QQUUIIDD NNOOVVIIMcGill University, Faculty of Law

Volume 27, no. 18, February 13, 2007

IN THIS ISSUE...3... Funding the Future: Re-sults of the CDO Town Hall

4... “Mormon” an Appropri-ate Term for PolygamousGroups

4... There are no Clean-UpElves at the Faculty

5... The Sunshine Article:Alison Glaser v. The Univer-sity

5... Happy Birthday Kyoto!Blowing out the Candleswith Wind Power

6... Les aventures du Capi-taine Corporate America: Ettoc!

8... Reckless Interviews -With Héléna Lamed

9... Sonnet #43 - From theCivilian

10... La recette du succèsIII

11... Rebels Without aCause - A Response toJarom Britton

12... What Year Is It? Mus-ings of a Billy Pilgrim

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Puppy Loveby Caroline Briand (Law IV)Co-Rédactrice en chef

L’amour au premier regard existe-t-il?

Je crois bien que oui. La fin de semaine dernière, mon co-pain et moi avons adopté un petit chiot, baptisée Cashew.Voici le portrait: huit semaines, trois livres, de grands yeuxnoisette, une fourrure douce et ondulée, chocolat etcaramel, et plus de pattes qu’elle ne semble capable degérer.

Soyons exacts: “adopter” dans notre situation est ungrossier euphémisme. Cashew, aux dernières nouvelles,est toujours considérée comme un meuble, et son arrivéechez nous fut contractualisée jusque dans ses moindres dé-tails: pré-contrat en vue de l’achat, contrat de vente (avecdiscussions préalables quant aux exemptions de respons-abilité de l’éleveur et garanties applicables), et contrat ad-ditionnel de non-reproduction soumis à des règles d’entitésadministratives, et assujetti à de la législation fédérale (Loisur la généalogie des animaux de race) et à la juridictionde tribunaux ontariens.

Par conséquent, en peu de temps, nous avons développéavec cette petite boule de poils une relation schizo-phrénique, que je blâme entièrement sur l’influence d’uneéducation juridique.

En première année, un de mes professeurs avait dit à laclasse que lorsque notre “gut feeling” par rapport à unproblème juridique donné ne correspond pas à l’état dudroit, il y a lieu de se questionner sur sa pertinence dans lecontexte. Il en va ainsi de Cashew, qui, bien qu’a priorimeuble saisissable, assurable, aliénable et sans personalitéjuridique, est déjà devenue un membre de la famille à partentière.

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FUNDING THE FUTURE: RE-SULTS OF THE CDO TOWN HALLby the Career Development Office Advisory Board

The Career DevelopmentOffice advisory boardheld a town hall meet-

ing on January 31st in theMoot Court. A handful ofstudents attended, but thosewho did found it an excellentexercise in looking at the pri-orities and the possible fu-ture path for the CDO.Members of the AdvisoryBoard, along with CDO Direc-tor Ali Martin-Mayer and As-sistant Dean External AffairsCharmaine Lyn were on handto answer questions and fa-cilitate audience discussion.

Much of the CDO commit-tee’s presentation and dis-cussion focused on fundingthe CDO in the future. Acombination of programtweaking, cost cutting, andnew and increased sourcesof funding were proposed tohelp stabilize the future forthe CDO and its employees.The current funding struc-ture relies heavily on a con-tribution from a grant fromthe Ministère de l’Éducation,du Loisir et du Sport (MELS)to fund some of the coreservices of the CDO. Thisgrant money is not guaran-teed from year to year, andthe grant allocation has beenshrinking in the past fewyears. The grant money isallocated to specific services.Some of the services jeop-ardized if the grant moneywere to disappear are: theposition of the coordinator,who maintains relationshipswith employers and industry

groups; student summer po-sitions to update the CDOpublications; Careerlink; re-source centre materials; Pub-lic Interest Careers Day; andannual mock interviews, toname a few. These servicesare important to many stu-dents. To stabilize funding,and at least allow for the co-ordinator position to becomea permanent position, theCDO advisory board is look-ing at having a referendumon increasing students’ con-tribution. An additionalamount of about $20 perstudent per term would fundhalf of the coordinator’ssalary, which the faculty hasagreed to match. A higheramount would be necessaryto cover all the services al-ready paid for by the grant.Such an increase would pro-vide a secured source offunding in the event thegrant was to disappear ordecrease. It would thereforebe possible to maintain theactual level of services, or atleast make the reduction ofservices less dramatic. If thegrant was to stay at thesame level, the additionalfunding would be used to im-prove and diversify services.

To cut costs, the CDO advi-sory board suggested thatthe paper-based CDO careerguides be made electroni-cally, and paper versionswould only be available uponrequest, possibly for a fee tooffset printing costs. Thiswould allow the CDO to save

a portion of the money spenton publications. Students atthe town hall agreed thatthey are used to gettingmany resources online inelectronic format. However,much of the cost of the pub-lications goes into the re-search and time spentupdating materials on a bian-nual basis; these costs wouldnot decrease in an online for-mat.

Plusieurs suggestions ont étéfaites pour diversifier lesservices offerts par le CDO,dont la création d’une« banque de diplômés de lafaculté », à laquelle lesdiplômés de la facultépourraient volontairements’inscrire (noms, profession,lieu de travail, etc.) Ceréseau de contacts aideraitles étudiants et récentsdiplômés dans leur recherched’emploi. Il a aussi étésuggéré de créer une tellebanque avec les noms desétudiants ayant participé àdivers types de recrutement– ceux-ci pourraientrépondre aux questions desétudiants participantactuellement aurecrutement, ce quipermettrait de désengorgeren partie le CDO. (À noterque cette initiative estactuellement mise en placepar les présidents de classede deuxième et troisièmeannée.) Une autresuggestion est celle d’offrirdes ateliers de recherche destages et de financement

pour les carrières d’intérêtpublic.

The CDO advisory board isinterested in your feedbackon these and other issuesyou think are facing the CDO.Please email advisory boardmembers Stephanie Bachand(stephanie.bachand@mail.mcgill.ca) or Jarom Britton(jarom.britton@mail.mcgill.ca) with comments. Or, replyto our topic on the LSA fo-rums at http://lsa.mcgill.ca.�

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Q. Why don'tlawyers fallin love onValentine's

Day?

A. "Oh, comeon. Even

Cupid can'thit a targetthat small!"

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Iread with interest Jarom Bitton’s article “FYI: Mormonsare not Polygamous” in the February 6 Quid. Havingbeen raised in the LDS church by my parents, and having

since rejected all organised religion, I am of the opinion thatMr. Bitton’s article has confused the issue on a number of lev-els.

While it is true that the modern Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-Day Saints does not currently allow its members to prac-tise polygamy, polygamy remains a key doctrine of thechurch. Indeed, modern members of the LDS church believethat polygamy will be practised by faithful members in theafterlife.

The founder of the LDS church, Joseph Smith and his succes-sors, including Brigham Young, taught that no person willreach the highest level of heaven unless they enter intopolygamous marriages. Joseph Smith so believed in the ideaof polygamy that he entered into polygamous marriages withteenaged girls without the knowledge of his first wife - real-ising that she would have disagreed with his having multiplewives. He also engaged in polyandrous relationships by mar-rying already married women after sending their husbandsoverseas on missions for his church. Polygamy was indeedone of Joseph Smith’s core doctrines and was one of the

main factors contributing to his incarceration and eventualmurder.

Mr. Bitton’s assertion relies on a debateable definition of theterm “Mormon.” He claims that the term only applies tomembers of the LDS church. However, the modern polyga-mous groups believe that the Book of Mormon (from whichthe term “Mormon” is derived) is God’s word in the samemanner that LDS members do. Furthermore, they believethat Joseph Smith was a prophet in the same way that LDSmember do. They also accept Smith’s teachings vis-à-vispolygamy as having originated with God in the same way thatmodern LDS members do. To claim that the LDS church “hasnothing whatsoever to do with those practising polygamy” is,in my opinion, disingenuous.

Finally, the members of these polygamous groups invariablyself-identify as Mormon. I am not sure why Mr. Bitton feelsthat he has any say over the labels that a set of people applyto themselves, but I imagine that he would dislike it if some-one were to claim that he is not a Christian because he alsobelieves in Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. It is in-deed accurate to refer to these modern polygamous groupsas “Mormons”, and the fact pattern of the Law II factum as-signment needs no correction. �

“MORMON” AN APPROPRIATE TERMFOR POLYGAMOUS GROUPSby Joel Scheueman (Law I)

There are no Clean-UpElves at the Facultyby Leslie Robertson (Law ?)

Who do you think picks up the empty yogurt containers, bottles, napkins, pieces offood or multiple copies of the Quid you leave lying around the basement? Are youexpecting your mother to swing by and do it, or do you think that the mainte-

nance staff employed by the university should?

I arrived at school early for my 8am class today [Editor’s note: Wednesday, February 7]and was presently surprised by the tidy Faculty I had all to myself. Now, on my way to my2:30 class I’m revolted by the state of the basement alone.

There’s discarded food and garbage everywhere. I know we’re all busy and stressed outlaw student but can?t we at least pick up after ourselves? �

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Facts: Alison (the Ap-pellant) has a large as-signment to do as part

of her second year LegalMethodology Course. It iscalled “The Factum” and in-volves research, writing,working with a partner, andpleading. However, the ap-pellant claims that she istired, just wants to go onvacation, wants to watchAmerican Idol (“the TVShow”) which she has justdiscovered is hilarious, andfinally wants to spend sometime with her husband whois already annoyed that shespent so much time workingon the play. She is claimingthat The Factum is interfer-ing with her right to dignityunder Art 4 of the QuebecCharter of Human Rightsand Freedoms, to her rightto life, liberty and securityof person under sec 7 of theCanadian Charter of Rightsand Freedoms, as well as

her right to equality undersec 15 of the CanadianCharter.

Issues:

1 - Does the imposition ofthis assignment violate theAppellant’s right to dignityunder art 4 of the QuebecCharter?

Yes – obviously, spendingtime with one’s husband,watching silly TV shows,and going on early vacationare part of what makes usfundamentally human. Asviolation of dignity is an ob-jective standard (Quebec(Public Curator) v. Syndicatnational des employés del’hôpital St-Ferdinand), it isclear that the Appellant’sdignity is being compro-mised by the lack of auton-omy that has been imposedon her.

2 – Does the imposition ofthe assignment violate theAppellant’s right to life, lib-erty and security of personunder the Canadian Char-ter?

Yes – her liberty has beenclearly circumscribed, par-ticularly as she has nochoice in this matter. Theargument that she chose tocome to law school is falla-cious, as when she chose tocome she did not make thatchoice in a free and enlight-ened manner as she did notproperly understand howtiring it was going to be.Further, her security of per-son has been violated. Se-curity of person can refer toone’s psychological well-being (R v. Morgentaler)and the Appellant’s psycho-logical well-being is beingcompromised. She is partic-ularly affected as she hasbegun to dream about The

Factum and this is highlypsychologically disturbing toher.

3- Does the imposition ofthe assignment violate theAppellant’s right to equalityunder the Canadian Char-ter?

Yes - She is being discrimi-nated based on her age. Ifshe was in another level oflaw school she would not besuffering this prejudice.

Orders sought:

An injunction on The Fac-tum and an automatic A inthe course.

Please note: the above isnot true (except for the partabout dreaming about theFactum which is scary). Ilove the Factum. Really andtruly. Me. Lamed, please donot fail me. �

THE SUNSHINE ARTICLEby Alison Glaser (Law II)

ALISON GLASER V. THE UNIVERSITY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KYOTO! BLOWING OUT THE CANDLES WITHWIND POWERby Claire A. Stockwell (Law I)

This Friday our belovedKyoto Protocol is turn-ing two. To celebrate

ELM will be giving away(free) birthday cake everyday this week in the Atrium,so come join the party! Buta birthday party isn’t com-plete without presents.Given the growing pains andtotal lack of leadership Kyoto

has experienced in Canadathis past year, we felt it wastime to step up to the plate.So ELM has purchasedenough wind power to runthe LSA’s computers on elec-tricity from wind turbines forthe next year.

As no wind turbines havemiraculously arisen in front

of the Gelber entrance, youmay ask where the powercomes from….

Because of an unequal play-ing field and lack of full-costaccounting of all externali-ties, wind power is currentlymore expensive to produce(in same areas) than conven-tional (polluting) sources.

Wind power producers onlyreceive the cost of conven-tional energy when they selltheir power to the energygrid meaning they are pro-ducing power at a loss.Wind power certificates rep-resent the differential be-tween the cost of productionand the rate of conventionalpower; essentially it is a way

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of supporting wind powerproduction in Canada. Windpower certificates are notcurrently available in Que-bec, so we have bought ourpower from wind farmers inAlberta.

Kyoto, however, doesn’t wantjust one present – it wantsmany! So as you enjoy yourpiece of birthday cake andpondering the future of ourclimate, you can also do yourpart by buying wind powerfor your laptop computer. It

costs $17 to run your laptopon wind power for threeyears and you will receive apretty sticker attesting tothat fact.

For those willing to ventureoutside of the Faculty, evenmore fun awaits you...

On Friday, February 16th,sports fans can enjoy a ‘SaveHockey, Fight ClimateChange’ hockey game onfield on the lower campus.

Games are also taking placein Toronto, Ottawa, Detroitand Chicago.

On Saturday, February 17th,join students from universi-ties and CEGEPs all overMontreal for a city-widemarch! The march will endwith participants standing information on the steps ofCity Hall so as to spell“KYOTO” while we sing

happy birthday songs. Don’tforget your party hats andnoise makers! The Marchstarts at 11am at BerriSquare (Berri-UQAM metro)http://bonnefetekyoto.word-press.com/.

Save hockey, save the cli-mate, celebrate Kyoto’s birth-day, and support wind power.Because we all know it’sabout having our cake andeating it too…. �

Les aventures du Capitaine Cor-porate America: Et toc!par Laurence Bich-Carrière (Law III)

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RECKLESS INTERVIEWS -WITH HÉLÉNA LAMEDby Ryan Anderson (Law III)

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Helena Lamed. Shebravely leads scoresof law students

through gauntlet of LegalMethodology, has taught In-surance Law and Law andLiteratures, and is a Leo.Yes, who is this mysteriousperson? Wellllll…..

Direct questions, comments,curiosities toinstantanderson@gmail.com.

So Professor Lamed, manyrumours circulate aboutyou. In my hall-way re-search polls it has been saidthat you are/were a concertviolinist, a killer litigator, anactress, a member of asadistic faction of legalscholars and educators, aninsurance lawyer, and avidShakespearean, and the listgoes on. So we’ll start atthe top- what is your rela-tionship to music?

My relationship to music istenuous and causes suffer-ing to others, particularlymy large collie-lab. I playedthe violin in high school,under the tutelage of a pa-tient cellist, a refugee fromDanzig. I have no ear, andno talent, but I realized thatplaying an instrument is likeno other discipline; it re-quires a special unity ofmental and physical effort.I promised myself that oneday I would take lessonsagain, and so when Istarted at the Law Faculty, Ikept that promise,, andfound a (patient) music stu-dent who was willing to put

up with my erratic practicingand difficulty keeping time.I am most grateful to him.The lessons ended becausehe gave up music and wentinto…law!!

What is currently yourfavourite piece of music?Currently and always:Beethoven’s violin concertoin D major and Paul Robe-son singing the Skye BoatSong. Music venue? Theliving room. And I gotta ask-what songs got you movingon the dance floor in youryounger years? Gloria byUmberto Tozzi, and what-ever the Salsateca was play-ing on Friday nights.

On this theme, you have al-ways been a strong sup-porter of the theatre, bothof Actus Reus and outsidethe illustrious law school.Why? I love the thrill atthe start of a performance,when you know you areabout to be transported, butdon’t know quite where orhow. Even if you know theplay well, the act of “beingthere” in the audience andfeeling the moment is al-ways unique.

Not to offend, but I mustget a touch personal here.There are conflicting com-ments that you are bothhighly formal while otherssay their office time withyou has been warm, per-sonal, and casual (I can at-test to that). Why? I amboth. I feel very stronglyabout the appropriatenessof discourse to the placeand to the audience. Some

formality is necessary infront of 170 law students.It creates a structure neces-sary for a collective relation-ship. Obviously one- on-one calls for something else.But I am the same person,intolerant of anything otherthan straight talking in ei-ther case.

On the theme of art and ourpublic lives, what to you isthe essence of presenta-tion? Where is the line be-tween confidence andhubris? I ask because whilemooting I was told “be con-fident, aggressive- but notarrogant or uppity.” Evi-dently I’m a timid egoist, allaround the worst of bothworlds. Help me here, causeI only want to do good. Anyadvice to this aspiring worldleader on how to speakpublicly? To be extremelywell prepared, to find thehigh moral ground aboutthe subject and allow your-self to be carried along byit, maintain a rich vocabu-lary, avoid gimmicks andclichés, breathe from the di-aphragm to keep your voicefrom going squeaky, andenunciate clearly.

Do you feel that law and artare related? How so? Mostdefinitely and intricately re-lated. Each is an effort toimpose order on and makesense of the mess of humanendeavour, a phrase I mayhave overused in class, butit sums us up, as does:“Man is but a paltry thing, atattered coat upon a stick”.That’s from Yeats, “Sailingto Byzantium”. So we either

theorize about the owner-ship of the coat and thestick, a worthwhile enter-prise to be sure, or we jointhe lords and ladies ofByzantium because art lastswhere we perish, but thestarting point is the same.

I also hear from our inter-national students that yourelish language, and are es-pecially adept at Spanish.Where did you learn thisand why? I relish the gooduse of language generally,and I love learning lan-guages. I like the formalityof learning a grammar,memorizing vocabulary, andtransforming all of that intothe living, ever changingwhole that enables you toorder breakfast somewhere,or listen to neighbourhoodgossip. I learned Spanishjust before starting gradu-ate work in Comparative Lit-erature, because my area ofinterest was the Latin Amer-ican Novel, and I wanted toread this incredibly rich lit-erature in the original. So Ispent a few months inSpain, just when that coun-try was emerging from 40years of dictatorship andoppression. Spain and Iwere kind of in the sameboat, mutatis mutandis, youmight say, and so learningthe language was for me asymbol and an act of free-dom. I didn’t stay with com-parative literature, but I stilllove speaking and listeningto Spanish. I also did someRussian, some German, andspeak rather rough, prag-matic Polish.

Alright, time to back up. Hewho controls the past, con-trols the future, so rule to-morrow by telling me aboutyesterday. Where do youcome from? I come fromright here; I was born inMontreal, of parents whocame from Europe in theearly 50s. I went to MountRoyal High, Marianopolis,and did an undergraduatedegree in English Lit andEconomics at McGill. I al-ways wanted to teach, butthe job prospects in univer-sities were dim in the late70’s and early 80’s, and Igot a bit impatient with theextremely theoretical ap-proach to literary studiesthat was the dernier cri ingraduate schools then. So Idecided to go to law school,still at McGill. I have neverwanted to leave Montreal. Ieven live in the house Igrew up in...

Evidently you’ve had sometime as a practioner, per-haps the reason for your(appreciated) pragmaticbent a la Legal Meth. Whatcan you say about your timeas a litigator? Memorablemoments? I liked litigatinga lot and I miss it, thoughdealing with students keepsme alive to advocacy. Iliked preparing a case, I es-pecially liked closing argu-ment, where you must tryto use the facts to your ad-vantage without being ac-cused of distorting things.My favourite exchange waswith a judge through a wit-ness, in a family matter. Theparties hated each other,and the husband wanted toshow that the wife wascrazy, in order to get cus-tody of the kids, so he kepton saying how she did weirdthings, made soup for thechildren at 4 pm and ac-cused him of having affairs.

I wanted to make her looksort of normal, because shewas strange. So I asked himin cross, “your wife mustlove you very much and findyou very attractive if she isworried about this, right?”

Is reputation important?Very. Especially a goodone. You don’t want to loseit.

What do you fear? Illness.Random, wanton acts of vi-olence

What drives you? Fear offailing.

What is the greatestbattle/struggle we currentlyface in the world? Intoler-ance.

What frustrates you? Whenpeople don’t take the timeto reflect before they speak.

What makes you happy?My daughters, a really goodnovel (hard to find!),greatconversation, and when mygarden has blooms all sea-son long with somethingother than impatiens (trick-ier than you think!).

What is your favourite word(not for all time, but youknow…generally, thesedays)? Whatever. �

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SONNET #43,FROM THE

CIVILIAN1

by Stephanie Jones (Law II)

How do I love thee? Let me count theways.

I love thee to the length and widthand height

My fing’rs can reach, when feeling outof sight

For thine articles, Raison and Justice.I love thee to the level of everyday’sAssigned readings, by sun and electric

light.I love thee freely, as we strive to cite;I love thee purely, as we turn from A’s.I love thee with a passion put to use

At MLIC,2 and with my 1L faith.I love thee with a love I seemed to

loseIn CLP3 – I love thee with the breath,Smiles, tears, of law school – and, if le

Barreau choose,I shall but love thee better in practice.

1 With apologies to EBB.2 McGill Legal Information Clinic.

3 Civil Law Property (with apologies).

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La recette du succès IIIpar Caroline Briand(Law IV)

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Àdéfaut de pouvoir lespréparer avec amour(et facilité) pour l’âme

sœur, en cette édition 2007de la Saint-Valentin, lesdesserts suivants saurontvous faire passer pour unevraie Martha Stewart (lasalopette orange en moins)auprès de vos ami(e)s, oudu moins agrémenter vossoirées d’études en tête-à-tête avec votre chat, chienou autre animal decompagnie non-humain.

Cupcakes infaillibles(pour 12 petits gâteaux)

Ingrédients :

½ tasse de beurre non salé,ramolli1 tasse de sucre3 c. à thé de vanille2 œufs à température pièce2 tasses de farine blanche2 c. à thé de poudre à pâte½ c. à thé de sel2 portions de yogourt sansgras individuelles (environ100g chacune) à la vanille,et/ou aux framboises, et/ouaux fraises½ tasse de lait

Colorant alimentaire rouge1 tasse de sucre à glacer1 tasse de tartinadechocolat-noisettes (genreNutella)

Préparation :

Préchauffer le four à 350 °F.Mettre des moules en papierdans un moule à muffins.Battre le beurre, le sucre etla vanille jusqu’à ce que lemélange blanchisse.Ajouter les œufs un à lafois, en mélangeant bien.Mélanger les ingrédientssecs.Mélanger le lait et leyogourt.Ajouter ces deux mélangesà la préparation aux œufsen alternant les ingrédientssecs et les ingrédientshumides, et en mélangeantjusqu’à uniformité aprèschaque ajout.Ajouter quelques gouttes decolorant rouge à lapréparation, jusqu’àl’obtention d’une bellecouleur rose.Verser le mélange dans lesmoules à muffins. Plus le

moule est rempli, plus lesgâteaux auront une belleforme de champignon.Cuire au centre du four 25minutes, ou jusqu’à cequ’une brochette insérée aucentre d’un gâteau enressorte propre.Laisser refroidir, puisdémouler.Pendant que les cupcakescuisent, préparer le glaçageen fouettant ensemble latartinade aux noisettes et lesucre à glacer jusqu’àl’obtention d’un mélange quise tient bien. Ajuster enrajouter soit du sucre àglacer, soit de la tartinade.Quand les gâteaux sontbien refroidis, les glacer àl’aide d’une spatule ou –pour un effet plusspectaculaire – avec unepoche à douille.

Feuilletés au sucre à lacrème

Ingrédients :

1 rouleau de pâte àcroissants du commerce1 tasse de cassonade bientassée

1 tasse de crème 35%Crème glacée

Préparation :

Préchauffer le four à 350 °F.Trancher le rouleau de pâteà croissants en huittronçons d’égale épaisseur.Disposer les tronçons, laface spiralée vers le haut,dans un plat allant au fourayant un bord d’au moins 1½ pouce.Dans un bol à part, fouetterà la main la crème et lacassonade jusqu’à ce que lemélange soit relativementhomogène, et toujoursliquide.Verser le mélange decassonade dans le platcontenant les tronçons decroissants.Mettre au four pendant 30minutes. Les rondelles decroissants auront levé enbelles spirales feuilletéesnageant dans un onctueuxsucre à la crème.Diviser et servir chaud, avecune boule de crème glacée.�

♥♥♥♥♥♥ LAW JOKE CORNER ♥♥♥♥♥♥

A guy walks into a post office one day to see a very well-dressed, middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter me-thodically placing "Love" stamps on a huge stack of bright pink envelopes. Each envelope had hearts all over it.

The man then took out a perfume bottle and sprayed scent all over the envelopes.

His curiosity getting the better of him, the guy goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says"I'm sending out 1,000 Valentines cards signed, 'Guess who?'"

"But why would you want to do that?"

"I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replied.

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Rebels Without a Cause- A Response to JaromBrittonby Stephanie Dickson (Law III)

Iam writing in responseto last week’s article en-titled “FYI: Mormons are

Not Polygamous.” Well ac-cording to various sources,some of them are!

I felt compelled to write notso much to debate Mor-monism and polygamy(though I plan to do that alittle bit) but mostly becauseI am a little astounded bythe outbursts. For therecord, I write as a con-cerned member of the Fac-ulty and not as a staunchdefender of the LegalMethodology Programme.Also for the record, I re-spect the religious freedomsof Mr. Britton and everyoneelse for that matter – I lovesection 2(a)!

The first thing that struckme about Mr. Britton’s arti-cle was the fact that it waswritten at all. Indeed, theinspiration came from a sec-ond-year factum problem,not an Op-Ed in the Quid ora research paper. The fact-pattern was meant to be fic-titious and couldconceivably have involvedSanta Claus or the ToothFairy. But for the sake ofargument, let’s pretend fora moment that the factumwas meant to be an accu-rate depiction of reality.

The fact-pattern never men-tioned the Church of JesusChrist of Latter-day Saints(the LDS Church). If it had,

perhaps Mr. Britton’s articlewould be more understand-able. As the article men-tioned, the question dealtwith a splinter group orbranch of Mormonism. NowI confess to not being anexpert on these religiousgroups, so I did a little re-search on Wikipedia (whichI have found to be a prettyreliable source to date!)

From what I can gather, thefounder of the Latter DaySaint movement was JosephSmith Jr., who gained a fol-lowing and practiced ac-cording to the book ofMormon. These early Mor-mons practiced polygamyand began to suffer perse-cution in the United States.Eventually, after enduringlegislative penalties andproperty seizures, the LDSChurch decided to outlawthe practice of polygamy in1890. Those who didn’t likeit broke away from theChurch and continued theirpolygamous lifestyles.Today the LDS Church doesnot like to be associatedwith polygamous groups or“fundamentalist Mormons.”

From our good friendWikipedia.org:

Although most Mormons ac-cepted the ban on pluralmarriage, various splintergroups left the mainline LDSChurch to continue thepractice of polygamy.Polygamy among these

groups persists today inUtah, neighboring states,and the spin-off colonies, aswell as among isolated indi-viduals with no organizedchurch affiliation. Polyga-mist churches of Mormonorigin are often refered toas Mormon fundamentalist.Claims for exclusivity ofusage are primarily to avoidconfusion between the LDSChurch and "Mormon Fun-damentalist" groups.

It seems to me that whilethe LDS Church is free tobelieve what it wishes andoutlaw whatever practice itdesires, it cannot re-writehistory. If indeed polyga-mous groups were initiallyfollowers of Mormonism andself-identify as such, theycan reasonably be termedMormons. This should notnecessarily change becausethe LDS Church proclaims itnow owns the “Mormon”title or vehemently opposespolygamy.

If the impugned fact-patternconcerned national securityand involved a Muslim sus-pected of terrorist affilia-tions, would all Muslimstudents be outraged? If itinvolved a Catholic priestaccused of molesting hisaltar boy, would all theCatholics be up in arms?Well, in light of recent out-bursts at the Faculty, I sup-pose it wouldn’t surpriseme. �

“Onlywithin themoment oftime repre-sented bythe pres-ent cen-tury hasone

species -man - ac-quired sig-nificantpower toalter thenature ofhis world.”

- RachelCarson

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QUID NOVI

“As an Earthling I had to be-lieve whatever clocks said –and calendars.”- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughter-house Five

Note: This is an attempt atan article somewhat in thetelegraphic schizophrenicmanner of the planetTralfamadore where KurtVonnegut says the flyingsaucers come from. The factthat it is published on the53rd anniversary of the fire-bombing of Dresden is dueto a technical problem (itwas written a week earlier)and is, therefore, a coinci-dence, insofar as suchthings exist. Peace.

From the desktop of ourcomputer, VladislavTretiak, summoned

there out of the 1970’s bymy brother, is staring at me.His gaze is piercing. He isalert, focussed and seemsvery much alive. He is play-ing for his country. He hasalways played for it, and al-

ways will. The moment isstructured that way. Thecountry’s name is written ingolden letters on a red uni-form. The country has dis-appeared sixteen years ago.So it goes.

We have become a speciesof Billy Pilgrims. We are allunstuck in time. We wanderthrough time, never certainwhen we are and when weare going to end up next,without even giving it muchthought.

I am listening to GeorgesCziffra playing Rachmani-noff’s 2nd piano concerto. Itis sad and full of light. Everynote is a tear; sunrays passthrough them and break upin rainbows. Rachmaninoffcomposed the concerto in1900. Cziffra recorded it in1970. I listen and want tocry.

Some things change ofcourse. When you en-counter them, you are sure

to notice a distance, andthere is no danger of feelingunstuck in time. Kurt Von-negut wrote, in Slaughter-house Five, “that therewould always be wars, thatthey were as easy to stopas glaciers.” Now that weare on our way to success-fully driving glaciers out ofexistence, one would haveto be crazy to write this, soyou know Vonnegut wrote itin 1969.

I am watching an old inter-view from the CBC’s internetarchives. Barbara Frum isquestioning Pierre ElliotTrudeau on the Meech LakeAccord. Barbara Frum isdead. So it goes. Pierre El-liot Trudeau is dead. So itgoes. The Meech Lake Ac-cord is dead. So it goes.The idea that all Canadiansare equal, but some aremore equal than others isnot dead. Ainsi, ça ne vapas.

Some things don’t change,

and with them, you cannothelp but feel unstuck intime. “The speaker at theLions Club meeting was ameeting in the Marines. Hesaid that Americans had nochoice but to keep fighting… until they achieved vic-tory or until the […]ists real-ized that they could notforce their way of life onweak countries.” How wasVonnegut so sure the manwas talking about Vietnamand Communists, ratherthan Iraq and Islamists? Oh,right, he wrote that in 1969.

If you expect me to saysomething intelligent at thispoint, I’m sorry to disap-point you. I don’t reallyhave anything intelligent tosay, which is why I feel likeit’s a good time to get towork on my factum. Fromthe desktop of our com-puter, Vladislav Tretiak isstill staring at me. �

What year is it? Musings of a Billy Pilgrimby Leonid Sirota (Law II)

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