The McGill Daily Vol. 81 No. 055: January 20, 1992

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Volume 81, Number 55 Non phi andrai farfallonc amoroso, fino chc 1911 Monday, January 20, 1992
Anxiety over Meningitis exaggerated
by Sara Robson effectiveness. provincial health insurance and $20 per dose. rectly to a hospital.
After two to three weeks 85 people should expect to pay be The symptoms of meningitis in Anyone who feels that tiJey re
McGill Health Services has re per cent of people develop the tween $15-20. clude high temperature, aches, quire a vaccination can contact
centlybeen flooded with phone call proper antibodies. Even after re Dr. Miller recommends that headaches, sensitivity to light, nau McGill Health Services at 398-6017
and visits from tudents and staff ceiving the vaccination, a person people be aware of the cost of the sea and vomiting, stiffness in the or cotJtact a local private physician.
concerned ov r the rec nt menin remains susceptible to the infection vaccine so as to prevent physicians neck, and a rash. If a person devel For more info call the Gazette lttfo
giti scare. But many doctor arc until they develop the antibodies. from overcharging. McGill Health ops all of these symptoms, they li11e at 521- 8600, category number
saying there is no reason to panic. The vaccine is not covered by Services expects to charge roughly should bypass the clinic and go di- 8735
"Statistically, at this point the
incidents are not at epidemic lev Students and youth banking on food
el . Incidents are less in Montreal
than they were) t year at this time,"
said Dr. Pierre Tellier, Medical Di
rectorofthe McGill Health Service. fare.
"Atthis point it seem thatthings Kinlock said the loans and bur
have be n blown out of propor saries system is partially to blame
tion". for student poverty. Students arc
"Almost e cry econd call to the particularly poor during January
clinic concerns meningiti ," said and February because of late gov
Dr. Tellier. ernment bursary cheques.
The calls are :1 result of concern "They are expecting money at
over the spread of the infection, NOURRISSON the end of the year and the bcgin
which has recently resulted in sev ningofthenext," said Kinlock. "And
eral death in QuEbec and Ontario. NElGE when thechequedoesn'tarrivc, stu
Some doctor sugge t that the dents are forced toliveoffborrowed
panic over meningiti is a result of -- - money, or no money at all."
exce ive media coverage. "The For many students, loans and
media ha been v ry irr pon ible bursaries have become the sole
in the way they h:1ve b en treating source of income than ever before,
thi i ue." id D et r Briedi , as- 7 3 said Kinlock. .
o i:llc profe sorin th department "The only real solutions to thi
fMi r biolo :1nd Immunology ~ problem would be to have free tui
at 1 ill. ~ tion, as well a a bett r loans and
The a cine ~ r m nin iti will ~ --=---==--==------':..=~= bursaries system," he , id. "Loans
probablyb om a ailabl in Mon John Kin lock, of Multicaf, says students increasingly need food bank services. and bursarie should be alloc.1ted
tr al rly thi w k, but ueb c so that th y adcquat ly rcfle t the
Mini try f H lth p li y ha on by Dani Colt Multicaffood bank employee John Last year, over 4500 McGill stu needs of students."
troll d the a ailability f th Kin lock agreed. dents received $28 million in either Last fall, the McGill tudent Aid
accine. Students are being hurt by the "Students make up about five government or university loans or developed a Work-Study program
Only one ten-dose vi:~l i allo rece ion, increased tuition and the per cent of the people we help," he bursaries. Student Aid offers emer similar to those found in the United
C:lted to each licen ed phy ician in GST and many are seeking help said. "Students (at the nearby gency loans and grants to students, States. Students in the program
the province. Me ill Health erv from the city's anti-poverty serv Universit~ de Montreal) have al payable in a week's notice. Loans work for departments in special
ice expects to re eive 100 dose , ices. ways been a part of our clientele." are interest-free until completion projects and jobs. Half of their sal
which will be :~dmini tered to pa "We h~ve to create anew defini McGill Student Aid director Judy of studies. ary is subsidized by Student Aid.
tient n a fir t-come-fir t-serve tion for the poor these days," said Stymest said McGill students should Stymest said Student Aid is dish Stymest said everyone benefits
basis. Sun Youth food bank director turn to the government and ing out more emergency aid this from the program. Needy students
Dr. Mark Miller, from the de Tommy Kulczyk. "Anyone who McGill's financial aid programs be year. "Myfcelingisthat the number aresupplied with part-timejobsand
partment of Microbiology of the works with a low fixed income can fore visiting food banks. of students coming in has not in departments gain more money for
I ewi h Gener:1l Hospital, indicated find th ms elves in a hard situation. "We certainly do everything in creased since last year, but that hiring employees.
that the panic over restricted Students are in that category." our power to help students," said they're needier," said Stymest. If you need food or firtattcial as
amount of v:~ccinc is uneccessary. Kulczyk said the worsening Stymest. "There has never been a In fact, youth poverty is wide sistance, visit or call McGill Student
"The real truth is, on the island economy has created new clients case where we've had to tell stu spread in Quebec. In 1987, 107 000 Aid (Powell Student Services Bldg.
of Montre:1l the v:~ccine isn't for Sun Youth last year, including a dents to dropout because no financial households with members under 398-6015 ), MulticafFood Bmtk (733-
needed." According to Dr. Tellier, growing number of students. arrangement could be made." the age of30 received were on we)- 0554) or Sun Yowh (842-6822).
there are no reported cas in the
McGill student population so far.
CL C :mnotreceivingthevac Acquittal leaves women's groups dismayed
cine. "You hav to go to a private
phy ician and hope that he or he
has enough for you," Telli r said. by Krishna Rau The women testified that Van Oostrom ig university administrations recognize that they have
Dr. Briedis, said "generally, I nored their refusal to have sex. Van Oostrom a lot of work to do," said Bazilli. "They can't turn a
would not recommend a cinat TORONTO (CUP)- \Vomcn'sgroupsare claimed each ofthewomcn consented to having blind eye to it. They have to take responsibility for
ingany M Gill tud ent wh has not demanding universities take stronger action sex with him. what goes on in their own community."
been in n of the affe ted area ." after a man wa acquitted in one of Canada's The crown is appealing the de cion. The Su anAddario, the Univcrsityofforonto'ssafety
He re omm nded that people first campu date rape trial . crown attorney criticized the judge in the case officer, said universities have to take notice of the
\ ho are worried about b coming They said the decision could make it even for refusing to recognize the seriousness of date attitudes of judges and others within the legal sys
in~ ted hould c their do tor. harder for women who had been raped by an rape. tem, and work to change them.
People arc nly lik ly t be at acquaintance to go to the police. Other groups felt the extensive coverage of ''I'm not saying they (judges) are neanderthals,
rikiftheyhaver ntlyb ninthc "Women aren't going to come forward if the trial and the rown appeal might prompt misogynists or dinosaurs. They just haven't heard
infe ted ar a of the pr ·nee. theythink their trial are ju t going to be thrown more women to come forward. about the experiences of women," aid Addario.
The uta uais r gion, de out," said a member of the Queen' Women's "In a situation like this, we would encourage "The univcrsiry should be wondering whether we
Lanaudier , and the L.1urcntian entre. women to report date rape or a ault," said hould be taking an active role in judicial training."
region arc now considered epi Robert Van Oostrom, a graduate ofQuecn's Susan Bazilli, the legal director of the Toronto he said univer ities have to decide whether
demicarca ,and loql hildrcn and University, was charged last fall with four counts based Metro Action Committee on Public they want to entrust assault cases to the legal system
tccnagersbctw en thcage fSand of sexual a ault again t three women between Violence Against Women and Children. "The or deal with them internally.
19 arc being given the vaccination. 1987 and 1989. Van Oostrom was a Queen's crown attorney and the prosecution were very "Sexual harassment policies arc now part of the
The vaccination ha a range of engineering student at the time, and all the supportive." policy structure of most universities. Let's take that
complainants were from Queen's students. "The publicity around the trial might make continued to page 6
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The McGill Daily 3
Intellectual property, no money down
by Fiona McCaw bottom up." view of this university."
Lechowicz said the Martinex The university has recieved $90
The elaborate $90 million McGill plan is not intrinsically different million in research funds from the
tax shelter for research has gener from direct government funding Martinex issue, and will later pay
ated criticism within the university because some government funding $30 million for intellectual prop
community in the last few months. programs also encourage the crea erty.rights to the research.
At a McGill Senate meeting last tion of intellectual property. The deal was made possible by a
October, McGill Professor Sam No umoff was concerned the tax loophole instituted last spring
Noumoff objected to the spirit of method of funding might result in by the Qu~bec government to en
the fund-raising plan and the way it abuses by researchers. "lfl knew my courage research. McGill quickly
was implemented. project was to be included, did I buy jumped at the opportunity and
Noumoff said the funding shares? Does this situation invite began a program this year. The
scheme encouraged researchers to the possibility of insider trading? I provincial government has
"put together a package of goods don't like the university to be in a since made such stock issues
that are supposed to be a payoff." situation where that possibility even more difficult to create.
He suggested the scheme set a arises," he said.
dangerous precedent. "It bends re Suzanne Chartrand, who was in
search efforts into the mo ld of what charge of marketting shares in the
fits into the prospectus, and bends project, said there was no possibil
the priority of the institute to ity of insider trading.
accomodate those who will pay." "This is a tax shelter, not stock. we'r e the institute.
Roger Pritchard, Dean ofGradu Thereisnoinsiderknowlegeortrad
ate Studies and Research and ing, just a straight-forward tax
member of a research team funded product."
through the scheme, said there was Chart rand added, "If (research
nothing underhanded about the ers) don't buy some, then we worry."
funding proposal. "It was highly The Senate is in the process of
scrutinized by lots of different bod- setting up a committee to evaluate
the proce
"IT'S NOT DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHER dure. An
initial list of
RESEARCH FUNDING. IT IS MERELY
committee
FUNDING VIA FISCAL MEASURES RATHER
members has
THAN DIRECT MEASURES." been draf!cd,
-ROGER PRITCHARD, DEAN OF GRAD but they have
. STUDIES AND RESEARCH not yet been
ratified by
Senate, says
ies, including the Quebec govern Prichard.
ment. Noumoff said he was pleased
"It's not different from any other with the proposed composition of
research funding," said Pritchard. the committee. "In my judgement
"It is merely funding via fiscal meas it represents the varying points of
ures rather than direct measures."
He admitted the funding would
"stimulate perhaps more applied
types of research than would be oth
erwBisuet dhoen esa."i d the scheme would No Anonymous AIDS Testing at Concordia
not affect the subjects studied by
researchers in the university.
"The government determines by Ita Kendall "There have been a couple of cases in
what money goes into research. The
Canada where somebody's name inad
research to be done is entirely de MONTREAL (CUP)- Concordia vertently got out of the system," said de
cided by the community of Health Services is denying students ac Burger.
McGill."
cess to anonymous HIV testing. He said a Nova Scotia school teacher
The plan, known as the Martin ex "We tell them what's available, but eventually lost his job when positive HIV
stock issue, allows investors to buy we cannot offer anonymous testing right test results were discovered by his em
shares in intellectual property with now," said Health Services nurse Gait ployer.
a combination of their own funds Grier. "He's out of a job and he can't get
and bank loans. Buying the shares is Grier said Health Services cannot test back into the classroom."
· ucison neivslleiidgresiibrtelyed l safuoteprr p btoaurxyt isnw bgra ircteeks- eotahfrfecs h.r i,g Tahnhtdes airnensqouurniaryendmc eot ocu asgrdlivy -e- thwthrheoeirru en gaah mp ateht ieeo nrla t bhi set ahnleothyt aicvsa Hiinlao bMwlee ovante rtt,wr aeona colon-myCmmLoSuuCns i MtHy eIhVtero at let(hsmt sce latirnroc
to the intellectual property gener currently use. Guy), and CLSC Ccntrc-ville.
ated in the stock issue. Health Services only offers confiden Marlcne Yuen-Boyer, a co-ordinator
$51S9h ianr ehtaoxl dcerresd witsil l forerc ieeavceh u$p3 2t5o atiracl HreIVco tredset da nidn cothuen ssetlulidnegn, tb'so tmh wedhiiccahl oMf tehtreo A, IDsaSid I natenrovneynmtioonu Cs eHntIrVe att eCsLtiSnCg
initially invested. file. originated in the United States.
Only research leading to the crea "We try not to be too explicit," said Anonymous testing was introduced
tion of intellectual property, that is, Grier. "We'll write thnt a student re in order to encourage potential carriers
paten table inventions or techn ologi ceived sex education or STD and HIV to come forth, she said.
cal innovations, are eligible for the counselling in their file." Quebec was the first province in
stock issue.
But Grier said if a student decided to Canada to introduce anonymous test
Biology professor Martin go ahead with an HIV test, it would be in ing, said Yuen-Boycr.
Lechowicz has a research project his or her file. There are five anonymous HIV test
funded under the scheme. He also Some observers say the existence of ing centres in Quebec, including two in
thought privately-funded research written information showing HIV test Montreal and one in Sherbrooke, Quebec
would not result in a change in the results could eventually victimize pa City, and Ottawa.
intent of university research. tients. Two weeks ago, the Ontario govern
"The university is a community Ron de Burger, director of the AIDS ment announced plans to spend
of individual scholars," he said. Education and Awareness Program of $600 000 on several new HIV testing
"There's no control of research by the Canadian Public Health Association centres in the Ottawa area. Presently,
the administration or the govern in Ottawa, said people are afraid HIV Ontario has only one anonymous test
ment. There are controls from the test results being leaked out. ing centre, located in Toronto.
4 The McGill Daily
Monday, January 20, 1992
THE MCGILL DAILY
. COMMENT
Too many machines
that go 11ping''
Al ot of money, time and energy in this university goes into technological
solutions for medical problems. And just what good does all this research
do?
Thumbing through research proposals you see some high tech stuff: eye
surgery robots, computer assisted medical decision making, 3-D ultra
sound.
But who is it for? The high tech inventions, by and large, improve the
health of a relatively small affluent elite, but completely fail to address the
real problems of most people. .
Most health problems are caused by social and economic conditions.
The diseases which kill the majority of people in the world are mainly ones
with simple, effective, relatively low-tech remedies-remedies we already
understand.
Sometimes the solution involves education or vaccinations. Often it
requires changes in basic living situations - better water or sanitation,
enough food, acceptable and appropriate housing.
Poverty is a major killer, both in Canada and internationally. What's the
cure for malnutrition? It isn't technology. Environmental problems are
another serious health risk. Cleaning up isn't always easy, but preventing
the damage in the first place can be effective.
While we are spending millions on eye surgery robots, the federal
government is cutting off funding for medicare. If we lose our social
programs, people will suffer because they arc unable to pay for adequate
medical care. We would become just like the USA, the world leader in
medical technology.
Millions of dollars are invested in high tcch research and hard science
because it is easy to see the bottom line. This research is easy to define, its
shows a profit, and it docsn 't really make the problem go away, thus making
it possible to rationalize more research-and more wasted dollars.
Because resources arc limited, we should re-examine our priorities. If we
are going to spend the money on research, we would do better spending less
money on technology and more looking for social solutions. Or we could
channel more to basic necessities like nutrition and housing.
L E T T E R S
Eric Smiley
Fiona McCaw righteousness arc automatic functions Place for Ethan-a good thing traditionally imposed upon us, but is
Robin LeBaron of skin colour, gender, class and sexual As a McGill Graduate I would like to cntirclycountcrproductivc. Women arc
Kristen Hutchinson orientation. The Daily has always made express the disappointment and anger scared and angry, let's use this to change
itquitcclcarthat membership in certain I felt towards the reaction to "A Place what needs to be changed and not to
social groups confers an obligation to For Ethan"- a men's group recently lash out at a few men who want to talk.
L E T T E R S believe in corresponding orthodoxies, begun here. The press it has received is I commend Mabry and Rothgcisscr for
and god help the heretic. Excise identity nothing less than vicious. As a woman their guts in pursuing tllis.
Grads oppose tuition hike on tuition fees, and that RACSQ has politics from the pages of the Daily and and as a feminist I believe a "Place for Ueth Kawaja
To the Daily: consistently opposed the Ministry's you'd be left with a masthead and some Ethan" to beextremelypositive addition McGill Graduate
I found your article on the latest attempt to shift onto students the advertisements. to campus Ii fe . Women's roles in society
increase in tuition fees decreed by the burden of financing the university Of course, the editorial was not are changing, though not nearly fast
Ministry of Higher Education and system in Qu~bec. intended as a blanket condemnation of enough, we have made some progress.
Science, informative and to the point. Eugenic Uolongaro identity polticis, which arc, of course, This by definition changes men's roles To Lev, Terry, Hoori,
However, I was somewhat surprised by VP External, PGSS "rooted in important processes in the in society. We should be overjoyed tl1at
the fact that the piece made no mention President, RACSQ feminist, gay liberation and Black Power at long last, at least a few men, have Robert, Sylvia and
of the position taken by RACSQ on tl1is movements." The merits of identity taken notice of this. If they feel the need especially you, Pierre:
matter. politics seem to depend on the identity to talk about these changes, and
As president of RACSQ I issued a Rampant social evils in question. Which is to say that, when hopefully to improve the general We love you but your
press release to the media (your paper it comes to the problems posed by condition of society through this letters are just too long.
included) immediately after the To the Daily: identity politics, the Daily cditorialists communication-then why not? Is it
Mi n istcr's announcement condemning How startling to sec a Daily editorial just don't get it. Two-edged sword. indulgent and self gratifying to come Buy a big bottle of liquid
the increase. I also participated in a on the subject of identity politics and Slippery slope. Endless Balkanization. togctl1cr and admit to being "sensitive" paper and purge them
press conference organized by ANtf:Q their dangerous divisive effects ("1lle Any of these phrases ring any bells? men? I for one would like to encourage
and AGtuQAM, as well as RACSQ, to identity-politics chain") 1/9/92). 111is In any case, I eagerly await future men to break out of their social down to 300 words or
denounce the Ministry's d~cision and is rather like seeing Ronald McDonald Daily editorials denouncing "political conditioning and to be as senstivc as less. For ex·ample: you
to reiterate our demand that a speak out against meat -eating. The Daily correctness", double-standard they would like. Women have been co~ld remove any
commission of inquiry be set up to has always done its utmost to promote feminism, political victomology, callow silenced and abused tluoughout history
review all government policies affecting the spread of the New Age caste system ethical show-boating in student (and continue to bc),lct us not commit sentences that contain·
post-secondary education. which is replacing liberal individualism journalism, and other rampant social this same crime against men. To silence the ·words "the" or
I tl1ink that it is important for all as the central ideal ofWestem societies. evils. men, and to deny them a reaction to the
students' on our campus to know that 'l11c Daily has been telling us for as long C. Doerksen changing roles of women, is not only to "and."
PGSS has condemned FEUQ's polition as memory serves that sin and Visiting student, History sink to levels of abusive behaviour
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Israel showed up and the conferences have of the occupied territories, designed to make Resolution calls for an Israeli withdrawal from
solely - the result been so far a qualified success. But while the any Israeli withdrawal a demographic as well the territories seized in 1967, in exchange for
long-term gains of these much-publicized as political impossibility. As pointed out by Arab diplomatic recongition of the Jewish
talks are still debatable, one thing is certain. Jewish peace activist Jerome Segal: "Soviet state.
of unyielding The next few weeks will see Israel once again Jews are being used as a demographic batter Israeli officials, however, havevolunteered
ask Washington to guarantee SI 0 billion in ing ram" in the Likud party's pursuit of a a rather creative interpretation of the Resolu
American pressure·. loans. "Greater Israel". tion. They point to the English version of
When Israel's supporters in Congress make One of the basic tenets of Zionist ideology Resolution 242, which does not refer to "the
the request, they will once again stress the is "redemption" of the land of"Eretz Israel". occupied territories", but only"occupied ter
Washington's supposedly humanitarian nature of the re In practice, this has come to mean simply ritories". The officials conclude that Israel's
quest. Both Israel and its supporters will insist increasing the number of Jews and decreas obligation has already been fulfilled by its
was most that the money is necessary to provide hous ing numbers of Palestinians in the former withdrawal from the Sinai peninsula, follow
r~solv~ inl!and iobs for Soviet Jews in Israel. Thevwill Palestine. in!! the 1978 Camp David accords.
claim that the fate of tens of thousands of To this end, Israel has been demolishing Israel's unique interpretation of Resolu
tangibly expressed refugees hinges on the loan guarantees. more Palestinian houses in the occupied ter tion 242 has not been accepted elsewhere.
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Conveniently omitted from this debate ritories than it has granted permits to build, Dean Rusk, who was U.S. Secretary of State
in U. S. president will be an embarrassing, but undeniable fact. according to a study released last July by duringtheSixDayWar, explained that: "Reso
Most of the Soviet Jews newly arrived in Israel British town planner Anthony Coon. lution 242 was somewhat flexible with regard
are there not because the Jewish state was Coon's report concluded: "The purpose to territories ... The purpose of this flexibility
George Bush's their first choice, but only because Israel itself oflsraeli planning policy ... is to confine Pal was to permit minor (border) adjustments ...
blocked their way to other destinations. It is estinian development," while at the same time Resolution 242 never contemplated the move
decision to delay an open secret that America is the "promised encouraging the creation and expansion of ment of any significant territories to Israel."
land" for the overwhelming majority of So Jewish settlements. Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, the
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viet Jews. But despite attractive housing subsidies to architect of the Camp David accord, was more
consideration of Indeed, Israeli sources are the first ones to entice prospective settlers, only a relatively emphatic when he declared that "we consider
admit that until very recently, barely 10 small number oflsraelis have chosen to live in that this resolution means withdrawal on all
$10 billion in loan per cent of Jews leaving the Soviet Union the West Bank or Gaza. three fronts - that is, Golan, West Bank,
ended up in Israel. The remaining 90 per cent Moreover, Diaspora Jews have shown lit Gaza."
went to Europe and the United States. tle inclination to help fulfill Isreal's No less an authority than the diplomat
guarantees to help This disturbing trend was finally reversed self-proclaimed mission of being the who drafted the resolution, Lord Caradon of
in 1989 only after Israel and its lobbyists "in gathering" place for world Jewery by emi Britain, had this to say: "It was from the
Israel resettle persuaded Washington to refuse visas to any grating there. As recent events indicate, this occupied territories that the Resolution called
Soviet Jew who already had one for Israel, and responsibility seems to have been placed al for withdrawal. The test was which territories
to put a quota on the number of Soviet Jews most entirely on the shoulders of reluctant were occuped.
Soviet Jews until allowed into the U.S. each year. Soviet Jews-with the enthusiastic blessing "That was a test not possibly subject to
Also, an intense Israeli campaign succeeded of North American Jewish organizations. doubt. As a matter of plain fact East} ersualem,
the meetings took in closing the processing centres for refugees A British journalist wryly observed that the West Bank, the Golan and Sinai were
in Vienna and Rome. despite their vocal and financial support for occupied in the 1967 conflict; it was on with
Before the closures, many Soviet Jews with Israel, most American Jews have "voted drawal from occupied terriories that the
place. The delay visas for Israel had opted to go elsewhere against Zionism with their feet." Hence the Resolution insisted." ..
when they arrived at these centres. Direct cynical but not entirely inaccurate definition The world community is clearly unani
was also one of the flights from Moscow to TelA vivwere opened, -made disdainfullly in some Israeli circles mous in its assessment that Israel has yet to
preventing the intolerable situation of Jews -of North American Zionists as Jews who comply with U.N. Resolution 242.
"escaping" in transit to the Western countries donate money so that other Jews can move to In his opening remarks at Madrid, presi
most compelling of their choice. Israel. dent Bush reiterated his position that
territorial compromise was the key to peace.
reasons for Israel Having made its loan guarantees to Israel
To confine Palestinian Flexible interpretations
conditional on participation in a peace con
development
Putting the geographic preferences of ference and a freeze on settlements, will the
to attend the tall(s. Clearly, the loan guarantees are not the Diaspora Jews aside, few will disagree that a U.S. now use its powerful economic leverage
strictly humanitarian requests portrayed by solution to the Arab-Israeli dispute must be to pressure Israel into complying with this
Israel. At the top of Israeli prime minister based on the land-for-peace principle inher international consensus?
Yitzhak Shamir's agenda is the "Judaization" ent in United Nations Resolution 242. The That is the 10 billion dollar question.
6 The McGill Daily
Monday, January 20, 1992
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JDPltal. NEWS BRIEFS
Hiring policy vote on the proposal goes, the smoke will find a private place to do public transportation.
I I Teachers' Association does not have it," said Humanities and Social Sci The transport lobby group,
An equity hiring proposal for any real authority to enforce a hir ences Area Librarian Calvin Evans. Transport 2000, awarded their sec
continued from page 1 McGill Faculty was hotly debated ing policy. But the association wants The smoking room was dosed ond annual Prix Citron to Ryan for
soanuel ts cteapse sf.u"r ther with sexual as wlaasts Ttahkuernsd. ay, but no final decision ttiov ep arecstieonnt taon t hoep Jioniinotn S oenna atef fBiromaard dreu-eo ptoe nimedp irmopmeer dvieantetillyaatifotenr. PIth wysai s hmi~st rsou ppfa~rrets. oTf hien corelda secdo dbguesr awnads
At a meeting of the McGill Asso Committee on equity, which is de cal Plant installed a better also responsible for slashing pro
But Addario said universities ciation of University Teachers veloping an equity policy for the ventilation system, said Evans. vincial subsidies to municipal
still have a lot of thinking to do (MAUT), professors were divided end of this year. The administration hopes that transportation commissions, (Ed
about how to handle.such cases.
on the merits of affirmative action. "TheMAUTcan'torder~heuni­ thenewsmokingroom will encour note: And hiking tuition, the crusty
· Bazilli said the recent media Opponentsofthe policy argued that versity to do anything, but we can age people to stop booger).
spotlight on rape trials might force it could threaten academic quality suggest," said Gopnik. smoking in other "Ryan recently
universities to make those deci at the university, while proponents The proposal was raised to ad parts of the library. suggested transit
sions.
said their fears were unjustified. dress the under-representation of "We don't want to fares were too slight
"The Va n Oostrom trial, as well
"My aim is to have every evalu women in the McGill teaching staff. confront students, and suggested to
as the William Kennedy Smith ation in the university based on Only 17 per cent of McGill faculty we want their coop municipal authori
date rape trial in Florida, and the academic merit, from hiring to grad are women, a figure that has re eration," said Evans. ties to increase the
recent Supreme Court of Canada
ing of students," said Prof Mirna main~d roughly constant for about What do stu burden on com
decision to strike down the rape Gopnik, chair of the Teachers' As 20 years. · dents think of the muters before
shield law illustrated the need for sociation equity committee and a Because of the extent of the con new room? "It's too bursting their own
more action around sexual as supporter of the proposal. troversy raised by the issue, a final small, but it's not budgets," said a
sault."
No matter which way the final decision on the proposal was post too badly venti- Transport 2000
poned. It will be voted on at a later lated," said Anthony Ng, a document.
QUE meeting in February. third-year biology student. Ng On a more positive note, the
-Susan Vivian added that he used to smoke out cherished Prix Orange was awarded
side the Redpath caf, but has now to Montreal transitcommissionex
Smoking room
Specials For McGill moved to the smoking room. ecutive Robert Perreault in gratitude
Students ALL YEAR! reopened Smoking in the library was hotly for the new rapido-bus on
Shampoo. debated last year following the uni Montreal's east-end Pie-IX boul
Cut & Style versity's decision to ban smoking evard. Perreault also got a pat on
Men: $10 A solution to the smoking de in all university buildings. the back for his anti-parking
Women: $15 bate in the Redpath-McCiennan - Miclwel Rottmayer intiatives in the downtown area.
.· Perm or library is at last on hand. Ap anel of environmental groups
Modelling The library administration re interested in transportation issues,
Women or opened the smoking room on the Ryan an old sour fruit including Transport 2000, selected
Men from $20 fourth floor ofMcClennan last No Ryan and Perreault at the end oflast
vember. They have posted signs month.
outside the Redpath cafeteria, an Municipal Affairs minister Transport 2000 hoped competi
area frequented by smokers, adver Claude Ryan received the Prix tion for the Prix Orarrge would
tising the new room. Citron last week for his "counter increase next year.
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