréal seemed like Gotham City.

And finally, I will not soon for­ get all the kind , interesting, and supportive people I’ve had the privilege of coming across over the last two years. The McGill experience is firmly within. So many great people and characters have shared a small part of their life at McGill. It’s safe to say that so many more will.

My own experience is ending but I will not soon forget

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 27 46 yard game-winning field goal on the last play of the Adantic Bowl versus St. Mary’s in 1987.

That win propelled the Redmen into the Vanier Cup, where they trounced UBC. Pedpas has also indicated that he is hoping for a shot at the Nadonal Football League, and has filed for draft eligibility. The NFL draft will be held next week.

BROUSSEAU AND BAGNELL LEAD MARQUEE Last Friday at the Hilton Bonaventure, the Department of Athlet­ ics held its annual awards banquet.

Basketball’s Paul Brousseau won the Stuart Forbes Trophy as male athlete of the year. Swimmer Alexa Bagnell took the Muriel Roscoe Award as top female athlete.

Soccer player Gayle Noble won the Uldis Auders Trophy for aca­ demic and athletic excellence by a second year student. The Martlet soccer team won team of the year.

Molson Cups were presented to Gerry Ifill and Paul Kerr (foot­ ball), J.P. Vialard (soccer), Martin Raymond (hockey), David Steiner (basketball) and Tina Fasone (basketball).

Thirty most-valuable-player awards were given to the follow­ ing: Julia Hogan and Pavel Pochobradsky (skiing); Xia-Wen CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 »

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Soles left his heart in Montréal

BY JAMES STEWART

Mike Soles gained! 15 yards in 33 carries fo r Edmonton.

For the average sports fan Mike Soles is an outstanding football player who plies his trade for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Cana­ dian Football League. Many people probably remember him for his great successes at McGill. But there is much more to the former McGill Redmen standout than professional football.

This spring, with his first pro season behind him, Soles has been giving his time to the Redmen, helping head coach Charlie Baillie with the recruiting. After being out in Edmonton for the football sea­ son, he found that he had left his heart in Montréal.

“This year I missed Montréal so much. I had such a good time play­ ing at McGill and I missed my

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man than a running back.”

But football is a game Mike obviously loves and one that he approaches very professionally.

There is also the added bonus of getting paid for doing something you enjoy so much. However, the game is not something he plans to do for a very long time. It may surprise most people to hear that Soles has a short career planned before he heads back to school.

“I have more goals than just football,” he explained. “People might listen to this and think it’s strange but you see your friends who are going out and getting jobs and they might plug around for three years, but in those three years that I’ve been playing football and sleeping in til two o’clock in the afternoon they end up being pretty high up the ladder and paying their dues.”

The Economics graduate, there­ fore, plans to continue playing football for just four more years before returning to school to pur­ sue a Master’s degree in Business.

“I don’t want to be in the posi­ tion when I’m 28 years old of en­ tering a company at the same level as I would’ve when I graduated,” he said. “That’s the position I’m in right now. So I just want to get some experience now and then do my MBA. Then I’ll feel my time playing football wasn’t wasted time.”

For the coming season, Soles has a job lined up with the Royal Bank in Edmonton. Practices aren’t until the late afternoon so he will be able to get the work experience he wants while still playing football.

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 Fei and J.F. Allaire (badminton); Tina Fasone and Paul Brousseau (basketball); GeorgiaTzavellas and Francois Binette (cross-country); Liana Te (fencing); Michelle Banham (field hockey); Paul Kerr (football); Kathy Morrison and Jamie Reeve (hockey); Michelle Jones and Matthew Leila (row-

ing); Michelle Walter and Joe Liberatore (rugby); Natalie Ioanidis and John Hayward (soccer); Jennifer Beck and Shoa Ehsani (squash); Nadine Ostiguy (synch­ swimming); Andrea Nugent and Terry Dimock (swimming); Kris­ ten Fry and Dereck Covington (track); Elaine Wai and Steve Brougham (volleyball).

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family. I’m from Montréal, so I felt after this season I was going to come home and get reacquainted with thecity becausel really missed it when I was out in Edmonton.”

For Soles, the move to Alberta was quite an adjustment. While many of us are experiencing life away from home right now, Mike is a Montréal native with family and friends right here.

“I didn’t go away to university so I don’t know what it’s like to live away from your hometown.

Montreal's my hometown. I’ve lived here since I was bom, and all my friends are from Montréal so it’s hard. It’s difficult when you go away to Edmonton and you’re five hours away by plane and you’re sitting in basically an empty apart­ ment with rented furniture and everything and wondering ‘Well gee, I was having so much fun in Montréal last year, how did this happen? How did I end up sitting in Edmonton? I’m playing football but I don’t really have anyone out here to experience it with me.’ So that’s difficult. But the city of Edmonton is beautiful. You wouldn’t believe how much sup­ port they give our football team.”

Soles was selected in the first round of the 1989 CFL draft and spent last season mostly as the second string fullback, and on specialty teams. On 33 carries he gained 215 yards and scored two touchdowns. But he admits he’d like to carry the ball a little more.

“I would have liked to have carried the ball a little more at the professional level than I did in my first year,” he said. “I was more or less treated as an offensive line-

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Alexa Bagnell named female athlete of the year

BY JAMES STEWART Alexa Bagnell is the reluctant star. In a year when she has re­ ceived more awards than Wayne Gretzky, she is far more comfort­ able in the back seat than up front.

But the great tide of laurels just keeps following her, as it did last Friday night when she was awarded the Dr. Muriel V. Roscoe Award as McGill’s female athlete of the year. “ I re a lly don ’ t like the attention at a ll,” she said in a telephone in terview . ‘T h e o n ly tim e I liked an in terview w a s when people w ould ask m e about how the sw im team w as doing. These interview s are a ll about m e and I hate that.”

The com m ent is not token m od­ esty. The latest incident the 2 2 year-o ld B io lo g y m ajor has had to deal w ith has com e from her fo r­ m er high school, H alifax W est.

The principal has asked her to speak at their graduation cerem onies.

A le x a can ’ t understand w hy.

“I h ave nothing special to sa v to these people,” she said. Her high school, as you can im agine, insists

that she does and have given her a couple of days to think about it. In the end she says she will probably do it

Alexa Bagnell with the' Roscoe Trophy.

Alexa’s four year career at McGill will be over in a few weeks.

Like most people who are graduat­ ing she is going to miss a few things, but at the same time is glad to be leaving.

“I think I ’ll be glad to graduate.

I’ve had enough of this particular degree. But I’ll miss Montréal, my teammates and my friends- every­ thing outside school,” she laughed.

“I think the hardest thing was finishing swimming season this year.”

The sum m er aw aits and it is then that she w ill turn her interests to her other favou rite w ater sport: sailing. F or A le x a ’s sum m er jo b this year she w ill be teaching sail­ ing instructors and g ivin g sailing lessons out on the A tlan tic coast.

F o rth elo n g te rm ,B a g n e ll wants to be a doctor either in sports medicine o r pediatrics, and she definitely w ants to return to the M aritim es.

M eanw hile o u r reluctant c eleb ­ rity w ill spend the next tw o years studying at O xford U n iversity in England.

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