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Kelly-Anne Drummond cup finally comes home

After five long years of watching McGill carry home the title, the Concordia women's rugby team finally brought home the cup named for a fallen Stinger. The cup is in memory of Kelly-Anne Drummond, who played for Concordia's rugby club and was murdered by her boyfriend on October 4, 2004.
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October 6, 2009

Quick Spins

Arch Enemy - The Root of All Evil (Century Media; 2009) 9/10 Arch Enemy's eight release, The Root Of All Evil, features re-recorded tracks from the band's first three albums with Angela Gossow replacing former vocalist Johan Liiva. If the words 'metal' and 'frontwoman' conjure images of Evanescence, think again.
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October 6, 2009

March of the thousand umbrellas

Thousands of umbrella toting marchers filled Ste-Catherine St. on Thursday for Centraide's "March of 1,000 Umbrellas." The march began at McGill College Ave. and ended at the Complexe Desjardins. It kicked off the 2009 fundraising campaign for Centraide, which provides help to needy families, and promotes social and community involvement.
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October 6, 2009

Letters to the Editor

re: Tuition increases improve access (Sept. 29) What dismay and frustration I felt reading the students' own paper's editorial calling for an increase in tuition fees. And what a combination of fantasy and far-fetched twists that argument was. What was the point, for example, of comparing student debt in Canada and at Harvard? Harvard students are wealthy to begin with, which most likely explains why they do not need to go into debt.
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October 6, 2009

Stingers best Gee-Gees

A solid 18-0 victory against the Ottawa Gee-Gees rounded out a perfect week for the Concordia women's rugby team. Coupled with their Kelly-Anne Drummond Cup victory, the win against the Gee-Gees solidifies the Stingers' second place status. Concordia played a textbook game, all aspects of their play was to the letter and executed well.
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October 6, 2009

Sets in the City

October 6 Vampire Weekend @ Le National October 7 Mirah + Norfolk & Western @ Il Motore October 10 Sea Wolf + Port O'Brian @ Casa Del Popolo October 14 Grand Archives + Zeus @ Green Room October 13 Silversun Pickups + Guests @ Metropolis October 16
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October 6, 2009

Briefs

City in Brief 450, meet 579 Some residents who call "the 450" home will be getting a new area code. The ever-growing demand for new telephone numbers means the 450 will also be the 579 now. The Telecommunications Alliance of Quebec announced the new area code last Tuesday - but don't start a rivalry yet.
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October 6, 2009

Roman Polanski needs to pay for his crime

Born in Paris in 1933, Roman Polanski lived through the Holocaust and went on to lead a prolific life as an award-winning director, screenwriter and actor. A husband and father, Polanski would have been a model French citizen if were not for the fact that he raped and sodomized a 13-year-old girl in 1977.
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October 6, 2009

Caught stealing

I don't want to call the 2009 Major League Baseball season a bust, but it lacked the drama and storylines that made the 2008 season so enjoyable. It was business as usual this year, and the only real surprise was not that the Mets collapsed like a Mexican hatchback, but that they didn't wait until September to do so.
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October 6, 2009

All in the family

Family (Hardly Art; 2009) 6.5/10 Last we heard from Washington, D.C. songwriter Sam Simkoff, his bedroom pop project Le Loup had put out a fairly interesting, albeit somewhat incomplete, debut, The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General Assembly.
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October 6, 2009

Vision Montreal sets sights on Concordia

Vision Montréal candidate Brenda Paris has a resumé that reads like a political veteran's; she currently sits as chair of the Ethnic and Social Diversity Committee on the Société de transport de Montréal's board of directors. Previously, she was the coordinator of student development at Dawson College, executive director of the Montréal Black Community Resource Centre and deeply involved in the national women's movement.
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October 6, 2009

To fight or not to fight?

According to an Ispos Reid survey released this month and commissioned by the Department of National Defence, the public has become uneasy about Canada's mission in Afghanistan. On the issue of our involvement in Afghanistan, we are a nation divided. Almost exactly half the people polled in the survey think the duties of the Canadian Forces should include only observational duties or monitoring conflict resolution; the other half wants us to continue fighting alongside our allies.
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October 6, 2009