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,Steve Kannon becomes Imprint’s new editor -

by Mike Urlocker Imprint staff

- A Conestoga College journalism graduate took ,15 out of 17 votes last week, becoming Imprint’s new editor-in-chief.

Steve Kannon, 21, assumes the full-time paid position April lst, replacing current editor Rick Nigol.

Imprint editors are elected annually by staff, following a massive interview session using CIA de-briefing techniques up to 20 agents simultaneously grill each candidate for 30 min-‘ utes.

I Although Kannon had been forewarned of the interview process, he says he was not fore-armed. “I didn’t know what to expect. Everyone added their two cent’s worth.”

Kannon is currently the assistant editor of: the Grand Valley Star and Vidette, a weekly community newspaper in Grand Valley, Ontario. He says he’s looking forward to expressing strong editorial views with the student newspaper. “1 tend

to play devil’s advocate with most issues. The biggest concern right now is funding and we’ll take a hard look at that issue.”

The new editor says he’ll spend his first month getting acquainted ‘with the campus and what’s needed from the newspaper before it resumes publishing next semester.

Kannon was the youngest candidate in this year’s election.

Others included a former staff member now studying journalism at Western, a PhD student, a political science graduate and a freelance writer. Kannon joins the ranks of previous editors such as Don Button, now the editor of a community newspaper outside Sarnia, Len Gamache, in public relations at Seagram’s Museum in Waterloo, and George Elliot Clarke, now a Black community organizer in Halifax.

Outgoing editor Rick Nigol plans to sleep for at least three years before deciding on future plans. .

OTTAWA (CUP) -- The way the federal government pays money to the provinces for colleges and universities in Canada is messy and causes more fighting than funding, .and Ottawa should consider new legislation to gain more control, says a report to the Nielsen ’ Task Force on Program Review. ’ The current money transfer system, Established Programmes Financing, does not establish any national education standards and encourages the feds and the provinces to “blame each other for any apparent deficiency.*’ “It is questionable whether the arrangement is still appropriate,” the report reads.

The report is part of Nielsen’s 21-volume inventory of almost 1,000 government programmes, or $92 billion of public services.

The box of books, totalling 7,000 pages just in the English version, weighs 34 lbs. The French version is slightly heavier.

The report says Ottawa has four options on university financing: leave the system as is, continue to fund but on conditions that the provmces meet specific standards, pay students directly with vouchers, and let their university preference dictate which universities survive, or stop funding universities and colleges entirely.

The report seems to lean to the second option, a new law for post-secondary education financing. Because Canada’s constitution says education is a provincial responsibility, this would spark a huge political storm, the report says.

“However, if federal financial support is considered necessary to ensure adequate institutional funding, or to ensure that national standards in the post-secondary educational system’ are maintained, the effort to secure provincial agreement will have to be made.”

The report says that the federal government could argue that it already fund’s most research in Canada, and since research and post-secondary education are closely linked, it should have a say in running colleges and universities.

The government could then set the following conditions on giving its funding dollars the report says: * that colleges and universities “provide an adequate supply of highly qualified personnel for the public, academic, and private sectors,” * that provinces ensure that all Canadians who can learn and want .to learn will not be deprived of higher education because they can’t pay,

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Ben Wilson, Chair of the Ontario Manpower Commission, who headed the half-private, half-public study team, said in an interview that the report does not imply the government should put condi\ tions on funding for higher education.

Wilson said heavy disagreement between members of the study team prevented any one solution from shining through in the report. “There were some fairly distinct opinions that came out,” ’ Wilson said. But he would not name those opposing each other. “I don’t want to(betray my colleagues,” he said. 1 Education critics in Parliament and university lobby groups say they only support one option - keeping federal support for post-secondary education, but making the provinces accountable.

Executive officer of the Canadian Federation of Students, John Cassola, said “the other three options will in one way or another help to take the bottom out of accessibility.*’ Cassola said the “voucher” proposal, borrowed from the MacDonald Commission’s report released last year, will “raise tuition fees, hamper curriculum planning, and probably result in universities hiring PR people to sell their programmes to students.”

NDP critic for education and youth, Howard McCurdy, agreed.

“The voucher proposal is unthinkable,‘* he said and he called a complete withdraw of federal support to universi;ies “outrageous*‘.

The study team’s report said a withdrawal of federal support for post-secondary education may work, because “the expansive circumstances which brought the federal government into the financing of post-secondary education in the 50s and early 60s has passed .”

But,McCurdy said enrolment is growing.

A recent study by the National Consortium of Scientific and Educational Societies shows enrolment in Canadian universities has increased by 24 per cent since 1977-78, while per students expenditures declined 18 per cent in that period.

On student assistance, the study team says its,preferred option is to leave student aid entirely to the provinces.

Other options including reforming the present system or replacing Canada Student Loans Programmes with a refundable taxcredit for students.

McCurdy criticized the proposal to make student aid a provincial responsibility~saying it could increase regional inequalities.

JOURNALISM The Media Studies Department of Ottawa’s Algonquin College is offering a limited number of seats in the final year of its Journalism Program to university graduates.

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The program also includes about 10 weeks of field work.

Only those passing an entrance test followed interview, will be admitted.

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UW students raise support for reinstating Katimavik

by M.A. MorJey . , Imprint staff The recent federal government decision to scrap the Katimavik youth programme is “A slap . in the face to youth,” and “a mistake,” said UW student and former Katimavik participant Dave Lawson. “I’m shocked and really angry.” .

Lawson traveled to Ottawa last week to visit the founder of Katimavik, Senator Jacques Hebert, who has been on a hunger strike since March 10 to protest the ending of the programme. While there, Lawson fasted for 72 hours himself to demonstrate his support for Hebert’s action.

“It was a three-day high,” he said. “I didn’t even think about food. Fasting is good for the body and spirit, and my energy came from being around vibrant young-people.” Since beginning his hunger strike, Hebert has been surrounded by 20 young well-wishers and supporters who maintam a rotating “duty roster” to ensure that someone-is always with him. On day three of his protest, when Lawson arrived, the Senator “appeared healthy and was full of energy for the entire time.”

“His morale is unshakeable,” Lawson said.

“After meeting him, I defy you to show me someone younger at hear-b He is the one giving energy to the young people around him.”

Lawson said Hebert’s hunger strike is not an attempt to circumvent the democratic process, but “a gesture to sensitize the Canadian people.”

“Some people have called it sleazy, but it’s no less sleazy than the numbers game Prime Minister Mt.:roney is playing with unemployment figures, or the actions of Andre Champagne.”

1,Champagne is the federal Youth Minister, recently . Criticized for a letter suggesting that her colleagues make efforts to recruit young people into the Progressive Conservative party at government expense.)

The cancellation of Katimavik is not just a youth issue, but “a Canadian issue” as well, according to Lawson. “ It took steps to solve youth

problems in Canada,” he said, “it gave people a sense of hope as to where the country is going.”

Participants in Katimavik spend nine months in three different Canadian locations, one of them French-speaking, performing community service work for a nominal wage of one dollar a day. At least 25 per cent of the work was performed directly for groups with special concerns, such as the mentally handicapped, the old, the Native peoples. Participants would receive $1,000 if they finished the programme. Lawson said the “group dynamic” is what was special a bout Katimavi k.

“I met 12 people who have had an everlasting impact on my life,” he said. “We grew through some tough times, and the feeling of accomplishment was incredible. Katimavik is another kind of post-secondary education, an alternative that teaches less tangible things like co-operation and independence. It’s like university, but it puts a lot more immediately back into the community.

You can’t put a cash value on that.”

It was ironic that it took a 62 year old like Hebert to start things off, said Lawson, calling the University of Waterloo “Ontario’s cesspool of apathy,” although that may be changing.

Tina Bogner, another UW student concerned with the demise of Katimavik, began collecting signatures Monday on a petition to save the programme. As of Tuesday afternoon. she had already gathered 2,000 names.

Bogner had applied tojoin Katimavik and was waiting to hear back when she learned that her chances were dashed with the federal budget that cut its funding. Like Lawson and many others, she was shocked and couldn’t understand why the government had axed a programme with the reputation of Katimavik.

“It’s peanuts to the government, nickels and dimes,” she said, citing $100 dollar toilet seats and new military uniforms as examples of truly questionable spending.

Bogner started her petition uncertain of whether it would be successful, and has been

surprised by the results.

“I thought there would be a lot of apathy,” she said, “but classes are responding well, once they get over the mltial shock of someone actually getting up and speaking.” She said she has little difficulty persuading students of the worth of Katimavik because it was’such a good programme. Bogner, and three friends helping her, planned to visit Hebert in Ottawa on Wednesday evening to deliver the completed petitions.

“He’s fantastic,” she said of the senator, “and the telegrams he is receiving across the country are making his day.”

Ron Stehr is another U W student active in the drive to save Katimavik. He is an alumnus of the programme who at one point was working in

Newfoundland helping construct a playground while at the same time working as a teaching assistant to mentally handicapped chi1dren.m an elementary school. Stehr said the idea of replacing the programme with something new would f be “totally stupid,” since after 10 years, Katimavik’s reputation was finally becoming known and -“word was just starting to get around.”

“I can’t see any justification for the cut at all.” he said, calling the $24 million the government spent on International Youth Year last year “nothing more than a show.”

Stehr, Bogner and Lawson are all remaining optimistic and supportive of Hebert. AS Lawson M said, “Katimavik is happening right there on Parliament Hill.”

Pascal lecturer talks about the “last sunset”

by JoAnn Hutchinson imprint staff “I am speaking on science and apocalypse because it’s a contemporary issue many people are mcreasingly aware of due to the threat of nuclear war,” stated Colin Russell. the lecturer at the 1986 Pascal Lectures held in the Humanities Theatre. March 11 and 13.

The Pascal Lectures have been held annually for the past seven years at U W. The speakers are ‘“outstanding individuals of international repute who have distinguished themselves m both an area of scholarly en$eavor and an area of Christian thought or life.” The lecture ser!es is named after Blaise Pascal, a seventeenth-century French academic and Christian who was a forerunner of Newton in the establishment of calculus and author of the Christian Meditations, Les Pensees.

Russell is a professor of the, history of science and technology at the Open University in England. He holds advanced degrees in chemistry and education and obtained a DSc (London) in history and philosophy of science in 1978.

Russell described modern society as being full of “gloom and doom,” since it is possible that

we may soon “annihilate one another”. He felt that “before the Reagan and Gorbachev summit, there was widespread pessimism.”

He commented that since the summit “hope has increased somewhat, but not a great deal .”

Three ways in which the world may end were discussed

by Russell last Thursday during his talk titled *‘The Day of the Trumpet.”

First he* discussed whether recent science confirms the unwinding of the universe.

According to this view, the end of the world will be caused by a “dissipation of energy which leads to the awesome prospect of heat death.” Russell commented that this viewpoint sees the world ending “not with a bang, but rather with a whimper” and that there is an “awful nothingness of a universal heat death.” , Second, Russell spoke on the possibility of whether science itself is going to initiate the end of the world. In this case, “man acts like a god” and the “apocalypse may be engineered by ourselves.”

He explained that “never before have human hands ever held such a high magnitude of power than we do today.“‘He warned that “it is dangerous to believe that God

won’t allow a nuclear holocaust to occur. since this b&et overlooks past history. Man sometimes forgets his stewardship of the earth.”

Finally Russell suggested that the end of the earth may be caused by a “personal and vis-

ible return of Christ.” He explained that many scientists see this view as being unlikely because “when we look at the immensity of- space. .we are reminded of our littleness in it ” Because the earth is so small. many do not believe that God

wouid choose the earth as a special site for the apocalypse.

Russell pointed out that such reductionism is the “grossest exercise of double think and confusion, since there is no logicar connection between scale and value.”

Russell closed by saying that “one day will assuredly be the last sunset, but humanity can take courage and even dehght by examining and beilevkg m the incredible universe and the c one who set, it all up.”

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OTTAWA (CUP) -- The federal government is paying $600,000 through Challenge ‘86 to employers, at Expo ‘86 to train students to sell t-shirts and hamburgers.

The money, matched by $700,000 from the B.C. government, will go to an average of 60 hours training for 3,900 students at $3.65 an hour, the province’s minimum wage. The concessionaires pay nothing during the training period.

The federal department of employment and immigration has emphasized that the Challenge ‘86 grants, which normally pay just 50 per cent of a student’s salary in private sector jobs, are aimed at developing students’ skills in ways useful to future careers.

Asked if the subsidy for students working at Expo concessions was considered skill development, Sandra Kearns, a public affairs officer at employment and immigration, said “the emphasis is placed on career development, however, it’s also understood that not everyone can get a job that relates to their career.‘* According to the transcript of a radio ad broadcast across Canada for the employment programme, employers should, “start thinking, about how you can offer students career development opportunities or valuable work experience .. . give someone a hire (sic) education.”

“Sometimes work experience can mean showing up for work every day, and calling in* sick when you can’t work,” Kearns said.

The student on the govern-

ment radio advertisement said “Challenge ‘86 offers substantial wage subsidies to assist you with jobs that would otherwise not be possible.

“I’d question why they (employers at Expo) need a subsidy at all,” said Stephen Scott, newly elected executive officer of the Canadian Federation of Students (Pacific) in Vancouver.

He said the concessionairies are going to make a killing at the world’s fair. “There’s going to be millions of people going by those booths, buying things,*’ Scott said.

Scott said he’d rather see the subsidy for Expo ‘86 employers going to raising the wage for non-*profit government-funded jobs from $3.65, or subsidizing job creation outside the lower mainland.

“There are a lot of students who aren’t in the Expo vicinity who will need summer jobs too,” Scott said. “The job creation focus has been on the coast .”

Lyle Vierech,. director of fede&al-provincial relations in B.C.‘s ministry, of labour, assured a reporter’ that, besides the training, no other employment subsidy programmes are available for those working on the Expo site.

Viereck said the subsidy was important. ““It was designed to give people the professional skills to deal with the large numbers of people who will be attending the fair,” Viereck said. “It’s an orientation to Expo so people will be well versed in the nature of the fair.”

Asked whether learning to sell hamburgers is an activity worth subsidizing, Viereck said “In B.C. the service sector is

very important.*’ He said the experience is good for people “either as an employee or starting up your own business.“-

Resistance to .Litton in -PEI CHARLOTTETOWN (CUP) 7 - A loose coalition of Prince Edward Island farmers, peace activists, women’s groups and academics is resisting a bid by Litton Industries, which has an operating budget many times greater than the provinc_ial government, to build‘ an armaments plant here.

The coaliton, dubbed the Island Way, was formed in January after Premier Jim Lee invited Litton to build an air defence anti-tank systems plant if it won a federal contract.

Other companies competing for the contract say they will build in other areas. A decision is expected in April.

The Island Way is hoping to convince Litton by then that their presence isn’t wanted. According to Roy Johnstone, coordinator of the Island Peace Committee, which is part of the coalition, opponents are fight, ing Litton on several grounds. *‘Many of us were quite concerned with the social imphcations of the arms race. As well, Litton is well-known for attacking the popular movement in Central America, and has a long history of anti-union activities,” he said.

“All these things told us there was a great deal of misinformation being presented, and that the people living here should know about it,” he said. A Lit-

ton plant in Toronto produces guidance systems for the U.S. cruise missile.

Johnstone said locating the plant in P.E.I. or another economically depressed area amounts to *‘economic black. mail. It’s either these projects and militarism, or high unemployment,” he said.

While the provincial government won’t disclose how much money it’s giving Litton as an incentive to locate on the island, Johnstone says the money could be put to better use in traditional industries such as . agriculture or the fishery. The government has said about 300 direct jobs and as many as 500 indirect jobs will be created if the plant is built here.

According to University of P.E.I. education professor Claudia Mitchell, who organized a group of students to debate the issue, a Litton plant would destroy the pastoral lifestyle on the island.

“It’s really difficult to fathom what it’s like having a company that large coming to a province this small. Litton’s budget of expenditures is 15 times as great as P.E.I.‘s,” she said.

Although the government has said the company will not have much influence in the island politics, Mitchell said “how much say they .would have in running things is very much in dispute.”

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Silencing -your enemy will not convert him This week, Imprint’s Forum pages play host to a unique little side-show to the Middle East conflict. By the time you read this, the event causing the brouhaha will be over. The PLO’s Canadian representative was invited to speak on campus -- and the letters poured in. Although announced several weeks ago, letters opposing Abdullah Abdullah’s visit to UW only appeared this week. Shortly thereafter, a few letters in support of the event arrived.

This is an unusual pattern for Imprint letters. Even’more unusual (and it would have left us scratching our heads if we didn’t. know what was going on) is the length of the letters. They are only about a tenth the size of the average letter to Imprint.

What you see on page 9. is an organized letter writing campaign - and a carefully organized one. The letters arrived so late that they could not be published before Mr.Abdullah’s speech. Thus the interest in the event-which they are bound to generate could not result in people actually going to hear the man. Read the letters, and you’ll find they all essentially make the same point.

Later in the week when those responsible for inviting Mr. Abdullah in the first place found out about these letters, a few (equally short) letters arrived supporting the event.

Ther,e are two groups on campus clearly recognizable as fan clubs of the two major Middle Eastern factions, the PLO and, the Israelis. And the battle waged on the Forum pages is strikingly reminiscent of the battle being fought in the Middle East. The one side’s argument can be summed up as an assertion that the PLO is such a personification of evil that they shouldn’t even be allowed to speak.

In more detail the arguments go like this: The PLO is a terrorist organization Terrorism is reprehensible Therefore permitting a member of a reprehensible organization to address UW students is tantamount to support of reprehensible activities.

Conclusion: The Federation of Students should not invite membersof reprehensible organizations to speak.

The first issue immediately raised is one of censorship vs. freedom of speech. Voltaire commented “I detest your views, but I’m prepared to die defending your right to express them. ” The anti-PLO faction clearly does not share this vision of liberal democracy.

Should we accept the premise that those with whom we disagree should not be aliowed to speak to us, we create two immense problems.

The first is, how do we judge whether or not we agree with someone without first having heard him? Secondly, how can we understand - or even fight -those with whom we disagree, unless we f-irst hear them out?

And here we see a dynamic typical of the Mid-East conflict.

Everybody has already made up their minds, and people have stopped talking. Instead they are just shooting each other.

Can peace, mutual understanding and cooperation ever result from that strategy?

Because they use violence and terror, kill childrenand women, and do other nasty things, the PLO is condemned as being so base and vile as not to deserve the minimum human right of free speech - even many thousands of miles away from the battle-field.

Clearly, the governments of the U.S., Libya, France, the U.S.S.R., Israel, Vietnam, Canada, the U.K., etc., etc., etc., are also guilty of using terror and violence in the pursuit of their objectives.‘If the

argument of t,hese anti-PLO writers is accepted, we should find ourselvesvery quickly refusing a hearing to any spokesperson of almost any nation-al organization in the world.

Is not the U.S. sponsorship of Nicaraguan Contras support for “international terrorism”?

Is not the U.S. and Soviet use of nuclear threat a terrorist activity, striking terror into the heart of all mankind? Was not the French destruction of the Rainbow Warrior a “terrorist” attack on innocent civilians?

Of course, the distinction between “terrorist” an.d “freedom fighter” depends entirely on whether you agree with him or not. Further. the distinction between “terrorist” and “army” is simply whether or not you are part of an internationally recognized nation-state.

A refusal to li‘sten to another based on distaste for his ideas cannot be seen as conducive to a broad education and a deeper understanding of the world we live in - surely part of the objective of pursuing “higher education”.

The problems of peace in the Middle East are graphically demonstrated by these arguments.

When people are deeply and emotionally committed to the stifling, silencing or extermination of the point of view of the other, there.is no room for anything but conflict.

And human conflict almost always involves two parties.

The PLO did not resort to violence in the midst of a calm and placid land blessed, by peace and equality. Whoever you care to blame, and whatever the causes, thousands of Palestinians have been living in refugee camps, unable to return to their homes, since 1948.’ That this injustice should have bred a violent response can hardly surprise anyone. They responded in the very same way that most every other nation, when confronted with oppression by another nation, has responded - with violence.

They responded just as many Jews - notably Menachem Begin - did after 1945: terrorist activity against the identified enemy.

In no way do we support terrorism. The resort to violence by anyone for any purpose represents the failure of the political process. Instead of working towards the resolution of conflict, the objective becomes the destruction of the’ power of the other side.

An assumption behind the “don’t let the PLO speak” argument is that the PLO is the cause of terrorism in the Mid-East, rather than a symptom of very much deeper problems.

Refusing to listen to the PLO may help one maintain that delusion, but it is hardly likely to increase understanding and lead to a fair and,just resolution of the conflict.

In fact, it can be-seen that those who would deny the PLO an international platform are as much a cause of terrorism as the PLO itself. When one is denied, any legitimate political expression, what is left but the illegitimate?

If the complaints of the Palestinian refugees had been responded to before the PLO’s founding in 1964, there would have been no reason for that group to resort to terrorism.

Regrettably, it is probably true that if the PLO had not resorted to violence, the rest of the world might still be oblivious to their complaint.

The Federation should be commended for not bowingto the pressure to silence Abdullah Abdullah - or anyone else for that matter.

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Prof. confuses scientific laws .and religion To the editor:

I wish to respond to Prof. Schroeder’s article, which appeared in last week’s Imprint.

Prof. Schroeder is evidently labouring under some confusion regarding the nature and purpose of science, and I would like to comment on a number of his assertions.

Science’ is not, as Prof. Schoroeder states, “a mathematical approach to nature”; rather, science is the systematic study of the physical universe, and its interpretation in terms of a general and consistent order, In a fundamental sense, our physical perceptions are subjective; science represents a means through which we can agree on the extent to which those perceptions are shared.

Mathematics is not “an art”; mathematics is a symbol system with a logically consistent structure. That mathematical concepts are said to be abstract is a truis’m: all concepts are apstracts.

Analogies can be drawn between mathematicai models and perceived physical reality. Accordingly, mathematics is a useful tool of scientific inquiry, to the extent that such models are consistent with observation.

The social, political, and psychological sciences are not “based on the belief that even -man can be known through mathematical methodologies,” if by this the professor is referring to the use of mathematical models to predict human behavior. It is, I believe, generally accepted that mathematical models are inadequate to

predict the behavior of teleological, non-deterministic systems such as human individuals and societies. Science has no argument with free will. Nor is human consciousness to be considered a scientific anomaly: it is well know that open systems can, through the import of negentropy, evolve toward progressively more ordered (and improbable) states, and exhibit complex, probabilistic, and purposive behaviour in response to their environment. The evolution of life on this planet (and, very probably, on others) is neither impossible, or is it science fiction.

Scientific laws do not “reflect the nature of mathematics rather than the true nature of the world.” Mathematics may be employed to construct hypothesis about the physical universe; scientific laws can only be established through empirical testing of these hypotheses. To the extent that obsertiation does not support the model, it is the model, and not the observed reality, which is dispensed with.

Scientific laws must not be confused with scientific truth, for no such animal exists. Scientific laws make statements about what is probably going td happen under a given set of conditions, on the basis of what has been observed to happen. If I throw a ball into the air, for example, the law of gravity (and my own experience) leads me to conclude that it will probably fall back down, since this is what has always taken place. Science is thus essentially descriptive, and mathematical (or other kinds of) models are only useful insofar as they can reliably describe what actually happens. Accordingly,

different, competing models may exist, such as the wave and particle models pf light. There is no paradox here. ’ Prof. Schroeder apparently has trouble with scientific conclusions regarding the age of the universe, on the basis that the Bible says something different. The Bible is tie less a work of human ingenuity than, say, relativity theory (claims for its divine inspiration notwithstanding).‘Furthermore, the account of creation in the book of Genesis admits of a broad range of interpretafion, and not all Christians find it difficult to reconcile science and religious faith.

Scientific knowledge expands and changes continually, as the limits to our powers of observation are extended.

Scientific models of the physical universe are never abs’olute, but may become obsolete as new knowledge causes us to reject them.

Prof. Schroeder’s contention that “a new world religion’* is arising, which “involves the belief that the mathematical models of the science are real” may or may not be valid, but it has nothing whatsoever to do with science.

Nicholas Dobbing Planning 2B

Imprint igndres other side bf demonstration To the editor: A counter-demonstration took place during the underfunding demonstration last week which focussed on the mismanagement of funds which are presently available at UW. Several television stations and newspapers carried the full story, including interviews with the counter-demonstrators, but the university’s own student paper either did not cover the counter-demonstration or chose to ignore it.

The counter-demonstration was organized by students acting as individuals. They felt the federation was misrepresenting them by addressing the underfunding issue without addressing far worse financial problems brought on by the administration of this university and not the government.

The President of the university’s involvement with the demonstration can be seen as purely a political tactic. He, being a Progressive Conservative, found the perfect opportunity to attack the Ontario Liberal government with the assistance of the Federation of Students. Hopefully, when a minority of misrepresented students speak out again, they will not be ignored by the student paper.

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The word mystic derives from the Greek musein, “to close one’s eyes,” not from musterium, “mystery,” as many nonmystics imagine. There is nothing mysterious about mysticism, which Rabbi Heschel defines as “radical amazement,” Meister Eckhart as “unselfconsciousness,” and Matthew Fox as “our deepest unitive experiences,” I would define it as making experience primary, interpretation secondary. If, for example, you have a vision ora dream, that is what is real for you. HOW you choose to interpret it is less important.

So mystical experience doesn’t puzzle or threaten me: like a poem, or bird’s song, it just is. What does baffle me is rationalism, or, I should say, I am baffled by what rationalism leaves out. (By rationalism I mean not just the sciences, but traditional education in the liberal arts.)

So, it seems, are others baffled, so many and so much so that our educational systems have begun to wake up to the fact that the mystical side has to be acknowledged. kll over North America--in universities and community colleges, at retreat centres and out of church basements-courses and symposiums designed to release the mystic in us are being offered with increasing frequency. I meet persons constantly who are coming out of the closet as mystics: writers and scientists, doctors,\ street people, house-wives and -husbands, and students, especially students. Maybe they’ve ,taken a course in Heidegger, or holistic medicine, or shamanism or TM, or C.G. Jung, or attended a weekend “sweat,” or just talked to sobebody and realized this was the direction they were coming from. But-and this is the point of this article--seldom do I meet a minister of religion, and never have I met ,a professor of theology, who proclaims that he is, or is willing to become, a mystic.

What’s happening here? And here I quote from Matthew Fox’s recent article in the magazine Creation (Mar/ Apr, ‘86), Is Yale Di’virzity -School afdc Fox, who translated such

, marvellous and neglected spiritual sources as Meister Eckhart and Hildegard of Bingen, gave a colloquium at Yale \ Divinity School to which nobody came (pobody, at least, from the faculty, because the faculty at YDS flatly said: “Mysticism is a fad”). Fox replied: “Fear plays a large role in so irrational a situgtion as we now have: where lay folks get the mystics and ordained ones don’t. It is a commentary on the deep spiritual poverty of our educational systems that because of patriarchy, of advanced capitalism, ofrepression of the artist and the child, of dried-up right brains, of over-definition of truth as an exclusively left-brain discovery, or ignorance, of prejudice, of sexism , of racism, of fear of letting go, of Jacob’s ladder control games, of timidity, of puniness of soul, , of pessimism and cynicism, of homocentrism, schools claiming to be divinity schools deny the mystic.”

And he says: “I suggest that what liberalism and fundamentalism and Rambo all have in common is this: The repression of the mystic. A mystic lies in every human heart and mind and imagination. And it is religion’s primary task to liberate that mystic so that it can serve the I cause of compassion, creativity and justice-making.”

Amen. But I would go further. 1would say that, not only is it religion’s primary task to liberate the mystic within us, it is, or ought to be, the chief goal as well of a liberal education.

For what does a B.A. or a B.Sc. (or an M.A., or a Ph.D.) matter, if we are ill-prepared for life? Or, to quote another mystic, “What does a man gain if he lbses his own soul?”

Nothing...nothing . .. ..

(The Rev. Dr. Tom York is United Church Chaplain to UW and WLU. His office iS at St. Paul’s College.)

by Alan Yoshioka We are often encouraged to believe we fire powerless to change the way society works,. I am convinced that we must reject this kind of defeatism if we and our world are to survive. “A different light” has been my attempt to “act locally” to improve one aspect of society, namely, its attitudes toward homosexualtiy. .

I am about to move on. Within a few weeks, I will be what one might call a “Confirmed Bachelor” of Mathematics -except that I feel there is no need for a euphemism to describe who I am.

That hasn’t always been so. When 1 first came to Waterloo, I couldn’t even admit my homosexuality to myself, let alone declare it publicly. Occasionally my true feelings would emerge from the inner closet, but I always managed to explain them away.

Then finally I said aloud, “I’m tired of playing games with myself. The fact is, I have these feelings and 1have to learn to deal wifh them somehow.” That was four years ago.

In September ‘84, 1 began writing a column for Imprint. 1 called it “Everyone knows” because of all the terrible things “everyone” knows about homosexuality.

1 was determined to destroy those myths. (I changed the name to “A different light” later that term to reflect a new emphasis on writing for the so-called “middle ground” instead of the homophobic fringe.)

1 came out to my parents early last March (with happy results). Around that time I was increasingly uncomfortable about writing under a pseudonym -- especially the rather ridiculous name “Zeke Gerrard” which I had chosen, for reasons not worth repeating. A year ago, as I tried to write about the award-winning documentary The Times of Harvey Milk, I found there was no way I could convey the tremendous inspiration it gave me, unless I acted on its message by coming out of the closet. My coming-out column will be reprinted here next week.

I didn’t know what would happen when I came out. 1 feared harassment and discrimination, yet I knew I could not let fear rule my life. I knew that any hostility I might encounter could never outweigh the freedom I experienced through my decision to be open about myself. And, as it turns out, there has been-no harassment at all.

I am gratified by the many people who have given me words of encouragement. Thank you.

Special thanks to Peter in Toronto, who showed me-that “gay” really could mean happy, to Barb in Waterloo, who proved that a devout Christian could be gay-positive, to Bob in Ottawa, who got me angry and turned that anger into something constructive, to my ‘roommates, to GLLOW members and to Imprint staff, for all their support, and to my lover, Alan O’Connor, whose spirit has sustained me through it all.

Think globally, the world is crying out for change. Believe . . in your power to change it. Then act locally.

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Lawson If 1985 was Inter-national Year of Youth, 1986 may well go down in histgry as Canada> Year of Youth, thanks, ironically enough, to the crusades of a 61 year old fasting senator.

Governments seem to thrive upon fostering the illusion that youth are powerless. Early last year, I read with surprise the stated goals of International Youth Year -- the government. would provide funding for projects connecting youth * with the themes of peace, development, and participation! It seemed to good to be true. Well, it was. The net result was like a Hollywood movie set - easily dismantled to reveal the ‘barren truth. Little more materialized than a series of adultrun and conceived .“conferences” inviting youth as token delegates.

Let’s face it, tu be competitive in filing grant applications, one needs an advocate, and by and large, the advocates were adult social service agencies with their own agendas. Sure, the same agencies will tell us that “apathy” prevented the full participation of Canada’s youth, but it’s an apathy spawned by the very system Ithese agencies buy into. We get our bucks where we can. I attended one youth conference where only one out of twelve panel discussions was comprised of young people, this panel being the most poorly attended by youth and adults alike.

Tory times are good times, and the party’s just begun! j As Prime Minister Mulroney continues to refine his rhetoric, he sounds more and more like U.S. President Reagan every day, gloating now over a prosperous Tory future.

Defence Minister Eric Neilson scoffs incessantly, he’s so good at it, whiIe a former Quebec soap opera star, Youth Minister Andree Champagne opens her mouth occass-ionally to change feet. Capital punishment takes precedence over . basic rights for-gays, with waffling politicans fearing that their impressionable eighteen-year-olds will convert at the hands of militant chicken hawks m the armed forces, _ RCMP, classroom, or what have you. (Last I heard, a redblooded 18 year old doesn’t get converted to anything without putting up a hell of a fight!)

And; in their recent axing of the Katimavik programme, the Conservatives have clinched for anyone who still harboured doubts, their blatant disregard for social concerns, if not simple truth. They have cut an award-winning programme that has garnered international acclaim, in spite of a pre-election promise to continue funding “the best thi.ng the Liberals have ever done.” In spite of the fact that the contract was not to expire until 1987. In spite of the fact that, for the money, Katimavik was the best programme Canada has ever been able to of@r its young people.

Our country 1s being run by a government that breaks promises, welches on contracts, and tells outright lies - even to the blatant ovations of its party’s members. And issues like basic human rights seem hopelessly beyond the grasp of these pin-striped moral philistines.

Is this a government that can be trusted?

The Mulroney government is proving itself a failure and a farce as it brings into sharp focus a widening disparity between yuppie neo-conservatives and .the youth of Canada, who according to studies documented in the Report to the Special Senate Committee on Youth, are arguably against the very values espoused by conservatism. The report, for example, states that youth “are more worried about peace, the threat of nuclear war, and such specific issues as the testing of the cruise missile in Canada, which a majority of youth opposed and a majority of adults favoured.”

It would seem that Mulroney’s hope is to eventually Toryize youth programmes - an idea that won’t bode well with -youth now that we know just what the Tory vision of youth is. Yet one would suspect that their biggest fear is that programmes like Katimavik - with its social service and environmental emphasis - are really socialist training camps!

But PC youth, don’t you be fooled, either! Don’t believe for a moment that Mulroney, or anyone for that matter, would have 16 year olds in blue pinstripe suits running around controlling Bay Street.

Youth empowerment should never have become a partisan issue to begin with. The Senate Committee’s report makes sweeping suggestions based on observations that can be verified on the street by any inquisitive person. Mulroney responds to Senator Hebert’s hunger strike over Katimavik ’ with childish silence’and sneering condescension. Each day of silence increases his embarrassment quotient and lessens his credibility: Meanwhile’, there is the p‘resident of the Mount Allision Young P.C. association, Mark Sabada, who is hunger-striking to protest hunger striking (calling it “sleazy political manoevering” - is he jealous because he didn’t think of it first?) upping the ante by ceasing to take water. Ooh, scary -- as if his apparently unselfconscious intellectual suicide wasn’t embarrassing; enough.

There is a simple, face-saving soIution for Mulroney, if he can but see his way clear to it. He should step back and admit he was wrong, reinstate Katimavik, and consider carefully the recommendations of the Special Senate Committee.

Make youth first-class citizens, not Tory robots. If he can’t do it to save his own blighted political career, then he might consider’it to save the future to which he cIaims to be so passionately committed, the future into which he would have us trust him to lead us.

Such a step would receive the blessings and cheers of’ an entire country, in much the same way that Marc Lalonde received thunderous applause from both sides of the House of Commons, when he announced a $40 million increase in funding for Katimavik in 1983. An increase that was rolled back as soon as the Conservatives took power.

Youth ARE the future: Senator Hebert’s unusual gesture is truly meaningful for two reasons. First, we are not used to seeing a senator with such fiery commitment to a cause. Second, it has not been the Canadian experience to see anyone so committed to their idealism. Perhaps it is this commitment that will, as Hebert hopes, sensitize youth .to their own plight, make us less “patient”, ‘and draw us from OUF cesspool of apathy.

Then maybe, like UW President Douglas Wright, will Mulroney reverse his position and say, “hey guys I was with you all along. Just wanted to draw your attention to the issues.. Look .- I’m really a hero!”

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To the editor: I am writing in response to Paula Elliot’s letter of March 7, calling the decertification of Carleton’s journalism society for inviting South African Ambassador Glenn Babb to speak, “unbelievably ridiculous and totally unjustifiable.”

Does she seriously believe Babb is going to give his audience the ‘“full story”? Is he going to tell us of the millions of children dying of maln.utrition while the government spends one billion dollars annually on “defence” ? Is he going to tell us of the children shot dead in, the streets because they were born the wrong colour? Or of the brutal raids by his government on neighbouring states? Or of the torture of political detainees?

To’me, this is not an exercise in free speech. Glen Babb is being paid to tell us one side of the situation, the side we see on the television ads, in attempts to desensitize Canadians from the situation in South Africa. He is here to promote inaction by selling his country’s propaganda that things aren’t so bad in South Africa, and to tell us how profitable apartheid is for Canadians. And it is profitable. But should we sell basic humin rights for profits as he is asking?

What is there to debate? Slave labour? Racism? Murder?

Does his government give Blacks the opportunity to debate their

country’s policies ? Does his government even offer Blacks the opportunity to vote?

The decertification of the journalism society is not “punishment for that society’s willingness to coufront the apartheid issue.” It is a “punishment” for giving the ambassador of a country, which denies human rights to the majority of. its citizens, the opportunity to justify the dehumanization of people based on their skin colouy.

How can we as a country “officially condemn” apartheid, calling it a crime againts humanity, yet offer a representative of apartheid a platform on which to defend it?

Our society supports freedom of speech. We may not agree with what one has to say, but we have defended one’s right to say it. But this right is not absolute. No one has the freedom to say anything which compromises‘the freedoms of others. Glen Babb should not be able to “debate” apartheid, just as we would not let Hitler “debate” his policies concerning Jews.

I am only willing to give Glen Babb as much freedom to defend apartheid in my country as he and his government would give me to condemn it in his.

Tana Turner Psychology

Vegetarian club.is .for all . , To the editor: In the-Food For Thought column a couple of weeks back, Cindy Long expressed concern about the new vegetarian club being fprmed on campus this term. I think we all appreciated this kind of feedback because it gives us a chance to enlighten anyone sharing a similar view on vegetarianism.

Cindy Long first indicated that many people believe “vegetarians are a group of self-righteous snobs”. She is absolutely corri=ct in saying this is a prejudiced view, but more obviously, it is a stereotypical one. In fact, it seems absurd to label ourselves superior, intellectually, or otherwise, for the simple reason that within our group, there exists too many varied motives for choosing vegetarianism.

There are many types of vegetarians:Some choose this diet for health concerns (such as reducing.cholesterol intake), others think it is a matter of ethics. Sonie are environmentalists who believe it is wasteful to feed masses and masses of grains and vegetables to livestock before it ever reaches humans, and that the amount of meat received is too little in comparison to what was actually put in.

Many others consider it a matter of convenience, economically, to

purchase cheaper vegetables over more expensive meats. Then there are ethnic vegetarians for whorl it is an accepted way of life and is supported by religion. So you see, we cannot afford to be snobby about our title of “vegetarian” when the most absolute thing we share in common is our dietary lifestyle.

Long next seemed disturbed that forming a vegetarian club may isolate US further from society, when we are supposedly promoting unity. 1 think this part‘icular issue analyses the term “vegetarian” too deliberately and consciously. Yes, vegetarianism is a philosophy, but it is more generally a way of life. It is ,again a dietary lifestyle. No, we don’t want isolation, /and doesn’t everyone want unification?

Please be assured that this club is not intended to be some esoteric foundation for the elite few tocome togetherand philosophize;This would be selfish and superficial to the extreme. In fact, we are not “creating a separate social group,” but instead we would actually like to step out and make an effort to promote some awareness, to show that a vegetarian lifestyll has many good things to offer.

Ina Nanda Math 2A

Co-op jobs not for “little girls”?

To the editor: Several of my interviewers have brought to my attention serious omissions in the co-op job descriptions. These omissions are becoming more and more common and action should be taken by Coordination and Placement to ensure that students like myself are not misled.

The most prevalent of these omissions seems to be that (now, I don’t know whether this is the timi> or place to sav this but . . breathe) - 1 would be working with”guys”.

If 1 had known this when fillingout my application form, I would have nev& applied to these jobs. I’ve heard from other female students who say that other interviewers have told them that these brutes whistle, cat-call and use language that would just curl your hair. Of course, one interviewer informed me that the last “little girl” they hired did just a fine job in putting these animals in their places, but 1just don’t know if little old me could cope. To avoid these situations, job descriptions should include such crucial information as female to male worker ratios.

Many job descriptions also neglect to mention smell. Luckily, interviewers tell me - because 1 usually forget to ask - that their plants smell. When they get no reaction (well, 1 am in th’e process of calculating how much smell my sensitive little nose can tolerate) they mention again that their plants smell real bad -that they stink to high heaven! Well, the very idea! I think all job descriptions should be accompanied by Likert scales ranging from rot your nose off to sweet as daisies.

One omission stressed only by some interviewers is that t heirjobs are challenging, frustrating, and if they hired me, they’d expect me to stick it out, the whole four months.. For jobs such as these, job

description should include a short sentence gtating, “Ladies, piease leave your Sally Hansen nail care kits at home.”

I sincerely hope that Co-ordination will seriously consider these important suggestions. .

Tamara $. Plant 3A Chemical Engineering

Male biological superiority in animal world is fallacious \ To the editor: Francis Chow (Imprint, March 7) is being ridiculous when he writes that male chimpanzees are involved in “territorial adventures, the exercise of power, the planning and waging of wars, and the wheeling and dealings of political intrigue.” Is the book he cites, Chimpanzee Politics, one of science fiction?

The behaviour of wild chimpanzees has been Studied fbr many years by such experts as Jane Goodall. What they have noted, especially, is the lack of structure in chimpanzee society and the demanding nature of the females when they are in heat and insist that many males mate with them. Many men have twisted behavioural data of non-human animals collected in the field to make it seem that females are by nature subordinate to males. They are not, as I have documented at length in my book Harems and Other Horrors (plug).

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To the editor: To say the least, I was extremely surprised uppn reading Jonathan Sadleir’s article entitled “Mel’s Right”, in your sports section of March 7, 1986. The Imprint is supposed to represent the journalistic endeavors of what I have long considered an outstanding Canadian institution, Waterloo University.

However, to have printed an article indicating such a gross neglect of responsibility is a shocking occurrence.

Mr, Sadleir’s article smacks of immaturity and pathetically vindictive journalism. First of all, my column in which he refers to in Excalibur is taken completely out of ‘context. The cohimn was intended to lament the fact that the York basketball Yeomen are not provided with any real competition in their own division, the OUAA East. References made to York’s overall record and home winning streak are clearly made within the context of the OUAA Eastern Division. In fact, the column makes the case for more games involving York and the ‘better’ clubs from the Western

Division, including the likes of Waterloo, Brock and Western.

Unfortunately, Mr. Sadleir has made a callous attempt to ‘gloat’ over Waterloo’s fine victory at York in the OUAA Championship game, and in doing so has made an ass of himself.

Most-disturbing, is the fact that Mr. Sadleir is apparently the Sports Editor at the Imprint. How could an individual displaying obviously poorjournalistic skills arrive at such a position of authority? I can only feel for the other Imprint sportswriters who must answer to Mr. Sadleir’s Ghildishness. To take quotations out of cohtext is an occasional journalistic error. To then create fictitious aliegations based-on those quotations in unforgiveable. * Everyone makes mistakes. Especially at a -student-run newspaper. Nevertheless, it is truly tragic to witness incompetence and j stupidity as a result of malicious irresponsibility.

My sympathies go out to those at Waterloo who recognize Mr. Sadleir in his true colours.

Mel. D. Broitman Excalibur

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by Tim S, Macneil abstractions, and then juggles and reshuffles them in any manner 3B Combinatories and Qptimization deemed appropriate by the thinker, in accordance with convictions Who is Mr. 9. Schroeder, and why does he say such teri-ible things (read: faith) whkh are based on yet more arbitrary abstractions about the real world, anyway? \ (read: revelation) with no root in reality.

Science, however, is the collection of tools (including the much For four years now, I have read in Imprint the occasional unpolished ravings of Mr. Schroeder. I have always been appalled at the reviled mathematical modelling) whereby we attempt to abstract flaccid logic of his arguments, and the unholy arbitrariness of his (Latin: take from) knowledge from the real world around us, and assumptions. the knowledge obtained thereby.

Witness his latest outrage, Science has become a new religion, on If science and religion are in opposition, it is because the abstracp. 8 of last week’s Imprint. It is hard to refute so many mistakes at tions from the real world (which we can knowledge) often contraonce. Their sheer volume and intricate interdependence mean it diet those of the random tellings of prophets and theologians would take three times as much space to correct them as Mr. (which are respectively revelation and dogma). If science carries less Schroeder took to, commit them: facts ignored, words redefined, weight with Mr. Schroeder, we can only conclude he has no particufallacies exercised . .. the litany is endless and a complete rebuttal lar interest in knowing about this world.. This includes knowing wduld bore the reader.

I how to live in it, how to value things in it, and how to be happy in i< I shall therefore try to address only the more, horrid part of his If human happiness is then somehow a consequence of science (or essay: the spirit behind it. This chaotic flurry of intellectual effluent more properly, thinking in general), it is left to the reader to decide purports to show that “science” and “religion’* are the same kind of which of science and religion is the evil thing. thing, that they are in opposition, and that science is therefore evil.

So, why does Mr. Schroeder say these things? As mentioned, But this whole way of thinking rests on one basic axiom. there is a second main theme to his’essay. This is that science is part Religion, so we are told in the very first line, is faith in God or of a “co&ng world religion”. This accusation occurs because Mr. supernatural powers. We are then immediately informed that Schroeder has a problem. science is the exact opposite, and also the same thing.

The problem is that the year 2,000 is nigh upon us. Now, as all This *weird twilight zone premise, namely that things simul.good fundamentalists know, this is, the advent of the Millenium, taneously are and are not what they are, underlies everything else when the great tribulations of the end times shall occur, and the Mr. Schroeder says. That alone is sufficient grounds for dismissing heavens and the earth shall be renewed, etc., etc. But when Mr. the entire argument. But M,r. Schroeder adds the flourish of hypocSchroeder looks around frantically for signs of the satanic shock risy. Science is guilty of paradoxes such as the particle vs. wave troops (who have only 14 years left to rear their ugly heads), and sees nothing, he concludes they must be cleverly disguised as somemodels in physics, and that is a sign of corruption. On the other hand, we can blithely ignore the trinity/ unity paradox of Christian thing else. theology, because religion is good, and is allowed such blunders.

Since every other philosophy or religion is not Fundamentalist The actual distinction is that Fundamental Christianity (a la Christianity, and since science is inimical to it, he concludes that all Schroeder) insists that at all times, God is trinity and is unity, i.e. is these things must be in depraved alliance against it. It doesn’t and is not one thing. Mr. Schroeder accuses physicists of the same matter if they espise each other, or have nothing in common; they duplicity, when in fact what they say is that light (for example) is are foreign, an% -therefore evil. like a particle in a certain context, and like a wave in another. We Thus, anyone who refuses to use the Bible as a standard reference see that by adding in the context that Mr. Schroeder blatantly ignores, text for everything from anthropology to music and nuclear physics the paradoxes of physics evaporate. He would have us believe that to zoology is numbered among the dark-souled millions of the the very real and persistent, paradoxes of relgion need no excuses, Anti-Christ. Not only did Satan put fossils in rocks to lead man to since it (being good) can simultaneously be a bastion of consistency doubt the Bible; now it would appear that, as you feared, calculus is and allow paradoxes. a tool of the Devil. Perhaps numbers themselves are demons sent to There are two consistent themes in the oratorical smoke and torment us (as all first year mathies would perhaps suspect). ‘mirror show that follow in his essay. The first is that the abstract I would contelrd however, that Mr. Schroeder’s religious paraworld of ideas and the concrete world of ideas have nothing in noia is not sufficient grounds for condemning the whole body of common. This is the origin of his supposition that science and human knowledge. If anything, it serves to show just how unhappy religion are the same kind of thing. A quick perusal of the dictionreligion can make a man. I can only wonder how Mr. Schroeder copes with this dilemma: on the one hand he has an evident deep ary-will dispel this misconception.

Science, we learn, is “systemized knowledge, derived from obserhatred of mathematical models, on the other hand, because he is a vation, study, etc., ” whereas religion is “belief in or worship of God civil engineer, they earn him his living. In fact, brief introspection on his part would suggest to him that, by permitting mankind some or gods, a specific system of belief or worship built up around God or gods.” If we are to properly contrast these two words, it is of element of control over the worl! around it, mathematical models essence to know also that the key word “belief-” means “a convicmake tht: pursuit of happiness possible. Or perhaps Mr. Schroeder tion that certain things are true.” In other words, religion posits despises happiness as well?

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by JoAnn Hutchjson The march to protest underfunding attracted 900 participants on Wednesday, March 12. However, I cannot say I was amongst those who participated. My failure to march was not due to apathy, but rather due to a matter of principle.

In many ways, I am supportive of the protest and the tactics being used. I cannot discredit anyone for marching because at least these people are informed, concerned, and acting on an issue they must strongly believe in. This is more than I can say for the majority, who lean towards apathy and mediocrity. I must also give credit to the organizers of the protest because they have obviously thought out the strategy and tactics they are using. I like the fact that they are attempting to increase “awareness*’ among students and people in the community to gain local support before going to Queen’s Park. I am also glad to see that UW President Douglas. Wright supported and attended the event, since this gives the protest a more united and credible approach.

I admit that I too have felt the crunch of underfunding. It . has not been easy to pay for ever increasing tuition fees over the past four years and it is frustrating to pursue a “quality” education in overcrowded and underequipped classrooms. I , do not enjoy being treated like a commodity. I also real& the importance of education for society, although I sometimes wonder about the validity of this last statement. Our society‘is supposedly one of the better educated ones and we are still ignorant and irresponsible (I’d hate to see our state if we were less educated!)

However, I cannot fully support the underfunding protest. I We must ask ourselves whether the issue is underfunding or rather “mismanagement** of funds. Is government money allotted to universities spent on research for the betterment of private industries or for the betterment of fee-paying students universities are supposedly serving? I was glad to see

that some of the protestors in the march supported this argument of mismanagement.

Furthermore, I cannot whole-heartedly support the: underfunding issue because I feel it is a reflection of what I have heard referred to as a “consumersociety.”

We are willing to take, take, take from society for our own selfish gains,.but we are reluctant to give anything back in return. What are our motives for being at university? Are we here because every middle-class kid is expected to obtain a post-secondary degree, get a “comfortable”job, perhaps make a buck, and then be able to look down on the rest of society’s “losers” and say “tsk, tsk!“? (NB: I would like to clarify the definition of the word “loser”. A “loser” is someone who habitually uses the word to describe others.) Or, are we here to gain knowledge, skills, and the ability to think through issuers, so that we can return to the mainstream of society and help facilitate improvements in society by working with others? Our motives for being at university, and our motives for fighting uvderfunding need to be examined and validated.

Finally, I cannot fully support the fight against underfunding because, as a student, I do not feel that povertystricken. Sure, I have to eat my share of Kraft Dinners, but I am sure that many people in today’s world would consider such plebian fare a luxurious feast. At least it would stop the hunger pains for a few hours. In comparison to many people in the world, university students are not “suffering” that much. There are a lot of social and famine relief programs that could benefit much more from government funds.

In closing, I wo?uld like to clarify that I am not totally against the underfunding protests, since I realize the value of education and the importance of the publicexpressing views.

However, before we rush on, I think we need to examine the issue in more depth. Is the issue underfunding or mismtinagement of funds? Furthermore, we must examine our motives for fighting underfunding and realize that we are not the only “disadvantaged’* group in society.

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Feds irresponsible A science fiction ’ fantasy magazine recently ran a comic which showed a man struggling up a mountainside and cr) i:;g out, ‘“I have come to speak with Sarvul, the Great Gi:d!” A large hand comes out of the clouds and flicks the man off the mountain, saying, “That’s Goddess, twerp!” I thought this was quite funny, but it also brought hom.e a This man assumed. print about religion and spirituality. like thousands of others, that a greater spiritual power is riccessarily male. TUOW. 1 am no great theologian, but 1see no reason that a deity, needs to be either male or female. What 1 do see is that the judeo-Christian tradition I have been . nrought up in has a huge male bias. .I <i>t this week, a conterence of 28 Anglican primates (head hIshops, I would assume - aren’t we all primates?) decided !!;at “the time is not ylet ripe” for the election of women bishops in the church. They made this decision reportedly slot on theological grounds, but because it might disrupt the unity of the church. Certainly it will disrupt unity when the bishop third-ranked in the anglican heirarchy, Graham Leonard, claims that women are “biologically*’ unsuited to the priesthood” and that spirituality belongs to men alone (Globe-and Mail, March 17, 1986).

Feminists have criticized not only the patriarchal hierarchy of the church and its view of women as unclean, somehow less spiritually capable than men, but also the dualism of Judeo-Christian philosophy. This dualism separates the spirit from the body, man from nature (I use “man” intentionally), emotion from intellect, and so on. Many women have come to see this way of thinking as disastrous because it does not acknowledge the interconnectedness and complexity of life on this planet.

As an alternative to world religions which do not include women and which operate on dualism, women have reclaimed and developed Goddess-centered religions. The Goddess is envisioned in three aspects as virgin (i.e. unmarried, not sexually inactive), mother, and crone, incorporating the cyclical processes of birth, life and death. Modern Goddess-centered religions, like Witchcraft, reject the dual: istic principle, recognizing instead the holistic nature of life.

As Starhawk, a practitioner. of modern Witchcraft claims, “The Goddess is not separate from the world - She is the world, and all things in it: moon, sun, earth, star, stone, seed, flowing river, wind, wave, leaf and branch, bud and blossom, fang and claw, woman and man. In Witchcraft, flesh and spirit are one” (The Politics of Women’s Spirituality).

Central metaphors of Goddess spirituality are spinning and weaving. Both are extremely meditative and creative acts,which can be extended to refer to a type of approach to life, or as methodology of the psycho-spiritual quest. Both are also traditionally practised by women. Part of exploring women’s spirituality in a feminist context has been to imbue traditionally feminine activities with a sense of value and power (eg. to use “spinster” in its original sense, “one who spins,” rather than as a derogatory term for an unmarried woman). This tactic is not, as it may appear, inconsistent with the struggle to free women from traditional roles.

Rather, it recognizes that what women have done, and the way women have thought, does have value, and that we can embrace some traditional feminine activities as positive and expressive of women’s experience.

Personally, I find the ideas of Goddess-centered religions quite fascinating, albeit a little weird. In perspective, though, they are no weirder than any other organized religion 1 can think of, and they speak to me in such a refreshing, life-centered, energizing and empowering way, that I think 1 might become a Witch.

To the editor: Article 9 of the PLO Covenant states “‘Armed srruggie is the only wav to liberate Palestine and IS therefore a strategv and not tacttcs.”

This was the basis for a PLO formulation in 1964: PLO terrorism is not an extension of frustrated diplomatic attempts to votce grievances. it is a deliberate strategy to kill people m order to attract attention.

Cibviouslv, their strategy has been successtul here at Waterloo. A portion of our $13.75 contribution to the Federation is being used . to bring a self-prociaimed PLO representative to campus. By inviting Abdullah Abdullah to Waterloo, we are, m fact. rewarding the PLO for its terrorist actions.

There is n3 question that the status of the Palestinians must be addressed. But. by inviting a member of the world’s premiere terrorist organization. we are basically confirming the PLO’s strategy as a legitimate strategy for a legitimate cause. While the cause is a real one, terrorist actions to attract world attention should not be approved of by extending Mr. Abdullah an invitation.

I’d like to remind the Federation that PLO terrorist attacks are aimed at innocent civilians. I, for one, question whether our money should be used to support such actions.

Shari Segall . _Applied Studies/ Poli. Sci. Editor’s note: The Federation of Students did not anything to bring Abdullah Abdullah to UW.

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I unequivocaly oppose the Federation of Students’ use of my money to s onsor an event at which Abdullah Abdullah, a member of the PL 8 is to speak. Who’s kidding who? Does the Federation think that the students of UW are so politically ignorant that they can pass this off as public education? The PLG has no interest in Middle East peace, but seeks the complete annihilation of the state

of Israel. And to hear Abdullah Abdullah speak on the “spectre of terrorism’* ? Wonderful logic, if you support terrorism. After all, the PLO is the world’s leading expert.

“Want civilians blown to bits? For more information, call the PLO. In Canada, speak to Abdullah Abdullah.” To the Federation of Students, for shame. 1 expect better.

Jonathan Koven 3B Math

To the editor: How astonished and disgusted I was to hear that the Federation of Students has invited Abdullah Abdullah to speak at UW. As he is a member of the PLO, a self-admitted terrorist organization, I hardly feel he is qualified to present views on peace in the Middle East. Peace for him will come only with the annihilation of the state of Israel, and.also as the PLO have shown us, the murder of many innocent civilians, children included.

As a fee-paying member of the Federation of Students, I am appalled and dismayed to know that my money is going to support the furthering of the views of such an organization. And 1 cannot believe that Tammy Candido, education commissioner of the Federation, could not find a better authority to speak on this topic.

What a sad day it is when the Federation has to stoop to such a low to find an “educational” speaker.

Beth Karstadt

To the editor: I wish to express my strong disagreement with the decision of Sonny Flanagan and the Federation of Students to implicitly condone the actions of a known terrorist organization, the PLO, by welcoming one of their members to campus, and by funding his appearance. The Federation of Students is entrusted by the student body to spend our money in responsible ways. Invitinga member of a group of terrorists is not responsible by any measure. How can

this be justified? Will the Baader-Meinhof be invited next? Perhaps the Red Brigade, or the IRA? If the Federation of students invites one terrorist organization onto our university today, will they myhe another next week? Surely Sonny Flanagan and the Federation have erred in their judgment.

To the editor: I am writing to protest to the appearance on campus of Abdullah Abdullah as a representative of the PLO. The PLO is a terrorist organization and should not have been invited by the Federation of Students.

I think it’s perfectly appropriate for speakers to put forth the

position of Palestinians; but, these should be legitimate representatives who do not belong to a terrorist organization.

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Chance to hear PLO rep. a great opportunity To the editor: As a Canadian-Palestinian student I am very grateful to the Federation of Students for inviting the PLO representative to speak on campus.

I have found that most Canadians have not met a Palestinian in person and that what they know about Palestinians generally comes from T.V. Such T.V. broadcasts are always propagating wild accusations with regard to alleged Palestinian/ PLO involvement in acts of terrorism. Mr. Abdullah’s visit should clarify many misunder-

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standings and simultaneously inform students about the plight of the Palestinian people.

Recently, an Israeli government representative made a visit to UW and now we have the chance to hear the other side. Hopefully; this kind of forum and subseauent discussion bvd all narties involved 1 might contribute to a peaceful solution to the conflict.

Azmi Farah 3rd. Year Math

To the editor: In recent times the PLO have been accused of every disaster and tragedy short of the space shuttle fiasco. For once it will be refreshing to put all this hysteria behind us and get on with the task of understanding the complexities of the Palestinian cause. I am there-

fore surprised and delighted to find that the Feds have seen fit to invite the Canadian representative of the PLO to speak ton campus.

Finally we will have the opportunity to hear a Palestinian opinion on the Middle East conflict.

Irene Gillin

To the editor: The forum of the PLO on campus is a unique opportunity for all discerning students to weigh relevent factors on what must be one of the most controversial issues in the world.

As a political science student, I find it particularly valuable to have the opportunity to obtain information from a primary source -- the PLO itself.

Leatham Carroll

William Shalinksy Associate Professor School of Urban and Regional Planning To the editor: The Federation of Students have insulted Canadians by providing a platform for a terrorist. How many more murders of innocent civilians in Rome, Vienna, Munich, . .. will it take for us to learn that terrorists neither understand our ideals of humanity nor do they represent any legitimate cause. Maybe we are just waiting for their attack on Canadian soil?

At the same time as our government announces the formation of a special anti-terrorist squad, the Feds bring a terrorist to campus.

Why did they chose the.‘PLO? Is it because the PLO is the largest, best-trained and well-connected group among the IRA, Red Brigades and their kin? Is an appearance of a South-African racist scheduled next? I hope it is not true.

Mike Dyman, Mechanical Engineering To the editor: I know the Federation of Students wants to be open-minded expose students to various causes. We do live in a land of speech. But inviting a member of the PLO? Next year, perhaps can hear from a rapist justifying his crime(s) to a Waterloo dicncc. Mike Sirota Accounting \

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by Cindy Long In North America, we tend to view rice as a side dish at dinner, but in many places on our planet, rice means the difference between life and death.

This versatile cereal grain is cultivated the world over in much the same way as it was grown and harvested centuries ago. Only recently have machine; been feasible because of the delicacy of the plant, Rice is considered so important in Asia that holidays and festivals are devoted to it, and songs and poems have been written about it. The Indonesians believed that rice had a soul and treated the grain in bleom with respect. L,oud noises were not allowed in the rice field so as not the frighten the rice-souls.

Nutrionally, rice contains important amino acids which are the basis of proteins. It has vitamin B, E and K and contains enough carbohydrates to make a filling meal. It is used for flour, wine, beer, pudding and as a gruel, as well as being directly edible with little or no processing. Very few people have allergies to rice so it is often prescribed for those with restricted diets.

There are over 7,000 varieties of rice which are divided into three main groups: long, medium and short grain. The longer the grain, the easier the kernels separate when cooked and the more expensive it is to mill. Besides the usual brown and whitevarities, red, blue, purple and striped types of rice exist, believe it or not.

Besides food, rice is used in the manufacture of many items. The hulls are used in the manufacture of soap, as a source of fuel, in construction materials and as roughage for animal feed. Rice oil is a high-quality, low-fat cooking oil and tee straw itself is used to make mats, rope, bags, sandals, roofs, etc. This grain is a good example of how the simplest things can provide for our needs. For me, rice is a symbol of the common.thread that connects humanity.

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The camp is now accepting registrations.

Deriise Glazebrook can be reached in the special programs office, Faculty of Arts, at 885-1211, extension 2005.

Blood pressure?

Nurses from UW Health and Safety and Conestoga School of Nursing will be available to test blood pressures in late March at various sites on campus.

There is no magic level for normal blood pressure. The higher your blood pressure is, the more likely you are to develop fatty-cholesterol deposits in the arteries. This \increases your chances of having a heart attack or stroke. Many people are unaware of their blood pressure levels, and what the results mean.

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Zwicker coming Barry Zwicker, a media analyst expert, will be talking on “Media Manipulation of Political Issues,” on March 27, 1986 at 8:00 pm. It will be held in MacKirdy hall at St. Paul’s College. ’ Barry Zwicker has been involved with the media in many different ways. He is involved with Content, a journiilism tieview magazine. He is also a freelance media critic and has had a regular radio program carried by the CBC. Zwicker’s talk will focus on media manipulation of Central American issues.

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A team of architecture students from the University of Waterloo has won the “R-2000 Student Design Challenge”, and a second UW team was awarded an honorable mention in the Ontario-wide design contest.

The contest is a firstatime venture announced by then Energy Minister George Ashe

on May 10, 1985. The current minister, Vincent Kerrio, announced . the winners in Toronto on March 18. The contest is co-sponsored by the Ontario Ministry of Energy, Fiberglas Canada and Select Homes Magazine. About 450 students from architecture schools at Ontario universities and colleges took part. /

“The new competition, the first of its kind in-Canada, encourages our budding architects to put into practice the latest innovations in the design and construction of low-energy housing,” Ashe said when the contest was announced. “This is critical, since home heating bills currently consume some $2 billion a year in Ontario alone.‘*

From left to right: Montgomery King, Prof. Joseph Somfay, Wen Xiu and Fillippo Scarpazza with drawings of the winning design in the R-2000 Student ,Design Challenge.

sign company, will provide a The winning team is made up four-month apprenticeship for of Montgomery King, Filippo two UW students at the comScarpazza and Wen Xiu, a visitpany’s head office in Vaning assistant professor to the couver, and all designs course from the People’s Resubmitted by schools will be public of China who is studying published in Select Homes’ naat Waterloo for a one-year petional magazine for builders riod. For the win, the school and home-buyers. The ministry receives $10,000 to be used as also plans to produce a combursaries by the school of archimemorative collection of stu-’ tecture.

(Second receives dent designs. $5,000, with $1,000 to five hoThe students started Somnorable mentions, and $500 for fay’s four-month course by up to four citations.)

Peter “learning some of the basics of Cizak, Andrew Jack and Elizaenergy efficient design,” and beth Ohi were the UW students then completed individual dewho won an honorable mensigns which were again refined, tion. with the three best chosen to be Faculty adviser, Prof. Joseph developed for the contest.

Somfay, the architect for many “Ultimately, though, we solar-heated, energy-efficient wanted something that would homes and buildings in Ontasell well in the housing market, rio, and the students* teacher in and yet would blend in well with Architecture 371.; a course on many existing subdivisions,” energy-and buildings, expressed King said. “And 1 believe we’ve elation at the win and the hoaccomplished that with this denorable mention by the other sign.” . group of UW students.

“We were trying, also, to de-“Not only are we pleased that sign a house that had some conone of our teams won, we’re delighted another received honor- . troversial aspects, and that still retains the economy of a house able mention. And frankly, if it for the majority of the public,” hadn’t been for the fact that our Scarpazza added. third team ran out of time, their Seen from the front, the submission would have stood a drawing shows a 1,700 sq. ft. good chance at a prize as well,” house that could blend into any said Somfay. neighborhood unnoticed. But In addition to the $10,000 from the rear, it is considerably first-place prize which goes to more dramatic with a panel of the school of architecture, Setall, dark-glass windows right lect Homes, a major home de-

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The main source of heat, aside from sun’s rays, ,is electricity (baseboard heaters with individual controls).

The walls are constructed of six-inch wood studs, clad with one-half inch drywall, plus two inches of styrofoam. This is finished off by a fibre-reinforced stucco application called “outsulation”. There is Fiberglas insulation between the studs.

Inside, a cathedral ceiling in the living room gives adramatic visual appeal and actually helps heat the upper bedroom areas through a strategic air exchange system built into its peak..

The student designers say their goal was simplicity, with an outer shell that “can be changed limitlessly*’ yet with a dramatic interior highlighted by the living room with the cathedral ceiling. They estimate it would cost about $55/square foot to build. “This house would cost about $240 a year to heat, or, about the same amount a family of four now pays for hot water,” Somfay says.

The winning design will be on display at the National Home Show this month in Toronto.

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Malley, whose platform was based on humour and apathy, resigned his position the next day.

Students showed a lack o: concern for student polrtlcs by voting for Malley, said education student Doug Sutherland.

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There is no doubt anymore, the Violent Femmes are America’s best band.

They stand head and shoulders above anGone currently singing or strumming in the land of bussing, mechaniViolent Femmes’ Brian Richie (above), along with the Horns of Dilemma (right), start a backing band, revolution at the Concert Hall.

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could not be roused out of their usual state of near-braindeath.

Appropriately enough, it was during the merely’average renditions of the Femmes older material such as Gone, Daddy, Gone and Add It Up that this mindless cauldron of humans’ head soup was brought to a boil. During the newer material, which has not yet become a mechinical oral

function for the audience, the crowd remained in a confounded stupor.

Live, the Violent Femmes exude both a warmth and an intensity which could never be captured on record. As great as each of their three albums may be, they do not come even close to demonstrating the absolute, unfettered majesty of the Femmes live. Priceless.

Femm,es fatales rap it up for m,edia hacks that for a special occasion. thing is their actual viewpoint. Martin Luther King was involved How much do you let religion affect jrour music us in politics and he was a religious man with a real positive and compared to your everyday life? good message. You’d be wrong to say “keep the preachers in Toronto, March 17, 1986 religion and leave the politics to the politicians” - that’s bullshit!

Gordon (beams .brightly, clears his throat and pauses for Everybody should have their own political point of view. Unfordramatic effect): Music is my life! (uproarious laughter). Musictunately it’s the conservative viewpoint that’s getting a lot of ally, the sound that comes out is the whole band, but individualby Tim Periich the attention now. ly we each have a different feeling about the subject of religion. I Imprint staff Do you stick with Slush Records because they don’t really know what you’re getting at.

The wild and wonderful Violent Femmes (Gord Gano, Victor allow you quite a bit of freedom?

This religion feeling, is that something that you’re DizLorenzo, Brian Ritchie) graciously granted the Toronto Brian: We have a contract. So far, they’ve allowed us to do feeling all the time, that you huue to get out in your media hacks a one hour press conference. Despite all the spinewhat we wanted to do artistically. We’ve had some disagreemusic or is itjust something you’re just doing now? less back-slapping and ass-kissing, there were a few moments ments but obviously we’re better off now with the affiliation Gordon: That song Faith for example, that whole subject is than we were before we had the record deal. We have no of interest. This is how it went: not something that just amused me to write a song about one It seems that a lot of different kinds of people are reason to look elsewhere. day.. .It’s something very, very, very important. getting inuolued in politics, take your last L.P. for The first album didn’t appear to have any country I wonder if the band will be forced to compromise example. Don’t you find it appalling that even music influence at all but you seem to have itself musically in playing successively larger evangelists are getting involved in politics? more in that direction with the lust two venues? ’ L.P. ‘s. Why the change?

Victor: The band goes beyond music. I think the band, of.

Victor: What is a politician? Is it someone in office or is it Victor: I think it’s because on our first album, we were into our course, the primary way it gets through to any audience is someone who is in a position to comment on politicians... sound so much, we hadn’t developed to the point where we music, but something that becomes more important than the is that some kind of politics as well? I think it is. I try to could be as self-indulgent as we could possibly be. Now we’re music at times, is the way the -music is presented and the way keep my views to myself except for the kinds of very at the stage where we can humour each other’s tastes.On the we present ourselves on stage. That’s why, if I may say so, that broad things that I think all of us feel and we try to get first album, I don’t think we really thought about going in too the people place such a premium on our live performances 4 those thitigs across. many directions because it would have really diluted the larger venue is another puzzle to figure out. A lo:. of rt has a..! : : Brian: I think it’s appalling, but I don’t think it’s appalling i strength of the first album, that’s why you hear the same with the audience. Case in point: We’ve played a shokj %:. because they’re religious people speaking out in politics. j think instrumentation and similar subject matter being used throughMillwaukee for 12,000 people that I felt was just as intimate as if that everybody should have a political viewpoint. The appalling out the whole album. we had played for forty people. If the audience is with you, and Brian: That’s why it’s still selling like crazy! (laughter all they care about music, then you can communicate just as well around). We’ve since realized that there’s more to music than in any size space. If you’re not placing yourself in a vaccuum just style. every time yqu go out on stage, it makes things a little easier be- , Why did you choose to do a cover (T. Rex’s cause you’re trying to share something with someone else.

Children Of The Reuolution) on this album and why did you release it us a single?

Did you find u change in the reception you got with &an: We did it as an experiment. We’d been thinking about it the English audience? There seems to be more a ourselves, then when we started working with Jerry, he said consciousness of blues, jazz and gospel in Eng(Victor mimicks a hoarse Jerry Harrison): “Hey, Why don’t land. you guys do uh, Take Me To The Riuer...“Yeah, he wanted us Brian: That’s not true at all. They think Feargal Sharkey is a to do Take Me To The River but we said naw, then listened to a blues singer. Anybody who is an anglo-phile has been misinfew other songs and decided on Children Of The Revolution. formed about music because English people don’t give a damn Do you see videos us simply a promotional tool or about music - they only give a damn about fashion. If they can fit is there something more to it? the music into one ofitheir little fashion trends then it’s fine but it Victor: If you’ve seen the videos that we make, it’s hard to use really has little to do with the music. If they like us, it’s probably them as a promotional tool. In most cases I think that video is because we fit into some sort of new fashion. just a promotional tool but also I think that records that most Victor: We’ve played maybe 300 different cities and it’s amazpeople make are a promotional tool. They get some guy or ing that the similarities out-weigh the differences. You see kids some woman who looks fairly decent and then they start going crazy and screaming out the lyrics in Sweden just the making some crap up and that’s their promotional tool to sell same as in Chicago or Sidney. We were shocked at the similar this person and make some money for the record company. In receptions. . Are there uny current bands that you admire, who our case, our music is honest and we’d like to think it’s good are doing interestin_g stuff? music and we feel very strongly that video can be an artistic venture on its own.

Brian: My favourite artist is Sun Ra. We cover Nuclear War There seems to be some women who see a when we play live. misogynist undercurrent in some Of the songs You see, everyone in the ‘rock world’ worships guys like Hen. from the first album. How do you feel about drix or Syd Barrett and I was the same way until I realized that that? these guys are all either dead, burned out or going crazy .. .

Victor: (flings back arms in gaping-mouthed amazement): Dylan is making shit now and he has been for well over a There’s still misogyny in the world? Oh God, If we reflect somedecade. Someone like Sun Ra who is in his seventies and is still tting that’s actually happening, that is really sad I guess. making the wildest and most exciting music of anyone in the Are you still doing your encores in your under. western world - to me that is something to admire, more than 3 wear? the newest zit-faced jerk from England with a synthesizer. It’s Gord Gano - Is this the same man who sings Country (laugh ter)Brian: Naw, that was only one time that we did all included in that big ball of wax called ‘performance.’

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Victoria’s punk-jazzhardcore-funk-rockand-roll-band NoMeansNo, released another round of classic tunes, on their new EP You Kill Me. These three guys named Bob shown here are Andy on vocals and Rob on bass produce some of the most wonderfully weird music in Canada, probably influenced by their conventionally boring tourist and senior citizen environment, and several genetical disorders.

Photo: Joe Sary

by Chris Wodskou Imprint staff

NoMeansNo is one of Canada’s best and funniest pseudo-hardcore bands whose second vinyl output, You Kill Me shows the band at their raunchy, zany best. ’ NoMeansNo is one hardcore band that doesn’t take the cause of social change so single-mindedly that they’re afraid to screw around and be unpredictable. The jazzy bass and coolly brushed drums are the perfectly WRONG complement to Body Bag, making it an oddball classic of tasteless dementia: “They say the eyes are the window of the soul/ but I love all the l$tie dark holes/ in your BODY BAG.” Sexist tripe to be sure, but

playfully sicksexist tripe. They then hit back with blatant aural brutality on Stop It with a scream that Sonic Youth would consider harrowing.Perhaps the most twisted delight on the five-track mini-album is their wanton dismemberment of Jimi Hendrix’s Manic Depression.

No part of the song remains undefiled - they -compress that oft-covered riff into half the number of notes, mess up the beat, and shriek the words with a voice barely discernible from the sludgy guitar. NoMeansNo do further damage with Paradise - a conflict of. gnashing guitars and a big boogie beat. Never before has the job of selling paint in a suburban department store seemed more tragic and pathetically humourous.

NoMeansNo are yet further proof that there is an abundance of independent recording talent in the hinterlands of Canada. Make the effort to find out about this band and make a nice discovery for yourself.

by Charles McRobert Imprint staff .

Entering a surplus time situation for the first time in a while, I decided to listen to a couple of records that were collecting dust in the Imprint office. Here, I thought, what an opportunity to sit back and enjoy some delightful vinyl.

The first album is by a group called Mike and the Mechanics.

What a great EP, I thought, boy, that guy really plays a fast guitar, and the drummer, well, he can’t be beat.

Not only that, but it was a really long, poppy EP, kinda reminiscent of Elvis’s Get Happy filled with two-minute songs. So, I was about to give this one four stars for virtuosity until I discovered that I had played the disc at 45 rpm instead of 33.33 rpm. Hey, an honest mistake.

The next album is by a group, shit, John Miles Band or something. Sorry, but this one is garbagio through and through. Songs like I need yer loooue really give it away, but the wrinkles on John’s face make him resemble something out of the octogenarian club.

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John’s voice is so high that playing it at the ‘talking record’ speed of 16 rpm proved essential. Leave this one on the rack, unless you want a cheap frisbee.

Last, but not the lea+, was the Honeymoon Suite release titled The Big Prize. What a cover. Listen, buy this album for ,the cover alone. Great melodramatic shot, a wedding.

Actually, the cover is quite misleading, and might cause you to suspect that there may be something worthwhile inside. It is reminiscent of the first (and only) release by Albert0 Y Los Trois Paranoyas, which featured a cover of exquisite banality. So much so in fact that middle-aged people with poor eyesight started to buy the record for their parents (imagine that). One of them had a heart attack after listening to the record.

In all fairness, this record sounded good ‘backwards, and I am convinced that one song in particular - Words in the Winds has great hit potential if it is re-released at 78 rpm.

For all you technical buffs who are interested in listening to the beautiful sounds of mooosic, you can only regenerate these sounds with an authentic phonograph record.

Alternative experimental techniques with a CD you may ask? Try writing on the optical surface with a crayon . .. throw it in the washing machine during the bleach cycle...get the local motorcycle gang to run over it a couple of times. release their records

by Paul Done Though Dead.

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by Australia’s Severed Heads is not, strictly speaking, a Canadian independent release, it is a fine example of the co-operative independent spirit.

The record is released via a tri-national axis of record labels: Ink in England, Nettwerk in Canada and Volition in their home and native land. Without this international cooperation, it is unlikely that they would ever be able to

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The two tracks on the A-side, Dead Eyes Openedand Petrol are the most straightforward dance songs on the album; each one hovering just around that mid-paced nightclub speed of 115 beats per minute. Unfortunately, they also feature the least imaginative use of found noises.

The three tracks on side two are far more interesting from a musical standpoint, yet, they seem to drag under the weight of pacing which is just a little too slow to infuse them with the tension and edge needed to really challenge the listener.

If Severed Heads had somehow managed to combine the unconventional aspects of side 2 with the danceable edginess of side 1, Dead Eyes Opened might be a fine record”

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Rainville as the young, doomed Edward, Prince of Wales. However, the entire cast of the approximately 30 actors put on a consistently good show.

One of the common problems, perhaps due to opening night when I saw the play, was that many of the actors had a tendency to overact when they first got on stage. The play demands an energetic cast, but sometimes this got taken a bit far.

It was especially notable in certain actors, such asLea Carroll as Hastings and Beth Jost as Lady Anne Neville. Once they were on stage for a few minutes their performances were very good, but they came on too strongly at first. The overall quality of theirwork showed that this was not due to a lack of talent, and hopefully experience will temper this.

A couple of scenes, the murder of Rivers, Grey and Vaughn, played by Jeffrey Dineen, Gordon Douglas, and David Horton, and the murder of Clarence suffered from this excess of energy, becoming a bit overdone but otherwise this was not a common fault. In general, most scenes were well done.

Diction was good, overall, but at times several lines were thrown away, usually at heights of emotion. A final fault I might point out was that some of the players had difficulty in dealing with the other on stage characters: Laura Astwood as Queen Elizabeth notably, although at times Wright slipped into this as well. Astwood has exceptionally fine delivery, but seemed to be on stage by herself.

Al Anderson’s lighting was very effective, especially in the last scene, with the visiting ghosts of Richard’s victims bathed in a red light as they haunted his sleep and helped Richmond, played by Mark Dobbelsteyn, defeat Richard in the eerily surrealistic final battle scene. The costumes, borrowed from Stratford, were fantastic, and excellent use was made of swords and daggers throughout the play. Geoffrey Bennet’s synthesizer music was intriguing, but I felt it to be more a collection of interesting ideas that were not fully developed.

by Greg Hobson Imprint staff

Director Douglas Abel provided the University of Waterloo with an impressive presentation of Shakespeare’s “portrait of evil’: 2 Richard III, at the Theatre of the Arts for the last two weeks, for a total of eight shows. In the program we were told that it is likely that Shakespeare’s portrayal of this last of the Plantaganet kings is based almost entirely on unverifiable hearsay; it remains, nonetheless, a powerful dramatic analysis of high political corruption, and a very entertaining play.

Briefly, the historical background of the play is all War of the Roses stuff, with a bunch of cousins running around killing each other for the crown of England. Richard was of the York line which gained control from the Lancastrian Henry VI in 1461..

Edward IV then ruled from 1461-1483. He wassucceeded by his 12 year old son, Edward V, who was quickly declared illegitimate and replaced by his uncle, Edward IV’s youngest brother, King Richard III. Richard, in turn, was defeated by the Earl of Richmond, who was maternally linked to the Lancastrian line, and founded the Tudor dynasty. It gets confusing, but the program provided some historical notes and a family tree which helped matters somewhat, although it still can be a confusing play to follow, especially if you are not familiar with Billy’s ,Henry plays.

The presentation itself was done in good Stratford style: a stark, flexible set that allowed concentration on the performance of the actors, and could establish setting with -a minimum of props: a throne on a small dias for the throne room, a long table and chairs for the council room, and so forth. Richard was played by drama professor Maarten van Dijk, who has acted professionally.

He got off a little slowly at the beginning, but very quickly turned his performance into an impeccable piece of work. Gleefully evil and at the same time playing upon his intimacy with the audience to create an uncomfortable sensation of admiration, he changed from bragging villain to an audaciously insincere flatterer with convincingqase.

It is a tribute to the rest of the cast, mainly student actors, that they kept up with van Dijk and forestalled an unbalanced production.

Especially good were Richard Walsh as Clarence, Paul Bosch as Edward IV, Ian Wright as Buckingham and Cathi

Speciai mention to Abel’s children, Jennifer, young Duke of York very well, and Doug, who

who played the played the page - admirable work.

In all, it was a surprisingly high quality show; there is some real talent lurking in the corridors of our drama department.

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by Chris Wodskou Imprint staff

This review is a little late, considering bpNichol’s poetry reading at Siegfried Hall at St. Jerome’s happened Wednesday, March 5, but for a poet of bpNichol’s stature, a late review is better than no review. bpNicho1 first came into prominence in the 6Os, in which he was best known for his experiments with visual poetry and later became notorious worldwide for his innovative sound poetry with his group of the early 7Os, The Four Horsemen.

Now doing scripting work for the children’s series Raccons and Fraggle Rock (don’t laugh - these shows are several notches above the standard kiddie fodder of Masters of the Universe or Smurfs), Nichol has always been a ground-breaker in Canadian poetry.

Reading largely from his new collection of poems, Aygol, which has been in the works for twelve years, Nichol proved himself to be acaptivating, charismatic performer. His energetic gesticulations brought both a vibrancy and more entertaining quality to his poetry and he broke up his highly animated readings with self-deprecating and amusing anecdotes about his Howdy Doode and I Want To Talk About Strawberries x II The Time were representative of Nichol’s love of recklessly playing with phraseology and conventions.

Howdy Doodney was described as a “Broadway poem” and ended hilariously with Nichol crooning a la Tony Bennett, “I’m just an abstract guy”. Strawberries, on the other hand, is a long, highly nonsensical dialogue about, well, wanting to eat strawberries all the time, that is amusing in its very absurdity.

Poem For St. Anzu has him taking further liberties with language and form as he explores the idea of paragoge - the practice of adding meaningless syllables to complete a rhythm - and turns syntax and semantics around and inside out, all within an ode form, no less. Working in sequence of strophe (concrete and meaningful) to anti-strophe and epode (meaningless, Labstract conglomerations of syllables and words), the emphasis was on the creation of entrancing series of sounds which were delightful in their obtuseness.

In The Plunkett Hotel is a radically different bpNicho1 poem in that it isn’t really radically different. It is, however, a movingly personal .and introspective poem about a hotel his grandparents owned. The center of his universe, it is the meeting place of current family,

Ma,rk T w&n: a little southern more than the norm and less effective.

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presented at The Centre In The Square Monday evening, is a collage of maxims and observations on mankind, religion, laziness and good Scotch, collected from the various works of Twain. The one-man play is similar to listening to a senile old man recollect and reminisce, prophesy and criticize. It is amusing but eventually it becomes an overdose of anecdotes.

Hal Holbrook, in the role he created 31 years ago, breathes life and restores all the wit and wisdom that history has led us to believe Twain possessed. Holbrook spontaneously recollects from his well-researched repertoire, varying the program from evening to evening. He doddles, pauses, stutters and wanders perfectly and his performance becomes more than a mere impersonation, but a powerful and convincing resurrection.

But when the play is dissected, there are just too many vignettes to digest, some are amusing, others are

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Friday,

The recounting of the tale of Noah’s Ark regenerates a lot of chortling, but if I make a

recommendation, I suggest reading Timothy Findlay’s novel Not Wanted On The Voyage for a better parody on the ark fable.

Some vignettes are less

ancestors, and descendants in which memories linger like ghosts in the atmosphere.

Nichol finished with the funniest poem of the afternoon, an excerpt concerning the mouth from Organ Music, and where individual body parts give their autobiographies.

‘He played with the function of the mouth and tongue and took on an indignant tone when complaining about the restrictions placed by others on the mouth, but the recounting of the mouth’s daily ordeals at the hands of bullies, parents, and inept, ‘psychotic dentists was truly a scream and left the audience in unanimous laughter. . Although a book of bpNichol’s poetry is a thoroughly delightful read, his poetry is ideally suited for readings, which adds a new dimension of vitality. If we should ever be so lucky as to have him here again, don’t miss him.

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loyal piece of American Pie. His performance is faithful but overindulgent.

Mark Twain Tonight ends up as a little Southern discomfort.

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disappointing, and eventually the interest level starts to sway.

Twain’s wit is in full force in his criticisms on mankind, which he claims “God created because he was disappointed in the monkey.”

He also threatened that, after his own death, Twain would use his influence to “create another flood, but this time with no ark.”

On religion, Twain says that “Christians are the best killers.” His views, once unconventional, are nothing

Well, all you cultural boors out there, if you passed up Music Theater Group’s touring production of Brigadoon last Wednesday and Thursday evenings at The Centre in the Square, you missed an entertaining musical chock full of lads and lassies, tartans and plaids, Scottish brogues and romance.

Brigadoon is the adventure of two American men, one a romantic, the other a cynic. While vacationing in the Scottish highlands, they ,stumble into the magical village of Brigadoon, a town that rises out of the Scottish mist every hundred years for only one day. In Brigadoon, the romantic finds love and happi- I

ness, while the cynic finds a tireless ecstatic nymphomaniac. As the day draws to a close, the romantic is forced to decide upon whether toremain in Brigadoon with the village maiden he loves, or to return (with his worn-out cynical friend) to the rat-race of the modern world.

Bobby Smith played Tommy Allbright, the romantic, and Elizabeth Walsh played Fiona MacLaren, his new found love. ‘Both leads complemented each other with solid performances., complete with fine acting and excellent singing. Another bright spot was the comic relief provided by Rick Sabatini as Jeff Douglas, the cynic (i.e.

“Scratch the surface of any

woman and she’ll enjoy it”), and Judy Wallaston as the sexually exuberant Meg “the hyperthyroid” Brockie.

Overall, the cast was very good. Occasionally the musical numbers were not as rich and vibrant as they could have been, which seemed to come from a problem in positioning the pick-up microphones. One disappointment was the weakness of the dance numbers. Much more could have been made of the traditional Scottish dance interwoven into the choreography.

Whatever the musical lacked seemed to stem from the fact that the cast was small relative to the largess of the Centre in the Square theatre.

The only other criticism: there wasn’t

singing any authentic bagpipe music!

Technically, the show went smoothly . Considering this was a touring company, the sets and costumes were elaborate and impressive.

The main set consisted of two large turntables;.whose versatility ranged from a rocky cliff to a village square. Apparently, the set requires two forty-five foot tractor trailers to haul it across the continent, and is referred to as the “monster” by the technical crew.

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by Pete Newell Imprint staff Some movies have a great plot. Some movies have great actors. Some have clever dialogue or flashy special effects. And then there are those that get by on the music.

The plot in Crossroads is nothing to write home about. It seems that many of the old . blues masters sold their souls to the Devil in exchange for fame and fortune. One of them, a harmonica player named Willie Brown or Blind Dog Fulton (and played by Joe Seneca) is still around, in a New York prison/nursing home. Our Hero, one Eugene Martone (Ralph Maechio), is a classical guitar prodigy at Juilliard who wants to be a bluesman. He finds Willie while on the trail of a lost song he thinks will make him a star. Willie agrees to teach him if Eugene will break him out of jail and take him south to care for some “unfinished business”.

This, of course, leads .to a confrontation with Scratch, the Devil’s lieutenant, and a guitar duel with his pet guitarist as played by Steve Vai. So much for plot. Acting? Well, Joe Seneca is almost great, and Steve Vai plays himself real well. Ralph Macchio makes my skin crawl,

but he does play a 17 year old convincingly.

Also convincing (and surprising) is his handling of a guitar. He is good enough to play (Mozart, blues, feedback) on (classical, acoustic, axe) and make it work. The late Robert Judd is arrogant; gleefully malevolent, and appropriate as Scratch, and all of the cast filler is competent. .

Clever dialogue? Joe Seneca gets all the best lines, while Macchio gets to splutter a lot.

Special effects. Steve Vai is a special effect, and a damn good one. Other than that, there isn’t much call for special effects here.

This brings us to the music, which is, after all, the real reason to see this film in the first place. Ry Cooder scored or wrote most of it (with help from Juke Logan and the late Sonny Terry on the harmonica score), and it shines. Anyone who likes the blues at all should see this movie. Anyone who can tolerate the blues and likes screaming electric should see this movie for the last 20 minutes.

If they don’t put out a soundtrack for this one, I’m gonna be real unimpressed.

The rest of the film is inoffensive enough (to quite good, in spots) to make it worthwhile.

Crossroads is playing at the Odeon in Kitchener.

By John Zachariah Imprint staff The movie Highlander was doomed from the beginning: even if the dialogue was altered so as to be believable, the whole affair would still be too derivative.

A medieval Karate Kid/Terminatorhybird? That’s no joke, but the movie is, and a few chuckles are guaranteed from this cinematic equal of a half-baked heavy metal disc. Lumbering, inconsistent, tat ky and brainless, Highlander is deserving of a truly short run.

Highlander stupidly purports that throughout mankind’s_ history, certain individuals have been born, bu,t will never die, unless their heads are chopped off. Connor McLeond (Christopher Lambert) is one of these lucky fellows. When is is skewered

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for a short t;;y Kurgen Clancy Brown) during battle in 1536, and lives, his villager friends conclude he’s possessed, and give him the boot.

Adrift somewhere, in the Scottish highlands, Connor meets Ramirez (Sean Connery), a fellow immortal, who tells Connor that not only is he immortal, but that he must train for the FINAL BATTLE. which will occur between the last two surviving immortals on earth. The winner of this battle will get the BIG PRIZE. Cut to N.Y.C, 1986. Connor is now an antique dealer, and Kurgen is chasing after him. Bad news all right, but Connor has other problems too; he’s also being hassled by ‘an NYPD forensic specialist (Roxanne Hart) who also happens to be an ancient sword expert (Connor has an

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eously out of it on the canvas;, Tait but miraculously Sonny came Imprint staff i back and pinned the guy.

Last Friday’s Rockin’ Wrestling night at Fed Hall Shortly after this gruelling battle, Sonny and his oppowas,. bizarre. Picture it, a hall nent were dressed in street full of drunken students yelclothes, drinking beers, ling insults at a bunch of smoking butts and trying to grown men making fools of pick up women (tiresome themselves for cash. match, eh?).

It was by all means a ripoff.

After a half hour break, it There were only three bouts, was Bullwhip Johnstone pitno Abdullah the Butcher or ted against a guy named CoolKiller Kahn and the quality of cat Jackson. Coolcat, doing a the wrestlers was terrible: bad imitation of the Junkyard They looked like a bunch of Dog, was the crowd fave. So it out-of-shape, ex-bikers and was obvious who was going to even had the gall to call themwin. selves W.W.F. material.

Guys like this give Hulk These two wasted half the Hogan and the boys a bad bout getting started.

Bullname. whip, yes he had a whip, was a The first bout was between bit of a poser. He liked to spit a guy who went by the name and complain to the crowd Sonny Warcloud and some and pretended he was scared jock who was supposed to be to get in the ring.. from Paris, France (yeah, This act prompted the ecsure). Sonny, a scary sight, static crowd into questioning wore warpaint and an Indian Bull’s manhood.

When the headdress.

He beat the hell bout finally got started the out of the guy and wiped his Cat won easily. He even got a war-paint off on the dude’s hold of Bull’s whip and gave body in the process. The end him a few lashes (taps). of the bout, both of them During the breaks between bouts, patrons were allowed acted as if they were simultan:

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ancient sword). It’s a small world after all. Needless to say, the FINAL BATTLE between Connor and Kurgen takes place, but you won’t find out the winner from this reviewer.

The cuts between the past and present are done quite creatively but, on the other hand, the movie leaves billions and billions of loose ends. -And the acting is stiff; Lambert’s performance is especially rigormortis-like, and he talks as though his mouth is filled with peanut butter. Its a shame, really, because lurking underneath is a premise which, if well developed, could have made a thoughtful and exciting picture.

But that’s just a what might-havebeen; as it stands Highlander ranks among the worst.

a farce to dance in the ring. It’s funny how watching violence can go to some folk’s heads. Watching them dance was reminiscent of people who see a Rocky movie and come out afterwards shadow boxing.

Once people entered the ring they immediately became dancing wrestlers.

The third and final fight consisted of an overweight, out of shape beast named Tito, who was previously smoking and drinking beers at the foodstand all night. Tito fought a large dude named Chuck Simpson.

These two were pitiful. If one watched closely, you could see Tito telling Chuck under his breath, which move to expect next. One consolation was that Tito was a master at the suplex, a move the crowd chanted for all night.

Tito gave them three (wow!). . At the end of the evening the guy who played the ref. was strolling around Fed Hall looking for his travelling circus performers to get on the bus.

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Audiences will not hear music of this calibre at St. Jerome’s until the fall of 1987 because a new series has not been planned for the fall of 1986.

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More *by Chris Wodskou Imprint staff Last week we ran a feature on the Canadian independent recording industry which, while we wanted to make it as exhaustive and comprehensive as possible, it was impossible to make as informative as we wanted. oarticularlv in our band listings in which we had to limit ourselves to bands we are quite familiar with.

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This concluding work displayed the talents of the Colorado String Quartet which was conceived in 1976 at the University of Colorado and reformed in New Y.ork in 1982. The group gained notoriety after winning the first competition in Banff Springs in 1984. The players on the team are; Julie Rosenfeld (1st violin), Deborah Redding (2nd violin),. Francesca Martin (viola), and Sharon Prater (cello), who now reside in New York and are the Quartet-in-residence at the New School of Music, Philadelphia.

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And that is the most important point which must be made with respect to Canada’s indie industry: it is up to the record-buying public to make the/ difference.

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Albert Legault’s examination of defence questions 1s dreary in its acceptance of an irrational status quo. He admits that the bottom has fallen out of the Canadian role in NORAD and asks how Canada can strengthen its own security and that of its allies, without providing any prescriptions for change. Those interested in constructive alternatives are forced to turn elsewhere, to the work of James Minifie, John Warnock, and recently Gwynne Dyer - all of whom suggest Canada slough off dysfunctional alliances and adopt a stance of neutralism in the pursuit of peace.

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Mopefully, the publication of this book and others like it will ikrease the awareness Americans have of their largest trading partner (that’s Canada, and not Japan, as President Nixon, and more recently Reagan, have occasionally misstated).

As Richard G. Lipsey puts it when it comes to Canadian and U.S. understanding of each other, “one [country] is almost pathologically aware bf its neighbour, the other, almost criminally unaware.” Canadians’ “pathological” awareness of the U.S. is justified given the determining influence that U.S. moves (even unintentional) have on Canada and Canadian policy. While it is frequently argued that U.S. lack of attention to Canada is the - best thing we have gqing for us in our bilateral relationship, Nixonian/Reagan statements and in particular Congressional actions over the past decade make a reasonable case for considering the dissenting view.

The book contains separate chapters on the U.S. and the problem? of Canadian federalism, Can-Am relations since 1945, economics, culture, defence, and th@ environment, as well as a concluding chapter on continuity and change in rela\ tions.

The book’s usefulness as an overview and, reference tool is considerable.

The major critique that can be made of the collection lies in t-he-assumptions of some of the contributors.

For instance, J.L. Granatstein’s statement that Can-Am friction has arisen largely not over bilateral problems but Canadian doubts over the direction and style of U.S. leadership in matters of international defence and security is useful and accurate, as is his further suggestion that because of the fact that the U.S. faces much domestic criticism in these Breas and that Canadian contributions are very modest, Canadian reservations are particularly unwelcome in Washington. That assessment is only partially true ifi terms of what it hints at but doesn’t quite say. The assumption that any larger Canadian contribution might make a difference is invalid because it ignores the reality of the U.S.‘s standard practice of informing its allies of decisions rather than consulting beforehand. ’

The chapter which is most disagreeable and less than inspiring in its neo-conservative, continentalist apologism is Lipsey’s study of the economic dimension of Can-Am relations. Lipsey states that “Americans worry about precedents set by Canadian policies that depart from the rules of the game with respect to foreign capital” when what he really means is that Americans refuse to respect any rules that differ from existing U.S. practi-1 ce+, given the heavy handed U.S. pressure applied against our National Energy Pol.icy, or perennial attempts at extraterritorial applications of U.S. law in Canada and abroad.

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Last weekend in Halifax, Waterloo lost the national basketball championship for the third time in the past four years to the perennial champion Victoria Vikings by a score of 70-61. Once again Waterloo proved to be the best team in mainland Canada.

The Final Hail to the Warriors In Nova Scotia Do Canada a favour And beat Victoria!

Backed by the Warriors Band’s latest new fight song, the Warriors staged an amazing comeback in the second half that fell just short of success. Down 42-28 after the first 20 mmutes, Waterloo came out breathing fire in the second half and outscored Vic I l-3 in the first five minutes.

Victoria had completely dominated a spooked Warrior team in the first half. “They really killed us on the boards. In the second half we got a lot more aggressive,*’ Warrior Rob Froese remarked.

“Let’s give it all we’ve got, guys,-- Paul Boyce enthused during a timeout with Waterloo down by seven, two minutes.later McCrae’s standard Warrior bread-and-butter 18 foot Savich jump shot missed its target and Waterloo was unable to take the lead. its target and Waterloo was unable to take the lead..

Sigh. The momentum stalled. If you live by the free-throw, you can die by the free throw. Vic’s Cord Clemens hit on six straight in the last 40 seconds and the Vikings shot an amazing 20-for-22 from the line. Froese and ‘Randy Norris each missed the front end of crucial one-and-a-bonus situations late in the game, but before we start boiling tar and plucking feathers let us remember that one reason that Waterloo was in Halifax at all is that Winnipeg’s Gord Tucker missed and Froese connected on a couple of big ones themselves.

Clemens was selected as the game’s MVP and was joined on the all-star team by Boyce (“Rolls Boyce”, the announcer called him) and Froese. “It Just Doesn’t matter!‘* was the reaction of the approximately 30 Warrior fans and 21 band members who had made the trip.

In the final analysis, Victoria won the game in the second quarter, outscoring Waterloo 25-l 2 in the second 10 minutes of the game.

Waterloo turned over the ball a big 14 times in the first half and doubtless every member of the team would love to replay that part of the game. “We attacked professionally in the second half. But it was our third straight Friday evening - Saturday afternoon tournament and that’s an unacceptable process,” coach McCrae commented after the game.

McCrae made some interesting player decisions, starting Jamie McNeil1 instead of Norris, and not playing Jerrv Nolfi at all. 1.can’t quiteunderstand the latter, but McNeilldid an admirablejob m the early stages of the game.

“You had a great effort, a great second half. It was an unbelieva- ’ ble job, and the toughest game down the stretch we’ve had,” Victoria coach Ken Shields remarked to McCrae. But what can be done to beat Victoria?

Coach McCrae again: “You have to have a good team. A hungry, physical team. It took us a whole half to understand that. It’s late to be learning. But we think we’ll have a good team next year; we have to find a big guy.”

Unconfirmed rumours have Toronto’s John Karpis considering transferring to Waterloo and sitting out until,Christmas .. .

The game was the last as a Warrior for Peter Savich although Randy Norris and, Paul Boyce each have a year of eligibility left, neither is expected to be around. “That’s enough basketball for me and my knees,” a dejected Norris said after the game and an incredible therapy programme that brought him back for one last crack at the title. “God owed us that one,” he added.

The Semi-Final Hail to the Warriors Beat Western U We’re not afraid of Horses So Let’s make Purple Glue!

The new fight song worked better in the,semi-final as the Warriors beat Western 69-67 in a real nail-biter. With five minutes left, the Stangs led 64-57, but some good-breaks let Waterloo pull to within one with 1:52 left on a Savich free throw. The teams traded quick baskets and went into the last 15 seconds with Westerndown by one and with the ball.

To the delight of this reporter and the disgust of the Western Gazette editor sitting next to me, Western was called for travelling with three seconds left. Froese connected on a subsequent freethrow to put Waterloo up by two. The final seconds saw Tom Schneider inbound the ball to Savich, who ran straight away from everyone screaming’“Yeaaah!” until time had expired.

The disappointingly-small crowd of 2,374, in an arena that holds 10,000, watched Western lose their first road game of 1986. “1 think the referees did a pretty’good job but that last call was a tough one,” Western coach Doug Hayes said. “I’m happy with the regional setup,” he remarked, and he should be as Western went on to defeat Saskatchewan in the third-place game, preceded by a split of the Warriors Band warring Husky-Mustang factions.

Retrospection For four straight years now the Warriors have travelled to the finals, and in three of those years, they’ve lost to Victoria. It’s sad that theteam hasn’t managed to win at least one championship in that period, but let’s keep this in perspective. After all, the team was unranked back in the middle of February. As the Band chanted to a handful of Vic fans after the game, “That’s all right, That’s OK, you’re going to work for US some day!”

Interestingly, the finals are the only time that Waterloo ever seems to play Victoria as the teams seem to avoid each other in the preseason. A result is a certain Victoria mystique that can spook other teams, perhaps undeserved, since the Vikings didn’t show much class in victory, preferring to cut down the net instead of applauding Western as the Mustangs were presented with their third-place medals.

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In spite of small crowds and a location that can discourage many partisan fans from attending, the tournament was an entertaining success, due in no small part to the presence of mascots from all four teams and the Band from you-know-where, making its fifth final appearance in six years. The Band was a big hit, again, of course, and “M other,” the Victoria Viking mascot, even bought them a round of beers after they had crashed the CIAU awards banquet, to the delight of the team which gave the band a standing ovation.

(There’s something you don’t see ever-v .dav).

Next year’s Warrior team will be noticeably different from this year’s but tradition dictates that the games will be entertaining, the crowds the best anywhere, and the band will remain “One of the Bands In Canada”. So, in closing the books on another great Warrior season, let me thank the team for their cooperation, and those of you have read any or all of these articles. It’s been fun being a sportswriter.

V-ball-em finish, 5th’ at Nationals The team should have known that luck was not with them as soon as they arrived in Moncton for the CIAU finals. Rather than give up and head home right away, the team decided that they were there for a reason and they would not let a little thing like losing seven people’s luggage bother them. The luggage fiasco was only one of the frustrating elements of this past week for the team. They had high hopes to return from the Nationals with some type of medal, but they finished off their season just as they had begun - ranked fifth. En route, the team lost to Manitoba but beat Dalhousie and Lava].

The tournament set up was like a basketball single elimination draw with the first-ranked-team playing the eighth-ranked team and so on down. Coming into the tournament ranked fifth, the Warriors , were paired up with Manitoba, the fourth ranked team for the first round match.

Although highly motivated, the Waterloo team just didn’t seem to be able to get on track. Service reception, one of the team’s strengths all season long, fell apart in the first few games.-The frustrating aspect of the,match was that the Manitoba team was also playing poorly and the opportunity for the upset was there. The first game ended 15-9 with neither team playing up to par. The Warriors came back strong in the second, game only to let a 14-9 lead evaporate into a 16-14 loss. That seemed to break the team’s back and all seemed lost in the third game as the Warriors quickly fell behind. With the score 8-2 something seemed to click into the Warriors heads. Point by point the team fought back playing with the emotion that had got the team to the Nationals. With the score 13-l 2 for Manitoba, the turning point of the match occurred. With loud clatter and a great deaI of yelling, some Waterloo fans appeared in the gallery. Who else could it have been but the Warrior. band of course?

The band quickly set up and went right into-the Warrior song.

‘This seemed to send a spark right down to the floor on the Waterloo side. The team quickly put up an amazing block and came back to win the game 15-13.

Unfortunately, Manitoba came back in the next game and thrashed the Warriors to win the match, three games to one. By losing, the team was eliminated from the medal round and was forced to play for fifth place at best, The next match saw the Warriors paired up against a fired up Dalhousie team. Dalhousie was beaten the previous round by IJ BC, .a result that even the Dalhousie players must have expected. They went into the match with the Warriors with nothing to lose. The first game looked much like the second game of the Manitoba

match. UW pulled out in front but again they let a lead slip away.

Coming back from a deficit of 13-7 the Dalhousie team went on to win the first game 16- 14.

Regrouping between games the Warrior team came back to assert themselves in the following games. The result was not Waterloo at its best, but rather a team that simply got the job done. Scores of the next three games went 15-l I, 15-9 and 15-12 all in favour of the Warriors. Middle players Jim Cooke and Jim Mckinnon put in fine performances, as did Ian Gowans coming in at the power position. The win put UW in the match for fifth place. Their “opponent was the Universite de Laval.

This match seemed to hold little enthusiasm for the’warriors until it seemed that they were about to lose. Winning the first game, the losing the next,two, seemed to put a spark back into the team.

The team pulled together and fought back to win the next game 15-3. Momentum, however, was on the side of Lava1 and they took the fifth game to the limit,going up 14-12. It would be hard to count the number of times the Warrior team has been in this situation in the last few years since it has occurred so many times. With match point on the line it is important to note that in almost all these occasions UW has hung on and pulled the victory out. This one was no exception. The Warrior team fought back to tie the score and then proceeded to win the next two points. The result was victory and a final fifth-place finish for the Warrior team.

All five graduating Warriors put in a fine performance with special notice being given to Ian Gowans for his fine job coming in off the bench. Captain Tom Oxland, Jim Cooke, Owen Jones, Ian Gowans and, possibly, Dave Ambrose each retire from varsity volleyball leaving a trail of awards and impressive victories. With these players as the nucleus, the Warrior team has qualified twice for the CIAUs finishing third and fifth, they have won two Ontario Championships and they have won four consecutive Ontario West Championships.

To say these players will be missed is an understatement and, yet, over this past season the Warrior team has shown everyone that they have an extremely deep bench. Players such as Scott Murphy, Jim Mckonnon and Vince Deschamps have shown that they have what it takes to be more than adequate replacements. As well, starters Wally Hayes and Scott Shantz return next year to lead the team towards yet another Ontario crown.

Afternotes It should be noted that Dave Ambrose was picked as a first-team All Canadian All Star this year. This is an accomplishment that few players attain and points to the high calibre of play Dave has

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maintained throughout the year. The reason that Dave might not return in the fall of next year is because he has aspirations to play with the national team.

The winners of both the men’s and women’s division was the *University of Winnipeg. Each Winnipeg team defeated Manitoba for the championship. Tfi city of Winnipeg has a great deal to celebrate; they have the best volleyball teams in the country within their city‘ limits.

International volleyball at the PAC C

On Thursday, March 27, the PAC will play host to two outstanding matches of volleyball as the Hyundai Canada Cup International Womens’ Volleyball tournament comes . to Waterloo.

Canada, currently ranked eighth in the world, will play Olympic bronze medalists Japan at 8 pm.

Olympic silver medallists’, U.S.A., will ta!: e on an exciting Korean team, currently ranked 5th after the Olympics.

One ticket lets you see both matches. Tickets are $4 for adults, $3 for students and youths, and can be bought at the PAC. Come out and take advantage of this rare opportunit-r to experience Olympic-calibre athletics.

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chances vanish when a dropped baton in the opening exchange. put UW at the back of the pack.

Who says there is gold to be found in those hills out west?

Last weekend at the CIAU Championships in Edmonton, the indoor track team’s dream of winning gold turned into a nightmare, as for the first time this . season the squad came away from a meet without any silverware.

After riding the crest of their most successful season, in which they placed third behind Uoff (the country’s best team) at the OUAA Championships, the men headed west with confidence and enthusiasm. Unfortunately, their bubble burst on the opening day of the meet when the nation’s second fastest 4 X 800 metre distance relay team (Chris Lane, Tony Degazon, March Inman and Harvey Mitro) saw its medal

The disaster in the relay capped an evening of frustration. High jumper Elaine Veenstra, who was ranked second nationally prior to the -event, was unable to reproduce her OWIAA gold medal form and was dropped from the competi; tion early at a height of 1.65.

Mark Inman, the OUAA silver medallist in the 1500 metres, also encountered similar difficulties in his specialty. Leading through 1000 metres, ’ Inman’s form broke down and a horde of competitors rushed by, leaving the graduating senior with a disheartening 3:58 showing. To his credit though, on the next day of competition he re-

grouped himself to post a 2:29 finish for third in his section of the 1000 metres, and. 8th place overall. . The team’s fortunes then rested on long distance runners Andrew Krucker and Rob Hardy, whose trademarks, of consistency in the, 5000 metres gave the team a chance to rectify its position. Disappointingly, neither man could find his leg as Hardy derailed early from the train of runners at 1 km, while Krucker hung on to 3 km before his lungs and legs seized. up. Both men struggled home in respective times of 15:36 and 15:23, well shy of early season performances.

On a brighter note, Harvey Mitro sped to a fourth place showing in the 1000 metres, in which Mitro’s time of 2:25.76 in

a blanket finish just missed his own school record and was only 0.54 of a second away from a gold medal. Although Mitro won the silver .medal in this event last year, his 4th place finish was a steal considering that he missed half the season with assorted injuries.

Despite the sub-par perfor-mantes, coaches Andy Heal and Patti Moore-were not despondent about the team’s effort. At season’s end, the men were ranked 8th nationally and UW’s track program had become a power on the provincial level. Moreover, the team is young and its growing success in the last few years on the indoor oval and cross-country trails is bound to continue for several seasons to come.

Strong Breese destroys Laurief Hawks Not having played% together for some time took its toll on the Warrior squad, who were unable to mesh against a tough Guelph “B” team and lost I-O. Only the magnificent goaltending by Warrior keeper Tim “the cat” Walker kept the Warriors within one point.

Last weekend, while several.

Warrior teams were involved in national championship ,play, a motley collection- of Warrior soccer players headed to Guelph to take on the4th-ranked Golden Hawks and two teams from a highly-touted Guelph squad, in indoor play.

After a stiff berating by player-coach John “the hammer” Vincent, the Warriors soundly thrashed Laurier 4- 1.

Si “the general” Breese speerheaded the Warrior onslaught with two magic goals. The soccer Hawks were totally outplayed in every facet of the

game by an inspired side.

Warrior

In their final game, the tired Warrior side tied the muchvaunted Guelph “A” side 3-3.

Psycho H ollamby was a devastating force on defence, leaving many Gryphons reeling.

Mark Harper selected .Coach- of the Year particularly difficult one. ,H owever, the vote was taken and coach Mark Harper of the Warrior’s rugby team emerged as the victor.

Mark’s dedication to the Warriors has been proven again

This year marked some outstanding accomplishments from UW’s varsity teams. The phenomenal success of our Warrior and Athena teams made this year’s choice for Imprint Coach of the Year a

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and again over the past two years. This year that dedication paid off as he coached the team to an OUAA championship over Western - a victory that will not be easily forgotten by those who played and by those

who watched, if only for the inordinate duration of the game.

Our congratulations go to Mark and all of UW’s coaches, who continue to battle the odds and come up winners.

Men’s Hockey The first round of the playoffs is now over. In the A league, St, ‘Jerome’s and Flying Buttress will play off, while the Postbusters, with big Scott Ryan, will play the Screaming Eagles in the other semi-final match.

B league teams advancing are West E-Guanas (good luck frosh), West 5 Flyers, Red No Fixed Address Army,

(yeah), Null Spaces, Molson Exports, WCF Martyrs, and others.

The Wailen Puckheads, Outsiders, Cougars, Bob’s Bellies, OHMEN, Grebel Stammers, Renison Rutabegas, Phetons, The Leafs and NA Chiefs all had byes in the first round, but will be up against some tough competition this week.

Men’s volleyball .

by Deirdre Muir The men’s competitive volleyball season came to an end last Wednesday with excellent competition and good spirit.

After battling for two and a half hours’ in a five gamefinal match, Shank defeated Six

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Pack (the # 1 ranked team), capturing the A league championship/ In B league, Dirty Half a.

Dozen placed lst, bumping the Sys Pistols into second place.

The C league champions are Braindead, with Plannets as league finalists.

Women’s basketball Women’s competitive basketball playoffs have begun; a two pool single elimination tournament. League A winners are Larry’s Byrds, who defeated the league-leading West B Oldtimers, The Oddballs downed the Basket Cases, third-place Kinners et al. beat the Generics

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and, finally, another upset the 6th place Notre Dame team strutted their stuff and beat the 2nd place Pink Flamingos.

In League B, West D Duners downed Conrad Grebel, and St. Paul’s Dolls defeated Scramble Squad. Cruising to victory as well were the L,eft overs and South D Cheesers.

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In an upset game, the Flying nals to steal the title from the Columbians, formerly undeEast Erotics in ‘another tight feated, were eliminated by last game. In the C2 Finals, the year’s champs, On Probation.

Skoal Bandits, after trailing in However, in a close overtime the first half by a score of 21 to final, On Probation lost their 12, came back to capture the former title to Henke Goes Sichampionship, much to the disdearm, who will now reign as appointment of the Apostles, the new A Champions. despite their tremendous effort.

In C League, the S Courts, . For B league results, stay tuned after overcoming the West Five next week.

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Commander.

S.K Wiii you Merry me? Make me Happy?Thanks, T.D.

GERM learns the meaning of empty Saturday night. What an implusive household. Only one mere frill and 2 hours to go. JASK (G D?).

JL: 2 weeks and counting.

If lost, contact

Lost Virginity. please return to Livada in WB. Hey COSMOSI This is Helene speaking. Clearly I am not amused!

What’s with all the games lately? I want to speak to your director!

Sbm Club: Have you been slammed yet today? This may be the experience of your lifetime. Details to follow.

Mr. Skiwie, It’s persona: . , . User-Friendly.

Annette

walk by. Signed Geog 2018.

New York Spontaneity Group: if God is everywhere, does He mind the accommodations?

Quebec would be a comfort Let’s go.

The waterbed is really hot Come

Desperately seeking Claire Voyant and living dead to play gig at Fed Hall, pick a date and 1’11make time. Cuido.

2 bedroom apartment, 5 min. from campus, partially furnished, parking, laundry; with option to take over lease. Waterloo Towers, 35OMav Sept $496 if you take the lease. 746-0063.

Pool Fadlfties, 2 or 3 people needed for MayAug in Robinwood.

Cheap rent, close to Parkdale plaza. 20 min. walk; 5 min. bike ride to University. Furnished. Call 886-2326.

Room avaflabk in 3 bedroom townhouse. May-September with option to stay in Fall. 5 minute bike ride to U.W., 20 min. walk Close to buses and shopping. Furnished, Washer/ dryer, VCR and more. Call Leanne 8850836.

Phfllp St. Townhouse for sumrner’86. 4 bedrooms, washer/ dryer, barbecue, parking, partly furnished. price negotiable - call Joanne at 742-1362.

OTTAWA APARTMENT - available MaySept, 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom, $653 per month. Located on Prince of Wales Dr. Call Chris (613) 737-0854.

Luxury Apartment 15 minutes walk from campus, fully furnished including waterbed. 2 bedrooms with room for 3. Available this summer G option to take over lease. Rent: $450/ utilities included.

Phone 746-0857.

3 bedroom Parkdale Townhouse with POOL! Short walk to campus; beside Zehrs and LCBO. s450/ month. MaySept Call Karen. 746.

8104.

Sunnydak lease available May 86 on. 3 bedroom townhouse. Call !3andy at 886-2766.

KITCHENER HOME - Fourth year student looking for 2-3 roomma& to share fully furnished home. Available in May. Jennifer 578-l 158.

Summer Sublet. Clean, 2 bedroom apt fully furnished, sauna, outdoor pool, rent neg. Call 746-0576.

AVAILABLE MAY 1, Large double room. Full use of home and appliances. Outdoor pool. Free parking. Close to Shopping. $165 each person. Call Mrs. Wright 8851664.

Real Bargain1 Female roommate wanted to share fully furnished 2 bedroom apartment on Hazel St for the spring term ‘86. Laundry facility & parking space. $185/ month utilities included. Contact Mary after 5.03 pm. at 7468542.

Sunnydak Townhouse available for May-August ‘86. 4 bedrooms. washer 6 dryer, 1% baths. Call 579-5312 or 746.0473.2 BRDM apt available May-August ‘86. Partially furnished. Washer/ dryer, parking available, 5 min. walk to Parkdale plaza. Bus stop out front Call 7468473.

For Rent, Spacious 2 bedroom apartment for 2 or 3 people. 20. min. walk from UW. One month free rent or negotiable. phone 8855532.

Rooms! Rooms1 May to Aug, also Septto Jan. 4 rooms in townhouse, with laundry, appliances and garage. Close to plaza and bus. Call Darek at 8849957 after 7 om.

LARGE 2 bedroom, air-conditioned apartment 3 appliances, fully carpeted, drapes, 1 H baths, indoor swimming pool, exercise room, tennis courts, option to take lease in Septemb&.

Suitable for 2 or 3 persons. %80/ monthly. Call Days: (613) 995-3065 ext 307 or evenings 744-3207.

OTTAWA - Summer ‘86. : Single rwm, 2 large double rwm (for 2 to share) available in student house from May to Aug. Located in the downtown at the comer of Pretoria & OConner St, near most govern ment buildings, banks, liquor store, beer store, plaza, fully furnished, Rent $200/ month per person. Call Tern & Sean at (613) 236.3406.

LONDON: Female preferred to let quiet fully furnished onebedrwm apartment May 1 . Sept l/86.10 min. walk downtown. All maior bus routes.ThamesR&ratdoor.s2oo/morth.Bestdeeliniondon!phone (519) 4344792 night+,--Mayseptember.

Roommate to share 2 bedroom apartment Furnighed. Erb G Uni. Ave. 15 mins. to University. s200/ month. Call 884-2702.

Bachelor Apt. avaibble May, option to take new lease in August, comer We&mount/ Victoria. Large balcony, laundry facilities; swim ming pool, air conditioned. QOO month (utiliies included). Ideal for conscientious student 742-2623. _---

Hi but you-just

21., 1986

New York Spontaneity Group Cowgirls: I don’t know about the road ‘pups’ but I got an urge, got a surge and it’s out of control. What are you doing tonight and tomorrow and the day after? Quebec beckons.

DEAR TODD. The weather is warming but don’t worry, the bed only gets warmer. Thanks for everything. Anon.!!

Kansas was great. The music suckedthough.

Oh well, we can practice sometime. I’m dying for more B-529. Thanks. Ed.

2 Bedroom Apt to sublet for Summer at Universfty & Erb for 2 quiet S responsible people. $331 month. Has laundry Fat., parking, partly furnished, includes util. phone l-822-3436 after 6 pm.

Fully Furnished four bedroom townhouse to sublet from May to Aug. Close to campus, s446/ month (negotiable). Call today, 8886847.

Cheap House! Near Weber & University. Four bedrooms available’ summer ‘86. Close to grocery & beer stores. Rent very negotiable, Cafl / 886-3196.

Toronto Subkt, May I to August 31. Three (large) room flat for three people. Dupont and Brunswick, 2 minutes from subway. $818 per month, utilities included. phone 416-9228298 evenings.

Rooms Available in spacious house for summer. Located on Ezra Ave. behind WLU, minutes walk from both universities, shopping mall.

Kitchen, living-room, sunroom, 1% bath, washer E dryer, sundeck Ample parking. $120/ month. Call 886-4207.

To Sublet May - August Spacious one-bedroom apartment, fully furnished, including King-size waterbed.

1 ‘mile from campus. $268/mo. Call Nancy at 7468159.

May - Sept Spacious one bedroom apt suitable for 2 people (partition available to close off dining room for use as bedroom). Partly furnished, 5 minutes from campus, utilities included, option to take over lease. Rent: %82/month.

Call Karen 884-3485.

Philip St townhouse - summer ‘86. Room for 3. Washer, dryer, fridge, stove and some furniture. 888-6773 - Beth.

OTTAWA SUBLE?T MAY 1 - SEPT 1 1986 Furnished 4 bedroom renovated Victorian home. Rent all or individually. $275 per room/month plus utilities; parking included, central location in Sandy Hill. 2 minute walk to U of Ottawa; 10 minutes to shopping and Parliament 5 appliances - washer, dryer, fridge, stove, dishwasher. Ceiling fans in bedrooms.

Nonsmokers only please. Call Ottawa (613) 2372852 evenings.

Summer Townhouse available May - August One Month Free Rent!

Large, open, 3 bedroom, clean unit with nificent skylight and T 36O/month. Call now sundeck - in Sunnydale. Partially furnished. Net 146.6969..

4 Beautiful rooms. Top of House. 20 min. walk to campus, 3 min. to shopping. @O/month. May - Aug. 746-3738.

Rooms May to May: s198/mo. heat; hydro included; share faciliies - 2 mm. walk to U of W - laundry facilities. SAM 5768818.

SEMl DETACHED AVAllABLE - sleeps 5 - $1 OOO/mo. plus heat and hydro. SAM- 5768818 SUMMER SUBLET - $99/mo. 2 min. to U of W, laundry facilities, lockable room. SAM 5768818.

FOUR MONTHS FREE. or maybe one month. Super summer mansion sublet for six people. Big rooms, balconies, large lot Beat the townhouse blues in a luxurious house at a bargain price. VlSlT 93 DAVlD ST. OR CALL 7436896.

Apartment for rent, May - Aug/86,3 levels, 4 bedrooms, living room, kitchen & dining area, 2 - car indoor garage, ping-pong table & room, non-functioning sauna, vast storage space, balcony onto courtyard, access to washer/dryer, 5 min. walk to grocery, convenience, beer and liquor stores, 25 min. walk to UW, option to take over lease. 746-8103.

Beautiful Sunnydak townhouse available for summer 1986. Fully furnished and 1 month free rent 7464020 SUMMER HOUSING . and possible Jan 87 - Apr-87. 4bedrwm townhouse is ideal for 4 or 5 students. Townhouse is very clean, brge and well-maintained.

Includes fridge, stove and some furniture. Lo cated on comer of Parkside and Bearinger. Rent is reduced and possible one free month. phone 7468188. ,May - Sept apartment for 2 or 3. Excellent condition. Minutes from UW and WLU. Reduced rent Amazing location. Partially furnished. Call 746-0245: Furnished Room in townhouse near universities, Zehis, beer and -liquor stores, available May to August Microwave, TV and stereo. Call 7466413.’ kae Basament rwm in townhouse near universities, Zehr’s, beer S liquor store. Available May to August Partly furnished, separate entrance, and washroom. Share kitchen, liing room, and shower. Micro wave, ‘IV and stereo. Call 7466413. .

May - Aug. One bedroom apartment for rent in Manied‘Student Apartments.

Furnished, %ll/month includes all utilities; free parking. Call weekdays 746-1321.

Summer Subkt, clean 4 bedroom furnished townhouse 15 minutes from campus. s111.50 per month per room. Utilities included. Call 746-8151.

Great Location - Five bedroom house, May Sept. Maintenance free, two bathrooms, rent negotiable. Call 884-5599.

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3 bedrom I&& apt at BlwrSherbume to sublet for summer. Steps from subway, security, parking, furnished, 1% bath. Available May 1.

Asking only 202.50/ month. (including utilities). (416)&38472.

I keep saying

March

Nancy Ward. Patty Shapton, Cindy Wiersma what does a guy stuck in Cornwall have to do for a letter from civilization.

You’ve kidnapped Gumbie. The least I deserve is a ransom note. May you’re 471 burst into flames. Dave. .

Desperate seeking Karen. Since we stopped being in classes to gether, I hardly ever see you. Fed Hall meetings are not enough. Steve has my number . . Dave.

Dear S. The leather was incredible. over anytimes. Ed.

Free Rent for one month. Available for the summer. Fii bedroom house with large outdoor patio, ample parking and close to both universities. s148/month/room plus utiliies. Telephone 746-0335.

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Typing - only $I/ page for typist living on campus. (MSA). Typist has English degree, corrects spelling. Call Karen 746-3127.

Resumes Word processed! $3 per page (25C per page for printed copies) Near Seagram Stadium. phone 8851353.

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Same Day Word processing. 24 hourturnaround (if you bookahead). $1 per double-spaced page. Draft copy provided. Near Seagram Stadium. phone 8851353.

May 1 on. Will take over lease. Prefer small building close to University.

Call 746-0086 or 5798631.

WIU Do Typing in my home. Call Dianne, 579-3741. l%dkal Secretary will do your typing. $1 per double-spaced page. Call Susi at m-2105.

Aparbmnt or Townhouse (two bedrooms) wanted for summer, fall & winter. About s400/ month, much less for summer. Call Mike or Grant 8854556.

Calendar FRIDAY Fed flicks - 8~00 pm., Picture show.

Aseans: Squash

night,

MARCH

and 1030

Theatresports!

Live improvisational comedy. team from Toronto takes on Rude & Rusty.

Feds $1.50. 8:00 pm., HH 180.

21 pm.,

all members

AL 116. Rocky are welcome.

7%

Horror pm.,

PAC.

Event: End-Of-Term Party. Hosts: CSA South

Tickets: Campus

Aseans/ UW CSA/ WLU of the clubs.

830 - 1. am.,

See executives Hall.

Festival of Musk at WUI: The WLU Wind Ensemble will perform in Laurier’s Theatre Auditorium at 8 pm., followed

by Jazz at Wilfs, as part of Faculty of Music’s Festival of Music.

Tickets, at $4 ($2 for students and seniors), are available through the Faculty of Music or at the door. High school students with I.D. will be admitted without charge.

Everyone welcome.

This week, a Feds $1. Non-

8~60 pm.,

and

1030

pm.,

AL

116.

See Friday.

Festhrai of Music at Laurien‘ Laurier’s Festival of Music, presented by the Faculty of Music, continues with the WLU Baroque Ensemble and Laurier Singers combining in concert at 8 pm. in the Theatre Auditorium.

Tickets are available through the Faculty of Music or at the door at a cost of $4 ($2 for students and seniors).

High school students with I.D. are admitted free of charge. All are welcome.

workshop: Learn improvisational

Theatresports useful &II for people Everybody welcome!

who go through life without 1 :OO pm., HH 180.

hxlian Students Association ’ ‘ootluck).

comedy.

A a script.

presents the HOG CEREMCall Punam or Shy at 885579 for more ‘-nvard to a real ball. 600 pm., Village One

Fed Flicks - 8:00 FASS 86’: Video precisely

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Renison

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Lauder’s Festival of Music: The WLU

Hall; starts

Chapel Choir, under the direction of profi Bar-tie Cabena. ~etfonms in the Keffer Memorial Chapel at 8 pm., as pa;t’ of WLU’s Faculty of Music’s Festival of Music.

Tickets, at a cost of $4 ($2 for students and seniors), are available from the Faculty of Music or at the door. High school students with I.D. are admitted free of charge.

Everyone welcome.

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Moose

pm.

provides on campus counselling.

Monday St Jerome’s College 222. Confidentiality

afternoon of cultural sharing for foreign students, sponsored

by KW Host Family Association.

2 pm., Humanities 373. All foreign students and host families welcome

pm.,

Hagey

113.1130-

nights 810 assured.

Potluck and

Join

116, See Friday.

cc

Bede’s

Lutheran Student Movement meets for supper andfellow.ship. Topic: LSM election.

430 - 7~00 pm. Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, Lower Lounge, Albert & Bricker Sts.

Endgame in Jerusalem - performed Written

by John McTavish, directed St. Paul’s College Chapel

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BIRTHRIGHT

SUNDAY MARCH 23

Party, 2nd Floor Lounge pm. so be there early!

am.,

College.

Contemporary Anglican Eucharist.

UW Band Concert featuring Concert Band directed by George Holmes and Stage Band directed by Michael Wood.

Tickets $5/ $3. Sponsored

by Conrad Grebel College Music Dept. and the Creative Arts Board. 8~00 pm., Humanities Theatre.

SATURDAY, MARCH 22 Fed Flicks

Anglican Prayer Book Eucharist. 930

by the Calvary players.

by Phil Groft. 930 pm.

Psychology Prof. Lefcourt, Lounge (PAS

us this Sunday for a STRING FlGURE Demonstration by,Dr. Ron Read. l-5 pm. Also open weekdays from 9 am. to 5 pm. Present exhibit on lnuit Games & Culture runs until April 25th. Museum G Archive of Games.

B.C Matthews Hall.

Society is holding an informal meeting with of clinical psych.

4:45 in the Psychology 3005) Free coffee and donuts.

Recreation 361: “Aging and Leisure” students present case study projects to jury of professionals from the community.

All are welcome, refreshments served after the event. 730 1030 pm. Rockway Golf Club K-W Blood

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Association for

Waterloo Jewish bagel brunches fun, the friends.

students associ@on invites you to our held twice weekly. Come for .the food, the Speakers scheduled throughout the term.

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Children and Adults with Learning Disabilities - General Meeting.

For info, call 743-9091.

7:w pm.

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Suddaby School, Kiichener

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Calendar.

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 26

27 Imprint, Chapel at St Paul’s College. You are Welcome.

Expbn’ng the Christian Faith: Informal discussion about Christianitv. Weslev Chaoel. 730 o.m.

Gay and Lesbian Lib of Waterloo, weekly coffeehouse. A safe and friendly place to meet other gay men and lesbian women. Everyone Welcome! 890 - 11:OOrxm. CC 110 #

Midweek Eucharist, St. Bede’s Chapel, 12:30 pm., Renison College.

Candlelight Holy Communion sp&sored by the Lutheran CamDus Ministrv. Waterloo Lutheran Seminarv. Albert & Bri&er Sts.. Kefier Chaoel.

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a film about a suburban slum (JaneFinch Corridor, Metro, t Toronto) and me residents’ trouble with Police and social agencies. It documents pov&ty in a major Canadian city.

12:30 pm. Campus Centre, room 110.Admission free. All welcome. Contact Doug MacKinlay 884-9020 or x. 2578 Cinema Gratis - Just Another Job, Slapshot THURSDAY FEBRUARY 27

WIRG Event: ‘Home Feeling,Struggle for a Community’ is

-NEWS THEMAS:

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THEMAS w,as started in order to bridge the gap that seemed to be developing between the faculties. Students in inany faculties are often completely unaware of what is going on in other faculties, and it was felt that there should be more communication.

This is one reasbn that THEMAS was created; so that the different groups on campus can become more aware of what the other groups are doing.

THEMAS is &lso interested in sponsoring interesting or unusual events. Any event that is of interest to more than one group of people on campus is of interest to THEMAS. Recently, for example, THEMAS co-sponsored a concert (“Notes From the Electronic Underground - An Electronic Concert featuring Bill Buxton”) with the Computer Science Club. Also, several weeks ago, THEMAS aranged for a profession computer graphics artist (Michele Edmonds) to bring a slide-show of her; work and display it in the Campus Centre. In general, the group1 will sponsor activities that don’t seem to fit into any other club’s interests.

The name THEMAS wasn’t meant to stand for anything, though if one insists on an acronym, it could stand for “Together, Health, Engineering, Math, Arts, Science.” The name sounds a bit like “themes”, which conveys the idea that we like to have varied discus-

March

21, 1986-

fun, the friends. Speakers scheduled throughout the term. cc 113, 11:30 - 130.

The progressive Conservative Association is having its annual meeting so assto elect executive members for the upcoming school year. All those interested pleaseattend.

400 pm. Campus Centre.

Students For Life, UWs Pro-Lifegroup, meets each Thursday, CC 110 at 430 pm. All are welcome.

Music at Noon at Laurier: As part of the Alumni Series, Music at noon will feature Gary Gable, Baritone;and Kathy Lohrenz-Table, piano at 12 noon in the Theatre Auditorium.

Admission is free and evmone is welcome.

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a new club which hopes to bridge faculty

by Joe Morrison There is a new club on campus, and it’s different in many ways from the usual sort of organization one finds on campus. THEMAS has been referred to as the “neat stuff on campus club,” but perhaps it can be better as a* social - _ described ,.“.

- - _ club. with_ a_ slightly -intellectual ^ tlavour. It became an ottlclal kederation club a couple of weeks ago, but THEMAS members have been meeting unofficially since late 1985.

The idea behind this club was to provide an opportunity for people from all faculties and departments to meet and talk about the things they are igterested in. At the weekly THEM AS meetings, conversations range from speculation about the origin of the universe, to lighthearted discussions about why processed cheese is shiny!

Friday,

gaps at UW

sions about all sorts of topics. And lastly, the name is a subset of the tual- THEMAS does not want to be MENSA. THEM& is a group in which you can try out your crazy ideas. name “Metama,gical THEMAS,”

by Douglas Hofstadter. (Dou- .

Perhaps .the cross-pollinations between faculties will result in a gleas Hofstadter is of interest to our club because of his work marketable product based on your crazy idea. Or a book, or a piece showing some of the underlying similarities between the musicof of music.

Bach, the art of Escher, and thi math of Godel.)

THEM AS is not a research group, or a lobbying group. It is not{ The last THEMAS meeting for the winter term is on Wednesday supposed to require work - THEMAS meetings are supposed to be Mar. 26, Campus Centre room 135, from 6:00 pm. until 7:(IO pm. If something to look forward to in the middle of the week. Going to you would like to know moie about THEMAS, phone me (886meetings is a learning experience, yet the atmosphere is not intellec3549) for information.

The media lies., says CBC pfoducer Max Allan

by Cameron Anderson Imprint staff According to Max Allan, director of CBC Radio’s Ideas program, “The media does lie, but so does everything else.”

The lie in media comes about through what is chosen and how it is finally represented.

Allan spoke to a group of 20 people in the Campus Centre last Thursday night. The event was sponsored by the Centre for Science, Technology and Values of U W. In his analysis, the news should really be called the olds, as the events already happened and, because oft he way they are reported, one’ cannot do anything to alter the “reality” portrayed. in an editor’s eyes, he says, 1)

“There is no such thing as a story which is too short” and 2) “the best news is where there is dramatic conflict.” As such, incidences are decontextualized because there is no room allowed for relevant history or other related facts.

Only items which exhibit one or more of speed, confusion, disruption, atomization, war, argument, and thanatos, as opposed to slowness. clarity, continuity, cohesion, peace, agreement and eros make “the news”. Eighty-six per cent of CBC radio news reflects destruction. “Death is fast, life is noted Allan. Where long”, peace is news, headlines such as the Sun’s -‘Women’s War For Peace” are sometimes used.

Most reporters are suppor-

ters of the status quo and perpetuate it by reporting the world as dangerous and violent,” said Allan. “ln order to change things;- you must know the plavers and rules. The media reports do not provide these,” he said. Their ideas for stories fit three%ategories, 1) is the world safe?; 2) is my family safe?; 3) Anything else. A story’s veracity is further hampered by the restriction of “objective reporting,” another fallacy according to Allan.

Objectivity, he noted, is 1) impossible due to the screening process of who becomes editor and reporter, budget distribution, and what is chosen, and 2) undesirable as the media is restricted to only what is “today”,

not what could be. “Can you imagine if you had to live olliy today, with no knowledge of yesterday?” he asked.

To remedy the situation, .Allan advocated 1) a more representative reporting of life rnost of us do not experience 86 acts of lethal violence per 100 events; 2) news reporters be given their own workspace so that they do not feel like a cog in a machine; 3j the scientific method of hypothesis to conclusion be used as a format for story preparation; and 4) pecple stop watching television.

‘F.V., he said, operates on the same fast pace as a Walt Disney movie and, unlike reading, cannot be “turned off” and resumed at will.

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