News 2004-04-21

○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ news bandersnatch Hijacking cafeteria tarys since 1971 Volume XXXIII Issue 14 The Bandersnatch team (or most of it) after a tough semester. Hey, where was Anton when we took pictures?! SUJAC Update ........................ 3 Campus Life ............................ 5 Opinion ................................... 8 Slanderbatch .......................... 9 Entertainment ........................ 13 Arts ......................................... 17 Games .................................... 20 Sports ...................................... 21 ○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○Scoreboard .............................2004-04-21 23 1 ○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ news BANDERSNATCH School Should Have Ended Already... John Abbott College With your Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Katz P.O. Box 2000 Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, QC H9X 3L9 The very last issue of the semes- are..... well, all of them. So whether put a bit of effort on it, and we are hop- ter, of the year. Finally. you want to run for Ed-In-Chief, or ing you will laugh as much reading it Tel: (514) 457-6610 Ext 5389 Ads Manager, come to the meeting. as we did writing it. I have to say, it’s been a pain-in- Fax: (514) 457-6091 the-ass semester, with school work This issue is a big one, with a spe- To send you off, I have decided to E-Mail: and Bander both fighting for equal pri- cial insert, and enough content to en- publish a list of what the world has [email protected] ority in our schedules. We sweated, tertain and inform you for a long decided to call “Bushisms”. The man Office: H-041 ○○○○○ we screamed, we swore - a lot - , we while. We bedazzle! We shock! We in- that started all, the President of the ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ cried, we occasionally cracked one still fear! We are THE Bandersnatch. United States of America has become Editor-in-Chief another over the head. In the end, (This paragraph is a perfect excuse a very multi-talented individual. Be- Jeffrey Katz looking back at all the fuss, we did a why you should run for Ed-In-Chief, sides running a country, coercing the good job. Maybe not too modest, but or another position; you can write world, and generally making this a News Editor true. useless and corny paragraphs just like better place to live in, he also has a Ann-Margaret Porcelli it!) talent for comical statements. Here is This is one of the most trying times just a sampling: for the Bander office, as many of our Also, even though this is the very Campus Life Editor long-standing, hard-working Execs last issue of this year, we will still be “Security is the essential road- Rob Briza and other staff are moving on. Some accepting articles, pictures, drawings, block to achieving the road map to Opinion Editor to University, some to their future and pretty much anything you would peace.”—Washington, D.C., July 25, Marc Nakhleh careers, and of course many to the like to submit. It will give us some- 2003 Antartic. They will be remembered for thing to publish the first few, boring “Do you have blacks, too?”—To Entertainment Editor a long time to come - well, until they weeks of school next year. Karen Gelsthorpe are replaced - and their work here is Brazilian President Fernando With Springfest and the end of Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, forever honored, and will be recycled Sports Editor school arriving within a few weeks, I 2001 according to Government regula- Naila Jinnah tions. expect your profs will be cramming 60% or more of their grading very “They misunderestimated me.” Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000 Arts Editor So, since we will be running short soon, so give ‘em hell! Chris Deslauriers for positions as of next semester - Have a great summer, and we all “It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot damn graduates - we will be holding Assistant Editor-in-Chief hope you enjoy our traditional end- of numbers in it.” -Reuters, May 5, Open Elections next Tuesday at 17h30 2000 Benjamin Wald in H 033A. The current open positions of-semester insert, Slanderbatch. We Office Manager Christine Nadeau Production Manager News Editor's Note Sarah Jade Aubé with editor Ann-Margaret Porcelli Advertising Manager Anton Iancu Another semester has come in the library of a local Jewish el- journey of CEJEP is ending soon Temporary Archive Editor to an end. As I sit writing my last ementary school. I encourage you and you will all be ready to embark Katherine Martin all to read the story of how the editors note for the winter 2004 on a new and exciting journey. Foreign Languages Editor academic year, I can’t help but re- community is handling this act of Many are probably experiencing Open flect over the stories that have violence against the Jewish com- mix feeling which is quite normal. bombarded the news during the munity in our own city. Unfortu- Regardless of the path you take re- Games Page Editor nately acts of violence are happen- past four months. Although there member there isn’t anything you Jeffrey Katz is controversy and stress amongst ing in many parts of the world. can’t accomplish with determina- leaders and individuals over the There are many innocent people tion and motivation. Follow your Photographic Coordinator US led War on terror as well as the dying in Iraq. I recommend that dreams and make them happen. I Zili Wang upcoming elections in Canada and you read the amazing article on would like to congratulate you all the United States, there are posi- how a Laval journalist spent his and good luck in your future Webmasters tive situations in the world. An days in captivity and how he is re- endeavors. You will all be missed. Ryan Bruyère inspiring event occurred early in covering from his terrible ordeal. David Newman ○○○○○○○○ the semester when John Abbott Osama Bin Laden has extended That’s it for the news this ○○○○○○○○○○○○ students and the West Island com- some form of peace offering to all week. Good Luck on your final Bandersnatch is the student-run Alternative Press munity came together to raise European states. World leaders exams and have a great and safe at John Abbott College. It is published every two weeks money for Anthony. Anthony’s are now discussing whether or not summer holiday. I am looking for- and is partially funded by the Student Activities ward to seeing you next August. Commitee and by advertising solicited members. Sub- only chance of survival is to have to reject the message of having missions are welcome in traditionally either English a complex surgery that can only be their troops return home or to con- or French and become property of the newspaper. Sub- performed in the Texas. Let’s not tinue their work in the Middle East. missions must be on an IBM compatible diskette along forget our loony line ending last with a printed hard copy and MUST be in Text Format Only a few short weeks left of (*.txt) or RichText Format (*.RTF). All submissions must semester to help students in need. this semester, and I can sense the include the full name and telephone number of the con- John Abbott’s newest project, by excitement coming from those tributor, as well as the e-mail address if applicable. The SUJAC, to adopt a child in a third staff reserves the right to reject or edit any submis- graduating in June. Or perhaps it’s world country has been holding sions for length, legality, or clarity. Letters to Bander- a great feeling and thought on my bake sales for this great humani- snatch should be a maximum of 500 words but may see part that I have survived my first print nonetheless if they are longer but worthwhile. tarian cause. year of CEJEP. However I will fo- Neither spelling nor grammar will be corrected on let- Just a couple of weeks cus on those graduating this year. ters to the editors, it is the responsibility of the con- Once again for many students this tributor to correct them. ago there was a bomb that went off Submissions and letters should be dropped off at the Bandersnatch office, located in the basement of Herzberg, H-041 (across from the Hallway entrance of the oval). ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ 2 bandersnatch ○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ news Bush Jewish School Bombing Rarely ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ Benjamin Wald person Yves Surprenant called it the Briefed Assistant Editor - in - Chief most deplorable thing he had seen ○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ in his 24 years with the force. The Early Monday morning, April head of the school denounced it as On9/11 5, an event occurred that had Mon- “An act of terrorism, pure and sim- treal mayor Gerald Tremblay saying ple.” Prime Minister Paul Martin said ○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○○○ he was ashamed to be the mayor of the firebombing was an “attack on Zili Wang Montreal. The Talmud Torah Jewish freedom.” Setting fire to “a place of Photographic Coordinator learning, where young children ○○○○○○○○○ ○○○○○○○○○○○○○ school library was the target of a vi- cious hate crime. A window was bro- gather is an offense against all that When George Tenet, head of the ken and an accelerator used to start Canadians cherish,” the Prime Min- CIA, was presented with an August a fire that gutted the library. Of the ister added. 2001 briefing labeled “Islamic Ex- ten thousand books stored in the li- This attack seems to be a part tremist Learns to Fly”, George Bush brary, both religious and entertain- of a rising trend of anti-Semitism in was at his Texas ranch, on a month- ment oriented, only twenty-five sur- Canada. B’nai Brith Canada reported long vacation. The briefing was a fol- vived the fire. an increase in anti-Semitic incidents low-up on the arrest of one Zacarias This fire was motivated by in Canada in 2003.

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