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VOLUME 2 0 ISSUE 1 W e d n e s d a y , 6 S eptember 2000
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A p p a re n tly i t w a s re a lly b rig h t; th e y w o re th e ir sunglasses a t n ig h t. S lo a n croons to th e y o u n g ; n u b ile c ro w d a t th e M e tro p o lis la s t Friday.
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J . P. D a r c h e m a k e s h is t o r y Med student becomes first McGill football player ever to crack NFL roster. By Jeremy K uzmarov It’ s a long road from Molson Stadium to "The Show", but JeanPhillippe Darche has defied all the odds. A star lin e b a ck e r on the Redmen football team from 19941998, Darche last week became the first player in school history to reach the N atio n al F o o tb a ll League. A fiv e-tim e acad em ic a l l Canadian on leave from M c G ill m ed ica l sch o o l, D a rc h e , who briefly held the Redmen all-time tackles record, earned a spot out of training camp on the reigning west ern d iv isio n cham pion Seattle Seahawks as a long-snapper, and a back-up on special teams. In doing so he became only the 11th player ever coming out of the Canadian University ranks to
make the N FL. "Its an unusual route for a player to take after graduation but J.P Darche is a guy with a tremen dous work-ethic who has excelled at the top level of athletics and aca demics because of his sheer deter mination and effort," said Redmen Head Coach Charlie Baillie, "I'm extremely proud of J.P. I thought of him as a potential C F L player when he was w ith M c G ill, but never thought he could reach the N F L . I t ’ s am azing what he's accomplished. He's a role model." F o r D arch e, suiting up for Seattle against the Miami Dolphins at Pro-Player stadium on Sunday represented a dream come true - à dream w hich didn't seem to be realistic until very recently. "I never thought about making the N F L while I was at M cG ill or C o n tin u e d o n P a g e 2 6
Finding a place to keep Froshies fresh By Stephanie Levitz First year students were carry ing around bigger backpacks than usual this week, as overbooking in resid en ce has left clo se to 200 frosh sleep ing on liv in g room floors, in basements and even the Delta Hotel. U niversity residences across Can ad a and the U .S . generally overbook residence in anticipation of students dropping out or chang ing their m inds after they have been accepted. "People have massive anxiety attacks and leave," said R ia Rom bough of the M c G ill Residence Admissions office. "If we didn't have people on reserve, we would not fill the rooms. It is a policy that makes sense." A cco rd in g to Rom bough, there are usually 200 people placed
on the waiting list for residence at the start of every summer. Midway through, the number usually drops to around 80, as students choose to look for apartments rather than wait to get into residence, or sim ply decide not to go to M c G ill. This year, however, 470 students were on that list, leaving the resi dence office with a major problem. "We realized mid-June that the situation was getting out of hand," said Rombaugh. M c G ill R e sid e n c e s began sending letters to incoming stu dents offering alternative solutions, such as living in Laird H all, the residence at Macdonald campus. W hile the Residence O ffice felt that they did their best to commu nicate the problem to students, some felt that not enough was done. "I was c a llin g a ll sum m er
long," said Brett Bundale, a first year student. "Over the phone they told me nothing except that I would be living in Solin Hall." Bundale is indeed bunking in Solin Hall at the moment, except she is not in one of the spacious apartments. Rather, Bundale is liv ing in the basement, in a room with 10 other girls who are all sleeping on bunk beds. "It's nice to be living some w here co o l right now ," said Bundale. "But there is no privacy, not to mention that I am paying full fees for living in the basement." Ashleigh Akalehiywot, a stu dent also living in Solin, comment ed on the absurdity of the situation. "I'm liv in g in a two person apartm ent, but w ith two other roommates," she said. "Both of C o n tin u e d o n P a g e 3
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