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Profs leery of courr-?evaluations lected for student-run course evaluations this summer have expressed concerns about the nature of the project. The evaluations are being orof Students* by ganized ~ othe a rFederation d of A~~~~~~~
with the student questionnaire because it is misleading to say they just want information about the course. He said he believes the BAA are looking to publish an "anti-calendar" and they should be clear about their motives. While not against an
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like the idea of publishing the results. He said he is concerned there will be criticisms made of professors that are unjust and the professor will not have the opportunity to respond. Students can find out what courses are like by asking other stu-
eases have prompted a call to make condoms widely available on camms. Currentlv students have t d go off camp;s to purchase condoms. The Birth Control Centre IBCC), Health and Safetv, and
the Federation of Students are pushing for condom vending machines in camvus washrooms and the sale of condoms in campus shops. A company that installs such vending machines, as well as
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said Forterr Porter said he does not know how evaluating the professors can be avoided. He said even if the course material is good and the professor is bad the students , will end up evaluating the professor. "I don't think you're ever going to be able to beat that (evaluating professors)," Porter said. Professor P.A. Aplevich has also agreed to having one of KeF French COUFSeS evaluated. "I think students need information about courses beyond what's received in the calendar," she said. Aplavich said students already shop around for courses during the first week of the term. If the student-tun evaluations are a formal way of doing what students already do by word of mouth then it is a good idea, she said. Professor Frank Fasick said the student-run evaluations are fine a s long as students are fair. He said the existing faculty course evaluations are designed to help the professor improve teaching while the student-run ones will help students select courses. There will always be negative perspectives about acourse, said Fasick. No one wants to find out students do not like their course, he said. Kinesiology professor Neil Widmever said he will make his decision regarding the studentrun evaluations once he has seen the questionnaire. He said he will not run the evaluation if he does not feel it is a valid instrument or if it duplicates what is already being done. Widmeyer said he already does an evaluation of his own in the middle of the term as well as the department evaluation at the end of the course. He said the most valuable evaluations are done in the middle of term because professors change from term to term so the evaluation done at the end of a course may be meaningless. Widmeyer said he is not opposed the procedure of studentrun evaluations a s long as they are taken seriously by the students and done in the right context. One professor who wishes to remain anonymous said he has not seen a questionnaire yet that properly shows the worth of a course. He said he is unhappy
dents, he said. Thirty courses were selected for evaluation. The evaluations will not be conducted without professor agreement. The BAA is still waiting far some responses from the professors of selected courses.
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Affairs IBAAI. ~ i o f e & o r~ b b e rPorter t whose " course Classical Studies 251 was by Janice Nicholls 5 selected said he agreed to the Imprint staff evaluation. He saidihe more stuRecent emphasis on AIDS dents know about courses, the : better. The possible negative re- prevention and ongoing consuit is professors trying to be cerns about birth control and bore popular than they other- other sexually transmitted diswise would. he said. r "As soon as a professor has to I
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anti-calendar, he said the BAA should clearly state their intentions. Another professor whose course was selected said he had consented to the evaluation not realizing the results would be published. He said he does not
1U-year-ola Clwe Heath gets Into tne music of Endless Summer, a Beach Boys cover band. during the Canada Day celebrations on campus. Reviewers found his performance more entertaining than the band's. More photos on page 8. photo by Peter SbthopulW
servicing and restocking them,is being considered, said Kylie Hutchinson of the Birth Control Centre. Having an outside company look after the machines will not cost the university anything - they are merely giving 1 the company the privilege of putting the machines on campus, she said. The possibility of selling condoms in the campus shops is also being considered, said Hutchinson. The BCC is hoping condoms sold in the shops would be sold cheaper than at the pharmacies, she said. The BCC would like to see the vending machines located in enough washrooms on campus so the machines appear commonplace, s a i d Hutchinson. They want to avoid having thb machines associated with the pubs on campus, she said. The BCC is pushing for the sale of condoms on campus because the centre advocates their use yet they cannot be purchased without going off campus, said Hutchinson. Dean of Students Ernie Lucy said, "the university has no objection" to the sale of condoms on campus. "With the concern over AIDS we'd be very irresponsible if we took any other position," he said. In the past there were condom vending machines on campus but they were vandalized, said Lucy. He said there is "no reason why they shouldn't be returned to campus", however, they should be put in places where they will not be vandalized. The Dons in f he Villages have a supply of condoms available for students on their floor and students are informed of their availability at floor meetings. said Warden of Residence Ron Eydt. Although there is this distribution system in existence in the Villages, if installing condom vending machines is more appropriate, he will do it, said Eydt. "The Don distribution system works very well in residence," he said: In the past, there were condom vending machines in the public washrooms in Village, however, there was a problem with vandalism, said Eydt. He said at the time the machines were not used enough relative to the damage done to them. Eydt said he would rather condoms be available free of charge to villagers and through the Birth Control Centre than see someone make money from their sale. He said in principle the idea for the machines is good but he is concerned about who will make money from the sale of the condoms, whether there are other
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Half-assed ‘evaluations jtist a rtWwaste of time The Federation of Student’s Board of Academic Affairs is finally going ahead with its plan for student-run 6ourse evaluations. It’s about time, Throughout the whole debate over the evaluations, the Feds have stressed they will be conducting course evaluations not professor evaluations. There will be no “prof bashing” with these evaluations they say. I have to wonder, as I’m sure many of the professors whose courses are being evaluated do too, how they plan to evaluate a course without evaluating the professor. And even if they can - what’s the point? Students have access to information about courses both from the course calendar and from other students. All students shop around during the first week of classes to find courses especially electives. Sure they want to know how a course is conducted whether their grade will consist of exam or essay results, whether the professor lectures or if the class is a series of discussions. This infor-
SOAPBOX A call for ch.ange I once had to take a large sum most common denominations in of cash out of the bank, I asked circulation. the teller for $100 bills so it This problem is not confined to Fed Flicks. Scoops and the would be easier to carry. Without really thinking about it, I post office have also refused to later handed one of those bills to accept twenties. Never mind a roadside vendor. Her eyes that the only automatic teller went wide+ banking machine oncampus will “I can’t change that!” she exgive you noth’ but a $20 bill. Personally, wY en offered the claimed. choice of standing in line in the Fair enough. It was perfectly understandable that someone in Wild Duck Cafe to get change her position would not have (since the Turnkeys wouldn’t an enough cash on hand to change a change it either) or foregoing ice cream cone, I’d probably bill of that denomination. Fortunately, I had something smaller, .choose the latter. Is it possible that our FederaThat was not the case a few has either so weeks ago at Fed Flicks when a tion of Students cashier looked at the $20 bill much money that they can afford to lose business or so little that proffered and somewhat snottily informed us that she. couldn’t they cannot provide an adequate change a twenty, A $20 bill! A cash float for their cashiers? Seriously though, turning glance at her till showed that she had more than enough toJ&ange- away $20 bills dces not make a it and this was pointed out to lot ‘of sense because what they are doing really is turning away her. She still refused. This, my friends, is ridiculow ’ people, people who are part of the Federation, people whose One wonders how an organization like the Federation of Stumoney, in any form, keepsthe dents can afford- to turn away organization alive. I promise not to hand a Fed customers who have nothing to cashier a $100 bill, but please acoffer but twenties. One also cept my twenties. They’re not wonders why a cashier would not be provided with enough of a that uncommon. cash float to handle one of the Cindy hong SOAPBOX is ‘Q forum for Imprint staff members to voice their grievances,petty of otherwise. Other students may use the I!?t*EG?S:to the editor section to do the same.
mation can be obtained bv .a;tending the first lecture -which is what most students do when .they are choosing courses. We .!hardly need to conduct course evaluations for this. It is impossible to evaluate’a course without takings a’nto consideration the professor. If a pro-. fessor is awful yet the material is interesting, chances are the students will not like the course and will give it a bad evaluation. Sure the questionnaire is not evaluating the professor - but the students are. The professor is probably one of the most important aspects of a course. A good professor can turn a boring course into something incredibly interesting. Such professors should be recognized and pu_blishing the results of course evaluations is a good way to give them recognition. pn- the other hand some professors are incredibly lousy. There is nothing worse than signing up for an elective that sounds interesting drily to dislike the professor’ and find yourself turned off about a subject. Again if professors are lousy the
Students should know about it. Published course evaluations provide this kind of information. The danger involved in evaluating professors is the tendency for classes to become a popularity contest. Possibly a fair criticism. But students benefit when professors try to improve. And do we really care if they are only doing so to get a good evaluation. Students are not stupid - they realize all courses may have some aspects they do not like. But if a professor is trying to make a course more interesting - even if it is only to get a good evaluation students are the ones who benefit. The Federation Board of Academic Affairs should re-evaluate what it is trying to do by conducting student-run course evaluations. Trying to win a popularity contest by doing halfassed evaluations that neither please nor displease both students and professors is a waste of everyone’s time. Janice
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WA/ fails to provide adequate service foi campus minorities The University of Waterloo not _ worth the’hassle of fighting for months,) especially if no rehas been criticized for not doing enough about access for the dissults are guaranteed. For someone who must already. overcome abled. This criticism came three daily struggles and frustrations, ‘weeks ago at a conference on acit would be far simpler to jtist cess for the handicapped. find some place more accommoLooking artiund campus, there dating. Think about it: if you are a number of buildings I were physically disabled, would probably have trouble wouldn’t one of the first things with if I were in a wheelchair. you’d look at in choosing a uniMoreover, in some buildings versitysbe the level of accessibilwhich are theoretically accessiity? And if a particular ble, some rooms or services may university had poor access, not be. I have yet to figure out wouldn’t that discourage a dishow to get into the Wild Duck abled person from attending it? Cafe or the Bombshelter in a wheelchair unless someone wals , With poor access, we are all losing out, .Too many people to carry it down. aren’t quite sure what to say or Other buildings and services how to act with a disabled perare accessible only with lengthy son. They see the handicap+ but detours. A person in a wheeldon’t look beyond to see the per. chair, starting out in the CC son. A campus with improved Great Hall would have to go outaccessibility would draw more side, around the building and in disabled people to the univerthrou h the side in order to get to sity, providing other students the bfl nlc. The campus, while ‘with an opportunity to learn very pictu.resque,’ is hardly suabout people, Education should ited for anyone- severely disinclude some sort of social eduabled. cation to prepare students to Looking around campus, I am deal with life and to try to make also struck by the very small life as productive as possible, number of disabled students at Somet hinb else bothers me UW, I’ve seen two or three stuabout the low level of accessibildents in wheelchairs and one or ity. Repeatedly, the university two who are blind. That’s out of has demonstrated shortcomings several thousand. in accommodating the needs of Two weeks ago, an Imprint arvarious minorities or, groups ticle stressed that only a suffiwith -limited political clout. cient number of complaints While commendable efforts to wouid improve access. But to remedy the situation are being many individuals, it is simply
made by a handful of individuals, the university generally caters to the whims of the upper middle class who already have a head start on others through they have access to greater resources. Disregard for the needs of the handicapped is one example. Other examples include the recent decision to discontinue the tuition fee waiver for senior citizens, and the university’s longtime lack of concern for the safety of women. While the latter problem is now being addressed, that is a result of long-term pres/sure from various groups. It seems that in most areas, the university is willing to do no more than the bare’minimum requ:efL by law if it can get away l
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The very concept of universities should imply some measure of progress, We like to think of this university as being progressive. [After all, wasn’t VW a big winner in the allocation of Centers of Excellence?) But this word, if it can at all be applied to UW, can only be used in the most limited sense. The only area this university is progressive in is technology and preparing people for the work force. It appears that the aim of the university is to make students into perfect robots - literally. People and education don’t seem to matter.
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Exposure to ideas is the. bask of, learning To the editor, I must take issue with the cornmerits of K. Kirkpatrick (“Waterlosers . . . “, Imprint, June 26) on several counts. Let me first point out that as students we enjoy the privilege of debating such trivialities. Life, the univeise, and everything mean little to my coworker who cannot cdme to work because his child is sick, never mind the soon-to-be-laid off typist, and so on. To return to Kirpatrick’s letter, I real1 fail to find anything objectiona 55le in the “intense exposure to other people’s ideas” which is the purpose of our being in university. I suppose that my parents should be asked to give consent before I am exposed to communism, Christianity, nonliner systems and Kirkpatrickism. I pick up the newspaper every morning thanking my lucky stars that I live in a country where I can be exposed to oth$ ideas. How am I to be secure in m’y beliefs unless they
can survive the constant challenge of those who differ with me? An Applied Studies student should already realize that to take full advantage of the co-op pr.ogram is to examine the status quo from the inside while we still have some of our yduthful idealism. After graduation, the “real world” pressures of career and family demand more the lip service we pay the established order with a shirt and tie. If you cannot reconcile your views with the demands of the working world for four months at a time, you will not keep your identity intact in the “sink or swim”’ world that awaits us. Writing also as an engineer trying to explain my peers to our friends beyond the hill (there’s room far a metaphor here), there is a very big difference between looking alike and thinking or talking alike. While I, cannot bring myself to say it is wrong to wear one’s identity on one’s sleeve, it risks conveying the im-
pression that those who are “different” are not welcome witness the self-segregation of high school students into cliques of punks, headbangers, preppies, etc. Why not leqve differences until, for some reason, they become pertinent? The emphasis on marks Kirkpatrick decries teaches us to put aside our. differences for a common goal. When I am desperate for help on an assignment, I don’t care if the person who helps me agrees with me on capital punishment, university funding, pay equity or punk rock. My taste for’ Baroque music does not oblige me to wear a powdered wig, so ,why can’t a weekend slamdancer wear a suit and tie toIan interview? The objection to fitting in with the established order is far too common among our age group.\Is not trying to right the wrongs in our society from outside the system a little like trying to weed your garden from your neigh-
Look at co-op as a challenge To the editor, It disappointed me to see the letter written by C.R.A.P. in the Imprint a few weeks ago.?The letter seems to have created a great deal of response within the Department of -Recreation and Leisure Studies (students, fa-
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I would like to thank all those who were involved in making this year’s Canada Day celebrations auf most successful ever. First of all, to all the volunteers who did jobs ranging from stage crew to food concessions to the mini-Olympics, thank you for volunteering your time and your help. Secondly, to all the staff and administration on this campus who were involved with the day, was most helpful, everyone which was greatly appreciated. And thirdly, to the co-ordinators who wete directly involved with the organizing of the day, your hard work and time paid off. Thanks again. Most importantly, I’d like to thank Shane Carmichael, without whose contribution Canada Day would not have been the great success that it was. Thanks again to everyone involved, it was a terrific event which the Federation of Students was proud to sponsor and one that will continw on our campus for the Kitchener-Waterldo community.
culty and alumni) as well as other departments in the university. If students felt that the co-op program was not meeting their needs, why didn’t they go through the established channels? Their co-ordinators and especially Brock Fuller have always been open to students’ problems and +oncerns.. Co-op recreation studejnts also have a representative dn the Student Advisory Council. These students have jeopardized the so-called professionalism they. are striving to obtain. How can we take an ad hoc committee seriously which names itself C.R.A.P.? As a graduate of the co-op recreation program, I am well aware of the benefits as well as thti drawbacks of co-op. But I can emphatically state that it was the experiences obtained on my work- terms that helped roundout my undergraduate career here at UW. These experiences were not limited to the job per se. My work-terms gave me the opportunity to actively participate in professional associations, to
develod networks with colleagues and to pursue special projects. Co-op may. have provided me with the job, however I provided myself with the challenges. If they weren’t written in the job description, so much the better. C.R.A.P. can take solace in the fact that the jobs have not changed significantly in the eight years that I have been associated with the university. But perhaps the students have. I hope the C.R.A.P. members are as demanding on-themselves at school and’in the work pl.ace as they have been with the co-ordination department. I am not condemning the mandate or fhj! objectives of C.R.A*P. they are doing what they feel is important to them, However, I. am disap ointed with the initial process t K ey chose to follsw. It cast a’shadow on the efforts of people who have worked brd to make the co-ep program a worthwhile endeavour. Sheila J. Box Honours Recreation, co-op Program 1884
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In the Wright place? To the editor, On July 1, the University of Waterloo once again established itself as a university that cares about the community. the Canada Day celebrations held on campus attracted more than 30,000 people. The community was well represented by local, provincial and federal politicians.
Unfortunately,
UW
was
not represented by its own president, Dr. Douglas Wright. It would have been appropriate for Dr. Wright to address the visitors to our campus and thank them for their support. . It would be nice to say this was an isolated incident but it seems too often Dr. Wright is off campus. It is a shame that mars
UW students seem able to recognize the president of Wilfrid Laurier University than their own president. While I appreciate the fact that there is a need to be off campus at certain times, it seems that’Dr. Wright spends more time out of ,Waterloo than he does here. As Canada Day is the largest event on campus during the year and as Dr. Wright was given several months’ notice of the event, it was inexcusable for him to have not been present. His absence did not go unnoticed. During the day I heard both students and visitors commenting on his failure to be present. Perhaps next year, Dr. Wright. John Herbert gB Math
hour’s ’ sitting-room? Let me point out that all the bombs of the FLQ during the 1960s did not charige Quebec and Canada nearly as much as the Parti Quebecois did by squeezing into suits and ties and ‘getting elected. Kirkpatrick would clearly prefer a more radical atmosphere on campus, yet I fear that those who .truly represent the stat-us quo are more comfortable with the rabble-rousers safely out of the way in a university than in businesges, boardrooms and town councils. Remember the computer user fee was not
abolished through protest but through the established system. The board of governors meeting that passed the user fee also taught me that for your views to prevail, keep your mouth shut, dress properly, get appointed and then safely and effectively raise all the hell you want. 1 I have no lack of hope for my fellow “Wat heads”. Cynicism is, alive and well at Waterloo, just invisible to those who never think of looking beyond appearI ances. Sean Richens, 4A Chemical Engineering
‘The Normal by Chris Gerrard Imprint stuff
Heart
[a pseudonym)
On July 23,24, and 25 Larry Kramer’s THE NORMAL HEART will be performed at 8 p.m. in Hagey Hall 180. The cost is $1.99. There is also a benefit performance on July 26 at The Princess Cinema. The cost is $6.00 per person with the proceeds being donated to Casey House in Toronto - Canada’s first hospice for AIDS patients. Tickets for the benefit only can be reserved in advance by calling 579-1456. The play takes place in New York City from July 1981 to May 1984, and concerns the lives of a numbeir of men who formed the Gay Mens’ Health Crisis Center. Two basic story-lines unite the play, both revolving around the life of the lead character, Ned Weeks. The expected gay love story of an AIDS play does not deal with a lot of the difficulties of a gay relationship that are common in other gay plays, but is touching, funny, romantic, and frustrating. The other plot is p&tical. Here, Ned is a fighter, full of anger, strength, and determination. He starts an organization to educate people about how the disease is spread [or least assumed to be spread, since the drati s place during a time when nothing was known for sure) vide crisis counselling for patients. The play presents t struggle that, ensued with the local governments ove n of and help with combating a rly, the national government mic spread throughhe early-eighties gay disease took on the
stage.
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Kram dealt with was a t gets formed in ‘s He&h Crbia
historical perspective of the disease and its appearance in Gay New York City, and about love and gay relationships. It shows how-people attempted to persevere, even in the face of death, and how the gay community began to help itself when no one,else would. The whole play is forceful, barraging the audience with meaning and a statement. The statement is best put by Ned’s lines at the end of one of the scenes: “But please, I beg you, don’t shut me out,” The Normai Heart asks for understanding and community for and with gtiy people by the rest of society; not as agratuitous offer, but iecause we ore part of society too. The play ends with Ned saying, . . * when they invited me to Gay Week at Yale, they had a dance.. . In my old college dining-hall, just across the campus from that tiny freshman room where I wantad to kill myself because I thought I was the only gay man in the world - they had a dance.. . there were six hundred young men and women there. Smart, exceptional young men and women.” If nothin else comes through, the statement that we are just like every ‘b ody else becomes quite clear in the course of the drama. The Normai Htiart is a must for anyone - gay or strai ht. But don’t exgct to come. away feeling light and cheery. T ii is is a thinker, And its implications reach far beyond the story pressen ted.
Car grids work well To the editor, I must unfortunately admit that I wasn’t very surprised at the remarks made by the cyclist in a recent letter regarding the’ attitude of motorists toward cyclists (Imprint,*June 26) and in particular the problem of negotiating the intersection at the University Avenue entrance. nlrnougn 1 agree rnat fnere are many ways in which cycling in the university area could be improved, mostly in the education AlAI~~~~L
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Pro-dhoice really no choice To the editor, The pro-choice movement is not really for choice at all. Women who agree with the prochoice philosophy say they want to have the choice of what to do with their bodies. But no girl truly wants an abortion. A woman’s deepest feeling is love and care for her child. Girls have abortions because they are afraid, they do not know themselves or life well enough to believe that they could manage okay if they had a baby. The truth is that if a girl decides to have a baby, and tries, she will surely find a way to stand byi her decision. An abortion is .more an act of panic or despair than a logical idecision. If the two alternatives of giving birth and having an abortion were equally plausible almost any girl in the world would choose to have the baby. Thus those who want to make abortions available are not offering a choice, but only an escape from life. Marc Adams Alumnus 1886 .
of motorists, I am appalled at the suggestion that pedestrian style buttons should be installed at the intersection for the exclusive use of cyclists. These are not necessary. It is very easy for a bicycle to trip the traffic light sensors built into the roadway of the university entrance, or any intersection for that matter. The sensors work like a kind of metal detectar, In order for a bicycle to trip the sensors, it must be placed as close as possible to the center of the detection coils, which appear as a very noticeable rectangular figure-eight formation on the road’s surface just in front of the stop line. The outline’of the coils covers an area slightly larger than a normal sized car. My bicycle and I have used these sensors without fail ever since they were installed. In my opinion and in the opinion of a large number of cycling enthusiasts, the best way to make use of these facilities, and to negotiate intersections in general, is to ride as though you were driving a car. This means riding in the center of the lane and* taking up an entire car length of space in a lineup, whether you are at the front orin the middle of a lineup. This is especially critical when making left hand turns, As for the motorist’s reactions to this technique, . I am constantly amazed at the politeness extended by the motorists in giving me a great deal of room, and I have never experienced negative reactions’ from any motorists at the university intersection. As well, I have found that the installation of the sensors, coupled with the above technique, has made negotiating this intersection much better now thah the time before they were installed. Bradley Day Graduate Studies
WATERLOO PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARb-l GROUP - by Wilf
Ruland
Anne Marie Bro.wn, founder of the Consumers United to Stop Food Irradiation+ spoke to a large audience in the Campus Centre on July 2. The idea behind food irradiation is to kill or sterilize those micro-organisms, molds and insects in food which cause it to spoil. To do this, the food is exposed to ionizing radiation (x-rays, gamma rays, or high-speed electrons], Ionizing radiation is ubiquitous in our environment and causes cellular damage at any level of exposure. At low natural background doses ionizing radiation appears to cause the gradual cellular breakdown we call aging. At higher levels of exposure it sterilizes and kills. Brown stated that 1 kilogray or kGy (the energy unit in which food irradiation is measured, and which equals 100,000 rads) is the equivalent of 5,000,OOO medical x-rays. 1 kGy is about the exposure level being proposed for many foods. -. The ionizing radiation not only hurts the targeted micro-organisms, it can also destroy some vitamins and produce “unique radiolytic products” (URP’s). URP’s are new products created by chemical decomposition of the food during irradiation The long term effects of eating URP’s arti unknown. Irradiation ia currently permit ted (but not being commercially used] for potatoes, onions, wheat, flour, and spices in Canada. The process is not needed. Our present food sterilization and preserving techniques such as heating or freezing are working adequately. Food irradiation is currently being used in other countries. Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL) has sold more than half of the irradiation units in use today. People eating irradiated foods in other countries are concerned. They question why the process is used there, but not in Canada. AECL is now lobbying extensively to have food irradiation permitted and. used on a wide variety of foods in Canada. Approximately 15 consumer groups from across the country are opposing
AECL’s stand and cite studies which raise serious questions about the safety of the process. These questions do not deter AECL, which claims that other studies show that the process is wholesome and safe. As a result, the Department of Health and Welfare has proposed changes to Canada’s food regulations. so that testing for safety of irradiated foods would only be needed if doses of more than 10 kGy are used. The Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs has proposed that irradiated foods be labelled only with a green flower-like symbol. The Canadian International Development Agency &IDA) is providing financial assistance to developing countries buying AECL food irradiators. However, at least one group in government has strong reservations about food irradiation. ThE Standing Committee on Consumer and Corporate Affairs studied the issue and presented a report to the House of Commons in May; 1987, The committee makes a series of 83 recommendations. The most important of these is that food irradiation should not be introduced until many of the unanswered questions on safety are resolved. It also recommends that the permit allowing wheat irradiation be suspended (one study showed that Indian children fed freshly irradiated wheat developed abnormal blood cells). The Canadian government must officially decide on whether to accept or reject this report within 120 days. Your inputto the government, letting it know how you feel about the issue, is very important at this stage. _ Here’s what you can do. Inform yourself fully about the issue. Information on ionizing radiation and food irradiation is available at the library, from AECL and at the WPIRG office. The Report of the Standing Committee on-Consumer and Corporate Affairs (entitled Food Irradiation) can be.. obtained at WPIRG, or by calling your MP’s riding office to receive your own copy. Then, if you share my concerns there*are petitions at the WPIRG office as well as further suggestions on how to get involved.
fficial capacity as lumnist (and unof“Write what you want,” he said, obviously quite irritated. So I did. The preceding quote was furnished courtesy of the most wonderful coincidence to come along in a coon’s age, the arrival of INTERNATIONALLY KNOWN PSYCHIC and all-around paranormalist, Robert M.C. (Bob] Masscheiein (see advertisement this pogej, a fitting accompaniment to last issue’s column on the legalities of the Paranormal. One can only imagine the joy in my heart, not to mention impolite thoughts in my head like, “Hot diggety, column mate-. rial!” * The ad alone should be enough to make one just a tad suspicious. “You will be pleased.” 1st his a prediction? I suppose, at Can’t complain,
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wife whose job it was to take bookings whqn Bob was busy with a client. And there are Trying to maintain some = semblance of composure, I started off by having Bob destribe just what his psychic readings consist of, and hit pay-dirt right off the bat. Bob initially said that he had the power to read the colored aura surrounding a person’s body. Now, this is one of the oldest shams in existence and is essentially a license to print money, since there is absolutely no way to verify ‘any of what the reader says.
that the tests that Randi devised were completely impossible to pass, anyway. Au contraire, I fail to see how a genuine psychic would have any trouble at all with the test
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psychic readers are in fact (gasp! horrors!) frauds, I offered him the chance to demonstrate. his ability to read auras using a simple test devised by magician James Randi. The test involves placing the subject to be read behind a long partition that is just above the subject’s head height, while the reader must, from the other side, locate the subject based on the portion of the aura emanating upward from the subject’s head. Nothing could be simpler . . . or more impossible, based on Bob’s outright refusal to become involved in a test of any kind, obviously having forgotten
that
he himself
claimed
that fakes existed but now not giving us an opportunity to distinguish. Come on, Bob, how ar&we supposed to tell the difference without a little mentioned Randi’s offer for a ation I of psychic was’ of cour8e in-
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way of evidence, Bob eventu1 ally resorted-to the totally illogical stance of asking why people would pay him. for psychic readings if he weren’t providing a real service? In fact, the liext day, he had an entire family of four coming in for readings, and how was it possible for him to be a fraud if all four of these people were convinced of his abilities. At this point, my natural lack of subtlety got the best of me, and I made a very tactless remark concerning 900 people at Jonestown. End of interview. Even now, I’m not sure whether
Bob
really
believes
in his own occult powers, but there is a standing challenge from this corner for a demonstration of reading auras under the conditions des-
A.I. plans fundrai.ser Three days of events set for end of July by Don Kudo Imprint staff The most active club on campus, Amnesty International Group 118 is hosting a three day extravaganza of food, movies, and music. During the last wee-
kend of the July the group will feature a potluck dinner and movies at the Grad House on Friday, a 12 hour event of live music will take place on Saturday at the Huether Hotel (formerly the Kent),, and Sunday’s activities will consist of a picniy of food
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While most of their peers are spending the summer relaxing, 48 local students are using the UW facilities to further their education. The youths, aged 11 to 15 years, are taking part in a summer institute for gifted adolescents, offered through UW and the Waterloo Regitin Separ-, ate School Board: The two-week program began July &and runs through the 17th. These academically-advanced students are taking part in a first-time project which combines academic coursee, special mini courses and recreation time, said Assietant Director Debbie Krulicki: Academic courses offered to the participants are: the brain and human. movement; biotechnology; computers; psychology; rocks and minerals; games and cultures and exploring the eye. The four
mini cour888 include: th8 art of at ory-telling; sign language; interior decorating and effective leadership. Each of the courses is offered ,through different faculties at the university, vith exploring the eye, for instance, organized by the School of Optometry. Instructors include faculty and staff members and graduate students, said Krulicki, “The (project) provide8 a real enrichment opportunity for gifted kids,” she said. It’s something they can? get even in the advanced classes of the school system, she added. The participants, who each paid $325 for the “university experience”, will be popping up at various points on the campus all through next week .- and will probably be working harder then most of UW student8 ever’ dream of during the summer months.
Cdndoms better distribution methods and where the machines should be located. Andrew Abouchar, Federation of Students vice-president - operations and finance, said it is odd the Feds spend money on the Birth Control Centre yet there is nowhere on campus to purchase birth control except Health and Safety which distributes the pill. He said the Feds are looking into having the vending machines installed in the washrooms in Fed facilities. Director of Health and Safety Dr. Barb Schumacher said UW is one of the few universities that does not have condom vending machines on campus. She said if students are being instructed about STDs and AIDS but there is no convenient way to get pro-
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inform,afion in Victoria Officially gaining full AI. s’tatus only nine months ago, the group has been praised by the Canadian section heads for its work. A recent confemce of xA.1. groups from across the country that was attended by a . member of GrouD 118. brought back the- commeidat& for The
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~~tt?EX~te~tZ short-neriod of time. The* mainstay of A.I. group work is in the area of letter writing campaigns whit h seek the reless8 -or “prisoners of conscience”. This method has been proven effective with’ the release of at least five people a day who.have been detained for their beliefs, anywhere in the world. A.I.3 involvement in opposing the reinat atement of capital unishment in Canada is anot K 81‘ example of the prowess of AL’s organized letter writing campaigns. The on campus group, on8 of three in the K-W area, meets regularly in the Campus Centre on Wednesday nights. The meetings often feature movies. on human rights issues, and guest speaker8 such as El Salvadorean lawyer and human right8 acti,vist Jacob0 Quiteno who spoke to the group two weeks ago and Diane Sarka who will present a talk July 35 about Nepal. The end’of July events will not only be of a fund-raieing’nature for the group, but will be an opportunity to greater inform the public as to the ideals and functions of the worldwide organization. The Grad Club affair will feature a dinner and Amnesty International videos beginning at 7:30 p.m.. The benefit condert at the Huether Hotel will showcase local artists played through, a 32 channel system; COhfirmed acts include Torso Column, Young Pagans, Stickmen, Big Monkey Du, Jeff Mason, g at the Helm, and National Velvet. Unconfirmed artists at press <time are Scott Merrit, Errol Blackwood, and the Weathermen. The music and video action kick8 off at one in the afternoon and continues through the day and night, ending at last call. Thg picnic in Victoria Park will be a day for young and old. Face painting, balloons, and plenty of popcorn for the kids, with information booths presented by Amnesty International and local support groups such as a Latin American group.
Civ Eng prof awarded ho.nourary doctorate ; r-*i-?.‘-‘r> .-pr Dr. Horst Leipholz, UW civil engineering professor and recently retired dean of graduate studies, wag awarded an honorary doctor of engineering degree by Ottawa’s Carleton University last month. The honor was to recognize his outstanding tichievements as a researcher ,tind educator. Leipholz had a distinguished career in West Germany prior to joining UW in 1989. During the past 18 years he hati served in the department8 of civil and mechanical engineering, and in the university’s Solid Mechanics Division, including -periods of service a chairman of both the civil department and the Division., As well, he has served as associate dean, graduate st udies, of the Faculty of Engiwr, ing. . NiS Scientific r888arch has focuqed on the stability, dynamics and control of structures; he has published more than .200 scientific papers in the field. . Leipholz has received ey
previous awards for his contributions, including fellowship in the Engineering Institute of Canada and the Royal Society of Cgnada, and a CADCAM award. He has also received UW'S distinguished teacher award.
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it resembled a rock concert more 0 scientific conference. Three thousand physicists tried to jam themselves into less than half that numb& of seats . . For nearly eight hours, until after 3 a.m., ;he assembled scientists ‘Iistqned intently to one five-minute presentation after another, often cheering the s eakers. enB thusiastico1ly. Many iingere until dawn, eagerly discussing what they had heard and seen . . .” - Time, May 11 l
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applications would be possible with inexpensive superconductivity. Muller (and his colleague Johannes ’ Bednorz) tried hundreds of different compounds over a couple of years. By Decem.ber, 1985, they had something promising. Tested, it showed signs of superconductitiity at 35 K. The Japaneds quickly cohfirmed their results while the Americans remained
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about six hours at 900 degrees Celsius. We then take the sample out.of the furnace, grind it up, press it into pellets and reheat it to 900 degrees Celsius for several hours. Then we let it cool.” The results are hard and brittle ceramic oxides. “If you break a dinner plate, the broken edge i? rough, not smooth,” says Smith. “Similarly, the superconducting compounds
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“The precise nature of the cause of superconductivity in these materials is not yet fully understood,” says Smith. Room temperature superconductors would, in their most practical state, be used as wire or “thin films,” says Boswell. “This is the form they will take if
“Canada must be in on this new science-based revolution” used in compute&’ ’ “Canada must be in on this new IBM is the currents leader in thin film ’ science-based revolution,” says Dr. Frank superconductors: in May, they were able W. Boswell, organizer of the UW effort. to transmit more than 100,000 amperes “Or we will drift down to a technologi(100 times the current carried by a tally third or fourth-rate country. We light-bulb filament) through a crystal must develo the expertise here and now one-hundredth the size of a human hair. if we are to g e on the-leading edge of The crystal became supercondudting at 77 thess. new developments.‘! --. K. On May 11, J.T. Chen (of Wayne State . The larger the curretit a superuonductor Universii ), g&e a talk concerning the can handle, the more suited the superconceramic “ Pormula” he had been working ductor is for commercial applications. on. Chen, who received a UW PhD in These include electrical-transm~asion superconductivity in 1989, said in the ‘lines, high power magnets and high-speed Tima article, *‘We do ekperiments almost computers. every day. Sometimes we slee only three Currently, one of the world‘s fastest or four hours. Maybe it was li ii e this A computers in the world is the Gay, which when ttie trdnsistor was invented, but in processes one billion instructions per my personal experience this is unique.” second. “A supercondgcting computer might be capable of B trillion calculations Within a wesk the UW researchers had g. . duplkated a second,” says Dallas Hayes, of the Rome his results. They ure now Air Development Center near Boston, in experimenting with superconductors the June 22 issue of Fortune. made from a range of components. “We By 1973 the temperature for achieving A superconducting computer would be know the sizes and electron structures of superconductivity had risen to 23 K, faster than an ordinary one. Its circuits . . the elements,” says Boswell, “and we qe using metallic. alloys. would communicdte faster than current substituting elements using educated In 1983, Karl Muller, an IBM physicist in semiconductor circuits because they guesses.” Switzerland, started to use compounds of would use less energy and generate less “Making the samples is like following a metals and oxygen - ceramics - in quest of , heat, Also, this tighter packaging of materials at a higher recipe,” says Dr. H John T. Smith, UW superconductive circuits would shrink coinputer circuits physicist. “We use copper oxide as the temperature. even more. base, take calcium, strontium, or barium, In order for superconductors to be
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original of heat. With supercond,uctors, no energy is lost. Scientists are intrigued’by the new superconducting materials. They are mostly excited by the potential of new materials which show superconductive properties at temperatures much higher than absolute zero (0 Kelvin or -273 degrees C). Absolute zero is the coldest temperature possible: it represents the absence of all heat or energy. Previously, some metals achieved superconductivity only when cooled to a few degrees within absolute zero. In 1911, mercury Fuperconducted after being bathed in liquid helium (at 4.2 IQ. But no one understood or could explain it. The phenomenon remained a mystery until the early ’60s when three scientists developed a theory to explain it. Bardeen,
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Japan’s Ministry of International Trade and Industry has prepared to subsidize private-sector research and is establishing a center in Nagoya to test equipment made from superconducting materials. Afraid of foreign dominance, the U.S. Department of Energy has doubled superconductcir research this year to $40 million and is co-sponsoring a White House The Japanese have swept technology out from under the Americans‘ noses before. A good example is the video cassette recorder. ’ The Japanese used a California company‘s prototype VCR. They miniaturized it using-an American innovation - the transistor. Finally, they took the tape cassette design from the Netherlands. And- the first VCR was “made” and marketed by Sony Corp. of Japan in 1975. it was the Japanese that ’ Similarly,
tricity (hence the term conductors], usually do so under varying degrees of resistance. The exception is the superconductor, which has no electrical resistance. Because it has no resistance, current flows conductors,
superconductors
summer,
that had not been seen before. It was not caused by a new concept in ’ physics; instead the excitement concerned the resurgence of an old discovery in a new form. And especially the discovery’s appearance in a more commercial environment. The discovery is the supercqnductor. Its form, which used to be metallic, is now ceramic. And recent high temperatures the superconductor has attained were previously thought impossible. These higher temperatures make them more practical. A material like rubber is an insulator because its resistance to flowing current
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Japan and the US. alone, however; labs in France, West Germany, Britain, Taiwan, China, the Soviqt Union, and other countries are looking into superconductors. The scientific world has seen a great deal of excitement in recent months, involving a series of major breakthroughs. The critical temperature (the temperature below which the material superconducts) is being raised. In Februafy superconductivity was observed at g8 K. Before this the highest critical temperature was 79 K (the boiling point of liquid - nitrogen). By May, the University of Houston had reported superconductivity at -47.8 degrees C. The Tass news agency reported researchers from the Academy of Sciences Institute of Physics had recorded the “start of transition to superconducting state” in a ceramic sample at 250 K (-23 degrees C). A firm in Michigan said it measured superconductivity in a material cooIed to an incredibly high -12.8 degrees Celsius. However, by the .end, of June, the developments in superconductors were re-evaluated. A meeting in the U.S. of more than 700 low-temperature scientists -and engineers from around the world judged the-first six months of what has ’ been called the “superconductivity revolution.” They agreed the new materials are difficult to shape, unpredictable, a,nd may never achieve room temperature superconductivity. The best of the ceramic materials show the property at about -173 degrees C. There was a surprising uniformity of disbelief over claima made by labs about superconductivity at near room tempsratures. At the meeting, several speakers asked whether anyone! in the audience had made or seen such compounds. Sample& of the compounds were demanded. Earlier this month, physicists were still reporting signals af the elusive room temperature supercon&ctor. It made itself known in several labs. But it remains impossible to isolate and stabilize. Perhaps the stkngeat side-effect of superconductors is the “Meis-sner effect”, __where superconducting substatices are repelled by a magnetic field. One of the most practical applications of this is a . l&Hating train. ’ -.’ The train would literally “float” along their tracks, with ho need for wheels, attaining tremendous speeds as they do so - by activating magnets, combined
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For the many fans of a folkpop style of music, June 24 and 25 were big nights to.see the best artist in the business, Gordon Lightfoot made a scheduled tour stop Kitchener’s Centre In The Square to play before two capacity crowds. Lightfoot fans in the region, although greying and quite subdued, showed that it was necessary to add a second show to the original onenight venue. The 1986 release of East of Midnight marked the singer/songwriter’s 18th career album. Several tracks off of this latest album were featured during his performance. Light foot has said that he’s not saying he won’t make another album, but it may be a while.
Born in Orillia, Ontario, Lightfoot joked that his contribution to Canadian culture was the song Cantrdian Railroad Trilogy. Actually, Lightfoot himself is a much ingrained Canadian institution, along with Anne Murray and Stompin’ Tom Conners of course. Thursday’s show soId out within days of the concert announcement. Wednesday’s concert was the additional show. The first half was dedicated to a wide variety of old Gord songs: Sundown, a punchy version of Triangle, Shadows, Beautiful, Don Quixote, Salute, and AIberta Bound. -Things really picked up when he played In My F&ion and mellowed out with !f You Could Read My Mind. After the break, Lightfoot opened with his new album. He pleased the crowd dbing differ-
request in the midst of the conent versions than on the studio servative silence was turned recording. In the case of 1’11 tug along, he did a solo,. For East of Midnight,(the title track], only he and long time band member Terry Clements performed. These songs were totally*simplified, but were improved upon compared to the studio tracks. Lesson in Love sounded great in concert as well. The acoustics of The Centre provide an excellent sound which is unparalleled; even by Massey Hall where Lightfoot plays for one week each year. ’ Not all of Gord’s classics were heard the first night. Endless Wire was not; however, The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald,The Auctioneer, Pussy WilIows Cat Tails. 1 + , and Old Duns Records were on the evening’s sang list. One fan who dared yell out a
Torso Column at the- City-by Don Kudo Imprint staff This wasn’t the best place to be with a wicked headache; two local bands downstairs at the City Hotel, surrounded by opinionated Imprint goons. Besides these extenuating circumstances, the City show featuring Torso Column and Psycho Voodoo Fuck.on July 3 was probably better than doing the usual mundane things in Waterlqo - like going to Club Fed. The headlining band (the second band to play, the band whose name was larger on the po_s_ter) - was -a -four-man group called Torso Column. Headed by lead singer Lindsay Stewart, the
band plays post-punk “vvave” music. This style of new’music was developed when punk bands foundout that they could make a few more pounds by smoothing out their pogo-popping rhythms and anarchy-filled lyrics. The Torso Column version of this genre of music relied heavily on Stewart’s vocal strength to carry their songs. The scant instrumentation evidenced during the first set was the result of the tunnel-like acoustics of the venue and soundman blues. A two guitarformat used occasionally by Torso Column gave their music a greater depth and presence. ,
tune not preset for the several guitars on stage. Lightfoot, age 49, even did the vocals for the studio recording of Anything For Love. He had a good time but the taped music from his L.A, studio was an obvious imposter for the ‘excellent quality of live music that the Centre In. The Square affords. The tape drowned out Gord and the loud hiss’ w8S mildly annoying. Lightfoot’s antics during the number made the attempt appreciable. His reason for using the studio tape approach for the song was that it too is in an odd key difficult or just a hassle to preset on a guitar for a live performance. . Much applause met and saluted Gordon Lightfoot. Despite his good performance and obvious fan support in the region, he only performed one encore, At Massey Hall, Lightfoot has performed up to four encore songs. Cord and his band [Terry Clements, Rick Haynes, Barry Keane, Ed Ringwald) have just finished up a tour of Western Canada. After Ontario he’ll be going south of the border to wind up his tour.
By moving and motivating the band’s music, Stewart’s performance gave the evening a sense of being a “happening”. His vocals were seemingly strong and clear,- however due to my dense condition the subjects of the songster’s verses were not discerned. Tcrso Column appears to be an intelligent band, so I’ll just have to wait for some other opportunity to check out their in\ sight. . by Don Kudo Opening set [the first band to IlnIBcin~ staff play, the smaller print on the the HARDCokE - two syllables, - - gig -that . a record deal . . L.with.* poster) Psycho Voodoo Fuck is one well-defined Fringe Products was inderinlte area of music an instrumental outfit that as the higher ups at the label for the young of age and heart. didn’t fair well with my mad miclaim that they are “unclassifiaWell, that’s not the whole graine. Reviewing artists that ble”.-By the account they made truth. play suns vocals is difficult unhere, the only way to define this Syllabically, the term cerless they are of the level of say band is stating that they are extainly is a complimentary duo jazz fusionists, Uzeb who imcellent, amazing, or how about, but the label covers diverse press or Shadowy Men On A “fuckin right oh!” styles and ideas that ensures Shadowy Planet who entertain. packed halls for all-ages gigs. A mid set instrumental disThe deficiencies of bands that The June-27 show on the camplayed the talents of guitarist have not reached the lofty pus of U of GueIph was an examDave Walsh. His ability could be heights of the two bands mentiple of the vsrious aspects of - better suited for any metal band, oned are usually evident after hardcore. A small crowded room but his fit in Nomind with the only a few songs. in the campus centre with three awesome interaction of Paul P.V.F. songs for the most part bands who present different Newman on drums and Alisdair contained good hooks but lacked brands of ‘core craziness, Jones on bass, leaves this band direction. The first handful of ofFirst up London’s Condo with no weak links. ferings were characterized iby Christ performed a raunchy Scott T., the lead singer, is an guitar strings being pulled from thrash set of crunch ‘core. Desangry young man who stares inthe same frets, When guitarist pite the excuses offered before tensely ,at his audience. His disswitched to bass and bashist to the show from guitarist Mary position during the band’s tour guitar, the band found a better Lou Ambrogio of new members, de force Cause insanity ca tured groove that was fresher than lack of practice, and the the extreme nature of the rl and’s their earlier UZ edgy guitar drummer g’bne fishing or somefinale. Along with the guitar sound. thing before they tracked him contortions from Walsh, this down, the Condos raved up the final song was the highlight of With my head clear hopefully audience with their set that borthe Guelph gig. by the end of the month, a BIG rowed tunes from an earlier ediLoud, deafening, and deadenBIG EVENT will be worth attion df the band, the Napalm tending Jul 24-26. Amnesty Ining volume characterized SudBabies. 118 (the den Impact’s performance. taraationa P Group The band’s version of Here Stacks of Marshalls and a vast on-campus chapter] will be hostComes The Sun as a song called array of drums were the warning ing a three-day festival. With Here Comes The Bomb was a signs of what was to come from food and movies at the Grad well-put mockery of a song that this T.0. band. Metal hardcore House on the Friday and a day in represented one-era, translated with plenty of volume and surthe sun at Victoria Park on the tr, present day nuke concerns,, <plus oundings of the skins was Sunday, the HIP HIP HAPPENalitt Pe hard to swallow after the ING will be Saturday at the Lyrics along the lines of Little energy expended during the opHuether Hotel [yea that’s the darling, can’t you see the red KENT, man), skies a burn’in made this song a ening bands’ sets. Sudden Impact succeeded in Upstairs at this wonderful must, not only live but on vinyl. transforming the “Pit” into a building, from three in the afterThe band has appeared on the standing-room only crowd from noon till one in the evening I London Underground compilathe rampant racing and hipcheck EIGHT bands will be performing tion and will be on the upcoming of the previous hoolappniam at this benefit far Amnesty fnI+miiltoa ssom$‘w3th the likea of sets, with youngsters gawking ternationrl. The line-up as it Problem -Children and Social at the hyper speed antics of the stands at this very moment conSuicide. band. Repetitive through most of sists of all local bands including Toronto’s Nomind played an their show, the band still rethe twa reviewed above. There anthemic brand of hardcore mained I the reigning heroes of the are rampant rumours that a few through the first half of their crowd. “big name” artists my grace the ‘fantastic set. With the proper Split Perronrlity is the title of occasion, so stayed tune to this placing of evil lulls in their I Sudden Impact’s rooa~~to be r+ sectiorj and the posters around songs, this band offers the best leased second album bn, Fringe the campus for all the ctiucial forward hardcore in the *’ ~ I straight pmd~cf& .I-’ : _ s+.<I” , .i- , info. area, The band lamented aft& . b 42 i ..*;*‘s‘. 1.-b ’ .‘A i. w -. I h
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FRESH. NEW SOUNDS by Rob Cumming Imprint staff This is Leslie Phillips’ fourth album and by far the best she has ever done, T-Bone Burnett, the producer, allowed her to pursue a style that she felt more comfortable with and which suit-s her voice remarkably well. To get a feel for her music take the style and sound of the lead singer from the Bangles (including the looks), add some Kate Bush, and spice it with a folk sound. Syn-
by Paul Done Imprint staff Those who thought 1985’s excellent Language Barrier was a one-off excursion into futuristic funk for reggae riddim kings Sly and Robbie will be surprised by Rhythm Killers which returns to their vein of international funk and, this time, pushes it light years further - in the process becoming the first album to make Language Barrier sound dated. This time out much of their supporting cast is different (Bob D lan and Miles Davis were ot hyerwise indisposed this time], and they’ve recruited a handful of former ParliamentFunkadelic members to really get the funk moving. Sly and Robbie themselves sound far more interested than they did on Taxi Connection Live, released earlier this year which showed them to be completely handcuffed by the constraints of playing straight reggae. Further, Taxi Connection demonstrated just how they tower over the rest of the reggae field - dominating singers, toasters and other musicians through their overpowering precision and nroficiencv.
Sly and Robbie glisten Rhythm Killers glistens with the same kind of metallic surfaces and knife-edge grooves which Sly and Robbie first toyed with on Grace Jones’ seminal Nightclubbing album. But this time the reference points are far wider than the Grace Jones downtown chill. Early ’70s gritty funk is thrown against Afro-Cuban percussion; Shinehead’s reggae-hip-hop cuts across a full string section (no synthesized violins either!): whistled snatches of Beethoven collide with Sly and Robbie’s human rhythm split-second perfection: Bootsy Collins’ P-Fuhk crazed singing -fights for sonic elbow room with the spacey scratching and turntable mastery of D.&T.
thesizers, dominant on her earlier albums, make way for a strong acoustic feel and for simpler melodies on this album. The album opens with an acoustic song written by Burnett called River of Love. Driving out sympathy the listener feels for life’s problems with lyrics like I by Paul Done Imprint staff had to run before I knew how to crawl, The first step was hard Have you ever tried to repair but 1 hove had trouble with them the brakes on an older Datsun all, But now the night grows 510?For those of who who hadarker and the day grows dim, ven’t, what Datsun seemed to do ‘Cause I know I never wiIl see when they designed the disc you again, And I almost mode you happy. Other highlights on brakes for the first model of the the album include carry you and 510 was to take an existing, an acoustic duet God is Watchworking Western disc brake sysing You. The album can be ’ tem (Jaguar, I have been told), picked up at the Carpenter shop and filter it through their Japaacross the street from Waterloo nese engineering facilities and Town Square. personnel. Of course, what came out at the other end resembled In fact collision and conflict is the original-and brought the car the magic of Rhythm Killers and to a quick, safe halt I However, the man *ho mediates and conwhere the- original had been straightforward to repair and trols the sonic battles is Bill Laswell, whose experience in other maintain, the Datsun system intercontinental jamdowns such was a nightmare - seemingly as Deadline’s Down By Law and designed so that it required two experienced mechanics with Manu Dibango’s Electric ‘Africa, makes him perfectly suited to three hands each and a host of the role. special tools to reassemble the The three songs on each side of unit. the album are mixed into each I get that same kind of se&aother, effectively dividing the tion listening to ~Deop Cut by album into two 19-minute long Melon - Japan’s first rap outfit. pieces which by turns examine All the elements are there, but, different faces of this Reggaethey have been scrtimbled,?rearAfrican-Funk-Rot k’ monster. A ranged grid thrown off-kilter so cover of the Ohio Players’ Fire, that the final product sounds noopens side one and is as close as thing like any rap record which the album comes to straight has ever been released. Of funk. This doesn’t last for long as course, strange-sounding imitawe move into Boops (Here To tions of Western music are nothing new to most of Melon, who Go) the most conventionally regwere previously in The Plastics gae-oriented song (and a top-5 hit single iri England). Side one - Japan’s first New Wave band. closes out with Let’s-Rock, where The drums mimic half-remembered drum patterns from other the three guitar players rock out and loosen up for the real action rap songs, but as with everywhich occurs on side two. thing else they’re thrown offIn retrospect side one feels centre. Sometimes the drums more like a warm-up, or more acsounds are horribly tinny, they curately, like boxers feeling one break the beats down in all the another out early in a fight. The wrong places, and sometimes, collision and conflict inherent in for example, a hollow tom-tom the album comes to a fruition on drum sound may be used where a side two, wkre the fight far whipcrack snare sound i.s space works up’ into a wonderful needed. The surrounding instrucontrolled riot - a riot which mentation is just as absurd nonetheless make you want to like the fake steel guitar on get up and shake your ass! EveHardcore Hawaiian. ryone, even the string section, What really makes Deep Cut gets more aggressive in staking so wonderfully absurd though, out their own turf and making is the rapping of Toshi and Chica, which displays a very inwith knife-edge grooves complete understanding of both English and of the rap rhythms. excursions into others’. Toshi shouts out the most hilarThis year someone might be ious inanities with every ounce able to record a more perfect, of angst that he can wrenchfrom more complete album than his bo+y. Try this: 2 am Mod Max Rhythm Killers by narrowing on the surfboard/I am gonna their focus, limiting their scotie. wipe off those musical waves( Maybe. I would bet the life of a from Hardcore Hawaiian), or alclose friend [I never bet my own ternately there’s AI1 the squids life) that no-one will record a got TV eyes/they are monitor better idea than Sly aid Robbie systems of the closed circuithave on Rhythm Killer& Don’t (from Funkasia). If this wasn’t miss out on some of the most inenough, Toshi often has trouble ventive music being made in pronouncing all the words so 1987.
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By now all loyal REMites have relinquished their cash and purchased the “latest” slab from Athens Georgia’s favourite sons. For those of you joining the legions of listeners the band gained with their ever so popular 1986 platter Life’8 Rich Pageant, the compilation of b-sides and out-takes entitled Dead ‘Letter Office, will be a disappointment. ..--
Is;p What REM and the folks at IRS have presented in bridging the gap between a n&w album (hopefully before the snow begins to fly] is a record that is a public relations piece. REM, being a faceless crew by becoming critics comparison faves and not media darlings with their pictures and quotes plastered everwhere, attempt to display their r ighter side with cover tunes! (Velvet Underground, Aero-’ smith . . .) and “drunken jokes”, .
j This criticism being a comparative one, because the magic of REM music when carefully placed side by side on a unit called an album, is sorrily missed on Dead Latter Office. The typical track to track flow found on previous REM efforts is interrupted by little instrumental fillers and junk, like the cover of Aerosmith’s Toys In The Attic. Buck % Stipe truly insult Perry & Tyler on thii out-take from Life’s Rich. Pqrrat. Okay, okay, Piter Buck sets the band’s alibi for the album by stating, “l?s riot a record to be taken seriously. Listening to this album should tie like blvlwsing pg&a gy; “,ofep~: album will undoubtedli sell in a big way, but -if Ihad Letter Office is your first REM purchase, 8ee if you can exchange it fcir one of Jheir “real” albums, and-then listen this @at band. , .
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by Cassandra Nicolaou Imprint staff c Duke Street is a Torontobased Canadian label that is quickly, developing a reputation for signing lots of sensitive andi literary musicians. Scott Msrritt, Chalk Circle; and Mark Korven all follow in the footsteps of Duke Street’s first real find, Jam Siberry. Sensitivity notwithstanding, these artists fortunately also have a sense of bumqur, which means listeners are not subjected to an unbearable amount of sincerity. And it’s heartening to know that there is a market for Canadian music* that doesn’t count rhyming maybe with baby as an outstanding poetic pchievement. Mending WaN is Chalk Circle’s second effort and it’s Q great one. Don’t be scared away by a somewhat pretentious name (taken from Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle), or the Robert Frost quote on the cover. Chalk Circle’s solid rock sound is tight, cleanand unpretentious, with an uncomplicated but always interesting instrumentation. On N.I.M.B.Y. (Not In My Backyard, and an acronym used by the protestors of ‘the Love Cabal), the typical guitar/keyboard combination is augmented by great bongos and electric violin (courtesy Hugh Marsh). My Artificial Sweetener, is a humourous extended metaphbr that plays on the meanings of “sugar”: “My friends tell me that you- don’t fit in/Too ‘8weet to be in style/I’d rip you wide open but I.have to stay thin. .‘. I love you sugar yeah I love you girl.” Chalk Circle aren’t afraid to experiment. Each song, from the hymn-like Who Can Say to the guitar-driven This Mourning, is different and new. The lyrics are neither condescending or an insult, and Chris Tait’s vocals are melodic and powerful, his voice possessing a distinctive, often Bono-like quality. Simply stated, Mending Walf is an excellent album from one of Canada’s most promising bands.
by Skat Caldwell @#al to bprint In a world where bands often either take themselves too seriously, or can’t be taken seriously by anybody, it’s refreshing to have the ever-diffident Warren Zevon back on the scene. After a five-year absence of malice, Zevon returns with a pretty righteous (though far from self-righteous) slab ‘0’ vinyl. Backed for most of the album by REM. bandmembers (who will also be his backup band on the tour), there is the threat of their style throughopt, especially in Bill Berry’s plodding drums. But with Neil Young sharing some inspiring guitar work on the, strong title track, Bob Dylan providing harmonica support on The Factory, and an impressive host of other cameos, the result is a satis‘fying blend of individual styles. , Of course it’s Zevon’s‘ sly songwriting ability which finally rounds the album 0u.t. Few artists could work “polyvinylchloride’! into a rhyme scheme without chokin , but Zevon slides it out on T R e Factory easier than Alice Cooper can spit
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It’s been a long time in coming but someone on our continent has finally put together a reissue package of many of James Carr’s best recordings. At The Dark End Of The Street is subtitled world’s Creotest Soul Singer. Though I’m sure some would disagree with such a rJrand pronouncement, the burning power and deeply felt emotion of these. songs is undeniable. In his liner notes,’ Peter Guralnick defines Carr’s stature by ,quoting his (and OX Wright’s) manager, Roosevelt Jamison a8 saying “Even O.V. wished he had the voice
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need be said? The fourteen songs that apear here were carefully chosen r rom Carr’s two original .Goldwax label albums, You’ve Gut My Mind Mmwd Up and A MM Needs A Woman and various singles. Trepidation inspired by the back cover’s disclaimer regarding the loss of the _original _
master tapes was quickly dispelled. The sound quality is rei markably clean and dynamic. Clearly, the album’s focus is Carr’s ballads which, in retrospect, Beems to have been his forte. Don’t expect to find any saccharine string arrangements or extrzivaiant productions. The songs were cut during the midsixties peak of. Chips Moman’s American Studio and have all of the dirt floor. grittiness that has become synonymous vith the Memphis Sound. Within this format, the album well displays Carr’s ability to convey the subtlest shades of emotion in a convincing way. Take for example the tenderly understated hurt of These Ain’t Raindrops, the screaming plea of Pouring Water [On A Drowning Man) or the sad regret 0-f Forgetting You. Who else could turn, -an apparently ridiculous simile such as “Like a vampire needs blood” (from A Man Needs A Woman] and have it ring tme? Although many have- covered the song Dark -End O# The Street And been able to touch on the desperation and even some of the resignation in the scenario of a doomed .lovb affair, no ona has yet been abie to recapture the strange, contradictory optimism of Carr’s rendition. Upon hear.‘,&‘*.;.?* d. :
ing Jam63 Carr’s version for the first time, there was no doubt that this -was the original on which all the others had been based. . If there is any tieakness in the song selection it would be the omission of some of Carr’s more uptempo work like the funky You Didn’t Know It But You Had Me and the St’axish, horn-driven stomper A Losing Game. But, of course, a single record can contain only so many songs. Really+ the only disappointment with this collection is that Peter Guralnick’s liner notes offer no new insight into Carr or his recordings apart from what has already appeared in his”The Other Side Of Memphis”chapter from his book Sweet Soul Music, as the text has been lifted almost word for word. I’m sure if Guralnick took a little more time and followed through with his research he could have found out that
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The conclusion that this music was written about Joe’s frustration with American foreign policy is derived from watching a NEW MUSIC interview. The sparse chants - a11 independent voices - represent the voices of the people, interwoven in life. by Peter Lawson c The “nicely, disturbing” blasts ImpFint staff represent the war of -ideology which is tearing Central AmerName an artist who changes ica apart. With this background musical styles on every album he understanding, this work is produces - or almost every compelling. Because no informaalbum? You’re right - Joe Jacktion is supplied on the jacket son. The latest Big Joe slice is sleeve, listeners may feel lost in what could .be roughly viewed as this impression. a classical record, yes violins, Solitude follows as a work and woodwinds, and some modwhich pulses back and forth, ern synths. never venturing beyond a fixed Mr, Jackson has had an interpoint, Beginning as an atmosesting career in less than a de- phere, the tension builds with cade. He was once one of the the woodwinds and the harkings of “new wave”, once a jazz monic percussion instruments. man, a lounge-salsa man, and The rise in tension, through vo-. several stops in between. lume and harmonics, is released As I remember the story (told not through power cadence long, long ago), while studying chords but through the release of classical music at the post-sequiet chords. This is .,satisfying condary level, Joe found the atpiece because it moves conmosphere too restrictive stantly but never ventures and, instead, wanted to live with beyond one spot. the reckless abandon of a rock ‘n’ Full of climatic. chords and. roll star.‘He became famous with whirling instrumentation, Will hits like I’m The Man and SunPower leads nowhere. It seems &y Papers, assisted by the to build but never completes its wicked bass playing of Graham climb to a clinching idea. This Maby. [The first part of this tune is the weak link in a solid story may be suspect to a comalbum. plete lack of facts, but it sure Titled like a brief subdued sounds romantic.) piano work from the Romantic
OH -NO! more , records by Paul Done Imprint staff
GREETINGSTO THE NEW BRUNETTE
by Paul Done Imprint staff
OH - NO - JOE
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The famous part is true, however, Joe produced almost a record per year since 1978 (or was it ‘7g? - ‘77?ok - a long time ago). He changed styles constantly and alwaysreceived admiration for his products. In the past his records contained a mixture of very good and rather lame music,and his latest release Will Power follows that pattern. But this record is rather unique, it is an instrumental album. Yes, oh joy, oh bliss, no Joe Jackson vocals - sorry Joe, but you never cut it as a crooner. Enough barbing of “poor” Joe, back to the business at hand. Will Power contains five cuts, four shorter works and one 20 minute whopper. Though “I” could live without one of the cuts, the remaining music presents challenging and satisfying ideas, The album opens with Joe’s expression of frustration with the American 1 policy in Central America. No Pasaran begins sparsely with a bass motif which supports the work throughout. As the music
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struments (guitar and winds) add their voice to the repetitive chant. This continuous pattern is interrupted’at intervals by an electronic blast. Euentually these blasts annihilate the cantinuous chant, but the music regroups with power chords, suggesting Spanish music, and then restates the original bass motif.
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Though, Greetings Ta The New Brunette was admirably reviewed by our own Tim Perlich when it was released on import, Polygram, scourge, of the import buyer, have struck back with an allinew Greetings EP. This time, there. are 6 (six) tracks which could roughly be thrown into the category labelled “musical” (the extra being Help Save The Youth of America, another track from Talking With the Taxman). The bonus though is the Z&minute interview with Sir Bragg which has mysteriously been added as a Canadian-only goodie. Upon listening, the songs sound pretty much the same as last time. Greetings is still a wonderfully melodic little love song. I still can’t understand why Billy chose to do The Smiths’ Jeane at half-speed. Billy’s cockney-drawl duet with Hank Wannford on Deportees
era, Nocturne is a fantastic cut. It shows Mrr Jackson’s ability to handle his instrument, the piano. The main theme is very melodic,supported by the left hand solid and broken chords, The theme works through its related minor and is resolved with a great consonant bridge before resuming the original theme, More cuts like Nocturne would be welcomed. If Joe produced an entire album of this type of music, he may go from the “King by John Zachariah of the New Wavers” to the “King Imprint stdf of the New Agers”. The album’s conclusion, SymThe range of social and politiphony in j Movement, begins as cal issues addressed on Freea classic Joe Jackson cheeky dom-No Compromise is so great .joke. The oboe holds the susthat if it weren’t for the mettle of tained note as the orchestra Little Steven’s songwriting, the tunes. But the horns push out a a record would come across as four note motif which is echoed trite and contrived, instead of in the winds and then the just slightly forced, whi.ch it is. strings, and the work begins, Though Little Steven (van centered around this main motif. Zandt, Springsteen’s former guitarist] occasionally relies too The motif is developed, and heavily on the style which he several disjoint ideas are introhelped forge on his wonderful duced before the bell tolls. An Sun City, this album’s best songs> element of chaos is voiced but is are celebratory and incandeslyrically resolved after the bell cent and, though few in number, tolls again. With a interesting caare worth the price of the disc dence, rather different, this lassuming you find it on sale). work concludes, highlighting The most stellar songs are some good ideas. found back to back on the end of If classical music is not your the first side. Pretoria, a rythmifare, this may not be a record for tally enchanting work, features you. Joe has challenged his old a chorus sung by members of a audience to accept varied styles South African student’s union over the years. He may lose them and blends traditional African all with this qne, despite some and contemporary pop styles in very fine moments.
After He Ib The Light, Al Green’s stunning reunion with producer Willie Mitchell (the man who produced all his big hits - Take Me To The River, Let’s Stay Together, Here I Am, etc.) anything less than another Al Green/\;Villie Mitchell collaboration was bound to be a disappointment. And despite several fine songs and a couple of heart-stopping moments, Soul Survivor just can’t match the heights scaled by He is The Light. For this album production chores are split between two+ teams L Paul Zaleski and Errol Thomas produce the downLhome material like the country-gospel swing of Jesus Wi1I Fix It and Al’s unique rendition of He Ain’t Heavy. The other tandem is composed of Eban Kelly and Jimi Randolph, who contribute a couple of prefab synth-soul songs which obviously constitute an
still gets a chuckle and his version of The Tattler still sounds more like Ricky Nelson’s cover of the song rather than Ry Cooder’s original version and further proves that “close” not only counts in horseshoes and nuclear war, but also in Billy’s notions of hitting a note. The exclusive interview covers no ground which hasn’t been trodden in a hundred-or-so previous Billy Bragg interviews. There’s the usual “So Bill, babe, howd’ya get started ’ , . “ nonsense; of course, there’s some of the “tell us about the videos.. . ‘* thing; and what Billy Bragg interview would be complete with.out the deeep “are you still an angry young man.. . ” question? But I’m being cynical, the inter; view does provide more evidence that Billy is really a diamond geezer and . . . why didn’t Polygram ask if they could use the fabulous Imprint Billy Bragg interview - no more Christmas cards for them! If you don’t already ownTalk= ing To The Taxman About Poetry or the import of Greetings don’t miss out on this EP, because Greetings To The New Brunette is modern pop at its finest - by turns funny, sentimental and achingly poignant. a way which makes Graceland sound lumpy. Then comes Bitter Fruit, a Latin-flavored duet with salsa man Ruben Panamanian Blades. Another. crossover triumph. Side two opens with No More Party’s (sic), which cockily calls listeners to think for themselves, instead of swallowing the party line blindly. Later comes van Zandt’s listless duet with THE ,BOSS, Native Ameri-
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things will get better. And the best music here is stunning. One may accuse van Zandt of biting off more than he can-chew afier looking at thglis t of concerns ht has decided to address. But with lines like “Why are the people SC quiet in America?” [frpm Bittel Fruit], brutal in accusation yei breathtaking in economy, he car be forgiven.
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attempt to get a soul hit - tihich Everything’s Gonna Be Alright just might do. This combination of shimmering synthesizers on some tracks and loose acoustic numbers elsewhere doesn’t quite mesh. Nonet hiless, Soul Survivor (only the thousandth or-so record to be titled thus) contains sbme of the usual tingley Al Green vocal theatrics. The way his voice descends on the phrase trying to find the bottom line from Jesus Will Fix It or the drop in his voice for the word reverence from Yield Not To Temptation is enough to make your heart stop. The word long will never be ‘the same to’ me after listening to the first line of He Ain’t Heavy - since Sam Cooke died, Al Green has come closest to matching Sam’s ability to take a single word and give it a reservoir of meaning. t Soul Survivorwilknever be remembked with the reverence that Al Green’s earlier albums now command, but I’m thankful for any opportunity to hear something as beautiful and timeless as Al Green’s voice. Further, Al Green will be playing Kingswood at Canada’s Wonderland in September - he will, no doubt, leave many of us crying in the aisles. -
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Stanley Kubrick has done it again; the visionary director has produced another masterpiece. \ In creative seclusion, with unknown ‘actors, a medium-sized budget, and over three years of productidn time, FuJI Metal Jacket provides the final word on the Vietnam war. The film does not rry to glorify, justify, con-, demn or explain the war. Kubrick focuses on a few, absurd scenes and characters and manipulates them to disgust his audience. He remains objective as the director, yet the audience reacts to his mockery of their moralities in a war where there is no room for morality. The film is a very disturbing portrayal of the war which has been getting flogged to death in the last few years with films such as Apocalypse Now, The Deer Hunter, and of course, P1atoon. With Gustav Hasford’s original story, Michael Herr‘s journalistic experience in Viet nam, and Kubrick’s camera lens interpretation, the result is utter chaos and absurdity. “War is hell” - that’s Platoon, ywar is a strange trip, man“ - that’s Apocalypse Now, “war is bloody absurd” - now thet‘s Full Metal Jacket. Kubrick does not try to create a narrative movie: he consciously. defies the entire idea of narrative drama. He presents a panorama of bizarre but memorable vignettes loosely held together by the less significant plot. The structure itself is so chaotic that images of chaos, insanity, and morbid humour dominate the screen. The traditional
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,stability of the Marine recruit camp, Parris Island, is disturbed by one of the graduates, Gamer Pyle, (played by Vincent D’Onofrio) when he loses control and practices his newly acquired skills on the drill sergeant. Lee Ermey is brilliant in his supporting role as Gunnery Sergeqnt Hartman He punches, humiliates, but ultimately shapes his recruits from innocent schoolboys into ruthless killers. He continually swears at ‘his men as he supervises them on their inspections, marching drills, *and on ,the obstacle course, and firing range* Although his tyrannical character
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is exaggerated to surrealistic pru$ortions, his stereotype has a basis in reality, as most soldiers in boot camp could tell you. After Parris Island, the recruits are given their orders for Vietnam and are split up. The. main character+ Joker, (Adam Baldwin) is-assigned as a frontline journalist and eventually gets abscrbed in the real fighting, meeting up with his sidekick, the infantryman, Cowboy (Arliss Howard) and,his platoon of soldiers. The film is broken up into two segments: recruit camp and Vietnani. The sanitary-white barracks and pajamas, uniform
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’ plot n. The predator picks off the commandos, but not very nicely. He toys with them, and acts as a confessor; he wants them to spill their’ guts. Actl ing n. Very little. But the predator does a great impressioh of the jungle. Arnold plays himself - stoic facial expression, gun in hand, and Austrian acP cent. Diaa*Iogue n. Kept nice and simple: "We need the best, Dut&“ “If it bleeds, we can kill it.”
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who comes to earth for the thrill of the hunt. Prey n. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Major Dutch Schaefer, who leads a crack commando team and is “the best.”
AC; tion n. Lots. With earlier films like Commandoand Terminator, Schwarzenegger iS s‘tarting to define his own sub-genre; the Spaghetti Sci-fi Action flick. Conm flict n. All types. But especially predator vs. prey. Gripping at times, but tension is always present. PacGng fi. Fast. Amamun@Wion n. Lots and lots used. End n. This is it. See Predator for nothing other than Schwarzenegger, who has lots of fun making movies., And you can tell.
brushcuts, and perfect drill of recruit camp change to dense jungles and crumbling buildings, painted helmets, and sporadic scrambles for survival in Vietnam. Here, the soldiers discover that even their intense training at camp is ‘not sufficient to deal with an enemy who has renounced their compassion to become stronger warriors. But even these scenes would lack any real punch without Ku-
by John Zacheriah Imprint staff Mel Brooks” Spacebds is limp, odious and, worst of all, offensive in its brainlessness. Ever% joke is flaccid and dated, every sight gag forced and cheesy. And every performer fa’ils miserably to deliver any yuks; even John Candy and Rick
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Moranis sink like lead, shackled as they are by the grossly unhumorous script. The only genuinely funny moment in the movie, where Moranis’ “Dark Helmet” says to the Luke SkyWalker-cum-Han Solo hero “I am your father’s sister’s nextdoor neighbour’s cousin’s grounds- ’ keeper’s etc. etc. blah blah blah.. . ‘0 can be seen on the commercials.
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From 1975 to 1982
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by Donald Duench Imprint staff The University of Waterloo celebrates its 39th anniversary this year. To commemorate this achievement, Imprint Sports presents a four-part review of Waterloo athletics. This week: part 3 - up to the 25th.
19759 76 Athena swimmers took yet another OWIAA championship that season. They were led by Karen Murphy, who won the loom breaststroke, and both the zoom and 400rn individual medleys. Claudia Cronin took the 50m and 1OOm freestyle events. At the CIAU meet that year, which was hosted by Waterloo, the “team” consisting of OWIAA swimmers won the CIAU championship. It is believed that had the title gone to the school whose team scored the most points, it would have gone to the Athenas. The basketball Warriors won their third straight Naismith championship, another OUAA title, and finished third at the CIAU championships. In soccer, the Warriors finished second in the OUAA regular season with a record of seven wins, one loss and two ties. They lost a 2-1 decision to Queen’s in the OUAA final. Athena track and field at’hlete Barb Chitovas broke the previous OWIAA record when she won the javelin competition, The rughy Warriors won the OUAA’s Seven Aside tournament, while UW golfers won the OUAA title, finishing the two day tournament seven shots ahead of Windsor. The PAC was the site for an NBA exhibition game between the Detroit Pistons and the Buffalo Braves.
1976 - 77 Although they finished second to Toronto in the OUAA meet, the Warriors won the CIAU championship. The most valuable swimmers that year were Ron Campbell, who won the loom and 200m breaststroke events, and Boris Jacyszyn. A visiting Australian all-star basketball team played an exhibition game against UW at the PAC, with the home side win.ning 78-52. That season, Seymour Hadwen’s 29 points led the Warriors to an ‘89-83 win over Laurentian in the OUAA title game. Waterloo again finished, ‘third at the CIAU tournament. Mike Visser of the basketball Warriors became the third player in OUAA history to score more than 1,000 points in OUAA league games. The soccer Warriors had a perfect regular season, consisting of 10 wins, no losses and no ties, but lost the ‘OUAA crown to Toronto by a 1-O score. The game was played at Seagram Stadium in front of 500 fans, whosaw Toronto score the only goal in the last minute of play. Goalkeeper Marcus Klein, midfielder Paul Stevanato and back Jim Valiant were chosen for the OUAA all-star team. Waterloo also won the right to host the OUAA rugby chamIz _pionship. York beat UW 9-0 in
the OUAA championship game. At the OUAA track and field meet, Waterloo’s Rob Town won both the shot and discus events, The athletic banquet, which now cost $2 to attend, moved to the Concordia$lub. For the second time in three years, the Warriors Band won the J.O. Hemphill award for student administration. I
1977-78 \ For the secopd year in a row, the swimming Warriors won the CIAU championship. Dave Heinbuch won the 200m breaststroke. The Athena swimmers were third at the OWIAA meet and fourth in CIAU competition. Other Ontario titles were claimed by the fencing Warriors and the Athena alpine skiers. Waterloo hosted the CIAU soccer tournament ‘that year. UW lost to Concordia 2-1 in a semifinal game, but came back to defeat Dalhousie 3-1 in the consolation final. In rugby, the OUAA final was again played on Columbia field. The game, between Western and Waterloo, wound up in a 6-6 tie. By mutual agreement, due to the cold, snowy weather, co-champions were declared. It was a dark day for Waterloo basketball fans, as the Warriors lost the OUAA basketball title game 62-59 to Laurier. The volleyball Athenas had a great regular season, winning nine matches and losing only once, They went all .the way to the OUAA final, where they lost to the perennially strong Western team. In their first year as a varsity team, the Athena gymnasts finished fourth at the OWIAA competition. Bingeman Park was the site of that year’s athletic banquet.
1978 - 79 For the first (and only) time, a UW football team found itself in a playoff game, a result of Waterloo’s 4-3 regular season record. In that historic game, the Warriors lost 30-23 to Laurier. The Warrior swimmers established themselves as the most successful UW team at the CIAU level with their third straight CIAU championship. The team’s most valuable person was Alan Swanston. The swimming Athenqs were second to- Toronto at the OWIAA meet, and third overall.,@ at the CIAU meet. Led by Keith Priestman and Jeff Goldsworthy, the badminton Warriors won the OUAA championship. In wrestling, the Waterloo team placed third at the OUAA level, while their coach, Bill Hogarth, was named the OUAA wrestling coach of the year. The basketball Warriors made it to the OUAA West division final, where they lost 60-48 to Windsor. Doug Vance, Seymour Hadwen and Ron Graham were named to the OUAA West division all-star team. Athena basketball player Liz Silcott was named an AllXanadian. That year, the Athenas finished third in the OWIAA playoffs. In gymnastics, the Athenas finished third at the OWIAA meet and fourth overall in CIAU competition. Gymnast Ann Samson won the CIAU individual all-around title. The soccer Warriors lost their OUAA semifinal game to Laurentian, while the squash Warriors finished third in the OLJAA.
1979 - 80 In football, UW hasa 2-5 record, but tight end Bill Boug was
named an All-Canadian. Boug, outside linebacker Frank Kosec and defensive back Rob Somerville were named OUAA allstars. Athena field hockey player Lois Scott was selected to play for the national field hockey team. The first “Athlete of the Week” awards were given out that year. Boug and Scott were the first recipients. ’ In volleyball, the Warriors hosted York in the OUAA championship game. York won in the maximum five games. The Naismith Classic basketball tournament was won by the Victoria Vikings, led by guard Eli ,Pasqual,e. Victoria vriould go on to win the CIAU championship that year, beginning their, streak of seven strajght CIAU titles. The Warriors started their regular season with a win and four losses, then took seven straight wins to finish 8-4. Their season ended with a 75-60 loss to Windsor in the OUAA West final, Waterloo’s hockey ’ fortunes took an upswing, as the UW puck squad finished sixth in the OUAA regular season standings, good enough for a playoff spot. They lost+3 (in overtime) to McMaster in their quarter-final playoff game. The badminton Warriors won, the OUAA West division, but lost to Toronto in the OUAA final. The At’henas were second in OWIAA squash competition, while Waterloo was represented at the OWIAA figure skating championships.
1980- 81 Waterloo football’ player Frank Kosec was the first player chosen in the CFL college draft. At present+ Kosec is the last
player to go from UW to the CFL. In nordic skiing, the Athenas, led by Donna Elliott, won the OWIAA championship. The Warriors finished second in their OUAA nordic skiing competition, The UW soccer team were able to reach the OUAA finals, where they lost a 1-O decision to Laurier. Waterloo’s Tom Abbott was named to the OUAA all-star’ team. Also reaching the OUAA finals in their sport were the badminton Warriors, who again lost to Toronto in the league finals. The waterpolo Warriors advanced to the four-team OUAA playoffs for the first time. Waterloo hosted the CIAU basketball championships (won by Victoria), the OWIAA curling finals, in which the Athenas placed second, and the OWIAA gymnastics meet, where the Athenas finished sixth, The indoor track & field Athenas finished in second place at both the OWIAA and CIAU meets. Leslie Estwick, competihg in the high jump, long jump, 59m hurdles and relay race greatly helped Waterloo’s cause. Waterloo introduced the first annual Oktoberfest rugby tournament this season. -Knother first was recorded when the figure skating team was given varsity status.
1981- 82 The waterpoloc Warriors, led by John Saabas, finish first in the OUAA West regular season. They hosted the OUAA finals, in which York beat UW 12-10, On the afternoon of February 6, Waterloo athlete Lynne Rougeau was at McMaster, where she qualified for the CIAU diving championship. That evening, at Waterloo, she qualified for the CIAU gymnastics meet. For the second year in a row, the Athena nordic skiers won the OWIAA championship. The Warriors finished third in the OUAA;‘ loppet t. Wrestler L Maldwin Cooper won the CIAU individual championship at 51 kg. It was the fourth straight year that Cooper )aad qualified for the CIAU meet. Basketball rookie Peter Savich scorei 22 points in his first exhibition game for the Warrior&. After the game, head coach Don McCrae tells Imprint reporter Virginia Butler to “learn to spell that name I . . you’ll be seeing a lot of it.” That year, the Warriors won the Naismith tournament, culminated by an 89-70 win over UQTR in the final game. At the tournament, the Warriors Band celebrated its 15th anniversary. The cross-country Athenas finished second at the OWIAA meet, which was their best ever result+ Swimming coach Dave Heinbuch, who coached the Warriors and Athenas, was named the OUAA swimming coach of the year., One of the swimmers on his Athena team, Lynn Marshall, set an OWIAA record in -the 200m freestyle. Both thecurling Athenas and the synchronized swimming Athenas finished second at their OWIAA cdmpetitions.
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Could .you be: a triathlete? by Jacquie Griffin Imprint staff
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Lengthy periods of swimming, cycling or running are challenging enough by themselves. Together, this exercise in masochism is known as a triathlon. Mark Hovey, an active triathlete since 1982, usually competes in four triathlons each summer. Although his stamina has substantially increased over the years, Hovey revealedthat training for such events is still a competition against oneself. Hovey’s trainitig consists of cycling some 240 to 300 miles per week, running from 35 to 50 miles per week, and a daily swim of two miles. As demanding is this regimen seems, HoGey says almost anyone with a sense of commitment is a prospect for this competition. For Hovey, “it’s all, quite simply, mind over matter. Learn-
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ing to-pace yourself is the key.” Anyone wishing to become a triathlete should first get a full physical from his or her doctor, after which a very moderate amount of training can begin. It is important to build oneself up slowly, and not go any faster’ than one is aerobically capable. Triathletes require about $500 to cover their start-up costs. A good bicycle (from $35~$4001 will be the bulk of this expendilure. Those who are serious about improving commit themselves to an average of three to four hours df daily training. Hovey’s daily regimen consists of training in two of the three events each day, rotating the events in which he trains. Unlike most competitive sports, HoGey states that the friendship existirib between triathletes is quite high. For the triathlete, the goal is not necessarily to win, but to finish.
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by Charlotte Schwartzentruber Following a lengthy captain’s meeting in which controversy arose over the dates for the softball&lo-pitch playoffs, it was decided to hold two divisions of games on July 4 and 5 and the remainder op July 11 and 12. It was excellent ball weather for the slo-pitch C and softball division playoffs. St. Paul’s solidly defeated the Fruit Bats 14-1 in two innings, advancing to ,the second round. However, St. Paul’s was defeated later in the day 8-2 by MathSoc. The second game in the softball division resulted in an upset as The Ptior
Kids knocked out the first place Ritai Ratz (defending champs) with a 14-1 win. BLW’s and East 5 Fingers battled it out for a positionin the championship ’ round. Fourthranked BLW’s and fifth-ranked Poor Kids made it to the final round. The victory was claimed by the 7.5 man team - The Poor Kids - with a score of 12-4. Terry Smith, helmet technician with NW’s Head Impact Lab, personally tested Campus Recreation’s batting helmets this weekend. His he!met cracked upon impact with a pitched ball, thus dispbrsing the energy cf the
impact along the fracture line. The slo-pitch C division got off to a slow start with two defaults, allowing East 2 and South 7 to advance. The remaining games in this division were very high scoring. The championship game went seven ,innings and ended
15-12 as the Active Components de’feated Mad Mechs B. Congratulations to the champions and all those who participated in the summer league. Slo-pitch A and B division playoffs will be held July 11 and 12.
Campus. Ret important Satundeiy, July 11 . and Sunday, July 12 Men’s ‘Softball/Slopitch Playoffs Tuesdcy, July 14 - Women’s Basketball Finals 7 to 10 p.m.
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Safe summer exercising by Juli Williams Campus Recreation Has the hot, humid weather that has been hitting southern Ontario this summer prevented you from participating in your regular exercise program? If it has, you’re not alone. Many people who do not take the time to acclimatize themselves to the heat suffer from thermal distress such .as dehydration, heat stroke or heat exhaustion. Humans must maintain a core body temperature within a very narrow range, or else they will experience ill effects. The average person’s resting core temperature is between 36.5 to 37.5 degrees C although in the early mornings it may fall slightly below 36 C and in extreme exercise it may be elevated slightly above 39 C. As you begin to exercise in the heat,
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PEER$OUNSELLING. Come to 50 Kent St., Kitchener for our Last afternoon.’ workshop for physically challenged adults. Participation is limited, so pre-register now! Call 576-6300. Cost is 55.00 FED FLICKS The Morning After. Showtime is at 8 pm. in Phy&s 145. Price is B 1.oO for Feds; $3.00 for nonFeds. THEATRESPORTS WORKSHOP mi Learn the art of improvisational comedy! Taught by Wayne Dicks; Admission - Free1 SUWDAY,
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HOMER WATSON House presents: Puppet flay and Phantasy. Juty 16 August 16. Historical and contemporary pupp#s, m8sks and drawings by Nancy-Lou Patterson. Register now far mime, puppet, mask workshops & art camp. Call 894-l 890. A NJGHT at Labatt’s House. Spon,8ored by the Political Science Student association, and Coca-Cola. Labatt’s House, 155 Kins, Waterloo. 5:3O om. Admission 82, incfudes dinner, beverages, entertainment. Tickets available in Fed office. ENTREPRENEUR‘S Club general meeting. 4130 pm, Rm. Phys. 145. New members welcome. PRiDAY,
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THEATRESPORTS Live, improvised. comedy; cheer on your favorite teams, boo the judges, 8nd have fun! Check poster8 for location; admission $3, or $2.50 for Feds. FED FLJCKS The Nightmere on Elm Street: Part 3. Showtime is at 8 pm. in Physics 145. Price is 8 1 .OO for Feds; 83.00 for non-Feds, SUNDAY,
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FED FLICKS The Nightrngre on Elm Street: Part 3. Showtime is at 8 pm. in Physics 145. Price is 81 .OO for Feds; 83.00 for non-Feds. ~~TUESDAY,
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THE BIRTH Control Centre presents 8 question and answer session on all aspects of the oral contraceptive pill. Bring your questions about where and how to get it, drug interactions and aeneral safetv to CC 135. iEEE presents yet another lunch tirrie seminar! 11:30am, CPH 2387. Representatives from BNR will speak on CAD/CAM. Elections for IEEE executive for next term wilt be held afterwards. At t welcome, refreshments served1
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BAGELS, FRIENPS, conversation, orange juice, chairs, Styrofoam cups, ali for only 81 .cx) at the Jewish Students kslociation Rage1 Brunch. Every Monday and Thursday 11130 1:30. CC 113. 8ATURDAYS Kw CYCLING Club. 80 - 100 km club ride to Conostogo Lake, Stratford, Elora etc. Every Saturdav durina summer. Info cali Kevin, extl 3807. SUNbAYS LAYMEN’S EVANGELICAL Fellowship International. Evening meeting (Bible Study). All-welcome. THE HERITAGE Resources Centre (U
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with superconductors, In ledan a prototype train fitted with low-temperature superconducting electromagnets hit over450 km/h on a test track. The main drawback with the train is its superconductors have to be cooled with expen@ liquid helium. Anton Baljet, Manager of Ontario Hydra’s Electrical Research Department says “We have a great deal of interest in superconductors. However, eigctrical tranemieaion may not be our first a plication. Right now we’re ooking into transportation - and motors: We have to study the applications.*’ Admitting that superconductors caught-Untario -Hydra “by surprise,” BaIjet said he is waiting for word from the federal
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