https://d1y502jg6fpugt.cloudfront.net/62030/archive/files/2da2184b8d7c943b298b4c3248af3c72.pdf?Expires=1785369600&Signature=vDY3VI9rOcEBLpeQFvAnlhvQrq8hdg0SdWf6y3-c2tRjYWDHndQeuwJojpbokRz8SPl3XiAvMzSOk6%7E%7EgbuQlc3wXwzF4In4nmMKWEY8SBKPBze7ASJ2e-zzLNLS8DpeaiFimp6d8WZoZH3VSIpPsy8dKYaMK4SYsqQzfTAdKGEuZRHmJRSvR05tBpYfXVz5nOdMWg5XVZPXsSafK3wOHtqT747FityABAhNUWzcJJXfReLEGFYoBpAJ-kxELAy7wLlLyGc1lduG%7EfbY9ZREDFIzJLSG8McjZMxhBO2ivzvAWTiaydFolc35jv7zErO5vNrttLhoIdk14xOX2tfVXg__&Key-Pair-Id=K6UGZS9ZTDSZM 9a39ff94f578edd1f381582142f49c54 PDF Text Text News THE DAILY. • F.EBRUARY ,17, 2po1 9 Engineers Try to Clear Air Over Faucet Hubbub But tensions still running high over accusations of sexism and racism issued their own tl1e next morning. "A majority of the EUS Executive would like to state that we beliC\'C the Faucet editors ebate was heated at an emergency did display sexism and racism in their publi· meeting of the Engineering cation,'' read the final statement. "11Je vi!.WS Undergraduate Society last Monday, displared in their paper clearly do not reprc· when councillors met to discuss how to sent the viC\\'S of the EUS or its members." respond to the messy fallout from some controversial articles in a recent edition of the Plumber's Faucet. ccl'm laappy tire Contention over the Faucet began on Dec. 6 when the EUS-funded paper pub- BUS execs laave fittallished an article deriding women alongside ly realized tlaat takittg a piece commemorating the 14 female engineering who were killed at the a stattce against racism Ecole Polytechnique in 1989. The same attd sexism is tlae ottly issue also contained a letter which referred viable option." to feces as "little Huxtables." Engineering President Anjali Mishra responded to the issue in a letter to The Daily in which she criticized tl1e Faucet 'seditors for But debate raged during the meeting racism and se$m. Her letter angered EUS over EUS' handling of the Faucet controexecutil'es who s.'lid that Mishra fail to get versy to date. their approval writing the letter even Executives were criticized by represenled to rumours of Mishra's im(:e<lclunent. tatives of QPIRG, the Women's Union, At Monday's meeting, EUS councilors Anti-Racist Action, and the Black set out to plan an official statement and Students' Network, who were invited to strategy for dealing the the meeting b)' EUS. And although the council failed to The coalition of student groups present· approl'e :Ul official statement, EUS executil'es ed a list of dem;mds for dealing with the BY jOSLYN 0oSENBERG Netts Reporter D Faucet controversy.The demands included a public apology froi)J the EUS and the editors of The Plumber's Faucet, mandatory cultural sensitivity and anti-oppression training for Faucct staff and EUS executil'es, and a promise that racist and sexist material will no longer be published in EUS-affiliated publications. Most of the demands were met. But after tensions ran high at the meet· ing, some of the students said that they felt that many at the EUS and the Faucct had failed to understand just how deeply offended they had been by Dec. 6 Faucct and the executives' criticism of Mishra for speaking out against the Faucet. The Black Students' Network's Peter Flegcl said that he does not feel that the .statement released by the EUS execuiives represents a sincere apology. "lt's a success in the sense that they've agreed to our demands, but the impression that I \l,'aS getting from the meeting W'JS that it was just for damage control, as opposed to a real understanding of the problems," he said. Flegel also said that he was deeply disappointed with the atmosphere during Monday's meeting. "We felt lots of hostility eitl1er on tl1e part of some members of tl1e Executive or some the editors, who just didn't to undcrstmd tl1e extent to which the article had hanned :md hurt black stu· dents :u1d women," s.'lid Flegel. "They seem to have been dis· missing our concerns as either extreme or oversensitive." EUS executive" Wcsam Khoury disagrees. He said that while EUS invited the students to hear what they had to sa)', many were too aggressive in their approach. "They came in big numbers, which might have seemed very intimidating to some," said Khoury. "Some people took advantage of the situation and started bashing EUS Pn:sidml Mishm: at the CL'Illre of the controwrsy the EUS," he added. Mishm, hoot'\'Cr, said that She also said that despite debate during she w.ts glad that tl1e nming :m the meeting, she was happy that the release opportunity to clear the air and for EUS exec- issued b)' the executives following the meet· utives and Faucet editors to hear students' ing finally took a stance against the offen· concerns. "I tl1ink tl1:Uorer all tl1e meeting sivc views expressed in the Dec. 6 w.ts entire council got a Faucet."l'm happy the cxccs hal'c finall)• picture of the problems surrounding tl1c realized that taking a stance against and how member.; outside tlJC EUS racism and sexism is the only viable option had reacted to tl1c article,"said Mishra. for the EUS," said Mishra. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Joslyn Oosenberg Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available The McGill Daily Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2001/02/12 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource PDF anti-Black racism Black Students Network (BSN) Engineering Undergraduate Society (EUS) QPIRG racism sexism student media The McGill Women's Union Union for Gender Empowerment (UGE)