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thing Collins also feels must be improved. “There are 35 clubs on campus and we need to support
“I knew it was going to be close,” was how vice-president (operations and finance) candidate Tim Collins summed up the Federation of Students 1989 VPOF race, Collins edged out Joel Cracker for the strings to the Fed purse by 346 Xs. Collins, who ran on the same ticket as successful presidential candidate Dave Readman, credits his victory to “just talking to different people, my qualifications and personal contacts. We wertl both qualified, it could have gone either way-” Asked if he felt running on a ticket with a student from another faculty was a factor in is uictory, Collins said, “running with Dave Readman definitely helped.‘* Collins, a HKLS student, won 82.8 per cent of the vote in his faculty and 63.4 per cent of the ballots cast by Dave Readman’s Engineering faculty. What is Collins’ first priority when he takes over the VPOF hot-seat? “I want to look at organizing events for the summer and orientation week,” said an elated Collins. “Getting right involved with the university and the athletic department on the Student Life Building is also a high priority,” adding, “I would like to see it go to a student referendum this fall so buildini could start immediately.” Cooperation with the clubs Qnd societies on campus is some-
these people more. A better rapport between the Federation and campus clubs in needed and I am willing to hear proposals from them,” Looking into the feasibility of another Safety Van and other safety projec+s such as a Walk Home programme are also on Collins’ list of “DOS,” Collins said he feels the VPOF position must be more responsible to the students. “I plan to make monthly financial reports to student council so that they are aware of financial goingens.” Defeated VP0.F candidate Joel Cracker was both disappointed and surprised by the election results. “I’m most surprised in the overall voter turnout. Both Tim (Collins) and myself did a lot of classroom speaking, and I am surprised there was not a better voter turnout,” said Cracker: Cracker wished Collins the “best of luck”, adding, “there is a lot of opportunity in the Federation to move forward. The Feds can go far if they take-advantage of the resources available to them,” Cracker still has a term left on campus which he says he might extend into two. Once graduated’ the Math Business Administration student plans on doing something “definitely business related.”
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Wdowczyk reigns victorious by Christina Hardy Imprint staff “I feel wonderful. I don’t even know how to express myself,” said Fran Wdowczyk of her victory Wednesday night. Fran will be the next vice-president (university affairs) in the Federation office. The election results were announced about 8:45. Fran will replace Wendy Rinella, who currently holds the position. She won with 61.1 per cent of the vote compared with opponent Karen Davidson’s 39.9 per cent, Karen and Fran are both in Political Science. In the Arts faculty, Fran received 64.1 per cent of the vote and Karen received 32.3 per cent.
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She said she didn’t expect to win but felt confident she had done everything she could. “The first thing I really want to do is start reading old reports and get going again,” Fran said, “and I have this craving to clean up the office, ” Fran is not sure what it was that decided the election in her favour, saying it is hard to tell, you just give it your best shot and you try everything. On the question of why she did not win, defeated candidate Karen Davidson said, 3 didn’t have the smoothly,run&ampaign - _ - _ that Fran did or- the pqb!ic speaking ability, so I’m not sur. . prised.” Asked about her plans, Karen said everything is .kind of up in the air right now. ’
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causes a disincentive: students who would like to enter the humanities do not, fearing a dismal job market, An urgent need i5 seen for faculty members to foster employment opportunities for graduates. A 1984 survey concluded that, compared with all graduates, those in the humanities are under-represented in full-time and continuing work, and over-represented in part-time work and unemployment. In the 709, only a quarter of humanities graduates were in jobs related to their fields. Surveys are currently underway to determine if such trends have continued. David Foot, of the department of Economics at U of T, has brighter news. He says the 90s will be dramatically different from the 70s and 80s. The disappearance of the B.A.‘8 prestige was due to baby-boomers flooding the market. But B.A. graduates are now becoming scarce. Labour force growth has dropped from three per cent a year to 1’6, which should mean more jobs and better salaries, Foot also believes humanities disciplines will remain alive at universities, due in part to these same baby-boomers: ‘L an organization where everybody wants to be the boss and nobody
Humanities students should be concerned about the future, according to the Canadian Federation for the Humanities. The CFH held a national forum in November to discuss the unemployment and underemployment of humanities graduates. The forum attempted to find ways of stimulating the work force’s hiring of humanities students. Those attending included administrators, academics, managers and statistical experts. Humanities graduates have faced serious employment problems since the 708; jobs are scarce in private, public, and academic sectors, Although acknowledged as legitimate applicants, humanities graduates have had to take a backseat to specialists in both government and business, The CFH believes the economy loses by discouraging knowledge-based industries. The humanities are essential, representing communication and understanding. Most universities have phased out the humanities. They are no longer viewed as demanding and prestigious - qualities which’ attract the best students. This
uvants to do the work? That’s what’s coming in the 19908.” As for improving the humanities graduate’s employability, the private sector has some advice. Acquisition of computer skills, summer business experience, and knowledge of the company they are applying to would make a humanities graduate very attractive. Placement organizations ought to “prepare these graduates for the interviews, dress, and etiquette of the business world. One employer’8 reservations were that he was uncertain as to the sincere interest, immediate employability, and commitment on the part of humanities graduates. Employers say humanities graduates are useful, but urge universities to improve students technical skills. Co-op Arts programmes have been one response. David John, Associate Dean of Special Programs for the Faculty of Arts at UW, believes such programs should be endorsed and encouraged across the country. Ninety per cent of graduates from UW’s Applied Studies programme believed the programme helped achieve career objectives and 93 per cent were satisfied with their present job,
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tever Happened to God” series of events, said “We have become so sophisticated that we sort of brush it away, this God business .” Green said the most passionate growth of faith happens in
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Despite some problems with sound, the Keaggy segment of the programme met with unqualified approval from the audience. Michael Green’s speech, however, bore an unmistakable, .’ resemblance to his Thursday night presentation. *-I-... 1 . ? ” *
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Perestroika is really infectious; it has even hit Waterloo City Hall. The council elected last November seems to realize the importance of compromise instead of the confrontational attitudes which dominated the previous chambers. The City of Waterloo council voted on February 6 to approach the University of Waterloqabout cooperating on a seated arena on land near Columbia Icefields. In a seven to one decision, council voted to halt expropriation proceedings on the Canbar property in Uptown Waterloo which had been slotted as the site for an arena in the city core. City staff will continue to negotiate with the owners of the Canbar lands, which are located directly across from the Seagram Museum on Erb St. In defeating the expropriation plan, council also directed city administrative staff to review an 1987 UW proposal to build the recreation complex beside Columbia Icefields, UW had offered the land free if the city would allow the university to utilize the arena for staging tournaments. The City of Waterloo rejected the university’s offer at that time. With that in mind. councilor Andrew Telegdi said; “I think the city really blew it several years ago. We have missed opportunities in the past and I hope we don’t blow another opportunity to do something co-operative.”
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Mayor Brian Turnbull said staff had not pursued negotiations with the university, so he did not know if UW would still be interested in a joint venture, but felt it worthy of inves-tigating. Council decided to put expropriation on hold because of concerns over the possibility of hazardous wastes buried on the Canbar site. They are also concerned about the legal position of the city if wastes were discovered after expropriation was completed. To date, requests from the city to enter the Canbar land to test for toxic residues in the soil have been refused by the company’s management, Robert Byron, the city’s chief administrative officer, said, “The city lacks sufficient information to proceed with expropriation at this time, There are too many uncertainties.” The
five year develop‘he 11 Uptown core would see the cl onstruction of a central recreati on facility, ineluding an are na and indoor swimming pool, on the disputed lands. The Can adian clay and glass museum ir 3 expected to be constructed neal :by, and there is the possibility tl hat the new Waterloo Regional I Headquarters will be housed i: n a facility built on adjoining lan d. All told, it is an impressive plan for the city core, but the Canbar management stands in its way. Possibly the intransigence will reap a co-operative seated arena which will benefit both the city and the university.
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A memorandum from Health and Safety being circulated Wednesday morning to all food and coffee outlets warned to boil water for 10 minutes before using. The warning was issued by K-W medical officer of health to all residents of the twin cities because of a fear of the presence of coliform bacteria. As of Wednesday the. city was still running tests on the condition of the drinking water. UW was running tests of its own on the drinking water. According to Assistant Director Holdings and Utilities) Dave Churchill, “Tests are being run at a I 1 locations where water is coming into the campus.” The UW tests are being run by the Microbiology group in the Biology department. Dr. Inniss, who is supervising the campus tests, said, “We are just ensuring the water is safe to drink.“The results of the tests were expected for Thursday afternoon,
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Rushton colleague offers intellige,nce by DL Herbert M, L8fCOUrt Department of Psychology To the dismay of my fellow psychologists and to the general public we have been once again subjected to arguments concerning racial superiority shrouded in scientific terminology. This has happened twice before in recent years. In the 195os, a psychologist named Henry Garrett presented the same narrow and specious argument now propounded by Phillipe Rushton from University of Western Ontario’s Psychology Department,
Narrow and specious argument In the 1970s Arthur Jensen from Stanford University’s Psychology Department had argued similarly that persons of black ancestry were less intelligent than whites. To my knowledge, neither of these earlier writers had discussed the place of Mongoloid ancestry in their comparisons of racial characteristics, and neither had gone as far as
Rushton in resurrecting phrenology, the pseudoscience concerned with head shape and brain size as determinants of character. Nevertheless, Rushton’s assertions concerning race-related intelligence differences alone have been enough to arouse a storm of controversy within the public arena. Scholarly rebuttals were made in great numbers to the earlier writers advancing the race-intelligence linkage. The most trenchant criticisms concerned the rudiments of statistics and the definition of intelligence. With regard to the statistics issue, it was argued that while the average of scores on intelligence tests for blacks may be less that those for whites, the overlap between the distributions of scores for each race are so great that one would not be able to make accurate predictions of test scores from information about the race of any individual. One could expect to be wrong in such predictions more than 50 per cent of the time. More important, however, is
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intelligence, the intellectual or cognitive clarity to understand and to cope with life’s challenges whether in school or out, then we should be able to observe such coping differences rather clearly between those we call intelligent and those whom we call “subnormal”; and if Rushton’s assertions were meaningful such differences should be observable between the races. There are those who will point to the economic well-being of Caucasians at this time in history as evidence of their superior coping abilities. However, if one adopts a longer time perspective it is obvious that each of the three major racial groupings have had their moment in the sun. Archeological evidence has revealed the creativity and productivity of highly developed societies within each of the races. On each continent where
Archeological evidence has revealed the creativity and productivity of highly developed societies within each of the races Intelligence tests have an interesting history. They were originally constructed to help educators recognize educational promise where it might not have been evident. Tests’ such as the Binet were originally used with persbns thought to be retarded to discover if they had any skills or abilities that attested to their educability. The humane use of these tests was to discover whether such persons would benefit from more than simple custodial care. In essence, intelligence tests were created to predict the capacity for schoolwork at the elementary school level. As most psychologists are aware, that is where intelligence tests are most useful. They do not tell us much about competence beyond that which is involved in elementary school academic performance. To predict competence of performdnce beyond that point requires much more elaborate information including values, beliefs etc. Though disclaimers about the meaning of intelligence tests are often made, the public unfortunately becomes confused between the term intelligence and the tests purportedly measuring it, This confusion is inevitable if only because the term and the tests have the same name.
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the issue of what we mean by the term intelligence. Each of the above psychologists who have contended there was a clear association between race and intelligence has used test scores on intelligence tests as their definition of intelligence. Unfortunately, while this may sound sensible to the lay reader it would be absurd to a thoughtful psychologist. Intelligence is commonly regarded as describing our intellectual vigor. If we are intelligent, we are supposed to be bright eyed, eager, interested and capable of understanding much of what occurs around us. We are thought to be better able to rise to the challenges offered by the complexities of our existence if we are intelligent. In other words, intelligence signifies the ability to adapt to difficulties, and to effectively solve the problems that ,c&nt us,
If we look closer at the term intelligence, however, we may get a better understanding of why arguments such as Rushton’s concerning racial differences are absurd, If we mean by
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each race predominated, there are relics of greatness to be found attesting to the talents of these diverse peoples. It does the ethnocentric North American well to read the memoirs of the Spanish Conquistadors during their encounters with the Indian population residing in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. While the Spaniards had come from crude and impoverished villages, the Mayan Indians lived in highly developed and aesthetically exciting cities which housed complex structures by which they coqld predict the movements of the celestial bodies. Though the Mayans were obviously from a more highly developed and complex civilization than the Europeans, we would be GROSS
loathe to speak of these differences as being a function of intelligence. Rarely will the ancestors of Europeans explain their comparative inferiorities in terms of intelligence. At the same time that all races have provided evidence of their capacities to create, to cope with life’s problems, to show interest and enthusiasm in their managing of difficulties, each has also demonstrated they are capable of gross stupidity in their handling of human affairs, The Caucasian race has provided us with brutal wars and barbarism in the nkme of reli-
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That all races have produced the adaptive, the competent, and the intelligent is self-evident. To deny that people of every race manifest stupidity of the grossest kinds would require an incredible myopia. And it is perhaps to this myopia that we owe the resurgence of old arguments regarding intelligence and race. After all, one would have to wonder why a person would make such inflammatory comments at the very time that his society is beginning to feel the problems that derive from racial conflict, Rushton’s arguments do not contain new and revelatory information that provides some novel understanding of human behaviour. What they do is to provide fuel for a fire that is simmering within the social fabric of this nation. To make a presentation like this at this time reflects the ;ery lack of intelligence that members of all racial groups manifest all too often in the history of our world.
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gion and nationality. With high technology available to some Caucasians, certain members of that racial group have managed to befoul their own nests with pollution and to threaten the whole world withchaos and destruction from nuclear and chemical war. But the Caucasians have no monopoly on stupidity in human affairs. Members of the Mongoloid race have recently provided us with massacres as in the killing fields of Cambodia, and ia the Chinese “cultural revolution.” Furthermore, the economic activity of the Japanese has created SO much crowding and polltition that they may eventually destroy whatever pleasures economic success can offer. The Aztec Indians in Mexico proved to be &elf-destructive with their excessive cruelty which resulted in the readiness of other groups to join the small band of Spaniards in overthrowing the Aztec nation. East Indians, in their fanatic devotion to the Muslim religion can be seen in nightly newscasts burning a book they haven’t read as if it could somehow challenge their very existence. Finally, the history of blacks would be incomplete without talking of the butchery of Idi Amin, the wildly violent origins of the Zulus, and the incredible cruelty of tribal warfare that has characterized many African countries.
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Biological theories of race and evolution have come and in all probability
and gone, will con-
tinue to appetir and disappear in the foreseeable future. From the 19th century doctrines of Social Darwinism, to the “Scientific” Racism of Jenson and Schockly during the 1960s, claims have been forwarded which purport to link biology, race, and intelligence and arrange them in an evolutionary hierarchy that asserts the superiority of one race over another.
Unleashing a storm of controversy Now, just as Canadians have become increasingly unsettled by reports of racial incidents in Toronto and elsewhere, a professor of psychology from the University of Western J3ntari0, Philippe Rushton, has,- entered the fray by unleashing a storm of controversy regarding issues pertaining to academic freedom and the gene tically-based determinants of human behavior. According to Professor Rushton, Orientals are superior to whites who in turn are superior to blacks. On the basis of measurements involving skull and genital size, Orientals as a group are shown to be more intelligent,
more family-focused, more law abiding, but less sexually promiscuous blacks
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ences can be accounted for by racial classifications (“Orientals, whites, and blacks”] which originated aqd evolved from as far back as 200,000 years ago from relatively separate racial stocks. While there is no reason either to deny individual hriation in intelligence (or sexual restraint for that matter) or to question the relevance of genes toward intelligence (although proof is notoriously elusive), there are good reasons to reject a racial interpretation of human evolution. Very simply, the concept of human race8 has long been discarded a8 scientifically valid or biologically meaningful. Discreet and well-defined categories of humans with unique assemblages t of homogeneous and fixed properties do not exist, Certainly there are populations who possess recurrent cluster8 of traits pertaining to blood types, skin colour, or ear-wax composition. But because of migration and intermarriage, the boundaries between these populations are indistinct - merging into one another (“clines”) without any abrupt stop. In short, references to the concept of human race8 have no explanatory value, thus rendering any conclusions derived from this faulty assumption as untenable. As a colleague [by profession if not spirit), I support Rushton’s right to speak on contentious issues - keeping in mind that freedom of speech is not an absolute right, but entails a degree of social responsibility. Hdwever, I am dismayed by the publicity and exp’osure Rushton ha8 re-
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environment. For, in exposing hi8 racism to the open market of debate and dissent, numerous groups and individual8 have rebuked Rushton for undermining the social fabric of Canadian society. Perhaps in reminding us of how socially unacceptable racism has become in Canada, Rushton has performed a commendable service in advancing the reconstruction of Canadian society along non-racist and promulticultural lines.
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cause of funding links with a unfortunate affect of conferring both a public forum and a degree eugenics-based (improvement of legitimacy to hi8 somewhat. through genetic engineering) movement in the United States. anachronistic views, His data base has been deAs to why this type of thinking finds a receptive audience, the nounced as outdated, simplistic, answers are less clear. Perhaps highly selective and manipulated to achieve a singular disimplistic and bio-reductionist mension in the nature-nurture explanations will appear in a climate where the prosperity and debate. In opposition to Rushton, I industry of “Oriental” populawould dismiss the need to extions contrasts dramatically with the status of “blacks” who plain individual [or population) variation by resorting to biogea8 a group are disproportionnetic arguments. There are nuately represented in statistics merous “environmental” factors (or stereotypes) related to crime, educational levels, socioeco(“poverty, ” “discrimination,” nomic status, and alleged pro“test-bias”) which can demonmiscuit y* strate why an individual (or population) scores higher on inAnd I will also admit that telligence tests [although not on Rushton’s racist thinking is dangerously close to Canada’s hate intelligence per se!), Similarly there are social and law8 which were recently incultural reasons why one group voked against Zundel and Keegrather than another extols a stra following their attempt8 to whitewash Nazi atrocities. But more restricted sexual code. To in contrast with the anti-Semitic be sure, thia recourse to sociodiatribes of Zundel and Keegstra cultural explanations may be inadequate at times. Yet in the which historically are difficult to “prove” or “disprove,” Rushinterest8 of fostering a social miton’s views can be confronted, lieu that reflect8 the multicultuaired in a public forum of debate ral ideals of Canadian society (such as the Rushton - Suzuki 1 debate in London), and refuted by concerned academics.
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the spoils ’ _ of Federation election niaht The most memorable comment on Federation election night was a statement made by the Chief Returning Officer: “I’m going to have 19.6 engraved on my tombstone.” That’s right, only 19.6 per cent of the eligible electorate cared to cast a vote, I am well inclined to believe that success in student politics is based predominately on the numbers game. Simply put, he who visits the most class rooms gets the most votes. I am also well inclined to believe that faculty recognition is a factor which bears too heavily in the election results. Just because some members of the electorate know a candidate is a fellow engineer can have a lot to do with who becomes president. I am also inclined to believe that ha’d the losers won and the winners lost, the Fed-ship would not have been placed in the hands of incompetents, Certainly, the crop of six candidates were all more or less qualified from the start. But Zeroing on the two presidential candidates, [and I don’t think the victorious Dave Readman would disagree) Steve Markan definitely had more student council and Federation executive board experience. I mention this because I firmly believe that the results at the poll did not represent the electorate considering any factor or issue beyond name recognition. Based on this premise of a name popularity contest+ I assert that the student press could have no more attracted students to look at the issues unless we had an extremely spicy topic which we did not. In the end, since the results are no tragedy, the student government got off lucky. After all, it is frightening that such a skewed minority of students effetitively place a tremendous amount of power in the hands of thei! peers.’ And now for a penance for my acid-pen election commentary last year in which I condemned the then Bombshelter botincers. This election night, and they seem to be consistent, the staff at the C.C. pub were well-qualified and fair-minded for the job. However, a mark for liberty was achieved as backroom political type - Ian Lipton and myself marked the anniversary of our getting the boot into the snow last year, by rushing out the exit we had been forced out just one year before. Just ignore that last part, I guess you had to be there. Mike Brown
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The London debate As a “lay” person with no spe- lenger. Suzuki was visibly enraged at cial credentials to wade into the concepts and terminology of the situation making it necespsychology, I’m presented with a sary for him to come from B.C. to dilemma. Having attended the respond -to Rushton’s stateSuzuki vs. Rushton Debate at the ments. “I’m outraged that stuUniversity of Western Ontario, I dents on this campus could not now attempt to set down some of find a single professor at Westthe issues involved and the de- ern who would debate this man here. They could find no psybate itself. Like many concerned people, I’m repelled by the spec- chologist or academic who would counter these monstrous tacle of a university professor promoting what I have always claims!” thought the sole province of What he lacked in specialized fools and bigots. I’m disturbed knowledge it was hoped would by the source of these theories, be made up for with his well and the response of people illknown eloquence and passion. equipped to argue them. The result was theatre - not a Meanwhile those individuals debate. who are qualified remain largely The two came dressed for the silent. Other psychologists say part. Dr. Rushton was in a quiet, they aren’t specialists in Rushbrown business suit and tie, Dr. ton’s field, or are ill-disposed to Suzuki in a casual blue shirt and leap into the fray in unseemly running shoes. and certainly unacademic haste. Their verbal presentation They dismiss with a contemptumatched their appearance. J. ous wave of the hand what in Philippe Rushton calmly presfact deserves detailed criticism. ented almost verbatim the text of Given the clear mandate in this his now infamoug paper, going instance for those in authority to into some detail and presenting quickly and decisively respond, examples. When not speaking, the academic community has let he sat relaxed, looking inquisithe rest of us down. tively out at a sea of antagonistic J.Philippe Rushton, on Janufaces. ary 19 at the American Association for the Advancement of Dr. Suzuki presented a stark Science conference in San Francontrast. He was full of moral cisco read his “Evolutionary Bioutrage and sweeping generaliology and Heritable Traits,” he zations. In other words, he said caught the academic community what the audience wanted to and society in general com- hear. In the process he failed to pletely off guard. zero in and logically address A representative of B’nai Brith point by point Dr, Rushton’s arhas stated that “In the context of guments. the university you must prove Instead, Suzuki cited the work Rushton wrong academically.” of Dr. Arthur Jensen, educaOn February 8, in the Univertional psychologist of the Unisity of Western Ontario’s Alversity of California, under lumni Hall, four thousand people whom Rushton studied. Jenson came to see what was termed published studies some Z&years “The Great Debate.” David Su- ago looking at comparative IQ zuki - well known as the promscores of whites and blacks. He oter of scientific thought for the _ drew similar conclusions then as Canadian Public reluctantly we hear now from his pupil. The stood up as Rushton’s chal- Genetics Society of America
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overwhelmingly passed a resolution con’demning Jensen’s work. Within psychology circles, this is well remembered, “Why” they ask, “is there any need to refute this garbage all over again?” The problem with such an attitude is its failure to take into account that the general public doesn’t remember a ZOyear-old academic controversy. Most of the students in the audience weren’t even born yet. Instead of resting on old laurels, a truly effective challenge should involve dealing with the present situation, In failing to directly challenge Rushton’s specific findings, Suzuki appeared less a scientific debater and more a moral judge. He claimed the supposed authority of history was sufficient. A woman said university students are able to make informed choices only when they have heard both sides of the argument, “This is@ a debate” she said. It’s not enough for a respected figure to dismiss out of hand such ideas, Prof, Leon Kamin, a former Princeton University psychology chairman, and presently of Boston’s Northeastern University turned down the opportunity to come to Western, though eminently qualified to debate Rushton. Kamin was shocked to hear of Suzuki’s final acceptance of Western’s invitation to the debate. He said: “I deeply regret that anybody who purports to be a scientist would debate that idiot!” Everyone seems to be aware of the potential damage this well publicized event could cause, The moment Rushton made public his “research” this became far more than simply an academic matter. One question puts this situation in perspective. A minister at one of the microphones told us of how his son, the only black child in his class, had come home from school after hearing about Rushton’s work and asked him “Daddy, does this mean I’m the dumbest kid in my class?” Does his
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To the editor, Like the determined-looking Zen master of the New Revolutions rating guide, I have finally found peace and contentment. The minimalist review of Rush’s latest album (Imprint, February 31, has enlightened me as to the ways of album reviews. The Imprint Arts editors have wisely included such useful reLd;s as “Game‘s We’d Like to “What Women Really Wait ,t’ and the classic “Doberman Rating Guide” as a means of rating album reviews - not albums. Those readers who are well versed in the mysteries of review rating can merely skim over, (or completely ignore] the low scoring reviews, and concentrate on the higher scoring and presumably more intelligent ones. Literary masochists might, however, zero in on low scoring reviews, thereby fulfilling some perverse mental. urge.
Either’ way, the purchasing of albums will remain a matter of reader taste and preference. I recommend to the Arts editors of Imprint that these rating guides be utilized in other areas of the Arts section (which I have always considered an extended parody, preparing readers for the term-end Dimprint edition]. Concert. reviews, for example, would greatly benefit from this treatment. Points could be awarded to a review given the condition of the reviewer at the time of the concert, the length of time actually spent listening to the band, and so on, But why stop at Arts? Certainly sports summaries, regular columns and editorials, not to mention letters to the editor, could all be reviewed and rated. I for one would enjoy seeing those laugh-riotous messages in the Personal column undergo some form of rating. Taken one step further, the editors might review and rate the
Skating r&!robics party a success To the editor,
To the editor, Cheers to the UW-CHYM Skating Party organizing committee. The event was a great success, something that UW students can be proud to host for the entire Waterloo community. As one of the volunteer mascots for the event, I had the opportunity to share the fun and festivities with all the smiling, rosy-cheeked children as well as the older “kids”, trying out their old skates. I even wiped some of the rust and dust off of my old blades and gave them some well needed exercise. Too bad this event didn’t happen until my last year at UW,’ but at least it happened. Special thanks to Shane Carmichael who helped bring this event to UW. The school will really be lucky if Shane’s goal to join Winter Carnival and the Skating Party materializes, making the event really big, Good luck to a great idea! Jose Lafarga 4B Actuarial
Science
Disposable section To the editor, I want to thank you for publishing your ‘Arts’ pages together in a section at the back of your paper. This way, those of us who find them overly violent, silly
and
offensive
can just
‘blue
box’ the old Imprint as soon as we reach the middle fold. It seems like a reasonable solution. [But am I really the only person on campus who longs for readable record reviews?] D. A. Mclver 3rd year Psychology
My aerobic shoes were recentiy stolen from my locker in the women’s locker room in the PAC, and I have something to say to whoever took them.
You didn’t just take my shoes - you took my livelihood. I use my aerobic shoes every day, and I teach aerobics in order to make enough money to buy my books each term. Those shoes cannot be bought locally, and they cost no less than $60. You are not only de-
entire paper, and print the results on the front page. This would help people- decide if the *_ I edition was worth picking up, let alone reading+ A second recommendation I have to the editors regards any potential lawsuits the Imprint might face should some hapless, misinformed reader use an album review as a guide for record purchases. A disclaimer, much like the Globe and Mail prints with its horoscope column, should be included in the New Revolutions section, I suggest the following: “These reviews are intended only for their entertainment value and, being void of logic, fact and proper grammar, should not be considered when purchasing recorded materials.” That ought to things quite nicely. Alex Keuper Environment dies
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shoes b priving me of my investment and my daily workout, you are making my working conditions unsafe because I no longer have my shoes. I’d like them back. You can leave them at the desk in the PAC, and say that you found them in the locker room no one will ask any questions. If you have been wearing them, you may want to do something about your new case of Athelet e’s Foot. A Shoeless Student Laurie Reedman 4A Statistics
Real purpose is transcendent To the editor, At last! In his column (Imprint, February lo), Eric Kuelker has finally gotten out of all his pro-Christian propaganda and has gotten to the real purpose of religion: man’s need to find transcendent meaning. He writes of the “clammy black misery and sour despair” - ’ existential despair if you want to get into philosophical jargon - and man’s desire to escape it. I won’t quibble about how some authors (for example, Albert Camus) learned to live with and even celebrate this meaninglessness+ I much prefer writers like Kierkegaard and Nietzche who choose to look at life with a religious passion [yes, Nietzche was religious in that he was his own God], and people like Alan Watts who look at every moment of life as intrinsically religious. Man does need to find some meaning in life greater than himself, whether by religious, egocentric or humanitarian devotion (it all boils down to reverence of either a God, yourself or humanity). But we must
recognize we start alone! We choose our God to which we, paradoxically’ submit ourselves in order to give meaning to our lives, in order to attern our universe that begins Por each individual in anarchy. Somewhere in the Bible there is a passage that reads, “slaves, obey thyne master.” Presumably people like Eric don’t agree with slavery, but when you choose what to accept and what to deny of the Written Word of God, you affirm the inalienable, individual moral supremacy you are responsible for. You find meaning only in your own creation. Religion is therefore a personal quest for meaning in one’s own life; it’s a matter of what works for the individual. Eric should tell us why Christianity works for him in order that he might help others create their own salvation: he should spare us his attempts to justify his choice on historical or metaphysical grounds, it hasn’t worked yet, Darren Luck 2nd year Philosophy Wilfred Laurier
wiper To the editor, Like many other people, I read the articles about stolen jackets from Fed Hall, Not knowing the victims, I felt sorry for them, but couldn’t do much more. As the people who know me are aware, it would be pointless for someone to steal my jacket from Fed Hall. POINTLESS! That best describes what I encountered early Friday evening, February 10. I left my room in the Village at about ~30 p,m. to go to my car in J-lot, across from North 4 in Village 1, I was planning on visiting my sister that evening. My trip was abruptly cut short when I realized some “person” had literally, “ripped off” my windshield wipers. This “person” had obviously done this with nothing in mind but complet e maliciousness. One wiper arm was missing, while the other arm was left attached, but in a mangled, unrepairable state. All that could be salvaged was one wiper blade. Needless to say, I spent Saturday morning driving in the snow, trying to find replacements for the missing and damaged parts. I finally found the
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swiper parts to repair my car, to the tune of about $70. I am just curious as to what kind of person goes around damaging other people’s property. Whoever did it, did not hav’e theft as a motive. The only things salvageable were the wiper blades [one was left behind] which cost about $6 each. If the person who did this knew that it was my car ahead of time, then. their motive was achieved, YOU PISSED ME OFF!! Too bad you don’t have the guts to face me, You probably enjoy pulling the tails off little kittens too. If this letter makes you do it again, I really have pity for you. If the person who did this, did it blindly, picking a car at random, you still PISSED ME OFF!!! I can just imagine what you would have said that night. “No, I don’t feel like going to Fed Hall tonight, let’s go tear someone’s windshield wipers off their car.” That’s a real mature attitude for a university student. I really feel sorry for you. You really have a lot of growing up to do. John Young 4A Math Teaching
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What to expect when starting The Pill DEAR SEXPERT: I am a second year student here and have recently decided that I’d like to go on the Pill. I know that I need a doctor’s appointment for this, but I would like to know what to expect. Could you tell me what will happen? ANSWER: First of all, I hope you have carefully considered all of your birth control options. If you haven’t, or if you have any questions, ask your doctor, The Pill is not for everyone. Once you are sure that the Pill is what you want, you’re right, you will have to make a doctor’s appointment+ If your doctor is here on campus, ask for a ‘long’ appointment. Once you get there a number of things will take place, but not necessarily in the order I list them. Your doctor will take a family medical history. This means that you should try to find out ahead of time about the health of your close blood relatives, Things of special interest include: diabetes, hypertension, blood vessel or blood clotting disorders, cancer and liver or gall bladder disease. These things will help your doctor determine whether or not the Pill is.a safe alternative for you. Aside from the family medical history, your doctor will give you a complete physical, Yes, this includes an internal examination, If you haven’t had one before, don’t worry - it really isn’t all that bad if you relax. If you haven’t had a pap smear recently [within the last year) you will likely get one now. Again, if you relax, no probleti. In addition to the general and internal exams, most doctors also require a urine sample and blood test, These are done right at Health Services, but blood tests are not done all day long, Try to schedule your appointment so that it will end at a time when the lab is open if you don’t want to come back later to give blood. After your physical, if you have never been on the Pill before, your doctor will likely give you a prescription for one to three months only. Then you will need to come back for a check-up before you get the rest of your prescription. You can fill your prescription at Health Services if you got it there. If not, go to a pharmacy that accepts your student drug plan, Don‘t forget that once you have the pills you must take them at the same time each day, every day,and you mtist use a backup method for the first pack (and during any pack where you miss a pill or take one very late). If you have any other questions about birth control, or about any other sexuality issue, feel free to send in another question or call or visit the Birth Control Centre, This column is prepared by volunteers of the Birth Control Centre. If you have any questions for us you can senda note to the BCC [c/o the Fed office] through on-campus mail, leave a question in the envelope on our door or visit/call us in CC206, Ext. 2306.
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rape To
the editor,
This is in response to Sean Richens’ comments on the ‘Date Rape’ posters. Mr. Richens closes his letter by wishing for comments on his views by feminists, and as he says, “particularly ‘capital-F’ feminists.” I don’t fully understand his distinctions, but if he wishes to
have me further pigeon-hole myself, today (at least], I view myself as a “trans-feminist” (capitals optional but not preferred], and will leave the reader to figure that out. OK, so on with the trans-feminist’s comments: First of all, Mr. Richens doesn’t make a clear distinction between ‘Date Rape’ and the much broader conception of
New Feds should fix van servke _ To the editor, Hooray to the people who finally realized there was a problem with the Safety Van service, and make changes to the system. Now, instead of waiting around in the CC with thirty other people, wondering if you’ll ever be able to push your way onto the van, you simply ask the Turnkeys for a priority card, and you’re guaranteed a spot on the next van. Lumps of coal to the people who still haven’t realized that momentary lack of manners at the sight of a Safety Van was not the problem; the problem lies in the fact there are simply not enough vans running to service the people who want to use them. I have suggested to the drivers that they keep accurate count of the numbers of people they must
turn away at every run, in order to prove to the non-believers that the service is inadequate. I would also like to make the following suggestions to help fund a second van: 1, Charge some nominal (optional] fee [say $31 of every full time UW student (but since we are facing a large hike in tuition fees as of May, this may not go over well]; 2. Charge some nominal fee [say $0.25) per student per run; 3. Charge some nominal fee (say $540) for a van pass which must be presented to use the service. I’m sure with some imagination and incentive, more funding ideas could be thought up. But first, the Federation must admit the service is needed and should not be ignored. Nathalie Hopkins 4A Scummydale
Resident
‘Rapei The poster in question was designed to specifically target one facet of rape, ‘date rape’ the rap-e of women by people that they know, and are in some form of relationship with. Often this form of rape, in our desensitized society, is not even-viewed as rape - ‘a lover’s quarrel,’ ‘a misunderstanding,’ etc, Ricens’ failure to see the significant difference between ‘date rape’ and ‘rape’ is what I think this poster’s all about. Society’s understanding of rape is limited to dark alleys, knife-wielding strangers, etc. The above situation of course occurs, but the majority of rapists (according to what I’ve read] are not strangers.. And often, the rapist in this situation does not perceive himself as a rapist (“That’s someone who lurks in dark alleys”], but just someone whom has had a ‘misunderstanding’ with someone, whom he may even (on other levels) care for. This is one of the many reasons that Mr. Richens’“nice guys don’t rape” proposal is totally useless. Until men in this society are sensitized to understand that rape doesn’t have to be dark alleys and switchblades, and until they understand that ‘no means no,’ and until women reclaim the right to say so when they want, men that have ‘date-raped’ will view themselves as “nice guys who don’t rape.” I find (what I’ve called] his “nice guys don’t rape” proposal hideous on so many levels. I find
it offensively trivializina of the seriousness bf the crime‘cof rape. Could you imagine a “nice guys don’t murder” campaign? His proposal downplays rape to having the same significance as littering or not bringing your library books back on time. Thirdly, his suggestion seems to be that the solution to rape is for nice guys to remember that ‘nice guys don’t rape,” So what does this fucking mean? If you don’t rape someone, you’re automatically a nice guy? A nice guy is someone that stops to help you fix a flat tire in the rain, or bakes you cookies when you’re feeling shitty. A nice guy is not a nice guy because he doesn’t rape women! I find the benevolent and patronizing attitude of this tactic dangerous. Women are not little, fragile, unthinking flowers that sit around hoping their boyfriend is a “nice guy,” and will be benevolent and not rape them. His view perpetuates so mariy commonly occurring attitudes toward women and rape: A man rapes a woman, and in court proves that he’s a “nice guy,” the case gets thrown out or he gets a
by Scott
SIocombe
Our Common Future, a report by the World Commission on Environment and Development, has made sustainable development a household and corporate word. In public hearings around the world the members of the Commission, chaired by Madame Gro Harlem Brundtland, now Prime Minister of Norway, learned first hand of the environmental, social and econoniic roblems all societies are facing in their efforts Por development. Released in April 1987, Our Common Future is remarkable for several reasons. Firstly, it is a strong and unanimous documentation of the environmental, social and economic problems weface and the linkages that exist between them. Secondly, it is a plea for implementation of sustainable development as the main approach to reducing these problems. Sustainable development is not a brand new concept: the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s World Conservation Strategy spoke of “living resource conservation for sustainable development.” And the similar concept of eco-development has been with us at least since the United Nations Conference of the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1973. In Canada, the Canadian Council of Resource and Environmental Ministers established a National Task Force on Environment and Economy before the Brundtland document was made public, The Task Force’s report’ released in September 1987, focused on increasing cooperation between industry and other sectors, largely through
the development
of conservation
strate-
gies-and roundtables across Canada, This would improve environmental education and enhance Canada’s international leadership in the area of sustainable development. Conservation strategies are the result of participatory processes that involve the public, resource users, governments, and industry in developing a plan for the sustainable use of land
and resources. They vary widely in scope and format, In Canada, Prince Edward Island has completed a largely descriptive document, while Alberta, the Yukon, and the North West Territories are well along in development of more prescriptive strategies. Roundtable discussidns bring together representatives from industry, government, academia, environmental groups and other decision makers in a non-confrontational forum to discuss issues of environmental and economic integration. The focus should be on exploring ways to prevent and resolve problems. The Ontario Roundtable was appointed in October, but has not yet determined its activities; The key to sustainable development is in restructuring our economies to keep options for the future open. Conservation strategies and Roundtables are two of the more concrete ways we can try to do this, but there is little in the way of past or even current experience elsewhere to guide us. The danger of the concept is that it may be used to recast existing, harmful practices in a deceptively. beneficial guise. It remains to be seen whether the widespread support for the concept is translated into action and change in society’s relationship with the environment. On March 2 and 3, 1989 in the Humanities Theatre, the UW Planning students have organized a conference, “Sustainable Development: From Conceptualization to Realization,” During the first day of the conference, participants will explore the global origins and implications of the concept. The second day will involve members of the Ontario Roundtable on Environment
and
Economy
and
will
focus
on
ways to achieve sustainable development in Ontario. Everyone is welcome; thk cost is only $15 for students. For more information on either attending or helping at the conference, contact WPIRG in room 123 of the General Services Complex or the School of Urban and Regional Planning in Environmental Studies 1.
A hell of a lot of “nice guys” rape, especially date rape. Unfortunately, I’ve met a few of them, and met people who were raped by them. Fortunately, I can acknowledge this without feeling like an asshole because I’m a male. The solution to Richens’ desire to avoid “collective guilt” in the male population is not to avoid the issue, or try to make it more palatable, or try to avoid bruised egos. The solution is to accept what is what, and to realize that vou’re onlv resoonsible for yourbwn actiobs (ind believe me that’s enough to keep anyone busy). Donald S. McCracken MA Geography
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1Absurdity of God To the editor, To Eric
Sustainable development: Buzzword or password?
sentence like the rapist in Ontario (who was a Scout leader and a “model citizen”) that got a 90 day sentence - to be served on weekends! A woman gets raped in a sleazy bar and gets told by her friends, her lover, her family, and the court, “What do you expect going in places like that?” [ex. “If you hang out with guys that aren’t nice, getting raped is the price you pay, young lady!“)
Kuelker
c/o the editor,
I’ve read your columns and remain unconvinced. I felt like responding many times, but did not. However, you discussed philosophers again last week, and so I guess if I don’t respond to your comments on them’ then I’ll probably never write anything. You point out that life can sometimes seem absurd, particularly without God,- and then offer a belief in the Christian God as the viable way of dealing with this. But I don’t think this quite follows. If one wants to escape the absurd, then one only needs to cling to something, but it need not be Christianity. Could not someone become a Hindu or a Muslim? I think they could. In addition, someone in another part of the world would consider the religion of his own society before that of another society. One need not necessarily consider Christianity and in no way does what you say justify Christianity over another belief, And, of course, one could always get involved in something else besides religion to escape the despair that one may feel, I wonder, however, if “a life without God” or without a belief of any kind is as despairing as you make it out to be. Maybe one need not seek to escape. Of course there are times when we all feel quite alone and afraid, but abject despindency and suicide are not the necessary results. For example, Bertrand Russell, whom you portray as despairing, said “I have found it worth living, and (my life] would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.” He and others found value in life without the need of escaping into a belief, Christian, Buddhist, or otherwise. This is not a way of keeping ourselves busy
so that we can’t hear the ice cracking, as you suggest, but just the accepting of the situation and finding value in the things around us. As Albert Camus suggests, not seeking to escape is the honest thing to do, In addition, I’d like to paraphrase Thomas Nagel: if everything appears absurd, then to hold that life is absurd is also absurd. The result is that there is no reason to hold that life is absurd and so one should let go of that too. Voila. No reason to despair. By a quick ‘voila,’ I don’t mean to treat the issue lightly because the psychological impact of being alone and of despair can be frightening for some people. Perhaps religion fills a need. But then this is all that it does, Such a move to belief does not make it true, but just provides comfort. But is a leap to belief even a good or warranted move? Perhaps thinking that there is a God tiakes life appear even more absurd. The world has many evils: war, fatal diseases, starving children. Is it not absurd that there would be a God who allows these things to happen? Perhaps you want to reply that it is man’s choices and/or nature which causes these things. Perhaps. But, then, it is pointless why God would make us this way and/or allow us to continue this way. In addition, fatal diseases striking down children are not the result of the choices of human beings. If given the dhance, I would not create an universe with such calamities because there is no purpose/value in it - for this life or a next. But I’m only human, alas. I look forward to any comments that you might have, but if you are to convert me, then you’ll have to do better than play on fear. AIix Naleainski Master of Arts
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Robinson and friends talk back
Pageant should go to referendum? To the editor, Since my last letter to the eclitor a few weeks ago (Imprint, Jan. 27 ), a few students have made replies in an attempt to strengthen their position as to why the Miss Oktoberfest Pageant should be banned from campus. I would like to point out a few of their arguments which appear illogical. Mr. Darren Besey, in his letter, attempted to point out that peer pressure is the curse behind the women who enter the pageant, I agree with him that one should not succumb to peer pressure. but what is it that the protestors are doing? They are just exerting their own form of peer pressure to force this university into banning the event from campus. This seems very hypocritical to me. The women who enter the pageant are definitely smart enough to make their own decision to enter or not, no one is at all forcing them. Renee Beneteau, a Women’s Centre Volunteer, also took the
time to write in, telling us all the good things that the centre does. I have no argument with the Women’s Centre, in fact, I think they do a good job in keeping the women of this campus aware of some impoptant women’s issues. I just don’t agree with their attempts to speak for the entire campus on matters such as these, Ms. Beneteau complains that only one contestant is selected as the winner, and the rest just don’t “measure up.” Well, if you want to ban the pageant based on that argument, I guess we’ll just have to ban all other forms of competition too: horse racing, the Olympics, exams, scholarships... Hell, while we’re at it, let’s ban life too. Competition is a vital part of life, and if you can’t handle losing, don’t bother entering. After all, no one is forcing you to enter anything. Unwittingly, Karen Davidson, candidate for the Fed office of VPUA, really summed up my argument. When asked about the pageant issue, she replied “the majority of people aren’t speak-
ing.” There is an extremely good reason why we are only hearing one side of this issue. People who do not agree with banning the pageant have no organization through which they can voice their opinion. The protestors have the resources and funding of the Women’s Centre while others are relegated to discussion among friends, From the dozens of students I talked to prior to and following the publication of my last letter, there is a large group of people very unhappy with the way this whole affair is being handled. These people want the opportunity to speak, but they have no avenue through which to talk. I think the Women’s Centre is fooling themselves into believing they speak for the majority, just because theirs is the only voice being heard so loudly, From the comments I’ve heard around campus+ there are a lot of people who feel the same way I do, both male and female. The protestors may be a sig-
Must sOmeone be killed? To the editor, On Sunday February 5 at approximately 2:3o a.m,, I was crossing Ring Road at the crosswalk leading to Village 1 with two friends. As we neared the side of the road we saw a car clearly out of control and driving far too fast. This car narrowly avoided striking myself and one of my friends. The car crashed-into a sign, smashing a rear window and uprooting the sign. The car left the road, went along the grass and crashed head on into a tree. The two female occupants left the car unhurt. My friends’ and I gave our names and phone numbers to the Turnkeys in case they needed us as witnesses, we were told we would probably be contacted by security. However, we were not. I phoned the University Police Tuesday, February 7 to discover what had happened. I was told the incident had been investigated, the officer who had investigated was satisfied ,and that was all that they could tell me. I appreciated the work our campus police are doing; how-
Arts To the editor, RE: “Imprint: Clean up your Act” I disagree. Before I came to UW, I used to groan when I got to the Arts section of a newspaper. I knew what I’d find, It was boring. It was predict able. Imprint changed all that. Now I read the Arts section first. The articks
are
interesting
and
in-
formative. What’s more, they are written in a high energy, hard edged fashion that allows the reader to experience the article+ not just read-it. In short, its what “cyber punk” means to me. Steven J. Rayson 2A Systems Design Engineering
ever, I feel something must be done about the enforcement of the speed limit on Ring Road. There was absolutely no reason for the driver to be travelling at this speed. I feel I must raise a few questions in the hope that this type of incident does not become a common occurrence on our campus. How can we prevent speeding on campus? Can we ensure that crosswalks are obeyed? Why were witnesses not contacted in this instance? Was the driver im-
paired? How as pedestrians+ can we feel safe crossing the road? For my friends and I this was an absolutely terrifying situation. I very nearly lost a dear friend and I feel helpless, It seems that because we were not hit we have no options and cannot even obtain any information. Will it take a fatality on Ring Road for something to be done? Elaine Boone Don, North B, Village 2
Leaps #in log.ic : To the editor, The February 10 article “Suzuki vs. Rushton” was about a debate on the evolutionary source of Rushton’s measurements of so-called racial differences, which are absurd. The evolutionary history of men is an abstraction+ for only apes and modern men are alive. The ape-men are conceptions of anthropologists and artists using fossil bones of contention which are not verifiable as men’s distant ancestors. Also missing are the multi-, tudes of li,nks spanning supposedly 3 million years in geohistory for the emergence of men. Geohistory is a scenario of how an endless past evolved, given the uniformity assumptions, such as: current rates of natural processes are valid for an immense past, selected common isotopes are radiogenic, natural selections of life con-
tinued endlessly, the universe is isotrophic. Obviously, geohistory and its time scale, as well as biohistory and cosmology are uncertain for they change dramatically under assumptions of non-uniformity. This means that the past wag certainly different than today‘s historians try to impress on us. Moreover, lack of knowledge persists even in quantum physics, which is an absurd world where particles are waves and vice versa depending on the sort of measurement. Thus, no matter what the measurements may be, any conjec-,tures about racial differences may be considered a ghost story, i In Biblical history, all men alive are the descendants of Noah, who survived, along with his ‘family and land animals of every sort, a global flood in the ark about 4,000 years ago. John Schroeder Retired Civil Engineer
Ed. notes bua me To the editor, I object to the treatment you g&e the letter from the UW Women’s Centre collective, Interrupting the letter with your sarcastic comments, printed in bold, capital letters+ is an unac-
ceptable editorial practice. I suggest the Imprint tiditor should begin to treat his job in a responsible manner. Tammy Middletan Earth Sciences
nificant minority, but this doesn’t give them the right to decide this issue for everyone: this is a democracy after all. The only way in which the feelings of the entire campus can be heard is through a referendum, Let ‘everyone decide what should be done, not a vocal minority who exert pressure to get their own way. If a vote shows the university community wants to ban the pageant, then by all means, ban it. By the same token, if a vote, shows we should keep it, then I would expect the protestors to respect this and allow the pageant to continue unhin.dered. Resolving this issue by any other method amounts to censorship, so let’s take it to the polls
Waterloo. The university gets rent for the auditorium when it is used for the pageant. In these days of chronic university underfunding, I think we !lt~d all the money we can get.
Stephen D. Robinson 3A Geography/Earth Science Nick Nikolakakis Geological Engineering
3A
Steven Baker 3A Computer Engineering John Wright 3A Geological Engineering Mike Grinnell 3A Geological Engineering
Perspective Revisions,
legends,
etc.
The possibility of revisions, or tampering with the documents+ and legends on the life of Christ in the Gospels+ and of the New Testament in general, is one that must be examined very close1 + This idea is prevalent in many areas, but let us see how it stan Bs up to detailed scrutiny, First, it is important to remember that Christ was a very public figure+ teaching and working miracles in front of crowds of thousands. Thus, there were a great many witnesses8 alive at the time the Gospels were written+ both friendly and hostile, who would have rapidly objected to any alteration or errors. If the Gospels were revised during the lifetime of these witnessess and the disciples, they could have easily correctedit. Second, to revise or falsify, or permit it, was wholly alien to the early Christians, Pliny the Younger, Governer of Bithynia wrote that the Christians he had been killing considered Christ “a god, and bound themselves to a solemn oath.., never to commit any fraud, theft, adultery, never to falsify their word.” This attitude held among the church leaders as well. *With the exception of John, the other 11 apostles died as‘martyrs for what they believed. Do you then think these church leaders would permit tampering with the accounts of what they had seen? Third, the Scriptures were translated and distributed broadly very soon after they were written+ thus making it impossible for anyone to revise all the copies. Fourth, as I mentioned before, the entire New Testament was very heavily quoted by the early church leaders or Fath’ers, with only 11 verses not quoted. This extensive quotation, in very close succession from the 2nd to 3rd centuries, argues convincingly against any revision. If there, was revision, then the quotes before the revision would not agree with the later texts; however+ all the qtiotes and texts, both early and late, agree, which rules out any revision. There are obvious tar’gets for revision which are untouched. For example, there is no suppression or elimination of apparent discrepancies in the Gospels+ which is the mark of eyewitness.testimony. The stories of Christ’s human side, his fatigue and his agony and fear before his crucifixion, and of thedisciples many faults, are left in. The Gospels also show a far higher concern for women than what was normal, even acceptable, for that culture. The possibility of legends fares little better. I’ve already mentiond the presence of both friendly and hostile eyewitneesee would serve as a powerful corrective to legends being included in the Gospels. One also has to consider the rate of accumulation of legends. Professor Sherwin-White+ a historian, states that Roman and Greek histories are one or two generations, if not centuries, later than the events they record; yet, historians use them confidently. When he turns to the Gospels, Sherwin-White states that for them to be legends+ the rate of legendary accumulation would have tb be “unbelievable.” Even two generations is too short for legendary tendencies to wipe out the core of historical facts. Over the past few columns, I’ve applied the tests of accurate transmission of the text, external, internal and archeological evidence, and the possibility of revision and legends. Using the tests and criteria of classical historians, the New Testament establishes itself as historically trustworthy and credible. But what of the objection that since scholars reject Plato’s philosophy.
even
though
they
believe
they
have
an accurate
text
of Plato, one is not obliged to accept the message of the New Testament, even though it is far more accurately transmitted? This conclusion overlooks a massive difference between the two books. Plato built a castle of philosophical claims in midair. Christ claimed to God, and rose from the dead, as He predicted, to prove His divinity. Plato furnished no such proof of his claims. The historical resurrection of Christ shows we must take the New Testament seriously.
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Imprint,
Friday, February
Amnesty
17, 1989
NEWS
meeting
bears
plight
of republics
UW student, speaks about Yugoslavia by Leslie Perrault Imprint staff Sanda Munjic, now a UW student, left Yugoslavia with her family nearly two years ago to live in Canada. She has not forgotten the strife that goes on in her homeland, though. She spoke to give Canadians a perspective of the political and economic situation in Yugoslavia. She gave, as well, a review of Yugoslavia since 1918 and an explanation of how some of the historical events still affect Yugoslavian society today. On January 25, Munjic described her “experiences in Yugoslavia” at an Amnesty International group meeting. First, Munjic gave an introduction to the Socialistic Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which is a federation of six socialistic republics: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, _ Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, and two Serbian autonomous provinces: Kosovo and Vojvodina. The population of Yugoslavia is close to that of Canada about 25 million. Munjic provided the 1976 population figures which showed that Serbia consisted of over 8 million people including its provinces, Croatia over 4.5 million, Bosnia
els that started during the 1930s as an illegal movement and as a reaction to the assasination of the Croatian members of Parliament in Belgrade in 1928 and as a reaction to “great-Serbian hegemony.” Ustashas wanted to form the Independent State of Croatia after the end of ‘the’war in the ,historical boundaries of Croatia, They were unsucessful, however, because of choosing to fight on Germany’s side in World War Two. The Chetniks, also called the Royal Army at first, were described by Munjic as a Serbian guerilla army. At the beginning of the war they fought against the Germans, but with time, they deve-p loped a stronger hatr.ed for partisans and the Communist Party than for the Nazi’s and joined the German side, The Chetniks and the Ustashas are justly called “terrorists,” says Munjic, since they committed atrocities against civilians during the war. Partisans were the group which1 most successfully fought against the German occupying army. This group was led by the Communist party and Marshall Tito, and was composed of mixed nationalities. Their goal was to establish a socialist or
Strike in Yugoslavia extends deeply into the past and Herzegovina over 4 million, Macedonia and Slovenia almost 2 million each, and Montenegro just over 0.5 million. Serbians are the second most populous nationality in each republic other than Serbia, they are the most highly represented in the Communist Party and, as a result, they have a great deal of control in Yugoslavia, said Miss Munjic. The strife in Yugoslavia extends deeply into the past, to what Munjic explained as the great-Serbian hegemony which <existed even in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia of 1918. One issue that Sanda Munjic discussed at her presentation was that of Yugoslavia’s concentration camps in Yugoslavia. Croatia, who joined forces with the Germans, had the largest camp, called Jasenova, but ridiculous rumours have been spread about this camp, says Munjic. It is stated that up to 900,000 Serbians were’killed in this camp, but, claims Munjic, ‘this is impossible. There were “only” 7800,000 people who died in all of Yugoslatiia during the entire war. This
number
shows
Yugosla-
via’s devastation during the war, though, as Britain lost 388,000 people, Italy 410,000, and France 600,000. The bad publicity about Coatia is put forth by people inside and outside Yugoslavia wanting to harm Croatia’s reputation. Munjic described three groups which have arisen out of Yugoslavia’s turmoil. The Ustashas were the group of Croatian reb-
communist federation of nations which would have equal power and representation in government. The communist ideals were not met after the war, asserts Munjic, because citizens have not reached the level of consiousness which would enable them to use and exploit the opportunities offered in the system based on the principles of common property. They failed as well because of constant robbery and the incompetency of politicians who neglected the economy totally and worried only about the communist ideology, Yugoslavia is run by the Communist Party - the only political party citizens can vote for. The party lost a lot of popularity, says Munjic, because it brought the country into its present economic and political state. As a result, if any other party ran, it would automatically become elected. People in Yugoslavia are tired of living in what the january 31 edition of the Toronto Star described as a “country torn by ethnic unrest and burdened by a deteriorating economy.‘: “Ethnic conflicts have existed always,” said Munjic, “but as long as the economy was stable, all these tensions were submerged, Now, as the economy has collapsed, previously restrained divisions have burst up to the surface.” Miss Munjic stated the average salary in Yugoslavia is about $100 per month, but food costs as much as it does here in Canada. There are lineups early in the morning to buy cheap, dark, lower-quality bread before it runs out and is replaced by the better but more expensive loaves.
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Have fun partying during Reading Week
January 31’s Toronto Star reports that the country “has a $22 billion debt, 250 per cent inflation, and crumbling living standards that sparked 1,700 strikes and aggravated relations between the regions.” Josip Tito was Leader of Yugoslavia for 35 years until he died in 1980. Since his death strife has increased. Sanda Munjic spoke of one permanent cause of hostility in her republic of Croatia and the other four republics against Serbia - Serbian hegemony and a desire to create a “Great Serbia.” She defined the term “hegemony” as “a policy led by a certain
$2~ billion debt, and crumbling
250
group trying to put its power over the rest of the groups.” One of the main problems Munjic is concerned with is the fact that Serbia wants to force language on the other republics. Serbian is ihe official lan-
guage of Yugoslavia and the Y~Igoslavian army, but each nation and republic, by their constitutions, have rights to their own language. However, at the end of 1988, the Constitutional court of Yugoslavia decided the official “Croatian standard language” is contradictory to the constitution because the Serbian minority might be assimilated by Croats in Croatia. Munjic asks this question isn’t there just as much or more danger now of Croats being assimilated by the Serbs in Croatia? January 31’s edition of the Toronto Star cited the event of
per cent inflation, living standards “millions of Serbs (taking) to the streets last year to back (Slobodan) Milosevic (the Communist party leader of Serbia) in his drive to increase Serbia’s Dower in the federation.” * Sanda Munjic met strong con-
frontation from 9 Serbian member of the! alldiencp concerning her view on Serbian hegemonistic policy. He stated that Serbia has always been strong, and Serbia is known as a military nation. Serbs want to repair Yugoslavia and make Serbia strong again. He said as well that Serbia is the republic which is unjustly repressed. Miss Munjic thinks “it is important for young Serbians to realize that their leaders are oppressing the other nations of Yugoslavia, and that they are (seeking) Serbian rights which they will not allow the other nations. If they want to hear nice things said. about their homeland, the new generation is the one that has to change the course of polit its of (their) Serbian leaders, to question their conduct and see the facts... and not just blindly believe pathetic stories of oppressed Serbia. And, if they wa’nt Serbia to be great as it was once - nobody will try to stop them, as long as they want it within the frontiers of Serbia, but not within the frontiers of Yugoslavia.”
APPLIED ETHICS Civil disobedience, by Judy
Wubnig
“With laws lawlessness “Civil deliberate
&II our land be built up but with lurid waste.” - Njal in Njal’s Saga
Disobedience” has come to mean the public violation of laws for political purposes without using violence and submitting to the legal penalties without objection. Henry David Thoreau formulated the principle in an essay now entitled “On the Duty of Civil disobedience.” He had spent a day in jail in 1846 for refusing to pay his poll-tax, objecting to the Mexican-American war, since it would lead to the entry of another slave state into the unioh (Texas). Mohandas Gandhi, who had read Thoreau’s essay, popularized civil disobedience as a technique for groups of people with his campaigns against British Rule in India. ’ Socrates, however, in 399 B.C. refused to escape from prison and execution because he believed that breaking the law would destroy the rule of law and with it Athens. He had been condemned to death by due process of Athenian law on charges of corrupting the youth, charges which he believed to be false, Canada, like ancient Athens and the United States, is a democracy with freedom of speech, where the citizens make the laws and choose their leaders, and with freedom of emigration. Anyone may try to persuade his fellow citizens to change laws and policies and to choose different leaders. In such circumstances, breaking laws for political purposes is to set oneself as an enemy of democratic self-government either as an anarchist opposed to the rule of law altogether or as a would-be tyrant who would impose his will on his fellow citizens. Thoreau himself .took two different positions. First, he took an anarchist position. He argued “That government is best which governs not at all” because it is a poor expedient by which the people can execute their will; he says it is people, not governments, who accomplish good things - the American people, not the government, which has kept the United States free, settled the West, educated the young. Government’ he says, just hinders liberty, and (speaking in 1848), it is government which makes some men slaves. Secondly, he also argued that the fault for his breaking the law - not paying his poll-tax’was really that of the government. If it did not pursue such unjust policies and enforce such unjust laws, if it reformed itself, then he would not break the 1aw:“Why does it [the government) * not cherish its wise minority?” he asks, Is Thoreau right about the role of government? Is no government better than any government? A, fundamental fact of human nature is that we are.
war and peace social animals, unlike the solitary tiger and rhinoceros, and, what we might want as individuals, conflicts with what others want and we also disagree with each other about common policies. Thoreau seems to have believed, for example, that if the government of the United States had not been upholding the slavery laws of the slave states, then there would have been no slavery. Yet, the institution of slavery has been common, I even among very primitive peoples, and still exists in some parts of the world. Slaves came to America from Africa because they were sold into slavery by other Africans who had slaves. The government of Canada still has to enforce anti-slavery laws against, for example, “white slavery” in prostitution, Laws and government to enforce them are necessary to protect liberty. Thomas Hobbes’ -Leviathan described the’ . state of lawlessness as one of the war of every
man against every man, “and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short,” a far more accurate description of life in anarchical Lebanon than Thoreau’s benign vision, Njal’s Saga gives another example of a small group of self-governing illiterate people in tenth century Iceland coming to grief through lawlessness. As a matter of empirical fact, then, Thoreau’s anar-
chist view is mistaken. What of his second view, that there would be no conflict with government if it listened to its wise minority Thoreau ignores the fact that people disagree about what laws and policies are wise. The contrast with Socrates is instructive. Thoreau is convinced that he is wise, and so breaks the law, while Socrates believed he &as only wiser than his fellow Athenians because he knew he was ignorant and not wish; in spite of long searches, he had indeed never found anyone who was wise. Even though he disagreed with the Athenian jurors who decided he had corrupted the youth of Athens, he also believed the system of adjudicating disputes by duly constituted courts would be rendered null if people did not accept their rulings. Thoreau’s second position, that he and those who agree with him are wise and should therefore rule, regardless of what others think, assumes he is infallible. It is the position of a tyrant, like Robespierre, so convinced of his own virtue that he believed he could do no wrong. Many goodhearted people with the best of intentions these days support civil disobedience, including in efforts to maintain peace. Civil disobedience in a democracy, however, [unlike India when Gandhi waged his camfor self-government) entails either paigns anarchy or tyranny, the war of every man against every man or the war of the tyrant
against hia people.
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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ,
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I’ve been dowmso by Derek Weiler Imprint staff Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds are that rarest of phenomena: a band that truly sounds quite like nothing else in music today. The brittle guitar interplay of Blix Bargeld and Kid Congo Powers, the nerve-wracking keyboards. of Roland Wolf, the frenzied yet solid rhythm section of Thomas Wydler, and - most of all Cave’s violent, demented songwriting vision, have all ensured the Seeds’ uniqueness. It was a
very,very
long
&Row Blues. Doom-and-gloom stuff, to be sure, but redeemed by the strength and energy of Cqve’s performance; flailing his arms and howling out his lyrics with gleeful abandon, he was the wild-eyed man personified. The Bad Seeds responded in kind, providing musical backup perfectly suited to Cave’s concerns. Especially noticeable was The Mercy Seat, which the Seeds pushed and pushed to an inevitable, heart-stopping climax. Other Tender Prey numbers were also standouts, like City of Refuge (which opened the
I’m gonna kill someone uniqueness that became apparent Tuesday night when Cave and the Seeds rolled into RPM in Toronto. Tender Prey, the most recent Cave LP, is a harrowing song-cycle about crime and punishment, and these obsessions were also the backbone of the live show. Indeed, early on Cave promised “a selection of prison songs this and delivered wit,h evening,” tunes like The Mercy Seat (which describes an electricchair execution, and is perhaps the most chillingly effective song Cave has ever written), Your Funeral My Trial and Dea-
show), Sugar Sugar Sugar and of course the rockin’ Deanna. Other great moments were Your Funeral My Trial, I’m Gonna Kill That Woman, and From Her to Eternity [of course). It being Valentine’s Day and all, ,Cave also decided to turn in an unashamedly corny, melodramatic version of the now itmight-as-well-be-a-Nick-Cavesong By the Time I Get to Phoenix. It’s doing this kind of thing that lets Cave get away with his uniformly bleak perspective without being as tiresome as some of his fellow goth practitioners.
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Who’s ugliest - Nick, Paul James or the Northern
Paul James
Pikes? I
sings:
Death to the Patriarchy by John Imprint
Ryan staff
Lots of people showed up but word has it that 19 pairs of tickets were not redeemed, We are forced to ask why .- were these people somehow prevented from showing up? Paul James, super stud of the universe, side burn king of the South West came on about ten and played till one with only a short respite to recharge his psychic batteries. Virtually everyone was shaking their proverbial booties to the Rockabilly! Blues type stylings of the Jamester. We played tons of stuff, both from his first and second Ips and plenty o’ covers, ‘I’heoeuvre of Chuck Berry was explored in depth in James’ inimitable style. During the second set, the rhythm guitarist picked up a stand-up bass and they started some jazz-fusion experimentation, Ha ha, no I was just kidding, it was down home maximum
Last Friday the Northern Pikes swam upstrea,m spawn. A good time was had by aft. pholo by Platr
to sonically
Strthopdlr
rock
and
roll
the
whole night. The incredibly enthusiastic crowd was treated to his legendary walking, rocking stroll. Yes he stuck the guitar behind his cranium and explored the environs of the Bombshelter. Where in! God’s creation did he find such a
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photo by Sally
Bryant
You are going to die, one day.
long; industrial strength guitar cord? Rock and roll forever will last. In the words of one elated fan, “I
had a great time.+’ In the words of another articulate fan, “I never had so much fun with my clothes on,+’
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Friday,
February
17,
1989
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addictively grinding, bonecrushing Come Bock Lover from Before Our Time, the new material showcased from Byram Lake Blues (1 think) was even tougher and catchier, pure rock cranked to its maximum, and at the risk of repeating myself from earlier articles, there’s not a damn thing alternative about it; it’s only when the charts are dominated by wimps like Def Lep ard that solid,
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showing following thei ndisposition of Sheep Look Up. Starting the show auspiciously enough with Made ‘R Happy, Piet Botman, decked out to’ the nines in his “Call me Bono” leather vest, and the crew bashed the rockstarved hordes with their tune-ful, yet hard-nosed guitar pop rvhilst skulking and leering about the stage like halfway ,
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the idiot smile cover Spike isn’t that different from the dourKing or the miserable Nawho graced the covers of King of America and Blood and Chocolate, respectively. Nor does Elvis Costello (clown, King and Napoleon) hide much real mirth behind the black-andwhite painted mask -the songs on Spike are just as, if not more, furious and full of spite than anything he has recorded. Spike is a masterpiece, make no mistake about it - Costello has abandoned the first-person self-inflicted venom which previously defined his songwriting in favour of penetrating thirdperson narrative. If marriage and age has calmed his insecurities, that has only allowed him more time to examine arid contemplate the world around him. EC. has covered a lot of ground with his LPs in the past - from the punk-pop of My Aim is True to the smoky country of
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,God’s comic I (Chewing Gum) to a soulful instrumental (Stalin Malone], it is an utterly cohesive and complete piece of work, There is no greater example of Costello’s new found narrative power than Tramp The Dirt Down which uses the title as a metaphor for the British working class’ treatment at the hands of the ruling. Rather than an explosion *of anger, Tramp uses barely restrained tension which more effectively communicates the crushing weight of sorrow and anger. The mixture of traditional instruments like Bou-
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place and time. Romeo Had JuIiette, is the tale of star- crossed lovers found wandering down in streets that are steaming, where crack dealers are dreaming of an Uzi someone bud just scored. Both the characters and theme take a back seat to the windowed spectacle of -the streets. And the spiraling staircase from the windowsill descends, and the encoded logic of the LP drops us in the midst of the Halloween Parade, subtitled AIDS (so you don’t miss the point, I guess.) The rock ti’ roll agenda wanes briefly as the ghosts, ghouls and starved vampi’res float briefly past; there’s Johnny Rio and Rotten Rita - You’ll never see those faces again. Reed’s images cling to the minds eye like some residual sludge in a hospital wastebin; There’s a girl
from Soho with a T-shirt saying “I Blow” She’s with the jive five 2 plus 3 / And the girls for pay dates are giving cut rates Or else doing it for free If this is a walk on the wild side 1989, I’m staying home, Then again, this diseased world tour seems to be flowing outwards, driven by some maddened heart in the city. When Lou half affirms see you next yeur - at the Halloween parade, we don’t even half believe him. Onto the Dirty Blvd, where the ‘star PEDRO dreams about killing his old man. Outside the statue of Bigotry rises above the choking exhaust, and some kid is selling plastic roses for a buck. With it’s straight forward chord progression, Pedro’s wandering
God’s Comic, where a dead comedian takes on the task of the grim reaper. The surprise track of the LP though is the instrumental, Stalin Malone, which opens with a descending horn riff redolent of Sam Cooke’s A Change is Conno Come and moves into a swinging, funky jam. That’s not really so surprising though considering the fact that it’s played by the aforementioned Dirty Dtizen Brass Band - New Or-
leans’ finest brass band. Taken as a whole, Spike stands easily alongside Armed Forces and Blood and Chocoirte as one of the best LPs that Elvis Costello has produced. High praise considering that he has produced dome of the finest LPs in the last decade. Only time will tell how great Spike is, For the moment it’s varied, complex and overwhelmingly movi*:g. That’s enauRh to make it asential listeni@.
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made
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ago,
the
Violent
Femmes exploded onto the scene with the freshest, most exciting debut LP of the decade. Unfortunately, it’s all been downhill from there. Hallowed Ground, their second album, was a worthy follow-up, but couldn’t match the debut’s conviction. And their 1986 LP, The Mind Leading the Naked, was a holy mess, crippled by Gordon Gano’s inane religious spoutings and the band’s lack of musical direction. After that fiasco, you’d think the band would only get better. Hope ya didn’t bet your beer money on it. Granted, on the new LP 3, they’ve abandoned the last album’s musical excesses and lyrical idiocies in favour of an approach that harkens back to their earlier records, Trouble is, it seems more like a cop-out than anything else, The familiar elements that
performance. This is watered-down Femmes at best; Femmes-on-Valium. Even the better tunes, like Nightmares or Dating Days, sound like pale imitations of the real Violent Femmes. On the whole, 3 is
(and I swear I never thought I’d say this about a Violent Femmes record)
a snore, at least, Gordon remains as amusing as
Lyrically Gano
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pears in the lyric sheet, so it appears Gano hasn’t recovered from his bout of religious mania. Maybe he’s trying too hard to prave that he’s still hip at heart; that would explain why this record
seems
so fake
and forced.
Indeed, Just Like My Father slides into self-parody territory: it’s so obviously a “Violent. Femmes song” that it quickly becomes
tiresome,
Side One is somewhat redeemed by Nightmares and Dating Days, but Side Two does nothing at all - it’s just kind of there. And the songs that close each side, Nothing Worth Living For and See My Ships, are absolutely
putrid,
possibly
the worst
Femmes songs ever slapped on
Funny as a crutch ever, even if he’s not real1 doing anything
new.
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Moon opens with the explosive line I’ve been following women aII afternoon and takes off from there. Mother of. Q Girl is no Gimme the Car, but it’s still a mean little tune, Gano even pokes fun at his own image in Telephone Book, as he wonders if a girlfriend hasn’t returned his calls because perhaps she heard one of his old songs, Of course, the word “god” is upper-cased every time it ap-
vinyl. Musically, this is the Femmes at their least interesting ever, 1 would like to believe they delib-
erately set out to make a mellow, subdued album, but they don’t sound mellow so much as bored out of their fucking minds, If they must redo what they’ve done before, they should at least do it with the same level of commitment and quality; otherwise there’s no point. And that’s a pretty good catchfor 3: pointless. There’s nothing sadder than seeing a once innovative band that’s run out of word
ideas.
ness. Starting with a fresh new
theme for metal, Fight opens this half (“Fight a little harder, fight a
little harder, fight right back...“).
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Well, what can you say about a band whose name sounds like one of the robots on Saturday morning cartoqns? Actually, they ain’t too bad. They were. definitely in different moods when they recorded the two sides. The first one certainly doesn’t sound like “the NEW sound of METAL” that the press release touts. These songs are more like the OLD sound of AC/DC crotchrock, with vocals by a combination of Billy Idol and Ian Astbury. Characteristically misogynistic, the first two tracks, Spoonfed and Killer Pussy, deal with sensitive social issues: the spectre of women who ivere spoiled little girls, and what excessive alcohol consumption can do to your vision: “Drink like a fish and go get her.” The rest of the side just doesn’t impress me the same way, despite a darn witty title closing out the side: It Was a Blasphemy, Was It a Blast For You?, sung like some sort of metalized Jazz Butcher. Side two discards any sense of norm-fearing moderation and heads straight for metal zani-
They out-do where they
themselves
in Duel,
deal with, what else, man’s essential mortality in the face of infinite evil. This track climaxes with either insightful philosophy or just some friendly advice -to you, the record-purchasing public: “But there ain’t no denying you gotta buy it in the end.” Well, that’s not exactly my recommendation. This band shows the child-like fascination
that
I
of discovering
rhyme
words
in Blinders
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where they scream, “Got their blinders
on,
I don’t
care
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make them wear funny underwear.” OK. Great. The last song, with the bellylaugh title Sic My DUG, tries to
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l[n short, this album’s loud, grating, and adolescent: all of the things that make metal what it is. Don’t wait till Easter. Buy it now.
song. Ryder’s hoarse singing could nearly be described as soul -inflected were it not for his willful clumsiness and charming lack of finesae. Curiously enough, the song it-
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The compilation serves as a neat introduction to the sound that is On-U. It includes big superstar names like Lee Perry, Fats Comet, African Head Charge and many morel Hear them strip music down to its barest bones of bass and rhythm. thrill to hear them reconstruct it with crazy cutups, spurious samples and the sparsest of vocals. And that’s not all - if you act now, you’ll get free, at no extra cost, a 20 page booklet. Detailing the history of On-U sound and listing a complete discography, this book is an invaluable addition to the library of any serious music listener.
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Nitzer Ebb’s second LP, the musical formula set a decade ago by D,A,F., Control and Telex. UnNitzer Ebb’s euro-
pounding merely produces boredom and numbness rather than the dance-trance and brutal h pnosis that Nitzer Ebb would lice it t o produce.
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Nitzer Ebb are one group whom you could review without ever taking their records out of their sleeves - their combination of austere postmodern functional packaging a la New Order circa 1982 and choppy one and two-word kinetic titles, closely imitating D.A.F. circa Der Mussolini, quite accurately pigeonhole their music as the intense pounding industrial eurodisco that it is.
If you’re in the know and on the go, you’ll be intimately familiar with the ouevre of one Adrian Sherwood. Rig name producer to the famous and obscure alike, Mr. Sherwood has been churning out maximum head damage records for well nigh ten years. The likes of Cabaret Voltaire, Ministry, Skinny Puppy and countless others have suffered his sonic treatment. Abuse! Who killed the Kennedys? who cares! Adrian Sherwood has no answers but this vinyl questionnaire asks all the right questions. Well what exactly does that mean? Nothing! Do you expect to find anything of relevance or import in a record review? If so, it’s time for a reality check, my brain damaged friend. Anyways, back to business, this LP is a compilation of stuff from the On-U Sound crew. Ranging from the heaviest of dub sounds to the most industrial of dance tracks. The styles are pretty well-defined between the different sides of the album: side one is mostly the industrial stuff, side two the dub.
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cient t1me, dusted off and on high rotation on MuchMuzak. I have never owned a Paul Simon album, never having had the burning desire to drop the necessary bucks; although I do admit to occasionally hummIng along to my Mom’s tape of Graceland, So, faced with the daunting prospect of reviewing an album by ai artist of whom1 know diddly squat, I hunkered down behind my word processor with the sounds of Paul Simon just behind me, Obviously, anything I say will immediately reveal me as the ignorant scribe that I am (at least as far as Paul Simon goes), so I’ll simply say, “This album is easy to listen to, easy to ignore. It’s a best hits album, Paul Simon fans will love it, S.N,F.U. fans should stay away.” 0
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Without discussing their peculiar brand of musical fascism, a task even less rewarding than listening to this record, one runs out of things to say about Nitzer Ebb very quickly. In simplest terms, Belief is fast and you can dance to it. McLuhan-esque “function defines form” dance music for the masses.
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Torch Song Trilogy - bu’rning with love lations will be compared and ex- qualities which made the play amined. famous. This movie is for everyone. For The film chronicles nearly a people from the gay community I decade in the life of a female imit is a major motion picture that personator who is seeking true explores gay relationships from and fulfilling love. a gay perspective. This will inRight from the beginning, Hardeed be a cause for celebration. vey Fierstein engages the auFor the straight population, the dience in a personal monologue film will reveal itself to be ex- on the realities and heartbreaks tremely witty, engagingly out- of trying to find that one true landish and thoroughly love. Anyone who has ever charming. Originally written as played the dating game can idena play, Torch Song Trilogy was tify with this opener, While recimmensely popular in New York ognizing all of the despair, our city for a number of years. Its hero forever forges a path in author and main actor, Harvey search of his ideal mate and yes Fierstein, rewrote the script for he does find love and learns to the silver screen, and by all accounts, retained many of the
by Leslie 1. Peters Imprint staff The movie Torch Song Trilogy is not a great movie in the sense that Dr. Zhivago or Gone with the Wind or even Ben I-fur were great movies. One fundamental reason for this is because its budget was limited when the big name production companies refused to back a movie about gays, their lives and loves and written by someone who is gay. More importantly, what Torch Song Trilogy does have is heart and plenty of it. What Torch Song Trilogy will be is classic with which all other movies dealing with issues about gay re-
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“love enough.” Matthew Broderick and Brian Kerwin are very apt in their roles as the two loves in our hero’s life. It is in and through these two characters a clear message is given, that is to be proud of your sexuality, whether gay or straight, no matter the costs involved, Anne Bancroft plays the role of a Yiddish momma who is always on edge over her son’s declared homosexuality. She is torn between loving her son and honouring the heterosexual values central to her own life. It is in the context of this special
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Renate Sander-Regier Imprint staff D.L. Coburn’s Pulitzer Prize winning The Gin Game played to a small but receptive audience on Feb. 7 and 9 at the Humanities Theatre, And the play was worth appreciating indeed. Set on the little occupied veranda of an old age home where the hottest topic of conversation is funeral arrangements, The Gin Game traces the development of the relationship between residents Fonsia and Weller. The two have plenty in common: strong, independent characters; alienation from their families and the other residents in the home: ailments [she has diabetes, he suffers from advanced old age]; loneliness; divorce. All this they learn about each other over games of gin rummy, which, to Weller’s astonishment and progressively furious frustration, Fonsia always wins. The tension mounts as Fonsia and Weller delve deeper into the dark corners of each others’ psyches over the card games. As Fonsia continues to win, Weller’s frustration becomes increasingly violent. Fonsia, confused, both withdraws and, when necessary, asserts herself, Even though they repeatedly clash, Fonsia and Weller communicate well when they aren’t playing cards, and enjoy each others’ company. But Weller’s obsession with gin keeps pulling him (and he in turn pulls her physically) back to the card ,table, and draws the play to an astonishing, hanging-in-the-air climax. The tense moments are, of course, offset by plenty of humour - mainly Weller’s digs at the old age home and its inhabitants. He gripes about the administration’s ‘*consfant need to enter-
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tain” the residents and fear that if no entertainment were provided, the old people would “drop dead en masse.” He says that if such a catastrophe happened, “they” would feel “guilty as hell because the Presbyterian choir could have kept us alive,” Weller also complains that there is no one for him to talk to IL
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hardened him. The only thing that bothered me is that if Weller: is supposed to be suffering from advanced old age, the fellow up on stage [even though he walks with a believably stiff limp and has to use a cane), is a little too vigorous, with too energetic a ‘Oice* Anna Cameron, on the other hand, has her Fonsia down pat. Voice, facial exDressions and gestures ail reinfArce Cameron’s convincing characterization of . the no-nonsense, autonomous 71-year-old who is tough on the outside, side.
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Neither Fonsia nor Weller wants to be in the home. Neither likes the food. Neither likes the other residents. Neither receives any family visits. Drawn together in their helpless alienation, powerless to change their respective situations, they make the best of each others’company as long as they can. The best of luck to them. As for so many aged people today, their plight is not enviable.
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Last Wednesday night the second annual expression of fashion innovation played campus to an excited and warm crowd at Fed Hall despite ugly weather warnings. It was an evening out for many of the 350 attendees, a few choosing to make their own fashion statements, adorned in black gowns. Many of the patrons were friends and family of students involved in the production, as well as a few intrigued community members.
K-W companies, J-C Productions Inc and Emmanual Patterspn Enterprises Inc. The dual presentation of A Fashion Conspiracy in both Waterloo and Toronto, and the inclusion of several international designers [two designers had never before shown publicly in Ontario), accounted for a larger and more sophisticated production this year. Experienced models from both the KW and Toronto areas joined the students to assist with the international showings, at the request of the designers, creating a subtle tension in Toronto where many of the students were replaced with rather flippant and possibly intoxicated “profes-
and the crowd a b?eathless mass of quivering senses. Darkly clad figures quickly followed, weaving their wily fashions around the oppressive copper cage which dominated the scene. The set concluded in a risque romp of domination as women wrapped red rope ‘round reluctant, restrained male models, and two sole survivors duelled in a death battle with fists, feet and fa-
shion. An entourage designs erupted an interesting
of international from offstage in combination of the traditional and sexy. The men featured a nostqlgic fifties rev,ival of the silhouette - oversized jackets and tapered pants, as well as walking shorts and
mance (rumour had it he was at another fashion show in T.O.), but producer Paul Slawek expressed very positive sentiments about the show’s improvement over last year, and especially that everyone involved made time for both shows. When asked if he felt the
show would run again next year, Slawek was doubtful since many of the volunteers would not be returning to UW in the fall,
Although the Toronto show at the Harbour Castle Westin provided invaluable exposure for the designers, models and technical crew, the main intent of A Fashion Conspiracy was simply to “advertise that there is a Fine Arts department at Waterloo... and we’re here!” A message Much Music, CFTO, City T.V., The Globe, The Star, and of course Imprint are making sure gets out.
STUDENTS START YOUR CAREER OFF RIGHT leisure wear in subdued tones. The ladies’ fashions had a more varied approach. Evening gowns of white lace, mini lengths, black lingerie and sheer fabric [I’m only here for the clothes-Moose ] offered an assorted array of appeal. Four student designers exhibited their talent in a stunning
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fifty UW students from various faculties donated their time and expertise for the charity event which organizers estimate has raised five to six thousand dollars for the Children’s Wish Foundation. There was some local sponsorship but many businesses had already allocated for ‘89 advertising or charity budgets; the lighting for the show was a joint effort between two progressive
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along similar streets Sweet Jane travelled, for Blvd has those crunching primal guitar riffs that will keep this song fired on the radio alongside Lou’s “classics.” Pedro wishes his life away, finding a book on Magic in a garbage can, And like most of the characters in New York, with their drug addictions and lack of convictions, Pedro wishes I hope 1 CQR disappear And fly fly away... Dion Di Mucci contributes some backing -vocals with wings. I may as well tell you now, the music is good on practically all the album, but it is Reed’s lyrics that are the steel toe of the collective ass kicking he feels we need. The instrumentation is more controlled than some of the sloppy Mistrial stuff from ‘86, A few tracks [featuring ex- Velvet Underground drummer Maureen Tucker], remind of the Velvets, and most everything is hybrid of the past. The savvy of Street Hassle meets the drama of BerIin, while managing to corral the passion of The Nue Mask. Reed sets the stage for the most impor-
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Danish village mired in a severe religious sect, two spinsters caring for the desand their refugee maid seem a promising prefor a film aimed,at the gourin all of us. Not to fear, Babette’s Feast is nothing less than superb. The fiIm begins as a chronicle of the lives of the two oldsisters. In their youth, they had both been beautiful and had attracted many suitors, both local and otherwise. Most memorable, Phillipa is courted by the finest opera singer of the time who had become entranced -by her extraordinary voice. The second sister gains the attention of a soldier with a penchant for life in the fast lane, However, both sisters are devoted to their father and deny
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tant album of his career, pulling all stops to deliver. Observe and catalogue; this IS the pattern on There Is No Time, side B’s opener Busload Of Faith, and the-vicious Strawman. Lou offers no real suggestions beyond This is no time to turn away and drink /or smoke some vials of crack. Great stuff if you’re self-rightous or straight+ but try telling that to a generation listening to Heroin on their walkmans. A good tune, sure, but Lou vies for more and looks worse when he blunders. Last Great American Whale, my favourite and one of the best of- Lou’s narrative works, tells the tale of racial injustice with his characteristic wry iron& After the inevitable destruction of the mythical ideal, the commentary on Americans flows forth: Americans.. . They’ll shit in u river, dump battery acid in a stream / They’ll watch dead rats wash up on the beach and complain if they can’t swim. with his words at the forefront, this song works best; some of the other stuff, once flung onto the airwaves and dancefloors, will seem as ironic as people dancing to last ‘years Midnight Oil hit.
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The odd mingling of politics, Q $60,000 car? No, of course not. sti.rcasm, and irony becomes side The point is, they still want one. two. Busload Of Faith declares: Lou’s no idiot though, as he vinYou can’t depend on Q god / You dicates himself with the all encczn only depend on one thing / compassing When you spit in the You need a busload of1 Jfaith to net ’ wind it coies rigkit back at you. by. And after telling us You da\? Mother Naure meanwhile is depend on a wise man / You can’t busy whipping the buildings. find them because they’re.lnot Dime Store Mystery closes the there, his words grate in the most important album for Lou, wrong way. You see, one thing and for ‘89, This album tries for you can depend on is bad news. so much, and is so painfully conLou’s been watching a great dark scious at times of the limits imhorse descend on humanity, and posed upon it, that it can escape now he’s mounted it, and with a neither it’s nature nor dilemma. knowing smugness comes riding Pop music won’t change the in. And when things like AIDS world to any degree that really come riding in on the back of ecmatters, Mystery then, juxtastasy, you’ve gotta be suspicious poses the religious grandeur of of the motives of, yes, even I,ou. “The Last Temptation” with the Good Evening Mr. Waldheim seedy reality of dime store insiggrills Jesse Jackson on his connificance. It’s dedication to cept of “common ground.” Is it Andyhoney illustrates the just a sound asks Lou and If I run striking effect of Warhol’s (the for President and once was ,a member of the Han / Wouldn’t you call me on it the way I call you on Farrakan? (Farrakan being a black Muslim preacher accused of being racist.] If the good guys can’t agree with each other it’s becauie in New York no one is really good; there’s too by Sally Bryant and the Venommuch pollution and it seems to ous Vikings have programmed itself into a Imprint Staff system right at the core of everything. Vets might be the issue on Xmas In February; Sam was And a happy hello to everyb[yin’ in the jungle... if he didn’t ody out there in lu-lu land, You have that opium to smoke the know, with all the amazing menpain would never stop, but with tal and emotional problems plagthe amount of street warfare uing the Vikings and the going on it’s hard not to think demi-goddess Sal, it’s totally that the pain of the past is a foreamazing that we even got this cast. Xmas is a moment of weacolumn out this week. But don’t kness; the calm before the storm. feel sorry for us, ‘cause we really The fury is about them damn HATE that. Yeah man, symyuppies’, which brings us to pathy eats it, Strawman - with an intensity So, what’s goin’ on? Well, born from some waves of fear, Steve Earle isplaying The CenLou screams: Does 0 nybody need tre In The Square, and Steve Earle has been doing some pretty hard ‘n’ nifty shit recently, so that might be worth checking out. By the way, that happens to be on Friday the I7th, which consequently enough is the very same night that Nash the Slash is playing the Siboney [in To(includes shoes) ronto). Nash, according to Sally [who should know], gives new meaning to the words “bag your face.” But why should we do all your work? We don’t know what’s goin’ on in T.0, anymore than r8dwlcK Ian08 you do, so pick up E damn Now 85 Frederick St magazine or something, fer 576-1160 Chrissakes! But we do know what’s happening in our neck o’ the woods. Problem Children, a cool band from DunnviNe, are playing with the ever-rude Wet Spots at the Albion in Guelph on Saturday
body and the image] deathon the art community that Lou also grew in. The end,,, The end.,. waves New York and as it floats away, I’m brought back to the beginning; I’11 t&e Manhattan in a garbage bag with Latin written on it that says “It’s hard to give a shit these days” / Manhat’ten’s sinking like a rock, into the filt by Hudson what a shock / they wrote 0 book about it, they said it was like ancient Rome. (Romeo Had Juliet t e) So this album’s a mighty force to reckon with; a testimony of the times. If there’s a wasteland approaching, Lou Reed’s New York features prominently on the horizon. Go buy it; it costs nothing. I hear Toronto’s starting to have a problem with street gangs.
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their suitors. The singer returns heartbroken to Paris, the soldier leaves, vowing to devote his life to achieving success in the military to ease his heartache. Many years pass, the father dies and the sisters grow old. ! +e stormy night, a penniless woman appears at their door begging shelter. She carries a note from Phillipa’s past, a letter from the opera singer pleading with the sisters to give the woman, Babette, shelter. Many more years pass and the sisters, who used to be self-sufficient, have come to rely heavily upon Babette, The tciwn comes to accept Babette as well, especially the poor who are the beneficiaries of the sisters’ good work (Babet te is apparently a wonderful cook). Everything changes when Babette suddenly comes into possession of a small fortune. The sisters fear that Babette will leave them and return to France.
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Queens of the OWIAA squash courts The Waterloo Athenas squash team has accomplished what they set out to do in September. For the first time in this school’s history, the Athenas came home with the QWIAA championship banner, taking it away from their perennial rivals, the Western Mustangs. With this gold medal coming in addition to their overall trophy for winning the Canadian-American Games, Waterloo has had a very successful year. Was it all worth it? Most of the Athenas have made forays into the campus pubs in order to calm their nerves. Sore muscles, no nails, no appetite, in a sport like, squash where you are all by yourself and everyone is looking at you, the pressure can be tremendous. Fifth year veteran Diane Hutchison, the captain of the Athenas put it bluntly, “yes, it was all worth it.” Waterloo had beaten Western twice before in preliminary tournaments, however, Western was never at full strength. The Mustangs certainly came to play, with their top five players looking for a little revenge. Coming off a hardball tournament in New York (the final stage of the Can-Am games), the Athenas
had two weeks to prepare mentally and physically for the different courts and balls in a softball championship. Another slight twist to the OWIAA tournament they were played at the No. 1 Nautilus Club in London which has converted racquetball courts. These courts are 6” narrower than regular international courts. In a gesture of goodwill, Ron Hurst of the Warrior squash team and No. 1 Nautilus on Columbia Street, provided the necessary practice time on the appropriate courts. In the first round of play in London, the Athenas played against a much improved Wilfrid Laurier squad and advanced to the final four, a round robin playoff. As expected, Western, Queen’s, and the University of Toronto did the same, defeating York, McGill, and McMaster respectively. The grueling final four playoff couldn’t have been any closer. The Athenas defeated U of T, 41, Queen’s, 5-0, and Western, 3-2. The Mustangs swept their matches against both U of T and Queen’s, 5-o.The two favourites, the two rivals, Western and Waterloo were tied at 12 points apiece. Nevertheless, by defeating Western+ 3-2 in t,heir head to head matches, the Athenas took
the gold, It wasn’t so simple. The pressure in this tournament was incredible, especially since things weren’t really going Waterloo’s way earlier on in round robin play. Coach Chico Silvestri was so nervous that he lost his appetite. “We had to come from behind to win,” stated Hutchison. UW and UWO met in the final round of the weekend. The Athenas trailed the Mustangs by one point. Quite simply, they had to win more matches than UWO. It would have been much more difficult if Sandy Trundle had lost her match against U of T’s number five player. Prior to meeting Western, the Athenas lost a heartbreaker, at the No. 4 position. Liana Cqoper, who had moved up from No. 5 earlier this year, knew her job would be difficult. After a tough, or rather bad, call at 8-7 in the fifth game of her match against her opponent from U of T, Cooper fell to defeat 10-8. If Brundle didn’t come through at this point, Waterloo could have packed their bags. In a dogfight with U of T’s No. 5 player, Brundle showed everyone what determination is all about. It was a squeaker. a nerve-wracking 96 victory in the fifth and deciding game of the match. As it stood going into the final, UW had to win three of five, oth-
erwise a silver medal was on order. The final match was played at the No. 3 position. It turned out to be the deciding match. Louise Waite convincingly trounced UWO’s No. 1 seed, Heather McClean. Diane Lee, at No. 2, was as cool as ever and made a tough match look easy, disposing of her opponent 3-O. Lee completed the year without losing a single game in any match this year. It is interesting to note that this fact eluded all of the other coaches in the league. The selection process for the OWIAA AllStar team is suspect, that is, political, and Lee fell to the political swings and was left off the team. However, a gold medal on one of the best university teams in North America is not bad, Waterloo’s two losses against Western came at the No. 4 and 5 positions, Brundle was unable to steal a win and Cooper once again chalked up her loss to inexperience. Western was poised to wreptle away the OWIAA championship from the ups tart Athenas. One more win was all that was needed. The weight fell on Hutchison’s shoulders. This is Hutchison’s final year with the team and she showed why she was the team’s leader for the past three
years. The Mustangs figured that they would win at the bottom three positions. They weren’t willing to place their bets against the powerful Waite and smooth Lee, so they moved some of their top seeds down to play against Waterloo’s supposedly weaker ones. Carolyn Greene ran into Hutchison and watched a very fit human being take her in four games. This upset victory came by covering every inch of the court, in almost every rally of the match. When Hutchison scored the winning point lo-9 in the fourth game, pandemonium resulted. Mauled by teammates and fans alike, the Athena captain was lucky to get back to the locker room alive. Waite was chosen to the OWIAA All-Star team. She is, without question, the best player in the university ranks, and she is only in her second year. Lee deserves an honourable mention as she was tied for the fifth spot, but lost out in a somewhat unfair decision. The 1988439 Athena Squash team, with Louise Waite, Diane Lee, Diane Hutchison, Liana Cooper, and Sandy Brundle competing, can now be officially called the best women’s racquets team in Waterloo’s history,
-BLACK SATURDAY First place by Mike McGraw Imprint staff My how things change in just one short week. Seven days ago at this time, the Waterloo Warriors basketball team was preparing for a first place tilt in London against the Western Mustangs. But the ‘Stangs settled that issue quickly and with conviction in a go-68 pummelling of the Warriors last Saturday (February 11). With their hopes modified to a long shot chance at second place and more realistically, third or fourth, the Warriors headed to Hamilton to face the McMaster . Marauders on Wednesday night. Waterloo rebounded from Saturday’s disaster to trounce the slumping Marauders, 73-60, in a solid defensive display.
THE FIGHT Western Guelph Waterloo MdWas ter So now what, you ask? The Warriors, now 10-3, can finish no worse than third, as with one game to go, the fourth place Marauders, now 8-5, cannot catch them, Waterloo does have a slim chance of slipping into second and grabbing a bye _. . .
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into the semi-finals to be held next Friday night (February 24) at either Guelph or Western. If the Warriors beat the 4-g Laurier Golden Hawks at the PAC tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon (tip-off is at 2 p.m.), and the 3-g Lakehead Nor’Westers can take at least one game from the powerful 10-2 Guelph Gryphons in this weekend’s doubleheader, Waterloo would grab second place and the valuable bye. If, as expected, the Gryphons sweep both games from Lakehead, then the Warriors would host the Golden Hawks again at the PAC on Tuesday night beginning at 8 p.m. in a divisional quarter-final playoff. The winner of that game would advance to the semi-finals against the Gryphons or the ‘Stangs next Friday. Currently, Western is in first at 11-2, with Guelph at 10-Z.
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OUAA West division and overall OUAA scoring leader John Stiefelmeyer led the landslide with 24 points. Swingman Jeff Petter popped in 14 points and Kyle Rysdale added 11, I-Iow good was the Mustang defence? They shut down Schneider, second behind Stiefelmeyer, holding him to 19 points below his season average of 24. UW’s captain eked out just five points, leaving in the second half to ice the ankle he sprained against Windsor last Wednesday. Rookie Jason Poag hooped 14 points, all in a second half cleanup role, salvaging ‘some lost pride for Waterloo with a late game slam. Troyak also meshed 14 points, while John Bilawey added 10. Big scorers of late, Bra1 ley and Don Meace were silenced to seven and six respectively. “We thought we were ready,” said McCrae.“We did have our ’ first five of seven players with injuries, but we thought we had it dealt with. Schneider had a very bad sprain but I don’t think it bothered him too much. As soon as it became a bad situation out there, we took him out.” In fact, the injury situation was a little worse than the Warriors wanted to believe - it took 30 minutes for three trainers to tape up ailing players before the game. “We must have used ten miles of tape,” noted McCrae. The game started innocently enough, with Western leading, 64. But before you could blink, Stiefelmeyer drained a jumper, Petter hit a lay-up and Green
buried a trey - seven points in 63 seconds. With it suddenly 134, McCrae halted things with a timeout at 1358. When the Warriors returned to the floor, all they discovered was that the ‘Stangs were playing a man-to-man collapsing defence so tightly that white jerseys were sticking to them like leeches. Fact - when Bilawey netted a jumper to close it to 176, he ended a UW scoring drought that lasted over five minutes. For all purposes, the game was over in this next one-minute scenerio. Western went up 19-6, and after another UW turnover, headed back down the floor, Miraculously, John Giles, falling away and facing his own basket, somehow dropped in a Hail Mary 3-pointer to make it 22-6. UW came back on offence, but alas, a charging foul turned the ball over, It was that kind of day. Schneider hit his first bucket of the afternoon at 7:30 - the novelty of UW’s star guard hitting his patented jumper was simply frightening. But the ‘Stangs were far from finished. For every Waterloo action, there were one, two, often three more Western reactions. Bilawey nailed a trey to close it to 26-13, so Giles stormed back down the court and canned one of his own - 29-16. Braley’s lay-up closed it to 31s 18, so the ‘Stangs went on a 7-O roll to lead by 20. After another Bilawey tri-factor, Western slammed UW, 10-4 in the last three minutes of the
half, mostly on Stiefelmeyer’s baseline jumpers. Dazed and reeling, the Warriors trailed 4% 25 at the intermission. “Western came out in the first half and played superb defence,” admitted McCrae.“They made all types of conversions off of their defensive play, and even missed some chances - it could have been worse, They dominated the boards and just about dominated all phases of the g ime. We just couldn’t get reorga. lized,” Any wild dreams that UW had of crawling back into this one were doused in the first six min~,tes of the second half. In that jpan, Western snowballed its lead to 65-32, biggest of the day, on a 17-7 outburst that reduced the Battle For First into a 14 minute scrimmage. “This was not at all what I expected,” said Western head coach Doug Hayes.“1 thought it was going to be close. It’s just one of those things, we broke out to agreat start and then held on. I don’t know what we did but we played great. We played well in all phases of the game and everyone contributed.”
Laurier Waterloo Warriors vs. Golden Hawks Saturday, February 18 2:00 pm. In the PAC
Tomorrow’s game at the PAC will be preceded by a high school exhibition game beginning at 11% a.m. The match will feature St. Jerome’s from Kitchener and a small U.S. school, Central Christian High from Kindron, Ohio coached by Bruce Breckbill, a former Warrior who played in the late 1970s.
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by Glenn Hauer Imprint staff It’s a tough answer to a tough question. What is wrong with the Waterloo Warriors hockey team? Two more notches were added to the loss column last week, as Waterloo fell to Toronto last Wednesday, 3-2 and then to the powerful Western Mustangs, 5-4 on Sunday. Their record now stands at 14 wins, eight losses, and three ties, good for third place in the OUAA Central Division. The playoff picture is now set. Laurier, which is on a roll, will play Western, with the Mustangs holding home ice advantage, Waterloo will be battling against the York Yeomen, the only question is where that will be. In the final regular season game of the year, IJW played last night at York, where home ice advantage was determined, If the Warriors won, they would have clinched second place. The fact of the matter is that it would have been much easier if Waterloo had won some games last week. There is not much to say about the loss to Toronto. Self admittedly the Warrior players did not play with too much enthusiasm, The effort wasn’t as good as it could have been. A players meeting was called for Friday evening, to relax, talk it up, find out where the team really wants to w* Sunday’s effort was much better. “I’m pretty happy with the way the guys came out and said Warrior captain, played,” John Goodman. “People are betting on us to fold in the playoffs. Don’t count on it.”
of the period, on a beautiful give and go with Ian Pound that found John Dietrich at the side of the net for the easy shot, Peter jeffries of Western scored the winning goal early in the third on a face-off. Goalie Mike Bishop was screened and suddenly the puck was behind him on a rather weak shot. Nevertheless, the Mustangs had a 5-3 lead, tough to overcome against such a good defensive club. Jim David came up with an excellent opportunity to score a shorthanded goal but was foiled by a steady Western netminder. A few seconds later, in a very However, Western tied it once rare second breakaway in a again on the power play, showshorthanded situation, Jamie ing Waterloo that it can’t afford Maki made no mistake, putting penalties, especially when it the puck high on the glove side to comes to. playoff time. narrow the margin to 5-4, That was all, though. The The second period saw WestWarriors failed to beat Western ern take a 4-3 lead. Waterloo had yet again, something they have many scoring opportunities, in- - to realize is tough but not imposeluding a Tony Crisp breakaway sible. However, York is first in late in the frame. The Mustang the playoffs. The opening game will be on Tuesday or Wednesgoalie made an excellent save on day., depending on the outcome the low glove side. Todd Coulter engineered Waterloo’s only goal of yesterday’s clash.
Waterloo was playing without their top line, consisting of Steve Linseman, Dan Tsandelis, and Chris Elover. However, the rest of the team picked up their games a notch or two. The Warriors took it to the Mustangs, unfortunately the breaks, and penalties, were in Western’s favour. Waterloo got onto the board first when Steve Richard popped one in at 4:20 of the opening frame, UWO tied it on a powerplay, but Jamie McKee blasted the puck into the top corner soon after, giving the Warriors a 2-1 lead.
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Swimmers grab fourth at OWIAAs by Graeme Pepph Imprint staff Sheryl Slater is breathing much easier these days, having finally achieved what her mind’s been set on since arriving at Waterloo in September - a qualification for next month’s CIAU swimming championships in British Columbia. The Waterloo rookie powered through the final individual race of the OWIAA Championships last weekend at Wilfrid Laurier, the 400-metre individual medley, in 5 minutes, 21.95 seconds, well within the standard for the meet. She vigorously fought for a fourth place finish in this final event, the last opportunity she had to qualify. There was a captivating head-to-head duel between Toronto teammates Linda Gardiner and Karen Helmsteadt, first and second place finishers respectively, while Slater had the Waterloo fans on their feet as she+closed on but fell short of Guelph’s Susan Brandon. Her fourth place finish - one better than she achieved in the preliminary heats coupled with a seventh place in the 800metre free and a fifth place in the ZOO-metre backstroke contributed to the Athenas’ fourth place overall finish in this year’s Ontario Championship, the team’s climax to their competitive season. Slater could not have hoped for a better way to cap off her first year in Waterloo colours.
Nor could the team have expected much more from the four, including Slater, who now stand ready to represent the university at the national championships in March. Veteran Athena campaigner, Sue Masson, swam faster than ever, lowering her 200’-metre backstroke time yet again on her way to a bronze medal finish. Later, she wrung everything she could out of the loo-metre backstroke and hurtled to a silver medal along the way, finishing half-a-second shy of gold medalist Kirsty Salmon of Brock, Not content to stop there, Masson rocketed through the XImetre backstroke and captured a second bronze medal, thus finishing the meet with top three placings for each of her individual races. Aware of the need to swim flat out for the necessary decathlon points to ensure CIAU funding, Slater and Masson swam the races of their lives. Lesley Horton and Corrie Powell also proved just how hard they were willing to work to get the soughtafter results. Horton’s 206metre freestyle gave her a sixth place finish behind U of T’s Andrea Seguin and Linda Gardiner, both of whom finished within 0.1 seconds of each other in first and second places. Horton also took a fifth place in the 4OO-metre free and a seventh place - and first in the consolation final - for the 100metre free.
Powell scampered through the lOO-metre fly in 1 minute, 7.7 seconds to earn sixth place points; while she knocked 1.5 seconds off her preliminary heat time for the ZOO-metre fly to finish in eighth place. Kris Jackshaw almost made herself a fifth Athena qualifier when she stormed through the 200-metre fly, closing on teammate Powell. She fell back on the final length as the latter gamely disputed first place with Brock’s Andrea Boucher at.the finish. Jackshaw’s time of 2 minutes, 82.91 seconds gave her ninth place overall in the event, immediately behind Powell and a whisker ahead of another Athena flyer, Kim Boucher. Jackshaw also earned a ninth -place for her loo-metre fly while Boucher’s 800-metre free, in 10 minutes, 1.8 seconds placed her twelfth, two places ahead of yet another Athena scorer, Stephanie Smith. Stephanie Gamble won her consolation so-metre breaststroke race, scythying through the two lengths in 38.0 seconds. Tami Lee impressed with her tenth place in the same race, 0.7 seconds in arrears of Gamble. Fourth year Athena Nancy Crump was only able to score points in her ZOO-metre breaststroke, finishing eleventh in 2 minutes, 58.5 seconds. Lesley Crombie’s steady performances paid off with’ points in the ZOOmetre individual medley. A pure-bred sprinter is Athena rookie Nicole Amoroso,
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who dashed for points in the 50metres’ free and fly. Her elder sister, Marissa, also had reason to smile, making the consolation final in all three backstroke races, placing well in all of-them, and setting personal best times along the way. In relays, Waterloo’s ‘A’ teams picked up two fifth places, one in the 4x100-metre free, the other for the 4x166-metre medley. The
‘B’ teams earned tenth and twelfth places in these races, and added a sixth place for their fleet swims in the 4x200-metre free. The University of Toronto won the two day meet, accumulating over 1000 points. Their nearest challenge came from Western with 460 points, while McMaster placed third, followed by Waterloo, Brock, and Guelph in the top six.
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Reeling b-ball Athenas drop number 10 by Rich Imprint
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It was the same old swan song for the Waterloo Athenas basketball team last Saturday, February 11, in their game against Western at Alumni Hall in London. The women got off to a slow start, blew the first half, played superbly to catch up, took the lead, and then lost by just acouple of points - 60-56 - in the final minutes. This is the fifth or sixth time this season that the Athenas have been victims of this scenario. C%nsequently, Waterloo, who is playing like a 5-5 team, has a frustrating record of o-10. “The team played a horrendous first half, so we had to make some adjustments to our defensive play and inside game. After a fantastic start to the second half, the girls panicked and lost their composure,” said disheartened Waterloo head coach Leslie Dal Cin after the 1 game, adding, “We were never in full control of the play, but if the girls play like they did in the first 15 minutes of the second half again, we should get some wins before the season ends.” rn a game that was flavoured with a low number of fouls and turnovers, the Athenas made
Waterloo track ladies ‘place in Michigan meet by John Denny Imprint etaff Last weekend the Waterloo Athenas did well against strong American teams like Michigan and Notre Dame, at an indoor track and field meet at the Red Simmons Invitational in Michigan. Mart ha De Gannes placed seventh in the 6&yard dash in a time of 8.13 seconds. Running her first sprint distance for the season, Marina Jones clocked in 2%01 seconds in the 220-yard dash. Continuing the good performances were Denise Eppich and Jones, who placed first and third in their heats in the 600-yard race. Their times were 1:X59 and 1:36,35, respectively. This meet was Eppich’s debut for the indoor season. Lisa Laffradi was in awesome form in the invitational mile, and so was Marci Aitken in the 3,000m race. Laffradi ran to a big personal best of 5: 12.75, and Aitken had a terrific race, running a personal best of 10:21.08, placing 8th overall. The Athenas fielded a 4 x 8UOm relay team which consisted of Laffradi, Aitken, Eppith and Jill Francis. The team captured the bronze position in a time of 10:18.95 amongst a very fast bunch. The Athenas have the weekend off, as the Warriors journey to Michigan to do battle at the prestigious EMU Invitational.
vast improvements to their inside game. Waterloo was out-rebounded by their London counterparts, 23-13, but that may have been due to an incomplete and somewhat biased stats sheet. With a slow offence at the start, Waterloo just barely kept pace with Western in the first ten minutes, and was behind 18-14, Then the Athenas fell asleep and were called for travelling twice. As a result, the Mustangs scored the next eight points, and, after a rare basket by Waterloo, the Mustangs’ first year guard Michele Mommersteen ans-
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wered back with an impressive three-point shot. The spread in points remained the same until the half, with the score 43-30 for Western. Using a more controlled o’ffense, the Athenas came out storming after halftime with a lo-point surge that closed the gap to 43-40. Then Waterloo’s defensive play became flawless, depriving the Western team of a basket until the la-minute mark. Eventually, with six minutes left, Waterloo took over the lead, 52-49 when star forward Corinna Lueg split the Western defense to score two auick baskets.
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by Blair Falconer Imprint staff The PAC was the home of more than a few sleepy faces early Sunday morning as the field hockey Athenas hosted an exhibition round robin featuring Western and Guelph. The invitational session continued the Athenas’ preparation for the upcoming OWIAA tournament. The first game featured the Athenas versus a much more awake Western squad. Waterloo failed to wake up as the Stang women popped four quick goals in the first half. Facing a half-time deficit of 40, Coach Judy McCrae lashed her troops into action, and the tempo of play heightened as the Athenas started to take the game away from Western. Despite strong second halves from Janet MacPherson and Annette Koehler, a fifth goal deflated the Athenas and the game ended as a shutout, 5-0 to Western. One definite negative for the Athenas was a first half ankle injury to midfielder Alison Brown. Although she struggled through to full-time, Brown did not return for Guelph - placing the full load of this demanding centre position on Koehler for the rest of the day. Shaking off the malaise .of their first game, the Athenas started quickly. First Janet MacPherson and then Caitlin McGregor, with a nice tip in at the goal mouth, scored to open up an early lead. After Guelph replied, slipping a shot behind acrobatic goaltender Jennifer Murray, the Athenas again took control. MO
But that was it for the Athenas, as the limelight began to shine on the Mustangs once again. Western intercepted several long passes and replied with nine straight points, including a crucial three-point play, drawing a foul, In the end, Western came out on top, 60-56. Leading the Waterloo offence with a strong performance was Lueg with 16 points. Also contributing fine efforts for the Athenas were guard Kelly MacKey and forwards Jane Willett and Michele McCrory, who hooped 12. nine and seven Doints resnec-
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“menturn” Owens fooled the Guelph ‘keeper with a knuckler, and garbage goal specialist McGregor snared a rebound to help the Athenas to a 4-2 halftime lead. The second half was a seesaw battle as the teams traded goals twice - including master opportunist McGregor’s third as she scooped in a ball which had trickled through the goalie’s
pads after a blast by MacPherson. The Athenas were visibly tiring as the game wound down. The lack of manpower caught up to them as Guelph popped two goals in the last six minutes to send the game to overtime. The 5 minute overtime was also unkind to the Athena8 - the Gryphons scored twice to carry home a hard-fought victory.
Waterloo hosts c~urlhg finals The Waterloo Warriors and Athenas curling teams have completed the round robin portions of their respective seasons by competing in the OUAA and OWIAA combined bonspiel this past weekend in Toronto. Playing against their provincial counterparts, the Warriors qualified for the championship bonspiel, to be J:ostc!rj by UW on February 18 and 19, with a 7-3 won-loss record. This put them solidly in second place heading into the championships. Although the Athenas failed to advance, their 3-7 record featured all three wins coming consecutively, when the team needed it most. In their last game, the Athenas were trailing 8-3 with only three ends to play and rallied to tie the score in the tenth and force an extra end. In that end, the Trent skip required
a very delicate tap-back shot on a victory-clinching UW stone on the “four foot’20 end the competitive season for the curling Athenas, Joining the Warriors in the hunt for the OUAA title are Brock, Laurentian, Queen’s, Guelph and Toronto, All the action takes place at the Westmount Golf and Country Club. UW supporters are welcome to attend. Games will be played throughout the day on February 18 and 19, At press time, Western, Laurier and Windsor had clinched positions in the OWIAA championship bonspiel also to be played at Westmount. In other curling news, UW will be represented in the Zone 14 Junior Mixed playdown in Stratford later this month. The UW entry will include Warrior and Athena varsity curlers.
tively. Overall, Waterloo shot a mediocre 49 per cent from the floor compared to Western’s outstanding 68 per cent, Waterloo travelled to Hamilton on February 15 to play OWIAA West Division leaders McMaster (score unavailable at press time). The Athenas return home tomorrow, Saturday, February 18, to play third place Laurier at 4 p.m. in the PAC. Finishing off the season at home, Waterloo will play Windsor on Wednesday February 22 at 7 p.m., and Guelph on Saturday, February 25 at 3 p.m.
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The Waterloo Athenas synchronized swimming team held their fifth place position in the OWIAA championships at York last weekend. Their unibue landrilling style, brilliant smiles and high enthusiasm helped UW to hold its ranking in the team competition. Many thanks to Jody Pilbeam for her skillful coaching and Suzanne Bowen for her contagious exuberance. With the team members plagued by colds and the stomach flu, the figure rankings dropped slightly from the previous meet at U of T. In Seniors, Joanne Towner placed lath, increasing hen overall score to 74.0. Intermediate swimmers Dana Cramstone, Bonnie Mack and Leanne Ramni placed aixth, 12th and 14th respectively. Individual figures for Novice saw 18th and 19th placings for Irene Koops and Debbie Kritz. Team member Sarah Wilson gave up her place in the figures competition, as only three members could compete in the Intermediate category.
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Diane is being recognized for her outstanding performance at the OWIAA Championships at Western on February 11 and 12. Diane won all four of her matches at the number three position. Most importantly, she won a critical match against Western’s Carolyn Green, an opponent she had never beaten. With this match in mind, Diane dug in hard and trained for two hours a day during the last two weeks in preparation. She brought the victory to Waterloo in this match by winning, three games to one, IO9 in the fourth game. This match tied Waterloo and Western with 12 points apiece, but by beating Western head to head, three matches to two, Waterloo took the OWIAA Championships for the first time ever. Diane is a second year of a coop Masters in Economics.
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considering he complishment, was only able to compete in three races of the six. Of these races, Colin placed third in the slalom event, and won one qualifying race as well .as the season closing giant slalom event by over half a second. He led the Warriors to a fifth place finish out of eight teams. In two weeks, Colin will be representing Canada in the World University Games in Bulgaria, in both the slalom and giant slalom. Presently, he is on a work term in Toronto, and enrolled in second year Civil Engineering.
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WARRIORS BASKETBALL Feb. 18 - vs. Laurier, PAC, 2 p.m. Feb. 21 -if necessary, West Division Quarter-Final, PAC, 8 p.m. SWIMMING Feb. l7,18 - OUAA ships at Ottawa
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Good times were had by all as the Mixed Tennis Tournament came to an end on Sunday, February 12. In the “A” finals, George Van Nooten and Melissa MacIntyre easily defeated their opponents 6-0, 6-O to take the “A” championship. The “B” final was won by Jennifer Eddie and Brian Mills 6-2, 6-1 over Aurora Sutherland and Michael Westbrook. Maria Romero and Mike Lln were victorious in the “C” division as they defeated Elayne Chow and Sean Heiake. The “D” final was called early as a result of upcoming midterms and a lack of studying!!! The championship went to Sally Felkai and Joe Siehou, as Daniel Yeung’s partner was a substitute related very closely to one of the organizers. In the end, everyone was a winner. Thanks to all of the participants for their enthusiasm,
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SYNCHRO SWIMMING OWIAA Championships Waterloo placed fifth in the team routine Individual Results Joanne Towner - lath, senior figures Dana Cranstone, Bonnie Mack 6th and lzth, intermediate figures Irene Koops, Debbie Kritz 18th and lgth, novice figures
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Malntalnlng Unity Within Marriage. An informal presentation sponsored by the Association for Baha’i Studies. Campus Centre, room 110 at 7:30. Bring a friend, all are welcome.
Heritage Day at Jo sph Schneider Haus. A day of trades for ingenious boys. Lectures and demonstrations all day in 19th Century Trades. Call for reservations. 742-7752.
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Direct Actlon. 3rd. meeting of UW disARMX group to plan speakers’ panel and ways to resist ARMX ‘89, the Ottawa weapons expo. 8100 pm., CC 1388. Call 884-2414. WCF 8uppsr Meeting. 4:30 - 7:oO pm., El 3522. Speaker begins at 5:45. Come join us!
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The Jewlrh Students’ Association presents Bagel Brunches every Monday aridThursday from 11:30 - 1:30 in CC 110 or CC 135 (check with the Turnkeys). Drop in for bagels, juice, conversation and fun! Cheer for both casual and serious players. CC 110, 700 pm; - 1O:OO pm. For more info contact Leigh Ahwai, 747-2865 or Tony Jackson, 7471498.
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WEDNESDAY Amne8ty lnterna~lonrl Group 118. Come join the conspiracy of hope. Work on behalf of prisoners of conscience throughout the world. Everyone weIcome. CC 135, 7:30 pm. ‘Laymen’r Evangellcrl Fellowship Bible Stud\#, CC 110 at 7130 pm. All are welcome. IMF Top Secret. There has been a report of disturbances at 0:oO pm. Wednesday evenings. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, will be to investigate these meetings in the Clubs Room of the CC. WATSFIC, the group holding these meetings are reported to propagate science fiction, comic books, movie nights and gaming. Use extreme caution. GLOW (G’ays and Lesbians of Waterloo) operate a coffee house every Wednesday in room 110 of the Campus Centre at UW from 900 pm. until 1 I:00 pm. All are welcome. Call 884GLOW for more information.
THURSDAY The Womyn’8 Group meets in CC 135 (usually) at 8:30 pm. Come out and enjoy movie nights, educational evenings, dances, road trips, casual discussions. For weekly events call BB4-GLOW -or listen to 94.5 FM, Thursdays from 6-8 pm.
SUNDAY The Houee of Debates meets at 5130 pm. in St. Jerome’s, room 229. New members will alwavs be mrelcome.
Waftilc general meeting. All friends of the computer please attend. If you enjoy Scifi books, comics, role playing games or would like to find out what we’re all about, meet in the Clubs Room of the CC at 6:oO pm. To disobey the computer is treason.
Laymen’8 Evangelical Fellowship Evening Service. 163 University Ave., W., Apt. 321 (MSA). 700 pm. All are w8lcome. Huron Campur Ministry is sponsoring a Bible Class for students and others on The Book of Revelation. 9:oO am. throughout the term. At ‘The Church in the W-s”, 209 Bearinger Road, across from Parkside. Chaplain Graham E. Morbey leads the class.
flry Go! Beginners invited to Go Classes at 700 pm. B.C. Matthews Hall, Room 1040. Free playing time for all players at 7:30 pm. Call ext. 4424 or ext. 6887. Dhcover “Old Country Games, Here and Now” at the Museum &Archive of Games, Matthews Hall. Multicultural games from Germany, the Mediterranean, the Orient and Caribbean cultures. Weekdays 9:OOam. to 5:OOpm., Sundays 1:OO am. to 500 pm. Admission free. Ext, 4424. Edible Arl Auction. Saturday, February 18. The Crystal Ballroom, Walper Terrace Hotel, 1 Queen St. W., Kitchener. For entry forms or information _ phone the Walper Terrace Hotel, 7454321, or the stART Gallery, 7490353. “Connectlow” film series on Wednesdays from 4:30 - 5:30 pm. in EL 110. Thursdays 4:30 - 530 pm. in E2 1303 (Repeat of Wedn88day’S film). The Study Skllk winter programme will begin the wbk of Februav 27, 1989 and will include workshop9 designed to develop effective study habits. A Time Management Bnd Procrastination Workshop will also be offered starting February 27th. The two-hour workshops will continue for four sessions. Interested students may register at the reception desk in Counselling Services, Rm. 2080, Needles Hall.” The Sclenco Society presents “Beat Those Mid-Winter Blues” bash on February 25 at Fed Hall. Dress blue and win prizes. Best costume wins the grand prize. $2.-Feds, 83.-Non Feds. Intenlew Training workshops will be offered next Monday from 3:30 - 5:30 pm. Interested students may sign up et the receotion desk in Counsellina Services, r&. 2080, Needles Hall. -
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Quiet non-8moken. Three rooms for rent in shared house. 8280/month each, March 1 st. Park and Glasgow. Call 741-8313.
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