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Conestoga College, Kitchener, Ontario

Vol26, No. 43

Inside...

closes student lounge 24 hours due to vandalism are being stopped

By Brenda Boomer

College responds to $33,000 freeze

the

money for the business wing, college administrators have agreed to provide the

DSA with

See page 4

Funny faces

of disptopoeikm-

p!if>rj

Doon students. See page 4

Entertainment Demon

said

some

students have

newspapers

Newton said

in the

down

the balls out or have taken

students also stuffed

to get

them

their lockers to use later.

pockets of the

She said security

pool tables.

One table was out of service for two days, she said. Students do not realize stuffing newspaper into the pockets can be dangerous, said Newton. A repair man who came to remove the newspapers “hurt his arm trying to get

will bolt the

foosball tables to the floor to pre-

vent them from being

lifted.

Garbage is another big problem, said Newton, who makes periodical checks on the area. She said she once found a half eaten taco on the floor, empty pop cans lying

and pizza smeared on the couch. “Student fees pay for the lounge, so they (the students) are treating their

own

The

had two alternatives, Newton. They could either raise the prices on the foosball and pool tables, or they could comsaid

pletely shut

private interview with

and aspi-

down

the lounge.

Barry Milner, manager of physical resources, said that in the past

the student lounge

had been closed

See Lounge, page 4

Candlelight

vigil

a Montreal massacre message

fmtn opndpr and anH th#» the rf>et rest nf their gender the from thp of fhf>ir rest of society.”

” hp. spnaratp anH go ort hpr her r»wn own wav way,” he separate and

strolled into a

Summerhayes, a charter member of the Dec. 6 Coalition, told the crowd that the cycle

here tonight, to say as a man, that the only rightful balance between genders is one of total and

of violence begins with the placement of men in the position of dom-

utter equality.”

Upon ordering the men to leave the

0y was a bitter-cold afternoon five years ago, when Marc Lepine

In his speech,

“I

“Oiir prant Our natriarrhal patriarchal svstem system grants

men power and

said.

Bettye Clark, executive director

control of government,” she said. “Men, whether

they want

or not, are granted

to acquire.

“This discrimination

often so

subtle that women and men often don’t see it,”

room, he opened fire on the remaining women.

she continued. “But

After hunting down others in the building, he turned the .223-calibre Sturm Ruger semi-auto-

women sure feel The speakers to the

it.”

referred

ongoing violence

women with recent cases, including a against

matic rifle on himself. It took Lepine a mere 20 minutes to wipe out 14

Hamilton woman who was killed on the front lawn of her house Dec. 3. She was stabbed repeatedly with a ma-

young and promising His suicide

powers that women must work hard

letter

revealed a hatred of women and showed that he blamed feminists for

Jimmy Vaughan reveals the life,

property like crap.”

DSA

Off-campus event

influences, inspirations

around, spilled coffee on the floor,

out,” she said.

Newton

continued vandalism

problems

them

foosball tables upside

lives.

blues

closing.

classroom at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal.

The many faces of Conestoga took on some character Dec. 9 when artist Derek Habermehl ap-

all

Newton

also gone to the extent of lifting the

a written promise for space in

B-wing for a new student lounge.

from going

down,’’ said

interview a few days prior to the

executive secretary Michelle Newton said the lounge was closed following problems with the games and garbage. “Recently, foosball tables have been stuffed with Spoke newspapers. This way the students are getting free games because the balls

DSA

way

The Doon Student Association (DSA) closed the student lounge for 24 hours on Dec. 14, due to

DSA

In an effort to unfreeze

1994

19,

Drastic action

DSA

News

December

chete, as five neighbors tried to save her. Her es-

in his life.

tranged husband has been charged.

candlelight vigil at

Kitchener’s city hall, “To date, nothing has sponsored by the Dec. 6 really been accomCoalition of Waterloo said plished,” _unnmerhayes speaks at a Dec. 6, candlelight vigil Region and the Women’s Nagy) Summerhayes. “Every Linda O. by (Photo killed in Montreal. Committee of the Cana- the 14 women who were day we pick up our dian Auto Workers, honor turn on the televiexnewspapers Centre, Crisis Family the of inance. The traditional view of ored the memory of the victims of selected his sion and hear another case of a had Lepine that plained complifemale and male authority the Montreal Massacre and all woman being killed by a man.” victims on the basis that “they were women and children who are ance feeds men’s need to “achieve” women, and they were women who After each of the 1 4 white candles women, he said. abused, raped and violently torlit, and the final prayers were was Once men have spent much of were independent.” tured every day in Canada. tradisaid, the vigil closed wi^ the folchallenge who Women wooing” their time “winning and “There are those of my gender,” students lowing message; “Together we can women, they are unable to accept a tional roles, such as the 14 said guest speaker Stuart upset change a culture that perpetrates engineering, of school the at woman’s rejection. “When the time Summerhayes, “who take refuge in violence and inequality. Together that women need belief societal the much as has she comes to separate, the myth that these are the acts of said. we can stop the suffering.” she men, the protection of madmen who stand apart right as we have always had, to isolated

rations of one of music’s greatest

blues guitarists.

See page 12

Plus...

Software donated to Guelph Robert Adema.

By Maria Wareham

SPORTS The intramural league decides its champions Seepages

Hockey Condors go into battle and vanquish the Knights See page 10

At the college’s shop

level

Students in industrial mainte-

gives the students the experience

nance mechanical programs at Guelph campus will soon be able

on computer software that is being used in their field and training to

to experience simulated on-thejob environment and training,

handle the variables they are subjected to in the industry, said John

thanks to the $35, (XX) computer

Chilton, program instructor.

program software donated by

TTie

Maintenance Master pro-

Master Maintenance. The program is used by some larger companies such as General Motors and Toyota to allow plants

gram, which was loaded into system at the Guelph^^mpus’ffie first week ot-Dccember, keeps trackj>fd3l4ttansactions, such as

to fully control preventative

.nachine records, purchase orders,

predictive maintenance^.-s^ Maintenance Masl^r-’^resident

vendor records, parts and work See Donation, page 4

President ot Master Maintenance, Kooert benefits of the donated software.

Adema,

points out the

(Plioto by Maria

Wareham)

2 Spoke, Monday, December 19, 1994

OPINION

SPOKE Editor: Blake Patterson Associate Editor: Maria

Wareham

Masche Production Manager: James

Copy

Editor: Kerry

Leduc

Advertising Manager: Brenda Boomer Circulation Manager: Blair Matthews Faculty Supervisors: Jerry Frank/Dick Scott

—

print students of Spoke is published and produced by the journalism Conestoga College. Spoke is mainly funded from September to May by the DSA. The views and opinions expressed in this newspaper do not necessarily reflect the views of the college or the DSA. Advertisers in Spoke are not endorsed by the DSA unless their advertisements contain the DSA logo. Spoke shall not be liable for damages arising out of errors in advertising beyond the amount paid for the space.

Spoke, Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr., Room 4B15, Kitchener, Ontario,

N2G 4M4

Telephone: 748-5366

Gun

control law:

a necessary stand Justice Min’ster Allan Rock has been facing disturbing opposition to the tougher gun control legislation he introduced Nov. 30. Canadians (mostly hunters, it seems) have been complaining that his intention to crack

on the use of firearms

Karla’s

made by JusKovacs, people thirsty for details surrounding the Karla Homolka/Paul Bernardo trials may not be able to quench that thirst for Thanks

down

citizens instead of criminals.

Rock’s legislation becomes law, several types of hand guns will be banned and people will become legally bound to register their rifles and shotguns with the proper authorities. Personally, I can’t see what all the fiiss is about. How could anything that is less than beneficial result from such an If

their parents

People who complain that the new proposal will not reduce crime should take into consideration how much more efficient gun control would be if the government could keep track of all weapons which are manufactured and sold. said he will be cracking

someone

explores the case in a way that daily or weekly

would never take

The author of Karla’s Web didn’t forget the human impact of the case, nor did he ignore the facts that must be told in a book designed to tie the whole story together.

Web is a mail-in card

encased in cement and the connection police made to the murder of St. Catharines, Ont., teen Kristen French. And, of course, the arrests of Paul Bernardo and his (now) estranged wife Karla Homolka. But Davey goes further still in his quest to unravel the truth. He ties together the role the media played in

have been blacked out of the book due to the publication ban can be released to the buyer when the ban is

finding the accused, the Canada-wide search for clues,

sure why.

evidence to solve the crime and the court-ordered

Maybe I just want to know the same thing that everyone else wants to know. I wrote a sentence on the bottom of the card in the comments blank stating: ‘T wish I really knew what happened to those two girls, and why.”

Books

down on gun smugglers and on

Web

like Karla’s

instant fame, riding

Enclosed in the back of Karla’s

for buyers to send to the publisher so that details that

lifted. I

are usually designed for

on the coat tails of a national story.

sent in that card the day

bought the book; I’m not

We should seek life rather than just living Gerard Brender ^ Brandis is an who refers to himself as a bookwright.

vesting.

He weaves cloth

for

book covers,

graves

new law is passed, nothing but good can come from it. People should stop complaining when the government is putting forth an effort to do something other than impose a new tax or cut government

wooden blocks

funding.

room of

living

main life,

Letters to the editor

street

his art

the same.

his cottage off the

of Stratford, Ont. His and his work are one in

says he’s happy.

We should all be so lucky. you have a beef, or an Spoke reserves the right to edit letters to fit space, and to remove any libellous statements. Your letter must be signed, and include your program and year for verificatioa Send letters to the Spoke office. Room 4B 15, Doon campus. letters to the editor. If in.

Brender ^ Brandis should be important to us because he exemplifies the

integration which

should all strive to achieve. Rather than making boxes for each part of

our lives our work, family, hobbies, and social activities should all be

Spoke, Conestoga College, 299 Doon Valley Dr., Room 4B15 Kitchener .Ontario, N2G 4M4 Telephone: 748-5366

part of a greater whole.

Our be

studies at

in pursuit

Conestoga should

of a life rather than just

a living.

work with

the inner

work-

a job re-

harmony,

this integration with nature’s

its

ings of computers, health care or the business world,

it’s

important to

that the jobs

which we

pursue, regardless of the size of the

paycheques we will generate, represent the lion’s share of each day’s waking hours, and thereby hold the key to our happiness. If we put work into a box and separate it from the rest of our lives, it will rot and inevitably spoil our happiness. I

it’s

Patterson

greater cycle,

remember

—

quirement.

to illustrate

he has written and prints books on a 19th century printing press which he found in England. He creates one limited edition book each year in his studio, the stories

And

By Blake

dyes his cloth with flowers from his garden, makes paper from rags, en-

If this

A farmer’s woik is insepa-

rable from his life

artist

purse.

believes that?

die time or trouble to

Canadians across the country.

who use weapons to commit crimes. There is no reason to suspect there will be an increase in weapons brought illegally into Canada if the law is passed. Why would people suddenly decide to smuggle in more weapons as a result of such legislation? Either the numbers will stay the same, or they will decrease. The situation won’t become worse. If tougher penalties are introduced for crimes involving the use of weapons, petty thieves and muggers may think twice about committing a comer store robbery for $50, or attacking an elderly woman for the government-regulated pension money that she carries in her

Spoke welcomes all

—

publication ban that sparked controversy and disgust in

people

opinion, please send

—

Davey covers the first trace of foul play in the disappearance of Leslie Mahaffy, the discovery of her body

or stolen in 1993.

Rock has

in this case people that will never forget what they have heard or seen. The media claims they were covering the case in a responsible manner, but who really

new

and following the news for the past year

detail.

lost

Bernardo case into a perspective it has never been allowed to have. The book, written by Frank Davey is titled, Karla’s

Web.

become fully operational? Guns that are stolen or brought into the country will be easier to track if they have been put on file. According to statistics provided by the Justice Ministry, 3,800 firearms were reported missing,

all. I’m bought the book expecting that flagrant disregard. But this

a journalist and

Blair

Matthews

half.

publications

Having a gun in your home can only increase the chance there will be trouble in the future. Even if you never intend to use it, your child could find it or the weapon could be stolen during a break-in. Registering hunting rifles and shotguns may take paperwork, police effort and tax money, but when has any new law not taken time to

or no respect given to the

Now, there is a book on the market that attempts to make sense of the madness and to bring the issue of the

alive

and a

kept a gun for protection against intruders.

time.

That’s nothing

who

Banning some hand guns may help reduce the number of accidental deaths in homes and the number of suicides. According to Rock, 21 suicides involving guns occur every week in Canada. Although it is only speculation, I wonder how many of these

little

victims or their families. After

book is different. Davey attempts to explain details and circumstances where the media has most certainly failed its citizens. The media jumped on the bandwagon after they knew it was a story that would sell itself much like the O.J. Simpson trial. Members of the media forgot that there were victims

some

effort?

who knew where

with

to a decision

tice Francis

unconstitutional and targeted at law abiding

suicides were depressed teenagers

Web teases a fact-hungry public

once read that a farmer’s work

demands of two

is this

which gives rural

life

reassuring comfort and should

be the ultimate goal of our training. I think Conestoga College should invest in an antique printing press like the one Brender ^ Brandis uses. One from the early 19(X)s which

weighs nearly a

ton, stands six feet

high and can only be operated by

manual labor. The press could then be placed inside

Door 5 and

college regula-

changed to require each student to spend five minutes each morning looking at the press. tions could be

Students could stand in quiet con-

concentric circles of responsibility

templation or they could pull the machine’s four foot long operating

the spinning wheel of daily

lever to watch the massive gears,

controlled by the

—

chores forever meshed with the big-

ink rollers, plates and printing bed

ger, slower turn of each year’s cycle

move

of seasons.

tion.

While each farmer milks cows or

Only

together in perfect integrathen, with this role

model

feeds pigs, farmers also plan the

mind, would students be allowed to

work required

attend class.

for planting or har-

Spoke, Monday, December 19, 1994 3

Campus Comments

Letters to the Editor

Question?

What would you

Taking responsibility for our own “faults

most for Christmas

A computer to make homework easier.

would like to address this letter you in debate to the article authored by Maria Wareham featured

Janet Stuart Second-year business management

Dec. 5 edition of Spoke entitled, “More Social support is needed for welfare.”

favor most of what Ms.

Wareham has stated in her letter. Unfortunately, nearing the end of the article,

find myself disagree-

ing with her, although her for her views.

Ms. Wareham

Deena MacIntyre Third-year broadcasting

states,

commend

“Punishing

swer.”

wonder which is not their being on welfare or having

fault,

children?

As most municipalities as well

twin so that she can

brilliant

homework.

all

Christine VanSickle

Second-year business management

Hockey season whichever comes

or baseball season, first.

Jeremy Crawford First-year general business

any large metropolitan administrations can confirm, a large percentage of those on welfare are single parent families, either through divorce, sheer abandonment or death.

Men have

historically been

viewed as the sole breadwiimer and the women as nurturers and healers. Yet times have changed and are changing constantly. Even though most young pregnant women are deciding to keep their babies, most having sacrificed their education in favor of childbearing, are finding returning to school to be the solution to the “vicious cycle of poverty.”

want

this

less the

my family to get along and be close

These young

women

should

commended

for their efforts, as raising children alone is no easy task.

Christmas.

However, one problem

Cherie Woodhouse Third-year broadcasting

that

heard often is the responsibility or lack of it by the fathers who have

abandoned their own children. The governments do little to help these mothers. They offer placebos, such as garnishment of wages, that do

spend so much time worrying about what everyone else wants, haven’t even thought about what want. I

little

to rectify the situation if the

man has “disappeared from the face of the earth” as most do. Even

mother

ful in locating

is initially

responsibility

success-

him.

my own

But what I question

is this -

whose

purse.”

do they actually “plan

have

frowned upon a having children “out-ofwedlock,” so much so that those

woman

—

to others,

that did

won’t happen

young man of 17 or 18 years

is not emotionally or economically capable of supporting a wife, much less a child... or more.

herself.

these two

young

people’s mind was the question, “What would happen if we got pregnant”? And what does usually

—

the boy leaves as he can t face the responsibilities of caring for another life and the girl is left ’

alone to decide whether to continue the pregnancy, sacrifice her educa-

and even most of her future, should she decide to keep the child. And without an education she is left tion,

to apply for public assistance.

Parents should sit down with their children BEFORE this scenario plays itself out in their own families. They should try to encourage a sense of responsibility in their children when they become sexually active. Parents are truly the solution to this terrible dilemma society is facing. Yet parents hide from this Just as absent fathers hide from their

own responsibilities. I myself am a sole-support parent,

that

It is

same legacy

hope

my own children. Regretta-

pass to bly,

Never

happen

were hidden from sight and were ostracized by their peers. Society now takes a different view of thing. Yet the legacy left me, at an early age, was to assume the responsibilities that are mine alone. the children, ultimately,

usually

And the even younger woman is much less capable of supporting

ciety at that time,

chil-

dren” or is procreation just another thought put aside like AIDS it

happens to me.

family on the “public

was

raised by a widowed mother who supported her young f^ily by cleaning after others. So-

whether to have children or not? When a young man meets a young woman,

these people further for something that is not their fault is not the an-

welfare, yet I hesitate using the phrase, “single-parent” preferring sole-support ’ as I am not raising

gaining support from the father un-

in the

Continued happiness.

agencies aren’t willing to assist in

one

that is not passed to

many children or to their parent, as is

evident by the numbers of single-

who

parent farmlies

are benefiting

from welfare.

family does not receive a clothing allowance each September for school nor bonuses for gifts at Christmas.

regularly wear hand-me-

downs and bargain-basement clothes, the children are given gifts that can be afforded on a minimal salary, yet I’ve been fortunate to be presented with a wonderful family that is revered by their peers as responsible, caring and thoughtis the most precious gift any person could ever receive, yet this family has been father-absent for almost two decades. Society should not always take a grim view of “single-parent” families, because some of us ARE taking responsibility for our own

ful.That

“faults”.

And

OUR choice.

attending classes part-time and vol-

unteering within the

Therefore, issue.

community

can speak on

this

am one supporting others on

Ami Downing Law and security administration (part-time)

Debbie Lekker-Hudson First-year

computer programming

Political

correctness could reduce violence

I would like to respond to the Spoke editorial from the Dec.5 edi-

More time Darrell

with

my family.

Tucker

Third-year design analysis

tion entitled “Political correctness

has gone too far.” The author draws his language line at violence.

okay with changes

in our language

that better help to reflect the

gender

representation of our population.

Ben Fox

to use language, non-violent lan-

to I

inclusive terminology.

also

agree with his concern that we sometimes try to hide serious problems like slum living behind terms or phrases that whitewash the situ-

stereo would be cool.

non-violent ways.

His beef is with attempts to rid our language of some of its violent expressions. He refers negatively to a group who is concerned with this issue and plan some action as “dogooders” and “lacking better things

applaud him on his openness to

How better than

ation, like substandard housing.

do with

language

a powerful weapon.

prefer to use the

word

tool instead

of weapon and to change language when necessary to serve society.

Anything

their time”.

believe that language needs to

reflect the times

guage. In the words of the author,

lence

that

would reduce vio-

a great service.

and at this time our

society has a great need to educate

about violence.

children and adults

and

nicate, relate

need

to teach

how to commulive together in

Joan Magazine Counsellor Student Services

First-year robotic automation

Political Thanks

Snow

f Two

—

so we can have a white

Christmas.

Fiorella Scirgalea

Second-year general business

million dollars

Dan

editorial in the

could buy lots of

stuff.

Wettlaufer for his Dec. 5 edition of

called health challenged, or an unattractive

person be called facially

Where do we draw

Spoke on political correctness.

challenged?

I share many of Wettlaufer’s views that political correctness has gone completely overboard. How far can these so-called experts on political correctness go with attempting to change the way we spe^ and write? There are some many examples of how ridiculous and out of control

line at political correctness?

this

issue

Malcolm Horton First-year mechanical engineering

correctness has gone overboard

whole

political correctness

a feminist group at the

who want change the spelling of woman to w-o-m-y-n. I don’t care what anyUniversity of Waterloo to

Ideas? Are there questions you would like answered? Spoke welcomes suggestions for Campus Comments. Bring suggestions to the Spoke office at room 4B15 or call Spoke

body

at 748-5366.

vertically challenged

says, I will continue to spell

way it has always been spelt. As for referring to short people as

the

surd! Will

—

someone who

this is abis

sick be

drove by the

site

where the new women’s prison will built and noticed a sign that read

“Construction of institute for federally sentenced

that call

women”

be womyn?).

Why

them what they

ers, inmates,

are

convicted

(or should

don’t

—

prison-

BMWs to eat a big juicy

steak for dinner.

There must be people out there share the same views I have expressed. In fact, I could write an entire page worth of “politically correct” sayings and actions that annoy me, but I think I will try and keep this letter short in order to “save a tree”!

who

killers, kid-

nappers, thieves or just criminals?! I

is;

There

Recently

the

leather or suede jackets in their gas

guzzling

will also continue to call

“postal carrier”

mailman because

what he is! The provincial government has been in the news recently for want-

Michelle Newton DSA executive secretary

that’s

ing to get stricter animal testing

laws because

this is the politically

do this week. Yet same people who go

correct thing to

these are the

home

night wearing their winter

Corrections In the Dec. 12 issue of

Spoke

Carol Schneider’s name was misspelled in Campus Comments on page3. Spoke regrets the error.

4 Spoke, Monday, December

DSA

19,

1994

gets student space requirements

capital fund. This

the college’s board of governors

wanted something

in writing abou

DSA

the space students

would

our space planning.”

The Doon Student Association (DSA) executive will “get it in

Sabina Kampf and vice-president of student affairs Jacki Allin said

carried a motion that let the

writing ” from physical resources

said.

they wanted specifics from the col-

collect a

MacKenzie said he was surprised and somewhat disappointed with a story in the Nov. 28 issue of Spoke

lege about

because they understood that reno-

that said the executive held-off

director

David Putt exactly what

space, in terms of square feet, stu-

dents will get for leisure time once the business fall

wing is complete in the

making a $33,000 payment

of 1995.

to the

In the article,

DSA

president

to set

posal from the college to transfer

vations were to start this

May

and was now the end of November.

Kampf

was was almost the

said the executive

college because they wanted some-

worried because

thing in writing about the space that

next executive might not know what is going on once the business

students will get in B-wing. “In

end of the year and they had yet to see any commitment from the col-

terms of the working relationship

lege in writing.

wing

between the

completed and present

dent areas, like the lounge,

new

stu-

move to

locations.

DSA

and the college administration, we were using words like working together and

The Dec. 6 executive meeting was attended by Putt, John Mac-

collaboration,”

Kenzie, vice-president of student

relationship,

development and human resources and Kevin Mullan, vice-president

cated to

MacKenzie

said.

“The article suggested a turn in that and the

article indi-

me there is a fair amount of misunderstanding about some of

MacKenzie and

that

said he

getting,

gives the wdiole history of a

— what was done

to the

was why Putt and Mullan

said there

some misunderstand-

ning with the to provide the

DSA and he wanted DSA with the history

college security staff to patrol the

was concerned when students came from high schools to spend the day at Conestoga College on Nov 16. “They overtook the lounge and they were really rowdy. They

an m^portant aspect of preventive

can’t af-

lounge.

moved

can continue to

(not in operation

may

take approximately ei^t to 10 hours of instruction

(on the computer) for a student to become familiar with it. Money

itenance

its

l^t

liisfory.

predict the ftiture of a "

Chilton said.

;awada, chair of the trades and apprenticehe topes this is oidy the college mid industry.

what we’re looking

DSA.

“A

in that area,

Dec.

lot

said.

Newton arranged

of people think

it’s

for

all

young people in Ae lounge, but the lounge is used by everyone, including mature students,” said Newton.

Newton said the DSA believes the vandalism is occurring at night. She said it would be difficult for

ui tjinu.

of the

The DSA tries to control the prob-

We are really excited

Ihe program

by making more "people aware of the {Koduct, there were several reasons for the donation.

“Companies must be very much aware ofthe availability of .skilled 1^r,”hesaid.

“By mal^g company and

this donation,

others. ITiat

m turn

everyone,” he said. **We have a

students to

do too much during the

day in fear of getting caught. “It’s hard to believe some of these students will be graduating in

The Second-year Conestoga account-

porate brochures, logo designs,

and cartooning. His company also pushes the production of children’s books, one of which was commissioned by the

Habermehl sat and expectantly for about

10 minutes.

His patience was rewarded with a him with a head the size of the rest of his body, playing tennis with a panicing opportrait, picturing

ponent.

Habermehl was among about 40

who

received a free

caricature from Fortunato M. Restagno, a caricaturist and the owner of Pursue Graphics in Kitchener.

Restagno was working Doon’s main cafeteria Dec. 9, and there were no less than 20 people standing around him at any given time.

programs.”

in all

Mullan said since

the late 1980

the college has spent over $17 mil lion in expansion and at one tirii

students did not even have room

eat their lunch.

DSA

with a

list

provided

of expansion

tinuous upgrading computer labs.

the furniture to play cards

I thought ‘Oh God I can just imagine what the lounge is going to look like today,”’ she said.

However, Newton said she was amazed when she returned to the lounge later and found everything cleaned and all the furniture was

said.

closing the lounge, the DS>

loses revenue from the games

which

in return will affect studen

funds, said

DSA

Kampf.

officials said there wai

mixed reaction

to the closure.

Newton said DSA staff received some negative comments from sto dents

who tried to enter the lounge

when

was closed, such as “Whe do you think you are?” The DSA reopened the lounge at 8:45 a.m. Dec. 15, saying

not fair to the students

was

who

have

put back. Sabina Kampf, president of the

not abused the lounge, said Kampf.

DSA,

show

on the day the lounge was closed that the DSA was trysaid

Kampf

said the students the

DSA wanted to DSA is serioui

ing to find other solutions to the

and does know what is going on. Kampf warned that the lounge will

Newton said she was told housekeeping also complained of the smell of urine in the lounge.

problems.

continue to be monitored.

Dan Stark, manager of housekeeping services, said he never heard any comiplaints of the smell of urine, but the mess that is left in the lounge is a daily concern. it is

It’s

One

was to have the area monitored by someone hired by the DSA, but that would cost money eventually paid by students suggestion

and college students should not have to be monitored, she said. “Nothing we tried has worked. It’s pathetic. Mustard (has even been) ground into the carpet,” she

Newton said some of the students appeared to take the closure lightly

“Some people were out there (thi lounge) making jokes like, ‘We’( better play before they close i again,’ ” she said.

Newton

said a

soon as the security guard left th' lounge students just got thei money out like it was no big deal,

DSA Christmas week

been

Restagno’s artistic ability branches into the world of cartooning. He drew one cartoon of a manin-the-street reporter who was questioning a few pedestrians about the proposed switch of the name of the City of Kitchener to Berlin. (The interviewer, however, looked like Adolph Hitler, which did not fly too well with the editor.)

Apart from cartooning and the he engages in fine art, watercolor painting and pastel drawings he does from his own

another was a

in a heroic pose, an-

other a disc jockey.

Restagno has been doing caricatures for the past four years.

doing them for and including them in birthday cards, and then I thought, ‘why “I started out

friends

as a part of the ser-

caricatures,

photographs.

For inspiration, he turns to Mondigliani, a painter recently featured at the

Bame’s

Exhibit,

who

used images comparable to African art

— long

faces with no pupils in

the eyes.

Restagno

pre

since the late 1980s such a Dooners satellite cafeteria, expan sion of the main cafeteria and con

printed in China and Russia.

of the caricatures centred

ing a soccer ball with an unpleasant

jects the college has complete

told a story about a

in a water droplet. It’s

on the activities of the subjects: One was a soccer player, pommel-

payback to the quality of educatioi and “virtually all the money goe back to the students for academi space and instructional equipmen

University of Waterloo.

The book

thi

hig!

illustrations

worm

not include

transfer of funds provide a

service that Pursue Graphics

ing student Derek

hockey player

get.

after the meeting

delivers involves advertising, cor-

patiently

facial expression,

Mullan said

vice?”’

By David Carlton

Some

said she

and

Caricaturist cartoons students during

students

DSA did not make because the;

April,” she said.

“I wouldn’t centre it out, but a big mess to clean every day.

illarsof soft-

Doon

the trust fund to the

College Capital Development fund. Out of the $20 fee that the DSA collects, $10 per student for 1992-93 and $15 per student for 1 994-96 would be transferred to the

Newton

wwk together,” he said, yet),

money from

generally a dirty area,” he said.

From page 1

lems

ing about the college’s space plan-

way fund-

and we hope

machine, when it was bought and

who worked on it Program instructor Geoff Money said such information is

college the

ing is going.

records.

machine

tile

wanted

attended the meeting with him.

at the request

ford at

the

Doon lounge closed for 24 hours

Software donation helps Guelph campus From oaae 1

the facts straight about the issue

for students

The executive said they wanted something on paper because the

$20 fee from students

be put into a DSA trust fund. The fund was set up to provide $50,000 to a special needs elevator project, furnish or refurnish student lounges in Doon campus, provide funds for a feasibility study for a proposed student centre and commit funds to a college fund raising initiative. In October 1991 the trustees of the DSA trust fund approved a pro-

new space

was the paymen

of the agreement. Mullan said in February of 1991

of finance and administration because administration wanted to keep the lines of communication open with the DSA MacKenzie

By James K. Leduc

in writing

also fond of Vincent

van Gogh.

“One

which appears in his Yellow Pages ad. Restagno is also careful not to offend those who might be sensiself-caricature

always wanted was to find a caricaturist to draw me.” But Restagno said that it’s difficult to do a caricature of oneself. It took him about 10 tries before he got the thing

tive about certain features.

said he can usually get a feel

for the subject’s sensitivity whi

they’re sitting there.

Asked if he has offended anyo with his caricatures yet, he a swered, “not yet, but I’m lookii forward

to it.”

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Conestoga Little

m focus hand

prizes

Remembering Kurt Law and

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fundraising committee (I

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members

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The winners were; Alexandra Bard from Guelph, Koreena Kahn and Bruno Barenett of Cambridge. Village.

First-year nursing student Chris

Spearen (left) lends a helping hand to his little friend, Morgan Shaw.

^ I

(Photo by Blair Matthews) -

(Photo by Brenda Boomer)

Third-year

business

management student Sam Elsaadi checks out a poster of the late Kurt Cobain at an

Athena poster sale held at Boon

campus Dec.

(Photo by Kerry Masche)

Jamie Vasey, a third-year broadcasting student, skates at the DSA Christmas party held as part of the Christmas week activities at Doon campus. (Photo by Blair Matthews)

of the Dream Team with their intramural trophy.

994 ball hockey championships posi

Members

are: (back row)

—

Deai

MacDonald, Leon Punambolam, Matt Kreutzer, Mark Undo, Bra( Sachs; (front row) Kevin Karges, David Simpson and Joe Poiriei

—

(Photo by Jennie Richardson)

Santa Claus

Interview with an overweight elf Fairview Park Mall Santa defends holiday season By David

Carlton

help preserve the mystique of

the image, Fairview Park Mall would not give Claus’s real name.

Christmas season Saturday afternoons at Fairview park Mall are always hectic. The hallways are filled with peo-

dreams

ple searching for that special gift for that special someone as the roar

the imaginations of the children.

of a thousand voices floods the air and mingles with the sweet sounds of a carolling choir outside of the Bay.

The

line-up to see Santa

there are about

long;

30 people. The

has every age of person

line

— teenag-

and children of all ages. “I once had two seven-foot bas-

ers, adults

ketball players

come

State

from Michigan

in,” said Claus. “I

looked like a munchkin beside these guys when they sat on my lap.”

He has also had a 79-year-old grandmother with 16 grandchildren. She wanted to get something different for them this year, so she gave them all a picture of Santa Claus and herself. He is one of three Fairview Santa

The Santas trade off in shifts. There are many wishes and many to hear, but sometimes Claus hears something special from “I

had one

little girl

who said that

“The children are no different than when we were children,

it’s

just that the

toys and gifts are a

lot

from what

different

We were basihappy with a red fire

truck or a train set with batteries or a slinky toy. Today, because of the high technology and the way the country’s moving, you’re looking at

computers, videos and tv sets.”

— Santa Claus

world to have a gift. I had one where the father has passed away one week ago and the boy asked for a certain thing that his dad had promised to him, so you have to watch how you handle it.” Sometimes there is a demand for a certain item, to which Claus says, “Well, the elves have been working around the clock seven days a week on that. Is there anything else that you would like if Santa can’t bring you that?” According to Santa, part of the glow that the children have comes

the first year that he has

Fairview, and he said he

finds his job to be a magical experience. it

fulfilling,”

Claus said,

“because it brings the children to a glow; because this time of year, there is a Santa, and it puts that special spark in their eyes. is

much

Because

involved with

Christmas, even the parents have a

One of Fain;iew Park Mali’s three Santa Clauses waits to hear what a crowd of young people want

for

Christmas.

(Photo by David cariton)

Santa Claus

glow because they can think back and remember what their childhood was like.”

in the

Santa Claus bringing presents and knowing

children

have been naughty or nice are things as familiar to the Canadian child as they were to children growing up in Hamburg, Germany forty years ago. Just ask Conestoga’s

— she was

there.

was a beautiful time when you believed,” she said. She said she remembers the wonderfully festive mood of the season, the special foods and recipes which were used only at Christmas and especially the excitement and the the man of anticipation of waiting for Weihnachts maim “It

—

Christmas.

But for Kelp, this Weihnachts maim or Father Christmas was not Santa. The Santa of Kelp’s childhood memory, wore a dark green coat, long hat, carried a sack filled with nuts and goodies and visited her house on the night of Dec. 5. Too, the stick which he carried was not so much a cane as much as it was something to beat misbehaving children with. And rather than leaving milk and cookies. Kelp and

would run

“We would run back upstairs and

mom and dad up, and they had only got to bed probably at three or four in the morning, so they come with dragging eyes downstairs, but get

the main thing was being together as a family.” In the face of ideas that Christmas

has become too commercialized and that there is less of an emphasis on tradition, Claus offered an ex-

“There that

Claus

no doubt in my mind helping the economy,”

said.

“The children are no when we were chil-

different than

dren,

it’s

and gifts what we were basically happy

just that the toys

are a lot different from

wanted.

with a red fire truck or a train set with batteries or a slinky toy.

Today, because of the high technology and the way the country’s moving, you’re looking at computers,

videos, tv sets.

It’s

not that far off.

Everything just keeps up with time. It has to. If you stay behind time, then you’re going to be behind forever.”

now

Blackwood,

and happiness.

mixed with pagan images of a northern European god Odin who was said to ride across the sky ©n a magic horse at the time of

The Santa of western culture able as the

memory which

probably more recogniz-

special needs secretary Judy

Hart holds of her Santa being drunk by the time he had finished visiting all the houses on the street of her Preston childhood home each Christmas Eve.

But are these the images of different men? According to Alan Blackwood in his book Christmas which examines the history of the Christmas festival, the answer is no. Blackwood said the jolly Santa of today is actually just a synthesis of all the Santas and holiday traditions which have preceded him. Santa Claus is the old Dutch word for St. Nicholas and Kelp realizes that it was “Nikolaus” who visited each Dec.

As Blackwood

bishop of the Christian Church

was an early in Turkey 1,500

explains, St. Nicholas

who lived

Santa’s inspection to prove that they deserved the goodies

remembered for his kindness towards children, and owing to legends which depicted the good saint giving gold to poor children and bringing murdered children back to life, Nicholas later became the patron saint

he would leave.

of children.

her childhood friends left their polished shoes out for

sisters

downstairs Christmas morning to

This figure, said

present day Santa who has become an icon of peace, giving

Claus said he remembers a time a child and how he

when he was and his two

cultural melting pot

This militaristic Santa seems to be a far cry from the

By Blake Patterson

administration secretary Gitta Kelp

doesn’t he?

see the wonders that had been de-

young and old for about four years,

there

if they were friends. After all, Santa Claus knows every boy and girl in the world,

posited beneath the tree.

she wanted peace in the world and that she wanted every boy and girl

“I find

or her as

cally

has been sitting and listening to Christmas wishes from the

Claus then greets the child with a warm handshake, talking with him

planation.

been

the child before he or she arrives.

wanted.

Clauses.

but this

from the magic of walking up to the man and hearing him call you by name. Gail Cooper, the photo manager of the Santa display, tries to get up and tell him the name of big

years ago.

winter solstice punishing the wicked and re-

warding the good with and the with the mythical figure of a bearded dwarf who was said to carry a bowl of heated punch to warm and cheer people during the coldest and darkest time of the gifts

year.

Blackwood said, in some forms of the myth, the dwarf would wear a red cloak inspired by the cheerful red of the holly berry, and in others he would be dressed in a green robe with a crown of holly or ivy on his head and a yule log strapped to his back.

Kelp said

that

immigrants to North America brought

many Christmas traditions with them and that the images which we see around us today are part of those traditions.

8 Spoke, Monday, December

19,

1994

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spoke, Monday, December

Intramural championship

semester, students usually have their agenda full with exams and

little ugly, but these guys shook hands at the end of the game, which does not happen often in contact (hockey),” Taves said. Carlos Brand agreed and summed up the game as rough, tough and

assignments, but some students had

physical.

championship games to play. There were four intramural championships up for grabs: contact ball hockey, co-ed volleyabll, five-onfive soccer and non-contact ball

Todd Whitton said the reason his team won, was because they “had the guts, glory and stamina to pull

hockey.

in next semester’s non-contact

Contact Ball Hockey

league since there

Spanish Flyers vs. Bearded Clams Score: 10-4 Flyers

a contact program.

week of

the

After three years, the Spanish Flyers finally

nabbed the intramural

championship for contact

ball

hockey in a 10 - 4 victory over the Bearded Clams. The Flyers lost one game all season, and that was to the Bearded

whom they met in the championship game. “It was our best team effort so Clams,

far,” said co-captain

Mike

Hastie.

“We kept the shifts short; the whole

The team

Co-ed Volleyball Wham #2 vs. Procrastinators Score: 26-19 Wham #2 Wham #2 made volleyball history

when they beat the Procrastinators 26-19. Cosisting of Conestoga varsity

Wham #2, number one in the regular season, advanced with a bye and defeated the Smashers 26-20, before playing the championship game. “It was a really good game. There were lots of rallies,” said Greg soccer players.

Wham #2.

The championship game between Rodeway and FTW was aggressive

team made it to the playoffs before, but had Lx)gel said the

title.

who served as the con-

venor for the contact league, said the 1994 championship game was one of the best games he has seen.

it was a tense, fast-paced with hard clean hits.

said

final

skiil

not going to be

three years of the program.

—

Jeff Taves,

994 9

considering playing

Bera, captain of

never clinched the

this victory off.”

team came together.” The team had carried on the sixyear tradition of a contact ball hockey team made up of broadcastradio and television stuing dents. This year the team was a combination of students from all Brad

By Jennie Richardson and Bob McMaster In the second last

teams show sportsmanship and

“Sometimes these games can get

challenge a bad

Dave Van was a good game and everyone had a good time. Five-on-Five Indoor Soccer Procrastinators captain

Niejenhuis said

Contact ball hockey convenor Jeff Taves presents the Contact Ball Hockey championship trophy to Spanish Flyers co-captain Mike Hastie. Flyers (I to r): Jeff Taves, Carlos Brand, Sunil Thakolkaren, Mike Hastie, Brad Logel, Todd Whittom, Jamie Reidel, and Jeff Taylor. (Photo by Jennie

Rodeway vs. FTW Score: 3-2 Rodeway

him

they

felt

he made

Papadakos said FTW lost a few key players because they did not play enough games in the regular season.

not have a strategy, they just play for fun.

we had

could have changed the outlost

some good

play-

game

plan paid off as they

Team

win cham-

defeated the Export

Rodeway player Eliar Torrez said the game started out nice, then after the first goal, it became more physi-

the non-contact ball hockey pionship game 4-1.

cal.

said they always look for the

Manuel Navas, who played

were scored and the players would

Their

ers.”

a 3-2 victory.

He said tempers flared when goals

said they felt they were into the game, but since they had already

played three games that day, they were winded. “I would have like to have had the consolation game at a later date, Jsut

come; they

George Papadakos, official referee for the game, said it was obvious both teams wanted the trophy.

Non-contact Ball Hockey

Dream Team vs. Export Team Score: 4-1 Dream Team The Dream team members have the right attitude. They say they do

“It

from the starting whistle and tense down to the last second, but Rodeway came out on top of the pile with

call.

for

Conestoga varsity soccer and Rodeway, said FTW let Rodeway play too much. He said they played better towards the end of the match,

but

was too

late.

Dream Team

player

Mark Lindo open

man and keep one

player back. Joe Poirier of the E)ream Team said they do not really worry about winning. “We just play for wings

and beer.” Paul Balli, Export team player.

a good time, and

was

Fun

exactly what intramurals

about, according to intramu-

are

all

ral

co-ordinator

said the purpose

Duane Shadd.He is to

maximize the

player’s chance to play, and have a

good time more than have

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Condors beat Knights 10-4

Hard-hitting

seven misconducts. The Knights were the

By Jennie Richardson Condor Scott Hemiman was jured during a vicious

game

in-

be-

tween the Conestoga Condors and the Sir Sandford Fleming Knights at the Kenneth E. Hunter Recreation Centre Dec. 7.

first

scoreboard when Dave AslingSnee scored a goal seconds into the game. Five minutes later, Brian Park set

end and had to be helped off the ice. The game ended with a 10-4 win

up Evan Anderson to put the Condors ahead by two. A Knight was checked into the boards in front of Conestoga’s bench and got a few Condor gloves

for the Condors.

in the face.

Hemiman was levelled in his own

Both teams racked up a whopping 1 28 minutes in penalties’ including

Maie Athiete of the

Week

Dec

12-19.

Evan Anderson

went

are

Knights’ net that appeared to have

gone in. With three minutes left in the second period, Washkurak scored a beauty, lifting the puck over the Knights’ goalie.

Condor Graig

Elliott

Michael Hunt put the Condors ahead by six with a goal two min-

and Knight

utes into the third.

Darren Kinnear followed Hunt and scored in the upper right-hand comer with a back-hand shot. With five minutes left in the game, Elliott weaved through the Fleming players and scored. His goal i’ew cheers from the crowd. Condor coach Ron Woodworth said his team has been getting the short end of the stick when it comes

Jean-Francois Carignan exchanged vyords, but

were pulled apart by the

game could resume. Conestoga had Chris Marshall in the net instead of regular Scott Bal-

referee before the

lantyne.

Marshall stopped some hard shots him by the Knights.

right past

pelted at

There was a brief two-on-two pushing match in front of the visitors’ net when Knights A1 Medhurst and Dan King took on Condors Rob Thibault and Jamie Hooks.

Scott Strachan scored a goal for

period.

Just over one minute into the seclast year’s top scorer’

to refereeing.

“The refs are deciding the games,

the Condors during

Cambrian

Sauit

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their Dec. 7 victory (104) over the Sir Sanford

Fleming Knights. (advertisement)

Lawrence (B)

St.

said winning coaches

do not

7 6 6 5

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ing has not been consistent.

Woodworth said he would like to game with his team at 100

play one

per cent.

He said his team is playing at about 60 per cent now. The players, he added, are stepping up to cover for hurt members and, hopefully, the Christmas holiday will give the team a chance to

recuperate.

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ATHLETICS &

usually complain, but the officiat-

Team

are last year’s champs. There

(As of Dec 11)

Anderson was named

instead of letting the players.

reason for us to be treated by the officials like we have been.”

Hockey Standings athlete of the week after he scored two goals for

min-

The referee made a questionable on a Conestoga shot at the

— Ron Woodworth

Conestoga from the right side of the net to make the score 4- 1 at the end

ond period,

six

call

year’s champs. There is no reason for us to be treated by the officiais iike we have been.”

Knight goalie Mike Dart.

first

iet-

iast

later,

instead of

ting the piayers.

looked as though he was going it, but he shot it hard from

of the

games

the

to pass

the point and

the pen-

spearing.

“The refs are deciding

other end.

for

alty

utes in penalties for roughing and

Anderson scored again when he deked the Knights’ defence and backhanded the puck into their net. Less than one minute later. Condor Joel Washkurak took the puck from the faceoff and headed to the few minutes

Washkurak was sent to box after racking up

Condor Dave Long, made use of the power play and scored.

the

Performance Bonds [$25/Team] Due

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Meeting

Spoke, Monday, December 19, 1994 11

Disclosure

shows power of sexual

By Maria Wareham

The twist is

Movie Review Disclosure

Power, corruption and sex

set the

plot for this fast-paced suspense

based

thriller

Michael

Crichton’s best seller. Disclosure.

Starring Michael Douglas and Demi Moore, Disclosure reveals the shape of the changing coiporate

landscape,

ued

battle

its

rules

and charges his new boss with sexual harassment Disclosure shows its audience the power of sexual politics in the workplace and how it is used to manipulate and controls its victim. hires a lawyer

it’s

woman who has

politics

give viewers a look at the not-so

“broken the glass ceiling” and is using her position in the penthouse suite and a man who is feeling its

futuristic

repercussions.

Bob Garvin, Digicom’s founder and Dennis Miller, as Mark Lewyn, head of design.

world of computer poten-

tial.

Disclosure also stars Donald Sutherland, as

Besides Dougals’s and Moore’s screen-steaming

moments of

pas-

virtual reality special effects. Digi-

It opened Dec. 9 at King’s College Cinemas, in Kitchener. It’s worth

com’s high-tech computer designs

seeing.

sion, Disclosure also has excellent

and the contin-

of the sexes, with a

twist.

Tom Sanders, played by Douglas, is a “happily” married climb to the next rung

man eager to corpo-

in the

of advanced operations and planning at rate ladder as vice-president

Digicom. But his anticipation

when he

cut short

passed over for an am-

young woman, Meredith

bitious

Johnson, played by Moore. ENTERTAINMENT

Sanders and Johnson are not strangers, and as Sanders’s

boss, Johnson

quainted.

new

eager to get reac-

after-hours rendez-

vous to discuss work is agreed upon for that evening: an evening Sanders lives to regret.

Within a day, Sanders’ to

come

life

begins

apart as he faces a sexual

harassment complaint from his new boss. Baffled and desperate to resolve the inflammatory claim, he

decides to bring out the truth:

Trent Reznor: The Entertainment Profile

By David Carlton

Nine Inch Nails In a September issue of Rolling Stone, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, discussed taking his listeners

den things

and showing them something in the back room of existence forbid-

lent or otherwise.

—

that they have always considered taboo, be it sexual, vio-

Nine Inch Nails (NIN) has held the key to that back room since 1989 when its debut album. Pretty Hate Machine first blew the minds of MTV viewers with the groovy distorted anthem of rage. Head Like a Hole. Reznor, who writes and performs all the music that NIN puts out, has seen global success and poformed at the first Lolapalooza, and at Woodstock ’94.

He has pinched a Grammy for his

Saturday, January 21 12 noon

1:00

SkyDome

Activities Office

—

sentence “I want to f you like an animal” and turn it into an alreadylegendary lyric. Reznor has been on a downward spiral in sound, though not in quality.

Pretty Hate Machine was more of an attempt to formulate an evildisco noise, while including gratuitous amounts of distortion on guitars and Reznor’s vocals. Broken took a turn (and a tune) down, while lyrically showing how fun it is to destroy oneself, while finding Happiness in Slavery. Reznor’s most recent full-length release is The Downward Spiral, a 14-song concept album with eerie

—

bridge the gaps what he intended between the normal and the taboo. He sings (though more often, he

and outplayed Soundgar-

bondage and the nobility of suicide.

He sings about sex, drugs and self-

Karla’S

While on recordings he plays by

—

bowling,

mountain ita/n c climbing,

ro/lerb/ading,

contests

beach ‘^•no, $100 r:' Phzes, food

refreshments 3rid more.

!;^his is

a partylihlike^

Canadians who have been following the Karla Homolka/Paul Bernardo story through the media or computerized bulletin boards can now turn elsewhere for a comprehensive summary of the facts to Karla’s Web is written by Frank Davey, a professor of Canadian literature at the University of Western

Davey has previously 1 1

and associate.

Even though they play perfectly on stage, the band has no idea how to approach Reznor about themselves.

Whooley

same Roll-

said, in the

ing Stone article,

“We

likes us as a band, but

think he

we’re

still

sticks in the

“What we do is closer Cooper than Pearl Jam.”

to Alice

native rock ’n’ roU.

written 21

critical stud-

books and eight anthologies.

This time around, Davey attempts probe the case from the very be-

Web

Internet to the

now

famous cream-colored Camero, to the arrests of Homolka and Ber-

don Domm. But for those who Karla’s

French,

have

edge.

— and without breaking

the

court-ordered publication ban.

the story of a nation

shocked, fans of Bernardo wanting more, and a country whose media is “muzzled, shackled, and gagged” from telling the outside world what

this

Web ne^

are looking to

for answers to what

happened

more indepth than Canadian newsp^ers also covers issues

and from individuals such Guelph OPP officer Gor-

as former

really

nardo.

tells

had for obtain-

ing ban-breaking information from

coast-to-coast search for the

Ontario.

ies

Karla’s

Mahaffy and Kristen French,

Davey

date.

poetry collections,

Vrenna is actually Reznor’s longest standing aide

tion Canadians have

Book Review

By Blair Matthews

human

Web contains the real facts

virtual reality,

ug-o-war,

Vreima and Lohner double technical aides in the studio.

NIN is the grand guignol of alter-

destmction.

Nobody else could have taken the

Vrenna.

Like a knife in the chest, NIN mind long after first listening to the band, and the image of the band live is burned into the minds of the fans. According to Reznor, NIN has more of a flair for theatre than raw rock ’n’ roll.

Molson Park a few months

Killers, at

Bom

comon stage he plays with a four-man entourage: guitarist Robert Finck, bassist Danny Lohner, keyboardist James Whooley and drummer Chris puters,

Reznor’s lyrical content, which mingles erotically with the techno-

screams) about the demolition of the human spirit, the beauty of

videos), produced the sound-

himself, mixing music with

afraid to ask him.”

NIN

track for the film Natural

all

sounds.

Hell sound of the music, does just

ago.

$25.00 at DSA

behind

EP, Broken (for which Reznor made, but never released, a longform video depicting a victim being dismembered while watching

den

Tickets

man

Mahaffy and

not bother looking to

book for ban-breaking knowlIt is

as tight-lipped as a Cana-

dian publication can get

For those interested

Web

worth the investment. But those

in-

terested in sensational gossip are

they have heard and seen within the

better off to leave this

ginning in a way never done before. From the disappearances of Leslie

confines of the courtroom.

shelf and wait for the

also examines the facina-

the

in the facts of

the case to date, Karla’s

Davey

— but

real story is there for all to see.

movie

release.

book on

home

the

video

12 Spoke, Monday, December 19, 1994

demon

Finger-picking

about the blues

talks

By Dan Wettiaufer

Off

some gigs where it probably would have been better if I’d have

was a cold day in but the devil was nowhere to be seen. The temperature outdoors was bone chilling. The air was crisp and sharp. The atmosphere inside Lulu’s was It

gone outside and

hell,

heavy.

Small groups of spectators were scattered around the large building,

eagerly anticipating the arrival of

from Texas, when

the bluesman

Lulu’s played host to one of the greatest

men

to ever strap

on a

six

gun.

wasn’t Lucifer, who was to entertain the crowd of 2,(XX) Dec. 8.

But

Vaughan and

band arrived

his

satisfied that

everything was in order, he vanished into his dressing

interviews.

guitarist Jinunie

off the Strange Pleasure album, as

entertained almost 2,(KX)

well as older tunes off the Family

fans at Lulu’s in Kitchener, Dec. 8.

Style record, recorded by the

Legendary blues

Vaughan

Vaughan, currently promoting his

Vaughan

Brothers.

solo release. Strange Pleasure,

Audience members also had the

had the crowd on their feet cheering him on for his electrifying two-hour

pleasure of hearing flamenco gui-

set

solo and then a duet with Vaughan before the song Flamenco Dancer. Vaughan kept the crowd buzzing

first

The most memorable song of the evening was Six Strings Down,

tarist

Rene Martinez, perform a

dedicated to his “little brother The song was greeted with thunderous cheers as well as a few tears by members of the audi-

the stage after

ence.

much

Stevie Ray.”

Six Strings

Down was co-written

by Vaughan and the Neville Brothers in memory of Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died tragically four years ago.

Vaughan’s

style of

itself perfectly to

music lends

a living

room

at-

mosphere where friends gather

all

night with his blues finger-pick-

ing style and soulful lyrics.

Vaughan and

room to pre-

pare for the onslaught of media

The pace of our Wettiaufer

his entourage left

conversation/in-

It jumped from Vaughan’s musical influences to his career, then back to his influences and finally to his current tour. Vaughan, who has played professionally for about 29 years, started playing the six-string by himself in

terview was quick.

He got his first gig at

his basement.

his high school, then started playing at local parties.

When

he turned 14, he and his band got a gig playing six nights a

week at a bar called the Hob Knob Lounge in Dallas, Tex. “We sang through the juke box

90-minute

set,

back the;

we didn’ t even have a P. A.

to the disappointment

and

system,”

Vaughan

its

dismay of the audience but they returned quickly to deliver the knockout punch with a half-hour encore. Satisfied fans thanked Vaughan and his band with deafening cheers, thunderous clapping and high-

pitched whistling.

said.

There was no bitterness in his heavy southern accent. In tough times, many blues guitarists have had to resort to busking at some point in their life in order to survive.

Vaughan was fortunate enough that he never had to. “I’ve come close. I have played

Ren and Stimpy rock around the Yaksmas Tree By Dan

Wettiaufer

Allilitii

people you love. Warning: What is Christmas is a bit of a tear jerker.

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la,

Performance: An entertaining

Fa la la la la la la la la, Don we now

look at Christmas.

our rubber nipples,” is just a sample of the lyrics Ren and Stimpy (BUly West) spew forth. Cat Hairballs, a spin-off of Jingle

Hot Spots: Twelve Days Of Yaksmas, We Wish You A Hairy Chestwig and Cobb To The World. Bottom Line: Ren and Stimpy do Christmas like no one else can.

The year 1993 was witness

one

of the greatest Christmas releases ever. Early in

December, two of the

craziest cartoon characters ever to

grace the boob tube released their very own Christmas album.

The

result?

interesting look at

the twisted Christmas

minds of Ren

Tis the season yaks get shaven.

Bells, is the next time

on the

cas-

Borrowing from the parody style popularized by Weird A1 Ya^ovic, Ren and Stimpy tastefully rip off the classic Christmas carol.

Wish You A Merry Christmas, with their own version called. We Wish You A Hairy Chestwig. The remaining songs on side one are originals created by Charlie

Bob Camp and Jim Gomez. Keeping with the sarcastic, Brissette,

and Stimpy.

slapstick, anything but serious hu-

Not since “Jingle bells. Batman smells, Robin laid an egg,” have Christmas songs been revamped

mor, Ren and Stimpy have become famous for, songs like It’s A Wiz-

from the ground up in such an entertaining way. The first song on the tape. Fleck

The Walls,

sets the tone for the rest

of the album. “Fleck the walls with stinky diapers.

la la la la la la la

After the tears have dried and the nose stops running, the listener is treated to a classic in the waiting.

Cobb To The World is sure to become as well known as old Saint The next Hop,

tune.

the

Ren and Stimpy Show, and

Without a doubt, the best song on the tape

with another

ences in his

“When records, sit

there

life.

would get one of the I would take it home and with the record player on I

the slower speed trying to figure out,” “I

Vaughan

wanted

said.

all

of them.

I lis-

tened to everybody I could find, and still do.” Vaughan said he hasn’t

been having much luck with the scene these days and isn’t a big fan of Green Day or Nirvana “I think I know what they’re doing. I mean, I think I know why they’re doing it But I’m not supposed to like it It must be just the same as when I was a kid.” As for the future of his own solo career, Vaughan said he has new songs and is thinking about his next solo project, but has no release date set. Fans of Vaughan will have to

new music

wait a few years before a live re-

cording of his material comes out.

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The Twelve Days Of Yaksmas puts a smile

on the

listener’s face

and reminds us all that Christmas is a time for fun and for giving gifts. if

the gift

snot stuck to a

Ren and Stimpy’s Crock O’

tertain the

When Vaughan was growing up, he said, he wanted to be every blues guitarist he heard, citing Buddy Guy, Albert Collins, Lonnie Mack and Eric Clapton as major influ-

bandages, jars of spit, cobbs a com-

the holidays with family and the

Christmas,

guitar great Eric Clapton for

Yaksmas. Instead of a partridge in a pear tree, cousin Sven sends a “Nose goblin stuck to a chair.” Other gifts from Sven are used

is a piece of Christmas magic that’s sure to en-

The tour started off wito 50 dates across the United States, after

The Twelve Days Of

a semi-serious song about spending

What

the Thunderbirds for 15 years).

point of view.

Day

starts off

from an entertaining

pretty boring

chair seat

original cut.

successful career (he played with

the album. It’s a stupid song about

Even

entertain surprisingly well.

solo release of his long and

first

Happy Holiday

the only disappointment

zleteats Kind of Christmas, We’re Going Shopping and Yak Shaving

Side two

tour, is

Nick himself.

Muddy Mudskipper, a character on

sette.

Vaughan, currently on

supporting Strange Pleasure, the

months.

sent to play the

Lulu’s around 5 p.m. and proceeded

By Dan

leans.

When Vaughan was

the finger-

blues that night

hang out and have a good time. Fans were treated to all 11 songs

be seen in blues places like Chicago, Mississippi and New Orstill

with the customary sound check.

demon

picking

Jimmie Vaughan rocks Luiu’s

Busking is when a musician plays on the street for money, which can

which he hooked up with legendary 25 dates. Vaughan is in the middle of a seven-date tour in Canada. After a Christmas break at his Houston home, the band heads off to tour Europe for a couple of

Jimmie Vaughan was

Blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan performs Six Strings Down with his (Photo by Dan Wettiaufer) back-up singers, Dec. 8 at Lulu’s.

played on the street”

Christmas, put simply,

whole family.

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more information call 748-5980