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woods. While the tuition hike could raise $8 million, asan addi I ion al 10 suming the same per ccnf .” number of students Exx~ly what are registered next the cli fferencc beyear, the funding t\veen w hill Eves cuts amount to $18 h;ls suggcslcci and to $20 million in a twenty per cent losses to Waterloo. tuition hike is unBecause yost-sccclear. W hilt Fedon&u-y education is eration of Stusuch a labour-indents President tensive sector, Jade Ptik specueighty to eightylated that the dishe per cent of its cretionary porexpenses are detion of the invoted to salaries crease may only and benefits. “This be applied to is going to mean a President Downey: tuition going up, and up... those programs significant reducwhich are more tion in the number expensive to run, LJW President Even with tuition rising by of people here df Waterloo.”

James Downey has already said the full twenty per cent, and s;tuWaterloo has long been that. “We’re going to have lo dents paying over $1470 a setake that 10 per cent.” mester, UW isn’t out of the Continued to page 6 the discretion to increase I’ccs t-q

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hile Waterloo’s Federation of Students are moving along steadily to the tacit approval of undergraduates, things aren’t moving so smoothly on other campuses.

At Brock University, several office holders have resigned in protest of the alleged incompetence and disdain for the rules of several executive members.

Some of the resignees later gathered enough signatures on a petition to force a referendum of confidence in the Executive.

Although they later withdrew the petition as part of adeal, there is no guarantee that it will not be tabled again later. Even more shocking for many observers, however, was the sudden resignation of McGill Student Society’s Vice President External Affairs Nick Benedict.

Benedict was asked for his resignation by the rest of McGill’s executive following threats that one of the McGill student papers was going to publish a story containing certain unspecified allegations.

Two writers from the McGill Tribune were working on a story alleging improper conduct on the part of Benedict.

Benedict did not comment on the allegations when questioned by his fellow executives, at which point they deemed his resignation necessary.

According to their President Helena Myers, “Wi: de&&d ;hat we’d prefer for him to resign: and if he

didn’t, we’d move to impeach him.”

Myers declined comment on the substance of the allegations, saying “Mr. Benedict is no longer on the executive, therefore we would be bringing a student’s private life [into discussion] at council -” That comment was made in response to a question by a reporter with the McGill daily, whom asked if the unpublished article was connected to “Nick Benedict’s alleged involvement in drugs, and this thus linked to his resignation?”

Benedict, as VP external of Quebec’s sole member of CASA, represented the interests of that province as CASA’s Regional Director.

Because the Tribune’s editorial board couldn’l come to consensus on the issue, they decided not to publish the story.

The allegations which forced a resignalion may never become public knowledge.

Further east, University of New Brunswick Vice President University Affairs Patrick Fitzpatrick has also resigned office. In this case, however, the reasons are much clearer.

Fitzpatrick has accepted the responsibility of organizing a national conference on the funding and restructuring of pt)st-secondary education for thtl Canadian Alliance of Student Associations.

To be held in March of next year, the conference bec:tme too complex to be de:? ~i;th hii- :.~p of his other duties.

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part-time journalism instructor at Ryerson Poly#technic University has been suspended after he disclosed that he moonlights as a prostitute.

Gerald Hannon, 5 1, has been suspended with pay and banished from the school pending an investigation.

“While under suspicion, Mr. Hannon is to have no contact with his students and will not be permitted on campus without my authorization or that of the Dean

zine Award winner.

Hannon told CBC Newsworld that he witnessed sexual activity between a man and a boy in the 70’s and in I994 he wrote an article, “I could never understand . . . how children’s hockey differed from an organized child-sex ring . ..”

Ryerson President Claude Lajeunesse issued a statement which says that the university will investigate whether Hannon’s conduct is unbefitting his status as a teacher.

But Hannon’s students continue to stand behind him.

Y.. the public can’t accept a part-time hooker/teacher at a university. ” of Applied Arts,” said Dr. Michael Dewson, Vice-President of Faculty and Staff Aff;iirs.

Hannon is already under invcstigation for commenting to his freelance magazine class, on his views supporting consensual adult-childsex.

Hesaidhedidn’t think his teaching job was in jeopardy despite his views on sexuality and his revelation that he is a prostitute.

Harmon is on contract at Ryerson unlil April, 1996.

“I’m still a good writer and l’nl still a good teacher. 1 don’t see how any of that changes bec’tiuse of this,” said Hannon, who is a two-time National Maga-

“There’s a lot of concern right now. If he’s dismissed because of his opinions it would be outrageous,” said Alan Findlay, a second-year graduate student in Hannon’s class. “lf you’re protected from controversial opinions when you’re studying journalism then there’s something wrong,” he added.

Other students in Hannon’s class also offered support. Adam Hunt says, “He’s a great teacher, and this (Hannon’s prostitution) wasn’t even mentioned in the slightest in class,” Mike Onesi stated with respect to the suspension, “It’d be great if the univerContinued

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fter months of bitterness, turmoil and the bizarre spectacle of two Board of Directors fighting for control, community radio station CKWR and parent organization Wired World finally resolved many of the station’s problems at their annual general meeting November 16th.

Foremost was the election of a new board: Adolf Gubler (President), Carlo Santarrossa (Vice President), Tony Brito (Treasurer), Scott Jensen (Secretary), Ivan Radisic (membership) and Hermann Schuetz (Program Director). With the exceptions of Ike

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The past four months have been strenuous ones for Canada’s oldest community radio station.

A public protest by station members against then-President Tilkov in late August initiated the dismissal of Vice President Kim Cowan. The members were protesting proceedures by the board that violated many of the stations

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The staff membership then went through legal proceedings to wrestle control away from the board, even going so far as electing their own board, before discovering that the legal costs involved were too prohibitive.

In the end, the new board dissolved and attempted to initiate change at the annual gene& meeting.

One of the dissenting members specific requests for the meeting was for a professional and objective party to mediate the meeting, but this was

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refused by the board of directors and chaired als planned by sitting President Adolf Gubler.

The dissenting board was discoraged b!y this, believing that the encumbent board would have complete control. The dissenting members also feared that memberships were being offered to those close to the board and made difficult to obtain for others.

At the meeting, the membership had been increased to 14 1, up from 127 the week before and 11 the month before. 63 members attended the meeting and another 20 wererepresentedbyproxy.Thedissenting members attempted to remove the chair, Adolf Gubler, but the motion was disallowed. These members then made a motion to replace the secretary, but this was also quashed. In the end, members of the dissenting board were resoundingly defeated.

When thle old order was reelected, several of the station’s women programmers resigned, citing that CKWR has created an atmosphere hos’tile to women.

As a mealsure of healing, new President Adolf Gubler has mandated that there will be no more verbal attacks on gays and lesbians during board meetings, and that there are to be no references to any programmer ’ s sexual preferences.

The program director Herman Schuetz has also been instructed to actively seek out, encourage and support lesbian programming.

Furthermore, several new committees, with dissenting members Lisa Di France, Kim, Cowan and Marc Xuereb all sitting, have been established.

Xuereb, a member of the Global Community Centre, will be responsible for Spoken Word programming, including public affairs, aboriginal and gay and lesbian programming.

Cowan will work in Sales and promotions.

As of this week Cowan’s membership is still in dispute and expected to be resolved by next week.

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Who is Sukhmani?

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aterloo students can feel proud and encouraged by the upcoming events commemorating the Montreal massacre. This is a difficult time of year for many people - for those who have experienced the loss of loved ones, those who are dealing with abuse, or those simply trying to understand these issues. On December 6, people are reminded of the issue of violence, in particular violence against women.

Many also find this to be a time of rejuvenation: of meeting, discussing and finding ways to make the situation better.

The December6 memorial will be held at St. Jerome’s Siegfied Hall at 6 p.m. A coffee house will follow the event at 7:30 in the J-R. Finn cafeteria.

The Womyn’s Centre, FACETS, Federation of Students, and the Engineering Society have been planning this year’s events for seven weeks. Meetings consisted of intellectual argument and personal reflection, as well as logistical planning. The memorial planned will consist of a candle lighting ceremony, a drama presentation, silent time for reflection, and speakers.

The coffee house will allow time to unwind and discuss the issues.

On December 5, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., an information fair will be held in the SLC Great Hall in connection with the December 6 memorial.

Various social service agencies from the Kitchener Waterloo region have volunteered their time and resources to offer information. They include: Anselma House, K/W Sexual Assault Treatment Centre, ROOF, the Sexual Assault Support Centre, and Planned Parenthood.

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teers will be pleased to talk about their work and experiences.

The information fair will call attention the K/W community’s commitment to justice.

Also on December 5, there will be films in the Great Hall from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

“The Vienna Tribunal” documents personal accounts of women from around the world who have survited gender specific violence.

The film follows the women as they petition the UN to have violence against women included as a human rights violation.

The Vienna Tribunal was the precursor to the Beijing conference on Women and followed from the Nairobi conference in 1968.

The second film, “After the Montreal Massacre” is a documentary that follows the events of December 6, 1989, and focuses on issues of media coverage.

To show concern toward the problem of violence towards women, men are encouraged to wear a white ribbon. The prime focus of this campaign is awareness.

As a symbol, the ribbon can help to facilitate discussion.

Also, everyone is encouraged to wear a December 6 button. They can be found at the Federation of Students office, the Grad House, the Math Society, and Burt Matthews Hall. Money raised from button and ribbon sales will be donated to local women’s shelters. There are many other groups on campus helping to raise money for local women’s shelters.

For example, the Bombshelter will be donating their pop and juice sales from December 6.

The days surrounding December 6 are days to mourn, reflect, discuss, focus on the resourcefulness, strength, and courage of women, and to become motivated for action. This week’s events address these ideas.

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ukhmani (which means the jewel of happiness) is a three and a half year old girl who has touched everybody’s heart. She is suffering from crania-facial abnormalities since her birth.

This means that she was born without a single bone on one side of her face. While the left side of her face is absolutely normal, the right side sags under its own weight.

Instead of the nose, there are a clump of bones and there are bits of tissue in piace of her ears. Her right eye is in the middle of her face.

On her birth her parents did not receive greetings but veiled suggestions that she may not be allowed to survive. In the present social setup in India, where female infanticide is still very common, one might see nothing wrong with such a suggestion However, her parents not only refused to listen to such advice but tried their level best to give her a normal appearance and normal life so that she could face the world squarely on her own.

The treatment first went on in All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi under the care of Dr. R.K. Khazanchi, Additional Professor of Surgery.

But now on his advice further treatment is to be undertaken at New York University Medical Center, New York under the care of Dr. Joseph G. McCarthy, Director of Institute of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery.

In faxed messages dated August 25, 1995 and October 6, 1995 he has elaborated what will be involved in reconstructing Sukhmani’ s face.

“The child (Sukhmani Singh) was born with a severe cranofacial clefting syndrome with associated frontoethmoid meningomyelocele, Tessier craniofacial clefts, orbital hypercelorism with orbital dystopia, cleft of the lip and palate and bilateral rnicrotia,” read the statement from Dr. McCarthy.

Complete details about the procedures and the information provided by Dr. McCarthy can be accessed at http://www.rpi.edu/ dept/cdc/fax. html The total expenditure estimated for the initial surgical procedure was $3 13,630. This does not include the cost for post-operative care.

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There are many ways in which we all can help Sukhmani.

The Nishkam Sikh Welfare Council actively started canvassing for Sukhmani after reading about her in the Times of India in August 1995, giving her parents a renewed hope. Since then around $S,OOO.oO have been collected from all over India. The government of India has also granted a free ticket for Sukhmani and her parents to come to New York.

Nishkam along with the Vijaya Gujaral Foundation have jointly undertaken the effort to raise the amount needed.

Please send your contributions made in the name of Nishkam Sikh Welfare Council - Sukhmani A/C to: Nishkam Sikh Welfare Councii BF-33, Tagore Garden New Delhi - 110027 India Phone No: 91-11-5412601 91-11-5101848 In US, please mail the checks to: Nishkam Sikh Welfare Council c/o Jasmit Singh Kochhar 2327, 16th Street Troy, NY 12180.

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For those living in New York city, it will be greatly appreciated if some arrangements can be made for Sukhmani’s parents for boarding and for transportation back and forth from the hospital.

Even if you are not in a position to contribute yourself, you can help by letting your friends, relatives and people in your community know about Sukhmani and what they can do to help Nishkam Sikh Welfare Council was formed in 1984 after the riots in Delhi and the rest of India.

Its primary objective is to help the widows and orphans, irrespective of color, religion, cast or creed.

Since its ince:ption, the organization has been devoting its time, energy and resources in a variety of community prqjects.

Besides this, it has taken up numerous medical cases where the patient did not have the resources to obtain the nectessary services on their own.

Housing for Sukhmani’s par- ents has been arranged at Richmond Hill Gurudwara.

We look forward to youl- donations and any suggestions to collect funds.

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working towards the implementation of an eariy retirement program to deal with the expected cuts in a humane way, however the announcement has yet to be made.

Whether the budget reductions are met through layoffs or retirements, they still amount to cuts.

Fed Prez Jane Pak’s comments highlighted this theme. “The massive funding cuts and unprecedented increases in tuition with no student aid improvement in sight will mean ;1 less-educated, less-trained workforce.

It will mean a painfully slow economic recovery.”

The undenied truth is that these cuts, whether handled through layoffs or early retirements, will result in fewer course offerings, larger classes, and increased workloads for professors.

Soon after the budget speech was completed, Imprint received a press release from the Council of Ontario Universities.

“The impact of these cutbacks will be to reduce [government funding of universities] to the lowest [per student] of any of the 10 provinces,” wrote COU, “Unlike municipalities and school boards, universities have no

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other major unregulated sow-ce of income.”

The COU release focussed on funding and economic recovery, Impact on quality was not mentioned until near the end of the release, and the impact of increased tuition on student accessibility was mentioned only in the second-last

sentence.

With President Downey accepting a twenty per cent increase in tuition as a given, it is unclear what roIe student leaders can play, or even what decisions are left to be made by the Senate or the Board of Governors.

With the President of the University declaring that the maximum possible tuition increase is necessary, it may be foregone conup, and up,.. elusion for students that this increase will occur.

Perhaps the most sobering comment was made

by Jim Kalbfleisch, UW’s Vice President Academic and Provost.

The govemment’s commitment to reduce the deficit has not yet been met.

More cuts and tuition hikes could be on they way.

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Hello campus ! ! Are you leaving town? Are you going away on co-op? Well, if you are in co-op, I hope your job search was successful, and you’re leaving campus behind for a while, but I certainly want you to keep in touch. It is not as difficult as you think.

If you have access to the Internet, you can read the many web sites and newsgroups that can keep you so in touch you’11 swear you can smell the duck shit. You might even find yourself spontaneously looking over your shoulder looking for crazy and out-of-control cyclists, as you walk down the street in Ottawa. I highly recommend the Feds site: http://watserv 1 .uwaterloo.ca:80/ -fedintr/.

You can link you to clubs, societies, social events, IMPRINT, etc (although T might be biased! !). If you don’t have access to the Internet, you can subscribe to Imprint for about $27 a year. Just head down to the Imprint office and talk to a lovely lady named Marea, and she’ll set you up!

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sity stood behind him, but I guess they felt they have to do it because the public can’t accept a part-time hooker/teacher at a university.”

The director of the journalism school’s magazine, Don Obe, is one of the people that recommended that Hannon be hired to teach. Obe also said that he’s been aware of Hannon’s prostitution and has repeatedly defended him in the press.

“It didn’t infIuence my decision to recommend him,” said Obe. “I admire him fur being absoluteIy forthright.

He’s just too honest to deny what he believes in.”

Hannon maintains that, while he didn’t discuss his views in class, he made no special efforts to hide his activities.

But Findlay said that Hannon did refer to his views about

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We11 although the term is wrapping up, there is still a lot going on.

Tonight, for instance, is the wild and crazy, spectacular and exciting End of Term Pub at the Bombshelter.

If the beer swilling, beer spilling, sit down and party thing, just isn’t for you, Fed Hall is featuring Strictly Butta Baby. For those “not in the know...” that is hip-hop dancin’ stuff.

Fed Hall keeps the toons going until 2, and of course the bar open t il I ! ! Can you think of a be*tter dance floor this side of the North Pole?

Well, if you are sticking around until next term...HURRAY! It is going to be a very exciting term.

The Fed Office will be open until the 20th of December, and will reopen on the 2nd of January. Drop by - it’ll be the same old faces Jane, Mike, Rose, Me, Xander, & Rosemary, as well as the friendly staff! I am keeping this FedBack short. IL’S exam time and you’ve got better things to do than read my babble. .. i%z~,v Hulidu~~!!

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adult-child sex in class as an example of how important it was to stand up for your opinions, even if they were unpopular.

Not all of the faculty members feel that Hannon’s opinions and activities “are morally neutral issues ,.. Given what we’ve iearned this weekend, the university has acted appropriately.

Some of us do not think that someone with [Hannon’s] outlook should be allowed to teach at a university,” said Suanne Kelman, a lecturer in the Jepartment of journalism.

For the students in Hannon’s class, the main concern appears to be how his suspension will affect their final grades and assignments.

Dewson said 51tudents’ grades wirl be unaffected, stating that “the chair of the school of journalism will make arrangements.”

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ome Working Group reports for the Commission on Institutional Planning have been made public. Available on the Web, through the Provost’s Office or the Federation of Students, the reports do not glaze over anything, nothing is taboo. Any doubts about the Institutional Planning exercise being simple public relations can be cast aside.

For example, the working group on Co-operative Education writes that, “The flagship of the University suffers from weakened masts, torn sails, and a broken rudder.” The working group on Quality of Life writes, “Any further increase in tuition and other costs will severely limit the ability of students to participate in full-time study.”

The report on Undergraduate Teaching and Learning states that, “it is clear that the present methods of course evaluation have little cred-

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ibility with students or faculty. Also, many of the current practices help foster the belief that teaching is not valued as much as research.”

The Commission on Institutional Planning began its work in

originally planned to have been kept confidential, were released to stimulate discussion and input in the interim.

While it is fair to say that of the three reports cited, the one dealing

Specifically cited in this regard are: reliance on a “stunted program like ACCESS” due to a lack of support, the walk imposed on employers due to parking problems, and that fact that “Students are drawn into the program by liaison officers who over-

The goal should be nothing less than to establish an outstanding reputation in teaching as well as in research. ” the fall of 1994, and was due to have already made its report, however the uncertainty surrounding funding with the election of the Harris government forced delay.

The Working Group rep&s,

with Co-op is the harshest, it must be noted that the blame for the situation is placed not at the door of Coop staff, but rather at the support this program receives from the University.

on Teaching and Leaming recommends “that departments ensure that all teaching personnel possess adequate EngIishl communications skills before they are assigned contact with students; inadequate English speaking skills are a barrier to the communicalton necessary for learning.”

One recommendation by the working group on Co-operative Education, however, put the entire thrust of their report in one sentence. The Senior University Administration should, “provide Cooperative Education with highquality professional space, suitable parking, adequate computing equipment, development and support.” (emphasis added) With the process of evaluating these recommendations in process, and the Commission reconvening in the Winter semester, students looking to improve their lot at this school would do well to take the time to read some of the reports available.

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Beyond citing strengths and weaknesses, however, the reports are in-depth on some issues, and make specific recommendations for improvements.

In the area of Quality of Life, for example, wrote that the University should “acknowledge that many need to work to finance theireducation, and allow for more flexible modes of study...” while the group

New Optometry Wing Open

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Furtado staff

he UW school of Optometry will be holding grand-opening ceremonies today at 290 p+m. The new addition to the building will be officially opened at this time.

At the ceremonies, Waterloo North MPP and Minister of Lahour, Elizabeth Witmer; Andrew Telegdi, MP for Waterloo and UW President James Downey will speak.

Dr. John Thompson will emcee the ceremony.

The addition to the Optometry building will provide mainly research space at a cost of approximately $3.2 million. The original building was never intended to house research projects and the additional 17,500 square feet of space is a welcomed addition. About half of the cost of construction was supplied by the federal and provincial governments under the “infrastructure works” program while optical industries and optometry alumni made up the difference.

Dr. Jake Sivak, director of the school of optometry, noted that the field of optometry has changed markedly in the past 22 years since the building was initially erected.

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The architect selected for the new addition was the same architect which designed the original building.

The addition conforms nicely to the original design and also includes another “port-hole” style circular window to match the first which has become a marker for the school of Optometry.

Twelve laboratories will occupy approximately 4500 square feet along with 11 new offices and a small common area for grad students and five new washrooms.

The winter issue of the Optometry school’s newsletter describes the situation which lead to the decision to add on to the building: “Over the past decade there has been a steady increase in the demand for additional space in the Optometry building.

Optometry has been a victim of its own successes in the areas of graduate teaching, clinical teaching, clinical service, faculty research and contract research, In addition to these pressures, there have been significant building encroachments from nonoptometric activities, such as the Visitor’s Reception area.

The Anatomy laboratory now located in the Optometry building serves not only optometry students but other University students.”

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In the end, when all of the changes he implements are in place, will it be worth it? Will too few people reap the rewards? Will his changes amount to just a lot of bad medicine?

Work-ForWelfare* Workfare becomes a fully legal policy option for Canadian provinces on April 1,1996. This date marks the end of the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP), which since 1966 has provided provinces with up to 50% of their social spending needs in return forcompliance with several conditions, including the prohibition of making social assistance recipients work in order to receive assistance.

CAP will be replaced by the CanadaHealthand Social Transfer (CHST). The CHST imposes far fewer restrictions and no longer prevents provinces form using federal money to implement work-forwelfare programs. Because CHST is a bloc transfer payment to cover the costs of health care and postsecondary education as well as welfare and social services, provinces are more likely to spend more dollars on health and education, since these are more politically popular than welfare and social services.

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Evaluations of dozens of U.S. work-for -welfare programs in the 1980s showed very small differences between those who were forced to partici-

“-the issue of workfare, and other meanspirited Tory schemes. ” pate in job programs and those who did not participate.

Such experiments in Canada and the United States typically have ended because they cost more to deliver than they return in “free” output. If the purpose of workfare is not to help the recipients, and not to save money, then the only remaining explanation is the most mean-spirited of all; to punish and demean those unfortunate enough to be dependent on the state. Working for minimum wage pays poorly, but working for welfare is even worse. Under the new welfare rate system in Ontario, for example, a single employable person working full-time

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per week) for his or her benefits will be earning $3.71 an hour.

Welfare recipients who participate in provincial employability programs are not covered by standard labour codes. They cannot join unions, have no rights to minimum wage, and cannot take statutory holidays, rest periods or vacations.

New Brunswick reports an unusually high accident rate among those taking part in these programs.

Provincial employability programs effectively subsidize private companies. Astral Tech, a film dubbing company in Quebec, saved $100 000 in 14 months through the province’s PAIE employment integration program. Other companies using this subsidized labour include McDonald’s, Canadian Tire, Harvey’s, Dunkin Donuts, Zeller’s, and the Quebec Nordiques.

In 199 1 and 1992, such companies benefited from $52 million of government a. . . .-. spending on employability programs in Quebec.

Employability programs do not create jobs, they replace them. The Alberta Community Employment Program (ACE) provides jobs for people on welfare at $6.00 an hour.

A Red Deer hospital recently laid off a number of full-time permanent workers and replaced them with inexperienced and poorly paid ACE workers. In Quebec, more than 50% of participating companies admitted that they would have hired people at full wages if not for the provincial employability programs.

The Waterloo Regional Coalition for Social Justice is organizing a demonstration protesting against the provincial government at the site of a conference that is exploring the introduction of workfare to Ontario. The demonstration is from 8am to loam by the Kitchener Public Library (85 Queen St. N.). The provincial minister of community and social services, David “Tuna” Tsubouchi, is giving the keynote address at 9: 15 am. Out in the cold an alternative panel will be addressing the welfare cuts, the issue of workfare, and other mean-spirited Tory schemes. * From Lynne Toupin, Executive Director of the National Anti-Poverty Organization (NAPO).

IMPRINT, Friday, December 1,1995

Awareness FlMeek a success

by Karen Madsen, Peer Health Education n behalf of Sharon Duff and Catherine Allen, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the following people for their support in helping make the Breast Cancer Awareness week a successful one. All of these individuals worked both behind and in front of the scenes in making last week possible.

First and foremost, many thanks to Dorthy Karas, Karen Stroud and Daphane Simpson, Peer Health Education Vohmteers, for aiding in gathering information resources, planning and taking time out of their busy schedules to sit at the information booth.

For those womyn from the Womyn’s Centre who also volunteered at the booththanks.

Here’s to Linda Grant, Caroline Yager, Carolee Hea, Dr. Schumacher and Kevin Stuart from Health and Safety for all their involvement, support, funding (for the CDs) and, most importantly, enthusiasmyou have our utmost indebtedness.

Our gratitude also to the guy (sorry i forgot your namemy apologies!) at Dr. Disc - campus centre - for supplying us with the CD, “In Between Dances” at cost and for your endless optimism.

Recognition also goes to everyone at the Campus Shop for doing a stupendous job on the T-shirts and Fed Copy Plus for coming up with an eye catching, professional poster.

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to Federation of StuRose Bilicic for her understanding, generand faith in our deciThanks! To Rosemary Crick at Student Issues, Rose Padacz and Peter Hopkinsyour support and involvement was appreciated.

Recognition must also be given to the Waterloo Regional Health Unit for supplying us with resources and support as well as the Health Promoters from the Grand River hospital. Last week, of course, would not have been complete without all the resources that were most graciously give:n to us by the Canadian Breast Cancer Society.

For the staff at the Imprint your stance on a particular issue was appreciated. As for those who wish to remain anonymous, we give our gratitudle to the photographer and his assistant and our official poster model. Thank you. On a personal note, X wish to extend my gratitude, and before I run out of ways of saying thanks, to Catherine Allen (Student Issues) and Sharon Duff (CHIP’.) You remained level headed and sane when I was on the verge of, say, wigging out! Many, many thanks to you both.

On a closing note, we raised a grand total of $500 plus, that will go to breast cancer research. So, thanks to all those who bought a CD or T-shirt, and took the time out to remember the fourteen women that die each day in Canada of Breast Cancer.

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This is the last Imprint of the fall term. We start up again January 5th, 1996, so the downtime allows most of the volunteer base here an opportunity to do things like, Oh, writing term papers and studying for exams.

Before I get too bleary-eyed and self-indulgent, I’d first-off like to extend my gratitude to all the volunteers who put in countless hours here at the newspaper for no gain.

I suppose it could easily be perceived by some as a sad reflection on today’s youth and their priorities, but many of the staff here put in the sort of hours and commitment that make it all too obvious that studies suffer. The fact remains: h’s hard pulling off 90s when you don’t get any sleep on Wednesday nights, and that’s pretty well normal behaviour here for any of the editorial staff.

Although the primary motivation of UW is to study, the newspaper often collapses into an easy diversion.

Imprint’s been called a cult. It’s probably accurate. But I won’t say that I don’t appreciate all the slavish dedication to the paper. Imprint has also been called a clique. Again, there is an element of truth to this, insofar as any organization or sports team on campus is a clique. But the relationships that have started and developed at the paper are all ones based on the paper: 1 think it’s true of most of the volunteers here that hardly any of them possessed prior relationships to the paper, but moreover just an enthusiasm to get involved.

It constantly amazes me how tight some friendships are here, ftiendships that you would’ve sworn were lifelong, that otherwise may never have occurred.

As for myself, the “time off’ is wholeheartedly welcomed.

I won’t go so far as to say I’m burned out by all the late nights, but sleep is a most inviting luxury. Hopetilly I’ll accomplish a few tasks I set for myself months ago but have had to keep buried in the back of my mind like ghosts (things like printing friends wedding photos and writing second drafts on stuff that usually gets published in the rough).

Perhaps I’ll get the chance to finally absorb all the news. This week alone we’ve had the provincial financial statement, a Ryerson professor moonlighting as a hooker, and the Chinese authorities appointing beyond all reason the new reincarnated Panchen Lama of Tibet. Where it begins, where it ends . . _ it’s all a blur, and it’s only scratching the surface.

Beyond all my catching up and leisure time in the evenings, those of us still around will be working our asses off to iron out all the little technica problems which stare us in the face daily to bring you an even better paper next term. Of course, part of the equation involves YOU. Hopefully you’ll become part of Imprint, even if it only means filling out a Readers Survey (see page I9), or writing the occasional comment piece on any concern you fancy.

Whatl=ver it is, we want you to join the cult!

Good luck on your exams and Happy Holidays!

See you in January.

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hristmas is in the air. The decorations are up, Santa’s elves are in the mall, and everybody’s eating candy canes.

When I was younger, I used to go and sit on Santa’s lap with my friends. Together, we all got free candy canes and told him what we hoped he would bring us. Then, when I was seven, I asked Santa if he brought presents to Jewish kids, and that was the last year my mother let mt: go see him.

I am .Iewish, and as such, Christmas is not a religious or traditional holiday for me.

It is not a time for family get-togethers.

I do not go to pick out a tree.

Yet, for onto and a half days, the world that I live in stops dead, and the build-up to this point is extraordinary.

I am surrounded

by Christmas paraphernalia between Halloween and December 25th every year, How do I feel about this? I’m fairly ambivalent about the whole situation. For all of December, everybody is in a good mood.

People are generous and kind. Many more people than usual take the time to think about others.

Granted, they have a tendency to ignore those of us who do not participate in the Christmas tradition.

Despite this, I donot partitularly feel that I am being oppressed.

I do not really feel that someone else’s customs are being inflicted on me. E do not resent Christmas.

Part of living in a Christian majority is accepting its traditions. and l accept the traditions.

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Regardless, we live in a world of political correctness, and too many people feel that they can’t ask me what it’s like to be Jewish.

Too many are uncomfortable about asking me about what I do when they’re busy decorating their tree. They’re worried about offending me, but I’m not sure why. I’m probably watching television.

The fact is that I am a member of an invisible minority. I am not, however, a particularly sensitive member. Unless someone directly insults my heritage, I am not likely to be offended by people’s ignorance regarding my own traditions. This is, of course, assuming that they’re willing to do something about it.

But, there is a particular type of ignorance that 1do resent. I resent the fact that too many people assume that I celebrate Christmas. I don’t particularly like being wished a Merry Christmas by the bank tellers. Such, however, is life.

For me, this situation is not worth fighting about. It’s not really worth

my effort. Our politically correct world tries to take my feelings into consideration.

Somehow, though, I think that it’s tried to do this without consulting me. Someone, somewhere, has announced that it would be more considerate to wish me “Happy Holidays” rather than “Merry Cihtistmas.”

It’s not necessary for me that we try to hide Christian traditions behind politically correct statements. It’s not necessary for me that people try to protect me from the majority. That, after all, is what the Canadian Charter is for.

Instead, it is ideological change that is worth fighting about. I am interested in removing Jewish stereotypes that persist. I am interested in discussing my traditions with others. I am not interested in forcing them to hide their traditions.

I will allow them the freedom to practice them, A and I expect similar treatWhile so many people are enjoying the Christmas tradition this year, I will be at home, relaxing.

I will probably pick up a few new CD’s over the break. I might read a book or two. I will spend time with my friends when they are free. I will be thankfu1 that it is not because of, but in spite of my religion, that 1 have a

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ith all the talk this past decade of the “information superhighway,” it’s easy to lose sight of our neighbouts in the Third World.

It’s been over a hundred years since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, and yet in India today there’s still only one phone per 88 people. In Nepal there’s only one television for every 500 people, so you might well imagine what sort of computer and Internet ratio exists in these countries.

The cheapest, most direct and immediate form of news communication remains radio. Unfashionable as it might seem here, the rest of the planet is often dependent upon radio, particularly foreign service broadcasts via the shortwave bands.

Many of these shortwave broadcasters have used the medium to broadcast for purely political propaganda reasons. Radio Moscow, Radio Habana Cuba, Radio Free Europe, and even the Voice of America are the most legendary of these, There’s also an abundance of religious broadcasters (even the Vatican has a shortwave service), therefore it becomes all the more important that the world has access to broadcasters unimpeded by government interference or agenda. The standard bearer of these broadcasters is the BBC World Service.

Radio Canada International (RCI) is another such service. Celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, the service is for the most part wholly invisible and unknown to the average Canadian, despite it’s public financing.

The station presently broadcasts in seven languagesEnglish, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Ukranian and Arabic - and into nearly every corner of the globe.

The present climate is a slightly unstable one for RCI. Technologies are rapidly changing, the service has been operating the past year without a contract, and with CBC President Perrin Beatty having only just announced major cuts, Radio Canada International’s status looks tenuous.

With all this in mind, 1 managed to speak with Allan Familiant, Radio Canada International’s Program Director, about the vision and future of the international broadcaster.

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U’hat was KCl’s mandate in 1945 and how has it changed in the last SO years?

When it went on air in 1945 its mandate at the time, whether it was official or not, was basically to reach our troops overseas. This was suggested to us by the BBC who’d done the same thing during the war to give news from home and help lifi morale. The warwasthc launching pad for most international broadcasting.

Germany had been using it extremely crfuctively for pur-poscs of propaganda, so il was seen by the rest of the world as a necessary counter-measure.

The mandate has naturally changed over the last 50 years. As the years have progressed, the languages and priorities have changed and our mandate of the last fifteen to twenty years has simply been to make an international audience aware of Canada. We have a secondary mandate to reach Canadians abroad, but our primary audience is foreign.

Insofar as the government doesn’t interfere with the programming, is it fair to assume that RCI has modelled itself somewhat after the BBC World Service?

Somewhat along the lines of the BBC... certainly.

Simply put, we’re a part of the CBC, so therefore we remain at an arms length from the government.

We have the same independence as the CBC. We follow the same journalist principles as the CBC, but also have our own RCI program policy and principle which I believe makes us not just as independent as the CBC, but maybe even moreso. Since our service is Canada’s only international medium, we have to present our country to the world warts and all, as a mirror image of what’s happening here.

Radio Canada International targets every continent except Oceania.

What are the reasons for the omission of the South Pacific?

Well, our targets are naturally dictated by the languages we broadcast in. Our two most important languages are our national lan-

guages - English and French -then Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Russian and Ukranian.

So we can’t really broadcast to Oceania in any of their languages other than English and French. But the main countries down there all have really open and free presses, and the populations are so small for such a vast area, so they aren’t really a target priority.

RCI can still be heard in those regions despite not being targeted.

RCI is now part of the CBC, but wasn’t it run initially by the Department of External Affairs?

That’s right. RCI up until 1958 used to be called the International Service (IS). The offjcial name Radio Canada International came into use thereafter. IS used to be funded by the Department of External Affairs, then in 1965, as RCI, switched under the umbrella of the CBC and the CBC has had the responsibility of operating RCI and giving us the budget ever since, We maintain an unofficial link with the Department of External Affairs, which simply put has to do with the development on a regular basis of target areas and languages. That’s the be-all and end-all of our relationship with External Affairs, it’s simply a consultation process, there’s no obligation and no money coming from External Affairs.

What are the details of RCI’s budget?

As far as our budget is concerned... as I said, in ‘65 we transferred to CBC, then in ‘91, when the CBC suffered a $12@million budget cut-back, the then-President Gerard Veilleux said he was closing RCI as part of the budget cut. At that point the Canadian govemment stepped in and had a separate vote to give money to RCT on a 5year basis ~ this was a separate budget given by the Treasury Board for RCI. That ran out on April lst, 1995, and we have been running the fiscal year 1995-96 with totally unclear financial support. We understand that we’re in an arrangement whereby this year the govemment and CBC are splitting the cost of RCI’s budget. The budget is approximately $1 &million per year.

As far as the future is concerned, that’s upstairs now . . . we’re waiting for CBC’s mandate review and the Juneau commission on the overall CBC budget, so I really can’t tell what the future holds.

You mention that in ‘91 Gerard Veilleux wanted to kill RCI. With CBC President Perrin Beatty making huge slashs to CBC’s budget, do you think the same threat exists now?

1 think the situation is pretty

You bought a handful of expensive new Swiss transmitters for the transmitter center at Sackville, New Brunswick.

Are the costs of those covered by RCI’s budget?

Yes, totally. The three new refurbished transmitters were all paid by our budgets from the last five years, to replace our old ones.

How then does the arrangement work where those same transmitters are used to relay transmissions from other foreign broadcasters?

We have arrangements with the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Korea, China Radio International, Radio Austria.., I think that’s it,.. and it’s strictly on an exchange basis, in other words hour-for-hour, but no money changes hands. China, for instance, uses us to reach North and South America, and weuse their transmitters to reach Asia and parts of Russia.

You also use RCI’s transmitters to reach northern Canada, right?

Yes, we transmit domestic broadcasts in Innuit.

How concerned are you that Canada has an international voice?

I think it’s extremely important. It’s difficult to sound objective because of my position as Program Director of RCI, but there is no other international voice from Canada. If you go to, say, China

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clear. CBC has said a number of times that they can’t afford Radio Canada International.

The situation changed a couple of years ago in the CBC mandate whereby it states that the CBC “shall” run an international service. It used to say “may,” now it says “shall,” so we’re part of them whether or not they like it.

That said, the CBC is primarily a domestic programmer, so I understand how difficult it is for them to juggle their mandate. In the end, I think it comes down to the Canadian government to say, “Yes, we need an international broadcaster.”

How big is RCI’s staff?

Before the budget cuts of ‘91 we broadcasted in 14 languages and had a staff of approximately 200, but that got cut back to 8 languages and 120 employees, which is where we’re at now.

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find Time magazine,

the Inyou’ll find CNN, British newspapers, Sky Network, etc., but none of it’s from a Canadian perspective, so I think it’s more important for Canada to have a broadcaster like RCI than other large countries which have any number of options.

With all the talk of the “information super-highway” in the western world, do you think Canada has a duty to present objective news to parts of the world where there are severe press restrictions and limited information access via shortwave?

Yes, I definitely think that the world should have access to an objective news source, and RCI certainly fits the bill. However, I think that we should no longer be using the term “shortwave,” although I ternatiunal

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certainly think it’ll survive another twenty to thirty years, especially in Third World countries.

RCI over the past few years has expanded into satellite coverage.

We’re on Eutelsat into Europe and present!y in negotiations to sign agreements to get satellite coverage into Asia and Africa. We’re also on Internet, and send out taped programming all around the world, so I think the terminology should really be “international broadcaster,” and not just “shortwave.”

Shortwave is now only one of our vehicles.

How does the Internet side ofitwork... are the broadcasts audio and in real time?

It’s goin; out at this stage 011 an information basis where some script and text is on Internet. Sound bites are not yet on Internet, but this is definitely a growth area.

I’m assuming there’s big advantages for satellite of cost and clarity compared to shortwave?

Yes, both. Satellite broadcasts have vastly sharper and more clear sound quality. In the Ukraine, for example, they used to hear us via shortwave - they still can, mind you - but now we’re carried in real time, downlinking via Eutelsat, and broadcasting us directly.

There’s no delay and ‘we’re being broadcast over the entire Ukraine during their prime time, with push button channel technology.

The signal is impeccable and it’s cheaper.

With the axe hanging over

Tribune,

the CBC’s head and the reasons you’ve just related, do you think RCI may be pressured to drop shortwave broadcasting altogether?

Well, th.at’s a very good question. The problem is that the arrangements with satellites are only as good as long as they last. In other words, even though we are presently being broadcast via satellite to the Ukraine, we still continue to broadcast via shortwave.

For one, not everybody has access to satellite technology.

And for another, you always fact the possibility of political change in our target areas.

If a revolution happened and somebody said, ‘“Why the hell are we broadcastiqp Canada on our networks,” then we could be out of business, so we still rely on shortwave.

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lieve how small some of them were

when 1 moved here! These universities can afford to specialize because of the vast number of them in Ontario. This is good, but you have to realize Alberta’s situation as well.

What I’m trying to say here is that sooner or later someone is going to have to pay up. I’m not so crazy about the cuts to education even though I’m still paying much more at Waterloo than I did at U of C. But somehow, someone has to stand up and say enough is enough!

We have to get ourselves out of a very big hole. That means more privatization of businesses and getting rid ofall the bureaucracy in this province.

This is a huge business deterrent.

Get some young blood in the system. In Calgary, I would go to a local Safeway (food store likeZehrs, only better) and notice that all young people are working there. Here, they are old and making the big money that their seniority brings. This in turn limits younger people from moving up. Unions are a bad thing too. They pay lots, but in the long run are more trouble, something Mike Harris knows all too well.

If we can somehow get something betterworking, then, only then can we seriously start to get ourselves together. It’s not going to be easy. In fact, it’s probably going to be controlled chaos. But I’m hopeful that this province can change. If it doesn’t, Alberta and other provinces like it are going to leave Ontario by the wayside. Thank you, I feel much better now.

-D&rick Handluvsky 2nd year Psych

Cakehole needs a cork Tu zhe Editor, Hi Melissa Melodrama.

Let me just begin by congratulating you on your unequivocal intelligence and your mindful ability to prostitute yourself.

We do understand now. You are a woman of many dimensions with socially unacceptable piercing. How exciting it must be to be you! I have piercings on my liver. I’m ALL that. 1 drink 100 proof scotch, day and night, straight from the cask. I’ve shot a man. I have tattoos on my vagina and blisters on my fingers. I amuse myself.

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Funny thing is, I’ve already seen the Elephant MM. 1 sincerely hope I don’t need to M you that to compare this movie to the J i rn Rose Circus Sideshow would bt~ sad and somewhat reducticl ad absurdurn (reduction to the absurd). Oh yes, but you haven’t even SEEN the Jim Rose Circus Sideshow. I’m sorry.

You DO have basis fur an intelligent discourse.

Someone needs to put a cork in their cakehole.

--Mary

Graham

P.S. Women abused.

do not CHOOSE

to be

Frightening picture Tu the Editor, 1 am writing in response to the “Go West” articles by Mark Rankin and Stephanie Falconer published in the November 24th issue of the Imprint.

Rankin and Falconer tell carbon copies of the same story printed side by side. One wonders if a single article with joint authorship wouldn’t have been just as effective.

The authors paint a rather frightening picture of the terrors that await anyone considering moving to Vancouver.

Rankin and Faltoner regale their readers with tales of “addicts and crazies” prowling the streets, high rents, homelessness, and the terrors of riding Vancouver’s mass transit system. I’ve been to each of the locations they mention and have ridden the same trains. Somehow, I’ve never felt threatened. 1 can’t think of a single large North American city that doesn’t have a visible homclcss presence in some areas or occasional “crazies.”

Although the authors acknowledge that they are presenting only their personal experiences, it is still hard not fo dismiss their tales of “crazies,” “the worst street in Canada,” “brutal murders, ” “ominous hushes,” and “just plain scary conversation topics” in the face of the morass of melodrama in which they’re immersed. Even such problems as a noisy neighborhood (blamed on the motorcycle gang rehab facility down the street) come across as unique torments characteristic of Vancouver.

Here in Waterloo, I have loudmouthed, bellicose neighhours who grate on my nerves across the parking lot whenever they have

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Beyond telling them to keep it down or the usually futile indulgence of calling the police, there’s little that f can do other than ignore them. Some part of every city is noisy. If one doesn’t like it, then one can move. Big deal.

About a year and a half ago while walking down lower East Hastings with a friend who’d lived in Los Angeles and Chicago’s Hyde Park, I half-jokingly mentioned to him that WC were on “Vancouver’s Dark Side” and deep in the city’s “heart of darkness.” Based on what he was seeing, and on his previous experience, he found these descriptions literally laughable. I’ve never felt seriously threatened on the streets of a Canadian city and hope that I never do. On the other hand, I’ve been teargassed and nearly had my ass kicked by the Alameda County Sheriffs department for taking a wrong turn when visiting Berkeley, and was almost a murder suspect in Portland, Oregon when people started getting killed in the apartment building in which 1 was staying. These are experiences that l’m not eager to repeat. Maybe they’re also the reason that Rankin and Falconer sound like crybabies jilted by the fact that their “romantic dreams” of the “new and exciting city” didn’t work out.

-Jm-y

Bus

Friday, December 1, 1995

Accident

I’ve been riding the bus long enough to know how it should sound For example: when it rounds a corner and makes a low, growling noise that picks up tempo as the wheels straighten means the engine is still complaining about the frost. or: if the bus makes a buzzing hiss that becomes slhriller and more pronounced the higher the gear means something is wrong with the timing belt.

Since i have all this knowledge, E could diagnose most busey complaints THEORETICALLY What if I rehosed some of the exhaust pipes?

The bus, although multitiered witlh a courdroy poop deck and bright yellow railings could easily be adapted into a post-modern Massada.

Oh glorious day!

I will be spared conversations with Tele Rider and cold hopeless waits in dark winter streets-just throw open the valve marked co.

SO-- we’d take the normal route with teen mothers and bruised babies clear plastic hats and swastikaed jackets kids with greasy hair and shabby jeans

Kuch

The mumblers,

the drunks, the derelicts, and most of all the drivers...

We would all fall asleep and go into death dreaming

co-op

disillusion

of a paradise with no buses, no correct fare, no transfers, no waiting.. .

To the Editor, I recently decided to join the many other students who look to co-op services to help them find a job, expecting that the $400 school term would contribute to efficient services. To my disappointment, however, I found out only after the 6th job posting that the employers of the government jobs that I applied to have not been receiving my resumes since the 3rd job posting.

The reason that my resumes were not being received by government employers was because the sheet which is required when applying to government jobs, the PSC form, was attached to the top ofmy resume package and not the bottom. Though I should have read the Co-op Student Reference Manual more carefully, I was informed by someone working in the Co-operative Education and Career Services department that the PSC form was to go on top of my resume. He did not specify that it was essential that the PSC form go under my “Co-op Student Record,‘* and over my resume.

The $400 co-op fee, which in part covers the salaries of Co-operative Education and Career Scrvices employees, should have been enough to personally notify me that I should be stapling my PSC forms to the back of my resume package, or enough to have them staple my PSC form from the top of my resume package to the bottom. However, instead of calling

or stapling,

And E would blearily open an eye and grin at my victims --no mess-This Accident

-Jane

the employers whose jobs that I thought I applied to did not receive my resume, and it is now too late to contact the employers and apply for these jobs. I am extremely disappointed that students in co-op are paying $400/school term for poor services. Though the workers in the co-operative education and career services are busy, personally notifying students would be a much more efficient way of dealing with structurally problematic resumes than posting a list. Personal notification is a service which should be provided by co-op services in return for the $400 fee, and in return for a little respect.

-Brenda 2A ERS

Inouye

co-op

defended To the Editor,

co-op

services posted my name along with several others on a list in Needles Hali.

Being in ERS, there are not a great number of jobs to apply to, and many of the jobs that are available are government jobs. 25% of

I appreciate the very valid concern that Co-op students pay a substantial additional fee and deserve an appropriate level of service.

Unfortunately there is constant pressure to serve the masses at the cxpcnse of individual students. The

Pritchard

UW Co-op program is big - 3500 students per term. The procedures have been set up to handle this volume in the most efficient way possible given the constraints of technology and staff available to the Department Instrumental to making this huge process .work is the co-operation of students who take part in the program.

To this end guidelines have been established. One of the guidelines states that a copy of a document called the Co-op Student Record must always be the top page of students’ “resume packages.”

The reason for this is so the data entry of applicants can take place as quickly as possible and that only legitimate co-op student records are sent. This information is clearly published in the Co-op Student Reference Manual, in the handouts Important Co-op Dates and Procedures and A Co-op Student’s Survival Guide to the Continuous Phase. There are also notices on every stack of “bins” where students drop off their resume packages when they apply for jobs. In addition to all of this, students were verbally informed of the resume package structure in a meeting on Wed. Nov. 8 held to explain how CnntirPwd

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the “Continuous Phase” of interviews works.

Given that enough advance warning has been provided, students whose resume pat kages do not conform to the guidelines established are not forwarded to employers.

The names of these students are posted on the bulletin boards in Needles Hall. Unfortunately staff involved in the processing ofjob applications are too busy trying to meet mailing deadlines, which reduces their abilility to notify individual students who do not comply with guidelines.

Although I do not know the name of the student at the writing of this reply, I understand thcrc was a student who matches the details of this incident. 1 understand she took her concerns to her co ordinator. The coordinator assisted her by looking up which of the five cmploycrs her resumes wcrc not sent to and who still had jobs available. He then immediately faxed her resume packages to those remaining in an attempt to gain her some interviews.

Hopefully incidents like these will be minimal as our resources tighten.

-Bruce A. Lumsdw Director, Co-up Education and Career Services, University of Waterloo

Who is J&13 G&t has reached the end of its first term, and, being the weepy and sentimental type, I want to say couple of things.

Primarily, I want to express my thanks to all those who said “good job,” I will admit I have been pleasantly surprised at the numbers of you who did so.

Secondly, I want to commend those people that went to the trouble to look me up on e-mail to actually discuss what I have written.

I hope I the answers I gave to your questions helped clarify what I have been trying to say, and I appreciate your honest critiques.

Ilowever, last but not least, 1 want to take this opportunity to respond to some of the Letters to the Editor this column has received. Most of the letters I received were for my column on religion which I think is unfortunate. I think the economic and legislative issues I deal with are far more important than the foolish notion of God, and 1 was honestly hoping for far more discussion on these issues than I have found. But then again, perhaps the lack of letters on these topics means that 1 am getting everything exactly right.

In the Nov. 3 issue, Debra Harvey said “Obedience to God is not slavery, but freedom from the consequences of being human and imperfect.”

So, the only way to freedom is to be completely obedient? Sorry, but this still sounds like slavery to me.

Still in the Nov. 3 issue, Ohad Lederer explains that people want to take part in religion because “people have, from the beginning of time, wanted to be a part of something - a member.” Hey! That’s a good reason to join!

He asks “are they [people in general] fools for looking for comfort in what they may find to be a hard world?” YES - if it is false comfort. For some insane reason Lederer used the example of someone looking in a mirror and convincing themselves that they have lost weight. Provided that they are only “convincing” themselves and have not a&ually lost weight, then yes, they are a fool! If losing weight

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Lederer also mentions two examples of “Godless societies with their own ethical systems,” Communism and Nazism, but concedes that there may be others, saying “I don’t rule out that possibility.”

Good, because 1actually happened to mention another

McEvenue sells sanctuary To the Editur, This letter is in response to Eric VanderBerg’s letter to the Editorial of the Imprint’s November 17th issue, entitled “Dangerous Cults Confusion.”

Mr. VanderBerg’s confusion seemed to have arisen because of the letter written by Melanie Adrian in the previous issue entitled “The Dangerous Cults.”

Since we were both present at the lecture presented by St. Clair McEvenue and read Adrian’s piece, we were very pleased to read an article like Adrian’s that clearly presented the facts of the evening, and that also pointed out the many religiously bigoted statements made by McEvenue successfully ‘brainwashed’ into believing that ail cults and certain organizations are nonetheless but EVIL and DEMONlC forces to be eradicated off the face of the Earth! !! Can you say supremacy?!

McEvenue probably can!

McEvenue’s extensive research allowed him to cite proper examples of cults and then examples of groups and organizational like skinheads, the IRA and Amway as being

one in my article that you so carefully read!

Capitalism, based on individual rights, is the other one.

The last letter from this issue I want to comment on is the one from Heather Calder.

She asks me if Communism and Capitalism “are.. . not Gods themselves?”

Ummm, no.

Certainly not in the supreme being, creator of the universe sort of sense which was what I was dealing with. I spoke of God as a “being.” Capitalism and Communism are not in any way “beings.”

From the Nov. 10 issue, J. Kinniburg says of myself, “He doesn’t make a choice to not believe.. .” Sorry for leaving that up in the air. THERE IS NO GOD. I hope this clears up what I believe, at least a little bit.

Finally, a non-religious letter! Sarah Riegel, who is working on her Master’s in Poli-Sci at Laurier comments on my article concerning unions and the NDP’s Bill 40.

This bill outlawed the use of replacement workers where the strike was “approved by more than sixty percent of a bargaining unit.”

My thanks to Riegel for clearing that up.

Unfortunately her knowledge doesn’t seem to extend to basic business principles.

She argues that companies which cannot hire replacement workers would not have to shut down during a strike for two reasons. The first is that management personnel can be used in place of regular workers, and the second is that production can be shifted to other facilities.

To deal with the former, the obvious question is, if management is doing the strikers’ work, who is doing the management?

However, an equally good argument is that companies have far fewer managers than workers, so a company cannot simply fill up the void left by the strikers by taking all the excess managerial staff they have who just stand around the water cooler all day and toss them into the plant and tell them to do a job that they are totally untrained for.

To deal with the latter, it is a pretty rich company that has a fully equipped plant sitting totally idle, just waiting for one plant to go on strike so that production can simply be shifted to the previously idle one. Unfortunately, in the real world, most plants are already pretty busy doing stuff, and “the shifting of production to other facilities” is not a realistic option.

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cults. As the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines cults as a “system of religious worship,” it is therefore essential for a religious affiliation to be present in order for an organization to be defined as a cult. Hmmm... McEvenue has studied cults for TWENTY years and it appears he doesn’t even know the meaning of the word cult.

When a gentleman in the audience began questioning McEvenue’s extensive research, he asked McEvenue if he ever read a book entitled Radical Departures

by Saui Levine, M&venue stated that he knows Levine’s work, but does not agree with his opinion, so he has never read the book. So VanderBerg, is this the closed mindedness that you wish to avoid’?! Levine is the head of the Dcpartmcnt of Psychology at the University of Toronto and Sunnybrook Hospital. His book is about the research he has conducted through participant observations and interviews with several hundred members of new religious groups. In the beginning of the book, Levine emphatically states that there is no evidence of harmful, detrimental effects or brainwashing in new religious movements; whereas McEvenue clearly states the opposite from his OWI research and ‘cowwelling.

McEvenue isn’t a trained professional in order to help ‘counsel’ people, he is simply a religious figure who wishes to create extreme paranoia concerning a topic he disagrees with.

Furthermore, an article by Dick Anthony and Thomas Robbins cntitled”Brainwashing and Totalitarian Influence” found in the Elrcyclopedia OJ’ Human Behavior, Volume One, 1994, cites all studies on the phenomenon of brainwashing, and has found no public record of brainwashing.

Moreover, the CIA, who created the term brainwashing, has concluded that there is no such thing as brainwashing.

It is frustrating to see supporters of

McEvenueabsorbing ghouls

trying

McEvenue’s

‘facts’ like

to fill the hollowness

of their

existence.

We salute the gentleman in the audience for attempting to discredit McEvenue and for the members of the audience who supported the gentleman’s observations. With people who attempt to understand and view both sides of the story, it shows that there is solme hope in the world that not all of our society has become ‘brainwashed’ by the media and individual religious believers.

And to the poor supporters of McEvenue, we leave you with this quote from Gustave Le Bon: “From the dawn of civilization onwards, crowds have always undergone the influence of illusions.., The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them.

Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy illusions is always the victim.”

-Cathy

Tuey and Brian

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F-01-E. (Fan of Ed) To the Editor, In 1ight of Imprint’s Annual Kcaders I’d like to pass on praise to Edward Richards, one of the talonted arts writers al Imprint.

Richards obviously knows what he’s writing about and he shares his knowledge in an entertaining way and the experience is enlightening.

Survey

-Maureen

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f‘or quote of the w/c’&: L)onn;i Main’s conmont (imprint, Nov. 24th) that “Scientifically, animal-based toxicity tests art’ indefensible.., no statistrcal prctdictivc \~aluo.” I’m glad she brought this to out attenlion! Those nasty TCy non~ination

some extremist’s

predigested reading list).

Now, what else’? Still in fhc same letter: ‘b...Commoniy recognized fact among health authorities treat data derived from animal Icsts has serious I imitations in its applicability to the

human spec~cs. ” Ofc*nur.vr>

~car-chc~~~ must bc doing Ihis just because tlq c~~~jc)ychopping up animtls! 1’11 bet they really grt rjff‘on blowin, ‘r their budgets that way, fw no rt‘mm. They probably have no i&a what

they’re doing! Although they must be dumb not to have realized this. 1 mean, thl: people who design the experiments their way to a B.Sc., and usually beyond

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has serious limithat humans and lab animals react in exactly the same way, but they often do react quite similarly, and some data is waaaay better then no data at all. l’his would seem to be a common thread among extremists ~~ say “something is wrong with this” and imply that this means “cvcrything is wrong with this,” and we should immediately stop, without regard for the consequences.

No one, not even us nasty scientists, enjoys experimenting on living creatures, but there is no viable alternative. For those of you who just tuned in, the options, in order of increasing accuracy are: computer modeling - currently, with the limited understanding of biological systems we posses, purely empirical (i.e. we need to do the animal tests to get the data to do a computer model), followed by in vitro testing, which is used where possible to avoid unnecessary animal testing, but still has serious limitations predicting in viva behaviour, then animal testing, and then human clinical trials (which are limited in scope, for obvious reasons). Donna mentions a few examples of drugs that have slipped by the system. I guarantee you that there is a long list of drugs rejected after animal testing due to toxic effects that would otherwise have been undetected - saving not a few human lives in the process. What she’s telling us is that not enough animal testing in different species was done in those specific cases before the drugs were approved for human use.

Now, Troy Seidle’s letter. Nice rhetoric.

Some apparent references, but without actual sources. He doesn’t like my advocating “the development of animal models of human AIDS”, on the grounds that in 1988, a US Presidential commission concluded that “To date, [my emphasis] adequate animal models have not been developed for human HIVrelated research,..makes the application ofanima1 research to humans uncertain [my emphasis].” What year was that again? 1988? So because (he interprets this to mean) we couldn’t do something seven years ago, we must be unable to do it now? In the course of AIDS research, 1988 was a long time ago. Go look up SCID mice in a journal. Ask an AIDS researcher about the importance of animal models (present and future) in the search for a cure.

His 1984 references (if they really support his point - hard to check since he left out the journal name, title of the article, etc.) are even more dated. Incidentally, re: the first sentence in that paragraph-I am not “attacking”in vitro testing -in vitro testing is one of the things I do for a living when I’m not here... you just won’t catch me taking anything that has only been tested in a tube.

On to his comments on cigarette testing references from 1957 and 1963 were all he could come up with? (By the way, his 2’7 studies prior to 1963 showed that smoking was msociated with lung cancer - “Note: significant association does not imply “causation” both Y & X may be related to a 3rdvariable. You need experimentation to prove causation.”

O’Hara Hines, Stat 202). He mentions that in 1966, someone thought that the “routine subacute and chronic” (remember, routine for 1966, not 1995) test methodology was insufficient to detect most adverse reactions in humans, 1966 was almost 30 years ago, last time I looked at my watch. Is he suggesting that we have made no progress at all since then, even assuming his source was right at the time?

Finally, he tells us he has “personally participated in over 20 clinical studies” because he has “seen beyond the threadbare litany of biomedical researchers” and implies tations - no one IS suggesting

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oftht:

“real

goals of science.” That’s it... ummtn... pretty egocentric little world-vitzw you’\re got there, buddy. (more on this in 3 second). 13cGdes what kind ofsrudius WCI’C thcsc? Did they give you AIDS, and then try to curt you’! 1IOU about cancer? I Iow control led a study group are you anyway’? Is your Iqnetiu history knoM)n?

-Are there a whole pile of’gcnctical ly identical “you’s” so that the rcscarch is repeatable’!

Wcrc you raised in a discasc free environment?

Has your lifetime food intake been documented? Do you drink alcohol, even a little bit?

Was your daily routine absolutely identical to that of all the other people tested? How “invasive” were those procedures? Had any ofthem been tested on animals ljrst’? Were any of the precursors, or techniques‘? How significant were these studies? Et cetera...

Back to the ego thing... it would seem to me that many of the problems the world at large is having with extremist groups at the moment stem from this attitude that “I am right, there is no logicall opposing viewpoint, everyone who disagrees must be doing so because they are ignorant / greedy / stupid / sadistic / etc.” (Applicable to both Troy’s and Donna’s letters). If you have reasonable suggestions to offer that’s one thing, but hearing your mind slam shut like that is not very persuasive. Stop me if 1‘m being unreasonable, but... I agree that not all a.nimal testing is useful or necessary -- and I don’t think it’s cxccssivc to ask that the people who have been writing in and saying that 1 do not “have a clue about the issues” demonstrate their ability to be equally reasonable, and admit that in many cases, animal testing does significantly benefit humanity.

Again, my advice to the reader: go out and find your own papers to read. Ask at the library information desk, or look up in viva testing on Medline. Read the original articles (rather than someone’s opinion piecle on the articles), and decide for yourselves about the merits of animal testing.

Happy exams everybody.. S

ps. For the benefit of those who will otherwise complain that I didn’t g,ive them anything to read...

Jones, M.M., Basinger, M.A., Gale, G.R., Atkins, L. M., Smith, A.B., and Stone, A., 1994, Eflect of chelutc treatments OYI kidney, bone, and brain lead levels oflead-into,ricated mice. Toxicology 89: 91 - 100 van Leengoed, H.L.L.M., Cuomo, V., Versteeg, A.A.C., van der Veen, N ., Jori, G., and Star, WM., 1944. In vivo fluorescence and photodynamic activity of zinc pthalocyanins administered in lipusomes. Br. J. Cancer, 69: 840 - 845 Keene, D.R., Oxford, J.T., and Morris, NJ?, 1995. Ultrast?xcturaI Localization of Collagen Types II, H, and XI in the Growth Plate of Human Rib and Fetal Bovine Epiphyseal Cartilage: Type XI Collagen is Restricted to Thin Fibrils.

J. Histochem. and Cytochem., 43,lO: 967 - 979 Povolny, B.T., and Lee, M.Y., 1993. The role uf recombinant human M-CSF, L-3, GMCSF, and calcitriol in clonal development of osteoclast precursors irr primate bone murYOW. Experimental Hematology, 2 1: 532 - 537 Engberg, G., and Nissbrandt, H., 1993.

Hydroxybutyric acid (GHBA) induces pacemaker activity and inhibition of substantiu nip-u dpmnine

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Pharrnacol. 348: 491 - 497 Dahlqvist, M., Lagerstrand, L., andNilsen, A., 1994. Repeated measurements of trunsfer j&or n rabbits.- an anirna! mudel suitable~fti~ evaiuution qf short-term exposure.

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From

n November 27 the UW Womyn’s Centre received a fax from the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre. It reads as follows: On December 6, 1995 women wilimovefromprotest to resistance by linking the cuts in sociul programs it.3 men ‘.T violence against wom~-‘n. We will be channelling our SC~~WM~ and rage into an a& ofnnnviolent c:ivii disobedience by taking over the intersection oJC&lege and University in downtown Toronto during the morning rush hour. When ‘business as usual ’ means shutting down services fur women, children and the vulnerable, when ‘business as usual’ means that women who are tying to get awayfrom abusive partners have jtiwer options fir sqfev and survival, interrupting ‘business as usual ’ will be a privilege and a pleasure. For more in@: (416) 929-1406; (416) 597-1171 eul. 31.

Last week a woman was murdered in Toronto, and the week before that and three weeks before that. Six years ago, close to forty women were murdered in Canada.

Fourteen of that number were the women murdered at a university in Montreal

by Marc Lepine, a women-hater who walked into a classroom and executed complete strangers based on their gender.

Those fourteen women and the un-

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fathomable circumstances of their deaths move Canadians to remember their lives every December 6.

And many people try to remember all women who have been murdered before that day, and all those who were killed after.

We all grieve in different ways.

Some prefer an intimate candlclighting ceremony, others may compose a poem, a play, or a piece of music. Others analyze and pursue avenues that will limit the chance of another Montreal massacre, and decrease the amount of violence against women in Canadian society. This is what the Blockade Brigade attempts to do. They and those who attend choose to remember the lives of the fourteen women, and to acknowledget the violence of that day was there on December 4, and did not disappear on December 7. What remembrance does, is not to allow an act of violence to silence any life that is ended at its hand. Women cannot be silenced in life and we will not allow there to be silence in an instance of their violent deaths. What organizing against violence does is state that we can make a difference, and that violence is not natural to humanity. Together, we can challenge the violence that so often seems to be a driving force in our society.

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Many women are still IcfI with a feeling that it could have been them and that it still could be. With this in mind, the Womyn’s Centre supports the transit ion from mourning to action. Lesley Dowey from the Womyn’s Centre commented that “economic oppression will claim its victims and perpetuate the cycles of violence that exist in Ontario’s society. The cuts to social programs under the Harris regime will bruise and disempower women who may already be in need of assistance, as well as denying men

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As rar as 1 see it, society thrives on the good wholesome “dirt,” and it’s not going to stop.

This past week, Diana, Princess of Wales delivered the goods on the behind-the-scenes action of Buckingham Palace. The Queen is upset and probably won’t be delivering her Christmas address via those outlets that broadcast Diana’s interview.

So we won’t hear the old bat wish us a merry one, who cares.

What really matters is that an inside look at royalty exposes all it’s bruises and blemishes. Dianaseems a basketcase, Charles an adulterer, and the Royal Family comes off as real as polyester pants. This is good stuff.

Okay, so you don’t exactly buy into the royalty thing anyway; besides Diana really only confirmed what everybody had known for years. Let’s visit Ryerson Wnversity in Toronto briefly, with juicy tidbits about pedophilia, prostitution. and the pursuit of intellectual freedom.

Professor Hannon made a public appearance on a televison panel to ciiswss little boys having sex with

grown men. Condoning this kind of behaviour would have seemed like a career killer alone, but he continued to reveal that he moonlighted as a prostitute as well. While 1 don’t entirely agree with suspending Hannon until an investigation is complete, only to fire him later, Hannon screwed up big time. The public perception is really what’s at stake, as far as Ryerson is concerned, and Hannon should have realized that prior to revealing his lifestyle.

(This is Jerry Springer material all the way.) Hannon’s probably a good professor, and unless he preaches and practices his belief and lifestyle on the students of Ryerson, shouldn’t he still be teaching? The concept of men having sex with boys isn’t a new revelation to anyone enrolled in a Latin or Greek class. But, if Hannon has taken that belief beyond an intellectual realm, then he should rightfully be punished by the laws of the land. As for prostituting himself, that’s probably as old an occupation as his belief in having sex with boys is. That doesn’t make it acceptable, but that’s pretty good “dirt” for the nation to chew on.

Scandal isn’t alien to Imprint news pages with stories about harassment, wrongdoing, and the fall out - people saying “I didn’t do that, I didn’t say this.” This issue, although a very disturbing one to

all __-of-- us -- because --of the uroximitv and scone. “dirt.” WL ----- - -r-7-- is essentiallv ---get angry, and then, if we’re not involved, we move on to how Oprah c ~crlh lnst all that weipht. We expose the nature of the beast,-and those involved are left picking up the pieces to their disrupted lives.

AS far as I can tell from my experience, the world doesn’t stop to scream “injustice,” and once the story is told, that’s it. Who are the victims; or who cares? There is no difference.

As you peruse the endless television listings in this decade of the “talkshow,” the perception is that society is out of control.

The rivalry between talkshows, or shows designed as tabloid style news, is an utter disgrace.

But we all watch them.

Still I’ll maintain, unlike the perception created, that these shows are not a reflection of society. The last bastion of human nature is our If you have felt comreaction. pelled enough to react or if you’ve watched the reaction of talkshow audiences, you’ll know that the bad things are heckled, the good things are cheered for, and rarely does any audience member support perverted, racist, or sexist views of the panel. And that’s as good a place to judge society as any.

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A factory, in which children ride on a conveyor belt, only to meet the certain doom of mindless processing.

These are some of the images used in the filmYink Floyd- The Wall to illustrate the unforgivable error of the traditional education system; viewing a school as a f&tory that produces students. At the Universi ty of Waterloo, you may feel more like “a brick in the wall” then ever before, but there is a crucial difference.

We are now being told from every comer what I have been trying to tell my high school teachers for the last five years. In high school, the education system resembled the factory: Get these students through the system, and presto, you have high school graduates. Little attention was given to “learning,” and even less to developing “common” sense and the ability to think for one’s self. The focus was on having everyone pass. The general approach was, “You don’t understand this, just memorize it until the final exam is over.” But this is not why I am here! School is about learning, not getting a degree!

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Professors seem to be hinting that we must think for ourselves. They’re telling us that we must learn to develop our own style, that we learn to convey our ideas clearly and that we learn to depend on our own reasoning.

“It makes no difference what letter you use to represent the function.”

“True, but that formula you have memorized is valid only for a specific situation.”

“We don’t know your way of thinking; yes you will have to spell it out if you’re handing it in.”

You may have heard your professors say similar things in some of your classes. The concept is out in the open.They actually want us to think and understand. Does this scare you?

You may have hated school when you were younger, and thought to yourself, “Why must I be here, listening to this crap? I’m probably going to forget it in a year or two.” You probably skipped classes and tried to get out of doing whatever you could. Why? Usually for one of three reasons: either the material was stupid, the way it was being presented to you was stupid, or your teacher was, urn, let’s say far from a genius. In essence, you were not being prepared for the “big world out there,” you were being shown how not to deal with bureaucracy.

Rebel !

I don’t need to tell you, but much time has been wasted or worse. Remember the meat grinder in The Wall? Now that’s scary!

Things are different now. You have been accepted and are enrolled at one of the top science universities in the country. Chances are you came here by choice. Certainly you picked your program, and essentially your classes, by choice. In fact your family, if not yourself, is even paying for you to study here. So don’t tell yourself the things you said in high school.

You are studying what you wanted to study. Try to master it. Try to understand it.

Universities are big places and you may feel very small and insignificant. But there is a world of opportunity here. And you are always going to be small in the universe. You are a brick in the wall here, but the foundation is solid.

The bricks which support you are warm and intelligent.

You are encouraged to be creative and take control.

Bricks here can move around on their own accord. Picture yourself as an adult, in the real world, and try to be professiona in the way you go about things. Do write your papers and reports as if they were to be published. It might happen sooner than you think.

Throughout high school we were raw material in a factory. We were being pushed through a system. In universirty we are bricks in a wall. But we are being demanded to think, to learn and to understand the structure of the wall more then ever before. We are finally being prepared to take bricks, and build our own structures.

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Don’t get me wrong, the province faced the inevitable and it had to be done sometime.

Okay, let’s cut to the chase and get a little self-interested, specifically in regard to tuition increases which are believed to be in a region approaching 20%.

Personally, I don’t have a big problem with this. Why? Well for one, I happen to think that education is still a pretty good value, and we dun? need to be receiving ALL of our education of the backs of the common working stiff.

And for another . . . ? OSAP. As long as I’m receiving OSAP, the tuition hike will largely be unreal, or should I say surreal, just as surreal as the prohibitive interest rates charged on top of those loans. Surreal and at times unfathomable.

Let me state my beliefs on this matter categorically: One, OSAP is a legalized, government endorsed extortion racket. AndTwo, we must start looking hard at Income Contingent Loan Repayment (ICLR)

packages.

As far as my first belief, perhaps a little hypothetical scenario and some common anecdote might demonstrate.

You’ve graduated high school and your marks are strong. Three common options face you: Work, school, or doing nothing. Throw away the last option for a minute.

Work. There are no jobs, certainly (so the propaganda goes) no good ones available without a secondary education.

Even Finance Minister Ernie Eves admitted as much in his financial statement, comparing employment rates now against 1989. Do you really want to flip burgers ? Remember now, you’re intelligent, you didn’t work your ass off in high school do perform the tasks of a trained chimp, right?

Okay, so you decide school.

few (if any) jobs on the other side of that degree and that you will be forced to pay handsome interest payments on top of the loan regardless of your hopeless employment possibilities.

Let me sta.te something else categorically: If you have the choice of cheap tuition and the prison of home, or OSAP with the freedom of independence, take the former every time. Stay at home! You will thank me for this, years later, I promise.

We need ICLR’s.

Too many graduates are plummeting into real financial hardshiip because of their debt.

Without them, let’s look at our three options again: Work, school, or doing nothin#g.

Work: Thelre is none.

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can’t. In the former case, you won’t be requiring assitance. That’s good for you. But in the latter, you need OSAP, and the government knows this. They have you by the short and curlies, they know that you need this money and that there will be

option 3 - doing nothing.

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1 am heading off for the real world next term, and so, to the dismay of a few and to the delight of many, this will be the last instalment of 2%~ Rant for a while. As much as 1 would like to, I don’t think that I would be able to keep up the bitterness, sarcasm and constant stream ofdenunciations while working at a full-time job. Besides, my world will be taken up predominantly by gripping accounting issues, the wonderful world of Bay Street and all of its trappings.

You hate already heard me talk about these things, and any fLIrther exploration of them on my part would probably be a dreadful waste of newsprint.

That said, today’s column will be a sort of retrospective look at the newsprint wasted by this column so far (if I may be so self-indulgent) kind of like one of those episodes of a TV show where they are too lazy to think of anything new, so they just edit bits of old shows together.

Since 1 started writing in February, I have endeavoured to make this column intelligent, entertaining and interesting. There have been various opinions on whether I have fulfilled the first criterion.

Most notably, my column has been referred to as “ . ..rhetorical drivel... [where 1the three square inch header is like a black hole, drawing in unsuspecting readers and not letting even logic escape.” That’s one of my personal favourites.

As for being entertaining, no one has yet come forward to comment.

1 think that 1 have aroused some interest, however, as some have been continually amazed at how 1 find “...so many ways to annoy and insult UW students and faculty,” suggesting that I should ” . ..at least pretend to provide constructive proposals to the situation.”

Even better, ONE person said 1 had presented a view that they had not previously considered. Whohoo! Ofcoursc, there will atways be those who say that 1 have failed on all three counts. Oh well.

But the comments arc not lim-

ited to Letters to the Editor. One student, after we were introduced, remarked to me, “I know some people who want you dead.” She said she had friends in fhe Arts faculty.

I’m just glad that most people don’t know what I look like (medium height, dark hair, stunningly goodlooking). Ah, the wonders of feedback.

Criticism aside, I have tried to address the issues of the day, even if some of them don’t necessarily stir up controversy.

Over the past months, I have talked about aspects of politics (including, in a moment of weakness, the Quebec referendum), textbooks, television, the Internet and various other topics.

Regular readers could always tell when my creative juices were lacking though, since easy targets - the Arts faculty, the United States were selected as topics when inspiration was low. In saying this, I don’t mean to put the Arts faculty on the same level as the U.S. The f&&y may have its problems, but it’s not nearly as messed up as the good 01’ U.S. of A., which has Texas, where a popular bumper sticker is, “Fight crime. Shoot back.”

But I digress. I have tried to keep the column relevant and hopefully appealing to students.

Unfortunately, this column has been riddled with rcfcrenccs to The Globe and Mail, The Economist, and, for good measure, The Villuge Voice, I have only used these to credit my sources. I offermyapologies if readers get the impression that I may be an intellectual, or, worst yet, Right-wing.

The Village voice is supposed to counter the lattermisconception, even ifitmight reinforce the former. Once again, I apologize.

On a final note, I expect that this column will return, Imprint staffwilling, to these pages in May. This gives readers, the Arts faculty and the U.S. a reprieve from the pompous remarks that I make from my tiny pedestal.

Enjoy it. See you in five months.

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Kumar and ERS Tu the Editor, I’d like to make some comtnents regarding the recent Kumar controversy, but before 1 do there are three points of view surrounding this controversy that deserve reiteration.

Firstly, the Dean of Environmental Studies recomtnended the distnissal of MrKumar based on the grounds that he had sexually assaulted a student. Secondly, the President of this university found that Mr. Kumar had committed sexual assault (although he referred to it as harassment the acts described in fact constituted sexual assault) and decided to pro-rate Mr. Kumar’s satary to 75% over a two year period. Thirdly, an overwhelming majority of students within the ERS department, and indeed the Universityasnwhole,areconvinccd that 1Mr. Kumar’s actions should have resulted in hisdismissal.

While we arc aware of the views of the Dean, the President, and the students, we remain unaware of the views ofthe ERS Faculty. Withthis in mind, 1 find the silence maintained by the Faculty throughout this controversy to be extremely disheartening.

It appears that there is no one within this department that is courageous enough to show support for either their Dean or their students, or for that matter their colleague Mr. Kumar. Instead of trying to deal with this problem it appears that members of the Faculty have opted to bury their heads in the sand in the hope that this sordid controversy will somehow magically disappear - when it will not. h-t attempting to avoid this controversy the Faculty have become part of the problem; they are sending out the message that sexual assault will be tolerated.

Do these well-educated individuals fail to realize that there is a real danger that the hard-earned reputation of this entire department could be completely destroyed? If ever there was a time for the Faculty to show some courage and conviction - that time is now.

-JQH F~QWLWW 3% ERS

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To the Editor, Dear Patrick Merlihan, I must say that 1 was disappointed to find my name in your article entitled “Welcome to the Real World” (Imprint, November 17) used in a slanderous and derogatory

manner.

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your interest and concerns regarding the many issues and questions of importance that need to be addressed within the independent music industry itself, but I’m having difficulty understanding your necessitv to renort with such negla-

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and assumption.

Before you went ahead and assumed that I made a conscious decision not to attend the seminar, you might have taken the time to knd outwhy.

Not only did 1 have a gig that very same night, but I had also just returned home from a five week cross-Canada tour with my band, being home for about a week, and guess what 1was doing on the road?

1 was supporting my new album, gathering names on the ever expanding mailing list, distributing to record stores, doing interviews with the campus radio stations that 1 have been keeping in touch with for years.

But most importantly, surviving as an independent artist.

Perhaps the courtesy of a pcrsonal call to Swallow Records would be in order prior to your reporting more misconceptions in the future.

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with the students that he has been representing to the government at Queen’s Park and endure some of the financial hardship. It would, however, be difficult to confirm if he has actually sacrificed since Dr. Downey, the President of a public institution ofwhich we are all shareholders, refuses to divulge his salary. Before proceeding, the President must justify the cuts (or lack thereof, in the case of the administration,) and the fact that they do not reflect the stated intentions of the Government of*Ontario, not only to the University Senate and to the Board of Governors, but to the students who will soon be paying a much larger portion of his salary.

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Tu the Editur, To the Editor, The province has . . .- of Ontario announced slgnlticant cuts to umversity operating budgets for this year and next. Premier Harris’ campaign document, The Common Sense Revolution, suggested that savings should be sought first through streamlining the administration of universities.

In his open letter to the University Community (Imprint, October 27,1995), President Downey warned that the impending crisis will “take sacrifice from everyone - faculty, staff, students - both those who remain and those who leave,” However, in the same letter, Downey stated”we will

Engineering December

Sally and Mikey discover the REAL reason why parents won’t let their kids wait up for Santa Claus not change the fundamental way the University is organized or makes decisions.”

In other words, the administrative structure of the University will not be altered by the cuts. It seems clear that the implementation of these cuts does not reflect the stated intention of the current provincial government.

Concerns already exist regarding the quality of education and services available at the University. Hiring freezes, long queues at Needles Hall, poor course selection

Reaffirms 6th

Each year on December 6, the Federation of Students brings together several student clubs and societies to organize a ceremony to commemorate “ 14 Not Forgotten,” the senseless murder of 14 female engineering students at Ecole Polytechnique.

The different perceptions as to the purpose and intent of the event give rise to conflicting views and the need for compromises.

The Engineering Society, upon reviewing the letter from Ecole Polytechnique, decided that the ceremony of December 6th should be one of personal reflection and rememberence; not an opportunity for indulgence in other agendas. In the week preceding the submittal of November 24th’s Imprint article, the perception by the Engineering Society of the planned ceremony did not coincide with the intentions agreed upon by council. Thus, the Engineering Society was, for a time, considering withdrawing its support for the event in favour of its own method of commemoration.

After meeting with other organizers, it was concluded that the ceremony accomodates the spirit of unification and encourages personal reflection. Therefore, the Engineering Society reaffirms its support for the event in its entirety.

The memorial will be held at St. Jerome’s p.m. on December 6th. There will be a coffee cafeteria at 7:30. Everyone is welcome.

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during the Spring Term (especially in Arts), and class sizes larger than those at our peer Universities (Mucleun ‘s, November 20, 1995, page 35) are only a few examples of the problems currently facing the University.

Reductions in faculty and staff through early retirement plans further jeopardize the education offered to students. Removing the most experienced members of this academic community in no way serves the interests of those who have come to learn, and the loss of the diversity of viewpoints which enrich the student’s understanding will undermine the University’s ability to produce broad-minded, tolerant individuals.

These cuts seem inevitable, in fact they may turn out to be more severe than first thought. In this light, it does not seem appropriate to ask some to sacrifice while others escape unscathed. The management and governance structures arc surety not without inefficiencies and cost savings there should be explored. Maintaining the current administrative structure while reducing faculty, staff, and services to the students, the University’s consumers, is simply not reasonable since neither advances the raison d’etre of a university: to impart knowledge.

What is clear is that students will bear the brunt of these cuts, be it through larger classes, reduced course selection, reduced services,

or increased tuition. If they are to take on most of this burden, then it would be responsible for the “people at the top” to share in it, if only in a symbolic manner. The President should show some solidarity

I’m writing the school paper because I’m really getting ticked off at all this anti Harris stuff. For God’s sake people, wake up and smell the coffee!

I have a unique perspective on this as I lived in Calgary the last 10 years. Calgary., as in Alberta, is Klein country. 11t the U of C where the costs were rising dramatically for education, and still are I might add, we were putting up with it.

Why? Because Alberta is not a socialist province like Ontario. Here, people have been given everything for free, and they don’t want to let it go. 1 wouldn’t either mind you, but we have to realize that this system sucks, period. This province is in serious debt. Socialism just doesn’t work!

Granted, .Alberta is going through tough times right now, but in the long run will come out on top.

Klein is doing the right thing, but what choice does he really have?

The country is out of money, he has to cut. Canada has had it so good for so long that too many people got used to it and don’t want to give it UP* Thus, Mike Harris is up to his neck in criticism because he is a capitalist trying to reform a socialist province. Not an easy thing to do, but one has to admire a guy like t.his. It’s much easier being Bob Rae and borrowing 10 billion and screwing Ontario over even more!

When Dr. James Downey was quoted as saying that Alberta ranked low in the Muclean’s poll of universities, he was alluding to Klein’s cuts. He doesn’t realize however that the U of C, being the only university in Calgary (they will have two soon) has to cater to a large diversity in interests also. Ontario has 17 universities.

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he Web, a distributed hypertext inlbrmation system implemented as a service on the Internet, is rapidly gaining popularity and public attention. It offers the reader a simple interface fordocuments containing text, graphics, video, audio and links to other documents; a single click ofthe mouse brings the linkeddocument to the reader’s machine from wherever in the world it resides. It offers the writer an easy way to make information accessible to a large audience (for those unfamiliar with the Web, a quick visit to the access terminals located in UW libraries is recommended).

While the immediate attraction of the Web is recreational, one quickly sees its potential for intellectual pursuits. More and more courses will come to use the Web for support or even as the main source of information and interaction. The possible benefits are considerable, but one must also keep in mind possible pitfalls. In this brief article, I will suggest some critical attitudes which students might adopt when considering educational uses of the Web. The opportunities for distraction offered by a comprehensive library or an encyclopedia arc well

known. The simple interface, vast scope and quick response time of the Web magnify such opportunities. Links almost compel one to follow them; the student may soon leave the space of the course material, not to return for many hours.

The Web may encourage exploration of information without proper assimilation.

It would be all too easy for an instructor to put a mass of undifferentiated information (course notes, links to similar courses around the world, pointers to vaguely-related material) on the Web and trust the skills of the reader to be able to learn from it. Students must not let instructors abrogate their responsibility to add value to the information they present through structuring.

The Web also offers a number of “gadgets” as additional temptations for the instructor cute graphics, flashing text, and other stylistic tools, as well as forms for comment and interaction. While these have legitimate uses, they may consume valuable development time without significantly improving access to information.

Course hypertexts will inevitably make use of Intemet-accessible information; even if they don’t

directly point at it, search engines enable the student to locate material. We can place a certain amount of trust in a traditional text in a library, since it has passed through the filter of publishers and acquisitions staff. The Web gives many people the power to publish without any form of review; consequently, the information thus obtained often needs to be more explicitly validated by the reader.

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from a hypertext comes from the reader’s freedom to choose their own path, then how is that understanding conveyed to and shared with others?

Not all texts are equal; we believe some to be clearer than others, and we have developed methods of trying to ensure clarity (essayform, footnotes and endnotes) and ofdealing with linear texts in this form.

We have not developed such methods for hypertexts yet, and so the student may have difficulty in critically as-

Mure and more courses will come to use the Web for support... The possible benefits are considerable, but me must also keep in mind possible pitfalls. nonical linear form, starting at one end and proceeding to the end.

That may not be the way everyone reads them, but it is there as a common standard. There may be no common standard for a hypertext; everyone may have a different view, depending on their path through the material, and these views may diverge upon revisiting the material, rather than converging. If the increased understanding

through major projects, field research, programming and debugging, or human interaction, yet having to demonstrate their expertise by writing on paper while sequestered for three hours. If these traditional mechanisms are not appropriate, what mechanisms are?

Should the student create hypertext? This leads to more difficult quest ions.

Students are expected to do their own work, and we punish plagiarism harshly.

We have developed guidelines for what is considered the reasonable use of the work of others in creating work of one’s own: quotations should not be too long, precise citations should be given, and so on. Many of these guidelinesare violated by hypertext, which by its very nature intermingles the work of many. Before new guidelines are developed, the number of. difficult plagiarism judgements to be made is likely to increase.

I do not mean, in raising these questions, to discourage use of the Web in courses. I think we need to grapple with this new medium to discover whal it can do for us, and the informed criticism of students will play a m,ajor role.

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the information derived from it. In my courses, I have repeatedly seen the phenomenon ofstudents who read over the text or listen to my lectures and believe they understand the material, yet they cannot complete the assignmerits or exams.

It could be that they don’t understand that they don’t understand, or that their understanding is on an intuitive level, rather than a formal one.

It is likely that hypertexts will increase the possibility of such misunderstandings.

Are traditional testing mechanisms (essay, assignment, lab report, midterm and final) appropriate to knowledge acquired through hypertext?

Students already know the frustration of learning a skill

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hen on my bicycle, I tune into my body, myself and my environment, and for that moment life is very good,” remarked a participant at this year’s Ontarian Bicycle Association conference in Guelph. Unfortunately, the good life that can be experienced on a bicycle has remained one of the best kept secrets around.

However, the bicycle is undergoing a revival as a legitimate vehicle.

Consequently, the bicycle is being given more consideration by transportation planners and politicians.

In the 1970’s and ’80s the standard bicycle was the notorious Sears or Canudian Tire 10 speed.

With its chattery gears, drop handlebars, and useless upper brake levers, this two-wheeler was perfect for going nowhere, getting wet, frustrated, and even killed. Poor bicycle design, among other factors, convinced North Americans that cycling was an uncomfortable and uncool way to get around. Bi-

cycle-friendly cultures, such as in the Netherlands, prove that many of the perceived disadvantages of the bicycle are not inherent to ihe bike, but more a result of transportation planning which caters almost solely to the automobile.

The conference in Guelph focused on the numerous victories of bicycle advocates across Ontario

On tariu cyclists save $78 million and 156 million litres of

oil per year. and how these were achieved. Recent progressive changes in the bicycle community include: an increased number of cyclists in Ontario, from 2 to 7 per cent; the emergence of bicycle advisory groups (one in almost every major Canadian town and city); police officers on bicycles; and the sccuring of public monies for bicycle infrastructure such as paths and traffic calming measures. Participants also shared other creative

ideas. such as organizing bicycle choirs, “bike to work” weeks, and bicycle repair workshops for women and kids. The Community Bicycle Network from Toronto has been especially active in these areas.

The motivation behind all of these initiatives stems from the need for equitable, cheap, and environmentally friendly transportation.

At the same time, many of the conference participants expressed the very simple desire to be able to ride to and from work or the grocery store in relative safety.

With 1996 being the year of the car, there is even more of an incentive to hop on a bike for all of the benefits that it can offer you.

Not only is the bicycle friendly to the environment (no fumes here, a little sweat maybe) but it is also friendly to your bank book, encourages self reliance, and is fun! Here’s one more interesting fact: 6 per cent of Ontarians use bikes as primary transportation and therefore save an estimated 156 million litres of oil per year and an additional 78 million dollars. Common sense, don’t you think?

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he Waterloo Warrior hockey team knows exactly what it desires for Christmas. While other teams have a wish list full of goodies like more goal scoring, a better power-play, or even hot goaltending, the Warriors are hopeful for only one thing. A new bus.

Trouble with motor vehicles has been a concern in the first two months of the schedule for the Black and Gold Bruisers, a good example being the fateful trip to Ryerson during the first league game of the season. If you recall. the Zamboni broke down. Then, the bus did.

This weekend, after dropping a frustrating 7-5 decision to the surprisingly strong Laurentian Voyageurs in Sudbury, the bus broke down again. Then, a long wait ensued as the players filed out of the broken bus and waited for the replacement bus to arrive.

“We were tired, but we had to all stand on the side of the highway looking at each other,” mused Warrior head coach Don McKee. “What else could we do’?”

Obviously nothing. Unfortunately, the Night of the Zombie Buses was far from over. When the replacement bus arrived, it experienced problems and broke down, too (You think the bus company would send a half-assed replacement). The Warriors, used to this type of situation by now, filed off onto the highway again, and began shrugging their shoulders. What else could they do?

Well... they could eat subs.

Coach McKee and Coach Cressman ordered submarine sandwiches to be waiting after the game, and when the players straggled onto the bus following the contest, they found the subs ready. But there were no toppings.

“Somebody made some money off us,” reflected McKee. “There was bread, meat, and cheese, but nothing else. As you know, subs are rather dry without the other stuff.

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etumees for the Athena’s include captains Lori ‘Pipes’ Kraemer, Christina ‘?’

Williams and Mary-Frances ‘Max’ Lapthome, center Jackie ‘I’m so pure’ White, guards Jena ‘Like I’d forget’ Steele and Jodi ‘Jedi’ Hawley, forwards Shannon ‘Sammy’ Vankoughnett and Adrienne ‘Don’t call me Aid’ Cillis.

Making an immediate impact for the Athena’s wili be transfer students Kr-ista ‘mmmcake’ Fox from Manitoba and Amy ‘I play for a real team now’ Wahl from the highschool down the street.

Rookies on this year’s squad ‘Not-so-shy’ include Vicki Johnson, Laura ‘Perma-smile’

to hell, Besides that, the pop was warm, too.”

Ahh, Sudbury, the land of luxury.

Finally, though, at the side of the 401 in pitch darkness, the replacement bus driver concluded that a replacement for the replacement was not necessary. The second bus had only an oil leak, and the driver decided to barrel through.

The Warriors fmalIy made it to their destination, thecolumbia IceFields,

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lot his teammates could do about the situation except grit their teeth and play harder. For some strange reason, the OUAA doesn’t allow fighting. Of course, that’s admirable in every sense except when one team, sporting a hometown ref, acts like idiots and runs the other team’s goalie. To every hockey player, running the goalie means “You’d better come up swinging because five guys are going to really kick your ass.”

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yells UPass me the biscuit.

I’m open!!“, as he breaks the Voyageur goal. Laurentian won 7-5 in Sudbury.

at 2:30 in the a.m.and a mechanic from Urillia was called in to fix the bus.

Amidst all the excitement, a hockey game was played. Even the officiating, however, was third rate.

“The CAHA won’t bring in referees all the way to Sudbury,” said Coach McKee. “The referee chosen to work our game just happened to be a former Laurentian student who was used to reffing industrial league hockey.”

With all the strikes against the Warriors, you almost wonder why they didn’t stay home in bed.

The Warriors jumped out to a 3-l lead in the second, but Laurentian decided to use the old Philadelphia Flyer tactic of running the goaltender until he is hauled off on a stretcher. Warrior goalie Joe Harris was run, but there was not a

Cagers Duskochy, Patti ‘Dr. D.J.’ Lewis and Janna ‘Tiny’ Bulmer.

Facing many of the nation’s top ranked teams in pre-season action has served to prepare the Athena’s for a league where parity describes most the teams.

While in Winnipeg earlier this month, the Athena hoopsters faced the top ranked Manitoba Bisons, Brandon Bobcats, and Saskatchewan Huskies.

Despite losing all three battles, the games were close and helped teach the Athenas the all important meaning of the word team. Named to the tournament all-star team was Waterloo’s Krista Fox. Losing narrowly to another top ranked team, the Lava1 Rouge et Or, provided our ladies of black and gold the confidence to charge

In any event, Laurentian scored four straight goals. The Warriors battled back but couldn’t regain the lead. The Voyageurs scored two late goals to salt away the game.

An obviously disappointed Coach McKee, who hates to blame the officials for a loss. admitted the zebras played a factor. “We only had one power-play the whole game,” observed McKee. ‘“The ref wouldn’t call an obstruction penalty at all and Laurentian definitely deserved some penalties that simply were ignored.”

Sheldon Gilchrist had a tremendously strong game. The speedy Mike Gartner-like Gilchrist figured in on four of the five Warrior twine busters, kissing the crossed string three times and adding one helper.

The other Warrior goals were

set for into the home gym of that Western of the East, Queen’s, and force the highly touted Golden Gaels into a heart-stopping, scream-inducing, energy-draining overtime game.

The war ended with Queen’s prevailing, at least this time.

Concluding their voyage to the city of the Pen, our female Warriors faced the Carleton Ravens in a massacre that had those scary black birds wishing they really had wings and could fly away.

In their first home game of the season last Friday, our resident basketball goddesses continued the carnage they had stared the week before. Celebrating the American Thanksgiving, they couldn’t find a turkey or chicken hawk to carve, so they had to settle once again for a raven. (Though the meat is a little

scored by Chris Kraemer and Mark Cardiff.

Two of the c:rucial Voyageur goals were scored by rookie forward Brad Baber, a Sault Ste. Marie product who until. August 16, was slated to attend UW. Coach McKee shook his head, dumbfounded.

“We still don’t know how we lost Baber this summer.”

Last Wednesday, after press time, the Warriors met the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks on a road trip the bus could handle. Down the street to the Waterloo Recreational Complex.

The struggling Hawks showed Waterloo they haven’tgotanything together yet, as the Warriors blasted the Purple and Gold 8-3.

For the Warriors, it was a chance to return to their second favourite ice surface. If the IceFields ever mysteriously burned down from some act of God, the Warriors know they have a place where they play well. Skipper McKee agrees that this is the case. “For some reason, we like the big ice surface. We always play well there, no matter what.”

The scoring was spread out amongst eight different Warriors.

Greg Esdale and IRonnie Paleczny each secured gamt: put ks with their first ever Warrior biscuits.

Congratulations on the wonderful achievement, guys. Other goals went to Steve Smith, Chad Palmer with his first of the year, Jeff Goldie, Mark Cardiff, Mike Chambers, and Peter Brearley.

The Warriors outshot the teller-dwelling H.awks 38-28 and did not give up a power-play goal while scoring two themselves.

Warrior captain John Wynne is one of the leading scorers in the OUAA, with 21 points in only ten games. The players ahead of him have all played more.

Next action for the Men on Ice is Saturday in Toronto. During the Christmas break, the team is playing the Guelph New Year’s Tournament before resuming their schedule January 4 at Western.

season stringy, with the proper victory sauce it is so very sweet and succulent). Leading scores were Jacalyn White with 18 points and 9 boards.

Coming off the bench, Krista Fox nettled 13 with 41 steals and Lori Kraemer tore down 9 rebounds and added 12 points en route to their 6 I39 victory.

First league action for the Athenas was on Wednesday against the Guelph Gryplhons.

(What the hell is a Gryphon anyhow?)

Christmas action for the Athenas begins December 28 in the eight team tournament hosted by Waterloo at the F’AC. Tournament action continues through until December 30th and includes many of the best women’s basketball teams in Canada. The Athenas can measure themselves.

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h, what a glorious day. The Western Mustangs, &Lending national champions and long respected for their quality football program, came up second best last weekend in the VanitX Cup at SkyDome, losing to the Calgary Dinosaurs.

For the first time since 1990, the country’s best football team comes from ;I university outside of Ontario, and the way Calgary rmbxasseC1 Western seemed to symbillize a pattern of’ things to come.

The atmosphere at the self-pro&timed ’ World”s Greatest Enlertainment Cenlce’ w;Is typically Canadian; expecUnt, alive, atlentive, interested. but laid back. The beer h;id apparently not taken its toll.

During pre-game, chcorleadt:rs t’ronn Yarious universities (including W;lterloo) performed their routines for the arriving crowds. By kickoft‘, it wu evident tht: partisanship of the crowd. Out of 24,000 onlookers. Western sent practically their whole school full of purple ;u~d white fools, hooting and hollering. declaring themselves the cream of the crop as far as Canadian universities go. The majority of banners surrounding the field showed a horse running over Barney the Purple Dinosrrur or some other Jurassiclike creature.

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his past Sunday, the Canadian University Bridge Championships were held at the Kitchener City Hall.

Four schools participated in the event: York, Laurier, and Toronto bringing one team each, and the host Waterloo team sporting 4 teams.

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The Calgary Dinosaurs, however, had more players than fans. 1 went to sit amongst the Din0 faithful who looked as ifthey felt a little out of place, with 20,000 drunk purple Martians running around trying to gtzt on TSN or the Jumbotron while those twenty-or-so in red and white simply sat down, waiting patiently for matters to be decided on the field.

The g;lnye started with ;i b;mg and the Mustangs jumped on the board early with a TD pass f’rom Warren Goldie to Tom McConnell, Western’s key combination.

Well, that score set off the Mustang faithful, who exploded in happy triumph.

Their 85 year old supporter, Alfred, who circles the field after every Western touchdown, began his run around the Tom McConnell pulls in a pass, but the SkyDome to the deafening ‘Stangs got their asses kicked Saturday. support of the purple mass. shed tears of joy.

Alfred doffed his cap and The rest of Canada waved his arms. Any onlooker could see the confidence on games, and now that they were the Londoners’ faces; there was no here, they’d close the lid. Game way a university with the storied over. National championship.

And tradition or luck or fortune or blessthe Western fans were ready to ings from the football gods of Westhappily let everyone know it. ern could lose and their fans knew Unfortunately, (well, if you’re it. The ‘Stangs had lucked their a UWO fan), it would be the last opportunity to cheer. Old Alfred way throughout the qualifying

deals Waterloo tion with a charity event for Mary’s Place, a safe haven for women and their children in the K-W area.

Every team played every other team, with the results from every match scored on a “Victory Point” scale, which awarded a maximum of 20 for a convincing victory, and 0 if the team was drubbed.

The top Waterloo team (Jared Riley, Craig Barkhouse, Michael Farebrother, Chris Niermeier) started out in an exceptionally strong

manner, distancing themselves from the rest of the field at the half-way mark.

Unfortunately, disaster was in the cards for their squad in the early part of the evening session, and the title was up for grabs going into the last two matches.

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Western quarterback Warren Goldie was sacked so many times, he probably thought his name was ‘Potatoes.’ The Dinosaurs intercepted Goldie, caused a fumble, and even blocked a punt that was recovered for a touchdown. Other than that, they basically ripped apart and embarasscd the best football team that hailed from central and eastern Canada; in the Vanier; in Qntario; in front of Westem’s fans. It was shocking.

I mean, I even forgot for a moment I paid four bucks for a large coke that came in an Argos cup. Ooooooh!

I tried to think of the turning point of the contest but the best I could come up with involved the Wilfrid Laurier University cheerleaders taking it upon themselves to act as the Calgary Dinosaurs’ cheerleaders.

Calgary, for some curious reason, did not send their own supporters. One guy from Calgary turned to me and I

said, “Who the hell are those people?” I said, “Well sir, if their Hawks could have completed a simple snap of the ball, their football team would be playing here instead of those purple, horsie people.” He just said, “Oh.” Western students are a breed all their own. When, in the third quarter, the throng was upset because their parents couldn’t see them CheeringonTSN, many walkedover and began to mockingly cheer for Calgary because whenever the Dinos scored (which was often), the cameras panned to Ihe small gathering of Calgary supporters.

They wanted to be on TV that bad.

I mean, this blew the Calgary fans away. 1 gotta admit, it even blew me away, too.

The funniest line of the duy came from a Western fan sirting in the Calgary section.

When the Laurier cheerleaders gave a cheer deriding the Mustangs, the guy bellowed out, “Sit down. Your friggin’ team couldn’t even win the Yates Cup.” The Laurierites did, in fact, sir down. What could they say? He was right.

All in all, it was a good day.

Calgary receiver Don Blair is a deserving Hec Creighton winner, and played wonderfully.

But best of all, the team that had luck on their side all year proved that luck doesn’t help you none... when you’re up against a stcamroller.

a bum hand It was not to be. Toronto trounced their foes to score 39 out of a possible 40 points. Riley did manage to defeat their opponents, but only scored 11 points in so doing.

As a result, the team from U of T are the new Canadian University Champions, by a margin of 93 to 92 (out of 120). Their team consisted of Sam Leung, David Halasi, Chris Yeung, and Alexander Nicholson.

Jared Riley, president of the

University of Waterloo Bridge Club, was understandably disappointed. Last year, UW had lost to York University by the same margin.

“It was really close.” says Riley. “We’ll be ready for them next term, when we go for the North American Championship.”

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finals. the gyms and activity arthe PAC will be chsed, but you can swim, skate. play squash, tennis, pump some weights, or catch a fitness class. Sweat that stress good-bye with Campus Ret! Fitness buffs listen up, we’ve got a deal for you. The Coordinators of Fitness, Julie Jackson and Nikki Gabriel, invite you all to come out to exam f?tness classes for the low price of a can of food. There will be a box in the studios and you are strongly encouraged to attend a class or two on a First Come First Serve Basis. Today (Dec. 1) is the last day of regularly scheduled classes, but a pile of exam classes are lined up for your aerobic enjoyment.

The studios can hold up to 30 people for aerobics classes and upto 21 participants in step classes, so come on out and move that body.

There is a comprehensive list of exam fitness classes available at the P,4C. Check out the bulletin board by the equipment centre, call the reception office at extension 5869 or drop by for info. Classes will be held for all ability groups: basic, intermediate, advanced, step, cardio funk. step & sculpt, and combinations. There is no excuse not to try+ The price is right, and you will be helping the KW Food Bank in its Christmas Drive. Julie Jackson has this advice: “Wear comfortable During

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shoes, dress appropriately, and relieve exam stress !”

The fitness instructors and coordinators are challenging all Campus Ret employees to try out a fitness class. They want to see everyone out on Friday Dec. 8 in Studio I at 5: 15 p.m. for a Basic/Intermediate Instructor Mix, This Christmas Class will give CR workaholics a chance to groove.

Attention all swimmers: the PAC pool has new exam hours. Beginning December L5, for the remainder of the term, the noonhour swim will go from 11:30-l :OO p.m. and the pool will be open for the evening swim from 9-IO:00 p.m.

There are no changes to the morning, afternoon, and weekend swim times, so hit the pool during ex-

illiam would “like to see everybody out in the pool again Now that the snow is here to stay, some of you may want to head over to the Columbia Ice Fields Arena for Free Kec Skating. Free skate times run weekdays 1 1:30 a.m.- 1p.m., Saturdays 1 la.m.- lp.m., and Sundays 12-2p.m. Some

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With the onslaught of exams, the leagues are winding down. Another Ball Hockey season has just ended and a familiar name is once again at the top. For the fourth straight term, Thrown Together came out victorious in the ‘A’ Championship game.

Thrown Together took a 3-O first half lead and held on to Elite Fleet 5-3. ggum Chiefs ended the season e only team with a perfect ord. They completed their undefeated season with a 123 thumping over the Frosted Flakes (sorry, guys) in the ‘B 1’ Champinship game. We hope to the Wiggum Chiefs make mp to the ‘A’ level next In ‘B2’ action, WISA beat The Tribe 7-4. ‘B3’ play saw Moving Targets slaughter the Tndies 8-1. And in the ‘C league, Electricow squeezed by Bush Pilots 5-3. Congratulations to all the champions and finalists.

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for coming out. Darryl Neate, referee-inchief, would like to thank all the refs for such a successful term.

The Cordinators of’ Convenors, Mark Foumier and Kristi Herridge, and the Coordinators of Referees, Dwayne Richards and Clint MacDonald, are pleased with league action this term. They would like to thank all conveners, ref-in-chiefs, andassistant ref-inchiefs for their dedication and outstanding work. Mark says: “They helped make it successful and we all appreciate their hard work and thank them. Hope to see everyone out there again next term”.

Fall, 1995 was a great success for Campus Rec. If you are going to be around in the Winter, check out the new Pick it Up brochure, coming soon, for info on clubs, leagues, and instructional registration.

Make a New Year’s Resolution to get involved in at least one Campus Ret activity in 1996!

If you are going on workterm in January, don’t forget to stay in shape so you can join in the Campus Ret fun this summer. The winter months won’t seem so gloomy if you participate in an active lifestyle. Join a club, go cross country skiing, or take up a new sport* Final exams are a perfect time to discover you really like working out, playing racquet sports, skating, or swimming.

Combine your procrastinating with stress relief. If you have ayou have any questions about the many activities you can still do during December, please call the Reception office at

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Cup this weekend. Let’s just say that old Ma Fortune finally turned her back on the Western Mustangs, ;1s the London-based Horsies were gobbled up by their Jurassic cousins, the Calgary Dinosaurs.

The final score was 54-24, and let me tell you, that score was VERY indicative of the play... I have to give the Leafs some credit. When the season started, 1 didn’t like their roster at all, but Burnsie’s Boys are getting the job done. Except for Jamie Macoun.

The aging defenceman is absolutely Garth Butcher reincarnated.

Of course, t heFlorida Panthersare first overall in the NHL, so not a lot can be derived from the first quarter of the schedule... Can anyone offer a suggestion as to why the Miami Dolphins tease their fans every year with a phonomenal start, and then head right down the shitter like they are now? Darius Rucker is absolutely correct when he sings, “The Dolphins make me cry.” The preseason favourite Dolphins, who have about fifteen former first round picks on their roster, are hopelessly underachieving and it seems as if the only player with the burning desire to win is their quarterback: Number Thirteen...

Coach’s Corner was one of the all-time keepers with the ‘Grape One’ getling a little hot under the colltir. Don blasted the Islanders for their shoddy treatment of his second favourite Kinghronian, CtiptainKirkMuller,

who as we know, walked out on the Islanders after their refusal to trade him. Kirk would look awfully good in a Blue and White jersey with a leaf on the front. The Coach’s main focus of the telecast was the HUGE fight between two good Canadian heavyweights, the Kings’ Marty McSorley and the Flyers’ Eric Lindros(I know I would pay about five hundred bucks for a ticket to see this fight even if the game sucked). Besides good entertainment value, the fight taught us a valuable lesson about linesmen interference when there are two big boys engagin’ in some good, wholesome fun. While the two duked it out, both had one arm free to punch with, and then, one of the insane linesmen came in and grabbed McSorley ‘s free arm, rendering him victim to one good Lindros Ham Sandwich. McSorley’s eyes bulged, but much to the credit of the best hockey player in the world, ‘The Big E’ refused to hit McSorley anymore. 1 guess the linesman succeeded in breaking up the fight but that’s not the way to do it, and justifiably, McSorley verbally abused the linesman from the penalty box. Grapes says, “All you linesmen out there! Let them tire each other oul or fall down before sticking yournose in there!” Grapes’ h-ml point surrounded the issue of ‘touch-up’ icings. He doesn’t like them, saying “Kids, whatever you do, don’t hammeranyone when they are going to reach the puck ahead of

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I guess it’s really nit-picky to suggest they’re not dominating their opposition, but a few more matches like last week’s anhilliation of Mac will sit a little better with the fans.

We’re used Lo seeing the Plague kicking butt... In a turn of events, Pat Gillick has joined the Baltimore Orioles as GM. What’s the big rush to Baltimore for anyway?

First, the Browns are going and now great GMs. Et’s suddenly become the Mecca of professional sports. Look for Robbie Alomar to end up in an O’s uniform next year.

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f you’re looking for one key reason why the Waterloo Athena field hockey team succeeded this season, just ask the people voting for CIAU field hockey coach of the year. They’ll tell you happily that Athena skipper Sharon Creelman is undoubtedly the premier coach in the nation.

Creelman, whose playing and early coaching resume is virtually a book entitled ‘How to Succeed at Canadian Field Hockey’, experienced the ultimate coach’s dream.

She took a team with solid, established veterans, eight rookies out of high school, and turned them into the fifth best team in the nation. The Athenas became the only team other than Toronto and York to ever win an Ontario championship.

This season was Creelman’s” second as she became only Waterloo’s second head coach in history, taking over the reigns from twentytwo year fixture Judy McCrae. Before coaching, Sharon played first for York University as a skilled midfielder in her undergraduate years, and later, competitively for the Canadian national team. At

York, Creelman achieved a mindboggling five consecutive national championships and five consecutive selections to the All-Canadian team in, of course, five years of eligibility. This woman knows how to win.

On becoming a coach, Creelman relates, “I guess you could say I kind of fell into it. As a player on the field, 1 think I was often accusedofbeingacoach, soitcomes a little naturally.

I’ve had good mentors and you really get a different perspective on the game from the sidelines.”

As a coach, Creelman sees her role as a double duty. “The most important thing for me is to give the players everything I’ve learned as a player,” observes the Athena skipper, “ yet, let them be their own type of player at the same time. To teach these kids to play the same way I. did would be ridiculous.

They’re all going to have different strengths.

You have to look at the athlete, see what they can give you, and build from there.”

Creelman has developed herself quickly into quite a master recruiter, adding to her roster, among others, two rookie All-Canadians in midfielders Michelle Lo and Amy

Adair. “Michelle and Amy areprobably names you’ll be hearing for a few years to come,” points out Creelman.

Creelman sees the University of Waterloo as a good program to offer prospective recruits. “Acz .. demically, Waterloo is at the top of the list,” reminds Sharon. “However, we also have another carrot for these kids in the form of an astro turf field. If the girls want to play on the provincial or national teams, they have to learn how to play on turf. Essentially from afield hockey standpoint, the best thing we’ve offered pIayers is the opportunity to play on a good team other than Toronto and York+” Were the Athenas expecting to win it all this year? Creelman says, “This team has a lot of good athletes in the very definition of the word. I guess J was surprised at how quickly the team gelled together. Also, we were fortunate to have the best goaltender in the league (Yolanda Lewczuk) and we all know how valuable that is.”

For game strategies, Creelman says that “we changed the situation according to the team we wereplayContinued

to page 27

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John thing: an All-Canadian ring.

So. ai’tcr five years of dedimed srri.ise to the University of LVaterloo Warriors football pro-

John h;ls been an OUAA

All-

Shoniker

Star the past three seasons and was the team’s captain in 1995.

Throughout his career, John has been a leader on an off the field. His incredible talent combined with a strong desire to win has pushed the Warriors closer to the top of the OUAA and has brought national recognition to a te;m~ that only seven years ago was one of the weaker teams in Ontario.

In 1995, John led the team in quarterback sacks and tackles. On many occasions, he was the key reason for much of the defense’s success.

John’s teammate and brother Justin also had an incredible year and as a result was also named to the ,4ll-Canadian squad. Over his five year career with the Warriors, Justin set the standard for offensive linemen. Compact and quick, Justin was one of the best linemen in the

Justin

Shoniker

country.

His outstanding play helped give Waterloo’s quarterbacks and running backs the protection they needed to be successful I As a captain in 199S, Justin’s leadership was a major factor in the improvement of the line. His experience and talent helped mould the young line into one of the strongest Waterloo has ever had. In two of his five seasons with Waterloo, Justin was an OUAA All-Star.

On and off t he field, Justin was the calnl leader everyone looked to in a crisis. With their graduation this year, John and Justin’s will leave huge holes in the Warriors attack.

In his third season with Waterloo, safety Shawn Dyson was named an All-Canadian.

Shawn had one on his most impressive seasons to date wit1 the Warriors.

In many

Shawn

Dyson

games, it was his tackle or incredible play that won the it for Waterloo.

On the field, Shawn was one of the most intense and emotional players. Every minute of the game and each day of practise he gave 110%.

His work ethic and dedication to the team was equalled by no other Warrior. Off the field, he kept the spirits of the team light with his practical jokes and great sense of humour.

Shawn was also a key member of the special teams unit this season as he returned kicks for Waterloo.

In only his second season with the Warriors, linebacker Jason Van Gee) was named to the coveted AllCanadian squad.

As the University of Waterloo’s Rookie of the Year last season, Jason entered the 1995 season with a tremendous amount of ex-

Jason

Van

Gee1

pectations placed upon him. He lived up to everyone of them.

Responsible for calling in the plays on defense, Jason showed outstanding leadership in his sophomore season.

Yet, Jason was not only a key member of the Warriors defense, he was also an integral part of the offensive attaclk as the short yardage fullback. It was the huge holes that he made that helped running backs Jarrett Smith andMike Malott gain so many yards.

Oddly missing from the AllCanadian squad was full back Mike Malott_. Mike who was one of the most dominant players this year.

Running, passing, catching, and returning the ball, he racked up over lS00 all-purpose yards. In his three yearcareer with the Warriors, Mike was an All-Canadian once and an OUAA All-Star three times.

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Chen Lu is the ‘95 World champ. Mostly everybody got this right, but a handful named Oksana Baiul (the Olympic champ).

I. Who is the women’s 1995 Australian Open tennis champion? a) Steffi Graf b) Mary Pierce c) Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario By far the trickiest of our questions, the winner of this year’s Australian Open was Mary Pierce. Hardly anybody knew.

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Lo

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t was a great season for rookies Michelle Lo and Amy Adair on the 1995 University of Waterloo Athena field hockey squad.

Not only were they key members on a squad that placed fifth in the CIAU’s, they were also named to the coveted All Canadian squad.

An outstanding rookie in the OWIAA this season, Michelle scored eight goals as a midfielder and played an integral role on both offensive and defensive penalty corners. She is a very tenacious individual, a powerful midfielder and is very creative in her play-making ability.

A Mississauga resident, Michelle is in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. She has good ball skills and strong tackling <kills and is currently a member of the

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Amy Junior

Adair

National Squad.

A first-year Science student from Sussex, New Brunswick, Amy is a midfielder with accomplished offensive and defensive skills. She has been an impact player fulfilling key roles in the team’s attacking and defending set plays.

Amy’s tremendous speed gives her the ability to mark many of the top offensive players as well as be a threat to score. Her aggressive style of play wins the ball in many key situations.

She has been consistently amoung the top players in the OWIAA this season.

Amy is a young player who plays with maturity, composure and presence.

She is currently training with the Junior National Squad, with the 1997 Junior World Cup as her goal.

Catch both Amy and Michelle in Indoor action after the December exam break.

JudIith

Leroy

Judith Leroy, a fourth yearrunner on the Athena cross-country running team, was a workhorse all season long.

In eamin,g her second team AllCanadian hornour, she placed ninth at the ClAU championships in London to close cut the season and lists her goal for next year as a first team All-Canadian.

Leroy was UW athlete of the week three times in the fall term, and along with Jason “the Jaguar” Gregoire, provided the cross-country team with an inspirational leader in both the female and male categolies.

Judith is currently preparing for the Athena track and field season which gets started in January and she hopes to lead the team as well.

With0u.t Gregoire, the crosscountry team will be expecting big things from Judith next year.

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ing. The good thing about our clutr was that we never relied on two or Ihree pl;iycrhtrl get the job done. When we played ;ts 11t~:;~l~, WC wert: very hard to beat.”

In the off-season, Sharon e~p~ts her players to trairl heavily.

“Basicali~, field hockey has become a twelve month sport.

Because other people are doing it, WC have to in order to compete+” Creelman coaches the Athena indoor hockey team in the winter and a lot of her field hockey players will compete. She also gives the players a program for the summer months to use as a measuring stick.

“The field hockey season is much like football in the sense that it is an eight week schedule. The question then remains ‘Are you ready for it ?’ Training year round has to be done, especially the girls aspiring for provincial or national play.”

Creelman sees her immediate future at Waterloo, improving this talented Athena squadand molding them intoanationalchampion. “I saw this as an opportunity to do something I did on a volunteer basis for a living. Teaching will always be there but I really enjoy this, and I really enjoy the people at Waterloo.‘* As far as next year goes, Creelman is far from resting on her laurels. “There is no time

to stand still. All the other teams are out getting better, and when this season ends, ncxl season begins. It’s just a constant cycle of getting kids in here and raising their Ievcl of’ play -‘.

Whatever the Athenas accomplish next year, they have the satisfaction of knowing they will not be outcoached. Sharon Creehnan is, well, a field hockey prodigy of sorts. She experienced astonishing levels of success as a player, and now as a coach, she demands nothing less. Unbelievably, she has the ability to raise her expectations with every new year despite tremendous accomplishments.

In only two years, she has won an award that some coaches don’t win in twenty years of coaching. She is good for the University of Walerloo, but more importantly, Creelman is good for the sport of field hockey.

In Creelman, the players see an icon.

When she speaks, they listen. Creelman’s been there. Done il. They want to play for the Olympic team. Creelman has. They want to win a national championship.

Creelman has five.

Creelman’s manner brings up a stigmatization that has surrounded sports for years.

Many say, “Gifted athletes can’t succeed as coaches. They can’t relate their giftedness to others. It’s unexplainable.”

Luckily for us at Waterloo, we definitely have the exception to the rule: Sharon Creelman.

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he figure skating team would like to thank all friends and family who came to cheer at UW’s Figure Skating Invitational last Saturday.

The team placed fourth overall. First place fmishes went to Open Singles skater Jill Thompson, and to Intermediate Similar Dance pair Laura Vanderheyden and Helen Atkinson.

Third place finishes we ht to Senior Similar Pairs skaters Jill Thompson and Laura Vipond, and to Senior Similar Dance pair Nancy Ford and

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Lisa Guch. As well, the team of Gina Cervini and Courtney Gill, and single skaters Sharlen Slater, Kristen Giles, Alism Kitchie, Jennifer Harrison, and Susaon Papert each contributed points to the team’s overall score. Team members Tina Siddick and Susanne Smith were a constant source of spirit, helping to ensure that UW’s spirit was heard throughout the rink.

The team will be practicing for a few more weeks before the holidays, prepaing for their next Invitational at Queen’s near the end of January. The linals are in February.

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At last Saturday’s Waterloo Invitational, the season opener for OWIAA Figure Skating, Jill took a gold medal finish in the Open Ladies Singles competition where she skated a perfect clean program Jill was a spirit leader for the team throughout the day’s competition and despite last minute changes which gave her only one week to prepare and train for her program, she was victorious.

Jill is a former 6WIAA All-Star.

John Milne Warrior Swimming John is a Masters student and first year swimmer for the Warrior Swim team who swam an outstanding meet at Saturday’s Tri-Meet hosted by UW versus Queen’s and Laurier.

John grabbed three gold medals as he fmished first in both the SO freestyle and 100 butterfly races, along with a lirst place finish as a member of the 4 x 100 medley relay team.

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RESULTSAND STANDINGS

Jade Cm Greg Pajor Brad Baber Kevin MacKay Janie Golden Simn Ferrand Ben Davis Andrew Clark Gil les Bouchard Daniel Germain

FOOTBALLRESULTS Nov. 25

VANIER CUP Calgary 54

Western

24

HOCKEYRESULTS Nov. 21 22

23 24

25

26

McGi 11 Waterloo Ryerson Guelph Windsor Brock

6 8

Concordia Laurier York Toronto RMC Ryerson Queen's Concordia Queen's McGill Fwc Laurentian Waterloo

1 6 3 7

Western UQTR Windsor UQTR Western York Laurentian

1: 5 5 8 5 7

3

3 1 0-f 3 2 OT

3

PLAYER J.P. Lemelin Sean Basilio J.F. Rivard Joe Dinali ne Sylvain Rodrigue

3 2

1 4 OT

2 2 5

FAR EAST UQTR Ottawa Will Concordia MID WEST Laurentian BriKk York Ryerson FAR WEST Western Waterloo Windsor Laurier

11

6

5

12

5

7

T 0 0

11

3 3

6 10

2

38

49

0

36

78

6

T 0 2

F 92 44

A 36 30

TP 22 14

2

4s 40

51 58

12 6

W

L

F 40 41

A 41 62

TP 12

10 8

11 12

11 6 5

2 3 5

11

3

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T

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TP

1

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51

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43 36

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9

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10 10

6 4

4 6

T 1 0 0

11

2

9

0

11 9

F 55 54

A 31 40

TP 12

32 28

32 55

8 4

19

VOLLEYBALLRESULTS Nov. 22

Waterloo 3 McMaster (15-2, 15-9, 15-9) Windsor 3 Western

(16-14, (16-14, 23

15-8 3

PLAYER Steve Ray Dave Sands Ryan Finch Rob Mizak 0. Schroeder Andy Brunton Kevin Shonk Matt Reed Steve Dunlop T. Wintjes

0

l-15,

15-B; 1

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VOLLEYBALLSTANDINGS EAST Toronto York Queen's Ryerson Laurentian

MP

MW

ML

CW

CL

TP

6

6

5 6 5 6

4 3 14 0

0 1 3

18 13 11

4 3 10

12 8 6

4 2

13

2

6

18

0

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MP 5 4 5 5 4 4 5

MW 5 3 3 3 1

ML

CW

CL

TP

0

15

1

10

3

6

19 2 3

11 9

8 11

6 6

6

10

2

9 15

2 0

1

3

5

0

5

2

SEC. I 13 12 9 12 2

5 1

12 12

12

9

21

9

11 11 11 12

13

12 7 13

21 20 20

7

10

9

19

8 7 6

11

19

10

Queen’s

10 11 11 12

UQTR UQTR

13 13

11

18

12

18

9

9

18

8 8 6 6

10

18

10

18

12 11

18 17

TEAM CP MN 7 352:37 UQTR Western 8 48S:OO Ottawa 11 631305 York 10 614:04 UQTR 8 429:24

,A RESULTSAf@ STANDINGS Laurier McMaster Brock Western Waterloo

Nov. 22 Nov. 25 Nov. 29

CA 13

AK 2.21

18 27 30

2.23 2,57 2.83

22

3.07

EAST DIVISIOhI TEAM C K Toronto 22 118 Queen's 14 49 Toronto 20 91 Ryerson 13 42 Toronto 22 75 Lauren. 18 69 Queen's 21 71 York 16 64 York 16 57 Ryerson 13 49

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Windsor Guelph Western Western Windsor Western Laurier Waterloo McMaster Western

Ryerson WEST Waterloo Cuelph Western McMaster Brock

23 22 21 16 8

17

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:: 5 4

52 20

Sec. 1

Cross

Sec. 2

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18 19 11

15 1

12 0

19 20 14 7 0

Nov. 22

Brock

SEC. II 14 12

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13

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12

4

11 9

2

3

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S 5 15 1 16 22

(15-8,

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(7-15,

K A

S TP PPG

89 0 22 111 6.9 19 101 1 20 122 6.4 69 8 36 5 46 13 63 0

7 84 5.6 31 72 5.5 10 69 5.3 5 68 5.2

67 38 36 46

18 10 15 29

1 11 0 7

86 59 51 82

5.1 4.9 4.6 4.6

HOCKEY at McGill

Dec. 2

TRACKAM FIELD Western Season Opener

1:30 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL at Waterloo at McMaster at Ryerson

8:OO p.m.

8:00 p.m.

3:00 p.m.

PLAYER

TEAM

CP

c

A

TP

Dave Tremblay Marc Beaucage Jean Roberge Todd Zavitz Pierre Gendron

UQTR UQTR UQTR Erock

13

14

19

33

13 13 1.0 11

13 8

17 18

30 26

Dec. 1

6 11

19 13

25 24

Dec. 2

Brock Cuelph Queen's

34 1

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at RM Toronto York Ryerson York Laurentian Toronto Windsor Laurentian Western

7:00 p.m.

7:oo p.iu.

7:30 p.m.

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ith the elite teams from Ontario and Quebec in attendance, Waterloo’s swimmers poved that they can race with the best of them.

Kara Rice captained the Athenas to a successful afternoon as she won the 50-metre breaststroke.

Psyched from that race, Rice went on to place second in the 1OOm breaststroke and, more importantly, qualified for CIAU championships in February.

Rice’s time of 1: 17.40 also set the alltime UW record.

Rookie sensation Doris Ho placed sixth in both the 100 and 5Om backstrokes and was ninth in the 400 IM. Veteran Jenn Beatty was fourth in the 50m breast and 11 th in the 1OOm. Freshman Jenn Orange cracked the top 16 in 200m backstroke and Amy Merschback went a personal best in the 100 free.

On the men’s side, super-rookie John Milne was outstanding as he placed fourth in the 50m butterfly, fifth in25 freestyle, seventh in 100 fly, tenth in 50 free, and eleventh in 1OOm breaststroke.

Andrew Moffat finished third in both the 200m breast and 400 1M. Greg Stump was third in the 100 fly with teammate Trevor Denstedt in fifth.

Third-year swimmer Ed Furs cruised to a seventh place finish in the gruelling 1,500m freestyle and was tenth in both the 100 fly and the 200 free.

Junior Chris Nagy placed ninth in the 100 free. Bryan Normandin came in at seventh place in the 400 IM, while John Harland was 11 th in 200 IM, 12th in 200 back, and 14th in the 100 back.

The Warrior swim team took on Queen's and Laurier at home last Saturday and destroyed them.

The Warriors opened things up with a win in the 4x200M freestyle relay as Furs, Palin, Stump, and Ryans took first-place honours. Even UW’s B team was too much

for the opposition as Normandin, Nagy, Steve Dibiase, and Jay Cull combined for a secondplace finish.

Next, Harland and Denstedt provided another one-two punch, finishing first and second respectively in the IO0 backstroke.

Ryans and Sean Lashmar finished fifth and sixth in the 100 breaststroke.

In the SO free, Milne took first, while Palin was thu-d.

200 fly: Stump 2nd, Nagy 3rd. 400 free: Moffat 2nd, Normandin 3rd, Dibiase 4th, Robert Adlam 6th.

100 free: Nagy on judge’s decision after tying with Laurier swimmer. Furs 3rd, Mark Abraham personal best. 200 back: Warland 1st and Trevor 2nd. 200 breast: Moffat 2nd, Lashmar 5th. 200 free: Furs lst, Cull 2nd.

Ryans 3rd, Denstedt 4th. 100 fly: Milne lst, Adrian Mendes 3rd, Stump 4th. 200 IM: Nagy 1st, Normandin 4th. 4x100 medley relay: Harland, Moffat, Nagy, Milnc (lst), Denstedt, Lashmar, Nagy, Palin (2nd). Final scores: UW over Queen’s 135-64, UW over Laurier 128-72.

Athenas: 1st in 4x200 relay (Tereza Macel, Pells, Rice, Amy Jarvis).

Mac& 3rd in 400 and 200 fi-eestyfe; Pells was 2nd in 50 free; Rice won 200 breast and second in 200 IM; Jarvis was second in 100 and 200 butterfly; She@ Sanders was 2nd in 100 back and 3rd in 200. &range was 4th in 100 back and 5th in 100 free. Beatty was 2nd in 100 breast and 3rd in 100 free. Melanie Wilson was 5th in 100 breast and 4th in 100 free (personal best).

Ivy Chan was 5th in 200 and 7th in 100 breast. Merschback was 4th in 50 free and 6th in 200.

Jocelyn Stephen was 5th in the 50 free and 7th in the 100 fly. Ho was 5th in 400 free and 3rd in 200 IM, four one-hundredths behind teammate Rice.

In 4x 100 medley relay, Sanders, Beatty Ho, and Pells finished 2nd. Orrange, Ivy Ghan, Wilson, and Amy Merschback were 4th in relay. Final scores had the Athenas disposing of Queen’s 11 l-87, but second to Laurier 87-110.

Peace& Quiet? R(h)EO Speedwagon Rheostatics Volcano Saturday November

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ell it was a fun and enjoy able Thursday night; 1 gave up going to Phil’s and ended up at Fed Hall for the Our Lady Peace and Tripping Daisy concert. The concert “technically” sold out withing two days of tickets going on sale and those who weren’t fortunate enough to get them there were extremely disappointed. However, 1 do have to mention that there were some tickets at the door.

Tripping Daisy came on stage at nine-thirty.

The crowd had formed nicely at the front and I felt extremely bad for those crushed in the mass. The first song they sang was “Creature .” The crowd started bouncing around although quite to my surprise not as violently as I first thought. They continued singing songs off of their newest album I am an Elustic Firecracker.

The crowds excitement escalated with their song “Piranha,” but what got the audience going the most was the song that made them popular, “I Got a Girl.”

The crowd went insane with that song people even left the bar to go and dance. Tripping Daisy finished up with “My Umbrella,” and people in the audience were asking for the guitar picks or anything else. Overall, Tripping Daisy did a great job entertaining the audience for fifty minutes. Although I have to wonder what was with the lead singer’s hair; it kept changing continuously.

Retween the two bands, people would not leave their place on the floor if they were close to the front.

The fifteen year old girls who were standing in front of me were quite

willing to be crushed but come hell or high water they wore not going to lose grip on that railing. Some guy was running around because he lost his shoe while surfing.

People were getting excited and impatient.

At about quarter to eleven the band came on. The crowd’s enthusi asm had spread and more and more people i+ere Jumping around. The amount of people body surfing was phenomenal (so much for the rules of Fed Hall).

One audience member was being crushed badly enough that he was taken out.

Our Lady Peace played a fabulous set with most of the songs of their latest CD. Nu\x& The lead singer Baie was friendly enough to share with us that he and the other band members were “pissed out of [their] minds.”

They -also brought up an e-mail message by a student of UW. The student stated that he/ she felt that the band had sold out.

The lead singer’s response was a profane explanation with a series of ‘fuck’ adjectives which basically said “no we didn’t.‘” The band alsb dedicated a song in memory of Shannon Hoon, lead singer of Blind Melon (who were supposed to be touring with them and Tripping Daisy).

Our Lady Peace came back out twice at the end to satisfy their followers’ addiction to the music.

The bands moved on to Toronto for Friday’s concert.

They are basically touring southern Ontario and Western New York State.

Talking to Mark from Tripping Daisy he said that their biggest fan base is in Quebec and that he couldn’t believe the audience enthusiasm when they were in Hull.

Well, I wish both the bands luck.

Overall the concert wasn’t too bad. I hope the guy from the mosh pit found his shoe and that the high school girls didn’t die in the front.

o hear a typical Rheostatics song proves there is nothing typical about their music, Nothing could put a damper on their musical celebration at the Volcano last Saturday night - not even the smoky, teenager infested venue, or the extreme confusion as to what bands were opening the night.

Green Sprouts (commonly known as Rheo fans) were treated to a madcap musical performante of promising new material as well as trusty old favourites from Melville, Whale Msic and Irz troducirlg Hqq.?iness.

Once again, the Rheostatics left their fans in awe. If you didn’t catch the show last weekend, you missed one of the most talented Canadian bands today!

No Squirm, no Miniatures and no Adam West.

This had to be one of the most confusing advertised shows for the Volcano. Who cares about the opening bands though, right? Wrong.

The opening band needs to set the mood for the night.

Que Vida certainly did a Martin great job of preparing the crowd for the Rheos, but then again, I think any of the other supposed opening bands could have done an equally enjoyable job.

Andrew Whiteman fronts Toronto band Que Vida. Some of you may recognize him from The Bour-

bon Tabernacle Choir or gunlbob.

Que Vida’s mexicatiluesy sound initially reminded me of songs you would hear when the Lovcboat docked in Puerto Vallarta.

Whiteman teased Rhea fans when he played part of “Soul Glue” during his guitar solo of his second song. Que Vida continued to perform songs from their album Fear qfZen for the next hour, but before long, it was Rheo time.

The Rheostatics started the night off with what Dave Bidini

“hit” status quicker than we think.

In addition to testing new material, Martin Tielli spiced the show up by experimenting with new guitars one even still had the sales ticket on

A Rheostat& show wouldn’t be complete without an aquatic theme. To abide by this unwritten rule, they performed “Fish Tailin”’ from their latest album Intro&c*ing Happiness, “Song of Flight” from The Whale Music OS. T. and “Digital Beach” from Introducing Huppiness.

The Volcano is hardly known for their magical light shows, so at Bidini’s request, the stage lights were shut off for “Digital Beach.”

This version brought the guys to their knees and towels to Tielli’s and Hidini’s heads.

I think Bidini was just feeling naked without one of his traditional hats on. This could have easily been the last, quiet song of the set, but then they exploded into “Earth/Manstrous Hummingbird.”

Although completely satisfied having heard crowd favourites such as “Record Body Count” and “Fan Lctter to Michael Jackson,” the audience wouldn’t let the Rheostat& get away that easily. The guys returned to the stage with full beers in their hands and accompashows off his stylish white socks. nied by two members ofQue called “non-hits,” such as “Fat” Vida to play “Soul Glue” and and “Rich and Beautiful.”

They “Horses”-another crowd pleaser. have been playing new material at Once again, the Rheostat& their shows since the summer, and have proven that just listening to recording plans for a new CD are their albums will not prepare you already in the works, so I’m sure for what you will experience at one these songs will be changing to of their live performances.

Goinrr Down on You Alanis Morissette Warehuuse, Toronto Tuesday November 28th

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ot surprisingly, Alanis Morissette’s debut (in fact, her third album) has never actually been reviewed in these pages, and at the time it didn’t seem like a big loss. Starting off as one of the stars of “You Can’t Do That On Television,” and moving into a recording career as a record industry puppet, MS Morissette certainly does not strike one as a candidate for a major comeback.

I had my doubts in the late summer when her career began to take a major upswing, and I pointed out to a friend that the decision back an Alanis comeback was certainly a questionable one for any record company.

Alanis was a pop queen in Canada in the late 80’s, and such careers are created by record companies to be destroyed.

After their 15 minutes of fame

passes, I’m sure most are laughed out the business by the same execs who raised them to their temporary heights.

Remember Nelson.

Or Bros. Personally I feel that Ace Of Base should be watching their backs.

So the question I continually asked was, what makes Alanis’s career worthy of a resurrection.

The answer, my friends, is in the music of the album. Alanis’ early work was written by record execs and producers, and given to her to be performed exactly as they told her to.

On this album, Alanis (together with songwriting partner and new producer Glen Ballard) wrote all the music, and she single-handedly wrote all the lyrics.

Past career makeovers have already been completed by Bjork and Tori Amos, so I vowed to approach Alanis Morissette’s work with an open mind. I’m not disappointed.

Live, I can’t say MS Morissette disappoints, but she also fails to mesmerize.

Most renditions sounded similar to the ver-

to

sions on the album, but 1 took this to be a positive thing. I had figured that faithful renditions would prove quite impossible, but I enjoyed the show because changing the album for a live setting would have probably made it less enjoyable.

Her band is made up of moderately talented musicians who seem a little unsure of their place.

Guitarist Jesse Tobias (ex of Red Hot Chili Peppers), and the drummer (who was unknown to me) particularly seemed to be unable to decide whether they were playing power pop or thrash metal.

They cranked through all of’ the material from/aggedlitt!e Pill, and a few other cuts that I hadn’t heard before., pulling off a surprisingly stirring cover of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees” near the end of the encows+ All in all, 1 left the show with a positively feeling, but it certainly wasn’t euphoria.

Alanis Morissette is an artist that needs to be viewed with an open mind and an open ear. Personally, I’m quite curious about what her future might hold.

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Dead On Performance D.O.A. Vi.dWlO

Thursday

November

23rd

by Curtis Gloade special to Imprint

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11 the hits all the time,” barked Joe Keithley, aka Joey Shithead of D.O.A., just before breaking into his version of “Taking Care of Business.”

But unlike B.T.O., Vancouver’s D.O.A. takes care of business with the subtlety of a diesel fuel and fertilizer mixture.

Before D.O.A. look the stage, Keithley rampage4 around the Volcano tike a man &I it mission.

His high speed strut ati Iwge stature make B dangerous steamraIler for any poor soul who maycros his path, But r&y, he won’t mow you CiOWll.

The band’s legendary co~ern for the fans and the %~ne” sti1.t exists today, and the little flyers cfistributed around the bar attest to their commitment.

The leaflets express ti concern for “PARTICIPATION NOT DECIMATION” regarding the dance floor. meaning they wmt everyone regardless oi size to take part without fear of getting mashed. Thoughtful lugs, ain? they’?

smoking it.” Simple enough.

When they finally seized the Later, they showed their obvistage, Joe’s natural booming voice reechoedeffortlessly through the half- _,,.,qus distaste for fundamentalist full Volcano.

Digging deep int9 ,:,.:I ,-?$&$gnin “The Nutwrencher Suite.” their repertoire, they played rn&y~‘~:-~;:‘$$$@&&~ paraded around the stage of their old favourites, like “l’$~.I~ ;;,$..~#&~@+&saw shouting, “women “Race Riot,” and “The Prison@;, ‘:.l”@$$$$~&~~ the right to choose,” Also, the songs off their newe~.“~~~,~~;~~~~~~~~~.~.,:~~IweII you m&her release, The Binck Spot, delight~i:,:,,::~~ke~~‘~“~~ics left’ a few t%Xplne y including the few alI~,‘~:,l‘jtiieQple ~q~&n~&@.~eir ~+@+.@t _.i., ,.,,,,:I& said ~@$%wv-@? to say;. aggx44 attiw&ng . .,.:. _.T&@@ti~tedmany can-y.’ ,:,_:,I::‘:A~,;aQyzg& l?@A. ,....:y provided a :ay&r’@&‘:,f&m $& earlier days of :+ p~~~~,.~F;::,~~~:~~~j~~ tirdcore rot k ,,, D,‘Q&‘s”’ ‘ex&&~~~ Keithley and “‘; -~~$&~~,&~t~ Joe Keithley’s impos&&bass pl&er$&$& Goble, aka (.’&ig $@@and bellowing voice could Wimpey Roy)‘&~&&%‘anly a little . &m&e rust off a Mercury. Com“b&$$&th the flawless guitar playweathered, and you m$$ t G+S& skip into a time w8* dting ‘&@s ing’, and great back-up vocals by Brian Goble, it was a highly enterji.l& “pucked Up Rotir;,)‘and *New Wave Sucks.” *& these songs taining show. I’m just bitter that I didn’t have enough money to buy a no kmger gppky (Reagan, New Wave), t&y red&s of the past D.O.A. hockey jersey. and how &in$s change yet remain Random Killing and Revenge of the Egg People opened the show, the&me (sorry ‘bout the cliche).

The new faces in the group with the latter going first. The Egg People should stay in their shells a confirm the band’s resiliancy. Over the years they lost more than a few little longer before playing out, but I liked their energy. Random Killmembers to death without losing their edge. D.O.A. never minced ing were too harsh for my liking (I words in the past, and their mesthought the singer might pop a. sages today arc as clear, simple, blood vessel), but they had their and in-your-face as ever. moments in songs like “Patios and “Big Rock Star,” and Before playing “Marijuana Beer,” Motherf’ucker,” Keithley dryly said “Sesame Street 12.” They should “this one’s about marijuana and hold a bazaar to buy their drummer some new cymbals. how no one should go to jail for

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Zombies, thrust the audience’s eardrums to the base of the spine. Did I mention loud?

But there was more to this show than mere noise. The stage show expanded on the general themes of their latest albums - old monster movies, dark mysteries of the human soul, a touch of evil and a hell of a lot of fire. Jets of flame shot from behind the drum kit, dozens of explosions kept time, and lights of allcolours flooded the stage and the audience. An impressive show, indeed, but at times it seemed too contrived and unnecessarilyheavy-handed.

Subtler, but more useful was the huge movie screen at the back of the stage. On constantly through-

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out the set, White Zombie’s video accompaniment was the sort of thing that inspires their music Japanese ani me (most of it X-rated), 1960’s skinflicks and science-fictional animation. The timing was excellent; the music and pictures were well mixed, like an hour-long music video.

There was too much to watch; the band members never stopped moving, especially bassist Sean Yseult and frontman Rob Zombie.

Rob stalked the stage constantly, climbing on the speaker banks, reaching out to touch the audience and during one instrumental even spraying the pit with a giant watergun. But as he said several times during the evening, Rob wasn’t very happy with the Coliseum. Near the end of the show he ordered the house lights up; “Are you getting nosebleeds up there?” he shouted to the audience in the upper bowl. “1 hate playing f‘ucking places like this.” But that’s the price of success... thousands of anxious fans stuck standing two stories above the stage.

No matter where they were sitting, the audience got their share of White Zombie.

After walking offstage, the TV screen played a US news segment connecting White Zombie with Satanism, mentioning their usage of skulls, clowns on crosses, and demonic imagery. The Lights came up, a huge demonic face rose to obscurethe screen, and four clowns on crosses dropped from the front of the stage.

A three-song encore and twent) minutes later, the show ended and the crowd dispersed, pumped, satisfied, and of course slightly deaf from the experience.

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he Beat nightclub hosted a fantastic musical gathering as the mighty Smoother played to a less-than-capacity crowd with sonic unyon label mates gorp and their friends Massey Stax last Thursday.

Local trio Massey Stax opened the soundings with their all too familiar brand of fuzzy guitar rock and lovely femaie vocals. The Iadies highlighted their set as they put the heavy treatment to a song by the east coast’s Plumtree, another all girl outfit.

Just before the show became exceedingly stale, Hamilton’s gorp took the stage by storm. gorp’s

funky, thrashing edge rocks hard.

When it’s accompanied by lead singer CA. Smith and guitarist GreyHam Peaceful’s riveting stage acrobatics and C.A.‘s strange lyrical talent, gorp rocks weird. These boys put on one of the most energetic shows around.

Lyrically bewildered, gorp enhance their energy with verses such as “We are gorp! You love gorp!” chanted in pig-latin.

Whatever their pleasure, it appeared as though gorp enjoyed themselves, even if the younger all-ages audience didn’t completely understand.

By the time Hamilton’s Smoother broke into their first grinding chords, most of the younger crowd had mysteriously gone home. The weak attendance was somewhat disappoint ing, as the quartet would have no doubt put logether a incredibly turbulent performance in front of a packed room. NevertheIesh. the band’s chord driven pop-wonder pounded their wa>~ through The Beat with convincing power and boldness.

Smoother quickly blasted through audience favourites “Jurk,” “Juicehead” and “Pele” with plenty of stamina still in reserve. The band’s now patented version of Madonna’s “Material Girl” hit a playful note that continued into their own “Fat Albert,” a tribute to Bill Cosby and the whole gang.

Finishing off the set with “Simon,” Smoother invited gorp’s wacky singer back to the stage to croon out the song’s chorus: “Well you know my name is Simon/And the things I draw come true.. .“.

At the end of the night, the band had entertained. That is something that many live acts never do for an audience, yet Smoother seem to be pleasing audiences wherever they play. Even if that audience is only half as large as it should be.

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remember when I came to Ontario three years ago, T was pleas antly surprised to hear “Fare Thee Well Love” playing on mainstream radio. I didn’t think that anyone outside Nova Scotia had even heard of The Rankin Family.

These days, of course, everyone has heard of the Rankins. They arc internationally-known recording artists with four increasingly successful albums to their credit. It was in’ support of their latest album, Endiess Seustlns, that their tour brought them to Kitchener last Friday night.

The concert began with John Morris Rankin walking out alone

to the (sic) many people who entered.

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Saucer and Paintbox The Beut Friday November 24th

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by Wendy Stewart Imprint staff

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starring . ..

LEVY, HARDDEN CREEK, ROOM, SHELLEY WAINE

hree good bands for four dollars. Not bad for an evening out. Creaking up the stairs to the back street Beat, I entered the world of “Orgasmic Fridays.” The Beat, previously Pop the Gator, is a smokey room with cds dangling by fishing line from the ceiling while the wall behind the stageannounces the orgasmic part.

Okay, so show me a good time.

The population of the K-W area must be unaware of the cli-

JACOB’S

$5. licensed/all ages; doors open at 9

THE

SlNlSTERS Sex Show,

(acid punksters from Toronto) Monsters of Doom, Pitchsliver $6. licensed/all ages; doors open at 9

Featuring Members

Toy Story directed by John Lass&w playing at King’s College

of King Apparatus

$6. licensetiail

(Guelph-Style Shelley Waine

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HALLOWE’EN AT CHRISTMAS of Doom, Dr. Sauce & The Lads, Pitchsliver, Earthlings licensed/all ages, $5. or $3. with cosfume, doors open al 9

starring . ..

CHAOS THEORY/FLYING AARDVARK’S NEW YEAR’S EVE’S EVE’S EVE PARTY Live Music with SUPER GARAGE $3, licensed/$5 all ages; doors open at 9:30

/U WE NEW YEAR.. . Blowseeds Jacob’s Room & Special Problem Children, Preschool oni’l much more!

Picken staff

here are two distinct ways of looking at the movie 7ky Story:you can either see it as a landmark in animation, or perhaps the one of the longest, and most brilliantlyconceivedcommetcials in history.

Visually, Toy Srov is simply stunning. The entire film was animated on computers, right down to the Walt Disney castle logo at the beginning.

However, as I walked into Burger King for breakfast the next morning, a far more sinister thought crept into my mind. For

ages, doors open at 9

Monsters

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with the next song we’re going to do,” to Cookie’s incredibly energetic dancing, to Heather’s pointed stab at Spanish fishermen during “Fisherman’s Son,” to Jimmy’s ever-repeated “So how are you all doin’,” they came across as normal people who were really enjoying themselves. Even John Morris, who

only spoke to the audience once, connected with the crowd with his fiddle and piano playing.

At the end of their almost twohour set (without an intermission!), they had possibly more energy than at the start. The crowd certainly did; after Jimmy succeeded in gctting everyone up out of their seats with his introduction to “h&II River Shuffle,” people began literally dancing in the aisles.

For a first cncorc, they performed “Tell My Ma,” which kept the energy level up, with more dancers joining in the aisles. Then Raylene sang her signature tune, “Rise Again.” And yes, she really can hit that last note hve - to the great applause of the audience.

The second and final encore was their big breakthrough song, “Fare Thee Well Love,” which also got big applause. Then they left 1 think both they and the audience could have gone on longer.

Ifyou have ever liked any song the Rankins have done, all I can say is: you haven’t heard anything if you haven’t seen them live. The tunes sound just as good live, and their obvious en~joyment and enthusiasm (as well as the step-dancing!) really add to the experience.

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The audience was mostly band members and their friends. Good thing they have lots of friends.

Up first was Anima (not Enema). Lead singer Ellen has a rich voice, full of Celtic resonances and great vibes that complimented and enhanced Anima’s pop music.

Second up was Saucer, led by singer Aaron Cullum. Saucer has a definite west-coast, grunge sound.

Raw guitar sounds were neatly manipulated

by Jef Theissmere, who switched between four guitars throughout the show.

Third up was the band Paintbox. I had the priveledge to sit with the band before they went on and even got a few quotes from the

guys. Martin Horoscope, drums and creative yucks had this to say, “Martin, in a forum of ritualized male aggression, would (if he had his way) play with hockey sticks like a real Canadian drummer.

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Greg Hood-Morris, vocals and guitar, neatly led Paintbox through forty minutes of music, highly reminiscent of British pop but with a wicked 90’s twist. tire&s contagious grin am1 Martin’s hockey mask showed a quarky sense of humour even w’hile playing quieter songs.

Indie is the way of the future.

Indie is also the best way to see good music cheap. And just think, any one of these bands might make it BIG.

definitely catchy, it was an amazing fiddle duet between John Morris and guest fiddler Howie MacDonald that really upped the crowd’s energy level. And from there, it could only get better.

Recently, the Rankins have been branching out into new musical genres. While their newer tunes have more of a country feel than the old ones: they have certainly not abandoned the traditional sound they started out with.

This diversity was especially obvious when they played the allout country “Feel the Same Way Too,” and then, with only a short introduction, went straight into a mesmerizing vocal rendition of a traditional fiddle tune, “Sir James Baird.”

All of the Rankins related very well to the sell-out crowd. From Raylene’s long anecdotes ending with

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I was impressed with the animation

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case, stood plush puppets of the major characters of the film. Had I seen a movie last night, or a seventy-five minute ad for all the toys children will want for Christmas this year? However, I reassured myself with the knowledge that the Disney people would never do

style of the series ReBoot, but Toy Stury goes far beyond that. The colours are bright and vibrant, and the smoothness and consistancy of the animation is remarkable.

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I would be remiss if‘ 1 didn’t mention the Zealots, the three-eyed, green aliens. For their limited screen time, they steal the show.

Living in the bottom ofone ofthose toy bins with the crane that lets you try to grab a prize, they have developed a religion. Ifthe crane chooses you, it will whisk you away to Nirvana. It’s easily the funniest scene in the film.

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pon entering the door labelled “DANCE” in the brilliant green building known as East Campus Hall, I immediately sensed an air of excitement. This was confirmed when I glimpsed at the audience who were waiting eagerly and the dancers running in and out of the dressingroom, conducting last minute preparations for the showing - an opportunity for choreographers to share their works in progress informally.

The program began with aspirited Romanian folk sequence and an old, Broadway-style j azz number

by Tracy Morrey. What followed was an innovative array of traditional and contemporary danceworks by a small but talented group ofUWstudents, facuItyandafumni.

Choreographers spoke briefly about each of their pieces, whicfi ranged in style from 19th-century Romantic to contemporary dance.

Fourth-year student and C.C. member Martha Rupert, showed her solo “Vanilla Cathedral” next.

She described the dance as a work about learning to respect oneself as a person, which is “easier than respecting oneself as a body”. Her back to the audience, fingers twitched restlessly to the hectic string music, Rupert’s contemporary ballet solo displayed a distinct searching quality. Her movements and expression reflected distress, as she engaged in self-discovery, Applying her mesmerizing style throughout, Rupert concluded by brushing away the doubts which had plagued her.

Morrey’s “Kaninsky’s Red” came next, based on the painter’s colour theory. Morrey, dressed in a red unitard, was focused and her style slightly sensuous. The combined effect of slow, drawn-out modern technique with resonating

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rrzadian Bucon, the hilarious farcical comedy star ring the late John Candy, is c due to be released on videotape on December 12. Candy’s second last movie, it never played in mainstream theatres, and instead only ran in film festivals and review cinemas such as the Princess. A major reason for this is its campiness. Without the lacquered sheen of the typical Hollywood blockbuster, it comes across as gritty, real and low budget. But this lack of polish actually adds to its charm, acting as a refreshing reminder not to take it too seriously.

Reminiscent of SCTV skits, or Saturday Night Live, Cunadilrn Bacon is so corny that it verges on the ridiculous.

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guitar sound produced an interesting effect.

Faculty works drew attention to the department’s emphasis on experiencing aspects of dance history. In pairs, four students in Rhonda Ryman’s reconstruction class demonstrated “La CaChu cha” __ a dance arranged and performed

by Fanny Elssler, aViennese ballerina, at the Paris Opera in 1836.

A contrast to the spiritual realm of ballets like “Giselle,” critics referred to Elssler’s Spanish-style performance as pagan art.

The four-minute long work is set to follline piano music and A dancer studies the art of Forcarmistry. applied ballet technique to Spanish style, complete devil. In the dance, Rupert emuwith castanets. Dancers wear pink lated a fiddler as though possessed; Romantic tutus with character shoes once again her power of expression to accentuate their footwork, A is profound. Raspy breathing and a flower tossed from the audience crazed visage contribute to the onto the stage area added a delightpiece’s effect and her soul seemed to speak to the invisible instruful touch.

Prior to showing her latest ment. piece “Cyberfolk,” faculty member Although the same faces keep Susan Cash apologized for its inappearing in many of the pieces, completeness, but encouraged the this reflected hard work and versaaudience to view the final product tility rather than any flaw in the next spring. This ’90s folk dance program.

Low number in the dewas set to music by Canadian compartment’s last year of existence poser Peter Hannon, who applied can’t be helped, so inviting alumni modern technical ways of generatback was a good idea. As usual, the ing sound. It was very rhythmic, department’s works play merciwith lots of foot-tapping and stomplessly with audience emotions; in ing in pairs or as a group. Frequent the end I felt drained and very body contact, through joined hands, much inspired ;111 at once. Some reinforced the concept of commupieces were long and others repetinity and Cash has achieved an intive, so the experimental setting teresting balance between stillness was appropriate. and various degrees of movement.

What always shines through Two additional pieced by UW dance is the meaning behind Rupert highlight the end of the each work; rarely is a piece unconshowing.

“Fiddle with Devil” nected to other art forms or social her other solo was inspired by muissues. I have a feeling that the gala sician Ashley McIsaac along with performance planned for March is the legend of violinist Paganini, going to make many people wish who apparently sold his soul to the they’s spoken up for dance earlier.

Brew movie that critics love to hate. But those who scoff are missing the point-it’s supposed to be that way!

Certainly, if the laugh-o-meter is any indication, it was well appreciated by the audience at the Princess Cinema.

The plot revolves around a big question - what does an American President do when faced, for the first time, with a dire lack of enemies to keep the war machinery moving and the popularity polls soaring? The answer is, declare a cold war on Canada. Quickly, however, the scheme becomes entirely out of hand! Cunadian Bacon is essentially a political satire, riddled with cheezy jokes and cultural digs, aimed at institutions and people on both sides of the border.

Candy, playing a maverick American sheriff, bumbles along, in true Dumb and Dumber fashion, to invade Canada’s capital, which he thinks is Toronto. On the way, he has a gut-splitting encounter with the language police (les in-

Dirty Dogmas Grtiduate House Friday and Saturday November 24th and 25th

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he staid old Grad House, its partisans used to more sedate sounds, was rockin’ on Friday and Saturday night last weekend (November 24 and 25) with the debut of the Dirty Dogmas, a punk-blues combo made up of a local veteran on keyboards and a quartet of philosophy graduate students on the guitars and drums.

The atmosphere was communal, if not nepotistic, the furnishings early modern Fender, beer glasses and smoky haze. The local tribes were even up dancing in the narrow gaps between the tables and chairs (although to be fair, after a couple of pints some of them would dance to an old man banging on a pail with a stick).

That old Hot Tamale Ron Kellerman did a Faces/Black Crowes thing on keyboards, providing some Korgaliscious sounds.

On drums (when their first drummer spontaneously combusted after Friday’s gig> was Chris Di Carlo, who kept the rest of the lads tight with his syncopations.

There was black-clad cool in the person of Mike McNulty on bass, who rurnour has it picked up his new instrument when the local equivalent ofGlen Matlock was given the boot.

Fag drooping from his mouth, he and the Dogmas’ assorted drummers provided the raw beat underlying Rob Bradizza’s wailing guitar leads.

Rob “Slowhand” Bradizza sang most of the tunes, and played lead with all the aplomb of a smalltown (Thunder Bay, to be precise) Hendrix.

Like those ancient Athenian democrats, he was at first reluctant to take up his instrument and lead the troops, prefering the softer consolations of philosophy.

But his musical daimon obviously called, and there he was on Friday

Eh? sults bilingue, s’il vous plait) and passes through enough winter scenery to fill a store full of Christmas cards. His character is a true John Candy role, which should satisfy even his most ardent fans.

Rhea Perlman (from Cheers) plays an excellent supporting role.

Her character hasn’t changed a bit, despite having a different name, she’s still the same old Carla __ a tough chick with a ferocious attitude! Alan Alda, as an inept and befuddled President of the U.S.A., also provokes many a chuckle as he allows events to spiral way, way out of his control.

An added bonus is that the scenery is actually recognizable.

Many movies are shot in Toronto, butcanadian Bacon actual1 y shows Toronto’s skyline, complete with CN Tower and Skydome, as seen from the island. It is an enjoyable and much appreciated change to see in a movie undisguised, urban intersections and landmarks that are close to home.

night, angelically clad in white, burning his way through old blues favourites like “Walk the Dog” (subliminals and all) and “Come into my Kitchen”. Back in the background was The Sarajevo Slash, Neb Kujundzic, on rythym guitar, taking the lead for a punked-up gypsy song (sung in the original Romany) that was one of the highlights of the evening. Some other unforgettable moments Friday night included Rob doing a crash-andburn version of”Back in the LJSSR” and everybody’s favourite evening ender, Steve Miller’s “The Joker;” on Saturday the audience was also treated to Mike’s rough-and-ready lead on “I’m Not Your Stepping Stone” (Mickey Doienz eat your heart out!) and a smooth reggae version (sung by Rob) of the Cars’ “My Best Friend’s Girlfriend,” which was inexplicably omitted from Friday’s musical program.

There were assorted guests both evenings, all seeking their I5 minutes of fame. Some highlights included Tom Jacobs, a bit mikeophobic, strumming his way through a restrained version of “Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World, ” “Blind” Julian Fauth doing the upbeat socially conscious “WPA Blues,” and a mystery man from Thunder Bay doing “Heart of Gold” and “You’ve Got to Hide your Love Away” Saturday night.

There was more foolery yet, if I could but remember it.

The Grad House has finally entered the Iate seventies, and a good thing too. Dogmania has struck once. The big question for all those DIY music lovers out there is, will it strike again?

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he Rhinos have been one of the most prominent and successful local bands in recent K-W history. They have been together for six years.

They have toured Canada thirteen times. Releases include Fishing Fountain of Youth (1993) andHying (1995). Their “Fantastic Place video was a MuchMusic hit. And lately, rumours have been flying an alleged break-up.

I spoke with Danny Michel, ex(!)-co-lead to find out what happened, and what will happen next.

I guess we should start by confirmingwhat everyone’s been wondering.

What has happened to the Rhinos?

Uh... yes, the rumours are true. The band has... disbanded? Is that the word? We broke up.

Was it a happy parting?

Yeah. It’s been six years. It’s been a long time and 1 think everybody kind of knew it was time. Two of the guys have already moved out west [Darren lies and Steve Kendall] and gone on with their lives. But everybody still talks and we’re all still friends, and that’s good.

What are some positive aspects of the Rhinos you’ll take with

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I was always proud of the way we kept our heads on straight and never let stuff like having videos on t.v. turn us into jerks. The band was really mellow, and I thought that was so cool. Those are my beliefs. Certainly the fun attitude of the band -“It’s only music, don’t kill yourself ‘- I’ll definitely keep that with me.

What will you miss most about the Rhinos?

Touring. Going across the country, and all the friendships we’ve built up over six years. It’s kind of sad to see that go. And hanging out with the guys and being a band. That’s definitely gonna be the most missed part.

Is it sort of like a relationship ending?

It’s like having a girlfriend but having, like, six of them. It’s an zrnotional thing because you’re jesting with people’s personal songs. You really get to know each Jther ~ eat, sleep and shit with each other. I know those guys better than I know anyone else in the world, and I’m sure they do me. It’s kinda sad, but hey, we’re not dead!

And I think what they did with John Lennon’s song is wrong!

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How have your friends and fans reacted to the break-up so far?

It’s unbelievable how quick r-umours travel in this town. Within a day or so everybody knew. Some people were really shocked-my family - it shocked my aunts and uncles. It was funny. Some people have written in to our home page on the Internet - fans from around that are kind of bummed out. But you know... tough shit! (Laughs) Our happiness comes first. All I can say to those people is 1 appreciate your devotion to the band. It was nice. Thank you. Maybe they could hang in there with me for anything else I do.

So you will still be around “doing music...?”

“fans from around are bummed out.

But you know...tough shit!”

Oh, yeah. I’m planning to start recording a record. .. ...Solo?

Yeah. In January. That’s my goal.

I’m writing from now ‘til Christmas.

Will you be writing all your own stuff?

It’ll mostly be myself. There’ll be a few tunes that Rob Carli [who did saxophone/keyboards/vocals with the Rhinos] is writing with me.

Hopefully I can convince him to help me with a lot of stuffjust ‘cuz I admire him so much as a musician.

So you mean he’ll help you with the recording of it as well?

Yeah, you know. Playing piano parts and stuff for me would be nice. And just having his opinion.

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What do you do with your spare time now that you’re not in the band any more?

Right now I’m trying to figure out how I’m gonna record the record.

I’d like to do it different than just going in the studio 1c not that that’s bad, but 1 would love to be able to somehow record it here at home on my own time, relax, without the clock running and all that, And the biggest decision of the whole thing is what kind of music 1 wanna do. I like so much music and I’ve been experimenting with tons of stuff. It’ll be maybe a little heavier. I don’t know.

What arc siome of the bands you’re listening to that would be influences?

Frank Black... urn... I’ve been listening to Weezer but I don’t think 1’11sound like that. I like Bjork and Portishead. And I’ve been listening to the new Bowie record. It sucks.

What would you be doing if you weren’t a musician?

I know everything there is to know about dinosaurs. I actually coilsidered quitting the music business and getting into that. It’s my second love. I’d ‘like to work at a museum. And Ii’ve written letters to all the biggest paleontologists in the world debating questions. I’m right into it.

You’re still doing some solo gigs around town?

Yep. I play Sunday nights at the Circus Room, Wednesday nights in Guelph at Jimmy Jazz, and hopefully soon a gig at the Walper.

Great! Well, thank you, and good luck. Any final thoughts on how you’re feeling about the future?

I feel really scared because I’m on my own now. I don’t have everyone there behind me any more. But luckily I do have the support of friends, local musicians who will volunteer to help me out. Yeah, it is scary. I figured., “I’ll just write some songs.” Well, I’ve started writing songs and I’ve remembered how hard it is to write songs, and how hard it is to write good songs. But... it’s a very good scared feeling. Exciting. I wake up in the morning and go “Better get going. Do something It’s neat. I feel like productive.” there’s been a weight lifted off me.

I feel really alive. Like it’s the first day of the rest of my life. Thank you! And that’s why you should vote me your president.

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Okay. 1’11 ask you about something happy now. Musical influcnccs.

What do you listen to now? Do you go to a lot of Iivc shows? What kind of shows? tVh;lt’s the last live show I went to’? Ben Harper, a guitar player. In Boston. That was a great show. Wnl, 1 don’t go to a lot of live shuws. T went to see Portishead -..--- I love the record, It was un my sterc’o Iike twice a day.

Anb the;xr I went to see the show, and it was like, well, some people are studio musicians and some people are performers.

They were shoegazers, as my boyfriend put it. It doesn’t lessen my respect for them, it jus t means you don’t go see their five shows, you listen to their records. T just got Gavin Briars’ Music .fi?r llze Sinking of the Titarric, love that record, What else? I listen to k-d. lang, Joan Osborne Y 1 love her record/?&h.

Fucking great. She’s fram New York. She’s like a cambination of BOnnie Raitt and Hole. Hole but more meladic and a little bit less of the loudness UT ssmetfiing. I also listen to Everything But tbc CM, Amplr:fied Hm-t. I love Tracy Thomc, &e’s a great singer.

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I feel happiest hert:. Can;& is totally tt1y home. I+ never been tempt& to move to the c vt’ a rcai love-IWe rtifationship U.S.-1 11‘1 with the United States. Thsre are things about it thatI cherish and things about it that loathe.T don’tfeel the same way about Canada.

People whine here a lot about how bad it is and stuff, but go dew ttwe cm ;1 road trip, on the bus with me, itnd come back and you won’t be whining any more about Canada.

We’ve got it so good here. Certainly it’s not perfect, and there’s problems, and things that need to be fixed, but in comparison to vA1ere I’ve been, I think it’s the best place to tijqe. ‘i love the diversity of this place, and I low Quebec - the French culture. Actually my favourite city in Canada is Montreal. when I’m touring, my happiest is here. Not to say that I don’t enjoy touring in the U.S., or Europe. or Japan; I do enjoy it. But I never pict2.x~ myself living in any of those places at all. I enjoy it as a lark, and then I come back

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Oh! There he goes. Okay, we can talk about him now. He’s ti fucking bastard selfish pig, No! I’m just kidding. [Laughs]. No, he’s nol, actually.

Dots he tour with you somctimcs?

Sometinm, but you know, he does his own thing and so he can’t. He makes environmcntal records and stuf‘f‘ like that. He’s just started his own company. I met him because he produced a record and radio show that I did. He was a producer at the CBC. Yeah-Thcrc’s a Lady On Stag?...?

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He produced that whole series of shows, and hc also produced this other show that I did with Rebecca Jenkins and Mary Margaret O’Hara, Jane Siberry, Victoria Williams... i’uunt Y~zrr- Blc~~i~tgrs. The radio show was so successful they made it into a record. lt came out last Christmas.

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Do you like playing in Kitchcner-Waterloo?

Yeah I do! I’m looking forward to coming.

We always have great gigs there. I find the audiences there are really loose, and up for ‘whatever.’ That’s really fun for me, because 1 walk out there and feel like we can do whatever we want, and they’ll be with me, I don’t have to sell myself. I think maybe it’s because there are a lot of students there, so it’s a looser-feeling crowd, and wherever I’m going, they’re coming with me. That makes for a really good show, because you’re totally relaxed, and you can just feel like, “Hey, let’s go for a ride. I don’tbuw where we’re going, but we’.II$pyq, ,it p@ $ong the way.”

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by Derek Weiler special to Imprint It’s drcady become (is r-ipirr to consider 7%~ Gl1n.st of Tom Jwd ;1 sequel to Nchr-dYi, Bruce Springsteen’s haunting, all-acoustic: 1982 album. We should remembet-, though, that a lot has happened in the interveni Ilg thirteen JWNX Springsteen cut tht: earlier record during his artistic 4ory days, with his comfnercial peak only a couple years away, so its stark sound and bitter themes seemed all the bolder.

Now, though, SpringSteen is dealing with public indifference and, apparently, a lack of musical direction: on the 1992 double-shot of-mediocrity that was HWTWI Touch and LELCI+ Tol;t’tq he sounded muddled and irrelevant for the first time in his career.

So as a return to simpler forms, The Ghost of Tom Joadmay seem to the cynical a move of artistic desperation - the sound of a Hollywood millionaire trying to sound like a folk singer again.

To this end, Springsteen has turned for inspiration to America’s classic populist text: John Steinbeck’s The Grupes of Wrath (or at least John Ford’s famous film version of the novel, which the liner notes suggest may have been a more direct source). Tom Joad was the embattled Everyman in

Steinbeck’s saga of dispossessed Okies, and the title track paraphrases his climactic three-hanky speech (“wherever somebody’s strugglin’ to be free, look in their eyes Mom you’ll see me”). Like Steinbeck, Springstecn isconcerned with humanizing the faceless havenots that the rest ofsociety ignores, and like Steinbeck. he plays out his dramas against the backdrop of the American Southwest.

Accordingly, Springsteen’s

storytelling powers account for most of the album’s appeal. The songs are peopled with criminals and hoboes, and especially (in a new twist on Springtseen’s preoccupation with the American dream), Mexican refugees looking to start over in the U.S. A strong narrative focus structures nearly every song, and “The Line” and “Galveston Bay,” which establish primal conflicts and climax with moments of charged inaction, recall N&as-

k& brilliant “Highway Patrolman.”

On the downside, musically this is among Springsteen’s least engaging efforts.

Even Nebraska was enlivened with acoustic howlcrs Iike”AtlanticCity”and”Johnny 99,” but 2% Ghost qf Tom Joad is singlemindedly stark in complexion and funereal in tone.

A rare exception is the swelling finale of “Across the Border,” with keyboards, strings and choral backing vocals all rising in unison to great effkct; more typical, though, is “Dry Lightning,” in which a workable tune is smothered by the determinedly lugubrious tempo.

Elsewhere, the musical backdrops, mostly consisting ofacoustic guitar and light keyboard washes, are so slight and diffident as to almost disappear, leaving the vocal lines to carry the melodies.

Which means more bad news, because Springsteen’s singing sounds as forced here as it ever has. The bizarre, mangled phrasing of the opening title track is only the beginning; the days of Springsteen’s natural, unforced vocal delivery are apparently no more.

In the end, The Ghost of Turn Joad is another musical disaappointment, suggesting a couple sad truths: first, that Bruce Springsteen’s lyrical ability has now all but completely outstripped his musical relevance; and second, that inevitable entropy and decline await even the finest pop music careers.

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As an avid modem music fan, I ,iometimes lose sight of what the majority population out there is actually Iistening to these days. I couldn’t name aGarth Brooks song to save my life, though I’ve heard enough of his music to know that it’s hideous beyond description. Yet he’s also one of the biggest recording stars in America at the moment, and when I go to weddings or some other gathering, all of these people seem to know his songs. In fact, upon further investigation I have discovered to my horror that people actually pay mortey for albums full of this tripe--millions of them, everywhere!

The same goes for Meatloaf.

People still go nuts every time “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is played. They hold up Bat Out CJ~ Hell as some sort of hallmark of a

generation.

Man, what the fuck is wrong with you people? And then hegoesandrehashesthesameoverblown shit on Bat Our qfHeZ[ II, and like sheep the buying public bought into it all. Pathetic.

Personally my morbid fascination with the Loafman is simply because he is so bad. He is the Ed Wood of the music world, in that such complete and utter craposity never fails to make me collapse in gales of laughter. All those choral overtures, ridiculously pompous titles, and $50 000 a second videos

his lyrics are not laughibly bad this time, they’re usuallyjust bad, The only not completely shameful song-is “Martha” that actually acknowledges that Meatloaf is a middle age-man, a bit nostalgic in a Harry Chapin sort of way, but ultimately the music still makes the exercise entirely worthless.

Critics have correctly called the success of Bat Olrl of Hell II a fluke, and judging by the comparitively lukewarm reception for this album, they may be right.

However, if Meatloaf had called in Steinman again, and called this Welcome to the kighbourhnnd...UI; THE BAT OUTOFHELL! it would be selling millions. Either way, it would still be a piece of shit.

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by Edward Richards Imprint staff The world is an insane place.

If you think you have it figured out, I’ll call you a fool to your face. The object of this game of life is to get paid in full. Deep down, you all know this, and pretending life has meaning without money is bulls$$t.

This is why the images of two of New York’s finest, AZ and Kool G Rap, represent realness. They aren’t afraid to admit that they’ll do whatever they must to collect their legal tender. Word.

Listen to “Sugar Hill” by AZ. I mean, take a good listen.

The mentality is rugged, but it’s pure.

With visions of sex on the white sand beaches of St. Thomas, he explains: “to visualize it’s like a coke rush - vivid enough to make livin’ this a must...”

It’s cool for people to sit back in their phony, suburban illusions, and put down the lifestyle of a thug hustler, but how else are you going to make ends link when you can’t escape the projects?

It’s all in the title. Doe Or Die. Why Doe instead of Do? I don’t know, but with the kind of paper

he’s flicking alround, he can spell it however he wants. “Uncut Raw” breaks down the ruthless lifestyle of the Brooklyn players. Crime and extortion is often part of life for these runners., but you can’t slash it ifyou haven’t lived it. “MO Money, MO Murder, 1Mo Homicide” is the anthem of one of the tightest tracks of the album. Featuring the poetic genius of the nasty one, NAS, it’s easy to get lost in the flow of true street knowleldge at its best. How can you touch. the skills ofthese two specialists? You can’t. Too smooth.

Listen at your own risk, as you might catch a lyrical cap in your cranium.

As for the rest of the album? Sick beats and bomb rhyming skills have created a slick package. Check it or lose.

Who the hell would have thought Kool G Rap would reemerge with the skills to blow up like Kuwait oil fields? I don’t have much space to elaborate on this crisp effort, but the vibe from the lead-off single “Fast Life” sets the flavour for the whole album. Solid.

Very solid. Minus the magic of DJ Polo, Kool <; has re-appeared with the determination of a basehead scroungin’ through the shag carpet for white crystals. Give G Rap the opportunity to step up and represent in your stereo. He does it so lovely, and he has returned with the essence of a true dice roller _ with elegance, style, and, of course, mad cream.

Let 4,5,6 spin in your system, and you’ll see that life as a hustler isn’t as easy as 1,2,3.

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by Patrick Wilkins Imprint staff “I just love this time of year. There’s nothing quite like it: Yuletide carols, sleigh bells, Jack Frost roasting on an open fire...”

It’s another Tales from the Cv~pt album, creepy, slimy, utterly disrespectful, and occasionally even funny.

Occasionally funny, yes, as with the opening song “Deck the Halls with Parts of Charlie,” a charming ode to dismemberment and mass murder, or “Cryptkeeper’s Family Christmas,” an enchanting salutation to arsenic poisioning and mass murder, or “Moe Teitlebaum,” a beautiful tribute to embalming and mass murder.

“Juggle Bills” sees the recession hitting St. Nick and forcing him into swearing, cannibalism, and mass murder. If there’s a theme here, it certainly isn’t love, peace and sharing.

This is the kind of album that sends children (and sentimental adults) cowering beneath the mistletoe in the fetal position.

Most of the tracks are reworkings of traditional Christmas sopgs, in the inimitable “so black, how much more black could it get?” humour of HBO’s famed Tales from the CQJJJ~ television series. While certainly not high art, Scar): Little Christmas stays head

above the water in a sea of juvenile humour.

The album is at its best when given its own style, with the Cryptkeeper’s occasional spoken interjections (a Christmas recipe from Hannibal the Cannibal, “The Fright Before Christmas’ ” deadly prank turned wrong).

Perhaps the creepiest piece is the original tune “Christmas Rap,” which treads more than any other track into the realm of outright homicidal energy. It’s a shopping list for mass murderers, with a darkly eerie backbeat and the most directly sadistic lyrics.

Sadly, this is one of those CDs that is hilarious on the first listen, slightly less lovable upon second hearing, and mostly annoying after five or six spins. The biggest problem lies in the traditional Christmas covers (the producers carefully avoided any religious songs). When they work, they work well, retaining the catchiness of the original songs without the sappy lyrics, But several seem carelessly tossed off, as with “We Wish You’d Bury the Missus.” Use the CD player’s “skip” button with discretion.

Should you buy this album? Granted, it’s only good for a few listens before even the Cryptkeeper’s edgy humour gets old. For those who are fed up with ordinary Christmas music, though, it could be worth the purchase.

In a culture where “The Little Drummer Boy” starts constant rotation shortly after the Hallowe’en candy goes on special, the supposed sacrilege of mass murderous takeofftunes could be one’s only escape from assaulting mall PAS.

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Pride is “ 13 of their greatest songs. 4 new greatest songs.” A retrospective of their work, Pride is an impressive collection of songs spanning the course of three LP’s ( Yivid, Time 2 Up, Stuin), and their one EP (Biscuits), I includmg 1our new songs.

I only recognized a few of these tra icks, but the tracks that were new to me quickly grew. The scope of Living Colour is/was large, which may have accbunted for their wide appeal.

The songs range from Club Med Caribbean vacation with “Glamour Boys” and “Solace of You,” to a funky dancefloor rave with “WTFF.” An impressive arsenal indeed! Of the new tracks, “Sacred Ground” and “Release the Pressure” are particular standouts. Vocalist Corey Glover is still writing lyrics that are topical and relevant. Tackling issues such as sexual harassment on “Funny Vibe” and the degradation of’ living in the slums on “Open Letter to a Landlord,” Clover is still pushing musical boundaries.

“Sacred Ground” discusses native land claims from the perspective of a native: “How many times must we tell you/this is sacred ground.”

The lasting music of Living Colour remains untarnished. Pride displays their vast repertoire with a balanced mix of songs from each of three equally timely LP’s. .

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There certainly was a noticeable transition period between the pop-rock stylings characteristic ofthe SO’s to the heavier ‘alternative’ sounds of today. A transition which may have seemed natural as the wailing of one more synthesizer might have driven us over the edge. The progression was slow (and occasionally painful), spanning the course of several years between the late eighties and the early nineties, with some bands finding themselves caught in the middle, as others pushed forward by taking risks and trying out new sounds. Living Colour was one of those frontier cowboys, as their 1988 album Vivid

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M ari ai1 Carey shows that she has one hell of an amazing voice! She is one the few ;lrtists whose vocal range includes five octaves and can exceed the higher end of a piano while keeping complete c:ontroi.

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relaxed, dazed and dreamy sort of mood, hence the title. The daydream starts of‘f with a sweet, sweet “Fantasy” (presently number one on the charts) and continues with more dreamlike imagery in “Underneath the Stars,” One Sweet Day,” aduetwithBoyzI1 Men,and”Open A tms,” originally sung by Steve Perry, to name a few.

The first track on the album, “Fantasy,” expected to fit the delicate and sweet theme of the collec-

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The progressive rock in flue rice long musical intros with plainly sung lyrics, on Kitchcner local Graham and this debut CD, L@ Cu~?tj-cll, which features guest appearances by Saga’s Ian Chrichton on “Change” and Coney Hatch’s Steve Shelski on “Visions.”

“Heights” slow building intro, and electric rhythm and drum with noise? samples into quick guitar beats and clear vocals and presentation. While “Streets” has a hard start “You Won’t Mind” sticks to a bass intro.

“Prelude to Knowledge” is an all acoustic guitar affair and leads in to “Words Apart” with a smooth flow, and musically may be the best track though the vocals leave a bit to be desired.

This concept album of nine songs tells the story of a youth who leaves his home for the modem metropolis in search of power and control of his own life, The mean streets are his new playground, drug lords know this and manipulate the youth with rewards for their bidding. While the boy feels that his

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leased) -and “Open Arms.”

Dqvdreaw is definitely one of Mariah’s better albums. It is Iaid out in pretty much the same style as A4501’c Box (in my opinion, her best album yet). it ranks up there with Mlrsic Box and her se1 F-titled debut.

If you are not buying the album particularly for the songs, it is her voice i that sells. Mariah is definitely one of today’s top three female power-singers, rivalling Whitney Houston and Celine Dion.

Get the album. It’s a good deaI...really!

You get an excellent voice, excellent songs and the ideal daydream.

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20 Fingers are actually a production team made up of Charlie Baby, J.J. Flores, Onofrio LolIino and Manfred “Manny” Mohr.

20 Fingers are famous for producing hits by stars such as Gillette and Max-A-Million.

While sometimes controversial, Manny says, “We write songs about what people are thinking but are afraid to say.”

Such is the legacy of 20 Fingers.

With some help from the Bongo Boys, 20 Fingers has put out a compilation of what they have produced.

Among these are hits such as the infamous “Short Dick Man” and “Mr. Personality” by Gillette.

If you have never heard

road to success lies here at any cost he ends up fighting the druglords to survive.

Though the group have been together for a year, the time has mostly been spent in the recording studio with all songs written by Tan W. Graham and the album being produced

by Graham.

Mike Primeau is on the acoustic and electric drums, and some backing vocals.

He draws his skills from

seven years of Big Band perl&-mante, while Eclly Valleau on electric and acoustic guitar is compiemented by 1a.n Graham taking control ofbass, keyborads, vocals, with a pipe organ and piano background They met through the musical community at Wilfrid Lauricr.

Overall this album fails with the heavy production feel, which is part of music but somehow becomes a dominant factor on the album.

these songs before, basically Gillette puts down ugly men with short dicks. Other notables include “Lick It” by Roula and “Fatboy”

by MaxA-Million.

It is dance floor hits like these that have established 20 Fingers as a real dance talent.

Sex runs rampant all over this album. “Position #9,” by Nerada, is a suggestive little number about a woman’s quest to get in the uitimate sexual position. “Cave Man” by the Bongo Boys tells the talc of a man’s quest for sex, and the misadventures he encounters on the way, The primal tone of the song makes for a quite interesting track.

Perhaps the most explicit song on the album is “Popsicle Love” by Cassandra. This track provides the best line of the album, “. . .I wanna swallow your pride before I let you inside.. .” Yesguy! The fun doesn’t stop there but if 1 were to say any more this review would have to be

put in Penthouse Letters or something. Of course 1 can’t b-get the funniest song on the entire album, the self-explanatory “Choke My Chicken”

by Ted Tubbacki R: tioober, who sound like a bunch 01‘ hicks from my hometown of Delhi.

I don’t really want to get into what this song is all about so l’li just leave it to your imagination.

Aside from these there are actually some serious dance songs on this album and to my surprise, there actually some goad ones. However, they are overshadowed by the other more entertaining aspects of the 20 Fingers revolution.

I was pleasantly surprised by this album and would recommend it to a dance music fan as it has just about anything you can ask for in a dance compilation, which is more than I can say for some of the million or so other dance compilations available today. Entertaintnent, dance, sex.

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