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New Music.hits sour note ‘.
non-students attending so, he could have prepared security properly. Weils pointed out that “nonstudents often attend events at South Campus Hall as signed-in guests of students, and that UW security is ‘never present at these events.” He #accused Lee and the administration /for needlessly harassing the NMC and says “the arrest and cancellation
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staff
Sometimes strange things happen. Two weeks ago, the University of Waterloo offered an arresting case of misunderstanding between students and administration. During the height of Winterfestmania on Saturday night, March 3, a strange thing occurred. A few minutes away from Fed Hall, the PAC Patio and Village Green, a concert
were ludicrous and irresponsible.” Serafini said that “Lee should have waited for Wells to return and worked things out before jumping the gun and calling the cops.” Although she can see his concern
scheduled in South Campus Hall was stopped before it had even started.
because of the virtually
?he participants in this eveningk main event: in the red corner, the champ on, feud service managec Danny * his challenger in the blue trunks, k ’ Music Club organizer. Justin ~ell;r; in the champion ‘scomeK his pers nal bou&guard, U?-V Police; and &zlly, tonight’s referee, the Crecltive Arts Board chtiir, Sandra Serafini. ?hfi match is scheduled for one fall,
Danny Lee cancelled the New Music Club’s presentation of Noisefloor and The Gathering on Saturday night just four hours before the doors were to open at South Campus Hall’s Festival Room. What propelled this last minute de&on? According to Serafini, Lee may ’ have been intimidated by Noisefloor’s drummer who had 7 taken a $1.25 juice and drank it while %’ waiting for WeLls and the rest of the 1 band to return with music equip, r‘1 . merit. Lee called UW Police to arrest the drummer, who was subsequently charged with shoplifting (although he never did leave the premises.) Wells stated that the drummer was later held by Waterloo Police for previously
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New Music Club seeks “to avoid future problems”
from the Festival Room’to many other rooms in the SCH, she believes that Lee assumed the worst of students based on a silly incident and panicked. Wells
admitted that Lee’s last minute cancellation caused losses totalling $238 for th New Music Club, the Creative 4ifts Board, the two bands, and the Federation of Students, who helped #o advertise the event. Although,
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wan ultimately responsible for SCH and had “the right to refuse if (he) was not cort.&knt about the people who would show up.”
tit the NMC had been adveding m Ktchener, and suspected there were goingtobealotofoutsiders,asweUas WV students at the event.
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Lee also feels that he was misled by Wells and the NMC because they should have reali. “the space in available only for students, fatuity
members and staff, not for outsiders.” He believes he should have been told directly that there would have been
The New Music Club is planning to continue bring local artists and bands to campus, and will be meeting with the directors of food services and Security to avoid future problems. Another NMC concert is planned for March 31 to feature the eminent Jizmo.
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building prefemng to work onother, higher-priority projects. ‘The bureaucracy at this university usually moves slowly, but this was slower than norm&’ even Wdowczyk said. Readman added, “If the administration really wanted this to happen as quickly as the students did, they would have initiated more on their own. There was nothing physically stopping us on the those plans.” Readman was referring to the current building proposal, which the March referendum was to be based on.
The current Federation executive is recommending that the incoming executive hold the referendum in mid-October. That is the earliest it could be held, as the student population is too low in the summer for a referendum, and it takes at least a month to publicize one. The actual date will be decided at the Studenti’
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Thursday, March 29. That’s also the date of the Federation’s Annual General Meetjng. The ten dollar athletic fee that appears on fee statements was originally used to pay for Coh.rmbia Icefield. Now that it’s paid off, the Federation wants to add approximately ten dollars to it to fund the
Student Life Building.
improve “student
the overall atmosphere of life” at Waterloo came to life after the 1987 Fourth kade Report, a long-range planning study cited better athletic and social facilities as those most needed as far as student social life goes. The Campus Centre and the Physical Activities Complex, as most students can tell by visiting them, were designed to account
Fed legacy incomplete
The Federation of Students has been working with UW administration on the Student Life Building for several years, and this year’s Federation executive devoted a good deal of time to the building proposal. The executive is disappointed they will not see the project through, as their terms end in April. Wdowczyk said they havebeen working closely with the next executive, the graduate students, and Dean of Student&Ernie Lucy to make sure the Student Life Building project will continue after t.hey?e gone.
The university administration has $1 million set aside, and expects to raise another two. This figure is lower than the Federation originally expected. For the building’s first phase, students would need to contribute $5 million. Over collection of athletic fees has amounted to approximately $150,000, according to Readman, which he said the administrationhad discussed
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VPOF Tim Collins, VPUA Fran Wdowczyk and .President Dave Readman at the start of their terms: they hoped to hold a Student Life ‘Buiiding referendum while in office.
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Over the past two weeks, Students for International Development (SID) has hosted two separate events to raise student awareness on global issues. Two major issues were the focus of concern. On March 8, a panel which represented both non-governmental organizations and the (NGW governments international development agency (CIDA,) gave students and professors the opportunity to hear the rationale of each. March 12, the matter of infant bottle formula and its repercussions was examined. A representative of INFACT (Infant Feeding Action Coalition) and of Nestle International S.A. were present to share their viewpoints, after which followed a general discussion. Both of these events have illustrated the connection between government and corporate policy in the industrial nations and underdevelopment in the T&d World. On Thursday, March 8, the forum -discussed the effects of last year’s cuts and this year’s cap on Official Development Assistance (ODA.) Three panelists representing the various organizations spoke for approximately fifteen minutes each.
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Debbie CuIbertson represented the Global Community Centre (CCC,) a Kitchener-Waterloo development education centre; Sam Kuhn spoke on behalf of the Uniterian Service Centre (USC;) and Nadia Kestiuk represented the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA,) Canada’s governmental aid agency.
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ODA reductions, which amount to approximately five billion dollars over the next five years, wiII have SFliOLlS consequences on the development community. According to CuIbertson, two-thirds of Global’s budget comes from CIDA Their funding has been frozen at the same . level f&r the past three years, making it difficult for the CCC to -continue :. offering an alternative approach ‘to Third World development education ‘. For the USC, cutbacks in Canada’s : ODA will have negative effects on their development projects overseas. According to K&, the uncertainty ‘1 over ODA funding threatens the, ability of all NGO’s to commit to development programs. Meanwhile, as hunger, politic~~t in&ability, and
environmental degradation worsen in most Third World nations, our comrnittment decreases. Kestiuk seemed to support this by pointing to a recent poll suggesting ODA cutbacks are not perceived as a problem by the majority of Ca~dians. She referred to the skepticism many Canadians have over the effectivness of aid and development programs. With this in mind, she argued that the voluntary sector budget, of which ODA is a part,. actually fared quite well (approximately nine per cent of the total.) In addition, Kestiuk explained that CIDA continues to take significant step toward improving the effectiveness and impact of Canada’s development assistance. Representatives from the two NGO’s, however, argued that small organizations, while being4i.mited by budget cuts, are an integral aspect of the development process. Culbertson, cited CIDA’s intrqduction of information and curriculum programs that NGOs, like the GCC, are . already providing to ‘a wider audience and at less cost. Presently, however, NGOs are being forced to employ their Iimited resources to lobby the government and gain private stipport. All three representatives touched on the need for those concerned with the problems of underdevelopment to demand that the Canadian govemment abide by its ODA charter.
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Nestle, the world’s oIdest and Iargest manufacturer of infant formuh, was the target of a wellpublicized boycott between 1977and 1984 because of its refusal to stop marketing practices promoting artificial ’ feeding in the Thii World. Unsafe bottle feeding was widely identified as a major, preventable cause of infant malnutrition and death. The boycott was caI.led off when Nestle agreed to abide by a code of marketing introduced by the World Health Organization (WHO}. Sterkin, a trained nutritionist, outlined the reasons for the renewed boycc$t against the Nestle Corporation and the U.S.-based American Home Products/Wyeth, now under-
The practice encourages routine hospital formula feeding which induces mothers to bottle fd, because once bottle feeding starts, breast miUc dries up. Nestle and American Home Prtiucts have refused to end this marketing strategy, which INFACT and International Baby Food Action Network (IBFAN) claim is in violation of the WHO/UNICEF tntemational Code of Marketing of Breast Milk Substitutes.
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The current buycott includes all Nede products, including Camation, Rowntree, Nescak, Stouffer’s, Libby’s, and Beech-Nut brands, as well as AMH brands like Anacin, Chef Boy-ardee, Easy-; D&tan, BhckFbg,andpreparatiunH Students interested in these and other topics of Third World develop menf should contact Students for International Development c/o the Federation of Students or Paulina Anoyo at 746-0002 Eli&&h Sterken can be reached at INFACT, 10 Trinity Square, Toronto, M5G 181, (416) 595-9819. Ray Peterson may be reached at Nestle Enterprises, 1185 Eglington Ave. East, Don Mills, M3C 3C7, (416) 429-4411.
Oecauseofthe”@cto~attainedby the first boycott, WAN has opted to employ the same tactic to pressue Nestle, AMH and others to end their marketing practices+ Mr. Peterson stated that Nestle is open&@scwsion qxa the sabject with any hteres+d part& but th+,itf-~~titiqs we opted for confroti+oMMea~ He added that critics have again singled auf Nestle fr&n the 35 companies in the market, rather than work to solve the irqmtant hospital p&ice issues in individual countries.
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Masculinity:
I the unspoken : dogma MascuKty and femininity are serious problems for humanity. The fascination with conflict betweensupposed opposites has led to an artSCal creation of mutually exclusive gender characteristics. We’ve been taught the idea of gender relations is one of opposites. We’re told passivity, weakness and emotional closeness compliment activity, strength and emotional distance. This dogma robs both persons of half the human spectrum of possibility. Masculinity is thought the natural extension and function of bein; male. Does it follow that men are emotionally predisposed ‘heroes” because they possess greater potential strength and bursts of energy? Does it follow that women are emotionally predisposed “nurturers” because they give birth? Or because they have greater physical endurance than men, they’re ako more “patient”? It’s still commonly assumed certain character traits are normal or specific to one gender and inappropriate to the other. Not many years ago if a man had domestic skills, easily expressed warm sentimental feelings, and cultivated the opera or ballet, he was the subject of surprised looks and whispering* It’s still taboo for a man to display physical or emotional traits thought to belong to the female half of humanity, earning hi the derogatory term “effeminate,” meaning a “false” femininity. A year ago, a McGill University student was attacked and killed on a bus in Montreal. He was repeatedly kicked and stabbed by a group of between 10 to 15 “youths.“This horrible incident relates to our discussion by the introduction of one word the gang hurled constantly at their victim -faggot!
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On the street, there is agreement among non-gays that gay persons aren’t only deserving of contempt, but also of punishment. Punishment for what? For existing! Why? At this point we’re up against an immense oceanic force of pop ular opinion, all the more powerful because it remains undefined. Homophobia is only a symptom. The injured sensibilities taking revenge on the heretic are found within the little understood term - masculiniry. Masculinity is one of a number of words in our language everyone knows and no one can define. As such it is both dangerous and fascinating. It reveals an ambiguity in understanding ourselves. We’re more confused about our sexuality and our ambiguous relationship between the sexes than we’re willing to . admit. This word; accepted yet not understood, is a bandage to cover an unsightly blemish on our consciousness. The blemish of insecurity and ignorance. So well constritcted is the stratagem, it passes as simple reality, remaining unquestioned because it’s invisible. only “radical” perspectives from previously marginalized and devalued groups see the warts on a complacent world. The feminist movement will be seen as one of the greatest humanizing forces in the liberation of both genders from restrictive and oppressive concepts by future historians. Feminist analysis of cultural taboo and dogma have opened long locked doors in our psyche. Subsequent to the new feminist consciousness was the blossoming of the gay liberation movement. Bisexuality and homosexuality remain among the greatest challenges to the unspoken doctrine of masculinity. Why? Because men have problematic relationships with each other. In the world of work, men are civilized adversaries in a competitive work place. In social settings, men remain onguard. When the’%oys”throw or kicka ball around, they bond to each other by acommonphysicalactivity conforming to their gender programming. In quieter gatherings, a man tends to prefer superficiality and ritualistic activity to simple expression of emotions, shared intimacy and warmth with his peers. The very use of words like “emotion,” “intimacy” and “warmth” in the context of a man with other men appears suspat, so conditioned are we to certain patterns of gender behavior. Given this “no& relation between non-gay men, the idea of men being emotionally and physically intimate with each other presents a double challenge. They’re confronted by men in every other way like themselves, yet with a different sexual inclination. Equally important, if not more so, the idea of a man finding support and nurturing in another man is so distant to many nongay mens experience as to make the idea unimaginable and therefore unacceptable. A number of assumptions are at work in these reactions to transgressions from the status-quo. One advantage of dividing humanity into two distinct gender types is facilitating political and corporate structures, they work best with conforming, predictable populations. Another is the simplification of relations between the sexes. By reducing each side to gender caricatures, dividing human characteristics down the middle and giving half to each, many otherwise problematic dilemmas are simplified. For instance, the question of who has power, where and when its exercised, is clarified by determining who “wears the pants in the family.” Given this context, a man is faced with very subtle, very powerful pressures to conform to his gender stereotype. For him to deviate from such an entrenched, monolithic system, he’s either mentally or emotionally disturbed, or against all odds, more committed to personal integrity than group
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Arts and stripes ,
Last week, the National Gallery of Canada spent $1.8 million (two thirds of its $3 million annual budget) on a Newman abstract expressionist painting. Newman was an American artists who died in 1970. The painting, “Voice of Fire,” consists of three stripes of equal width, a red surrounded by two blues (of course, the painting is placed against a white background). One might be irrational (though accurate) and say the money could have been spent to house a few dozen homeless, or provide grants for as many university students, or even just free interest on loans for everyone in a Psych 101 class. of course, let’s not forget the starving multitudes in Ethiopia. Canada is a prosperous country though, and perhaps we deserve and can afford the luxury of art. Certainly at prices in the millions, art is a hixury, but the purpose of the gallery is to make this luxury available to the people of Canada. Corporate donations to the arts have become a fashionable tax deduction, yet even with these subsidies, opera and theatre companies struggle to survive, and the cost of tickets place most performances out of the reach of the general populous. Art is the product and food of the soul. Everyone desires and enjoys creative input, be it heavy metal from a ghetto blaster, or a lunch concert at Conrad GrebeL Similarly, the need for creative output is an ever visible driving force in humans. The valua-tion of creativity, however, is a difficult matter. The arguments for avoiding valuation range from “Art for Art’s sake” to ‘The man’s dead already - he doesn’t need the income!” Art itself is not a rare commodity, though specific items of art are. Thus, in many cases, art’s price is determined by its rarity. Who can prove that a fireside performance of a stu-
audience. Many are able to share with
many. Somehow the value of this “commonH art is greater than the sum of the value of its parts. Where then, does this place the Newman painting (besides in the National Gtiery)? 1 cannot evaluate this painting on its own merits, however, in the context of the National Gallery it is clearly a poor investment. The National Gallery can be considered a social agency whose purpose is provide to Canadians. They must provide creative input opportunity (as a public gallery), and they must also provide the means for Canadians to share creative output. Thus I agree with
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dent with his guitar is any less valuable than a David Bowie concert in the SkyDome? Undeniably the latter is less cdmmon, and thus has the higher price. The former, however, provides a unique opportunity for the performer. In terms of intrinsic rewards, the rare chanc6 to perform for a few is more valuable than the tenth concert before thousands on a world tour. Thus, many agree that when it comes to art, the less popular and less expensive is actually better. This explains the survival of independent music groups, community eeatres, student literary collections, school shows, and uncountable other examples. One of the attributes that enhances such art is the closeness of the artists to their work and their
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The Federation of Students is Iooking for four people, two, from AHS and two from arts, for the Dean’s Selection Committee. Candidates shquld be here until December 1990. Contact the Feds at x4042.
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The missing link? To the editor, When I became a Christian, it was important for me to know: A: If I was created by God, and thus responsible to Him, or if I evolved from apes. 8: Why should I believe the Bible? A Both the evolutionist and creationist would agree that the universe was formed spontaneously (big bang or creation). Both must also agree that from nothing something was created. The debate starts here. Was there an intelligent force behind all of this activity, or not? The Grand Canyon can be explained by natural laws, but intelligence produced the faces of Mount Rushmore. Furthermore, micro-evolution has been proven
(e.g, Darwin’s finches), but not cow to macro-evolution (e.g. whale). Consider the missing links between primates and man: Neanderthal man (an arthritic man); Austrdopithicus (an orangutan); Nebraska man (reconstructed from a pig’s tooth); Piltdown man (a fraud). Theoretically, there should be thousands of missing links preserved in the fossil record; the branches of the evolutionist’s family tree have been constructed by speculation. B Why should I believe the Bible? It was written over a span of 1500 years; over 40 generations; by over 40 authors from varied walks of life (e.g. kings, peasants, scholars); in different places (e.g. Moses in wilderitess, Paul in prison); at different times (war, peace); on three continents (Asia,
Oh no!
Recycling conspiracy! ---~ To the editor,
I would like to bring to the attention of the student body at UW and the citizens of K-W the efforts of the administration of UW to discourage recycling programs on campu?. For the past year, the Math Society has run a very successfu1 recycling program in the math faculty. It has become so successful that we are not able to handle the incoming volume of materials.
I’m OK, . You’re OK, God’s OK! Ib the editor, I would like to express an interest in seeing more sharing of spirituality in Imprint As we all know, the word “religion” is something which people now often prefer to avoid. This, I find sad, in that the connotations of “God” and “religion” have become a barrier for striving to understand things at a deeper level which is, in essence,.the very purpose of religion. To me this only emphasizes the need for a new understanding of what “spirit” means - which couldn’t be farther from blind faith, retuals and dogma. It is nature, it makes sense. The heart does not exclude the mind. Nor does one person’s understanding of truth exclude another’s, I am a Bahai and I personally would love to see a sharing column of ideas, thoughts, poetry, whatever people feel like, which explores religion, spirit and rejoices in the gift of being human. And (I can’t resist) may everyone’s karma truly run over their dogma Noee Simpns 1st yr. E.S.
hpint
just statied a new column on religion, ‘31 His Image “that you might enjoy. - ed.
To alleviate this problem, we have purchases a number of larger receptacles which we have asked to have placed on three different floors of the Math and Computer Building. With this expansion, not only would we be able to handle our present volume but also other materials such as glass and plastic. The problems since arisen from our initiative have all come from various levels of administration at UW. The first of these is that the administration has not yet decided on their policy with regards to recycling on campus, discussions on which have been going on for three years now. Many student organizations on campus, fed up with this bureaucrati sluggishness, have implemented independent recycling programs, all of which h&e met with resistance from the &ninislration. It appears that until the university secures a waste management contract and implements its own policy (probably years from now), there will be little or no recycling on campus, apart from their token fine white paper program. The other concerns have been raised by the custodial staff of the plant operations department. They feel that the presence of the recy&ng bins will cause an increase in the amount of refuse that they hav:: to clean up due to students “missing” the bins. As the bins each have lids, this will obviously not be the case. In fact, the presence of the bins, which the Math Society would empty and maintain, would mean a reduction in work for the staff. Because of these objections, plant operations has refused to install our recycling bins and the project has been “put on hold” by them. We feel .that in an age of environmental awareness, organizations such as UW should be setting an example for the community but are instead hampering the efforts of concerned students to keep the campus clean. Torn Vandeloo Math Society President 3B C.S. Craig cudmore Director of Internal Affairs 4B Math/Business Chris Rosenquist Recycling Dir&or 4B Math/Stats
Africa, Europe); in three languages (Hebrew, Aramic, Greek); its subject matter includes hundreds of controversial subjects (history, law, biography etc.), The unfolding story is God’s redemption of man. The record of ancient cities, events, kings, nations, customs, etc. are in harmony with the discoveries of archaeology and ancient secular writings. The ~tighd copies of the Bible are tiallv identical; most differences pertain*to copying errors (e-g. spelling or double-copying of a line). The integrity of the text is maintained. If the Bible was a secular writing its authenticity would not be questioned. Furthermore, Jesus Christ is a well documented person (aside from what the Bible says). His birth place, birth order, family line, life and death are all fulfillments of Old Testament prophesies which were made hundreds of years before His birth (Josh McDowell, Evidence that Lkmands a
Kkdict) . How could any man, even of the purest intent, set to write such a book? It would be virtually impossible, and illogical - the Bible claims to be God-inspired, and tells man that he’s a sinner who needs Jesus Christ. Christianity is not based on emotions; it’s a reasonable faith.
Nancy Kennedy 3A E.RS./Geog.
“Lighten women!” To the editor,
I have only one thing to say in this letter, and it is in response to the recent conflict inspired by the OPUS and Mathnews articles whicli so many feminists seemed to take to heart: lighten up, women! Actually’
I have two things to say:
don’t worry,sys, there are still some women outhere who don’t take such blatantly sarcastic and so utterly ridiculous that they couldn’t possibly be serious things as a personal assault on our femininity. I’m sorry if I’m offending anyone by saying this. It’s just that recently I’ve noticed a bombardment of feminist issues in Imprint and as far as I’m concerned it’s getting out of hand. Sure, there are valid situations where people shou1d take a stand for their beliefs and their rights. However, when it gets to the point where people want to rename manholes “maintenance holes,” it is getting, to be blunt, pretty ludicrous. Why bother?
Genital warts (also known as venereal warts) are a highly contagious sexually transmitted disease (STD) that are, unfortunatelyJ becoming quite common. In women, genital warts most commonly appear on the bottom part of the vagina1 opening. Other places they might occur are the labia (vaginal lips) J inner walls of the vagina and cervix. In males, waris can occur on the scrotum as well as ‘the glans, foreskin, shaft and urethral opening of the penis. Also, both women and men can get genital warts on the anus or rectum. ‘The appearance of the warts will depend on where they are. If the wart is located on a dry skin area, it will general1y be hard, flat and yellowish-grey. Warts located in moist areas will be soft, cauliflower-like, and pinkish-red. The virus that causes genital warts is almost a1ways transmitted through genital, or+genital or anal contact. It is possible though for genital warts to occur even if someone has not been sexually active. Sometimes warts cause irritation and itching but quite often they can be difficult to detect, particularly when they are not on the external genitals. It is best to be examined by a physician if you have had sexual contact with someone who might have had genital: warts. The physician can detect internal warts and also determine if a lesion is actually a wart or a symptom of another STD. Genital warts generally show up between three and six months after sexual contact with an infected partner. However, the incubation period can be as short as two weeks or as long as two years. Warts are generally harmless if they are detected in time. However, undetected warts can have more serious consequences. Warts within the urethra can cause urinary blockages and studies have found that warts can progress to cancerous states in women and men. There are a number of ways in which these warts can be treated. They are usually treated by applying a solution directly to the wart. Freezing, cauterization, surgical removal and laser treatment can also be used for very large or persistent warts. Occasionally a Pap smear wiIl detect the virus that causes genital warts. However, treatment cannot begin until the wart actually develops. It sometimes takes a number of treatments to get rid of genital warts. Several attempts might be necessary for
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Is it to desexualize them? I’ve never considered manholes to be very sexy personally. What’s next? We won’t be able to call ourselves women because it contains the word men? As
for
the articles’ I read the one and I thought that it was funny. Maybe that’s because 1 hardly identified myself with the women, or, as one article says, the fluffhead who would have an IQ of zero in order to fall for or put up with the tactics outlined by the men in the articles.
Mathnews
I think I can safely assume that if any man actually tried any of these suggestions then we’d have some very lonely guys wandering around campus. 1 consider myself to be an intellectual woman, but one who luckily has a sense of humour which allows me to see the ridiculous and therefore funny quality in the articles. I don’t mean to condemn feminism; I simply want women to consider when the time is to stop reading feminist issues into things in which they were not intended in the first place. KarenChp!M.n 3N English
a wart that has been present for a long time. Another problem is that incubating warts might not appear until after other warts have been detected and treated. Follow-up checks should be done until you are sure that all your warts are completely gone. The best protection against genital warts is to wear a condom. This will reduce the chance of being infected in the first place or of being re-infected white you are being treated for warts that are already there.
Return
of the Condom
Survey!
Thanks to the people who answered the questionnaire that appeared in this column last month. For those who missed it, this is ygur chance to tell us whether or not you would lie condoms and contraceptive foam to be sold on campus at reduced prices. 4 . c Y: -* >r i :i ‘, --II :iv II Condoms Do you currently purchase condoms? ?&# No (circle one) If so, what brand do you prefer? How many boxes do you buy in four months? -- 12s -- 36s Would you buy condoms on campus if they were inexpensive? Yes No
Do you currently purchase contraceptive foam? Yes No If so, what brand do you prefer? How
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Please return this to the Sexuali@ Resuurce Catre (Campus Centre Rwm 206) or send it IO us thmugh oncampus mai/ (SRC. c/o Federation qf Students) T?~ank you!
8 Imprint, Friday, March 16, 1990
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The Women’s Issues Board circus:
Come along .for the ride! To the editor, 1 mustrespond to Lias Clarke’s letter in last week’s Imprint. Beiig chairperson for the Women’s Issues Board for a year now, I can take the ‘Iblame” for the “circus” I’m putting on. Perhaps Lisa, you would like to hop on a ride and Ill show you what I’ve done.
Don’t To the editor, This is in response to Lsa Clarke’s March 9 letter concerning the W(y-h?m-‘c RA~S-A ~1lLClI J lCC.l*C LBPUCJ u-n&a. I am a member of the Women’s Issues Board, one of the women who spends her time “dwelling on insignificant things.” I am sure that our issues seem insignificant to you,
I’ve initiated a paid walk home service for both sexes, held two panel discussions on safety on campus and a speaker series focusing on women and their careers, held a week long festival of the arts focusing on equality, had Susan Cole speak on sexism on university campuses, held sexual harassment forums, had Joanne Pollock in to speak on women
in spats, had three musical performances that concentrated on ending oppression, held two eating disorder presentations, sponsored International Women’s Week, created a safety guidebook for frosh kits, created a poster on indecent exposure, and created numerous other projects all in the quest to end . . . wtion and oppression in
belittle
god
Ms. CIarke, because you think, to ouote your letter, “We’ve got our iquality, we’re accepted in s&e&” We__ have not. achieved _ . .certainly . , , eaualitv in this smetv, as 1s shown Oy thi frequency of #sexual assault, . sexual violence against wc Imen, . _ . _. harassment, and discrimination m the workplace. In light of -’the staggerrng _ ’ evidence
that many
women
suffer
not only discrimination, but degradation, I find it difficult to,understand how you can say we have our equality. Simply because you have not extlerier &ii this kind of treat::-:- :-ii-::: ot mean it doesnpt exist . menK aoe8 ni Y.11 mid vou are “embarrassed by thp io-;;n;< --- __-___-_ _3 Issues Board” and that we are “not represent@ or acting on behalf of the hajority &f wome; on
Fuming faithful, find fault To the editor,
The opinion piece “Christians: be reasonable” which appeared last issue was unreasonable. Yes, I mane of the fuming faithful that wants to present to you some logical reasons for believir;g that God is real. I do not think you are evil. I simply think that the flappers on your eyes have prevented y&i from seeing the evidence of Cod’s existence which surrounds you. I am not one of those who became mesmerized by the powerful words of persuasion tb acce$ Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. I had never been to church, never prayed and never heard a preacher Dreach. Yet, I became Ct;istian w&out first i&est&ding what I was “getting into.” it was because I finally realized that God intended for man to go to
heaven. Man gave up that right by choosing to sin So Jesus died and * gave us the key to heaven again. If you want that key, you have to acknowledge what Jesus did for you. The price’ has already been paid. If you don’t claim it YOU give up your right to heaven. I didn’t simply all of a sudden believe that God is real. You ask for PrOOf Of God’s existence. What pEKIf do you have that God doesn’t exist? LookaIl around you, look at nature, look at the stars and sky. If you want to believethat there is no exnlanation for them, then do so. But w’ouldn2 it be so much easier to believe that there is a God that is so much greater &an any human and that He-is responsible for all these things that can’t be expbined by man? What is more irrational
To Your Health Family violence is a complex, deeply rooted social problem. The worst violence against women occurs in marriage. This can probably be traced to the belief that women and children are the personal property of their husbands and fathers - chattel, to do with as they pleased without fear of intervention. *‘j’ 0 Familyriiolence al&*& because of the “for better or for worse” n&on which is propagated by religious groups. The high value we place on privacy today helps to keep family violence behind closed doors. A recent national survey revealed that more than half of all recorded cases of wife assault went unreported - fear of retaliation, the desire to protect the offender, and inaction by the police were cited as main reasons. A 1983 London, Ontario study shows that women who contacted the police had been beaten on average 35 times before they made their first call. A Vancouver report states that for every 100,000 separate incidents of violence against women, only 8,000 are ever reported, and only two end up with the offender being convicted. These figures seem even more alarming when one considers that physical assault is only one type of family violence. It can take many other forms, including intimidation, mental, emotional or sexual abuse, neglect and financial exploitation. Any family member, regardless of age, may be a victim.
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ing to believe that there is no explanation or that God is the explanation? You decide. You are mistaken if you think that Christians desperately want some kind of hope for a promising afterlife. tf Gotj is not real, then all those who think He is real have wasted their energy in being faithful But if God is real, then these people d .~-~be saved and all o&m won’t be, You seem to think that if you choose to believe that God is not real, then He isn’t. But if God is real, then He will be real whether you believe it or not. So youk the one at risk We’re not the ones living in hope that God is real, you're the ones living in hopea He’s
ilot.
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pork!’ campus.” It appears that you do not really know what the Women’s Issues Board does on this campus. We have organized events on a wide range of topics, from women and their professions and women in the arts, to self-defense for women and sexism on Canadian campuses. We are indeed trying to work for the majority of women on campus, not the minority of people such as yourself, who think you don’t need either information or help. Ms. Clarke, you have the right to continue to laugh when someone tells sexist jokes, although I wish you wouldn’t. Every time we can find humour in something that humiliates any group of people, we are desensitizing ourselves to the problem. You may be able to ignore what is going on in society, but, please don’t belittle those of us who choose to deal with injustice through education and communication. Roberta Clcwater Planning grad student -I_ Evenps ContmWWmer 1Women’s rs!3ues Board
tices in the world, or do you even see them? Can you not recognize that women and numerous other groups are being oppmsed and patronized by some men? Whyisitthat7.8percentofwomen go through
their
Iives without
any
deviant behaviour (incest, rape, harassment) being forced on them? Does that not make you question the values placed on women? It’s quite safe to say that people are the way they are to a large extent because of the socialization process. Therefore, evtirything exposed to someone has some sort ot etiect on that individual I don’t want to go into why articles such as ‘Ten easy steps to get a girl into bed on the first date,” and “How to get a girl/guy” aren’t funny. Judy Hollands did a thorough job in explaining this obvious display of sexist literature in her news article “Sexist articles aren’t funny.” You state you were “shocked and angered when the memorial service for the massacre in Montreal was turned into a stage show for women’s rights.” I can see how you were shocked as you are oblivious to the inequalities in society, as you confidently assume “We’ve got our equality.” But if we’ve got equality, how come you state that we must “expend our energies on something that really needs fixing?” Lisa, if we’ve achieved equality, then what needs to be fixed? So, if you still find the issues the Women’s Board has concentrated on and the movement for equality “laughable,” perhaps you, Lisa, should “grow a sense of hLumour!”
KlIn$& 4BArts ch;;lirpersan,wIB VPUA-elect (1990-91)
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The Voice of Treason Talking
Waterloo
Jam
Jennifer L,iu 38 Arty
Family violence Facts about Wily
society. The hardest job of all was trying to act as a resource person when someone called in or came to telI me they were sexually harassed or raped. These incidents and more have occured on campus, and it brings me to tears - tears of anger and sorrow. Lisa, do you not question the injus-
Violence
l Family violence is a criminal act, and not just a family affair. l Men who abuse come from all types of backgrounds. l Women who are abused come from all types of backgrounds. l One in nine women are assaulted by their spouse. l A significant proportion of female homicide victims are killed by their partners. l Wife assault affects al1 members of the family, especially the children. l While alcohol is often abused by the violent partner, it is not the cause of the violence. l When violence exists, marital counselling generally fails. l Without treatment, abusive behaviour will continue and get worse. l Verbal put-downs and name calling are forms of abuse.
There is a therapy group for men, who abuse their partners, sponsored by the John Howard Society of Waterloo Region (743-6071). Another group, led by counsellors from the Catholic Family Counselling Centre, supports women who have been abused by their partners (Region of Waterloo 743-6333).
I took a w& to my old classroom and a witch flew down on her broom. She looked at me, said “You know you’re through” and then grabbed my Ha@oy for her stew. Real shame, had good interviews. I looked in Needles Crawl for a job. In there I heard a big slow sob. “Missed my interview,” said the sad sod. Guess she forgot Doug thinks he’s God. That’s Mr. Wright to you. AtFedHallIstartedtogroove.SawagalsoImademymove.Viieochicks wore little black bits, guess the censor missed my date’s tits. They were hanging out, just being cool. When TM said they’d teach me to fly, I said ‘That’s nice, I think I’ll try.” When the time came they said/Money, please” and all I got was two sore knees. But don’t get me wrong, I love getting conned. ILaug)ledattheArtsratingguide;thoughtitsofunnyalmosts litmyside. Then some letters came pouring in, said the guide was full o P sin Tough audience, better send in the effeminate heterosexuals. Isetmymonkeyonalogandorderedhimtodothedog.Hewaggedhis tail and shook his head and went and did the cat instead. Weird monkey, very funky. President-elect called us fags. Guess he thinks we’re another shameless rag. He must have looked in the wrong door. We’re the ones on the bottom floor. Good night John-by. Watched this dish on the campus green Prettiest thing you ever seen I must have overlooked her friend, cause that’s what got me in the end. Sexual Harassment Committee meets Tuesday, I get the axe Monday. Want to spreadfreedomacrossthishnd.Seems itcouldusesome. from where I stand. Told one guy what I had in mind, but he only censors me and my kind. Thanks Brian, how was Sheila, or was it Jean? When treason talks it’s oftenignored. People write in wanting it censored. If this offends you I’ve done my job. Now go away and bug some other slob. You’re just lucky I’m so tolerant. Anti-misogynists and Nazis waltzing. Sharing secrets on the joy of shmaltzing Plotting our fate they trade propaganda. Their flying fists are bound to land ya. Is there anybody out there who really gives a damn? Imprint - the natural choice for women
Imprint, Friday, March 16, 1990 9
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Reasonable
religion
Christian asks .for To the editor, This letter is in response to Mr. Thomson’s opinion piece, “Christians: be reasonable!“, published in the March 9, Imprint.Mr. Thomson requests rational arguments for Christian belief; this letter is’ an attempt to briefly introduce a few. I fully agree with Mr. Thomson that it is impossible to prove the existence of God, It is equally impossible to prove non-existence. Hence we are left with an undecidable question, namely, “Does God exist?”
Everyone makes a decision with respect to this question. My personal reasons for deciding ‘Yes” rely on a number of bases. Some examples are:
If Mr. Thomson believes faith cannot exist without the Bible, I disagree.
eternal fellowship with God, I would not forsake mv belief.
God
‘What
creation and humanity. It may be harder to see the revelation, but it is there.
Further, Mr. Thomson asks about the nature of the “soul.” The dualistic understanding of soul and body, as presented by Mr. Thomson, was primarily a result of an application of the Platonic division of shape and form and has become accepted in a number of Christian denomi-
is the ori&
of the universe?,
“Does life have meaning?“, and “On what basis can we decide what is right and wrong?“. None of these questions have a provable answer. Thus one must evaluate the options and decide, persorlally, which to accept. Hard “scientic or physical evidence” can not be found; one must use indicator& and loo c for cons@tent interpretations of t lose indicators.
through
reveals
On the occasion of the Iranian new year and eleventh anniversary of the ;evolution, I’d like to clear up some issues about the country.
Iran, in general, has received
very
negative press in the West. Usually, Wmterners’ first impression of Iran is of an Arabic country where people travel across the desert on camels and horses eating dates and bread. Recently, Iran has become known as an aggressive, violent. country that breeds terrorists. The media has created this image. Through the media, our ideas and way of thinking can be easily tiuented. Sometimes a person is a natimal
Ii
hero one week, and a crude dictator the next. Iranians rose up and depose{1 the Shah . . have 1. their. _ y so that. they could tieedom and escape ruS CUHUI'~ to replace it with their own. Those who opposed this revolution used all means to stoD it, and thev ~tartt d an eight year w&, one of thebloodi zst in history in which hundred; of thousands have died. Certainly if they could initiate such a war they could spread false images of I:*an as well. Geographically, half the coulq is mountainous, one quarter avitilable for agriculture, and the rest stereotypical desert. There are I nountains as high as 5670 meter.;, and rivers as long as 890 km. The P ersian
I am one of many individuals who give men more credit for their om capacities in decision-making and capabilities than most men give themselves. In an era when men have increasingly become involved in matters outside the workplace, specifically in child-rearing and home maintenance, it surprises me to have read a letter in which women were depicted as having exclusive responsibility in parenthood and men as being held unaccountabIe in
Christian faith is not motivated by fear, but rather by a recognition of Gti and a response to Him. Even if there was no promise of
their unequal participation The letter in question was headed “Focus on Motherhood,” written by Johnathan Yuen and published in the March 2 issue of Imprint. Perhaps through his own simpleminded perspective, Yuen has failed to recognize the objective of the women’s movement - CHOICE! Mr. Yuen seemed overcome with the notion that the movement is, and should be, for women to make men and society “aware of the real value of mothering.” He added to this that “only then” can women truly earn
‘1.
Students on thti campus don’t understand one another. What I mean is that students from different faculties, for the most part, have absolutely no idea what students in other faculties do. They don’t know what kind of classes they take, especially what kind of work this involves, etc. For instance, out of the blue, I’ve been asked to how convert acres to hectares. The reasoning.of the person was,
“Oh, you do that kind of
stuff all the time, don’t you?” Also heard said to me, “Oh boy, you can multiply big numbers in your head. Whoopee.” And these are just two of the many really annoying anecdotes that I can remember off the top of my head after only two years here at Waterloo. It bothers me a lot, and I’m miffed.
D.E. O’Brien k0noxnics
There do, however, exist many Christians such as myself, who understand the “soul” to be all that defines the person; physical body, personality, etc.
phamo,phers,
ethickb
and
&eolo&ns deal with many bf the same questions as non-Christians. I do not expect Mr, Thomson to agree with me, but I do hope that he can respect those of us who have made the decision of accepting Christian beliefs. Gord VreugdenM C.S. gad student
cotif usion found their way into the language, i& Islam has had a strong influence on the culture. History shows us that Iran has been strong in science, philosophy and art. For example, they practised ‘th$r own medicine with rich pharmocological traditions, which spread * - I to other Lands. In science, it was the name “AlKharazmi,” the Iranian author of a study of numeration, that the term “algorithm” (the science of numbers) coi-nes from. Al-Farabi wrote a book on music hand writing, called Durah Mufmul, now knmvn to us as doh reh
me fah so lab te dub. In art, almost every museum owns several Iranian artworks, ROM included. In the last two centuries, the developments in science, arts ‘and philosophy declined, which is a mys-
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“higher levels of respect and status.” Had Yuen not been reiterating hearsay, he quite possibly might have discovered (as many others have) that women are capable of a wide variety of contributions to society, and need not be vaIidated solely by another’s evaluation of their successful mothering capacities. Many women choose (notice the word is a derivative of “choice”) a career exclusively in family maintenance; some women choose careers in professions outside the home; others in both. 4 Urging women to pursue one direction regardless of another, undermines their own natural abilities to decide for themselves. This suppresses the needs and desires of countless women and burdens them with excessive guilt. Quality child-rearing is vital to the I’d like to =&sk ~th&..bprb& zun a presewation and prosession of the regular series ofzti&s that-not only human race. This concept is cummon detail the trials and tribulations of a student in a given kac&y(aorf: of a knowledge, if not, it should be. So day in the life) lxtt :.&I@ in. general ) how about encouraging f&h&r about the faculty (some good backinvoIveinent in light of exist&g Is Yuen sugmother involvement? ground material). Included into this gesting that fathers don’t have a role regular feature could be a small piece in successful child development, or is written by the student showing his/ this an area to which men have nothher feelings about being in that ing of great value to contribute? faculty. When women entered the I’ve been talking about faculties, workplace (generally for economic but of course there is so much variareasons) they were greeted with tion within faculties that really the skepticism and prejudice. The “male focus should be on departments and roles” that were assumed by women programs within the different could not have been referred to as faculties. anything else at that time. However, Anyway, I think it’s a good idea. after almost half a century has passed, isn’t it possible for such a civilized, educated and modernized society as Darcy L. Quesnel ours to remove the gender-specific 28 C&WCS term and replace it with “role.”
being involved in a contact the editor.
MtiOnS.
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Gulf has an area of 240,000 km squared, providing Iran with a xxiaritime hk witlCthe rest of the globe. The Caspian Sea, with an area of 424200 km iquargd, is the world’s largest lake, and links the country with Europe via the water way of the Soviet Union. rF1-1---r----zlne cumare vane s greatly; for example, tem----L perarure-- in a typical February in s(3me cities in the west reaches -30 C, while in the south it is 16 c. _ Iran has been pomayed as an Arabic country with no civilization. This isn’t true; the lranian race comes from Aryan as the name Iran reveals, and the Iranian language is an IndoEuropean language which goes back * to the seventh century B.C. After the advance of Islam, many Arabic,words
Focus on faculties To the editor,
or$y
True
Women’s movement offers choice
To the editor,
asking
not
Mr. Thomson talks about fear, especially fear of death. Some Christians tryto “scare”.religious belief into people, or force people to become Christians.
cleariimg To the editor,
Himself
the Bible, but also through
I believe Christianity gives a con- sistent and reasonable method of approaching life, when applied thoughtfully and consciously. Christianity does not provide simple answers to every question; Christian
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emphasize terrorist aspects of Iran. For the past eight to nine years, Iran has not participated in any terrorist movements. The war between Iran and- “that other country” was the largest terrorist action in history. Who created this war, and who benefitted?. Certainly not Iran or that other counj try; people of both countries did no: I want it. As well, in Palestine, tens of people are losing their lives. Over two thirds of it has been destroyed in the past 3040 years. None’of the international institutions seem to care. Finally, after that bloody imposed war, the .reconstn&on of Iran has started a new era, where people are working toward peace. I hope to<see worldwide unity and mutual understanding, where nations live and work together.
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Standing up for public by Tkww Blair Imprint staff “Everybody can get hiih on citizen action!” Ralph Nader’s call to action the night of Wednesday March 7 at the Humanities Theatre might’ve sounded like a throwback to the 6Os, but the internationally acclaimed consumer activist, if anything, delivered an agenda for the 90’s and
He Lamed that the “no-fault” auto insurance legislation, imminent on a largely unaware public, is merely the beginning of a potentially lethal nofault framework which will expand into areas such as civil action against manufacturing defects. “It puts humans in the same situation as a damaged car,” Nader said of the policy.
being crowded out by burgeoning profits. The audience listened incredulously to the swindle that’s all the rage in the U.S. - ,billing people for being billed. They’re officially called “biiing preparation charges.” Nader attributed a “critical mass of civic judgment” as responsible for Canadians’highly praised health care system.
Nader proposes exploiting corporate fatigue
American health care disastrous beyond. last tieek Imprint re orted on Nader’s WPIJG-sponsore cr talk to the grad students, and this week we ,bring you highlights from his undergrad talk Nader focused first on the corporate crime epidemic in North America, insisting that crime in the ,smets pales next to the crime in the ‘suites. Seemingly fueled by darkly humorous stories collected in his travels, Nader led the audience on a tour of institutions whose ethics are
in America, one out of eve+ three people has either irtsticient medical care or none at all. And even then, the U.S. manages to spend 12 per cent of their GNP compared to our nine per cent on me&care. Last year, the U.S. devoted a further 50 biion dollars solely to the preparation, sending and collecting of medical bills. He touched upon television as a medium, as a babysitter, and ultimately as,a corporate force raising the next generation.
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Some suggestions to combat corporate laziness included “side prey” and “group buying”: in the case of side prey, where thousands of people would normally receive a few dollars refund for telephone billing (for example), that money instead could be directed (at the recipients’ initiative) to fund a permanent consumer group; group buying. a iarge network of house, buyers could each con-
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Principe buries old myths by Travis Capener Imprint staff
Father Walter Principe claimed that Catholics who adhere to a literal interpretation of the Scriptures and fight changes in Church teachings have only an “adolescent” understanding of religion. He addressed a group of over a hundred listeners last Friday night, March 9, at St. Jerome’s College’s Siegfried Hall. His topic was past changes in Roman Catholic Church teachings and the processes by which such changes continue to occur today. The lecture, attended mostly by nonstudents, was part of the St. Jerome’s Centre for Catholic Experience 198% 90 LRcture Series.
Reverent follower of dissident priest Principe, whose long list of credentials includes teaching Theology at U of T’S St. Michael’s College since 1949, began his lecture by dedicating it to Mari Domenic Chenu of the Order of Dominicans who died earlier this year. His works on the historical approach to theological study inspired Principe, and he called Chenu one of the most important theologians of this century. Chenu’s teachings were silenced by the Church in the 195Os, however, and one of Chenu’s books was put on the index of forbidden books. Later, Chenu and his colleagues played an important role in the Second Vatican Council reforming Roman Catholic teachings.
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they were as much a part of the Church as the doctrine of the,Ttity, or Jesus. . . or the Eucharist, but in fact a good part of what (Catholic) religious texts book taught was either _ the fairly common option of theologians or were, the expressions of non-infallible statements of the teaching authority.” Throughout his talk, Principe was very careful to maintain the distinc-
tion between fallible and infallible doctrines and that Catholics should not question infallible doctrine. However, he also said that the list of such infallible doctrines is “no where near as long as some Catholics teach” and that “the failure to make these distinctions is the source of so much confusion and insecurity amongst many Catholics.” Principe then returned to the importance of history in understanding religion and talked of II. . . the danger of Biblical fundamentalism, such as that of the televangelists, the risk of error that comes from excerpting texts from the Bible from their historical and other contexts and, quoting them absolutely 9 if they could be fully understood today without any study of interpretation.” He compared such fundamentalist practices to listening to a radio interview where the the questions have been cut out where one can only hear the answers and then taking those answers to be dogmatic truths. Principe said that there was a similar danger in quoting pronouncements by Popes and past councils in a similar fashion, and emphasized the
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Principe then moved on to discuss how Catholic teachings continue to change today. He said that no one “as
direct far as we know” gets guidance from God and that even the Pope must come to theological decisions through consultation and study.
faith.” Principe claimed that big problems arise because some people want to give a quick and sure theological decision on all topics without much thought, consultation, or making sure they know enough facts to make an informed decision. Principe finished by claiming that the mystery of God transcends the words which express it saying, “The mystery of God is what we believe in
Blind acceptance of scriptures is “adolescent” He said that although they should be given full respect and the benefit of the doubt, Catholic teaching “does not and cannot command unthinking obedience from those who have theological competence, specialized knowledge, or experience in the matter at hand , , , such as the experience of married people in family matters.” He called such blind acceptance “adolescent” and claimed that “the adult way” was to accept the right to question and risk not having certainty in every matter. “Catholicism should not be a refuge for those who want a clear and definite answer on every point of l
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Highlights theological changes Principe illustrated how Roman Catholic thinking has changed over the years with the issue of Catholic thou&t on children who die before baptism and on Limbo. Early Catholic theologians believed that unbaptized children who died went directly to Hell because they were tainted with original sin. During the Middle Ages, theologians tried to soften this doctrine by claiming that such children, while not allowed into heaven, went
New attitude towards baptism instead to Limbo where they experienced eternal happiness but not the glory of God. Principe said that the modem Catholic Church, aware of the vast numbers of children in the world who die before they have a chance to be baptized, now puts its trust “in the loving mercy of God” to deal appropriately with such children. Where before the Catholic Church claimed it was a mortal sin to leave children unbaptized, Principe said new Catholic thinking is that a baptism should not be given without a commitment of faith on the part of the child’s family. Such changes, Principe said, have lead some Catholics to question the validity of all Catholic teachings if such truths are so changeable. According to Principe, the trouble is that when Catholics “are taught catechism and religion everything (is) put on the same plane.. . the doctrine of Limbo, of the nine (levels) of angels, of the seven commandments of the Church were presented as if
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county monitor their own texts, not having to submit selection lists to the Board of Education. ‘We enjoy an incredible degree oi freedom in this respect,” says Bluevale Collegiate English Head Ken Carter. Unlike many other counties, Waterloo has ‘a great amount of trust” between the Board and English teachers. Only one book is currently under sus ension; the infamous Merchant oP Venice.
Censorship today rarely engages in blatant public displays of book burnings, or the buffoonery of glue@ pages together or blackening offensive words. Instead, the system has developed a way of silentIy censoring itself. Waterloo county has an open policy of text selection for English departments. Department heads at various secondary schools across the
When the content of Shakespeare’s comedy raised controversy in several Jewish groups, the board formed a task force to study allegations of racism. The objectors didn’t want the book banned, only assurance that it would be taught with sensitivity given to controversipl material.
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Banned books challenge the status quo “It3 not what you’re taught but how you’re taught. Our schools teach you by pushing you around, by stealing your will and your sense of power, by making timid, square, apathetic slaves - authority addicts.” “Literature is so beau&l. And school is likely to turn it so dull or even ugly. Can you imagine what would happen if they graded you on sex? The race would die out” The common -objections to a book’s content today are profanity, overt sexuality, sexism and racism
By freezing the student in a stagnant puddle, society and educational institutions put themselves at risk in the new electronic age. In his book TheMedium IS The Mmsag~ Marshall McLuhan states that “many of our institutions suppress all the natural direct experience of youth, who ITSpond with untaught delight to the poetry and the beauty of the new technologiG31 environment, the environment of popular culture.” Mcluhan I&& that “the classroom is now in a vital struggle for survival with the immensely persuasive ‘outside’ world created by new informational media.” The medium of television and video today are damaging enough people’s abiIi& to rea&without thai adlded damage from the censor to take emotion, urgency and, hence, the value out of books.
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‘The twentieth century will belong to Canada.” - S~W~d~u~er If a new American political party has its way, Prime Minister Laurier will roll over in his &rave. The latest American attempt to”annex Canada is called the ~pcrnsionist Piwiy of the United Statm mcranimtinn ---- nils ---m --.--LyL., based in N lew York, adv%zates the “admission Iof Canada into the United mn asrumci hb States” as Sd,,. r’-“*b.
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The Expansionists make it sound so easy and appealing. --A nroince r-_---would merelv have tr ----J ---- J vote affirmative in a Ireferendum and then enter the United States. The Expansionists argue that America was origirdy thirteen states and now numbers fiftv.J
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Service sate: we care what we have sold. Computer are not only machines, but also buddies. Everything complete at: $1499. SX:-$1799. Quality and service. Call l-552-84:7 Tot! free.
Deep gratitude: Thank you for your eagerness and reponses. This week specials include: At (16 MHZ) $1599., SX (16 MHZ)$l899. withanytypeprinter ribbons on stock. Half dozen plus DOS 4.0. For sale: 1982 Honda Civic; 2 dr; hatch; lots of new parts, original owner. Must sell fast. Asking $1500.00 746-2386 after 6.00 pm.
Painters
in the Scarborough
Area. Competitive wages and bonuses. Call Raj Sethi 884-6237. in Toronto with student painters. For more information call Sean at 576-0564 or (4 16) 487-8097. Excellent
outdoor
summer
jobs
wheel:
747-2330 (Sean).
13-32
freewheel
1980 Cheverolet Citation, 2 door, 4 speed new tires and brakes. 90,000 km, original paint. $950.00 will certify 746-
0204. Qume coxnputer terminals for sale. Terminal and keyboard for $250.00 (retail price $1000). Call 888-0891 or 725
Triple “A” Student Painters manager in Toronto’s High Park needs hardworking individuals. Painter and foreman positions are available. Call Paul at (416) 538- 10 19 and leave a message.
Word procrseing Services. Term paoers. reports, resumes etc, Letter quality’at . competitive rates. WordPerfect 5.0. Call 746-5217. Experienced typist
will type anything.
Reasonable rates. Fast efficient service. Westmount-Erb area. Cafl886-7153. .
1414.
35 years experience; .95 d.s.p. typewritten; $1.25 d.s.p. Word Processor. Erb and Westmount area. Call 743-3342.
Publisher 2-O for sale: $300.00 (included register card)($t 00.00 more for the Professional Extension) Cal t Alvin 746-O 186.
Typing. Professional Word Processing. Reports, thesis, letters, resumes, etc.
Xerox Ventura
Reasonable rates. Changes available. Call Heather at 888-6417. word processing by University Grad (English). Grammar, spelling, corrections available, Laser Fast, professional
SlcRVlCIS
printer. Suzanne, 886-3857. Gary’s Moviq
- man w/small
cube
van
and appliance cart available weeknights, weekends - $30/hr in Kitchener-Waterloo; out-of-town extra - Gary 746-7160. K.A.R Cyck Repairs, serving U of W students for 3 years. Tuneups, rebuilds etc. Excellent student rates, quality repairs, close to campus, make an appointment for a free safety check 746-0204. -- . .
I
your grade! Top quality typing, grammar and spelling errors corrected, sentence structure smoothed.
‘Imj+ve
Westmount at University. 885-5952. Word processing. Will type essays, thesis, resumes etc. Letter quality print. On-campus delivery & pickup. Call Sharon 656-3387 after 5:00 pm.
Professid papers - $2.50 per page single spaced. Price includes spell checking and layout to your specifications. Call Theresa at 744-
AVALA6LL
.
Room-mates wanted: two unfurnished bedrooms available. Share the rest of apartment. Laundry and parking available. Rent - $290.00 a month (utilities inclusive) - Call Priscilla (519) 747-
0209.
HOUSlWai
AvAHmA6Lc
Summer sublet: May - August, lower floor. Accomodates two, newly renovated, fully furnished, backyard, garage. WLU 5 minutes walking, University of Waterloo: 20. $150/month. Negotiable. 884-5659 or 884-7549.
Self-contained apartment for two, on major bus route, 5 minutes bike, available May. Reqt $+OO/month, willing to
Attention
negotiate. 888-0585. ‘7 Brightly lit attic room in house skylights, maplewood floors. Near Central Meat Market on bus line $300/month AprilSeptember. Call Mini at 744-3555.
minute b , ride to Parliament Buildings. Grocery, %ll 1 dry, beer store, Pizza Pizza 2 minute walk. $3lO/month and hydro. Call (6 13)237-3636.
1 bedroom apartment, partiatly furnished, 15 minutebike to University of Waterloo, close to downtown Waterloo+ sublet for summer, option to take lease. Available Abril 25, 749-07 10.
Co-op
Students
moving
to
Ottawa? 3 bedroom apartment available from May 1 - August 31 in the Glebe. 15
Toronto house willing to exchange departing University of Waterloo co-op student for a new one in May. Call Mike Brown and Dave (416) 787-4911 night
(4 16) 285-8746. sublet - 6 bedrooms, 3 3 bathrooms, large lounge, parking, microwave, laundry. $1501 month each room (utilities included) fully Summer
kitchens,
and retief staff for developmentally delayed individuals. $8.4 1/hr every second weekend. Leave message for Don Mader; 746- 1007.
For sale: TREK 520, l8-speed 25” bicycle new cables, tires, brake pads 501451 chain
Word Processing. Fast, accurate, dependable. Letter quality. Competitive rates, same day service often available. Call Betty, 886-6361.
Weekend Counsellors
TYPWQ 28
Word Processing. Fast, accurate and letter quality. Grammar and spelling checked. Free pickup and delivery. Call Diane, 576- 1284.
Tree Planters wanted. $750,OO/week. Achievable. Call I-800-265-2914. Pendulum Treeplanting Contr. Incorporated.
StudeW
nous1wa
- 1 year lease. September- August 1991. House, 4 bedroom plus furnished recreation room for Sth, very nice. Fireplace, dishwasher, close to University of Waterloo. Asking $1295.OO/month. 888-0667. Available
nOUslWa
AVAHARlI
Summer house sublet rooms. Fully furnished, large yard. Columbia and parking ($265./roam 3 0441
or individual washer/dryer, Albert; garage rooms). 888-
Master bedroom in renovated duplex. Large yard, parking, BBQ, microwave, laundry facjlities, fully furnished. Great summer lodgings! Call 746-4798. - May-August. One rooti available on main floor. Rent negotiable. Summersublet
Call 725-0246
ask for Chris.
Summer sublet. Four bedrooms big backyard, air conditioner, furnished, 5 minute walk to UW. 329 Lester street. 725-2303.
Fall term
Available Fall term 1 year lease September-August 1991, 5 bedroom unit. Very close to University of Watertoo. Laundry facilities. Very clean and spacious. 888-0399, asking $1295.001 month. Summer sublet - 6 furnished single rooms available in a house. 4 minute walk to the university. $185/roam includes utilities but rent is negotiable. 7250838.
2 rootns for sublet in 3 bedroom apartment. Quiet neighbourhood. On bus route, close to Olde English Pub 7250 115 May to August. Rent negotiable.
furnished. Phone 884-5947. Summer sublet-double room all toyourseM with adjoining bathroom. Air conditioning. controlled entrance. 15 minute walk to University of Waterloo. Free parking. Rent negotiable. Call Angela 7251171. 2 b&rooms available, 256 Phillip street, summer term. Very very close to campus. Rent negotiable. Call 746-0070 ot 885- 1211 extension 6676.
3 ems in house on Hemlock Street. May to September, fully furnished, laundry, parking, microwave, 2 bathrooms, has everything. Call Gilles 747-9925.
Stumner~bkt. Very targe room in basement Qf a 4 bedroom house. Cool, Clean, carpeted with windows (and blinds). Private bathroom. $2 1S/month negotiable. Q& Andrew 747-3016.
$15Wmont.h.
Big, coot room in 4 bedroom townhouse on Phitlip Street. Really close. Non-smokers only - call Steve 746-7514.
Summer 1990 - Columbia Lake TH, 4 rooms available, dishwasher, microwave, cable, parking, access to laundry, very &an. Rent negotiable Joe 746-8944.
Summer sublet. 4 bedroom
Available May, One and two bedroom apartments, compietety furnished, very
Thrte bedroom townhouse for rent. Available May, with option to take over lease. Located at 74 Churchill St. number 2, I5 -minute walk to University of Waterloo. Cal i Basat 747-3875.
house, 20 minute walk to campus, 5 minutes to groceries etc. 1 l/2 bathrooms, washer/ dryer, negotiable rent! Call Andrew 747to
quiet and clean, balconys, also single rooms, rent very reasonable, Waterloo 410 Hazel Street. Phone 885-0843 anytime. Also openings for Fall term. Mr. Hackenberg.
Rent here suminer 1990, wash/dry, micro, VCR, a/c. 5 bedroom, 2 bathdroom, 5 minute bike. Group rates. Jeff, Jason 747-2114.
Ottawa? Three bedroom apartment available from May 1 to August 31 in the Glebe. 12 minute bus ride to the Parliament Buildings. Grocery, laundry, beer store, Pizza Pizza 2 minute walk. $9251
Awesome house! Two bedrooms of 5bedroom house--furnished, colour TV, microwave . . . 15 minute walk to both universities, Call now! 747-0827.
May 1, Waterloo. Two bedrooms in basement apartment. Separate entrance, 4 piece bathroom, kitchen. Close to Universities. $175. 747-3776.
Sublet IU~W - three bedroom apartment May t 1990toAugust311990. Freecase of beer. More information 888-0269 20 minutes to University of Waterloo.
$15o/r~~~m - 3 bedrooms in 4 bedroom flat to sublet. King and Union streets. Lease may be assumed. M ike 7438753,
Shulc Townhotrst senior fernate student some furniture available - private washroom. $225/month utilities included. Available end of April cal t 74 l0145.
Sum~nct sublets 2 rooms for rent; 268 Phillip Street. Very close to University. rent from May to September. Rent negotiable. Call Kathy/Corina 7250552.
3016. Attation
coap
students.
Moving
month and hydra. Call (613) 237-3636. Big mm
with King size waterbed for
2795.
Spring. 5 minute walk from University of Waterloo. 1 minute walk to Laurier, rent qegotiable. Craig 747-4673.
‘Words” - piafes&mal typing services offered 7 days a week. Work guaranteed. Call 746-6746. P/u & delivery availa ble.
Stmma hmsiq available in Columbia Lake Townhouses. Three bedrooms available. Cofipletely furnished. Rent negotiable. Call now at 725-0188.
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March
FEATURE
16, 1990’
m0pm0~mthiefeature~strictly~ofthea~~
"If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a hundred times”
Cliches:
catchphrases
who want to relive “the good old days.”
.
Cliches are expressions or ideas that once were novel but have become dull, stereotyped and senseless through frequent repetition. As citizens of modem, industrialized countries we are destined to live within a cultural boredom we have created for ourselves. Centuries ago, King Solomon realized there was “nothing new under the sun.” And as the second millennia “draws to a close,” this maxim is perhaps the one cliche that most accurateiy epitomizes our lives: we are weary of anything we can imagine and our very . imaginations have become exhausted. What we say is cliched. The way in which we play is cliched. Even the work we do for our token pay is cliched. It is unreasonable to discuss the cliches that dominate our language without first discussing the ultimate cliche inherent in our consumptive lifestyle: the former are merely symptoms of the latter condition. Our pop culture is manipulated and maintained by enormous, multinational corporations and their AV technicians, the mass media. Within this commercial framework, popular past-times, popular political notions, and popular phrases are promoted and sold to us as if they were just another set of pru ducts on the supermarket shelf. Our greatest contribution to this mercenary system is to consume what will benefit the economy on a large scale. An attempt is made to collectivize individuals into buying groups with enough similarities so that they can be targeted, and subsequently persuaded, with the approp riate “cost+ffective” slogans. The semantic lines between necessity and luxury; utility and decoration; significance and emptiness are blurred intentionally so that our personal values become secondary to the unerring wisdom of our corporate guardians. In the 20th century, western society has shifted its focus from austerity to extravagance. V&in, purely ornamental luxuries (perfume, gold chains, m,OOO cars) become strong motivations to abandon the really-real (secure shelter, a square meal, and good health) in a quest to live out the perfect cultuml cliche. The desire to fulfill the hollow expectations of a corporate agenda is reflected in the catch words and phrases, euphemisms, and popular slang because this”cornmon”language is used to sell the very culture which it seeks to describe. Popular fashion trends in clothing, art, music, literature, and politics are exploited by corporations who turn it to their profit. Consider the revolutionary ideas of the 60s youth which have been assimilated by the establishment and repackaged as innocuous fun for the more sophisticated 80s generation or the “time-warpers”
Advertising is perhaps the most prevalent yet insidious outlet through which the cliched lifestyle is spread across every sector of a civilized society. The medium is technology and the message is consumption Take for example, the ever-present beer’ commercials on TV, which seek to depict the environment, mood, personalities, and language of relaxation, success, and good times. Ironically, if beer advertisers were to dispel the illusory cliches they’ve created, and show what drinking is really like for a large portion of their market, they would document alcoholics with derelict bodies who drink alone to maintain their addiction and carry on their miserable lives. Consider psychological pricing which has. become a flat assumption in the marketplace, yet customers as well as vendors continue to pretend ignorance. The practice has become so idiosyncratic that consumers play a wellrehearsed charade with merchants every time they go shopping. Thus, instead of advertising a television set for $1000, a storekeeper will claim it costs only $995, because he knows the customer will “play the game,” dwelling on the slightly lower figure to justify the purchase to themselves and their friends. Cliches enter directly into our workplace. In fact, some media critics argue that the whole notion of work is itself a carefullypropagated cliche that keeps people “wrapped up” in highly routinized tasks so they become oblivious to the larger control process. Muzak has become an industrial cliche in the “white-collar” service sector. Muzak Corporation of America describes itself as “a concept in human engineering” (now if this isn’t subversion of the language, ‘1. don’t know what is?) Genesis P. Orridge, founder of the British music cult, Temple of Psychick Youth, elaborated the concept of Muzak after obtaining some of their confidenu internal documents.
The intention of Muzak is to disguise strew to and dim human uctivity to merate maximum productivity and minimum discuntent in order tog&- laqecqw&ons and industrial cornplaces the highm pussibl pm@ wiIh the least responsibility. (Vape, vol. W17,
cuntd
p.77.) According to Bob Bla& in an essay entitled ‘The Abolition of Work,” we are engaged in an ontolo@d struggle to create self-meaning in coqxmte North America where none really exists. Black says:
You are what you do. IJyou do boring, s&id munotonous work, chances are you’ll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all .around us than even such sign@cant muronizing mechanisms as televtiion and education. &p/e who are q’mented all their lives, handed oflto work firn school and brat-
keted by the family in the beginning and the nursing home at the end any habituated to hiemrchy and psychol@aHy en-.. &ce JWU dmin the vitalityfim pwple at w& they ‘II likely submit to. . . evqthing. Theyieustdtoit. (kgue,
VOL 20, p.7.)
We work without questioning itsrelevance. Do we work because it is inherently worthwhile? Or do we work simply to have enough money to “survive?” Or is work just a natural contrast to the vacation that inevitably follows it? UKmately, work is fulNing our assigned roles without questioning the systern that supports our existence. In much the same way, our modes of communicating are also rarely questioned. For example, why do we use euphemisms so & quentiy? Do we want to glaze over the crud&s of the real world? Are death and nuclear war such ‘titter ps that we must refer to them as “passing away” and “the balance of power?” Have we come to nfzed group acceptance and conformity so much that we rarely want to show our individuality?
majgazines, novels, billboards, wardrobe, art, te&ision, movies, radio, songs, formal lectures, even CitsuaI conver&iGn (especialiy any dialogue involving love.) (No one.wants to be accused of &having to resortm to cliches. Thus, the remainder of my treatise is addressed to the mysterious third
Intheirbook,Originsand&&upmentofthe English Language, Thomas Pyles and John Algeo identify that “one of the great concerns of the democratic and progressive age in w&h we live would seem to be to ensure that nobody’s feeliigs shall ever be hurt - at least not by words.” Using cliched expressions “gets our point across,” but only because we expect others to interpret the same meaning from them that we do. Rather than risk standing out in a group situation, we make ourselves understood indirectly. In th& way, the contribution seems more like a group undertaking, rather than an individual’s egotistical opinion There is a trend to corporate loyalty in the workplace over individual integrity because of our need for money to survive in the suburb or sunbathe in the Bahamas We do not want to place our jobs in jeopardy. We are cautious of what we say and how we say it For instance, I have refrained from using the word, “I” in my diiion, because it harms our sense of collectivism. We are all responsible for using cliches, not just you or me. Turning away from the philosophy of cliches, we can examine their incidence in our language. Cliches are the great narcotic against creative thought By homogenizing of understanding and people’s manner expressing themselves, one can implicitly control their internal beliefs and interpretations of the external world. In 1984, George Orwell’s totalitarian distopia is based largely on controlling *ought by attacking and manipuMing people’s vocabulary. By removing “dangerous” words entirely from the language, Big Brother is able to establish, what are in effect, negative cliches. Obviously, these non-words are never spoken. But although, Ihey= as senseless as cliches, they carry tremendous power because of their potential connection with concrete and abstract ideas. Consider the dilemma in trying to explain an abstract concept such as “freedom” without the benefit of a word-symbol Therefore, by taking away dre word, can the concept it represents possibly remain? - without “freedom,” there can be no freedom. Conversely, by repeating the word to excess, can the concept it represents possibly remain unchanged? - the “greatest” sales event in history comes every day at some stores. Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman in
Uleir book, Mmufactwing
Chsent,
explain
mass media’s -effect on words which are broadcast so frequently in specific contexts that they are starting to become political cliches. For example, by calling evil reactionaries “terrorists” and good reactionaries “freedom fighters,” the mass opinion is subtly contrulI& tw see the former as ur~worthy vietims and the latter as righteous crusaders. By harmonizing people’s vocabukuy, ideas can be transmitted on a massive scale. “Communism” is as pwnteed to generate a carefully~ontrived, national sentiment as “democracy.” Ifweweretopayattentiontoevqthing we saw, heard, or said for even a few hours, we would realize that virtually evqthing is a
The ultimate
cliche
smile
ieaves us
vn, which exempt from this heinous crime.) Cliches are used by people who define their reality and the expression of their ideas through borrowed words, instead of attempting to create individual manners of expression. Rather than conveying opinions or events using their own distinct vocabulary and method of description or explanation, they rely on generally-accepted words and phrases to quickly summarize the meanings to others. A cliche will encapsulate everything they want to say. Randolph Cash, in A Cliche For Every Occasion, explains the psych&nguistic nature of cliches: “Cliches are largely used unnoticed. They are habitual because of their familiarity and facility of use. They are also effortless forms of linguistic communication The mind that uses them and the mind that hears them are at that particular moment of sensation devoid of any active semantic comprehension. They simply communicate the idea co~ected with the cliche rather than the actual meanings of the words*” Usually, the individuals most reliant o’;z cliches are those who must reach a mass of people. Ln trying to make contact with the general public, they must target the lowest common denotitor (LCD) in the population, which usually means the least-educated. The list of cliche-mange= includes politicians, managers, broadcasters (video, radio, and print,) and celebrities, teachers, and, of course, salespeople and advertisers. Politicians persuade people to look toward a prosperous future during their campaign, but promises become excuses upon election: from fame to notoriety, the cliche foilows closely behind them Managers prefer to convert maxims to business use so they can increase profits and reduce absenteeism. Media celebrities and broadcasters can create and influence both literal and cultural cliches (iconology) because of their wide scope and mass appeal. Teachers of higher education discourage the u5e of cliche3 in the ctiroom, while primary teachers depend on it to commu@cate to their students. Finally, adverti+ ing and sales would have to reinvent their professions every day if they had not long ago institutionalized the cliche as their most valuable tool. Salespeople use formukaiq repetitious phrasestokeepthepotentialcustomer’smind on a-small range of important subject matter
FEATURE
Imprint,
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March
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can kill. cbmmunication cMn.itely came here to play.” AlthoughobvioustothepointofinsulVhis ack@933eachviewerata typeofIWoadcast
They say exactly what the customer wants to hear: usuallyan exemplar such as “you won’t finda~&knywhere,“and”haveIgota deal for yen,” or even the infamous standby, “c’mon, let’s make a deal.” No matter the cliche they choose for the occasion, they
Situation
Certain phrases denoteVcertain mces,andprofessb~Ourmdeofexpresl
class,
Most viewem of a F&L football ggan@wddn’t be . alarmed to hear, “Look at that pass, wouldya!”
alway3pushthebottomline:pleasepur&ase, rent# or lease. Statements are sometimes so exaggerated thattheword&eetheirimpactWeshouldbe
pemnal
1eveL It may reassure
us that our
feelings are shared by the sportscaster and, co~ndingly, every other viewer. In. short, when wtching a fast-paced spe&cle on television that has to appeal to the LAXI, we expect a cliche and not a complex and risky (for the boadcaster) analysis of the
suspiciousufanysuperlatkeusedinadvertisingorbnXKkastingingeneraL~~gthat claims to be the biggest newest, safest, or best
isp&&lyaIsothefalsest., The educate intelland profeqiods, disdain using cliches in their s+chandwriting/I+heyseethemas vtatiom3 of the less-educated (and in their minds, inferior) general public. This, of course, is not necessarily true. A truck driver +ay be as perceptive as a pulitician in some r&pec& But he may express his awareness a cliche he knows will communicate’ 3z@ certainty to his peers rather than risk . &ending-himself from his environment. worth considering is the expediency of * es. They are generally shorter, quicker, iI!% Ad more dynamic than lengthy and detailed c&riptions. Consider this example, “What a &hale of a game!” as opposed to the more lucid (but potentially boring) ‘Tonight’s
sion tends to be self
because
the
CM&-words, colle, euphemisms and click that we use establish and then ma&tin us within a group toward which we feel s&arity. This “us and them” mentality
oftenbuildsupbarrierswhicharemanifes~ in our language as jargoi
match has proven
to be an extremely
the jargon” Cfiches can come into pop&r speech out of the iargon of these special groups. Ear instance, a university undergrad may refer to “dissecting a subject” which was origin+ a term from profession Large social movements
vehicles
crucial
victory for an otherwise struggling hockey team.” (The cliche “wins hands down”) Cliches rely to a great extent on cirw cumstance for their propriety. We would& expect to hear a cliche at a gala ceremony for noteworthy
Adrian i4kTmjian i.tlfi?tgzltistic, claims that “despite its m@erious nature to an ‘outsider,’ jaqpn is not intendd’ to b& secret, but, for -, partirular jqpns Frypractical are largely irnmeile to those outside the particubr profession or group that uses
progressive authors, except as a clever joke. Most viewers of a
Drawing by Ziegler, 1980
perhaps NFL o&ball game, however, wouldn’t be alarmed to hear a sportscaster say something like, ‘Took at thslt pass, wouldya! Smith
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like the catch-word,
“groovy”
followed the flower power movement in the 6OsSometimestheclichescomefromaliteraI origin and pass into a figurative representaIion Consider the shift of baseball terminology into cliches about insanity and ignorance such as “a real screwI&” “out in left f&H,” and “not even in the baIlparr According to UW linguistics professor, Neil I-Win, we often use cliches as cues for oral conversation, We facilitate further discussion without necessarily investing a great deal of mindpower to do it. Reflect on the examples: 7 see . . . I see” when you don’t; “That’s interesting” when it isn’t; ‘You don’t say” when that pemon just has. In this way, we recognize someone’s contribution to the dialogue and give them the proper signal to continue speaking. Conversation usually has pauses expressly for the other person to respond, even if it is only to nod their head. A hat&eyed phrase or simple gesture gives the speaker license to continue. Cliches have
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come to be expected during these pauses when one person is bored, but realizes they must cover up their tedii.
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by Chris Wod&m Imprint staff And on the eighth day, God the Hammond 83 organ. The Fender Telecaster, the Rickenbacker bass, the Sabian cymbal could all be entrusted to human invention, but not so the Hammond 83, that full, luxurious, starbursting sound of the Godhead ascendancy pealing forth . .. created
Choir delights
Tabernacle before the concert seconds old.
was Scarce thirty
From
there, The Bourbons grabbed rock solid grooves by the scruff of the neck and shook them until
dizzy
and
spent.
While
the
covers were plentiful and t&e to their orim sound, perhaps the biggest kudos go to their original material; like a precious few bands, they can capture the spirit and faithfully rec-
reate the sound of a halcyon era without sounding slavishly retro or like a creatively bankrupt, flashbackstricken tribute band. More than twenty
passed
years
since the heyday
have
of their
In praise of the Hammond B3 organ 1 from the heavens like the trumpet of the archangel Michael crumbling the mighty walls of Jericho to the dust whence they arose. Chris Brown is a worthy custcdian
fusion of blues progressions, potent soul rhythm sections, the purr and growl of the Hammond B3, tough funk grooves, and gospel-influenced singing but they make it sound as us as it was when
The btid reputedly considered the name Moron Tallywhacker Choir,
of a revival meeting, ntw4 V8:8:~b~~::~~f No doubt cognizant of the soft spot Give them credit for being possibly in the reviewer’s heart for Van the only white band in this comer of Motion, they- started the prothe universe who can do a version of ceedings with “Domino,” thereby “Can’t Get Next To You” every bit as Gnning over the tender-hearted w sultry and sexy as Al Green’s, yet
another showcase for Wall’s tremendous set of pipes, capable of a lowdown, gravelly moan and a piercing,, soul-emptying wa& often in the same breath, If The Lyres’ Jeff Conolly ever getswindofWall,itcouldbethething %n push him into early retirement And give ‘em full marks for playing an
unironic
Inferno,”
version
knowing
of
YOU Sh’$
the ultrasuede and landhg Strip lapels, you have a churning funk monster. Off
photo by Pete Brown
A fitting end toa two hour blast of a music we hear far too infrequently. We await their second coming.
‘l3isco
full well that once
Stbry of creation l+hmu.as concert
tedious,
Fihy, March 16 princesscinema
of progressive
half-hour
drum solos the mid-y& abyss rock, you’d be floun-
&edgedup from
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music graduate William Peltier, was interesting, that reliable euphemism for something saliently innovative and cerebral,but which doesn’t really
by Chris Wodskou Imprint staff to what he terms a 0 well to adm
:Nurnus’
The highlight of the evening was ‘Take That,” scored for four percussionists by American composer William Albright Each of the four
finale
Friday night at The Princess Cinema. As the name of the performance suggests, all of the programwas either entirely or significantly percussive, and if that conjures up images of
drummers
While Reich’s piece was enjoyable and intereshg the next perfor-
rhythm,
mance, the premiere
oscillated
cling
“Solitude
Into Somethingfl,
completely
composition
Syn-
a recently by Laurier
was given
a very propulsive rhythm between overhp@ng
the other rhythms and dive%ing See Numus, page 24,
tight
that wifi
into
worked to A&an EHew’s wailing guitar’sadvan~.ltwas toobadthat theswndruinedthecuncer&~use
. whenever X could make out B&e’s voice &the band they sounded pre-
. ‘I
Imprint,
and The Groove
Enigma
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March
16, 1990
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trumpet and percussion) had the ecstitic mob screaming and whistling. Each piece was met with thunderous applause, and solos by all the band members garnered whistles and cheers. The crowd remained enraptured through two sets of passionate Latin, upbeat interpretations (including “St. Thomas” and “Around~ Midnight”), and, of COW, electri&d fusion (which proved itself to @quite addictive), At the end of two hours an encore was demanded and extracted from the weary performers.
March9 Bombshelter by Mark PowelI and
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Arts Board’s/Music
Society’s Jazz Night played to a full house at the Bombshelter last Friday night. The crowd was treated to a colourful cross-section of jazz performed by two UW groups: Enigma and The Groove Merchants. Enigma powerfully delivered energetic Latin jazz and their own interpretations of some of jazz standards as well as their favorite electrified fusion. Enigma is so named because fusion jazz has remained relatively unknown for more than two decades. In contrast, The Groove Merchants put a more relaxed and reiined style into their interpretation as well as providing some elegant original pieces. Enigma opened up around 9:30 and captured the crowd support with their ht powerful piece, which energized the audience. Soon, the band’s interpretation of Sonny Roland’s “St. Thomas” (and especially solos by Nick Ali on both
The sound quality was quite good for the Bomber, and the cluttered stage presence and colourful lighting added character to the performance. Enigma is composed entirely of UW students. Its members are: Nick Ali - trumpet, flugelhom and percussion (physics); AI Richardson bass (grad physics); BrunO Ieurello - guitar (elk. hng.); Danny Miller kevboard (math): Scott Parkinson dims (ii&h). iiis was the group’s first performance together. The Groove Merchants smoothly
delivered their favourite jazz style with eloquence and feeling. The wild audience was soothed by the clear, sonorous pieces of mainstream jazz.
,
After tiring of his 7-l I ‘career, The show, led by the saxophone
Duane Allman re-enters the music biz (cent@. relaxed. Expert solos were delivered of trumpet (last name unknown at time by sax, trumpet and some beautiful Dan Rubiioff, was enough to make of writing), whose playing has been keyboard work The band was founthe true enthusiasts in the house compared by some jazz disciples to think they %ad died and gone to Jazz that of the great Wynton Maisalis. ded three years ago by UW students Heaven” (not my words, honest!). The overall performance of The and has progressed into the proThe band played an excellent Groove Merchants was polished and fessional ranks. ori@naI piece by WiIliam on the
profane d &. Sacre . I*I*cIcRn.,. *111..,, .f >‘< ,. :.I 2 A::, :i, : p:,., i :.: :‘;. ,’ ./‘*’ .:.; Susan Morrison “Sacred Ground UwArtGaIlery
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Languages Bldg.
To March
25
by Dave Ross imprint staff Suzanne MorrisOn’s exhibition of paintings, Sacred Ground, is a display of a formalist abstract painter cum formalist landscae painter. She is a Romantic in the pantheistic sense, describing
her work as a reflection
“unusual
land formations
Wayne
in
a relationship
famous
Elvis impersonation.
Wayne takes Vegas
and the
significant role that they play in the spiritual life oi human beings.” She believes that it is possible to maintain
Newton’s
“Yakety Yc “SW@f or a soul version of INXS’ “New Sensation.” The
with nature
that transcends the habitual perdition of natural resources. She also likes the colour green. Yet Morrison’s predictable use of colour, combined with her standard “stumble” treatment of rocks, leaves this reviewer a little thirsty. The greatest fatality of her arid and unadventurous a roach to painting is the integrity o Ppthe subject especially evident in the
What can you say ab0ut a guy with rhinestones in his eyes? Gold lame in his t&l
What could you write that
hasn’t been written before?
experience:
matter,
a zilI.ion times
His name is the sum of the
Wayne Newton.
But wait, Wayne. . . er,ah, Mr. Newton,ismorethanjustaman.Heisthe extravaganza which cannot be
“Stonehenge” and “Stone Circle” works. Here, depictions of spiritual arenas seem to have no spirit, and supposedly powerful objects are depicted with vapid regularity. Morrison does come closer to trancase of works done in 1987 and 1988. These paintings are of course painted in greenish hues but, unlike the earlier works, the 1987-88 paintings are lusher and convey a stronger sense of honesty and intimacy
divided from the geography he embraces: Ias Vegas Spending spring break in Vegas is interesting. clpFktwmty4our llmrs, the booze flows ahnO& as fast as the cash. And wheii it flows it pours, The atm&p&r~ is over-wh&mmg tp QII+Zped to bars clOsm.gat One and waitresses wearing more + than Penthouse models. And the Fntertainment, when you can find it behind the glitter of the casinos, and afford the usher’s tip, blows you
through
away.
slating geomorphic spiritual locales into spiritual p&ntings, mostly in the
the
spaces
they
depict:
underground caverns, lone boulders wedged into difficult faults, and piled up rocks that vaguely resemble the human form. These are paintings that place a stronger emphasis on structure and light patterm. The treatment of paint is fresher,
and even
the events
of
stumbling seem to make more sense - all contributing to the ability of these more recent works to carry stronger illusionistic and aIlusionistic sensibiuties. Whether any of these works evoke anysortofenvirOnmm&tlempathyis however, debatable. Linking a pan-
Packing the casinos is the mme of the game, and the best way to do it is with big name singers in the lounges and block buster shows on the stage. Groups of singers using the names of original black fifties groups like LttIe Susan’s project far a rainy Samhaln thiestic world view to Greenpeace, Approached as they are, for what Tai Chi, Harmonic Convergence, and they are, (nice paintings with a lot of Birkensto& is not too dticult, But it green in them) the painOf Suzanne Morrison have much more is rather tough to justify current intepity. envim-poj,itkal concerns with stanSacred Grrnuld is on view at Mocldard paintings that struggle to depict emLanguagesintheUWArtGaIlery a solid sense of their Own Spirituality, untiI March 25. let alone any.- world t views. _ ._ t*- 5 ’ -- . * ~“.
Anthony
and
The
Imperiala,
Coasters
and
the Drifters
the
played
authentic black music, the kind that was around before Motown got a hold of it and smoothed it out for white middle-class America (Acckk, get me a glad bag!) oh, to see the scene all again, middle-aged women and their twenty year-old ._. esc0rls dancing to . ;--’ _ - -
mo0d was aptly crystallized as one lead singer cried “I love it when white people get funkyr The shows are crazy. In one titled Jubilee I saw the sinking of the Titantic on a five story set, a set that also had dog fights between the Red Baron and several hapless Brits in their Sopwith Camels. Honest. The planes had ten foot wing spans. And Legends, with Roy Orbison, Marilyn Monroe, Iiberace and, of course, Elvis (his diet seems to be working-)
But
these
are just
the
shows, the fodder for the retirees that have strayed fr0m the;slots. What of the real talent? qt+@ Wayne? T@e’l@e music i@l&eal jack pot of Ve@&‘ leading tl@e%ay is Wayne Ndon. Veritable mteurs like the Pointer Sisters try to entertain you, buttheyendedupinatwohourshow only singing seven numbers due to tieircontinuous and time consuming costume changes (from tacky sequin to grotesque feathers to neoprene horrors.) Compare this with three solid hours of power. Hips a swinging, Wayne is king of T.as Vegas.
He summed it up best when he exclaimed “Get busy!” going intO his 5econdl encore. Words are nut enough to give prOper praise to our Holy leader. &IyseeinghimlivecanyourealIy feel the spirit really taste saivation (Myseatwass0clO3&issweatf4I0n me several times!) Halleluj& I have been saved Better get down to l&verendWaynebeforehe’stakenby the Great One in -.-the skv . :‘-A.
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Imprint,
Friday,
March
ARTS
16, 1990
Porn star Erica Bayer - exposed by: J- WFY
Boyer: Well, to be perfectly honest, I think it’s bullshit. I’m very proud of my occupation and that’s why I’m
A shy girl from Alabama of playful laugh and sparkling eye is hardly the sort you would think to be grinding her hips for a living. But that is exactly w@af Miss Boyer does, and more. She has traveled the gamut of the modem adult entertainment industry; sex shows and blue movies to heavy guilt trips and substance abuse. A woman who has endured more than most in her search for personal liberation. Erica Boyer started out in a‘small town in Alabama, “So small my graduating class had only seven people.” She says she was a certified innocent, her mother a school teacher, grandmother a Methodist minister, father an attorney general. After high school she became a nu& and then went for a year at Auburn university as a forestry major. Meeting sexual bias at school and dealing with the Southern Baptist attitudes became too much so she headed for California.
doing this educational Urn. I want to change the industry, make the films more erotic and less ‘Iet-me-tummyself-inside-out-and-see-if-youcan-see-more-of-me.’ Let’s have a good artistic film, let’s have something that doesn’t insult the intelligence of the average human being. Imprint: So what is your advice to young lovers today? Boyer: WeIl, first of all practice safe sex. Not to be afraid to explore your sexuality. Sex is fun and it can be creative and enlightening and take you places you’ve never been. Don’t get stuck in a rut, the same old positions. Have lots of confidence and .don’t be judgmental. I’m really for non-judgmental people and I think that goes for every aspect of life.
Imprint
staff
Imprint: Let’s start with why you went to California. Boyer: Well, I was there in Alabama at the county hospital, a total weird head vegetarian selling goat’s milk yogurt. I just up and decided I wanted to get out of Alabama, nursing was driving me up the wall, my whole family was driving me up the wall so I packed my Volkswagen and moved to California. So I was in San Francisco, (and) I was on my way to take my State boards when I met this girl, whu was sitting waiting for the bus with me, she was with the joffre ballet, at Berkeley. She worked part time at a poetry school as welI as the Mitchell Brothers O’FarrelI Theatre, which is radical. Live sex shows, a bondage room aII done in black leather and so on. AU kinds of weird contraptions aI! over the place, laser lights, all kinds of bizarre shows. The place is world famous. She told me she worked there. I had never seen a place like this. I was straight from J#&sville, AIabama, I’d never been td:a strip club in my life. But I still had t&Passion for dance so we went and had a drink together.
Fantasy is great. You don’t have to live out every fanbsy, you can talk about them and make them almost real. I’ve found a guy who’s totally non-judgmental. We share. a lot of interests. He’s not good looking, people might look at him and think hly God, what does she see in him?’ but I love his mind. Imprint: Is that the ultimate tumon? Bayer: Ya, and plus he’s not afraid io do anything with me in bed. I can do anything I want tq. I’ve had this thing about wanting to know what it was like to have a penis, so I finally found a guy I could do that with. Imprint: There may be a revolution when the women on campus read this. Boyer: (Laughs) Ya, maybe. When you care for somebody the sexzan ody iget better, If yau’re not monogamous that’s great. I-Iaving sex with a lot of people can be fun, as long you’re careful about it. Imprint: Is there anything that you think the average person may not 8 know about sex?
Homecoming: your passport to good times One drink led to another and I was dq if I was going to do rny State boai& without seeing a show tit. 1 ended up staying there all night long. Most of the girls were coUege students, -. - it was like a famiIy. Now it’s
redly changed. They have lap danc& customer contact, the gi+ have to pay them to work there. hqxinti What got you started into themovies? byer: Marilyn Chambers saw one
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of my shows. You can’t say no to her. She asked me to do a movie with her
anything for a new experience. Imprint: How much control do you have over your career right now? Bayer: Right now, more than ever before. I’ve just finished &rrbatins and I’m working on a Everything YUU
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Bayer: Well, I’m psychic. I’ve deveiopeci these abilities and I’ve had this great tantric sexual experience. It’s a spiritual union where you can actually orgasm with a parhler without touching. 1 know, you’re thinking California weirdos. Imprint: No, it’s just strange. Go on. Boyer: You don’t even have to look at the other person. You just run energy. You use yotir imagination. It’s peat. The ultimate safe sex.
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video. There’s this adult toy store in LA. and they have everything. Things that you’d look at and say ‘My God, what the hell could you possibly do with that?” The place is huge. There are a lot of People who want to experiment with sex toys but are shy to go in these stores, especially couples. To keep a relationship alive for a long, long time you got to have a lot of fun in bed and experiment with lots of different sex techniques and whatever. So I thought I’d do this video. Imprimt: What do YQU think about censorship?
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you
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The shocking French filmmaker Claude Chabrol has built a distinguished career making movies about the criminal in all of us. kr Cbbrol, this has usually found its easiest manifestation in the indulgent environment of the bourgeoisie. But also apparent in the Chabrol canon has been his desire to bring to the screen some very strong feqlecharacte= -women whowill live by their own rules only (think of
7%~ Bead Must Die).
“Oh
no - you have come far ze microfilm!”
all the men have been taken away, as have all the comforts of living. So Mariesoondiscoverstherewardsof when her her -ion nei@hur gives her a precious phonographin return for her
service. Her reputation begins to get ~~d~dsoonM&eisfeedingher; family quite well and enjoying many comfort5 usually forbidden in times of war. Her husband has returned,
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true story of women
by Moustafa Bayoumi Imprjnt staff
In Stop of Women (at the Princess until Monday) Chabro! seems to have found the story that will satisfy his probing camera and challenge an audience with polemics. Srary of Women (ii French - Une aflake des fmmes, or Women b Bush new - a much better title for this tale of women and power) is based on the true story of one woman: in 1943, while under occupation, the govemment in France condemned Mariehise Giraud to the guillotine for the crime of performing 23 .&xtions. Chabrol has added and embeilrshed from this story of state hypocrisy and moved his camera into the cramped living space of the Marie of his film (pIayed just beautifully by Isabelle Huppert) . Marie’s begins the slide into her illegal profession after finding her neighbourhood friend bathing in mustard. ‘That won’t help,” Marie tells her neighbour as she offers her own novice help. (Marie demonstrates her stony pragmatism when asked if she had ever done this before. “Can’t be harder than anything else,” she replies.) This is occupied France, 1941, and
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shell shocked and horny, and their relationship is as thin as the soup Marie was forced to feed to her family inthesetim~ofneed Marie, whose only real relationships seem to be with the women around her, is p&fully blunt to her husband Paul (played, like Huppert’s Marie, with exceptional range by Fran&s Cluzet - his performance could squeeze pity from a stone!). She tells him she no longer loves him and, trying to relieve some of his pain, she encourages her maid with financial rewards if she would sleep with Paul. He, of course, is only further humiliated. This is the stuff of Story of Women. It’s blunt interpersonal violence set against the background of the violence of war, This film is not about hero worship. ChabroI seems tohave no interest in making Marie an angel, though she most certainly is a martyr. But it’s an uncompromising look at her life. The camera moves all around Marie, and she moves all around the haunting, downcast core of the Finn She performs her abortions with no moral chip on her shoulder, but as her pursuit to happiness. It’s a lucrative busiiess for her, as war is a luaative business for men. This adogy, I think, is apt for Chiabrol’s fdm. Marie picks up a lover, Imien, who has managed to get out ofgoingtoGermanybybeingapaid informer. He’s a boor. He is wand utterlyp~and~~seems to benoreas0nforMarietostaywith thismanexceptthatherepresents some sort of emancipation provided by money for Marie. She loses the ihearinm in exchange for some sqt of frivolousn~
Hercrime,ifitisacrimeandnot just part of the human condition, is not her performance of abortions but her growing desire for more pleasMarie’s friend Lulu chastises Marie, ‘The more money you malce, the more you wank” This point is brought down most forcefully when one of &e’s clients dies and leaves an orphaned family. Marie is foxed to guestion her morality. To this point, morality has been of no consequence - necessity began her business. But when the dead client’s sister comes to hkrie to tell her ofthedeath, Marie is shocked. The sister, a staunch Catholic, offers Marie2CWrancsforanyunpaidfees. Mar5eacceptsthepayment.
The violence of truth This is a complicated portrait of Marie. She asks Lulu the question askedofher.‘TDoyouthinkb&iesin their mother’s belly have a soul?” IAllu repnds pithily: ‘Do you think their mothdo?” But no matter how we react to Marie and her occupation (Chabml seems tohave deliberately left it Eairly open+nded), it pales to the reaction wefeelinthelastthirdofthefilm when the hypocrisy of the government is exposed. Using some blatant and rather heavy-handed imagery (the Dr. StmngeIove glove), Chabrol paints a porbaitoEagovernmentinextreme momIdegenemcy.Thisgovemmer& seewc#menonmgez4
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24 Imprint, Friday, March 16, 1990
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Powerful, ahorrifying Handm’aid’s Tale by John zachaliah Imprint staff Unfair though it may be, it’s difficult if not impossible to think about or d&uss the film The Handmaidi Tale without considering the book from which it’s adapted. Margaret
dissection of the ‘Atwood’s relationship between force and power to a terrifying pitch. . In the movie, the climate is fearful the atmosphere soaked with hypocrisy and denial, tid everything official is painted black. Just as in the book, though, women are, at best, pliant companions or, at worst, pro-
United States. Ravaged by pollution and other sundry eco-screwups, the
population is under siege, most women in the land being infertile. Sent to live with The Commander (Robert Duvall) and his infertile wife Serena Joy (Faye Dunaway) after being caught trying to cross the border with her husband and daughter, the fertile Rate is valued as a commodity but reviled as an individual. Having the name Offred thrust upon her (Fred is, apparently, The Commanders first name) she is forced to engage in a periodical ritual, the basis for which is found in the Bible. She is The Commander’s handmaid, charged by God with the responsibility of producing children for him and his wife. In the ritual, Rate lies between Serena Joy’s legs, while The Co mmander impregnates (read ropes) her. The process is degrading for Kate, ‘obviously, but also for Serena Joy. While she has some power as The Comman der’s wife, her inability to bear children obviously saps her, bearing down like an inescapable rock&de. Rate’s relationships with those around her develop, showing the audience
“We with you a Merry Chrisbnrrs . Atwood’s intrcqxctive novel, haun-4QdbgoMr4d wEsn*lirrgdloneliness,seemedasthoughitwaswritten spe&caUy to avoid cinematic treatmerit. The compromise made for the film (there had to be one) amplifm , NU~US,
continued
from
.. ” ducts to be used as needed. Kate (Nat&a Richardson) finds herself in the latter category. She’s taken as a prisoner of the Republic of G&ad, a brutal, narrow-minded theocracy formerly known as the
page 20 That” arrangement with an electric bass, attack, electric violin+nd seven synthesizers aggressive, animated, and highly lisassembled around a conductor in the tenable with a complexity and middle resembled a classroom. impenetrability that wb m&e far It would be tempting to compare it more hypnotic than offputting. to Stevq Reich in its strong rhythmic The intermission was followed by drive and heavy repetition a slowly his Andriessen’s “Hoketus,” a transforming series of mutating major disappoi&ment; there gets to variations of a simple phrase, but it be a point where the avant-garde or whatever you want to call it becomes a dry, pedantic exercise, and “Hoketus” took a major step beyond this point fittingly enough, the stage rhyhtmic dissonance. ‘Take was a bracing percussive
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people exert power over others. Her hushed liaisons with The CommanTired of being abused, Kate der start out as secret sessions of resolves to escape, enlist&g the help Scrabble. They culminate when she of the house chauffeur, Nick (Aideen accompanies him to a private “club,” Quinn). Thus comes an ending the members of which are all highwhich, I think, robs the movie of ranking government officials. A herd power which the book had. Thii is a of prostitutes are retained to entertain problem; Atwood’s book was more the men, painted and dressed to than some sci-fi, miasmatic picture of plem. Rate, frocked in a forbidden distoph It commented on power, patty dress, dances with the Commander. He tells her to count her - w%k%Pcontinued from page 23 blessings: “Better a lucky duck than a dead duck” he says as flippantly as if complicitous with any Nazi whim, is he was commenting on the weather. far more murderous than any aborHer tether is a short elastic, once in a tionist. And at this point, Chabrol’s while giving the impression of reasonsformakingthefilmseemalittie more blatant. Like Malle’S Au Rev& &s Er$anb, this is the French ,ces. I don’t know, it could be that I’m trying once again to come to terms just too unsubtle or that I lack the with their Nazi-partnership during musical education to appreciate this the occupation. stuff, but it struck me as lifeless, soulBut no matter if we agree or disless, and dry. agree with Marie. She’s too comA disappointing f&e to be sure, plicated, too realistic, to manipulate but I wouldn’t want to discourage the our sym* so easily. But in the curious or the uninitiated (myself world c# #$s film, it is the men who being a new initiate); this is music stretches the very definitions of music and which challenges ears too accustomed to the easy, overtrodden executioner ‘because no one knows path of popular (even classical) who they are.” music. And the criminal element in us bar-
.. .” feminism, freedom, and the vile influence of fear, an# it breathed uncertainty from beginning to end. It posed very important questions. Much of this quality is lost in the film, which relates much of what hap pened in the book faithfully, but doesn’t reflect on it. Despite this failure to provoke the same contemplation as the book, ??w Handmaid’s Tale nonetheless tells a horrifying tale, in a most effective way. 1
dly stops there. In typical Chabrol style, the ordinary occasionally is ruptured with the visually violent. A man
crashes through a window and runs to Marie, staring at her before being shot in the back. Hi look -is horrifying. Also, when Lucien is hying to win the praises of Marie, he plays a public game of killing a goose while blindfolded. The sword he wields so expertly slices the neck of the goose with prophetic ease, leaving-only the blood to spurt out on the ground. The crowd loves it. In this compelling and stimulating film) the horror comes not from Marie and her lack of morality, but from a crowd or society too ready to see blood as entertainment.
they’re possessed by some cursing,, spitting demon. This is good. Unfortunately, Birdland’s lead vocalist can’t quite match Iggy Pop’s depraved abandon. Compared to the frenzy of the music, he sounds too restrained. That’s too bad. Side B of this 45 contains acoustic versions of “Wanted” and an earlier Birdland tune, “Hollow Heart.” That’s no good. by John Michael splint staff
Ryan
(Acoustic remakes are the mark of a band that’s low on material, but still wants to give the impression that they’re putting something rare on the B-side.)
by Derek Weiler Imprint staff
Talk
about disappointments. A with a cool Charles Burns graphic nicely illustrates that old adage about judging a book by its cover. What we have inside the sleeve is an incredibly nondescript and generic effort aimed at the heavier end of the Dance Oriented spectrum a la Skinny Puppy. Now I know it’s not really “fair” to lump all Nettwerk acts together under the Skinny Puppy umbrella. But this album, to my cloth-headed ears anyway, sounds a lot like Rubies. Come to think of it, it sounds a lot like Severed Heads’ Rotund For Success as well. Hmmm, do MC 900 Foot Jesus and Severed Heads really exist or are thehe;; outlets for Skinny Puppy .
greutsleeve
by Paul Done
hprirtt staff
Birdland are a four-member guitar group from Britain, In the past year or two they’ve released a handful of singles. “Sleep With Me” is the latest.
With this release, the record company has paid an inordinate amount of attention to packaging. That’s not good.
The four members of Birdland are self-professed disciples of the ’60s protopunk hand The Stooges. This is
(For your money, you getthe 45, a sleeve, a Birdland button, and even a Birdland postcard. Wheee.)
specialcardboard
good.
cussion heavy, noisy industrial type “music” with dour, “ominous” vocals, not to mention the silly samples. Yam just thinking about it makes me sleepy -
Like many classic Stooges songs, “Sleep With Me” is based on a repetitive, grungy guitar/bass/drums riff. That‘s good.
How many times can you hear per-
So 6 the interests of good taste and entertainment let’s give this one a miss boys and girls.
A, makes your speakers shriek as if
It’s a real tease to put an IP’s best track at the beginning of the first side. You spend thq next 40 minutes waiting in vain for anything which approaches the appeal of the first cut. . Lisa Stansfield has one of the year’s more appealing pieces of pop-soul confection in All around the World, which finds a niche in the pseudo-70s groove which Soul II Soul have helped to popularize. The rest of the LP, I’ti afraid, is a total snooze. Though she has decent set of pipes, the material is of a uniform mediocrity and similarity. After a few tracks, it ail fades into a silky-smooth unvary-
ing veneer. It’s pretty symptomatic of the general malaise which has infected the non-rap segment of dance music: general soullessness and uniformity. Soul music has lost the grittiness which made it a uniquely black expression, and the fact that a white pretender like Lisa Stansfield can so effectively mimic modem soul is solid testament to the dissipation of souls cultural validity.’ One song can be n&o&d and remodeled to fill a full album; however, that album, taking Al2&n as an example, probably won’t be wheelbarrows full 0’ fun.
Whatever the story, nothing on this album comeseven close to living up to the cool title - it’s not even Purgatory with the door ajar. No surprises, nothing we haven’t heard about a million times before. Yawn.
“Wanted,”
“Sleep With Me” and “Wanted” are certainly worth hearing but your best bet may be to hold out for a fulllen@h II’. Unless you’ve got your heart set on that Birdland postcard.
the other song on Side
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new iconographers. Mr. Bungle, out of Eureka, California, are also wearers of the welding mask
Extricating relevant bits from his particular subset of cultural memory, Mr. Bungle melts them and pours them, into the crucible which is _ OU818. Who is Mr. Bungle? Apparently he was some sort of moral and behavioural enforcer for children in the black and white television era. As Bungle would go to school with his hair uncombed, the narrator would point society’s coliective finger of ridicule and scorn. Acceptable and normal behaviour wouId then be obvious to America’s children.
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: . . 1, A burden of cultural hi&&y is carried by alI arkans. The exploitation of this history, however, is difficult, as disparate elements may seem forever irreconcilable. A lot of the difficulty arises from theoMica truisms w&h enforce segregation of certain musical units.
by Peter Dedts Imprint staff The moulinex
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by pietr Stathis Imprint staff Ladies and gentlemen, would you please welcome back our distinguished speaker.. . Mr. J, BSra! Jello’s second spoken-word album begins where the first left off. Be forewarned: High priesr of Harmful Matter is a very long record. But it goes down easier if you think of it as a two-hour lecture by an expert who’s collected hundreds of seembgly obscure, historical acd contemporary facts and revitalized them. With his comic but scathing analyses, Biafra has become a tenured professor of the modem underground. So be patient and follow along if you want to understand what’s happening to alternative culture in P North music and America. On sides one and two, Biafra provides a general update on censorship activity in the USA, and on sides three and four, he gives a specific account of the trial in which he was charged with “distributing harmful matter to (H.R. Gieger’s pelvis minors” lortdscupe poster from the Dead Kennedys’ Fran kenchnit album.)
America screwed Biafra in 1986 when nine vice cops busted into his San Francisco house to find the alleged “harmful matter.” In the process, they “happened to take” his address book (which contained the addresses of everyone who had ever w&en to him) and the ledgers for Alternative Tentacles record company. Neither of these items (or copies of them) were ever returned, although legally they should have been. The vice cops also raided the Tentacles warehouse and office space. Biafra describes the raid and the ensuing monkey trial as the conservative element’s attempt to “send a -- ______ #I tu*- lclUlLcl.la ,,.J:,,1, :, &L* TTC.U.G.. 111 UlC ~~~&&rn style-
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Parents pressured the record cornpanics to outlaw this music on white radio stations. So the record execs tipped mainstream media off about the payola scandal: mdio DJs were accepting money to play certain records (nothing new in this industry.> With this ploy, they were able to ‘fire Alan Freed, a controversial DJ who was playing rock music like Little Richard and Chuck Berry, while effectively making an example of him to other DJs. Forty years later, the Reagan and Bush era has seen a similar ckunpdown on freedom of expression. The Reagan administration reinterpreted the McKerrin-Walter Act, established during the McCarthy years to deny cer&n people en* visas ‘to the U S . .
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supposedly dangerous, explosive and unpredictable nature - vis a vis the Butthole Surfers, T@c Mulatto, Nomeansno and other groups on Tentacles. Onceagainonthisalbum (asonhis first effort), Biafra blasts Tipper Gsp,..+:., ......i ,. Susan Baker, and their Washi wives witch-hunt g-roup,.##~~ (Parents Music Resour&G&
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album contained songs criticizing the arms race, and RCA was bought out b General metic - one of he largest arms manufacturers in the .. -a*-. ~~ \g his testimony, Zappa urged .&d;.&s,i -VW.-- -,.U&Uti public to become
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Biafra contends that this poster should not have been labelled pornography. He asks how Gieger’s art could possibly be sexually arousing, when it is explicitly anti-erotic and anti-pornography. In fact, the painting is a metaphor of “America bent on screwing itself.”
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Biafra compares post-war conservatism with its descendent in the 80s and 90s. By the mid 195Os, the communist scqe had subsided, and the new threat to patriotic, middle-class decency became .“‘jungle rhythm negro music.” Black music was blamed for stirring up the libidos of young white ‘kids and causing all sorts of evil: premarital sex, drunk driving, &ang violence. The paranoia of rock ‘n’ roll spread like a disease. Interestingly enough, the whole thing w&initiated by the Ku Klux Klan.
Because of these politicized custom procedures, no foreign band or mu&an can come to play& America unless they can prove artistic merit or commercial viability-to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Examples of restricted artists include Big Audio Dynamite, Pet Shop Boys, and New Model Army. Biafra refers to a concerted eff art by politicians, the judiciary and Iawenforcement to keep out radical foreigners and shut down domestic, underground music because of its
ItinicalIy, RCA Records reassessed John Denver’s contract after his testimony and dropped him, even though he had sold’ tens of millions of records for them. Biafra goes on to explain why this ---- L--, t-------l n------Ii--r rrbay nave nappeneu. uenvers lasr .
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Opporfunify knocks by Rhcmda Rick
rmprintstaff
I love this xcord, I really do. There isn’t realIy anythiig new about doing an all cover record; even Sioux& and the Banshees have done it. In fact, there has been a rash of cover albums lately, including Neil Young and Byrds tributes in ‘89 and a Rolling Stones tribute and this LP this year. Covers have really gotten a bad rap in the past. Cover bands get slagged for being to0 lazy to write their own materiai, and original artists get charged with being creatively blocked when they do covers. Sometimes bands will do a cover as a joke, like RE.M. doing “King of the Road.“Joan Jett seems to do covers because she loves these songs; because she loves rock and roll.
t&es fall flat (was the I(ink’s “Celluloid Heroes” ever a good song?) but not for lack of trying. Thebestthingabout~~HitListis that it is fun. It sounds like something Jett wanted to do for a long time, and she CnalIy got some friends together dnd iust did it. The reason I love Z%e H&S is that it lives out everybody’s semt rock star fantasies, and it’s not at aII embarrassed about it. -
.Imust admit I was surprised by the variety of materiaI Jett has chosen to cover - everything from the Sex Pistols’ “Pretty Vacant” to ZZ Top’s ‘Tbh.” In the smoking area in highschool nobody would ever admit to listening to ZZ Top and the Pistols. Jett does pretty straightfoorw&cl covers, on “F’retty Vacant” she even enunc@es l&e John Lydon. Some
Will you answer its summons? Or will
you cower behind ignorance?
the door of
Maybe we at Imprint Avts don’t have all the answers, but we do know a lot of the right questions. Big questions. We’ve had a glimpse of something better and we can no longer swallow what’s on our plates. Join us! After --
all, can *you afford not to know?
IMPRINT ARTS “Paper cut8 uf the worst kind” The inner sleeve of ‘this album has some really finny notes and meditations on the career of Neubauten. I used to think my writing tended toward the hyperbolic, but I could onIy shiver in envy when I saw someone has the audacity to link a German industrial rock band with quantum mechanics and theory. Call me dense but I can’t see the COl”lJwti~ ButIsupposewheneverabunchof Teutonic aesthetes get together to bang on old oil drums, stig in the most guttural of voices, and strangIe ‘@&us malevolently, it’s aimost inevitable that some,pretty siIIy and pretentious things are going to be written. Like this (ha ha). So let’s get started: on thii album Einstuerzende Neubauten have laid the foundation for a new rock and roll edifice. Oops, I think I used that angle in my Laibach review. Uh, maybe I’ll be more conventional Let’s see: on
un lnc up cnam xate. lnus IS createdtheir best release to date - a heady potion of poison and aural COWCiOlL
Whoa, check out that last sentence,
anotner - masteqxce. YespIte me Fq$shtransIationsofthelyrics,what they’re singing (wailing) about is anyone’s g&less. And in the end, does it matter?
STUDENT CARD PARTY NIGitl5 by Rhonda Riche
rmprintstaff
Have you ever been to one of those discos; you know, the ones like the Limelight or the Palladium, and they are playing one of those endless mixes that you can’t tell when one song starts or when one ends? Have you ever started to dance because you heard a couple of notes from a good jam, and then be really disappointed because it turned into some really shitty boring ~0~7 W&U “Break My Heart (You Really)” is the really shitty song.
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Tales of rhythm. ‘n’
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16, 1990
business ed the fast-talking’ jive deejay brought in% (or ro&n’roIl, y called it) to the whites of the
The Death of Rhythm and Blues Nehn Geurge Obelisk/E.P. Dutton 222 pages $12.50 (paperback)
What is most interesting about the growth of these labels is that most of them were created and owned by whites. III fact, all of the labels listed above were whole or partly owned by astute whites who recognized the huge financial potential in the black music industry. Even in this segment of the record industry, fans of rhythm’n’blues were the exception
rather than the rule. The combination of whites behind the scenes and blacks out front and on stage was one which recurred again and again White songwriters Iike Leiber and Staller, Dan Penn, Spooner Oldham and Chips Moman
by Paul Done
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Now, I hate surprises as much a’s anyone, so before we get any further, let’s start with ‘the end. AfroAmerican music - which had existed alongside the church as the central forces of cultural selfdefinition - died sometime between 1975 and 1980, a time more ominoudy known as the “disco age.” Before this time, Afro-American music (we71 call it ‘black” from now on) had contained as part of its rich tapestry the entire scope of black struggle, celebration and survival since they were first snatched from Africa and bound into slavery. Nelson George, longtime contributor to Billbawd is one of the only black writers who has mana ed to balance an appreciation for the fus* tory of black music with a love for its new forms, especially hip-hop. His
fifth novel, ;I;he Death of Rhythm and Blues, is an insider’s perspective on the change in black music. Death
bypasses sociological examinations of b1ack embourgeoisement, urbanization and migration in favour of a discussion of the industry dynamics which were crucial in this “death.” Unlike the vast majority of books written about music of any sort, &u& eschews the specialist apprclach in favour of entertaining eclecticism. More important1y, he looks beyond the artists who have achieved permnence and legend in the minds of
fans and critics -0orinthepagesof obscure magazines~ The characters who inhabit the$!&s of this bookare the colourful,
sometimes
provided some of the finest songs for black artists such as the Coasters, the Drifters, Otis Redding and others. Further,
white
musicians
were fun-
damental in the creation of the classic 60s soul sound - where would Otis Redding be without the half-white Booker T and the MGs?
But we’re getting sidetracked here, what is important is the book, and the way in which Nelson George gathers strands of the r’n’b tapestry and weaves them into art entertaining cohesive whole.
various
Big Joe Turner in an early 50~ promo photo. and interviews with the principles boss was listening at home to hear the communicate far more of the characrere;:o$turaIIy, the deejay played ter of the times that straight narrative
ever could.
The huge sales of black records have made black music a desirable commodity for large, established record companies, but these same companies are owned and operated by white bourgeois who have little or no understanding of it. This situation
left the door open for the hustlers, the smooth talkers, the black guys who could act as eyes and ears for white recordcompany executives. One of the most colourful promo men who appears during the book is Dave Clark, who became a “consultad”
for the white-controlled
Decca
records in the 30s. These were the days before national distributors, . I. a.*. .
George kas a fine ear for the sound’ of rhythm’n’blues - especially for the jive-talking
voices
crucial
aspect to
side of black music to
which George pays special attention;
independent
record
labels. As the
deejays who were the
of soul
salvation
for
the
miIlions of black and white listeners who tuned in. The shows were initialy primarily a night-time affair
- thus, a high-powered station like VVDIA of Memphis could be picked up across the whole continent thanks to thd magical nighttime atmospherics.
There is another
the &$ress
Characters
, Stoppa, Daddy-O, and others brought
iike Poppa Hot Rod Williams
r’n’b into every
housethroughoutthe south and midwest where there was a radio. Not only were black deejays on the
leading edge, but white deejays like AIan Freed and Ernie the K who
forties record
ended independent r’n’b labels began to sprout up.
Over the next 25 ye&, woad pro&se most, if not a& of theEat )laclc
tiecordings which w&Id define all that was g&at. in AfrGAmeria musical culture. Atlantic (A&ha Fran.kl& Wilson Fickett, Solomon Burke), Chess (Howlin’ Wolf,Muddy Waters, Bo DiddIey, Chuck Berry), King (James Bmvn, Billy Ward and The Dominoes, Little Willie John), Specialty (Little Richard, Sam Cooke) and many others tapped directly into the trends and unrelenting forward motion of black music.
r&e Loath 'of Rhythm and Blues is unique among the books about black music that I have read, it is a highly personal, passionate, and thoroughly pleasing account of the history of America’s greatest art form - black music. It penetrates as deeply into the mind of a writer who should be named a national treasure as it does into the undocumented strata of the black music industry. The forgotten characters who are brought to Iife in the pages of Death, tell us as fascinating a story as the artists do.
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This one is gohg to & slotted in alongside Robert Palmer’s&q Blues, Peter Guralnick’s Swm Soul Music and Nat Her&off’s Hear Me Talkin ‘as a completely essentia1 work of black
music literature.
shady, hus-
tlers, promo-men, deejays and hangers-on who gave the business of rhythm’nblues its unique character. Black radio is the element which connects the various strands of the story - the businessmen, the artists
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sporting high kill, stuff block, and dig numbers. Waterloo was tramped by the Bisons in their last pre-season battle
Volleyball
by Rich Nichoi Imprint staff
this year, 3-0, during the York University Excalibur Tournament on
January 6. In the other draw pool, the secondranked Naval Rouge et Or - Quebec conference champions over Sher-
This weekend marks the third time zyr five years that the University of
brooke
Waterloo Warriors will be . the volleyball Canadian Interuniversity tr thletic Union’s eight-team national championship toumam ent at the University of Winnipeg. In the 1985-84 season, the Warriors took fifth place at the nationals, after an easy march to the Ontario title. Ahhough they did not receive the provincial crown last year, Waterloo grabbed the fmal wildcard spot and finished fourth in Canada. This year is the best chance yet for this star-studded squad to make history in UW athletics. The Plague is fueled by the momentum of a 3-O sweep of Queen’s for the OUAA
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Dalhousie Atlantic
play the seventh-seeded
Tigers, who chnched the banner by defeating New
Brunswick. Rounding out opening third-ranked Sasaction, katchewan, the CWUAA champion, tangles with Sherbrooke.
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Semi-final
matches wiil take place
on Saturday, with the final matches to be held on Sunday. The championship game will be televised live on TSN. Waterloo’s OUAA West win over McMaster earlier in the playoffs wil1 be aired on CHCH-TV 2 pm on Saturday.
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crown two weeks ago. National rankings as of last week
Pegged fourth-ranked Waterloo up ag+.nst the fiftlGrank4 ‘~(j&*,‘f.st ye&g,McbM Calgary @pions. But disaster hit the Dines as
FINAL at round
their former second-team AIL Canadian setter Kelly Grosky broke his thumb and the team was upset by
Saskatchewan in the Canadian West semi-finals. Consequently, the ranking committee shuffled Calgary down the ladder from fifth to seventh, pushing Alberta and Sherbrooke up one notch each to fifth and sixth respectively. That left the doors open for Sherbrooke to steal the last of two wildcard s& in the draw. Alberta has the other wildcard bid, while unranked Winnipeg enters the tournament as the host team. Waterloo will now be paired up against the Alberta C;olden Bears in the first round this Friday nigh. The Bearswent2inthefinalstretchof league play to finish second in the
CIAU
ttimament,
looks
to blow
away
tonight
match.
schantz is?? *‘* playing the Golden Bears. The only other time that the two teams met this SeaSOn was, IittingIy, in the Winnipeg Invitational Toumament in early January. In that match, the Warriors won 3-1.
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‘That was probably the turn- L in the GPAC with a flawless 8-O around point- in 6.x season,” record, In exhibition play, the Bisons eqda.ined Shantz “I moved Scott had losing records agaijirst only three (Smith) from middle to power and teams in North America: Northridge, everything feil in to place for the rest UCLA, and Penn State. of the season. The team had more ‘It will be easier playing against cohesion” Manitoba in the semi-finals rather Scott’s twin brother Steve, an Allthaninthefinalsbecausetherewill be’ Canadian and national team memless pressure on our guys,” commenber,$backafterfinallyshalcingoffthe ted Shantz. ‘But we must pldy a flu bug that left him on the sidelines strong defensive game and show a for the first half of the playoff deceptive offence.” schedule. The highly touted Bisons are beatable. Momentum plays a huge part in If the Warriors advance to the semivolleyball and, if UW can get ahead hals, they will probably meet up earIy, there might possibly be an with the topranked Manitoba Bisons, upset But it won’t be an easy task for who should easily dispose of rovinthe Warriors. They must stop the cialrivalWinnipeg(8thseed inthe P talented trio of Steve Welsh, Dale preliminaries. Manitoba tihed first Iwanoczko, and Keith Sanheim, all
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tough CwfJAA division at 9-7, one win behind Saskatchewan Team leader Rean Kakaschkewillbethe main threat to the Warriors’ success because of his h@ loin percentage and tenacious defensive play. ‘Tm quite surprised that we’re
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National records tumble as 8 m8
Ernst places .fourth in CIAU’s Track & Field by Kevin Shoom rntprintstalff and Chris Lane A brilliant tactical race by. Paul Ernst paid off as the UW runner placed fourth in the men’s 3OOOm at the CIAU Indoor Track and Field Championships last Saturday, March 10. Ernst was one of five runners to break the old record at the meet, which was hosted by the University of Manitoba. Ernst, the OUAA silver medallist, stayed in last place for the first half of the race while the rest of the field jostled for position. He then moved patiently through the field, joining the lead pack with two laps to go. At that point Chris Weber of Manitoba started a furious kick, stringing the field out behind him. Weber lost his gamble by inches, as Toronto’s Brendan M&hias nicked him at the wire in a CIAU record eight minutes, 12.59 seconds. Ernst gave his all in the kick, but a closing quarter mile in 62 seconds left him five metres out of the medals. Ernst’s time of 8:X3.46, besides being under the old record, was also eight seconds better than he had run all season and a lifetime personal best by over four seconds.
U of T’s Mae Burke won Male Athlete of the Meet with his multigold performance. Waterloo had no other representatives at the CIAU championships. Rich Koomans had qualified for the CIAU Championships in the high jump by placing sixth in the CXJAA meet. He was unable to attend the CLAUS, unfortunately, as funding was only provided for Ernst and head coach Brent McFarlane. It was doubly unlucky for Koomans, because a 2.00 metre jump won the bronze. Koomans jumped 2.01 at the OUAAS. Besides the 30OOm, records were set in the men’s 1OOOm and 15OOm.
Mike Burke of U of T used a sizzling last lap to win the 100&n in 2:23.2. Burke ako won the 6OOm and blew by the unlucky Weber in the final straightaway of the 4xSOOm relay. His multi-gold performance won Burke the Male Athlete of the Meet award. Mathias had the 15OOm stolen from under his nose. The heavy favourite was tangled up in a flufiy of ekmvs when Allan Klassen of LJBC went wide into the third lane and opened up a sizable lead with 200 m&es to go. Mathias finally broke free on the back straight, but Klassen held him off on the final straightaway to w-in in 3:47.
_ Overall winners: Men: Manitoba & uofr. Women: York Manitoba and Uoff tied for the men’s title. The two teams were tied heading into the final event, the 4x4QOm relay. Manitoba, in the first section, saw their hopes dashed as they dropped the baton. Uoft blew their chance, however, by finishing last in the second section and failing to score any points. York won the 4x400 in a record 3:16X Highlights among’ the women included the sprints. Olympic relay gold medallist France Eareau of York had a tough day, as Irma Grant of Windsor repeated her triumph over Gareau at the OWIAA Championships in the 6Om. Determined not to let Grant beat her again, Gareau left her blocks in the 300m like a bat out of hell. Her strategy worked, but only partially. She beat Grant, but Manitoba’s Allana Yakiwchuk went by both Grant and Gareau in the final straight to win York won the women’s title, aided significantly in the 1OOOm by Nicole Sinn and Lara LRitch in first and second. The women’s 300Om pro tided a fast yet exciting race. Lucy Smith of Dalhousie got away from Calgary’s I&a Harvey to win in 9:14.82. A record was set in the long jump by Alberta’s Jane Cox, who leaped 6.14m.
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Ahoud of the pack! Paul Ernst, pictured above running for the fall’s cross country team, clocked a personal best in the 3000 metre as UW’s only CTAU representative. Imprint file photo
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Tournament. After an opening reception at the Brick Brewing Company -_ _ on Friday evening, competition began on Saturday morning. Players from Ottawa, Queen’s, York Carleton, Western, Guelph, Laurier, Waterloo, and M&laster competed in team, individual, and women’s individual snooker events, plus “9” ball. After over 400 games played on Saturday and Sunday, the University of Ottawa emerged as the winner, followed by Guelph and Carleton. Ron Sag1 won the men’s individual category, in a final match against Donald Chan of Carleton Waterloo’s best placing was in men’s team snooker, where Doug Monk and Chris Stapells placed second, behind Graham Perlin and William Lee of Carleton. The women’s final was an emotional one because both competitors were from Ottawa and were good friends. Joanne Macri defeated Sonya Desmaries in this match. The “9" ball category was won by Richard Hing of Western, when he defeated Laurier’s Neil Thorton Ron Sagl, the men’s individual winner, also won the high break award in dramatic fashion, with a run of 37 points in the finals. The Brick Brewing Company and the Westbury Club supplied over $2000 worth of prizes for the winners and all players went home with mementos of the tournam ent. Ann Simpson, manager of the Campus Centre, is also to be thanked for her spiritual and financial support which made the tournament possible. The University of Ottawa has agreed to host next year’s tournament.
’ SPORTS .OPINIilllV
Slaggin>
pastime,
Imprint,
I’ll bet you thought that baseball has a sport Why else would it appear
in these pages, along with stories about university basketball and hockey teams? Well, I’m afraid that you’ve been brainwashed by our huge neighbour to the south, and by Toronto’s pang for the big leagues. Psssst! Wanna know a secret?! Baseball isa pastime, not a sport. It’6 a game, not an athletic competition.
Do beseballplayers sweat? No. The comedian George Carlin once said that the only reason baseball has dirt infields is to give the equipment manager a motive to wash the
of the year if the wussies are emotionally shaken by an earthquake).Itseemsthatnotlongafterthe final pitch in the World Series, the players begin tossing the ball again in
WlifOMlS.
Florida in early February.
We are so heartbroken at the news that the 162-game
baseball season may be reduced to a drastic low of perhaps 150 You don’t have to be fit to play basebalL You can have a pot belly and still play. Fernando Venezuela and Kirby Puckett are living proof of that. The perfect definition of professional basebalI is a bunch of ponces strolling around in spandex pants, patting each other on the butt, spitting tobacco, betting on their own games, sleeping with each other’s wives, dealing drugs, and selling Aqua Velva. And the worst insult to the ticket-paying public is that they get three million dollars a year for it. This is creating a domino effect of salary increases not only in baseball but in professional sports as a whole.
But probably the biggest probtem in basball is the fact that it lasts for nine months of the year (ten months
Puck notes Obviously the CIAU and the OUAA coaches aren’t playing by the same rules when it comes to deciding on the elite of their sport. Despite being ranked in the national top-ten lit for most of the 1989-90 season and making it as high as number two, the hockey Warriors landed only three members on the CKJAA a&star sel&, including West division coach of the year Don McKee. Tony Crisp’s 50 points weren’t god enough for an all-star berth, despite being enough for third place in scoring in the OUAA, fifth in the nation. And the all-star voters must have felt that captain John Goodman’s 40 points were just small change too.
ln fact, no Waterloo forwards made it into the six firstand second team places. These were occupied instead by Greg Puhalski and Mike Maurice from taurier (obvious choices), Brian Glennv of Brock (??!!?I on the first team, ‘and Wind&s ‘h4ahon and
Kingshott
as *e runners-up. The first team defencemen? More chicken-haw@, Marc Lyons and
Peter Choma The voters finally got around to recognizing UW’s talent with second team veteran defenceman Ken Buitenhuis. OUAA West champs Laurier faced off against UQTR last night at Varsity Arena in one of the CIAU se&i-finals, after thrashing Les Patriotes two straight in a meaningless OUAA title series last weekend. In the other first-
the
Onereasonwhybaseballissolow onthehierarchyof sportsisthat there is very little strategy involved. Before every pitch, there is a predefmed play that is to be performed and the only variety is whether or not they are executed successfully.
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For example, if there is no one on base and the batter hits the ball, no matter where the ball lands on the field, the play is to throw to first Boring! At least most other sportshavean endless combination of strategies. hother annc$ng characteristic of professional baseball is its endless sea of statistics. Between batters, the always exciting commentators ram such important statistics down the viewers’*ihroats as the highest batting
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So you can plainly see why we are at the news that the 162 game baseball season may be reduced to a drastic low of perhaps 150, nullifying the significance of the regular season. (Journali& sarcasm.) We may not be able to watch so heartbroken
baseball until some
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more exact.
Dominican Republic outfield& with pndmotheIs whose dogs eat soup bones on Thursday aftemThis was only ‘a slight exaggeration to the normal.
Rich Nichol Pete Brown
Ask my friends. t’m a sore loser. Always have been. And when my team wins, especially in a tough game that means a lot, I’ve jeered and taunted the losers like any of us has. “Na na na na, hey hey hey; Good-bye.” It’s part of sport. something
else tihich
was part of enjoying sport for some of the Laurier fans at the hockey Warriors’ loss to Lwrier for the OUAA West title. And it resembled boorishness more than it did sportsmanship. It also resembled a violence created by inxcurity, almost by an inferiority c!&nplex. Am I exaggedng? Perhaps, but how else would you explain obsessiveverbal abuse of a handful of Waterloo players when your team enjoys a &&tainous tw&oal lead w&h-minutes remaining in tie deciding game? Here’s the story. These fans be+de me had been reacting emotionally to the action for most of the game, not
something out of the ordinary for a playoff game in any sport. But, their aggressive machismo came to a head following a hit by UW defenceman Ian Pound on Laurier’s Dan ‘Too Small to Take Care of Himself” Rintche midway through the third periixi This admittedly careless bit of ex&acurricular
explosion
excess
of
triggered
red-faced,
an
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productive indignation from the chicken hawk lovers beside me. Naturally, their anger was immediately focused upon the stalwart defender Pound, and
reded so until the Lauriervictory was completely sealed with an empty-netter. Once they knew that their team would win, these Laurier fans began to pick on other more innocent UW players, namely Tony Crisp, whose emotiortal, flashy style attracts this sort of reaction, I suppose. Precise accounts of their actual gibes would
indulge these fools more than they deserve. Suffice it to say that they were not complementary. What struck me was the violence and hat+
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Laurier’s recent hockey playoff jinx over Waterloo may soon be legendary, but what becomes a legend most is maturity. Self-satisfaction and smugness may be part of cheering for a champion, but enraged and rabid attacks on individual playws have no
place in university athletics. Varsity athletes aren’t paid a million bucks a year. They should not have to tolerate being yelled at by even a small number of assholes when the assholes profess to be cheering for a true
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Baseball season threatened? On the heels of the free-agent bidding war this winter, here comes more news to warm the cockles of the baseball-haters heart, another indictment of the dumbest game that humans ever thought up. That:s right, it’s the major Iague owners’lockout of spring training facilities. Since the labor dispute flared up into this action three weeks ago, exhibition games have been cancelled, opening days across the two leagues have been threatened, and the players have appeanXl in the sports pages and on television trying to get into shape by enjoying activities just as physically strenuous as baseball itself; namely, golf, bowling, and the well-known “strolling” segment of the decathalon.
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It ail started three years ago when then editor-in&iefSteve Kanuon, in inebriated state at the Embsheker, challenged the Waterloo Athena basketball squad to agameagainsttheeliteofthelmprint cagers. After a fight-fikd bump and grind 40 minutes, the Athenas prevailed 57-48, using their five starters
..-.. ....r.l-_.l “. F/C Chris “Dali” Williams (6’4”) The third redwood in the Imprint forest was snatched away before the seasonby a big-bucks ELkague team. Ankle injury permitting, Dali, whose vocabulary consists of little morethan “Alright dude!“, will return to ‘tick a little ass.” Any resemblance to Captain Apocalypse from his cartoon
Imprint “Gweebs” have turned Intrepid, but can they turn the tide against the Athena squad?
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FGeqYIheS~srbrrrrwar (6’4”) Gettingupearlyat2pmeachday helps this hippy to collect the energy to muscle though the paint easily for the big baskets. If his shooting range isanythinglikehisdrhkingrange, the Athenas are in big trouble. F Chris “Wiiti’ Wc&km (6’0”) Peaking at the right time, this “off Qrer iq looking to the window” avenge perso iif damage incurred irl the last matchup between ‘the two teams. Now in his 34th season with ’ Imprint, Windex refuses to abide by the five year eligibility limit forimrsity players.
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Graduating next yeur and luoking to Lfind youmevin Eurcrpe? Maybe this is for you. Universiade 91- also known as The World Stud& Games - will be held in She@d, Engiund in 1991. It will be the biggest sports event ever staged in B&in, with over doa par ticipants firn 130 cuunties. Eleven sports will be repraented: athletics, swimming, diving gymnustics, basketball, volleyball, fencing term& soccer f&ball, water polo, andJeld hockq. This feature has been provided by the or;panizPrs of the Gamex
campaign to commence in the latter part of 1990. Much of the campaign
by Piers Newbery ‘T&e highjump is just one of an endtess list of events in The World’%dent Games next year in Sheffield, England.
“Nothing like it in my day,” agreed lthe oId man gazing into the complex concrete array rising rapidly from below. He was one of the many dogwalkers, shoppers, and I3MXers who stop and stare from the pedestrian walkway over Ponds Forge in Sheffield, Britain’s fourth largest city. Situated close to the railway station ;and to the city centre, it is the most ‘conspicuous sign; of Sheffield’s intense pereparations for the World Student Games (Universiade ‘91) in
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future spo&ng e&e. In 1989, however, Universiade had a bit‘ of a hiccup as Sao Paulo, suffering horn immense financial and organizational problems, withdrew from holding the Games at short notice. The West German industrial city of IX&berg stepped in with only five months to go, and did a great job of hosting the games, albeit with a restricted sporting menu. Sheffield and the Universiade 1991 organizers - Universiade GB Ltd (UGBL) see that it is vitally important to make the 1991 games the largest and most successful ever, both for the prestige of the city of Sheffield and for the continued well-being of world student sport. “In truth, the 1989 games were a bit an anticlimax,” admitted Peter Burns, chief executive of UGBL ‘The onus is fully on Sheffield to keep going the building process of the Uni-
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The Ponds .Forge complex will include Olympic, &sure, and diving pools and a sports hall and represents just part of the $209 million Canadian now being invested in new sporting facilities throughout the city, as Sheffield lays claim to become Britain’s sporting capital Perched high on the hill abave Ponds .Fvge !iFe <.a . fore!?~~g medi&al fortress sits another essential part of Sheffield’s 1991 commit,.ment. Built in the sixties to rave architectural reviews, the Hyde Park Flats became disliked and neglected by their residents. Now mostly lying empty, the flats are being refurbished and transformed into the cential games village. In addition to providing a range of facilities, the village ti house the 6,000 competitors and officials for the E-day duration of the GiUlWS. The bhnial Universiade has kn
versiade.” Burns headed a substantial delegation to Dui&urg. ‘This was to learn about the particular problems of utting on such a larg? event an! to increase the profile of Sheffield in people’s minds,” he explained. ‘My main feelings from Duisburg were how worthwhile the games really are. I found the freshness and conunitment of all the competitors most stimulating It is most imp&ant that inefficiencifzs arul log . jams in orga&ation do not deflate the essen- I tial spirit of the games. ‘W-s handljng of the games at such short notice was impressive and it humbles me to
growing steadily over ik m-year history. This rdkds the increased importance
of
student
sport
worldwide in recent years. Many mtries, the United Stam being a prime example, rely on the college mm to provide them with their
. The Sheffield event will be unique, in that it will be the first Univershde to be organized and run ori the commercial lines made famous by the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Burns sees students as being a crucial attraction to sponsors: ‘The international and growing graduate shortage means there has never been so many 1 businesses interested in student talent. The Universiade wiIl give both local and multinational companies a golden opportunity for mass exposure to the skilled youth market” Universiade ‘91 has had a dramatic impact on Sheffield’s university and polytechnic with over 68000 students applying for just 6,000 .pkS. Asimportantas the sportingside is “Jj&&&&,
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‘%I some ways, it’s more important!” claims an enthusiastic Festival Director, Ferelith Lean She cannot wait ‘to get going on what will be EngIan& ‘%-$piii and best” festival of that year. “1991 should only be a stat,” she elaborated. “We hope the festival will continue annually and be
a legacy long after the games have gong, h;ry m&t immedi& task is to find out what Sheffield will find appealing since 50 per cent of the audience wiIl be local. If the people in Sheffield do not become involved then I will have failed.” 1 Caribbean carnivals;Asian film festivals, disabled arts -events, bridge clubs and Inland Waterways are amongst the groups that are hoping to improve their Jot in association with the Games. From making sure that the Chinese gymnasts know where the training facilities are to wiping the sweat off the basketball co&-he. volunteer will be an integral member of the Sheffield Universiade. The ZGames recruitment drive has been described as the third greatest this cen&.after Volunteers are important because they represent tangible evidence of the host city’s desire to do all it can to make the event a success,” explained Simon Hampton, senior *pr+ct manager for bolunteer recr&m&t. “Our main aim is to involve all sections of. the community.” Hampton estimates that there
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Looking to the stars (UW News Bureau) - It would be difficult to imagine a more appropriate set of questions for consideration within an institution of higher learning than one having to do with the fundamental nature of the universe: How did it start? How does it function? What’s in store for the future? These are the kinds of questions that occupy the attention of the University of Waterloo’s Dr. Paul Wesson. He is a member of the physics department, an astre physicist much interested in “cosmoIogy” (having to do with our understanding of the orderliness of the universe). He and two Norwegian collaborators (Knut Valle and Xolf Stabell of the University of Oslo) have come up with a new theory that has rapidly gained wide acceptance throughout the scientific community. In so doing the three have stirred up a considerable ripple of excitetheir colleagues ment 5 among worldwide, and they have subsequently attracted widespread media in the eminent U.K. interest publication, Nature, in the New York Times, in New Scientist (on several occasions) and elsewhere. Wesson has been sought out by some of Canada’s best science writers, as well as by radio and television reporters. The Wesson/Valte/Stabell proSal concerns the fact that when you p”ook up into the sky at night, it’s dark Why is this so when there are so many stars and galaxies out there giving off light? Why isn’t the night sky brighter? The Wesson/Valle/Stabell explanation is that the ten thousand * million years the university is known to have been in existence may still be too recent to mt the light from many of the more distant stars and galaxies to reach us. The reason the light from such stars and galaxies hasn’t yet reached earth is that they’re more than ten billion light years away. “When the photons of light from these stars or galaxies do reach us for the first time, they will actually be billions of years old,” Wesson explains, “and thus it will be like looking back billions of years into the history of the universe, perhaps almost
to its very bep;innings.” By analyzing the light -
T
finding
out for instance how much ultraviolet
radiation there is --scientists hope to gain a good deal of insight into the origins and nature of the universe. The most widely-accepted theory of the nature of universe is the ‘%igbang” one, wherein everything is supposed to have been created about ten billion years ago. But this theory has its problems and Wesson is not sure--. it is_ completely correct. if indeed there once was a “big bang” he says, it would not have been at any particular spot in the universe. . . it is more apt to have been something like a string of hydrogen bombs ex@loding, extending far into space. “We still do not have a completely sati&ctofy model to explain all the phenomena we can observe,” Wesson concludes. “At this point in time there is no cdmplete cosmology.”
He describes the new model as a “straight relativity” model, based on Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, which has to do with how things move in space . . . how they interconnect and disperse as the universe expands. “Einstein’s theory is stih the best we humans have come up with,” he =ysAt that, however; even Einstein’s theory can still be challenged; it can be argued that gravity is nota true constant - that it can change. ‘Tlowever, the rate of chkkge would have to be SO slow that we still don’t have experiments that will show it is happening” Wesson points out. Though &e Wesson/Norwegian model is fundamentally a theoretical one, he is keenly interested in verification on the part of observational astronomers. To this end he is looking forward to his upcoming sabbatical leave; he plans to spend a year at the University of California (Berkeley campus) and at Stanford. One of the things he finds fascinating aba the researchers at Berkeley is that they are involved ina search for extra-terrestrial life in the universe. They are brie of a very &all number of groups funded by the U.S. govemment to do work in this field. ,Scientists at Berkeley are attempt-
day at the Knotty Pine Restaurant. Guestspeakers included the President of the Ontario Optometrists Dr. Barrie Conron O.D. (middle), UW Dean of Optometry Dr. Jake Sivak O.D. right, and President of the Canadian Association of optometrists Dr. Tom Adanack O.D. (not shown). The event was attended by restless and chattering optometry students from both WW and U. of Montreal, the only two optometry schools in Canada. photo by Neil Barn&t
ing to detect signals from planets orbiting around other stars. , . signals that may be comtig from intelligent life forms, other civilizations. ‘This is a rather intriguing new field,” Wesson says. “It is being called bioastronomy. My own view is that it is not very likely that we will ever find extra-terrestrial life.. . messages from other intelligent life forms out in space. But while I doubt that it will happen I also believe strongly that we ought to continue to look, since it is by no means impossible.” He has made his own analyses, involving the possibility of conditions as they are required to support life here on earth, and these ix&&e that the possibil.ity is very remote. “But I have to admit too that the uncertainties are enormous,” he a& nowledges. ‘There is plenty of room for error in my adyses. So 1 remain
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“Certainly, with our particular climate, we Canadians can’t hope to match the optical telescopes that are already in existence in more temperate countries,” he notes. “Our best bath would seem to be to leave it to others to collect the data, and to make our best contribution by analyzing the data the others collect. In short, it’s more logical for Canadian scientists to focus on theoretical work”
Unfortunately, he says, Canadian funding agencies and the federal government’s Natural Sciences and Eng@eering Research Council in particular have until now been more ready to support the purchase of pieces of equipment than theoretical research activity. ‘We really need more emphasis on fundamental problems,” Wesson insists. ‘There is no question we theoreticians have been shortchanged and it is too bad because there is no shortage of bright young people who are interested in the field. Our fourth year courses at Waterloo, for example, are very well attended.” Whatever may be happening in the heavens above us, it seems likely that Wesson’s star will continue to shine brightly in the field of cosmology for many years to come.
Treating cataracts Science and Society The term “cataract” describes any opacity in the crystall&+ lens of the eye, a structure (about the size of the little fingernail) which sits just behind the iris of the eye. Its many fibers give the lens a structure like an onion. Most people have some opacities in their lens and have quite satisfactory vision anyway. Photographers are similarly able to take superb photographs through lenses with numerous imperfections in them. The lens grows throughout life; this means that eventually there will be some disorder of the fibers which make it up, thus causing some opacities in the lens. Cataract surgery is necessary once lens opacity makes vision inadequate for daily tasks. To give informed consent for surgery, a person needs to know what the operation involves, and the risks and benefits it entails. Removal of the Iens reduces the eye’s focal power by 25 per cent; the patient needs treatment to offset this. Methods of treatment include spectacles, contact lenses, and (recently) intraocular lenses (Iow. Since
?hysics prof, Phii Eastman entertained potential fresh on Tuesday “%larch 14 with a lively demonstration of the powers of liquid FIXtrogen.
intrigued by the possibility.” Wesson feels Canada’s best contributions to cosmology and to the field of astronomy in general, in the future, can best be made by concentrating on the theoretical areas (as he in fact does}. He suggests that Canadians ought to leave it to the United States or other countries to come up with the data-collecting hardware (telescopes and satellites).
the mid-19703,
surgeona
have
been
making
increas’ use of IOLS: now more than half of the routine ? ataract operations include implantation of an IOL In North America *from August 1982 to August 1985, some 2.2 million IOLs were implanted. Spectacles and contact lenses have been shown to be safe and effective for the past 100 years (in the case of spectacles) and 50 years (contact lenses). The U.S. Food . and Drug Administration (FDA), which is responsible to assess the safety and efficacy of IOI..s, requires study of their effects on the eye for a period of only 12 months
.
before approving a particular lens for use. There is very &tie information available on the long-term effects of intraocular lenses on the eye, and yet surgeons are beginning to implant them in younger age groups (even children). Industry (which includes such companies as 3M, Johnson & Johnson, and Revlon) is continually altering the design of IOLs: by the time even 12-month studies on the safety and efficacy of a particular design have been completed, nobody is using that lens anymore. A look at current ophthalmic journals showsAM the 1Ol.s being advertised are nearly all at the “investigational device” stage, meaning that the 12-month study is still under way. At the end of 1985, there were some 250 different designs of IOL in use. In the &iii& humal of Uphthalmologv (V0173,1989), the editor comments that patients in the developed world would not tolerate the non-use of intraocular hyes. This seems a curious comment in light of the scant knowledge of the long-term effects of IOLS: how can surgeons say they are simply bowing to public pressure ta have 10Ls when the public really doesn’t know what they are asking for? This &nost sounds like a variation on the old theme that industry tells the public what they want and then proceeds to sell it to them, except that in this case the public doesn’t really understand what it is they are asking for. Join a discussion led by David Williams on “Intraocular Lens; Boon or Bane?” Thursday, March 22 in Opt. room 347 at 12:30. ---__-_-
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public lecture series by discussing “Native Catholicism at a Religious Healing Ritual”. Wilfred Laurier University, CT6 2-112,2:30 pm. For details call 8851460.
Amumament:
Waterloo Science Fiction Club’s Dungeons and Dragons role-playing tourney happens this weekend, March 17th & 18th. new and experienced players are invited to take part as teams of six ($21 .oO a team) or as individuals ($3.50 members, $4.00 nonmembers). Sign up in clubs room CC 138, call 725-0395 or e-mail watsfic at watcsc.
UW Curling
Club bonspiel. Open to everyone. For more information or register a team call Richard Schmidt 7432480.
PRRSOWALS
furnished townhouse available May-August. 15 minute walk, 5 minute bike to University of Waterloo. Located at Albert and Bearinger, beside Mr. G racer, drug store, beer store, liquor store. Parking available, clean and spacious, great for 4 students. $850.00 a month including hydro and water. Call 725-0004. PIRSQWALS
Sexual Se4f-Esteem - Interfaith Pastoral + Counselting Centre offers a (gentle) group program for men and women to explore sexual orientation issues. Starts April 5. 743-6781 for brochure or to speak to the leaders.
Candidates who have completed a B.A, with an interest in either psychology, education, mental health or visual arts are eligible to enrol in a comprehensive two year training program in Art Therapy. For further information about training and student workshops, please contact the: Toronto Art Therapy Institute 2 16 St. Clair Avenue West Toronto, Ontario M4V 1R2 (416)-924-6221. ACCKWA, AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener/Waterloo and Area is a volunteer organization dedicated to providing education and support for indiv iduats and the community about the Human immunodefioiency Virus (HIV). We provide an information, referral and counselling hotline: 741-8300. Monday to Friday, IO:00 am. - 5:00 pm., 7:00 pm. - 11:OO pm. if you would like more information - call us, or drop in to our House, at 886 Queens Blvd., Kitchener. Get the facts about AIDS!
Telecare: 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We’re an anonymous, confidential tele lphone distress line. Lonely? Worried? Troubled? Call us 658-6805 (local call). Day or Night!. Pro-Choice over no choice! “Citizens for Choice” is committed to the right of every woman to make rational decisions about her own body and for every child to be a wanted child. For more information call l-650-0153 or write to: Citizens For Choice, P-0. Box 372, Station C, Kite hener N2G 3Y9. fit more into your life! Join the only organized international group working for personal and social change. Call Theresa at 744-2795. Yes, the revolution is here! Bisexual or straight? “Towards Sexual Self-Esteem - a workshop on Sexual Orientation for Men and Women”, looks in an accepting way at this and many other questions in the area of sexual orientation. Starting April 5 and continuing on Thursday evenings until May 24, Interfaith Pastoral Counselling Centre at 124 Frederick Street in Kitchener invites you to come out and explore with us. Call 743-6781 for more information.
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Political Science - free beer and meet ACCKWA, AIDS Committee of Cambridge, Kitchener Waterloo and Area is holding a Volunteer Orientation Session. Beginning at 9:00 a.m. today on the 10th floor Conference Room of St. Mary’s 911 Queens General Hospital, Boulevard, and running to 5:00 pm. Continues tomorrow same time, same place. All interested in the HIV infection and looking at possibly volunteering for ACCKWA, are more than welcome! For more information call Michael Kirkby at 741-8300.
If you missed Amnesty International’s last coffee house, here’s your chance to redeem yourself! A folk and blues night will be held at the Kent in downtown Waterloo. Definitely not to be missed! Jamming starts around 8:00 pm.
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Workshops
in study of Russian language, history, culture, LeningradMoscow. All workshops last for 4 months. May-October 1990. Very good price. For more information call Jack at 7465350.
From theLand of Hope and Glory: the relocatiin of the ‘Shelter has relocated in date as well as location. Date: May 1 lth Location: Toronto. Call the UWATCH line for details 416-340-UofW.
Skydiving
Club will be holding the classroom sessions of the First Jump Course in MC 4058 from 6:30 - IO:00 pm. For more information, call Lilac 7460186.
Encephaiomyeiitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrom) support group meeting will be held tonight at 7:30 pm. at forest Heights Collegiate, 255 Fischer Hallman Road, Kitchener. Doctor Anne Mildon, Toronto, a noted authority on M.E. will be the speaker. Everyone welcome. Our group meetsthe third Tuesday of each month at St. John’s Lutheran Church, 22 Willow Street, Waterloo, at TOO pm.
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“AIDS and Contemporary Christian Faith” an address at the “AIDS and Global Development” conference at St. Jerome’s College today at 1: 15 pm. Professor Christopher Lind, co-editor of “JuStice As Mission” will be the speaker. For more information about the day long conference ($7.50 advance, $8.50 at the door for students) contact Debbie Culbertson, 746-4090. can;rdirn Feder&m of University Women, hosts John doherty, publisher of the Sun Times of Owen Sound and initiator of the Southam Literacy Sutvey of Canada. The club cordially invites the public to this open meeting tonight at 8:00 pm. at Hiiiiard Hail, First United church, Waterloo. For further information please call 886-7 125.
MARCH
Skydiving Club will be holding the classroom sessions of the First Jump Course in MC4058 from 6130 pm. - 10:00 pm. For more information, call Lilac 7460186.
MARCH
22
h Rooke, Governor General Award winning author, will be reading from his latest novel today between 2:30 and 3:30 pm. in Siegfried Hall in St. Jerome’s College, everyone welcome! ‘why Should One Act On Principle” - a videotaped presentation by Dr. Leonard Peikoff. Presented by Students of Objectivism. Admission free? Ail welcome 7:30 pm. A.L. 212.
group - ESI-221 today 5:00 to 7:00 pm. Everyone is welcome to our discussions about humanity and nature.
“Intraocular
WPIRG Pop-theatre group celebrates Spring Equinox. A play about questions, matter, norms, media, noise, authority, barriers, excessiveness, minimalism, emancipation, altruism, nature,-nurture, culture, future . . . Join us today, 12:30. Great Hail, CC.
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Burma (Union of Myanmar) is one of Asia’s most secluded and introspective countries. Amnesty Internationat invites everyone to hear Brian John speak on Burma today. Meeting starts at 7:30 in the CC. room 135.
Blood Donor Clinic today from 1:30 to 8:00 pm. at First United Church, King and William sts. Don’t forget to eat before . you donate!
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Cinema Gratis proudly presents adouble feature! First, “Spaceballs” followed by “Star Trek 1V”. Showtime is 9:OO pm. in the Campus Centre Great Hall, admission is free. Please come early to help move the furniture and ensure a good seat! . ~
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Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is playing at the Theatre of the Arts today, Friday and Saturday as well as next Friday and Saturday, starting at 8100 pm. U. of W. Drama Department’s Production. Tickets available at UW Theatre Centre, Hagey Hall &the Drama Department 888-4556. $6.00/$4.00 students & seniors.
Alone with your unplanned pregnancy? Call Birthright 579-3990. We offer support and can help you discover your options.
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Exam preparation workshops: today beginning at I:30 pm. and again at 6:30 pm. and running for two hours each. Each workshop will be one session only. interested students can register at the reception desk in Counselling Services, Needles Hail, room 2080 or call extension 2655.
your professors, Today! Tickets at Hagey Hall 342.
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Lens: Are they a necessary part of cataract operations?” Join a discussion with Dave Williams, Professor of Optometry, today at 1?:30 in Optometry room 347. Sponsored by Pugwash and CSTV.
preparation workshop today beginning at 9130 am. and continuing till 11:30 pm. interested students can register at the reception desk in Counseiling Services, Needles Hall, room 2080 or call extension 2655. Iranian New Year. Iranian Students Association invites you to our New Year party tonight at 8:30 pm. in South Campus Hall, U of W. Tickets are $4.00 in advance and $6.00 at the door. Call Aii 884-9657 or Laaya 884-5709. “Big Shar” University of Waterloo Fine Arts Film Society presents this Polish study of a great “cardsharper” who once a master cheat at cards, now in loneliness re-evaluates his past and values. Tonight in the East Campus Hail room 1219 at 7:00 pm.
THURSDAY
SUNDAY
WIRY
ConeadulationsMike,
Jan and Dave on one year with Sigma Chi! Zeta rules. thanks to all the brothers at Theta Psi! In hoc rodd.
Organizational meeting i 576-6786 for details.
Ninja Queen’s - green toilet paper? Meet at midnight, May the leprechauns beware!!! Happy St. Patty’s day. 9 serially Confrraed?? ‘“Tov+rds ,Sexual Self-Esteem” a workshop offered by interfaith Pastoral Counsetiing Centre beginning April 5 may be for you! In a gentle, supportive e,nvironment explore issues around sexual orientation at a pace chosen by the group. For details cal I 743-678 1. Arts graduation bail. March 31 at the Waterloo Inn. Tickets go on sale Tuesday march 13 in Art Student Union (AL 120).
LOST
Lost: small gold ring with heart, somewhere in between Columbia townhouses and St. Jeromes College, great sentimental value, please contact Anna at 888-4048 (imprint). Thank you. Cross Pen, black with gold trim. Name and highschool grad engraved. Great sentimental value, reward offered. Call Jim 884-8049. Ladies Glasses. Dark blue with black spots. Lost in Winterfest tent Saturday night or Sunday. Call Jean 725-1174.
lazz Choir - The UW Jazz Choir meets &&y Tuesday at 1O:OO pm, in Siegfried Hall. New members are atways welcome. For more information contact David Fi sher at 884~@565-k number of interesting events are S&duled for this term. See you there!
Group - meets in CC 135 at 8:30 bm. Come Out and enjoy movie nights, educational evenings, dances, road trips and casual discu$‘qn$ For ‘weekly events call 884-GLOW !I i’iisten to “Leaping Lesbians” on CKMS, 94.5 FM, Thursdays from 6-8 pm.
‘a be a part of the Caribb&Fn Students Association (CSA) every Tuesday at 5:30 pm. in CC 135. A number of interesting events are scheduled for this term. See you there!”
Bagels! The Waterloo Jewish Students Association/Hillel presents a weekly Bagel Brunch every Thursday from 1 I:30 am. to I:30 pm. in .the Campus Centre - Check with Turnkeys for the room number.
House.tif Debates meets in Physics 3 13 at 5:00 pm. New Members will .be v&corned ecstatically. Come out and argue with us!
RVIRY
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Found watch - quartz, call to claim (during reading week) phone 886-4022.
Toln the Warriors Band! Practice every Thursday at 5:30 pm. in the PAC, r’oom 2012 (Blue North). New and dd mem-’ hers welcome. we can provide instruments. The career Resource Centre (NH 11151 isopen Thursday evenings until 7:oQ pm: Explore career possibilities apd learn about employers by using the resources in the Centre. I
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(Gays and Lesbians of Wate rloo) operates a coffee house every Wednesday in room 110 of the Campus CenThe Student Christian Movement meets tre from 9:00 to 11:OO pm, Everyone is to discuss issues of injustice. The SCM is welcome! Cait 884-GLOW for details. an ecumenical group that challenges Before the coffee house, tune to “No I people to live out their faith in action. For where to Hide.” on CKMS, 94.5 FM bet- i! more information call 725-O 125. ween 8:00 and 9:00 pm. “Songbirds” KW’s Professional Musical kmstmion Meets every Din& Theatre Show runs eVerY Wednesday from 7~00 to 9:00 pm. at Thursday, Friday (dinner 6:30, show 8%)) and Sunday (1:3Q prunch, show Global Community Centre in Waterloo. 3:30) until May I. information and tickets Topic and group vary weekly so that all by calling 654-9314. Students $12.00. women are welcome anytime. For details call extension 3457.
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fantasy, role playing games, tournaments, video nights and discussions about life, the universe and everything. “Watsfic” meets every Wednesdayat6:30pm. in theclubs room(CC 138). For information call 7250395 oremail watsfic at watcsc.
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proPerhaos Alcoholics Anonymous can help. W&kly meetings open to the public held in the Health 8t Safety Buiiding - Meeting Room (ask receptionist) on Fridays at 12:30 pm. or call 742-6183. Da you blem? -
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Chinese Christian Fellowship meetings every Friday at 7:00 pm. at WLU sem inary building, room 201. Contact Mike Liu at 747-4065 for rides.
Laymen’s Evangelical Fellowship evening service. 7:00 pm. at 163 University Ave. W. (MSA), apt 321. All are welcome. For more information, call 884-57 12. ‘I
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Homeshare -offera a safe, fully screened introduction service to people interested in shared accommodation. Homeshare is a program sponsored by the Social Planning Council, Region of Waterloo, and the Ministry of l-lousing, for details call 578-9894. K-W --Ability is a voluntary community agency working together with physically challenged people, to provide and develop social, recreational and educational opportunities for community invofvement. if you would like to share a few hours a week, or for more infprmation, call Chris at 885-6640 between 9:00 am. and 5:00 pm. e Matter. What is confused? Join us on the spring equinox at the Campus Centre - Tuesday March 20 - bring your lunch. We need Big Sisters! if you are a caring person who is 20 years of age or older and can give three hours a week to a child, then we need you. Big Sister training begins Tuesday, April 3, 1990. Call 743-5206 to register. One year commitment required. Art Show - the Fine Arts Guild and St. Jerome’s College present a Juried Art Show.
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Jerome’s Library. Ail artwork is done by U of W Fine Arts Students.
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