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0 ' f I o o o o o o 1 o t I 0 f I o 0, T H E M C G I L L DAILY Volume 86 • Number44 Bus Driver! Bus Driver! Stop! Stop! Since 1911 BuT MAYOR's CREDIBILITY IN DOUBT by Andrea Mason M ontreal Mayor Pierre Jar. junction would prevent Bourque stripped Forcillo and Goyer of their of consultation. Bourque maintains a "The Bourque administration from dismissing Forcillo and respective responsibilities for fi "Bourque was not participating tenuous hold on power started with little credibility but it Goyer. Quebec Superior Court nance and urban planning, effec ·in caucus. He was making decisions despite speculation about his has been greatly diminished this judge Derek Guthrie granted the tively reducing their roles on the alone. He came out with funny new credlblllty and calls for his resig year," declared Marvin Rotrand, an electoral programs after the elec nation. opposition councilor with the tion"-programs like the privati On Monday, Quebec's Chief Democratic Coalition. ·zation of Montreal's water, which Electoral Officer Pierre-F. Cote re According to Boskey, "the may were never discussed in the elec leased the results of an Investiga or's credibility is shot. He should toral program. tion Into allegations of Bourque's resign or at least step aside until Moreover, when Boucher asked Illegal fundralslng during the the Investigation is over." for discussion of the proposal, 1994 municipal election cam But Bourque refuses to relin Bourque replied "You're a paign. Cote's report cleared quish his throne and he expects councllor, you stay In your district. Bourque of the charges against blind allegiance from party mem ·I'm the mayor. I rule the city." him, citing a "lack of evidence." bers no matter how shady his po · So for Boucher, Bourque's harsh But Sam Boskey, an opposition litical practices. reaction to Goyer and Forcillo Is councllor with the Democratic Bourque has shown absolute In hardly surprising. Coalition, points out that Cote tolerance for dissension of any kind According to Rotrand, "Vision "did not whitewash the situation. from within his party. On January Montreal is not a real party, it's the He didn't say Bourque was Inno 9, he attempted to fire two mem creation of one individual. cent. There simply was not bers of his executive committee, Bourque wants an executive com enough evidence to meet the pe Sammy Forclllo and Pierre Goyer, .mittee full of yes men". nal standard of culpability. They for their "disloyalty" to the party. Boskey Is glad that this latest found a smoking gun but the May Bourque was angry at Goyer and crisis has exposed the problems or's fingerprints were not on it." Forclllo for "conspiring against with Bourque to the public and to Bourque's party, Vision him" during Cote's Investigation. the media-enlightenment which Montreal, still faces an unprec The mayor was especially livid over edented 212 charges of electoral Goyer's trip to QJ.Iebec City In De He stresses that Bourque should fraud, Including seven new cember. Goyer went to reassure the be criticized for his "reactionary charges brought forth by Cote. province that operations at city hall temporary injunction on the executive committee to nothing. policies" and not for his personal "The report points out that would continue running smoothly grounds that the mayor was break ity. there have been serious problems. If Bourque were forced to resign ing the city's charter. STILL FIT TO GOVERN? Boskey points to the many pro lt's fairly clear that the election over the findings of Cote's report. The charter states that once Daniel Boucher, a former mem grams which Bourque cut after was won by lllegal means. Dirty Bourque claims that Fordllo also named to the executive committee, ber of Vision Montreal who quit coming to power. money was Involved In Bourque's "plotted against him." but refused a person is ensured that position the caucus in June 1996, questions Since his election, Bourque has campaign," commented Boskey. to elaborate on the nature of for four years unless he or she vol Bourque's capacity to govern the taken a drastic slash-and-bum ap This latest crisis casts a dark Forcillo's "betrayal". untarily resigns or dies. Last city. proach to cutting costs - Indis shadow over the entire party and In the middle of the council Wednesday, the injunction was ex Boucher says he left the party criminately chopping city services raises serious doubts about meeting on January 13, it was an tended indefinitely. because of the mayor's authoritar and municipal jobs. Bourque's Bourque's leadership In partlcu- nounced that a surprise court in- In the meantime, Bourque Ian leadership style and his lack .ruthless axe-wielding has led to a diminished quality of services and dismal labour relations with mu nicipal workers. . Almost Immediately after win- .ning the election, Bourque slashed STCUM ATTEMPTS TO INCREASE woMEN's SAFETY funding for public transport and by Maggie Gilmour snatched power away from com munity decision-making councils. Two weeks ago, Merryn Roberts, at night. In view of this, and the project out for six months. The road safety for the bus drivers, He also reneged on a promise to an 18 year old McGill student, fact that women represent about goal of the project was to increase that they would be asked to stop negotiate a contract with had a very frightening experi 60 per cent of its customers, the women's safety as well as their in places that were not safe. Their Montreal's blue-collar workers by ence. While walking up University Societe de transport de la feeling of being safe. arguments fell flat, and a similar December, 1994. The settlement Street, she and her friends real communaute urbaine de Montreal According to Mary Delaney, a Toronto project, which 'Entre took two full years to resolve. Ized a man dressed in black wear (STCUM) recently decided to make member of CAFSU,a lobby group deux arrets' was modeled after, Bourque has demonstrated an ing a ski mask and sunglasses was their "Entre deux arn!ts" (Bet\veen composed of various community showed no evidence of these prob extremely skewed set of priorities following them. When they sped Two Stops) pilot project a perma groups, public institutions and lems. We knew that if we gave the during the first half of his term as up, he sped up. When they started nent service. women's groups, "We wanted to project a chance, women would ·mayor. Ignoring objections from to run, he chased them. Although The service enables women ensure that If a woman felt un respond well to it. And why the public and from his own party neither Roberts nor her friends traveling alone after 21 hOO to ask comfortable or nervous [about shouldn't it be a success?lt doesn't members, Bourque attends to pet were harmed, she says the expe the bus driver to let them off be walking alone] that she could be cost anything, and it's great PR for ·projects such as giving millions of rience scared her and has made tween two stops of a regular route let off wherever she chose." STCUM." dollars for the Botanical Gardens her extra cautious about walking at a location they find safer. It is According to Delaney, who The project was a success. Ac (where he was formerly the direc alone in the city. "Even in the day, up to the bus driver to decide If he worked on getting the test project cording to the results of a survey tor), extensive renovations for city 1 am always looking behind my or she can make the stop safely. going, it took four years before CAFSU conducted last October, 89 ·hall, $500,000 for Christmas lights shoulder.) am always looking be SLOW START STCUM adopted it. per cent of the people interviewed ·and a $7 mlllion dollar ad cam hind me, checking all the time." Six months ago, STCUM ac "The will was definitely there, commented that the service paign designed to promote Roberts Is not alone In her un cepted the invitation of CAFSU - but there were problems with the should be made available on a Montreal. easiness. According to Statistics Comite d'action femmes et securite union [that protected the bus permanent basis. The trial run In order for the situation in Canada and Gallup, two women urbaine (the Women's Action and driver's interests]," said Delaney. Montreal and at city hall to Im In three are afraid to go out alone Urban Safety Committee) to try the "The union was worried about ... continued on page 4 prove, Bourque may have to learn to share his throne. But for many .w ho work with him, the chances w oon-come end of science of that are about as high as the IJ sidewalks being cleared before 11 -May. ATTENTION BAGELS MEMBERS OF THE 14 VARIETIES THE OLD FASHIONED WAY DAILY Sandwiches prepared fresh all pay PUBLICATIONS SOCIETY BOARD OF 1420, Peel st., 15°/o off your purchase with valid McGill i.d. DIRECTORS: 2 doors aboue ste-catnerine until Feb 28 Meeting lrld11y MAXS J1nu1ry 3/$1 1991 • ll:fS•m Sll•tner lulldlng. ,..,. 1811 CAFE ~ 1247 avenue McGill College • Eyes Examined • Eye Glasses (2for 1) • Contact Lenses (from $89) • Student Discount Dr. David Kwavnick, 0.0. 1535 Sherbrooke St. W. {corner Guy) 933-8700 30, 1997 and include taxes. Dorvol, depending on the destinotioo. .. .. .............. , ... .. .. _ .... ... . ... .. .. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~ ;;' ;;•;;•;; ;' ;;f; ;;•=•= l =.,; ;;• ;;t ;;•;;;• ;;'t; ;•; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;==·=·-==-;-;;;·;;·;;;-;;~;;-;;;;;;;;;;;==;;;;;;;;;;; Monday,]anuary 28, 1997 =;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;===;;;;;;;;=;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;==;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;=== 3 Comment lNTERNA·TIONAL STUDENTS: THE NEWEST COMMODITY By now, you have prob Taking up this view whole- pay big bucks. This, it is argued, And then there are our univer- lng an additional $270 million to ably heard and seen heartedly, many Canadian school will allow for smaller classes, more si ties, who are seeking more inter- the Canadian economy in recent enough of the happy boards and post secondary insti- teachers, more programs, better national students as well as money years.lnstead of welcoming Inter- trade mission to Asia by our green tutions joined the team. While big technology. for lucrative research projects. national students Into our coun- thumbed 'Team Canada'. But be- business representatives were lt certainly sounds like a great Already we are seeing desperate try, the focus Is on getting as much fore the Images of Canadian gov- making hefty deals in Thailand, answer. The government can con- University administrators raising money out of them as possible. ernment officials doing the education representatives were tinue cutting and getting 'out of fees for International students in Our Prime Minister however, macarena for their Asian counter- attempting to glean money from the public sector' and those lnsti- order to finance their budgets and doesn't see this as a problem. Ac- parts disappears from your International students who want tutions with the capitalist drive, keep tuition low for protesting carding to Chretien, elite Asian memory, let me just bring up one to study in Canada. Innovation and energy to find 'al- Canadian students. students who come to Canada will last point about this latest trade And it certainly was a sight to ternative funding' will survive. There is little opposition to eventually be the political and venture. behold. As Bill Saywell, the head Alberta Premier Ralph Klein said these moves as they do help-it's business leaders of their countries The big talk of the last two of the Asia Pacific Foundation, it best when he commended the money not coming out of the and will automatically want to weeks has been about how much said, "There are hundreds of mil- trend of school boards and post- pockets of Canadians. keep 'good trade relations' with the lucrative Asian countries - lions of dollars awaiting in Asia. secondary institutions seeking in- But what's to stop Universities Canada. Hooray for us. the Philippines, Thailand and Like anything else, If you don't ternational students for showing from continuing to raise these fees But this is a very strange argu- South Korea this time around - market, you don't get them." what can happen "when publicly to higher and higher levels as less ment. First, international students can help boost Canada's slumping The argument is that federal funded Institutions are required funding Is provided by govern- are expected to fund our educa- economy. We have heard that and provincial governments have by governments to find more effi- ment? lion when the governments have deals with Asia will holp us out of pulled back from funding educa- dent and less costly means of pro- What about those international backed off, and then they are ex- the cycle of unemployment and, tion at all levels so schools have viding the same services." students who want to come here peeled to 'pay us back' - for best of all, help ease deficit costs less to offer -less programs, over- But school boards, districts and to study but are not so well off? what? which have led politicians to make crowded schools, less extracur- individual schools In Canada are just like Canada's Immigration The fact is that this 'trend' is the hard choice of slashing the ricular activities, less research not all on the same footing to be- policies, it's the wealthy who are just another way to justify govern- country's social services. money. gin with. What happens to those welcome; the rest - 'keep out'. ments pulling back from funding Asian economies and the space The answer to this funding cri- schools that just don't have any Wealthy Asian students are a institutions that should not be left they have for lucrative lnterna- sls Is not for governments to up- 'attraction' for International stu- new hot commodity for this coun- to fend for themselves. tional business have become the hold their responsibility of provid- dents? Does it mean their source try. International students from new saviours for all of our eco- ing good education for Canadians, of 'alternative funding' in times of Asia already spend $27,000 a year - Comment by Anup nomic woes. but to let international students cutbacks will be bake wles? on average in this country, add- Grewal Letters Shedding no tears for the Tupac Amaru ~__,,. f'll~:-::::r-To the Daily, .. l:l~j P-~:::-1 am writing in response to Mumia Abu-Jamal's ing Path. Considering that these "Marxist" and tdltarl.ll arnm: article "The Hostages of Peru" (January 16), which "Maoist" groups have financed their "revolutions" McTariJb St., Jfo"lria( QC., room 8.03,/IJA and adunlslal onlct: rejected the Peruvian government's "propaganda" by selling cocaine, and carried out their "popular r1sb SI., Jfo"lria( QC., room 8·11,/IJA IX9 regarding the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Move struggles" by blowing up cars and mailboxes in tdHirll~ ment, opting for the latter's propaganda instead. crowded areas, I wonder why they enjoy any in (514)·398-6781 Monday The claims made in this article range from the ternational support. buslaus/admtlslna: (514)·398-6790 january27 ludicrous to the downright erroneous. Furthermore, my sympathy is not aroused by biiSIDISS DlaDIIII: tu: The article's essential theme is the assertion the plight of imprisoned terrorists. I shed no tears (514)·398-8318 Marla" Scbrltr that President Fujimori's anti-terror policies are for butchers who killed thousands in a campaign assisjt(a)n-At "~"u's Plalcelsttsl lllllltr: • The Financial Ethics Re making Peruvians miserable. In fact, Fujimori's of violence that has spanned over 15 years. If they atnrllsiDIIlllllltlleDt: search Committee is holding approval rating rose to almost 80 per cent last all starve to death it will represent a mere frac ully Mall to, Born Sbtdo~ a meeting and invites anyone in January (during the height of the anti-terror cam tion of the suffering they have inflicted on a na adnrlJlfsairlDrI BIIroYIoIltItrI aa~ ~ISIII: terested to attend. For info. call paign), and has only dropped because of Peru's tion. The MRTA deserve neither concessions nor mtrlbators: Ashfaq at 286-2820. Lori Bran, D'Art)' Dobtrly, Kalya Eplltill, Ma&&lt stagnant economy. Mind you, nobody ever ac negotiations. They deserve to be locked up like Gilmowr, A"wp Grnca( D'art)' Grtll'al, Rt:r 1/wa"&. Tuesday cused the MRTA of caring what the people think. their comrades. Ktrl Koswrl, /G" Mabtr, M-} Milloy, Usa Plrlpp~ january28 The fact is that people feel more secure than CHr11DaiiDII~HII: l.Jlcbary Sclnwu, ever, thanks to Fujimori's virtual eradication of lames Downar ldtlla Slwrl"o SamaiiD Slddlqwt CHniiDIIIDIIIWS adnar: violent groups like Tupac Amaru and the Shin- U2 Biology • McGill Photo Society wine cHnllaallal unan a~nar: & cheese workshop. Bring photos Ktr'i" Slw aenadnars: and slides. Shatner 425, 17h-19h. 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IISI1112..ull l._--------.-.'. . ... .. 1be McGi/1 Daily 4 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;·;; ;;·;;;;;·;;;;·;;;·;;;;·;; ;·; ;·;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;===;;;;;;;;;=;;;;;;;;;;;;; Monday,]atmary27,1997 ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;==;;;;;;;;;==;;;;;;;;;=;;;;;;;;;==;;;;;;;;;==;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;=;;;;;;;;;==;;;;;;;;;;;;; Breaking t h e silence AMITIE LUBICONS-QUEBEC PROTESTS DAISHOWA by Sonia Verma Last Thursday marked the first claim has been set the mill to double its Lubicon against Daishowa, like the demonstration of a province-wide tled. Daishowa capacity. It will dou demonstration which took place campaign waged against the mul Maribene, the ble the amount of today." tinational company Daishowa, Vancouver arm trees taken off of But the Ville St. Laurent dem spearheaded by the newly-formed of the multina Lubicon Land onstration also coincided with the Amitie Lubicons-Quebec. tional cur and we want first year anniversary of a decision Forty people converged in the rently owns them to re made by the divisional court of lobby of the provincial sales of the rights to think their Ontario that has effectively si fice of the japanese-based pulp land over thoughts, be lenced the Ontario-based Friends and paper company while em lapping the cause they of the Lubicon from advocating a ployees conducted business as Lubicon's are violating boycott of Daishowa products. usual in their glassed-in offices traditional my people's "We were cautioned that we encircling the protesters. hunting rights." have to restrict our activities Gerry Pascal, an organizer of grounds. Cham- even outside the province - last week's demonstration, con Rein i e pagne ac- even in Quebec - because it's tended, "They'll need more than jobin, an Elder cepted the let possible that the legal ramifica glass walls to silence us - we are from the ters, but re tions could extend outside the here today to make them listen." Lubicon Lake fused to com jurisdiction of Ontario," a source Representatives of the group Cree presented the ment. familiar with the Ontario deci hand-delivered letters addressed letters to Daishowa Since Daishowa- sion reported, under the condi to the various arms of the com customer service rep Maribene was tion of anonymity. "It restricts pany, demanding that Daishowa resentative Robert Cham granted logging rights any kind of activity that could make a firm commitment to re pagne. "On behalf of my peo- to Lubicon territory in negatively impact a corpora frain from logging in the region . ple, we want to make Daishowa 1988, Brewster Construction, tions bottom line - so it's not of Northern Alberta until the de aware of what is happening In a Daishowa subsidiary has stead just Friends of the Lubicon but bate around a 60-year old land Northern Alberta," he said, "They're threatening to expand ily eroded the timber resources any group that's trying to organ surrounding Lublcon territory. ize against any business or com Bus Stops However, plans to expand the pany." the source added. nearby Peace River Mill's operat Daishowa successfully attained ing capacity has jobin concerned a court Injunction which, among continued from page 1 that logging will expand onto other things, prevented Lubicon unceded Lubicon territory. To supporters in Ontario from dis also uncovered the fact that many sert your dominance, yell 'No,' the victim to know how to de avoid further social devastation al tributing flyers in front of stores drivers were already letting fe don't be passive. I think it was fend herself." ready experienced by the Lubicon which use Daishowa products. male customers off between two useful in that it made me react. I Timmins suggests that a bet resulting from the industrial ex Daishowa claimed a SS-million stops at their request. think I did feel a little more em ter way to treat the deeper prob ploitation of their land, public economic loss resulting from the Misguided focus powered myself. I just felt more lems of violence and sexual as support must be galvanized to boycott which involved over 47 Barbara Timmins, external co confident knowing what to do in sault is education. "It's impor support his community's de companies. ordinator of the McGill Sexual As certain situations." tant to start education very mands. "The court ruled if you boy sault Centre of McGill Students' Timmins disagrees that self early, in the areas of gender is Oil drilling and gas processing cott successfully, then you've Society, believes that the project defence courses are a possible so sues, discrimination, the impor on the Lubicon's resource-rich ter committed the civil wrong of in is an excellent idea, but that the lution for women's' fear of assault. tance of rights; that a woman has ritory has already reaped corpo tentional Interference with the publicity for the project was mis "I don't think teaching women the right not to be raped. In rate profits amounting to over ss companies economic relations guided in that it focused only on self-defence is the way to stop terms of making society a safer billion. Meanwhile, no monetary and the court will shut you women. rape. I don't see how placing the place, I cannot emphasize compensation has been awarded down," Karen Wristen, a lawyer "Ottawa has had a similar pro responsibility for preventing as- enough that education has to be to the Lubicon. with the Sierra Legal Defense gram in place for quite a while "My people have suffered from fund who defended the Friends, now .. . and it is open to anyone poverty, suicide, sickness and explains. Wristen has filed for an who doesn't feel safe at night there have been stillbirths," jobin appeal of the decision with the whether you arc a man, a boy, an commented, "and the government Supreme Court of Canada. elderly gentleman ... you can ask still doesn't recognize our right to According to Wristen the On the bus driver to let you off any our land." tario decision is only valid where along the route. I think According to indigenous activ within the boundaries of the that's what was missing from the ists, the Lubicon have been unable province, but it is open to the Montreal program. It should not to secure a land treaty with the plaintiff to request that new peo have been catering only to government owing to a calculated ple be added to the injunction. women." and deliberate bureaucratic delay The court could also make an Programs such as Entre Deux in granting reserve land which application to have its jurisdic Arrcts arc not the only ways to dates back to the turn of the cen tion extended to outside the improve safety for women in ur tury. The government has shied province. ban areas. Delaney and Roberts away from any land claim settle "It stands on the books as a both mentioned self defence ment because it would complicate very negative precedent that can courses. Delaney asserted that any economic development in the be used by any company that "Every woman should take a self area. could stand to lose anything defence course. I took one and it With land negotiations in from debate on its corporate ac really changed my attitude, it limbo, and the immediate threat tivities," said Wristen. gives you power. Women often of logging expansion, the Lubicon Although the Amitie feel like victims, there are lots of feel a renewed sense of urgency Lubicons-Quebec have not con ways to fight back, and there is to prevent the environmental de firmed whether they will pursue no reason to be afraid." Roberts terioration of their traditional a boycott strategy, Marc Drouin, claimed that the self defence sault on the victim solves any addressed to all members of so lands. an organizer with the group, course she took made her feel thing. The only person who con ciety." According to Sylvie Trubel, refuses to be intimidated by the more able to react in dangerous trols in a beating or a rape is the Posters explaining the Entre with Amith! Lubicons-Quebec, Ontario court's decision. "They situations. "In my course, we one who does the beating or the deux arrets service will be put "The most effective action we have want to build up a wall of silence learned that if someone ever tries raping. I think it is incredibly un up in the 1300 or so buses of the is to call for actions of solidarity around us, and if we obey, then to attack you, that you should as- fair and completely false to expect STCUM this month. from groups which support the they have won," Drouin says. Tbe McGi/1 Daily . -.. --.. -. -.. -. . -.... ~ ·... ·.- ........ . ---. -. -. , . But h. ~0 care1? by Katya Epstein S cience has correctly an lar religion of our culture." quantum mechanics." swered all the questions it It Is arguable that people's ig But the strongest reaction ap will ever be able to answer. norance regarding science rein peared to be against the Implied Not a chance, right? That seems forces its religious quality, mak threat to scientists' very liveli to be most peoples' reaction to ing science seem more "magic" hood. More than one person made John Horgan's thesis. So why are and powerful than it actually Is. a point of informing Horgan about people so upset about what he's Given the argument that science the current state of funding for saying? functions as a religion in our soci scientific research in Canada. One Horgan Is the senior writer at ety, it becomes easier to see why professor put it this way: "The last the "prestigious journal" Scientific people are so sensitive about the time I saw this number of ques American, and has been called idea that it might be "dead". tions was when we were discuss MINOITA "one of America's most influential Of course, the strongest reac Ing professors' salaries." journalists and commentators on tion seems to come from scientists The point In Horgan's talk science." which drew the BUSINESS CENTER "By science I z most applause mean not ap ~ was his para plied science, ~ phrasing of a DIRECT FROM THE MANUFACTURER bpuutr secsite nce aat nItds 9>~ Treeccehnnto alrotgicyl eR ien- 0 n e S t o. p C l? p y i n g , grandest, the ~ view. 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Clw1·t a COIII'sefol' succt•ss at debaters had to be cut short by and applied scientists seemed very But Horgan says, "The truth is, Boston University the moderator, and the criticism offended by Horgan's repeated most people won't actually miss became quite heated, even hostile. (though denied) implication that science that much. They'd rather Horgan "touched a very sensi the "cosmological" science to watch the O.j. trial on television International Graduate Center tive nerve," V.P. Academic Bill which he Is referring is somehow than a Nova program about the ~ Chan noted adroitly. He put it nobler than the practical work Big Bang .... [T]he interest of the av in Israel 0::3 mildly. Horgan says when he told which he calls "filling in the de erage person In science Is really 0. ~ people he "was working on a book tails." While these sciences may or shallow ... so even though I think ' that was going to argue that sci may not have a significant impact this is a very important issue ... to Dl ence was all over, always they'd on the fundamental theorems un the future of culture, oddly Masters Degree in Managemte ~t _ __, ~ have a really strong reaction, al derlying science (Horgan thinks enough I don't think it will have ~ ~ most always very negative. They'd not, but many argued otherwise), much impact." • Language of instruction: English say, 'Are you mad? How can you it seems that "filling in the details" One would think, then, that • Option of I year full-time or 2 ~ possibly say that?'" is likely to have an equally impor Horgan would devote more of his years part-time .., c;;~~~~~~·~t:~~~:~::; Why are people reacting with tant impact on society. time to ameliorating the shocking • Begin in January, April, or September -..J such horror to Horgan's hypoth Those scientists who do seek to ignorance of most of the popula • International campus transfer options esis? There Is some indication of answer The Big Questions were tion regarding how their world • Undergraduate degree in business the reason in the nature of equally offended by Horgan's al works and the huge influence sci lllll required Horgan's very definition of sci legation that they will not be able ence has over their lives, rather ence, \Vhich Horgan elaborates on to "transcend the received wisdom than putting his time and energy Call: Oll-lJ72-7-4Hl333 iinn apnr oingtreersvsi eawlm: "o. s..t ptehoep lwe abye ltiheevye aanndal opgreocuisp ittaot et hroevseo lutrtiigognearreyd l awbys oInvteor gsoemttientgh ipnego wplhei cahl l mwaoyr koerd m uapy email: [email protected]. il -BUN-OIV-SET-RSO-ITN-Y 0E . http:/ /buntetb.bu.edu/lomhttain.httttl believe in God; it's like the secu- Darwin's theory of evolution or by not be true. International Graduate '<' lln rqua/ opporllluit)', •!flinuatiw action imtitu/i(lll Ccmcrs L---------------------------------~~--~ 5 6 SCIEN ECTOR ETH • by Keri Kosuri Recently, New York's Scientists claim that Indigenous formed consent is the first step in Roqnilatlon International] ll.~§ pamesI Y.r~dally profit from Rockefeller Institute was offered groups must be prioritlzed due to establishing any legitimacy in sci stiown there are no safeguards In the use of~'il1ese samples once $20 million dollars by Amgen, a the likelihood that they will soon entific experiments. preventing them [the NIH] from they've d patent rights. California-based pharmaceutical go "extinct." However, Gabriel dis The purpose is to Inform the transferring the DNA samples to The draft of. tHe North Ameri company, for licensing rights to putes this, "The question I would participants of the nature and the lab in Fort Detrlck," says can Model Ethical Protocol pro the DNA of the people of Kosrae, ask is are they going to be help objectives of the project as well as Benjamln," and this raises the fear poses that any monetary gains who live in the South Pacific. Ing them become extinct? It Is just explain their role in it. that the U.S. mllltary Is purposely from the study should be fairly Scientists extracted blood sam a new form of ethnic cleansing." But language barriers and con targeting Indigenous peoples to distributed among the Individuals ples from the Kosrae people - a Advocates of the project stress flicting societal values have led create biological warfare. What we or communities who donated the group which has a high rate of that the genetic pools of these scientists to extract the DNA sam are seeing Is a deliberate mislead samples. obesity - with the hopes of iso populations have not mixed with ples without disclosing the neces Ing of communities. The question lockdtesthecaseoftheHagahal lating the gene responsible for the genetic pools of the rest of the sary information to the partici- of the Indigenous peoples mlsun- people as undermining the ethical obesity. human race. But Cralg basis of patentlng DNA sam Although the patent is stil1 Benjamln with Cultural Sur ples under HGDP. Individu pending, If secured, the Kosrae vival Canada characterizes als In the Hagahal commu would lose rights to their own ge the scientific procedures of nity .voluntarily donated netic material. It would become the HGDP as "Shaky". "The their blood to members of the property of the pharmaceuti majority of people involved HGDP.I.ater, a virus was dis cal company - to use however are taking part In a genetic covered In certain they wanted without the consent scavenger hunt. They're bloodsamples. Afte!Wards, of the Kosrae. studying people based on they were sent to the NIH for The patent Is part of a five year their community, profes further analysis and then old controversy surrounding the sion and language - patented. The samples be Human Genome Diversity Project there's no consistency In came commodities without (HGDP). The HGDP, funded by their approach," he says. the knowledge of the private and non-profit organiza Lock cites the example of Hagahal. The US National In tions and the U.S. government, the San peoples who were stitute of Health maintained was proposed in the early nine- prioritized in the project that they had sampled the ties by Stanford University geneti based on their "isolation" man's DNA only after hav cist Luca Cavalli-SforLa. He envi from other populatlons. But ing obtained his informed sioned a comprehensive study of the San people contain consent. However, when genetic biodiverslty comprising three different language pressed, officials were un the "entire spectrum" of the hu groups. Such multi able to produce any written man population. lingualism Is indicative of evidence to that effect. The stated goal of this ambi a community having differ tious project is to "investigate" ent origins and thus not a INDIGENOUS GROUPS biological diversity In order to bet population isolated from SILENCED ter understand human evolution, the rest of civilization. Last Fall, the Universite adaptation, and disease. The The idea that indigenous de Montreal hosted a con project requires the collection of peoples are separated from the pants. derstandlng is a red herring." ference on DNA sampling - the DNA samples from 4,000 to 8,000 civilized European and Western Benjamin says, "lt's not that Exacerbating the problem is same technique used in the HGDP. different populatlons. cultures mimics the 19th century they don't understand these is that of storage of the samples af The conference drew a storm of con However, Margaret Lock, a pro protocol of the "primitive savage" sues, Its that scientists don't un ter they are obtained. The prob troversy because the roster of fessor In the department of Social that must be studied to learn of derstand the Indigenous peoples' lem Is a consequence of a new panelists did not include any repre Studies of Medicine at McGill ar the "beginnings of human evolu concerns. One major concern Is technique, called Immortalization, sentatives from indigenous commu gues that planners of the HGDP, tion." Gabrlel argues. that they [indigenous which enables the cells to be re nities. "assumed scientific investigation HGDP's North American re populations] are afraid of biologi produced indefinitely. Immortal Demonstrations and protests by to be a privileged enterprise, one gional committee has been man cal warfare." Ized cells are readily available indigenous activists against the which need pay only lip service dated by the National Institute of from a storage site in Washington HGDP have succeeded in attracting to morals and to the welfare of the Health (NlH) and the National Sci FEAR OF BIOLOGICAL to researchers who claim to have the attention of those in charge of subjects to be Investigated." ence Foundation to address ethi WARFARE valid objectives. the project. "The protests have had JUST ANOTHER FORM OF cal and moral charges facing the According to Benjamin this fear This leaves individuals and some impact,'' asserts Benjamin, project. is not unwarranted and raises an communities with no way of know "Particularly with regards to a recent GENOCIDE One of their concerns is what other concern about the danger ing what happens to their body decision of the US government to The project met tremendous constitutes a specific human ous potential of scientific re samples. Many groups feel that disclaim a patent on the DNA of an opposition after Its second organi population and how that popula search. this is a violation of principles indigenous man from the Hagahai zational meeting in 1992, when a tion's boundaries should be deter NIH houses an extensive collec based on concepts that all ele people." group of geneticists targeted in mined. tion of DNA samples at a lab9ra ments of life are sacred. The NIH's patent of the people's digenous peoples for genetic sam "The problem from the start tory located In Fort De trick, Mary Gabriel voiced this belief, say DNA was the first to be secured by ples. with the HGDP has been the idea land. The lab is run by a private ing "Nature's sort of making its any organization. However, in De Critics of the project link the of a human 'population,' far from organization known as Science way through everything these cember, the NIH made an about face, motivation behind it to a long his being a readily definable natural Application International, whose days it's retaliating in some way. disclaiming the patent, placing the tory of exploitation of indigenous fact, is a contested concept both board of directors is comprised of Western society has fooled around control of the Hagahai DNA into the peoples. politically and biologically," states former Pentagon and CIA agents. too much We don't believe in public domain. 772 "isolated" populations Lock In collaboration with other sci changing original creation. lt Now that the NlH no longer has were selected for the study out of entists from the organization they evolves at Its own rate, not with control over the patent, "It is avail a large group of 7000 populations. UNINFORMED CONSENT have allegedly studied the possi the help of science." able to anyone who wants to use the Ellen Gabriel, from Kanehsatake Another question which the bility of targeting certain information," explains Benjamin. contends, "This is just another committee must address involves populations genetically to create COMMODIFICATION OF "The Hagahai still have no way form of genocide. It has many dis the process of collecting the DNA a germ or virus that could annihi DNA of controlling their own genetic ma guises, but this is just another samples and obtaining informed late that indigenous population. Although HGDP is a non-profit terial," Benjamin concludes, "lt's form." consent from the subjects. In- "RAFI [Rural Advancement organization, other private corn- been lost to the people." 17;e McGil/ Daily 7 Zaire: Tracing the roots of the problein AN INTERVIEW WITH GABY LUONGA-KOMBE by Samana Siddiqui One of the biggest International L-K: Zaire was colonized by the this that they were seen as being Great Lakes area? pening today in Mrica by blacks news stories of 1996 was the on· Belgians, as were Rwanda and In power. Today, they say even if Is happening after we have known going crisis In central Africa. Burundi. We call this the Great they represent 14 per cent of the L-K: The solution is simple. about Bosnla, [whose people] are Rwanda, having suffered a massa Lakes region. The Belgians population, In terms of power, That we accept the rule of law. not black, after what we have seen cre ofTutsls by Hut us In 1994, re brought us the French language, That we accept the simple rule In Chechnya, [whose] people who experienced the horror, but this which is our national language, of democracy and that we ac are not black. time it was the Tutsls of Zaire who and brought us customs good or Africa is shaped like a cept that the minority has the [Other conflicts before this one] mmausrsdaecrreeds HZuatiures . sAasw a arens uInltf loufx t hoef badT. his language is nonetheless a revolver whose trigger hriagsh tt htoe lrifieg,h tth nato tt hteo mbien orirditiy ldnegm Ios nwsthraatt ehde t hIsa, t wthee ahruem aalln hbue · refugees. positive contribution. There were is in Zaire. culed, that it has to be re· mans, we can arrive at a state of Zaire was back In the spotlight schools. Without schools, we spected, and that there will be brutishness. last week, as tensions arose once would not have the grounding for free, democratic elections. If this conflict had been the again. According to news reports, modem life. But when we put eve they see themselves as a majority. It is, In my opinion, impossible first, and other corners of the · Zaire's prime minister, Kengo wa rything on the scales, and we It's a problem In the Ideological that without a real wlll to world did not witness this sav· Dondo, has ordered the armed measure, what weighs heavily Is or political which the whites put understand democracy in the agery, I think today we would be forces to begin the igno In the minds of our brothers. talking about Africa or blacks as a counter-of· rance colo And this supremacy, this Is being savages, as we have always fensive to re The conflict in Zaire nization where there is a link with rac Without schools, we believed. capture terrl· is a conflict which brought us. Ism, of ethnlcism, one ethnic would not have the I think there is Information Ttoruyt shle-ldl ebdy was born with the D: What Tgruotsulps saege athinesmt saelnvoetsh aesr .b eTinhge grounding for modern jwohuircnha ilsi sntos t wgehtoti nagr eo unto. Tt hweerlel -ainre rebels In the failure of the philoso Is an exam superior to the Hutus. life. But when. we put formed, who do not know the his east. The coun phy of imperialism or ple of this Today, the Tutsis want to everything on the tory of Africa. And these journal utrlye dI s tos chhoeldd· colonialism. Failure Ignorance? mkeienpd ,t hteh epyo wareer sInin cthe,e Inm tahjoeri r scales, and we meas istsW ahree nI gwneo sreaen tt.h e images, we are elections by in the sense that there L-K: Ig Ity and it is they who can lead ure, what weighs not shown Images of refugees who July. was no respect Afri norance In the country, while the Hutu heavily is the igno are strong, who are survivors. G a b y can values. the sense majority is reclaiming democ rance colonization What is shown are Images of chil Luonga that the racy, pure and simple. dren surrounded by flies. This is brought us. Kombe is the Belgians sensationalism. I think the true head of S.O.S. did not D: What did the colonizers Image the media should show Is Racisme in Montreal, and a take into account Mrican wisdom. do to convince the Tutsls they real sense of the word, that we of those people who fled their Montrealer who is Zairian Hutu. They did not take into account the were superior to the Hutus? come to solutions. I think neither homes two years ago, who en The Daily interviewed him in sense of solidarity of the African Tutsi extremism nor Hutu extrem dured blows, injuries, and who French last November, to get his people. They did not take into ac L-K: They brought rulers to ism will not be a solution. I think returned intact. These are the peo assessment and explanation of the count the value the Mrlcan gives measure the length of the head, there's a need for moderation, the ple who are strong. crisis. to clans, ethnicity, that which Is the length of the neck. And they comprehension and the accept But what do they show us to different from oneself. said their [the Tutsis') morphol ance of democratic values. day of the Image of Africa? It Is Daily: What are the origins of To better understand the prob ogy was larger. Because they were what we have always been the conflict between the Hutus and lem, we must go back to history. larger, they were intelligent. D: Do you think the media has shown. Children with a few flies the Tutsis, specifically, in Zaire? What Africa experienced was par Since they [the Tutsis] were presented the conflict well, or do around everywhere, the dying, tition. At the Berlin Conference In part of the class that reared you think they have reinforced and we are looking for sensation· Luonga-Kombe: The origin of animals, and the Hutu stereotypes of African "tribal" alism. I think journalists need to the conflict between the Hut us and When we see the im- confined himself to working conflicts? be educated to go beyond sensa Tutsis Is the fight for power. In In the fields, they gave a lot tionalism and present a real Im ages, we are not 1994, we experienced what we call of priority to rearing ani L-K: I think we were lucky. It's age, a reflection that Is real. genocide. This was not the first, shown images ofrefu· mals. So someone who has crazy to think this way, but we nor the second - this was a third gees who are strong animals is rich. Someone were lucky because what is hap- genocide. And the genocides who was able to be in con who are survivors. which were perpetrated by the tact with whites before the Hutus against the Tutsis or vice What is shown are other, was able to beneflt of versa led to Zairians accepting images of children the development of tech brothers who arrived from the nology, schools. So this per surrounded by flies. other side. The problem is that the son Is much more lntelll- Tutsls were accepted by the gent. Zairians when they were terror 1885, this partition took place. ized and massacred by the Hutus. And when .the white colonlzers D: Looking at this history, is the Mter this, there was another geno had drawn up the map of Mrica crisis something we should have cide, the Tutsis versus the Hutus. they did not take Into account the anticipated? The Hutus fled, they came to Za relationship between the ethnic ire and Zaire accepted them. We groups, tribes and clans. L-K: A surprise, no. France gave them land, we gave them The conflict In Zaire is a con Vanon is a great writer who said space, we gave them drinkable flict which was born with the fail Africa is shaped like a revolver water, the Tutsis first. The same ure of the philosophy of imperi whose trigger is in Zaire. When we thing with the Hutus. But today, alism or colonialism. Failure in the look at all that is happening to the origin of the conflict Is power sense that there was no respect day, all of this was forecasted. that Rwanda wants to exercise. African values. Vanon said this in the sense that And the government in place to When the colonizers came, they the day that Zaire Implodes, that day is a government led by Tutsi impregnated a mentality on one is, it dismembers, and rips apart, extremists. minority (Tutsi) by valuing them. Africa will too. Tutsis benefited from all of the D: Could you describe the co schools, they benefited from the D: What do you think Is the lonial history of Zaire specifically? intellectual elite and it was like solution for the countries of the 1beMcGii/Daily ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 8 ·g of er e c a t ion Studerits concerned over tuition fees focus ing enrollment by D'Arcy Doherty Faced with a $1,200 tuition says "significant tuition fee in quantity of enrollment that may student aid programs. In fact, he Tuition fees may not be the pri fee increase for out of prov creases of the early 90s did not suffer in the event of high tuition. continues, the number of aborigi mary determinant of enrollment at lnce students, concerns are result in significant .reduction in As fees rise, Toye comments, nes in university and women in university, Toye concedes, but un being raised about how the stu enrollment of fuU time students those sectors of society that are doctoral programs expanded like cultural factors, tuition fees are dent body at McGill might change. In degree programs." traditionally lower income earn shortly thereafter. the only Impediment that govern This most recent tuition hike, an Since 1989, the· tuition for 30 ers (such as women and minori The crux of the debate over ment can control. For this reason, nounced by Quebec Minister of credits of an Arts undergraduate ties) will have a smaller presence whether diversity can be main says Toye, the government should Education Pauline Marois last degree has risen by $1,098, yet on campus. And as a school be tained with higher tuition fees take the steps necessary to ensure month, has fueled a debate over tuition hikes of the early 1990s comes more homogeneous, Toye comes down to how important fi· that cost does not affect attend this very Issue. Concerned stu did not lead to corresponding 'de· continues, the diversity of voices nancial cost Is in determining ance. dents argue that if accessibility'is dines in absolute attendance lev is reduced and thus the quality of post-secondary enrollment. The The administration is planning compromised the quality of edu els, says Tavenas. discourse is diminished. administration believes that on enhancing student aid programs cation at McGill could suffer. The 1994-95 Financial Report Real Dequier, deputy chairper other determinants are more cru In order to combat drops in At the heart of the matter, com to the Board of Governors Indi son of the Canadian Federation of cial. VP Tavenas believes that "in enrollment by students of all back ments graduate student Michael cates that despite an 8.8 per cent Students, agrees. He says expos order to enter University the grounds. "As we develop our Toye, are studies demonstrating increase in tuition, enrollment in· ing yourself to different cultures critical factor is the prior devel budget for next year," VP Tavenas that increases in tuition can lead creased by 3.3 per cent. This year, is a vital part of an education. opment of the intellectual abili comments, "we are Indeed making to drops In enrollment. however, McGill witnessed an al Even if McGill could maintain ties of young people. This devel provisions for Increased resources In a paper presented to the most two per cent decline In diversity by marketing its reputa opment is determined in large In our tuition assistance programs. Future Visions Conference last enrollment. tion abroad to students of various measure by the quality of the in This is being done in concert with November, Toye outlined the find VP Tavenas stresses that "stud cultural backgrounds, Toye says, tellectual environment In which the Dean of Students and the Chair ings of a study on 82 liberal arts ies done at UQAM, and in other McGill would still suffer through they are raised. It so happens," of our Scholarship Committee." colleges in the United States. The jurisdictions In North America in a form of class homogenization. he .adds, "that the environment Nonetheless, students may won study correlated a 14 per cent in dicate that tuition fee increases do On this point, Alex Usher a Is much richer in bettet than av der exactly how much of next year's crease in tuition with a 4.8 per not have a detrimental effect on policy analyst for the Association erage Income families ...." revenue from increased tuition fees cent drop in enrollment. Moreo participation If they are properly of Universities and Colleges of The AUCC, would agree. Usher will be designated towards student ver, Toyc cited a second Ameri combined with tuition aid pro Canada (AUCC) and past repre cites a 1991 Ernst & Young study aid programs. Tuition fees go di can study that linked the probabil grams .... It Is more socially ef sentative of McGill's Students' So for the Australian National Board rectly to the government, and the ity of completing a degree to be fective to let tuition fees rise and ciety and the Canadian Alliance of of Training. The report stated government is giving less money to reduced by 2.6 per cent for every to use part of the revenue for tar Student Associations, disagrees. that financial cost generally McGill. fee increase of $1000. geted tuition assistance ...." He says Australian studies have ranked between 11th or 12th out For his part, Dequler doesn't McGill's administration begs to ACCESSIBILITY AND · shown that when tuition was of reasons why Grade 12 students have faith in student aid. "Loans .r'fer. Vice-Principal of Planning DIVERSITY raised from 0 to $2,500 (AUS), did not choose to apply to uni do not answer the question of un· and Resources Fran\ois Tavenas But to Toye, it is the quality not dive was maintained through versity. der·financing." 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But with more pub- abuse in Montreal's anglophone hockey games on television. Kennedy and Maclean dis with sexual abuse," says Northrup. licity and sensitization, the gap population, says that despite the Although they tried to face it cussed how "it" had changed his "Being able to talk is essential." is closing, and they pre disparity in reports, boys and girls head-on, the hockey world has un life, how he was recovering from Like the NHL players, the CBC's dict that the are equally sexually abused. derscored one of the biggest prob "it" and how he would now help announcers and most of the print The perpetrators, though, are lems with sexual abuse: no one others trying to deal with "it." media, Northrup agrees that it invariably men. talks about it. Yet they never named what "it" took a lot of courage for Kennedy People - and especially chil Between the second and third was. to come forward. dren - have to be able to speak periods of the Habs-Bruins game, During the entire interview, "If you're talking about sexual · frankly if we're going to be able Ron Maclean held an interview which lasted almost 15 minutes, abuse, you're talking about a vic to identify and report with Sheldon Kennedy, the Boston neither Maclean nor Kennedy tim," she says. In our society, sexual abuse, says Bruins' hockey player who had himself admitted they were talk she says, boys often aren't al Northrup. come forward about being sexu ing about sexual abuse of children. lowed to be victims. "The jock Courageous as Kennedy ally abused by his junior league To julia Northrup of Batshaw milieu becomes an exaggera has been in coming forward, hockey coach. Youth and Family Services, part of tion of the masculine point of the interview with Kennedy By airing the issue during Montreal's Department of Youth view. You're strong and noth- , at the Habs-Bruins game has Hockey Night in Canada, the CBC Protection, this reluctance to talk ing happens." shown that we still have a long brought the problem of sexual openly about sexual abuse under According to the Child way to go. abuse of children to a crucial au- lines why it is a difficult problem. Welfare League of America, DEMOCRACY DENIED PQ's CREE NATION CONTINUES TO REJECT PUSH FOR SOVEREIGNTY by M-J Milloy (CUP) Montreal Quebec cannot expect to last provincial discussion. separating, as long as Cree separate and take the vote on sover During the lands and resources are not in Cree Nation with it. eignty. Over course of his cluded," he said. That was the unequivocal mes 95% of Crees speech, Coon Marc Lalonde, a former sage the Grand Chief of the jamcs voted to re Come attacked high-ranking Trudeau cabinet Bay Crcc, Matthew Coon Come, main in the PQ's re member and another speaker gave to an enthusiastic crowd of Canada in the spect for de on the panel, agreed that the over 200 at a panel discussion on event of a 'yes' mocracy - a legal and political situations of Quebec's borders after separation vote in the favourite tar the Cree and English this week. Quebec refer get of parti Quebeckers arc fundamentally "No other people but the Cree endum. tionist leaders. different. will decide our future affiliation. But what "They cite The Cree's right to decide We will not be passed from owner has changed the exercise of their own future is "unim to owner like cattle in a field," he since then is democracy as peachable and unassailable," said. Coon Come's sufficient to according to Lalande The Crcc Nation has always popularity separate "The federal government been self-governing, and the days amongst Quebec from has a legal responsibility after arc gone when Crcc territory Montreal Canada, but a 'yes' vote to defend aborigi could be assigned to one or other anglophones they deny the nal rights," he said. provincial power without their who seek to democracy of But Lalande wasn't as clear consent, Coon Come said. keep English the Cree," he when it came to assessing the "In 1763, in 1898, this land was speaking re said. English community's chances transferred with the stroke of the gions of the The (Luebec of remaining in Canada. pen, without our knowledge," said province in partition movement, she devoted government "The situation would be an Coon Come. Canadaintheeventof(Luebecin an entire chapter to the Cree ref refused to recognize the valid archic, a case of 'anything "When I told my father-in-law dependence. erendum. ity of the Cree vote, saying that goes'," he said. that his hunting territory was Coon Come has gone from be A clear example of the high on!y a province-wide referen There would only be a clear transferred by the King, he said ing a relatively obscure aboriginal opinion many partitionists hold dum had the authority to de cut legal case for partition If to me 'but how, he has never been leader to a hero among many in for Coon Come came at the begin termine the future of any and the (Lw!bec government unilat to this land?'," he said. the partition movement, for his ning of the evening, as the event's all of the province. erally declared independence, "Those things will never hap clear and unequivocal stance organizer rose to introduce the Although much of Coon Lalande said. pen again," Coon Come added. against the sovereigntist govern Grand Chief. Come's speech was punctuated Lalande refused to identify This was not the first time that ment of Lucien Bouchard. "Mr Coon Come, during the last with strong applause from the himself as a partitionist, say Coon Come has made such strong The Grand Chief has also re referendum, you and the Crees crowd, he made it clear that he ing only that he believed that statements-he's been saying ex cently received praise from an stood alone. I can promise you was fighting not for Canada, as "the francophone minority in actly the same thing since the Cree other unlikely source: Diane that you will never stand alone many partitionists seem to be North America is better served held their own referendum on Francis, the editor of the Finan again," said Steven Pinkus, the en lieve, but for Cree sovereignty. now and in the future as part their future, just days before the cial Post. 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