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Federalist students locked out Even in the best of times, campus politics tend toward the foolish. But over the course of the past month, a drama of truly wonky proportions has been playing itself out at the campuses of McGill and UQAM. >> On the night of September 3, the executive committee of UQAM's Association des étudiants de l'École des Sciences de la Gestion (or AeESG, the association representing management students), claiming it had been the target of a putsch, spent the night setting up its own administration-in-exile in the offices of the Students' Society of McGill University. "We are the victims of illegal actions," displaced president Alexandre Labelle told the McGill Daily, claiming his administration was ousted for refusing to endorse separatist politics. >> The drama continued at UQAM last week, when a meeting attended by 150 students was held to ratify the AeESG's new executive. But the "new" executive, led by president Kesnel Leblanc, locked out as many as 200 people who had come in support of the old executive--including many members of the old executive itself. >> Labelle and his cohorts refuse to say die: they have now secured the services of noted civil rights lawyer Julius Grey as their legal counsel. --Philip Preville
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