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The week that was for McGill Athletics: February 17th

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Athletes of the week

Jonathan Brunelle

In an elimination match against the Concordia Stingers, junior forward Jonathan Brunelle shone when his team needed him the, while tallying five points for the McGill Redmen. The Boisbrand, QC native and alumnus of the QMJHL tallied eight points total during the three-game OUA East playoffs. Brunelle has scored 37 points–the second-highest total on the team–during this season on 12 goals and 25 assists. If past performance–he has five game-winning goals on the season–is a good predictor for future potential, Brunelle will come through once again.

Melodie Daoust

It’s not very often that the No. 2 team in the CIS can add a late season addition that also happens to be the best player in the country, but former Olympian Melodie Daoust is just that. In her debut weekend, following a prolonged absence due to injury, Daoust did not miss a beat, tallying two goals and four assists in the Martlets’ two victories over the weekend. The physical and health education major from Valleyfield, QC, joins the Martlets just ahead of their playoff race, an important addition for a team that has shown that it is not invincible. With Daoust back in the lineup, it may not take long for the Martlets to return to their title-winning ways. 

Beyond the box score

Redmen Basketball 

It was a relatively quiet week for the Redmen (9-4) basketball team, with just one game on the docket. The Redmen took on the Bishop’s Gaiters (7-7) on the road and triumphed 56-46 in front of a crowd of over 400. Senior guard and team captain Vincent Dufort led the way with a double-double, including 15 points and 11 rebounds, while going 5-11 from the field and 5-5 from the free throw line. Burgeoning sophomore centre Francois Bourque continued to dominate on the glass, pulling down 11 rebounds of his own and adding six points as well. The Redmen managed to come out on top despite some shooting struggles. McGill shot 37.5 per cent from the field, and went just 4-20 from beyond the arc. The Redmen need just one more win in order to lock down first-place in the RSEQ, and that may come Thursday as McGill plays host to last-place UQÀM (4-9).

Martlet Basketball 

Alex Kiss-Rusk, last week’s Tribune Athlete of the Week, continued to shine for the Martlets (12-1), posting a double-double with 13 points and 10 rebounds to lead her team over the Bishop’s Gaiters (0-14) by a margin of 51-34 on Saturday. Despite the lopsided score, the Martlets were a mess coming out of the gates, managing a measly four points in the first quarter. Strong performances from frontcourt veterans Kiss-Rusk, Mariam Sylla, and Gabriela Hebert in the third quarter led to a 19-4 run that put the game away for McGill’s 12th victory of the season. The Martlets are now one win away from clinching a first-place finish atop the RSEQ for the fifth consecutive year, and could do so at home against UQÀM on Thursday night.

Redmen and Martlet Track and Field

The annual Redmen Classic brought out the best in McGill’s athletes on Saturday night in the Tomlinson Fieldhouse. The McGill Track and Field team captured five gold medals, with Hao Xu and Steven Murray qualifying for the CIS Nationals in the men’s high jump and men’s 300m events. Xu, a mechanical engineering student from Houston, matched the CIS qualifying standard with a 2.03m jump. Murray, a senior sprinter from Burlington, ON, qualified with a blazing time of 34.86 seconds in the 300m. Murray was also part of the winning men’s 4x200m relay team, along with junior Tim Kong, freshman Ryan McLelland, and junior Javier Montalvo. Their time of 1:29.90 was 44 tenths of a second off of the CIS qualifying time. Lenny Dion, also a senior linebacker on the Redmen football squad, won the shot put event with a distance of 12.45m bringing home another gold for McGill. 

By the numbers

5 – Average number of goals scored per game by the Redmen hockey team in their three-game series against Concordia.

10 – Number of goals scored by the Martlet hockey team in Friday’s win over Carleton, the most in a regular season game since a 10-0 win on Jan. 28, 2012, also against Carleton.

24.6 – Shooting percentage allowed by the Redmen basketball’s stingy defence in Saturday’s win on the road against Bishop’s. 

.701 – Head Coach David Daveiro’s total winning percentage while at the helm of the Redmen basketball team.

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Low rates of sexual assault in university records highlight problems with reporting

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The unfortunate truth about sexual violence is that it is something that many women face in their lifetimes, with an especially worrisome frequency at universities. Over the past couple of years, the media has been flooded with stories about the problem of sexual assault on university campuses. However, across Canada, there is a disconnect between sexual violence occurrences on university campuses and the number actually recorded by schools.

A recent CBC article revealed that sexual assault reporting at Canadian universities is much lower than in the surrounding cities. In a survey conducted at the University of Ottawa, 44 per cent of female students encountered some sort of sexual violence on campus, and yet, the school only has 10 official reports. Sexual violence on campuses is a very prominent issue, yet university reports of sexual assault remain suspiciously low.

In the United States, there is a law requiring universities to make sexual assault records public, unlike in Canada, where no such law exists. McGill University currently has no records available for sexual violence from the past five years, according to the data collected by the CBC. Without any law forcing records to be publicized, it is easy for the truth about the prevalence of sexual assault on university campuses to be misconstrued.

Many Canadian universities shy away from discussing sexual assault to protect their image. This can be extremely discouraging to students, who may think they should not report sexual violence to their university if the school may be hesitant to take disciplinary actions. It can take a very long time for a sexual assault case to be investigated, processed, and handled by the police—even then the case may be dismissed for lack of evidence. Students may therefore want to be able to report injustices to their universities, so that they don’t have to go to the police. Going through the university can be a lot quicker and less painful for survivors than having to be dragged through the criminal justice system.

Without any law forcing records to be publicized, it is easy for the truth about the prevalence of sexual assault on university campuses to be misconstrued.

The University of British Columbia (UBC) was recently interviewed about sexual assault reporting on their campus. The number they have on record from the past five years is about a quarter of the size of that the RCMP has on record, which has a branch located on the UBC campus. With one in four women on average experiencing sexual assault in their lifetimes, it is nearly impossible for university numbers to be that low. “It makes me wonder who students have been trusting in telling and who is collecting the numbers,” said one concerned student and survivor of sexual assault from UBC in an interview with the CBC. Universities need to improve how they are handling and processing these reports given to them.

There also seems to be a lack of support on campus when it comes to helping survivors of sexual assault. Something as simple as where exactly one should report an act of sexual violence is unclear at many universities. From there, students can feel uncomfortable expressing what has happened to them, and it is the job of the schools to give as much non-judgmental support as possible. Students should not have to go searching for help; when an incident like sexual violence occurs, the school should be right there, ready to assist.

Recently, there has been a proposal drafted on how to expand McGill University’s policy on sexual violence on campus. It addresses how to treat the survivor in the case, and is careful to use the word ‘survivor’ as opposed to ‘victim’ to empower the student affected. The drafted sexual assault policy also discusses how to prevent these acts of sexual violence from occurring in the future. Implementing more awareness on campus and creating an organization whose sole purpose is to deal first-hand with all issues concerning sexual violence on campus are included as important steps for the university to undertake to encourage students to report sexual assaults. Information and resources —such as discussions on topics like consent, prevention of sexual assault, and reporting—will be made easily accessible. The sexual assault policy also advocates for the training of members of the McGill community to carry out peer and professional support services. This proposal is a definite step in the right direction, as it addresses many of the key components that universities need to have on their campuses in order to better handle sexual violence incidents.

To begin tackling the issue of sexual assault on campuses, universities need be more supportive and open to their students to make them feel safe and secure if they ever need help. Students who are survivors of sexual violence have already encountered enough pain; schools should not be adding to the difficulty of the situation. It is the job of universities to work as hard as they can to encourage students to report these incidences and make them feel they are not alone.

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Sketches of a comedic dream taking shape

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David Tichauer may have just caught his big break.

After nearly a decade of writing, performing, and honing his craft, the comedian and McGill-graduate has received word that the CBC wants him and his creative partner, Ned Petrie, to turn their monthly live quiz show into an original television series.

“We’ve been doing [The Panel Show] live for the last four or five years for a handful of people, [and] maybe 10 people will show up—that’s on a good day—making no money,” Tichauer explained with a tone of playful self-deprecation. “But we just found out a few days ago that CBC ordered a pilot that we’re going to do in March, and hopefully we’re going to get it in their regular lineup, which would be crazy.”

The series centres on a panel of comedians riffing and answering questions about obscure and hilarious news stories. Petrie is the show’s host, and Tichauer is the show’s on-camera scorekeeper, chiming in during discussions and providing a mid-show interlude involving comically inaccurate film reviews.

It’s a huge development for the Toronto-born performer, who pursues comedy full-time with a part-time job as a tutor for high school students, a gig he owes to his undergraduate education. Tichauer explained that he was a focused student in university, and has since worked extensively as a scientific researcher—comedy came to Tichauer late in life.

“[Comedy at McGill] really wasn’t on my radar,” Tichauer recalled. “My thing was sports. I tried out for the [varsity] tennis team…did not get on. So I just played intramurals: Soccer, ball hockey, that kind of stuff.”

However, Tichauer did flex his comedy guns at one point in his tenure as an undergraduate, penning a satirical article for The McGill Daily.

“It was on George W. Bush about how he was bad—pretty original, I know,” he said. “It was right when they discovered there were no weapons of mass destruction, probably 2003, 2004. [….] He was just such a silly person, just ripe for comedy.”

After graduation though, Tichauer’s passion for humour began to emerge.

“I moved back to Toronto after university, and a friend of mine was taking classes at The Second City,” he explained. “She suggested to me that I take them because she thought I’d enjoy them. I was working in a research lab at the time, and I guess I felt like I wanted to be doing something a little more creative, something a little different. So I started taking classes—weekly improv classes at Second City—and I never stopped.

Tichauer eventually completed every level of classes offered at the prestigious comedy institute, including a one-year conservatory program in which students audition to work on a full-length revue sketch show. He met many funny people in the process, including Petrie.

“After the conservatory was over, we just kept on doing it, meeting on our own time, once a week as an independent sketch troupe,” he said. “That’s how it started.”

Out of this productive social network grew Straight Man, a web series—nominated in five categories at the 2014 Canadian Comedy Awards—which Tichauer starred in and co-wrote.

“Straight Man first started without me, with three other guys [from the sketch troupe] as an offshoot because one of them knew a producer who worked at some actual TV network,” Tichauer explained. “But after that, they brought me on because they wanted to change it and add more, so I ended up writing the web series, along with Ned.”

In Straight Man, Tichauer plays the most reasonable member of a bumbling three-man comedy troupe who have just received their first professional performing contract from a powerful but shady producer. On the night that the trio celebrates the producer’s generous offer, Tichauer’s character is hit in the head by a popped champagne cork, enduring head trauma that directly affects his ability to understand humour and irony. Essentially, he is rendered unfunny, just hours before signing the contract that will make him a star.

Although Tichauer claims that the premise for Straight Man was not born out of any haunting, recurring nightmare, he admits that banking on one’s own comedic appeal isn’t exactly the most surefire investment.

“[That premise] was totally just an analytical choice, based on what we thought would be the worst thing that could happen,” said Tichauer. “That being said, it is a thing that every comedian thinks and worries about, that it’s just not going to work someday. [The ability to be funny] seems like a very ephemeral thing. It is a fear, something that every comedian thinks and worries about.”

Through years of constant performance and disciplined writing, Tichauer has reached a point of great opportunity. The work he produces in the next few months could catapult him to national recognition and prominence. Let’s just hope that he doesn’t celebrate with that bottle of champagne too early.

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Redmen stung in playoff opener

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The playoffs are a fresh start during which anything is possible, and this was exemplified in game one of the opening round series between the Concordia Stingers and McGill Redmen in the OUA East. The fierce rivalry was a one-sided affair during the regular season, as the Redmen took both games with 5-3 and 5-4 wins. In Wednesday night’s game, however, the Stingers embraced the blank slate that the playoffs afforded and took home a 6-4 upset victory in McGill’s McConnell Arena. 

The Redmen got off to a rough start with alternate captain Patrick Delisle-Houde receiving a game misconduct for an ugly check from behind on Concordia defenseman Gabriel Bourret 11 minutes into the game. A five-minute power play followed for the Stingers and the Redmen’s third-ranked penalty kill unit in the OUA could not hold off for long. A quick flick from Concordia winger Olivier Hinse on a wraparound ended up awkwardly deflecting behind sophomore goalkeeper Jacob Gervais-Chouinard and into the net. Despite holding the best goals against average in the CIS, Gervais-Chouinard struggled to assert his dominance in net, resulting in a total of four goals on just over 30 shots. The flimsy goal did not get in the way of Head Coach Kelly Nobes’ team, as star freshman defenceman Samuel Labrecque responded quickly with a rocket from the blueline to open the scoring for the Redmen. 

The teams went into the break tied, and both came out swinging in the second period, which was marked by two Concordia goals. A relentless forecheck from senior centre Guillaume Langelier-Parent wore down the Stinger defence, and great plays from silky-handed sophomore winger Pietro Antonelli gave the crowd something to cheer about, but McGill could not crack Concordia netminder Robin Billingham. The Stingers’ backstop recorded 40 saves on the night in one of his best outings this season. 

By the final period, the game’s outcome seemed certain, even more so when Hinse added his second power play goal for the visitors eight minutes in. The goal, however, acted as a wake-up call for the Redmen offence. A sudden surge in energy from the home team led to a pair of goals—one from rookie winger Simon Tardif-Richard and another from the red-hot Labrecque—bringing the game within one with just over two minutes remaining. Nobes made the call to pull Gervais-Chouinard in hopes of tying things up in the final moments, but Concordia would go on to score two empty-net goals. Langelier-Parent scored the final Redman goal off an amazing through-the-legs set up by Antonelli, but it was too little too late. 

Nobes stressed the importance of building off of the strong third period moving into game two, and touched on areas that needed improvement after the loss.

“The penalty kill needs to be something you can lean on and we weren’t able to do that here tonight,” Nobes said. “We responded well to the adversity we faced and that’s the lesson we [learned] from tonight’s game. You’re going to face adversity in the playoffs and you’ll need to adjust and adapt. So we’ll regroup here and take what we’ve learned into our game Friday.” 

The series is best-of-three, leaving plenty of opportunities for the tenacious Redmen to turn things around. If McGill’s third period play is any indication of what comes next, this series should go the full three games. 

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Fire breaks out in Royal Victoria College residence

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A fire broke out on Feb. 10 in an upper floor of the Royal Victoria College (RVC) residence and firefighters were called to the scene just after 11:00 a.m. The fire was contained and extinguished shortly after arrival, according to Montreal fire department Chief Gordon Routley.

“There was a fire at the very highest part of the attic of Royal Victoria College,” Routley said at the scene. “[It] seems to be confined to a very small area there. We don’t really know what started it, but we got into the void space and found the fire. It seems to be under control now.”

McGill Food and Dining Services Director Mathieu Laperle explained that the fire mostly affected the West Wing of RVC.

“There was extensive damage to the West Wing roof, a section of which has been dismantled,” Laperle said. “There remains no information about the cause of the fire.”

“[The fire was] not very big,” Routley said. “They were able to extinguish it when they found where the fire was—only took a couple minutes once they got water on it. There weren’t a lot of people […] inside the building when we arrived, and they were coming out. [The students] were evacuated when we got here. McGill’s taking care of them.”

Laperle added students would be relocated for the night to evo, a privately-run student residence on Sherbrooke.

“Many of them will be allowed into the West Wing to recover their belongings,” he said the day of the fire. “The 81 students who live in the West Wing will be relocated at evo tonight. We don’t know how long students will be out of RVC.

Mehar Gujral, U1 Arts and resident of RVC’s West Wing, explained that most RVC residents will be staying at evo Sherbrooke until this Friday.

“We’ve been living in evo since Tuesday,” Gujral said. “After this Friday, floors one, two, [and] three will be allowed to move back. Floors four and five will be permanently relocated to other McGill residences.”

Gujral continued to explain that the extent of damage varied throughout the residence.

“[For] my room, it was mostly water damage that was sustained, because the fire didn’t actually reach our rooms,” she said. “But some of the other rooms sustained greater damage in terms of holes in the ceiling […The construction workers] completely sealed off the fifth floor and part of the fourth floor for renovation.”

According to Laperle, costs for repairing the damages incurred from the fire are still unknown.

“It’s too early to come up with a figure,” he said.

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