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Townhouse by Christine Sinding Imprint staff The two year project to construct student townhouses on UWs north campus is just about ready to go, says the chairman’ of the building committee. Ernie Lucy said this week a loan of $7.3 million at “a favoured rate” has been found to financially support the project. The lender’s name has not yet been identified. In addition, an application for a $1 million interest free loan is currently being processed by the provincial government and the committee has received every assurance the application will be approved. “The whole thing is looking more favorable than ever before,” said Lucy. “It would appear that we have found a lender but the loan from the provincial government is also tremendously important. Without it, we . can’t get rents down to keep the units full? Lucy called the townhouse project a “big risk’ which relies upon the fulfillment of a variety of conditions. At present, the main concern of the

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committee is to secure financing and though a private loan has virtually been confirmed, the success of the project greatly depends upon provincial government support. Negotiations for the provincial go vemment loan began last spring and were finalized last week when the ap plication was officially delivered. No problems are anticipated, said Lucy. “They’ve pretty well told us the ap plication will go through. lf the loan isn’t granted, 1 don’t expect the project to survive,” said Lucy. “It is a risky project, even as it is. If students aren’t interested enough to the point where we have a 97 per cent occupancy rate all the time, we are in trouble.” Federation of Students President Scott Forrest agrees the provincial government loan is key to the success of the project. The loan, said Forrest, will ensure the cost per room in the four-bedroom units will remain below $250 per month. Construction of the townhouses was slated to begin this September but was halted when financial estimates boosted rent rates up to $285 per month. Since then, though interest rates have fallen, rising construc-

tion costs coupled with servicing costs have forced the committee to accept that rejection of the $1 million loan will kill the project. The govemment loan will cut unit costs to students by at least $25 a month. “If the loan doesn’t come in, we won’t be able to build. Since last year, building costs have gone up so much, we can’t build units we can rent for under $250 without the loan,” said Forrest. Though the success of the project teeters on whether financing will be approved by both lenders, the committee, is confident the funding will come through and this is the last hurdle they expect to jump. Forrest said Waterloo council is considering a one time grant toward the townhouse project once financing is approved. The committee is looking to see the lots serviced this fall. “The next big problem, assuming nobody fails to deliver, will be finding a contractor interested in building this,” said Lucy. “The construction boom has kept everybody busy but we believe our estimates will be safe.”

Frosh week activities included the egg toss pictured above; as UW’s new students were encouraged to warm up and feel at home by the hard working Orientation Committee. Let’s hope the rest of her year’s effdrts are more successful!

topic of. meeting. * Standing in front of their threatened barn at “Shaky Andy Hiebert, Fred Martin and Cindy Martin.

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Basic Social values auestioned ---- in-6W &de& evict’io&&rotest by Gord Dumin Imprint staff When protest is-passe or, in other words, when paisley is the focus of a resurgence in popularity, you could take the people of “Shaky Acres” as a joke. But then you, iike the produc*ers of acid rain and countless other environmental offenders, would be making a mistake. The ‘Stop the Cw’ campaign being conducted at the small farm on Waterloo’s Erb Street is serious, very serious. More than likely, by this time next year, this now rural dwelling and its land will be home to hundreds of shiny well-manicured houses and condos.

The threatened farm is a place of many ironies. Here are students and lower income earners faced with eviction in the midst of a housing crisis. Here is an experiment in alternative living being bulldozed for cloned, prefabricated development homes which are the cutting edge of conformity. Here are the garden, plots of recent refugee immigrants to K-W lost to what is deemed a necessary consequence of “progress”. Here is more of Ontario’s prime farmland becoming entombed in pavement. Cindy Martin, one of the UW students on the farm, says, “Looking out our kitchen window we can see a

bourgeois- monster growing like a cancer, creeping, marching toward us.” Perhaps the biggest irony of these particular students facing eviction is the fact that only a generation or two ago the very land now being developed was owned by their relatives. Cindy Martin’s grandfather was Amos Weber of Amos Street fame in Waterloo. He owned almost all of what ‘is now the Beechwood and Beechwood West developments. Fred Martin, the longest standing student resident of the farm, has an uncontinued

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Waterloo’s ch.ronic student housing shortage will be the topic of a meeting today between UW President Doug Wright, Waterloo mayor Marjorie Carroll and Ontario Minister of Housing Alvin Curling. Carroll and Wright will attempt to convince Curling funding is urgently required to. alleviate the housing problem in Waterloo, which has one of the lowest urban vacancy rates in Canada. The Toronto meeting follows Monday’s release of recommendations by the Waterloo Student Housing Task Force. Included is a proposal that the city’s two universities adopt “as a corporate goal . . . (increasing) the provision of student housing, either on or off campus.‘*

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uB~‘Struggles South African VANCOUVER (CUP) -. Seven months after adopting a policy of selective divestment, the University of British Columbia still cannot decide what to do with its South African holdings, valued at $1.7 million. A decision by the board of governors -was expected in August, but UBC vice-president academic Daniel Birch says divestment has now been postponed indefinitely because a federal government report does not contain enough information. Birch said the report, prepared> by former civil servant Albert Hart, does . not analyze compliance with the 1978 Canadian Code of Conduct for Business, the main criterion for the partial divestment policy adopted by UBC’s board of governors in February. The code calls on companies to improve the wages, benefits and living conditions of black employees. Nor does the Hart report include three of the South African-linked companies in UBc’s investment portfolio, he said. Divesting without this information would be ’ taking the easy way out,” said Birch. UBC currently has investments in five companies operating in South

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US. aid opposed in-K-W by Steve McDougall Imprint staff A march protesting American and Canadian involvement in El Salvador and Nicaragua is scheduled for the Twin Cities September 13. The event will start at noon from Waterloo Square and will end at the Kitchener WCA, 84 Frederick St. Although the event marks the 165th anniversary of Central America’s independence from Spain, John Chamberlin, spokesman for the Coalition for Solidarity with Central America (CSCA), says El Salvador and Nicaragua still have not

Africa - CIL, Hudson’s Bay, Into, International Thomson and Noranda. While the board of governors will continue seeking information on the companies’ conduct in South Africa, Birch said the next move could be the federal. governments. “Federal policy may well emerge in the next few weeks which will supersede our action,” he said. But Horatio De La Cueva, a representative of Students for a Free Southern Africa, said he doubts the board is capable of makinq a.n independent decision. - r “It’s an easy way out for the board to follow Canadian policy. They’re business people more concerned about moneythan human rights,” he said. Emery Barnes, an NDP member of the provincial legislature, said UBC should not wait for government guidance on divestment, but take the lead in condemning apartheid. “We’re all investors in South Africa,” said Barnes. .“The more people forced to make a decision ‘on issues such as these, the more people will become enlightened about the South African struqqle.”

ray, General Consul of Nicaragua, achieved “self-determination”. Chamberlin says -about $1.5 mil- - and Mauricio Garcia, representative lion in aid is sent daily to the El Salfrom FMLN-FDR - the Spanish tivadorian government by the United tles of the opposition to President States. The U.S. government has Duarte - of El Salvador, will be, also recently approved $100 million speaking at 2 p.m. at the YWCA. A dance is set for 8 p.m. at Our Lady of in aid for the Contras in Honduras Lourdes church, 173 Lourdes St. in fighting against the revolutionary go Waterloo. Tickets for the dance cost vemment in Nicaragua. Canada has $3 at the door and Latin American sent about $8 million in aid to El Salvador and h.as tried to ensure the food will be available. money is not put to military use, but, The CSCA expects the events will says Chamberlin, it is very difficult to _be informative, entertaining, and will control how the money is spent. raise public awareness of the volatile -The Freedom March just kicks off T situation in Central America and the Contadora peace initiative. the day’s activities. Pastor Valle Ga-

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bi Mike Brown Imprint staff The reputation of Canadian war spy Sir William Stephenson, better known as “A Man Called Intrepid?, will be scrutinized at a lecture Sep tember 17. Intelligence and espionage expert Dr. David Stafford plans to dispute the credibility of the alleged mastermind behind all Allied secret operations during World War Two. The Kitchener-Waterloo branch of the Canadian Institute of Internation-

al Affairs has arranged to have Stafford appear September 17 at Wilfrid Laurier University’s Alumni Hall. “Intrepid’: Myth and reality is the title of the lecture. A wine and cheese reception will start the evening off at 7:30 with the meeting set for 8:30. There is no charge for students. The Institute regularly presents a slate of speakers and encourages students to join their organization for the 1986-87 season. For more information, call branch president Irene Knell at 8854211, ext. 2765. ,

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NEWS, Quebec universities MONTREAL (CUP) - Quebec uniersities have come up with the per. act solution to their underfunding broblems: charge students an extra ze, thinly disguised as a levy for materials’. Despite the 17.year-old freeze on uition fees in Quebec, education ninister Claude Ryan has given unirersities licpnse to collect up to $100 I year from each student. Five unifersities have all imposed similar inSidental fees this year. Luc Rheaume, Ryan’s press aide, denied the fees are tantamount to a jirect increase in tuition. “Many people think that, but for %. Ryan, there is a distinction beween the two kinds of fees - material and tuition,” he said. Rheauine said Ryan has provided that additional a “guarantee” charges will not exceed $100 per student per year. Some Concordia students, inter. preting the additional charges as a

breach of contract, are threatening to sOe the university unless the,fee is withdrawn. Most students who preregistered at Concordia will be billed in October. “The university has set up‘the con‘tract, it cannot decide half way throu’gh to change the fees,” said student council co-president G. SGott wite. But Concordia dfficial Lucie Beauchemin said she understands the fees are subject to change without prior notice. Students are being told the academic materials fee, which will raise $1.8 million for Concordia, will go toward the cost of photocopies, audio-visual equipment, computers and lab equipment. ‘Jean-Pierre Paquet, secretary-general of ANEQ, the province’s largest. student group, said only five universities are not charging the fee. “Even if they do increase loans and bursaries to compensate for the fee, it is only a false compromise and they will only serve to increase a stu-

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dent’s dependence,” Paquet qaid. “in this way, the government can put pressure on the students to narrow their choices.” Luc Trepanjer of the student council of the Universite de.Montreal says students are paying a mandatory $40 fee, and have to pay for materials in their classes. - McGill council president Paul Pickersgill said it is unlikely the fee will be withdrawn. “We are going to watch

the departments which charge students extra for course materials,” he said. “But we have been promised this will not happen.” The provincial government has stipulated that the fee must be derived from the universities’ “real costs”. “But the real costs could be translated into anything,” said former Concordia student councilor Francois Desrosiers. “lf the university can-

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not justity the sum tor,a~ recelyed , from materials charges, the operating budgets will be reduced by the same amount.” Qesrosiers contends the new policy merely allows for losses in government funding. “To me, it is a direct increase in tuition fees,” he, said. “It’s right there in black and white. 11 never thought the govdrnment would make such a mistake,” he I said.

Liquor hearings rORONT0 (CUP) - The first day of :lass marked the first day of public Iearingsinto Ontario’s liquor laws 7 I significant irony as the outcome of :hese hearings may have a profound zffect on student life. * The Ontario government may use young people as scapegoats by raisng the drinking age to camouflage a general loosening of other liquor regulations, said a brief prepared by the, Ontario New Democratic Paity. As well as the NDP, the nine-member advisory committee heard on Sept. 2 from such diverse groups as brewing bowling associations companies, and the Ontario Federation of Students. NDP caucus leader Mel Swart said the government is attempting to “assemble public opinion Suggested by r&sing the drinking age to 21 . . . to assuage the growing numbers who disapprove of this ill-conceived but avowed intention to push beer and wine into the grocery stores.” Swart and his party recommend a’ ban on all alcohol advertising, a comprehensive education plan funded by the alcohol industry, no change to the legal drinking age of 19, and no

change in access to alcoholic bever- . ages. Though the Liberal government .._-... has announced its plan to allow the More than 650 UW students turned out for the September 6 Shinerama fund-raising activities. sale of beer and wine in independent About $13,000 was raised for cystic fibrosis research in Canada. stores, this decision is not in the terms of reference of the committee. A brief from York University expressed satisfaction with the present drinking age, but called for some restrictions on “lifestyle” advertising. The brief also called for a ban on brewery sponsorships of ,athletic events. “We must wean ourselves from dependency on this type of sponsorship,” the brief said. contnued from page 1 ture, self-sufficient and small scale, OFS Chairman Matt Certosimo clewho also owned land that is now not the point of- their complaints. just a few pigs and cows; something claimed raising the drinking age will developed in W&erloo. Nonetheless, their slogan “Stop the with little overhead, where the kids only worsen the problem of alcohol These students then, are seeing Ci” is not confused or misdirected. help and the neighbors help. Twentyabuse. He said if young adults lose for the second time, their family Their vision is not limited to their own five years ago, that used to be the the right to drink in licensed and regnames and heritage being moved fates, rather they are concerned on a average Canadian. How the average ulated areas, they will drink more in over by an imposed modernity. more altruistic level, they say. Canadian is an urban dweller who unregulated environments, such as The carpenter and four students No blame is put on the landlord or beats his wife, works for IBM and ’ residence rooms or house parties. who rent 912 Erb St. stand very those ,who do the suweying, bulldozgraduated from, UW.” says Martin. Certosimo suggests education is much in contrast to the construction ing or even building. This is a corpo Andy Hiebert adds, “The average the best way to solve the problem. going on around them. They are all rate question being addressed to a university Studelit now can’t even Swart criticized the committee’s of Mennonite background and either . corporate body and its representarealize that there is a/crisis because structure as “an in-house’ commithave been or are now associated with tives, the city: “Stop the City”. So say when he goes for food he goes to the tee” which will make recommendathe Mennonite college on campus, the words painted on their bain last supermarket. He sees no problem, tions only to the government and Conrad Giebel College. Friday, so ~ys the slogan on their there’s food there but he has no assoliquor industry. They have chosen to live an experit-shirts. ciation with the land that is the mental, some would say alternative, The concern is complex. It ranges source of that food. The much toutlifestyle which emphasizes self-suffifrom the threat of mankind losing ed high-tech revolution has caused ciency, efficiency and co-operation. touch with the earth which is the rampant unplanned growth at the exGrocery shopping is done as much source of sustenance. It touches on. seven provinces and the leaders of pense of -losing touch with the land & possible at Eby Town Food Co-op larger questions of urban alienation the two territories. More than 50 mayand losing’ the land itself.“in Kitchener. The products there are and the assumptions of the green ors, from St. John’s to Victoria, are The farm’s inhabitants plan to ask grown locally and are free of agriculrevolution. It raises the i$sue of already committed to make peace the city to reconsider the rezoning of tural chemicals. Packaging is min.: “Christian” stewardship and it wondproclamations on the day. the land, to at least take into considimal and advertising non-existent. ers about the ever growing push for In Vancouver there will be an oberation aesthetics and possible featechnologies that demand bigger Plans are in motion at the farm to servance at the UN Pavilion at Expo tures the city may not have and more of everything both in the bring pigs and laying hens to the 86, while the federal government has contemplated such as garden plots. city and on the farm, say the far’m’s barn for this and next term. The pigs asked that the day be officially iecogA petition has been drawn up and will inhabitants. will be used for household consumpnized by ringing the. carillon in the be circulated as well, the issue is betion and it is hoped that the eggs will “The problems of diminishing Peace Tower on Parliament, Hill. A ing circulated through the Conrad be sold at Eby Town and to assofarmland, what causes it and what it number of Anglican and Catholic biG-&be1 community for further ideas. ciates of Conrad Grebel College. Cidmeans have been on our minds for shops have agreed- to ask member The petition, which probably best iler is being made and *is summer’s _some time now.” says Andy Hi+ert a churches to ring, their bells. lustrates we concerns and ideas of UW history major living at the Erb garden is being halvested and preThe tradition of silence followed by the farm goes as follows: -served. Further, the students are very ’ Street farm. “This new housing at the sound was begun during World War We, the undersigned, voice’our op most basic level is strictly for the ecomuch involved in compost and recy11,when the BBC broadcast a “silent position to the development-policy of cling projects undertaken in co-opernomically secure in the midst of)a stuminute” at 9:00 each evening, allowthe city of Waterloo. ation with the greater Conrad Grebel dent housing crisis. But the problem ing listeners to stop and offer a prayIn our opinion it contributes to the resident and associate body. is far more complicated than that.” er for peace. With the chiming of Big ever increasing urban sprawl which Not only is this farm with its particFred Martin says, “The increased Ben, the silent contemplation would threatens the previously (arable) ular inhabitants a rarity to lifestyle in productivity of the green revolution end. - . land, our most important resource in does not necessarily out weigh the general, it is the only such household a hungry world. Every year the city of associated with Conrad Grebel. lt detrimental sideeffects of erosion or Waterloo eats up some of the best cFemica1 sideeffects such as new serves as an example to both Mennoagricultural land in the country and nites and -non-Mennonites alike. allergies traced to the chemicals, nor develops it for housing. Moreover, Indeed, for the past two years, part does it necessarily out weigh the with a lap around the university’s &this housing is accessible only to the of the farm’s garden space has been poorer quality of food now pro. Ring Road. affluent. There is little or no concern duced.” The route will be well-marked with‘ used by Latin Americans, recent imshown to the problem of housing for . signs and water stations will line the migrants to Canada for reasons of He goes on to describe a system students, low-income families and course. Participants are encouraged political unrest and danger in their which because of its emphasis on singles own countries. The idea originated to start on their own schedules and to high yield, forces famrers’to increasThe property ‘at 912 Erb Street \ from Larry Bender a former farm resset their own paces. ingly mechanize their farms, thus pWest is a prime example of this prob\ ident who was on the Mennonite The annual fundraising event is ing into debt while finding lem. This land which is zoned for held in communities ac&s Canada Central Committee (MCC) board for themselves still unable to compete agricultural use is threatened to be to continue the efforts of one-legged, Central American concerns. This with “multinational” farming often re-zoned for medium-density housmarathon runner Terry Fox. Fox neighborly gesture too, will be at don& in third world countries. This all ing. If this land must be re-zoned, we crossed halfway across the country least temporarily lost to the new ur- contributes to alienated farmers and urge you to consider other altemabanization. farms lost to banks. Further, the land. tives such as garden. plots, green ’ .raising millions of dollars for cancer Still; the _five who live at “Shaky research before finally succumbing becomes destroyed by large equip. belt, or bike paths. to the disease himself. Acres” are not that concerned with ment and fertilizers. For the sake of the community at Pledge sheets are available \ qt their own eviction. They’ve been ex“What is needed is a sqall scale large we ask that these detrimental many local retail stores. pecting it for some time and that is alternative tC, big business agriculqning prospects be reconsidered.

Day of peace Sept. 16 VANCOUVER (CUP) - More than 50 Canadian cities will join with communities in 60 other countries at noon September 16 to observe the United Nations’ lnternational Day of Peace. in 1981, the UN declared the third Tuesday in September to be an inter. national peace day, and has celebrated the occasion ever since. To mark the day, the UN General Assembly ‘rings the Peace Bell .in New York, then calls on the peoples of the world to join them in a moment of silence. Last year, University of Toronto professor Don Evans and Humber College instructor Austin Redpath organized A Peal of Peace in Toronto, bringing the event to Canada for the first time. This year similar events have “gained the support of the premiers of

Terry Fox ruti Sunday More than 500 area runners are expected to hit the streets September 14 as they take part in the sixth annual Terry Fox Run. Local organizers hav& set a goal of $20,000 for this year’s event. In 1985, almost, $15,000 was raised in the Kitchener-Waterloo area for cancer research. For the second year, the IQ-k& lometre run will-begin and end at the University of Waterloo. Between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m., runners will run, jog .or wa!k along a course which begins at the Physical, Activities Complex, winds its way through the Laurel Creek area of Waterloo and ends

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immense land were.wide open. Had they not been, 1, and most other native-born Canadians, would not be here at all. And a few weeks ago, listening to the appalling “I’m a visa student, will that cause any problem distress many Canadians felt at the government’s with my working for Imprint?” a new volunteer.for generosity in allowing 155 Tamil refugees into the the paper asked me at last week’s introductory staff 1country, I had to wonder at the “dog in the manger” meeting. * attitude so many of us unconsciously harbour. I assured him. But I was “Of course not!” I mean really, in a world where two-thirds of the shocked. Shocked that this UW student should feel population goes to .bed hungry every night, and the fact of his being a foreign national could mean many millions live in fear of life and liberty because restrictions on his participation in campus life; of their race, religion, political opinions, or nationalshocked that anyone could think that in Canada, ity - we in Canada have it made. What is the point especially at Imprint, we would restrict the activiin restricting immigration? These people whose reties of people because they were not Canadian citiligious or political ideas get them in trouble at home, zens. many of us look on them with worry. They might And I remembered my own six month stint working at a university campus in New Zealand a few . cause political trouble here! It’s hard to imagine a sillier argument. After all, years ago, when the fact of being a foreigner always most of our ancestors came to this country from the rather-intimidated me. I knew, although few rubbed persecution, or from the it in, that I could be expelled from the country on the I 1 U.K. to escape religious U.S. after the revolution to escape political persecuwhim of a bureaucrat, that my civil rights were tion, or from, Europe after the war to escape ecosomewhat limited in law, and substantially limited nomic and political persecution. That is the stuff of by lack of familiarity with local customs. And that in this country, refugees and the descendants of refua white, commonwealth country whose culture is gees. about as similar to Canada’s as one can find any* How quickly we forget from whence we came. where I, How quickly solidarity with others fleeing oppresIt’s true, being a foreigner is an insecure expesion turns into a self-satisfied, self-righteous, calrience. And Canada, in recent years, has become lous and cold indifference. “Why, we should put one of the most difficult places in the world to emithem on a leaky boat and send them back to where grate to. Visa students are hemmed in with restricthey came from . . . ” Yeah, fve heard that said. tions, charged much higher fees than Canadians, So, I suppose it’s not so surprising that a Visa are generally not allowed work permits, and must student would seriously inquire at Imprint about leave the country on the expiry of their temporary what restrictions apply to his participation in the student visas. paper. Yet somehow I think that it should be more It has not always been that way. When my greatthan surprising, it should be an outrage - because great grandparents came from Scotland and Engreally, it is! land in the early 19th century, the gates of this by Doug Thompson Imprint staff

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by Steve Kannon . Imprint staff The university claims it ne?ds a $1 million loan form the province to go ahead with the long-awaited north campus townhouse project. While the administration’s reasoning is suspect, that is now secondary to the actual acquisition of government i assistance. If the university was really concerned with student housing, it could have easily got the project underway long ago. Because of administration’s wishy-washy stance on the issue, however, government financing is now essential - no help, no housing. This decision made, UW must make every effort to convince the Peterson Liberals of the pressing need for student accommodation. By now, everyone here is well aware of the housing situation in the Kitchener-Waterloo area - with’oneof the lowest vacancy rates in the nation, there simply is no selection, especially near the university. The current business boom in this area, coupled with the lack of incentives to build rental accommodations, will only makes things worse for students. The proposed townhouse project will go a long way toward alleviating the problem by providing affordable units right on campus, units which will be for students only. In renting these units, students will no longer have to contend with the whims of many landlords who rent to students only as a last resort. Waterloo’s predicament makes this project mandatory. It should be easy to make that need known at Queen’s Park. And’ white government assistance is a must, the aid shouldn’t come at the taxpayers’ expense. A grant shouldn’t even be considered; a no-interest or low-interest loan is the best the university can expect. Repayment would have to be made a soon as possible. Many universities and colleges in Ontario could use government assistance for projects similar in nature to MN’s, but the province is in no position to hand out grants. Aid should be given in the form of a loan, with the government having every right to expect prompt repayment.

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by Steve Kannon imprint staff Politicians, as a species, are a relatively insignificant bunch not to be trusted. Yet the public, and especially the media, often place so much impor- , tance on the words and actions of these characters. Those persons .who run for government office usually do so for their own glory,‘not for the good of their fellow humans. This lust for power sooner or latert breeds contempt for rationalization - politicians say and do things that further their careers, not things that are necessarily the best or that even make sense. Every utterance from the average politician must th_erefore be judged with this in mind, an obvious fact most people overlook. In recent years we’ve had countless royal commissions, parliamentary hearings and public inquiries, the majority instigated by disgruntled politicians with petty beefs. At the sign of.even the smallest screw-up ‘opposition politicians scream bloody murder, demanding yet another costly public investigation of the matter. In such cases, the instigator is not making a fuss . because there exists a genuine problem; by making

every problem a major issue, the offender hopes to discredit his political foe while inflating his own public image. It is the nature of politics for one party to criticize the others on every available occasion, yet we continue to believe every criticism is impora tant. The media is constantly saturated with storiesof this nature, the latest being a call for an MP to fire a staff member and order an inquiry because some insignificant pieces of mail arrived at the wrong address. Both the idiotic politician and the media which carried the story are at fault in cases like this - the politician for making stupid statements and wasting the public’s time and the media for actually providing space for such a useless story. Because the politicians and the media continue to’ place far too much importance on such trivial issues, the public has gradually accepted these ki?ds of political games as relevant and important. Some form of defect prevents politicians from improving the situation at their end 1 it’s up to the media to be more selective about the stories it carries. Going with the story only when the information is valid will held the media retain the credibility the politicians lack. _

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terns raised by Mr. Robert Tarr in his letter to the editor printed in the previous issue. If Mr. Tarr’s information was accurate his

Keep-fresh spirit: Kill faculty’rivalry! To the editor: Just a few words regarding the frosh pep rally (Fri, Sept. 5, PAC). First, I would like to congratulate both the organizers and the frosh who attended, as well as the illustrious Warriors Band for their enthusiasm. I think both the idea and format of the rally are great, and should be continued. But hey, why just .frosh? Why don’t we have a pep rally for the whole student body? With a little initiative, it could be a great way to introduce the varsity sports teams to the student body, as well as promote clubs and activities. On the negative side, I think a real lack of maturity was shown, not by the frosh (who were just doing what they were told) but by the older students who led the cheers. Come on people, this isn’t

a US college circa 1950. Most people are not @pressed by seeing how well you can chant obscenities. In addition, why waste so much time attacking each other? We should enco_urage school spirit not faculty rivalry.\ A special thumbs down to the mathies who chanted “bullshit” whenever another faculty tried to ‘cheer.) Why not take your lead from the smaller but enthusiastic number of HKLS students who were able to avoid being childish but still maintain spirit? It’s up to the older students to, by example, establish the forms that “spirit” will take on this campus. So we really want to encourage the kind of immaturity that is the trade mark of so many universities (Queens, Western, etc.)? David Bain 4A Geog.

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by Andrea Luxon Imprint staff For those out of town frpsh living off campus, attending last week’s orientation events may have proven to be somewhat of a challenge. It’s not easy moving into a new neighborhood and tackling all the work that goes along with it. Then if you include the trips to the university campus to participate in the orientation events it is a big load. However, if you make the extra effort it’s not too hard at all. The frosh kits are helpful for those trying to adjust to Waterloo living. The kits are recommended especially to students living off campus. because of the amount of information they contain. When living in residence, students are provided with a sense of unity and fellowship with other students. As a frosh living off campus, you have to be motivated to get people together or to convince fellow students to go out. By participating in the various activities, clubs or organizations you can meet people and hopefully make some friends. As for accommodations, if you start looking for an apartment early enough you can find a fairly spacious living area in comparison to the cramped living quarters provided in first-year residence. An apartment can be found for the same, if not less, amount of money it would cost to stay in residence. That includes access to a kitchen with an oven and fridge, washer and dryer along with a certain amount of privacy. Renting an apartment also cuts down on the noise level, provided you’re in a good neighborhood, which is helpful for study purposes. Being a frosh off campus you are more in tune with the community. The university has a community of its own which becomes secure and convenient to stay within.,By having more knowledge about both communities you can have the best of both worlds. You also become responsible for your own meals whether it be eating out, buying the groceries to preparing the meal yourself or a combination of both. At least this way you can maintain your own eating habits and tastes that you are accustomed to. You are able to buy what you would like to eat and not have to worry that when you go down to the cafeteria ttiey won’t have something you like. Living off campus your first year is a rewarding and worthwhile experience but its not good for everybody. It does however, put you in touch with yourself in manydifferent areas and helps you to grow into a more independent and self-sufficient person. w

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US tc%bl&ne for terror by Aftab Hussain Mirza Terrorism, it would be fair to say, is a scourge created by those nations that are seen to be suffering from it the most. It has, in recent years, become a matter of grave concern in Europe and particularly in the United States. Although terrorism has come to be recognized as a worldwide phenomenon, it is terrorism from the Middle East that most worries the West. The West’s concern about Middle Eastern terrorism stems from the fact terrorists have used Europe-as their centre stage and American civilians as their main targets. In the wake of the Rome airport and Achille Lauro incidents, terrorism has come to top the agenda of various conferences held by the members of the Western alliance. Despite spending a great deal of time on this issue, however, the alliance has remained unable to devise a lasting solution to this problem. There seems to be a sharp difference of opinion among the NATO members concerning the methods of dealing with the problem. Having failed in its efforts to curb terrorism by economic means, the alliance seems to be left with only political and military options to choose from. It is, however, the difference of opinion over the choice between the two options that has kept the alliance membersdivided so far. Since there is no consensus of opinion about these options, it is expected the problem of terrorism will continue to grow. It is unfortunate that hundreds of innocent American civilians have lost their lives as a result of the growing wave of terrorism in Europe and the Middle East. Although one cannot but regret the ‘loss of innocent lives at the hands of terrorists, the fact remains that terrorism is a scourge imposed upon its citizens by the U.S. itself. Middle Eastern terrorism ‘is linked to the Palestinian problem, a major issue which requires a political dialogue between all parties concerned, particularly between the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Israeli government. The United States is the only country, it is widely believed, that has the means and the power to initiate such a dialogue. It is ironic, however, that on the matter of Palestine, the/ U.S. happens to be a staunch follower of the Israeli line. In keeping with the Israeli stance, the U.S. not only refuses to recognize the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people, but also strengthens Israel’s ability to destroy the PLO by military means. The PLO, it must be stressed, is not the terrorist organization it is portrayed to be by the U.S. and Israel. On the contrary, it is an organizationwhose objective is to -

seek the right to self-determination and a homeland for the Palestinian people by peaceful means. Those radical Palestinians who have engaged in terrorist activi- _ ties belong to splinter groups that are now’independent of the main organization. They have their own chain of command and as such carry out their activities on their own. The mainstream leadership of the PLO neither wields control nor is responsible for the activities of these factions. The main reason radical factions have broken away from the main body, it is interesting to note, is the insistence of the PLO leadership to pursue its struggle by peaceful means. The PLO, under the leadership. of Yasser Arafat, is strongly committed to solving the Palestinian problem’through realistic political means. In order to (make peace, the PLO has not only given up its demand for the return of all of Palestine, but also dropped its claim for the portion allotted to the Palestinians under the United Nations’s 1947 partition plan. At its meeting in March, 1977, the PNC (Palestine National Council, the decision-making body of the PLO) approved Arafat’s mini-state formula, which proposes to recognize Israel’s right to exist in return for allowing the establishment of a homeland for the Palestinian people at the West Bank and Gaza Strip. After having the formula approved, the PLO made painstaking efforts, though behind the scenes, to convince the Israeli and Western governments it was ready to make an agreement with Israel. Although the general public may be ignorant about the PLO’s peace efforts, the governments of Israel, the U.S. and other European countries are not. Not only are they aware of the PLO’sdesire for peace, but also of its painstaking efforts to achieve‘it. Unlike the PLO, Israel does not seem the least bit interested in compromise. As far as the Palestinian problem is concerned, the Israelis remain as stubborn as ever. As a result, all gestures of good will made by the PLO, have so far gone in vain. Israel is not willing to yield even an inch of its occupied land to the Palestinians. That is why Israel ,has rejected all peace initiatives that call for a political solution to the Palestinian problem. Israel knows that on a political front the PLO is its equal and, as such, a war on this front would be hard to win. Israel, therefore, has opted to maintain the status quo - that the problem can only be solved through military means. For this reason Israel regards the terrorist attacks by the Palestinians as conducive to the country’s overall position. L The Israetis believe the acts of

terrorism committed by the Palestinians not only help turn world To K-W’s first eyeweadmdq-me public opinion against the PLO, . but also provide the government with a pretextto use force against the PLO. Israel’s main objective is the total destruction of the PLO the elimination of the PLO is the only solution to the Palestinian problem, This objective, it must be remembered, was used by- the Begin government to justify its invasion of Lebanon. Israel’s militaristic approach to the problem has caused all peace efforts in the Middle East to fail. And it is, in turn, the frustration Featuring: caused by these failures that has -Exclusive.designk in fashion eyewear , led the radical factions of the PLO -Professional lab with completeoptical service x -Eye examinations arranged to engage in acts of terrorism ; against the Israelis and the citi’ 11 Eib St. #East, Waterho -- 746-481 l zens of its staunch ally the United ’ States. ONE BU@DING EAST OF- KING &- ERB 5 1. It is appalling to note the U.S., under the Reagan administration, seems to be following Israel’s lead by using force to fight terrorism, as indicated in the air raid against Libya. In this context, the U.S. must learn from Israel’s experience that use of force against terrorists would only further escalate the vicious circle of violence rather than curb,.it. In its efforts to eliminate the PLO, Israel has spent enormous amounts of time (almost the entire period of its existence) and money and has caused the deaths of innocent people on both sides;, only to discover the PLO has not only survived but has emerged stronger than ever. In this light, the U.S. would be wise to deviate from its militaristic course asprescribed by Israel. The U.S. must look into the underlying causes of terrorism and try to eliminate them by political only then will there be means j peace.in the Middle East. Those two countries must also recognize the value of Yasser Arafat’s moderate stand on the issues. He is the only one who can deliver the most acceptable comThere’s no better way to keep informed and up-to promise to bring about peace. date about news, sports, business, entertainment Once he is gone, so too is the and other topics t.han tq have The Star delivered to chance for lasting peace. With Arafat gone, the more radical eleyour door each day of the week. ments of the PLO would be in a SAVE EVEN MORE! SHARE A SUBSCRIPTION L . position to take over the leaderCOST WITH A ROOM MATE. MAIL COUPON ship - a situation which can only TODAY! spell disaster for the Middle East and the rest of the world. The radical factions are prepared to reclaim the disputed lands at any cost and are not inPlease begin daliiry of the Toronto Star on at the special student rate for tha next thirteen waaks terested in a political settlement. NAME ooncampus offerexpkesDBc.15/86 Meanwhile, even the most paADDRESS ’ 0 off campus tient Palestinians are growing Apt. # OI-I campus/carrier jelivery $1.60 per week tired of waiting for a political solucm _ ’ Off campushotor delivery $1.95 per week tion to the problem. The U.S. and TEL. # -P/C(Regular carrier delivery rate $2.75/wk.) israel would be wise to recognize (Regular motor delivery rate $3.10/v&j Cheque ar&sed for $ _______ the PLO and accept its compromCredit card monthly billing ise formula of the mini-state besronewe , GAS. Cl visa Card ’ fore it’s too late. By doing so, they m Expirydate El Mastercard w-b will not only bring peace to the Middle East, but will atso contribute to reducing the terrorism that !+ has come to hit them the hardest.

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WPIRG lo’oking for volunteers by WPIRG staff WPIRG offers an opportunity for students to select and organize educational events on a range of social justice and environmental issues. Interestedvolunteers will spend a few hours per week in the social justice or ecology Workgroup. Members of the group work together to plan events such as films, speakers or debates on issues of topical or individual concern. In the past, WPIRG workgroups have planned events on: acid rain, apartheid, women’s rights pharmaceuticals, consumer rights, war-Id food issues, toxic air pollution, health hazards at work, and many other issues. There is a belief at WPIRG that education is not an end in itself but rather the initial step toward an active awareness of how our world works. Therefore, there is an attempt to provide avenues for action in connection with particular educational events. Such projects in the past have included letter-writing campaigns, petitions, boycotts and lobbying. The development of personal social change skills is also an integral part of the Workgroup philosophy and is seen as essential to a vision for change. Involvement in a Workgroup is an opportunity to develop such skills. The group is composed of six to 20 members, including a WPIRG staff person. All group members share the responsibility and skills for achieving the group’s purpose and all will have the opportunity to develop such socials skills as facilitation, organization and consensus decision-making. If you are interested in becoming part of a WPIRG Workgroup or if you have suggestions for events, please visit us at our office in the General Services Complex (Part A, room 123) or contact us by phone at 885i1211, ext. 2578.

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Day From Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second Concise Edition: pseudoscience n. any system of theories that claims to be a science but has no scientific basis debunk vt. [Colloq.] to expose the false-or exaggerated claims, pretensions, glamour, etc. We’ve alC seen the headlines. You know, the ones you speedread through while standing in line at the supermarket. “Elephant Gives Birth to Two Sheep and a Bicycle.” “ Your Boss May Be a Space Alien From Alpha Centauri.” ” Your Goldfish Can Read Your Mind.” And we all know what utter nonsense this is, don’t we?‘1 mean it is, isn’t it? Good question. It’s easy to dismiss articles like this when they appear in the National Enquirer, Weekly World News, Globe or any other trashy tabloid (a tabloid being any periodical where the headline is larger than the accompanying article, in case you needed to know). But what happens when a more “serious” periodical like (tongue firmly in cheek here) Omni magazine has a feature article on “China’s Psychic Children” and a regular “UFO Update” column, or when one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals publishes an article entitled “Investigating the Paranormal - Information Transmission under Conditions of Sensory Shielding”? Is it time to start taking some of this seriously? Another good question. . In the weeks to come, this column will attempt to analyze some of the more popular pseudosciences of our time, and will try to bulletproof’you against most of the cheap hustlersand conmen who try to part you from your hard-earned OSAP bread in return for teaching you how to expand your consciousness, increase your personal energy field, tell you about your past lives, read your best friend’s aura or pick the next Lottario winner using your lucky numbers. Some of the more widespread lunacies that will come under fire include astrology, biorhythms, dowsing, remote viewing and clairvoyance, astral ‘travel, reincarnation, mind reading, predicting the future, psychic surgeons, faith healers and other medical quacks, spoon bending and other forms of telekenesis, ancient astronauts, the Bermuda Triangle, dianetics and the Church of Scientology, “scientific” creationism, UFOs, the late Immanuel Velikovsky and his warped theory of cosmic billiards and any other kinds of silliness that may crop up between now and whenever the editor of this rag decides to,give your friendly muckraking columnist the old heave-ho. (I’ll behave myself, Steve. Really, I will. Honest.) As well, there are several related areas that go well with the debunking of the above pseudosciences, and are certainly worth a column or two on their own. These include how to test a psychic and who should be doing the testing, the responsibilitiesof the media to claims of the paranormal, the power of belief and the obscene gullibility of otherwise-sane individuals and much, much more. The purpose of all of this nastiness will be (hopefully) to -amuse, to entertain, to (heh heh) provoke and annoy when the opportunity arises and finally, to educate just a little bit. After all, this is an institution of higher education and, if you didn’t want to be educated, you wouldn’t be here, would you? Well, would you?

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irradiated food. In another instance, an Indian study found 10 children who ate irriadated wheat showed a higher incidence of polyploidy or nondividing - cells, a condition similar to leukemia, she said. But John Vanderstoep, a University of British Columbia food science professor, disagrees with Parker’s in. terpretation of research findings. “These concerns are blown out of proportion from what could reasonably interpreted from the data,” said Vanderstoep. “International experts, such as those at the World Health Organization, have evaluated all the data and they say it is safe for use under specific conditions, usually when less than one kilogram of radiation,” he said. Health activists are also concerned irradiated foods will not be identified, a decision currently before the federal cabinet. Even if labelling is required, Parker said irradiated food will be identified by “a cute little flow. er symbol and the word ‘radura’, which means nothing to an uninformed public.” She said other problems with the process are the use of portable irradiators in the fields or on fishboats, a lack of restrictions against how often food may be irradiated. Parker said the Richmond plant, with the capacity to irradiate more than 225,00 kilograms of food per day, would be the world’s largest. The Richmond project has no scheduled completion date because of financial problems, but two other plants at Lava1 and Ste. Hyacinthe in Quebec are set to open in March, 1987.

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Sex. roles in speech revealed by Maggie DeVries and Melinda Wittstock Reprinted from the McGill Daily Canadian University Press

A researcher, pen and paper in hand, is sitting in on an informal meeting between students planning a benefit concert to raise money to send school supplies to Nicaraguan students, hit badly by the U.S. trade embargo against the Sandinista government. She is listening carefully to the discussion, noting words and pronunciations, documenting the number of hesitations and interruptions, and timing the length of the students’ utterances. Jeremy: “I think the benefit should take place a week Saturday. I’ve made arrangements for three bands to play . . . at this point, we only need to delegate duties Tara, how would you like to take _ care of the information tables at the benefit?‘? Tara: “Urn, well sure, I guess I wouldn’t mind too much, but, well (pause), I’m sorry to say this, but I don’t know if we should have the benefit so late though because the ship for Nicaragua is leaving two days before and . . . ” Jeremy (interrupting): “Well, _ -we’ve already established that the date of the benefit is Saturday,” (seven second pause). Tara: “Don’t you . . . .l (stammer), well it seems to me you . . . you . . . you . . . probably (pause) well, maybe it is too late, but I feel - 3, Jeremy (interrupting): “You’re right Tara. It is too late to change the date . ., ” , , Later in the day, the same researcher goes to lunch in the student cafeteria, and picks up on a conversation - between three men and one woman sitting at the same table. Susan: “I may be wrong, but I think the exam is next Tuesday, isn’t it?’ Jeff: “Let’s get together and study Wednesday night.” * Susan: “But the exam is . . . ” Bruce: (interrupting) “Why don’t you all come over to my place, at say, about 8 o’clock, okay? We can cram until the exam starts at 9 in the morning.” Greg: “Yeah, but I thought the exam was on Tuesday.” __ Bruce: “You are right Greg . . . how about Monday night?’ Jeff: “Sounds okay to me, how about you Susan?’

Studies such as this are part of a growing field of language research - the role of gender in speech. The emphasis rests primarily on how, under what conditions, and why the sexes talk differently. Recent studies like the ‘one by University of California sociologists Candace West and Don Zimmerman, have found that, in average conversation, women ask 70 per cent of the questions while 96 per cent of all interruptions are made by men. Not only do men do the lion’s share of the interrupting, but men speak with more conviction and often appropriate women’s ideas as their own. Women are more likely to turn statements into questions, preface their statements with apologies and seek validation for their ideas. From board of trade meetings to local peace groups to student councils to classrooms, this pattern is typical. More and more researchers are trying to discover how and why these differences in the use of langua,ge between .women and men came about. And feminists have connected these differences to discrimination against women.. “Inspired by the women’s movement,” writes John Pfeiffer inthe

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muchwodcto do this weekend they write. “In, study after study, science journal Science 85, “the men have been found to speak more boom [in this research] started little often and at greater length than more than a decade ago.” and to interrupt other Prior to the mid-‘70s, differences - women, speakers more than women do.” in speech patterns were often explained by researchers - mostly Henley and Thorne go on to male - as innate, biologically-deterquote from a study conducted in mined inferiorities on the part of 1975 which asked both men and women. Pfeiffer uses the example of women to describe their reactions Otto Jesperson, a Danish linguist to a “stimulus” picture with no time who, writes Pfeiffer, “has earned a limitations. “Females took an averprominent place in the feminists age of around three minutes, and rogue’s gallery.” males averaged - 13 minutes - in In 1922, Jesperson wrote in his fact, some of the males talked book Language: “Women much beyond the half an hour that the more often than men break off withresearcher had of recording tape, out finishing their sentences beand could only be counted as talking cause they start talking without half an hour.” having thought out what they are Another study by Zimmerman going to say.” and West, based on same-sex conThis loaded statement intimates versations and mixed gender pairs that women are somehow less rataped in “natural settings”, found tional than men, rather than looking that men interrupt 98 per cent of the to the underlying reasons why time and are responsible for 100 per women speak differently than men cent of the overlaps in conversation. and how that is connected to their McGill student, and former unsubjugation in a sexist society. dergraduate representative to Jesperson neglects. to mention McGill’s Board of Governors, Amy that men are usually the culprits that Kaler spoke about her experiences succeeded not only in breaking off with men dominating conversation women’s sentences through interon students’ council and the board. ruption, but also in judging what is a Kaler says “men are more active legitimate thought. Jesperson’s participants” than women in discusstatement is an attempt to justify the sion at meetings and points out that interruption of women by men. men do most of the interrupting: “Such belittlement of female con“Technically, you can’t interrupt versation may be somewhat less freanyone on council, but people do. I quent nowadays. But it lives on in can’t ever recall seeing a woman ineveryday contexts, hardly surpristerrupt a man, but there’s a number ing since it involves attitudes emof men on council who I’ve seen inbedded in thinking that get passed terrupt (people) constantly - it’s on like bad genes from generation to my guess that they interrupt women generation,” writes Pfeiffer. more than men.” she said. Over the last decade, studies Carlene Gardner of McGill’s such as West and Zimmerman’s women’s centre said she thought have succeeded in telling us more one of her classes was made up of an about the different ways in ,which majority of men bemen and women use language as overwhelming cause they were doing most of the well as exposing myths concerning talking. “One day, I looked around the differences in speech patterns the class and discovered there were between the sexes. only three or four men in the class.” Nancy Henley and Barrie Thorne Men not only do most of the interwrite in Womanspeak and Mansrupting (and talking), but they often peak: Sex Differences and Sexchoose what to talk about. Public ism in Communication, Verbal relations consultant Pamela Fishand Non-Verbal, “the first myth is man found that not only did women that women speak more and longer ask.70 per cent of the questions, but than men. This is simply not so,”

96 per cent of interruptions made by ma-/es

that men succeeded more often in starting conversations and keeping them going. Fishman taped 52 hours of conversation between three couples, a social worker and five graduate students,- who consented to having tape recorders in their apartments. “At times I felt that all the women did was ask questions . . . I attended. to my own speech and discovered the same pattern,” said Fishman. Fishman discovered that women asked the question “D’ya know what” with great frequency. Pfeiffera describes in his article how research. by other investigators found that children frequently use this phrase to communicate with their elders. “It serves as a conversation opener, calling for an answer like “What?’ or “No, tell me,” a go-ahead signal that they may speak up and that what they have to say will be heeded.” Fishman also discovered why women need such reassurances from men: In 76 taped efforts to start. conversations or keep them going,.. men tried 29 times and succeeded 28 times, while women tried 47 times, sometimes for as long as five minutes, with dead-end results 30 times. “It could have’ been worse,” wrote Fishman. “Each of the male subjects in this experiment professed sympathy for the women’s movement.” Men are also renowned in these various studies for appropriating women’s ideas. Cheris Kramarae, a professor of speech communication at the University of Illinois and coauthor of The Feminist Dictiontold Science 85 what aw, happened when, as the only woman member of ran important university policy-making committee, she tried to communicate with the chair(man) before the start of the meeting. Kramarae asked for certain items to be added to the agenda, but when the chair paid no attention to her, she “gave up.” Once the meeting started, he featured her ideas in a review of the agenda and, turning to a male colleague, said: “I don’t remember who suggested these changes. I think it was Dick here.“,

Kramarae says women are often heard but not listened to, “as if you were speaking from behind glass.” She adds that women will often not be taken seriously at a meeting until a man professes agreement with her ideas. Kaler agrees: “A woman will say something, a man will like it, and then it becomes valid.” As a result,“said Kaler, “women end up competing for the attention of men, because their ideas have a better chance of being implemented if men support them. It’s unfortunately an easy pattern to fall into even in non-hierarchical forms of organization, conversation seems to revolve around men.” . Kaler says -women should try to‘ decentralize meetings by talking directly to other women in the room during a meeting and not men. “To stop men from dominating things all the time, women should try to bring other women into the decision-making process by nominating them for positions of responsibility, backing up their- ideas, in short, providing the support network which men usually give each other.” Henley and Thorne point out women are more likely to disclose more personal information to others than men, whereas men “manipulate others by keeping their cool and maintaining an unruffled exterior. “Women have been socialized to display their emotions, their thoughts and ideas, but giving out this information about themselves, “especially in a context of inequality, is giving others power over them,” write Henley and Thorne. Kaler says men and women both speak emotionally, but “women are less subtle about it.” * Women have traditionally been found to be more sensitive than men to - non-verbal cues, “perhaps because their survival depends on it,” say Henley and Thorne. Women’s “socialization to docility and passivity makes them particularly likely targets for this subtle form of social control . . . their close contact with men, for example as wives and secretaries, entails frequent verbal ‘and non-verbal interaction with those in power,” Henley and Thorne add. Body language communicates status and power, and the fact that women are more likely to avert their eyes in conversation and takeup far less physical space than men - gestures of submission, they write should be seen in the context of a sexist society and as a result of sexist socialization. “The tendency to hesitate, to apologize, and to disparage one’s own statement are examples of conversational patterns associated with females and with subordinate persons in general,” continue Henley and Thorne. Kaler offers advice to other women about how to combat this pattern: “The biggest thing to overcome is the fear of saying just one thing that can be seen as ‘dumb’ and to not apologize for speaking. “You have to try to make yourself realize that if you have an idea, go for it. It’s worth taking the risk to say what might be r,ejected,“adds Kaler. It is also important, she says, to be aware of the dynamics of a meeting or a conversation, “to see if the others notice that men, for example, are doing all the talking.” Kaler also has good advice for women who find themselves being interrupted constantly: “Keep speaking and keep raising your voice until it is so embarrassing for the man to interrupt that he stops. When he stops, lower your voice to a normal level again. They’ll get the hint,” she savs. i Asked if women have to start talkying and.acting like men to be listened I to, Kaler says it is “unfortunate,” but “if you’re dealing with men and want to be part of the decision-making process, categorically yes.” \ . continued

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However; men have ways of dealing with women that challenge, and thus threaten, them. ,A woman may be told by a man that, because she interrupts him, he has every right to continue to interrupt all women all the time. Thus, it could be said it is a bit of a contradiction for women to utilize male language-use tactics in order to’challenge male speech pattuse of language - may get listened to tiore by men as Kaler suggests, but they also threaten men, who are used to having the ball in their court. The question’ of how women should attempt to close what

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-The red prince ta.lks about *money and mUsic by Paul Done & Tim Perlich Imprint staff Over the last five years Prince Charles and the City Beat Band (Prince as in the classic work by Machiavelli) have produced some of the hardest most distinctive funk records you’ll ever hear. Furthermore, songs such as Cash honey, More Money, In the Streets, and Combat Zone also deal with the human costs of capitalism - the poverty, crime and waste of life which are the direct result of a system whose highest value is empty and false. Imprint got the chance to speak to Prince Charles (a.k.a. Charles Alexander) between sets at the BarnBoo ..-..-m-US What’s all this about you Imprint: being the leader of a street gang in Boston? PC: Aw, that’s old stuff, man. I: Is there any truth to that? PC: I really don’t want to talk about that stuff because I got myself into a lot of trouble in Englandrunning my mouth about things that are true and things that aren’t and whatever. I’m really redirecting all my energy and all my music towards making people forget all their troubles ‘cause we all know the shit’s fucked up. We all know that things are pretty depressing in a capitalist system so when we go out we just get drunk, get high. . rbut (laughing) don’t drink and drive! I: So what happened with you leaving Virgin records? PC: Well, the guy that’signed me got promoted and the guy that replaced him ran things differently and it just didn’t go well with what I needed so we parted ways. My distribution is independent at the moment because, as I said, I want to change my music, redirect it. All this street gang, hustler stuff, hardcore thing was getting on my nerves and it was being pushed on me once I had established it. Granted, I did come out and say certain things, but then it got pushed on me by the record company to keep coming out with more and more and I had said what I wanted to say and I wanted to move on.

II; SO the new single is part of that move? PC: Exactly. We Can Make Zt Happen is a dance record. The things that we will be- doing in the future are in that vein and better. We want people to be able to relate to the music - not necessarily the message. Then again, if they’re relating to the music, the message is in the music. I: Machiavelli’s Prince. Have you left it behind and kept the name? . PC: Yeah, like I say, we all know it exists so . . . that was then (laughing) this is now. Z: SO, by “dance” do you mean more go-go, rap oriented sound? PC: Just dance floor. Whatever 1 feel is relevant to the dance floor as times change and trends change, 1 just wanna keep on top of the pulse and keep people dancing - keep their ears to the floor. Z: What are you listening to now? PC: Being in New York it’s hard to avoid the big club mixes with big

drums ‘n’ all that. I still listen to European stuff that I was influenced by the Culture Clubs, the Whams, the Level 42s. But primarily the big club mixes. I like Sly Fox (sings) Let’s go all the way. That’s kicks, that’s the way I feel these days. I: Let’s go back a bit. Last night when we spoke you mentioned that jazz was your musical start. Can you talk about that because that’s something I think people aren’t ‘aware of. PC: Yeah, I’noticed that a lot of people are probably not aware that I have a jazz background because it’s not really in the music. I: except when you play flute. PC: ’ ‘Right, except when I play flute, exactly. So you’re really got to listen to kinda hear that. When I was a kid, I used to play real fast - used to play saxophone real fast. The guys I was playing’w-ith were all R ‘n’ B musicians and they didn’t know any betterthey thought I was playing jazz. Hell, I was just playing fast scales. They kept pushing me into saying that I was jazz so I

was all about. So, I got into jazz-and started playing and then I got really depressed when I saw how small the jazz audience was and how small the jazz market in general is. So I said, since I come from an R ‘n’ B background and I like things that are pretty funky, I’m just gonna go funk. I was wished well by a lot of jazz musicians and-. . . here we are. I: Any bands -in particular that spurred you to go towards funk? Funkadelic for example. PC: yeah, well, Funkadelic of course. I: Do you still cover One Nation Under A Groove or Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Two Funkaledic songs). PC:No, not anymore but it’s still in the music: you can hear little bits of it here and there. Larry Graham and Graham Central Station also influenced me a lot. Larry was the cat. Definitely. But Funkadelic was the mob, they made funk big-time first. I: Was there anything in the lyrics of Funkadelic that influenced you as much as the music because Funkadelic has a definite message. PC: Yeah well their message is very cosmic and kindalike “everything is all disjointed butwe’re all in this together anyway”. For me perisonally, I thought Funkadelic was a ‘little too out of touch with humanistic lyrics and so I chose to put that in my music. Things that are kinda real as opposed to “Blue is the colour’of the sun, open your pussy and let me I in, baby”. ’ I: Songs such as Cash Money are very personal. Is that the way you see issues - on a very personal level? Or do you just feel the personal is the most important level? PC: No. I look at things from a pretty large perspective. Really, I see the world as a pretty insignificant speck in the universe but we have to deal with it anyway and I didn’t think Cash Money was all that effective a song until people really got into it. It evidently related to a lot of people I don’t know how it is in Canada but, in the States, the almighty dollar is a pretty tough issue. It’s really on everyone’s mind every

day. So writing a song like that and following it around makes me realize just how relevant it was at *the time. Because, when I wrote it, it was just a song to me. But now, I see that it’s a pretty personal statement - not for me, but how it’s’felt by other people. People probably think it’s a really heartfelt song - which it is but money comes, money goes. I’m not really all that hung up on money. It was really just an issue and something that I felt from my political science studies really messed up people’s minds and it’s so irreparable. If everyone could just stop believing in money and start trading goods it would rock this whole economy. We’d have more power . . . but. who’s gonna do that? Who’s crazy enough to do something like that? So we’re stuck and we’ve got to deal with it and Cash Money: It’s strange I’ sometimes it feels like we’re worshipping money. But it’s not thai, it’s just a reflection on how people who are not that aware are hung up, sadly, in something they don’t understand. I was fortunate enough to understand but that doesn’t mean I’m gonna get rich - it’s just a concept. It’s bigger than you and me. Well just have to deal with that. I: How did you and Tony Rose gem together? (Tony Rose is PC’s manager). PC: That was a long time ago in Boston. I was running around with a tape of In The Streets and he was running around looking for someone to invest his talent, money and time into. /We hooked up through Maurice Starr, who went on to produce New Edition and the Jonzun Crew. Tony

was working on Maurice and Maurice was working on me and we just ,hooked up and we’ve been together .since_ . . . about 1979. I: Let’s talk-about something completely different - let’s talk bout what you want to do with you Lyricon (a Lyricon is a breath powered synth which looks like a cross between a clarinet and a saxophotie with a cord coming out of the end which is linked to a synth). -- .PC: Yeah, okay, w&-I want to do with it is MIDI (musical instrument digital interface) it. There’s a new box that just came out by J.L.. Cooper called the J.L. Cooper Winn synthesizer. One of my Lyricons is a Winn driver (which drives other synths) and the other is actually a synthesizer. This Winn driver will take the signal from my Lyricon and link it to a Yamaha DX7 or a .Kurzweil or any other digital synth. I’m looking forward to that a lot: I’m picking that up when I get back home to New York. I: .Whatabout the staccato thing’? 1PC: That’s something that really bothers me because my staccato i has to happen with my tongue (‘datdat-dat’ like any woodwind instrument). But there is a way to trigger my friend has a Lythe Lyricon ricon which triggers the percussive attack with the keys themselves. When I get that, it will be ridiculous because my fingers are faster than anyone’s. My fingers are faster that most people’s that I’ve seen play the ant to get this instrument

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out there and get people to see it Presents . . . which is by a couple of this is some different stuff. I know rappers but we produced it and are it’s different because I’ve never been handling the distribution. able to go anywhere to see what I ,’ We’re working on a record now do. It must be different. called Z Can’t Stop. Loving You I: This tour, these gigs at least, which is really great stuff. It sounds you’ve got no bass guitar. ~ like Lisa Lisa meets George Clinton. PC: I got tired of the bass guitar It’s actually a love letter that I because it’s so damn hard LO amp, it’s so damn hard to mix. In a ~!rl,~ll wrote to’a friend of mine - it came club it’s either too muddy or too thin lout on record really well. It’s just a matter of mixing it and putting it out. or too loud,or this or that. At least ‘I figure it will do really well on the with a synthesizer you’re working radio. We Can Make It Happen has with a signal that you can control. I opened up a whole different type of really just got fed up with bass playradio for me and I’m just going to try ers . . . I mean, I like bass players but and follow that up. it just didn’t make sense anymore to Yeah ‘87 will be really good. I have use one since my music is all done a song on a Japanese compilation with a Lyricon bass anyway. I had coming out. It’s the third in my trildone so much of it and every bass ogy of money songs called A Fistful guitar player I’ve ever played with Of Dollars which you haven’t heard has had a hard way to go trying to yet. Hopefully we’ll tour Japan keep up with the Lyricon bass and sometime in ‘87. as far as that WHOOM - that real I:. So there’s no ‘albums in the roar, none of them can keep up be,works? cause I’m a whole octave lower than them and I need that roar to feel my ’ music. ;Z:Do you want to get into videos? ~PC:. We have a video out for Skintight Tina which came out on Atlantic last year. It. went up, it went I’m layin:? down down, it did its thing. The video it- 9 C: Actually, self was shot by a company wntcn basic tracks at Intergal%+ mecordhas a distribution deal with Sony ing in New York. I’m engineering video and they’ve put together a now, moving on the board setting compilation of all the videos they’ve things, calibrating the machine, set‘shot and they’re distributing that ting the tape up: all the shit work. through Sony. That’11 be out soon But it’s more fun. I feel more in conand you’ll be able to see that whole trol of my music. My kick drum has video. It was out on the market bebecome awesome, the sound, before, but the.deejays told me it was cause I’m engineering. sexist which is ridiculous because The sound you hear in the future we’re not showing any’ #flesh d I will be very different - more accepdon’t understand it, I just don’t untable to a dance crowd like the peoderstand this business at all. It’s like ple who like Janet Jackson’s What Girls on Film by Duran Duran Have You Done For Me Lately? now that’s sexist. We’ve got girls Whatever it is about that record walking around in jeans covering up it’s pop but it’s funky, it’s hard but their whole bodies. If anything it’s it’s . . ‘. you know what I’m saying. It’s the lyrics which are pretty sexy but happening. The sound of the record the visual image is pretty cool, is really influencing a lot of young, pretty chill. blat k musicians. Hopefully it will just keep the I’m down with that, I really like name alive. I think ‘87 will be a good that sound, the sparseness, the hard year because I have quite a few piepercussion, the great song. Put it all ces: We Can Make It Happen is out together and it spells “I wanna go right now, there’s a rap record see that group, I wanna go see those . called The Prince Charles Crew people!!“.

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by Paul Done Imprint staff Go-Go music - a style unique to Washington, D.C. - has grown and evolved into its current state over the past 10 years. During this time ’ the music industry left it alone allowing it to become the dominant musical form in the Black population of Washington. Go-Go is a mixture of late ’60s/ear?y ’70s big band funk (like James Brown or Parliament/Funkadelic) with “added percussion such ps timbales, roto-tom drums, congas and cowbells. The essence of Go-Go is the live performance where the huge bands play two-hour sets during parties which have, according to legend, often continued until the next morning. One of the unique elements of Go-Go is the non-stop music during sets. The story behind this indicates the idea came from Chuck Brown (of Chuck B rown and The Soul Searchers) who got uptight when people sat down between songs. Thus, he came up with the notion of keeping the beat going between songs. A couple of years after this, Trouble Funk introduced new percussive elements into the. music and the Go-Go as it exists today began to take shape. The ‘most important Go-Go bands at the moment are Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers, Experience Unlimited (E.U.), Redds and The Boys and finally, the undisputed heavyweight kings of -Go-Go: Trouble Funk. As part of The duMaurier Interna-, tional Jazz Festival which took place during the summer in Toronto, Trouble Funk played three nights at The BamBoo. During that stay, Imprint got the chance to speak to- James Avery; keyboard player and sex symbol of Trouble Funk. Imprint: As a start could you give us a quick history of Go-Go music in general and Trouble Funk in particb ular . James: Well, initially Trouble Funk came together in 1978, Go-Go had been going on for a couple of ’ years before that at that point. We came together when the musicians were still in school and we decided , to start a music which was similar to what we had heard when we were younger with the big sound of James Brown, Parliament(Funkadelic and War. What we did was to introduce syncopated rhythms like cowbells and conga drums into the music to make it a little bit different. It’s really like a culture which has invaded Washington, D.C. which has an 80 per cent Black population and the people support the music very well. Imprint: The audience’ is something that I wanted to talk about. I read somewhere that people like Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers are afraid to play outside of Washington for fear of losing the home audience. Is that a problem when you have a large home audience that it can hold you back ’ when you want to grow? James: Well, Trouble Funk are different from other Washington band,s and I can only speak for Trouble Funk. We had a national success with Drop The Bomb which came out in 1982. The only reason that we didn’t go out nationally at that point was that we were still students. We had to make a decision at that time, we could have gone out and not finished our education. We chose to stay in school and finish our education. (It’s worth noting that most of the members of Trouble Funk have university degrees and James himself is currently working toward his doctorate in Organic Chemistry) By doing so, we shopped around for a record deal with Island Records. Now we have artistic and production control and we’re getting phenomenal push like a major motion picture being released (Good To Go). I Imprint: Speaking of Drop The Bomb, was there any bad feeling aroused in Washington when the record was put out by Sugarhill, who weren’t a Washington-based label? James: The thing about Sugarhill

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tion and that kind of thing. Imprint: Was Graham Central Station an influence on you guys because someone from a record store told me that one of the guys from Trouble Funk was in there looking for some Graham Central Station records. James: Our bass player and lead singer Tony Fisher has been influenced a lot by the old Larry Graham with his style of playing bass, the big, burly voice and all that stuff. Imprint: Any news on the movie Good To Go? We’ve been hearing about it for a while but . . . James: The movie is in final production now and should be released soon. It stars Art Garfunkel, Robert Doqui and Harris Yulin. Trouble -Funk do four live performances in the movie, Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers do one and Redds

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ay nasty by Paul Done & Tim Perlich The first Defunkt song I ever heard was Razor’s Edge and I really can’t remember any single song having as big an effect on me as this one. The sound was so unique - tight, soulful horn lines, hard rock guitar, funk rhythms and Joe Bowie’s gritty, intense vocals - and so completely different from any music- I’d ever heard before (or since, for that matter). The nine minutes of the song flashed by in a moment. Even now, hundreds of listens later, the song still generates that kind of excitement. Defunkt came to Toronto this summer as part of the duMaurier International Jazz Festival and imprint talked to the band about music, dancing and Buddhism. This time their lineup consisted of leader Joe Bowie on vocals and Trombone, John Mulkerin on electronic trumpet, Tomas Doncker on guitar, Bill Bickford on guitar, Kenny Martin on drums and a mysterious bass player who went by the name of Ray,ql. Imprint: Defunkt’s music embodies a whole bunch of different styles of music, could you talk

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produce all the music. Each one of us can play just about all the instruments. So, at any given time there may be a bunch of Trouble Funk-related projects going on. We are producing one track on Kurtis Blow’s forthcoming album. Tony Fisher is working-with some of the artists on the T.T.E.D. label such as Ski Boat and Tomski Love. We’re getting set to produce some tracks for Durrell Coleman and othI ers on the 1slandr;label. There’s been so much interest in the Go-Go sound that people like George Clinton have asked to do projects with us, so we’re looking at all these possible ventures. Imprint: Speaking of the interest in the Go-Go sound, in the last year or so I’ve heard several rap records which have “borrowed” the Go-Go beat. How do you feel about that because, in one sense it could be good because it attunes peoples’ ears to the Go-Go sound while, on the other hand, it draws away from the initial impact of hearing the real thing. James: Well, you know, all methods of exposure for Go-Go are good. People will know the true, authentic sound when they hear it. They may say “that sounds like Trouble Funk” but they know it’s not. The exposure can only do us good because Go-Go encompasses so much - we do rap, we do jazz, we do rock, we do hip-hop; we do all forms with the underlying Go-Go beat. Imprint: Do you think Go-Go will break out of Washington in the sa*me way that hip-hop eventually came out of New York City? James: Yes, that’s what you’re seeing right now. After Toronto, we’re going to Chicago, then back to a studio in New York to continue working on. on some projects. After that we play the New Music Seminar and then we go to Europe to play Paris, the Montreux Jazz Festival in C,witzerland and then the U.K. Imprint: Have you played Canada before? s James: No, this is the first time. Imprint: There have been rumours flying around in some of the music press that Go-Go is fizzling out because the essence of the sound is so similar. Are there any new bands coming in to revitalize the scene. James: At the moment, there are only about 20 Go-Go bands in Washington, D.C. and I really think that we haven’t even seen the tip of the iceberg. When .Trouble Funk fillishes this national and international tour, you’re going to have a different perspective on Go-Go. .The new products that are coming out such as the soundtrack album and the new Trouble Funk album are going to shed some light on the vast range of possibilities that can be explored with Go-Go. Imprint: How do you feel about the kind of press that you’ve been ’ getting because I haven’t seen anything in any major American magazines about Go-Go? James: What it is, it’s just like any other new music that starts. Like The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, when they came out’ people ‘said “they’re just groups “ but all of a sudden, you look and these guys are at the top of the totem pole. I think that within a new music style it takes a while for people to get an ear. You cannot criticize too well if you haven’t heard the music on the radio, if you haven’t got that big bagging that other groups have. The thing about Go-Go is that it has been so centralized for so long. Take for example a new artist like Whitney Houston, the record company spent $250,000 to get her exposed to the degree she is. Go-Go hasn’t had that type of financial ’ backing 7x it has just been a Washington, D.C. phenomenon and it will be that until someone invests that kind of money into it so that people can perceive it. If we’re going to be compared with these people then give us the same tools to work with- give us the best studios, all the press coverage and then see how we compare.

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music is rhythmic more than other about the musical viewpoint that elements, this is really rhythmic you come from? music. We have different rhythms Joe: Musically, Defunkt’s influhappening in every instrument and ences come from a wide variety of we use a lot of rhythmic interplay. musical ethnic and cultural backImprint: So does that idea grounds. It spans black music, come, some sense, from the rock ‘n’ roll influences, rhythm ‘n’ Ornette Coleman harmelodic blues influences and jazz influenethic? ces. Joe: Yeah, soinething similar to, Our backgrounds span jazz, that but more locked in, more ’ rock and gospel and our sound is basic. We emphasize a more basiq sort of a conglomeration of all rhythm so that you know where 1 that. We’re basically and most the pulse is. heavily influenced by African John: We use some of the rhythm - Afro-American Afro harmonic structures of Ornette rhythm fused with jazz, which is Coleman but it’s, again, a much more African rhythm only Westermore basic like Sly Stone or _nized with Western chords strucJames Brown. tures. Imprint: So, do you see yourBut, essentially a fusion of Afri- , . selves as a jazz band or a dance can rhythms and .electrical instrugroup? ments, rock ‘n’ roll instruments Joe: Well . . . it’s hard to say like the guitar. I love the guitar, I mean we’re jazzy and soulful but we use two in the band. I love it’s all danceable. electronic effects; John is using an Kenny: Hey, they used to electronic trumpet which is somedance to BeBop! thing new for us and I also like to John: Duke Ellington played use the conga drums. dance music. I believe in the concept that

Joe: Jazz is dance music, so I’d say that we’re a dance band in the tradition of dance music as it has always been. Even in the ’30s with Charlie Parker and Webster Lewis and all of them - they were all , playing dance music. So we’re in that same tradition only in 1986, using electronic instruments. Imprint: So there’s no shame in calling yourself a dance band . . . Joe’: NO SHAME?!?! Imprint: Let me finish. Because there’s a lot of stigma attached to that label in some peoples’ minds. Joe: There’s no shame! I love to dance, that’s why I’ve got my sneakers on. That’s what it’s all abaut dancing and feeling and expressing emotion and energy. ’ Imprint: So you’re not t,oo cool to have a huge dance hit? Joe: Too cool!?! That’t what I want! Shit! That’s what we want and we’re going to try and have it. We’re going over to Holland to make a new record with a Dutch label and we’ll hope to have that big hit then. One of the problems in being a

self-proclaimed dance band is the attempts some critics make to devalue the art in your music. Joe responds: They, (the music press), can’t deny what we do is true, true funk ‘and it’s true art also. It’s not like we’re some children who just learned how to play a few beats. I don’t want to diminish the quality and excellence of the music we play because there’s a great number of years of experience and learning going into it. This Defunkt groove that we have has taken nearly 10 years to develop. Razor’s Edge is no longer played by Defunkt due to Joe Bowie’s conversion to Buddhism. The lyrics -are now seen by him as negative: ~ Joe: What you have to understand is that I am simply a ve’hicle for the thoughts and feelings and emotions that come throush mv mind. At that time, Razor’s Edge was what was coming through. Now, it’s something differentsomething.more positive. Finally, Joe explained what he

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Most of the people in Defunkt have their own bands; Intensity Quotient (Tomas Done ker’s band), Liquid Hips (John Mulkerin’s group) and others. I consider this to be a musical family, a dynasty. That’s one of the reasons we haven’t received the notoriety and coverage that others get very quickly. There are hundreds of musicians that come in and out of Defunkt and the other groups . Everyone in Defunkt is, in some sense, a band leader. That’s what makes Defunkt so powerful. This music is a fountain of youth. Since I started playing it I’ve grown younger and look younger. Hell, I even stopped using dope. Strong words, but after hearing Defunkt’s records and seeing them play live it’s obvious that there’s more than hollow brag in Joe Bowie’s bag.

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by Paul Done Imprint staff Along with the O’Jays and The Spinners, The Chi-Lites defined the vocal group sound of the early and mid ’70s. With their close falsetto harmonies and tight Chicago sound The Chi-Lites produced a string of classic soul hits such as the number one hit and fastest-rising chart sorigs ever - Oh Girl along with other great songs such as Stoned Out of My Mind, Love Uprising, Have You Seen Icier? and Give More Power To The People. The Chi-Lites were much more versatile than other vocal groups that merely sang material which was written and produced by others. The Chi-Lites’ lead singer, Eugene Record wrote and produced most of the songs while also playing most of the instruments on the records. Earlier this summer The ChiLites, who still have three of the original four members in the group, played Lulus in Cambridge where Imprint chatted to them about past and present. Imprint: So, what have The ChiLites been doing over the last couple of years? Marshall, Thompson: We’ve been playing a lot of foreign countries like Japan, Hawaii, Korea, Guam, England and Germany. We’ve also been playing a lot of military clubs and recently we played Expo. Imprint: Let’s get into some history now and talk about how the Chi-Lites originally came together. Marshall: The Chi-Lites formed from two groups who were working in Chicago. Eugene and our bass singer (who left in about 1973) were

in one and me and Squirrel were in Squirrel: Yeah, that hair dryer the other. Eugene’s group could boug%??us some donuts. really sing while the group that I was Imprint: I’d like to direct a few in could dance and put on a show. s questions toward Eugene now. So, we got together and The ChiWhen did you actually start writing Lites were formed. To keep us songs? going, we were also doing different Eugene: Well, really since 1,was work like I was drumming for 14 or $5. I’d always been thinking up Gladys Knight and Eugene was drivmusic and words before that but I’d ing a cab. never really thought of them as Imprint: So what year wasthis? songs until ‘59 or ‘60 when. the ChiMarshall: About 1959 or 1960. Lites came together and we began Imprint: How did you eventually to get serious about it. hook up with Brunswick Records Imprint: How did you team up (their record company during the with Barbara Acklin (who co-wrote prime years of their career)? many of The Chi-Lites biggest hits)? Marshall: I was just walking Eugene: She was actually workdown the street when Otis Leavell, ing as a secretary at Brunswick Rewho worked for Brunswick asked cords when we got signed and me what me and the boys were somehow we just ended up writing doing and if we’d come down for an songs together. audition. Imprint: There’s a Chi-Lites When we got into the studio we song, A Letter To Myself which has just began humming in harmony and really weird lyrics, how did you we got signed. I think that they audicome to write those words? tioned about 10 groups and we were the only ones that got signed. Eugene: That’s a strange story. Imprint: It seems like a long time One time when we were playing The between signing and finally having Apollo Theatre in New York this girl your first hit ( 1968). Was it hard to came up to me backstage and told wait that long? me how much she loved The ChiAll: (emphatic) Hell, yes! Lites. She gave me a book which - Marshall: By the time we had our was full of song lyrics she had writfirst hit, let me tell you,’ we were ten and told me that I could use any ready! We had already been touring that I wanted to. I came across this for years and we were hungry for one set that really moved me and some real success. that’s what I based A Letter To MyThat reminds me of the first conself on. cert tour we did’when we went.down Imprint: Where did your big to California for what was supposed competition come from when you to be a one night deal. We ended up were in Chicago? staying down there for a couple of Marshall: Well, mostly it came weeks. By the time we came to leave from whoever was on The Chess we had to pawn my hair dryer label who were across the street. which I had because I did all the They were always trying to top whaguys’ hair - to get back to Chicago. tever we did and we would try iand

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1974 cause we both played guitar. Imprint: Eugene, do you still produce records? Eugene: Yeah, I just finished producing an album for a new Chicago artist whose record will be coming out on Columbia. I’ Have a small, recording studio in my house that I like to play with. Marshall: He spends so much time in there that his wife just slides his food to him under the door!

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by Tim Perlich Imprint staff Just when you thought that all the great southern soul singers were either long gone or forgotten, Otis Clay has stepped forward to take his rightful place at the forefront of gospel-influenced soul music. A contemporary of 0. V. Wright, James Carr, Al Green and the other Otis, Clay’s distinct vocal style is derived from the same gospel roots but for some reason never found as wide an audience as the others. At the moment, southern soul is on the crest of a resurgence with its largest and most enthusiastic support coming from England, France and especially Japan. As many of the great soul stars of past have either turned to the greener pastures of contemporary dancefloor fodder (Denise LaSalle) or gone back to gospel exclusively (Rev. Al Green), the field has been left open to Otis

Clay and a select few other purveyors of this deeply emotional genre. This might explain Clay’s enormous appeal in Japan where he is revered as the epitome of Southern American Soul. During a recent appearance in Toronto, Mr. Clay filled us in on past and present: Imprint: Let’s start at the beginning. How did you first become interested in singing? -’ Otis: It started in church in Mississippi, where I was born. In our house, you had to go to church on Sunday. You started listening to the songs an,d choirs and what-haveyou-and that’s pretty much where it all started. Imprint: Did you start listening to the gospel quartets7 Otis: Oh yeah. At first itgwas the local quartets and, at the time, there were also the ones you were listening to on the radio like The Five

Blind Boys and The Pilgrim Travellers. Imprint: Was there anyone in particular who was an influence on ?ou? Otis: I listened to a lot of people, but the Dixie Hummingbirds were always my favorites. Yeah, Ira Tucker of The Dixie Hummingbirds. Imprint: I heard that Ira Tucker taught Bobby Bland (legendary soul singer) how to sing. I was wondering if you knew if that was true or not? Otis: I don’t know about that particular story but it’s possible because when guys were sitting around, they would give each other tips on technique and stuff. But very few of the people I know ever had any formal training. Imprint: Did you ever meet anyone who gave you tips like that?

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from page 15 Yes, Charles Bridges, who was in the first professional group I was in. When I first ‘started singing professionally, I was 18 in a group called The Blue Jays. The history of the group goes back to the early part of the century and he was one of the only original members still in the group at the time I was there. He taught me a 1oI about breathing and harmony. Imprint:.Did you get interested in Sam Cooke? Otis: Well, if you listened to gospel, then you had to listen to the Soul Stirrers, and Sam, as a person, had that magnetism about him. Imprint: Did you ever see Sam Cooke play? Otis: Yeah, in fact, I had the opportunity to meet Sam. Imprint: Oh, really? What was he like? Otis: Nice! A very nice person. One of those beaming-type personalities and that’s why he was so popular. It had a lot to do with that because everybody loved him. Imprint: When did you first meet up with anyone from the Hi label (home of Al Green, O.V. Wright, Syl Johnson, Ann Peebles, pnd Otis Clay)? Otis: 1971. We negotiated a deal with Willie Mitchell who produced my last record with Cotillion (an Atlantic subsidiary) - a song called Is It Ouer? From there, later that year ru we negotiated, one with with Hi naming Willie as my exclusive producer. Imprint: So did you start on OneDer-Ful and then move to Cotillion? Otis: Yeah, I started out on OneDer-Ful in about 1968, Atlantic bought my contract from One-DerFul around the time One-Der-Ful was getting ready to go out of business anyway. Imprint: How did you fir&t get on One-Der-Ful? Did someone spot you singing in a club or something? Otis: No, it was the manager I had at that time. We* had just finished an unsuccessful deal with Columbia. And after Ithat, we started looking for another company so we went to One-Der-Ful. Imprint: What were your favourite moments at One-Der-Ful as far as recording goes? Otis: Oh, wow, we had a lot of good times at One-Der-Ful because it was so closely knit. I went to OneDer-Ful every day like you would go to a job. One-Der-Ful had its own studio and the musicians were always there and you would sit Otis:

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people “uptight” wanted to make each session a great one. We’re getting ready to hook it up again. (Otis Clay should be returning to Kitchener in mid-October as a presentation of the Southern Ontario Blues Association.) Imprint: Speaking of the Hi label, what about Syl Johnson - why do you think he never became as popular as Al Green? He seemed to have the same level of vocal ability Otis: Not by any stretch of the imagination. No way. I know both of them very well and Syl don’t compare with Al Green. Imprint: Does Syl feel as though he’s been treated badly by Hi for the lack of a promotional push? Al Green was the one who was always in the limelight. Otis: Well, rightfully so. It was the right time for Al. If there’s anyone on Hi that has cause to complain; it should be me. (Laughs) Syl did very well by Hi.

Imprint: How about yourself, was it that all the Hi promotional money was being spent on Al? Otis: The record industry is that way, they go with the winners whatever’s happening at that time is what they devote their time to and hey, I can understand that. Imprint: What about that story involving Al Green in the early ’70s in which James Brown refused to play an Al Green song on the radio station he owned in Augusta even though it was the No. 1 hit across ’ ‘most of the south? Otis: I’ve never heard anything about that but it could very well have happened. I do know of a time when I was to play Augusta during the time my song Trying To Live My Life Without You was out.- Somehow the -promoters had me in town at a time when James’s station was promoting his show at the Auditori-

um. I think my record was No. 1, never to be heard again! (Laughs loudly.) Imprint: Do you see yourself moving into more of a funk vein or continuing in roots soul? Otis: With me you can never tell. (Chuckles.) Imprint:. Would you like to try a whole gospel- album? I know you’ve just cut a gospel single. Otis: I’ve just done a gospel- record as a matter of fact. The gospel Japan record came out of the ’ things. Imprint: Would yo’ r consider throwing in some.’ ; 31 songs at one of your concerts? * Otis: I tell ya something, we might do it at a concert in an auditorium or something but not in a club. What I’ve found is that if you start into a gospel song, everybody gets uptight. continued on page 18

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by God Durnin Imprint staff From the tumult of Gen. August0 Pinochet’s Chile the voice of folk singer Osvoldo Torres provides a glimpse at the culture and heart of a struggiing people. Torres, who sang at Conrad Grebel College September 5, is magnificent, carefully blending Latin0 expression of lively metaphor with graceful melody, Spanish guitar and rhythm. His images are powerful and surprisingly understandable to his North American audiences. At the centre of everything he sings is a basic understanding of all human struggle - the quest-for love and meaning. The entire repertory was con-

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John Balge: - And stops drink- ’ ing! Otis: Yeah! . . . Yeah! They get uptight, man! They start crying and go,into a terrible guilt trip. It makes them want to go home and see their mother. They start thinking about all the wrong things so we seldom do it. Imhrint: Is there anything from the Hi period that you wanted to record but never did? Otis: (Hesitation.) No. I always wanted to do Love And Happiness and now I’ve dotie it. Imprint: I’ve just picked up the Ernest Jackson v’ersion. Otis: You know, I was really envious of Ernest Jackson because I knew it was a hit record. I said to Willie Mitchell at the time, why don’t we do a Motown thing where other artists on the label rerecord a great song. I’wanted to record Love-And Huminess but thev iust overlooked it ‘ ‘they never pai’htt any attention. n

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With any tirt of record labdid it instead an3 it el “sound”, it’s more of a personal in the South. thing rather than an overall thing. Imprint: The “Motown Sound” What you’re hearing is just a person. was obviously very pop&r in the With Hi, you’re hearing Willie Mit’60s. Did it have any impact on the chell. Willie trained every single one way things were being done at Hi in of those guys in the Hi rhythm secthe South? Otis: Let me tell you something. . tion. He took the Hodges brothers on tour with with him when they . Motown was very successful, but were just kids. When it came time to there were other labels that were produce records in his studio, he also very succeshful. I like a lot of the “would just use his own band. A stuff Motown did, but I never took it sound is more of an idea than anyall that seriously. When I say “Mothing else. town”, it’s just “Motown”. It don’t Imprint: Is there a new album in have any emphasis. With the industhe works? try now, it’s Motown was this and Otis: Well, yeah, as soon as this Motown was that. They had some gospel record is done with, I’m planhits, great, but if you want to get ning another soul record. dotin to the bottom line, you underImprint: How about Willie Mitstand . . . If you want to get down to chell producing? rhythm cookin’, then. you qotta go Otis: We talked about that. I just south - that’s where they did it. m@ht go down there. Now that Those cats weren’t thinking about s we’re ‘an independent organization’ Motown at all! (Smiles) we can do things like that and deal What was the basis of 1 imprint: with it. the I-6 sound as we know it? I Ernest

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d.ucted in Spanish but each song was introduced and at least partially translated in English. The music stood on it’s own with Torres’ strong voice and facial expressions carrying the performance. Torres, and the two Chilean expatriates accompanying him, used a variety of traditional folk instruments,both stringed and skinned, to -illustrate his theme of a people who continue to sing while looking back to the inspiration of Salvador Allende, and looking forward to a future free from the oppression they hatie endured since Allende’s death in 1973. Torres comes f:om northern Chile, but has been studying in Paris for a year toward his masters in ethnology. He is tracing the roots of his own people in northern Chile. This has affected his persp&tive and thus his music. In his words, “wh’en I lived outside of my ‘country Chile I realized it was truly small, not the centre of the world. There are many people suffer’ing in the world, maybe even more than in Chile.” Consequently Torres’ concerns

are linked with such places as South Africa (in his song “South Africa”) and the temptations of decadent consumerism (“Don’t be Tempted my Little Dove of Peace”). Further he has become worried about the effects of the outside worM on his own culture and how that culture is regarded by the outside wo;Id. “It is not true,” he says, “that if a culture has ~0 writing, there is no history. In my culture we preserve our history ‘through stories.” And so he begins his song “When memory w,as a book and the word a river whit h flowed from grandfather to father and frbm father to son”. Torres immediate future holds severa1 more concerts both in Ontario and Quebec and then he will be returning to Paris, He has doubts about being able to return to Chile before something is done about Pinochet, but has plans’ for that when he is able to do so. Until then he will continue to write and perform in the vocal tradition of his people,preserving the past and trying to empower them for the future. I

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conscious attempt to preach or anything like that but we still want to motivate people and we hope our music is uplifting. What do you want to do with your music? Zena: I want to be a rebel! I don’t want people to be comfortable. We want to take our music to anyone who will hear us, really. We’ll play for anyone. We were offered an opening spot for the Staple Singers at the New York Academy of Music just recently but they changed their minds. That would have been a great show, what happened? Zena: Well, they thought the skirts I wear are too short and should instead be wearing a long dress or .something. I guess they think that if you wear a short skirt it somehow makes you insincere. How can true belief be judged by the length of your skirt?’ ’ It’s really quite odd that they of all gospel groups should have backed down, being one of the least traditional gospel groups around. How did they know how the group dressed anyway? Did they actually see Mercy Seat play anywhere? Zena: Not necessarily, we’ll play anywhere. We want to get across the idea that ,it’s bkay to go to clubs or wear a mohawk and be a Christian too. Gordon: We played at my father’s church in Milwaukee and the people there seemed to really \ enjoy it. Some of them did tell my father that it was a bit too loud. (shakes his

Why was Mercy Seatformep ... was it just for fun? (Gordon points to Zena) Zqa: Well, there is a fun aspect to it but I’d say it was more to capture in music, the feelings of praying. There is a wonderful feeling I get from prayer at Mount Mariah and we wanted to bring that feeling to our music. Gordon: Zena and I have been ‘friends for a long time so when she said she wanted to start a band I said “sure”! Zena also knew Pat played bass and Pat knew Fernando from playing in different bands around New Y.ork. head) We had everything turned down real. low, as low as possible Why did you choose gospel but . . . music? Fernando: I didn’t even use my Zena: I’ve been interested in gospel whole kit . . just the snare! for a long, long time. My mom used Gordon: And they still -thought it to,play gospel records as far back as was too loud! I can remember. . . but we don’t play I hesitate to bring this up but last gospel mtisic as it has been played month the Femmes played two soldtraditionally. I also listened to the out shows for 24,000 people, the fole Sex Pistols, so it’s a combination of lowing night, Mercy Seat played and things really. It’s almost like, . . . like . drew about 200. Why do you think a mutilation of gospel music: that happened? Is it because of the brkaking it apart and mixing in other group or do you think that there is influences but keeping the same raw some stigma attached to gospel intensity. music? Gordon: (interjects) Uh, . . . I Zena: It was cold that night.(smiles wouldn’t exactly say “mutilation”, all around) how about . . . Gordon: You have to remember Pat: Mutation? that this is our first real tour. When Gordon: Yeah, mutate . . . expand. the Femmes started out, there was . . mess with! It’s, more like some even less response than Mercy Seat strange mutation of gospel music. are getting now. We’re quite happy There are a variety of aspects to our with the encouragement we’ve remusic. It’s not real traditional gospel ceived. Our audiences seem to be in a purist sense. I’d say that midgrowing every time we play. As far ‘7Gs pop is as much a part of our as popularity and response goes, I sound as traditional gospel. think it’s much better than when the Is there any gospel message attFemmes started playing. ached to your music? Zena: Even at the Milwaukee show Gordon: I think the gospel message is important but “getting the spirit” L there was twice as many people there at the end than at the begincomes out musically because we ning of the show. I think that’s a happen to be in a band. It’s not a 4

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good indication of the interest in our music. What about record company interest? Gordon: No, nothing really. a few people listened toour tapes and said they liked what we’re doing but they said they wouldn’t know how to market it. It was either too this for that or too that for this. I’ve heard all these things about “commercial potential”“before with the Femmes. Zena: Yeah, they all said they loved our tape and kept it for themselves but it doesn’t have “commercial potential” . . . hmmm Are you still planning to record, _ even without a contract? Gordon: As soon as we finish this part of the tour, we’re going into the ‘studio to record. Are you planning a big production - a string section? - a full choir backing maybe? Gordon: (laughs) No, no, not at all. It’ll be a no frills kind of thing with very little embellishment. Will you be recording your own material exclusively or are you planning on some covers too? Gordon: There’ll probably be a few covers but the covers don’t feel like covers. I mean, the basic melody is the same but everything else is us. Can you think of any songs or groups specifically? Gordon: Well, we’re doing some stuff by The Caravans, maybe one

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Searching for the roots of soul with the Sharp ‘Set koulsters ’ ferred to the Toronto soulsters as a funk band, presumably _ because they play R’n’B, they make you move, and NOW hasn’t heard their intense Southern brand of soul for so long that they’ve forgotten what it is. By “soul”, I don’t mean Whitney Houston, Billy Ocean, Force

by Chris Wodskou Imprint staff Chances are that you’ve never heard of The Sharp Set. And chances are just as great you’ve never heard a contemporary band that sounds quite the way they do. You’re in good company - the supposedly hip NOW magazine re-

M.D.‘s, or any of those other acts that Casey Kasem counts down on his “soul” chart, the one with as much soul as a lukewarm bowl of porridge. Think of that glorious, gritty Memphis soul sound typified by songs like Respect, and Sam & Dave’s Hold On I’m Coming and

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continued from page 19 wou’re talkin’ soul! It is from such heroes as the Memphis/Stax supremos that The Sharp Set’s singer-guitarist John Pabluski looks for inspiration. Along with bassist, harmonizer, screamer, and all-around showman kinda guy, Louie Tucci, Doug Dyson, who seems to think he’s The Style Council’s Mick Talbot when he starts pumping his Hammond organ, a real skin-bruising drummer named Guy Harry, and the divinely-voiced Dawn West, they have yoh grooving to some of the hottest, sweatiest, butt-shakingest R’n’B that no one else makes today. John explains why their sound, once so familiar in the ‘6055 has gone largely underground outside jukeboxes and beer commercials: “Well, I think a lot of people my age and younger aw not familiar with that type of music. Like, peoble think that It’s All Over Now is a -Rolling Stones when really it’s Bobby Worn-ack. I think the average listener doesn’t delve into the roots of what

they’re listening to, but I feel that as an artist, I’m responsible to know what I’m doing, so it’s sort of like my homework. “I think there has been a resurgence of the soul sound in pop music, but they tend to concentrate on the Motown sound which to me is not really the soul sound. To.‘me, that’s black pop music, y’know, black artists going for the ultimate crossover hit. Some people like The Contours were really intense but. most df the stuff today is very up-todate and current so even though you can he&r the soul and gospel influence, it loses the sound of the *Hammond B-3 and Telecaster guitar. A lot of white people are trying to get into that sound, but I think I might be ahead of some people by going past the Motown sound to the southern soul sound of the ’60s.” It was’ through “doing his hdmework” that John’s love of soul and the band itself developed from that first glimmer in his eye when the idea for the band’ came to him three

years ago, when the band’s secocd member, Louie, was still a year 9way joining. A’ fromIt was a gradual process-of just falling in love with the sound. I wasn’t always into that sort of music, but I started to think that if I wanted to be a songwriter, I should look back to the music that inspired other artists I admire. That led back to soul and gospel, I guess the roots of rock and roll. The southern soul sound, like the chunky guitars, Steve Cropper - it’s just great.” Perhaps the thing that sets The Sharp Set apart from their soul-influenced contemporaries the most is that they have guts. With all the soppy dross being put out these dabs- by megastars like Lionel Richic, it almost comes as a shock to hear hard guitars, bass this tough, and horn lines that snap like The Sharp Set’s horn section, The Soul Agents. Just how big an influence was the Stax sound? It’s a major influence, Booker T. and the MGs, dnd that sort of thing.

Actually, when we started this, we weren’t capable of writing horn arrangements so we had them done fdr us by other people who wanted money for them and often we weren’t satisfied with the results. So from reading interviews with&people like Isaac Hayes, Sam & Dave, and a lot of the Stax stuff, we just took the philosophy of simple horn lines. The horns almost always play,in unison, not in harmony. Take a horn line like the one from Hold On I’m Coming. That ‘Da-da-da-daaaa-da-da’. Six notes, but who’ll ever forget that horn line? So we just applied that sort of style to our songs to give theni a tougher, rawer sound instead of a poppy, sugary sound.” With infectious original material, an impeccable choice of covers, and -a live show that wins new converts every time the9 play, success would

seem to be just a matter of time for The Sharp Set. John agrees, but isn’t banl+ng on anything just yet. “We want to record~and we want to make money at this. We feel our material is just as good as anything you hear on the radio today and better than a lot of it. Hopefully, it’s just a matter of persistence and the right connections. I mean, making a good record is one thing, but getting a good connection in the industry is another. You can’t just sit around and expect record companies to come to you because they’re so conservative. They really should be hiring young people who have their fingers on the scene. Maybe they wouldn’t know much about soul either, but we’re hoping to change that. “Phil Collins singing You Can’t Hurry .- Louti is not s&l!” -

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by Chris Wodskou Imprint staff Eugene H., the “hero” ?f Buck On Tuesday, is an everyman for the ’80s. His ex-wife is a capital “Y” Yup‘pie, compulsively efficient and business-like, who’ll always make the right connections and do everything perfectly. The only bright spot in his shallow, unsatisfying life is his five year-old daughter, Franny, who he adores, but who adores her mother even more. To make matters worse, he has just been fired and his landlord has raised the rent on his meager bedsit retroactively by $100

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by Chris Wodskou Imprint staff Along with other independent labels like Stony‘ Plain and Rounder, Alligator Records has been largely responsible for keeping the blues alive today. Genuine Houserockin’ Music is a compilation of Alligator’s current stable of artists trying to perpetuate the blues legend in the face of all its masters dropping off at an alarming rate. It’s a decent enough album, and at the special sampler price, it’s a bargain you can’t really beat outside delete bins, but it’s distressing that the only people who real/y shine here are the old hahds. Fenton Robinson has you believing every word of Laundry Man and James Cotton’s voice and harp bite as fiercely as ever on an arrangement as tight as Bo Diddley’s belt on Ain’t Doin’ Too Bad. They don’t come much whiter than the great albino, Johnny Winter, but he nearly plays his guitar to death with some fiery soloing and the album closes fittingly

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enough with some scorching guitar work by Alligator’s first signing, Hound Dog Taylor. Koko Taylor’s Come To Mama, like much of the blues today, is a crossover to over-produced soul. Someone like Robert Cray can do this while retaining the rawness and immediacy essential to soul ’ and blues, but Koko, who’s blessed with a monstrously soulful voice, just can’t get tooyorked up over monotonous, uninspired material like this. And the problem here is the same thing that is slowly killing the blues - loads of talent being wasted by people who don’t know what td do with it. Gifted guitarists like Lonnie Mack and Roy Buchanan either have no imagination or no understanding music as they simply grind out the cliched partaayyy boogie ‘n’ roll in roadhouses that highbrow critics accuse the blues of being. Too rarely on the album is the grand tradition of the twelve-bar blues infused with enough passion and inventive, gut-wrenching guitar to get you rocking your head back and forth with your eyes closed as on Albert Collins’ B/c&c& Overall, a fine compilation, but as a representation of -the finest in blues today, you can’t help but feel a little apprehensive about the futtlrp

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by Tim Walker Imprint staff Last weekend the UW Warrior me&’ soccer team traveled to Montreal for a pair of exhibition games. The Warriors faced two of the top teams in Canada -the McGill Redmen and the Concordia Stingers. On Saturday night (Sept. 6) the Warriors ended up on the short end of a 2-0 score to McGill. The Redmen scored twice in the first 20 minutes, first on a goal-mouth scramble and then on a free kick. After the Warriors became accustomed to the astroturf surface they settled down and stopped the faster McGill team from adding to their tally. The Warriors’ only scoring chance came in the second half when John Gimple’s header bounced over the net. The next day the Warriors were more fortunate as they defeated last vear’s national final-

x-Country Running at uw off to fine start The Warrior and Athena cross country running programs are coming together in fine style as the early outlook for the team is good. 6 The men’s squad boasts the strong leadership of Andrew Krucker, a fourth- year mechanical engineer, and the defending OUAA 5,000-metre gold medalist, He will lead a pack of talented and hungry Warriors including Harvey Mitro, Kevin Shields, and Tim Rose. All of these individuals had impressive X-country finishes in last years OUAA championship. A healthy and fit Nick Cipp will further fuel the Warrior attack. The women’s squad will be lead by veterans Kelly Boulding, who is one of Canada’s ‘finest Grienteers, as well as Ulricke Zulgelder whose fine performances on the track this summer point to a fine season ahead. The ladies hope to see a healthy Leanne Pinder,. who along with Janice Patterson and Julie Madden will form the heart .of the Athena effort. The team will be counting on strong performances at Western on September 27 and in Kingston for the RMC meet in October. Waterloo’s own cross country meet will be held at the Columbia Fields on October 18, beginning at 12 p.m. The meet will feature the return of the Waterloo Alumni so fan support is encouraged for our past and present teams. A special track and field meeting will be held on September 17 in the PAC, room 1001 at 6 p.m.

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CHRISTIAN WORSHIP on campus. lo:30 a.m., HH 280. All Welcome. CAN’T GET to a fall fair?Then see Step Right Up, Folks!, the exhibit of carnival games at the Game’s Museum. Play games and penny arcade machines popcorn, too! Call ext. 4424 for more info. Sunday 1 - 5 p.m., Weekdays, 9 / 5. FASS ‘87 W+.,e on down! Finic” * ,,-gin Act 2.7:OO p.m. wii oU45. HII Welcome. FED ‘FLiCKSi This week F/X starring and Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Cliff De Young. TIME: 8:00 pm; PLACE: Arts Lecture Hall 116; PRICE: Feds - $1 .OO, Others - $3.00.

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. ‘\. PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY - Anyone interested in being on the PsychSoc. executive (or seriously involved) must attend this meeting, or contact Peter at 884-7136 before the meeting Sept. 16 ai 4:45 in PAS 4038. GRADUATING STUDENTS’ Orientation session for Chart e!red Accounting, regular and co-op, 3:30 - 500 p.m. Arts Lecture, Rm. 113. THE WOMEN’S centre will be holding ‘an organizational meeting 5 - 6 p.m., CC 110. All interested individuals are wetcome. If you are interested and uqable to attend phone Pam at ext. 3457. CANADIAN FEDERATION of University Women - speaker Bridget David_son in her experience as part of a

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cessed. $1.15 per double-spaced 1 page. Near Seagram / Stadium. HOUSING AVAILABLE Draft copy always provided. May book ahead. Phone 885-1353. WANTED: ROOMMATE to share FAST, PROFESSIONAL typing by three bedroom townhouse with university graduate. Pick-up/detwo female students. Large bedlivery available on campus. Can room available for au upper year also type Spanish & German. student. Option to take over lease Grammar, Spelling Correction in January 87. Five minutes from available. $1 .OO/double-spaced campus at 256 Philip St. Call 746page. Suzanne, 886~,3857. 3447. 25 YEARS experience. 75C per TWO BEDROOM apartment availdoubie-spaced page. Westmountable Oct. 1. Downtown Waterloo, William area. Call 743-3342. $550.00 per month. 745-2480, or 749-0652. “PRO” TYPING and word processing. Resumes, reports, theses, letters. Low rates, fast RlDE WANTED service. Close to U of W. Open all hours. 634-8691, 742-2259. RIDE WANTED from Toronto to UW (return) Mondays., Will share EXPERIENCED TYPIST will .do gas. Evelyn (416) 630-5959. work reports, essays, etc. Fast, INTERESTED IN joining car pool. accurate ,work. IBM Selectric. Leave Waterloo for U of Toronto, Reasonable rates. One block from morning 3-4 days a week. Return Sunnydale. Call 885- 1863. save evening. Contact Rita or Nil (519) 884-8164, univ ext. 6676. QUALITY TYPING and/or word processing. Resumes stored inLOST. definitely. Punctuation and spelling checked. Fast, accurate LOST LARGE brown purse. service. Delivery arranged. Diane, Phone Linda 884-7945. 576- 1284.

medical team in Ethiopia. 6’:30 p.m., Hilliard Hail, First United Church, King St. at William. Waterloo. WOMEN’S CENTRE Raffle - Prizes: , home brewing kit, sports bags, books, and-more! Tickets on sale at CC info booth. Scot. 16 - 18. HOUSE OF debates: Anyon interested in joining the debating club should attend our organizational meeting in CC 135 at 7:00 p.m. This is sure to be the most exciting night of vour life so don’t miss it. GOAL SETTING for your!ife and happiness by Dr. Edwin Locke, an audiotaped presentation by the Students of Objectivism (U-W.) Free admission, all welcome, EL 209 at 7:30 p.m. THE STRATFORD Young Company presents MacBeth (a specially edited one hour version). Tickets available at the Humanities Theatre Box Office (Hagey Hall) or at the door immediately prior to the performance. 10:30, Theatre of the Arts, ML.

Wednesyay

September

CINEMA GRATIS: Charty and The Tramp. 9:30 pm in the Campus Center Great Hall. Come out and eniov! LAYMEN’S EVANGELICAL Fellowship International - Youth meeting 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. C.C. 135. Everyone is welcome. EXPLORING THE Christian Faith - informal discussions on Christianity with Chaplain Graham E. Morbey, 7:30 p.m., Wesley Chapel, St. Paul’s Coileae. HURON CAMPUS Ministry Fellowship, 4:30 p.m., Common meal, St. Paul’s Cafeteria. 5:30 p.m., programme, Wesley Chapel, St. Paul’s College. All Welcome. . GLLOW COFFEEHOUSE - an informal gathering held weekly for interested people. A safe and friendly atmosphere.in which to meet others, gay or straight. Cal! 884-4569 for more info. (24 hr. recorded message). CARi8BEAN STUDENTS Association invites al! students of West Indian origin or extract to its opening general meetinn. Come and find out about the Heat 07 campus social life. Parties, fetes, trips, Sports and Reggae Rocking fun. 5 - 7 p.m., MC 3004. FASS ‘87 Writing continues. Join us as we begin brainstorming Act II. Ail ,Welcome, 7:00 p.m. MC 5045. THE STRATFORD Young Company presents MacBeth (a specially edited one hour version). Tickets available at the Humanities Theatre Box Office (Hagey Hall) or at the door immediately prior to the performance. 40:30,_.-_Theatre_.a.. of bhe Art, ML.

Thursday

September

PSYCHOLOGY SOCIETY - 1st General Meeting today at 4:45 in PAS 3026. Come out and help us plan your society’s events. interested first year students especially welcome. - For

further info, call.Peter 884-7136. SCIENCE FOR PEACE and Peace and Conflict Studies present the Gwynne Dver series on War: “Road to Total v\iar”. 12:30 p.m., AL 124. WATERLOO CHRISTIAN Fellowship supper meeting. Dr. David Matthews will discuss “Testing Your Faculties: making the most of university”. All Frosh and returnind students wel. come. THE STRATFORD Festival’s Young’ Company presents ‘Comedy In Shakespeare’. 10:30, Theatre of the Arts. Tickets available at. the Humanities Theatre (Hagey Hall) Box Office or at the door immediately prior to the per,formance.

Friday

September

FED FLICKS! This week To Live and Die in L.A., starring William L. Peterson and Willem Dafoe. TIME: 8:OOpm; PLACE: Arts Lecture Hall 116; PRICE: Feds - $1 .OO, Others - $3.00. Saturday and Sunday night tool

Saturday

September

FED FLICKS! This week To Live and Die in LA., starring William L. Peterson and Willem Dafoe. TIME: 8:OOpm; PLACE: Arts Lecture Hall 116; PRICE: Feds - $1 .OO, Others - $3.00. Saturday and Sunday night too! SATURDAY THEATRE Workshop Series with the Stratford Festival’sYoung Company at lo:30 am. to 3:30 pm. lfiformation and registration at the Humanities Theatre Box Office (8851211, ‘ext. 6562 or 885-4280) .

Sunday

September

CHRISTIAN WciRSHiP on canlpus. lo:30 a.m., HH 280. A!! Welcome. .FASS ‘87 Writers: Come on down! Finish Act 1 and begin Act 2.7:OO p.m. MC 5045. All Welcome.

Wednesday

September

CINEMA GRATIS: Excalibur and The Sound Collector. 9:30 pm in the Campus Center Great Hall. Come out and enjoy! GLLOW COFFEEH,OUSE - An informal gathering Held weekly for interested people. A safe and friendly atmosphere in which to meet others, gay or straight. Campus Center Room 110, 8:00 pm - 1l:OO pm. Call 8844569 for more info. (24-hr. recorded message)

Thursday

September

THE VEGETARIAN Association of Waterloo holds their organizational meeting for the fall term. 4:30pm - 6:00 pm in Campus Center Room 110. All welcome. For further information, contact Adele Brown at 884-l 194 or Devi Shah at 884-l 324

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