The McGill Daily Vol. 82 No. 059: January 27, 1993

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Volume 82, Number 59 Returning the carts lo the supermarket since 1911 Wednesday, January 27, 1993
Mohawks protest racist n1edia·
Mohawkcommunityasa whole, and sa take as part of a campaign the SQ
BY KRISTIN ANDREWS
was therefore not racist. launched a~nst Mohawk Chief} erry
Confidential police documents Peltier and others when Pcltier re
implicating one in five Kanehsatake The SQ: some questions fused to return an SQ gun left at the ~
residents oftraffickingin illegal ciga Surete du Quebec acknowledges sitewherepoliccofficersshotatacar o
rettes in 1992 were deliberately that an internal source leaked recent at Akwesasnc last fall. ~
leaked last Tuesday to CJMS, a ra documents regarding the tobacco Etienne and Deer say the police ~
dio station known to be hostile to trade at Kanchsatake but has yet to investigation of Mohawk cigarette ;2
determinethcindividual responsible, sales is about harassment, not about ~ '
First Nations people, Mohawkcom
o
said spokesperson Robert Pocti. crime-solving.
munity leaders say.
Kcnneth Deer, editor and pub "If they were honestly trying to iE
The publicity came on the eve of
lisher of Kahnawake community get to the bottom of the contraband
the coroner's inquest into the death
newspaper '/11e Eastern Door, doubts issue, they would look at the white
of Marcel Lemay, the Surete du
that anyone person is responsible for people," Etienne said.
Quebec officer shot during a police
the leak. Mark Bourque of the Royal Ca-
raid on Oka in July 1990.
"There's probably a deeper con nadian Mounted Police confirmed ~
Deborah Etiennc, self-declared
spiracy within the SQ," he said. that only about half of the illegal
"deputy minister, Caucasian affairs"
Deer said police antagonism to cigarette sales in Montreal come ........
of Kanehsatake, said the timing of
ward Mohawks has been particularly through Akwesasne. .~ :
the release of the police report is
extreme since events at Oka two sum Foreign embassiesanddiplomats
suspicious. She sees a history of
mersago. withimmunityhavebeenamongthe
media defamation of the Mohawk
He cited a number of arrests of primary perpetrators in the sale of
people at times of political unrest.
Kanchsatakc residents who had too tax-free tobacco, he said.
The negative publicity tends to
much snow on their car windshicld. Etiennc accused the SQ of focus
overshadow coverage of political is
Deer has one friend in court currently ing publicityonMohawk involvement
sues raised by native people, Etienne
for not dimming his lights when en in the smuggling in order to distract
said.
countering a police vehicle. the media from the coroner's in
"It just couldn't be a coincidence
Deborah Etienne sees the current quest which Mohawks have
that this information was leaked to negative publicity levelcd at Kaneh- dem~ded for almost two years. Dcborah Eticnne, sclf.dcclarcd "deputy minister, Caucasian affairs• of Kanehsatake
Gilles Proulx," said Etienne, refer
ring to the CJMS radio personality Merging of SSHRC and Canada Council condemned
she describes as an "all-around Ca
nadian racist".
and research will fritter away.
Despite SQ admonitions to the
BY KRISTEN BOON Michael Temelini, vice president
contrary, Proulx listed the names of
& KATHY BUNKA university affairs for the post gradu- ,
the accused in the report. Individu
ate students' society agreed with
als mentioned will press charges for
The federal government is about Prichard. "It's all crass political
slander, Etienne said.
Proulx is remembered for hav to merge a body funding university i' maneuvering, the federal government
research with another funding the wants to cut spending."
ing devoted an entire day of
programming on his show Le ]ollr arts. Academics and students arc ~ Fiona McQuarrie, chair of the
worried that the move will reduce 3 National Graduate Council, which
rwl du Midi to "Mohawk bashing"
in the wake of the July3 acquittal of funding for research in the social ~ represents 40 000 graduate students,
sciences, and will give universities ~ said she is worried funds that should
Mohawk warriors who had been
less say in where the money is go- fii be going to research will instead be
involved in the Oka crisis, said
m. g. o0 poured into administrative costs.
Celine Leduc.
Bill C-93, which has just passed its it The government' sdccision to ere
Leduc, a Mohawksupporterand
activist, has documented what she first reading in the Commons, will ~ , ateCARSSHstemsfrom their plan to
create the new Canada Council for ~ "streamline operations" and create a
deems media abuses ofNative peo
the Arts and for Research in the So more cost-effective body. SSHRC
ple for two years.
cial Sciences and Humanities representatives maintain that the
. Last Tuesday's Surete scandal
(CARSSH). merger is simply an administrative
echoes events of December 1991,
The move will combine two fed- · change, in which one board of gover
Leduc said.
era) organi?.ations, the Social Sciences nors will replace the previous two.
Verdun radio stati.on CKVL ob
and Humanities Research Council The two budgets will be kept sepa
tained information that Hydro
(SSHRC) and the Canada Council. rate, and ongoing programs will not
Quebec had offered rebates to some
The SSHRC, created in 1978, is an be affected.
residents of Akwesasne. CKVL cir
organization which providessupport Prichard is also worried about the
culated a form letter to aid white
through fellowships to research and composition of the new council. He
Quebeckers in writing to protest
training in the social sciences. thought the government w<.>Uid ap
so-called preferential treatment of
The SSHRC is one of the largest point members of the business
Natives.
sources of aid for graduate students. community in hopes they will do
The incident coincided with a
But the Canada Council has a much nate money.
Mohawk petition of the provincial
different mandate.lt funds artists in "The new council will be given the
government in hopes of decreasing
various media from writing to film. role of representing Canada's image
police presence on Native reserves. --~·-
Low funding has been a chronic vp research and Dean of Graduate Studies, Roger Prichard in cultural matters, so it diverges from
The Canadian Radio-Television
problem of the SSHRC, and many the student's focus on training in the
and Telecommunications Commis
feel the merger will not help the situ search grants were funded last year. structures for administering funding social sciences and humanities," said
sion has defended both CJMS and
ation. Although calling it a "cost-cut withinSSHRCand theCmadaCoun Prichard
CKVL.
"We have grave concerns that this ting measure", the government has cil because the activities funded by Temelini added that the merger is
When Leduc complained of rac
reorganization will not improve the not shown how combining the two each body are so different. He was indicative of the conservative gov
ist language used by CKVL to incite
present low funding for humanities bodies will help. Prichard is not op also worried about the possibility that ernment's agenda.
people to protest, Allan Darling of
and social sciences across Canada." timistic. "(Thegovemment) justified academics would have to compete "'I11csolution to the chronic fund
the Cin'C responded that the
said Roger Prichard, Vice-principal it in terms of saving administrative with people concerned with the Arts ingproblcmisforthegovernment to
broadcasts attacked only "ui1 petit
Graduate Studies and Research at costs but they have not come across for the same funding pool. change. Current policies arc devas
bloc de voyon" (referring to the
McGill. Only 22.5 per cent of appli with any figures to justify this." Prichard added that the universi tating to education," he said.
Mohawk warriors as a small group
cations for doctoral fellowships and Prichard said the government ty'sabilitytoinfluencethcnewcouncil McGill'sscnatcvoted last Wednes
of hoodlums), as opposed to the
30 per cent of applications for re- would have to maintain existing on matters concerning fellowships day to condemn the merger.
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Tioxide still dumping at Tr acy plant
being allowed to continue robbing government says that Tioxide's
BY AUBREY COHEN
banks while on trial for the first claim is ridiculous, since much of
You know that big river you robbery," said Daniel Green, of the the data came from Tioxide itself.
thought was really dirty? Well you environmental lobbying group SVP Tioxide claims they will close
don't know just how dirty it is. (Societe pour Viancre la Pollution). the Tracy plant as soon as its new
Tioxide Canada's factory in Tracy, Tioxide,asubsidiaryofiCI (Im plant in Becancour is operational.
Quebec, dumps 120 to 150 tones of perial Chemicals International), According to Green, Tioxidedoesn 't
sulfuric acid into the St. Lawrence produces a titanium pigment used need to build anew factory to cut its
everyday! to colour paint, paper, plastics, and pollution.
The Quebec environment min other consumer products. "They just need to add an addi
ister has issued an order for Tioxide The production of this pigment tion onto the old one," said Green,
Canada to close the Tracy plant, also creates sulfuric acid which poi "there is very well known technol
which produces titanium pigment. sons fish and destroys fish habitats. ogy to neutralize the chemicals."
But Tioxide is appealing the order The acid also makes other pollution Using this technology which,
in front of the Quebec Municipal soluble in water, thereby increasing according to Green, has existed since
Commission. the effects of other firms' waste. the time of the industrial revolu
The Quebec government is tion, the acid could be neutralized
"Its like a prosecuting Tioxidc for a regula and the remaining by-product
.tory infraction. Tioxide violated its could be used for gibson board
convicted felon own cleanup plan which they sub (drywall) production.
is being allowed mitted to avoid government action The total cost to implement this
against them. IfTioxide is held ac plan would be less than $20 million.
to continue. countable, they face a maximum of This is not an outrageous sum con
S1 20,000 in fines. sidering the scope of Tioxide's
robbing banks
The federal government is also parent firm (ICI). Space for the ad
while on trial prosecuting Tioxide, on six counts dition is not a problem as there is
of violating the Canadian Fisheries plenty of room in front of the Tracy
for the first
Act. This is the most potentially plant.
robbery" damaging case for Tioxide, as it Tioxide had no comment about
could bring a total of$36 million in the factory or any of the current
fines. legal proceedings. When informed
Members of local environmen
tal groups call the appeal a stalling Tioxidc claims that they were that an article on the subject would during
tactic and criticize the Quebec gov not given all of the data used as a appear without their input, a which time Tioxide
ernment for negligence in allowing basis for issuing the order to shut spokesperson for the firm replied, will still be producing their
Tioxidc to continue production the Tracy plant. The issuing of this "That's okay, we're used to it." titanium pigment and dumping
during the appeal. information is required by the En No action will be taken against 120 to ISO tones of sulfuric acid
"It's like a convicted felon is vironment Quality Act. But the Tioxidc for at least two months, into the St. Lawrence per day.
Deadlock over library funding
The collection of literature is
generally agreed to be the top prior
BY lAWREN SACK
ity in spending. Since 1982 journal
McGill's library system badly subscriptions have slumped, and
needs money. But in this already the number of books bought has
cash-strapped university, it is hard steadily declined. for many re
to sec where the money will come searchers desired books, journals,
from. and monographs can be only dis
The Senate Committee on Li tantly seen, far over the horizon,
braries, is calling for McGill to shelved at U ofT.
devote ten per cent of its budget to At a senate meeting Tavenas pro
the libraries. This entails a nine posed a new direction to move in:
million dollar increase in funding towards the effective amalgamation
over the next ten years. of Montreal university libraries. By
Francois Tavenas, Vice-Princi pooling all resources, the libraries
pal ofPianni ng and Resources, calls could avoid, for instance, having
the ten per cent "unrealistic". duplicate copies of two-thousand
Senators debated the proposal dollar scientific journal issues in
last December, and postponed fur the same city. The cooperating
ther discussion until next universities could allocate a build
Wednesday's Senate meeting. ing to each field, combining their
Eric Ormsby, Director ofLibrar "Sometime• collections.
I don't believe
ies, told Senate on December 9 that Bell said that this idea is not new,
how far I will
the libraries were grossly under go to make up and that informal pooling is already
funded. A committee reviewing the a ahortfall." practised by the city's university li
libraries last year reported in Octo braries. McGill's libraries give
ber that 4.7 per cent of the library's search Libraries ( exerpted in shifting funds from "all other units, funds requested would be eqivalent priority to those journals that can't
money has been siphoned into the MacLean's) placed McGilllibraries academic, and non-academic" of to half the budget of the Faculty of be found elsewhere. But Bell said
Academic Faculties for the last five last on its list, based on a meagre McGill. Arts. that the point in a library is having
years, contributing to the libraries' state of funding. According to Tavenas, simply "One has to look at the global "everything in one place."
further decline. According to a report bytheSen transferring funds will not do the picture. If we took that money out "I would support pooling if all
"Over the past ten years the li ate committee on Libraries, trick. Three million dollars in in of faculties and spent it on libraries, the books were placed in one li
braries have not been able to develop "universities with excellence in all creased funding over the next three we'd have a good library system but brary," said Bell.
or grow," said Ormsby. aspects" spend as much as 10 years has been promised to the li it wouldn't be much use to students Lcggett agreed that the idea of
Biology professor Graham Bell, per cent on their libraries. UBCand braries at this point, and this will or professors." library pooling is a trend for the
a member of the committee, said U of T spend this much, while only allow the libraries to regain Tavenas suggested overhauling future, as every North American
the quality of the libraries is suffer McGill currently contributes 5.9 their status of two years ago. the libraries' current budget. university library struggles to deal
ing. McGill research and study is per cent, lower than any other Ca The relative lack ofimprovement Twenty-six per cent of the library's with the same problems.
presently conducted in a "small nadian university. results from the inflation of books budget presently goes to collections, Needless to say, the Daily didn't
town library," he said. William Leggett, Vice-Principal and journals, and the soaring costs whereas the figure comes to about bother to ask anyone about further
A library rating performed by Academic, said that the ten per cent, of administration. 33 per cent for what Tavenas calls funding for the MacLennan smok
the Canadian Association of Re- if granted, would be amassed by Tavenas told Senate that the "better libraries inN orthAmerica". ing room.
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Wednesday, January 27, 1993
THE MSGILL DAILY
comment
lhe recession is dead~
~ong IWe ~e recession~
I probably don't have to convince you that StatsCan's announcement of
the end of the recession was nuts. If Pulse News can be trusted, just about
everyone would agree.
Hut the funny.t hing is, StatsCan is right. The recession is over.
Here's how it goes. "Recession" is a highbrow economics term which
means that the economy's been shrinking for at least six months. The trick
is that"cconomy" is defined in terms of things liketheGDP,productivityand
industrial expansion.
These arc factors which likely have little to do with your day-to-day life.
(Notice the conspicuous absence of the unemployment rate-which isn't
changing - from the calculation.) And that's the real problem: When
economists talk about how strong the economy is, they're talking about how
much money rich people are making.
Until that changes, they'll continue making meaningless statements
about "recessions" and "jobless recoveries".
DanRobins
Colorado, ~ere we come~
Meanwhile, we came across a piece of hate on the bathroom floor the
other day. It was titled, innocuously enough, "Equal Rights for All?", and
authored by someone named Erika Norhcim. You can find it in the latest
issue of PC McGill's newsletter, JJlucnotes.
The column is an attack on Kim Campbell's proposed queer rights
amendment to the Human Rights Act The argument is that "lifestyle
choices" (as opposed, I guess, to ontological structures of being qua Being)
arc not worthy of protection in the constitution.
Here's a sample sentence, from tl1c first paragraph: "Employers could be
forced by law to hire homosexuals, even in cases where this conflicts with
their faith or most deeply held sense of morality."
Here's another: "Homosexuals arc fully capable of keeping their dignity
without government help by keeping their sexual preferences to themselves."
And what about, "when the government takes it upon itself to define what notes from below
is 'normal' sexual behaviour, the education systems \vill soon create a
mandation [sicJ for themselves that homosexual relations are normal and Monday's story"Studcntsobjcct to the travel budget referred to takes one masses is not really so precedent-shat
healthy"? condo conversions" contained a few third of the athletic budget, ratl1crthan tering - Hush did it too. (And the
'l11csc arc not the ravings of some strcctcorner born-again. They're inaccuracics.1be $60-120 thousand in from the intercollegiate teams (which statement that Clinton has been
presumably the considered opinion of someone engaged in higher educa question was a projected price for the would have been right). Also, it's the "bonificd" is also false. Clinton has to
tion, and she's been given a platform by the local regiment of the young condos, not a down payment And the cess who undcrbudgcts for the date not expressed an interest in con
Tories. bit about units being convertible to playoffs, not the university who verting to the Bon religion. It would be
Despite her failings, Norhcim does have a reassuringly optimistic opinion condosifthc rent is raised to IS per cent overbudgets. more accurate to call him a "bona fide
of the power of civil rights legislation. For i:1stancc, she thinks it possible that above average is actually a bit more And finally, "Bill Clinton's Gala political star".)
the Bible could be banned over Leviticus' and St. Paul's fag-bashing. complicated than that: There arc three Touchdown"tothecontrary,Clinton's Someday we'll figure out this jour
But she forgets that when they tried to ban the Bible for its misogyny, zones in Montreal, and each of them opening of the White House to the nalism thing ...
racism and religionism (not to mention its bad taste), all those Queers for hasabcnchmarkrent,15per cent above
Christ groups in B. C. got the original court decision overturned by arguing the average rent in that zone. Buildings
that the book was obviously satire. whose units have an average rent over errata
She also thinks teaching sexual self-determination would confuse youth thisbenchrnarkqualifyforconvcrsion.
"before they have even had a chance to establish their morals or religion". Mistakes in editing attributed to a The Daily staff in no way condones the addition of an insert titled
Perversely, she forgets to mention the "confusion" queer kids face now, I>roject Genesis report a quote spoken "What you didn't know about the 400 Hamas deportees" in some
as they realize they are universally despised by breeders such as her. Perhaps by Chris Wrobel. Furthermore, men copies of Monday's Daily.
she doesn't even know that one in three youth suicides (as determined by the tion of Amold Kwok's involvement The insert is in our view racist hate propaganda, and was added
U5. department of health a couple of years ago) arc committed by youth with the brief to SSMU was without our knowledge or consent.
whose "sexual confusion" is not being addressed in today's schools. inadvcrtantly removed. We talked to our lawyer, who told us the addition was illegal. This
Don't mean to waste your time with something so obviously bigoted and Also worth noting is that "Council in mind, we'll be doing whatever we can to ensure it doesn't happen
wronghcadcd. It's just that I thought this sort of thing only happened in the lors at odds over athletics funding" again.
U.S. (and of course in Alberta, the Colorado of the North). ·
contained the inaccurate claim that
Planning on proposing any ballot initiatives anytime soon, Norhcim?
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Wednesday, January 27, 1993 5 The McGill Daily
letters
A matter of irresponsibility 1970s a new appeal procedure allowed Free Western Rumelia! Never-ending audacity Not Religiou~
To the Dally: a petition to the Israeli High Court, but To the Daily: To the Daily: Fundamentalists
My father was born in 1924. He was the Court, which has never reversed a The current quarrel in the European It is witJ1 all the respect traditionally To the Daily:
diagnosed with porphyria in 1977. He deportation order, rules only on community over Macedonia's recog reserved for McGill fraternities tJJat I Let me get this straigl1t. We, the
now has Myeloma Multiple Cctit. No procedural rather than substantive nition, and the political sabotage being find myself responding to Desbarats' students, collectively pay over $28 000
doctor ever told him that porphyria is issues and rejects the applicapility of perpetrated by Greece over its name article (Students' Society Loses ·nlou in SSMU executive salaries, so t11at the
an hereditary disease. He still does not the Fourth Geneva Convention. (which Greece seems to hold copyright sands, January 25). SSM U may (I) present us with a loss of
believe it when my brother told him In 1985, under then Dcfcnse over) could, we feel, be solved by 'l11e blasphemous calls for financial S1 3 000 and tell us that it really is
that my niece has it. I am concerned Minister Rabin's "Iron Fist" policy, a applying a bid ofhistorical research. autonomy and full incorporation of the notJ1ing compared to t11c amount t11ey
about it because I may have it too. I find new wave of dcportations commenced, During t11c gradual witJ1drawal of SSMU arc certainly grounds for arc capable of losing, proof of which
out now when he slowly falls ill. Is it not and 42 Palestinians were deported by the Ottoman empire from the Balkan impeachment of an apparently inept rests with the whopping $350 000 that
a matter of irresponsibility of the December 1987. Another 62 region, there temporarily arose a group of individuals. How could they they have lost in the last two years alone
medical profession to educate their Palestinians were deported in t11c next principality which has since become possibly rationalize such a step when (evidently without too much help); (2)
patients in advance? two years. In January 1992, in the wake part of modern Bugaria. Its name was they unwittingly attempt to donate manage an overstaffed Sadic's, which
Tony of new deportation orders against 12 Eastern Rumclia. Its capital was Plovdiv. $50 000 of students' money ·to the lost a "mere" $16 000 last year; (3} pay
Palestinians the UN Security Council If ilic reader consults his/her handy federal government, and embezzle a thcSSOOOOGSTtwicc, as if once seems
unanimously passed resolution 726 European map, they will notice that cool S 100 000 from scholarship to have robbed them of the divine
Lexic rape which "strongly condemns" the this portion of southern Bulgaria is endowments? 0, the never-ending pleasure; (4} raid the scholarship fund
To the Daily: dcportations and "affirms the directly cast of Macedonia. 'Ibcreforc, audacity of elected persons! only to realize that they must now
After dwelling in the social sciences applicability of the Fourth Geneva we humbly submit to the world iliat the It seems to me that an elected body replenish it witJ1 t11c added interest cost;
for some time, I have come to the Convention." December 17th 1992saw Republic of Macedonia consider a charged with the mandate of (5) operate a $2 million account for
conclusion that the unyielding pursuit thclatestoflsrael'swavcofDcportation, chance of nomenclature to: Western responsibility managing a "$2 million which ilicy have little or no idea as to
ofknowledgc in which we engage is a bit again faced by another UN Security Rurnclia. Titcy will find the name to be operation" must at the very least contain where the money all· went; (6}
problematic. Howwcslavcawayinsuch Council resolution, number 799, blissfully free ofa ny previous historical one member who is competent in areas incorporate into a loss-making
disciplines as sociology, political condemning Israel. However, it was still occupants, with ilic exception of the offinancial management and budgetary company whose stockholders, the
science, and economics to arrive at new lacking any economic embargoes or short-lived Eastern Rumclia) and allowances. I am told tJtat the faculty of students, will probably never meet once,
theories of the group (whomever it be deadlines for military action as was tJJc perfectlysuitablcforplacatingthcnow Management's Accounting I (280-211) let alone receive a cent in dividends ...
composed of), justifying them with case with Iraq. rabid Greek government, as well as course will provide a general yet Oh Dcaric Me ... Picard is not pleased
empirical data with the aim of being Jami Mansoni filling that ever-plaguing gap between comprehensive overview of such ... well, at least they're not religious
more inclusive and predictable than MISU3 Vietnam and Western Samoa.(?) fundamentals that even an Arts student fundamentalists.
previous conceptions of the model. Humbly yours, may apply. I should t11en suggest that Pervez Siddlqui
When things in the models do not Craig Hurley, U2 Philosophy certain executives of our sometimes U2 Management
quite work out, we (as social scientists Erroneous and offensive Je ffrey Egger, U3 Mathematics revered but rarely treasured SSMU pass
-a daft term in itself) must justify all To the Dally: a little less time watching syndicated
our time and resources spent in the re: Sartawi and Kadry's Hyde Park "Star Trek" and devote more time to
creation of such useless devices to of Jan. 21 concerning tJJc Israel Week their homework.
explain humanity. 'Ibis is a necessary festivities in the union building
component to allow ourselves a "back You may indeed be correct; falafel hyde parks
door" to explain and validate theories. may be an Arabic food. But when foods
Two fabled devices arc those of arc eaten by both peoples for
anomalies and validate theories. With generations, ilic question ofa uthorship Anger over offensive literature dally "799" which demands the safe re
the latter, why anybody could hope to becomes a tricky inquiry into gastro
turn of the deportees to their homeland.
accurat~ly describe a dynamic ethnology. Who is to say whether
As a student who has no say over
mechanism while "freezing" all cabbage rolls arc Polish or Ukrainian? Opinion by Bahaa Sunallah
where our money goes in terms of stu
variables, except t11e irreconcilable data Your use of. the phrase "ethnic
by saying it falls outside the normal cleansing" to describe Israel's activity As a McGill student and one of the one side of the story which answered the dent services, I demand the McGill Daily
bounds, or it is merely a fluke and in the West Bank managed to be at the regular visitors to the union building. I question "what". To be fair they an continue the invc.~tigations in regard to
th<!r<!Corc doesn't really need to be same time erroneous and offensive. If was hit by surprise and anger on Monday swered "where", "when" and "who". the entry in their above-mentioned edi
included in tJJc final analysis. there is any genocide occurring in the January 25, as a result of having to read What happened to "why"? And what tion. I also find it necessary to call upon
lbe real crime lies in the everyday West Bank, it is an auto-genocide. Hamas Hit List which was distributed about the other side of the story? What various student societies who arc disad
study of the social sciences. 'lbe way we Palestinian death squads (such as the with the McGill Daily for that day. about their five \Vs? vantaged or in support of the Muslims
manipulate existing vocabulary for the one which has oflate captured the hearts In fact, it was another reminder that Ladies and gentlemen, our under and the Palestinians. My pledge goes to:
taste of our tJJeorists oftcntimes gives of the world, Hamas), were responsible disadvantaged groups are facing a standing of the basics of our living life is SSMU, McGill Muslim Students' Asso
completely new meaning to terms once foriliedcaili of387unarmcd Palestinian continous massive, offensive and hatred very naive and limited without adressing ciation (MSA), Palestine Solidarity
understood and justified in our minds. victims during 1991-2. By contrast, literature, ONLY b(.'(ause we are people why did it happen. I am not advocating Committee (PSC), The Black Students'
We must relearn t11esc definitions and Israeli soldiers were responsible for the who are trying to establish ourselves in a that the goals justify the means. On the Network (BSN), South Africa Student
terms in a new light. Terms once held death of !50 Palestinians over ilic same multi·cultural society where the media is contrary I believe that those Islamic Society, the women's union, Amnesty
basic to our understanding and period.
biased and itself a major player in the movements have a mission in life and I International and many other groups.
expression of the world we live in have Your editorial refused to admit
double standard phenomenon. strongly believe it to be done by all the I conclude with Article 2.4 of the
been uprooted and thrown into the Palestinian splinter groups arc
I said only, and I emphasize it, be legal means with total respect to the value SSMU constitution.
proverbial blender of social science. terrorising their own people, by brutally
What t11is amounts to is lexic rape. murdering any Palestinian suspected cause Ham as, Islamic Jihad, the Egyptian of human beings. I shall leave any of the "The Students' society of McGill
Construed and contrived terms defining of"collaboration" with Israelis (which Islamic movement and the Algerian Is questions that !left unanswered to the University is committed to groups, pro
our own "model world" have saturated often amounts to accepting medical lamic movements are being the victims Muslims and Palestinians to comment grams and activities that are devoted to
our (academic) lives and left us witJ1 a provisions from or selling religious of the media. on. the well-being of a group disadvantaged
warped and confused understanding of articles to an Israeli). To bring the issue down to a practical By now, I hope it is clear that the 417 because of, but not limited to, race, na
the society we live in. Your claim that the "non-Jcwish" level, when we bet over a coin, we usually palestinian deportees suffer the shared tional or ethnic origin, colour, religion,
Ian White population outnumbers t11c Jewish in ask the two parties to choose a head, or a oppression of being Muslims and Pales sex, age, mental or physical disability,
Political Science, U3 Israel is categorically false. Is there any tail. It only makes sense because there are tinians, just as much as black women sexual orientation, or social class."
sense to be made of counting two sides for the coin and the rest is luck. suffer from being black and women, with If we don't all unite, then we should
No longer shocked Palestinians outside oflsraelwithin this In our case, ladies and gentlemen, we the difference that the oppressor in the count our days as a solid minority \vith
To the Daily: figure? Arc we also to include the have two sides for the story and the rest former case is a state that refuses to abide and assertive mandate to our welfare and
I am no longer shocked at the Palestinians presently living in Jordan, are facts.1be Hamas Hit List presiented by the United Nations resolutions, espe- well-being.
audacity of many of the Pro-Isradi where, incidentally, Palestinians do
groups on campus whether MIPAC, constitute a majority (70 percent)?
Hillel, TAGAR or others. At a time What irks me most is that you do A~e mester Old: lhe ~tudent Empornennent Fund stipend. Student's council will be
when Israel has yet again violated not reveal the one premise underlying asked to consider making the fund
International Law by deporting 415 all your arguments. Allow me to make Opinion by )ason Prince, president of SSMU and committee a permanent opera
Palestinians, pro-Zionist groups arc exoteric what you arc so careful to
tion of Student's society.
coming out of the wood work to express esoterically: Jews have no right All of you people out there doing members of the student's society of Requests for funding should be
"celebrate Israel." But as thcsayinggocs, to live in peace in any part of their community work, where are you? In McGill university added the following forwarded to the president, who will
"the best defence is a good offence." (microscopically) small homeland. If case you've forgotten, there is a fund provision to the purpose ofSSMU (ar forward them to a selection commit . '•
'Ibis deportation is not t11c first of the Zionist dream is racist (and it isn't),
its kind and is in clear violation of the then how is it iliat the Palestinian dream available for your project if it involves ticle 2.4): tee composed of one student from
Fourth Geneva Convention, article 49 is not? Who said anything about "Jews McGill students working with the "The student's society of McGill cachoft.hedisadvantaged groups rep
stating "Individual or mass forcible Only"!?! Montreal community. university is committed to groups, pro resented by the following
transfers, as well as deportations of Jonathan Goldman So far, the volunteer empowerment grammes and activities that are devoted organi.zations: the Black Student's
protected persons from the occupied U2Arts fund has helped support a volunteer to the well-being of a group disadvan Network, the Women's Union, Ac
territories to the territoryoftheoccupying Statistics: The New Republic, child care programme for single moth taged because of, but not limited to, cess McGill, and Lesbians, Bisexuals,
poweroranycountryoccupied or not, are November 23 1992. pp 26-29. ers, Black History Month (specifically colour, race, national or ethnic origin, and Gays of McGill.
prohibited, regardless of their motive. ed. note: Sarta1vi and Kadry's Hyde events which include the broader com religion, sex, age, mental or physical Please submit grant requests, ac
Deportation is an administrative Park was not an editorial. Editorials in munity),and aMontn!al-wide tutoring disability, sexual orientation, or social companied by a brief proposal
punishment, with no specific cllarges, the Dailyare written and endorsed by programme for primary and second class." outlining the project's purpose, plan
and due process oflaw is not observed. Daily staff. ary school students. To back up this commitment, the of action time line, total budget, other t ..
Between 1967-1977, at least 1156 The fund was inspired by the 1991 president ofs tudent's society has do sources of funding, and required sub
Palestinians were deported. In tJJc late constitutional referendum when the nated $2000 out of his personal sidy from the empowerment fund.
The McGill Daily 6 Wednesday, January 27, 1992
McGill students to be
vaccinated for meningitis
"It appears as though the Students normal for about 25 per cent of the
BY HASAN KARRAR
arc eager to get vaccinated." population to carry the bacteria in
A provincial campaign to vacci Lawscn said the vaccination rate them at one time or the·o ther with
nate students against meningitis is in Quebec is higher than in parts of out any ill effects.
coming to McGill. Starting Fcbuary the US where vaccination is com Lawsen said that amongst the
I, McGill students living in rcsi. pulsory. people who had contracted menin
dcnccs will have the opportunity to gitis in the mid eighties, about
be vaccinated for meningitis. 0!1 twenty died within a few days of ,
the request of the Community "lt appears infection. "This generated a lot of
Health Department (DSC) vaccincs concern amongst the people. How
to be more of
will be administered free of charge ever 90 per cent of meningitis cases
at the Student Health Centre in the recover", she said.
Powcll Building. a political Meningitis occurs when the bac
Susannc Lawscn, a nurse at the teria enters the blood stream causing
Health Centre, said that the danger move." a severe infection. The initial
faced by students was minimal, and symptons arc high fever, severe
the campaign was largely a public headaches, stiffness of the neck,
relations move. "It appears to be Vaccination in Quebcciscntircly nausea and vomiting.
more of a political move", she said. voluntary. Students arc required to Between the years 1984 to 1990 News writers' meeting
Lawscn was optimisticaboutstu make appointments in advance. there was a gradual increase in the
dcnt turnout. Meningitis is an infection of the number of meningitis cases diag
"Although vaccination has never membranes covering the brain and nosed, the peak being in 89-90when
•••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
taken place at McGill before, we're the spinal cord. It is caused by a 41 cases were diagnosed in Q!Jebec.
Thursday 16h. Onion B-03
expecting about 70 per cent of the number of bacteria, the most dan The expected rate of infection in
residence population," said Lawsen. gerous being Meningococcus. It is the year 92-93 is one per 100,000.
Bureaucrats strike again ~McGill
W SPEAKERS'
Graduate Program in S E R I E S
Communications presents:
BY ELIZABETH CALEY technology exchange will likely be hasn'tevenheardoftheproject. Dr. jean-Paul Gilson
among the issues discussed. DiGiovanni isalsoworriedabout (Brussels)
Montreal could be the home of The working group promises to thestructureoftheproposedsecre- "Faire du Sens de la Topologie.de Lacan"
the first international organization closely consult with non-govern tariat. The Talk will be in French
on the ministerial level to deal with mental organizations of disabled "It should be a way of sharing Free of charge
disability issues. Last week, a work persons during the next six months experiences not just giving out January 29, 5 pm
ing group of sixteen international to help establish its mandate. money," said DiGiovanni. location: GPC, 3465 Peel St., Room 203
government officials, from various But prominent disabilities ac "It must maintain a strong rela-
countries around the world, pro tivists in the Montreal area have tionship with the network among L...:::======R=ec=ep=tio=n= fo=llo=w=in=g ==::;==::::;
posed the creation of a secretariat received little or no information people with disabilities," said
•' on the status of persons with dis about the new organization. DiGiovanni. He suggested a rcla- 4~ Problems concentrating?
abilities. "I found out from the newspa tively independent board be set up Back Pains?
Monique L.1ndry, Canada's Min per," said Jerome DiGiovanni. to prioritize issues.
ister Responsible for the Status of DiGiovanni is the president of "It must be staffed with people , Neck Pains?
Persons with Disabilities, chaired the Canadian Disabilities Rights with disabilities," said DiGiovanni. Headaches?
last week's meeting. Claudine Council, a board member of the Onlythrecmembersoftheworking
Renault, L.1ndry's press secretary, Confederation des Organismes group have disabilities. Call NOW. FREE spinal examinations offered to
said it will now be possible to make Provinciaux de Personnes Fundingfortheproposedsecre- McGill students & staff for a limited time only.
decisions and take action immedi Handicapccs du Quebec and a tariat has not been determined. Dr. Paul Biancardi, D.C. Dr. Georges Cote, D.C.
ately. L.1ndrywill bring two priority member of other disabilities groups. "Hopcfully,we'lltalkafewcoun- Tel: [phone] Tel: [phone]
issues to the working group's next Pierre-Paul Bclangcr, Quebec's tries in the secretariat into funding.
·- J meeting, to be held in early March. Executive director for the Cana Canada has given lots of money for Guy Chiropractic Clinic
Supporting regional projects and dian National Institute for the Blind, the working group," said Renault. 2100 Guy, suite 205
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Government may
nix plans to hil<e
student fees
BY NAOMI KLEIN
TORONTO (CUP) - The University of Toronto's plans to meet
funding cuts by _raising student ancillary fees may be intercepted by the
Ontario government, which is reviewing its policy on the fees.
Ancillary fees are mandatory student fees for services not covered by
tuition fees, such as athletics and health care.
While a hike in ancillaries is being touted by some members of the
university administration as the answer to its funding crisis, student
groups say it's nothing more than a "backdoor" route to hike tuition fees.
Ken Craft, chair of the Ontario Federation of Students, a provincial
lobby group, shares this concern.
"Student ancillary fees should be very closely regulated, if not elimi
nated. They arc just a form of raising tuition," he said.
The fees arc excluded from the province's cap, which regulates the
tuition fees universities arc allowed to charge.
There arc huge discrepancies in the ancillary fees charged by the
province's universities. U ofT charges S1 12 per student. York University
on the other hand, charges $267 while Queen's University charges no
Nationwide testing: the
compulsory ancillary fees.
Alicc Pitt, president of the U ofT Graduate Students' Union, said the
move has already begun to hike student user fees. She s.1id if the university
search for standards goes in this financing direction, it must be met by giving students more
control over how, and how much of their money is spent.
"As more and more of the burden is put onto students, the reigns of
control need also to be put into the hands of students," Pitt said. "They
haven't demonstrated that they are seriously considering ways of main
accept the principle of feedback," taught to children, and since com taining the status quo student fees. We already pay a fairly hefty total in
BY CLAUDINE PARKER
said Bled. She added that parents munities and provinces differ those two fees."
OTIAWA (CUP)-Thc Ot have a right to know how their chil radically, there's no way the test can The question of student control
"The alumni
tawa-bascd Association for dren aredoingand what knowledge be fair to each province. of student money has been raised at
Canada-wide Standards for Educa should be acquired at any stage in TheC1nadian Federation ofStu McGill, by student representatives should pay, since
tion proposes testing students their academic career. dcntsalso opposes national testing. on the CCSS (Committee for the
nationwide to prepare youth for a At least five provinces arc cur Communications officer Jocclyn Co-ordination ofStudcnt Services). they 're so hot to
future in a competitive world. rently doing tcsling, but Bled says a Charron said the test would only The cess is an advisory bodywhich trot on these
Cynthia Bled, founder of the as national test would be more effi reflect what is happening in class makes recommendations to the
sociation said that, "Present cient and cost less for the and would overlook important cir Dean of Students on matters con teams," said Bob
spending on education is not nec government. cumstances that might cause a poor cerning the student services budget. Col/ins, post
essarily being directed to the future "Not only would parents, armed academic performance. The Cess is made up of equal num
of the youth. The spending is di with test results, find themselves Collecting background informa bers o( staff and students, but the graduate students
rected to make the young people better able to press for improve tion on each child's home situation dean makes the final recommenda society rep, "why
happy today." ment at their local school or board is not included in current plans by tion to senate.
Although Canada spends $45 or government, they would also Canada's Council of Ministers of Student representatives on the should students
billion each year on education, nine have in hand the information that Education. Gilliss said that this fact cess have recently made attempts
support an elite
and 13-ycar-old students ranked would help them choose a different renders standardized test results to block a proposed IS per cent in
only moderately in maths and sci school[ which had stronger results], useless. crease in student services fees. The group of
ences in recent education tests. so far as local law permits," said "Credible research on effective students proposed cuts in areas such
athletes?"
And those rankings arc giving Bled. schools compares results onlywhcre as varsity sports teams' travel ex
way to calls for educational stand But Gcraldine Gilliss, director of the characteristics of the student penses, pressuring the university to
ards testing. research and information services populations arc the same," said find other funding sources.
The Association proposes tests for the Canadian Teachers' Federa Gilli~s. "The alumni should pay, since they're so hot to trot on these teams,"
be drawn up following the recom tion said national testing is a bad G.illiss said parents would be able said Bob Coli ins, post-graduatcstudcntssocietyrcp, "why should students
mendations of education experts. idea. to get information on high- per support an elite group of athletes?"
The tests would be administered on "There's no way a national test forming schools easily, but warned At a meeting Monday night, post-graduate students' society executives
a voluntary basis, and analysis of can be fair to all students, or even these schools may have entrance agreed to stand against any increase in student services fees as long as the
the test results would help deter useful. What counts is student abil requirements to prevent over university doesn't contribute to the cost of varsity teams at McGill.
mine if students arc acquiring the ity, not the school. High test scores crowding. Last year, student representatives on the CCSS complained that staff
knowledge they need. would depend on the affluence and "Those tests serve one purpose members ignored student requests, and united to vote against the staff
Standards for Canadian schools family stability of the nearby com and one only and that is to stream majority on the senate. But Coli ins stressed that relations between staff and
would be set by a federal education munities," says Gilliss. line ·people into elite schools, like students have improved enormously.
secretariat. She said provinces have the SATs in the States," said Charron. "The process has really opened up," he said, "the students have received
"We need the government to power to determine what will be more detailed information than ever."